Text Chapter 1041 Seagull Wine
'Bailu Port' sounds very domineering, but it is actually a small port with a permanent population of less than 300 people. It is a small fishing port located in the Aleutian Islands southwest of Arras. Every year during the crab fishing season, it is crowded here.
There's a reason it's sparsely populated: it's not a habitable place, and it's located at the junction of the Bering Sea, the North Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Alaska, and the environment is quite harsh.
But now there are not a few boats on the dock, and almost all of them are fishing outside against the clock. There are also more than a dozen fishing boats moored here, shipping with the fishing companies on board.
When Xiao Peng arrived here, it had already begun to snow.
"Wow, that's a lot of snow. It's so beautiful!" said Nikita, stretching out her hands and happily.
Xiao Peng smiled bitterly: "Nikita, say quietly, be careful that someone is really coming to beat you!"
"Huh?" Nikita froze.
Xiao Peng explained: "The most feared thing at sea is bad weather, and not all ships are as easy as ours. Our ship has a large tonnage and little work. That's why it feels so relaxed, but if you think about it from another angle, those crab fishing boats have a displacement of one or two hundred tons, and the waves are up and down at a height of one or two meters, and everyone feels like they are working on small leaves. And from the moment the crab pot enters the sea, everyone hardly starts to work on a continuous shaft for several days. If it's just wind and waves, it's normal to rain, but snow is more annoying. It's easy to pile up ice on deck, which doubles the risk for the crew and can cause casualties, Nikita, don't think I'm scaring you, fishing here is a real thing. Every year, at the beginning of the crab season, a ceremony is held to commemorate the fisherman who died during the crab season last year. For fishermen, only good weather is best. So don't praise the snow or anything like that in a place where there are many fishermen, don't talk about them, I want to beat you up!"
"Mr. Xiao, Mr. Yang, Wow, God really exists, I didn't expect to meet you here!" a little old man in a down jacket and a hat walked over with a pipe in his mouth and grinning.
"Maxim, you old drunkard, I have smelled your wine all the way at sea!" Yang Meng and Maxim hugged warmly.
"Hey, Jan, you can't say that about me, I was very conscious when I was on the boat!" protested Maxim.
Yang Meng smiled and said, "Now get off the boat, na, I'll give you something good!" After speaking, he handed him the bag he was carrying: "Erguotou, something better than your vodka." β
"Wow, thank you. Maxim took the second pot head handed to him by Yang Meng, stretched out his hand to Xiao Peng and said, "Mr. Samuel." Nice to meet you again. Let's go, the bar on the pier is nice, let's go there for a drink or two, this damn weather. β
Xiao Peng smiled and waved his hand: "Maxim, you go and sell the fish first, if this crab dies, it will be worth a penny." I'm going to dock at the pier too, and we'll see you at the bar in a moment. β
"Well, thank you Mr. Samuel for your understanding, we'll see you at the bar!" Although Maxim said that he was happy to see Xiao Peng and the others, he was mainly making money when he came out, and he was sure to sell the harvest as soon as possible.
This is really not an exaggeration as Xiao Peng said, these North American fishing companies on the fishing docks must live for the purchase of crabs and lobsters and the like! Don't give away the dead for nothing! It is really not an exaggeration to say that on such a small wharf, there must be at least one or two tons of dead crabs and dead lobsters that are thrown away every day. If you want the Chinese people to see it, you will feel distressed to death------ shame wasting food!
Nikita asked curiously and whispered, "Xiao, why did he shake hands with you, but he hugged Yang Meng?"
Xiao Peng pouted: "Men have a kind of friendship, called 'prostitution together', they are such a friendship." β
Georgina listened with her ears pricked up next to her, and the way she looked at Maxim was about to change.
Xiao Peng went to find a hotel, and after arranging the left-behind personnel on duty, he took Yang Meng and the two girls to the bar. As for the others on the boat, they didn't follow Xiao Peng.
They have more important things to do----- and the most prosperous port in various places is the erotic industry, and that is not for nothing. After holding back at sea for so long, there must be a place to vent.
To be honest, it turns out that the people on the boat don't have so many problems, but this time it's different, there are two women on board. Although they all knew that the two women were the daughters of the boss's friend, they came to the boat to experience life, but the man couldn't see that the women might be upright and gentlemen, but when he saw the women, he would think about other thingsγγγγγγ
Xiao Peng didn't care about them, as long as he didn't delay the work on the ship, why bother with their private lives? Out of sight is clean.
The four of them arrived at the bar, and as soon as they entered the bar, the four of them were dumbfounded: there was a group fight going on here. After seeing Xiao Peng and them come in, everyone stopped their movements and looked at the four of them.
