Chapter 618 Arriving at the destination
It is only more than 200 kilometers from Johannesburg to Mbabane, the capital of Eswatini, but the small plane flew bumpily for nearly an hour, and the plane was full of abnormal noises, which felt like 'everything rings except the bell'.
Finally arrived at Mbabane Airport, Xiao Peng looked down from the machine tool, almost dumbfounded, this Nima is an airport? Isn't it a stable? Heaven and earth conscience, even in Madagascar, he has never seen such a small 'international airport'!
That's right, this is indeed an 'international airport', and even if it's just this flight, it's an international flightγγγγγγ
Xiao Peng and a few people got off the plane, the image of this group is indeed quite different------ a few harmful men and women pushing bicycles and wearing national costumes walked in front, a fashionably dressed black girl walked behind, a white man and the black girl were talking about something, and two Chinese men wearing sunglasses walked at the end, followed by two handsome dogs and a Meerkat Island, very curious to look left and right, holding a camera and constantly shooting left and right.
Naturally, it was Xiao Peng and Yang Meng who took pictures there, but not all international airports are so tatteredγγγγγγ Oh no, it's primitive, okay?
There is only one small plane with a capacity of fifteen people in the entire airport, can you believe it?
Xiao Peng and the two dragged behind and walked slowly, and when they walked to the terminal, they were stamped and released after receiving regular inquiries from the Immigration Bureau. The two were about to go to Kevin, who was walking in front, when suddenly two men in yellow vests burst out, claiming to be police officers, to check their passports.
After Xiao Peng and the others gave them their passports, they directly put them away and asked them a series of questions about the purpose of their trip, the duration of their stay, and where they wanted to live.
Xiao Peng patiently answered two police questions: "Okay, I have already answered the question, please return our passports!"
The black policeman glanced at Xiao Peng and pointed to the office next to him: "Come with us!"
Xiao Peng and Yang Meng glanced at each other and sneered.
Anyway, on the African continent, such a situation is really common.
The people of Africa think that the Chinese people are rich, so they have opened up their own countries' visas on arrival, and even some countries are visa-free. However, many people buy tickets online and prepare to travel to Africa, only to be denied visas and entry as soon as they get off the plane. But can this stump the 'smart' Chinese people? Bribery can be carried out! At a minimum, it can cost tens of hundreds of dollars, or at most tens of thousands of dollars!
This also gave officials in some already corrupt countries an opportunity to make a fortune in the sea, and in doing so, they still deceived future travelers. Now many Chinese people are suffering because of this.
After all, no matter where the officials are, they dare not ask for bribes in a straightforward manner! As long as they do not do anything illegal, they do not need to be afraid of them at all!
The taller policeman in the yellow vest sat down at his desk and knocked on the table: "Show me your plane tickets!"
When Xiao Peng saw it, he didn't even give himself a chair, and he didn't care, he didn't plan to stay here for long. He smiled coldly: "I only have an e-ticket, how can I show you? I don't have a ticket, how can your plane bring us here? Check our ticket? You should go to the airline to have a look!"
The black policeman was stunned, he didn't expect Xiao Peng to be so crossy, and muttered, "Then I want to see your return ticket." β
"Return ticket?" Xiao Peng waved his hand: "I haven't decided whether to go back by car or train! Hey, you can see clearly, our passports have visas from your embassy, and your immigration bureau has also approved them, why don't you return our passports?"
The black policeman pretended to say, "We suspect here that you are hiding something when you applied for your visa, so we need to investigate." This is a very troublesome thing, and you need to go through a lot of administrative departments, so even if you get a visa, you still need to go through a lot of review and certification. β
Xiao Peng grinned: "Why are you so troublesome? Do you want to ask us for money? Let me tell you, I am rich, you can go to your airline to inquire, I chartered your plane here." But you think too much, I won't save any money that should be spent, but I won't give a penny what should not be spent!"
"Youγγγγγγ The two policemen stared at Xiao Peng with wide eyes.
