12. Dark cuisine
The next morning, Song Wenbin was woken up by the vibrating sound of his mobile phone. He looked out the window at the palm leaves, and it took him a moment to confirm that he was in Africa.
After sitting on the bed and being stunned for a while, Song Wenbin took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that many letters had been sent to his mailbox while he was asleep, and there were also many text messages.
Song Wenbin opened the emails and text messages and looked at them, and found that the text in them was all in English, he was too lazy to read and didn't want to find a translator, so he ignored the information, got dressed and went downstairs.
The pace of life in Africa is unusually slow, and Song Wenbin didn't see a few people in the hall, only a few staff members of the program team were debugging their Hylux.
Song Wenbin wanted to greet them, but thought of their strange and cold attitude, so he gave up the idea.
Before anyone else got up, Song Wenbin walked around the hotel alone.
At this moment, the sky was bright, and Song Wenbin saw many African women walking by with baskets on their heads on the street, and also saw African men urinating everywhere. Song Wenbin wanted to see if he could find any breakfast shop, after all, he hadn't eaten since he got off the plane, and he went shopping with two women yesterday, and now he is very hungry.
But after walking around, he only saw a stall selling fried bananas, although it seemed like that, but thinking that his goal was the 100,000 yuan, Song Wenbin finally chose not to risk testing his stomach and returned to the hotel.
After sitting in the hotel restaurant for a while, the owner finally made breakfast, which was quite generous, some omelets, fried fish, boiled eggs, with rice pickles and noodles. There are also some exotic fruits and vegetables.
After waiting for so long, Song Wenbin was already hungry, so he took a few egg cakes and drank a bowl of porridge. When he was eating, the people in the film crew also got up to eat one after another, and as usual, the people in the group kept a distance from Song Wenbin and did not share a table with him.
After a while, Huo Yu and Su Tina also came down, and since there weren't many tables, the two sat opposite Song Wenbin. As soon as she sat down, Sutina's cell phone rang.
Sutina glanced at it and threw the phone back in disgust.
"It's endless," she muttered.
Song Wenbin was curious, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Huo Yu yawned: "No, there are too many princes." ”
"What prince is too many?"
Song Wenbin was puzzled.
Huo Yu didn't answer, and went to serve breakfast.
"Didn't you get the message?" Sutina asked.
"I got it, but I can't read English well."
Song Wenbin said.
"Take a look."
Sutina stretched out her hand to Song Wenbin.
Song Wenbin gave her the phone.
Sutina looked at Song Wenbin's text message box, flipped out a text message with a slight stroke, and translated it to Song Wenbin word by word: "I am a Nigerian prince, the son of King Sania Bacha, and now I have been kicked out of the country because of the opposition coup, and now I plan to transfer my domestic assets abroad, but I don't have a bank card, now I am ready to transfer the assets to your bank card, you just need to provide an account information to me, and I will pay you 20% of the return after the fact." ”
Song Wenbin laughed out loud after hearing this.
"Isn't this a copy of Qin Shi Huang's money?"
"yes, it looks like they're popular here."
Sutina sighed helplessly.
"I really don't understand, why send this kind of message, can anyone really be fooled?" Song Wenbin said.
"It must be sent in groups, and if there are more people, there may be fools."
After Sutina finished speaking, she went to get breakfast.
After breakfast, the trio started their cars, and today, they were heading south to Lagos, on the Atlantic coast. Although the country is unfamiliar and the cities are unfamiliar, this is no longer the time of Columbus, and the ubiquitous satellite navigation can plan a route to any corner of the earth.
After spending 8,000 naira to fill up the gas station near Abuja, Song Wenbin and the three of them galloped all the way along the path planned by the navigation. Soon, Song Wenbin's Wuling Hongguang drove to more than 80 kilometers per hour.
The journey of 800 miles is not long, but it is not short, Song Wenbin looked at the computer and thought that at this speed, it will take about ten hours to drive to Lagos, plus the turning and grinding on the road, or patting the scenery, it will be there in two days at most.
The job doesn't seem as difficult as it seems, and if this Wuling Hongguang can be a little quieter, it will be perfect.
In fact, the Wuling Hongguang has been creaking since it was speeding more than sixty yards, the glass is shaking, and the frame is shaking.
At this time, Su Tina's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "Song Wenbin, how is your car now?" ”
"Not bad." Song Wenbin said: "Very good. ”
"I seem to have a bit of a frustration in the gearbox of my car, which is very serious in first and second gear."
Sutina said.
Song Wenbin smiled, he said: "I was shocked a lot, there is always something wrong." ”
"Death to you!"
