Moroccans say their country is the backyard of Europeans, and it's true, the country's northernmost port city, Tangier, is only a 40-minute ferry ride from Spain.

Not only because of its proximity and low cost, but also because of its very different customs from Western Europe, it also has good natural scenery

There are also sea views of the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, and in winter there are even good ski resorts that are much cheaper than in the Alps.

With a combination of favorable conditions, many Europeans choose to spend a weekend or a good long vacation in Morocco every year.

But Mayer's impression of the country is a bit bad, and not just because of the food.

Since last year, he and Mr. Harrison have been on several trips to Casablanca, once known as the "City of Spies," on ordinary security missions, accompanying dignitaries from southern Sudan to meet with people.

Southern Sudan has oil, and its customs and ethnicity are very different from those of northern Sudan, and the result is a lot of contradictions, and there is a lot of trouble.

Now that the north and south of Sudan are fighting a civil war, Xingchen Resources Group, for its own interests, has secretly given a lot of support to the armed forces of southern Sudan in the past two years, and has successfully obtained the right to oil exploration in a large area, directly bypassing the Sudanese government.

The Sudanese government also has nothing to do with this, and the forces that intervene in the civil war in their country are not only the Star Resources Group, but they are all for the sake of interests: Western forces dare to do anything for the sake of interests, and they will do it!

The Xingchen Resources Group is relatively generous to the armed forces of Southern Sudan, and others leave as soon as they find that the cost recovery is too slow and the prospects are unclear, only the Xingchen Group is a true friend: the Southern Sudanese forces continue to play the "white stripe" of mineral resource mining, even if it is impossible to mine and fight now, it is still a continuous aid.

In the hellish place of Sudan, the company now only has investment and no return, but the big boss has to do this, and others can do it.

Zhang Nan has his own argument: "In recent years, I have given hundreds or tens of millions of dollars in military and basic material aid every year, and after more than ten or twenty years, I will get tens of thousands of times the return!"

He knew that this southern Sudan would become a country, and the oil there would probably be enough for his group to slowly extract for hundreds of years!

Invest slowly, don't be in a hurry, other Western interest groups have withdrawn with their eyes on the immediate and unclear prospects, and in less than ten years, the underground resources of the entire Sudan will be their own!

There is no fear that South Sudanese people will regret and admit their debts, and it is not a matter of not withholding reasonable taxes in the future, which is beneficial to everyone.

Don't admit it?

Provoked Lao Tzu, let's let you know in minutes what is the truth with a big fist, and it is no problem for you to change the president in three days!

Mayer and Harrison have also been to southern Sudan, and more often to Casablanca, probably because of their boss, who likes a movie, and as a result, they like to let their friends in North Africa run there and talk about things.

Although this kind of trivial matter does not require the boss to act personally, the layers of executives below are probably infected: talk about something and cross the whole of North Africa, just that.

Of course, Mayer has also seen the famous movie, and on those missions he and his partner were not snipers, but became bodyguards in suits and sunglasses.

As a result, after arriving in Casablanca for the first time, I found that the famous city did not have the feeling of the movie "Casablanca" at all, and the Rick's bar in the movie was only made according to the movie after the movie became popular all over the world.

A typical meeting is better than a famous one, and this is Morocco.

Of course, the biggest reason is that he is not used to eating, and the eating habits here make him a little crazy.

The small port is the old town, the smell of fish in the air is not particularly strong, the fishing wharf is dozens of meters away from here, the wind direction is blowing from here to the fishing boat docking, but the smell of spices in the air is more touching.

Just over 10 meters ahead, several local restaurants have been diligently waking up early to open, which is quite rare in the Arab world.

This short stretch of coastal road is the main road between the old town and the port area, and the fishermen who get up early to go to sea and go out to sea yesterday and have just returned this morning have a meal, and these people who are begging for a living at sea do not want this meal to be made on a small fishing boat.

Later in the day, it will be more lively, with people buying seafood, and people who are rushing to work in Tetouan passing by to buy a breakfast to eat, knowing that not all Moroccans make breakfast at home.

There are even foreign tourists who live in Omartin and Tetouan to come here to see the scenery, visit the old town, and buy some fresh seafood such as Mediterranean lobster for the nearby shops to process, grill and taste.

Of course, there are also many wealthy foreign tourists who charter boats to go to sea for fishing and diving, so that the blue Mediterranean Sea is in front of you!

For many years, a group of foreigners appeared here inconspicuously.

Most of the company's personnel who have retreated from the sea land at this small wharf, and a few disembark in a small coastal town about ten kilometers to the north, which is one of the smuggling hubs on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.

The company's periphery and intermediaries in Morocco have very good relations with local smuggling rings and the police, and it is safe to disembark at these two locations, from which the first two days of my trip to Spain have departed.

