Chapter 457: Chinatown
The night in Cape Town is warm and comfortable, the Holiday Inn is a five-star hotel facing the sea, Ye Tian stays in a standard room, open the window just to face the sea, the sea breeze of the Atlantic Ocean makes the air of Cape Town with a refreshing light salty taste, which makes Ye Tian, who has lived by the sea since he was a child, feel very comfortable and cordial.
When the lights are on, the whole of Cape Town is like a hedgehog lit up by all kinds of neon, and the chaos is like a radial dot of lights. Ye Tianxia went downstairs and bought two pairs of shorts with local characteristics, and blended in with the weaving of tourists like ordinary tourists.
The further you go, the denser the flow of people becomes. Ye Tian followed the flow of people and looked around, but he was also at ease. In the blink of an eye, you will find yourself in the bustling commercial street of Cape Town.
The main languages here are English and French, and in the early colonial rule, the English and French colonists not only brought European architectural styles to the area, but also deeply imprinted European thinking and concepts on the rich and vast land of South Africa.
As the sun sets below the surface with the last rays of heat, Cape Town's bustling nightlife officially begins.
"Come on, come and buy, authentic Brazilian Rio de Janeiro samba barbecue, for only $2, a kilogram of delicious beef is yours!, come on!" a middle-aged black man bared his white teeth and shouted for it, with a tray of roasted roast meat that had been roasted to a golden brown brown. The tangy aroma made everyone who passed by secretly swallow their saliva.
"Bring me a piece. A fat white man also spoke English to a middle-aged black man.
"Oh, my dear brother, you are so knowledgeable! Such a large piece is sold to you at a loss. The middle-aged black man was holding a plate, his greedy eyes staring at the fat man and taking out the money, while preparing a plastic bag to pack.
But something strange happened. At the moment when the fat man took out the money and handed it to the black man, a large piece of barbecue meat on the black man's plate disappeared!
Both the white and the black man were stunned, and the white man snatched the money back and muttered, "I really didn't expect you to be a magician." But I'm not here to see the magic, so hurry up and conjure up that piece of your meat, or I won't pay. ”
Ye Tian was walking while eating the fragrant roast beef. Although it does not have the delicate aroma of domestic roast beef, it is better than rough and heavy. It gives you the feeling of facing the vast grasslands of Africa.
After eating the barbecue in two bites, Ye Tian, the big stomach, bought a lot of local snacks, except for the delicious and cheap seafood, the rest of the snacks were thrown into the trash by Ye Tian.
Just when Ye Tian was worried about his belly, the three big characters flashing with golden lights in the distance made Ye Tian feel the bottom of his heart.
Chinatown.
Chinatown and Huaxia City exist in cities in almost any country on the planet. They are more like a business card of the Chinese country, highlighting the long history and pride of the Chinese country. The great descendants of Yan and Huang relied on their industrious hands to expand their territory and multiply in strange countries, creating one magical story after another. In Cape Town's Chinatown, you can buy almost everything in China. Even Suzhou embroidery from the origin can be bought here.
While the locals of Cape Town were still asleep, the hard-working Chinese had already opened their shops early, and a dazzling array of goods hung on the decorative walls. And when the land of Africa began to sleep, these hard-working Chinese people were still working hard.
A variety of specialty snacks wafting with rich aromas fill half of Chinatown. Whether you're a foreigner or a resident of Cape Town, South Africa, you'll love these delicious snacks in Chinatown. In their hearts, these delicacies are simply irresistible, and they are simply incomparable to monotonous Western food.
The only thing that makes them feel inconvenient is the chopsticks used by Huaxiaguo, which is so skillful that foreigners are so anxious that they often start to catch it.
Ye Tian walked into Chinatown, and the dazzling array of food suddenly dazzled Ye Tian. These delicacies are not very precious in China, but on the other side of the world, in this strange country, it is exciting to see the delicacies of Huaxia.
Chinatown's food street stretches for hundreds of meters, filled with shouts in broken English to solicit customers, with stir-fry spoons and shovels clinking together. The special aroma of the lamb skewers sprinkled with chili noodles and cumin noodles under the charcoal high-temperature barbecue, and the long tone deliberately dragged out by the restaurant guys when serving the food, all made Ye Tian feel a sense of intimacy in China.
The entire food court is full of people, and there are many people sitting at the public tables. Feel free to choose your favorite cuisine and sit on a bench to eat and drink. Ye Tian sat on a dining table that had just been cleaned up, looking at the dazzling array of delicacies in a daze, and placed a drawer of buns in front of Ye Tian. Ye Tian raised his head, and it was a kind smiling face, with yellow skin and black eyes.
"From China?" handed Ye Tian a drawer of buns was a middle-aged woman, slightly chubby, revealing the kindness and enthusiasm of traditional women in China. Sitting on the chair opposite Ye Tian without seeing it, he whispered, "Is your wallet hacked, or are you going to work here in the dark?"