An annoyed voice came over the intercom: "Seriously! ”
On the other side, in the Harvard H6 car, the XJ girl is wearing a pair of silk gloves, holding the steering wheel, chattering into the walkie-talkie: "The overall feeling of this car is very good, the space is large, and it is very comfortable to drive. There may have been something before, but overall, it's normal for some problems with this price....."
"Let's find someone to fix it next."
After speaking, Song Wenbin threw away the walkie-talkie, opened the car window, held the steering wheel with one hand, and stretched out the window with the other, feeling the scorching air of the African continent and looking at the tropical scenery, he was a little relaxed. Although Wuling Hongguang has some abnormal noise, at least the engine and gearbox are normal.
On the way out of the capital Abuja, there were a lot of cars, most of which were Japanese cars, many of which were Japanese pickups, a small number of European cars, and of course, some license plates that Song Wenbin didn't know at all, and that license plate was a five-pointed star, which he had never seen in China.
Song Wenbin was blowing the wind comfortably, and suddenly there was a buzzing sound behind him, and a white figure passed past Song Wenbin, and the owner of the car smiled at Song Wenbin defiantly when he passed by.
Needless to say, it was Huo Yu.
Song Wenbin was unhappy, but he couldn't catch up, after all, his car was only 112 horsepower.
Huo Yu sat in the MG car, wearing sunglasses, holding the steering wheel and said: "1.8T, 162 horsepower, not only the fastest car among the three cars, but also the fastest car in the 100,000 yuan class, my current car is the 2014 model, but in the new model, the 000 acceleration of MG 6 only takes 7 seconds, 7 seconds, what is this concept, the legendary shadow leopard is nothing more than that." ”
As she spoke, she overtook one car after another in a row.
Song Wenbin, who couldn't see the taillights of Huo Yu's car, picked up the walkie-talkie and said coldly: "You are speeding." ”
"Really? Are you sure it's not your pickup van that's too slow? ”
Huo Yu said happily.
Song Wenbin stopped talking.
"Take out the courage of the god car and catch up."
Huo Yu laughed.
Song Wenbin gritted his teeth.
At this time, Sutina's H6 also passed past Song Wenbin, and Song Wenbin was annoyed and stepped on the accelerator to the end. Wuling Hongguang trembled violently, and kept making strange noises on the not good roads in Africa.
After stepping on it for a while, Song Wenbin had no choice but to slow down the car, he didn't want to break down in such a ghost place, slow is slow, anyway, it is not to look at acceleration to determine the victory.
The three of them drove from morning to afternoon, and Song Wenbin finally drove to catch up with the two girls in front of him, not that his speed became faster, but that the two girls gradually slowed down.
"Get out of the car and rest."
Huo Yu said: "It's been a morning. ”
Sutina said, "Okay, good, starving." ”
Song Wenbin said: "You really can't endure hardship, it's just 800 kilometers, and you can get there in one day." ”
"You take your time, big brother."
Huo Yu said lazily: "It's a matter of minutes for us to catch up with you." ”
Song Wenbin felt that Huo Yu's words made sense, and he decided to continue driving forward, after all, his car was slow. But at this time, the director's voice came over the intercom: "You guys stop first, we're going to shoot a vlog about African food here." ”
African Food Vlog...
Song Wenbin was speechless, whether this program group is here to promote African culture or Chinese culture.
Although they slandered the program team in their hearts, the three of them still lowered their speed and slid slowly.
At this moment, they have left Abuja and come to an unknown town, if Abuja feels a bit of the 21st century to Song Wenbin, then at this moment he feels like he is back in the nineties when he was born.
Everywhere you can see the streets are dirt roads, potholes, crooked telephone poles, tin sheds and plastic slab houses.
There aren't many cars on the streets, but motorbikes and bicycles are everywhere.
"Where can I find food for this thing?"
Song Wenbin asked, looking at the shack on the side of the road.
"I look at foreign navigation, and I should be able to find reviews about hotels." Huo Yu said lightly.
"Safety first." Sutina looked at both sides of the street and said vigilantly: "You can't have diarrhea, you must know that this is Africa, and many people die every year from malaria or something." ”
Although Song Wenbin didn't deal with Huo Yu very well, at this time he also advised: "It doesn't matter if it's delicious or not, it's for the program team anyway, but it must be clean and hygienic." ”
"Got it, got it, don't teach me to do things!"
Huo Yu said irritably, stopped the car, and rummaged through it with his mobile phone.
Song Wenbin wanted to look at his mobile phone to help find it, but as soon as he took out his mobile phone, he saw that there were hundreds of fraudulent text messages on his mobile phone, which were dense, and he was a little sick to his stomach, and he picked up his mobile phone and didn't want to see it.
