In fact, there was nothing upstream, and after paddling for a while, there was suddenly no road ahead, all of them were thick tree trunks, and there was nothing upstream of the river, and all this water seeped out of the rainforest, and the trunks of every tree here were damp, and from time to time there were droplets of water dripping from the top of their heads, and the droplets of thousands of plants were the source of this stream. After the rainy season, it rains every day, and then the sky is the source of the river.

"Give me the harpoon, I'll keep watch for you, and you can catch some fish to play with, don't you have fishing nets?" Anaya took the harpoon from Hong Tao's hand, and then pointed to the fishing net in the cabin.

"Got to the place? That's it? Hong Tao felt very sudden, in his imagination, those tropical fish called water elves must live in a place with beautiful water, but this is a swamp in the rainforest, the water is full of fallen leaves and branches, and the mud below does not know how thick the road is.

"This is the place where the little fish you are talking about can only survive in the shallow water here, there are many hiding places here, and the big fish can't swim in, or they will all be eaten by the big fish." Anaya pointed to the canoe in front of her, where the two fathers and sons had already unfurled a net of about one square meter and put it in the water.

"Lao Hong! Lao Hong, there are really tropical fish! Look underneath those leaves! "The sturgeon is carrying a camera into the water.

"Hey! Really hi! There are quite a few, all traffic lights, fatty! Hand me the net! Hong Tao looked in the direction of the camera, and sure enough, he found a bunch of small fish fry under a pair of leaves floating on the water, but most of them had bright red and blue-green stripes on their bodies, and they had a fluorescent effect when they swam.

"Hahaha, come on! Have a bucket! Hong Tao slowly stretched the net down the bottom of the water, and then suddenly lifted it, and the group of small fish was basically wiped out.

"Anaya, what is this fish called by you?" After putting the fish in the bucket. The three of them lay on the edge of the bucket and looked at the dozens of small fish that were only 2 centimeters in size in the bucket.

"Cardinal Fish! Only the male fish can be sold for money, and those females that have no color are put back. Anaya didn't even twist her head, and answered the sturgeon's question directly.

"This is Cardinal Fish? What is the name for? Hong Tao didn't expect this kind of small fish to have such a high-end and high-grade name.

"I don't know, I guess the red on them looks like the red robes worn by the bishop, right?" Anaya apparently didn't have much research on these tropical fish, and he was also a fool.

"How much does this thing sell for?" Hong Tao became interested in the value of these tropical fish, which cost several dollars per fish in China, and if they were not raised well, they could easily die, or their colors would become less vibrant.

"@......#......%@, this year's purchase price is 1 pfenny." Anaya shouted at the father and son in front of her, who were fishing for tropical fish. Then after getting an answer, he went back to answer Hong Tao's question.

"1 Finney!? Evil capitalism! When Hong Tao heard this price, he couldn't help but complain about those black-hearted buyers. Finney is the auxiliary currency of Brazilian real, 1 real is equal to 100 fennig, in 08 years, 1 real is almost equal to more than 2 yuan, that is to say, the price of a tropical fish is less than 3 cents.

Now Hong Tao understands why these fishermen are so poor, and they can catch almost 3,000 cardinal fish in a day, which is 30 reais. And it is impossible for these fish to be caught in one place. There are many places to go, and the oil money alone has to take up more than half of the income, and the fish can only be caught during the three months of the dry season, and it is even more difficult to catch during the rainy season.

Hong Tao: They thought it was a lot of fun to catch tropical fish. But when I arrived at the scene, I didn't have any interest at all, just like fishing for fish and insects in the small river ditch in China, using a big net to copy in the shallow water. Then the leaves, twigs, and other small trash fish were picked out, and a dozen cardinal fish were left carefully placed in buckets and raised, and so on.

This cardinal fish is due to its small size. The swimming speed is relatively slow, and they like to pile up, which is the easiest to catch, and the remaining tropical fish are generally 2 or 3 together, swimming fast, more difficult to catch, and can not catch dozens of them a day, although the price is higher than that of cardinal fish, but the production is too small.

barely survived noon, Hong Tao and the three of them were really bored staying, so they discussed with Anaya, simply don't waste time here, let's go back. After bidding farewell to the lucky fishing father and son, Hong Tao and the others rowed the speedboat, led by Anaya, returned to the place where the boat was parked, said goodbye to the fisherman's wife, and then started the boat to return alone.

