Chapter 558: Worms Fall from the Sky
"Holy! This is a unicorn! Anaya! Anaya! Come down and see, what this thing is! Hong Tao didn't use the fat man's cloth fingers, and at a glance he saw the big beetle lying in the bucket.
The guy's body was the size of an adult's palm, and the pair of elytra on his back were earthy yellow, with some small black dots, and the most strange thing was not that it was too big, but that its head had two long black horns, the upper one was long and the head was connected to one, almost the same length as the body, and the lower one was slightly shorter.
In his previous life, Hong Tao talked about similar big beetles in the flower, bird, fish and insect market in Guanyuan, they were all sold as pets, he only remembered that there was a kind of beetle with only one horn on its head, and the label attached by the merchant was a one-horned fairy, as for the name of the guy with two horns in front of him, he didn't know what to say, and he had to ask Anaya.
"Oh!! Madonna! You got rich, where did you get it? Anaya also woke up Hong Tao, and before he could get out of the hammock, he was screaming from above.
"yes, fatty, where did you get this thing?" Hong Tao also thought of this problem at this time, the boat was tied under the tree, and there was water all around, where did the fat man get this kind of bug.
"My grandson went to catch it! I'm lying down reading a book, and this thing falls off it, and it hits the book, and then it falls into the bucket, and you see, the cover of the book has a cut, and if it falls on my face, I'll be out of shape! The fat man shook off the Amazon fish atlas with his hand, and pointed to a common opening on it.
"This is called a gift from heaven, which of you has a ruler?" Anaya and the sturgeon both crawled out of the hammock, and Anaya grabbed the big beetle from the stab of the fish, but it did not recognize it, and soon after it fell, it began to gnaw at the bodies of the fish, and at this time it still had a small piece of fish meat in its mouth. While struggling with his teeth and claws, he swallowed the fish.
"I've got it here!" Hong Tao and sturgeon they all carry a ruler, which is a necessary equipment for going out fishing, used to measure how long the fish is caught, how much bust and so on, usually a keychain, very convenient to hang on clothes.
"You can help me measure how long it is, measure it carefully, accurate to the millimeter, this is related to its price!" Anaya placed the beetle on the deck and struggled to hold it down. Then he commanded Hong Tao to use a small tape measure to give the beetle a height from beginning to end.
"17.4 centimeters." Hong Tao made several comparisons and finally settled on a reading.
"No problem, at least you can sell it for 10,000 reais, you have made a fortune!" Anaya was so excited to see this reading that he asked Hong Tao to make a few small loopers out of waste fishing line, then tied the beetle's two long straight horns, and wrapped six long barbed legs around a ball of fishing line so that it could no longer struggle, and then found an empty bucket. Put it in.
"Is this thing worth 10,000 reais?" Hong Tao was very surprised when he heard Anaya's words, although this thing is kept as a pet in many places in the world, but 10,000 reais is about 3,000 US dollars. And it's in the place of origin, if it is sent to the United States or Europe to sell, the price must not be increased tenfold!
"Definitely, there are acquirers in Manaus. More than 15 centimeters is worth the price, and this should only be worth more, but I don't know much about it. Specifically, you have to ask, its body shape, the shape of the horns are all factors of the price, when the time comes, I will find an expert to help you sell, just give him a little commission. Anaya carefully closed the lid on the empty bucket, drew a knife, and poked several holes in the lid of the plastic bucket as vents.
"Can we bring it back to China?" Hong Tao asked a very brain-dead question.
"It should be impossible, this kind of rhinoceros insect is strictly forbidden to be exported, after those black market merchants buy it back, they will not directly smuggle the adult worm, but will wait for it to lay eggs and become meat worms before smuggling it out of the river, those meat worms are very quiet, as long as you put some leaves or hide in the wood, you can survive for a long time, you directly take this big guy I am afraid that you will not even be able to pass the airport security check, and you will be fined after being discovered!" Anaya shook her head, rejecting Hong Tao's hypothesis.
"That's it, fatty, do you have any opinions? This bug is here for you, and you should be its guardian. Hong Tao handed over the final disposition to Fat Zibu.
"I think let's stop fishing, let's catch some of these insects and sell them, you don't need to catch more, just one a day is enough!" Fat Man Cloth can sell for $3,000 for a bug, and Franklin's head is about to appear on both eyes.
