My travels can open treasure chests

Chapter 397 Stranded Whale

Han Qi entered the sheep shed, put on a sterile suit, and walked in behind the farmer.

From the outside, this place looks like a farm for decades. The large wooden house looks like a factory inside a factory. There are two entrances and two exits, one for cars and one for people.

But when you walk in, what you see is a very modern decoration.

Especially the place where the lambs are kept is comparable to a hospital nursery.

The farmer said: "Normal sheep will not be sent here, but there are occasional exceptions. Some sheep are born with more brothers and sisters. There are always one or two that cannot eat milk and have no nutrition."

Han Qi nodded, this phenomenon does exist.

If it is in the wild, this kind of cub is a character without core competitiveness. Although it will not be voluntarily given up by its parents, it will inevitably be eliminated by nature after a long time.

But here, there is artificial help.

The farmer will take care of these little guys with poor physical fitness, so that they can grow up strong and become an excellent adult sheep.

Wearing a sterile suit, the farmer couldn't see Han Qi's expression. He led the way and said, "You may not be used to the smell here."

Han Qi shook his head and said, "No, I think it's okay, this is the natural taste."

The farmer walked into the nursery, picked up a lamb, and handed it to Han Qi: "Come!"

Han Qi hugged it carefully.

Han Qi had hugged a child a long, long time ago, and knew how to hug such a small and fragile little guy, but his body was inevitably a little stiff.

Warm body, ugly look.

Han Qi hugged it against his face, he could feel the lamb's heart beating.

So fragrant, so soft...

The farmer said that the sheep was born four days ago, and Han Qi could hold it for a while before he had to deal with the sheep's feed.After a while, Han Qi got addicted and gave the lamb back to him. When he was holding him, there was a sheep in the sheepfold who was very anxious. He was about to step out of the sheepfold to find Han Qi. Presumably it was the lamb's mother.

Satisfied, Han Qi returned to the hall.

Kevin drank coffee and chatted with the hostess of the farm.

They had known each other before. Before his wife passed away, the two families would often meet to go hiking in the nearby mountains. It was decades old friendship.

After Han Qi came back, Kevin said hello: "Han, how is the life on the farm? Didn't let you down."

"It's really nice to be away from the city without so much noise pollution."

The hostess does not speak English, so she smiled and watched the two chatting, and took a sip of coffee from time to time.

Han Qi is very envious of their life. When he was traveling in northern Norway, he lived in a village far away from the city for two days. He was particularly impressed by a child, about ten years old. He asked Han Qi.

"How can you sleep in the city? There are so many cars and so many people."

Han Qi didn't answer this question at the time, how could he be able to sleep?Should be used to it?Habits can allow a person to adapt to the thunderous snoring of his roommate, and it can also allow a person to ignore the car horn that suddenly comes to mind in the middle of the night and fall asleep peacefully.

"Kevin." Han Qi shouted, "I have something I want to talk to you about."

"I guessed that you didn't come to Iceland just for this tree house." Kevin calmly took a sip of his coffee and said, "What do you want to say?"

"King Harald of Norway gave me an island. He said that I could give full play to my talent as an architect, but I went to know that the people there are too serious about the protection of the environment on the island, and I can't be on it. Too much modernization, so I want to make an elf-themed garden, and I want you to help me."

"A garden with an elf... theme?"

When Kevin heard this word for the first time, he was a little confused. He didn't know why these things could be related to gardens. Could it be an elf-themed park?

The elves know that this is a legend shared by several Nordic countries, so how keen the Nordic people are to protect the ecological environment has a lot to do with the legends and stories they have been exposed to since birth. Many people believe in the existence of elves.

"This is my new idea, but I don't have any research on forest architecture. At that time, I thought of you, Kevin."

Kevin was a little silent, and didn't ask Han Qi why he knew he knew how to build a tree house. He had told Han Qi before that the current White Oak Tree House was built by him and his father. Of course he understood. How to build a tree house.

After a while, Kevin said, "But I've never done anything like this."

