The road conditions at the entrance to the lake are very bad, there are many swamps around the lake, and grass grows on them, and if you accidentally step on it, it will not reach your knees.

Yang Shubao didn't care, he rolled up his trouser leg and prepared to go down for a walk, maybe he could pick up any reptiles?

The old knight coldly reminded him: "Be careful, this used to be a river, and there was silt at the bottom of the river everywhere, some of them were very shallow and some were very deep, be careful that you can't get out of it." ”

Yang Shubao was very afraid of death, and immediately crawled back: "So dangerous?"

The old knight snorted: "Of course, don't look at the calm here, in fact, there is a hidden murderous intention." There are places where you don't fall into it and you don't know the danger of it, it's calm from the outside, but it's actually ...... inside."

"How's it going inside?"

"It's calmer inside. ”

Yang Shubao sneered: "The old man is so humorous. ”

"I haven't finished my sentence yet," the old man said lightly, "the reason why it's so calm inside is because the animals and birds that have fallen inside are dead. ”

Looking around, he sighed again: "The water level is lower than before, and the flow of the tail river has also decreased, which is a good thing that we humans have done ourselves, and eucalyptus trees should not be planted by the river and lake." ”

There are many stones by the river, but most of them are smooth pebbles, Yang Shubao picked up a few pieces and threw them away, this thing is mainly silica, which is useless for leopard turtles, even if they use calcium in them, they can't move.

The old knight tentatively walked slowly by the river, he lifted the pebbles and searched carefully, and after a while he found a rough stone the size of a fist, and when he saw this, he smiled with satisfaction and threw it to Lao Yang: "Look at this." ”

Yang Shubao's first feeling when he received the stone was that it was dense, and he tried it with his fingernails to make marks on it, so he understood: "This is Odova?"

"Yes, you can eat it, but try not to eat it. Its composition is very complex, and researchers from the University of Kenya have reported in the "East African Medical Journal" that these stones can at most supplement calcium for pregnant women, but they are more harmful, posing a threat to the health of pregnant women and fetuses, and may even lead poisoning. ”

Yang Shubao smelled it and asked, "What is the charm of this stone? Those people will like to eat this." ”

The old man shook his head and said: "I don't know, but it is indeed addictive, this has been on the news, there are Kenyan women who like to eat this stone, her husband knew that he beat her many times but it was useless, and finally once her husband was too heavy and caused a miscarriage to death." ”

"One corpse and two lives, this is too ruthless, how did the matter deal with it later? What punishment was the husband sentenced to?"

"There was no sentence, and the husband compensated his mother's family for two bighorn cows, and the matter was stopped. ”

Yang Shubao shook his head when he heard this.

The old knight said to him, "Don't just listen to me, will you bend down and open it to find the stone?"

Lao Yang sneered: "Your voice is too magnetic, I am fascinated by it." ”

Hearing this, the old knight snorted, but a smile still appeared on his face unconsciously.

People are like this, they talk flatteringly, but their bodies are very honest.

The river was gushing, sweeping the mud and rushing into the Great Santa Lucia Lake along with the water, which caused the lake to be muddy and yellow.

Care must be taken in this environment, and hippos are often present.

Yang Shubao looked for some small snails by the river for a while, he pinched a few and looked at them and asked, "This is not a Fushou snail, right?"

The snail is a large freshwater snail that is abundant in the tropics, especially in Central America, and is as prone to parasites as large snails in the elephant grass and cannot be eaten.

The old man shook his head and said, "No, it's not, they're called Little Green Snails." ”

"Can you eat it?"

"Yes. ”

Yang Shubao was overjoyed, he touched the small green snails while looking for stones, and after a while, he didn't find Odova but found a bunch of small green snails, so that he saw a large plate of spicy fried snails.

The old knight was surprised when he saw him: "Are you really here to find Odova?"

Lao Yang smiled and said: "It's true, but I see that there are a lot of small green snails here, so I just fished a little and went back to fry a snail." I'll tell you old man, I'll fry snails, let's go back and drink together. ”

The old man snorted: "I think you are here to find death, the little green snail is poisonous, and you will die if you eat it!"

Yang Shubao was stunned: "Didn't you say it could be eaten?"

The old chivalrous man said as a matter of course: "Of course, it can be eaten, but it will die if it eats it." ”

Yang Shubao looked at this pile of small green snails and showed a bitter gourd face, and the spicy fried snails were gone!

The rest of the time, he honestly looked for Odova.

This Odowa is a soft limestone, which feels completely different from pebbles, and it is not difficult for Yang Shubao to find it patiently, and then found one.

He asked, "Since this stone can be eaten, it should be able to be sold for money, right?"

The old knight nodded: "Yes, there used to be a lot of Odova in the Tail River, and then it was collected and sold, so now there are very few." ”

"What price?" asked Lao Yang with interest.

"I don't know how much it costs in South Africa, but in Kenya they range from one shilling to five shillings depending on the size of a piece, and the little vendors can make four or five hundred shillings a day, or more than sixty rands," the old man said. ”

"So little?"

"Nearly half of Kenya's population lives on less than 15 rand a day, so it's no problem to support their families from this business. ”

Lao Yang was very annoyed, he knew that this thing was so cheap, why did he come out and spend so much effort? Spend a hundred yuan to buy a lot of it!

Fortunately, chatting with the old man can gain insight, the old man looks old-fashioned and serious, but he is actually very talkative, but he is not willing to take the initiative to chat with people, but if he wins his favor, then he will be willing to know everything and talk endlessly.

Compared to his neighbor, Barnes, he was really taciturn.

Inadvertently, a red-blushing frog jumped out from under the stone he lifted, and the frog jumped up in panic, so that the river splashed on the back of Yang Shubao's hand.

The cool river water turned into molten iron at this moment, he felt his skin being burned by fire, and he grabbed his wrist in pain and snorted: "I, I, I drip!

The fat little frog with a red body jumped on a stone and stared at him, his body bulging and ready to flee for his life.

The old knight who heard the sound laughed when he saw it: "Red iron frog, you have to be careful, there are many dangerous creatures here, but you are lucky enough to come across the red iron block." ”

Yang Shubao pinched his wrist and squatted by the river and said, "Isn't this a tomato frog?"

The old man shrugged and said, "We all call them red iron frogs, because they are like red-hot iron blocks, and they will hurt badly when they touch them, but fortunately, they won't die." ”

After listening to him, Yang Shubao was sure that this frog was the tomato frog he knew, they were bright in appearance and very beautiful, but the epidermis could secrete poisonous mucus, Yang Shubao obviously didn't touch it just now, but it was still poisoned, that is, when it jumped up, the mucus fell on his skin along with the river water.

He was indeed lucky, if he touched the tomato frog directly, he would probably be able to jump high and scream on the spot.

Locals rightly call them red iron frogs, and the irritating pain of their toxin on the skin is indeed similar to that of a red-hot iron block.