191. Your habits are other people's dreams
Old man Lu did not describe his past glory days too much, but gave Bai Haonan a brief description of the current situation on the ground under his feet, along here dozens of kilometers to the north is the border of another Southeast Asian country, and then north is China, so this is the famous Golden Triangle, the complex tropical rainforest area between the three countries, because of the more than 100,000 anti-Japanese expeditionary forces along this generation of bones and survivors, so this area is all Chinese-speaking former dynasties, which is considered a minority in this country, and he is also a descendant of the expeditionary force back then, from Mandarin but has never set foot on the land of ChinaFrom here to the north along the Chinese border, these expeditionary forces are divided into four states, which is the easternmost autonomous state, and over the years there have been many battles with the government army for territory, Zhuang Tiancheng is the chairman of this state, in other words, the emperor of the soil!
Zhuang Tiancheng's son and three daughters respectively control several towns with oil and water, and this is of course the place under Zhuang Shenxiang's jurisdiction: "There are several concubines she hooks up with, do you also want to follow the jealous fire of fooling around?
Bai Haonan has no social experience, and he has heard of what the most famous output of the Golden Triangle is: "I have been an athlete, I have never touched this, and I am even more careful when eating and drinking, but I heard that Burmese and jadeite are also very famous, or let's just find a place to dig jadeite." ”
Old man Lu now has a new understanding of Bai Haonan's inconsistencies: "Okay, I'll tell you the name of the place, it's the northernmost one in the four states, you can go by yourself, the mountains are full of wild mines, maybe you can dig tens of millions of jade, but I only heard how many people die every year, either mining disasters or drug abuse and fighting, you go." ”
Of course, Bai Haonan thought of the hard labor of those who beat him and Ah Wei who were arrested, and immediately retreated: "Forget it, let's have fun with you, then I'll stay here, it's still quite fun to watch." ”
Old man Lu was about to say something, but the thin old man had already returned, and Bai Haonan jumped up to greet him attentively: "Uncle Liu! I heard that Uncle Long has already told you about you, please take care of you more in the future!"
The old man in the flower shirt was still a little shy and looked at the fat old man quickly, but he was roared angrily here: "Look at the hammer!
Bai Haonan has been accompanying the old man Liu to carry the big bag of meat and vegetables to the back, and under the chaotic slope behind the messy house, he saw a raft composed of rubber tires hidden in the sewage, and then saw the small river dozens of meters wide more than ten meters away through the woods.
The thin old man hung up his apron very virtuously and began to be busy, and also thoughtfully took care of Bai Haonan not to come to get involved in these dirty work, and completely regarded him as an elderly Ah Wei Bai Haonan wiped his hands and returned to the counter to criticize Old Man Lu: "Why are you so angry all day, it hurts your liver, Uncle Liu is such a good person......"
Old man Lu looked disdainful: "He?!When he was young, he was a flower in this night, and he was very wavering!"
Bai Haonan couldn't help but laugh again, Old Man Lu wanted to kick him, thinking that Lao Chen, a professional football coach, had not been able to kick a few feet in the past 20 years, how could Bai Haonan let him get his feet, skillfully dodged, and then sat lazily at the door to bask in the sun, and now he finally realized why Isa's brothers liked to squat under the wall and bask in the sun when they were fine.
In such an environment, it seems that doing nothing is the best way to survive in peace, because if you do it, you won't get any benefit, and you may even invite trouble.
The noodle restaurant is basically closed during the day, and Old Man Lu also came to sit on the recliner to read the newspaper, and casually told Bai Haonan, who was sitting on the steps, about the situation here.
In his words, the locals are lazy, very lazy, lazy, don't like to learn, don't want to think, that's why this place will become a golden triangle, because opium is a lazy crop, no need to manage and maintain, after burning the seeds can sit and wait for the harvest, plus the tropical rainforest is rich in natural products, there are fruits and crops to eat, and then sell some opium for two money to spend, you can also enjoy the clouds, so the whole area is a society shaped by opium cultivation, lazy, Casual and unenterprising, all kinds of commissaries can secretly buy drugs, although nominally all states will strictly prohibit smoking, and they are cracking down everywhere, but in fact, in the place where everyone will plant, this is a daily necessities, since there are many drugs, then there is more AIDS infection, so these two things, Old Man Lu also warned Bai Haonan not to get involved, then it will be a catastrophe.
