Chapter 538: Underwater
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Crown Prince Shangchen of the State of Chu staged a palace coup and rebelled against his father, King Cheng of Chu. Before his death, King Cheng of Chu strongly requested to eat a meal of boiled bear paws so that he could rest in peace.
If you think about it carefully, it may not be really because bear paws are delicious that King Cheng of Chu was incompetent.
Maybe it was just some kind of mockery, mocking what his son had done.
At that time, people usually ate bear paws just to retaliate against the rule of the King of Zhou, which was nominally a country but actually a tribe.
Bear, badge, pixiu, xiu, leopard, and tiger.
Six kinds of animals are tribal totems, among which the bear represents the ancestors of the Chinese people. The State of Chu used the bear as its country name to demonstrate its powerful strength.
The people in the Central Plains disagreed, always thinking that the Chu State was a barbarian tribe. Unfortunately, the Chu State was too powerful and they could not defeat it, so they could only express their contempt by eating bear paws, just like the current contempt chain, to show their own superiority.
From then on, eating bear paws became popular and everyone thought it was "fashionable".
But are bear paws really delicious?
Not necessarily. Or rather, it really doesn’t taste good.
It is highly unlikely that something that even modern seasonings cannot make perfectly could have been made thousands of years ago.
The audience was greatly disappointed when they heard this.
I didn’t expect that after waiting for such a long time, I would come to the conclusion that it doesn’t taste good?
"Apart from bear paws, I don't think anyone likes to eat other parts of bears. I guess it's because they don't taste good."
Bifang searched his mind and found a century-old case to support his statement.
"In the 1980s, a nature reserve was established and poaching was strictly prohibited. As a result, a mountain resident wanted to hunt wild boars and musk deer, but accidentally shot a panda with a wireless collar."
panda?
The audience perked up after hearing this.
According to the context...
Oh shit, could it be that person who ate the panda?
Bifang nodded to confirm the audience's thoughts.
Indeed, such behavior would be considered extremely daring today.
In court.
Judge: "Tell me how you found the panda."
Resident: "I saw footprints in the snow. At first I thought it was a human. Then I found that the panda had been strangled. I knew it was wrong to kill a panda, and I wanted to hide it. I cut off the feet with a knife, then I cut open the body and took out the internal organs. I hid all of this in the woods. Finally I took the skin and meat away."
Judge: “What did you do with the meat?”
Mountain Man: "I took it home, and my wife stewed it with turnips, and we ate some. It didn't taste good. So we fed it to the pigs. I also gave some to my sister."
This is the record of the entire case.
But Bifang could no longer remember it clearly, so he recalled the general content and narrated it to the audience orally.
"The final sentence was to be sentenced to two years in prison. That was in 1983 when the Animal Protection Law was incomplete. If it were now, I'd probably have to serve the entire sentence."
"Pandas are also bears, so I think they are probably all about the same. Bears really don't taste good, and there's absolutely no need to try them. It's just a waste of money, there's no other purpose."
Live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water.
The grain production in the mountains is low. If we don’t collect mountain products and exchange them for external grains, our lives will become very poor.
Mountain dwellers basically rely on hunting to make some extra money , and they are not picky. They sell whatever they kill or catch in traps.
Even residents like these have to feed the meat directly to pigs, which shows how unpalatable bear meat is.
Perhaps it really takes one to two years of preparation and processing, as the comments said, to make food that is barely edible.
At this point, what you eat is no longer about the ingredients, but a kind of style.
Look, this dish of mine consumed countless manpower and resources. Can you afford it?
【The theme has been elevated.】
[Why, I inexplicably thought of saving the country through a roundabout way. ]
[Wow, another day of shattered dreams]
The audience roared.
"Okay, we've met each other, it's already 8 o'clock in the evening, let's end today's live broadcast here."
To shatter his fantasy that bear paws were delicious , Bifang delivered a second attack and he turned off the live broadcast.
[Damn, I shut down the live broadcast just because we don’t agree with each other! ]
[Boss Fang, don't hide in there and keep silent. I know you are at home. You are capable of eating bear paws, but why can't you do live broadcasting? ]
[Open the door, if you have the guts to eat bear paws, if you have the guts to live stream, live stream, live stream, live stream, Boss Fang, live stream, don’t hide in there and keep silent, I know you are eating.]
[Oh my god, this is such a nagging woman]
Although bear paws are not very delicious, Bifang is not the kind of person who would waste them.
If you keep stuffing yourself with food even though it doesn't taste good, it will inevitably arouse suspicion.
After dinner, around nine o'clock, there was no doubt that Richard and others in the hotel were blocked at the door again. These gang members were even more aggressive than yesterday and kept making verbal provocations.
What these social shadows want to do is to provoke Richard and others. As long as Richard and others can't bear it and take action, the local police will have reason and evidence to send them back to their country!
