Manaus is a dilapidated city, the air is hot and humid, the rain has just fallen, the waterlogged roads are potholes, and the shops on both sides of the road sell outdated clothing and goods, as if you have returned to a county town in China in the last century.

The driver, a native of the region, with dark skin and a thin build, is the only country in the world where chewing gum is banned, chewing a local wild fruit similar to betel nut and brutally driving a Toyota.

When the car sped through the puddle, splashing more than a meter of stagnant water and pouring it on several women with big butts on the side of the road, the driver laughed disapprovingly and whistled at the women, and then several women cursed viciously behind him.

Di Wuchang's eyes widened, this outstanding doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science at Fudan felt very sorry and embarrassed, and Wei Chen shrugged his shoulders helplessly at Di Wuchang and said, "Hehe, welcome to Brazil." ”

After about forty minutes of thrilling driving, Wei Chen and Di Wuchang came to a huge manor.

Compared to the dilapidated city, it is almost as beautiful as an American manor in the movie, passing through the large iron gate guarded by security guards with rifles, entering the road surrounded by flowers, and finally stopping at this large four-storey villa with an area of several thousand square meters.

It was already dark, and the lights in the villa were lit, and as far as the eye could see, there were stars in a radius of several kilometers, and wherever there were lights, it was all the private territory of the villa owner.

Wei Chen and Di Wuchang got out of the car and saw the hundreds of Chinese representatives waiting here early, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would have believed that there were so many Chinese living in this remote end of the world, in the wild rainforest area.

"Don't worry, these are trustworthy friends." Wei Chen said to Di Wuchang, "Without these overseas Chinese, there would be no branch today, the owner of this villa is surnamed Xiong, his ancestral home is Qingtian, Fujian, and his son Xiong Ningyuan is at Xingchen University, majoring in particle physics and nuclear physics. ”

Di Wuchang nodded slightly, and then they were warmly welcomed by the local overseas Chinese, and everyone surrounded them and showed great respect.

And they are called very special, teacher.

Wei Chen said with a smile, "Overseas Chinese have their own schools, but unfortunately due to the lack of foreign aid, the quality of education is relatively poor, nothing more than teaching children to read and write in Chinese, and there is a lack of real higher education." ”

"So, the branch took education as the starting point, and the colleagues you met in São Paulo, all of them have positions in overseas Chinese schools, and here in Manaus, everyone will also take turns to give lectures."

"This is us Chinese, you do business with them, you may not be the opponent of these shrewd businessmen, you don't blink, but if you help them educate the next generation, then you are everyone's teacher, and you will receive the highest respect."

A large piece of Brazilian barbecue was served, and the topic of discussion was really about education.

Wei Chen graduated from Fudan with a degree in business, was affiliated to the Ministry of Commerce, and was a subordinate of Hong Tao.

The business courses he teaches are not only listened to by overseas Chinese children, but even these elderly overseas Chinese often go to study, so they are very popular, and even those old people with gray beards humbly call him Teacher Wei.

After this trip, Wei Chen will stay in Manaus for a two-week business course, which everyone is looking forward to.

In the second half of the welcome reception, Boss Xiong called Wei Chen and Di Wuchang to the side hall.

In the side hall, Di Wuchang saw the pilot who would accompany them to the depths of the rainforest tomorrow, as well as two guides, both of whom were local natives.

Among the guides were a father and son, who had high cheekbones, but were very thin and small, with sharp eyes, and at first glance they looked shrewd and capable.

After meeting, Boss Xiong asked them to go home and come to the villa early tomorrow morning to gather.

After they left, Boss Xiong said to Di Wuchang and Wei Chen, "It's all arranged, you can rest assured that these people's wives and children are in my hands, and they don't dare to play any tricks, otherwise their family of dozens of people will go to see God." ”

Di Wuchang was stunned suddenly, feeling his heart beat faster, but Wei Chen signaled him not to pay too much attention.

Boss Xiong smiled and said, "In this kind of wild place, you can't get along without any means, my grandfather's bones are in an unknown place in the depths of the rainforest, and they have not been found to this day, when he was deceived by the indigenous tribe, saying that there was a piece of fine wood." ”

"So since my grandfather's generation, there has been a habit of keeping a hand in everything, this is a lesson that is exchanged for blood, if you don't believe it, you can ask those people outside, almost all the Chinese mixed in this land have family members buried in the rainforest by the aborigines."

