Chapter 744: Bottle forest

Oro Grande is actually extremely desolate, especially in this place called Helendel where Xiao Peng and the others are located.
But there is a place in Helendell that you would come in as long as you pass Highway 66: an obvious gate next to the road, a wheel, an iron bull, a trident tree-like iron frame with bottles full of bottles. This is the legendary "Bottle Forest".
Regarding the bottle forest, it should be said that an old man picking up tatters is related to his artistic son: the residents of Oro Grande have always had the habit of collecting waste. Helendel has a family named Lang. When Xiao Lang was very young, Lao Lang took Xiao Lang out to pick up discarded things in the desert, all kinds of waste products, all kinds of bottles, other garbage can be sold for money, bottles It’s not easy to sell, so it’s stacked there.
Later, Xiao Lang grew up, became a navy, got married and had children. But his habit of picking up garbage has not given up. More and more bottles were accumulated. After he retired, in order to commemorate his dead father, steel pipes were erected on the ground, and wine bottles were inserted into these steel pipes. The bottles accumulated over decades , In this way let him build a bottle forest to entertain himself.
Despite the remoteness of this place, this peculiar bottle forest was discovered by tourists and promoted and turned into a peculiar landscape on Route 66. Everyone who passes by Route 66 will come here. Take a look. And the influence here is getting bigger and bigger. A similar bottle forest has been established near the venue of the Qindao International Beer Festival this year. Of course, it is much smaller than here. There are more than a dozen bottle trees on Qindao. , And here are at least a few thousand bottle trees, covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters.
Xiao Peng parked the car, and several people carried their luggage and walked into this wonderful bottle forest. Xiao Peng kept taking pictures with the camera.
Coming here, it feels like traveling to another world. All kinds of wastes have transformed wonderful artworks: printers from decades ago, abandoned old guns, and tattered jeeps, dotted with colorful bottles. Into the forest. Each tree has its own unique design, different careful thinking, and its own unique label. When you are in it, you will feel as if you have strayed into another time and space.
And Emilia, who likes to paint, is even more happy that her eyes are not enough: "Xiao Peng, can we stay here for one night?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "No problem, I'll just set up the tent."
Alessi asked, "You live here? What about me?"
Xiao Peng said silently: "You want to leave? Then, wait for me, I will move the motorcycle down." After saying that Xiao Peng ran out, found a pad, and really pushed the motorcycle down: "It's done. Alessi, there is no problem now!"
Alessi looked at Emilia with a speechless expression: "Emilia, have you always been with such a gentleman? This person is too boring, right?"
Emilia whispered: "Uh, well, I don't know why he is like this. It may be related to you almost hitting him."
She really was right. In fact, it really had something to do with Alessi who almost ran into Xiao Peng. Xiao Peng almost exposed her secret because of her recklessness, so could she not be angry? So just a sentence choked him.
There was a guitar sound from the depths of the bottle forest. Xiao Peng followed his reputation. There was an RV on the side of the bottle forest. Someone was already sitting there playing the piano for entertainment. The Bottle Forest is free for all guests. There are no tickets and no fees. Travelers are welcome to visit it. Of course, if you donate here, you can get a special glass souvenir. In fact, it's just a small round glass bulb with no markings. It's basically the same as the one bought on the road, which is just a thought.
The guitar player was a man in his sixties, sitting next to three women, one is older and two are younger. The man’s guitar level is good, and the women are all wearing bohemian style clothes and sitting and listening. They look very elegant, but the expressions of a few people are a little weird and they look lazy. It’s broad daylight. Got drunk?
"They are hippies." Alessi whispered.
"There are still hippies now?" Xiao Peng asked suspiciously.
Xiao Peng has read reports that'hippie culture' was a popular culture from 40 to 50 years ago. In general, since the 1960s, a considerable number of young people in the West have despised traditions, abandoned morals, and consciously Far away from the mainstream society, there is a unique way of life that cannot be accommodated in the mainstream society to express their rebellion against the real society, and they are called hippies. Well, it can be completely understood as China's'killing Matt' and'non-mainstream'.
Rock music and drugs are an inseparable part of their lives. When interviewing a hippie about drugs, she said this: Everyone should take drugs, even children should do the same. Why can't they wake up earlier and have to wait until they are old? Humans need complete freedom. God is there. We need to eliminate hypocrisy, fraud, and deceit, and return to the purity of the values ​​we had when we were children.
