Chapter 416: Hot Air Balloon (2)
The crater is mostly grassland and sparse acacia trees, with only a few tall cacti growing in a few places. Compared with off-road vehicles, hot air balloons can be regarded as high-end atmospheric grades, and the condescending perspective allows human vision to see farther, and there is a lack of shelter, as long as it is within the reach of the vision, any animal that is large enough has nowhere to hide.
When he first came to the crater, the Dutch urinated on the way to describe this place as a paradise for animals, Hong Tao didn't take it too seriously at that time, these Europeans and Americans couldn't help but say that this is heaven, that is heaven, and the adjective heaven made them use it indiscriminately. But after flying in a hot air balloon for more than half an hour, Hong Tao thinks it really should be a paradise for animals.
The number of animals in the crater and the number of animals in the hunting grounds around Camp Simba are simply an order of magnitude. On the flight path of the hot air balloon, you can see herds of animals moving in the grass, in the woods, on the branches of trees, and on the edge of water sources.
Hong Tao also saw a rhinoceros for the first time, and it was a white rhinoceros. The three adult white rhinoceros were drinking water on the edge of a small pond, because there were a few zebras around them, so Hong Tao intuitively saw the proportions of their figures, these grassland giants are more than twice as wide as zebras, and the length is almost one and a half zebras long, if you count according to the ratio of zebras to people, these rhinos are almost 5 meters long, more than 2 meters wide, as for how high, you can't really see it from above.
"This is the northern white rhinoceros, which is very small in number, an endangered species, with a total of less than 1,000 individuals, and there has been no hunting quota for them for several years. They are the largest rhinoceros, capable of growing to nearly 4 tons, and have virtually no natural predators. Even the largest lions will not provoke them, not even a lone rhinoceros. "Holland Pee is not only a qualified hunting guide, but also a wildlife researcher who knows a lot about African animals.
"And the southern ones?" Hong Tao can always grasp the point in other people's words.
"Well, that's right, there are a lot of white rhinos in the south, and we have a hunting quota, but they mainly live in southern Africa, and if you want to hunt them, you have to go to South Africa." The Dutch affirmed Hong Tao's problem.
"Go, you have to go, I'm going to make this rhinoceros head. Whoever robs me and who I play with my life! "The fat boss is in this hanging basket without a tiger in the mountains, and the fat man is the overlord, without Boss Liu, he speaks more hard.
"Then the lion is mine! You say that I made a lion into a lion's skin carpet with a head, and spread it in front of my bed. "Hong Tao is estimated to tease the fat boss, he has the money to toss these things back to China. Some of the money for hunting was paid in advance by others, and it was made into specimens and shipped back to China. This shipping and handling fee alone is a large number.
"Lions are not bad either. Hong Tao, you don't have a place to put it at home, or you sell the lion to me, I'll exchange the building with you, it's not just that your Uncle Liu has a house, we also have it! I won't charge you any more value-added fees. I'll sell it to you at the original price, what's the matter? The fat boss knew that Hong Tao likes to buy a house and save it, so he just took it out to tempt Hong Tao.
"Come on, I haven't paid off Uncle Liu's house money yet. I don't even have a down payment on another set, so let's talk about it when I save up enough. Hong Tao really wants to, but he doesn't want to owe favors everywhere, friends can communicate with each other, but the old acceptance does not give feedback, sooner or later this friendship will change taste, eat the shortest others, take other people's hands short, this is the truth summed up by the ancestors for thousands of years!
"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry, you can pay in installments, five years, according to your company that tosses the house, I estimate that you can buy a house by selling 2 sets of small yards." By the way, I forgot about the house, I still have shares! Is it cheaper for shareholders to buy their own company's house? As he spoke, the fat boss began to deviate, from the lion to the house.
"It is also a price for shareholders to buy their own company's house, and the company is now mainly in the school district, so you can't use it if you buy it!" Hong Tao rejected the fat boss's request, public is public, private is private, this thing can't be mixed together, if the shareholders buy their own company's things cheaply, then whose money will go?
"Isn't there a small courtyard next to your house? I think it's a good place, it's mainly quiet, and we live in neighborhoods, so it's easy to take care of anything! The fat boss had been thinking about that small courtyard at the beginning, and Hong Tao thought he was talking about it, but he didn't care.
"I see, you're going to prepare it for that college student, right? Are you afraid that one day the fat aunt will come to raid the house, so that your college students can hide from my house? Hong Tao pondered a little and knew what the fat boss was holding in his stomach, he had a house in Chaoyang District, Beijing, or a small villa, if it wasn't for arranging a place for his mistress, he didn't have anything to do to buy a small yard for hair?
"Hey, hey, don't worry, I'm the head of the family in my family, women should never want to climb on the head of Lao Tzu, and your aunt is not that kind of shrew, she won't do this. I'm thinking about it, leaving some family business for other people's mothers and sons, and now that I'm alive, no one dares to say anything, but if I kick my legs that day, these girls and children may not be able to live a good life. The fat boss finally told the truth, and the two girls must be referring to the college student who gave birth to a son for him.
"Righteousness! This is really a serious matter, if you say so, then this yard will belong to you, but the price can't be cheap, don't worry, I will definitely not pit you, come to a ninety-five discount, right? Hong Tao originally wanted to keep the yard by himself, although he has no money in his hand at present, but the yard is not in a hurry to sell, and the house price has not risen too high at this time, so it is not suitable to sell it. But since the fat boss said that this is the part, make less money, make less money, there are still a lot of small courtyards like this in Beijing, although the price may be higher, but as long as you buy it in the past few years, the price will increase several times is still certain.
"Cheng, then it's decided, but that lion has nothing to do with this house, your Uncle Liu doesn't like to be lively, and there is no one at home, it's a waste to put him there, and it's the best use of it to put me there!" After talking about the house, the fat boss turned the topic back again, and even used the idiom.
"I was just kidding you, I just hit the lion, and I don't have the money to toss back to China, you and Uncle Liu discuss it, whoever takes it, I don't mix." As soon as Hong Tao saw that the fat boss was really serious, he stopped teasing him.
"X, then I'm talking nonsense to you for a long time! I'll talk to Lao Liu in a while! The fat boss only reacted at this time, Hong Tao didn't plan to ask for specimens at all, he was just teasing him, and immediately turned his face and didn't recognize people.
Four huge hot air balloons lined up a few hundred meters apart and slowly floated in the sky about 100 meters above the ground and moved north. In the gondola of the balloon, if you don't look at the ground, the whole picture seems to be still, except for the occasional whirring fire of the heater, which is the whooshing sound of the air passing through the ropes.
"Pan, can I ask where you're from?" After Hong Tao finished communicating with the fat boss, he lay on the edge of the hanging basket and looked at the animals below for a while, feeling a little bored. When there are no animals, I always think that I can find a few animals on the grass in front of me, but now there are all animals below, and it will be annoying to see too much, not to mention that now I can only use my eyes, not my hands!
"Can't!" Pan still straddled the edge of the hanging basket, leaning on the rope behind him, he didn't know what to think, and when he heard Hong Tao's question, he didn't even think about it, and directly refused.
"This is not very fair, I told you that I am Chinese, I should also know where you are from, it is not polite to ask the lady's age, and there should be no problem with nationality?" Hong Tao doesn't care if you tell him or not, as long as he has someone to chat, it doesn't matter whether he raises the bar or fights.
"Actually, it was very rude for you to talk to your companion in your language just now, especially in front of a lady, and you know that I don't understand Chinese." Pan is a cheerful person, and directly expressed the dissatisfaction in his heart. (To be continued......)