Chapter 183: Barker's Invitation
A few people were eating and chatting there, but they were also happy, until they saw a car driving far away, and Xiao Peng thought it was Maxim coming. As a result, it turned out to be not Maxim's car.
Steve frowned, "Why is he here again?"
James smiled: "What else can you do? β
Steve also nodded, "It looks like it's going to be a shame this time." Looking at Xiao Peng puzzled, Steve said, "It's Buck." β
The car stopped in front of Xiao Peng and the others, and it was Buck and the giant Tiger who got out of the car. The two of them walked up to a few people proudly: "Hey, are you still in the mood to eat? That's right, anyway, even if you work, you can't dig up Opal." How laid-back you are, hey, Lockwood's bee beer? What is this? Red crayfish? Can you eat this thing?"
Steve glanced at Buck disdainfully: "It doesn't matter to you whether it's delicious or not, anyway, you don't have this mouthful." β
Buck showed a very fake expression: "That's, or you people in Zephyr will enjoy it, how can you enjoy it like us, you have to work hard in the mine every day, how can you enjoy it so much?" After saying that, Buck took out two pieces of black Opal from his pocket: "Look, isn't it beautiful?"
Xiao Peng asked James with a speechless expression: "Hey, did he come here to show off the Opal he dug up?"
James nodded: "That seems to be the meaning." β
"Then he dug up those two Opals and showed them off?" Xiao Peng didn't even look at Buck. "It's not good to look at the quality. β
James said: "It's okay, how can that blue bottom be sold for three or four hundred Australian dollars a carat, it's not small, it can be more than thirty carats." And that small point is good, 1,000 Australian dollars a carat can still be sold. These two pieces of black opal can be sold for almost 30,000 Australian dollars. β
Xiao Peng pouted: "It turns out that it's not expensive." I thought it was worth a lot of money. β
James hurriedly said: "Don't say that, six or seven miners dug together for two days to dig these two pieces, plus the partners they bought the mine, their group dug these two mines, and it would be very good to have two thousand Australian dollars in their hands, who let this land belong to Parrot Valley?"
Xiao Peng suddenly realized: "In this way, a thousand Australian dollars a day, more than 300,000 Australian dollars a Chinese New Year's Eve, this is a proper high income!" The average salary in Australia is 6700, so calculated, this black Opal miner is definitely a high-income family.
James pouted: "How can it be so good? Most of the black Opals dug out are still worthless, Lightning Ridge is not a commercial Opal mining area like Vaitcliffor, all heavy machinery, a mining hole will be dug hundreds of meters deep, we can't do it here, in order to maintain quality, we can only mine by hand, an average of one piece a day is good, this also includes the need to consider quality issues." Dig up the worthless cracks and the like, and you'll only be left with tears. β
Xiao Peng sighed: "Alas, this black Opal miner is really hard!"
Yang Meng said helplessly: "Aren't we also miners digging black Opal now?"
Everyone laughed when they heard Yang Meng's complaints. This directly ignored Buck on the side, which made Buck angry: "Hey, are you drinking too much? Don't you see us digging out Black Opal? After all, it's all Black Opal miners, you guys dug out Black Opal for us to see, by the way, don't take our piece to fill up there." β
When Xiao Peng heard Buck speak, he was stunned: "You haven't left yet, and no one has left you here to eat, what are you doing here?"
This made Buck stomp his feet angrily: "I said Black Opal, did you dig up Black Opal? You don't deserve to be called Black Opal Miner." β
Xiao Peng sighed: "You still have a sense of superiority as a miner? Could it be that here, only Black Opal has the right to speak?"
Buck snorted coldly: "That's right, I know you have money, but in this Lightning Ridge, whoever has Black Opal has the right to speak!"
Xiao Peng pouted at Yang Meng: "Then show him." β
Yang Meng was still eating crayfish there, and regardless of the sauce on his hands, he directly took out a sheepskin bag from his pocket and threw it to Buck: "You give me to be careful, if there is a little problem, I will hang you on a tree and dry it into bacon!"
Buck glanced at Yang Meng: "What do you pretend?" said this, and opened the sheepskin bag in his hand, and looked at it: "This is?"
Xiao Peng said disdainfully: "Do you want to compare quantity or quality with me? You are also an old miner, look at the mud slag on the rough stone, is it dug up today?"
"How is this possible?" said Buck, stunned as he looked at the black Opal in the bag. Yang Meng took a crayfish, walked up to him, and took back the sheepskin bag: "Don't look at it, see if you can't pull it back." β
"How can you have Black Opal here?" Buck looked shocked. "It can't be!"
