Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 12 Abnormal weather and leak detection

Most of the Golden State, located in the southern part of the federal west coast, has only two seasons, the dry season and the wet season. Most of the southern part of the federal government has a tropical desert climate. Not to mention the environment in arid areas inland, several people will die from the heat every year.

It's all news.

Fortunately, due to the Golden State Current, cities on the southern coast like Los Angeles are better off. They have a Mediterranean climate, with wet winters and dry summers. In previous years, the highest temperature is about 32 degrees Celsius, and the climate is fairly mild throughout the year.

But that refers to the past. In recent years, especially the two years since the beginning of the millennium, the climate in the Golden State or the entire White Eagle Federation, including the east and west coasts, has begun to become abnormal.

Compared with the severe cold snowstorms that frequently break out in the central and eastern and northern states in winter, the southern part of the White Eagle Federation, especially the desert areas, experienced unprecedented high temperatures in the summer since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Last year, some areas actually exceeded 122 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 degrees Celsius.

The deathly high temperature, and the surface temperature can easily fry an egg completely in three minutes.

Therefore, in the past two years, the summer in Jinzhou has been much hotter than in previous years. High temperatures of 37 or 8 degrees Celsius are common in midsummer, and the highest temperature can even exceed 40 degrees Celsius. In the past two years, high temperatures have caused

Went through several wildfires.

"How come this damn weather is almost the same as it was 20 years ago or so when I traveled back in time?"

Xie Zihao muttered to himself that the weather in the world where he traveled had been abnormal for two years. High temperatures occurred frequently in summer, and snowfall was sparse or snowstorms broke out in winter. Occasionally, there would be hail disasters in the Jiangnan area in May and June. It was obviously caused by the climate.

Extraordinary times.

It's still early summer and hasn't reached its peak yet. Even so, the outdoor temperature is still around 32 to 30 degrees Celsius, which is about the same as in previous years during the hottest periods of the dry season.

You can imagine how people feel in such an environment, especially those old black men. Their well-developed sweat glands make their own smell so strong that even if you sprinkle three bottles of perfume on them, you can't cover it up. Mixed with the smell of the perfume itself,

It is almost as terrifying as being able to stand three meters against the wind and float a hundred steps downwind.

Not to mention people like Xie Zihao who are a little mystical, even ordinary people who come here will inevitably be unable to stand this kind of environment.

"I really envy the magic of the head soaking spell in magic novels. It's perfect to use it at this time to isolate the smell from the outside!"

Fortunately, he was not unprepared. Under the cover of the stimulating smell of cooling oil, and the crowd at the moment were mostly tourists from out of town, it was not too crowded, so he could barely endure the discomfort and swept past the stalls one by one, but most of them

None of them caught his attention.

The most common flea markets are stalls selling second-hand clothes, electrical appliances, furniture and other daily necessities. In fact, larger flea markets usually have many art dealers or merchants from antique shops setting up stalls, especially the Chinatown Flea Market.

A place mainly targeted at foreign tourists.

In addition, merchants who specialize in various second-hand shops, as well as surrounding residents, also sell items that are not used at home, as well as snacks and drinks, which results in a flea market that sells basically everything.

As for why people from those shops come to set up stalls, one is to increase sales, and the other is that goods are easier to sell quickly in the atmosphere here. Sometimes goods that cannot be sold for five pounds in the store are sold in the store.

However, the flea market stalls can sell them for as high as eight pounds or even ten pounds, and the other party thinks they are getting a bargain.

This is the charm of flea markets. Ordinary people may not mention it, but there has always been gossip in the Federation that rich and famous people also like to visit flea markets.

Most of those rich people do it not to save money, but to have fun.

The flea market in Chinatown also has some local characteristics compared to other areas, that is, there are many products related to Chinese culture. These are relatively popular abroad. There are many people who are hostile to the big Eastern countries, but they are not

Influence them to like objects of Eastern culture.

Of course, Xie Zihao is not Chu Ge’s first time here. A quick glance will tell you that many things here are meant to fool foreigners. When choosing, you need to be careful and have a certain level of understanding of Tang culture.

