Chapter 279: Finding Medicine

"Full sails! Heading 275, full speed! Coming up from the bilge, Hong Tao was already hideous, and he didn't need the second pair to say the flag, and the sailmen on the mast heard it, and in an instant they were in a hurry, and all the sails that could be raised were raised. It was as if it had been whipped by an invisible whip, and it trembled all over, and immediately rushed forward.

"It's a mosquito bite that you contracted and there's only one cure, and that's to find a local bark and if you can't find it, then wait to die." You pray and pray a lot these days, I hope you and I are all right......" Hong Tao was not too sad for those slave soldiers, but he was worried about himself and Carl. If Carl or his own life is put on the line because he went to find tobacco, it would be too worthless, it seems that smoking is indeed harmful to health!

"Why didn't anyone else get sick? Could it be that a few of them are not religious enough in the sea of sin? Carl still doesn't quite believe Hong Tao's statement, mosquito bites and get sick, and he has never heard of it. In reality, there is no evidence that mosquitoes are to blame, and almost all of the more than 30 people who went ashore have been bitten, so why are others okay? If this matter is explained by the gods, it will be easier to convince people that whoever is sick is the one who sins too much.

“…… Then I should be the first to get sick, and one of the ships is counted as one, and who has more sins than me? Hong Tao rolled his eyes and suggested something even more unreasonable.

"You are a person who is favored by the gods, unlike us...... Well, I'd better go and pray first, maybe you're right, besides you, I'm the one who sins the most. Carl has his own understanding, which makes sense, but think about it according to this logic. He himself was taken aback.

Mentation. You can't touch it, you can't see it. But it does have a great impact on the human body. When I didn't find out that I was sick, I was healthier than anyone else, and once I knew that I had a terminal illness, I could have gray hair and be weak for more than ten years old the next day! Hong Tao has seen more than one case of this phenomenon in his last two lives, and he has seen it again in this life. The next day Carl also fell ill, shivering and sweating, and at night fell into a high fever and talked nonsense. Hong Tao stayed by his side all day. kept using the cold sea water from the deep sea to help him cool the compress, for fear that he would burn out his brain.

"And William said, my fief will be left to my son, he is still young, you have to protect their mother and son, until he is an adult...... "Malaria is a very strange disease, every day I will toss with chills and fever, and then the patient will be fine, just like a good person." After Carl came to his senses, he saw that Hong Tao was like this. I never get tired of talking about it.

"I can't agree to this thing you trusted, you think about it. The one with the lesser sin gets sick first, and then it's your turn, I guess the next one is me, maybe I'll lie next to you tomorrow, it's hard to say who we take care of. You have to go and tell William about this in person, bear with me, believe me, we can find that bark, you have to keep saying to yourself, you can't die! Can't die! Otherwise, your second daughter-in-law and children will belong to someone else again, are you wronged? Let Hong Tao say good and obedient and comfort people, that is a lifetime of don't think about it, in the face of the half-dead Carl, he is not willing to say even half a hot word, and he also pokes people's hearts.

“…… In fact, I am already very content, if I hadn't met you, I would have died at the hands of the Saracens ten years ago, and I would not have been able to marry Mia. God sent you to save me, a sinner, you are not human, so you will not get sick, you promise me! Carl almost didn't choke Hong Tao to death, he slowed down for a long time, and then sorted out the logic again, and it was still the same as before.

"Well, I promise you. But I can't help in vain, let's do this, if you die tomorrow, I can only promise to protect your son for a year, and for every extra day you live, I will add an extra year. Come, I'll draw a chart for you on the wall, and every time you hear a wake-up clock, you will carve a picture on it with a knife. Don't cheat! If I cheat, I won't protect for a day! Hong Tao made Carl say that his tears were about to fall, and he didn't want to talk about this issue anymore, so he simply agreed to him first.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, there is a continent ahead, a large area, the captain asked you to go up and have a look! Before Carl could figure out how long he had to live to keep his son safe, the boatswain suddenly rushed in, gasping for breath and lowering his voice to tell Hong Tao the good news.

"Look, we're almost on the shore, don't lose hope of life, that thing is gone, and medicine can't cure it. You help Captain Karl with a cold compress, and I'll go up and have a look. Hong Tao has no complaints about serving people, this matter was caused by himself, and he should serve these patients. But he was most afraid that these people would wake up, and then ask himself pitifully: Your Majesty, will I die?

