Hong Tao didn't have time to pay homage to this seafaring and explorer, and he stopped at Puerto Plata, off the northern coast of Dominica, while Santo Domingo was on the southern coast, wanting to see the entire island. Although Xiaobu is very good, he has not yet reached the level of Cheng Dù, who made the lazy Hong Tao travel tired, to commemorate it, and he can worship from afar, and his heart knows it!

Because the Crazy Mouse III is a temporary dock, it is too late to apply for an official visa, so according to the principle, Hong Tao and the three can only move around in the port area, and cannot go out to wander around. But the rules are a thing, there must be a whole set of laws and regulations to be effective, any link goes wrong, the rules will become a broken fishing net, full of loopholes, it is better not to have any.

Lily, who was born in a slum, went to the United States to see the world, and worked as a journalist in Brazil, understands this most thoroughly. Just when Hong Tao was wandering on the dock, scratching his ears and cheeks and wanting to go shopping outside the dock, Lily only spent 200 US dollars, about 10,000 Minian pesos, to pin a small piece of pink paper to the passports of the four people, and the temporary visas were in hand!

Although this thing is only valid for 24 hours, it can theoretically come and go, and the hurricane transit time will not be too long, maybe it will leave tomorrow, at most it will drag on for 2 or 3 days, and Hong Tao can still afford this small fee.

Puerto Plata, where Columbus was the first traveler, landed on the island in the first place, and PuertoPlata (the silver port) is the name he gave to this place. Walking down the street behind the port, there is a brick and stone road at your feet, lined with old buildings with those pointed spires. If you change the clothes of the pedestrians to the style of Columbus's time. You don't need a set to start making a 15th-century film. Lily says it's called Victorian classical architecture. Raised by the time of King Napoleon of France, Hong Tao listened for a long time. I still didn't understand it, and I didn't see any characteristics of these buildings.

Today, Puerto Plata is not a busy trading port, although sugar and coffee are still specialties, but more often than not, it is a holiday destination. Almost every day, large cruise ships bring tourists from all over the world here, stay for a day or two, and then board the ship for the next Caribbean port. There are many tourists, and there are many hotels, bars, restaurants, and other services, so you want to take a look in Puerto Plata. It's still very easy, and many places can pay directly in dollars.

Puerto Plata is small, with a radius of less than a kilometer, and a short walk from the port is a highway with the number 5 written on it. Underneath the viaduct of this highway, there is a long string of free markets, similar to the country's morning markets, selling everything from fruits and vegetables to tourist souvenirs. Even amber gemstones. Each stall here is a small cart, and the stall owner is dressed up in a fancy way, not looking at the goods placed on it, just this car. A good commodity in itself.

"What is this? Sapphire?" Amber is abundant in Dominica, and this thing Hong Tao knows, it is the same thing as rosin. However, there are still a lot of small transparent stones that glow blue in the sun. Hong Tao didn't know Portuguese, so he had to ask Lily. Let her ask the stall owner again. In fact, the main language in Dominica is Spanish, but Spanish is very similar to Portuguese. Hong Tao sounded the same.

"It's amber, blue amber!" Lily doesn't know Spanish either, but seriously, there are two languages, Spanish and Portuguese, which are the same as Shaanxi and Shanxi, except for some words, most of them are the same. So Lily's communication with the stall owner was not difficult, and she quickly gave Hong Tao an answer.

"Oh...... "Hong Tao remembered that he had heard of this kind of thing in the treasure appreciation program on TV in his previous life, it is also a kind of amber, after being irradiated by the light, it will appear different shades of blue, and it also has a fragrance. Hong Tao also picked up a round stone, rubbed it with his hand, and put it under his nose. Sure enough, there was a kind of botanical scent, and the stall owner, who was five big and three thick, watched his movements, did not stop it, and stretched out his thumbs to him, as if to praise him for being a true connoisseur.

"It should be true, do you like it?" Hong Tao let the stall owner boast, and immediately regarded himself as an expert and made a judgment of an expert.

"Hmm...... Well...... "......Some of the habits of girls are the same as those of crows, they love shiny, crystal clear things, and their eyes are already round, and now they can't help nodding, even Lily."

