Leave Gallup and walk through Las Vegas------ which is not Las Vegas, the famous casino city in Nevada, but a small town, and after passing through the Rocky Mountains, you will arrive at Santa Fe.

Santa Fe, known as the 'City of Art', is a place where painters, poets, musicians, and singers gather. It's all romantic: the city is surrounded by hot desert, but you can see the snow at the top of the Rocky Mountains in the distance. One has to sigh at the wonder of nature.

Entering Santa Fe, you'll be greeted by a strong Indian style, with each store sophisticated and uniquely designed.

Xiao Peng and his colleagues strolled through the streets of Santa Fe and really felt the simplicity of the Indians: many people stopped Xiao Peng and asked him if he bought his Hanfu in Santa Fe, and asked which store he bought it from, and they also wanted to buy one.

This Hanfu is also wide and comfortable, and it is similar to Indian clothing, but it is obviously not a routine, okay, you can figure out that this is your Indian clothing.

Xiao Peng happily told them that his clothes were a sub-brand of Prada, which could be found on the Internet. If they really like it, they can buy it.

But think about it, if they do buy it, in a place like Santa Fe, where Indians gather, everyone is wearing Hanfu, tsk, the style of painting is really unimaginably beautiful.

Xiao Peng and his party did not rush to find the Indian craftsmen that Pooh mentioned, but walked here: this Santa Fe is a tourist city after all, and the streets are full of all kinds of stalls, which have been turned into bazaars.

As for how to distinguish tourists from locals, it is also very different, tourists in this season are summer clothes with short sleeves and shorts, while locals are thick jeans jackets, which is more like winter. After all, the temperature difference here is too big in the morning and evening. Some of the older vendors still wore blankets over their bodies. This Nima is not a season!

There are painters who sell their own paintings, pottery and tableware in the Mexican style, knitwear in the Mexican style, and, of course, Indian-style products.

If those Chinese fans come here, they will definitely be refreshed, because this is the hometown of turquoise, and the expensive turquoise in China can only be described in four words: it can be seen everywhere.

There are a lot of things worth buying, for example, when we watch movies, Indians will hang a tie-like gadget around their necks, which is called a 'Poirot tie', which is a kind of metal ornament in the style of the Stars and Stripes, to be precise, he is not exactly an Indian object, and the shepherd boys of South America would hang a pair of throwing ropes around their necks to trip the animals' feet. In the forties of the twentieth century, Arizona silversmiths took inspiration from this prop and made a rope-like tie fastened with a clasp, and in Arizona, where it originated, this Poirot tie was designated as the 'Arizona legal tie', and even formed the Poirot Tie Association.

But the favorite of this Poirot tie is in New Mexico, where this Poirot tie became the official tie directly through the law. Here, both government officials and civilians use the Poirot tie as an everyday accessory, and in New Mexico government offices, it is common to see people wearing suits and leather shoes with a Poirot tie around their necks.

Today's Poirot tie is no longer just an ornament, but has gradually become a cultural symbol, representing the original charm from the western part of the Stars and Stripes, and has become a fashionable cultural heritage that has been passed down to this day.

And now the best Poirot tie is made by the Indians: a leather belt with sterling silver buckles, inlaid with beautiful turquoise, coral stones and other beautiful gemstones, how can people not have the desire to buy?

When Xiao Peng and the others came back to their senses, they found that he had bought more than 100 different styles of Poirot ties! Uh, it seems that he had bought a bit too much? Now in the eyes of the Indian vendors here, Xiao Peng has become a sweeper. But Xiao Peng doesn't care about this, this kind of Indian handmade Poirot tie, even if the gems on it are deducted and sold alone, it is not a loss!

No wonder many people say that if you have a chance to go to the Stars and Stripes, you must buy two pure Indian handmade Poirot ties!

Xiao Peng picked a polo tie with a sunflower pattern inlaid with malachite and hung it around his neck, well, how good it looks!

Selecting here, Xiao Peng also found a problem, different Indian tribes have their own unique styles, and the jewelry they make is not the same, which can now be mainly divided into Navajo style, Zuni style, Hopi style and so on.

For example, the Navajo Tribe's ornaments, their silversmiths use hand-chiseled processing methods to create a three-dimensional sense of silverware, and they are very fond of processing silver into decorations that resemble a rope effect. In addition, they often use a process called sand casting, which uses sand to make the mold, which is very simple: it is to carve the silver pattern you want to cast from wood, then fill the wooden pattern with sand, and start heating and baking to make the mold.

Although this method is inefficient, the process is simple, and the silver jewelry produced is heavy, with a sense of vicissitudes of time, rough atmosphere, and it is very powerful.

Compared with the roughness of Navajo jewelry, the Indians of the Zuni tribe are more adept at fine processing, especially in the treatment of gemstones such as turquoise, which is usually polished into delicate shapes.