When Hong Tao returned to the stern and picked up the binoculars, a large flock of seabirds had gathered on the mast. They hovered over the boat, staring at the waves at the stern, and when they spotted the small fish, they swooped down and rushed into the water like missiles to catch the fish with their pointed beaks. This bird is called boobies, and there are many species, the big ones are half a meter long, and the small ones are about the same as petrels. The sea area where they hunt is usually no more than 50 kilometers from the island or coast, and seeing them is basically the same as seeing the coast.

In fact, you don't need to use these seabirds to determine whether there is a coast ahead, you can already see a gray line in the distance from the telescope, from the length, it doesn't look like an island, there is no such a big island in the Gulf of Mexico, then the only possibility is the mainland!

"Lower half sails! Heading north along the coastline, keep an eye out for fishing boats on the sea and villages along the coast, and we now need to find the locals as soon as possible. Even when he arrived on the east coast of Mexico, Hong Tao couldn't be happier, because it was no different from the island of Cuba, full of shrubs and rainforests, and there was not a single person in sight.

Driving along the coastline is not only dangerous but also slow, you can only anchor and stop the boat at night, and you can't go full speed during the day, and you have to put two small boats in front to probe the water depth. In this way, he walked north for two days, and the emperor finally saw a small boat on the sea, not only one or two, but five!

"You are optimistic about our big ship, especially at night, stop as far as possible, and I will take Captain Karl up to heal the sick. Fifteen days, if I haven't come back for fifteen days, don't go ashore to look for me, look for me under the bed in the captain's room, I'll draw you a chart of your home, and take you back to Karlburg. Hong Tao summoned more than a dozen slave soldiers who had come ashore that day and had not yet fallen ill, asked them to change into sailors' spring and autumn clothes to avoid mosquito bites, and then carried Karl onto the dinghy. As for the other patients, they were put on the Golden River first, as long as Karl was saved, they could be saved, and they couldn't take care of it sooner or later.

"Let me go, you won't understand what they're saying anyway." Swan was brave enough to volunteer to go ashore for Hong Tao.

"It's useless if you go, you don't know what can cure...... By the way, remind all sailors that if you find a mosquito, you must kill it, and if I come back and find one, you will be whipped! "No one can replace themselves in this matter, rather than let them go ashore to die, it is better to go by themselves, they have been bitten once, but they are not sick, maybe there are antibodies.

Like the natives of the island of Cuba, when they saw the big guy of the Golden River, the five canoes all reacted in the same way, turned around and ran to the shore. Hong Tao's two small boats were not far away and ran with them, chasing and chasing into the mouth of the river, it seems that the Indians and the people of the world are similar, like to live by the river.

The river is much wider than the one on the island of Cuba, at least 100 meters over, the current is gentle, and there is not so much rainforest on both sides, instead it is a green plant, more than two meters high, with long leaves and no forks...... Corn! There are several cornfields scattered on both sides of the river! Hong Tao can't be mistaken, those bulging little fruits are blooming.

It's a pity that Hong Tao is not in the mood to ponder corn now, and there is still a half-dead person lying at his feet, and he doesn't know if there is a cinchona tree here. If not, Carl and the dozen sailors would have little hope. Although malaria does not directly kill people, after the malaria parasite destroys the red blood cells almost completely, the internal organs of the human body will be permanently damaged, irreversible, and sooner or later they will die due to complications. It's not impossible to land in South America to find cinchona trees, but it's too late. I don't know what this kind of tree looks like, and even if there is one on the bank of the river now, it will be in vain. If you find it every few months, it's the same as not finding it.

"Will they give us medicine? I think it'......s very likely to give you two cuts" At this time, Carl suddenly woke up, and when he was not sick, he was no different from a normal person, but he was a little weak.

"Don't be afraid, my mouth is invincible in the world, even if I sell my ass, I will find the medicine for you, as for whether it works after eating, that's your problem." The village seemed to be a bit big, and with the first few canoes coming ashore, the shore was slowly starting to gather people, there were dozens of them, and the number was still increasing. Many people are holding weapons such as pikes and darts in their hands, and they are grinning at this side, looking unfriendly.

"Friendly...... Friendly...... I don't have a weapon...... "It's a pity that Hong Tao has no choice, and he has to bite the shore even if he knows the danger." This time he didn't wear a suit of armor, only a set of officer's spring and autumn clothes, waded through the water with his hands raised and went ashore, trying to make himself laugh harmless, and then slowly untied the jar of sugar and rum that he was carrying on his shoulder, and opened the wax seal. First, he grabbed a handful of sugar and stuffed it into his mouth, made an expression of eating ginseng fruit, and then took a big sip of wine...... Who has tried white sugar on rum? That taste is amazing!

(To be continued.) )