Chapter 210: Cards
"Hi everyone, I'm Muta Kazunga, and welcome to Discover Africa: Malawi."
The bright-eyed girl waved in front of the camera, and her bright smile made her snow-white teeth shine, adding a bright color to this "black pearl"-like beauty.
"It's a pleasure to meet you again, in the last video we got a taste of the local Malawian cuisine, and many dear viewers left me messages telling me that it is fun to grind white corn into flour and boil it in water to make a solid cake-like staple food Nsima, while eating rat meat and termites is disgusting and unacceptable. Haha, in fact, this is just a food culture, just like Vietnam eats cat meat, and Huaxia eats dog meat. Muta Kacsonga, who speaks pure and fluent English, said to the camera generously, "I think everyone must be curious, why did the people of Malawi form a food culture that eats rat meat?" Today, let's find out. ”
Muta Kazunga turned sideways and pointed to a large field behind him, where several dark-skinned boys were busy, not plowing, but setting up improvised mousetraps, or crouching down to catch mice with both hands.
"Look, a couple of great guys are catching voles, and it's as easy for them to catch a sensitive vole with both hands as it is for a fisherman to spear fish. After catching mice, they will skewer them on wooden skewers or put them in bamboo tubes, sometimes they will expose the rat meat to the sun, dry it and eat it directly, sometimes they will put the rat meat on an iron frame for barbecue, sometimes they will put the rat meat into a stew pot, and there are many ways to eat it, and now voles have become one of the favorite snacks of children in Malawi. ”
The camera follows Muta Kazunga, first capturing young vole hunters as they capture plump and lean rats in the fields, and then how they string them on wooden skewers, sell them on the streets, cook them on the spot, or take them home to pickle and store.
After ten minutes of video, the camera pans back to Muta Kazunga, and the girl's face is a little less smiling and a little heavier.
"In fact, we all know that this kind of eating habit is very unhygienic, every year in Malawi countless children die of parasites, and the medical conditions in Malawi are so poor that we can do nothing but watch the disease take their lives."
"This kind of thing happens all the time, no matter how much it is prohibited, it can't put an end to the consumption of rat meat, why? Because of poverty. ”
"They (foreigners) say it's a paradise because of the developed agriculture, the abundant water, the clean air, the passport here can be visa-free and visa-on-arrival in more than 70 countries, and because it's a tax haven, and any income abroad can be tax-free, but that's a benefit that only foreigners can enjoy. Outsiders can really enjoy a good life here, and the kids in the city can eat food from all over the world, and they always say, oh, Malawi is not that poor, oh, Malawi kids have access to smartphones. ”
"But, oh, they were wrong. As an agrarian country, Malawi has never been able to escape the shadow of poverty when it comes to diet, and countless people struggle with hunger every day. Because termites can make up for people's lack of nutrition and calories, people will eat white clothes, and because rats have meat on their bodies, people will eat mice. ”
"At the end of the show, I want to take everyone to see a place."
The frame shifts to an overhead shot of a city in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, with a population of 600,000.
"In Lilongwe, many families cannot afford to support their elderly and children, and some elderly people will voluntarily go out of their homes and live a life of begging to survive, while those children, who are older and more lucky, may be able to enter a sweatshop and survive without being too old to engage in production...... They may steal, be killed, eat grass roots, and catch mice, but it is difficult to avoid starvation. ”
"The building we see now is the Lilongwe Shelter, but because of the corruption and poor management of the government, this long-standing building is no longer a real shelter, but just a shelter for the poor homeless door, and after a day of begging, the elderly and children will sleep on the hard floor, waiting for the sun to rise again the next day. Often, one of them would turn into a stiff corpse one night and be dragged away, or...... Eaten by hungry and embarrassed people. ”
However, thanks to the help of the temple, this has finally changed, and now food is regularly brought to the shelter and the shelter is renovated so that these poor homeless people can wear warm clothes, sleep in large soft beds, and eat fresh food. So they voluntarily signed an agreement with the temple that if they died one day, the temple would take away their bodies and process them into food, which was the only help they could do to their benefactors, and they were willing. ”
When Muta walked into the shelter, many elderly people and children immediately gathered around her, welcoming her like a savior, and Muta greeted them and made introductions.
"Now the elderly people in the shelter have enough food to clean the shelter on their own initiative, and the children are regularly educated, of course, it is still difficult to teach them to read and write, and the teachers invited by the temple will teach them how to sow seeds, how to farm, and then they will open up a piece of farmland, cultivate food, and be self-sufficient, and continue to expand this model, not only to help the elderly children in Lilongwe, but also to help the elderly children in Malawi. I have decided to dedicate everything I have to this cause, if you are also willing to support this great cause, please leave a message to let me know, we sincerely thank everyone who is willing to pay attention and care, thank you for watching. ”
"We'll see you next time!"
The screen turned black, and the next shot was Xu Le standing in a pool of blood, with corpses everywhere, looking up at the camera, with a little blood stains on his face, and a bloodthirsty expression.
Muta Kazunga, on the other hand, knelt in the courtyard, staring blankly at Xu Le with blank eyes, as if he was screaming.
"Why?"
"Huh?" Yang Xiaoqian looked at Zhou Tianming beside him and didn't understand why he gave such a dubbing.
Zhou Tianming raised his hand to his chest, which was where he used to hang the cross necklace, and now the visible religious imprint has been erased, but the invisible psychological wall has not been completely removed.
"Why can't we do what mutants can do?" Zhou Tianming's words surprised Yang Xiaoqian, "Mutants and mutant vassals can do this because they pursue a greater goal of good, and we are also pursuing a greater goal, since mutants can do these things, we should be able to do it." ”
"Well, you're right, but there's a gradual process in everything, and what the mutants do is just an illusion, you see, when they need to, they kill the old people and children in the shelter like pigs, and their capital comes from some corrupt elite, the foundation is unstable, but the start is faster. We're different, we start from scratch and work steadily. Do you see that so many of our enterprises are booming and growing by leaps and bounds, are they used for us to collect money? In such a sensitive period, the central government has vigorously supported our development precisely because it is clear that our purpose is to benefit the people, not to use our power to override the people. You are the current president of the Far Salvation Association, you should know this very well, okay, I'll leave it to you first, I'm going to go to Beijing. Yang Xiaoqian got up and patted Zhou Tianming's shoulder.
Zhou Tianming's eyes lit up and asked, "Director Liu's special line has been opened?" ”
"Nope." Yang Xiaoqian shook his head, crying and laughing, "Yu Qian was in a hurry to go to Beijing to ask for an explanation, but I couldn't hold it back, so I could only accompany him." ”