tenth year of teaching

Chapter 247 Johannesburg 2
Beauty and embarrassment are both experiences, unbearable and unexpected are stories.

The car was speeding on the empty road late at night. Shitou, who finally became energetic after seeing his father, kept talking to his father, but Chu Xia was so tired that he just wanted to sleep.

South Africa and China belong to different hemispheres. It is hot summer in China, but winter has entered here.The air conditioner was on, and there was a faint mist on the car window. She rolled the window down a little, and the cold air blew in.Mu Ran's mind began to feel a little happier.

"Shut it up, don't let your son catch a cold." Da Bei is careful, and he pays more attention when raising the child than Chu Xia.

Chu Xia closed the car window and Dabei glanced sideways: "If you're sleepy, just take a nap. It'll still take a few hours."

"Yeah." Chu Xia squinted drowsily, holding her son's clothes tightly with one hand. Unlike her own car in China, there was no child seat in the back seat.Little Shitou was standing in the gap in the middle with great interest, talking endlessly to his father.

The business of Dabei Company in South Africa is mainly in Johannesburg. There are about ten people who are resident in Canada for business trips, and the rest are local employees.Therefore, I directly rented a building with four floors plus a basement to live in, and Dabei lived in a separate bedroom on the top.

Because we arrived late at night, everyone went upstairs quietly and took the time to wash up and rest.Early the next morning, Dabei had breakfast and went to work. The two of them slept until about three o'clock in the morning, which relieved them a little from the fatigue of the journey.

The single-family building is in the last row of the entire community. After dinner, the two of them walked around the community. There are five rows in front and back, with eight buildings in each row.The entire courtyard is surrounded by high walls covered with electrified barbed wire.There are armed guards at the gate, and residents who drive back must be verified.

Outside the courtyard wall is a one-way road. Looking out from the balcony on the fourth floor, there is a villa area across the road, and in the distance there is a gas station and a supermarket.There is also a single-family residence in the south of the community, and next to them is a local black family.There is a house with white walls and red tiles built in a courtyard of about [-] to [-] square meters. There is also an independent swimming pool in the large yard.

"Those like this should be the local black people who are relatively rich and have status. Since the overthrow of the white government, some black people have seized power and made money, but they are not very good at running the country. Therefore, South Africa's economy is not developing as before. It's ready." An old voice came from behind.

Chu Xia looked back and saw an older man opening the balcony window and walking out.

"Call Grandpa." Chu Xia pulled her son to greet him.

"Hey, do you want to play with my brother?" The old man knelt down and said to Shi Shi kindly.

The elderly couple are also BJ people, and they came here for vacation with their daughter. The daughter is the top leader of the company here, Dabei's direct boss and CEO, and is also responsible for the side business of the winery.

The CEO is divorced, single with a child, and graduated with a Ph.D.I have been busy with my career, so I leave my children to my parents at home.I also took advantage of the summer vacation to live with my mother for a while.

During dinner in the evening, everyone gathered together, and only then did Chu Xia see the CEO.I thought it was a capable middle-aged woman, but I accidentally saw an unkempt woman with a big belly.

Chu Xia opened her mouth wide, a little surprised.He immediately straightened up his expression and coaxed the child.After returning to the house, Dabei explained: "I got together with a married man who came to our company last year. The child will be born soon. They just got divorced. The main reason is that the wife there also just gave birth." Not long after [-], I basically cleaned up and left the house. I just got the certificate here and am planning to have a wedding after giving birth. "

"So, what about the man?"

“When I went back to China to go through the formalities, I never came back, and now no one can find me.”

"my God?"

Dabei glanced at her cautiously, "Life abroad is lonely. Everyone is busy with work, and the circle is only so small. Sometimes I don't know where to find some outlets."

"Oh!" Chu Xia realized that she was explaining to herself.

In fact, she is not unaware of Dabei's hard work outside. In addition to the hard work of staying up late and running around, she also has to bear a lot of dangers.In fact, most of the companies in Joburg now are in the new town, and they now live in the new town. The old-fashioned buildings and bustling streets are actually in the old town, but few foreigners live there anymore.Even if there are special circumstances where it is necessary to pass through the old city, most people will take a detour on the outer elevated highway instead of passing through the city center.

Too many poor people have turned the old city into a criminal center of robbery and theft, and South Africa's glory is fading little by little.However, as the earliest developing country on the South African continent, it still retains its remaining splendor and strength.

Because Dabei is busy at work, he is basically at the company during the day, and there are chefs cooking in the morning, noon and evening.We eat in the rented land in the morning and evening, and the chef will deliver meals at noon.

Because the public security is not very good, two families only walk around the community every day, sometimes in the afternoon and sometimes in early summer.If there are elderly people with us, they will walk farther along the road to the foot of the mountain. There will be a river. Although the water is not clear, the yellow woods and gurgling streams in winter are also a unique scenery.

There are sidewalks for bicycles and pedestrians on both sides of the creek. On winter afternoons, the woods are occasionally dotted with sunshine.The sky in South Africa is exceptionally blue, in sharp contrast to the gray skies in China every day.Walking upstream along the creek, there are wooden bridges, various brightly colored birds, and occasionally one or two monkeys or squirrels.

Walking back along the path on the west side of the villa area, you will pass through a small square. In the middle of the grass that is still green in winter, there may be one or two earth bags higher than the stones, and the little things will jump on the wooden sticks to poke them.After a while, you will find a small group of small dirt bags, and little things will step on them and try to fill them up.

The old man looked at it and smiled, and kept saying: "Don't use force, be careful of ants coming out to seek revenge on you!"

"The gopher will be unhappy because you blocked his door."

"Don't get too close to the river, be careful not to fall."

Little Shitou usually blinked his eyes, watched the old man come back, took his mother's hand, and walked for two minutes.After a while, he would put it aside again, "Brother, come here, there is something strange here."

An oval-shaped object about the size of a palm, entangled with dry grass threads, fell under the tree.

"This is a bird's nest, look at it." Brother raised his hand and pointed.

The branches are covered with such grass nests, and there is a small hole underneath for birds to fly in and out.All kinds of strange things attract the curiosity of Xiao Shitou, and the two often discover new things in the fields.

There are black birds walking around on the wall, with long legs and proud heads.There are also red grasshoppers jumping among the grass, and green berries that can ooze white liquid.In addition, all kinds of brightly colored flowers, trees and plants, as well as the big dogs and puppies in the villa area, are all the objects of interest to Xiao Shitou.

Of course, the most interesting thing is to go to the supermarket, where you can find all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables, snacks and breads, etc.The must-buy items every time are salmon and a large bag of potato pancakes of various shapes. When I get back, I ask the chef uncle to fry them and eat them with tomato sauce.

(End of this chapter)