Chapter 46 Water is more expensive than oil

From the airport to the hotel, it cost him a total of 76,000 dinars, equivalent to 350 yuan.

It's expensive.

I got out of the car and looked up at the hotel, which has five floors, and judging by the hotel's intact façade, the building has not been affected by the war.

Walking into the hotel, a cold air rushed into my face.

It's so comfortable.

Due to Iraq's geographical location, the temperature here is particularly hot.

It's the end of summer, and the temperatures are all 41-43°C, reaching 50°C at noon.

Every year, people die of heat in Iraq.

Because of the religious concerns in the Middle East, the front desk staff here are all men.

After opening the room, Zheng Jing followed the sign to the stairs.

At the staircase he saw a screen, on which were inlaid with four shining stars.

This means that this hotel is 4 stars.

Looking at the elevator next to the stairs, Zheng Jing was not interested at all.

This is because power outages are frequent in Iraq, and there is a high chance that you will encounter a power outage when you take the elevator, and then people will be trapped inside.

Or take the stairs safely.

Came to the third floor, found the room and pushed the door in, the room was not very big, but very clean.

The room had air conditioning, TV, kettle, and a bathroom.

Zheng Jing looked at the bathroom curiously, and sure enough, as the book said, the people here are washing their butts with water guns.

After taking a cold shower and lying on the bed, Zheng Jing turned on his phone and remembered that the video had not been uploaded yet.

Grass.

He had forgotten about it.

Luckily, he has the finished video stored on his phone.

Zheng Jing took a look at three videos about Nepal and uploaded the video of the beginning of his encounter with Mi Wei to Shake Hand.

The video begins with his encounter with Mi Wei and tells the story of adults in the village selling their kidneys.

At the end of the video, it was the question asked by Zheng Jing about polyandry.

Seeing the uploaded video, Zheng Jing didn't know if this video could be popular.

After all, so many days have passed since the last video, and the popularity is gone, so blame him for forgetting about it.

After looking at the time, he decided to sleep for a while and wait until the evening to go out and have a look.

……………

Five o'clock in the afternoon.

Walking out of the hotel, Zheng Jing felt that the temperature outside had dropped a lot.

It's still a little hot, but it's not as hot as it was when I first arrived.

Now his area is not far from the "Green Zone", just across the street, but Zheng Jing is more curious about the "non-green zone".

Leaving the door of the hotel, Zheng Jing walked along the sidewalk.

He was holding a video camera and filming everything around him.

Turning a corner, a barbed wire fence stopped him.

Zheng Jing took a camera to film the footage in the barbed wire.

In the barbed wire, car wreckage was everywhere, and several buildings were blown to rubble by bombs.

Such a scene is everywhere in the non-green zone.

Leaving this street, Zheng Jing saw a shop at the intersection, this store used to be two floors, now there is only one floor left,

Outside the store, there were two people talking here, and when they saw Zheng Jing coming with a camera, they surrounded him curiously.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Jing was not afraid, but nodded to them and took out a glass of water from the refrigerator outside.

That's right, it's a glass of water, because of Iraq's water problems, water here is more expensive than oil, so the water is packaged in a transparent cup.

The capacity of the cup is small, only one hundred and fifty milliliters.

However, just this water is actually sold for two yuan.

Zheng Jing confirmed the price of water to the boss, and it was indeed two yuan.

After paying, Zheng Jing opened the cup and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking the water, Zheng Jing was about to leave, when a man in his forties walked over with a mobile phone.

"Hello, can you take a picture?"

Zheng Jing stopped and nodded with a smile.

Seeing that he agreed to take a group photo, the younger man next to him also took out his mobile phone and walked over, and Zheng Jing also found that the man beckoned to someone in the distance and asked them to come over.

After taking a picture with the first man, followed by a younger man.

Then, Zheng Jing saw three people running in the distance.

After the group photo, Zheng Jing wiped his sweat, said hello to them and was about to leave, when he was suddenly stopped by a person.

Just when Zheng Jing thought something was wrong, he found out that they wanted to invite him to drink water.

The first man to take a picture with him came over with a glass of water, handed it to him, and motioned for him to clink glasses.

"Thank you!"

Zheng Jing thanked him and invited him to drink water.

After drinking the water, the shopkeeper came over and asked curiously:

"Are you from Huaxia?"

"Yes, I'm from Huaxia."

"It turned out to be a friend of Huaxia, welcome to Iraq, are you shooting a video?" One of the men asked.

"Yes, I am a world traveler, and every time I go to a country, I will take pictures of the scenery here and upload them to Huaxia's video website."

Zheng Jing took out his mobile phone and showed them videos taken in several countries he had visited before.

These people huddled together, curiously looking at the video on their phones.

Seeing the videos of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Nepal, they worship Zheng Jing very much.

It's amazing for them to be able to travel to so many countries.

Because of the war, Iraqis are very yearning for the outside world, and they are trying to change the outside world's perception of Iraq.

And tell the world that Iraq is fine now.

After watching these videos, it was already dark, and Zheng Jing decided to go back to the hotel, and he didn't dare to stay outside at night.

"It's getting late, I'm going back."

Hearing that Zheng Jing was going back to the hotel, several people said that they didn't want to say anything, and they had to invite him to dinner under the pretext of watching a video and delaying his affairs.

How could Zheng Jing agree to let them have dinner, so he had to say that he had something to do when he went back to the hotel, so he let him leave.

Leaving the store, Zheng Jing couldn't help but wipe his sweat.

"Good guys, the Iraqi people are so welcoming."

Although he didn't meet many people here, their enthusiasm and simplicity made Zheng Jing remember deeply.

Back at the hotel, the front desk brother greeted him warmly.

The waiter saw him coming, walked over with a plate, and handed him a glass of ice water.

took the water and was about to go up, but was stopped by the front desk boy.

"Sir, it's time to eat, will you eat?"

Hearing about eating, Zheng Jing touched his stomach, nodded and said, "I don't know what to eat?" ”

The guy at the front desk clapped his hands, and a waiter walked over.

"Bring the menu to this gentleman."

The waiter nodded and left, and after a while came over with a menu.

"Sir, here's the menu, take a look."

With the menu in hand, I went to the chair in the lounge area of the lobby and looked through it.

There are not many dishes on the menu, only barbecue, pilaf, lamb, steak, etc.

He said to the waiter, "Bring me ten skewers of mutton, lamb pilaf, and a grilled fish." ”

"It's ready and sent to my room."

"Yes sir."

After speaking, Zheng Jing stood up and walked towards the stairs.

I went back to my room, put the camera on the table, and went to the bathroom to wash my face.

Comfortable.

Coming out of the bathroom, Zheng Jing sat on a chair and played with his mobile phone, waiting for the waiter to bring him food.

I don't know what happened to the video?

Looking at the open game, Zheng Jing suddenly thought that the video he uploaded before going to bed didn't know what was going on.

Thinking of the results of the video, Zheng Jing directly closed the game and turned on the shaking hand.