There is only one career in his life, and that is the owner of the hotel. This career did not officially end until a year ago, allowing Kevin to enter a retired life.

Seeing the scene, Han Qi struck while the iron was hot and said, "It's very simple, you just need to instruct the construction company's people how to build the tree house. I will do the overall planning, and I will also find someone to assist you."

Kevin thought carefully.

He felt that he was still very young, and he hadn't reached the age where he couldn't go out to work. Going out for a walk was considered a broadening of his horizons.Living in his daughter's house is of course a good life, but sometimes he also considers whether he has disturbed the life of his daughter's family.

I had thought about traveling abroad before, and Han Qi's invitation could be regarded as an opportunity.

So Kevin thought for a moment, and agreed with trepidation.

It is normal to feel uneasy when trying an unfamiliar job for the first time.

After achieving the goal, Han Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

During the day, the construction company I met yesterday came to redecorate the tree house. This time it was a major change. This is why Han Qi told Kevin that he would not be able to see the current tree house in the future. There are many places after the redecoration Everything will be different from before.

Of course, Kevin himself knows that, with a feeling of nostalgia, he asked the construction team to change the tree house from eighty rooms on the tenth floor to a five-story structure. The area of ​​each room will be enlarged, and the wiring will be laid. Pull the wire, the network cable comes here.

Han Qi's belief is either not to do it, or to do the best.

The interior decoration of the room was in charge of Han Qi, and everything was in accordance with the international hotel standards he had stayed in before, while Kevin was still in charge of the main structure of the tree house.

It was already four o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to the farm after a busy day.

Construction in Iceland has strict time control, as long as it is not particularly urgent, workers are generally not allowed to work overtime.I go home to rest at a fixed time every day, and I also rest on weekends.

Fortunately, Han Qi was used to the laziness of foreigners and let them do it.

When they returned to the farm, the two foreigners had already left, and took away the memories of Aurora. Han Qi went into the house to get his SLR, and wanted to ask Kevin to borrow a car to go to Reykjavik. Is there anywhere that can fix this lens.

When they entered the house, Kevin and the farmer were watching TV.

If it is said that the news broadcast in Norway is still a bit of a national event, the news in Iceland is really short-sighted.

Two days ago, Han Qi was a guest at Kevin's house, and a strange incident about Icelandic horses was broadcast on the news.

It is strange, but it is actually a very spiritual horse.

This Icelandic horse grew up with the hostess, and he still insists on training when he reaches retirement age, and occasionally participates in Icelandic horse racing competitions.But the strange thing is that from the first day the horse first met the hostess boyfriend, he began to hate him for a long time.

As long as it sees this man appear, the horse will turn its head and point its butt at him.

At the end of the news, the reporter first took a picture of the heroine of the hostess riding on the horse, and then let her boyfriend appear on the stage in the next picture. In an instant, the horse turned around, pointed its butt at her boyfriend, and looked back occasionally, with eyes full of Disdain.

Well, that's the kind of parents who are short-sighted.

Today is the same. Recently, there is really no news to broadcast in the recent Iceland Guotai Minan. The reporter is interviewing the residents of a small town who moved due to the volcanic eruption some time ago.

Han Qi saw the interview as soon as he came in, and he actually recognized the person being interviewed on the screen.

There was still a relationship at the beginning.

At this time, the news suddenly broadcast a temporary message, making everyone in the room look serious.

"Now there is a news that two stranded whales were found on the beach southwest of Reykjavik. The discoverer claimed that they discovered it at three o'clock in the afternoon, and it has only been half an hour now..."

"It's near the old pier," Kevin said.

He has been living in Reykjavik recently, and because he can't sit still at home, he often goes out for a walk, so he quickly recognized the pictures on the TV.

"We have to do something," said the farmer.

Not long after Han Qi came into contact with Icelandic, he could only hear a few words, but he could hear clearly what the farmer said, "We need to do something." This sentence is really too simple.

Han Qi asked, "What should I do?"

