Chapter 2247: Late Autumn in Golden City (XI)

Chapter 2221 Late Autumn in Jincheng (XI)

Clark was looking at hats. He saw a pile of Mexican-style hats on a small stall near the east gate. They were colorful and very eye-catching.

In addition to him, there were a lot of tourists gathered in front of the stall. A brown-skinned Mexican boy held a hat tower more than two meters high in one hand and waved his other hand, introducing them with saliva flying.

Lex touched Clark with his elbow and said, "You didn't buy a hat when you went to Mexico, why do you want to buy one now?"

Unexpectedly, Clark shook his head and said, "There is no Mexican style in the countryside of Mexico. In fact, there are not many in the towns. Except for the souvenir shops in big cities that are specially for tourists, there are few such colorful places.

Lex was silent. Clark looked at the tall tower of colorful hats and said, "There are large tracts of deserts and Gobi there, as well as rivers, lakes and tropical rainforests. There are cowboy towns commonly seen in western movies, and there are also dry stone towns. It is a very beautiful country."

"Is the countryside also good? ”

“In ordinary rural areas, if you must say, the lifestyle is very primitive.” Clark shrugged and said, “In fact, life in rural areas is much better than in urban slums, because they can get nutrients from nature. Although it is hard, they can still survive, but they are not developed.”

“Is your family like this too?”

Clark laughed easily and said, “There are no real farmers in the United States. The Kent family is a farmer. We have a large area of ​​farmland and ranch and various facilities, two warehouses of large agricultural machinery, and we hire hundreds of helpers every year.”

“Similar to a small company?”

“Almost, but we don’t have shareholders. Decisions are basically made by family discussions or professional advice.”

“The most primitive form of company.”

When they got here, the line finally came to them. Clark looked at the Mexican guy holding the hat, and more importantly, listened carefully to his English accent, so he went up and said, “Hello, can you give us a hat with an eagle pattern? Maybe another one with a cactus flower? "

Lex heard that he was speaking Spanish, and it was very Mexican Spanish, with some exclusive words in Nahuatl, and he sounded like an authentic Mexican.

The Mexican guy was stunned. He hurriedly put down his hat, stepped forward and gave Clark a big hug, and said in the same native Spanish: "My God, are you from Guadalajara? My parents are from a small town near Mexico City, and my grandmother is from Moncheng. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, but I'm an American, but I lived in Guadalajara for a while, and the farmland there is beautiful."

"From the way you choose gifts, I can see that you must know our culture very well." The Mexican guy smiled brightly, gave him a thumbs up, and then began to search through a pile of hats.

"Tourists often like simple colored stripes or things related to Mayan civilization. I'm not saying they are bad, but if you want to talk about Mexican characteristics, men must be eagles, and women are flowers, among which cactus flowers are the best, and we all love them. "Yes, I want to give it to my male friend and my girlfriend, her name is Louise, she is a journalist." "Then I'll give you this and this." The guy handed over two hats, then raised a finger to signal Clark to wait, and then took out two other hats from the bottom and said. "This is my best treasure, see? The Moon and Sun Pyramids, the surrounding patterns are murals in them, the Aztecs believed that the moon represents women and the sun represents men, when they are put together, they shape stones, sand and oases." The Mexican guy held the hat with one hand and introduced it with the other hand. "This is great." Clark exclaimed. He decided to buy four hats, but in the end the Mexican guy only charged for two hats. He shrugged and said, "I can hear that your accent is very local, even more local than mine, and sounds like a rural person. ”

“The senior Americans in the agricultural product companies won’t learn such an accent. I guess you may be a rural teacher or doctor. Only those who deal with villagers every day can learn so many indigenous words.”

“Anyway, thank you, big guy, even if it’s just for you and me to speak this language, it’s better than I thought.”

Clark said goodbye to the Mexican boy with a smile, and then put the eagle hat on Lex’s head. After hesitating for a while, he said, “I think Louise will be more interested in the pyramid hat. We can each have one. Then the cactus flower doesn’t seem very suitable. Who should I give it to?”

“Maybe you can keep it for yourself. This is not Mexico. No one will have an objection to you wearing a hat with a female pattern.”

Clark was hesitating, but found that his mobile phone rang. After he answered the call, he showed a look of surprise in a short while, and then began to look around.

"Oh my god, you are here too, where are you? I didn't see you, I'm at a restaurant called Shaji Tea Room... Oh! I saw you!"

Clark grabbed his phone and ran in one direction, Lex followed him, and then he saw a tall woman waving here.

"God, Diana, why are you here too?"