Yang Meng said angrily: "What are you, if you don't give us an explanation why you brought us here, we reserve the right to pursue it!"
It is no wonder that the two of them were angry, there were nine people on the plane, and they called the two of them out alone, and a similar thing happened in Madagascar, as if the Africans were going to ask for bribes when they met a Chinese!
At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the room, and saw Kevin and a man walking in, this man was wearing a police uniform, and he looked like an official.
Seeing Xiao Peng here, Kevin said, "Xiao, Yang, what's going on? As soon as I turned around just now, I found that you were gone, what happened here?"
Xiao Peng pointed to the two yellow vests: "These two want this from me." After speaking, he twisted his fingers and made a gesture of counting money.
When the two yellow vests heard this, their faces changed greatly, uh, it should be said that their expressions changed greatly------ their faces didn't change, and they couldn't see it. The two hurriedly waved their hands: "No, no, no, we don't, we don't!" The yellow vest sitting at the desk jumped up directly from the chair. looked at the black millet in a police uniform with a frightened expression.
Kevin shrugged: "Numan, the matter here, alas, forget it. Don't worry, friends of ours for so long, I'll keep it a secret. β
The black policeman's name was Numan, and after hearing Kevin's words, his face became even more ugly, and he pointed directly at the two yellow vests: "You! and you! Get out of here!"
"Mr. Numan!
"Uncle Numan!
The two yellow vests listened to Numan's words and were anxious!
Numan pointed directly out of the door: "Get out of here!" and then smiled at Kevin: "Kevin, I'm really sorry, I am really sorry to see that you finally came here for a trip, but let you encounter such a thing, I'm really sorry, this is our negligence." β
Kevin smiled, "Numan, why bother, it's not a big deal. Are we all friends? I won't tell you about it. β
Numan was already scolding the street in his heart when he heard this, we are friends? I fired my nephew just now! If you really didn't take this matter to heart, you wouldn't have let me fire him just now, okay?
However, Numan still didn't show it on his face, but politely sent the three out of the airport.
As soon as Xiao Peng and the three of them got out of the airport, they saw an extended Range Rover at the door. Sicaniso was standing next to the car, and when he saw Xiao Peng coming out, he hurriedly raised his hand and greeted, "Xiao, this way!"
Xiao Peng was stunned: "You haven't left yet?" This girl seems to have a really good family background, and there is a special car to pick her up and a driver.
Sicaniso smiled, "I took your plane, and as a thank you, I let you ride in my car." β
Xiao Peng smiled and waved his hand: "Thank you for your kindness, it's really not a big deal, don't be so polite, someone arranged a car for me." β
Sikani said, "Oh, you've already arranged it, why are you only coming out now?"
Before Xiao Peng could answer him, Yang Meng had already spoken: "Hmph, it's not the damn corruption of your country that is stopping us from asking for bribes!"
As soon as they heard Yang Meng's words, Numan's hair behind them stood on end, Damn, didn't you say it or not? Why did you say it again?
Sicaniso frowned after hearing this: "Xiao, I'm really sorry to let you encounter such a thing when you first came to our country!"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "This can only be said to be a matter of management." This is the result of the imperfection of the system. Many things have to be improved and changed slowly, and our country has also had similar stages, such as the imperfection of laws and regulations, but our country is correcting its own mistakes at any time and constantly improving itself, so that it has what it is today. β
Speaking of this, Xiao Peng said: "We have an allusion in Huaxia, called 'mending the dead'γγγγγγ β
Yang Meng interrupted him: "Dude, don't talk about it here, let's go quickly! What are you doing in the sun here? When you're done talking, we'll all dry up in the sun!"
As soon as he finished speaking, an extended Lincoln drove over, and Xiao Peng looked at Sicarniso with an apologetic face: "Our car is here, let's talk about it when we have a chance in the future!"
Sicaniso nodded and smiled, "It's okay, we'll see you again for sure." β
"Huh?" Xiao Peng was stunned.
Sikani asked, "Reeds, isn't it?"
