Secretly dress 99 nooks and death of turtle tools

Next to the floating mound, there is often a big tortoise-like turtle, it must be weighed at half weight. The special thing is that the whole body of this turtle is silvery white .

Expressing the desire to learn about the giant prize in Minh Quan lagoon, everyone showed me to meet Mr. Tran Trong Dan, living right next to this giant lagoon.

Loanh wandered around the fields, and I also found Mr. Dan, when he was rowing a small boat on the edge of the lagoon to release a fishing net. When asked about the giant turtle, Dan said: ' You have the right person. 80 years old, 65 years living on this lagoon, married to the island man in the middle of the lagoon, so there are no nooks and burrows, the billions of people who are under this lagoon do not know '.

80 years old with 65 years of fishing on the lagoon, Mr. Dan is the one who understands every channel
Minh Quan lagoon.

Saying that, Mr. Dan led me to the shabby house at the foot of Minh Quan lagoon and pointed to the picture of the largest tortoise in a large sheet of turtle-shaped pictures in Vietnam, saying: ' Did you ask me? this? It's like this one, there are many in the lagoon . ' Beneath the turtle image, Mr. Dan only has the words Rafetus swinhoei.

' Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thuan gave me a picture of this turtle and said this is Turtle Lake Sword. He also showed me a lot of photos of turtles of Sword Lake, so I am sure this child has a lot in the lagoon, my hometown calls it a prize '- Mr. Dan affirmed as a nail. Nguyen Xuan Thuan is the coordinator of the Vietnam Turtle Program, part of the Asian Turtle Program.

According to Mr. Dan, this lagoon is called Hau lagoon, or 99 niche, because it has 99 nooks and crannies. Once upon a time, it was just a swamp, full of grass, fish, turtles, turtles, tournaments, birds. Lagoon with the Red River, so the flood season is large, the dry season is inundated.

He pointed to the image of "turtle tool" Ho Guom and affirmed that it was the prize.
he met and ate meat many times.

In 1952, the State built dams to retain water to irrigate people around the region. Since dams, high water levels and lakes have been expanded, no one knows how many niches, but the lagoon becomes very deep, with a depth of up to 30m.

According to Mr. Dan's conception as well as Mr. Hoang Xuan Bon (in Minh Quan commune, Tran Yen commune, Yen Bai province), the animals that people still know as Ho Guom tortoise actually came from his hometown and called him the prize. or giant three.

Mr. Dan said, Mr. Hoang Xuan Bon only managed to shoot a prize, and many others caught a dozen of them, dividing meat for people around the area. Mr. Dan himself also used to eat meat many times and found it as well as tortoise meat, nothing special. A few dozen years ago, three in Minh Quan lagoon as much as shrimp like shrimp, cheaper than fish, no one craved food.

The celebrity hunted many giant turtles with his bare hands, Mr. Hoang Van Su, a house in the Union area. He is 1.85m tall, weighs 80kg, his health is not in the enemy area.

In the 80s of the last century, Mr. Dan often went to see night fish with Mr. Su and witnessed several times when he caught turtles with his strength. During the process of examination, whenever the giant turtle crawled up to the beach, Mr. Su immediately rushed in, blocking the way to the lake. The turtle is very strong, but shy, so when it comes to people blocking the road, it does not dare to rush straight in, but goes around looking for another escape route.

I turned on the laptop for Mr. Dan to see this turtle image, Mr. Dan also affirmed
It is the prize in Minh Quan lagoon.

When the turtle was still looking for a way to escape, Mr. Su chose the location, the right posture, he would transport the object to face it. When he recovered his head, Mr. Su went on to fish or go to sleep. The next morning, he took the buffalo to pull it back to make meat. The turtles are big and strong, but when the back is dotted, there is no way to turn up.

However, Mr. Su's way of hunting turtles with his bare hands only catches under one quintal. Those who are more than one quintal, the power of dreaming is also unmatchable, not to mention human strength.

In contrast to the ancient times, in the 60-70 years of the last century, famous people hunt giant turtles in Minh Quan lagoon, Mr. Nguyen Van Phuong. Mr. Phuong often organized a group of 4-5 people into the turtle hunting lagoon.

In those years, giant turtles were very much in Minh Quan lagoon. At night, they often go to the reeds to sleep. When this giant tortoise slept, it emitted a "cheese" breathing sound like a snore, so it was also detected even when standing far from where it slept.

The solution was shot deadly and mercilessly in silver and white than this turtle.

Hunters cut hard bamboo sticks into sharp poles, carrying hammers and gently moving towards the delicious giant turtle. As fast as a lightning, one person piles into the ass, two people block the two shoulders. They used a rope to fasten the three bamboo poles, knitting into a sturdy crib. The giant tortoise, though stirring, scratching hard, thrust like a bulldozer, did not lose anything.

After that, they continued to pierce through the sickle with iron spikes. When they lost a lot of blood and were exhausted, they turned their giant turtles to the ground, strung back their four legs, and put the turtles on the stretcher and sawed them.

On that day, Mr. Dan often went to see Mr. Phuong's group of turtles, so Mr. Phuong gave him a basket of eggs. Big turtle eggs bigger than goose eggs, whole yolk, but pale, finished eating the fishy smell in the throat.

The places where Mr. Phuong devastated the huge fishy tortoise, the whole month did not run out of smell. To the buffalo, he also had to walk around, not going through the turtle surgery, because he could not bear the fishy smell.

Families on Doc Island had to relocate because of the fishy smell of the white prize
Rotten death rises horribly.

Talking about the fishy smell of the turtle, Mr. Dan recalled that Mr. Long Jiang shot and killed a giant turtle.

Next to the floating mound, there is often a big tortoise-like turtle, it must be weighed at half weight. The special thing is that the whole body of this turtle is silvery white, the possibility of it being albino. There is a big banyan tree in Doc Muoc mound. Due to lightning, a part of the banyan tree sank into the water. This giant albino tortoise often crawls up to the branches to sun exposure.

Mr. Long Jiang carried the gun straight into his back several times. Winning bullets, the turtle plunges into the water and goes missing. Everyone guessed it was dead, but the place was very deep, more than 10m, so no one dived to pull its body up.

A few days later, the fat from the decomposing turtle's body floated up to the surface of the water, spreading over a large area. Smell is so horrible that so many households living on Doc Muong mound must temporarily move to another island. No one dared to sail through that area, because the fishy smell of the corpse was unbearable.

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