Listening to the old man's rambling and telling himself about the dangers of drugs, Bai Haonan hurriedly opened curiously: "Do you think that it is easy to have accidents with women in this area, so you can get along with Uncle Liu?"
was so angry that Old Man Lu could only crumple the newspaper into a ball and smash him!
Bai Haonan has often hahaha since he came here, jumped up and whistled at Ada, and went to visit this entertainment venue first.
So he has become a commonplace skill, no matter where he goes, as long as he can find a local to accept, it is really not too easy to live a small life, Lu Laotou said that these four states have actually been trying to get rid of the opium business, but it is impossible to develop industry and agriculture if people are lazy, so they can only continue to play in the idea of pornography, gambling and drugs, these years to engage in casinos to attract mainlanders to come to seek excitement has been a tacit thing, at least even Bai Haonan has heard of it when he was a professional player, more than once jokingly thought about his memory of this review, I am afraid that leaving the stadium can only be used in the casino here, Now I finally got my wish to go here, of course, to see it, while the daylight may not have started to shop some business, familiar with the terrain everywhere, good evening to open your eyes.
Because of the morning's incident, Bai Haonan still bought himself a pair of sunglasses, which looked like a fake brand-name Chinese toad glasses, and then changed into a black shirt and jeans sneakers, in short, there are many differences from the bedtime clothes that left the barracks yesterday.
In the past, Bai Haonan would definitely not casually walk through such a place in the lower three places, but now that he feels the two hard pistols on his waist, his courage will indeed be different, and he can bow his head and whisper to Ada while walking: "Who do you say can smell this smell first, where is the kiln and where is the casino?"
Ada wagged his tail and snorted twice, jumping more happily, from the beginning of the country Bai Haonan found that there were no stray dogs on the streets, not that the country here is kind, but that many places in Southeast Asia are keen to eat dog meat, how can it be possible to let food wander around the streets.
Sure enough, through the neon signs that looked messy and old outside during the day, and the already somewhat dilapidated building doors, in this shack that looked similar, Bai Haonan could really follow the ** The smell of the skin and flesh was distinguished, and the mildew smell of the old furniture was damp, and the probe quietly looked through the window, and it was really the kind of casino hall that was really golden, full of billiards-like gambling tables, but now it was not open and all of them were dim, full of the unpleasant smell of tobacco fermentation and sweat.
A man and a dog were sneaking around, and suddenly a voice behind them was puzzled: "What are you doing?"
In order to hide the pistol on his waist, Bai Haonan was walking around with his hands behind his back, and now he was so frightened that he turned around, and saw a local teenager in front of him, who was actually quite big-eyed, mainly with long hair with a shawl, if he tied his hair, he might be able to disguise himself as a little girl, he casually coaxed the child: "I'm from the old six-noodle restaurant outside, come in and see, can you be my tour guide and give you two dollars as a tip?"
This is the benefit of having a foothold, it is easy to get a sense of identity, plus the money opened the way immediately made Bai Haonan's wandering smoother, this young man named Arthur diligently led him to be more familiar with the layout of the main economic sources of this town, there is a large parking lot in the back, the only road to the country in the town is to extend dozens of kilometers from here to another country, and it can also enter China along the way, it is said that this was once the earliest Golden Triangle casino, but with those states that directly border China have also begun to engage in casino hotels, the business here will inevitably be greatly affected, after all, compared to the extralegal places that can be reached across a river, there are still one or two hundred kilometers away hereAlthough it is more crazy and more unrestrained, most of the people here are not ordinary tourist gamblers, and it is difficult to make the market bigger because of some criminal records or other attempts.