Xiao Peng suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, yes, you also have to participate in the Reed Festival! See you at the Reed Festival!"
Sicarniso got in the car and left, and Xiao Peng and the others also said goodbye to Coffey------ they were going to register for the Reed Festival. Can't go along.
Xiao Peng and the others got on the extended Lincoln and left Mbabane Airport.
"Dude, what kind of Sika do you see? It seems to be interesting to you! And do you hear it? You can also go to the Reed Festival, what does this mean? It's a Chu girl! Don't you hurry up and take her away?" Yang Mengle said.
Xiao Peng pointed out his middle finger at Yang Meng: "Do you think it's all like you, thinking about things with your lower body? By the way, Kevin, you seem to be quite prestigious here! That Numan in the airport seems to have a good official position! You still know a lot of good people!"
Kevin explained with a smile: "Don't look at Eswatini, it's not big, but it's called 'the land of lions', the lion is the symbol of the king, and the Eswatini call their king 'Engwenyama', which means 'lion', and I'm the 'lion whisperer.'" Naturally, I was treated very well here. Every time Mswati III went to African, he would visit my animal sanctuary. β
Yang Meng took out a cigar from his pocket, handed it to Kevin and Xiao Peng, and laughed in his mouth: "Tsk, I can't see it, you are here to mess with the king, it seems that I will follow you in the future!"
"Still messing with him? He has not had a good time these years, at the beginning the political situation in Eswatini was relatively stable, but since 2000, the country has also begun to be unstable, and there are demonstrations everywhere. In the early years, the Eswatini royal family killed many demonstrators, but not only did not suppress it, but it also intensified. Kevin lit the cigar that Yang Meng handed him and took a hard puff: "Havana, I haven't smoked this thing for a long time." For the sake of my lion, I quit smoking. Yang, you are not righteous, if you don't take out this thing earlier, I thought you only smoked. β
Yang Meng pouted at Xiao Peng: "You want to find him for this, he loves to smoke this thing!"
Xiao Peng smiled: "Kevin, I don't know if you are willing to smoke this thing, go back and give you a box of Gurkha 'ammunition box', which is enough for you to smoke for a while!"
Kevin pouted and said, "You're really going to enjoy it!Where are we going now?" The car was arranged by Xiao Peng, and Kevin didn't know the destination.
Xiao Peng said: "Aren't you going to the Reed Festival? Naturally we are going to Ezulwini!"
Ezulwini is home to the Royal Palace of Eswatini. Originally, there were no buildings other than the Imperial Palace, and the surrounding area was a wilderness, but now there are many hotels nearby.
Many tourists are still interested in the royal palace of Africa's last monarchy.
But after coming, I must have been full of disappointment. In people's impression, the so-called royal palaces should be Buckingham Palace, the Kremlin, Buckingham Palace, Topkapi Palace, but this is really not the case, the palace here is yellow, although the area is not small, but from the outside it is not at all related to the word 'magnificent'.
But Kevin tells him that the inside of this palace is completely different from the outside!
After all, Mswati III is not an ordinary person, although he is not as good as his father, more than 100 wives and more than 1,000 children, but he is not bad, more than 10 wives and more than 30 children, this is not counting his women who have not married into the door. He's not bad for money!
Eswatini is a country with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and Mswati III is certainly the richest in the country, not counting the land, and the net worth alone is more than two billion US dollars.
It is said that this Mswati III is also a god man, not only surrounded by beautiful women, but also owns several world-class luxury cars, in order to buy a luxury bulletproof car, sold 1,750 cattle, causing an uproar.
In African culture, cattle are status symbols, and 80% of Eswatini's population can only eat two meals a day, and 1,750 cattle change cars? Besides, who knows if this is the money from the sale of cattle or taxpayers' money? So for this, the people of Eswatini are making trouble again.
What did Mswati do? Decree prohibiting the common people from taking pictures of the car, otherwise they would be arrested and sentenced! Tsk, the king is overbearing!