800.Lightning Ridge (4/5)
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Looking at this scene, Li Du couldn't cry or laugh: "What's the matter, we were warned before we entered the gate of the town?"
Brother Wolf was about to step on the gas pedal and asked, "Catch up with them and teach them a lesson?"
Li Du waved his hand and said, "No, there's no need, let's go ours, let's go around the town first." ”
Because of years of gemstone gathering, the town of Lightning Ridge is very well built, and some of the buildings in it are famous in Australia.
Li Du didn't know how the people in the car judged that they were here to find gems, and there were many tourists who came to Lightning Ridge to travel, and there were a lot of public waste minerals in the town, and tourists could hunt for treasures on them at will.
There are black opals in these waste ores, but it takes a lot of luck to find them, and it is much harder to harvest them here than in the national parks.
It was already afternoon, Li Du found a hotel, checked in, and the group went in to rest first.
The boss wanted to refuse when he saw Li Du with his pet, but the expressionless wolf brother and the burly Godzilla then walked in, and seeing this, he could only shrug his shoulders and express his helplessness.
Sophie took out a hundred yuan and handed it to the boss very interestingly, and said: "This is the accommodation fee for our pet, if there is pollution, we will compensate many times." ”
Originally, this was just a polite remark, Ah Meow Sanxiao is very smart and very well-behaved, they all know how to use the toilet to go to the toilet, and even press the flush button after going to the toilet.
But they now have an Ali, Ali doesn't have such an IQ, and it's still too small to control bowel movements, and when he enters the room, he immediately soaks his poop on the floor.
This made Meow Sanxiao very dissatisfied, they still love to be clean.
Ah Meow slapped Ah Hu, and Ah Hu, as a little brother, immediately rushed up and gave Ali a paw, grinning and scaring it: "Woo!
Ali was so frightened that he squatted on the floor with his legs abandoned, and in this way, there was another bubble of water on the floor.
Li Du came out and saw it, and helplessly sighed with emotion, picked up Ali to wipe his buttocks, put it on a chair, and said, "Honey, I have to buy a cage for Ali." ”
Sophie peeked out of the bathroom and said, "Why? It's just a lack of training, Meow, Meow, and Crispy Noodles have never lived in a cage." ”
Li Du secretly said Can this be the same? These are all transformed by small flying insects, all of them are monkey spirits and clever monkeys, and their IQ is higher than that of children, of course they don't need to be caged.
He went to bed and fell asleep, and when he woke up, Sophie said, "I have to buy a cage for him." ”
There were puddles of urine or poop on the floor, and Ali looked at them with his big innocent eyes as usual.
At this time, it was already nightfall, Li Du took the group out to eat, and inquired about the local situation by the way.
Australia is a vast country, the ingredients are very rich, but there are not many types of cuisine, Li Du has been here for a while, but except for seafood, there is not much other seafood.
However, if you like to eat meat such as steak and lamb chops, you can enjoy it in Australia, where the price of steak is low and the meat quality is good.
If you are not picky about the parts of the meat, you can eat all-you-can-eat meat in Australia even if it doesn't cost money.
There is seafood to eat along the coast and on the islands, but in the inland areas such as Lightning Ridge, there is not much seafood.
When Li Du and the others arrived on the street, they saw many restaurants on both sides of the road, most of which were meat steaks and the like.
Sophie chose a teppanyaki steak restaurant, the reason why she chose this one is because his store is small and quiet, Li Du and his party will be full when they go in, give the boss a little more tips, and they can bring their pets in.
There was nothing to be picky about in the small shop, so Li Du chose some meat chops and let the boss grill them.
The boss is a strong white man in his fifties, with a lame leg, who walks slowly and leisurely, and his personality is also slow.
He brought everyone a pre-dinner red wine, then saw Ali hiding in Sophie's handbag, and said strangely, "Are you from the zoo or the circus?"
Li Du smiled: "I understand what you mean, but we are just ordinary people, this is our pet." ”
The boss shrugged and said, "Keeping kangaroos as pets, to be honest, is quite creative." ”
After serving the wine, he prepared barbecue steaks in the kitchen, and the kitchen of the small restaurant leaned against the hall, and Li Du and the others could see all the scenes in the kitchen when they turned their heads.
The boss took two thick steaks of meat and put them on a butter-soaked iron plate, and put some fat oysters on the other side of the iron plate.
He grabbed a handful of salt and pepper, sprinkled it on the steak and oysters, roasted them for a while and poured some white wine, just like a hamburger, with oysters in between two cutlets.
The boss was very slow, and the speed of serving the food was naturally slow, so in order to avoid causing dissatisfaction among Li Du and others, he took the initiative to chat: "Are you here to play? Are you tourists?"
Li Du said: "Sort of, do you have any recommendations?"
The boss pointed to the northwest and said, "There are some recommendations, you can go to the Opal Museum over there tomorrow, which is on Crazy Mountain." ”
Then, instead of introducing the Opal Museum, he introduced them to Mad Mountain, a local legend.
About 30 years ago, a miner came to the town looking for black opals.
But instead of digging holes at the foot of various hills in search of gems, he was ridiculed as a madman for mining at the top of the hillside.
Because of the formation of opals, it is almost impossible to store gemstones on the top of the mountain, and they are usually located in low ground or underground.
However, after some hard work, the miners succeeded in mining the highest quality opal at the time, and bought the hill and named it Mad Mountain.
Crazy Mountain has produced many high-quality black opals, but now they have been hollowed out and there are no gem resources in them, so the owner sold them to the government, and the town government transformed them into a very modern opal museum.
"There are also two castles that are also very interesting, there is a single prince's castle at the end of the town, you can go and see it, the single prince is a ruthless character and a role model for our miners here. ”
The boss cooked the first steak and brought it to them, and then introduced the single prince.
Just like miners in other industries, the life of black opal miners is hard, and many of them set a lot of dreams for themselves in order to stay afloat.
Some dreams are unrealistic, but the miners are trying to make them happen.
The Castle of the Single Prince is one of the masterpieces, and the owner said: "It is a real castle, and the Single Prince spent more than 40 years to build it alone. ”
"Believe me, he brought back a big rock from the mine every day and built the castle day after day, year after year, as a gift to his future wife. ”
"The result?"
The boss laughed: "The result? haha. ”