“machérie… explosion… polizei… player… matador……”

The TV picture switches between channels,The sound from the split speaker is stumbling,It's not a sentence but it's inexplicably happy。 ?? ．?

Snatching the remote control and throwing it aside, Tang Jiayi waited for someone who was sitting paralyzed on the sofa, and scolded in a low voice: "The TV has no enmity with you, what are you doing with it?" ”

The latter's eyelids did not move, "What are you afraid of? Also, sister, do you know Spanish?"

"Uh", Tang Jiayi turned her head to look at the screen, and sure enough, she found that she couldn't understand it.

Because of her work, her English is okay, and she also has a certain foundation in French and Latin, but Spanish is much worse, and she only masters some commonly used high-frequency words. This vocabulary is difficult to communicate on a daily basis, and it is even more difficult to cope with TV subtitles.

Glancing at the brocade-clothed swordsman standing proudly on the yellow sand on the screen, Tang Jiayi shook her head slightly, and reached for the remote control that she had thrown out before.

Seeing that the other party was going to catch the remote control, Zhang Xuyao hurriedly stopped it: "What kind of station to change? That's fine, don't abuse the TV!"

As soon as these words came out, Tang Jiayi's movements were immediately paused, and then she turned her head to look at the former, "Say it as if you can understand it." ”

Dropping the remote control she had just caught, she leaned back on the sofa with her chest crossed, "So be it, bullfighting is actually quite interesting." ”

As the saying goes, if you lose, you don't lose, Zhang Xuyao changed to a more comfortable lying position, "Just watch it! It's not that I haven't seen it." ”

Around the 08 Olympic Games, major domestic TV stations rose up to build sports channels and sports programs. However, the channel is easy to handle, and it can be opened with approval and equipment, but the corresponding program needs to spend money to search all over the world. Some local stations can't afford the expensive five major football leagues and American professional basketball, and they can't afford the domestic middle and middle vacations, so they put their ideas on the more non-mainstream golf and bullfighting, and Spanish bullfighting was able to come to the domestic audience through the way of highlight clips, including Zhang Xuyao, who was still in high school at the time.

But the good times didn't last long, and when the Olympics ended, this violent and bloody sport disappeared from TV, and now she suddenly saw the familiar thrilling picture, and she was still a little excited in her heart.

On the wide TV screen, the brocade swordsman wearing red gorgeous clothes and pants and shallow leather shoes, revealing a pair of purple and red stockings, rushed towards the bull quickly, stabbed the cross sword in his hand deep into the back of the bull's neck, and then quickly jumped away and landed in a dashing manner, and the wounded black bull behind him struggled a few times and lay on the ground, with five colorful darts inserted in his body, and slowly swallowed.

"Whoa, oh, whoa!" cheers and applause rang out enthusiastically, echoing and circling in the circular bullring.

"Isn't bullfighting all about using swords? What do you do with a mourning stick on your body?" Zhang Xuyao suddenly asked.

Her knowledge of bullfighting was limited to the occasional few words and fragments, and all she could do was gorgeous clothes, handsome sliding steps, bright red cloth, and sharp stabbing swords, and only today did she notice that she had to hang these cumbersome things on the bull during bullfighting.

Tang Jiayi rolled her eyes, "That's not a mourning stick, it's a special dart for bullfighting, well, it does look like a mourning stick." However, the darts are much more ferocious, those fancy flocculents are feathers and pieces of paper, which play an eye-catching role in anti-slip, and it has a sharp metal hook on the top, which can be firmly nailed to the cow, and bleed the cow, so that the cow gradually loses its ability to move. Oh, don't talk about it, you can take care of it yourself!"

Spain, located on the western side of the Mediterranean, has a Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry summers and mild and rainy winters, and bullfighters need bright sunlight to illuminate their ornate clothing, so Spaniards usually only hold bullfights in summer and autumn. The Spanish bullfighting season begins on St. Joseph's Day (Catholic Father's Day) on March 19 and ends on October 12, the Spanish National Day, with a series of daily and grand bullfights and even national bull running.

So what appears on the screen is not a recent match, let alone a live broadcast, but a wonderful recap of the whole year of last year.

When the words fell, the picture on the opposite screen changed, and a sturdy ox appeared on the field covered with yellow sand, chasing the eye-catching two-color cloak.

