1028.The Serpent Tribe (2/5)
The policemen thought they had a plan, and they looked at Li Du and the miners triumphantly.
As a result, the police who searched Li Du tried hard, but they found nothing except some daily necessities and tools, and there were no diamonds in it!
The police searched him, and searched other people's luggage and body, but to no avail.
In the end, Sophie was left without searching, and the young man named Scotty smiled and reached out to her, and Brother Wolf kicked him to the ground, shoving the muzzle of the gun directly into his mouth.
The policemen were furious, and Li Du was even more furious, he pointed at the group and shouted: "Who dares to try it! I swear that I will throw you all into prison! Your family! Your children! My mercenaries will definitely treat them well!"
The atmosphere became tense again, and the tall policeman had a hideous expression, and he looked at Li Du viciously.
Li Du didn't give an inch, and looked at him with more ferocious eyes.
After a confrontation, the tall policeman took a step back first, and he said angrily: "Close, let's go!"
Watching the policemen leave in a daze, the black people around Buick suddenly let out cheers: "Long live the god Jibra!"
Buick walked over with a smile, and he was just about to speak, Li Du preemptively said: "Pack up your things, let's go quickly, and get out of here first!"
He was worried about what the police were up to.
Buick gave the order, and the people followed his instructions and left the abandoned mine with carts, sacks, and leather bags.
On the way, Buick said to Li Du: "You have helped us a lot, Mr. Li, please come to our tribe as a guest, we have to thank you." ”
Li Du asked, "Are you from a tribe?"
Buick smiled: "Yes, we are the Jibula tribe, but Jibra is our language, you may not understand what it means, in English, we are the snake tribe." ”
Li Du thought about it and agreed to his request, he just wanted to find someone to understand the distribution of diamond mines in this area, Buick and others should be able to help him.
No wonder Buick is so authoritative among these blacks, they are all from one tribe, Buick is still the chief, everyone else is his people.
When the police appeared, the Jibula tribe confronted the police after they arrived at the Buick, and those who fled across the river were not from the Jibra tribe.
They suffered heavy losses this time, and all the gains of several months were robbed.
Speaking of which, Buick thanked Li Du again, and Li Du waved his hand and said: "It's nothing, I'll do you a favor, by the way, why are the police so dark?"
Buick sighed and said: "That's how they are, they will come to the mine every once in a while to loot, we have no choice but to ask the god Jibra to bless us and not touch them." ”
He introduced Li Du to this kind of thing, this kind of thing is a common thing, and they often encounter it.
After the diamond mines went bankrupt and were abandoned, the poor people from the surrounding villages and tribes often came here to try their luck.
It is unlikely that they will find a diamond, and they often work hard for a month or two to harvest a small diamond, and sell it for money, and the family's expenses depend on it.
When the police found out that they had made a profit, they started to buy and sell, and the surrounding police would come and loot them every once in a while, and find a random reason to drive them away and leave their diamonds.
For example, this time, the police said that there was a mudslide after the heavy rain, which sounded good, but in fact, they wanted to use the excuse to drive them away and loot the diamonds.
As the number of times increases, fewer and fewer people come here to look for ore, but there are always people who are short of money to try their luck, and the police will attack them and make a fortune.
The police call this practice 'wheat harvesting', which means cutting one stubble and another stubble.
Li Du nodded in understanding, and he said, "Is there any pattern for the police to act every time?"
Buick said: "There is no time regularity, they will install some people as spies, and the spies do not look for diamonds, but look at our harvest, and if they find that we have a lot of harvest, they will notify the police to come and cut the wheat." ”
Li Du suddenly said, "When we first met, you expelled us, just treating us as spies?"
Buick smiled awkwardly: "Yes, we are always more wary of strangers." ”
No wonder they are vigilant, they have gained a good harvest during this time, they have found diamonds, and what they are most afraid of is that the police will raid and loot.
Besides, it is obvious that there are indeed spies among them, but the spies are not Li Du and others.
The Jibula tribe to which Buick belongs is not far from the mine, about more than 20 kilometers away.
They were accustomed to walking mountain roads, and even pushing the cart was very fast, and it took less than three hours for them to return to the tribe.
The Jibula tribe was different from the tribe Li Du had seen before, more like a village.
The houses of the tribesmen were grouped together, surrounded by a wooden wall covered with vines.
There are cars and motorcycles coming in and out of the door, and people are dressed more modernly, no longer wearing straw skirts and animal skins.
This is the common South African tribe, and now all the tribes are civilized, and people are no longer drinking blood as before, but communicating with the outside world, and becoming more and more modern.
Approaching the tribe, Li Du wanted to take pictures, but as soon as he approached the wall, he first saw two colorful snakes slowly shuttling among the vines.
Subconsciously, he said, "Hey, there's a snake on the wall, everyone be careful." ”
But soon he reacted again, this may be normal, Buick said that the English name of the Jibra tribe is the snake tribe, and the snake may be their totem.
He told Buick about his guess, and Buick laughed and said, "You guessed wrong, the snake is not our totem, it is our source of food and money." ”
Entering the tribe, Li Du first saw a large flat square, on which some women and children were drying white flowers and round things.
These are skinned snakes, and Buick says the dried snake meat is sent to restaurants in the city, and the snakeskins are sold to handicraft shops.
"The most valuable thing is the poisonous snake serum, which is very expensive, it used to be as expensive as diamonds, but it is dangerous and difficult to obtain poisonous snake serum, and now some people have started to breed poisonous snakes in captivity, and the price of the serum has decreased, and we have no money. Buick shook his head as he spoke.
The Jibra tribe now has two ways to make money, one is to catch and sell snakes, and the other is to find broken diamonds.
When he arrived at the tribe and everything was safe, Li Du took out the diamond from his backpack and handed it to Buick.
Buick distributed it to everyone according to the markings on the pouches, and cheers were remembered around them.
After handing out the diamonds, Buick said curiously: "Mr. Li, where did you hide the diamonds just now?" I thought they would search your backpack and find it. ”
Li Du pointed to a hidden compartment in his backpack and said, "In this, fortunately they are careless, otherwise our losses will indeed be great." ”