Arthur is in this glamorous exterior but dirty interior. The child who grew up in the nightclub, he didn't even know who his parents were, but he was already able to skillfully recommend girls to Bai Haonan with a cigarette in his mouth, and he also packed a ticket for him to find the most energetic girl in the town, but Bai Haonan curiously followed him around a few dirty shacks and those women who didn't have any health at first glance, and successfully dispelled his original idea of being ready to move, and decided that he really had to cover his pants during this time to avoid dangering his life, the sanitary conditions here are too terrifying!
Since he dispelled the idea of this piece, Bai Haonan is left with a small gambling pleasure entertainment, from the beginning of the team he played cards or something just to play, because the players owe a lot of debts because of gambling addiction is far more than drug addiction, the lesson has been enough, the chicken thief will not be fooled if he is, at most he plans to see this kind of legendary casino, Macau, Las Vegas Those big scenes have no chance to see, Southeast Asian casinos can always see it, life experience is the purpose of his runaway.
So almost by noon, I had already walked through this basic terrain, all of which were all kinds of back streets and lanes, passing through a lot of internal passages instead of on the road outside, and I was going to make an appointment with Arthur to visit other parts of the town in the afternoon, but suddenly saw that the young man was actually malnourished and quite thin, Bai Haonan simply asked him to go out to eat with him, the joy on the young man's face was brilliant in an instant, a kind gentleman must be blessed, barefoot in front of Bai Haonan flexibly backwards and said good things, there are bricks and sewage behind him, and everything can jump away smartly。
Bai Haonan is now too good at dealing with children, especially this kind of little snake, who came out and passed by the small shop where he bought jeans and bought a pair of canvas sneakers for Arthur for dozens of yuan by the way, the barefoot teenager was a little surprised and vigilant, the child who may have been growing up in the darkest place, it is hard to believe that there will be such a kind treatment: "Sir, you are not ...... What do you want me to do?"
Bai Haonan smiled and ordered two or three stir-fried vegetables and white rice at the roadside restaurant: "Do you like to play football? ”
Arthur nodded first and then shook his head, and after dinner, he took Bai Haonan to a dilapidated construction site in the town, it is said that this place was going to build a four-star hotel to build a big casino, because the business has been delayed, of course, this hotel construction site also belongs to Miss Zhuang, and this open space usually has a group of teenagers from the town playing here in the afternoon, there is no goal, no boundary, just a group of children playing an old black football for fun.
The conscience of heaven and earth, with Bai Haonan's temperament, he will never say that he is pitiful to the other party, it is really a casual nonsense to the child Why buy sneakers for him for no reason, he never expected that there would be such a bad kicking scene, when the monks of Tianlong Temple wanted to play football, they could easily find a venue in the school outside, and the entire Zhu country, regardless of the big cities and small villages and towns, can find a venue everywhere, no matter what the changes in the capital, the whole is still a peaceful and stable country, but here, the mess seems to be unable to guarantee even life and social stability, who cares about the football field。
So seeing Arthur quite carefully wipe his new shoes first before following Bai Haonan over the broken wall and walking, Bai Haonan simply paid ten dollars for the boy to go to the street to buy a new football back, and he just sat on the pile of waste materials next to him and watched these children who were having fun, he always took it for granted that anyone can play football, here is a luxury, and the flat place will be used to build a nightclub. Casino, it is said that even the school here exists in name only, because of the perennial fire and competition for territory, no one has the heart to educate at all, yes, the child soldiers here are also famous all over the world, Arthur If they don't make a living in that casino nightclub, most of them will also go to be soldiers, as a soldier for a lifetime, with an income of 600 yuan a month, which is a legitimate occupation here.
The young man's temperament is not bad, at least he didn't abscond with the money, and after a while, he rushed over the wall with a brand-new football and came in, if Bai Haonan sat on the cement pipe before no one paid attention, now all the teenagers turned their heads to look at the black and white thing, and a few older ones immediately walked towards Arthur, not to greet him warmly, but to immediately shout and scold him to hand over the ball!
This is a zone of the law of the jungle.