After greeting everyone, Old Hickson began to showcase his specialties: poutine, coffee jelly cubes, dried cheese and vegetable salad, and other appetizers were served first along with wine.

　　Even though these were just appetizers, each dish was crafted with unique ingenuity. The fries were golden, the gravy rich, and the aroma of the dish wafted over even before anyone started eating.

　　As for the coffee jelly cubes, Old Hickson cut the coffee jelly into small pieces, placed them in a glass, and garnished them with mint leaves. It looked beautiful, and of course, tasted even better.

　　Little Black sipped the coffee jelly, ate fries and salad, and exclaimed, “This tastes amazing, guys! I have to say, this is a delicacy bestowed upon us by God!”

　　At this moment, the wine was also served. Auerbach raised his glass of ruby-red wine to Old Hickson and said, “To the God who grants us food, to Hickson who helps God in the kitchen, and to the generous and hospitable Sutton!”

　　Everyone raised their glasses, and the old man with the pigtail grinned from ear to ear.

　　After the appetizers, it was time for the main course. Geoduck sashimi, Canadian fried chicken nuggets, smoked salmon with secret sauce, Brome Lake duck, blueberry dumplings, and many other delicacies were brought out one after another, and everyone ate to their heart’s content.

　　Owen Sutton's favorite was still the ice wine made by Old Hickson himself. This wine is considered Canada’s national drink, and in Newfoundland, which is further north, it’s even more popular.

　　Seeing Owen Sutton raising his glass repeatedly, Old Hickson was very pleased and introduced his treasure: “This is the secret family wine passed down through generations of the Hickson family. The grapes are left on the vine to fully ripen, and only when the cold snap arrives and the temperature drops to minus eight degrees do we pick them. By then, the water inside the fruit is frozen, and the sugar content is at its highest. That’s when we press the juice and brew the wine—the taste is absolutely the best!”

　　Ice wine has a lower alcohol content, not as strong as the typical spirits found in cold regions, but since it’s also made from distilled spirits, it carries the unique floral aroma of such liquors. Moreover, since the main ingredient is grape juice, it has the scent of ripe fruit, and the fragrance of the wine and fruit intertwine beautifully.

　　Owen Sutton could hold his liquor well. Seeing him drink so happily, Auerbach was also delighted and said, “You’re just like Old Sutton. He also loves drinking Hickson family’s ice wine, especially paired with desserts, blue cheese, Chinese roast suckling pig, barbecued meats, and candied roast chicken. Next time, let this old fellow Hickson make some for you to try.”

　　Old Hickson scratched his head. His restaurant wasn’t doing so well at the moment, and he didn’t have any stock of suckling pig or candied roast chicken, which aren’t commonly ordered.

　　The meal was a delight for both host and guests. After eating, Little Black had to return to Toronto to prepare for the upcoming auction, while Owen Sutton went back to get some sleep.

　　After a nap to sober up, Owen Sutton began ambitiously building up the fishery. Now that he had ten million Canadian dollars in hand, he felt much more confident.

　　However, the most urgent task was to get the fishery connected to the internet. For a young person in the 21st century, not having internet was just unbearable.

　　Owen Sutton did some research and found that the most well-known telecom companies in Canada were ROGER, TTC, TELUS, FIDO, and KOODO.

　　Among them, ROGERS is equivalent to China Mobile—it's the strongest company, has the most users, and the widest resources, but also the highest fees. TELUS is like China Unicom, with slightly weaker signal but lower prices, targeting ordinary people. FIDO and KOODO are relatively the weakest, but they often run promotions, so they’ve also won many customers.

　　Owen Sutton wasn’t short on money now, so he went straight to the ROGERS store in town and signed up for a year of fiber optic service, and bought an Apple all-in-one computer while he was at it.

　　He bought the Apple iMac-MF886CH/A model. This computer sells for nearly 20,000 yuan in China, but in this small town it was less than 2,500 Canadian dollars, which is just over 10,000 yuan, and that’s including the Newfoundland provincial tax—otherwise, it would be even cheaper.

　　It has to be said, in a capitalist country, as long as you have money, things get done easily. After Owen Sutton paid at the ROGERS store, an engineer immediately brought workers to his fishery to lay the fiber optic line.

　　This fiber optic line wasn’t cheap—it was 500 dollars more expensive than the Apple computer. The fishery had been abandoned for over a decade and only had regular broadband lines, not fiber optic, and the town’s network upgrades hadn’t extended that far out.

Chapter 0012: Everything Awaits Revival

　　With everything settled, Owen Sutton connected to the internet and logged into QQ. As soon as he opened it, a bunch of little avatars started flashing.

　　He clicked on them and found they were all messages from his university classmates, most of them asking about his move to Canada.

　　After replying to each one, he opened the class group chat, which was buzzing with discussion—and he was clearly the main topic:

　　Class monitor David Bell: Damn, did the beast go off all clueless and get sold to Canada as a coolie?

　　James Carter: It’s totally possible! I even did a fortune reading for the beast, but I never saw that he had such an awesome relative abroad who’d leave him a fishery!

　　Mike Brooks: I have a fishery too! My family runs a fishery as well.

　　Emily Reed: Mike, what you have is a pond. That’s a whole different thing from a fishery!

　　John Brooks: Damn, we’ll have to go freeload off him in the future! The beast is really something now!