Chapter 194: Second-hand goods
This is a place to sell second-hand clothes, if it is just selling ordinary clothes, Xu Wenjie doesn't think it's strange.
Because in Africa, a lot of poor people really can't afford to wear new clothes. In some families, the father wears the clothes that the son continues to wear. Some of the clothes had the same patches on them as the beggar elders.
There is a saying in China that 'sewing and mending for another three years', and it is possible for them not only three years, but also thirty years. As long as the clothes are still wearable, they will always keep them, unless one day, they can make a fortune.
According to Narola, these second-hand clothes were all transported by train from South Africa, and all of them were second-hand clothes, and some of them had patches on them. The price of each piece is equivalent to about 20 yuan, which is a day's salary for an African.
Shoes, coats, shirts or anything, Xu Wenjie didn't think there was anything strange. However, there are also second-hand bras and bras, Xu Wenjie feels that his three views have collapsed.
Moreover, these clothes are still very good, and in the two minutes that he was standing here, there were already five African women, bought bras and left.
I don't know how the previous owners of these clothes knew about this situation and how they felt, but the situation here also gave him a new understanding of the poverty of this country.
Compared to his surprise with the fat man, the three girls and Narola didn't think it was strange, they seemed to think that Africans should be like this.
"Na Lola, haven't you thought that you can find a way to make clothes yourself, and it doesn't seem to be a difficult thing to produce clothes and shoes with African resources."
Narola smiled wryly and said, "It's not what you think. Even if someone produces it. It can't be sold. Because no one will buy it. Moreover, rich people will not build such factories in Africa, because it is too slow to make money. There are a lot of things here, all of which are faster than opening such factories to make money. In addition, the government does not care about the people's livelihood at all, so there are no factories for the production of such basic materials, and most of them rely on foreign imports. ”
"It seems that I was thinking too simply, and indeed, this kind of thing is rarely willing to be done. Clothing that may be produced. It simply can't be sold in Africa. However, the labor here is really cheap. ”
Qian Fat Man said: "Think about the clothes, quilts, shoes and other things that we will throw away after graduating from college, and look at the situation here, I feel that it is really evil!" ”
Xu Wenjie thinks about it, in Chinese universities, when many people graduate from college, the things they throw away should be regarded as a luxury here.
I think many of his college life items were thrown away by him. It's too much trouble to bring so many things, if you mail it. It's not enough for postage, and the end result is to throw it all away.
And. This situation has become a thing that many college graduates do, which is also a waste.
"Their lives are really hard, those clothes have holes in them, and those shoes, many of them are repaired." Ling Na said.
"Dad said that this is the result of their lack of effort, so we have to work hard to help Dad run the ranch well, so that we don't have to live this life."
Seeing that there were people coming and going inside, and the environment was relatively poor, Na Luo was worried that something would happen, so she took Xu Wenjie and them around the area in front and walked inside.
Walking through the second-hand market, Xu Wenjie found that there was a very large supermarket here, and there were hotels and many shops next to it.
"In this area, there are usually very few people who come to consume. Those who can spend here are considered rich people in Kenya. Of course, the prices of things here are also very expensive, and foreigners generally consume here. ”
Xu Wenjie looked at the area in front of him that seemed to be a handicraft area, and said, "Let's go there first and have a look." ”
It is supposed to be a wood carving market, and there are a lot of wood carvings in it, most of which are carved from African wildlife. However, judging from the situation of these wood carvings, although they are stylish, they have no gods, and can only be said to be an ordinary handicraft.
However, the three girls obviously had a soft spot for these wood carvings, and after a while, they bought seven or eight.
Xu Wenjie did not return empty-handed in the end, he bought a stool, but this stool is a wood carving of an elephant, which looks very interesting. The four legs of the stool are made up of the four legs of an elephant.
The fat guy bought a few carved wood masks, which looked like the kind of masks used by primitive tribes in Africa.
The price of these things together is not cheap, and all the things cost more than 5,000 yuan in total. That's a lot of money at the level of African spending.
When he came back by car, Xu Wenjie thought about what he saw, in the case of Kenya, as long as the admission is free, the conditions of food and housing are released. Just like Narola said, even if you let those people do it for the rest of their lives, I believe they will be willing.
Because, as long as they enter the school, it is equivalent to changing their life, and their future life will be completely changed.
It seems that after I go back, I will revisit the issue of admissions, and I will have to recruit people by selection. It's best to recruit students with better talents, so it's easier to train.
At noon, they ate at Narola's family's house, perhaps knowing that they were not used to the African way of eating, Narola specially helped them get a separate table.
It's such a strange country, and eating is really done with your hands. According to Narolla, even if they eat noodles, they use their hands to grab them. Xu Wenjie really wants to try it, if he makes them hot pot, will these Africans still use their hands.
When he returned to the ranch, Xu Wenjie went to his uncle and told him about the situation, so that it should be easier to negotiate with the Kenyan government.
After dinner, sitting on the castle, looking at the animals coming back below, Xu Wenjie asked the fat man: "Do you say that we have built a country within a country in Kenya, I feel that what we see today is like two worlds with the situation here." ”
"Who makes this country backward and doesn't want to forge ahead? No one else is to blame for their poverty. ”
"Ling Na come on, Jie is here, you are holding the lazy worm, it can't run."
Watching the three little girls running up, Xu Wenjie knew that there was no quiet time.
"What are you doing, don't run around on this, be careful of falling."
"It's okay, it's really far away, if only I had a few telescopes, then I can see Simba here."
This girl really thinks about it, but on the castle, you can indeed install a few sightseeing binoculars of that kind, and it should be a good pleasure to look at the grassland on it.
Although it is very hot during the day, it is very cool in the evening and for breakfast, and it is really nice to stand here and watch the scenery. (To be continued......)