The 'Reed Festival' is held in a wasteland, but there is a grandstand next to it for the royal family and guests to watch the festival. Xiao Peng and several others also watched with relish from the stands.

When the ceremony officially began, several cars drove into the venue, and a fat old lady in the car waved to everyone, and the scene was cheering.

Kevin explained on the side: "This is the Queen Mother of Eswatini, and today's festival is precisely the heroine." ”

AFTER THE OLD LADY TOOK HER SEAT, A GROUP OF STRONG MEN IN NATIONAL COSTUMES CAME OVER, UH, THAT IS, 'ARIRE', BUT THEY WORE MORE SIMPLY, JUST THE FOLLOWING ONE, PLUS A LEOPARD SKIN, AND THE UPPER BODY WENT BAREFOOT. All were holding a status token about a meter long. Some of them had red feathers on their heads, others gray or black feathers on their heads, and the man in the middle held a golden triangular scepter.

Kevin explained to Xiao Peng and the two: "The one holding the golden scepter is the current king of Eswatini, Mswati III. The ones with red feathers on their heads were his brothers and princes, and those who did not have feathers or wore feathers of other colors were the ministers of the country's palace. In Eswatini, the red feather is a symbol of royalty. ”

After hearing this, Yang Meng began to order: "Damn, so many red feathers?"

Kevin said: "Nonsense, his brothers who are still alive now are in the triple digits! He has more than ten sons of his own, how many wives does he have now? fourteen, fifteen? You can order it right away." ”

"What do you mean?" Xiao Peng asked puzzled.

Xiao Peng pointed to the back of the line, and several women wearing 'ARIRE' came over singing, with red feathers on their heads. Xiao Peng looked at it: "It seems that there are only six of them." ”

Kevin was also a little embarrassed: "Haven't you come?" How could it be so little? Could it be that the Dlamini thing happened again?"

"Dlamini?" Xiao Peng asked suspiciously.

Kevin looked left and right and lowered his voice: "Actually, a king with a lot of wives and concubines is not easy to be, sometimes there are fires in the backyard, the most recent is his sixth princess Draminie escaped from the palace, claiming that Mswati III has abused her physically and mentally for several years. In the past, there have been three princesses who have either fled or been expelled from the palace, so it is really unclear how many princesses Mswati III has now. ”

When Yang Meng heard this, he glanced at Xiao Peng meaningfully: "Dude, so this monogamy is actually to protect men, you should make a choice among those girls!"

"Get out! Anyone can tell me this, but you can't, you humanoid self-propelled cannon!" Xiao Peng slammed him directly.

"What's wrong with the self-propelled cannon? I'll leave after the cannon, how can I look like you? I don't wipe my ass clean when I shit, and I can only choose to run away if I solve the problem. Yang Meng was not to be outdone.

"Okay, you wait, I'll call your dad and tell me about someone's big belly!" Xiao Peng took out a killer idea.

Yang Meng smiled coldly after hearing this, and raised his voice: "You threaten me?

Xiao Penggang wondered that Yang Meng was a long skill? As a result, Yang Meng folded his hands: "Brother, you are my own brother!

"Poof, where is your backbone?" Xiao Peng was happy.

"Let my father smash it earlier!" Yang Meng was also sincere.

Kevin made the two of them laugh and pointed to the venue: "It's started!"

After these officials and members of the royal family have taken their seats, this 'Reed Festival' can be regarded as the official beginning.

All the maidens were divided into more than twenty phalanxes. Girls from different teams wore pearl dresses of different colors, danced neatly, sang different songs, and were decorated differently.

They wore anklets, bracelets, and necklaces, and wore colorful belts, and dressed up to their best. These bracelets and necklaces are also very distinctive, usually made of cocoa shells, which look like date pits, and have crushed stones inside, so that when you dance, you will make a rattling rhythmic sound.

The first phalanx of girls began to dance, these girls were also topless, wearing dark blue skirts, cowhide shields in their left hands, and machetes in their right hands------ real machetes!

