Chapter 141: A Delicious Beehive
PS: Special note, the words in the testimonial are not counted in the word count of the chapter
The 'Hawaiian Traditional Market' where Alice took Zhang Lisheng is located in a large open space behind the commercial building where the car was parked, and this strange location can be said to be impossible for visitors to Honolulu to find if they have not done their homework before traveling.
Zhang Lisheng followed the girl through the large boutique counter on the first floor of the building, and when he went out the back door and walked around the traditional market, he felt as if he had crossed two worlds in one step.
Covering the sun with his hands, he looked forward at a young man with a brass nose ring on his nose, wearing a tight white Nike sweatshirt, dragging a beehive the size of a football with small holes in his hand and shouting loudly at the sale;
Looking back at the beautiful boutique waiter with eight teeth behind him and smiling professionally at him. He was surprised and said, "Putting Louis Vuitton and platinum... Squeezing to sell, and then vacating such a large space as a 'flea market' to sell, sell, what is that... Is it a Barbie doll carved out of wood, it's really unexpected here. ”
"No, that's the 'Voodoo Doll', this island is one of the birthplaces of 'voodoo' like the Mediterranean, and more than a fifth of Honolulu is still voodoo until now.
For us Hawaiians, tradition is a very important thing, much more important than luxury, let's go, Mr. Li Sheng, I will take you for a good walk. ”
Alice said and walked into the traditional market, Zhang Lisheng followed the girl with a backpack on his back, strolling through the market, just look at the dark skin of most of the people around to know that this is not a place to play tricks and sell strange souvenirs, but a market that really serves the locals of Hawaii.
"Can you recognize what this is?" Alice walked a few steps and stopped in front of the stall of the young man selling beehives that Zhang Lisheng had just seen. Pointing to the hive, he asked Zhang Lisheng.
"Oh, I'm serious about the twenty-seventy-two thousand six hundred and seventy-five of the three million species of insects in this world, but I've never seen anything so strange, is it a beehive?"
"You guessed it right, Mr. Li Sheng, this is the beehive of Hu Feng in Hawaii," surprised by the boy's humorous correct answer, Alice asked again, "Do you know what it is used for?"
"It should be used as medicine, the honeycomb is a good medicinal material that blindly 'nourishes yin and moistens the lungs'. ”
"No, how can the hive be used as a drug. The girl didn't understand what Zhang Lisheng meant by 'nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs', so she shook her head and took out ten meters from her trouser pocket and handed it to the vendor.
After taking the hive, she used her fingers to dig into the hive. Grabbed a live white and chubby bee pupae and handed it to Zhang Lisheng to see, and urgently put the bee pupae into his mouth, chewed and swallowed the meat worm alive, "It is our Hawaiian popcorn, natural delicious." ”
In the girl wants to come. In her eyes, the conceited and arrogant rich son of New York saw this scene, and if she was timid, she should scream in fright, and if she was bold, she should be raised by the disgusting cold hairs all over her body, but eating a live chrysalis is normal for Zhang Lisheng, who grew up in a mountain village in western Sichuan.
"There are live chrysalis in the hive," the young man's eyes widened, "Boss, are the hives you sell all ten meters a piece?"
"The big, fresh ones cost fifteen or twenty dollars, sir. "The peddler doesn't know where Zhang Lisheng came from. He said very warmly that although he doesn't usually meet guests with Asian faces, once he does, some of them really dare to put anything in their mouths, so he doesn't feel surprised.
Zhang Lisheng nodded. Squatting on the ground, picking left and right among the pile of bee pupae placed on the sackcloth, choosing the largest one and asking, "How much does this cost?"
"Oh. It's different, it costs 30 meters, it's the biggest hive I've picked up all month, and there's probably still a 'Queen' living in it. The hawker said at a sky-high price.
"Queen, you're saying the queen bee is still alive. Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment, shook the hive with both hands, put it to his ear and listened to the movement.
"Yes man, the queen bee inside is still alive, and you should be able to hear it crawling around in the hive. The peddler curled up his hands comically and made a walking motion.
"You're lying to me, but the show is interesting, OK, thirty meters deal. Zhang Lisheng took out the change from his pocket and handed it to the young vendor, then dug out a bee chrysalis in the hive with his fingers and put it in his mouth, "Well, the taste of Hawaiian Hu Feng is not bad."
If you do this kind of thing in other states in the United States, you may be arrested by the police, so Honolulu is really a good city.
Miss Alice, do you have anything else to introduce, I'm actually very interested in voodoo, and to be honest, I used to have a dangerous friend who used to think I was a voodoo doctor with a 'voodoo doll'. ”
Alice naturally didn't know that when Zhang Lisheng said the last sentence, she thought of the miserable white face of the most murderous serial killer in New York's history.
