4. Resort town (please bookmark it, thank you)
The weather in South Africa during the rainy season is like a girlfriend's makeup, and soon after the appearance of Nate, who can jump, the sky began to rain.
Yang Shubao didn't want to be watered by the rain, and he was tired and hungry all day, so he arranged for Nate to come and guard the tree of life, and he went to the town to take shelter from the rain.
The town is some distance from the Tree of Life, it is small in size, but elegant in style, a flat road winds its way through the grassland, disappearing into the end of the earth.
The town is dotted with many houses, almost all of them bungalows and two-story houses, and few of them are more than three-storey.
This is a characteristic of South African architecture, where there is no need to build high-rise buildings.
After entering the town, he breathed a sigh of relief, this is still South Africa, not South America, and the shops on both sides of the road are wearing national flags, South African flags.
He was about to find a random convenience store to buy something to eat first, but a panel suddenly flashed in front of him, and the tree spirit gave a new guidance: [The young city lord is already hungry, so you might as well go to the 'Meimeida Fast Restaurant' and take a look, what do you guess will be gained there?]
Looking at this task, City Lord Yang smiled, this little thing of the tree spirit is quite naughty, I guess?
The Meimeida fast food restaurant is located at the entrance of the town highway and is a two-story building. Not many people traveled on a rainy day, and the fast-food restaurant was deserted, except for a table of black youths gathered to gobble up.
As he entered, a tall white girl came up to him with a smile and asked, "Hello sir, what would you like to eat?" I recommend you try our Sasa, our chef used to go to Zimbabwe......
"Okay, Sasa, two Sasa. ”
"Well, there's fried corners, this is a cold food, it's a specialty of our restaurant......"
"OK, fried corners, let's have two fried corners. ”
"We also have charcoal-grilled big bats here......"
"OK, no, no, no, forget it. ”
The fastest on the deep-fried corners, which is a deep-fried triangular food that originated in Santanyani, is a bit like Chinese fried dumplings, but it is wrapped in a triangle shape and the filling is cooked first, then wrapped in dough and fried until golden brown and then cooled to eat.
One fried corner is the size of two dumplings, and one plate is five fried corners, which are full of color and flavor.
At the moment of food, Yang Shubao couldn't stand it, he didn't care about the image, grabbed the fried horn with both hands and threw it into his mouth like Rambo grabbing a bomb: "Bia chicken, bia chicken, bia chicken......"
A plate of fried horns is gone.
Another plate of fried corners is gone.
Fortunately, two large plates of Sasa were sent up in time.
Sasa is a mainstream staple food in Africa, and different countries have different names, Sasa is called from Zimbabwe, and it is also the most elaborate practice in Zimbabwe.
It is made of corn flour, the corn flour is boiled and dried in water to make a paste, and it is directly put on a plate to pour gravy and cover with vegetables.
Imagine for yourself.
However, Yang Shubao didn't care about this, he grinned and pulled the plate in after getting a plate of sprinkles......
The manager of the fast food restaurant who came out of the back was stunned when he saw this scene, and he muttered: "God knows I don't lie, I, Richard Mason, have seen big scenes for many years, but I have never seen this kind of scene." ”
The manager was a kind man, he saw that Yang Shubao was covered in muddy water, eating and drinking embarrassed, so he felt pity, and specially brought him a bowl of soup and said, "It's free, man, drink it and go to the cold." ”
Uncle Yang appreciated it, he put down the plate and briefly introduced himself, and talked to the manager.
Manager Maison smiled when he learned of his nationality: "I see, Mr. Yang, I know the purpose of your visit to the resort town, you are here to see the land of the reserve, right?"
Yang Shubao didn't know what he was talking about, so he said quietly: "How can you see it?"
Manager Maison shrugged and said, "It's too simple, you Chinese have money, and you like to buy houses and land the most, in fact, there have been several groups of people who have come to see the land in the reserve long before you, and there are your compatriots in it." ”
Yang Shubao needed to understand the situation here, so he took out a hundred-yuan rand and pushed it to Maison and said: "For the sake of the father of the nation and the blue buffalo, tell me about the local situation, including where this is, the land situation here, and so on." ”
The main color of the new version of the 100-yuan rand is blue, and it is printed with Mandela, the father of the South African nation, on the front, and on the back is the African buffalo, one of the five hegemons of Africa, so the local folk like to call it the blue buffalo.
It's easy to get things done with money.
Maison happily put away the bill and said, "As you wish, man, this is a resort town, very close to Hluhluwe, and you look southeast there is a big lake, of course you know, it's Lake St. Lucia......"
Hearing this, Yang Shubao understood where the protected area he had been talking about was, the Great St. Lucia Wetland Park Reserve, the northeast corner of South Africa.
And the Cape Botanical Reserve where he was previously located happened to be in the southwest corner of South Africa, which means that the Tree of Life carried him through the country in a matter of seconds!
The Tree of Life is a cow (broken sound)!
Unlike the Cape Botanical Reserve, this is a wetland park built around Lake St. Lucia, with a complex topography and rich species, between sea level and mountains at an altitude of 500 meters, consisting of a coastal plain and continental shelf, with a total area of 240,000 hectares.
Because of the unusually large number of biological species and variations, the wetland park was declared a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site as early as 1999.
Mason went on to explain the local population, and then talked about the land being sold in the reserve.
In South Africa, protected land is not sold to private individuals.
But in the last two years, the South African government has been carrying out drastic land reforms, with some land being expropriated and put on the market, such as urban land by state-owned enterprises, land in and around informal settlements, land reserved on farms, and land in protected areas.
Coincidentally, there is a plot of land on the edge of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park Reserve, with a total area of 404 hectares and a total value of 2 million rand.
According to the exchange rate, two million rand is about 1 million yuan, which is equivalent to a hectare of land only selling for 2,500 yuan, and the price of a small acre of land is more than 150 yuan!
Of course, South Africa has few landowners, and the price of land has always been relatively low, according to Yang Shubao's knowledge, the price of agricultural land in South Africa is 10,000 rand per hectare, and if it is urban land, the price is expensive, 10,000 square meters will need 500,000 rand.
The price of land in the reserve is only half of the normal land price, which should be broken.
But Mason then told him that the land had been listed for several months, but no one had bought it, because of the strict nature of the land: the land in the reserve could not be used for industrial and agricultural production, but only for the development of the tertiary industry, such as the development of tourism, such as the construction of private reserves.
Hearing this, Yang Shubao understood the reason why the tree spirit let him come to this restaurant to eat.
This land was for him, and he could buy it to protect the Tree of Life.
While the two were talking, the three black youths who had been gobbling up in the fast food restaurant stopped eating and stared at them together.
Yang Shubao knew the danger in the South African countryside, and after discovering the abnormality, he prepared to settle the bill and leave.
But at this moment, a strong black young man pushed open the plate in front of him and walked over.
Yang Shubao began to activate his wrists and ankles.
This will make it easier to escape.