The girls who participated in the 'Reed Festival' were all armed with weapons, which were roughly divided into broad-headed machetes------ see the knife of the masked demon Jason in the movie "Jason vs. Freddy", a broad-headed short knife ------similar to the one used in Huaxia to cut watermelons, a spear, and a shield made of cowhide。。。。。。 These weapons are genuine.

"These women are usually policewomen, and this blue dress means that they don't want to be in a relationship now, they just want to do their duty to the Queen Mother and the King!" Kevin explained.

Xiao Peng looked at the weapons in their hands and said, "Kevin, what do you say if a girl rushes to the stands with a big knife?"

Kevin pouted, "Rush up? Why? The knives in their hands? ”

Xiao Peng looked left and right, good guy, everyone here has a gun pinned to their waists, and there are many men with spears on their backs here, afraid that these girls will make trouble?

Yang Meng was studying a problem, and saw that he was holding a feather in his hand and inserting it on his head, but he couldn't insert it at all, and it fell off not long after he plugged it in: "Brothers, how do you say these people put these feathers on their heads?"

Kevin was stunned, he hadn't thought about it, but it was also ah, these black people had such short hair, how did they get this feather on?

Xiao Peng laughed: "I really know about this." Problems with hair quality. The hair of the black man was fine, curly and fluffy, and the feathers could easily be inserted and fixed. ”

Kevin was stunned: "Xiao, how do you know about hair problems?"

Xiao Peng explained: "It's very simple, we have a city called Xuchang in Henan Province, China, which can be said to live on the hair of black women!"

"Black hair feeds a city?Shaw, don't tell me that black hair is imported from all over the world every year, it's a little too scary. Kevin asked.

Xiao Peng smiled and shook his head: "No, no, you misunderstood, the first thing you have to understand is black women's hair, do you know? There are only three real traditional hairstyles for black women: one is shaved like men, one is an explosive head, and the other is a pigtail head. And in the Stars and Stripes, there are almost all two hairstyles in the back. Because it's hard for them to make other hairstyles. ”

Yang Meng and Kevin glanced at each other and laughed: "Dude, don't be funny, I can count a lot of black actresses, what Halle Berry, Zoe Saldana, Paula Barton, Naomi Harris, Wallis Deerey, Whitney Houston, Leah Corbed, Jordana Phillips, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, etc., etc., which is not a hairstyle with a changeable and good-looking hairstyle? Why did it become what you said that there are only two hairstyles?"

Xiao Peng gave the answer with a smile: "It's all wigs." Just like our common black braided head, that is, the kind of head full of small braids, in fact, the braided head is almost all wigs, real hair is often only one or two centimeters long, and the rest of the wig is braided on the head by steel needles and black threads. Braiding this kind of hair usually takes four hours at a professional barber shop, and the time can last about three to four months. ”

"Wig?" Kevin was stunned.

Let's just say that girls who grow up in the slums of Africa will spend about five dollars a month on wigs, office workers will spend about thirty dollars a month, and rich people will spend as much as five hundred dollars a month on wigs! This does not include those black stars! Black female stars spend even more on their hair, and it is difficult to estimate how much it will cost, but I can tell you that most of the people on this earth who know these actresses have hardly seen their real faces. If you want to find photos of black female celebrities without wigs, it is almost more difficult than finding photos of those Internet celebrities before plastic surgery!" Xiao Peng said lightly.

"What the hell? Are you saying those black actresses wear wigs?" Yang stared.

Xiao Peng nodded: "That's right, 99.99% of them are! By the way, you know the ditch braid hairstyle, right?"

Yang Meng and Kevin nodded together, how could they not know this hairstyle? Like Iverson, he braided his hair against his scalp. Especially because of the popularity of hip-hop culture, this hairstyle has become a trend. Whether it's playing basketball, hip-hop dancing, or rapping, you have to braid.

