Chapter 550: Bilayani
"Another long piece of knowledge! Is it the only one in the Negro River that has no mosquitoes, the Amazon River? Hong Tao was relieved this time, he finally didn't have to be harassed by mosquitoes, and when he came, he was worried that the mosquito repellent ointment he bought from the United States would not work.
"Oh, the water of the Amazon is yellow, most of it flows down from the mountains, and the mosquitoes there are so bad that even the Indians who live there have to smear the juice of a leaf every day, otherwise they will be bitten to death!" Anaya likes to gesture with her hands when she speaks, and she makes a grimace, saying that when she was bitten to death by a mosquito, she even spit out her tongue.
"We have accumulated great virtues, if Fernando hadn't found this Anaya for us, if we went to the Amazon Basin, it is estimated that everyone would have to gain weight when they come back, and the $200 spent is really not wronged!" Hong Tao was a little scared when he heard this, even the indigenous Indians couldn't stand it, their delicate skin didn't become a mosquito feast when they got there!
"The black water we have here can also cure skin diseases, and it is very good for the skin." Seeing that Hong Tao and Anaya were chatting happily, an Indian young man put down the dishes, did not leave, and began to interject, talking about his clothes as he spoke, so that everyone could see the skin on his body.
However, he added that women who want to give birth to boys should not drink it, if this black water is drunk too much, most of the births are girls, and he also has an argument for this, that is, there are more women than men in the Indian tribes in this vicinity.
And his statement was also agreed by Anaya, it is said that in the past, most of the Indian tribes in the Black River Valley, from the chiefs to the samurai, were women, they were as athletic as men, they could chase animals in the rainforest, and their archery skills were so precise that in order not to interfere with archery, those female warriors would cut off one side of their breast when they were young. So as not to affect the bow and arrow, it is simply too strong.
These are not legends, Anaya says that there is an oil painting in the town hall of Manaus that depicts this female tribe at that time. But too few men would affect the tribe's population, so the female tribes went out and went to other Indian tribes in the distance to capture men and get them back to marry them.
So far, there are more women than men in the vicinity of Manaus, and girls have to prepare a rich dowry in order to marry themselves. I also have to pray that there will be a young man who will look after him, and for this reason, there are special prayer platforms in many places to complain to God or Our Lady.
Whether this river has the function of giving birth to girls Hong Tao has no place to verify, but not to mention, although the skin on this young man's body is a little dark, it is very shiny, revealing such a healthy and moisturizing color. Not only him, but Anaya and several of them all have this kind of skin, and it turns out that Hong Tao thought that this was the same natural as the black tooth white. I didn't expect this kind of black river water, which is not very clean to look at, to have this function.
"Can it cure athlete's foot?" The fat man Bu Tian shamelessly stretched out his fat feet.
"No problem, you bubble more every day, it will definitely work!" The Indian lad gave him an affirmative answer.
"It's best to soak during the day when there are people, and don't stick your feet in the water on weekdays. There are crocodiles here! Anaya then gave a chilling reply.
"Holy! Hurt me! Then I'll put up with it. As soon as the fat man heard about the crocodile, he immediately didn't dislike athlete's foot, and compared with losing a foot, athlete's foot is a P. It's quite casual to be idle and scratch around.
"Wash your hands before you eat! Otherwise, you are not allowed to serve it! When Hong Tao saw him touching his feet with his hands, he immediately pushed him out and told him to go outside the railing to wash his hands.
"Lao Hong, Lao Hong, Master Hong. Don't push it, I can't go back to the room to wash it, it's dark, there are crocodiles! "The fat man made a jack of cloth and shrank back, it seems that most of the fat people are afraid of death, such as the fat boss.
Since Hong Tao was the first Chinese to come to stay at the Dahe Hotel, the cook was also very happy, and specially added a fried peacock bass to each person for dinner, and also lit two more gas lamps in the hall, which made it very atmospheric.
Eating delicious sea bass and salad with rice, while listening to the sounds of unnamed animals in the water and on the shore, it can be regarded as a kind of artistic conception. After the meal, there was a platter of beer and tropical fruits, everyone sat on wooden chairs under the lamp, blowing a small breeze, and there was a word of chatting, you tell me interesting facts about the Amazon, I will tell you about China, and I quickly became acquainted, anyway, there are only a few people here.
Hong Tao was the first to go back to the room to sleep, the fat man Bu and the sturgeon slept on the boat for several hours, at this time a little beer was drunk, and they were chatting with Anaya, Anaya took out his fishing rod here, these two boys are choosing their weapons for tomorrow, Hong Tao can't finish it for a while, or sleep first, as for the fishing rod or something, it doesn't matter, let's talk about it tomorrow.
