"You go to Colombia to assemble first, and my people will come and collect your passports, and then arrange food and lodging, give pocket money, and when you need to go to work, I will naturally notify you. You can also use this time to recruit more fellow villagers. ”

Zhao Jinfu said: "Do you want to take away your passport? ”

"Of course. The reputation of your people there is frightening, and I don't know you, so I believe you based on your words, am I too mentally retarded? Plus the gems are so expensive, who took them and slipped away, I don't know where to go to be happy, where can I find them? Brother Zhao, you can not do it, just when we don't know each other, I will find a skilled worker through a labor export company, 400 US dollars a month is enough, and they are very reliable. ”

"Big brother, what you said is also the truth, I accept it."

"Okay, accept that you are my employees, you can't be called big brother in the future, you are not qualified enough. My surname is Xie, and I will be called Boss Xie in the future. Here's $20,000, and you can use it as a way to Colombia, or you can run away. ”

Zhao Jinfu said: "Boss, you trust me so much, how can I run away, I still want to earn a lot of 20,000 US dollars." ”

Xie Daxia smiled and said, "Yes, you are a smart person. Tell you, if the company mines emerald gemstones in the future, in addition to wages and subsidies, additional bonuses will be paid. If you can manage your fellow countrymen well, I will arrange for you to take on certain responsibilities and also have a job allowance. I'll give you the address to Colombia, and you'll call someone who has been in the Gulf of Mexico later. ”

After Zhao Jinfu passed, four people came over quickly, and one of them said, "Boss Xie." I'm Liu Xinbao. Is there anything you can do? ”

"Lao Liu. What did you do in the Gulf of Mexico before? ”

"I used to graduate from the domestic shipping academy, and started working as a crew member on a state-owned ocean-going cargo ship, and then I jumped to work on a Panamanian cargo ship, and worked for a few years, and was fired for smuggling my fellow countrymen, so I worked as a temporary crew member in the Gulf of Mexico, the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea and other waters. Because he did something illegal, he was wanted by the coast guard, so he came here. ”

The hero asked, "Are you familiar with the waters in that area?" ”

"I've been mixing in these waters for more than 10 years. It's familiar. I have more than 200 brothers under my command, and I am not familiar with them, but they are familiar with them, otherwise they would not have been able to do that. ”

"Are you fighting with open fire or are you traveling at night?"

"It can only be a night walk, and I don't dare to do anything that is open to fire."

"I've been doing it for so long, why did it suddenly capsize?"

"The main thing is that it shouldn't be smooth, the owner of the cargo is big, and the coast guard can't cover it. We usually have a good relationship with the coast guard, and we have a lot of filial piety to them, and we are very familiar with each other. ”

The hero asked, "Lao Liu." Would you like to go back to that water? ”

"Not for now, wait a few months. You can only go when the wind is not tight. ”

"Would you like to do something for me?"

"You want to go with things too? No way? ”

Xie Daxia smiled and said: "I want to follow things, but I don't want to follow things." ”

Liu Xinbao said: "Do you want to salvage the sunken ship?" That's a good idea, there are a lot of shipwrecks in that water, even in the Panama Canal, there are a lot of shipwrecks. ”

"How many years has the Panama Canal been open, what gold and silver treasures will be in those shipwrecks? We wanted to go along the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. When you don't need to salvage on the high seas, you just want to go to other people's territorial waters for salvage, and you want your people to watch the wind, and you want those coast guards or navies to go farther. ”

Liu Xinbao said: "This is not difficult, as long as there is a fast boat and a satellite phone, there is no problem to look at the wind." It's easier to bribe those public officials, and money can make the devil grind. ”

Xie Daxia said: "Don't take it all over, what I want is foolproof." You must first find out the cruising routes and times of the coast guard and navy vessels, and formulate a corresponding action plan. One of our salvage ships, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is confiscated and the matter of causing international disputes is small. ”

"Boss Xie, let me be in charge of these, I may not be able to do it, you send some people in charge over, and I and the brothers can follow the bowl of rice to eat."

"You can't eat it together, but you have to take it as a thing, maybe the brothers will make a small fortune." That's it, after a while, I'll send someone to contact you, choose an island on the high seas as a base, put all the equipment in place, and start working. The preparations are all done, and then the company's salvage ship will be notified. ”

Liu Xinbao said: "Okay, I'll leave your contact information." ”

Daxia said: "This matter involves a wide range of aspects, and we must pay attention to confidentiality. ”

"Yes, don't worry."

"Do I want to give you some living expenses?"

"No, we still don't lack living expenses. Thank you, boss, let's go. ”

"Okay, you guys can go, I'll buy it alone."

After Zhao Jinfu and the others left, Wuyang asked: "Hero, do you really want to mine gems in Colombia?" ”

"I've been in touch for a long time, so I'm waiting for you to come and choose a place."