Cows are actually colorblind, and it's not the red color that really angers them, it's the teasing motion of shaking their cloaks. In order to achieve this, the bulls used for bullfighting are specially bred to ensure that they are on fire as soon as they are teased. It's just that this degree is difficult to grasp, the bull with too strong wild nature will bring great trouble and danger to the bullfighter, and sometimes even kill the bullfighter, and the bullfight with insufficient wildness will lead to a dull and not exciting game, and occasionally there will be a "warm" drama such as "the bullfighter who cares most about the bullfighter, in fact, the bull who was hurt by him", so that the bullfighter and the bullring are embarrassed.

Fortunately, what they saw today was a well-edited one-year retrospective program, and there were no two surprises in it.

Although the original video was pinched off and tailed, and some links such as showing the weight of the cow, cutting the ears and tails, pulling the corpses of the three mules, and cleaning up the site were removed, but the core bullfighting activities were completely retained, and then presented in front of Zhang Xuyao and Tang Jiayi.

Contrary to popular belief, a matador does not fight alone, he or she also has a team of three assistant matadors and two riders. Usually the assistants appear first, using their unique yellow and pink double-sided cloak to tease the bull, and the pad warms up while also consuming the bull's physical strength, and then the knight attacks, piercing the bloody hole in the cow with the spear in his hand, and then the three assistants see the opportunity to find a way to tie the two darts assigned to them on the cow's back, expand the wound and bleed the cow.

The spearmen's mounts are blindfolded in horse armor, and their safety factor is the highest, but the performance is the least exciting, which is simply bumping and stabbing and stabbing. In comparison, the performance of the three brocade assistants is much more exciting, the dart in the hand is only an arm length, and it needs good eyesight and movement coordination to tie it to the bull that is galloping, if the two darts can be inserted steadily, the assistant matador will get the applause and applause of the audience, otherwise he will receive boos from the audience, and if he is unlucky, he may even be killed directly by a shot into the soul.

The matador who can be selected for the annual collection is naturally not a mediocre hand, and soon this big yellow cow has six blood-stained "mourning sticks" on the back of its neck.

At this point, it's time for the main matador with the highest skills, the most ornate costumes, and the most popular to play. The main matador with a red cloth and a sword slowly walked into the middle of the arena, and the huge bullring quickly fell silent, and everyone held their breath and stared intently into the arena, waiting for the final dance of death.

Even Tang Zhang's second daughter outside the screen was infected by this atmosphere and involuntarily slowed down her breathing.

And the matador, who didn't know how to pronounce his name, did not disappoint them, and the red cloth that concealed his sword was nimbly shaken by him, causing the injured bull to rush left and right, but always dodging with a sideways dodge at the last moment. Even so, he was not enough, and he had to give the bull a "Beronica", that is, he threw the red cloth over his head, and gave elegance and implicit teasing.

After a few times, the atmosphere on the sidelines reached its peak, and the bull's physical strength also dropped to a dangerous level, and the matador finally took out the slender sword wrapped under the red cloth, raised it with one hand and stabbed it at the bull's neck. If skillful and well-grounded, the sword would plunge into the heart of the ox and quickly end the latter's life. If the ox is simply incapacitated and does not die immediately, it can only be repaired with a cross sword or a short dagger.

Of course, there is also the case where the assassination fails, and the bull is still alive, and the bullring will send someone to drive the bull to a special pen to kill it. Therefore, as long as the bull comes to the bullring, the end is already doomed, either he dies at the hands of the matador and is dragged away by a mule, or he defeats the matador, and then he is led aside and killed, and he can't escape a dead word.

Because of this, bullfighting, a long-established sport, has been criticized by animal conservationists, and calls for its abolition have been heard. Spain is certainly reluctant to give up the sport, bullfighting is a national tradition recognized by intangible cultural heritage, and hundreds of bullrings across the country support a large number of bullfighters and staff, and can also bring significant tourism income and cultural exports, let alone give up easily.

However, the sport of bullfighting is always too dangerous and cruel, contrary to the current trend of valuing life, so it is still suppressed by various restrictions, such as the cancellation of live bullfighting by TVE Spain TV station for child audiences, the legislation banning bullfighting in the province of Catalonia, where Barcelona is located, and the annual protests, all cast a shadow on the future of the sport.

