Chapter 451 Shekou Village
Fortunately, she didn't like to be in the spotlight, so since people had kindly reminded her, she stopped. She planned to stay here for two more days anyway, so she could try everything on the menu.
While waiting for the food to be served, Ah Ju went downstairs to buy a Yangcheng newspaper for Xia Zhizhi.
Xia Zhizhi pretended to read the newspaper and listened to the other diners in the teahouse communicating in real time in dialect.
The main Chinese dialect spoken in Guangzhou is Cantonese, also known as Baihua, which is the standard language of the Cantonese dialect.
Southern dialects are usually more difficult to pronounce and often form their own system. Learning a local dialect is not much different from learning a foreign language.
Fortunately, Xia Zhizhi had good mental strength. She concentrated on collecting information and, by guessing, was able to understand most people's conversations.
Of course, she can't compare with Ah Ju. Even if it's a language she has never heard of, Ah Ju only needs a short time to record and analyze what each pronunciation means, and then she can use it flexibly.
Nowadays, the accent of the male compatriots in Mandarin is generally touching. Some of them are not even as easy to understand as the dialect. When ordering food in the morning, it was Ah Ju who did the talking and used the local dialect.
The waiter who served the food saw that he spoke the dialect well and thought he was a local. He praised him for being handsome and asked him if he had a partner.
Xia Zhizhi stayed in Guangzhou for several days, checked into all the famous restaurants and teahouses there, and ordered almost everything on the menu.
Apart from anything else, just from the aspect of eating, the cooking skills of the chefs in Yangcheng are really good.
Yangcheng cuisine is the main body and representative of Cantonese cuisine. It uses fine ingredients and exquisite craftsmanship. It is clear but not bland, fresh but not vulgar, tender but not raw, and oily but not greasy.
In terms of taste, it is mainly fresh, tender, smooth, crispy and fragrant, pursuing the original flavor of the raw materials.
This taste is in line with the climate characteristics of Guangdong and the requirements of modern nutrition.
Although Xia Zhizhi can usually eat spicy food, she thinks Cantonese cuisine is also delicious, and being light does not mean being tasteless.
After enjoying the meal for a few days, Ah Ju had almost learned the skills, so she took Ah Ju to Shenzhen City.
Originally, she wanted to take a bus, but there are a lot of people illegally crossing here at the moment, and the inspection on the bus is quite strict. It was very troublesome to ask so many questions, so she simply let Ah Ju carry her and run away at night.
She went to sleep at night, and when she woke up, she found that Ah Ju had taken her to an abandoned lychee forest.
She got off the ground, went back to the space to wash up, then tidied herself up a little, smeared herself black and yellow, changed into a set of coarse cloth clothes, and successfully became a local.
After he had tidied himself, he asked Ah Ju to change his clothes and transformed himself into a thin young man.
It looked like they were fleeing and preparing to smuggle the two siblings across the border.
When she came out of the lychee orchard, she walked towards the seaside. Along the way, most of the houses she passed were empty.
On the way, we also met a militia team carrying rifles, escorting several illegal immigrants to a shelter.
This is the general environment these days. Survival in the country is difficult and smuggling is an open secret. If someone in a family succeeds in smuggling, the family members will not only not avoid suspicion, but will show off in front of outsiders. Some people with bad intentions will even hold a banquet and set off firecrackers to celebrate.
In the Shawan Brigade of Panyu, Yangcheng, there was also a smuggling incident in which the production team leader, the branch secretary and the security director all participated.
When they ran there, dozens of villagers went to the beach to provide them with food. They hoped that the village leaders would go there first to gain a foothold, and that someone in the village would go later to take care of them.
The Aotou fishing brigade had only 560 people, but 112 of them managed to smuggle themselves across the border in just a few months. Of the six members of the brigade's party branch, except for one female member, the other five all smuggled themselves across the border to Hong Kong.
Because most of the villagers had sneaked away, many villages in Shenzhen City were deserted. Many villages such as Dawangqian, Maliaohe, Enshang, Niujingwo, Luzui, Dashuikeng, etc. became deserted villages. In one village, only a cripple was left after all the people escaped.
The shelters are overwhelmed with the number of captured stowaways.
It was noon when Xia Zhizhi and Aju arrived at Shekou Village. Looking around, they could see that only a small number of households in the village had smoke coming out of their homes.
After scanning with my mental power, I found that many houses in the village were empty, and most of the occupants were the elderly, the weak, the sick, the disabled, women and children.
It is true that this place has excellent geographical conditions. Once you go into the sea, you can swim across to Hong Kong. People have a strong herd mentality. Seeing that everyone is rushing there, they think that they will have a good life if they take a chance and get there. How can they not be tempted?
Besides, we all grew up by the sea and were taught to swim from a young age. If others can swim, why can't we? Therefore, those who are physically strong will run over there.
Xia Zhizhi knocked on the door of a nearby house.
The person who opened the door was a little girl of seven or eight years old.
The little girl opened the door and asked her timidly in Hakka: "Who are you looking for?"
Xia Zhizhi had been here for a few days and was no longer the same as before. She could speak the local dialect. She smiled kindly at the little girl and said, "I am a distant relative of Chen Quan's family. I brought my brother to seek refuge with him."
Just when Xia Zhizhi was scanning with her mental power, she heard a family envy a man named Chen Quan, saying that all his family members had run away.
Of course, we just ran over there, and whether we can successfully land is still unclear.
But this is also something that everyone should envy.
The little girl's grandmother was cooking at the stove. When she heard this, she came over, glanced at them, opened the door, and said, "Come in first. The patrol team often comes to the village. Sometimes they see unfamiliar faces and they must question them."
Xia Zhizhi brought Ah Ju into the house. The little girl poured some water for them both and then hid behind her grandmother.
"You're late. You also want to go to the other side, right? Chen Quan's youngest son also went there a few days ago." The old lady thought that Xia Zhizhi and Aju wanted to use Chen Quan's relationship to smuggle themselves across.
The old man was quite kind and invited Xia Zhizhi and Aju to have dinner together.
Xia Zhizhi swept the sweet potato rice soup in the pot, shook her head, and declined the two people's kindness: "We have eaten here, and we are not hungry now."
In their family's situation, the strong man in the family either died or ran away, leaving only the old and the young here. It is not certain whether there will be next meal after this one. Xia Zhizhi certainly does not want to take advantage of others.
Seeing Xia Zhizhi say this, the old man was not reluctant. Even though Xia Zhizhi and Aju were now wearing simple clothes, they were still pretty good clothes for the people in the village.
Some people want to sneak to the other side because they can't survive there, some people do it because the other side is really prosperous and others can go there, so they definitely want to go there for a better future.
The old lady guessed that the two siblings were the latter.
If that's the case, then no one would look down upon the stuff in the pot.