Cuba, a country full of enjoyment and challenges, would not have dared to come forward and say that he knew Cuba if he had not been able to stay in this country for a while. This time, our ship came to Cuba to unload for a long time, and we were fortunate to make friends with the locals, so that our crew once again felt the enthusiasm and happiness of the locals, and no longer felt lonely. However, there are enjoyments and adventures, and I don't know if I don't know, Cuba, a socialist country, the local people look very happy and enthusiastic, in fact, how helpless they are in their hearts.
Ever since the captain learned that our ship was going to dock in Havana, Cuba for eleven days, I began to think silently about having a good time in Cuba. I hope to try to appreciate how unique and interesting the country under the socialist system is in the limited time.
Since a trip to the Cuban countryside, it has completely subverted my enthusiasm for the local people for the Chinese. I don't know if I don't know, but in fact, the people in rural Cuba are still very simple, even more simple than the people in the city. Ideologically, although they are all poor, the people in the rural areas do not have so many scheming, and the reception people are more attentive.
I was very impressed by Sarah's aunt. No, it should be Aunt Sarah's family who have impressed me. Such a monogamous family is a long-term acquaintance in Cuba, where I have heard of polygamy before, but I have never heard of polyandry in Cuba. This time I came to Cuba, I really met, and there are not many such families, but after I met them, I was also warmly entertained, let me witness the real life of others, and also let me appreciate the environment of rural Cuba, which is really beautiful.
Leaving Aunt Sara's family can be regarded as settling down the life of Sarah, the stumbling girl. My uncles sent me a kilometer away, and when I was leaving, Sara called out to me, "Friend, if you are still in Cuba, you will come to Cuba in the future, I hope you will come to my aunt's house often, and come to see me." ”
At the moment of parting, I was moved. My aunt filled me with a lot of coffee beans, and my husband filled me with a lot of cigars that he made himself, and he said to me, "Friend, I hope you don't take them out on the road for the locals to see." ”
I was curious about this sentence, but I didn't dare to ask more, and when I put it in my backpack, I always felt that I was carrying a heavy load, and I didn't dare to stop for a moment, worried that something would happen to the cigar.
Riding the motorcycle of the big brother of the dock security guard, one person, one car, walked through the cement road, also ran over the mud road, left the countryside, entered the city, accelerated all the way, and returned to the dock safely. I wanted to ask the security guard brother when I returned the car, but it was not right to think about it, so I held it in my heart, hoping that my colleagues could answer the secret for me when I returned to the ship.
Unfortunately, our crew did not know about such a thing, and the captain and chief engineer were the oldest, but they could not explain it. With this question in my mind all the time, I finally got the real answer when I set off again on the next trip to Havana, Cuba.
The moment I learned the answer, I deeply felt the helplessness of the life of the Cuban people, which is very similar to that of China in the seventies and eighties.
In order to keep my promise, I promised the entertainment hall owner that I would take my colleagues to his shop to relax. I haven't forgotten this incident, but I don't know how to tell you about it, after all, the captain has reminded everyone not to contact local female workers at will.
It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when I returned to the ship, and I couldn't find a chance to talk about it. It wasn't until the evening when the boat had dinner that the captain had a casual question, so I seized the opportunity to talk to the whole crew.
The captain asked me, "You're finally back, you really didn't come back to sleep on the ship last night, you're the only adventurous tourist crew member of all the crew I've ever met." Others are out to make money, you are out to travel, and you are so adventurous. ”
As soon as the captain had finished saying this, the crew, especially the boatswain, burst into laughter. I know why the boatswain laughed at me so much, and he was so excited because he was a crew member who enjoyed the beauty of all the worlds, and the captain was actually talking about me, and he was actually talking about him.
I took this opportunity to say to Shuitou, "Don't laugh, I still have good resources to share with you, the captain said this about you, so I asked if you want to go?" ”
When Shuitou heard me say this, he immediately became anxious and said, "Hurry up, you still have resources in this area, let's hear it." ”
For a while, the restaurant was quiet, and everyone wanted to hear what I was going to do. The captain present was naturally embarrassed and embarrassed to say anything, so I took this opportunity to say, "Don't expect too much, I see that some colleagues have already gone down yesterday, and they shouldn't be short of my resources." ”
The third engineer was very anxious, completely ignoring whether the captain was in the restaurant, and said to me directly, "You should introduce it quickly, I went down to sweep the air yesterday, and there was no decent place to look for it all over the street, and even if there was, I didn't dare to enter it easily, thinking that their hygiene was unreliable." ”
At this point, I said very clearly, "If you feel tired of running a boat, you can really go to the owner's shop." I had an experience in his store yesterday, and the whole person was much more comfortable, but there are some things that I need to say in advance, I just make an introduction, as for what package you want to choose, it is your own business, and you are responsible for yourself. ”
Cuba, a socialist country like ours, actually has relevant places, and as for whether it is formal or not, you can only know if you go there.