Diana smiled at Clark and said, "I came for the music festival, and I guess you are too."

"I just didn't expect you to be interested in this type of music festival." Clark joked, "You look like someone who goes to the theater every weekend."

"I am, human music is one of the few art forms I appreciate, and the others are still a bit too advanced for a demigod. In fact, I also like avant-garde music, especially the well-known avant-garde art group Buxter on the West Coast. The hummingbird they performed at the Metropolitan Opera last time left me wanting more."

Clark immediately stuffed the hat into her arms and said, "I bought it specifically for you, ma'am, by the way, what are you doing here What? "

Diana looked at the hat in her hand and said, "Before I came to Gotham, I was invited to a dinner party held here, but after I came here, I found that the specifications of this dinner party might be higher than I thought, and I couldn't wear my ordinary dress. "

"To show respect and for status considerations, I need to wear the formal clothes of the Amazon princess, but I lack some suitable accessories. I heard that there is a Paradise Amazon store here, and I plan to take a look. "

Clark knew that Paradise Amazon was the official brand launched by the country of Amazon. It was divided into several sub-brands, including souvenirs, sports equipment, outdoor equipment, and even cosmetics and jewelry. After decades of evolution, it has been sold all over the world and is considered a well-known foreign brand in the United States.

Then they walked towards the store together, which was very eye-catching because it was probably the largest store in the entire market.

"We have always wanted to open a store in Gotham, but for some reason, you know, several attempts have failed. We were about to give up, but this time we were invited by the mayor. Under my guarantee, the royal family decided to try it one last time."

"In fact, this is just a test product." Diana said at the door of the Paradise Amazon store: "If the effect is good, we will open a whole shopping mall here and open a tourist route directly to the Gotham Pier."

"Most brands here are like this." Lex said: "When Gotham opened up to investment, most people were skeptical. They were worried that this terrible city would repeat the same mistakes, but they really couldn't give up the business map of a megacity, so they decided to test the water first."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the stores here will get good returns with the craze of the music festival, which can give confidence to foreign investors, so Roy wants to make this event so big."

They began to enter the store to choose. Many brand routes of the Paradise Amazon brand were concentrated in a small area. It didn't seem very crowded. It was just because there were too many tourists that they seemed to be pushed forward.

Diana apologized, but Lex suggested that Diana accompany them to the fashion store later. The princess's suggestion would be very useful because it was obvious that she was also an old-fashioned person.

Diana picked a pair of arm rings as quickly as possible because there were too many people here, and her tall figure and outstanding appearance had attracted attention. The crowd was talking and speculating whether she was the famous princess.

They had to squeeze out of the crowd like fish passing through dense corals, shaking their heads and tails, and witnessed the dispute between Bruce and Selena next to the gate.

To be precise, Selena wanted to pull Bruce out, but Bruce refused to do it.

About ten minutes ago, they finished their drinks, and Selena wanted to walk on the pier. By the way, it was 11 o'clock in the morning, the sun was hanging high above the head, and looking out along the gate, the crowd was all gathered under the parasols placed in the pier square.

Until the moment Bruce stepped out of the door, he had not realized the seriousness of the problem, until he took a step and felt like he jumped into the magma of hell.

Bruce shrank back in a flash and looked outside with a shocked look.

The scene outside was indeed different from the Gotham he knew. Under the scorching sun in the morning, everything outside was made of glass, or it could be said to be sparkling crystals. In short, the outline was very blurred, and the light was reflected everywhere, which made people unable to open their eyes.

The sea is of course usually dark blue, and a little green can be seen near the beach on the easternmost side of the pier, but now it has almost turned into emerald green.

The number of chemical components contained in the sea water in Gotham can be fried in a chemical periodic table, which means that they don’t even need to artificially release seawater purification agents to have a perfect glass sea. This is almost impossible to appear in the east coast of the United States, but it did appear.

This also means that the ultraviolet rays here will not spare any child who does not take good sun protection measures, just like a tropical island. Bruce is unfamiliar with the scene in front of him, but his skin tells him that any white person will become a redneck one day. Others were in the past, but he is today.

"Listen, I won't go out." Bruce leaned against the iron sheet next to the gate and said, "The environment outside is not suitable for any human to survive. I will stay here until the sun sets."

Selena put one hand on her waist and raised her hat with the other hand and said, "Who said that we should make up for the sun that we didn't get in the past 20 years?"

"That's not the sun." Bruce refused to admit it. He said, "The sun shouldn't be like this, absolutely not."

"Then you must have some misunderstanding about the sun."