My Manor

"Huh, we've finally finished cleaning." Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Jiang Hai smiled and said.

They had been busy since morning and had only just finished. Looking at the time, it was already past three in the afternoon. Jiang Hai and his team had finally cleared the snow from all the main roads and squares. Looking at the snow paths on both sides of the road, Jiang Hai couldn't help but smile. Sometimes the manor was so large that it could be a bit troublesome.

"Boss, put it on quickly. If you catch a cold later, it will be troublesome." Seeing Jiang Hai standing there wiping sweat, Philemon couldn't help but take out a down jacket from the snowplow and throw it to him. Jiang Hai didn't say much and put it on. Just as he thought, it was indeed very cold when he first came out, but after starting to work, his body wasn't cold anymore, though his feet were a little cold.

However, at lunchtime, Jiang Hai changed into Bell's shoes, and his feet felt much better. As for his clothes, he wasn't in a rush to wear them yet. He continued working in the afternoon. As for the people working with him, they had changed. At the beginning, Robbins, Harriman, and Edward followed Jiang Hai to work. Philemon, Burke-Daler, and Bell-Lester were busy in the manor. Don't forget that the cowshed, horse shed, and kennel also needed manpower. Feeding cows, cleaning cowsheds, and ventilation were all very troublesome. The work was almost done in the morning. Robbins and Harriman went to finish. As for Edward, he stayed at the dock. There were also many things to deal with there, like breaking the ice around the dock. Even though it was so cold today, he still had to go on a patrol. Jiang Hai even wondered whether he should buy a helicopter. It would take a long time to patrol with an open boat. If there was a helicopter, it would be much faster.

Jiang Hai knew this truth, so how could Edward not know it? However, he didn't ask for one because Jiang Hai had not really started raising fish yet. Although the ecological environment in the water was very good, there weren't too many fish at present.

Therefore, there was no need to patrol several times a day for the time being. Once a day would be enough. For now, using an open boat was still a good solution.

Although his subordinates had changed, Jiang Hai didn't rest and continued working. He had to admit that with his body, which was similar to a perpetual motion machine, the speed of cleaning was indeed much faster.

At first, he was a little unfamiliar, but as he gradually became more accustomed to it, the speed of snow removal also slowly increased. Originally, according to Robbins' estimate, they had to finish by four o'clock in the afternoon before the sun set. Unexpectedly, they had already finished at three o'clock. With the tools, Jiang Hai sat on the snowplow. Even though he was in good health, he wasn't immune to exhaustion. After working all day, he was quite tired.

"Boss, you should buy a cotton coat. You don't know how corrupt doctors are in the US. You don't have social security yet. If you really catch a cold, they will take advantage of you." Philemon looked at Jiang Hai beside him and kept talking.

Although he kept saying this in a somewhat annoying way, he was telling the truth. Jiang Hai also knew that the clinics in the US were really corrupt. If you catch a cold in the US, there is no cold medicine available. Yes, no cold medicine. You can't buy it at all. If people here catch a cold, if it's mild, they just take vitamins and endure it. If they have a fever, they sometimes take anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics. If it's more serious, they go for an IV drip. Generally speaking, it is very expensive to treat a cold or visit a dentist in the US. Basically, if you go in once, you can't come out without spending thousands of dollars. For example, there is no cold medicine like in China, and it's actually not allowed to bring cold medicine from China to foreign countries.

This is because domestic cold medicines contain ephedrine, which can be extracted into addictive substances. So if you catch a cold or have a fever abroad, and you haven't paid taxes yet, it can indeed be a bit tricky.

"Well, it's time to buy two sets. By the way, Bell, your shoes are quite warm. Where did you get them?" Jiang Hai tightened his down jacket and smiled. Jiang Hai didn't mind the down jacket he wore outside, but he was very interested in the pair of shoes Bell lent him. The shoes had a high upper, with fur inside. They were also very hard but light and warm. The most important thing was that they were breathable. Jiang Hai worked all afternoon and his feet sweated a lot, but there was no dampness in the shoes.

