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I'm Yohan Lin with Lai Ming and Yushan, and we're saying hi from Guizhou Province.
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For those of you who are listening instead of watching the show, you can have a little riddle.
Take a guess where we are now and I have three hints.
First of all, it is a market.
Second of all, it is a really, really, really hot market.
And third, people sneeze and cough and share a little bit tears in the market.
it's a crying market it's a crying market not
because we are so moved because we're making good deals but
because it is a dry pepper market for those of you who are watching you can see the dry pepper all around us and it is the typical market where people negotiate a little bit talk to each other find their best deals but something different in the market is that instead of having a variety of different foods fresh food vegetable fruits they only sell this one or they only sell this one type of vegetable that is pepper,
dry pepper, different types of dry pepper,
different shapes, different color, different level of spiciness.
definitely different price and they are all very very hot.
And if you had a chance to watch the show you'll see we are surrounded by piles beyond piles and backs upon backs of red pepper and these are dry and this is a place where people are in action kind of like the fares that people host in rural areas that are not very populated so this is a very busy day and action already started before daybreak and we had to wait until the action settles down a bit but still people are walking around they're bargaining they're packing and unpacking whenever there is action the air it gets disturbed and you know the tiny particles of red pepper will somehow drift into our nostrils will irritate our nostrils and we apologize in advance for any interruption and or any impolite behavior on our part yes i'm pretty sure i'm gonna sneeze and cough a little bit
because I've been doing this since I'm in the market.