I hope that this day can really come. No matter what, I am a part of our country's political power, and I do not want turmoil in my country. I hope that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.
In fact, many of our officials are thinking about this issue. Of course, many people are confused and even lose confidence because of this. I remember once, when I was drinking with a director of the Provincial Education Commission, the director said:
He said something: Our political party can survive for ten years at most.
I was shocked when I heard what he said, because he was an old party member, and I didn't expect him to be so pessimistic. Later I understood that he was actually thinking about such issues, but he took some issues too far.
Just darkness.
Sometimes I think, since people at my level will think about such issues, then people at the top will think about it more. Since people at the top can think of it, then the worst case scenario should not really happen.
This is hope.
She smiled and said to me: "Then let's talk about the arrangements for the next few days."
I looked at her and said with a smile: "I will follow your arrangement. Just do whatever you say."
After thinking for a while, she said: "Well, let's go to some attractions tomorrow. To be honest, I also want to go out and play. After arriving here, I spent a lot of time researching various investment markets here, because no one
Accompany me, so I haven’t been to many places.”
I nodded, "Okay."
She added: "I will take you to inspect the real estate market here in the remaining time. Since you have decided to invest here, you should better understand the situation here."
I smiled and shook my head: "That's not necessary. I believe you. If you think it's a good investment here, then there must be no problem."
She looked at me and smiled, "Do you really believe me that much?"
I immediately said: "Of course. Hey! Hong Ya, why do you always ask me this question? Don't you think I should trust you?"
She was startled for a moment, then sighed and said: "Feng Xiao, I am very touched by your words. That's okay, I won't say anything else. Don't worry, I will manage the funds for you well and let your funds be obtained."
Maximum profit."
We stayed in the cafe until nearly midnight before returning to her place. The night view here was so beautiful that I couldn't bear to leave.
Later, Hong Ya came and asked me, "Should we continue to sit here or should we go back now?"
I replied: "Just do whatever you want."
She looked at me and smiled, "Feng Xiao, are you afraid of going back early? Your body really can't stand it anymore?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay to do it once. But don't be as crazy as last night."
She couldn't help but chuckle, "Forget it, we won't do it tonight. Let you have a day off. Don't go too far like this, otherwise you will still get bored of me."
I hurriedly said: "How could it be?"
But I felt relieved immediately. Indeed, this kind of thing is fun, but too much and excessive can make people bored.
Later, she really didn't ask for it from me. We went to bed directly after taking a shower. She put her head in my arm and said, "Go to sleep. I'm sleepy."
We set off after breakfast the next day. As soon as we left the city, we saw a large racecourse. Hong Ya said it was the famous Fulminington Racecourse. She said that gambling is very popular in Australia. What? Everyone bets, bets on horse racing, dog racing, and electioneering... Ordinary people bet, congressmen bet, and the prime minister also bet.
If Parliament is in session, as long as there is horse racing at Fulminington Racecourse, the Prime Minister will propose a two-hour adjournment to allow the members to buy horse racing tickets, and the Prime Minister himself will also buy horse racing tickets. Of course, in order to take into account his own image and influence, the Prime Minister will You won’t buy horse racing tickets worth hundreds of dollars, but only tens of dollars. But newspapers and periodicals will immediately publish which horse racing the Prime Minister is optimistic about, and which horse racing the opposition leader is optimistic about.**, especially in every city in Australia. have.
It is said that a gold mine was discovered in a small town in the western United States in 1849. Later, the town was named San Francisco and developed into a famous large city in the western United States. Sovereign Hill in Philip Bay, Melbourne, Australia, is located in Gold mines were also discovered in 850, so the hill was named Xinjin Mountain, but it was not named. It is still called Sofulin Jinshan.
The discovery of gold mines in this area soon triggered a raging gold rush. In addition to Europeans, Chinese also flooded into the gold rush. Gold rush made this area a fortune, but this area was originally part of New Zealand Province. , the gold diggers were extremely dissatisfied with the high taxes in New Province and asked the British government to separate from New Province. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom agreed to this request, so she named the province Victoria after the queen, and named it after the British Prime Minister at the time. The newly built city was named Melbourne.
