On the third day, the exploration team came to a Li village in the middle reaches of the Changhua River. This is the village where the guide's maternal uncle is located. The exploration team decided to stop here, inquire about the distance below, and find a guide. Wang is not very familiar with the road after passing through Lizhai.

This Li Village is completely different from the Li Village that Mu Min has seen. If it weren't for the literate Li women at the door and their ethnic costumes, it would be really difficult to distinguish them from the ordinary Han villages in the local area.

The village here is very large, with nearly 100 families and neatly arranged houses. The riverside flatlands outside the village have all been turned into paddy fields for planting rice, unlike the Li people in other places who plant "mountain fences", and it can be seen that both the living standard and agricultural production are higher than those of other Li people.

If you look closely, it is clear that although the houses of Mei Foo Li are of the Han style, they are more modest than the houses of the Han people. Men wear their hair in a bun and earrings, women wrap their heads in black and white scarves, and men and women wear a black cardigan without buttons.

"The origin of Mei Foo Li is quite interesting," Fang Jinghan said, "and from some of the information I have read, it is speculated that they are probably the descendants of a group of Han Chinese immigrants who first came to Hainan Island during the pre-Qin and Han dynasties." ”

The name Mei Foo Li also reveals that they were latecomers to the island, and "Mei Foo" is their self-designation, meaning "guests who live in the lower road", and it is clear that they arrived later than the other Le. Mei Foo Li occupies relatively haode fields on both sides of the Changhua River, and can grow rice, not "mountain fences". Textile jishu is also superior to other Li people. It has also been found in past ethnological surveys. Their looms are very similar to their counterparts in the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty. The original commune of Mei Foo Li has few elements, and there are obvious social differences, such as ancestral halls, genealogy, and generational arrangements, and conflicts between clans.

Ye Yuming said: "Then they will definitely speak Chinese?" ”

"The Chinese of the two Hans? Enough choke! Xiong Buyou said.

"This is just a speculation, and it may also be the descendants of other ethnic groups on the mainland that have been sinicized. Besides, even if you are a descendant of the Han Chinese, you don't necessarily know how to speak Chinese. ”

"I didn't expect you to be quite familiar with the Li people." Mu Min was a little ashamed, he was a standard Li ethnic group, but when it came to his understanding of his own ethnic group, he was far less than this college graduate knew.

"It's kind of a course, too." Fang Jinghan was a little embarrassed, "Things to use in the profession." I studied sociology. ”

"This professional sounds ...... It's amazing. Mu Min thought for a long time before he came up with such an adjective, "You can do ethnological research or something." ”

"We have four classes in one major, and each class has forty people. One realm is one hundred and sixty. There are at least twenty or thirty undergraduate colleges and universities in the country that offer this major, so where can I go to research? Fang Jinghan smiled wryly, "So—"

Fang Jinghan said, and there was a dull pain in his heart. A fresh start isn't necessarily a good thing. After enduring a few months of hard work, he once again found that he was not the protagonist, the crossing team was full of talents, masters can make up companies, doctors can be in rows, there are countless turtles, and even in the Ya Nei, who is playing * guns and flying planes in the United States, he is still a basic person. Zuihou was dumped as "scrap" to the exploration team.

"Otherwise, you can do it with me in the future!" Mu Min waved his hand with a big grin, "My Li Miao Affairs Office is short of people. ”

"Hey, hey. Boss, do you dig people and carry people behind people's backs a little? Cui Yunhong smiled, "When I don't exist." ”

"I'm telling the truth. That's it, go back and go through the formalities. ”

Talking and laughing, he turned around the river bay, and there was a house on the hillside in front of him, and the guide said: "There is a trench in front of the village, and it is my uncle's house." The rhetoric was quite affectionate.

Wangpo ran a dead horse. Although Li Zhai is close in front of you, it is still a full walk for more than half an hour to arrive, the river here is abundant, the water is very shallow, but it is crystal clear, and the bank is full of tall trees. When I got closer, I saw a lot of soybean pods hanging under the branches. Mu Min was very curious and hurriedly asked everyone to look.

Cui Yunhong smiled: "This is a soaphorn tree, what's so rare." There are many in our hometown. ”

"Is it the natural soaphorn shampoo?" Mu Min's impression of soaphorn is only these.

"Yes, soaphorn used to be a natural soap. Good laundry and bathing. Cui Yunhong stopped and looked, this soaphorn forest grew from the shore to the slope of the hills, at least thirty or fifty acres. What a very good resource.

