To understand Nyasaland, you must first understand Chinese culture. If you don’t understand Chinese culture, you will not be able to understand the harmonious scene between police and citizens in the square in front of the State Museum.
The morning visit opened the eyes of Alex and his wife. Previously, Alex and his wife’s knowledge of the East was limited to "The Travels of Marco Polo". Now through these physical objects and information, they finally have a deeper impression.
To be honest, museums only have a market among white people. For Chinese people, museums basically have little meaning.
If you think about it, you can understand that before the Opium War, no one had a few old objects. There was really no need to put them in museums.
Even if someone builds a museum on a whim, few people will probably visit it, and the collections in the museum may not be as valuable as the collections in other people's homes.
In Chinese terms, this is not called commemoration, but present.
After visiting the museum, they came to the Sunset Restaurant next to Sunset Avenue. Alex and his wife felt another kind of surprise.
It should be noted here that during the World War, due to shortages of supplies, fish and French fries became the British's favorite foods, and these two foods have now gradually developed into very representative British foods.
Compared with the British mainland, the difference in food abundance in southern Africa is probably similar to that between Chinese history and British history.
The gap in production and cooking techniques is even greater. The UK actually also has frying, roasting and stewing. The biggest gap is in "frying". It is probably as difficult for an ordinary British person to understand "wide oil" as it is for someone who has never done it before.
For those who have studied English, the English version of Shakespeare is about the same difficulty.
The owner of Sunset Restaurant is said to be a royal chef from the Eastern royal family. He is best at making a delicacy called "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall". However, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has very high requirements for ingredients, so you must make a reservation in advance to eat it. Alex and his wife are like this
tourists don’t get the chance at all.
Even so, the food provided by Sunset Restaurant still opened up the taste buds of Alex and his wife. A delicacy called beggar's chicken left a deep impression on Alex and his wife. The chef ingeniously hid the seasonings in the belly of the chicken.
Then wrap a layer of lotus leaves around the outside of the chicken, wrap a layer of tinfoil around the lotus leaves, and wrap the outermost edge of the tinfoil in mud. It takes nearly four hours to bake a chicken.
Alex and his wife also roast a turkey every Christmas.
Compared with the beggar's chicken at Sunset Restaurant, Alex felt like a primitive man who had lived in dire straits for the past few decades. At this time, Alex finally understood a line from a Tang poem he had just learned in the morning:
Eat three hundred lychees, and you will grow up to be a Lingnan native.
For Alex, it's like a beggar's chicken a day, willing to become a Los Angeles citizen.
After lunch, if it were not for the temptation of flying, Alex would actually like to go back to the hotel and have a good sleep, because only in this way can Alex feel that his life is complete.
However, thinking about the temptation of flying, Alex and his wife still went to the flying club in the suburbs with great interest.
There is actually an airport in the UK now, but there are not many planes. Air tickets are also hard to find. Alex has no need to travel overseas, so he has never taken a plane.
In Alex's imagination, the Flying Club should be a high-end place similar to a billiards club, but he didn't expect that this was not the case at all.
Yes, in the UK, billiards is a gentleman's sport similar to golf. In southern Africa, it is not the case. The Chinese always have the ability to turn high-end products into cabbage. There are many billiard tables in the Flying Club, and anyone can pick up a cue.
Play a few times.
No money, free!
"Airplanes are becoming more and more common now. Many people in Nyasaland will use their free time to learn to fly. Not only flying, but also paramotoring, paragliding, and even skydiving. They have become the most popular sports in the past two years. This
The Flying Club is the largest flying club in Los Angeles. It has several retired fighter jets and bombers after the World War. We have reserved fighter jets, and there will be professional pilots to take you into the sky." Montgomery is still as dedicated as ever.
Be responsible.
There are many people in the flying club, and there are also many people waiting to fly into the sky to experience the thrill of flying.
As soon as Alex and his wife sat down, they heard someone chatting loudly next to them.
"When I return to the United States, I will also set up a flying club like this, with dozens of planes, and I will definitely make a lot of money." A guy with freckles on his face said boldly, and the pores on his face were clearly visible.
Don't be surprised, most white people look like this. Women's faces are covered with large freckles. Men generally have enlarged pores and yellow fluff on their faces. They look a bit dirty, which is completely different from the Chinese concept of whiteness.
Two different things.