The girl who thought she was being sneered at by the teenager gritted her teeth, "This is actually a Hawaiian grocery market, how can there be a real 'voodoo doll'." After wandering around the noisy traditional market aimlessly, he returned to the Beetle cart with Zhang Lisheng, who had no discomfort with the strange things in the market.
Driving the young man around a few blocks, the last one stopped under a huge palm tree on the side of the road, Alice looked at Zhang Lisheng who was eating bee chrysalis in the co-pilot, rolled down the car window, and pointed to a wooden house painted pure white on the beach by the beach in the distance, "My friend's house is there, you wait in the car, I'll go down and call her." ”
"It's good. ”
Hearing the boy's answer, the girl got out of the car and jumped off the shallow curb to step on the sea sand, walked out of the shade of the tree and walked towards the wooden house, and before she could approach the wooden house, a lovely girl with big round eyes who looked like a mixture of native Hawaiian and white people came out of the wooden house.
"Alice, didn't you pick up Tina's boyfriend for her, why did you come to me at this time?" the half-race girl covered the sun with her hands and greeted Alice.
"Oh Kingina, I'm going crazy today, you can't imagine how nasty Tina's boyfriend is!
He was thin and short, and looked like a junior high school student. He spoke harshly, and guess what he said secretly when he saw me, he said I was, I was 'stout'..."
"That's too much, but Alice, I've said long ago that the approachable rich girls like Tina and Tricy are just the exception, think of the Helia they're with..."
"Oh, Xie Liya, Xie Lia, she is indeed a slut, but not as annoying as this Zhang Lisheng.
He's been sneering at me for the past few hours, and I'm coming to you just to get Charlotte to drive, and take you, me, Bonnie, Carmen, and Camille with him to 'camp' in the volcano tonight, and get some air. ”
"You're Alice again, isn't your dream to go to a tour guide school, if you become a professional tour guide in the future, you meet annoying guests..."
"Kinjina, I'm not a tour guide yet, but a Hawaiian girl with a 'vengeance'.
Don't talk about it, dear, you owe me once, remember, you and Charlotte got drunk this winter, but I came out to help you explain to Uncle Myron. ”
"Oh, I know it's not going to end well if Bonnie was here..."
"It's too late to say anything, isn't it, girl, please, dear, if you don't come, Charlotte won't show up, but I need his minibus..."
"Okay, I'll ask him to drive over in a moment, but you'll have to pay for the picnic this time. ”
"Okay, I'll take care of everything. Alice gritted her teeth and waved her hand boldly.
"Then let's go and see how annoying Mr. Zhang Lisheng you said is, and then I'll call. ”
"Then you have to be mentally prepared to pass out. Alice said as she took Gingina's hand, and the two girls giggled on the fine sand, and ran to the Beetle car under the palm trees in the distance.
When the girls came, Zhang Lisheng had already stepped out of the car and stood in the shade of a tree admiring the beautiful city scenery of Hawaii.
"Mr. Li Sheng, this is my best friend Jin Jinna, she and Tina are also friends," climbed the curb, Alice introduced the teenager and the mixed-race girl to each other, "Jin Jina, this is Tina's boyfriend, Mr. Zhang Lisheng." ”
"Hello Miss Kinkina. ”
"Hello Mr. Li Sheng, it's okay to call me Jin Jina. ”
"Then please call me Li Sheng as well. ”
The two people who had just met exchanged two dry greetings, and Jin Jina felt that Zhang Lisheng was not as arrogant and rude as Alice said, but he was a little introverted and not very enthusiastic about people.
But now that she has agreed to her close friend to cooperate with the thin boy in front of her, Jin Jina didn't persuade Alice to do anything more, after all, her friend's original intention was just to use a few innocious pranks to vent her anger, so why not take advantage of this opportunity to camp with her boyfriend.
After calling his father at work, he said that he was going to camp all night in the volcano with Alice and Bonnie, and unsurprisingly after testifying at Alice's scene was allowed, Gingina dialed her boyfriend's phone again and asked him to drive a bus to find all his friends and come to meet him.
Watching the girl finish making two phone calls, Zhang Lisheng on the side said casually: "It is unthinkable in New York for a teenager to get permission from his parents to camp in the wild without returning all night."
Hawaii is truly a place to be at ease. ”
"Listen to him sarcastically mocking us again. ”
"How do I think he used an envious tone. ”
"That's your delusion, dear, this man is so hateful. ”
The two girls ignored the teenager and chatted together in low voices, until an old minibus with exaggerated painted waves, sand and bikini beauty graffiti swayed slowly down the highway and stopped beside them. (To be continued.) )