Chapter 6 Arrival
The plane landed slowly, and after a runway rush, it came to a steady stop. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
As the air pressure recovered from the imbalance, the uncomfortable feeling of the eardrum gradually subsided, and the passengers breathed a sigh of relief, and began to leave the plane in an orderly manner and enter the terminal under the gentle reminder of the stewardess.
It is a little smaller than the airport at the time of departure, but the flow of people is not inferior at all, and the yellow skin of tourists inside is no longer the absolute mainstream, and there are also many tourists of other colors.
The three of them saluted, and the next process was to take a taxi directly to the predetermined accommodation, put away their things, and then prepare for the next trip. But now there was a problem at the beginning, and they had to interrupt the booking process.
"Sir, Miss, there is some chaos outside now, for your safety, please stay in the airport for the time being, please forgive me." Because of its status as a vassal state, Minghua has always been one of the important official languages of Tonglan, and is widely spoken by both bureaucrats and ordinary people, such as the airport staff in front of him who speaks Minghua with some local accents. Being able to hear a familiar language in a foreign country was quite kind to Xin Yuan and them, but relatively speaking, the behavior of these staff members did not make them happy at all.
"What's going on out there? How long are we going to wait? As an adult with two and a half children, Xia Zhen is very dissatisfied with the current situation.
"I'm sorry, we don't know the specific situation, please wait a while, and we will notify you as soon as the situation improves."
The staff in front kept reassuring the complaining passengers, while the security personnel in the back had already closed and locked the gates, and standing inside, they could only see a few puffs of smoke rising from behind the fence of a large parking lot, as if something was burning sporadically.
"Why don't you let us out? Let's make it clear! ”
"I'm in a hurry."
"I have an important meeting to attend soon, so I'm delaying you?"
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The staff's explanation obviously could not satisfy all the passengers, and soon attracted a lot of controversy, and even some short-tempered passengers simply scolded, and for a while there was a crowd of people and the situation was a little chaotic.
Seeing the passengers behind them pouring up layer by layer, the staff began to have a big head, and asked the security personnel to come up to help while dissuading them, and the airport radio also rang out in time to help clear the stranded passengers at the airport.
Seeing that the surrounding environment was a bit chaotic, for the sake of safety, Xia Zhen took Xin Yuan and Xu Youran to retreat from the crowd first.
"It seems that there is no way to leave in the short term, let's find a place to wait for a while."
Xin Yuan and the others had no objection to Xia Zhen's suggestion, so after searching left and right for a while, they found an empty table in a coffee shop with fewer families and sat down.
"Sister Zhenzhen, I found it on the Internet, it's the Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts who are making trouble again." Not long after sitting down, Xu Youran, who had been fiddling with the tablet from the front, suddenly said.
"Damn, that's what happened! We're really lucky. Xia Zhen was stunned.
The Red Shirts? Yellow Shirts?
Xin Yuan took out his tablet from his suitcase, opened it, entered the above information, and the first thing he saw was the news of the confrontation between the red shirts and the yellow shirts in the major cities of Tonglan, which caused riots and corresponding pictures and videos.
Looking down one by one, Xin Yuan slowly figured out the general situation here.
To put it simply, the Red Shirt Party is the ruling party, and the foreign population represented by the Ming Chinese is the main party, while the Yellow Shirt Party is the opposition party, and the main force is the local aborigines. Because of the good economic foundation, the party forces are dominated by the middle and high-income classes, and for a long time, the Red Shirts have always been the high votes to obtain the ruling position of Tonglan, and the influence is very great, which makes the local forces very dissatisfied, and Tonglan implements a constitutional monarchy, and the royal family is also afraid of the Red Shirts in this case, so in recent years they began to support the Yellow Shirts against the Red Shirts, and there have been many demonstrations and confrontations between the two sides in the past few years.
If this is the case, the airport's response will make sense -- there must be two sides of the protester confronting each other outside, and there are passengers stranded in the airport all over the world, and if it accidentally spreads to the point that it is an international incident, it is natural to leave the passengers in the relatively safe airport, and then deal with it according to the specific situation when the incident outside has subsided.
In the event of such an emergency, the three of them are not high-level people in the country or powerful people in society, so they naturally can't think about it, so they can only stay here and wait. Fortunately, this incident is not too serious, there have been no violent incidents in the past few confrontations, just a parade shouting slogans, which generally affects the traffic of the day and the like, and it will soon improve, and the safety is still guaranteed, otherwise the three of them will have to fly back directly before they really set foot on this land.
The wait was five or six hours, from almost noon when they got off the plane to the setting sun, and the three of them didn't remember how many times they refilled their glasses, and finally waited for the news of the lifting of traffic restrictions on the radio.
Although there is the guidance of the airport staff, the number of passengers who have accumulated in an afternoon is really huge, and the sudden outbreak of traffic demand directly makes the capacity around the airport stretched, and by the time it was Xin Yuan's turn to line up for a taxi, it was already completely dark.
When the car drove away from the airport, Xin Yuan and the others could still see traces of the afternoon riots along the way, and they gradually disappeared until about an hour after driving.