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "In fact, in the earliest days, black actresses wore braids to facilitate wigs on them. What is hip-hop culture? The culture in the slums, in the early days, those girls who played hip-hop because they couldn't afford wigs, hip-hop culture, 'I'm poor and I'm proud', simply appeared in front of people's field of vision with braids, but I didn't expect it to become a trend and become a hairstyle that men like. But you look at the young girls who are black, those black female celebrities, a few of them have appeared in people's field of vision with furrow braids, and most of the wigs they use are produced in Xuchang City, Henan Province, China, and it is a bit exaggerated to say that black women's demand for wigs feeds a city, but at least this is the pillar industry there!"

Yang Meng was puzzled: "Then why are black women so keen to toss their hair? I think the exploding head is very good-looking, why don't they think so?"

Xiao Peng thought for a while and replied: "In fact, this kind of profound change in aesthetics has started hundreds of years ago. As you know, the whole of Africa was originally a colony of Europeans, and now the blacks in Europe and the United States were actually brought out of the continent by the slave trade, as you all know. ”

"But have you ever thought about it? European and American women's hairstyles are beautiful with straight hair and curly hair, which naturally and strongly influenced the hairstyle habits of colonial black slaves. The traditional black exploding head and pigtails were regarded as 'unpretty' and 'untidy', and in order to deliberately reduce the status of the black, the white people of the time called the black man's hair 'ool' instead of hair. At that time, in the man's plantation, female black slaves with light skin and straighter hair could do easy indoor work, while female black slaves with fluffy hair could only do hard outdoor labor. ”

Because of this distinction, the black community naturally developed a tendency towards mainstream distribution in Europe and the United States, and this imitation has continued to this day, and for many years, black girls have also identified with this concept in order to be recognized by society: black people's natural hair is not accepted, so they have to regularly straighten their hair or wear wigs from an early age, so as to make themselves closer to the mainstream aesthetic. ”

"EVEN TODAY, THE STARS AND STRIPES ARE SO ANTI-RACIST, SO THEY DEMAND 'ZHENGZHI IS CORRECT', BLACK HAIRSTYLES ARE STILL 'UNPROFESSIONAL', 'INDECENT' AND 'NOT SERIOUS', AND THEY ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR SOCIAL SITUATIONS. To this day, for example, the Stars and Stripes army is explicitly forbidden to use cornbraid hairstyles, twisted braids, twisted braids, ditch braids, and reggae braids. That's the Stars and Stripes army that can be used as soldiers with Hitler's face tattooed! And many private schools in the Stars and Stripes prohibit black women from maintaining the traditional distribution, oh, the exploding head and the pigtail head. Because it's 'distracting.'" ”

"Another simple example, O'Guanhai has been the president of the Stars and Stripes for eight years, right? His wife Michelle appears in the crowd's field of vision every day. But during the entire eight years, all of Michelle's images in front of the public were wearing wigs! No exceptions were seen! It was not until O'Guanhai retired that Michelle finally showed her original hair in public places. Before that, there wasn't a single photo!"

Yang Meng shrugged: "It is said that the black people of this Stars and Stripes Country have lived there for hundreds of years, but they have really been treated equally, that is, it is a recent thing." However, to this day, black natural hairstyles still do not enter the mainstream aesthetic, and it is also a sad thing that most men are shaved and most women wear wigs. ”

Xiao Peng snorted and continued: "This is something that can't be helped. Now look at the blacks in the Stars and Stripes, let's talk about a few famous people, for example, you must know Will Smith, but have you ever thought about it? The surname 'Smith' is a standard white surname? To put it mildly, this is the surname of their ancestral slave owners! There is also a surname, 'Watsonton', for example, the famous movie star Denzel Watsonton, in fact, in the whole Stars and Stripes Country, 90% of the people with the surname Watston are black, because George Watston treated black slaves well, and the rescued blacks used 'Watsonton' as their surname. But at the end of the day, it's still moving closer to the white mainstream. ”

Yang Meng suddenly pointed to the venue: "Look at that team, those girls are all wearing wigs, right? That means that the family is in a good situation!"

Xiao Peng looked in the direction of Yang Meng's finger: "Aren't you talking nonsense? Don't you see that those girls are all with red feathers? are all members of the royal family!"

"Am I mistaken? Isn't the girl in the middle of the walk who came with us on the plane?"

"Uh, it's her!"