The owner of this shop is very nice and friendly, and from the fact that he was able to put Sara a yard, I thought that a boss like him would be a man.
In the restaurant, I couldn't be too explicit, so I pretended to eat quickly and quickly left the restaurant.
After dinner, my colleague Boatswain and the Third Engineer, bearing the brunt of the attack, came to my room and asked me, "Did you really go?" Is it reliable there? ”
I don't think I'm sorry for my boss, I'm sorry for my colleagues. At first, I chose to remain silent, not wanting to hurt my colleagues, but at about seven o'clock later, I saw Shuitou and the third engineer saying that they wanted to go together and go to the streets of Havana to shake off, and at that moment, I couldn't help but say, "Let's go, I'll take you there, I hope you can have a good experience." ”
In order to keep my promise, I felt like I had led my colleague into the pit. I have been engaged in sailing for more than ten years, and sailing is just a platform for traveling, I like adventure, I like to go to different places to see different societies and cultures, and experience different food and beauty.
That's right, I didn't delay for a moment, I cleaned up briefly, borrowed some money from the captain again, and took my colleagues to hail a car at the port gate.
Speaking from the heart, the people here speak some English, which I can accept, but if everyone only speaks Spanish, it will be very difficult to communicate. So when I got a taxi, I just said to the driver, "I want to go to the street, to go where men like to go." ”
The driver is probably a person who has been around the pier all year round, so he still knows the thoughts of our crew very well.
The driver smiled when I heard me say this. In order not to let the driver take us off, I kept an eye on the route along the way. About forty minutes later, I came to the familiar street. I saw that the driver had no intention of putting us down, so I quickly stopped him.
The driver was a little angry, probably because he didn't make my business. His expression already told me that he was introducing guests to a venue all year round.
The driver learned that we were going to get out of the car and made a point of saying that he wanted to increase the price, which made me very angry. I won't be less than the one person I should give, but if you want to blackmail me, don't think about getting more.
The driver is tough, I'm tougher than him. For a while, the two of us quarreled, and the local well-wishers saw and heard about it, and came around to help us fight the grievances.
To be honest, there are still many well-wishers in Cuba, and if everyone is not poor or blocked, this country is estimated to have already surpassed some developed countries.
Helplessly, it was blocked by people all year round at the door of people's homes, resulting in such a socialist country not being able to stand up. Then, the two things that are about to happen to us have to do with their system.
After disabling the relationship with the driver, I took my colleagues and looked for a familiar road, walked through the street, and entered the alley.
At that moment, I really didn't know the bottom in my heart. During the day, there are fewer people in this alley, and at night, this alley is only occasionally broken out of the mouse, which makes my colleagues a little scared.
As he walked, his colleague quipped, "You're not going to lead us astray, are you, why does it feel dangerous here?" ”
Actually, I also think it's dangerous, but I still firmly believe that this path is to go to the entertainment hall owner's shop.
After walking a few alleys, I finally came to the door of the store. The entrance of the store is still the same, there is an iron gate outside, and there is an iron gate inside.
I reached out and knocked on the door inside, and soon a man opened it for me. In the evening, business was probably very good, and the person who came to open the door was the owner of this shop.
The boss followed the dim light in the room and saw my familiar face, and immediately reacted and asked, "Yo, friend, you are the Chinese friend who came to my store yesterday to rescue that girl, right?" ”
"Yes, yes, it's me, I promised you that I would definitely bring my colleagues to your store to have fun, so while we are still in your country at this time, I helped you bring a group of people to your store to cheer, and I wish you a prosperous business in the store in the future." I said with a smile.
The owner was still very welcoming, whispering the door to welcome us to the beautiful entertainment hall in Cuba.
As soon as my colleague entered the room, he was choked by the smoky cigar smell in the room, and the boss smiled and said, "Haha, you must not have touched our cigars, come, I will take you to take a walk first, so that you can see our cigar making base." ”
At that moment, I thought I had misheard something and thought to myself, "Isn't that why I want to know this question?" ”
When I learned that the boss was going to take me to see the whole process of cigar production, I said yes, and said that it would be okay to come out later and experience another service in your store.
My colleagues didn't speak as well as I did, and many times they didn't fully understand what I said to my boss, so they had to follow me.
The boss took me and continued to walk into the alleys, and after passing through several alleys, I began to enter the house. The boss said to me, "Next, I will take you to the third and fourth floors of the basement, I hope you will follow me, don't take out your mobile phone to take pictures, if you really want to take pictures, please get my permission." ”
My colleague No. 3 Engineer probably heard the meaning, quickly pulled me out, and asked in a low voice, "Boss, where is this taking us?" How I feel dangerous. Is it dangerous for us to follow him like this? ”
The owner was kind enough to take us down, there is no elevator here. The further down I went, I could clearly smell the cigar getting stronger and stronger.
