Chapter 2: The Girl
(Ask for red tickets and monthly tickets to smash the list...... )
"This is the herb I'm going to drink?"
Lily is the granddaughter of the old chief Felician, a fifteen-year-old Yoruba girl.
Lily is definitely a little beauty in the local area.
A tall figure that has been well developed at a young age, wearing a local homespun striped long skirt, with a straight chest and a slender waist, he looks particularly tall and slender.
After more than a year of being sent by the group to work in Kanem's branch in Draculamo, Cao Mo found that the local young women were particularly tall, and he suspected that this was related to the fact that local women were used to walking on their heads, no matter how heavy they were.
The girl Lily's amber eyes are large and bright, her facial features are delicate, and the bridge of her nose is straight.
Even women rarely have long hair, and they like to use a kind of local red mud to glue their hair up and around it, but Lily has long dark brown hair that curls slightly, shiny like a waterfall, and under the straight nose, there are no thick lips characteristic of Yoruba, just the right amount of sexiness.
Unlike the dark complexion of the natives, Lily has light brown skin, which is related to the fact that Lily's mother is Italian and she has half Italian ancestry in her body.
A girl like Lily still doesn't quite fit Cao Mo's aesthetics.
In Cao Mo's eyes, Lily's other conditions are above ninety, but her complexion has dropped to seventy all of a sudden, and he still likes that kind of fair-skinned and slippery girl.
However, his eyes were fixed on the bowl of green, thick, strange-smelling medicinal soup in Lily's hand.
Lily handed the bowl over, and the smell was even more pungent.
Although her talking eyes were innocent and vivid, Cao Mo really doubted that she would say next: "Da Lang, drink this bowl of arsenic cream, and your illness will be cured......
Lily must have known how disgusting this thing was, and she looked innocent and curious, purely to see if he would spit it out when he swallowed it!
Kabuja's fiery eyes stared at the girl Lily's face for a long time, and then he noticed Cao Mo's look of resistance, and hurriedly persuaded him to call out the herbs:
"You were unconscious before, and Chief Felician poured this herb on you, and Lily and I went into the forest early in the morning, and finally picked up a new medicine, so you drink it quickly......"
Cao Mo was very suspicious that the locals, no matter what kind of illness they had, would only take this medicine to pour a breath.
Just like some stubborn and superstitious old people in China, no matter what the headache and brain fever are, they take a small pinch of incense ash and drink it, thinking that this will cure all diseases, and then wait to see the destiny of heaven.
To drink or not to drink?
If you don't drink it, will the old chief Felician feel offended, and then the tribe will have a feast of human flesh?
Drink?
His intuition told him that the girl Lily thought that he might spit it out the first sip.
Struggling inwardly, Cao Mo thought to himself that his current situation was indeed much better than when he just woke up, in short, he couldn't drink to death, he couldn't be driven out of the tribe before Guo Jian rushed back to "collect the body" for him, right?
He took the medicine bowl, pinched his nose and swallowed the green soup medicine that was so sticky in his mouth that he didn't dare to make a casual analogy so as not to disgust the reader.
After a while, Cao Mo suppressed his nausea and did not spit it out.
Seeing that Kabuja breathed a sigh of relief and looked relieved, Cao Mo almost splashed the remaining medicine residue from the broken bowl on his face.
Although Kabuja is only a local driver hired by the branch in Draculamo, he graduated from Ogun University and has a higher education than he did in high school, so why doesn't he have any scientific literacy and spirit?
Or is he so lost in love with the old chief's granddaughter that he doesn't even know the east, west, north and south?
Also, the old chieftain Felician, who claimed to be the most powerful and wealthy man in the radius, gave the guests medicine to drink a rough clay bowl?
Isn't the gold mine the private property of the chief's family?
There must be a few golden bowls to show the grandeur of the tribal chief!
Seeing Cao Mo drink the decoction, Yoruba's girl Lily's eyebrows fluttered with excitement, but Cao Mo had a strong intuition that she gloated.
Only the joy of schadenfreude is so pure.
What the hell.
Cao Mo thought to himself that he had never been an emotional person, how could he have such a strong intuitive emotion, could it be that he was bitten by a snake and psychologically denatured first?
Or......
Cao Mo hurriedly pulled open the shroud-like sheet and took a look, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, he was still very strong, and he didn't disappear for no reason.
Psychologically, women are women, there are so many mothers in society, and I don't see anyone discriminated against?
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Seeing Cao Mo drinking the herbs, Kabuja told him to lie down and rest, while he sat and chatted with Lily, a girl from Yoruba.
Intuition told Cao Mo that there was a kind of red-hot heat in Kabuja's eyes that ripped off Lily's long skirt on the spot.
Of course, in Kanem, both Yoruba and Hausa are mostly enthusiastic and unrestrained.
Without any intuition or intuition at all, Kabuja sat next to Lily and almost wrote the word "licking dog" on his face.
Lily doesn't seem to be very resistant to Kabuja's rhetoric, or maybe the village is too isolated for outsiders to visit, and Lily takes over the care of sick guests, and is happy to stay here and chat with them.
