Chapter 801: 800. Lightning Ridge (4/5)

Chapter 801: 800. Lightning Ridge (45)

Toyota overbearingly left such a sentence, and then walked away.

Seeing this scene, Li Du couldn't laugh or cry: "What's the matter, we were warned before we even entered the gate of the town?"

Brother Wolf was about to step on the accelerator and asked, "Catch up with them and teach them a lesson?"

Li Du waved his hands and said, "No, there's no need, let's go our way and go to the town first."

Because of years of gemstone mining experience, the town of Lightning Ridge has been built very well, and some buildings in it are very famous in Australia.

Li Du didn't know how the people in the car judged that he was here to look for gems. There were also many tourists visiting Lightning Ridge. There were many public waste ores in the town, and tourists could search for treasures at will.

There are black opals in these waste ores, but finding them is a matter of good luck, and it is much harder to harvest here than in the national parks.

It was already afternoon, so Li Du found a hotel. After checking in, the group went in and had a rest first.

Seeing that Li Du brought his pets, the boss wanted to refuse, but the expressionless Brother Wolf and the sturdy and burly Godzilla walked in. Seeing this, he could only shrug his shoulders to express his helplessness.

Sophie took out 100 yuan and handed it to the boss with great interest, and said, "This is the accommodation fee for our pets. If there is pollution, we will pay multiple times."

Originally, this was just a polite remark, but Ah Miao Sanxiao is very smart and well-behaved. They all know how to use the toilet to go to the toilet, and even press the flush button after using the toilet.

But now they have an extra Ali. Ali doesn't have such an IQ, and he is still very small and can't control his defecation. After entering the room, he immediately pooped on the floor.

This made Ah Miao Sanxiao very dissatisfied, they still love to be clean.

Ah Meow patted Ah Ao, and Ah Ao, as the younger brother, immediately rushed up and gave Ali a paw, grinning his teeth to scare him: "Aww! Aww!"

Ali was so frightened that he put his legs aside and squatted on the floor. In this way, there was another bubble of water on the floor.

When Li Du came out and saw it, he felt sorry for Ah Ao, picked up Ali, wiped his buttocks, put him on a chair, and said, "Honey, I have to buy Ali a cage."

Sophie poked her head out of the bathroom and said, "Why? It just lacks training. Ah Meow, Ah Ao, and Gan Crispy Mian have never lived in a cage."

Li Du wondered to himself, can this be the same? All three of them have been transformed by little flying insects. They are all monkey spirits and smart monkeys, with higher IQs than children, so of course there is no need to put them in a cage.

He went to bed and took a nap, and when he woke up, he heard Sophie say, "I have to buy a cage for it."

There were puddles of urine or poop on the floor, and Ali looked at them with big innocent eyes as usual.

It was nightfall at this time, Li Du took a group of people out for dinner, and inquired about the local situation by the way.

Australia has a vast territory and is rich in ingredients, but there are not many types of dishes. Li Du has been here for a while, but apart from seafood, he doesn't eat much other seafood.

But if you like to eat meat such as steak and lamb chops, you will be happy in Australia, where the price of steaks is low and the meat quality is good.

If you are not picky about the meat, you can eat all you can eat meat in Australia even if you don’t spend money.

There are seafood to eat along the coast and on the islands, but inland like Lightning Ridge, there is not much seafood.

Li Du and others went to the street and saw many restaurants on both sides of the road, most of which were steaks and the like.

Sophie chose a teppanyaki steak restaurant. The reason why she chose this restaurant was because his store was small and quiet. Li Du and his party were full when they entered. Tip the boss more, and they can bring pets in.

There is nothing to be picky about in the small shop. Li Du chose some steaks and asked the boss to grill them.

The boss is a strong caucasian man in his fifties. He has a lame leg. He walks slowly and has a slow personality.

He brought pre-dinner red wine for everyone, and then saw Ali hiding in Sophie's handbag, and asked strangely, "Are you from the zoo or the circus?"

Li Du smiled and said, "I understand what you mean, but we are just ordinary people, and this is our pet."

The boss shrugged and said, "Kangaroos as pets? Honestly, that's pretty creative."

After the wine was served, he prepared barbecue steaks in the kitchen. The kitchen of the small restaurant was next to the hall, and Li Du and others could see the whole scene in the kitchen when they turned their heads.

The boss took two thick steaks and put them on the iron plate rolled with butter, and put some fat oysters on the other side of the iron plate.

He grabbed a handful of salt and pepper, sprinkled it on the steak and oysters, grilled for a while and poured some white wine, just like making a burger, with oysters in the middle of two steaks.

The boss moved very slowly, and the speed of serving food was also slow. In order to avoid causing dissatisfaction with Li Du and others, he took the initiative to chat: "Are you here to play? Tourists?"

Li Du said: "That's right, do you have any recommendations?"

The boss pointed to the northwest and said, "I have some recommendations. You can go to the Opal Museum over there tomorrow, which is on Madman Mountain."

Then, instead of introducing the Opal Museum, he introduced them to Madman Mountain, which is a local legend.

About thirty years ago, a miner came to the town looking for black opal.

However, he did not follow the experience of his predecessors. He did not choose to dig holes at the foot of the hills to find gems, but to mine at the top of the hillside. He was ridiculed as a lunatic.

Because of the formation of opal, it is almost impossible to store gemstones on the top of the mountain. They are generally in low-lying places or underground.

However, after a lot of hard work, the miner successfully mined the highest quality opal at that time, and bought the hill and named it Madman Mountain.

Crazy Mountain has produced many high-quality black opals, but now they have been hollowed out. After there were no gem resources in them, the boss sold them to the government, and the town government transformed it into a very modern opal museum.

"In addition, there are two interesting castles. There is a single prince castle at the end of the town. You can go and see it. The single prince is a ruthless character, and he is also a role model for our miners."

The boss baked the first batch of steaks and brought them up, and then introduced the bachelor prince.

Just like miners in other industries, the life of black opal miners is hard. Many people set up many dreams for themselves in order to survive.

Some dreams are unrealistic, but the miners are trying to put them into practice.

The Castle of the Single Prince is one of the representative works. The boss said: "It is a real castle. The Single Prince spent more than 40 years building it by himself."

"Believe me, he brought back a big stone from the mine every day, and built this castle day after day, year after year, as a gift for his future wife."

"The results of it?"

The boss laughed: "The result? Haha."