Chapter 78: Wild Boar Tooth
During the two days I was applying for the visa, I had nothing to do to check the situation of Myanmar's Wa State: Wa State is located in the Awa Mountains in northeastern Myanmar. It borders China's Yunnan Province to the east and Thailand to the south. The main ethnic group is the Wa, and Han people have lived there for generations.
, the Dai, Miao and other ethnic minorities speak Southwest Chinese Mandarin throughout the state, use Chinese characters, and use RMB. China Telecom’s Wa State area code is the Lincang area code. Calls to China in Wa State are domestic long-distance calls, but calls to Myanmar are international long-distance calls.
Moreover, the Wa State is an independent kingdom. They have their own army and administrative agencies, and the central government of Myanmar has very weak control over it.
I think this saves trouble. There is no need to open international long-distance services or exchange foreign currency. However, there are no direct flights from China to the Wa State Special Administrative Region of Myanmar. The fastest way is to fly to Lancang Jingmai Airport and then change
Take a bus to Meng'a Port in Menglian and enter Bangkang, the capital of Myanmar's Wa State Special Administrative Region.
After Yifan and I got off the plane at Jingmai Airport in Lancang, we took a transfer bus to Meng'a Port in Menglian as planned. Meng'a Port is located at the confluence of Nanma River and Nanka River, to the center of Nanka River. As the boundary, the east bank of the river is my country, and the west bank is Myanmar. Due to its superior geographical location, the Meng'a Port has always been an important port for border residents from China and Myanmar to visit relatives and trade with each other.
After clearing customs, Yifan and I crossed the border port bridge from Meng'a and boarded a bus bound for Bangkang City, the capital of Wa State.
There were quite a lot of people on the bus, including Burmese and Chinese, most of whom were doing business on the China-Myanmar border.
This trip abroad was the first time for Yifan and I, as grown-up girls, to ride in a sedan chair. I originally thought we could experience the exotic scenery.
Sitting in the car, I could see the endless rolling mountains outside the window. The dilapidated bus we were riding was like a snail, crawling among the rolling mountains. The vegetation on the mountains was dense, and even the roads on both sides of the road were covered with vegetation.
Trees also cover the sky and the sun, and big trees hugged by people can be seen everywhere! Moreover, the climate here is hot and humid, which makes people feel very stuffy!
The car drove for almost an hour, and there were still towering trees on both sides of the road, which seemed to be endless. Occasionally, I saw a small village on the roadside, with a few sparse tile-roofed houses hidden among the green leaves.
Just when I was bored and falling asleep, a young man sitting in the row behind us took the initiative to talk to me.
"Are the two eldest brothers from China? Here to travel?"
I didn't know his intention, so I just smiled at him politely and nodded.
"Brother, I'm from the Wa State. I often go to China to do some small business. I have a good thing here, do you want it? It was originally going to be sent to China, but the check at the port was tight today and I didn't get through. I'll deal with it cheaply.
How are you?"
As the young man spoke, he took out his mobile phone from the bag beside him, apparently wanting to show me the photos on the phone.
I thought to myself: Why is something so mysterious that you can only look at photos if you want to sell it to me? I got curious, and Yifan came over, probably quite curious as well.
But in the photo on the mobile phone, there is a person holding a curved yellow-white object in front of the camera with both hands. It looks like it is nearly one meter in size. There are large yellow-brown spots on the object, and the person's hands and
The object was still stained with blood, and the background was a dark primeval forest. There seemed to be the carcass of some animal on the ground, but since most of the lens was blocked by the white object, it was not clear what kind of animal it was.
Yifan smiled and said to the young man: "It seems to be ivory! How brave are you to sell ivory in public?"
"Do you want ivory? I have ivory too. You can get off the car with me and I will take you to see it. But ivory is more expensive than this. This is not ivory, this is wild boar tusks! It's under my seat now. If you like it,
If so, I’ll sell it to you cheaper!”
I was shocked! How could there be such a big wild boar tooth! Ordinary wild boar teeth are only about ten centimeters. From the photo, this one is at least 70 or 80 centimeters without being one meter long. How could it be a wild boar tooth!
"Go on and tell me nonsense. Who has ever seen such a big wild boar tooth? Are you crazy about making money? Little brother, do you think we Chinese are all fools?" Yifan said to the young man with a look of disdain.
The young man smiled and said nothing. He just slid his hand and placed the next photo on his phone in front of Yifan and me.
I turned my head curiously and looked at it, and the next second I was completely shocked by the photo!
In the photo, I saw a middle-aged man with the wild boar tusk in his hand at his feet and a long shotgun in his right hand. Behind him, a huge wild boar fell in a pool of blood and had already been disemboweled.
The blood flowed like a river. How big is this wild boar? I compared the figure of the middle-aged man based on the photo, and it is estimated that it is bigger than an adult buffalo!
"Fuck you, second uncle! Is this true? You're not doing this to sell things, are you?" Yifan, who was sitting next to him, was also dumbfounded.
"Boss, it's absolutely true. Ivory is more expensive than this. If I use ivory to pass off as wild boar tusks, am I not mentally ill?!"
I thought it was right!
"Such a big wild boar is so scary! It's bigger than a cow. Who is that person in the photo? So powerful? With just a shotgun? He killed this wild boar." I couldn't help but ask.
The guy probably thought we wanted to buy it, so he became more enthusiastic.
"Two eldest brothers, this is my father in the photo. He did not kill this wild boar. In the past two years, several people from our village have gone to the mountains to hunt and never came back. People in the village have said that there are monsters that have become spirits in the mountains. People's hearts are
In panic, many people moved away. My father is the village chief, so he and a dozen young people from the village went into the mountains with shotguns to look for them. As a result, the group searched for several days without finding anyone, but they found this.
It was a giant wild boar. It was already dead when it was found, and it seemed to have been bitten to death by something! Because there were signs of struggle at the scene, you can see that these trees have been broken," the young man said while pointing with his finger.
The several broken trees in the photo said to me.
Yifan and I were stunned! No one could speak for a moment!
Such a big wild boar was actually bitten to death! What could have bitten it to death?!
"You two! Do you want to buy it? You will never find such a big wild boar tooth again! My father has been hunting for more than ten years and said he has never seen it!"
"Didn't your father see what kind of animal bit him?" I asked quickly.
"Hey, they were too frightened! They didn't dare to look for anyone anymore! They all went back to the village at that time. If you don't believe me, I can take you to see my father! How about buying it? Twenty thousand yuan, compared to
Ivory is much cheaper and it will definitely give you face when you bring it back to China!”
Yifan and I were still immersed in deep shock, and no one paid attention to him for a while.
Seeing that no one of us was paying attention to him, the young man felt bored and sat back in his seat.
But after listening to what this young man said, I felt very anxious. I knew that there were many venomous snakes and beasts in the primitive deep forest, but I didn't know it was so bizarre! A wild boar is bigger than a cow!
"Okay, don't worry! The purpose of our trip is to rescue Wei Shengjin. After rescuing people, we can return home immediately. No matter what the wild boar or buffalo is!" Yifan whispered in my ear.
Chapter completed!