Thinking that you have money to control everything, this sentence is not a lie when you put it carefully. All political and cultural problems are ultimately economic problems, and as long as you have enough money, everything can be solved.

However, all the problems come down to the adverb "enough", which is used to describe the amount of money.

This word makes Lin Yilong hate deeply, objectively speaking, there is such a sufficient amount, but when it comes to people paying monetary consideration, this word is just like "justice", and it is more from the perspective of subjective discrimination of the parties - what you think is enough may not be enough in the eyes of others.

Therefore, in transactions, especially some face-to-face transactions, there are many parties to the transaction who believe that finance is not the most important measure of the bargaining price.

Lin Yilong is not so pretentious, as long as the bid is higher than his expected return, he will let it go. So Sommer sold all the truffle sauce to his former classmate, Ali.

Ali kindly invited Lin Yilong over for dinner, and Ali and his father, Abdullah, entertained Lin Yilong at a civilian restaurant in Dubai. Lin Yilong was the only guest, and the Bedouins did not have the custom of socializing with their daughters, so Katie was locked up in her hotel room.

In Jeddah and even in Saudi Arabia as a whole, the food retail industry will be generously subsidized by the state, otherwise the industry will not be able to continue at all. Clearly, the Saudi king's spending spree this year has stretched the finances a bit, and Ali and his father's supermarket have had some difficulties in subsidy, so they have had to transform their marketing to a more realistic urban middle class, which is staffed by hundreds of schools and institutes in Jeddah.

Transformations come at a cost, such as King Abdullah University and King Abdulaziz University of Science and Technology And other foreign school canteens in Jeddah almost do not need to pay for meals, naturally many people go there to get some free food service, which casts a shadow on the transformation strategy of Ali and Abdullah father and son, and they then realized that in Jeddah's universities, there are also some people who need to contact some high-end food docking to be able to sell at a high price, and white truffles are one of the better ones, but the supply channels of those restaurants are monopolized by stores that can get truffles, and Lin Yilong helped them solve this trouble.

The Middle Eastern diet is quite greasy, it seems that everything except Turkish barbecue needs to be "fried" in order to be cooked, greasy dishes, greasy desserts, and even fresh vegetables have to be fried to a golden brown tempura-like thing, which makes Lin Yilong's stomach and intestines a little uncomfortable, and Arabic coffee is usually bitter clear coffee, which is also a reasonable match in a sense.

"It's a shame there's not much food you'd like to eat. Ali translated to Lin Yilong for his father, Abdullah, "Are you used to eating?"

Lin Yilong couldn't answer this remark, and Lin Yilong couldn't accept the taste of the Arabs, so he could only nod his head, because the barbecue as the main ingredient was not bad, and if Lebanese yogurt was not added, it would taste better [Note 2].

"I never expected you to stay in England and become a farmer. Ali said, "If I had known, I would have gone there and booked it a long time ago." ”

"Don't come too early, I'm also in my first year here. Lin Yilong drank the strong Arabic coffee in one gulp, and then the waiter stepped forward to refill it for him, "So it's just right, can you ask a personal question?"

Just ask. ”

"I'm curious about Arab marriage, can I really marry four wives?" Lin Yilong asked his question, "Or is it something else." ”

"We can marry four girls at the same time, but usually only one. Ali said, "You know that there is a custom of dowry in South Asia. ”

"Yes. Lin Yilong nodded, thinking of Fatima, who he "persuaded back" to Bangladesh, "I remember that I have a friend in Kannada, India, who only relied on his father-in-law to have the funds to study abroad. ”

"Well, it's very similar to this one. For us Saudis, the bride price from the groom's family to the bride's family is more mainstream. Ali introduced Arabic marriage customs to Lin Yilong, "Just like our family, there are four boys, but in fact, some of them can't afford the bride price. ”

"Can you ask me about the amount?"

"It's hard to say, it's about the same in every class, but for me and my family, it's about £50,000. Ali replied, "So my brothers and I, if we were to get married, it would cost the family about 200,000 pounds." “

"Not a lot, indeed. Lin Yilong said that for Middle Easterners, it is indeed a large expense, "Isn't there anyone to improve?"

"There are quite a few people, like in my hometown of Jeddah, because of the floods at the beginning of last year, because of the lack of budget and the lack of timely relief, there were groups of refugees marching in the streets under the slogan of 'overthrow the monarchy'. Ali said the news that Lin Yilong had never heard before, "This is almost the first time since the establishment of Saudi Arabia." ”

"And then?" Lin Yilong found out that there were poor people who couldn't stand the absolute monarchy in a so-called high-welfare state like Saudi Arabia, "suppressed?"

"Of course. Ali was not as brainless as he was when he first went to England, "In this country, you can't oppose two people, the prophet and the king. ”

"It's miserable. Lin Yilong asked.

"And, you know, only Saudi Arabia is a country of green religion with almost no Shiites. Ali continued, "This rupture is very unfortunate. ”

"Really. Lin Yilong found that oil is not everywhere in Saudi Arabia, at least in Jeddah, a beautiful city with a pleasant natural environment, he wondered if the poor Saudi Arabians who only rely on oil would be worse in the future, and then he was very glad that he had made a decision before.

"The country is unfortunate. Ali sighed, then translated his conversation with Sommer to his father.

"You've never heard of that?" Abdullah said suddenly, stumbling in English, but still audible what he was trying to say, "It's been covered a lot in the local newspapers." ”

"Never, and it stands to reason that I have learned a lot of languages, but there is absolutely no such information in English, whether it is English or any other language I know. Moreover, I don't know anything about what is left of the Saudis. Lin Yilong replied calmly, he felt that he still knew too little about this place.