Leidy Brand, a small town in central South Africa, is also the closest South African town to Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. The entire central part of South Africa is a plateau and desert, and Leddy Brand is located in a valley on the southeastern edge of the plateau, which is small in size, with thousands of people, most of whom are Zulu, which is the main purpose of Thomas bringing Hong Tao here.

The ethnic composition of the Kingdom of Lesotho is predominantly black, with the Basuto and Zulu being the two largest ethnic groups, with the former currently in power. In this kind of society, which is still a small group of tribes, if you want to do things and do things smoothly, having money is only one aspect, and it is more important to find the right person.

The Zulu elder Thomas brought Hong Tao to find was named Rayaya, surnamed Raya, and in Chinese transliteration it was pronounced Laya Pulla Pull, and the back of the middle section of Hong Tao's body tightened as soon as he called this name.

Rayaya was about fifty years old, wearing a green T-shirt and a brightly colored skirt. When Hong Tao saw him, he was standing on the roof of the adobe house shaking the TV antenna, and it was obvious that there was something wrong with the TV signal.

"You said I'll help him fix the TV, won't he be better at talking?" Standing down with Thomas and looking up, Hong Tao felt a little silly, and planned to show his kindness.

"God knows what they think, you can try. Thomas didn't know the Rayaya either, and the two of them had gone to Johannesburg from Cape Town to find a black official before driving to the little village.

Hong Tao found a few empty beer cans from the trunk of the car and went up the ladder to the room. I tried it in English first, and I didn't understand Rayaya, so let's use my hands to gesticulate. This time, Rayaya understood, untied the wooden pole of the antenna, put it down, and stood aside to watch Hong Tao install the cans on the antenna.

"Wow Ka%&%*&" After the antenna stood up again, as soon as he turned a small half circle, a ball of flesh with bells and whistles rushed out of the room under his feet, standing in the yard and yelling at Rayaya, dancing with his hands outside. Then Rayaya grabbed Hong Tao's wrist, and the two of them climbed down the ladder.

"They're inviting you into the house to watch the game and have some tea. Thomas seemed to understand the Zulu people's words, and also got out of the car, hugged the meat ball first, and then beckoned Hong Tao into the house together.

Don't look at it as an adobe house, there is no furniture in the house, but it is very clean. In the corner of the room is an old Hitachi color TV, in which a football game is playing. It seems that it should be a local team in South Africa, and it will be like that, but Rayaya is very involved, and the tribal elder is still a football fan.

That's right, Rayaya is the largest Zulu elder, or chieftain, in this village. His people numbered nearly two thousand, with smaller elders and chiefs below. However, this is not an official position recognized by the state, but only by the people.

How to put it, Africa is basically like this, the government is the government, the officials are the officials, the chiefs are the chiefs, and they are both independent and unified with each other. If you want to do something, you have to consult with the local chief, and the local chief can't completely ignore the opinions of the local officials if he wants to do something. It is difficult for outsiders to understand how to grasp this kind of proportion, only they know.

South Africa is a relatively developed country, but it is still not completely smooth out on the issue of indigenous peoples. The black aborigines here are roughly divided into three states, the first is the black people living in the big cities, they are generally not very old, they have basically been assimilated or are being assimilated, and their own customs and culture are getting weaker and weaker.

The second type is the black people living in small villages and towns, who are old and young, and have assimilated things in their minds, but still maintain their own unique culture, and at the same time cannot do without modern life.

For example, the current Rayaya chieftain watches TV, wears a T-shirt, wears a watch, but also has Zulu skirts and tattoos. His wife, that is, the meat ball, is completely in national costume.

The most interesting thing is that he not only has a meat ball, but three, one is more fancy than the other, and the bright colors that can basically be seen can be reflected in the clothing.

The third is the aborigines who Hong Tao saw on the road who have not changed their living habits at all, they still live by grazing, and there are no modern technological products on their bodies, at most they are a pair of slippers, and most of them are still barefoot. However, there will be fewer and fewer such people, and there will be fewer and fewer suitable environments for them to live in.

"Thank you...... I'm enough. "Tea is not Chinese tea, it's English tea, with milk in it. In fact, Hong Tao doesn't care about the type of tea, he can drink anything. But the meat ball was pinched with his fingers and put the sugar into the teacup, and then he reached in and stirred, which made Hong Tao unable to drink.

Thomas is more particular than Hong Tao, every time he picks up the teacup, he puts it on his lips and gestures, doesn't drink it at all, and doesn't say anything to Rayaya, just stares at the phone and watches the game together. Fortunately, this game has already reached the second half, so there is not much time to wait.

It seems that the team supported by Rayaya should have won, and he was very happy, and with a wave of his hand after the game, the three meat balls brought a few plates of fruit, and he could finally get to the point.

It's a pity that getting into the main topic has nothing to do with Hong Tao, because Thomas and Rayaya speak Afrikaans English, that is, Afrikan. This thing belongs to the English language family, but it just belongs, and it's harder to understand than English anywhere else in the world. Compared with it, Australia's native turtle English is simply a pure London accent, and Hong Tao can understand three and a half sentences out of ten sentences, which is still nonsense with irrelevant content.

"He asked how many cows you could give...... After chatting for a while, Thomas finally remembered that there was still a flood sitting beside him, and it was time to spend money if he didn't want to get up.

"Give as many cattle as you can to achieve your goal, Australia has cattle, I can rent a ship to pull a boat for him. But when I got ashore, he had to drive him away, and I really didn't be a cowboy. Hong Tao tilted his head and thought about it, this thing didn't seem to be too difficult. A boatload of cattle is not much money, although the Zhou brothers are hateful, their lives are indeed worth this amount.

"Fortunately, you don't plan to come to South Africa to live for a long time, just this boatload of cattle can make several tribes fight......" asked to understand Hong Tao's bottom, Thomas gritted his teeth even more ruthlessly, and was more willing to hurry up and finish Hong Tao's affairs and let him get out.

A rich person is not terrible, and a person who will earn money wherever he goes is terrible. It would be even more terrible if it was replaced by a person who could make money and toss, Thomas didn't want Hong Tao to harm his homeland.

With the cow, the rest is much easier to talk about. In less than an hour, Thomas and Layaya's hands were clasped together, in a sense that a contract had been signed, a formal contract protected by the laws of the local clan, and no one was allowed to unilaterally change it.

A total of 30 cows are worth more than 300,000 South African rands, which is almost equivalent to 300,000 yuan. Five of the cows were the chief's commissions, and the other ten were the remuneration of the specific clerks. Ten more were used to buy weapons, and the last five were used to unblock local relations in Lesotho.

All this Rayaya broke his hands and told Thomas clearly, if Li Bing could not be caught, he could return fifteen cows, but the other fifteen could only be regarded as losses.

"Oh, it's not for me to catch it, are they reliable?" Hong Tao felt that it was not too enjoyable, and he had to borrow someone else's hand after tossing for so long.

In case these people didn't go to Lesotho at all, they told themselves that they didn't find anyone after ten days and half a month, and they didn't have anything to do, and this deal seemed to be a bit of a dead deal.

"This is South Africa, not Hong Kong or Beijing. As long as they promise, they will do it, and whether they succeed or not depends on God's will. Don't raise this kind of question in front of them in the future, it will cause big trouble. It's not that I don't want to take you there, but the faces of you and me are too eye-catching to hide anywhere. ”

Thomas almost came up to cover Hong Tao's mouth, but fortunately another ball game had already begun, and Rayaya was writhing to the sound of music on the TV to cheer for the team he supported, not paying attention to the conversation here.