Chapter 401, Icelandic Father and Son
It is very easy to find a job in Iceland. They don’t value education. Only if you have a resume in this job before can you find a career in Iceland, and the benefits are pretty good.
Jack's tour guide career only works one day a week.
I work for six days and have no physical work at all. Where can I find such a tour guide? At least Ye Kai has never heard of such an outrageous company. Is this the Nordic welfare system? I love it.
This trip was to Ulflyoswa, 45 kilometers from Reykjavik, where Jack and his wife and their family lived.
Jack said: "My father-in-law used to be a dealer. When he got tired of urban life, he came to this town and lived a life he had always envied."
Ye Kai smiled and asked, "After I came to Iceland, I heard that you are tired of urban life every day. Are you so tired? The people over my family want to move their families to big cities."
"Isn't life the same everywhere?" Jack asked back.
"It's more convenient in cities." Ye Kai said, "Now the difference between towns and cities in China is very big. Most of the first-tier cities have reached the level of developed countries, but in more places, even education is average."
Ye Kai has been to a small town and also to Hope Primary School.
The school’s educational environment and teaching level are very poor, but it is much better in the city. If you are two children with the same IQ and EQ personality, one goes to school in the city and the other goes to school in the town.
Then the final score may be two extremes. One can get into a prestigious university, and the other may not get into a university.
Otherwise, why do parents nowadays buy school district housing? They are even willing to kneel down for a school district housing? It is because of their children's educational resources that parents see this issue thoroughly than anyone else.
Jack shrugged, not understanding very much.
Ye Kai didn't say much, and the 45 kilometers ended soon, Jack parked his car on the side of the road. After getting off the car, he pointed to a small road and said, "From here, you can reach the valley, and the sheep are now driven here."
At this time, a man was riding a tricycle and driving a flock of sheep from the road. He obviously knew Jack and said hello with a smile on his face:
"Jack, are you back? Remember to come to the club that night..."
Jack replied: "No problem."
Go up the mountain.
This is a volcanic valley. It can be foreseeable that this valley must have been a huge volcano hundreds or thousands of years ago. After the eruption, it formed the current scene.
There are a large number of sheep and horses in the middle recess, but there are no cows.
Icelanders do not have sheep and cattle, and Ye Kai doesn’t know whether they don’t like to eat it or whether the cattle is not easy to survive in such an environment. In short, the price of beef is very expensive in Iceland.
Most farmers in Iceland raise sheep and horses, which are also the two most mainstream meat foods in Iceland.
Sheep have a high status in Iceland.
They belong to a relatively pure Nordic breed, which is cold-resistant and can adapt to the harsh natural conditions here. Therefore, Icelanders also grazed this kind of sheep in the wild in winter in ancient times.
Icelandic sheep provide Iceland's ancestors with mutton and milk as winter food. In addition, wool is also used to make clothes to resist the cold. It can be said that sheep is one of the key factors that Icelanders can survive in the harsh natural environment of the past.
The Sheep Pen Festival has been around for hundreds of years. It is one of the oldest traditions in Iceland and a unique way for farmers to celebrate the harvest.
Ye Kaixin thought, it is probably the same as the celebration of Chinese farmers after the autumn harvest? After all, the land here is not suitable for cultivation, and the food source is these meats, so it is normal to celebrate during the bumper harvest.
There are sheep everywhere and people everywhere.
The old man, the adult, the child, the old sheep, the middle-aged sheep, the lamb... It was densely packed from a high place, and people who were afraid of it would not take a second look. After a little glance at Ye Kai, he guessed that there were a total of one or two thousand sheep here.
In addition to this, there is a horse.
Jack said to Ye Kai: "You can have fun here. I'm going to find the sheep in our house. It will probably take more than an hour. I'll call you after I finish it?"
"Okay, you can do your own things first."
Ye Kai also happened to want to take a look here, but one hour is not enough.
In the crowd, some children were playing naughtyly on the back of the sheep, helping parents identify the sheep in their homes... It turned out that every farmer marked the ears of their homes, and now they only need to find these sheep through the marks.
But Ye Kai is still very strange. Didn’t these sheep hide?
I wanted to ask Jack, but Jack has now walked away and was traveling around the crowd, so Ye Kai stopped a man who was taking his son and finding his sheep and preparing to go home.
"Hello, hello, can I ask a question?"
The little boy said, "What's your problem?"
His father said, "If you have anything to help you, please tell me."
"How were the sheep here found? Are sheep from all over the country hitting here, or is it that only the sheep from this nearby farm driven to this place?"
"Nationwide? Haha, of course it's impossible!" The man laughed, "There are too many sheep in the whole country in one place. There are only these sheep in this valley, all of which are from nearby farms. If you can't find them, look for them a few more times."
"We started looking for sheep a week ago. Every family is looking for it. After finding it, we drove the sheep here. Whether it is single or in groups, we found it even if we hide it deep in a week.
I understand it, I understand it.
"Then they won't run far?"
"If you don't run far, they will always stay in a region. If the animals don't need to move, they won't leave their homes too far, so we'll just look for it in this valley."
The man was named Lotton, and he had another job, but he ran a small farm with his children to enjoy the pleasure of nature, and they had about eighty sheep.
Lotton was very proud and touched his child's head and said, "My son is only nine years old, but he is taking care of these sheep most of the time."
"Wow, that's really amazing."
What can eight-year-old children do? Ye Kai thinks that many eight-year-old children are waving with sticks, shouting that I am Sun Wukong, right? No, children nowadays don’t like Sun Wukong anymore.
In short, it is still childish at the age of eight. It is rare to be able to do such a big thing at the age of being a joke.
"Can I take a photo for you?" Ye Kai asked.
Lottung replied cheerfully: "Of course."
So, with a large flock of sheep and shepherds in the background, Ye Kai photographed the smiling faces of their two fathers. Lottung wore an Icelandic sweater and a woolen hat, touching his child's head and smiling with big white teeth.
Chapter completed!