Xia Zhen's temple accommodation is located on the outskirts of the city, it is a quaint fish-scale roof-style building, the color of the exterior wall is a little old, but it is very delicate and clean, it can be seen that the monks here are very good at protecting the environment, and the same is true of several buildings around.
In addition to the temple as the core of the complex, there is a large forest around it, and you can't see the edge at a glance, so if you can see it during the day, the scenery will definitely be good.
After getting out of the car, Xin Yuan and Xu Youran, under the leadership of Xia Zhen, did not enter the temple in front of them, but went around through the stone road outside to a stilted building area with a central and southern coastal style, which was where they stayed.
When he entered the inn, he was greeted by a small old woman, clasped her hands together, and saluted as she spoke. Her words were similar to some kind of local dialect, fast and vague, but Xia Zhen could understand it, and after going up to communicate with the old woman for a while, he took the three of them to the hotel.
According to Xia Zhen, it turned out that the old woman was the owner of this hotel, the sister of the host of the temple on the side, and this hotel was also part of the temple's property.
Two women have a double room, and Xin Yuan has a single room.
After the boss who led the way left, Xin Yuan, who was alone in the room, put the salute away, and then quickly checked all the positions in the room to make sure that it was safe - not to mention his past professional habits, the kind of ordinary people who were secretly photographed in hotels and hotels were not less, and he didn't want to be the protagonist of this kind of film one day.
The room is very simple, it is the kind of standard room, a bed, a TV, a bathroom, and a network cable socket and WIFI coverage, the decoration inside is very chic, even the floor, walls and furniture are more bamboo and wood materials, and when you walk to open the door, you will make a rather interesting sound - not the kind of crunching squeezing sound, but a continuous sound similar to squeaking, fortunately, the sound is not loud, only when the room is quiet, you will pay attention.
After simply cleaning up, Xin Yuan went out of the room and went to the lobby to meet the two girls.
Because they arrived at the hotel much later than expected, and they were a little tired from the journey, the three of them didn't bother to go out and run, and directly settled dinner in the hotel.
However, the chef of this hotel is really good, and some local specialties are full of color and aroma, which completely arouses the appetite of the three of them. One of the most popular dishes is the dish called Penghasanga, which is made with several palm-sized sheets of thin to translucent dough mixed in a soup base composed of chicken slices, red chili peppers, peanut butter, coconut milk and other ingredients.
The three of them were very comfortable in one meal, and their tired spirits recovered a lot, so they unanimously decided to simply go out for a walk and eat them.
When she went out, Xia Zhen asked the two of them to wait, and she went to the front desk to communicate with the boss a few times, and after a while, she came back with three extra plastic bags in her hand.
"Peanuts?" Xin Yuan took one and opened it to look at it, and saw that it was full of peanuts with shells.
"Well, we'll be able to use it later."
Without much explanation, Xia Zhen took the two out of the hotel.
Xia Zhen took them to a forest path behind the hotel, although there are street lights, but they are far away, but the moon in the sky is bright, and the forest is full of fireflies, so that they can't see the road clearly, and there is a mysterious flavor compared to the daytime scenery.
Not long after leaving, Xin Yuan understood what the peanuts Xia Zhen was going to bring were for.
I saw that I had not gone far on the path, and there were many dark shadows quietly on the branches of the nearby trees, and when I got closer, it turned out to be a monkey with very large eyes.
Seeing the monkey, Xia Zhen directly grabbed a handful of peanuts and threw them over. Those monkeys are also smart, it is estimated that people often feed them like this, and they immediately snatch them, and after grabbing the peanuts, they directly bite into the shells of the flowers, and pick out the peanut kernels inside and eat them.
Xu Youran looked at the heat in his eyes, and immediately began to sprinkle peanuts like Xia Zhen, and couldn't stop giggling when he saw the funny appearance of those monkeys who bumped into each other from time to time because of the scramble.
Seeing the two women, one big and one young, having so much fun, Xin Yuan smiled and followed them.
Some of the little monkeys couldn't see that they could grab the big monkeys, so they cautiously came close and looked at the three of them with blank eyes. When Xu Youran saw the cute little monkey making this kind of action, his motherhood was overflowing, and he immediately grabbed several handfuls and sprinkled them in front of the little monkeys.
But after all, the three of them were obviously too unfamiliar with the monkeys, and immediately ran away after eating. Especially just now deliberately surrounded those little monkeys, Xu Youran saw them eating happily, and squatted down to touch them to show friendship, but they immediately screamed as if they were being indecent, and immediately ran away, and by the way, they also caught a few more peanuts, so that Xu Youran scolded these monkeys for being ungrateful, I don't know what to do, but I couldn't help laughing.
This section of the forest path lasted nearly half an hour, and when they came out, their hands were empty, and the satisfied monkeys behind them watched them leave, and waved their hands to the unknown who taught them, as if saying goodbye to the three of them, and the three of them laughed when they saw it.
"Let's go there and have a look."
Xia Zhen pointed to the buildings in front of him and said.