This low production situation lasted for a week, and everyone was demoralized, but they were reluctant to say as much as they did a few days ago, lest they irritate the now sensitive Wei Erdog. Lao Li privately asked Huang Jianjun to come over and check and see what was going on in our mine, but he was stopped by Zhu Yong, who knew more about Wei Ergou's psychology of being competitive and wanting face, and Wei Ergou was stubborn and might not be able to listen to this opinion, which was a bit like Lu Zhaozi, the legendary figure of "Watching the Mountain and Breaking Gold".

Xiao Cao has lost a lot of weight after malaria, and now he has been bitten by a snake for ten years to climb the well rope, and the mosquito net is carefully checked every day, and he must be painted with six gods before going to bed, and the six gods are still the last time I bought them from the ** supermarket.

The atmosphere on the construction site was strange, everyone didn't dare to talk more, after Lao Wu's statistics and gold laundering, we dug a total of 150 grams of gold in nearly eight days, which was only enough for the wages and diesel costs of the blacks, and did not calculate other living costs, so there was no hope of making money at all.

Bai Yi called, his white director and the old man was also urging us to pay the final payment, I was afraid that Wei Ergou was too stressed, and I didn't tell sù Wei Ergou, I just asked Bai Yi to intercede and then give me a grace time, Bai Ying asked us how our situation was, I told her the truth, she didn't say anything, just said that the situation would be fine if I took my time, let me pay attention to my body, and joked with me that if it was really not good, she would raise me, which made me feel a little inexplicable.

Pearl's Chinese level is getting better and better, and she also taught Erijia several Chinese words when she was fine, such as hello, eating, starting work, raining, coming back, sleeping, thank you. And these groups of words also constitute the key words that we repeat every day, vividly depicting our current situation every day.

After dinner today, Zhu Yong teased Pearl when he cleaned the table, "Pearl, do you think the Chinese are strong in working at night or you locals are strong?" ”

"What job?" Pearl didn't quite understand Zhu Yong's subtext, but Wei Yiyun on the side understood it and gave Pearl a look, but Pearl didn't realize it at all.

"It's just a man and a woman working at night." Zhu Yong pretended to answer Pearl very strictly, and his tone also imitated Pearl's local accent.

Pearl blushed and understood what Zhu Yong meant, looked at Wei Yiyun embarrassedly, stopped talking, and went out with dishes and chopsticks.

"Lao Zhu, three sentences are not far from the old business." Wei Yiyun teased at Zhu Yong.

Erica asked us what we were talking about, and I translated it for him, and after listening to it, Erica laughed and looked at Wei Yiyun, and suddenly he remembered something and pulled me into our cubicle.

"Xiaosheng! Do you know? We Ghanaians are not allowed to have sex in the gold mines when we are panning for gold! Erica mysteriously took my hand and looked at me and said to me, "Gold is the essence of the earth, the crystallization of the soul that God has given to the earth. ”

"Huh? What does that have to do with the relationship between men and women? I looked at Erica in confusion.

"Do you remember that white python?" Eriga didn't answer my question, but asked me instead.

"Oh, remember, it's not far from our construction site, it's on the other side of the river, what's wrong?" I said as I looked at Eriga staring into my eyes.

"Do you know the story of the Garden of Eden?" Erijia jumped away from the topic and asked another question.

"Know the story of Adam and Eve." I was reminded of the Bible in my mind: God Jehovah created the human ancestor Adam in His own image, and then created the woman Eve out of one of Adam's ribs, and placed the first man and woman to live in the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden means paradise in the original text of the Bible.

"The Garden of Eden is full of gold, and here in Ghana we call the location of the gold mines the Lost Garden of Eden! In the Bible, Adam and Eve were seduced by the serpent and cast out of the Garden of Eden by God, and the main punishment was for the greed of men, the vanity of women, and the wisdom of serpents! "Erijia talked about the White Snake again, I was a little in awe of the gods after the incident in Wei Erinu Land last time, but I didn't understand what he was going to say.

"I know that, but what does it have to do with the fact that men and women can't have a relationship in the gold mines?" I frowned, scratched my head, and asked Erriga.

"Hear me out, what is God's punishment for the Garden of Eden?" Erica asked me again, and this time before I could speak, he replied, "God has been hostile to the woman and the serpent for generations!" ”

"Well, but I still don't understand what this has to do with what you said about not having a relationship between men and women?" I was confused by the more I talked, the more confused I became, and I interrupted him before he could continue.

"In Ghana, where there are gold mines, there are more insects on the ground, more rats, more ants, of course, pangolins, etc., and more importantly, there are basically pythons!" The Bible story of Erika jumps back to real life. This time I did not interrupt him to look at him, and Erica slowly continued, "God will make the serpent and the seed of the woman hostile, and according to what we have said before, no woman shall be allowed in the gold mines." ”

"Oh, this is quite like some of our industries in China, such as shipping and ocean-going ships, which are taboo for women to get on board." I think of our school's navigation major, and I remember a classmate told me about some of their taboos, in addition to prohibiting women from getting on the boat, there is also the fact that the person who runs the boat must not flip the fish when eating fish, and turning the fish means capsizing the boat.

"But in our Africa, a large part of history is a matriarchal society, and your matrilineal society may be the same, it may be different, what I mean is that the children in the family only recognize their mothers, and the children are given by God to women, not men, and mothers go out to work and raise children, and women may not know which man the child is. In addition, when the white people came to Africa, many of our men were sold as slaves to Europe and the United States, and the people who worked in Ghana became women, and now most of the people working in the fields are women, and even the majority of people doing business in the market are women, I don't know if you noticed? Erica paused to look at me again.

"Eh, it seems like yes, I didn't pay much attention to it." I replied in a low voice, anxiously waiting for Erica to explain why it was forbidden for men and women to have sex in the gold mines, and although he said a lot, he never got to the point.

"So, when we pan for gold, the labor force is still mainly women, and if you go to see some movies or materials, you can see the picture of women standing in the river with their children on their backs to pan for gold. And the snake is the embodiment of Satan, you already know this, the gold mine is the lost Garden of Eden, I also mentioned it just now, of course, this is what we say in Ghana or our gold mine area, in the Garden of Eden, women and snakes and men coexist, which itself indicates the reincarnation of the biblical story, men dig gold for greed, women love men with gold for vanity, and snakes lurk in the gold mines to take the opportunity to incite men and women, or tempt men and women to make mistakes. "Erica told me the strange, incomprehensible, and even illogical religious thinking of the locals.

So what does this have to do with having a relationship? According to your reasoning, women should be banned from gold mines, huh? I asked him in accordance with Erica's logic, and he shook his head and stopped, then pressed his hand and continued to listen patiently to him.