Wuyang said: "I'm not going, let Hu Minbo or Dapeng come over." We have only flown for more than three hours in such good weather today, and if the weather is bad, won't it be delayed for ten days and half a month? ”

"No, if the weather is normal, there are two days left on the west coast, and in the south we can only go to the Malvinas Islands, fly from Argentina to the east coast, and go to the Caribbean in two days. The key is that there are many islands in the Caribbean Sea, the situation is complicated, and we don't know where the ancient shipping lanes are, so we can only find them in the entire sea area, and it will definitely take more time. ”

"Otherwise, we will fly directly to the Caribbean Sea tomorrow, other coastlines, and wait for Dapeng to come, I always feel that there will be not enough time."

The hero smiled and said: "If you don't want to go, don't go, it's okay to leave something for young people to do." However, you're going to miss out on our tuna farm. ”

Wuyang said: "Isn't tuna caught in the sea, why do you still need to raise it?" ”

"It's a method that has only been adopted in the last 10 years, and tuna is delicious and expensive. Heavily fished. If this approach is not employed. It is difficult to catch a large amount of tuna. ”

"Bluefin tuna too?"

"No, they don't live in the same waters, although they belong to the same family. However, looking at the current trend, it must also be raised. ”

Pei Lei said: "Hero, tell me how to raise it." ”

"In the South Pacific, it's common to see tuna hunting in a large body of water, and sardines are tuna's favorite. So people take advantage of this characteristic of them, and set up cages in a certain body of water in advance, that is, the kind of net bags connected by metal mesh, with a minimum length of 8 sides of 100 meters, and a maximum possible width of more than 500 meters. People first catch a lot of sardines, and when they find out where there are tuna activities, they set up cages not far away, and then scatter the sardines into the water, and when the tuna is attracted to them, they surround them with nets. But instead of catching, let the underwater cowboy introduce the fish into the cage. The fish are small. Use the set up cage, and if the fish are large, the cage will be lengthened and widened. Once settled, it's time to feed the sardines. After 6 months, the weight of these tuna will increase by 3 or 4 times, and it will be a qualified commercial fish. ”

Wuyang smiled and said, "Hero, I really want to go and see it." ”

Xie Daxia said: "There is indeed something to do this time, let's go back when it is time to catch tuna, that scene is even more pleasant." ”

Pei Lei said: "That kind of killing scene, what's there to see, don't go." ”

The hero smiled and said: "The scene is a little bloody, but it's hundreds of millions of dollars." ”

Wuyang said: "The blood is all flowing in the sea, and your cage must be strong, otherwise a few great white sharks will run in and swallow the fish and the underwater cowboys." ”

"The cage must be sturdy enough, or it would have been broken by the big guys. Wuyang, you go to the forests of Colombia to see? ”

Wuyang shook his head, and Pei Lei said, "Do you want to go to Aizhong's and Aihua's house?" ”

"If there's no big deal, let's not go. Hero, I heard that there are big catfish in the Amazon River, and I want to go fishing. ”

The hero said: "I thought you were thinking about something big, but you were thinking about fishing." Let me tell you, I don't have a week to think about it. Besides, there are very few big catfish in it, but there are many piranhas. After retirement, I will accompany you to fish for half a year. Wuyang, you are in the system, if you follow the current development momentum, I am afraid that you will retire in the future, and you will not have the opportunity to go wherever you want like me. Let's go to the Galapagos Islands, which are not far from here, only 970 kilometers from the South American coast, and on the equatorial line, where Darwin discovered the origin of species. There are some sea areas that you don't have time to see this time, so let Dapeng come to see it later. ”

Wuyang said, "Aren't there just some volcanic islands?" ”

Daxia said: "It's true that all of them are volcanic islands, but volcanic islands are divided into old volcanic islands and new volcanic islands, and there are a few that are not old or new. ”

"Okay, let's see. How many days does it take? ”

"If you want to play, you can play for 5 or 10 days, anyway, there are hotels on the island, there are things to play on the water and land, as well as your favorite fishing and hunting projects."

Wuyang said: "It's all developed there." ”

"Yes, there are more than 30,000 long-term residents, and more than 2 million people travel every year."

"It's not strange to be able to fish on the beach, how can you still hunt?"

The hero said: "Hunting can only hunt goats." In order to have a stable food supply, the former pirates and early immigrants brought goats from the mainland to raise, and later they became wild goats, and when the number increased, the original species of tortoises on the island were eaten up by the grass, and the locals could only organize hunting. Most of them have been killed, and the rest are now a tourist attraction for tourists. There are equipment and helicopters to rent in the hunting grounds, and the goats can be eaten and taken away or mailed as jerky. ”

Wuyang smiled: "It's just for fun, who wants those goats." ”

Pei Lei said: "The hero has arranged it this way, and I will also go to Brazil to see it this time, so I will go to Rio de Janeiro, and I will ask the families of Aizhong and Aihua to meet." ”

Wuyang said, "I didn't have any gifts for me." ”

"It's okay, just send the money."