Morocco, an important gateway for European mercenaries to enter and exit Europe, North Africa and Africa, the "joint forces" are of course also responsible here.

This trip is a hotel on the gentle hills of the city for everyone to rest today, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and the white old town.

The conditions are not good, but at least they are clean, and the backstage owner of the hotel is a big smuggler here, so staying there can save a lot of trouble.

The police don't check, but occasionally a friend of a high-ranking police officer stays there for a few days, and the staff is never curious, let alone a pistol exposed at his waist after a meal, even if a grenade is chained there, he won't look at it more.

Breakfast is served in the hotel, but Mayer crosses the street and walks into a restaurant with wide open doors.

He hated the food at the hotel, but there were a few things in the old town that barely satisfied his appetite.

Harrison looked at it and said hello to the others who were going to get in the car and leave, and let the others go first, and the two of them would go by themselves later.

When the others didn't meddle too much, they didn't close their eyes for almost 24 hours, and they all wanted to eat in the hotel and then sleep well, and then follow the company's arrangement to leave.

Mayer and Harrison have been to Morocco several times, and everyone knows about this and will not get lost. Besides, it will be daytime, and I heard from the guys who stayed at the dock to answer that there are still groups of people who will not arrive until half an hour later, and the people who answer will still have to wait here, and there will be no problems.

Mayer walked into the dining room, let's call it a restaurant, but it was actually a fairly elaborate stone shack, an old building, without even a glass window, with detachable door panels.

After finding a seat in the back, and knowing that his partner would also come in, he left a place in the outside, and then said in French to the boss who greeted him: "Bring us two toasts, a serving of the applesauce you make yourself, two green apples, and two glasses of sugarcane juice with a third of mineral water."

Have that little guy go to the fishing dock and bake two big lobsters if there's fresh, add olive oil, paprika, and salt, and don't want your weird-tasting spices. ”

The earliest inhabitants of Morocco were Berbers, who were ruled by Phoenicia, the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire, and established the first Arab kingdom in 788 AD.

From the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century, Morocco was invaded by France, Spain and other colonial empires, and was colonized for a long time, until 1912, when it became a French protectorate, and did not become independent until 1956.

Due to the complexity of the history and the influence of foreign cultures, in Morocco there are not only many local languages, but also French and Spanish are also spoken, and French or Spanish is generally spoken by people who are generally educated or often have to interact with foreign tourists.

In Morocco, if you don't know Arabic, Spanish or French, it's almost impossible to move an inch – English doesn't work at all, and even if a local does, it's often deaf and dumb!

Hearing Mayer's words, the long-bearded boss wearing a small white hat and a fairly clean white coat immediately smiled and said, "No problem, it'll be fine right away!"

After saying this, he turned and yelled in Arabic at a young man of sixteen or seventeen who was tending to the grill, and the young man ran out of the door.

Looking at this speed, it is estimated that there is no money, this is at most a hundred meters away from the fishing boat dock, you can clearly see it, you should be familiar with the fish merchants and captains over there, there is no such thing as having to pay for the goods with one hand and deliver the goods with one hand, and the fishermen over there may come here later to rub it together - the crew has been busy for at least one night, and it is estimated that they should have been hungry for a long time.

The boss is enthusiastic, everything is "no problem": of course, no problem, these gringos who don't know what to do look at are absolutely not to be messed with, but they are never stingy, and they are more generous than those tourists from Europe.

At this time, Harrison also sat down and said to his partner: "Eat lobster early in the morning, good appetite!"

"I'm in for a treat, can't I? haha..."

Of course, it would be early in the morning for others, or even asleep, but for Mayer, they had not eaten a decent meal for almost 12 hours, and they had eaten a certain amount of chocolate in between, and their stomachs were already in a state of hunger.

Harrison also smiled, he would be able to kill only two kilograms of grilled lobster casually, and add a Moroccan-style round bread to no problem.

Moroccans usually eat Moroccan-style patisan toast with a variety of jams, cheeses, butter or chutneys, and there are many locals in Tetouan who eat homemade pasta, accompanied by a variety of pickled olives and a drink.

Pickled olives are salty and sweet, mainly salty, and still very salty.

Very strange eating habits, because Morocco is definitely a country with a thirst for sweetness, and all kinds of fancy varieties of pastries are so sweet that they are greasy, like what kind of flower-shaped fried sesame cookies, cinnamon cakes, cinnamon tea...

The sweet party almost dominates the world, but this olive is the salty party, Mayer really doesn't know how this Moroccan's mouth and stomach grow!

When I first came to Morocco, I thought pickled olives were sweet, but I was so salty that my throat was uncomfortable for a long time, and it was like stuffing salt cubes in my mouth!

Olives are too salty, and this Moroccan breakfast is indispensable for drinks, and there are many types, coffee, orange juice, yogurt, and sugar cane juice are common.