In fact, I was very curious, the owner of the first basement and the second floor did not take us in to see, but just took us all the way to the third floor.
Pushing open the door on the third floor, the smell of cigars came to my nose, and there were so many men and women busy in the room. Some people saw the boss come in with strangers and looked up at us, and some people were making cigars and didn't pay any attention to us.
Out of curiosity, I asked my boss, "Sir, is it necessary to rush to make cigars so late?" Aren't you a state-run store? Isn't it forbidden to work overtime at night in state-run stores? ”
The boss looked at the surroundings and whispered to me, "No, no, no, we are not a state-owned factory. If it's a state-run factory, you won't be able to get in here, and you won't even be able to buy cheap cigars in Cuba. ”
At that moment, I finally understood that this cigar factory was an underground black factory, and the reason why he wanted to build it in the basement was that he didn't want to be checked, and the boss in order to avoid everyone's attention, every time a guest came, he took the initiative to hand a cigar to the guest first, so that the people who came in would not suspect that this was a cigar production base, and at the same time, the boss was smart, and opened a place for men's entertainment on the first and second floors of the ground, so that people who came in could not only receive services, but also sell their products through this channel.
The boss's trick is really powerful, I explained and analyzed my own ideas and the third engineer, the third engineer listened to me say this, as if it meant so, and said to me, "That's right, the boss knows you, so he didn't take us to find a girlfriend immediately, but first took us to introduce his cigar underground factory, so that it can attract the attention of our men." In this way, if we are in need of cigars, we will buy some immediately. In this way, you can kill two birds with one stone and make two transactions. ”
Of course, I can understand why the boss didn't let us take pictures. You must know that in Cuba, the state is resolutely opposed to private production of cigars, and cigars and tobacco leaves must be purchased by the state and produced uniformly. This is one of the country's major cash crop industries, and it is also used exclusively for export.
The state does not allow ordinary people to produce cigars at will, so I understand that when Sarah's uncle-in-law brought me cigars, he hoped that I would not take them out and smoke them on the road, let alone be seen by the locals. If you are seen, you will either be reported or arrested.
The boss took me to the fourth basement floor, where the tobacco leaves were selected and the first step in making cigars. It seems that the first and second basement floors are doorways, which must be packaging production areas.
Out of curiosity, I asked my boss, "How many hours a day do you have to work and how much do you get paid at the end of the day?" ”
"Yo, the working hours are not fixed, some people don't go home, they lie on the floor to sleep when they are tired, and they continue to work when they wake up, they don't know what time it is outside, let alone how long they have been working. I gave them 50 Cuban pesos a day, and when they got the money, they knew that the day had passed. Look at these people, they have been working with me for more than half a year, and they have never stepped out of this factory, and I don't want these people to come and go at will, so as not to attract everyone's attention. ”
Hearing the boss say this, the work here is indeed "dark" enough. Working hours are not fixed, a salary of 50 pesos is about 12 yuan, and with such a low wage, the boss is a bit exploiting the workers. However, considering their normal income, this salary is not bad, it is close to the salary of a civil servant, so the workers will not leave easily.
Under the leadership of the boss, I visited the third and fourth floors, and sure enough, as I thought, he really took me to the basement level, where there are many cigars on display, some in boxes and some in bulk, and the price varies.
Although a few colleagues took it lightly, everyone was very good, especially because they felt that the price was low, so they bought some one after another. The performance of the colleagues made the boss very happy, and it can be regarded as achieving the boss's mental purpose.
We didn't lose money, this time my colleagues bought a lot, so after coming up to the upper work and living area, the boss personally ordered a few Cuban girls to take us into the house.
I was not in very good health, and because I didn't drink cabinda bark, I came out after a while. And my colleague, even if it was a full load, the third tube wheel made me wait for half an hour, and the boss finally saw the third tube wheel come out, before smiling and saying, "Thank you Chinese, welcome to come to me next time." ”
The owner smiled and saw us out of the gate and thanked us again. The mood of the colleagues was also beautiful, so they also said goodbye to the boss and left. I was relieved to see that every colleague was slow and safe to return to the ship today.
At that moment, I finally understood why the boss had told me that he knew a few Chinese businessmen, probably some Chinese businessmen who had been working with him all year round, if that was the case, could I consider asking the boss to introduce me to him, so that after returning to China, would it be easier to buy cigars? (To be continued) #头条首发大赛##长文创作激励计划##头条创作挑战赛#
The ship arrives in Cuba, the crew spends the night in rural Cuba with a woman, and the real feelings of what they see and hear are insightful