African Nationhood

Chapter 293 Tsetse fly hazard incident

Seeing that it was already noon, Xu Guangliang, who was fully dressed, scratched his head through his turban and looked at the fallen tree in front of him, which was about as thick as his waist.

He put the ax in his hand aside and couldn't help cursing: "What a damn weather!"

Zhang Guangye, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but said: "Just bear with it a little longer. In a month, it will be cool in the dry season."

April is the end of the rainy season in Matabeleland, and the climate is still humid and rainy.

In addition, these people were dressed so tightly, covering their heads and faces was really uncomfortable.

Xu Guangliang was from the northern part of the Qing Dynasty and was intolerant of heat. He smiled and beckoned: "Stop it, smoke a bag of cigarettes and take a break."

After saying that, he directly opened the gauze covering his head and face, then took out the cigarette bag from his waist, found a tree stump to sit down and smoke and rest.

Zhang Guangye and others saw that Xu Guangliang, the leader, had taken a break, so they naturally had no reason to continue working.

They all said, "Take a rest and get back to work later. If you have enough energy, you have to continue logging in the afternoon!"

Hearing someone calling for a break, the lumberjacks, whose clothes were soaked all the time, put down their work and looked for a place to rest.

Everyone was sitting on the ground with nothing else to do. They were either chatting together or smoking.

Most people don't smoke, but they take the opportunity to air their sweat.

They dare not take off the gauze scarf on their heads, as they will be punished if they are found out.

The very few who were disobedient became role models and were brought up to make excuses every day.

Xu Guangliang and other smokers gathered together, and several people took out shredded tobacco to pack cigarettes.

When smoking, they compared each other's tobacco or tobacco sticks, and even compared their respective cigarette bags.

One said my embroidery was embroidered by my woman, and the other said it was a gift from my sweetheart.

Xu Guangliang said nothing. He had just gotten married and his wife was a Japanese woman.

I don’t know how to embroider but I know how to cook and I respect him very much. I wait for him at the door after work every day. It’s very satisfying to do that at night...

Thinking about it, he feels that he is living a comfortable life. After these two years, he will be able to divide the land.

By the time he has ten or eight children, his Xu family will have an orderly inheritance.

"Xu Tou, the corners of your eyes are a little dark. Is it because your Japanese mother-in-law doesn't let you sleep at night?"

Xu Guangliang glared at Zhang Guangye and said with a smug smile: "Well, what's wrong? Although that woman is small, she is very energetic when doing it. She is even more smelly than that white-skinned woman!"

This sentence immediately choked Zhang Guangye, and everyone laughed when they heard it.

Zhang Guangye likes foreigners. We all went on a blind date to talk about a wife. He focused on talking to white women, and sure enough, he talked to a woman with a big face and freckles.

Even though the white woman is tall and tall, she just can't understand what she says. When they communicate together, they rely on gestures.

The women who come here are taught how to write Chinese characters. Japanese and Jing women learn very quickly, and it won't take long for them to be able to communicate smoothly with their own men.

But foreign women are very slow to learn, and Zhang Guangye sometimes regrets it.

Another thing that is particularly bad about white women is that they have to bathe frequently, otherwise they will get headaches when they sweat, especially when they do it at night, which is very disappointing.

Fortunately, there is sufficient water in their camp, so people can bathe every day and have good food.

There is no shortage of meat and vegetables, especially white flour steamed buns. If you get tired of eating white flour, you can change your taste and eat whole grains. Corn and sorghum are enough.

Days like this are so magical and so hard to change!
  Xu Guangliang watched as he finished smoking the bag of cigarettes, thinking that it was time for lunch, and the women would come to deliver the food later.

At that time, the women and men of each family will sit together to eat. After eating, they will take a short break before continuing to cut wood.

Sure enough, not long after waiting, a group of women arrived on tricycles. Some women were sitting on the side of the tricycles, while others were walking. Without exception, they were all well-dressed.

After all, the company's regulations are very strict. Even in the camp, every household must burn mosquito-repelling herbs at home and put up a mosquito net before they can rest at night. When the lumberjacks saw the woman arriving, they all had smiles on their faces and greeted their women one after another.

Xu Guangliang waved his hand to Guangzi, who was petite in ladies' attire, "Xu Jun!"

Xu Guangzi opened his short legs and walked over quickly, carrying the lunch box, "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Xu!"

Xu Guangzi speaks Chinese very softly, which makes people feel crisp.

Xu Guangliang grinned, "You've worked hard too, come and sit here."

As he spoke, Xu Guangliang used his sleeve to help his wife wipe the wooden block underneath. Xu Guangzi lowered his head and thanked her: "Thank you."

Xu Guangliang curled his lips. This is just a little bit of trouble for these Japanese people. They are so polite all day long.

After finishing her work in the evening, she would coquettishly say to him, "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Xu," which often made him angry and couldn't help but do one more thing.

……

The two sat down, and Xu Guangzi held a lunch box for her husband to eat.

"Today I made steamed buns with braised antelope meat, green pepper ostrich eggs, and a dried sardine and kelp soup. Does Xu Jun think it's delicious?"

Xu Guangliang was chewing mutton in his mouth and nodded directly without talking.

Xu Guangzi had a smile on her face, and she felt very accomplished when she saw her husband devouring the food.

Although they were separated by gauze scarves, they looked hazy and beautiful in their own eyes, but it all happened too suddenly...

"Wow!"

Xu Guangliang, Zhang Guangye and several men not far from him all fell to the ground unconscious. The women sitting in front of them were all startled by the sudden change.

Xu Guangzi was the first to react. She immediately shouted: "Hurry, send them to the hospital, they are infected!"

Xu Guangzi's words made everyone present react. The company has repeatedly emphasized the dangers of tsetse flies, but they have never encountered them. Now they finally saw them with their own eyes.

There is no buffer at all when narcolepsy attacks, and usually death is imminent by this time.

But she still had to work hard. Xu Guangzi hugged her husband tightly regardless of the vegetable soup on his body, and then whispered softly: "Xu Jun, don't let anything happen to you. Guangzi won't allow anything to happen to you!"

The men of the logging team took action. They removed the lunch boxes and wooden basins from the tricycle, carried the unconscious Xu Guangliang, Zhang Guangye and others up, and then pedaled hard towards the hospital in the camp area.

……

After arriving at the hospital, a group of people shouted for the doctor.

Soon there was chaos in the hospital, and the doctors were helpless about such calls. Although the immigrants were well-trained.

But at this time, it is basically a subconscious behavior and cannot be controlled at all. Just calm down and it will be fine.

The doctors at the hospital had no specific medicine for trypanosomiasis infection. Although they were instructed by Boss Shi to treat it with atropine.

However, treating the symptoms rather than the root cause can only temporarily revive the patient, but it still cannot cure the trypanosomes already parasitic in the blood.

Once the patient has an attack, he is basically declared dead, it just depends on the length of time.

"Hey, go out and let the patient have a good rest!"

Xu Guangzi listened to the doctor's words and walked out mechanically. As soon as he reached the door, he saw a white woman with a big face pulling her to sign. She looked at the white woman numbly, and then hugged her suddenly.

Crying...

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