Togo, an African country, is really full of so many unknown things that if it were not for his own experience, he would not have been able to fulfill his lifelong wish for the local people in this life. During the four days I came to Togo, there were really many well-wishers, and the next day I experienced the locals taking me to catch bats and dance voodoo dance. I thought this was the end of the experience, but the kind locals did not disappoint me at all.
The second day in Togo was my unforgettable experience in Africa, everything here was new to me. The traditional culture here made me interested in Togo.
These were my first experiences and the rare experiences I had risked in Togo and will last a lifetime. When I returned to the boat at the end of the second day, I was still wondering if I would have the opportunity to go back again. The worker's eldest brother has already delayed a day's work in order to take me to play, and if he delays other people's work again, it may lead to the other party's unemployment.
Early in the morning of the third day, I went to the deck hold, thinking of thanking the worker brother who took me to play yesterday. The eldest brother saw that I was coming to him again, and before I could speak, he directly told me that if I still wanted to go down and play, his friend could take me to the capital city of Lomé to play and experience the different lifestyles of the locals.
Listening to the words of the worker's eldest brother, it was really sweet to my heart, and it was exactly what I wanted. However, I came to thank the worker's eldest brother for playing with me for a day yesterday, smuggling two packs of cigarettes for him, stuffing them in his pockets, and paying him another $20 as his absenteeism yesterday.
The eldest brother was very happy, and the $20 was almost his month's salary. Yesterday, I heard him say that his monthly salary is only about 200 yuan.
After my eldest brother accepted the dollars I gave, he immediately put down his work and said that I should wait on the boat, and he went to call his friend and asked him to take me outside to play.
Half an hour later, the eldest brother actually brought his friend to the boat, and was embarrassed to tell me that he could not accompany me to play that day, otherwise the foreman would fire him, and he did not want to lose the job.
Listening to the words of the workers' big brother, the locals really cherish their jobs, they are too poor. As we all know, Togo is also one of the poorest countries in the world, with a large gap between the rich and the poor, and about 75 per cent of the ordinary people are farmers and poor people. These people live at the bottom of society, but if they have a job, as long as they can pay them a salary, they are willing to work.
After the worker's eldest brother explained the safety to his friend, he went to work. Led by a friend, I embarked on my third day of Togo, this time instead of going to the village, but to Lomé, the capital of Togo, to experience the interesting life of the locals.
Presumably the worker's eldest brother was sincere to me, he actually found me a friend who had studied for three months Chinese, his name is Fei Taihao, the name is very interesting, the key is his arrival, so that our communication is more convenient, by the way I also learned about the Confucius Institute in Togo from him.
This scene reminds me of two famous sayings: "Listening to a gentleman's words is better than reading a book for ten years; Read 10,000 books and travel thousands of miles. ”
Fei told me that Togolese people are very enthusiastic about learning Chinese, and although the locals all speak French, many people are very interested in Chinese, and as long as their family conditions allow, they will go to the Confucius Institute to sign up for study.
It seems that if you don't go abroad, you really don't know that foreigners are so keen to learn Chinese Chinese and Chinese culture.
It seems that Fei Taihao must be a hard worker, otherwise he would not have come into contact with Chinese.
Under the leadership of Fei Taihao, we walked to Lomé. Although the distance is very far, I don't feel tired at all. I didn't expect such a country as Africa to have such a good natural environment. Walking on the road, you can see all the green vegetation in the distance.
Thanks to Togo's special geographical location, the whole country, the south has a tropical rainforest climate and the north has a savannah climate. The whole country is a narrow continent, and Fei Taihao told me that as long as you have a motorcycle, you can travel the whole country in two hours.
It seems that the country is indeed not big, but the transportation is not so convenient.
Under the leadership of Fei Taihao, we followed the road all the way to Lomé, passing the mountain road and also passing the seaside, which was very interesting. There are really too many coconuts here, and the locals drink coconuts as water and coconut meat as rice.
If I were to say, the people who live here are really happy. No wonder the locals are lazy, and the natural natural conditions give them access to food without labor.
Yesterday I went to the house of the worker's eldest brother, they caught bats to eat if they wanted to eat meat, and Fei was even more so, and when he was hungry, he climbed a tree to pick coconuts to eat, and the country that can drink coconuts as water may only be Togo.
I told Fei that a coconut in our country also costs eight or nine yuan, and the taste is not good. He was so surprised that without saying a word, he climbed up to the tree and picked one for me. Helped me pry open a coconut with my bare hands. Africa is Africa, the coconut here is fragrant and sweet, and the locals are really good at eating.