Xiao Peng bought a ring made by the Zuni tribe, a turquoise gold ring worn on the middle finger, and the ring face is a circle of turquoise that spreads from the inside to the outside: on such a small ring, there are a total of three circles of turquoise, two circles of oval, and one circle of pure circles, the number of more than fifty grains! Fifty grains of turquoise on the face of a ring, which shows how fine the production is!

And when they make various jewelry, when using the inlay process, they prefer to polish the gemstones, so that the whole of the jewelry is a smooth plane, and the traditional Zuni tribe color-block jewelry usually appears red, white, blue, and black as the main body.

The jewelry of the Hopi people is more in relief. A piece of jewellery is usually made by soldering with two or more layers of silver, and the upper layer of silver is carved and cut and some of the underlying pieces are oxidized to create a three-dimensional feeling. The silver jewelry they make is in a large sense the most well-known and favorite silver jewelry that people know. Now there are a lot of fake silver jewelry such as so-called "Miao Yin" and "Tibetan Silver" on a treasure in China, in addition to those with a strong religious style, many of them are actually imitating the silver style of the Hopi people.

The Apache jewelry style is very similar to the characteristics of our Chinese Tibetans, who like to use various gemstones, animal teeth, bones, etc. to polish into the shape of beads or cylinder beads, and they also like to use mosaic inlay, using different gemstones to stitch into some totemic patterns.

When a few people returned to the hotel, Xiao Peng often let out a sigh: "I finally know why women like to go shopping." It's impossible to stop!"

"No, no, no, no. Megan shook her head when she heard this, and shook her head playfully as Xiao Peng looked at the various Indian jewelry that Xiao Peng had on the bed: "Women will not be like you when they go shopping, we girls shopping is called sweeping, you are called sweeping! We prefer the feeling of shopping, rather than buying everything we see." Are you going to empty them?"

"Alas, impulsive consumption!" Xiao Peng scratched his head.

Yang Meng was not polite, and directly took a Navajo-style sterling silver turquoise Poirot tie and put it around his neck, and took a Zuni-style inlaid bracelet and an Apache-style gem-inlaid bracelet, as well as a cobra pendant cast in a sand mold, and a few rings: "Not bad, this feels good." You've got a good idea, take it!"

Xiao Peng was speechless: "Dude, it seems that I bought all of this, right? You are generous enough!"

Yang Meng grinned: "Why did you buy it just now? Isn't it the kind of D2 gene that makes you feel cool? Feelings your cool point is to pay money, you are a shopaholic? Paying money makes you happy, this sharing makes us happy, you see, this is a win-win thing, how good do you think?"

Xiao Peng was speechless after hearing this: "You have a good memory, and you still remember the D2 gene." Yes, you're right, you can pick what you like. "But come to think of it, why do you pay so much? Isn't it because the D2 gene makes you feel that shopping makes you happy?

As a result, except for Alexandra, the other three girls didn't choose anything, not because they didn't like it, but because they were embarrassed to ask for it.

Alexandra herself is not bad for money, although she is not as sweeping as Xiao Peng, but she also bought several pieces of jewelry, but she still chose a set of jewelry from Xiao Peng's purchase and put it on directly, and she is not beautiful in the mirror.

Megan muttered in a low voice on the side: "It's not that I can't afford it, and I have to take it from someone else, young lady, you're too economical, right?"

Alexandra looked at Meghan and replied, "This is a gift from the man I like!

After hearing this, Meghan rolled her eyes and ran to the jewelry stall to pick it up: "Well, I also want to choose a set, I want to pick the most beautiful." ”

Hathaway didn't speak, she made a 'two' jewelry directly to Xiao Peng, and went over to pick it up, leaving Pooh standing still on the side.

Xiao Peng pushed Pooh: "You can also pick a set." ”

Pooh shook his head, "Xiao, I already owe you a lot of favors. I really can't ask for this. ”

Xiao Peng smiled: "Pooh, are you singing country music, aren't you?" These accessories are suitable for you to perform, I gave you these to make you have a better performance at my buddy's wedding, okay, you're welcome, just take what you like." ”

"What if I like both?" said Pooh with a sly smile.

Xiao Peng shrugged: "Then you take it all!" If you are really such a greedy person, Xiao Peng still bothered to treat her?

Pooh smiled slightly, only chose a turquoise ring to wear on his hand, indicating that he had made a choice, Xiao Peng took out a Poirot tie and a sterling silver bracelet and handed it to her: "Okay, you're welcome, girl's family, how can you do it without a few beautiful jewelry? This is to thank you for introducing the Indian craftsman." ”

Alexandra nodded, "That's right, and you can't wear makeup." I'll teach you how to put on makeup at night!"

The expression on Pooh's face changed for a long time after hearing this, and finally bit his lip and said two words: "Thank you." Then he stopped talking.

Xiao Peng gave Yang Meng a smug look, look, Pooh is not as unbearable as you think, many things are forced by life, isn't it? Seeing that everyone was finished, Xiao Peng said happily: "Let's go, go down for dinner." When you've had enough to eat, you'll have enough to eat, take a shower, get a good night's sleep, and go to-morrow morning to find the craftsman Pooh knew. ”