Listening to Lily's conversation with Kabuja, Cao Mo learned that the old chieftain Felician was not only the tribal leader of the village of Ibogu, but also the common witch of several nearby tribes, in charge of a temple located near the tribe.
The shaman of the tribe is a priest or priest.
Although it sounds like it has the same meaning as the god stick in China, Kanem, a West African country, has a very strong traditional power of ethnic tribes, large and small tribal leaders (chiefs) and witches, with high status and great power.
For example, not only the big and small affairs of the tribe are basically decided by the old chief Felician.
The tribe's lands, including the jungles along the creek and the gold mines Cao Mo had visited, were theoretically owned by the old chieftain Felician.
The villagers only live on the land, can build houses, farm, and jungle hunt, but have no ownership.
As for the chieftain's wifery and concubines, a man in the Yoruba tribe was allowed to take eleven wives, and the bride price was only two oxen.
This is something that Cao Mo has known for a long time.
If it weren't for the local women's chicouli complexion, thick lips and less hygienic nature, Cao Mo would have felt that his life would be complete if he could become a chief in Africa.
Maybe Lily and her parents believe in Christianity, or she is not devout to the so-called religious beliefs in her heart, Cao Mo asked her to inquire, and she didn't know what the status of the so-called snake god religion and snake god belief in the local area was.
Of course, Ibogu has a very special place in the traditional religious beliefs of the tribes, for sure.
Cao Mo was "kissed" by Ibogu and did not die, not only did Felician treat him with great enthusiasm in the past two days, but even the villagers who came over to see the excitement - intuition told Cao Mo - their eyes were a little fearful, curious, and wanted to be close to him.
It's this damn instinct again!
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Cao Mo was still a little weak, and in the morning he lay on the wooden bed with straw mats, listening to Kabuja and Lily gossiping, and by the way learning the Yoruba language, which he was not yet familiar with.
At noon, the fat cook of the chief's family had just brought over the traditional local "food", a kind of mutton mixed with onions, tomatoes and various beans stewed, with cloves and salt, when the sound of a car approaching was heard outside.
Cao Mo and Kabuja pushed open the door and walked out, and saw the old Toyota of Guo Jianjiang's branch parked in front of the sheicher's barn, surrounded by a large group of local children in the village.
When Guo Jian saw Cao Mo and Kabuja, he was startled at first.
He was pushing the car door and getting out of the car, his body was stiff for a while, and Song Yuqing, the company's financial officer who was still sitting in the passenger seat, shouted excitedly before he came back to his senses:
"Cao Mo, you're fine, it's really scared to death for us!"
Guo Jian joined Dongsheng Group three years earlier than Cao Mo, and at the same time, he graduated after undergrading, which is eight years older than Cao Mo, who interrupted his studies for some reason and started working in high school, and is only 21 years old this year.
A year ago, the two of them, along with Yang Deshan, a middle-level member of the group, were sent by the group to Draculamo to set up a West African branch.
Yang Deshan served as the general manager of the West Africa branch, and Guo Jian, who had a bachelor's degree, joined the group for three or four years, and served as the administrative and marketing director of the branch, and was also the direct supervisor of Cao Mo.
Cao Mo was in high school, and when he arrived in Draculamo City more than a year ago, he was not yet 20 years old, and he had been in Dongsheng Group for less than two years.
If it weren't for the fact that his English was quite passable, and no one in the company was willing to be stationed in Africa at that time, he would not have been able to win this opportunity as a mechanic in the workshop.
However, after arriving at the West Africa branch, he was destined to be a miscellaneous role.
After the establishment of the Dracula Raymore branch, the group's decision-making was somewhat erratic, and there was no investment and marketing business tilted towards Africa in the early stage.
Except for the two employees hired locally, the driver and the cook, the group has not shown any signs of further expanding the scale of its West African branch for more than a year, and even Song Yuqing, a full-time treasurer, was not stationed in Draculamo until three months ago.
Yang Deshan, the general manager of the branch, also stayed in China for most of the time, and Cao Mo was usually stationed in Draculamo City with Guo Jian, and later added Song Yuqing, but he had nothing to do.
Guo Jianqi is not good-looking, and his height is less than 1.7 meters, he must say that he has any advantages, and he is somewhat polite and polite.
When he was in college, he deceived a junior sister who was like a flower, and then recruited this junior sister into Dongsheng Group through the human resources department, and soon got married.
Cao Mo didn't know why Guo Jian was willing to leave his wife, who had been married for less than a year, in China and fight for the opportunity to be sent abroad.
Maybe it's Guo Jian, who is not particularly outstanding in all aspects, that he feels that he must work hard to build a successful career in order to be able to resist the peeping wolves and keep his wife who is still relatively simple-minded but doesn't know if she will be corrupted and degraded by this materialistic real society in the future, right?
Guo Jian left him and Kabuja in Yibogu Village, Cao Mo couldn't be without a little resentment in his heart, but he was not very old, and he was beaten a lot by society.
In particular, the four-month detention center career taught him that the more critical the moment, the more he had to hold on......
Otherwise, he would not be able to solve the problem by directly poking Guo Jian's turtle cub with a wooden fork now!