Originally, Anaya also said that she wanted to return part of the 100 reais with that fisherman, but was stopped by Hong Tao, and this 100 reais was placed in the hands of Hong Tao's three people, which is not much money, and more or less will not affect their lives, but in the hands of that fisherman, it is a whole few days' income, even if it is a good deed, at least the family will meet the Chinese again in the future, and it may be much more friendly.

After returning to Barcelus again, Anaya took Hong Tao and the three of them ashore to this small city, where very few people can speak English, the streets are also dilapidated, most of the houses are made of wooden planks, the only tall buildings that can be seen are churches, and there are quite a few, Hong Tao probably counted, in this small city of less than 20,000 people, there must be at least 20 churches, and the people here have no work to do, except for fishing, they can only pin their ideals on God.

Although there are a few hotels for tourists to live in the small town, but the conditions are very ordinary, even the power supply can not be guaranteed, let alone the Ministry of Health sanitation, Hong Tao and the three of them after looking at the rooms of the two hotels, they agreed that instead of living in the hotel, it is better to sleep on the boat of Anaya, at least there is no need to worry about small creatures such as lice and bedbugs to patronize themselves, and there are no mosquitoes here.

After obtaining Anaya's permission, they had a meal of fried fish with fried banana chips in one of the best restaurants on the Barcelus pier, and then returned to the boat, and while it was still dark, they sailed out of the pier, found a relatively calm inlet, and slept in a hammock.

"Anaya, what kind of fish is that fried fish we ate at night?" Hong Tao couldn't sleep in his hammock, and began to ask Anaya next to him.

"Fish-like food, doesn't it taste a bit like beef? Foreign tourists who have eaten this meat before say so. "It doesn't seem like the first time Anaya has heard this kind of question.

"What kind of fish is an elephant fish?" Hong Tao heard the name for the first time.

"Well, it's big...... The scales on its body are beautiful, but its meat is not very tasty, so it can only be fried. Anaya couldn't describe what the fish looked like, but she gestured with her hand about its size.

"Sturgeon, throw that book over." Hong Tao looked at the length of Anaya's comparison, and his interest immediately came again.

"This is it!" Hong Tao helped Anaya turn on the flashlight, flipped through dozens of pages of the atlas, and finally found the elephant fish.

"Arapaima! Fatso! Sturgeon! Don't let anyone else, come and see, there is still this kind of fish here, have you seen it? Hong Tao took the atlas in Anaya's hand and looked at it, and immediately became calm, and called the fat cloth and the sturgeon down from the hammock, and gathered together to look at the picture of the fish with the flashlight.

"Sounds familiar, damn it! 2.5 meters long! More than 200 pounds!! Lao Hong, hurry up and ask, can you catch it? "Fat Bu looked at the introduction below the picture, and he was not calm.

"You can catch it, but it's usually not that big, it's almost 1 meter long!" Anaya doesn't agree with the data in the picture, and it is estimated that he has never seen an elephant fish more than 2 meters long.

"That's also done, is it easy to fish?" Hong Tao thinks that more than 1 meter long is not bad.

"They are usually caught with nets, and they don't have a fixed living area, they always swim around in deep water, and we can only try our luck." Anaya didn't dare to take a big deal this time, it seems that this kind of elephant fish is really not very easy to catch.

"It's okay, tell me, what kind of bait do you use to catch this fish?" The last thing Hong Tao is afraid of is luck.

"It's okay to use bigger fish, they mainly eat fish, there is no specific bait, so let's go to the village of the Indian tribe tomorrow, and ask the fishermen in the village to see if they have any good ideas." Anaya made a suggestion.

"OK, no problem, sleep! Wake up early tomorrow! Only then did Hong Tao remember that there were still Indian villages to visit, and he was full of confidence in these people who lived in the rainforest all year round, just like the Maasai people in Africa, who lived in a fixed environment for a long time, and would always develop amazing skills.

As long as there is a strong goal in his heart, Hong Tao generally wakes up naturally at 4 o'clock, which is a skill practiced by fishing by the water all year round. The next day, as soon as it was dark, he scurried out of his hammock, woke everyone up one by one, washed them briefly, and set off for the Indian tribe of which Anaya had spoken

The tribe of the Indians that Anaya spoke of was in a tributary of the middle reaches of the Negro River, and their village was about a mile from the river. There is also a small wooden dock by the river, where a few canoes are docked.

Anaya's boat also stopped by the dock, and then everyone tied their sleeves and trouser legs again, put on their hats, and smeared with insect repellent, and Anaya opened the way in front, and Hong Tao and the three of them followed him, and followed a path that had been trampled for a long time into the rainforest on the shore. (To be continued......)

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