Xie Daxia said: "Since you are in Rio de Janeiro, let's go to the gem mining area from there, and I will ask Zhao Jinfu to bring someone to show us the way." ”

Wuyang said: "It's all up to you." ”

Xie Daxia said: "I've listened to you for more than 10 years, and you shouldn't listen to me once." We'll go back to the airport now and see if the pilot can fly. ”

Several people returned to the airport. Find the pilot at the guesthouse. The pilot said: "It's been two hours of rest." It's time to fly, I'll go refuel the plane right away. Mr. Xie, please go and ask the flight attendant to prepare food and water. ”

The flight attendant used to work in an airline and was poached by Xie Daxia for several years. Wuyang has been on several planes and is familiar with her. She is very beautiful and the service is very warm and thoughtful. According to Xie Daxia, he is already married and has children, so he didn't say much else. Wuyang doesn't need to know.

Two hours later, the plane took off. Although it is an aircraft produced by Bombardier Canada, the performance is the best, but the speed is not very fast. The cabin was modified very luxuriously, but it did not leave a good impression on Wuyang. However, this time it was different because it was flying at the equatorial line, so there was no strong air current, and the flight was very smooth.

When you get to the Galapagos Islands, there are several ocean currents that converge, both warm and cold. The temperature here is not very high. Xie Daxia was obviously familiar with this place, and after arranging a place to stay. He said, "It's still 3 hours before it gets dark, so let's go see the creatures here." ”

I rented a speedboat, called the pilot and flight attendant, and set off. Soon after the speedboat sailed, he saw a large flock of warship birds swooping into the sea, and the hero said: "That's fishing, there must be schools of fish in the sea." ”

Dan said: "What if the warship bird dives so much, what if it crashes into the reef? ”

Daxia said: "Generally, you won't hit the reef, but it's possible, and if you do, you're dead." The most feared thing about frigate birds is not the reef, but the waves, which have long wings and are easily injured by the waves. If you hurt your wings, you will either starve to death or be eaten by crabs. ”

Pei Lei said: "It's a pity that such a beautiful bird. ”

Daxia said: "No way, this is the law of nature." ”

After walking for a while, I saw a lizard jumping into the sea on the steep rock, and the hero introduced: "This is a sea iguana, they dive into the water to eat the seaweed on the rock." Because there is a cold Peruvian current and the water temperature is very low, if the sea iguana does not come up after diving for 10 minutes, its muscles will freeze and it will never come up. ”

Wuyang said: "Hero, you still know a lot about this." ”

The hero smiled and said: "I used to follow the fleet, and I always came to see it when I passed by, many times. ”

The flight attendant smiled and said, "Mr. Xie, we don't understand anyway, what you say is what it is." ”

Xie Daxia smiled "hehe" and didn't speak. Wuyang thought, the relationship between these two people is definitely not as simple as the boss and the employee, if it is just a working relationship, although Xie Daxia has a good temper and is very easy-going, the flight attendant will definitely not say so.

After a while, the hero said, "On the active volcano over there, there are land iguanas, and they have to rely on the residual heat of the volcanic ash to hatch the lizards. In fact, whether it is a marine iguana or a land iguana, they all come from the mainland, and due to the different living environments, the living habits are also different, the shapes and colors are also different, and the other creatures here are also like this, which is the inspiration for Darwin's theory of the origin of species. ”

Pei Lei smiled: "The hero has studied quite deeply. ”

The hero smiled and said: "Let you sail on the sea for half a month, the sea is blue, the sky is blue, do you also have to find something to do?" What's more, I like animals the most, and when I'm at home, I have to watch animal programs on TV stations. ”

Wuyang said: "If you are admitted to university, you will definitely become a naturalist like Darwin." ”

"It's all over, don't dream about it."

When I arrived at a natural wharf, I stopped the boat and landed on the shore, and the vegetation on the shore was scarce, with only a little grass, and the terrain was still very flat. Wuyang asked, "Hero, what are we going to do here?" ”

"Look at the tortoise. Galapagos is a transliteration of Spanish tortoise, and if you don't see a tortoise here, you haven't been here. ”

Everyone listened to him and followed. After walking 3 or 4 kilometers, the hero still said "it's almost there", but he didn't see a single tortoise. Even when the afternoon sun was about to retreat, he suddenly saw a pond in front of him. Xie Daxia said: "That's it, see it, those who flew into the water are small frigate birds, they use their wings to dip in water to drink, and the tortoises just go down to the pond to drink." ”

Pei Lei asked, "Is this fresh water?" ”