Hearing the middle-aged woman's question, Ye Tian's heart moved: "The money has been hacked." ”
"The dogs killed these days, they are so delicious and lazy, not to mention, they are specially engaged in pit our people in Huaxia. The middle-aged woman slapped her thigh, scolded indignantly and then comforted: "I don't know how many international students and people who are ready to come to pan for gold are deceived by them every year, these people will be retributed sooner or later, since things have happened, don't think about it too much, eat first, and then find a way when you are full, you can't starve to death." ”
Ye Tian didn't eat enough just now, and he was not polite at the moment, and swept away a drawer of buns like a whirlwind. Seeing that Ye Tian was so able to eat, the middle-aged woman hurriedly took out two drawers of buns and handed them to Ye Tian.
"Eat more, or it's wasted." The middle-aged woman was afraid that Ye Tian would be embarrassed to eat, so she pretended to talk to herself: "These, not to mention greed, are also very picky. The overnight buns were sold to them in the morning, and they said that the hygiene was not up to standard, there was no way, and the remaining buns had to be thrown away every day, which was a waste. I'm glad you're here, otherwise I'd have wasted it today. ”
Ye Tian looked at the middle-aged woman gratefully, lowered his head and cleaned the bun.
"It's a blessing in misfortune. ”
The proprietress glanced at the surging crowd and whispered in Chinese: "Cape Town is better, hacking your wallet and stealing your wallet, if you go further inland, it is okay for a lone foreign child like you to be robbed." When you encounter a transnational criminal syndicate, they will knock you out and remove your organs. If you stray into the territory of those warlords and mercenaries, you will be beaten to death and thrown into the ground to feed wild dogs. ”
"So messy?" Ye Tian still hadn't eaten enough, but he was really embarrassed to eat any more. The middle-aged woman's daughter ran out and looked at Ye Tian curiously, leaned on her mother's ear and said a few words, the middle-aged woman laughed and scolded and pretended to hit the girl, and the girl ran into the stall with a smile.
The chubby proprietress nodded, as if remembering the past years, and said with palpitations: "At that time, I was as old as you, and I went to East Africa to catch up with the mercenary rebellion, and a whole load of us were shot and killed by the mercenaries, and we were all locked up in their cells alive, working for them every day, and the beautiful women were shot and killed after they were all ruined." ”
The proprietress stacked up the cage drawer of Xiaolongbao and put it back at the stall outlet, then turned around and turned back in front of Ye Tian and continued: "I was still young at that time, but fortunately, one of the mercenaries was from our Huaxia, so I was able to block those beasts. Then he secretly put me on the truck where I went out to buy groceries, and I ended up in South Africa. So, when I see you, I think back to when I was a kid. If you can help, you will be helped, and if you can suffer less sin, you will suffer less. How much are a couple of buns worth? If you don't have a place to stay at night, stay with me for a few days. Wait until you get in touch with your family and relatives. Going out is not as good as going home, and if something really happens, it will be a big deal. ”
Of course, Ye Tian can't tell the middle-aged woman that he is going to the Gulf of Aden to be a leader, the perspective of the middle-aged woman is more low-level than the perspective of the local spy personnel that Ye Tian contacted, which is more conducive to Ye Tian to understand the continent full of suspense and unknown.
As the topic deepened, Ye Tian saw another unknown continent from the mouth of a middle-aged woman, the African continent.
But later, Ye Tian still told the proprietress that he was going to the Gulf of Aden.
Hearing Ye Tian say that he was going to the Gulf of Aden, the middle-aged woman was so shocked that she almost jumped up from her chair.
"Are you going to die? Every year there are more children like you who dream of making a lot of money and getting ahead in the mercenary world, do you know how many people die in Africa every year? It is simply a hell in the world! It is a world of cannibalism! Listen to Auntie, don't go over there, the whole African continent is ten times more chaotic than you imagined! Except for South Africa, which is relatively stable, the entire African continent is suffering from famine and war every day! You settle down here first, and Auntie will find you a job to do first. That's not where you can go as a kid. ”
This description is basically similar to the information Ye Tian obtained. Although in recent years, it has become a second battlefield opened up by major powers in terms of economy and energy. All sorts of mercenary agencies, rebels, secretly supported by Western forces, under the banner of populism, racism. The originally rich and peaceful land of Africa was stirred up in wolf smoke. Every year, an astronomical number of Africans die of war, hunger and disease in the interior of Africa, a land forgotten by God.
Ye Tian looked at the fat aunt with emotion, and said in his heart that if Huang Laoxie had half of the conscience of someone's family, he wouldn't have to run over alone to play with his life. Everyone knows that this place is not for children to live in at all.
The two men were talking, and there was a commotion from the stall in the distance. Ye Tian raised his eyes and saw five sturdy black men talking to a stall owner.
"These damn niggas. The middle-aged woman cursed, took out a few bills from her pocket, and placed them on the table.
Ye Tian asked curiously, "Auntie, what are these people doing?"
"If anyone who collects protection money doesn't pay it, these will make it difficult for anyone to live in peace. ”