Fei Taihao did not forget to tell me that if you like to eat, you will send me a free car another day when you are free. I didn't expect him to say that, after all, most Africans think that foreigners have money and must get money from foreigners.
Brother Fei Taihao did not say so, and told me very simply that he would send us a car to eat for free.
This is not yet the place to reflect the friendliness of the big brother. After we came to the street, my eldest brother did not disappoint me at all.
I followed my eldest brother and grabbed my phone to take some pictures. I think that the security of the capital city should be good, not worse than the security environment in the rural areas.
But what I didn't expect was that we just arrived on the street, before we took a few photos, my mobile phone was targeted, the two of us walked in the crowd, and after a while, a local person hit me hard, I subconsciously touched my pocket, and immediately found that the mobile phone was stolen by the person.
I quickly told my eldest brother that he chased after them, and I shouted while following them. People on the street looked at us, the thief ran fast, and Brother Fei didn't even want shoes in order to help me recover my mobile phone, and directly chased barefoot.
When the other party saw that the eldest brother caught up, it was estimated that he couldn't run away, and immediately threw the mobile phone on the floor. The well-wishers around, taking advantage of the thief's lack of attention, suddenly arrested him.
I was very touched by my eldest brother's actions, I didn't expect Africans to be so friendly to me. We had only known each other for the first day, and Ho De could have made him so sincere with me.
The friendliness of the eldest brother is not only reflected here, in our next shopping, his many actions made me think that this person is suitable for making friends.
At noon, we chose to eat some local food, which was also my first experience of the city's food. It didn't matter if the food was delicious or not, we ordered a potato and tomato delicacy, and my eldest brother rushed to pay me, saying that he wanted to invite me to eat.
I asked my boss for my eldest brother's money back, ready to pay it to him in my own dollars. But the boss laughed and said that he did not charge dollars, which made me embarrassed.
My eldest brother didn't hesitate to pay for me, took me to eat potatoes and tomatoes, and invited me to eat sugar cane juice on the street.
Here is sugarcane juice, a glass of 7 cents, with sugar cane, lemon, ginger juice in it. The taste is very interesting, and it is the first time I have eaten such a drink.
In order to protect my safety, my eldest brother offered to keep my mobile phone for me, he hoped that my journey would be unburdensome, and he hoped that I would experience a different Togolese city.
Unfortunately, this is the case in Togo in a tropical rainforest climate, when suddenly a heavy rain drenched us. The eldest brother was worried that I would not be able to adapt to such a climate, so he quickly took me to his home. He said his home was not far from the city and would take me home first to bake clothes so as not to catch a cold.
In the city after the rain, the air changed and mosquitoes in the forest were driven out. When I arrived at my eldest brother's house, my eldest brother was still worried that I would be bitten by mosquitoes and coated me with wind oil essence, which I did not expect at all. In Africa, we can also have our Chinese wind oil essence, I can be regarded as a long knowledge.
The eldest brother also specially talked about the origin of wind oil essence, saying that Chinese businessmen do business in the local area, and the eldest brother does things for the businessman, and the other party gives it to him.
During the drying of clothes at my eldest brother's house, I never saw his family appear, and his house was very dilapidated, even more rudimentary than the worker's house.
I didn't bother to ask my eldest brother's parents why they weren't there, but I just thought his family was very poor.
My eldest brother was worried that I would still be bitten by mosquitoes and cause me to be infected with malaria, so he decided to take me back to the boat first, and when I had time, he would take me to the local primitive tribe.
At half past three in the afternoon, we returned to the side of the boat. The eldest brother went home first to bake his clothes, and I changed into my work clothes, went to the cargo deck again, and found the worker brother.
Originally, I wanted to share with the worker's eldest brother to share what he saw and what he had encountered that day, but he didn't expect that the two of them would talk about Fei Taihao.
The worker's eldest brother told me that his friend he met ten years ago. Fei Taihao has always been very friendly, often sending him some delicious food, and often looking for him to go fishing in the sea.
The two of them chatted and talked about Fei Taihao's family, and I learned that Fei Taihao's parents never returned because they went fishing at sea, and there were younger siblings in the family, but because they had malaria and had no money for treatment, they eventually left him.
Now leaving the lonely Fei too good to live alone in a muddy house, he is strong, he is not decadent because of this, but faces life more actively and harder. He didn't want to die of malaria one day because he had no money for treatment, so he worked everywhere, as long as he could make money, no matter how hard and tired he was.
He is a man with pursuits and ambitions, in order to earn more money, he learned that as long as he Chinese learned, he could enter a Chinese company to work, and he began to save money to study.
