There are no buildings in Dragon's Blood Town, similar to the primitive tribes, and the houses in the town are all thatched huts, and there are no doors and windows.

However, South Africa is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the lack of doors and windows does not affect the living experience very much.

There are small grass piles burning slowly on the road every three or five days, these grasses have not dried yet, and a lot of white smoke floats when burning, and the smoke is scattered around when the wind blows, making the whole town a little fairy smell.

The white smoke smelled like sulfur, and Yang Shubao wanted to ask what kind of plant it was, but he asked two people, and both of them shook their heads expressionlessly when they saw him as if they were monsters, and then avoided them.

Xie Danfeng said: "Brother Bao, you now know how difficult it is to promote water purification clay pots in these places, right? The locals don't contact you at all, they don't trust you, and they don't give you a chance to introduce yourself." ”

"The Xhosa people are even better, after all, they belong to the farming tribe, and if they are replaced by some hunting tribe, it will be troublesome, they will not avoid you but will come to you, but they will come to you for trouble. Lin Lin added.

The entire town of Dracaena resembles a disc, and in the center of the disc is the settlement, surrounded by a circle of dracaena trees.

On the outskirts is farmland, which is much larger than the settlement, and they have cultivated a large amount of farmland.

However, Yang Shubao estimated that their harvest was not very good, because they did not have machinery, farming was all by hand, and the population of the town could not manage such a large area of farmland, so he guessed that the way the Xhosa people farmed should be relatively primitive:

Cultivate the land, get rid of the weeds, plant the seeds, and wait for the rain to rain, it doesn't matter what the crops look like, there will be some harvest in the end.

In addition to farming, the Xhosa people also raised some livestock, and chickens, cows, pigs and sheep were running happily in the settlements, and they had to give way from time to time on the path between the thatched houses, and the oncoming pigs or cattle were all arrogant.

Lin Lin took some photos, which will be used for publicity in the future.

Yang Shubao also took some photos, which will be used in the circle of friends in the future.

Kurutantan and the Great Chief talked for more than an hour, and the two talked happily, and when they came out, the Great Chief patted Kurutantan on the shoulder and smiled: "Listen to me, our tribe is very experienced in farming. ”

Yang Shubao really wanted to say that it was best not to listen to him, the farm is not the same thing as Dragon's Blood Town at all, how big is the land area here, it can be roughened and planted, and the land on the farm is still small, and it needs to be intensively cultivated.

When the chief came out, he arranged for them to hunt river pigs, and he did not lead the team himself, but found a group of young and strong men to take charge of it.

At the same time, he said to Yang Shubao and the others: "The hunting process is not dangerous, if you are interested, you can follow and take a look, our hunting skills are extraordinary, and you will never see them again after leaving the Dragon's Blood Tree." ”

Hearing him say so tall, Yang Shubao must go and see it.

The young man in charge of leading the team was named Sang Duomen, and he shook hands with Yang Shubao in a friendly manner and asked, "Are you a yellow race?"

Yang Shubao said: "Yes, is it the first time you have seen it?"

"No, when I was working in Johannesburg, I saw a lot of yellow people, and I was a colleague with a yellow person, and he said that he came from an island country, where the geographical location is very important, and it is a particularly important country on the ocean where you are. ”

"Does he like to bow?"

"No, he's like you. ”

"Then he's talking about Li Jiapo, right?"

Sandomon's smile widened: "Yes, yes, it's this country, a very rich country, right?"

They talked all the way to the north, where there was a large lake on which the dragon's blood tree was used for its drinking water.

There is a simple wharf by the lake, and there are small wooden boats tied to each side, which is the African canoe that Lao Yang has seen on TV, miniature shape, original.

After leading them here, Sandomen said: "There are a lot of wood mosquitoes and tsetse flies near the lake, you must be careful, a bite from a wood mosquito will swell for a few days at most, and you will die if you are bitten by a tsetse fly." ”

As he spoke, a young man took out a handful of wet grass from his backpack and lit it, and the smell of sulfur smoke that Yang Shubao had been familiar with before reappeared.

He asked curiously, "What kind of plant is this? When it burns, it has the effect of repelling mosquitoes, right?"

Sandomon nodded: "Yes, this is a reed, but it is mixed with elephant dung, and the elephant dung can repel insects when burned." ”

Yang Shubao thought that the next thing was to catch river pigs on the lake, he was a child in the mountains, and he was naturally afraid of the lake and the ocean, not to mention that this kind of canoe did not seem to be as stable as an inflatable doll, and he would rather ride an inflatable doll to the lake than sit in this kind of canoe.

He was about to refuse, but Sandomon said, "Stay here, it's the flattest place, you can burn grass to repel insects, and we'll go and set up a river pig hunting rack." ”

Yang Shubao asked, "What kind of animal are you talking about river pigs?"

Sandomen pointed to the hippos frolicking by the lake in the distance and said, "Isn't that it?"

Yang Shubao was speechless, the hippopotamus does look like a pig, but isn't it a bit disrespectful to call people a river pig?

But it's all going to be eaten, and it doesn't seem to make sense to talk about respect.

Lin Lin asked, "Are you talking about hippos? Do you want to eat hippos? Hippos can't eat them." ”

Sandomen said with a serious face: "You can eat them, they are very fat, there is a lot of meat, especially the fatty meat is delicious, and it is simply delicious to bake it on the fire and eat it with tapioca cakes." ”

The young man was swallowing his saliva as he said this, using conditioned reflexes to prove how reliable his words were.

Lin Lin continued to ask, "But hippos are wild animals, are wild animals here allowed to be hunted and eaten?"

Sandomen laughed: "They are not wild, they are our river pigs. ”

"Yes, we raised them, we got them from somewhere else and put them here, let them grow up, and then slaughter one when needed, so they're not wild animals. Another black guy helped explain.

Sandomon nodded and added, "Every river pig here is the property of our tribe, we will protect them, and we will provide them with food in the winter when there is no food in the lake, and if anyone wants to poach them, it is not allowed." ”

Yang Shubao understood, and the town of Dracaena put hippos on the regular menu and planned to breed them.

This is the rule of other tribes, and their rhetoric about protecting wild animals is not good here, so Lao Yang decisively gave up the idea of reasoning with them, and stopped Lin Lin, who still wanted to argue with them: "We just don't eat this hippopotamus meat later." ”

Lin Lin said: "Of course you can't eat it, and this hippopotamus has not undergone formal quarantine, who knows what bacteria, viruses, and parasites are in their bodies? What should we do if they infect people? No wonder the average life expectancy of the inhabitants of various tribes is not long, and there is a reason for this." ”

(End of chapter)