The discovery of gold mines in this area is said to be purely accidental. Legend has it that two craftsmen were driving a wooden carriage on the road. The wheel broke down, so they moved a stone to cushion the carriage. After the carriage was repaired, the soil on the stone peeled off. A clear yellow gold was revealed. Later, this piece of pure gold was sent to England, which melted it and made it into the crown of the Queen of England. Another legend is that a farmer dug in his yard and unexpectedly dug out A stone containing gold. In the Soforin Gold Mine Museum, there are replicas of these two pieces of gold, a replica of the British Crown, and introductory texts of these two legends.
After arriving at Soforin Jinshan, we went to a small street. This small street is very special: a gravel dirt road, with one or two-story storefronts on both sides of the small street, old but not shabby, with a small post office and a small bank. , small grocery store, small printing office, small restaurant, small horseshoe shop, small clothing store, small drug store, small carriage shop...
In short, there are shops needed for daily life. These houses and shops were originally built more than two hundred years ago and were built to meet the needs of mining workers at that time. There is a pony station with a four-horse British four-wheeler. The carriage and the driver are dressed in formal wear and top hat, giving people a very gentlemanly, ancient and elegant feeling.
We took a horse-drawn carriage to circle around the small street, which took eight minutes and cost four Australian dollars. After visiting this ancient small commercial street and related shops, we came to the end of the street. Here is a not very high mountain. There is a factory building more than ten meters high. The factory building is equipped with two ancient tank steam engines that were used in those days. They drive two very long transmission arms made of square wood outside the house. The second transmission arm drives a sealing valve. When we visited, it was actually still working. At first glance, I didn’t know what this behemoth was used for. It turned out to be the oldest water pump. According to reports, this ancient and heavy water pump can pump out two hundred gallons of water from the mine every day. of water.
Walking down the hill along the steps, you come to the entrance of the mine. The entrance is not big and has two gates made of wooden boards.
This is the passage connecting the underground shafts. As soon as we followed the guide into the cave, we felt the coolness. After our eyes adapted to the darkness in the cave, we found that the two walls of the cave were supported by square logs, and the roof
It is also supported by wooden boards, and there is a dim small lamp not far away from the cave wall.
This transverse passage is very long and winding, and extends into a T-shaped passage at a certain distance to form a transverse working level passage. There are eleven such transverse working level passages, and each transverse working level has a tunnel that leads directly to the underground.
A shaft of more than thirty meters.
Each shaft is composed of three side-by-side shafts: the left shaft is for drainage; the middle shaft has a hanging tank driven by a steam engine on the ground for miners to go to get off work. The hanging tank is heavy and narrow, and can only carry Six to seven miners go up and down the mine.
In the shaft on the right, a long ladder is fixed from the mouth to the bottom of the shaft, which is used to go up and down the mine in case the hanging tank fails. Each horizontal working level is equipped with a rest room of six to seven square meters, where the indoor
There are two long benches, and the miners eat and rest for twenty minutes in this hut during lunch.
Candles are used for lighting here. According to reports, there was no electricity at that time, and candles had four functions: lighting, timing, measuring oxygen, and boiling hot water. Hang a small iron can on top of the candle. Over time, the water in the water can
The water was hot and you could drink it. In the mine, modern people even dug a cave wall as a movie screen. We watched a ten-minute movie about the tragic experiences of a pair of Chinese brothers who came to Australia to pan for gold.
After coming out of the mine, we went to visit a Chinese village. This Chinese village was the so-called village where the Chinese lived when they were digging for gold here.
On a small bumpy hill, there is a winding dirt path. On the left side of the path, there is a hut built with wooden boards. There is a counter in the hut and bottles and cans are placed on the shelves.
It's the drugstore; next to the drugstore is a small hut made of wooden boards, with a wooden table inside. This is the writing office. It is said that the Chinese workers at that time were illiterate and could not write letters, so they needed someone to write for them.
letter.
On the right side of the path is a small grocery store. The only thing that looks like something is a small Guandi temple. The rest of the buildings are the so-called houses where Chinese workers lived at that time: mostly triangular shacks built with wooden boards, each
There are three beds side by side in the house, each bed is only 60 centimeters wide. There is a small wooden table in front of the bed. It is said that this is a house like this. Three people sleep on the bed and three people sleep under the bed. The bed and bed are switched at regular intervals. Miners work three times.
