Chapter 386: Don't sit on a small plane
I don't know what this Wei Han thinks, he replied that he would stay somewhere else for one night, and then come over early tomorrow morning. Hong Tao estimated that he was really short of money, or he wouldn't have stayed in a youth hostel, but he had no obligation to help him pay for the room, so he would be tomorrow.
After making an appointment with photographer Wei Han, Hong Tao suggested to Hassan to have dinner together, and also to bring the three guides. According to Hong Tao's idea, although a formal contract has been signed with Nathan, these hunting guides are also equipped according to the contract.
But according to the habits of the country, you should still have a personal relationship with these people, enhance your relationship or something, after all, you will have to count on them in the future, if you don't serve them well, in case you get some tricks in the itinerary, it will be very troublesome, Hades is better, and the little ghost is difficult.
Hassan and the three hunting guides had never received Chinese customers, and they certainly didn't understand these Chinese conditions, so they were a little embarrassed by Hong Tao's warm invitation, but after Hong Tao's good talk, they finally agreed.
Dinner was arranged in the restaurant of the Hangzhou sister-in-law, Hong Tao specially asked the proprietress to arrange a private room, ordered a large table of dishes, in order to show his sincerity, Boss Liu also specially bought two bottles of Wuliangye from the restaurant.
I don't know how powerful these foreigners probably haven't seen such hospitable customers, and some are flattered, and they don't know how to shirk the wine in the face of the salute, and the glass is dry. But they don't know what to do, Hong Tao and Boss Liu already have a lot of experience in foreign warfare, and they have tested it many times with their white brothers.
Eight people drank, the second bottle had just bottomed out, and the three hunters were basically drunk, and the African person in charge of Nathan was even more finished, already lying on the table unconscious.
Whether it's Europeans, Asians, or Americans, if you drink too much, you become a kind of person, someone who likes to remember! At this time, these three hunting guides and Hong Tao seem to have been old friends for many years. Not only did they tell the anecdotes of hunting in Africa countless times, but they even confided in their wives' nicknames.
However, the English pronunciation of these three hunting guides can make Hong Tao bitter, and that Hoffman is better, although he speaks English almost as well as German, but fortunately, he speaks more slowly, and he doesn't talk much, Hong Tao can basically understand it when he listens hard.
But the accents of the remaining two were too heavy, at first Hong Tao always thought they were speaking Dutch or African, but then slowly realized that they were also speaking English. In the end, Hong Tao had to ask them to slow down their speech and use their words as conservatively as possible, so that they could understand a small half, and the rest was all up to their brains and gestures.
The meal lasted from more than 6 o'clock to midnight, and when Hong Tao and the others finally checked out, there was no one in the entire restaurant, only the Hangzhou sister-in-law was still waiting behind the counter for their last wave of customers.
"Look, I'm sorry to be so late. I'm sorry for the trouble! Hong Tao was also a little embarrassed, just thinking about his comfort, but he forgot that this was a foreign thing.
"It's okay, I understand. People here eat quickly, and they don't like to talk about things at the dinner table, but I still like our country, it's lively. "Hangzhou's sister-in-law is also a warm-hearted person. can also empathize, which really moved Hong Tao, or the hometown people can understand the hometown people!
The people were drunk and confused. Hassan and the three guides could not return to their station, so they simply fooled them all into the hotel, opened two more rooms, and settled the drunken cats.
Early the next morning, Hong Tao went down to the lobby of the hotel according to the time of the previous day and Hassan, and as a result, Hassan and the three hunting guides also came down on time, but looking at their mental state, it was really choking, all of them had red eyes, and they were still a little shaky when they walked.
"Mr. Hong, you must not bring that kind of wine to the camp to drink, it is too powerful, if our hunting guide is in the same state as today, then you will be very dangerous when hunting." Hassan rubbed his head and solemnly announced a new rule to Hong Tao.
"No problem, according to our habits, we have to have a good time before we go, and then we have to wait until the end of the journey to get together, and then we will have a good drink, yesterday was just a little drink." Hong Tao leaned his thumb and forefinger together, trying to make the black uncle understand how much to drink for that meal in the next few days.
"Oh God, I'm going to take a leave of absence from the head office!" Hassan seemed to understand that he was doing this ushering job, and he couldn't refuse the normal request of the client.
"May I ask if it's Mr. Hong Tao?" At this time, a word of Chinese came from behind him.
"Oh, I'm me, Mr. Wei, hello, hello, you're here, it's not all here, I'll introduce you." Hong Tao turned around and saw a middle-aged man in his 40s standing behind him, looking at his dress and luggage, Hong Tao could confirm that the photographer was coming.
This Comrade Wei Han is quite sturdy, it is estimated that he has been trained by anti-machinery and equipment all year round, and his English is also good, at least he can talk politely to those hunting guides, which makes Hong Tao feel much more relaxed.
At 10 o'clock, Hong Tao and his group of eight people got into a minibus driven by Hassan and went straight to the airport in Dar es Salaam, but they did not enter the terminal, but drove in through a side door of the airport and drove directly to the runway, where a small plane was waiting for them.
This is a small propeller plane made of 12, the captain is a white man, presumably in an employment relationship with the Nathan company, he is responsible for sending Hong Tao and his party to the hunting grounds, and will regularly deliver supplies to Hong Tao and them.
To be honest, don't look at how the shots of those small planes in the movie are how to pull the wind and how chic, it's all a lie, this kind of small plane, especially the propeller, can not sit or sit, it's not that it's unsafe, but it's too uncomfortable.
As soon as the engine of the aircraft is started, your ears are basically quiet, and the humming low-frequency noise makes people's heads big. And the cabin was always filled with the smell of gasoline, and Hong Tao wondered if the plane was leaking oil.
The noise and taste are actually secondary, and the main thing is that this kind of small plane flies very unsteadily, and the bumps are very strong, and the owners like Hong Tao and Boss Liu, who rarely get seasick and seasick, are already a little unbearable, not to mention the fat boss and the Wei photographer, within a few minutes of takeoff, they began to vomit, and they vomited until they landed, and the whole person almost lost a circle.
"Oh, my mother, it's time to get to the place, Hong Tao, you discuss with them, can we take the train when we go back, or take a car, or if you don't have air conditioning." When the plane finally stopped on the runway, the fat boss almost climbed down from the hatch and sat on the ground with his ass and couldn't get up.
"Fat uncle, drink saliva first...... This is Africa! ......" Hong Tao handed the fat boss a bottle of water, and then officially raised his head and looked around, it didn't matter if he looked at it, he directly forgot about the fat boss and Wei Han.
There is no village in front of this airport, there is no store in the back, it is built on a vast grassland. Said to be the airport, except for a two-story building that is still like a dot, the rest is not as strong as the highway, the cement on the runway is full of cracks, if he showed Hong Tao the photos of the airport in advance, he would not agree to take a plane here.
Different from the dilapidated airport is the surrounding scenery, here is not as full of dense forests and green grass as Hong Tao imagined, on the contrary, the trees here are very sparse, there are almost no serious big trees, all of them are a handful of small forests in the east and west, and most of the trees have withered yellow, only a few are still green.
In addition to the unseemly trees, the grass on the ground is also withered yellow, only a lot of bushes still have a little green, with patches of bare sandy land, like a kind of animal fur in Africa, hyenas.
"The scenery of this land is not as strong as that of the island! Can there be elephants in this little forest!? Boss Liu looked at the scenery in front of him and felt a little empty. (To be continued......)