When talking to Hu Jia on the phone at night, Sun Lien really heard further news from his girlfriend. Liu Tangchun, an old man, really plans to make himself to Polythanvia. In Liu Tangchun's words, he is giving his graduate students an "international exchange program of about three months", with the aim of improving Sun Lien's "comprehensive ability" through three months of practice.

"Then you come here, I think Polythanvia is actually quite good. Hu Jia smiled on the other end of the phone, "The air in this place is good, and the conditions of our station are not bad." Except for the occasional power outage and the taste of the food is not quite the same, everything else is good. ”

"I don't count if I say this—anyway, I don't think Director Liu intends to listen to my opinion. Sun Lien smiled bitterly twice, "But I can see you when I go over, it seems quite good to think about it." ”

Sun Lien comforted herself here, and Hu Jia on the other end was a little anxious - she was actually reluctant to let Sun Lien come over. Working in Polythanvia during this time has given her a deeper understanding of the region, and the situation in Polythanvia is far more complicated than what Sun found on the Internet.

The population in this area is not very large, and the medical teams are mainly concentrated in the residential areas along the lake of Greater Malawi and Port Melati, as well as the small towns on the transportation lines around Port Melati.

But in this area, Hu Jia has seen a lot of things that he couldn't understand before. For example, for some inexplicable reason, women are required to be circumcised before the age of 10 – and the tools used for circumcision are nothing more than broken porcelain shards or rusty sickles.

In the past three months, Hu Jia has seen more than a dozen little girls infected by circumcision. And survived with the full rescue of the medical team...... It's just four children.

The gynecologist on the medical team was not very old, and she cried several times alone in the dormitory as she watched these children, who were about the same size as her daughter, suffer so much.

And Hu Jia keenly noticed that in recent months, it seems that more and more patients have suffered trauma and assault. In the last month, the medical team has begun to receive frequent patients who have been brought to the station. Most of them were knife wounds or puncture wounds with sharp objects, and almost all of the wounded were Kathu.

The Kathu people were a "superior people" during the colonial period, who were mainly engaged in agriculture and cultivation, and were also the main race that controlled the country's economy and education. Most of them had converted to Catholicism with the colonists, while the rest remained in their original religion.

In contrast to the Kathu, the majority of the population is the Tushi people. They are mainly nomadic and belong to a more typical nomadic people. They mainly believe in primitive religions, and the content of their beliefs is also very complex - from voodoo to various foreign religions, the Tushi people believe in almost all of them. But there is one habit that they have never changed - hostility to outsiders.

The people of the Picture show have been nomadic in the Great Mara Lake area for thousands of years. Since the colonial period, they have always obeyed the orders of outsiders, even under the fire of water-cooled heavy machine guns, and the answer to the answer of the people shown is their own spears.

Hostility to outsiders has persisted among the Tushi people, not only against the medical team and other foreigners, but also against the Kathu. The same ethnic groups living in the Greater Malawi Lake area, the Tushi and Kathu peoples, who live nomadically and hunting, have been in conflict with each other in the areas of reclamation. There are often clashes between the two sides over the grabs of water, land and even livestock. In the late nineties, there were even large-scale bloody clashes in Polytavia.

The Chinese construction companies and medical teams working in the area are also well aware of the atmosphere, with the Chinese construction companies hiring armed security guards to protect the site and the staff quarters, while the Chinese medical teams are directly armed police from the Polythanvian side. Although China's favorability is quite high in Polytavia, Hu Jia still saw the results of ethnic antagonism in the hospital.

She instinctively felt a hint of unease, the situation in Polytavia seemed to be calm, but no one knew when the powder pile would be ignited. This change in the situation has never been seen in her life for more than 20 years, and the people of the same country, but two groups of people are eager to draw their swords and kill their compatriots cleanly. This kind of thinking is simply unthinkable for the Chinese.

He seems to be safe here—at least neither the relatively enlightened Kathu nor the extremely outsider-phobic Tushi do not pose any threat to the doctors when seeking medical help. But once the two sides start to fight each other, it is difficult to say whether it will hurt the pond fish.

After hesitating for a while, Hu Jia whispered on the phone, "Otherwise...... Shall I go and talk to Mr....... Liu? I think it's better for you to stay in the country. ”

"No, I don't. Sun Lien was very open, "Anyway, it's only three months, and it's 90 days to be full, how big can it be." He smiled and said, "When I go over, it's okay to bring a body armor for each of you, right?"

"Crow's mouth!" Hu Jia hurriedly "Bah Bah" a few times, and then said, "It's true that you bring a few more packets of instant noodles when you come over." ”

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The next day, Sun Lien still got up according to his usual normal routine. But today's destination is Wu Youqian's laboratory. Thinking of going to Africa in more than two months, Sun Lien couldn't help but feel a little worried about the progress of the experiment. If the experiment cannot be completed within this time, the progress of the subsequent experiment will inevitably be affected.

Because of something on his mind, Sun Lien's performance in the simulated ninth consultation room today was very poor. He usually had three cases to deal with in the morning, and he only completed one and a half this morning—the remaining half of the diagnosis was still in the wrong direction.

"What's the matter with you today, didn't you sleep well yesterday?" Wu Youqian deliberately brought the plate to Sun Lien's side when he was eating at noon, and asked with a frown, "It's the first time I've seen you in such a bad state for so long. ”

Sun Lien was pondering the affairs of Africa in his head, and he didn't even notice that Dean Wu was already sitting next to him with a plate. When Wu Youqian spoke, he broke free from the messy African "impressions" in his mind.

Dean Wu is really good to Sun Lien, and Wu Youqian can even be said to have cultivated Sun Lien as his own student without reservation. For Lao Wu, Sun Lien has nothing to keep. So he quickly told what had tormented him for a day.

"Going to Africa?" Unexpectedly, after hearing that Sun Lien was going to Africa, Dean Wu not only did not worry about the progress of his experiment, but also had some encouragement, "It's good." A good man has ambitions in all directions, and for the health and well-being of the people of the world, it is nothing to suffer for a few months. He pulled the food in front of him with his chopsticks, "Besides, it's the 21st century, and Africa is not the broken, poor, and worthless it you imagined." At least it's much better than when we went. ”

"Dean Wu, have you been there too?" Sun Lien's eyes widened, this was information that he had never mastered before.

"Yes, of course. Wu Youqian showed a nostalgic expression, "I didn't catch up with the first group to go to Algeria, and then I participated in the medical team twice. Once to Tanzania and once to Madagascar. ”

Participating in the medical team to aid Africa is ...... The tradition of Ningyuan Medical College?Sun Lien nodded, and began to prepare to listen to Wu Youqian's story.

"Hurry back after eating, you still owe me a half-case in the morning." Unexpectedly, Wu Youqian didn't want to tell Sun Lien what happened back then, "Go back, you call Liu Tangchun and ask you about the time of your departure - I can arrange the experimental plan here." ”

(Again, please note that Polythanvia and the Kathu and illustrated families mentioned in the text are fictitious, so please do not sit in opposite seats.) The circumcision mentioned in the text does not allude to or imply any group, ethnicity, or religion – it is a common practice in African countries and parts of South-East Asia. ）