Ye Yuming said: "This resource is of little use to us. As soon as you get coconut oil, you can make soap. ”

"There are many industrial uses for soaphorn," Ms. Cui said, "I forgot the specifics." The good thing is that it's not corrosive and milder than soap. In addition, it seems that it can also be used as medicine. ”

When the group came to the gate of the village, Ding Zhuang, who was guarding the village, came to interrogate. for the king's men led the way. In addition, he brought goods with him, and easily entered the stockade.

When the villagers saw that there were foreign traders, they all gathered around to see the goods. The Li District is remote, but all daily necessities such as salt and needlework are Kao vendors. When they arrived, the women of the village came to watch and formed a large circle in front of the house.

The exploration team was also busy spreading out the goods, bags of sugar, white and bright, many Li people did not know, Wang Gui advocated for them, and sprinkled some on the banana leaves for everyone to taste. Immediately the sales were very good.

As for salt, needlework, hook knives, farm tools, and the like, needless to say, they are daily necessities. The exploration team also brought some commodities specially developed by the trading company for the trade in the Li District, mainly perforated glass beads of various colors, all of which were made from the remaining waste materials from the manufacture of glassware, which was also dazzling, attracting many young women, who gathered around Mu Min, chattering and laughing to select goods, which had a youthful and budding atmosphere. It's a pity that Mei Foo Li also has literary customs, which shattered the dreams of many young boys who had missed Li girls.

The original intention of the exploration team was to collect resource information, not to make money and make profits, whether it was leather, herbs, betel nuts, soaphorns, kudzu cloth, kapok cloth, etc., all of them were collected. The calculated value is also excellent, and both parties are happy. The group was busy trading. He didn't stop until the crowd had dispersed.

The king's guide was also enthusiastic, and invited them to his uncle's house to rest

The guide's uncle's surname is Li, and his name is Li Benqing. There is no field in the family except for a dilapidated house, and Kao collects medicine and hunts for a living on weekdays. Twenty-seven or eighteen can only be mixed in the boudoir. Originally, it had no status in the village. Later, because he often went to the county to sell skins and wild things, he could speak Chinese, so he should be in charge of dealing with government businessmen. At present, he is a bit of a face in the stockade.

Everyone followed the guide to the front of the thatched hut, and saw that the door of the bamboo weaving was half open, and the house was black and hollow, only the fire of the fire pond was faintly shining.

A faint hum came from the cubicle.

As soon as the guide pushed the door and walked in, Cui Yunhong asked everyone to wait outside, and he walked in with Xiong Buyou first. I saw a middle-aged man half-lying on the bamboo frame bed, without a cover. A lot of straw was thrown under the bed. There was a bamboo torch burning in the room, squeaking and spraying red firelight, and under the firelight, this man, his hair was scattered, his face was full of beard, and his face was red, and when he saw people coming in, he hurriedly screamed a few times.

The king man hurriedly came out, took half a scoop of water from the mountain spring drawn by the bamboo pipe outside, and fed him to drink. That's better. When the nephew and uncle met, they naturally had another speech, and everyone couldn't understand it. I also thought that the house was narrow, so I sat on the ground under the porch, took some mountain spring water, and drank water purification tablets to quench my thirst.

After half a ring, I saw the guide come out, and said very apologetically: "I'm really sorry for a few shopkeepers, I thought this was my uncle's house, and it was okay to entertain you for a few days, and if you want to go to collect medicine, he is also an expert." It's just that he has recently suffered from cold and fever, and he has had a terrible attack. Wait a minute. ”

Everyone immediately turned their eyes to He Ping, who was sent by the Ministry of Health. This person worked in the Ministry of Health after Day D, and Shi Yuanren taught him some basic simple medical skills based on the principle of multiple people and more efforts. After killing a number of rabbits and frogs. After a few unfortunate aboriginal patients who fell into his hands, He Ping became a glorious "hygienist". Seeing that everyone was looking at him, I knew that he wanted him to show his skills and conquer the hearts of the ancients with modern medicine.

Although the means of sending medicine to the hospital are old, they are the most effective.

Nine times out of ten, the so-called cold fever in Li District of Hainan Province belongs to malaria. It is a common disease in the Lean district, and the infection rate is high. There have been people who have been infected since D-Day, but fortunately, the malaria parasites here have not yet developed resistance, and they can have a very good effect as soon as they are medicated. So He Ping is very sure about playing this miracle doctor.