The Chinese regard whiteness as beauty, advocating whiteness that is rosy in the inside, or whiteness that is as white as jade, shiny and textured. The "whiteness" of white people, in the Chinese concept, is a slightly sickly pale color, which looks...
Just like having vitiligo, it is neither clean nor healthy.
The most unacceptable thing for white people is body odor. If you don't do activities and cover it with perfume, it will be acceptable. But if you do strenuous activities, the smell will be like a biochemical weapon. It's worse than body odor. Even soaking in perfume won't help.
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What is also unacceptable is the body shape. White people's bodies develop earlier. Basically, in their early twenties, they look like men in their thirties with a full beard. They are also 17 or 18 years old, Chinese and white.
The difference is not that big. After the age of twenty, white people will age rapidly. One moment they are as beautiful as flowers, and the next moment they become aunts.
"Ha, look at that guy, his waist is as thick as a bucket. If she gets on a plane, will the plane not be able to fly?" The companion of the freckled young man was uneducated and pointed at a slightly fat girl and laughed loudly.
It's just a little bit fatter, definitely not as exaggerated as a bucket.
Of course, it could also be that the buckets at home of the freckled young man’s companions are relatively thin.
The fat girl immediately blushed and was at a loss when she heard the words of her freckled young companion.
"What an uneducated guy, American?" Alex felt embarrassed. It was too much in public.
"It should be Americans." Montgomery was also helpless. As more and more Americans go abroad, more and more people hate Americans.
Some people seem to be born not to care about other people's eyes, are unscrupulous, behave rudely, have no manners, and have no family education. They all seem to be born and have no one to raise them.
There are actually people like this everywhere, but there seem to be particularly many in the United States.
"For God's sake, don't let me sit on the same plane as her. I'm worried that her flesh will squeeze in on me." The guy who wants to open a flying club is equally uncultured.
"Then you are miserable. If it were me, I would throw her out of the plane." The companion danced as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.
"You two, can you be quiet?" Finally someone couldn't stand listening anymore and stepped forward to stop it.
"Shut up, old man, it has nothing to do with you." The guy who wanted to open a flying club retorted, and the person who took the initiative to stop him had a bit of gray hair.
"You two little guys have gone too far. You must apologize to this girl and this gentleman, and get out of here immediately before I can't help but beat you." A strong man with arms thicker than his neck stepped forward.
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"This has nothing to do with you." The two guys who were arrogant just now turned into trembling little chickens.
"No, this has something to do with all of us. We all heard it just now. You two annoying guys are so uneducated!" Immediately more people came forward.
“As Americans, that’s understandable.”
"Sure enough, he is the descendant of thieves and robbers!"
"Don't they have parents? You should ask their parents how they educate their children."
There were so many people who couldn't bear it, and the two little chickens looked in horror, not realizing that their behavior had offended the public.
At this time, the girl who was at a loss just now was finally moved to tears. Immediately, a lady took out a handkerchief and came to the girl's side to comfort her softly.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? What do you want to do?" The parents of the two chicks finally appeared.
"How do you educate your children?"
"Your child just made a verbal and violent attack on that girl without any reason!"
"You should apologize to the child and strictly discipline your child."
The girl didn't even need to say anything. More than a dozen people returned the behavior of the two naughty children unchanged.
"I'm sorry, I'm very sorry." The parents of the naughty children were busy apologizing, but the two naughty children said nothing.
"The people here have a great sense of justice!" Alex was deeply touched after witnessing all this. Unlike the indifferent London, the city of Los Angeles was instantly full of human touch.
"No lack of courage!" Mrs. Alex added the icing on the cake.
At this time, the police came over. I don’t know who called the police.
Alex and his wife never knew that verbal violence could actually be a crime.
"Girl, did they violently attack you just now?" the police asked the girl when they came up.
"Be brave and tell the police officer what happened just now. You must be brave enough to protect your own interests." The lady who had been comforting the girl looked at the two naughty children with disgust.
"Yes, be brave little girl, don't be afraid, we can all testify for you."
"Those who make mistakes must pay the price!"
"It's too much. The girl is just a little fat, and they threaten to throw her off the plane."
People with a strong sense of justice talked a lot, and the expressions of the two police officers gradually became serious.
If you just laughed at the girl for being a little fat, just apologize sincerely.
Threatening to throw someone off a plane is a serious crime, even if it is just a threat.
