Shi Shaoying followed this small convoy of two minivans, four pickup trucks, and an off-road vehicle for three full days in Somalia. During this not long trip, Shi Shaoying had been half-lying in the back of one of the pickup trucks, and with his own eyes, he saw an authentic Somalia.

It wasn't until he was far away from the city, away from the coastline, and into the interior of Somalia that Shi Shaoying knew how poor the country really was.

There are no railways in Somalia at all, and the convoy walks on roads that are in disrepair and full of sharp gravel and large potholes, often with car tires on a stretch of road, and the entire convoy can only drive forward an average of 10 kilometers per hour without stopping, and it is not even as fast as a camel.

Even so, along the tattered "highway" there were weapon posts everywhere. Somalia is a chaotic mess of warlords, no matter who has a gun in their hand, they can set up a wooden stake on the road to collect tolls from passing cars, and if a convoy carries enough supplies but does not have enough armed force to protect it, no one dares to guarantee that these toll collectors will not become armed bandits who kill people and steal goods in the blink of an eye.

Every time I encounter such a checkpoint, it is the redhead girl who comes forward to deal with it, more than two-thirds of the checkpoint "garrisons" are familiar with her after chatting a few words and then directly raise their hands to let them go, and the remaining checkpoints are only symbolically taking a few packs of cigarettes, and the way down is basically smooth, and few people will deliberately make it difficult.

Seeing this scene, even Shi Shaoying must admit that there are not many people who can do this in the war-torn Somalia!

The convoy walked on the worst roads in the world, enduring the exploitation of the armed checkpoints everywhere, and it often took them hours to walk for hours before they saw a few houses made of stones or shacks made of branches and dried cow dung under the bleak sky. They are villages in the mountains of northern Somalia.

The largest of these villages is only two or three hundred people, and the small ones may only have a few families. The traffic situation is extremely poor, and the people living in these villages are largely isolated. When Shi Shaoying saw them, these villagers always sat in front of their houses and looked in a certain direction with a dull expression, not knowing what they were thinking, or they were just using this boring sitting to kill time.

The Chinese philosophy that has been passed down for thousands of years seems to have lost its original meaning in this land.

These skinny, severely malnourished people were surrounded by vast fields of corn that had dried up because of the continuous lack of rain, and herds of camels that were also pitifully emaciated. A dark and thin figure, dull eyes, and the dry corn fields, which looked particularly striking and dazzling under the blue sky.

The average population density per square kilometer is 23 people, which is lower than that in the steppes of Inner Mongolia, China. The vast and sparsely populated land, poor mountains and rivers, and hopeless laziness are the truest portrayal of the Somali villagers.

Each time a village was found, the convoy stopped, and the driver and bodyguards, under the command of the redhead, removed the food and blankets from the carts and distributed them to the villagers. She and her men apparently did similar work more than once, no one looted, and all the villagers felt like they were in a long line, and everything seemed to be in order. It was only at this time that looking at the red-haired girl, the dull eyes of those villagers would have a little more brilliance.

Although the language barrier didn't know what the villagers who received the food said after bowing to the redhead, the word that appeared most frequently in everyone's mouth still let Shi Shaoying know her name, a very nice name...... Kabeline.

Shi Shaoying saw with his own eyes that there was a person who had a severe cold and was coughing so much that he could barely straighten his waist when receiving food, and Kai Belin took out antibiotics from the medicine box to give to the other party to take, and the villager who was so weak that he could barely stand up with a severe cold was very grateful, but still resolutely refused. Shi Shaoying, who had been looking carefully with his eyes on the sidelines, so he rarely commented on anything, finally couldn't help but ask when Kai Belin walked past him: "Why?" ”

"Because he knows that even if he can recover his health by taking the medicine I gave him this time, he will not be so lucky next time he gets sick."

Kai Belin didn't look back, Shi Shaoying couldn't see her face, but her voice was very low: "So he would rather carry it than accept my medicine." ”

Answering this question, Kabeline left, leaving only the thoughtful Shi Shaoying.

They walked from village to village, and when they passed by the seventh or eighth village, even the inflatable dolls that Shi Shaoying had been using as pillows were also distributed.

Maybe it's because this inflatable doll has always been "used" by Shi Shaoying, and Shi Shaoying should be given an "explanation" when taking it away; Perhaps because a young and beautiful woman gave an inflatable doll to a male villager was too ambiguous, which made Shi Shaoying's eyes widen, Kai Belin took the rare initiative to explain: "More than one-third of the men in this village have AIDS, and I can't give them enough condoms, and even if they do, they won't use them; So every time I boarded those ships to collect tolls, I would have people pick up some of these things from the crew's rooms and distribute them to the villagers who had AIDS. ”

Looking at the male villager who received the inflatable doll, he carried the inflatable doll on his shoulders with a big grin, and even ignored the inflatable doll's hair dragged upside down on the ground, Shi Shaoying's heart actually had a funny idea of "good cabbage is arched by pigs", and Kai Berlin's reason made him speechless and looked at the sky, staring at Shi Shaoying for a long time before he struggled to ask: "Is it useful?" ”

In order to reduce the transmission rate of the disease in China, the government has spent ten years encouraging and educating people to get used to using condoms, and Shi Shaoying really did not expect that in Somalia, he would see someone using such a trick as giving inflatable dolls to AIDS patients to reduce the spread of AIDS. Although it can't be called once and for all, although the actual effect cannot be determined, how can I say it, it is also an innovation, a kind of reform, right?!

Kabeline looked at the young girls in front of her, who were also weak and bone-thin, but at least still had youth, and had a future and hope in their lives, and whispered, "It's better than doing nothing." ”

(To be continued)