Chapter 81: Chinatown
Melbourne's Chinatown, located on the left corner of Gold Rush Creek, was a former Chinese worker settlement.
The urban area is very simple, much more bitter than the urban area of the nearby Westerners, the conditions are quite harsh, and probably the Chinese from the countryside are born with a hard-working physique.
There are herb shops and grocery stores in the city, the equipment used is brought from Tangshan, and the houses they live in are made of thatched trees. There is a Guandi Temple in Melbourne's Chinatown, which is the spiritual belief place of Chinese workers at that time, and it should be known from the four "Tongzhi" plaques hanging in the temple that it has a history of more than 100 years.
The things in the temple are all from Tangshan, which is quite precious. There is a "Chinese official building" not far from Chinatown, which is where the Australian government specially requested the Qing court to appoint officials to Australia to deal with the affairs of Chinese workers.
Mai is the heart of the Suvilun Mountains, and the street is lined with quaint antique shops with cafes, bakeries, grocery stores, post offices, bookstores, clothing stores, all modeled after the 19th century, and even the service staff's clothing is a step back in time.
Even more nostalgic is the horse-drawn carriages that walk the streets, carrying tourists around the gold fields. Since the Gold Rush, Little Bourke Street has been the heart of Melbourne's Chinese community. In the 50s of the 19th century, the Chinese built many shops along the street, and today, the place is no longer smoky, and the shops are mostly restaurants.
The Chinese here still maintain a hard-working style and a calculating business atmosphere, and it is more of a cultural landscape for tourists.
"Honestly, I really want to punch you." , in a remote corner of Chinatown, Mai Jiude leaned on the wall of the alley with one hand and sighed for a long time.
From 10:30 a.m. to now, they have been walking for a full three hours, and Mai has not even drunk a sip of water.
This is nothing to her normally, but now she is not even recovering from a serious illness, and it is difficult for her body to keep up with these guys.
"I think it's good..."
Chen Wang scratched his head, this was the most economical and suitable Melbourne travel guide he saw on the plane.
"Free Melbourne Walking Tours" is a free local tour that offers 3 hours of free walking tours, no reservations, no fees, just meet in front of the State Library of Victoria.
Jiude Mai raised her head and looked at Chen Wang looking relaxed and comfortable, not even sweating, and for a while she could only sigh that the original livestock really existed.
"Something to eat?" , Chen Wang glanced at the Chinese restaurant next to him and proposed.
"Nope." , Jiude Mai refused without hesitation: "The old lady doesn't want to eat anything now, she just wants to find a place to sleep well." ”
Chen Wang thought for a moment, remembering the Elbourne on the south coast of Mexico, maybe there would be a restaurant around that Jiude Mai preferred, and he asked, "Then shall we go back to the hotel?" ”
Jiude Mai's brows furrowed slightly, and her eyes looking at Chen Wang were full of unkindness: "Can you speak normally?" ”
Chen Wang realized that what he had just said was inappropriate, and he looked around and found that some yellow-skinned compatriots were smiling low in their direction.
"Why don't you come to my hotel?" Just as Chen Wang was thinking about the next move, a middle-aged uncle with sunglasses walked over, he was wearing a checkered shirt, his chest was open, and he was holding a cigar in his mouth.
"No need, thank you, uncle." , Chen Wang subconsciously rejected the uncle's invitation.
"This little brother, I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to this beauty." As he spoke, the uncle came to the side of Mai Jiude, reached out and took off his cigar, and made a smile that he thought was very charming.
The next moment, a classic national scold came out of the mouth of Jiude Mai that Chen Wang didn't expect at all: "I'll put your lungs on top." ”
Chen Wang and the uncle in the flower shirt were silent for a moment, and then Chen Wang took the lead in speaking: "Didn't I say you're not Japanese?" How could this be the case..."
"I'll have a lot." , Jiude Mai looked at Chen Wang with a contemptuous look: "Don't underestimate the learning ability of a Japanese ninja, you know?" ”
Chen Wang sighed, but at this time, the uncle in the flower shirt suddenly took off his sunglasses and said a few words to the people around him that Chen Wang couldn't understand.
"I'm in trouble." , Jiude Mai said expressionlessly.
She saw at a glance that as soon as the uncle's voice fell, several people who looked angry surrounded her.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's not a big problem." Chen Wang smiled, and didn't seem to notice the people leaning up around him at all: "I remember that there is a vegetarian restaurant called Foglia di Fico that seems to be also good, and it also won last year's Travelers' Choice Award, are you interested in trying it together?" ”
"Okay." , Jiude Mai stretched a long lazy waist: "If you solve the trouble, let's go over together." ”
Chen Wang nodded, stretched out a hand to stop in front of Uncle Jiude Mai and Sunglasses, and asked with a smile: "Uncle, have you taken a fancy to this international friend next to me?" ”
Uncle Sunglasses took a puff of his cigar and smiled: "Uncle, I like this kind of beauty with a thin waist and long legs the most, if it's a ninja, then I like it even more!" I don't know if you can cut your love, little brother? ”
The smile on Chen Wang's face also became thicker: "Uncle, if you put it on a domestic website, you will objectify women, and you will be washed away." ”
"So my uncle has already gone abroad." The smile on the uncle's face suddenly became hideous: "You keep this 'international friend', and the uncle rewards you with a ticket back to China, how about going back to study hard?" The outside world is different from the domestic world, and if you're not careful, you'll break your muscles and bones. ”
"I really can't stand it, such an old-fashioned plot..."
Jiude Mai, who was behind Chen Wang, sighed a little crying, she had just seen the tattoo on the hand of the uncle with sunglasses, it should have joined the local gangster in Melbourne, or was it a small boss inside.
Such a small leader can indeed be powerful in front of ordinary people, but what is he doing now? Talk to Chen Wang about an unequal condition?