Di Wuchang didn't say anything more, and accepted Boss Xiong's arrangement, but he was inevitably worried in his heart, although he was mentally prepared enough when he set off, it seemed that Di Wuchang still underestimated the complicated situation of this wild land.

After waking up early the next morning, Di Wuchang was invited to the living room for breakfast, and the guide and pilot had already arrived, their luggage was not much, and each brought a medium-sized waterproof military bag.

Di Wu often politely invited them to breakfast, but they refused, and were taken by the servants to an open-air table in the courtyard, where they nibbled on sandwiches made from leftover meat from the previous night.

On the road in the middle of the estate, a single-engine amphibious light aircraft produced by the North American company Senas was parked, which looked tattered and had lost paint in many parts of the fuselage.

Boss Xiong told Di Wuchang that they would take this plane and go deep into the rainforest later.

Soon after, they set off, Wei Chen and the driver were in the front row, and Di Wuchang was sitting in the back seat next to two guides with a lot of smell.

When the rickety little plane finally drove past the end of the road and pulled up, Di Wuyong touched his back with his hand, and it was all soaked.

"Boss."

The guide's son smiled, handed him two green wild fruits, similar to the ones the driver had chewed yesterday, and pointed to his head to indicate that they would relieve the tension.

"The taste is okay, it's just a little sour." Di Wuchang took it and put it in his mouth to chew, and at the same time asked Wei Chen curiously, "What kind of fruit is this?" South American betel nut? ”

Wei Chen said, "The locals call this guarana, the effect is similar to that of poppies, and if you eat too much, you will be addicted." ”

Puff~

Di Wuchang's face was pale, and he vomited on the spot, and the guide's son thought he had choked, and slapped Di Wuchang on the back hard.

Guarana really had a magical effect, Di Wuchang no longer felt pain, as if the whole person was floating in the clouds, three hours, more than a thousand kilometers of flight passed unconsciously, this Senas single-engine plane, finally landed in a narrow river.

Surrounded by a rainforest with no end in sight, you can occasionally hear the wails of unknown beasts.

The river is gentle, and the locals have built a rudimentary dock out of wood, and there is another seaplane moored on the pier, as well as a cargo ship that appears to be carrying goods for the town, which is also in a dilapidated appearance.

A group of natives were carrying barrels of gasoline, sacks of corn, crates of low-quality local beer and whiskey from the boat.

The Senas engine roared, guiding the boat into the dock, and the guide's son opened the hatch, stood on the plane's float board, and threw a rope to the people on the dock.

After the man caught the rope, he pulled the plane closer to the dock with a lily pull, and then skillfully tied it to the fixed stake and tied a sailor's knot.

The group got off the plane and went to the dock, and the pilot gave the man who helped tie the cable five reais, which is equivalent to nine yuan, and the man happily took the money and ran to the bar by the dock.

Wei Chen, who knew Portuguese, asked the people on the dock.

"The plane belonged to three North American tourists, who came to see the piranhas, and they came yesterday." Wei Chen said, "As for that ship, it is a local supply ship, which comes every half a month, and all the local materials are transported by that ship." ”

It was noon, and they went to the bar by the dock.

It's a bar, but it's more of a dilapidated wooden house, with a pergola outside with four sets of dirty plastic tables and chairs under the pergola, and the bartender is a fat black woman, whose husband cooks in an apron full of soup.

"It's just black bean rice and fried chicken, so let's have some fun." After Wei Chen asked the fat woman, he said to Di Wuchang, "At least it's still hot, and when you enter the rainforest, you can only nibble on canned food." ”

Di Wuchang nodded slightly, he felt a tingling pain in his calf, and slapped it hard, and the black mosquito was slapped to death, and at the same time, blood stains flowed.

Wei Chen negotiated with the proprietress in Portuguese, and soon after, the proprietress brought a few sticks of grass similar to a dog's tail, lit them around the dining table to repel mosquitoes, and muttered Portuguese in her mouth, probably saying that the Chinese people are really delicate and do not resist mosquito bites.