"These shoes were issued when I was in the army. I took them back because they looked new," Bell replied with a laugh. Hearing his words, Jiang Hai couldn't help but say, "Oh, it turned out to be a military product. No wonder the quality is so good." But because they were military products, Jiang Hai didn't ask too much. In his memory, real military products weren't so easy to get. Perhaps sensing what Jiang Hai meant, Bell continued, "If you want to buy similar shoes, the outdoor goods store in the town sells them."

"Huh? Military products can also be bought?" Jiang Hai was surprised by Bell's words.

"Yes, except for guns, other things can be bought in the town, like tactical vests, helmets, night vision goggles... as long as you can think of it, you can buy it here," Bell replied, smiling at Jiang Hai's surprise. Hearing this, Jiang Hai thought it was a good idea.

"Bang, bang... puff..." Just as Jiang Hai was debating whether to go to the outdoor goods store in town today or wait until tomorrow, a noise reached his ears. Hearing this noise, even Burke-Daller, Philemon, and Bell in the car were stunned. Burke-Daller, who was driving, even pulled out a pistol from his back seat and held it in his hand. Then the four of them looked at each other, and Jiang Hai decided to go and have a look.

When they reached the source of the sound, they couldn't help but laugh at themselves because the noise was coming from the abandoned swimming pool. And the one making the sound was not some other creature but the shark Jiang Hai had raised.

The swimming pool wasn't the sea. The sea couldn't freeze, but the swimming pool was different. After the temperature dropped last night and today, the surface of the swimming pool had frozen with a thin layer of ice. Sharks are different from most fish.

Some sharks can lie on the bottom of the water to rest and sleep, but others, like the sand tiger shark Jiang Hai had raised, need to swim constantly to filter oxygen in the water with their gills. The smaller space made it very uncomfortable for the shark.

Today, since Jiang Hai and his friends hadn't come to feed it, the shark had broken the ice by itself.

"You're really capable," Jiang Hai chuckled as the sand tiger shark swam over to show off because it sensed Jiang Hai's arrival. This sand tiger shark was only about three meters long when it was caught, but now, after Jiang Hai's blood feeding and a good supply of food, it had grown to nearly four meters. If oceanographers discovered this, it would likely cause some problems, because the largest sand tiger shark usually reaches about three and a half meters. But Jiang Hai's shark had clearly exceeded that size, though they weren't fully aware of this.

"Forget it. It's too much trouble to keep it here in the winter. We have to break the ice for it every day. We might as well release it back into the sea." Looking at the large shark in front of him, Jiang Hai thought for a while and spoke to the others.

"Boss, don't you want to eat it?" Hearing Jiang Hai's words, Burke-Daller couldn't help but laugh. They would never forget that Jiang Hai first caught the shark for food. Jiang Hai chuckled. In fact, even now, he still wanted to eat the shark since he had never tried it before. But after raising it for so long, it was hard to say that he had no feelings for it. So Jiang Hai decided to let it go. As for whether it would leave after being released, Jiang Hai wasn't worried. After all, this shark had drunk his blood. In a sense, the shark was connected to him by blood. It was his subordinate and pet. Looking at its appearance, it was clear that it had been tamed. It was for this reason that Jiang Hai dared to release it back into the sea.

"Then let's do it!" Hearing Jiang Hai's words, no one said anything further. There happened to be a snowplow, and as long as they lifted the shark and sent it back to the sea, it wouldn't be too troublesome. Originally, Philemon and the others were going to drain the water first and then lift the shark out, but with Jiang Hai here, it wasn't necessary. Jiang Hai reached into the swimming pool, and the sand tiger shark swam over. After being easily turned over by Jiang Hai, Bell and Burke-Daller used a large net to scoop the shark out. The four of them worked together to lift it onto the snowplow and then ran quickly to the beach. If an ordinary shark had been tossed like this, it might have been injured or died, but this shark's vitality was clearly much stronger than that of an ordinary shark.

Jiang Hai and the others reached the dock and sent the shark into the sea. It took only a few seconds for it to adapt. It then swam a circle in the sea and returned to Jiang Hai, who was still standing there.

"You will help me watch over this place from now on. I'll give you a name... You're quite big, and your name is both silly and tiger. From now on, you'll be called Dasha!" Jiang Hai chuckled as he looked at the sand tiger shark emerging from the water and named his fourth pet.