Working in shifts, this means that in such a small room, eighteen people will sleep.
From this, we can imagine how hard and miserable the life of the Chinese workers was at that time. Perhaps this is why the Chinese are respected in this country.
In order to experience the hardships and fun of gold panning, we also learned gold panning techniques. We went to Xiaohegou to pan for gold.
If you really want to find gold and make a fortune here, you are wrong. I heard from a tour guide that there is indeed gold in the creek, but it is the scraps peeled off from making jewelry, and it is some gold.
Tiny gold threads that are as thin as two to three millimeters. The tourism authorities bought them and spread them in small rivers and ditches for tourists to experience gold mining.
No matter what, there must be gold. So the two of us followed everyone down to the small river ditch to pan for gold. There were many iron basins and shovels on the edge of the small river ditch. We used the shovels to remove the sand in the river ditch.
Put the stone shovel into the basin, tilt the basin and slowly shake it in the water. Because the specific gravity of gold is greater than that of sand and gravel, after spilling all the sand and gravel, look for tiny gold threads in the fine yarn. It's really good.
, we searched for more than 20 minutes and found several pots. Finally, our efforts were not in vain, and we found three thin gold threads. Hong Ya handed the gold threads to me and asked me to take them back as a souvenir.
Later, we drove for two hours to the Pacific Coast of Mexico City. The Pacific Coast of Mexico City is also a rocky coast. The coast is steep and steep. It has been eroded and cut by sea wind and sea water over the years. Some coasts have broken, and some rocks
It was torn apart and stood alone in the sea.
The Twelve Apostles are twelve huge rocks isolated in the sea formed in this way. It is said that in the 1980s, several tourists were playing on a section of rock that was still connected to the coast but protruded from the sea, and suddenly it was connected to the coast.
The rocks broke and collapsed, causing the place where they stood to become a large rock isolated in the sea. They were all stunned and stunned. It was the helicopter that rescued them.
The twelve disciples standing proudly in the sea in front of them have different shapes. Some are tall, some are stocky, some look like Christians or Catholics standing on huge rocks, and some look like a fat man.
Buddhist monks attract many tourists from home and abroad. The clear blue sky, blue-green sea water, snow-white clean waves, and white seagulls flying up and down make the Twelve Apostles appear majestic and majestic.
In fact, I like this way of traveling very much. We drive by ourselves and have a high degree of freedom, not to mention having her by our side.
We returned to Melbourne city very early in the evening. After dinner, we immediately returned to Hong Ya's residence. She said to me: "Feng Xiao, you have to stay with me today."
I went to hug her gently and said to her softly: "Hong Ya, you made a mistake. It was you who accompanied me."
Perhaps because we had a day of rest and the joy brought by the trip, the two of us lingered for a long time that night. There was no surging passion, but it was extremely warm.
In the next few days, we spent most of the time at her place, and sometimes we went out shopping together. She really never left me for a moment.
Time flies so fast. It wasn't until one day when Guan Qin called me that I suddenly remembered that I had been here for more than a week. Only then did I truly understand what it means to be happy and not miss Shu.
Guan Qin told me on the phone that the tour group would return to China the day after tomorrow. She hoped that I could rush to Sydney as soon as possible to meet her.
When I told Hong Ya about this, her tears burst out of her eyes.
I went to hug her and said to her softly: "You can go back to China often? Besides, you seem to have been back to China recently, right? Hong Ya, I never asked you, why didn't you contact me after you returned to China?
?”
She immediately wiped away her tears, looked at me blankly, and asked, "How do you know?"
I said: "You are so familiar with domestic flights to here, so I analyzed..."
She immediately said: "You are wrong, I have never been back. Because Sister Lin told me that you were coming, I went to check the flight."
Although I think there are big loopholes in what she said, I don't want to go into too much detail on this matter because it is meaningless.
Maybe she has her own difficulties, or she is afraid that she will be sad when she sees me, or maybe Lin Yu won’t let her see me. Who knows what happened? (To be continued)