Seeing the big scalper fall to the ground, Tang Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief, raised her wrist and looked at the time, "It's almost time." ”

The TV flashed and the bullring and the matadors vanished, replaced by a murky river with lush greenery on both sides of the river's banks, with foliage spreading beneath the blue sky in the distance.

On the muddy river, a jet ski is abruptly moving, with three men in orange life jackets, a white guide dressed outdoors with a beard, a dark-haired Latino carrying a video camera, and a young Asian looking around.

Ignoring the two crooked nuts very tacitly, Tang Jiayi and Zhang Xuyao's eyes focused on the last Asian man, and scolded in unison: "Bastard!"

The young man on the screen is the same Atletico Madrid who rented this place but slipped away and ran thousands of miles away to Brazil to see the swamp. Tang Jiayi scolded him for being a bastard, because he hated someone for not loving himself, and he had nothing to do and ran to the swamp during the flood season to die, but Zhang Xuyao's bastard was annoyed why he didn't bring himself, so that she could only satisfy her hunger through TV programs.

Located in west-central Brazil, the Pantanal is the world's largest wetland, covering an area of 240,000 square kilometres. Of course, this area is dynamic, shrinking in the dry season and expanding in the rainy season, and it is in the expansion phase at this time.

Wetlands refer to shallow water areas such as swamps and seashores, river swamps can filter sewage and regulate the amount of water, and coastal wetlands can prevent seawater erosion, both of which have high ecological value. In order to protect wetlands, the International Wetlands Organization has designated February 2 as World Wetlands Day every year, and the "Discovery of Pantanal" in which Atletico Madrid participates is an environmental protection program launched by relevant organizations in cooperation with Brazil, which can also be said to be a tourism promotion advertisement.

Wetlands are affected by human farming, lake reclamation, and damming, and the world's largest Pantanal, which is also facing these problems, as it has been gradually reduced by human activities. In the spirit of choosing the lesser of two evils, Brazil embarked on the path of promoting protection through development, and then Atletico Madrid also got involved.

On the TV screen, Atletico suddenly felt a chill hit him, trembled twice, and hurriedly greeted the guide in front of him in Portuguese: "Ronnie, I feel danger approaching, have you entered the alligator's habitat?"

"Yes!" the bearded guide chuckled, confirming Atletico's guess, and pointed to the side, "Look there, those logs are them!"

Both Atletico and the cameraman turned their heads to look over there, and sure enough, they saw several crocodiles, which had apparently spotted the dinghy that was screaming by, but had no idea of coming over to attack, just floating on the water.

Taking advantage of the time, the guide took the time to explain: "Crocodiles are ectotherms, and their favorite way of hunting is ambush, and they like to disguise themselves as driftwood ambushes to drink water and prey on land animals and birds, and then bite the target and drag them into the water to drown, so as long as you don't get too close to them, you don't have to worry about the crocodile taking the initiative to attack." In fact, the real danger lies beneath the surface. ”

"You mean piranhas?" asked Atletico.

"Yes," the white guide named Ronnie nodded, "Would you like to see them?"

This sentence was not improvised, he was completely operating according to the script. So Atletico Madrid didn't refuse, and put on an excited expression that Tang Zhang's second daughter thought was very pompous, "Okay! Are they here?"

"Of course!" Ronnie replied as he quickly prepared the bait, hooking the beef chunks to the large hooks and throwing them into the water.

Piranhas are a general term for the carnivorous salmon carp subfamily of the family Fatty Cyprinidae, which has a well-developed jaw and sharp saw-like teeth, and rarely loosens its mouth once it bites its prey, and can be easily caught with animal bait. Provided, of course, that is, there is a school of hungry piranhas in the water.

Individual piranhas have little guts, but when they form a group, they become crazy and blood-hungry, often actively attacking large animals and even humans that fall into the water, hence the name cannibalism. However, at this time, Brazil is in the rainy season, with plenty of rainfall, rivers overflowing, swamps rising and turning into lakes, and piranhas have greatly increased their range and density, but they are not easy to see. Fortunately, Ronnie lived up to his reputation as an expert and caught a palm-sized piranha from the water.