At nine o'clock in the evening, several people from the club were hanging around the door.
However, they were all a little surprised. Richard and the others seemed very different today from yesterday. Not only did they not come out to argue with them, but they stayed quiet in the room.
It only makes some noise occasionally. Otherwise, one would really doubt whether these things have disappeared in the room.
"Are you giving up so soon?"
"I don't know, maybe they're pretending. They even changed rooms today, I don't know what that means."
"Is it bad to have no reaction? Yesterday's quarrel gave me a headache, and I'm still a little sleepy today."
"We must not let our guard down. If they catch anything, this town will be finished."
"Have you got a cigarette? Give me one."
"Nice, the last one. You are so persistent. If you have this time, why don't you do something more meaningful?"
“Who knows…”
In the corridor, several young men in fancy clothes leaned against the wall, casually shaking the ashes from their cigarettes onto the carpet and chatting with each other.
A certain young man seemed to suddenly remember something and looked at his companions excitedly.
"By the way, did you watch today's black bear hunting season? It was really cool?"
Another companion didn't quite understand: "I didn't watch it. It's just a TV show. What's so good about it? I never watch these. It will make you a fool."
"Who said that? You're at a big loss. Today, a contestant defeated a 1.6-meter-tall black bear with just a spear. 1.6-meter-tall, he was taller than me when he stood up, and he only used a spear! It was so cool, he was like a superman!"
"Hey, are you kidding me? Using a spear to fight a black bear? Isn't this something that only happens in TV dramas?"
"It's true. Live broadcast. He used a spear to beat a black bear without any chance to fight back. I heard he is in Taiji Town. I think we should meet him."
Several people talked about today's hunting season. The young man who took the initiative to talk about this seemed very excited and obviously admired what Bifang did very much.
But what no one knew was that the superman they were talking about grabbed a handful of sand and prepared to climb the hotel building again.
With the experience of the first time, Bifang was obviously more fully prepared this time.
He tied the rope with a Prussian knot by first tying a shoelace into a loop with a square knot, then wrapping the rope around the rope, passing it through its own loop, passing the rope through the formed loop twice, and finally pulling it tight.
The Prussian knot is a safety knot used in rock climbing, used by climbers as a backup life-saving measure.
The unique knot allows it to move only upward along the rope; downward pressure locks it in place.
If you tie a Prussian knot on the strap, you can activate the automatic obstacle protection function. In case other equipment fails, the knot can still hold the falling Bifang.
When sneaking in or escaping, Bifang can use the fact that the knot can only move above the rope to lock himself in place.
Bifang tied a total of four Prue knots, which served as pull rings and footrests when climbing up the rope.
In a room, Mandy and Keke also opened the window and saw Bifang below the hotel.
Having learned from their experience, they booked a room on the fifth floor this time, so it didn't take much effort for Bifang to reach the edge of the window.
Bifang asked Mandy to change rooms, not only to make rock climbing more convenient, but also to avoid some unique surveillance methods.
Hotel rooms are notoriously unsafe.
This is especially true in some developing countries, where even trusted hotel brands, some of which are officially licensed, can be easily framed or spied on.
In this era of global uncertainty, radical governments will do their utmost to collect intelligence on foreigners. From senior diplomats to ordinary businessmen, no one is immune, especially someone like Richard who has a unique position in a certain field.
Many ordinary people are unaware of these invisible threats when traveling, and they think they are extremely safe hiding in a hotel room or rental car.
But Bifang knew the danger, especially since they were already under surveillance.
Any hotel under the control of an unknown entity is vulnerable to a variety of threats, and some hotels will place foreigners in rooms equipped with wired surveillance.
Fortunately, frequently changing rooms and hotels can prevent their plans from going awry.
Last night, Richard and his friends checked into a room and moved in, leaving no chance for others to install surveillance cameras. The same was true today.
Not only today, but every day thereafter, Richard and others will have to change floors and rooms, and after three days, they will need to change hotels.
"It's easy for emergencies to happen in a hotel. The safest rooms are on the second or third floor. You should move to the third floor tomorrow."
Bifang reminded.
The fire-fighting facilities in most countries cannot cover floors above the third floor, so they are easily threatened by fire. Although there are other guests in the hotel, doing so may harm innocent people and is too cruel.
But Bifang doesn't believe in the moral standards of people who benefit from it.
In addition, you should also avoid living on the first floor. In case of a surprise attack, staying away from the lobby is crucial to ensuring your own safety.
Mandy and Keke nodded, indicating that they would tell Richard and others tomorrow, and then they crawled down along the knot one by one.
If you look closely, you can easily find that both of them have put on close-fitting diving suits under their clothes.
Tonight the three of them are not simply installing cameras, but are going to carry out a more dangerous underwater installation.
The bottom of the ocean is also their battlefield!