Xiao Peng blinked, and said a little uncertainly, "You continue?"
After listening to his words, he really continued to catch and fight.
Xiao Peng shrugged his shoulders and walked around the crowd of fights to the bar, where stood a cool girl with short black hair and an Asian face. He wore a tight black leather jacket and wrapped himself tightly, but the tattoo on his neck was tattooed all the way to his chin. He wears a rich smoky makeup and a ring of studs in one ear. The other ear is a large earring. And she's there right now, looking down and recording something.
Seeing Xiao Peng and them coming, the girl looked up and asked, "What do you want to drink?" and then continued to look at the place where the fight was going on with great interest, while continuing to record in the notebook.
Xiao Peng looked down at the content of the book and was happy, feeling that this girl was there to settle accounts, and the broken tables, chairs, and cups had to be written down to calculate the amount of compensation.
Seeing Xiao Peng looking at his notebook, the girl smiled and said, "What, do you want to bet?"
Xiao Peng was confused after hearing this, the girl pointed to the top of her head, and Xiao Peng looked up and was even happier. Above the bar is a blackboard with the names of the ships and all sorts of bets: 'Whose crew will have an accident first?' 'Whose ship will stop working first', 'Whose ship will be the first to complete the ration', 'The crews of those two ships will fight', and so on.
"Now it's the 'Green Fairy' and the 'Wizard of the Northland' who are fighting, and the two sides are arguing over the territory at sea, and they fight after meeting in the bar, which is the rule here: 'Matters at sea are settled on the ground'. Now the situation in the field is that there are six people on the 'Greenland Fairy' side, and five people on the 'Northland Witch Doctor' side, so you can bet on which side has the least injuries. The girl took out four cups and put them in front of Xiao Peng and the others: "What to drink?"
"Do you have any introductions?" Xiao Peng asked rhetorically.
Nikita suddenly whistled and took out a large glass jar from the bar and put it on the table: "How about this?"
After seeing the contents of the glass jar, Georgina and Nikita retched together, but there was laughter in the bar, and I don't know who shouted, 'Someone is going to challenge the seagull', and the fishermen who were still fighting suddenly stopped and stared straight in the direction of the bar.
In the bottle was some brown liquid, and these were not the scariest of all, the scariest thing was that there was a rotting seagull in it.
"How about it, would you like a drink?" the girl at the bar looked at Xiao Peng and the others with a wicked smile.
Yang Meng blinked: "There is this thing here?"
Xiao Peng thought for a while: "Oh, it's not strange here, this is also where the Inuit live, don't you see that this girl is a yellow race? β
The girl at the bar laughed: "The Inuit of Alaska prefer people to call them Eskimos, how domineering does that sound? 'Cannibals'! But you guessed it wrong, I'm not an Inuit, this is the Aleutian Islands, of course I'm an Aleutian!"
The Aleuts are also, distributed in Siberia and Alaska, they are very similar in appearance, language, culture and culture to the Inuit, they mainly live in the Aleutian Islands, and were later forcibly relocated to the Alaska mainland by the government of the Stars and Stripes, and only a few Aleuts remain on the Aleutian Peninsula.
In other words, the population of this Aleutian is not large, and there are still about 6,000 Aleutian people in the world, but I didn't expect to meet one here, and the appearance is so cool, which is a bit interesting!
Xiao Peng pointed to the cup: "Let's have two cups! β
Yang Meng smiled and said, "I haven't drunk this thing for a few years." Last time in Siberia, what was the old shaman's name? He invited us to drink. It's so unpleasant. β
Nikita didn't vomit after listening to the conversation between the two, but her eyes widened: "God, have you drunk this thing? Xiao, if you drink it, I won't pay attention to you anymore! This thing is too disgusting!"
Xiao Peng smiled: "Nikita, you can not understand other people's culture, but you can't disrespect other people's culture. The Inuit have a habit of eating rotten food, and the gull wine is just one part of their culture. Believe me, we Chinese people still have rat wine, snake wine and the like, this seagull wine is nothing. β
Of course, this is the case, but in fact, the Inuit 'seagull wine' is not the same thing as snake wine and rat wine!
The wine is made from high-grade liquor, but what about the 'seagull wine'? It is a bottle of dead terns, filled with water, and fermented in the sun. Just drink the fermented juice of the rotten tern.
As Xiao Peng said, the Inuit have the habit of eating rotten food with raw meat, which is also something that cannot be helped, they live in high latitudes, where there are too few green plants, and in order to get enough vitamins, they can only eat raw meat and rotten food: rotten food is easier to chew.
Alas, in the final analysis, the four words----- 'forced by life' are not?