Put it in China, such a woman should be shot a thousand times! Let children take drugs? Thanks to Nima! No wonder seeing those few people being lazy, this Nima is fluttering.
Alessi answered Xiao Peng’s question:
Of course, Jobs said he was a hippie when he was alive, and he and all his colleagues were hippies. In fact, hippies are also an attitude to life. In these people’s eyes, life is more than just Job, family, property, occupation, it is richer, just like coins have another side.
Although everyone does not say anything, we can feel a certain impulse between life, especially when we are unhappy, and many people want to find the meaning of life. Hippie culture is not only about drugs, alcohol and sex, but also an attitude to life. Isn’t the travel like Xiao Peng and the others now also part of hippie culture? "
The hippies are flourishing here, but when it comes to its origin, under careful calculation, it turned out to be from the former Soviet Union.
In the 1950s, Western jazz and rock music first entered the Soviet Union through smuggling. Young people of that era felt and indulged in music from across the ocean. However, there was a shortage of social materials and music equipment in the former Soviet Union. It's too difficult to buy a record when it falls behind. However, the predecessors of the fighting nation also have a way to cut circles with discarded X-ray film in the hospital, and burn a Western music album on it, and a Bonemusic appears. Then spread desperately in secret. Despite the severe suppression by the former Soviet Union government, it could not stop the enthusiasm of these Soviet youths. They smoked and drank and picked up girls every day, listened to alternative music, dressed in non-socialist costumes, and held parties all day long.
China has also had such a period of time. The young people of that period, cough, cough, that is, the parents of Xiao Peng's generation came from that era. Wear flared pants, long hair, play the guitar, and go to the dance hall to "shoot the lady". Thinking about it now, they are actually hippies.
However, the hippies of the Soviet Union and China have stayed in the years. They have established a family and have a new life, with only the occasional ‘non-mainstream’. But it’s different here. The poor are well-behaved. They can be hippies as they should. Anyway, don’t they starve to death? So it became a way of life just like the motorcycle rider. At present, there are still many hippies in the Stars and Stripes. The key to pursuing this kind of free life is to get sick because of starvation. . . . . .
After the song was over, Xiao Peng applauded. Several people waved and greeted Xiao Peng and others. Xiao Peng was busy setting up the tent, Emilia was busy drawing, and Alessi. . . . . . Busy with various selfies.
Xiao Peng took out the portable oven, and bought so many spices this time, but it shouldn't be wasted. One of the two on-board refrigerators on the motorcycle is full of food. You have the strength to continue on the road when you are full?
People in Star Stripe cannot do without barbecue, but Xiao Peng will not use the barbecue method here. Although they eat a lot of barbecue, but in terms of taste, the Chinese-style barbecue is more delicious.
In fact, some people say that the BBQ and Huaxia BBQ in Stars and Stripes are much more crude and crude. This should be a misunderstanding. The BBQ here can be divided into many different types according to the region and the barbecue style, and the dipping sauce is definitely not simple. Different meats are grilled in different ways, but the main difference is that the barbecue here is more slowly smoked and grilled with large pieces of meat, while Huaxia BBQ is mainly cut into small pieces of meat and grilled quickly.
Xiao Peng doesn't like the barbecue style in California. They like to marinate their barbecue with sauce before taking the test. Over time, everyone can only remember their sauce. Although Huaxia grilled meat must be marinated first, it will never be full of sauce like theirs.
However, Xiao Peng mainly prepares mutton, beef, and chicken. There is not much pork, because the pork here is really, really, really awful! !
First of all, pork here is almost always urged with hormones. However, pig raising here is not as particular as Huaxia. In Huaxia, boars are castrated in order to remove the smell of pork. In the Stars and Stripes, this is called inhumane and cannot be done. So most of the pork here has a stench.
But Xiao Peng still bought some pork, not to eat, but to refine the magical lard oil. What kind of oil is best to use when grilling? Must be lard!
Just like in the TV show at the time, Chinese chefs and French chefs competed in culinary skills. French chefs knew that Chinese people can’t do cooking without oil, so they robbed the oil and prevented the Chinese chef from using it. As a result, the Chinese chef was even more straightforward. , Directly refined a piece of lard for cooking, causing the French chef to call him cheat.
The most important feature of lard oil is its fragrance. When Xiao Peng was almost roasting here, Emilia stopped painting, and Alessi stopped taking selfies. Several Beatles came together.
"Your meat is really good." Someone behind Xiao Peng said hello.
Xiao Peng looked back and was amused: "Hey, why are you here too?"