Mayer likes sugarcane juice, but add some water, otherwise it will feel too sweet and drink too much to quench your thirst.

The dry Mediterranean climate, the quality of the sugar cane in Morocco is good, and the juicing process is considered hygienic, at least Mayer and Harrison have never drunk bad stomachs.

Of course, the most famous drink here is mint tea, but Mayer hated it because Moroccans not only add sugar to the tea, but also add a mess of spices!

As for the early morning grilled lobster, Moroccans are super fond of all kinds of skewers, which can be grilled in everything, including all kinds of seafood.

I just saw two boats at the fishing dock not far away, which seemed to have just returned to port, unloading fish, and there might be lobsters. Even if there is no lobster, there should still be red shrimp in this huge field, and that thing is also the best barbecue.

Freshly squeezed sugar cane juice is served in stained glasses quickly, and the bread is ready to be freshly baked, but it's also fast.

Watching the young man who ran out just now running back with a gust of wind, he also offered treasure to the two Mayer and showed it: these two people have been here twice a few days ago, and the young man remembers. One of them is a talkative and picky eater, and the other is very easy to serve, especially the cumin mutton in the store.

Seeing the two big lobsters in the young man's hands, Harrison laughed "haha" - they were so fucking big, each one could weigh four or five kilograms!

This is the most massive and longest-lived member of the lobster family, with an adult body of more than 65 cm, and the largest spiny lobster can even grow to more than 85 cm in length, weigh up to 20 kilograms, and be hundreds of years old!

One or two kilograms of spiny lobsters produced here in Morocco are everywhere, and there are many two or three kilograms, but four or five kilograms can be regarded as relatively rare and large.

The guy from the restaurant ran to the dock to ask for the biggest lobster, and one of the fishing boats happened to retrieve the shrimp pots that had been put down a few days ago, so he took out the two largest ones.

Lobsters of this size are not uncommon, and fishing boats have once caught oversized goods weighing up to 15 kilograms, but they can already be sold for a high price, and the big restaurants in the city will take them at a higher price.

The captain asked who wanted it, and the young man pointed to the other side of the pier and said that it was the foreigners, and then he took it from the captain's hand—the guys were not bad for money, and the captain could settle a good price from the restaurateur.

Regardless of whether you can eat it or not, the price is not a problem when such a large lobster is grilled, this is the dock, and no matter how expensive it is, it is cheaper than in the United States.

When the lobster was roasted and fragrant, a luxury fast yacht approached the dock, and Harrison and the two saw a company boss coming down from above, and they walked straight to this side.

Yes, two hungry again.

When the two big men in sunglasses walked into the restaurant, Harrison and Mayer stood up at the same time, which was polite: there are actually hierarchies in the company, and to put it bluntly, the company is actually a real army!

The two who came in and left behind are said to be Russians, and they are very powerful characters in charge of the gang! As for the one in front of him, he is a Chinese, the supervisor behind the company, and the brother of the big boss!

Harrison had met with Mayer, and he would say at the same time, "Mr. Guan." ”

It was Guan Xingquan and Andre, the former nodded slightly, signaling them to be free, and then he pulled out a chair with Andre and sat next to Harrison.

The two Harrison sat down, and the sniper looked up at the time, the lobster in front of him should have almost done well.

At this time, Kwan Xingquan had just taken off his sunglasses, and Andre was ordering breakfast in Arabic.

"Oh, the watch is good, where did you buy it?"

Boss Guan just saw that this shop was small, and everyone was sitting next to each other.

When Harrison heard this, he felt that Mr. Guan seemed very interested, so he simply took the watch off his hand and handed it over, "I took it yesterday, where we worked." ”

Mr. Guan is Chinese, and Harrison knows it.

Guan Xingquan took it, looked at it a few times, and said to Harrison: "Very good watch, seven or eight years ago, I wanted to buy a piece and couldn't buy it." How about changing it to me?"

"You like you to take it, we should still have it over there. ”

Guan Xingquan shook his head slightly, took off his watch from his hand, put this new Tianba on and felt it, and said to Andre with a smile by the way: "A few years ago, this watch was a legend in my hometown, and we finally have one." ”

With that, he handed Harrison the watch on the table.

"I like it. ”

After speaking, it doesn't matter whether people want to or not, change to Russian to talk to Andrei.

Harrison looked at the watch handed over in front of him and didn't know whether to accept it, and Mayer on the other side looked at it, motioned to his partner to put it away quickly, and made a few gestures covertly.

Sniper partner, Harrison understood the meaning at a glance: "You idiot, take it! This watch is at least tens of thousands of dollars!"

This is an almost new Omega Seahorse, or one of the more expensive ones in the Seamaster series - expensive is relative, and this is the cheapest of Guan Xingquan's many watches, otherwise he would not have worn it during the war.