Chapter 1111: Cruel Slaughter
Whether it is pangolins, monkeys, or king cobras, they are all protected animals in China, especially pangolins, and they are also national second-class protected animals.
Ye Chen didn't expect that when he came to Vietnam, he actually saw people here, blatantly slaughtering these wild animals on the street, and kept soliciting tourists passing by.
Ye Chen naturally knows very well that many Chinese people like to eat, especially the richer they are, the more they like to eat these wild meats. However, in China, they do not dare to sell openly at all, nor do they dare to eat openly, they buy and sell in a very secret place.
"Wu Yu, isn't it illegal to eat these wild meats here?" Ye Chen asked strangely.
"Not breaking the law. Wu Yu said.
Ye Chen sighed helplessly, there were a lot of owls and pangolins in the cage here, but even if he bought them at a high price now, and then put them back in the mountains and forests, maybe they would still be caught and eaten.
When Ye Chen and Wu Yu were talking, he had already seen a shirtless, dark and thin Vietnamese young man, directly open the iron cage containing the pangolin, pull a fat pangolin out of the iron cage with his hand, grab its tail directly with one hand, and step on the pangolin's head with one foot, trying to pull the curled pangolin away.
Because most of the pangolins are covered by hard shells, trying to kill them can only be peeled from under the stomach in the same way as killing the king, so now the young Vietnamese man wants to pull the curled pangolin away like that.
In normal times, because there are many guests, it will not take a few minutes to kill such a pangolin, and it will definitely be killed and cleaned.
But now, with the young Vietnamese man holding the iron tongs, he still can't pull the fat curled pangolin.
If you can't pull the shrunken pangolin, it means that you can't peel off the skin, so naturally you can't kill it, and the guests inside are still waiting.
The diner's time couldn't wait, so he desperately knocked the pangolin's head with iron tongs, even now Liao Bingxue and Huang Xiaowei's eyes looked over, and they felt that the other party's approach was a little cruel.
Ngo Ngoc was originally a native of Vietnam, and he had seen these people kill these animals like that for a long time.
Ye Chen grew up in the villages outside Shennongjia, and grew up studying traditional Chinese medicine, so he is naturally very familiar with pangolins.
In fact, he knows very well that the meat of pangolins may be similar to the meat of ordinary other animals, but because the scales of pangolins can be used as a medicine for traditional Chinese medicine, and the medicinal effect is very good, there are fewer and fewer pangolins now.
Of course, on the other hand, it is natural that because of the scarcity of things, many rich people want to taste some of the meat of these pangolins.
Ye Chen was still thinking about the fat pangolin, afraid that there should be something wrong with curling it up like that.
When Ye Chen guessed that this pangolin might be a mother, and maybe even pregnant with a fetus? When he found that the young Vietnamese man might see more and more people around him looking at him and feeling that others were laughing at him, he directly took the pangolin to a height of half a meter, and then fell to the ground fiercely.
Falling down so hard, Liao Bingxue and Huang Xiaowei didn't dare to look at it, Liao Bingxue pulled Ye Chen to leave here quickly, thinking that there was nothing good about slaughtering animals like that.
Especially when she saw these Vietnamese people brutally killing those animals like that, she felt very uncomfortable with the knowledge she had learned before, and these animals were all protected by the state.
Ye Chen took Liao Bingxue's hand, and when he continued to look over, he found that the curled pangolin was picked up and dropped several times by the other party, and blood flowed from his mouth, and when he found that he didn't move like just now, the other party wanted to pull it away, and then when he peeled off the hard shell of the pangolin, he still couldn't pull it away.
There was a clerk and the young Vietnamese man communicating something in Vietnamese, but Ye Chen couldn't understand it. Ye Chen asked Wu Yu on the side and asked, "What are the two of them talking about?"
"The man inside said that the pangolin scales were very valuable, and that they would be sold to pharmacies in a while so that they would not be broken. Wu Yu said.
Probably seeing the strange looks of Ye Chen and the others, Wu Yu asked, "Mr. Ye, isn't this pangolin an important Chinese medicine?"
"It's traditional Chinese medicine, but now pangolins are China's second-class protected animals, and other drugs have been used to replace pangolin drugs. Moreover, there are fewer and fewer pangolins in the wild, and now they are being killed less and less, and they may become extinct like other animals. Ye Chen said.
"However, I've heard that most of the diners here are from China. Wu Yu said.
Hearing this, Ye Chen's face was also a little hot, and he looked a little embarrassed. He naturally knew that those people did not dare to eat in China, but when they came to Vietnam, because they did not break the law here, they were naturally not afraid of them.
This shows that the plain and consciousness of many domestic tourists are still too poor.
Ye Chen couldn't sigh anything else, because he found that the fat pangolin was actually pinched by the young Vietnamese man with fire tongs, and then used it when it was baked in the fire, and sure enough, after about two minutes, the fat pangolin finally stopped curling and had stretched out.
At this time, when the other party brought a sharp long knife and slashed the stomach under the pangolin, what Ye Chen didn't expect was that, as he thought, this pangolin was really a mother, and she was pregnant, and there was a pangolin fetus inside.
Now the young Vietnamese man killed the pangolin, and not only did the intestines come out, but the pangolin that had not yet opened its eyes came out.
At this moment, Ye Chen finally understood why the fat pangolin just now, in that case, kept curling up and not allowing it to be expanded, just to protect the fetus inside.
This time, not only Ye Chen felt a little unbearable, but Liao Bingxue and the two daughters felt that the Vietnamese were too cruel to eat these wild meats, and they even killed and ate them like this, couldn't they wait for the pangolin to give birth to the fetus before eating?
"Ye Chen, let's go!" Liao Bingxue said.
Ye Chen didn't want to continue watching, because he knew that if he really bought the fat female pangolin at a high price just now, he might really be able to save the pangolin and the fetus inside.
However, what can Ye Chen do now when he buys it? Can he let people put it back in the mountains and forests, or take it back to Shanghai? Not to mention bringing it back to Shanghai, even if he can't even pass through the customs, he will still think that he is illegally trafficking in protected animals.
As for putting it back into the mountains and forests, Ye Chen didn't know about the mountains and forests here in Vietnam at all, so if he put it back like this, he was caught and bought by these Vietnamese.
When Ye Chen, Liao Bingxue, and Wu Yu went out, Ye Chen had already seen another clerk pull out a monkey in the iron cage, regardless of the monkey's screams, and began to kill there.
"I heard that they want to eat stewed monkey brains like that! Also, don't you Chinese also have this dish?" Wu Yu said.
Even she thought it was cruel to kill those animals like this, but she couldn't help it.
"In ancient times, there were, but now it's not made with the brains of real monkeys, but with legumes. Ye Chen said.