The weather in the rainforest is really changing fast, the first night is still full of stars, a few hours later it becomes cloudy and rainy, when the cook woke everyone up from the room for breakfast, Hong Tao was also dumbfounded, it was raining outside, not too big and not too small, but obviously could not take a boat out of the river to go fishing.
But as long as the angler is at the water's edge, he will definitely not be idle, since he can't go out to fish, then go fishing on the edge of the camp, where there is water, there must be fish, it's just a matter of how many and how big it is.
After breakfast, Hong Tao and the three of them each took a small lure rod, found a spacious place, divided it into two directions, and began to search. To say that there is only one kind of fishing rod here in Anaya, all the same color lure rod, but the brand is very miscellaneous, more than 20 fishing rods are almost identical, both Japanese fishing rods, as well as the United States and Europe, and some of the brands of fishing rods are not even known to Hong Tao, it is estimated that they are local products in Brazil.
When they entered the customs of the United States and Argentina, the security personnel scanned these strange things with the machine more than once, and let them take them out for inspection more than once, but after finding that it was the fishing wheel and the hook, those security personnel did not embarrass them, and some also asked them to go fishing and what fish to catch.
Hong Tao is not very familiar with the lure fishing method, and the fat cloth and the sturgeon are experts in this area, what to find punctuation, the surface of the water, the bottom of the vernacular, Hong Tao listened to it for a long time, in fact, it was just to replace the vulgar words with more professional sounds, so he left the two academic anglers with disdain, and ran to the other end to play.
Hong Tao was also as troublesome as they said, so he hung a small sequin, threw it out for more than 20 meters, and then slowly went to the recycling line, shaking it with the tip of the rod from time to time to make the sequins move more violently in the water.
The first rod didn't hit the fish, the second rod still didn't hit the fish, and when the third rod, the sequins just entered the water, and a force was transmitted to Hong Tao's hands through the fishing line, and something was pulling the sequins underwater. Hong Tao shook his hand, using the elasticity of the fishing rod to give the hook a force to pierce into the fish's mouth, and then began to tighten the strength and reel in the line at a uniform speed.
Seeing that the fish under the water was about to be dragged outcropped, suddenly Hong Tao felt that his hand was light and broken! The fish is unhooked! No, why is there no weight at all? Won't it take my sequins away!
This time, Hong Tao judged correctly, when he took the fishing line back, it was already empty, the sequins were gone, and there were obvious friction marks at the end of the fishing line.
"Hey, I'm a grumpy! Dare to bite off Lao Tzu's fishing line, I will fight with you! "It doesn't matter if you can't catch a fish, but if the hook is bitten away by a fish, it will be the same as a soldier's gun being snatched away by the enemy, which is a great insult, Hong Tao took the fishing rod and went back to the hall, replaced the fishing wheel, replaced it with a fishing wheel wrapped around the PE line, continued to hang a small sequin, and then returned to the position just now.
This time, the fishing rod was just thrown down and the fish was hit, and Hong Tao was no longer so gentle to reel in the line, and directly stood up the fishing rod and stretched it back, and then lowered the fishing rod with the reeling line, and the fishing line was straightened, and then the fishing rod was stretched. In this way, the fish in the water didn't even have a chance to swim hard, and they were lifted up by Hong Tao while turning in a circle.
As for Hong Tao just now, he didn't lift the fish up so neatly, and let the fish in the water bite off the hook, mainly because the ordinary fishing line was used just now, and the fishing wheel was also small, which was used with this small fishing rod to catch small fish.
The fish is a bit like the flat fish we usually eat, slightly larger than the palm of an adult, the body is pale white, there are more than a dozen small black spots on the side, the pectoral fin, dorsal fin, and tail fin are all black, and the mouth is a little underneath, with two rows of sharp triangular teeth.
"Boy! Let you snatch my fishhook, this is down-to-earth, right? Don't be busy, I'll see what kind of fish you're first. Hong Tao ran to his room with the tail of the fish, took out the fish atlas, put it on the dining table in the hall, and compared the fish in his hand while flipping it.
"This is Bai Bilayani, you can eat it, I'll go get you a keg, live a better life!" The cook didn't know when Lu Dao came to Hong Tao's side, pointed to the fish in his hand and said a lot of words, and when Hong Tao arrived, he only understood one sentence and could eat!
"Anaya, where have they been?" Seeing the cook, Hong Tao remembered that he hadn't seen Anaya and the two Indian boys all morning.
"They're going to refuel the boat, and by the way, pull the speedboat back, you can't go fishing when it's raining today, just get ready, and you'll be back soon." The cook took out a plastic bucket from the kitchen and handed it to Hong Tao. (To be continued......)
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