Di Wuchang took a sip of coffee from the fat woman, and found that the guide and his son had each brought a black woman into the cabin behind the bar.

The woman next to the guide had huge breasts and shivered when she walked, while the woman next to the guide's son was thinner and looked like she was underage.

Then came the pilot, who brought back two women from nowhere, sat at the table next to Wei Chen and Di Wuchang, and asked for beer and fried chicken, plus a large bowl of red sauce, and drank beer with fried chicken dipped in sauce.

The pilot lit a cigarette and snapped his fingers at Di Wuchang and Wei Chen in a dashing manner, and then the two black women stood up and shook their bouncy buttocks.

Wei Chen explained with a smile, "He won't go into the rainforest with us, but stay here and wait for us, anyway, being idle is idle, for Brazilians, doing that is like drinking water, drinking too much will be a little supportive, but not drinking will seem strange." ”

"The income of pilots is considered to be a gold collar in Brazil, and they can earn more than 10,000 reais a month, and women in the rainforest are cheaper than mineral water, so, you understand."

When Di Wuchang and Wei Chen were about to finish their black bean meal, the guide and his son came out of the cabin, and the two black women kissed them goodbye, and they gave them a little money, two yellow tickets, each of which should be twenty reais.

Back at the table, the guide and his son nibbled on fried chicken as if nothing had happened, they didn't use utensils, they just tore it with their hands, and the black bean rice was crumpled into a ball, just the size of a bite, and then stuffed into their mouths and chewed quickly.

Di Wuchang felt a little sick to his stomach, because he clearly saw that the guide father and son did not wash their hands when they came out of the cabin.

"Look." Wei Chen pointed in the direction of the dock.

Di Wuchang looked over and saw the three North American tourists appear on the dock, two sturdy men, and a very thin, breastless blonde woman.

A group of natives surrounded them and pushed a pig in a cart.

The black-haired pig screamed, and the natives hung the pig from a wooden pole despite the screams, and then stabbed the pig in the abdomen with sharp knives.

The white intestines were exposed, and blood splattered at the same time.

The natives, under the command of three North Americans, lowered ropes with pulleys and lowered the screaming pigs into the river.

Before the pig approached the surface of the river, a small flat fish jumped out, opened its sharp teeth, and pounced on it to bite.

The river seemed to be boiling, and thousands of piranhas were gathering, smelling blood and craving a hearty meal.

The skinny blonde woman held up her camera and took a wild shot, and by this time, the pig's head had already submerged into the river, and the pig's screams immediately disappeared, replaced by a frantic surge of the river, and thousands of piranhas jumped up and down, some even jumped on the dock, and were kicked back into the river by the natives.

The pig's body quickly sank into the river, and in less than a minute, by the time the natives pulled the pig up again, it had turned into a white skeleton.

The hind legs were tied to ropes, and the flesh was still attached, and the part that had been submerged in the river was completely gone.

Countless piranhas emerged as the pigs were pulled up, and although they had left the river on which they depended, they were still biting.

Bang~

Someone cut the rope.

The last half of the pig and the pig bone sank, and the water surface set off white waves, and it can be clearly seen that tens of thousands of small fish with white fangs pounced in an instant

The three North Americans roared wildly and posed for pictures with the ferocious little fish, and one of them even made a dangerous gesture to jump into the river, straddled the river with half a leg, luring the piranha to jump upwards, and it seemed that they were having a good time.

After watching this scene, Di Wuchang felt a little difficult to breathe, and his heart was beating wildly.

He swallowed and foamed, "This is the river we came in?" Why didn't you tell me in advance that the river is the territory of piranhas. ”

Wei Chen shrugged, "Is there a difference?" ”

Di Wuchang didn't speak, and at this time, the fat proprietress came over and said a few words to Wei Chen in Portuguese.

Then, Wei Chen threw the proprietress a wad of blue bills of one hundred reais, while the proprietress left a car key still on the table, grabbed the banknotes, and stuffed them into her bra.

"The car is ready, let's go." Wei Chen shook the car key at Di Wuchang.

The guide father and son wiped their mouths and picked up Wei Chen and Di Wuchang's backpacks, while the pilot took a hand from the black woman's skirt and said goodbye to them, and then inserted his hand back into the woman's skirt.