After looking for a while, Huo Yu chose a restaurant that looked clean on the map, and the three of them drove there with her.
After the three of them arrived at their destination, the African restaurant did not look as clean as it looked in the pictures, at least it was much more broken than the domestic restaurant, and the floor of the restaurant was still paved with broken wood, and I don't know how long it had not been repaired.
But looking at the surrounding restaurants, most of them are almost a ball, and Song Wenbin and the three of them had no choice but to be picky and enter the restaurant.
As soon as he entered the restaurant, Song Wenbin saw a long line of air-dried monkey heads hanging on the wall, like chili peppers hanging on the wall in rural northeastern China.
The three of them saw that the string of monkey heads were all stopped.
At this time, a sleepy-eyed cook in the back kitchen asked the three of them what to do in local English. Sutina communicated with the cook in English for a while, and the cook went down to prepare the food.
Song Wenbin saw Su Tina pointing over the string of monkey heads during the conversation, so he asked Su Tina in horror: "What does that thing do?" Is it an ingredient? ”
Sutina nodded slowly.
Song Wenbin was shocked and turned around to leave.
But Sutina grabbed him and said, "It's not for us to eat, it's for their children." ”
Song Wenbin's eyes widened.
Sutina said: "She said that it is medicine, and grinding it into powder and eating it can improve academic performance. ”
Song Wenbin: .......
With a nervous mood, the three of them sat at the dining table, Huo Yu frowned, and kept wiping the table with a tissue.
After waiting for about half an hour, the cook finally brought the food.
Song Wenbin and the three of them looked at each other and were silent.
The pot in front of him contained some kind of black-green paste substance, which had a pungent taste, and if you looked closely, there were still some fish bones-like things in the paste.
Song Wenbin stared at it for a while, then asked cautiously, "What is this?" ”
"Let's stew fish with okra, like..."
Sutina said uncertainly, "I don't understand the other recipes, so I ordered one that I can understand." ”
"Is okra stewed with fish..."
Song Wenbin couldn't think of any connection between these two ingredients.
At this time, the cook brought another plate of staple food. It's a plate of yellow paste, and it's just a plate of yellow paste.
The three of them gathered together again and looked at the paste, Huo Yu asked, "What is this?" ”
Sutina hesitated for a moment and said, "Maybe... It's a mixture of banana and tapioca pure... I don't know, there is a similar record in the book, I don't know if it's accurate. ”
"Where's the cutlery?"
Huo Yu asked with some trembling.
After thinking about it, Su tina took out her hand and gestured in front of Huo Yu.
Sutina's fingers are very good-looking, slender and fair-skinned, and in all fairness, Song Wenbin feels that such fingers should be used for dancing and should not be used as cutlery.
At this time, the cameraman of the program team came in, took the camera and began to shoot, and the three of them saw the camera and showed a reluctant smile.
Song Wenbin pushed the paste in front of Huo Yu, and said with a smirk: "You must be hungry all the way, eat something." ”
Huo Yu also smirked and pushed back the plate: "No, no, no, you should eat first, the traditional female virtue of the Chinese nation, let the man eat first." ”
Song Wenbin gritted his teeth and pushed back the plate and said, "Times have changed, and now it is women first." ”
Huo Yu shook his head into a rattle: "The Western set is over, have you forgotten our purpose, this is to promote Chinese culture, you eat first." ”
"Are you culture, you're dross." Song Wenbin pushed back the plate and said, "You eat first." ”
"It's okay to say that men and women are equal, let's eat together."
Sutina said softly.
Song Wenbin and Huo Yu were silent.
Finally, thinking of the compatriot who was far away in India, Song Wenbin suddenly had great courage, he took the lead in picking up a spoon and holding some okra stewed fish, and made some yellow paste, and said to the camera: "It's done, brothers." ”
When swallowed in one bite, the fish meat is much stickier than expected, which may be the mucus of okra or the slippery skin of the fish. Song Wenbin felt the sliding in his mouth, forced himself to frown and swallowed, the taste was not unpalatable, nor delicious, there was a strong spicy taste, it was the most slippery food Song Wenbin had ever tasted.
So he ate another mouthful of yellow paste, the paste was very sticky, with a faint sweetness, much stickier than expected, Song Wenbin swallowed it with a lot of effort, and the aftertaste was a little astringent.
Su tina saw that Song Wenbin had difficulty swallowing, and said, "You can swallow it with some fish soup." ”
Song Wenbin: .......
He really didn't want to experience the extremely smooth taste of okra stewed fish again, and at this moment he missed the bottle of old godmother in the trunk very much.