Gabon's villages are scattered, and the inhabitants of a village generally belong to the same ethnic group, and the village chief is the patriarch, and the position is hereditary.

The houses of the locals have a peculiar shape, first arched with young branches, covered with leaves and thatch, used to shelter from the sun and rain, strictly speaking, it cannot be called a house, at best it is a shack.

is quite a luxurious villa, incompatible with the surrounding houses, the young man in this villa is naturally Han Xuan, who has reached the age of twenty-one, and his appearance has not changed much from a few years ago, but his figure is slightly stronger, and his facial features are more three-dimensional, and his height has just reached one meter eighty-five, so he will no longer continue to grow, and at this age, he has almost been stereotyped.

Even if you sit on the chair, you can see the abdominal muscles, not perverted, but the shapely chest muscles hold up the black short sleeves, it is very appropriate to describe it with the phrase "dress thin, undress with meat", the biggest change is temperament, the face can be called handsome, it looks comfortable, especially a pair of eyes, it looks deep and calm.

The coming-of-age ceremony has passed, and unlike what people imagined, the scale is much smaller than when Anya turned fifteen years old, and there are only more than 140 people in the full count, but just bringing out a random guest is enough to make people look at it.

For example, Pope John Paul II, who has been in the Vatican all the year round, such as Queen ****** of England, and the new President George W. Bush and others, all came to congratulate him in person, located in Seventeen Mile Bay, California, with more than 3,000 press corps!

One hundred and forty-two invitations were handed out, but none of them were present, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations even revised the meeting time to congratulate him with gifts.

Now bullying Han Xuan, no one talks about bullying children anymore, but sadly, who dares to do that......

People who know Han Xuan understand how terrible his power is, but this is Africa, Africa where the news is seriously lagging behind, and at this moment, the young man named Bongo in front of him stared at Han Xuan with some kind of suspicious eyes, and Han Xuan always felt that the other party was looking at a fool.

Money doesn't work in this remote and backward area, and after understanding these problems, Han Xuan changed his way and told in French: "My family produces soap, as well as cups, toothpaste, toilet paper, etc., if you give me that little elephant, then I will give you two each!" ”

Deliberately using an exaggerated tone, Gabon was once a French colony, and it ruled for more than a hundred years, resulting in the country's main language becoming French, in addition to national languages, such as Kufang, Miene, and Bataikai, etc., Han Xuan could understand the other party.

The young man named Bongo, the bright little eyes on his face were suddenly full of shock, as if he had seen a big man with a huge wealth, if he thought that Han Xuan's image was one meter tall before, now it has become a hundred meters, or even more.

For the people here, those things are really rare, in fact, mainly because of the inconvenient transportation, in addition, when they trade with people outside, they will be pitted, and an eighty-centimeter long ivory for half a bar of soap really happened in this small village.

And in the past ten years, he can only get half a bar of soap, due to the asymmetry of information, he is completely at a disadvantage, when Han Xuan first heard about this matter, it took several minutes to accept this fact, and shouted for those elephants in his heart.

I have been to many places and seen a lot of cultural and natural landscapes, but like this small Zhuangzi called "Flame Village", it is rare for Han Xuan to feel clean, and the "clean" here refers to the soul, the local people are extremely simple, so simple that Han Xuan feels stupid, he likes it here soon after he came, and he will feel comfortable every day when he sees those villagers doing nothing.

The reason why it is called Flame Village, the name actually has nothing to do with the flame, mainly because there are large flame trees growing around the valley, so I went to such a strange name, the flame tree is the national tree of Gabon, also known as the fire flower, fountain tree, bud calyx wood, flame wood, the flowering period is between winter and spring, Han Xuan can still see it when he first came, and now it is gone, there is a circle of golden yellow patterns on the edge of the crimson petals, and there are such flowers all over the mountains, which are extremely gorgeous.

In recent years, he has rarely appeared in the public eye, Han Xuan deliberately pursues various states of life, so as to make himself feel fulfilled, rarely stays in one place for a long time, and his footprints are all over all continents except Antarctica, not that he is not interested in Antarctica, but he has not had the opportunity to go for the time being, and if he goes to all places at once, then life will become boring.

At this moment, he enjoyed the adoring gaze of the black child named Bongo, probably because the contrast was too obvious, and the slightly exposed teeth in Bongo's mouth seemed to glow, and they were blindingly white.

