Chapter 1067 Guarantor
Xiao Peng smiled slightly after hearing what Mr. Derrida said: "This is the seasoning."
"What?" Derrida and his wife were both shocked. They both thought that Xiao Peng was using garlic to make a dish, but Xiao Peng told them that it was just a seasoning?
Xiao Peng put the fried minced garlic aside to cool, then chopped the lobster shells and heads, heated oil in a pan and began to stir-fry the lobster shells. He also added vegetables such as tomatoes and onions. The Derridas really wanted to ask Xiao Peng: Can these lobster shells be eaten?
Instead, Xiao Peng poured in water and started to boil it. The couple then realized that he was making lobster soup! However, they couldn't figure out whether lobster soup made from lobster shells could be delicious.
Xiao Peng ignored them and instead broke a few eggs and beat them with chopsticks.
Mrs. Derrida exclaimed, “Every time I see your chopstick magic tricks, I find it amazing.”
According to their cooking habits, it is difficult for them to understand how to beat eggs with two chopsticks.
Xiao Peng poured some eggs into the bowl containing shrimp brains and shrimp paste and beat them together. The black shrimp paste, white shrimp brains and yellow eggs mixed together and turned into a light green color that made people's scalps tingle.
He poured the rest of the eggs into the bowl of lobster eggs, and after all the lobster eggs were soaked in the egg juice, he put them into the steamer together with the bowl of light green shrimp and egg mixture. However, he did not rush to steam them. Instead, he took out a steamer and added a layer on the steamer.
Then he found a bag of dry vermicelli from the kitchen, found a plate and spread the dry vermicelli on the plate, placed the chopped shrimp on the dry vermicelli, and used a spoon to put the fried garlic on the shrimp. After doing all this, he covered the pot and turned on the fire to steam.
"That's all?" Mrs. Derrida was shocked.
Xiao Peng used a knife to cut the orange that Mrs. Derrida gave him into slices and ate one. "No, not now. I need to steam it for ten minutes after boiling it."
"Chinese food is like magic!" Mrs. Derrida expressed her sincere gratitude.
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "You can only do that after you think it tastes good. But one thing is for sure, I absolutely won't eat it. I'm really going to throw up!"
Mr. Derrida asked curiously, "We are curious about your experiences on the island during this time. Why do you feel like you are on vacation there?"
"Do you really want to know?" Xiao Peng was eating an orange. The lobster wasn't cooked yet, so he briefly recounted how he got to the island, how he met the other people, and how his raft was stolen. "But to be honest, I'm really worried about them. I don't know if this raft, made with my humble craftsmanship, can hold up until they're rescued!"
"It would be better if they died!"
Xiao Peng looked at Mrs. Derrida in amazement. He thought this was a comment made by Mr. Derrida, but he didn't expect that it was Mrs. Derrida who said this.
You know, Mrs. Derrida is German!
The Germans used to be known as "nice guys." Because of World War II, Germany, for the sake of its international image, is incredibly cautious, remaining silent on issues and instead claiming to be "anti-war" or "peace-loving." In fact, before 2013, Germany opposed accepting refugees. This led to widespread protests, with countless "white leftists" and "sanctimonious bitches" taking to the streets to protest and demand that the German government accept an unlimited number of refugees. This incident caused a huge uproar, and the German government was forced to give in and open the door to refugees, leading to the current situation in Germany.
This is understandable. After all, everyone wants to be a good person and have a good reputation, but there's a price to pay for that. Take Xiao Peng, for example. He's made serious contributions to the National Deep-sea Submersible Base; he's broadcasting live broadcasts to promote marine knowledge; not to mention the vast number of national treasures he's brought back from his home country and abroad. So, no matter how headstrong or irascible Xiao Peng may be, everyone gives him a thumbs-up when he mentions his accomplishments.
But Xiao Peng paid a price for doing this. Take his livestreaming, for example. How much money does he have to lose for each one? And as he said, the rich fear fame the most. Has Xiao Peng's livestreaming caused him enough trouble? And not to mention the foreign national treasures he brought back. Last time, Turkey sent people directly to kill him...
Because being a good person and gaining a good reputation comes at a price, some people have come up with a clever trick: they use the moral high ground to criticize others, holding others to the standards of saints and themselves to the standards of ordinary people. "You don't agree to accept refugees? You're cold-blooded, you're indifferent to danger, you're completely inhumane!" These people are what's commonly known as "saintly bitches."
They understand: while accepting refugees is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive undertaking, the money is borne by the state, drawn from the taxes of ordinary people. To put it bluntly, these "sanctimonious bitches" only pay lip service to the call for refugee acceptance, while the real money comes from ordinary people. And then they gain a good reputation.
This is just like those "dog lovers" in China who keep calling on the government to spend money to set up stray dog rescue organizations. To put it bluntly, they just want others to pay money to satisfy their own purposes and gain a good reputation for themselves.
In 2013, a lot of people like this emerged in Germany.
Mrs. Derrida looked at Xiao Peng looking at her and snorted coldly: "Is there anything wrong with what I said?"
Xiao Peng said truthfully: "I think it should be Mr. Derrida who said this, and you would suggest that we go find those people and help them!"
"Help them?" Mrs. Derrida said angrily. "My damn nephew lives in Hesse! He was a guarantor!"
Xiao Peng was stunned after hearing this. When he heard the word "guarantor", he instantly understood the whole story.
In 2013, a "sanctimonious bitch" caused a big stir in Germany, and the final result was that the country was open to accepting refugees, but this opening was not unconditional: except for Bavaria, the other fifteen of Germany's sixteen federal states required refugees to act as guarantors for refugees and provide financial guarantees for refugees for at least three years, including air tickets, visas, living expenses and other expenses.
At that time, those sanctimonious bitches signed all kinds of documents, thinking that it was just a procedure for accepting refugees. Many Germans were "kind-hearted" and signed guarantees for Syrian refugees. The most signed guarantees were for 33 refugee families!
But in 2016, the German government began to ask those Germans who had acted as guarantors for refugees to pay money. It has been three years. Since you have acted as guarantors, you should pay!
Since then, the German government has begun to settle accounts with many Germans who pretended to be good people and joined the movement. They were forced to pay the refugee expenses by the German courts because they could not afford them. Some people even went bankrupt because of this.
The problem is that even if you have the money to pay, you can’t do it, because this money has to be paid for a lifetime - it is calculated every three years!
So after 2016, no German talked about helping refugees anymore, for fear of being caught and forced to be a "guarantor."
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