Chapter 609: The Monsweiler Slum

Looking at Xiao Peng's puzzled look, Kevin laughed: "Mr. Xiao, do you know how big this animal reserve is?

Xiao Peng shook his head, and Kevin gave the answer: "This place covers an area of 184,000 hectares, and it was originally a farm. You see it's barren, but when it's the rainy season, it's green. ”

Xiao Peng gasped after hearing this: "184,000 hectares? Damn, this is about the size of two Hong Kong islands! Such a big farm?"

Kevin didn't know how big Hong Kong Island was, but he nodded: "It's really big here." ”

Xiao Peng sighed: "It is really interesting enough to provide you with this land as a friend of the animal sanctuary, such a large land is said to be used for you?"

Kevin smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Mr. Xiao, there is nothing he can do if he gives me this land, because this is the only way for him to keep this land." ”

"What do you mean? Can the land be kept? If I'm not mistaken, you are not an eagle legal system, right? Don't you attach great importance to private property?" Xiao Peng was stunned.

Kevin said: "Now the National Assembly of the South Africa is amending the constitution to allow the expropriation of land without compensation, you know this thing, right?"

Xiao Peng nodded: "This matter is so big, it's hard to think about it." ”

Kevin smiled bitterly: "My friend's land is not a big landlord in Africa, but because it is close to Johannesburg, it must be in the sequence of being expropriated first, and instead of being expropriated for free, he chose to lend me this land and turn it into a nature reserve, so as to keep the land ownership." At worst, even if you can't keep your land ownership and are forcibly expropriated, after all, this is an animal sanctuary, and you can get enough compensation. ”

"He gave you the land, so where did he go?" Xiao Peng asked.

"Kangaroo Country, Kangaroo Country is now offering fast-track visas to non-South white farmers to go to Kangaroo Country to continue farming. Kevin said.

"Poof. "Xiao Peng sprayed, Kangaroo Country is not kind to do this, this is a real digging wall!

"Right now, the South is protesting with the Kangaroo Nation about this, but what's the use of protesting? If the farmer's land is confiscated, who will stay here?" Kevin said.

Xiao Peng shrugged: "What you said is to protect people, is it to protect him?"

Kevin shook his head: "No, no, no, of course not, Mr. Xiao, since there is nothing to do now, why don't I take you around?"

Xiao Peng thought that Kevin was going to take him to the animal sanctuary to have a look, but Kevin Richardson took Xiao Peng to drive in the direction of Johannesburg, and the back box of the car was full of insulated barrels and mineral juices, which seemed to be ready for a long time. After a little more than an hour's drive, Xiao Peng and Kevin arrived in a small town called Monsweiler.

When he arrived in the town, Xiao Peng looked out the window and was directly dumbfounded.

Is this still a town? Xiao Peng, who had just come from Cape Town, instantly felt that his brain couldn't turn around.

Over there in Cape Town, luxury cars are everywhere, and there are a lot of beautiful villas, and the rich people have. But here. Cement tile houses are rare!

The whole town is built on an abandoned land,

Xiao Peng saw that there were houses made of wooden planks put together, as well as simple tin houses, container houses, and even tents.

This so-called town really can't even catch up with the rural areas of China.

Three words came to Xiao Peng's mind: slums.

However, there was no one on the street at this time, Kevin pointed in one direction, and there was a large tent where a figure could be seen.

Xiao Peng turned his head to look at Kevin, but he was a little impressed by Kevin.

Because in his impression, the whole of Africa is poor and backward, and where there are slums, there are black people and black children. Can't imagine that Kevin not only has a love for animals, but also for these black people in the slums?

Kevin drove the car to the tent and explained to Xiao Peng, "It's Sunday!"

"What do you mean by Sunday?" Xiao Peng was puzzled.

Kevin stopped the car: "Sunday Mass." ”

Xiao Peng was stunned, he forgot that this was a religious country, and these people were really religious.

Xiao Peng looked left and right: "They are not afraid of being stolen? Everyone runs here, who takes care of the house? Or is the security so good? It has reached the point of not closing the house at night?"

Kevin smiled bitterly: "Then there must be something for people to steal, what do you think thieves will come to steal?"

Xiao Peng suddenly realized, okay, it's true, everyone here is poor like this, what else can be stolen?

After the two got out of the car, Xiao Peng took out a cigarette and compared it to Kevin, who shook his head: "I don't smoke." ”

Xiao Peng lit one himself. Curious looking around.

Probably hearing the movement of the car, a group of people came out of the tent, Xiao Peng looked again, the smoke almost fell to the ground, and the ragged people who came out of it turned out to be white? Aren't all the slums black?

