Niamey, this city with a low altitude, Lin Quan has been here twice, the first time was when he first came here, he got off the plane here, and the second time was three months ago when he came here to give a speech to earn extra money, and three months passed, and when he set foot on this land again, the time had already reached the golden autumn and October. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Time flies!"

Lin Quan couldn't help but sigh.

"Time flies!"

A small vendor next to him, who hadn't even sold half of his goods, also sighed.

Lin Quan has been here for more than half a year, so he can already understand a lot of French at this time, and after hearing the complaint of this small vendor, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at this person.

With a black face and a tall and thin body, he reveals the temperament of a small citizen, which blends perfectly with the city.

Glancing at his shelves, Lin Quan asked.

"Uncle, how do you sell this cucumber?"

Lin Quan also grows cucumbers in his farm, so he is very interested in the local sales of this vegetable and fruit, and his farm has no way to expand the scale of this kind of crop cultivation at present, but this does not mean that he will not be able to expand the scale in the future.

If Lin Quan had enough funds, he would not have planted so many trees this year, planted a circle of poplar trees outside, and then spent money to buy more than 100,000 tons of river mud from the Niger River, spread it directly on the sand, and then bring water from the Tailu River, and he could plant at least two crops of vegetables before October.

However, this project needs to consume a lot of money, and when it comes to money, Lin Quan can only stare dryly, there is not so much money, and this matter can only be thought about in his head.

"Cucumber 400 francs a pound! If you want this gentleman, I will give you the remaining six pounds, and I will only charge you 2,000 francs! ”

This small trader seems to be very shrewd, and knows the method of fire sale, after all, there are not many people who come to ask the price now, and it is the right way to catch one and sell them all and quickly close the stall.

The franc in the mouth of the small traders is the West African CFA franc, which is the common currency of the West African Economic Union, not the real franc (the real franc withdrew from the stage of history after the euro came out, referring to the German mark, only the British compared chicken thieves, they did not join the eurozone, and still kept their own pounds, so London can always retain the position of one of the world's financial centers).

The currency value of the West CFA franc is not very high, it takes almost 82 yuan to exchange for a piece of yuan, and 400 francs a catty, which is almost 4.5 yuan.

"Why is cucumber so expensive?"

Lin Quan is a little puzzled, this price is much higher than the price of domestic vegetables, in 2011, the price of cucumbers in China is only about 3 yuan, it is 50% more expensive here, and it is still an agricultural country, the price of cucumbers is so expensive, can the people afford to eat?

"This gentleman, this price is not expensive, you are East Asian! You Asians like to be careful, the yield of this cucumber is not high on our side, not many people will grow it, and everyone doesn't like to eat it, most of us usually sell it on this side of the embassy and consulate street, and it is very cheap to charge you 400 francs a catty! ”

The man said that he took a plastic bag out, put up the few crooked cucumbers he had sold, and prepared to weigh Lin Quan, Lin Quan waved his hand, signaling that he didn't want it, and he didn't dare to continue to ask him the price of other things, so he fled without looking back.

The petty traders complained loudly in the back, even cursing, and were very angry!

"Boss, that guy is cheating on you!"

The two walked a long way, and Azak glanced back in the direction of the small trader and said to Lin Quan.

"It's true that people on our side don't eat cucumbers, we prefer papayas! But cucumbers usually cost only 250 francs. ”

Cucumbers are widely distributed in the world, but among the North African countries, except for Egypt, the northernmost country, other countries are not suitable for cucumber growth, which Lin Quan did not find before, otherwise he would not have wondered why Zhao Cheng and Dennis would pick his cucumbers and eat them every time they went to him.

"Well, that's right! So why does that guy sell cucumbers here, and they sell them so expensive? ”

Lin Quan looked around and found that there seemed to be a lot of small merchants and vendors on the street here, many people set up stalls here, some sold fruits and vegetables, some sold some small sundries, and some sold some local products or something.

This made Lin Quan feel very surprised, and thought that he had returned to China, you must know that Africans rarely set up stalls on a large scale like this, they are not the kind of people who are very business-minded, and they are not diligent enough, so things like this are not very common in Africa.

"One, two, three, four......"

Lin Quanquan counted it, there were six or seven such stalls on this street, so many people crowded together, it was strange that things could be sold!

While feeling speechless for these people, I heard Azak say: "Boss, this is the embassy and consulate area!" ”

"What's wrong with the embassy and consulate area?"

Lin Quan still didn't turn the corner, his head seemed to be stuck, a little less bright, and his eyes looked a little straight in one direction.

"There are a lot of foreigners in the embassy and consulate area, they can't get used to eating our food, so they will come out to buy ingredients and cook for themselves, and only these people have strong spending power!"

Azak looked at Lin Quan a little strangely, these were all things he had analyzed by himself before, why couldn't he remember them now.

"Huh? Is that? ”

Lin Quan didn't seem to react to his words, his eyes looked directly at a pair of convoys in the distance, the convoy was wearing a familiar five-star flag, and the car in front seemed to be a Hongqi car, although he didn't have much research on Hongqi cars, but he had seen it many times on TV, so he recognized the logo of this kind of car.

Opposite the two, a large line of police motorcycles opened the road in front, followed by five black cars, all with red five-star flags on them, followed by four police motorcycles.

"That's the Chinese embassy area!"

Azak also saw this scene and pointed in the direction in which the convoy had left.

Lin Quan looked up, sure enough, it was the Chinese embassy and consulate, it seemed that they came out of the embassy, so who was the group that had just left?

He was very curious!

The next day, he got the answer from Li Xiang.

"Oh, yesterday's one, that's President Xi! Don't you know he's coming to Africa? ”

Li Xiang felt very strange, because whenever a head of state came to visit, the local Chinese and overseas Chinese would be summoned by the embassy or consulate to go to the airport to pick up the airport, which was one of the important tasks of the embassy or consulate, and when they notified the local Chinese, the notice was very wide, and it was impossible for Lin Quan not to receive it?

Lin Quan touched his nose, "I thought it was a scam call!" So I didn't believe it, who knew it was true! ”