With Han Qi joining, they changed the language of the conversation to English, which excluded the farmer's wife. She smiled at Han Qi, went to the room and took out some buckets.

The farmer took the bucket and said, "This is not the first time we have encountered stranded whales. These creatures in the water cannot live without water. We have to use buckets from the sea to pour water on them."

Kevin held a few buckets and said, "Then let's go there now? Han, are you going?"

"go."

Han Qi felt that this matter was more interesting than repairing the lens himself, so he nodded and agreed to Kevin without hesitation.

The car driven by the farmer, Han Qi, Kevin, and the farmer's grandson also followed, and everyone hurried towards the old pier.It takes more than an hour from them to Reykjavik. This is because spring has arrived, and the time after the ice and snow on the road melts, if it is two months earlier, it will take two or three hours.

When they arrived at the old pier, Kevin pointed the direction, and everyone soon saw the two stranded whales.

This was Han Qi's first time seeing a living whale, and the first time seeing a whale on the shore. Anyway, there were many firsts, but he didn't think about it at all right now, he just felt shocked.

Whales are huge.

There is a very famous museum in Reykjavik, called Tintin Museum, which houses a lot of Tintin animals. Han Qi sneaked a look when passing by, but he was embarrassed to tell the audience.

The most shocking thing here is the two-meter-long whale Tintin at the door.

Seeing the size of a complete whale now, Han Qi suddenly felt that two meters was too normal.

There were quite a few people on the beach now. In the dusk of the night, dozens of people ran back and forth between the whales and the ocean, pouring buckets of scooped up seawater onto the two whales.

The whale is also making a sound, low and desperate.

I heard that whales are a social group like humans, with their own social rules and their own language.

Han Qi had no way of knowing what they were talking about at the moment, but it did not prevent people from feeling the sadness in their voices and the despair in their eyes.

The farmer said, "Work!"

Several people got out of the car, Kevin divided a bucket by himself, and the big guy ran towards the two whales.

Han Qi also followed.

Next, everyone here only repeatedly ran between two points, the ocean, and the two whales on the beach.During this period of time, some people came and some people left. They left because they really had their own business, and many people who came also just got off work.

Doing repetitive things all the time can easily make people feel boring, but when I think that what I am doing now is related to two lives, it instantly makes people feel meaningful.

Han Qi didn't know how many times he poured water on one of the whales.

Now it was completely dark, Kevin and the farmer were exhausted, so they stood on the shore to rest. The people on the shore set up a huge light on the beach below to illuminate the volunteers below.

Behind the whale, there are also professionals digging ravines with machines, hoping to send the whale back to the sea as soon as possible when the tide comes tomorrow.

Yes, at least today, there is nothing more than 300 people on site can do anything about it.

The whale is too big, and on the shore, gravity will oppress the internal organs of the whale, and everyone dare not move their body.

Han Qi wore gloves, touched the whale's not-so-smooth skin, and sighed.

It is now May, and [-] of them are running back and forth here just to rescue two stranded whales. Thousands of kilometers away, there is a country that is still using high-tech sonar to attract whales and hunt down the increasingly rare whales.

It is also an island country, why is the gap so big?

Kevin came over at this time and said, "You've been busy for so long, take a break."

Han Qi ran back and forth the most times among the people at the scene. From 05:30 pm to [-]:[-] pm, he has not rested during this period, and the people nearby have already changed two or three rounds.

"Get out of the way!!" "Get out of the way!"

Han Qi heard someone shouting, and when he looked over, he found two water spray trucks coming.

Reykjavik also has this kind of car?

The water jet was connected to the sea with a water pipe, and another nozzle sprayed sea water on a whale. The large amount of sea water made the whale cry out comfortably, move its body, but stopped soon.

Han Qi felt relieved a little, and followed Kevin to the shore.

All are worried.

It was too late today, and it was not easy for Kevin to bother his daughter, so Han Qi opened a few rooms in the hotel, hoping to wake up the next day to see the whales returning to the sea while sleeping.

But after waking up, what Han Qi heard was that one of the whales had died.

(End of this chapter)