Chapter 150 Aswan Night Market (seeking monthly pass)
Overnight trains are also called sleep trains, or night trains. Passengers board the train at night and arrive at their destination when they wake up the next morning. The more famous night trains are the night trains that depart from Florence and arrive in Venice - of course, this one
The bus's starting point is not Florence, but Florence is the most comfortable way to get on the bus.
There are some differences between sleep cars and ordinary green cars: its conditions are much better, most of the seats are sleepers, and they are all boxes. This kind of car is mostly "sentiment". Green cars, that's true.
It is a last resort.
Just like farming, some people go into seclusion, and some people are forced by life. Although it is the same thing, the nature is completely different. As a tourist, you can really experience the "sleeping car", which is a very novel tourism
experience.
Tom and Hermione are riding a sleep train.
Tom and Hermione walked into their own compartment. The environment in the compartment was unexpectedly good. Tom boarded this train with the mentality of taking an Indian train, but when he entered the compartment, he found that the environment was not bad: clean seats
, graffiti-free walls and bright glass. Even if the comparison scope is spread to the whole world, it is a first-class private room.
Tom opened a curtain on the wall of the carriage and saw a clothes hook for hanging clothes. There was a recess above the clothes hook with a guardrail and two pillows inside. Next to the clothes hook was a mirror and a sink.
, there is also a charging socket.
Tom turned on the faucet on the sink. The water flow was very small, not much bigger than the wizard's "clear water spring". But if you can enjoy an independent box and an independent wash basin on the train, what kind of bicycle do you need?!
There are also box lunches to choose from in the car, including chicken rice and grilled fish rice, but Tom still chose to eat his own super roujiamo.
When he woke up the next day, Tom had arrived at Aswan train station.
The folk customs here are more open. When walking on the street, people will pop up from time to time to say hello to Tom and the others.
They hailed a taxi and headed to Aswan's market.
The driver was very talkative, even though the language between the two parties was actually not that smooth. The driver introduced himself and the city to them in half-baked English. Through him, Tom knew that the dark, fat uncle in front of him was a Nubian, and his enthusiastic
Pay tribute to the Pyramids of Cairo and the Great Bazaar of Nubia.
It can be seen that the uncle is very proud of his Nubian identity.
Entering the market, a breath of human fireworks hit your face.
The market has a very strong North African flavor. Wherever Tom and Hermione passed, there were local vendors shouting the word "free" to them.
Hermione stopped at a roadside stall and looked at the goods on the stall curiously. But...
“Is this a local product from Egypt?”
"Demolish that!"
Hermione:......
"What about this?"
"Demolish that! That's right."
"Are there any local specialties in Egypt?"
The shop owner felt a little ashamed, and finally pointed to something like a wooden clamp, indicating that it was made in Egypt.
Tom and Hermione started shopping in the market, but basically nothing aroused Tom's interest, except ice cream.
The sun sets in the west and night falls.
"Yeah!" Hermione suddenly exclaimed in small surprise.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing! Let's go!" In the dim light, Tom couldn't see Hermione's face clearly, but she kept urging her to leave. When Tom saw the goods in the window of the roadside shop, he suddenly realized: No wonder Hermione
I feel shy, that’s why!
On the roadside is an Egyptian statue shop.
Buy Egyptian statues.
In fact, there are many such shops in tourist attractions, but one problem does exist: Egypt still retains fertility worship. The so-called fertility worship is a popular custom in primitive societies. It is the ancestors' pursuit of happiness and hope.
It is an expression of a prosperous career, and it is also a kind of praise and yearning for the reproductive ability of living things.
To put it simply, it is to carve ridiculously large officials on the statue.
In addition to some pottery bottles and cat statues in the store, there are also these abstract art statues with a color of reproductive worship: most of them are male reproductive organs.
The forms of the statues are rich and colorful. Some are a man wearing ancient Egyptian clothing, holding a huge iron rod below, which is about the same length as his upper body. Some are separate huge black iron rods. Of course, Tom also looks at
Go to the magical sculpture of a small iron rod growing out of an iron rod.
Seeing that Tom was attracted to him instead, Hermione looked like she was about to cry. She stamped her feet, "Tom Yoder! What's so good about this store-"
However, the shop owner also discovered potential customers and immediately enthusiastically attracted them.
"Statue!" His English wasn't very good, but he still tried very hard to introduce his product to Tom, "You! Come on, buy it, like this!" He picked up a statue, and the iron rod on it was only as thick as an arm.
Although it was too big to be distorted, it was indeed the smallest of the group of statues. "Later, buy it, you are like this!" Then, he picked up a statue with an unusually large iron rod and gestured with it.
I probably want to say that after buying it, I can get the favor of strange gods, turn myself into a big boy, big enough to see through the nose, and gain the status of a king who can scrape my intestines and wash my stomach.
"NO, NO, NO," Tom waved his hands repeatedly, pointing to the second statue, "This way, I have it, I don't need it."
Shopkeeper:……
Hermione:?!!
The shopkeeper thought for a moment and took out a packet of medicinal powder with unknown ingredients. "Drink this, you will get stronger!" At the same time, he made a strange movement.
"????!???????????????" A tall bald old man appeared, repelled the man who tried his best to imagine Tom selling medicine powder and statues, and then looked at Tom and said in fluent
Apologize to Tom in English.
"I'm sorry. Just now, Abdullah spoke uncontrollably and said something he shouldn't have said. Please come with me." He made a gesture of invitation, and at the same time glared at Abdullah beside him, telling him to get out.
Go away and reflect on what you have done - how can you sell such a thing to a customer with a female companion? How can a customer buy such a thing in front of his own female companion!
Hermione couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw someone coming to the rescue.
The old man took the two of them to the shop next door, which looked much more normal. Inside were statues of ancient Egyptian gods and white robes.
After entering the shop, he picked up a kobold statue and handed it to Tom.
"Anubis." The shopkeeper told Tom about these statues of the god Anubis.
"I am a real Nubian, and this statue is the most realistic Anubis statue in Aswan." The old man said proudly with a smile.
"Nubia in the night market..." Tom frowned.
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Note: The dialogue and plot in this chapter are adapted from real events. The original dialogue is even more outrageous...