"Do you think Brazilians are stupid? If Anaya could catch a bug every day, would he still use the hotel to earn this hard money? The sturgeon was lying on the bucket looking at the big beetle inside, and when he heard the fat man's words, he immediately retorted.
"Yes! Anyway, I can't bring it back, just sell it, we don't understand this way, if you want me to say that this Anaya is really good, if he tells us that this worm he will take back and raise it for himself, we will give it to him, let him watch it. Fat Bu also affirmed Anaya's character.
"That's it, it's an accident, should I fish or fish, by the way, Anaya, is this kind of bug easy to catch?" Hong Tao also let the fat man cloth pull his IQ down, and he didn't forget to ask Anaya a mentally handicapped question after the last time.
"There are fewer and fewer of them, especially the big ones, they all live in the leaves and tree hollows deep in the rainforest, and they only fly out when mating, and they can fly a distance of tens of kilometers at most, and it is difficult to come across such a large one. Even I have only seen rhinoceros insects of this size when I was a child, and you have been blessed by God. Anaya kept drawing a cross on his chest, probably praying to his Virgin Mary and Heavenly Father to give him a big worm too!
Since there is no hope of catching insects, it is better to fish or fish, the nap has been stirred up by the big bugs, but everyone does not feel sleepy, if you can exchange it for 3,000 dollars if you sleep less, Hong Tao can insist on not taking a nap for decades.
As the saying goes, blessings are not double, disasters are not one-way, after making a lot of money in vain, Hong Tao and their afternoon fishing experience was not smooth. First of all, there was a problem with the bait, the watermelon was Lou, and the melon pulp inside was rotten, leaving only a layer of melon skin. The skin of the melon is the skin of the melon, anyway, those fish are not so particular, and some of them are good to eat.
When the bait is thrown into the water, there are indeed fish to bite the bait, but not Tampaki, but a small half-foot-long trash fish, which looks a bit like a mixture of crucian carp and bream, which the locals call Guolimba, one of the few vegetarian fish in the Amazon basin.
The main reason why this tributary can catch Tampaki is because the banks of the river are covered with a kind of palm tree, and the palm fruit on the tree will fall into the water, this fruit has a hard shell, and only a fish like Tampaki can bite through the hard shell outside, so there are more Tampaki fish gathered here.
But before it was the turn of the slower-moving Tampaki to swim over and eat the watermelon rinds, the Golimpas had already taken the bait, and the more they fished, the more the watermelon rinds that were bitten by the fish formed a nest, attracting more Golimpa to scramble.
"Forget it, it's not early, we picked up a lot of money for nothing today, why don't we go back early to celebrate, let's drink more in the evening!" Hong Tao has been annoyed by those fruit limbas, and he has no interest in fishing, and he has no energy when he sees the fat cloth and the sturgeon, so he has to suggest today's fishing in advance, anyway, there is still time tomorrow, so he is not in a hurry.
There was a little accident that day, the fishing operation had to be temporarily suspended, the five barrels of gasoline that were originally planned to be transported two days later were brought in advance by a passing cargo ship, Anaya because they had to wait for the cargo ship, they could no longer accompany Hong Tao and them out of the city to fish, not only today, but I am afraid that tomorrow will be enough to choke, because he still has to drive his small boat to send the five barrels of gasoline to Barcelus upstream, which is more than 70 kilometers away from the Grand River Hotel one way, and it is impossible for Anaya to make a round trip in a day.
But it's not too much of a problem, Anaya said that if they want to continue fishing, they will be accompanied by the young men from the hotel, who have also grown up on the banks of the Negro River since childhood, and used to accompany tourists to go fishing. Or Hong Tao and they went to Basels with them for two days, and the tropical fish fishing boats mentioned yesterday basically docked in Baselus.
On the one hand, the arm muscles of the fishing in the past two days were slightly strained, and it was supposed to rest and rest, on the other hand, they are now more superstitious about Anaya, and they don't trust others as guides, in addition, Anaya also threw a bait, which can take a day off on the return trip and take them to the familiar Indian tribes along the coast. As a result, Hong Tao and they quickly took the bait.
The cargo ship carrying gasoline arrived at the Grand River Hotel at around 8 o'clock, unloaded the five barrels of gasoline, and left in a hurry. They helped Anaya roll the gasoline cans onto his small wooden boat, and then began to drive towards Barcelus, a small port on the upper Negro River.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Anaya's boat docked at the port of Barcelus, a small city of less than 20,000 people, located on the west bank of the widest part of the upper waterway of the Negro River. (To be continued......)
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