693. Customs detention
Yang Shubao first gave Kurutantan two ivory, and Kurutantan suggested that he carve a set of animal reliefs, and the craftsmen of their tribe are experienced in this area, after all, they usually carve the most animals and people.
But Lao Yang didn't want any animals, so he whispered a few words to Kurutan and said what he needed.
Kurutan nodded abruptly, patted his chest and said that it was no problem.
Du Lun, Zhang Jinjie and Lu Penghui also have ivory, and Yang Shubao was just about to entertain Kurutantan so he called them over for a meal, one is to get to know each other, and the other is to see if these people want to carve ivory.
The ivory was of no use in the hands of the three of them, and when they heard that it could be carved, they happily agreed, and said that they would give the ivory to Kurutantan when they returned.
Freshly cut ivory is not the kind of crystal clear in an art exhibition, and if you think about it, you can understand that elephants use their tusks to dig the ground, fight, pick trees, and do everything, and the appearance is certainly not beautiful when they are rubbed and bumped all year round.
Therefore, ordinary ivory is not only useless in the hand, but even a bit of an eyesore.
But in any case, ivory is a precious raw material for carving, and the three of them have never seen the craftsmanship of the San people, and Kurutantan is very responsible, so he does not dare to directly meet the needs of the three of them, but suggests that they have the opportunity to go around their own tribe and understand the level of craftsmen before cooperating.
After all, he is not familiar with Lu Penghui and Du Lun, so if there is a problem with the ivory carving, he will not be able to explain it to Yang Shubao in the future.
Zhang Jinjie nodded and said, "It just so happens that the day after tomorrow, we have a tour group returning to China, and when the time comes, we will pack up the ivory and go to your tribe to have a look." ”
He is very familiar with Kurutantan, and the Sangren Farm has business cooperation with him, in fact, Zhang Jinjie is now the largest financier of the Sangren.
Yang Shubao set up a line for both parties, and then threw this matter to the back of his mind, but only a day later, Zhang Jinjie called him urgently: "Old Yang, something happened, his grandmother dropped!"
"What's wrong?" Yang Shubao heard a noisy voice coming from the microphone, and he thought that Zhang Jinjie's shop had been robbed.
Zhang Jinjie is not in the store, he is now at Durban airport.
His route is to depart from the capital of China and the magic capital, then fly to Johannesburg, and then make a combined trip to Durban, and the return journey is the opposite.
Because he picked up the boutique group, so he is still very responsible for the tourists, the car to the car, this time he personally sent a group of tourists to Johannesburg and then took a flight back to Durban, only to get off the plane and answer a call: there is a problem with tourists, and they were jointly detained by customs and police!
This tourist is asking for his own problem, he stole something, stole Zhang Jinjie an ivory!
The day before yesterday, they had talked to Kurutan about the cooperation of ivory carvings, and Kurutantan invited the three of them to go around the tribe first out of responsibility for them, and then talk about cooperation when they were satisfied.
Zhang Jinjie is very familiar with the Sangren tribe, he feels that he doesn't need to look at it, there is no need to be so troublesome, just bring the ivory over.
So this morning, he took out the ivory and put it in the store, ready to send the tourists away, and when he returned to the store, he went to the Sangren Farm with Lu Penghui.
As a result, someone stole an elephant ivory.
The first plane they took at that time was from Durban to Johannesburg, which was to go through security checks, but Zhang Jinjie had a cooperation business with Durban Airport, and the airport relaxed the supervision of tourists, and the travel agency handled a long-term group VIP business at Durban Airport, so when checking the luggage, it was confirmed that there were no dangerous goods and they were released.
But when you go to Johannesburg, it's different after going through the security check, but there is a customs control here, and it is directly found that there is ivory in someone's suitcase, and the customs immediately notify the police, and the entire tour group is controlled.
Zhang Jinjie is very good at relationships, he opened up the relationship with Durban Airport, if this matter is out of Durban Airport, then he can settle it, this appeared in Johannesburg and caught blind, he quickly called Yang Shubao when he saw that the situation was not good.
As soon as Yang Shubao heard the call, he exploded on the spot: "What? Stealing ivory and wanting to take it home? What kind of brain is his grandmother's? How can stealing ivory pass the customs inspection? And what's the matter with you, you didn't even see such a big thing stolen?"
Zhang Jinjie was extremely depressed: "I trust them too much, alas, you also know that the group I received is a boutique group, and the people in it are either rich or expensive, I have only met people who have left things on me, and I have never seen anyone stealing things from me, so I am defenseless." ”
At this time, he could only scold two sentences to get angry, and the problem should be solved, so Yang Shubao had to drive to Durban quickly.
He didn't know much about this kind of official thing, so he brought Mason and Hall with him.
Mason and Hall were also amazed when they found out about this: "Bring a whole tusk and want to go through customs? Does he think of our South African customs as Somalia?"
Yang Shubao said: "Anyway, this ivory has passed through the security check at Durban airport. ”
The two began to scold the airport bureaucracy and formalism again, all the way to the Durban airport, and they finally came to a conclusion that this country pill would have to save money to immigrate in the future.
Durban is a big port city, Johannesburg is the central city of South Africa, there are still a lot of flights between the two places, they arrived at the airport and waited for less than two hours to get on the plane.
Zhang Jinjie had already taken the lead in returning, he arrived in China and waited for them, and hurriedly beckoned after meeting: "This way, come over with me to see how to solve this matter." ”
Yang Shubao asked: "What is the situation now, you can talk about it first." ”
Zhang Jinjie sighed and said: "The customs elevated this matter to a group behavior, so I brought you over, if they just pursue Aunt Li, I don't plan to care, she is to blame!"
Now a regiment of eight people has been taken to the airport police office, and when the four arrived, a doctor was present, taking the blood pressure of an elderly man in his seventies.
There were also seven Chinese in the police room, all of whom had gloomy faces, angry faces, or frightened faces, and their postures varied.
Seeing that there was a doctor here, Zhang Jinjie was anxious: "What's the matter?"
A young man sneered: "The old lady thinks this is in the country, she wants to rely on the old and sell the old to make trouble, she actually went to tear up a policeman, but she was put down by someone at once, and now she is pretending to be dead." ”
"Mr. Zhao, please keep some virtue in your mouth. A lean middle-aged man frowned.
The young man's temper suddenly exploded: "Why don't I have a mouthful of virtue? Come on, come on, you let other people judge, was this the case just now? Did I make up anything? Did I slander your dear mother? ”
The middle-aged man is not unreasonable, he said reluctantly: "Mr. Zhao, don't get excited, I didn't say that you made up facts, it's just that we are all compatriots, I hope you can understand the old man......"
"I can't understand, the flight is about to be delayed, I may even have to leave a criminal record in South Africa, how can you let me be considerate? or who will be considerate of me?" the young man sneered.
All of a sudden, chaos began to fall in the police room.