11, Abuja
After a small turmoil, the three of them re-boarded the car, Huo Yu kept coughing, and Sutina bit her lip and kept wiping the steering wheel with a tissue, as if to wipe away some kind of non-existent shadow.
When the program team sorted out all the vehicles and equipment, the sky had already revealed stars.
Song Wenbin didn't know the arrangement of the program team, how to shoot the show and how to sell cars, only knew that the director surnamed Bao took the Land Rover and their group to the place where they rested at night.
After leaving the airport, Song Wenbin sat in the car and looked around curiously, at this moment he was in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, and there were dark-skinned men and women everywhere around him, and for a moment he even felt that he had come to Baohan Street in Guangdong, but unlike the blacks abroad, many blacks here were wearing traditional Muslim white robes and white hats on their heads.
While driving, a group of young children saw the convoy coming, happily patted the glass, and sold a variety of products to the program team, most of which were fruits that could not be named, especially the Land Rover in front of the director was the most promoted.
However, Song Wenbin's Wuling Hongguang perfectly integrated into the environment, and others only regarded him as a local road-side car, and no one knocked on his glass at all.
The streets are lined with huge palm foliage and low, dilapidated white houses, and the occasional open-air toilet illuminated by car headlights.
In the middle of the road, there are motorcycles and women with baskets on their heads, and occasionally you can see singing and dancing hip-twisting aunts, whose dancing posture is several times more coquettish than domestic square dance aunts.
After about half an hour's drive, the convoy stopped in front of a large compound, which was the residence of a hotel called Zhonghai Hotel. After getting out of the car, Song Wenbin followed the film crew into the hotel, the hotel is opened by a Chinese, the door stands with a sign with black letters on a red background, and the interior space is very large, but the interior inside makes Song Wenbin feel like he dreams back to the town guest house in the nineties, and even the wooden door of the room where he lives needs a key to open.
When the photographer of the program team went upstairs to look at the room, Song Wenbin and the three of them had nothing to do, because the three of them had no luggage, so they could only sit in the hall and look at the director with a confused expression, not knowing what arrangements he had.
At about half past eight, the director asked Song Wenbin and the three to gather the car in the yard.
After the three of them were in place, a staff member of the program team handed Huo Yu a letter.
Huo Yu opened the letter, and his face became a little ugly.
I only heard her read: "In order to prove the advantages and disadvantages of your respective choice of cars, the program team decided that you will drive your car to Lagos, a city on the Atlantic coast 800 kilometers away, which is the most populous city in Africa, and you will sell your second-hand cars there, and the person who makes the most profit will become the champion of this show, so as to receive a reward of 100,000 yuan." ”
Lagos... 800 km...
The three of them looked at each other, and they could see the worry on each other's faces. Driving 800 kilometers in Africa is not a small number, not to mention that the three of them have never been to this place.
At this time, Huo Yu put down the letter and asked the program team: "We don't have anything on us, we drive 800 kilometers over, I'm afraid we can't see it in a day or two, especially in Africa, don't you prepare us some clothes and daily necessities?" ”
But no one in the program team paid attention to her, just took care of herself.
Huo Yu gritted his teeth, looking a little annoyed: "Hey! Speak! ”
Seeing that Huo Yu was unhappy, Sutina hurriedly said: "We can go to the market to buy some daily necessities to bring, when I drove over, I saw a lot of markets on the road, why don't you go shopping together and buy some." ”
Song Wenbin also said: "Yes, didn't they give us some naira before, it just so happens that this is the capital, public security or something should be good, let's go buy some tonight." ”
But for this proposal, Huo Yu was not very happy, just pouted, frowned and walked to his car without saying a word. Song Wenbin also sat in his own Wuling Hongguang, and started with a puff.
Sutina still had some concerns, so she went back to the hotel first, and asked the hotel owner about the best places to buy daily necessities around, and the boss was very enthusiastic to recommend several Chinese supermarkets around for them. Sutina, who got this information, relieved herself and walked out of Zhonghai Hotel.
Song Wenbin was waiting for Sutina at the intersection, Sutina knocked on Song Wenbin's car window after coming over, and after Song Wenbin pressed the car window, Sutina took out the black radio in her hand and said, "The show has started, let's pair this thing." ”
Song Wenbin had already had this intention, and took the radio in Song Wenbin's hand and paired it with Su Tina, and Su Tina stood beside Song Wenbin, looked at the famous man not far away and said, "Huo Yu doesn't seem to be very happy. ”
Song Wenbin saw through Huo Yu at a glance, and said with a somewhat gloating smile: "Whoever let her buy a car so expensive, she must have the least amount of money on this journey." ”
Su tina suddenly realized, and then slapped Song Wenbin: "What are you doing laughing so happily, we are now a team!" ”
"There's still competition in the team."
Song Wenbin handed the adjusted walkie-talkie to Su Tina, and said lazily: "I'm sorry, I really want the 100,000 yuan." ”
Su tina was speechless, glanced at Song Wenbin, and then went to find Huo Yulian walkie-talkie. After the three of them connected the walkie-talkie, they drove to the Chinese supermarket that the boss said.
Song Wenbin tested his mobile phone when he was on the road, and found that the navigation can also be used normally here, but the place names that come out of the navigation are all incomprehensible in English, and the input has to be in English, so Song Wenbin can only give up the navigation and follow behind Su Tina and Huo Yu.
It didn't take long for the three of them to come to a nearby Chinese supermarket, the supermarket was full of items, Song Wenbin bought himself some underwear, toothbrushes, shampoo and other things, and bought a few packs of domestic instant noodle snacks, and even bought two bottles of Lao Gan Ma sauce, which made Song Wenbin cry out for convenience, thinking that he had to rely on Chinese people when he went out.