The residents of Flame Village usually use a plant branch called "Andea Mo Nao" to clean their teeth, and Han Xuangang tried to brush his teeth with it after getting acquainted with the villagers.

The warm-hearted village chief helped demonstrate, after chewing the branches to expose the fibers, he first rubbed his teeth to demonstrate, and finally wanted to stuff it directly into Han Xuan's mouth, but after being rejected by Han Xuan, his face was full of injuries, and Han Xuan was a little at a loss.

Different from those black people who like to play clever in the United States, the residents here are more pure in terms of personality, like is like, dislike is not like, on the first night of arrival, there was a girl who planned to recommend a pillow seat, which scared Han Xuan a lot, so he was laughed at by the bodyguards around him for a long time.

Later, when he learned that he actually looked quite ugly in the eyes of the locals, which did not meet their aesthetics, Han Xuan couldn't help but feel that maybe the girl had taken a fancy to her house and wanted to hug her thighs and rub it.

Bongo fell into a tangled state, he liked the one-year-old African elephant that was caught by his father after falling into the trap, but the temptation given by Han Xuan was really "too big", Bongo never gave his mother a gift, he felt that the ugly man in front of him was worthy of being a rich man, and he felt that he definitely earned it by exchanging those things for the baby elephant, but he was still reluctant.

Han Xuan saw that he was wavering, so he took advantage of the victory and added: "After changing things, you can still come and feed it, and get these things for nothing, isn't it great?"

Otherwise, I will add another piece of soap, I can give it to your second mother, let her help find a daughter-in-law for you, you are about to reach the age of marriage, it is best to have something as a bride price, and I will give you two more pots when the time comes! ”

After coming to Africa, Han Xuan finally saw the strange customs of the local area, as far as Bongo's father was concerned, when he married his mother, he only spent a new bow, 200 arrowheads, a spear, two animal skins, two bottles of venom for applying arrows, and two iron pots as a dowry, and gave them to the woman's parents, which was already a very rich bride price.

In the matriarchal village of Flame, according to tradition, after the death of his wife, the husband must marry his wife's sister, otherwise he must send the children back to his grandmother's house to raise them.

So Bongo and his second mother, a piece of soap was full of weight for him, completely dispelled all his concerns, nodded seriously and agreed to Han Xuan, dropped the sentence and went home to bring the little elephant, and ran away......

Historically, Africans have a long tradition of hunting elephants, mainly for meat and skins, but since the 70s of the 20th century, ivory has gradually become the main source of elephant hunting.

The reasons for this are complex, not only because of the rapid increase in demand for ivory in the international handicraft market, but also because of the turbulence in the international financial markets, where ivory is seen as a hard currency with a stable value, along with gold and diamonds, which in turn has led to a scramble among some of the largest Western banks to buy and store it.

By the early 80s, the annual turnover of ivory in the international market was about 1.3 million kilograms, of which more than 90 percent came from Africa, and there are still more than 600,000 wild African elephants living on the African continent, more than double the number 30 years ago.

Because the price of ivory continued to rise, from the seventies to the eighties, the wholesale price rose from $13 to about $150 per kilogram.

Therefore, some local people regard elephants as "moving gold boxes", ivory as "coveted platinum", and poaching ivory as a "shortcut to riches", and they always risk their lives to hunt elephants in every possible way.

Countless African elephants have been killed because of their ivory, and 80 per cent of the ivory shipped from Africa is due to poaching, a situation that was mitigated by an international ivory ban in 1990, but not eradicated.

At present, poaching for the black market still exists in countries where wildlife management is not well-managed, and most of Africa's ivory is exported to Asia, and Han Xuan is familiar with these data because he has his own animal protection agency.

In the 21st century, some locals still hunt elephants, and Gabon is a country that has done a relatively good job in animal protection.

Take Flame Village as an example, more than 100 people can only be regarded as a small village, they can legally hunt an adult elephant, the law or anything is not applicable in the local area, occasionally poaching and sharing food, burying bones, no one can find the handle.

Although Han Xuan knew about these things, he had no choice but to focus on poaching, and those people killed an elephant just to get ivory, which was much worse than traditional villages including Flame Village.

When he met with the President of Gabon some time ago, Han Xuan specifically talked to the other party about the protection of animals, and suggested that the other party formulate stricter laws and close all illegal wildlife product trading venues to solve the problem of indiscriminate killing at the root......