"Yes. There are very few islands in the Galapagos archipelago that have freshwater. It rains a lot, but because it's all volcanic lava, the rain seeps into the ground. Because it is a basin, the rain washes down some very small rocks and blocks the holes in the lava to hold the water. Otherwise, the tortoise would not have been able to live. ”

Approach the pond. Sure enough, I saw a few tortoises drinking water. Xie Daxia said: "This kind of tortoise can go months without drinking water, and it can drink water even if it has it." There is also a species of tortoise, which grows taller in front of the shell than this one, and can not drink water, but only absorbs water from the plant. This species of tortoise also has a long lifespan, living for more than 100 years. ”

The flight attendant said, "Our turtles there can live for a thousand years." ”

Daxia said: "Living for a thousand years is just a legend, in fact, it is about two hundred years." And this longevity is relative to other species. El Niño happens every few years, and land iguanas, sea iguanas, and birds die a lot every time. ”

Wuyang said: "Hero, you said that this was once a pirate's lair? ”

"Yes, since the 16th century, there have been piracy, robbing merchant ships of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, etc. Because this is the equatorial line, the wind is calm, plus the Caribbean pirates are rampant. They would rather go to the Pacific Ocean, but they didn't expect that there were pirates here. ”

Wuyang said: "Hero." Now you're in trouble again. ”

"Aren't I just doing things? You can arrange whatever you want. ”

Wuyang pulled him aside and whispered, "There's a cliff on the other side of the pond, see?" ”

"No, it's all woods, how can there be cliffs?"

Wuyang said: "It is blocked by the trees under the cliff, and you can see when you get closer, there are more than a dozen caves in that row, and there are gold, silver and jewels in them, and you have to dig them out and transport them back." ”

The hero smiled: "You are not short of gold and silver jewelry, do you have any emeralds and gemstones?" ”

"Nope."

"Okay, I'll find a way to get it back later. Wuyang, how much can you give me? ”

Wuyang smiled: "You can send those with cultural relics value to the museum, and give you the rest, okay?" But if you find a gem, don't ask. ”

"That's not good, it's an ownerless thing, those who see it have a share, it's a big deal I don't want these things."

"How dare you gamble on that ethereal thing?"

Daxia said: "Anyway, I don't have many of these things, and I don't have a lot of them, so it doesn't matter, why not gamble." ”

"Okay, you remember this position, let's go."

The hero said: "Wuyang, you underestimate people, right?" It's been more than ten years, when did I miss you? ”

After boarding the boat and walking a few hundred meters, Wuyang stopped the boat. The coast here is a cliff, and there are a lot of white guano on it, others don't understand it, but Xie Daxia is very clear, "Wuyang, do you want me to go?" What to bring? ”

"Find some plastic bags and follow me for rock climbing."

There was so much guano on the rocks that it was slippery to step on, so you had to clean it by hand before you could climb it up ladder by ladder. Fortunately, it is not high, and it took a few meters to get there. There are two little petrels in the rock cave, they have not yet grown hair, and the head of the afternoon sun is outside the cave, and the little petrel thinks that their parents have returned, and they are waiting to be fed with their mouths wide open. Wuyang ignored them and reached for the bag inside. After a long time, I don't know what material the bag has rotted, and when I touch it, it cracks, and the gems inside are scattered. Xie Daxia also climbed up, handed over the plastic bag, and Wuyang hurriedly put it into the plastic bag.

There are just two plastic bags, the plastic bags are not big, they are the kind that can hold 10 catties when you buy rice in the supermarket. Wuyang handed one to the hero and began to walk down.

Xie Daxia said: "Wuyang, is there anything else?" ”

"Also, there are cabbages in your garden."

"Hehe, there are so many, it's enough, but I'm afraid I won't be able to sell it."

"You'd better worry about whether you can get back on the speedboat."

Gritting the plastic bag with their teeth, the two of them started walking down with their hands and feet. It's not easier to get down a cliff than to go up. Fortunately, both of them are strong in martial arts, and if they didn't have to protect the plastic bag in their mouths, they could have done it by jumping.

This thing can't be hidden from everyone, everyone comes around to watch. The small gems are only the size of a grain of rice, one or two carats, and the large ones are the size of a pigeon's egg, with 5 or 60 grams.

Daxia said: "Wuyang, this kind of emerald gemstone, must be processed into jewelry, the price is high, and the processing is not good for less than 10 carats." In this way, I only need more than 15 carats, and the rest will be calculated for you, and it will be expensive to put it in the processing plant for processing. ”

"Whatever you want." Wuyang divided half of it and asked him to take it down, he thought it was for him, and Wuyang didn't say anything. The hero will be responsible for mining gem mines, if he wants, there is always a way to get it, it is better to give it to him now, this is also in line with the rules of the seeer. (To be continued......)