966.The Hazais (5/5)

The African grasslands are endless, and all the grasslands in this season seem to be exactly the same in Li Du's eyes, if he is the only one, he has already lost his way.

Fortunately, there is no need for him to discern the direction here, Apodu leads the way, he is a living map of the steppe, remembering the way back.

But man is not a machine after all, and sometimes he makes mistakes on the way, so they have to stop and rest for a while, and Apodu wanders around for a while to find his way back.

After walking for a while, Li Du saw a rare lush forest on the grassland appear in front of him, so he reminded the lion hunter: "Are we going wrong again?"

The lion hunter took a puff of his cigar to communicate with the lion hunter, and when he returned, he shook his head and said, "That's right, Apodu wants to find something here." ”

The forest covers a wide area, hundreds of hectares, and there are trees that Li Du does not recognize, all of which are tall and still have green and yellow leaves in this season.

There were fallen leaves on the ground, and as soon as they walked in, Meow suddenly jumped sideways, and with a wave of its paws in the air, a poisonous snake that was probing down was caught and thrown down.

Seeing this, the lion hunter hurriedly said, "Be careful!"

Soon after his voice fell, a black man appeared behind a tree, his hands clasped to his chest, watching them warily.

It was already approaching evening, the light was not so strong, and the trees were not well seen because of the branches and leaves.

In this way, a black man suddenly jumped out, Li Du was startled, and subconsciously wanted to pull out a gun.

But the black man did not show aggression, he jumped out and did not speak, but just looked at them with his hands on his chest, and behind him, another young black man came out and looked at them in the same pose.

Li Du asked, "What's going on?"

The lion hunter said lazily, "Don't you recognize them? ”

Li Du immediately reacted and said, "People from the Hazai tribe?"

The lion hunter nodded.

There were no signs on these two people, no paint was smeared, Li Du could not distinguish their identities, and in his opinion, there was no difference between the black people of the Zulu ethnic group and these people.

The Apodu man turned back and said something, and the lion hunter said, "They must have come to find honey too, we are competitors now, guys be careful." ”

Li Du said: "Looking for honey?"

"This is a forest of large-leaved trees, and bee colonies like to nest in such a place, and there are several bee colonies living in this forest, and it produces very good quality honey. ”

The Hazais have a different kind of pursuit of honey, and every day when hunting, they will pay attention to finding the hives and then go to collect honey.

Looking at the Hazais on the other side, who did not show aggression but also did not show good intentions, Li Du asked, "What now? It won't dry up because of honey, right?"

The lion hunter said contemptuously, "These bastards dare to do anything to us? with their javelins and bows and arrows? ”

The bodyguard who had been frightened by the leopard took the opportunity to behave, he loaded the rifle and said, "I can handle twenty by myself!"

Li Du waved his hand and said, "Don't always want to conflict, how can you explain it?"

The lion hunter continued to say contemptuously, "Who understands the language of this primitive man? ”

"Dear friends, we have the language. A word of fluent English rang out, and another black man came out.

It was the leading man who spoke, burly, muscular, and covered with the skin of an animal, which Li Du couldn't tell exactly, but he could see that the animal was not small, because the skin area was very large.

Seeing the animal skin on this man's body, the lion hunter put away his contemptuous expression and said, "Can you speak English? Are you the leader of this tribe?"

Brother Wolf whispered, "The chief of the Zulu people wears leopard skins, the leaders of the Hazai people wear baboon skins, and this man wears baboon skins. ”

The lion hunter put his right hand on his forehead and patted his heart again, and said to the man, "I am a Zulu lion hunter, what should I call you?"

The black man replied with a courtesy and said, "I am a vagabond from Hazai, and my English name is Chicks." ”

The lion hunter said, "You have a higher education?"

Cheeks smiled, "I was fortunate enough to be adopted by well-wishers as a child and went to school in the United States. ”

Hearing him say that he was going to school in the United States, Li Du became interested and asked, "I live in the United States a lot of time now, which school do you attend?"

University of California, San Francisco. Cheeks said, "You are?"

Li Du is embarrassed, a black person of an African indigenous nation is better than him, in fact, the University of California is the world's top school, and this black man is very great academically.

Cheeks had an American-style education, so everything was simple.

The two sides talked, and the lion hunters said they wanted to come here to find some honey too.

Cheeks beckoned in a friendly manner, "Then let's go together, my people are preparing to hunt for honey, and you are welcome to join our team." ”

They went deep into the woods together and saw more black Hazai, the number of which was tentatively estimated to be twenty or thirty.

These people were making ladders, and they were making hemp ropes from the weeds they had picked from the grasslands, and they were tying strong sticks with ropes to make ladders that were combined into one long ladder.

There were two black women circling around a big tree, singing softly while circling in a circle, what they were singing Li Du didn't understand, but the tone was quite good.

Soon after Li Du and the others appeared, two men who were weaving straw ropes stood up, walked up to Cheeks, and said a few words.

Cheeks raised his head and looked at Li Du and his party in surprise: "My clan got a porcupine in the morning, it turned out that you gave it to us?"

Li Du didn't recognize the two men, first, they looked similar, and second, when they met at that time, the two black men were wearing weed camouflage suits similar to auspicious suits.

But according to Cheeks, these two are the same two people who hunted porcupines.

When he learned that Chicks and the others were Hazai, he estimated that the two sides would meet, because the Hazai tribe was very small, only a few thousand people.

Most of the Haza'is live in Tanzania, and very few migrate to South Africa, so they don't come across two Khaza'i tribesmen so chancely.

With this relationship, both parties feel more friendly with each other.

The two women were still singing in circles around the tree, and after singing for a while they left the place and went to another tree and continued to sing in circles.

Knowing that Li Du and the others were full of doubts, Cheeks took the initiative to explain: "This is a tradition of our Haza'i people, singing repeatedly before collecting honey to comfort the angry bees and then reduce the risk of being stung. ”

Li Du asked, "Is it useful?"

Cheeks laughed and said, "It's tradition. ”

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