As for why he was so desperate to save money, it took Singh a long time to ask. It's not that the Turtu driver doesn't want to speak, it's that he doesn't even speak Hindi well, and can only speak the dialect of their hometown. It turns out that there is a very humane law on the Indian side, which is about the right to live in land. If you have lived on any piece of land that has no owner for 30 years, it will be yours! The turbulent driver is not fighting for himself, but for his three sons to grab land in Mumbai. No matter how hot, dirty, or tired it is, he has to survive here, and in another 12 years, his small house will be his own.

Hong Tao didn't have time to ask, because the power went out, and when the electric fan above his head stopped rotating, within two minutes, he was even soaking wet with his pants, and no matter how many questions and curiosity he had, he had to withdraw quickly. If you get a heat stroke here and are sent to a small clinic, maybe you can get the disease with a single injection, which is fatal!

There is another problem that he can't bear, which is that in Indian families, smoking is very rude, and most of them don't smoke or drink. Hinduism itself prohibits alcohol, and while smoking is not prohibited, it is also discouraged. Just chatting is not allowed to smoke, Hong Tao can last for an hour at most, even if George V is sitting opposite, he has to smoke, or don't chat, choose one of the two.

"Find a restaurant to eat, air conditioned, smoking! Preferably Indian. When the motorcycle drove out of the slum, Hong Tao was drenched in water as if he had just come out of the mine. It seems that going deep into life is not just about having faith. You also have to have a tough heart and a good body. Now that Hong Tao has gone deep enough, he wants to live a comfortable life in a big hotel again.

Speaking of Indian food. Many people immediately think of curry, followed by some meat and vegetables stewed together. Not exactly. A lot of Indian cuisine is more like our new Xinjiang cuisine, with a variety of spices to spice up, but it's not just curry. Since Mumbai is a seaport city, the Indian cuisine here is also based on seafood, Hong Tao has been eating seafood for more than half a year, and he is resolutely reluctant to order those garlic steamed crabs, fried shrimp and other things. However, he is not very fond of dishes with too strong curry, so after a long day of picking, he still has butter boneless chicken with pankichatni, which is a kind of fried rice crackers wrapped in banana leaves. I can't tell what it's called, but it tastes good anyway.

Since cows in India are gods, beef cannot be eaten anywhere except in Islamic settlements. And pigs are not only considered dirty by Islam and not eaten, but also considered by Hinduism to be unclean, and as a result, they are not eaten. Eventually, all that's left in Indian restaurants is lamb and chicken, but guess what, which of these two meats is more expensive? It's chicken! It's the highest grade of meat in Indian cuisine, because some vegetarians can eat chicken, but not mutton. Why, where does Hong Tao know?

Indians and us Chinese have similar habits in terms of staple foods, and the north mainly eats chabati (Indian bread), shortbread and naan. In the south, rice is eaten more. Therefore, pilaf is not eaten by all Indians, it is the same as jajangmyeon. It's just that the reputation is out there, and there aren't too many regions that really eat it as a staple food. Mumbai is in a unique position in this regard. It's neither too far north nor too far south, just in the middle, so you can eat whatever you like, as well as pilaf and pasta.

In addition to the main ingredients and meals, there are many types of after-dinner fruits, including tropical fruits such as mangoes, bananas, papayas, jackfruits, guavas, and chigu fruits, as well as temperate fruits such as apples, oranges, and watermelons. In addition, Hong Tao also saw a kind of fruit that should have grown in cold areas, and the Indians called it Jia Pan Palu, which translates to Japanese fruit, what is this thing? It is a common persimmon in northern China! It is exactly the same persimmon.

After lunch, Paris rebelled with the other women, who were adamantly opposed to Hong Tao's suggestion to go shopping in other areas, and unanimously agreed on the decision to go shopping. And they don't want to ride that kind of scooter anymore, because they drive too fast, and they get to and fro in the already crowded streets, and they are afraid to sit on them. Mr. Hong had to ask the high-end restaurant to help him call a taxi, and it had to be air-conditioned.

By the way, air conditioning is a very important thing in India, and the price difference between hotels with air conditioning and hotels without air conditioning is more than 2 times, and if you add that you can take a hot bath, the price doubles. For example, the price of a suite at the Taj Mahal Hotel is Rs 5,300 a day, which is almost the total monthly income of the Tutu driver. If you go to a small hotel with no air conditioning, no hot water, and a mosquito net to sleep at night, it will only cost 100 rupees a day, which is a huge difference in price.