After buying daily necessities, the two girls had to go shopping for clothes, but there were no clothes to sell in the supermarket, so Song Wenbin had to drive to the market that Sutina had mentioned earlier.
Sutina's bazaar is probably a long list of roadside stalls plus a congested street dedicated to selling clothes, and although the storefronts are not formal, the variety of clothes inside is dizzying, and each of them has a dizzying variety of shapes, especially those with strange hats, plates, cockscombs, dumplings, socks, umbrellas, cones, sphericals, and even squares..... With all the bells and whistles, even the best designers will marvel at the brains of the people here.
After coming here, Huo Yu forgot the fact that he didn't have much money, and looked at Sutina excitedly.
Song Wenbin didn't want to buy the traditional clothes here, which were too avant-garde for him, so he wandered around the market again.
Soon, however, he discovered that the place was selling not only clothes, but also all sorts of strange things, some sun-dried birds, eagle talons, antelope skulls, all kinds of wooden dolls, and even rows of air-dried monkey heads. It makes people shudder to watch.
But the locals were very interested in the monkey brains, and some women with children watched with interest in front of the stalls.
Song Wenbin didn't know what the monkey head was doing, so he got out of the car and asked a few questions, but quickly gave up because the language was not understood at all.
He then continued to look for modern clothes, and finally Song Wenbin found a carpet with shirts and jeans hanging from his home. The director's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Xiao Song, what's the matter, follow the local customs, go buy some traditional Nigerian clothes to wear." ”
Song Wenbin: .......
As a last resort, Song Wenbin came to a traditional clothing stall, where some white robes were hung, probably teaching traditional clothes, compared to those strange fancy clothes, Song Wenbin felt that the white robe was still acceptable, so he got out of the car and began to try on clothes, tried a white robe and a coffee-colored round hat, Song Wenbin was quite satisfied, so he asked about the price.
But the black guy in the store spoke with a strong indigenous flavor and English, and Song Wenbin compared with him for a long time before he understood what he was talking about.
"One hundred thousand naira?"
Song Wenbin was shocked by the half-baked English.
“yeahyeah。”
"Is this garment made of gold or silver?"
Song Wenbin scolded in Chinese, the program team only gave him a total of 1.13 million naira, and this Nigo opened his mouth and asked him for 100,000 yuan and slaughtered him as a pig.
Brother Hei didn't understand, and repeated the price with a clever gaze.
Song Wenbin immediately put down his clothes and left, but the man immediately stopped him and did not let him go, muttering words he did not understand, Song Wenbin was impatient, and talked to him in Chinese for a long time saying that he could not understand what he was talking about. Finally, the man held out five fingers and gestured at something.
"Fifty thousand naira?"
“yeahyeah。”
"yes, fuck you!"
Song Wenbin hated that someone thought he was a fool, so he immediately hit the shopkeeper and forcibly boarded Wuling Hongguang and walked away.
Song Wenbin, who didn't want to be slaughtered, drove around the market to see what the price of clothes for normal Nigerians was, and it didn't take long for him to see a group of people in the market gathered in front of a stall, chattering about something.
Song Wenbin was curious, so he parked the car nearby, leaned over to take a look, and he laughed out loud at this look, it turned out to be Huo Yu and Su Tina, they were also blocked in the store by two African aunts and slaughtered, obviously the aunt's asking price was too high, Huo Yu and Su Tina couldn't accept it, but they couldn't leave if they wanted to, and several aunts stopped them and kept bargaining with them.
I was very unhappy to be slaughtered, but Song Wenbin was quite happy to see Huo Yu being slaughtered, took out a pack of melon seeds bought in a Chinese supermarket from the car, stood aside and knocked up.
Unlike Song Wenbin, Su Tina and Huo Yu are quite fluent in English, and the two of them are as red as the black aunt.
The black aunt was obviously also very excited, her voice was very loud, she patted her huge chest as if she was threatening something, which made Huo Yu very unhappy, she looked around, and saw a red brick on the side of the road, and immediately picked it up.
Song Wenbin thought that Huo Yu was going to shoot people with a brick, so he stretched his neck, but Huo Yu just took the brick arm and pulled it abruptly towards the door of the aunt, and the red brick immediately shattered and fell in half from Huo Yu's hand.
The black aunt on the side widened her eyes and was frightened.
The melon seeds fell, and the smile on Song Wenbin's face slowly disappeared.
Huo Yu, a guy who looked a little thin, turned out to be a practitioner.
The black people who were watching around also gasped and retreated, wanting to stay away from Huo Yu.
Su tina covered her mouth even more, her eyes sparkling at the brick in Huo Yu's hand, not knowing how she did it.
Huo Yu sneered and let go of her hand, letting the pieces of masonry crackle from her hand.
"Bargain well." Huo Yu said in English.
"1200 naira."
Aunt whispered.
Huo Yu was very satisfied and made a deal.
Song Wenbin saw that Huo Yu bought clothes for twenty yuan, couldn't sit still, squeezed into the store from the outside, pointed to a set of bells and whistles like a tablecloth on the wall and said, "this, take it to me!" ”
A few minutes later, Song Wenbin put on the bells and whistles tablecloth, wore a small black round hat, hung a long string of yellow necklaces of unknown material around his neck, and wore inferior sunglasses and came out. The two girls laughed from the sidelines.
Song Wenbin sat down in Wuling Hongguang with an expressionless face, and explained to the camera: "The master's task is just that." ”
I don't know how long later, after the night shooting ended, Song Wenbin was so tired that he didn't look at it again after buying a set of clothes, but the two women in the team almost watched the market from beginning to end, tried on clothes a hundred times, but in the end only bought two sets of change clothes.
After returning to Zhonghai Hotel late at night, Song Wenbin fell asleep and prayed that he would not be too tired from tomorrow's shooting task.