Now ask the king to move his uncle out of the house and put him under the porch. Only then did everyone find out that this "uncle" was actually not very old, only in his early thirties, and He Ping looked at his symptoms: his face was red. Gasp; ocular conjunctival hyperemia; The skin is hot and dry...... These are typical symptoms of the febrile period of inter-day abuse, and the body temperature is at least 39°C or higher by touching the forehead without measuring the body temperature.

"How often?" He Ping asked.

"Once every two days," Li Benqing was hot and in pain, "send it once, it's a good day." And then send it again. Ten days in one shot—" He gasped.

"This should be a day of abuse. It is a kind of benign abuse. He Ping's diagnosis made everyone feel uneasy, and Cui Yunhong whispered: "How sure are you?" If you kill someone, you will be passive. ”

He Ping was very dissatisfied: "I didn't say that I wanted to be treated, you proposed it yourself." Now it's time to stop it. Anyway, after 5~10 episodes of daily abuse, it will be cured naturally-"

Mu Min saw the patient moaning in pain, and his compassion rose: "Cure it, people are also a life." Isn't it malaria, and those who are timid can't do big things. ”

Seeing that everyone did not object, He Ping took out four tablets of chloroquine from the medicine box and gave it to him. This is the most effective anti-masochistic drug in the hands of the traverser, with a quick effect, a short course of treatment, and much less toxicity than quinine.

"Swallow it with water, go back to sleep, and come back tomorrow." He Ping said. According to the lesson given to him by Shi Yuanren, this disease will be cured after taking medicine for three days in a row.

The two nephews and uncles will be suspicious. There are also Han Langzhong in Changhua City, and I have never heard that they have the ability to cure this cold and fever. How could this group of peddlers casually take out a few pieces of white stuff and say that they can cure the disease? However, the onset of the disease was really painful, so he simply died as a horse doctor and took it.

Seeing that the patient was in a coma, everyone was apprehensive for a while--this is no better than being in Lingao, and the crossing group is the only emperor of the earth. Even if you kill someone, it's nothing. In Changhua Li Village, where people are not familiar with the place, it is not easy to end if there is really going to be a lot of trouble.

The king didn't have many ideas, and he wanted to cook for everyone. Xiong Buyou even said that he didn't need to, they brought their own dry food. Just ask him to help boil some water. Everyone ate some grass series dry food with boiling water, and the king saw that they were so polite, but the people in Li Zhai were difficult, and they couldn't come up with anything to entertain, so they made up their minds to hunt some game tomorrow to entertain them.

The exploration team temporarily built a shed with bamboo poles in the courtyard of Li Benqing's house, and asked for a lot of new straw to pave. He Ping went to the river beach outside the village to pick a lot of Artemisia annua, and lit it by the shed, and as soon as the damp grass and trees caught fire, the choking smoke made everyone cough.

"This is a malaria-endemic area, and mosquito repellent is an effective way to prevent infection." He Ping said, "Artemisia annua smoke has a very good mosquito repellent effect, and it can be smoked like this, which can guarantee a night." "Although antimalarial drugs were distributed to all expedition members as a precaution two weeks before the Zhenhai departed, mosquito control is still the most effective means of prevention in malaria areas.

Ye Yuming thought about it: "Isn't Artemisia annua also a cure for malaria?" Artemisia annua is available everywhere, and it is very convenient for the Li people to treat diseases. With the popularization of the law, it will be easier to carry out the work of Li Miao. ”

"This is Artemisia annua, not Artemisia." He Ping said, "Artemisia annua is useless. ”

"Hainan doesn't produce stinky artemisia?"

"Of course, but you can't prevent malaria with a decoction of stinky artemisia alone." He Ping used to work in a pharmaceutical factory, although his major was mechanical and electrical, but he was very familiar with the drug production process, "without the extraction of the pharmaceutical factory, the active ingredient of artemisinin could not be extracted at all." According to our industrial level, it is probably impossible to use this drug, so it is better to grow quinine honestly. ”

Mu Min was afraid of accidents, so he agreed that the team would take turns on duty to add fire and materials, so that Artemisia annua would burn all night. It is also guarded against misdeeds.

Early the next morning, Li Benqing no longer had a fever, and He Ping was greatly relieved -- this showed that the diagnosis and treatment were correct. Then he was asked to take two more tablets. In this way, you can be cured after three days of treatment.

The exploration team explored the water depth of the Changhua River outside Lizhai, and the deepest part was already 1.23 meters, which was generally able to be navigated. There were carpenters and simple canoes in the stockade, but the boats were small, and each one could only seat two or three people. Cui Yunhong decided to build a bamboo raft here and prepare to go up the river. The next target is the Sanchai River.