Xiao Peng smiled: "I'll go, are you stupid for mining? It's also a black opal mine, it's natural for you to dig black opal, and it's impossible for me to dig black opal?" brother, are you stupid for drinking that day?
"You!" Buck shuddered angrily, pointing at Xiao Peng.
Xiao Peng tilted his head and said to James: "James, go back and send me the photo of them getting drunk that day, remember to enlarge it!"
Buck stomped his foot and pointed at Xiao Peng: "Youγγγγγγ β
"Speak as you speak, and don't finger mess around. Yang Meng went up directly: "Want to fight?"
Tiger also took a step forward. James and Steve saw this situation and stood up directly from the ground, they were all easy to fight with the miners, especially Zephyr Town and Parrot Valley because of the filth that happened in this mining area, it was a lot of practice, and they didn't worry about it at all. It's just that it got bigger and more intense, and it couldn't be controlled, and finally the two mayors controlled the matter.
Buck looked at the four adults here, and there were only two of them, which was an obvious loss, and quickly grabbed Tiger: "What do you want to do? Maxim and Tommy have already negotiated, we have a truce, do you still want to fight?"
Steve snorted coldly: "Hmph, the waste of Parrot Valley, you know how to move your mouth." You don't want to say that you're here just to show off?
James shrugged: "The problem is that they didn't show success either. β
Steve burst out laughing.
The strong man Tiger tried to rush forward when he heard this, but Buck stopped him. I saw him smile slightly: "What am I here to show? You dug up Black Opal, it's too late for us to congratulate." I just wanted to inform you that the game between our two towns this quarter is going to start again! The first home game is ours, so you can practice and we'll see you on the field then. Tiger, let's go!"
Tiger was staring at Yang Meng there, and when he heard Buck's words, he pointed at Yang Meng: "You must participate!"
After listening to Tiger's words, Buck also had an expression of hindsight, glaring at Xiao Peng: "Yes, don't say I forgot! You must also participate!"
James said, "Buck, what are you doing? They are not residents of Westwind, what are they participating in?"
Buck got into the car directly with Tiger: "Isn't he a guest in your town? Naturally, I'm going to participate, don't dodge like a coward, let me look down on you! We'll see you on the field!" After saying that, he drove away directly, leaving faster than when he cameγγγγγγ
Yang Meng was stunned: "James, what did he say I should attend?" Xiao Peng also looked at James and Steve with a blank face.
James coughed dryly and explained, "How can we say that Zephyr and Parrot Valley are neighbors, aren't they? So we have an Australian Rules Football match every quarter, one at their place, one at our place. β
"Australian Rules Football?" Yang Meng had never heard of at all.
Xiao Peng had an impression: "James, is the Australian Rules Football you are talking about 'Footy'?"
James smiled: "That's right, it's 'Footy', this is our Australian national sport!"
Xiao Peng smiled: "Of course I've heard of it, in fact, when I came, I wanted to find a chance to go to the scene to watch a Footy game, but now it's good that I have the opportunity to play in person." β
"Uh, thatγγγγγγ James looked embarrassed: "Xiao, when the time comes, the two of you will follow us, just cheer on the bench, you don't need to play, in case you are injured, we will be very guilty, this Footy is not like other sports, it is still very γγγγγγ β
James didn't finish speaking, but the meaning was obvious, Xiao Peng also knew what he was going to say, if there is any ball game in the world that is the most confrontational, it must be 'Footy', there is no one.
What? You say rugby, you say pitch, you say ice hockey, you can fight directly on the court? Then you must not have seen Footy, you can see these elements on the Footy field, Footy also has a name, called Australian Rules Football.
His biggest rule is that there are no rules in ------, ahem, again, freedom. There is no offside or anything like that, as long as the ball is more than 14 meters from the goal post, you can shoot at will, the goal is still three side by side, shoot the middle six, shoot the one on both sides, you can throw the ball, kick the ball, hold the ball and runγγγγγγ Whatever you want, as long as you can score.
How popular is Australian Rules Football in Australia? Every year during the Finals, the whole country almost stops for two hours of play!
And the reason why it is attractive is because the confrontation is fierce and exciting. Pushing each other, physically confronting, and fighting in a group are all said to be fighting. There will be players who are injured and carried down in every game, what ligament stretching, head breaking and bleeding are commonplace, until now I have not heard of any Australian Rules Football player who has not been injured in his career, absolutely men's sports!
James stopped Xiao Peng and the two from playing, and he was also afraid that the two would be injured, because of the football match between them and Parrot Valley, alas, to put it bluntly, it was a group fightγγγγγγ
Xiao Peng patted Yang Meng beside him and said to James: "Don't worry, if they know what this guy has done in New Zealand, they won't let us play." β