761. Zulu courtship
Yang Shubao didn't know much about Agatha, only that she was from Hluchluwe, and thought that her home was near a small town.
Kwa province is home to a large number of Zulu tribes, some of whom have been trained in modern civilization and go to the cities to work.
Zhang Jinjie understood, he shook his head and said that Agatha's hometown was not in Hlukhluwe, or even in Kua province, but in the north-central region of Mpumalanga province.
Mpumalanga is a neighbour of Kwa province, but it is a large province, and the north-central region where the Agatha tribe is located is far away from Hlukhluwe, which is about a decade away by car.
So on a day, Zhang Jinjie handed over the work at hand to Lu Penghui to be responsible, and then he asked Yang Shubao to accompany him and drove to the official proposal.
Yang Shubao was also quite impressed, and he asked, "You made the girl's belly bigger, and then you haven't come to the door once?"
Zhang Jinjie smiled bitterly: "It's not that my brother doesn't understand etiquette, it's that Agatha won't let me go to the door, and she has a very bad quarrel with her family, specifically, she ran away from home and ran to Hluchluwe." ”
The rules of the Zulu tribe are somewhat similar to those of ancient Chinese clans, such as following their fathers at home and marrying their husbands, girls have no marital autonomy, and the reason why Agatha first wanted to post Yang Shubao upside down and then upside down Zhang Jinjie is related to this.
This girl had gone to school, her mind was clear, and she knew that it was much better to marry any Chinese who came from Africa than to stay in her hometown and be treated as a quarter.
The Zulu could marry four wives, but in fact, as long as they had enough money, the wealthy people of the tribe could marry as many wives as they could.
The marriage rules of the local tribes are related to cattle, and the heaviest bride price is ten cows.
Zhang Jinjie wanted to bring a bride price according to the customs of his hometown, but Agatha sternly stopped him: "You must not let them know that you are rich, you must not act like a rich man, because they will treat you as a wronged man, five cows!
Yang Shubao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Your daughter-in-law's approach is correct, let's pick five cows from my reserve, all of them are good cows, and your father-in-law will definitely look up to them." ”
Agatha stopped again: "No, Yang, you are indeed good cattle, they are worth too much, one cow can beat three cattle in the market, so we go to Bessel with the money to buy cattle, not from your reserve." ”
"Besides, it's still a long way from our tribe, and if you rent a transport cart to send five cows, the cost of the fare alone is huge. She added.
Uncle Yang said: "Your daughter-in-law is okay, she is not married yet, and she thinks about you everywhere." ”
But in the end, he and Zhang Jinjie thought about it, and decided to bring a cow from the reserve, and buy four more cows when the time comes, so that there is a cow that can be used as a trump card.
Adult South African cattle were huge, weighing an exaggerated tonne, and the flower shop's pickup truck couldn't accommodate such a large cow, so they drove Maison's box truck, which just happened to stuff the cattle into it.
Maison also went to help, and Yang Shubao also brought Malone and Terry, in case the mention of relatives was fruitless and the other party made things difficult, then they would change it to rob relatives.
The two cars drove onto the road one after the other, and as they left Kwa province and drove into Mpumalanga province, their vision was even broader.
The province of Mpumalanga is home to the great hunting and is home to the famous Kruger National Park, which has much better grasslands than those of Kwwah.
Agatha told them that the grasslands of Mpumalanga were more developed and impressive, but then the economy developed and the local government expropriated a large amount of grasslands to convert them into forests and farmland, and that forestry, agriculture and tourism are now the troika of the province.
Sure enough, the car drove along the road for more than an hour, and a large area of lush woods appeared.
From time to time you can see holiday villas in the depths of the woods, which are lush private grange reserves, and those who can build villas here are rich or powerful, because the villas are built in wildlife or bird sanctuaries, and the scenery is beautiful, not to mention.
When the elves arrived in this land, it was like a paradise, grasslands, woods, wetlands, river valleys, fields, all kinds of terrain were dizzying, and many new species of animals and plants were countless.
Ma Long exclaimed: "I thought the species richness of our reserve was exaggerated enough, but I didn't expect there to be more animals and plants here." ”
Yang Shubao said: "This is your paradise, do you want to come here to develop?"
Malone and Terry shook their heads.
That's why people always say that they dream of heaven and really want to send people to heaven, but they don't do it.
They set out at dawn and arrived at noon in a small town called Bethel.
It is a small agricultural city with a well-developed catering industry, many shops, and many agricultural and animal husbandry markets.
So they restocked here, and Agatha made another confirmation call to the family, and then they went to the market and bought four big bulls, and hired a cart to send them to the village of Ahadira.
Agatha's hometown is one of the more developed of the Zulu tribe and has been converted into a village, with a post office, a café, a telecommunications service, a school and a township hospital.
Ahadira means 'beautiful hometown' in Zulu, and Agatha said that the village was formed by the merger of several tribes, so the large population and the many people who came from here gave it this name to indicate that they would not forget their hometown.
There are large villages here with a bit of a Chinese flavor, well-arranged houses and large and small roads leading in all directions.
Agatha also introduced them to the government, saying that this was a model village built by the government in order to attract tribal residents to come out of the wilderness and live in the village.
There are villages far from the main roads, but they are smaller, and the houses are built in a mess, which were later settled by the tribes, and the houses are built by themselves.
The beautiful hometown has finally arrived, but if you enter the village up close, you will find that it is not very beautiful.
There is a lot of garbage in the village, and the roadbed is almost ruined, potholes, and cars are bumping on it.
Yang Shubao asked, "Why doesn't the government build the road?"
Agatha sighed, "It can't be repaired, do you think this road was crushed by a car?"
"Isn't it?"
"Of course not, you see, the village here is still very backward, how many cars can pass by? Actually, it's all destroyed, because the roads have steel bars in the body, and they dig up the steel bars to sell scrap metal. ”
Yang Shubao was stunned, when he learned that the Sang people cut the wires to obtain copper wires, he already felt that it was a sassy operation, but now looking at the Zulu people's operation, this is definitely even more sassy.
Zhang Jinjie said optimistically: "There is no cow dung or anything like that, and the hygiene is at least good." ”
Agatha said angrily: "Of course there is no cow dung, cow dung can be used as fuel after drying, do you think my people will give up such a fortune?"
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