Look at these people, one by one unkempt and tattered, Xiao Peng swears that he had also seen poor white people when he was in the Stars and Stripes Country, but he had never seen anything like this!

Kevin explained: "Mr. Xiao, there is neither water nor electricity here, and the residents use water from the river two kilometers away, which is good during the rainy season, but it is more difficult during the dry season. ”

When the people who came out of it saw Kevin, they looked familiar and greeted Kevin warmly. One of the older men hugged Kevin warmly: "Wow, for us, the best days of life are the days of 'green bags' and the days you come on Sunday." ”

Kevin smiled and said, "Gibb, it's not interesting for you to say that, come, this is 'PAP' and 'Chakalala' made by Sasha and Fore, you all come and try it." ”

Sasha and Fore Xiao Peng have the impression that they are the staff of the reserve. Two young men with childish faces.

Seeing this, Xiao Peng was confused, but he still watched Kevin distribute the food in the thermos bucket to the poor people here, Xiao Peng couldn't help if he wanted to, so he could only stand on the side and smoke and watch here.

It is said that this is a place full of disobedience, there can be hundreds of people in the whole town, but although it is poor, people are extremely proud, obviously the living conditions are very difficult, and eating is a problem, but Xiao Peng saw a well-groomed small garden, with pet cats and dogs, and shabby European-style furniture.

Kevin was still there to distribute food and water, but several people came over and surrounded Xiao Peng in the middle, both men and women, Xiao Peng didn't understand what they were going to do, and the man named Jibb who was chatting with Kevin said to Xiao Peng with a smile: "Wow, Kevin finally brought a man over." ”

"What's that?" Xiao Peng was startled, what do you mean? You need a man here? It's not to keep yourself here, right? I heard that like the Inuit have such a style, seeing that a man will leave him there and make a woman pregnant, is there also here?

Gibb saw Xiao Peng's frightened expression and laughed: "Hey, yellow-skinned young man, I think you misunderstood, I mean you smoke, Kevin is fine everywhere, just don't smoke, is this still a man? What kind of smoke are you? It smells very good!"

No matter how stupid Xiao Peng is, he knows that he wants to smoke cigarettes! Xiao Peng hurriedly took out the cigarette and divided it around: "This is the cigarette from my hometown, I don't know if you like to smoke it or not." ”

He asked in vain, looking at the way they smoked, how could it be difficult to smoke? It was the rhythm of smoking a cigarette in one breath.

"Henrich, can you help me see what's wrong with my car?, why does it feel so wrong when driving?" Kevin beckoned to a middle-aged man.

Henrich opened the hood and looked: "You start the car." ”

Kevin started the car, and Henrich shrugged his shoulders after hearing this: "What's wrong?" Kevin, you're making too much of a fuss, it's just that the air filter is a little dirty, just clean the air filter." ”

Kevin smiled: "Then you can help me clean the air filter, nay, this is hard work." With that, he took out fifty pounds and handed it to Henrich.

Henrich looked at the fifty pounds in his hand: "This is from Sasha for me, right?"

Kevin was noncommittal, turned to leave, looked at Xiao Peng and a circle of people smoking here, and said to Xiao Peng: "Mr. Xiao, give me a cigarette to smoke, I want to smoke one today." ”

Xiao Peng handed him a cigarette to help him light it, Kevin took a puff, and was choked, coughing. The people around laughed.

Kevin asked, "Mr. Xiao, how do you feel?"

Xiao Peng sighed: "In my impression, all the people who live in such a slum should be black, why are they all whites here?"

Kevin smiled bitterly: "In the whole of Africa, there are more than 400,000 white people living in slums, not to mention other places, just here in Krugersdorp, there are at least ten white slum towns like this, each of which is not the same size, almost two or three hundred people gathered together. Mixed with the black ghetto, Gibb's 'green bag' just now refers to the monthly welfare day, each family is given a green plastic bag, which contains a total of 28.99 pounds worth of food. ”

"28.99 pounds?" Xiao Peng calculated: "That's 260 yuan a month's food?"

Kevin nodded: "Actually, it's just a few boxes of compressed food and concentrated juice and the like." There is simply not enough to eat. All I could do was not give the week to bring them something to eat. ”

Xiao Peng suddenly realized: "This is what you said can help human beings, right?"

Kevin snorted, "You see these people, right? In fact, many of them used to be farmers, but now that the farm has become a protected area, they are naturally unemployed." Most of the staff in my reserve are their children. But after all, my ability is limited, and I can't save too many people, so I can only help one by one. ”

"Fei Nan used to be known as the Stars and Stripes Country and the Rainbow Country in Africa, how did it become like this now?" Xiao Peng was puzzled.

Kevin shrugged: "What else can it be? ”