Chapter 296: The Muals
Desolation is desolation, but when Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan drove around, they still knocked on the door of a small hotel with a dinar in hand.
It's not that there are no big hotels.
However, since the war, people have been terrified. Hufra has been a few tourists for several years, and the big hotels have barely been able to break even, and are almost closed by now.
The remaining few are unlikely to provide any high-quality services.
What's more, in a city where a cannonball could fly at any moment, it's not a good thing to live on a high-rise.
The owner of the inn was Mu'al Zabi, a lean man in his forties. He has a look that is seriously inconsistent with his age, and if he hadn't introduced himself, Shen Yun would only have thought he was over sixty years old.
A pair of cloudy eyes finally regained a bit of brilliance after Shen Yun took out ten fifty dinars. Asking Shen Yun to drive the car to his backyard, Mualh Zabi lowered his voice and shouted to one of the rooms:
"Zaha, go and get the most spacious house in the east. Ayili, hurry up and make some food to entertain your guests. ”
After finishing speaking, he turned his head and smiled at Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan: "Zaha is my son, and Ayili is my youngest daughter." The city was too chaotic and there wasn't much to do, so they all stayed at home. ”
Hearing this, Shen Yun was a little curious.
"With all due respect, Houfra is said to have been in chaos for several years. How do you make ends meet? ”
Obviously, this sentence aroused Muale's sadness, shook his head, and replied to Shen Yun with a little helplessness: "I usually plant some land outside the city, and those armed organizations will not be too barbaric." ”
"There's also the fact that you can make some money by being able to host tourists like you. As for the rest of the time, it was after the big war that I picked up bullet shells and sold them for money. Of course, if the government forces come over, they may give some supplies. ”
Mual shook his head: "When will this kind of day be the end?" ”
"After the fall of the Muammar family, many people felt that good times were coming. But after waiting for six years, the good days have not passed for a day, but I am worried every day. ”
"My wife, the mother of four children, was killed three years ago when they exchanged fire."
Shen Yun finally understood why Mu Aler was obviously a middle-aged man in his forties, but his temples were already white and muddy.
He could feel the resentment and hatred that this middle-aged man was carrying in his heart.
It's just that as a civilian, he doesn't have the courage and ability to pick up a gun to take revenge, so he can only hide all the pain in his heart, and in the end, urge himself to grow old early.
When Shen Yun was about to say comfort, Mu Aler had already wiped away his tears with the placket of his clothes: "I'm sorry, you two, I made you laugh." Please come with me and sit down under the porch. Ayili is not married yet, so it is inconvenient to meet outsiders. ”
"When Zaha cleans the house, I'll ask the two of you to move in."
The porch is wide, at least more than two meters. Not far from the door of the house where the Mual family lives, a somewhat old blanket is spread.
Motioning for Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan to sit down, Muale brought the table from the house, and then brought a teapot and some dried fruits, as well as two large cakes that looked like naan.
Enthusiastically poured tea for Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan, and then introduced with a smile: "The conditions are simple, so the two of you will just take it." I've heard that you're coming from Tripoli, and the food there must be very good. ”
"This is barley bread, taste it."
In the face of this warm greeting, how could Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan refuse.
Broke a piece of dough and took a bite, the flexible dough had a faint salty taste, so that Shen Yun couldn't help but take a sip of tea to replenish some of the insufficient saliva.
One side of the water and soil supports the other people, this sentence is a good explanation of why the diet of different regions will be different. The tea here is also very tasty.
The strong mint flavor and the strong aroma of peanuts, along with the barley cake, actually made Shen Yun want to continue eating.
Mu Aler accompanied Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan to eat a little bit, and seeing that the two were very satisfied with his hospitality, he also smiled.
After all, Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan's accommodation can bring him a lot of money to his family. If the hospitality is good and the two of them can stay for a while, then they will be able to live a little easier for a long time to come.
After eating the flatbread, the two finally lost the feeling of hunger they had before.
With a bit of satisfaction, Shen Yun nodded and praised: "Uncle Mual, we like your flatbread and strong tea very much. Thank you for your hospitality. ”
This is the best affirmation of Mu Ale, I saw him smile and make tea for the two of them again, and then nodded: "Wait a minute, Ayili has already prepared dinner for the two, and I will bring it out to the two of you." ”
Mu'al entered the door and started to get busy, and at this time, the young man who had rushed to the east room to clean up also came to Shen Yun's side.
The young man was in his early twenties, and under his thick black hair, a pair of smart eyes looked at Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan curiously. Seeing that the two of them had completely different skin colors and appearances from himself, he suddenly asked:
"Are you Asian?"
From the moment he came to Houfra, Shen Yun began to be the leader of this investigation, so Qiu Shaohan did not come forward for everything, and he could only solve it by himself.
"That's right, we are Huaxia."
Seeing that the young man was curious about his appearance and his fluent language, Shen Yun smiled: "We are all tourists from Huaxia and want to come and have a look." Hello, if I'm not mistaken, your name is Zaha, right? ”
Zaha nodded: "Are you Huaxia people rich?" In recent years, there have often been Chinese people who come to Houfula, and we have received many Chinese people before. ”
The silly question made Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan laugh.
"In fact, China, like Lisibia, is also a developing country. It's just that Huaxia is relatively peaceful, so people have stable jobs to make money, and they can travel abroad if they have a certain amount of continuation. ”
Peace is a very longing word for Zaha.
In his early twenties, he had never even been to a place outside of Hufra because of the war, so he was very curious about the outside world.
Even if Mu Aal came out with Italy macaroni and asked him not to pester Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan, he still didn't leave, and kept asking Shen Yun and Qiu Shaohan what kind of peace Huaxia was.
When he heard that some cities in China were even lit up all night and that people could have fun all night, the young man's eyes were full of envy.