Otherwise, just wait to be tricked!

Xie Zihao has no such worries, because even though his face looks exactly like the young version of Keanu in his previous life, that is because the mother in this body is of mixed Chinese and Eastern European immigrants, but in his bones, no matter which identity he is, he is a real person.

Real Chinese people.

In addition, he is not interested in those ordinary commodities, but focuses on antiques, calligraphy, paintings and other works of art. There are many people like him in the crowd, and they basically have a pick-up mentality.

Come.

There are insiders like Xie Zihao who are professionals, and there are also many interested laymen.

What the stall owners like most are laymen who have a little knowledge. Compared with professionals, their level can be said to be lower. Compared with pure laymen, they can give some insights. A typical bottle of water is less than half a bottle.

If you are still addicted to food, who will you cheat if you don’t cheat them?

It's a pity that although Xie Zihao looks young and fresh, his professional quality is not low. He doesn't even look at things that look fake at first glance, and he is cautious about things that look real but he can't be sure of.

Choose to give up.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to try and see if he can catch the leak, it’s just that his shriveled wallet doesn’t allow him to do such an uncertain thing!

Half an hour later, Xie Zihao visited most of the stalls in the market. He thought that he might not gain anything today, and finally found something he was interested in at an antique art stall.

This is a small spherical object made of silver. Xie Zihao, who has relatively rich relevant knowledge, recognized the use of this object at a glance. And it is exactly what he needs now.

The stall owner sitting under the umbrella of the stall is not a Chinese, but a Latino mixed-race young man wearing a cowboy hat. This is a very common group of people in the southwest of the country. The stall owner looks like he is in his mid-twenties, and of course he is similar to the stall owner.

Looking at an Asian, sometimes it is difficult to judge the real age of a Latina based on his appearance alone.

"How much?" Xie Zihao asked the price coldly, without showing too much enthusiasm.

When he saw someone asking about the price, the Latin stall owner immediately smiled with a row of teeth and greeted warmly in a dialect with a retroflex accent.

"Man, you are really discerning. This is aristocratic silver jewelry from the 18th century. It only costs one hundred and twenty pounds, and you can take it home and collect it..."

Xie Zihao ignored the stall owner's exaggerated introduction and directly uttered two words:

"Eight pounds!"

The Latin guy who looked like a hawker suddenly choked and realized that the man in front of him did not look like a novice, but he immediately waved his hands in an exaggerated way and said:

"Hey man, this is an antique. You know antiques, right? It costs at least a hundred pounds..."

After several rounds of haggling, when Xie Zihao reduced the price to thirty pounds, the already hot Latin boy was sweating and refused to let go of the price.

Xie Zihao also roughly knew the other party's bottom line, imitating the bargaining methods of the aunts he had seen in his previous life, calmly tightened the box on his back, turned around to leave with something in hand, and finally made a bid:

"Twenty-eight pounds, that's the most I can afford. If it doesn't work, I'll go to other stalls and look."

The stall owner looked hesitant and looked at Xie Zihao turning around to leave. Finally, he stretched out his hand and called out to Xie Zihao in a complaisant manner.

"etc!"

Sure enough, the method doesn’t need to be new, it just works. Xie Zihao secretly laughed in his heart.

"OK, OK, I'll sell it to you at a loss. Who told you to know the goods!"

With the stall owner's expression of "I lose money, you gain money", the two people quickly reached a deal, both looking like they were afraid that the other party would regret it.

"Hey man, I'm not making any money from this business. I'm Santos, from Santiago in the south. You can also call me by my nickname, Golden Tooth Santos. I have new things here every time. You must go to the flea market next time.

Come take care of my business!"

As he said this, the man smiled and showed Xie Zihao a gold tooth set on one side of the canine.

Golden Teeth Santos? Xie Zihao nodded and said he remembered it. As for not making money or something, wasn't that a common saying used by Dongguo bosses in previous lives?

It cannot be taken seriously.

Sure enough, after the Latin boy waited for Xie Zihao to leave, the guy immediately changed his face and almost burst out laughing while counting the bills in his hand.

"I've earned it, I've earned it..."

besides

(End of chapter)