The only regret is that I am old and still not married. Local girls disliked him for having no parents and no money at home.
The worker's eldest brother said that he had introduced Fei to a girl from a neighboring village, and this girl had been with him for half a year and liked Fei Taihao, but her parents disliked his family for being poor and having nothing.
The girl's parents asked Fei that if he wanted to marry his daughter, the man must have at least a motorcycle, otherwise he would not marry.
Buying a motorcycle is very difficult for ordinary people in Togo, with an income of 200 yuan a month, or not eating or drinking, it takes 3 years to buy it.
It seems that motorcycles in Togo are very expensive, and ordinary local people simply cannot afford them. Such conditions are an unattainable wish for Fei Taihao.
Over the years, Fei Taihao has been looking for opportunities to make more money, but the entire country's economy is simply impossible for him to realize this wish.
Very helpless, the girl couldn't wait for Fei to buy a motorcycle to marry her, and was introduced by her parents to marry someone else early. This matter hit Fei too hard, and he never had the heart to contact women again.
Today, he is still a person, and he is still working hard to find his other half.
Listening to the words of the worker's eldest brother, I was touched by Fei's good life.
He is a good person, a positive person, a person with pursuits and ideals.
I made up my mind on the spot to help him realize this wish, and tried to ask the worker brother about the location of the local motorcycle market and the price of motorcycles.
The worker's eldest brother learned that I wanted to fulfill my lifelong wish and complete a happy marriage. He offered to take me to Lomé to see the motorcycles, and suggested that I just need to buy him a second-hand motorcycle. He believes that new motorcycles are expensive on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are also vulnerable to thieves, but old motorcycles are not easy to lose.
After the two of them discussed, the worker's eldest brother asked me to wait for him to leave work, and he took me to see the city of Lomé.
At five o'clock that night, the worker's eldest brother left work and hurried to Lomé City at six o'clock. In the city, we looked at a new motorcycle shop and two used motorcycle shops, one of which was owned by us Chinese.
It feels very cordial to meet Chinese people abroad, and this Chinese big brother, like me, is from Fujian, he is a native of Putian, he has been doing business in the local country for eight years, and has been running a motorcycle business.
After a brief exchange with the Chinese brother, the Chinese brother learned that I wanted to buy a motorcycle for the locals, and also suggested that I buy a second-hand motorcycle, so that I would be less prone to thieves.
When the Chinese brother learned that I was doing good deeds, he also said that he would pick me a better second-hand motorcycle and sell me the lowest discount. I feel lucky that I came to Togo and met people who were nice and friendly.
The Chinese brother helped me help me with a second-hand motorcycle from India, tried the engine, thought it was very good, and sold it to me for 3600 yuan. He also did not forget to tell me that if the local people buy it, it will cost at least 5,000 yuan or more.
It seems that the Chinese eldest brother is very profitable in doing business in the local area, and I still have to thank him for giving me such a preferential price.
After paying, I went to the local gas station to fill up a tank of gas. Gasoline here is more expensive than our country, No. 95 gasoline, a liter costs 9.36 yuan. I was also worried that Fei was too good to refuel, and I planned to buy him another barrel.
The worker's eldest brother told me that there was no need to worry about this, and that locals would go to Benin, the next door country, where gasoline is cheap, only 5.6 yuan a liter.
In that case, let's drive the motorcycle to his house first.
I drive, big brother leads the way. The two men took advantage of dusk and walked the dirt road to his house.
He had already eaten dinner and was about to block the door of the house and go to sleep. It was a great pleasure to see us coming.
Run outside the house to meet us and ask if we have had dinner.
The worker's eldest brother hurried home and hurriedly told him that in order to help him fulfill his wish, I went to the market and bought a motorcycle as a gift for him.
Fei thought that he had heard it wrong, and once again, the whole person jumped. At that time, his expression was extremely excited, and he picked me up fiercely, and the two people accidentally fell to the ground fiercely, making me hurt and unable to scream.
He cried with excitement at that moment, and quickly apologized to me for throwing me pain.
Of course, my heart is gratified, and I hope that after he has a motorcycle, his life will be more satisfying from now on. I also hope that after he has a motorcycle, he will live harder, marry a satisfactory woman, and have a litter of children.
Of course, I also appreciated everything he had experienced in taking me to town that day, inviting me to eat and grabbing my phone for me.
Good day, Togo refreshed my memory again, the friendliness, warmth of the locals, made me remember it in my heart, and also thank them for their company and let me have a good experience in Togo.