When it comes to shopping, Singh is immediately dumbfounded, she has grown so big, it seems that she has only been carried by her father to a big mall when she was more than three years old, and then she has never been in again, so she wants to ask her where she can buy better and more distinctive Indian goods, she is really blind. But that's not a problem, isn't there a taxi driver, the two taxis are very regular, the drivers are wearing red uniforms, and the sides of the roof are still sky blue, which is different from other taxis in appearance. The most important taxi driver can speak English!They specialize in picking up foreigners at the door of major hotels, and the two blue colors on the roof of the car mean that the car is air-conditioned!

With a taxi driver who can communicate, the following things are much easier, you can directly tell him what you want to buy, or what type of store you want to visit, and he will be able to take you there immediately. Mumbai's truly upscale shopping streets and shops are no different from other countries, which is also characteristic of the city, which is too polarized, with the rich dying and the poor dying poor.

The first thing that was favored by the five girls was the traditional costume of Indian women, the sari! Oh, no, it should be six, and Singh was there, whether she dared to look at the price tags that cost tens of thousands of rupees at every turn, anyway, as long as she was wearing the right and good-looking ones, she bought them. And not one set, but six! Singh immediately became the model to try on clothes for the other five girls.

I bought enough of the most expensive silk sarees, as well as Indian handmade veils and linen Punjabi clothes, although they were both clothes that Indian women liked to wear, but the two looked completely different. To put it bluntly, a sarie is a scarf more than 5 meters long wrapped around the body, while the Punjabi dress is composed of an elongated embroidered long blouse, bloomers or leggings, and a shawl. Tall, well-built girls look better than saris in this dress, but the price is also good, and the Punjabi three-piece set with hand-embroidered full pattern piping is priced at around 20,000 rupees.

In addition to clothing, India is also rich in a variety of spice oils, pure plant extracts, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and colorful. Each has its own unique fragrance and effect, either refreshing or calming and warding off evil spirits, there are two green essential oils Hong Tao likes the most, because the salesperson said that both can increase lust. Whether it really works, God knows that Indian businessmen and Chinese businessmen are taught by the same master, and there is no truth in their mouths, and the word honesty has not been learned since childhood, and you have not discussed.

In addition, cashmere, gold and silver jewelry are also Indian specialties, wear sari or Punjabi clothes, and if you don't wear a bunch of gold bracelets and silver chains on your wrists and ankles, it's like wearing a regular suit without a tie, so you have to buy it!

You can't walk barefoot with clothes and jewelry, right? You can't wear a pair of high heels or hiking boots under the sari! It doesn't matter, next to the sari shop is a leather shop, there are leather sandals that are specially matched with sari, that is, only a thumb and a leather case, the sole and heel are as translucent as amber, and the sandals are inlaid with gold and silver, which really work well after wearing.

Hong Tao was also surprised here, he found a new gadget in the leather shop, a zuò letter paper and envelope made of sheepskin! This thing he had only seen in a movie, but he didn't expect it to be a real thing. These parchment letterheads and envelopes are also handmade, each sheet is very flat and thin, and there is a unique pattern of leather on it, which has excellent ink absorption, and it will dry immediately when written with a pen, and will never seep out. And they have many colors and styles, both gorgeous and rich bronzing flowers, as well as light and elegant watermark dark flowers, and with the same texture of the envelope, with a ball of fire paint to drop a few drops on it, pick up their family crest and cover it with fire paint, hey, this forced grid, can break through the sky!

1,000 pieces of parchment letterhead and 500 envelopes, with prices ranging from 200 rupees to 600 rupees a dozen, and then fire paint, and let the craftsman carve a family badge with a big mouse head for himself on the spot. Hey, look, the Indian woman in the sari is still sneaking a look at her pectoral muscles and giving her a double shake!

However, after returning to Nandna's brother's house, Singh was still reprimanded, because the clothes that Hong Tao bought for her were only worn by high-caste women, including jewelry and shoes, and she had to change into clothes that matched her identity with tears in her eyes, and then went to the maid's room alone to eat, and the heated discussion at dinner was no longer her share. Not only did she not have her share, but she was scolded again soon after, because Nicole had forgotten Hong Tao's advice and had leaked out about their going to the slums, so Nandena directed the servants to do all the work, and bathed Hong Tao with milk and salt one by one, and even the clothes and shoes had to be washed, otherwise the servants in the house would all strike, and they were afraid of being polluted. (To be continued......)