1144 Land of Gold (2/2)

Seeing his daughter lead Zhang Zian and the rest safely to the shop, Lazart finally felt at ease.

After they'd listened to Lazart's story, Zhang Zian and the rest nodded and praised Lazart's wisdom in bringing up his children. From the details of the action, they could see that brother and sister were smart and brave, and that they would definitely become excellent talents in the future.

Lazart himself was even more admirable. He was willing to risk offending the local people for Chinese tourists he did not know. This was not something ordinary people would do.

Zhang Zian, Gao Ke, Xiao Tianyu, Du Xuetao, and Jack all stood up to express their thanks to the father, as well as his daughter and son. He He, who had almost been stripped of a layer of skin, was even more grateful.

At that moment, Zhang Zian and the rest fully relaxed and were in the mood to look around the shop.

If they had not been nervous before, they would have noticed the dazzling variety of gold and silver jewelry in the shop—mainly gold, but also platinum and silver, bracelets, headwear, earrings, rings, necklaces, jewelry, and so on. There were almost three walls full in addition to the direction of the door, and there were many glass counters. The number put on display in them was astonishing, and wherever they looked, it was a sea of gold.

The Egyptians really loved gold. That was one of the few traditions that had been passed down from a few thousand years ago.

Ancient Egypt went without saying—11 kilograms of gold masks and 111 kilograms of gold coffins had made people used to this kind of thing. After all, ancient Egypt, as the world's granary, was really rich.

Now, with an average monthly income of 500 RMB, 95% of the country was desert, unable to support an exploding increasing population. Flour, sugar, and oil were funded by their brother Arab countries. They were clearly so poor that they needed to eat dirt, but they had an unusual obsession with gold. This was modern Egypt.

The Egyptian principle was that their ancestors were once wealthy, and they could starve and live on the streets, but gold must be bought!

When a local woman got married, she would wear all her gold ornaments on her body, even such that all ten of her fingers were full of rings, and she would wear several heavy necklaces around her neck. The traditional thought was that the more gold ornaments a woman wore, the more her husband would love her.

Under such a custom, Egypt's gold and silver jewelry shops were not worried about sales.

Of course, Egyptians were very poor. They could not afford pure gold. Pure gold was soft, and it was not easy to create beautiful jewelry with it, so most of the gold jewelry bought by the local people was 18K gold.

In recent years, with the further deterioration of the Egyptian economy, the devaluation of the currency, and the rise of prices, Egyptians could not even afford 18K gold. But even so, they had to do something in order to be impressive. They quietly pawned their 18K gold jewelry at home and bought similar-looking gold-plated jewelry from China instead.

People from other countries probably could not understand why Egyptians were so obsessed with gold.

Although there was a saying in China that went, ”antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times,” it was used to engage in all sorts of illicit trading and referred to pure gold. If you had to rely on aid to eat, why were you still thinking about gold?

Zhang Zian held his breath and gazed at the store's gold jewelry that was so heavy and so expensive that it would make an ox sweat wearing them. Even the pupils were reflecting the golden light. Although it was known that the gold was about 18K gold, 18K gold was also valuable!

He He instinctively wanted to pull out her mobile phone to take pictures and then post it to her friend groups. She touched her pocket before she realized that her mobile phone had been stolen by someone. She could not help feeling sad.

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