"Pick, limit five per person, and then the biggest and best will be provided to me, and the remaining four will be yours, and I'll go and see the lacquerware, this thing is also very beautiful." "Hong Tao is not interested in gemstones anymore, and in his house in the capital, there is a yard of shiny things, which are nothing more than different colors. He prefers the lacquerware on the stall next to him to these bejeweled blue stones.

Although these Indian-style lacquerware are not as delicate as those of China and Japan, the rough style of painting makes the black and red colors more visually impactful, and the animals and people on them are also more abstract, and the most interesting ones are not the same. Hong Tao looked at two or three nearby lacquerware stalls, and there were absolutely no identical goods, which shows a problem, these lacquerware are probably handmade, not industrial products.

"Hong, he told us to go with him to the shop on the street to buy amber, because he didn't have enough here. He said that there was not enough supply in the other stalls, and that all the scraps were sold here, and that the best amber was sold in the shops on that street, so should we go with him?"

By the way, you ask the boss if he knows about that street, if he knows, let's go over and see, if he doesn't know, then let's be honest. The first thought that came to Hong Tao's mind was a trap! Some people want to deceive themselves into a remote store by buying things, and then semi-force themselves to consume, this kind of trick he was exposed to a lot when he was a travel agency in his previous life. Could it be that this technology was not invented by the Chinese and already exists?

He said there was a street that specialized in amber and that most of the amber brought from the west would go into those shops and be processed before being sold to tourists. The stalls here are just a few scattered little amber, how about we, shall we go and have a look?" Lily clearly wanted to go, and the woman had little resistance to the shiny stones.

"Let's go, if it's too remote, I say stop, you must stop, and don't entangle with me when the time comes!" Hong Tao couldn't be 100% sure that the street was a black shop that was stealing customers, he felt that it didn't matter if he went to see it, as long as he arrived at the door of the store, he could roughly judge whether there was a problem with the store.

Gem Street, yes, it's called Gem Street in Spanish. Hearing Lily read the name of the street to herself, Hong Tao felt much more relieved, if the government here really wanted to change the name of the street in order to extort tourists, then Hong Tao would have no choice. No matter how strong an individual is, he can't fight the government, even if it is the government of a small country. It's a big deal to spend money to eliminate disasters, let you buy as much as you want, you can't still deduct people, as long as people's safety is okay, it's OK!

Hong Tao's vigilance seems to be a little too high, this street is very short, and there are main streets at both ends, and there is no problem of zài remoteness. Moreover, the shops here are all open for business, and there are many tourists coming in and out, both tour groups and individual tourists, and everyone's expressions are relatively natural, not like there is any trouble. Since it's no trouble, let's go inside.

"Holy! This is so beautiful, what is this? Pangolin? Why can't you carve such a thing as a leopard or something? A dolphin is better than a pangolin! Hey...... What about people? Why are they all running away!, let's see if you can find me when you pay the bill later!" As soon as he entered the door, Hong Tao was attracted by an animal sculpture placed in the middle of the room, and circled around it several times before he could figure out what this animal was. But when I wanted to ask Lily about the price written on the label, I turned my head, let alone Lily, none of the three women were gone, and they all ran to the counters around to choose their favorite gems, and no one paid attention to Hong Tao.

This sculpture seems to be made of a whole strip of blue amber as the material, and through the shape of the material, a vivid pangolin shape is carved. It has a curled tail and a 1 centimeter thick yellow rough skin attached to its feet, about 40 centimeters in length and about 20 centimeters in height. The material of the whole sculpture is very uniform, translucent, and with the difference in light and curved surface, there is also a blue tile color in the bones, as if it is reflected from the inside to the outside, which is very weird.

"You drip...... This one...... How much to give?" There was no translator to help me ask the price, but this little thing could stump Hong Taostan? Joke! I beckoned a waiter and tried it in English first, but it didn't work, she didn't understand! It didn't matter, she just took out a traveler's checkbook and used a pen to write the numbers up.

“…… 2000000…… Damn, you're not a pangolin, you're using it specifically to drill into bank vaults, aren't you? Two million dollars? He counted it twice, it was definitely a 2 followed by six zeros, this name can't be signed, even if he has a big head, he can't be so pitted, why is it two million......!