Volume of Changning Kingdom: Chapter 19: Miraculous Medicine (1)
The core members of the exploration team were recruited all the way from Sichuan by the Industrial Energy Commission, and they came all the way to Silia to test well drilling. They can be said to be the first batch of oil workers trained by the Senate. Their importance is self-evident.
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Watching the two of them drink a potion containing quinine, Ngo Dinh Wei and Huang Lu lamented: In order to exploit oil, they have to face the risk of malaria, but to defeat malaria, they must rely on the oil-based organic chemical industry. The Senate is here
Progress and improvement in this world is really an arduous road full of thorns.
Quinine is the Senate's first major victory in the field of new time and space pharmaceuticals, but to be honest, their quinine sulfate still has not gotten rid of its dependence on natural plants, rather than taking a more efficient chemical synthesis route.
Natural quinine, no matter how it is purified and processed, is not as effective as other chemically synthesized quinoline derivatives such as chloroquine and primate chloroquine. The efficacy is relatively poor, but this is the most effective antimalarial drug in the hands of the Senate. After
After these years of consumption, the anti-malarial drugs they originally brought from the old time and space were basically used up. Before the organic chemical industry took shape, they could only let the cinchona tree take on the job.
Quinine cannot cure the benign malaria infection of the two people, but it can effectively suppress the symptoms of malaria. It also has a preventive effect. This time the spread of malaria was suppressed after it only started.
The news that Australians had a "magic drug" to treat malaria spread quickly, and many people came from nearby to buy it, but they were all rejected without exception. The reason was naturally that this drug was very rare.
The Tropical Botany Research Institute of the Council of Agriculture has opened cinchona tree plantations in the counties and mountainous areas of southern Hainan. At the same time, it also ordered bulk orders of South American cinchona bark from the Spanish in Manila through maritime trade to produce this product.
A precious medicine. And it also began to be cultivated by the Dutch in suitable places on the Southeast Asian islands.
Whether it is purchased from abroad or grown by oneself, the output of quinine is still quite low, and can only barely support the current needs of the Senate's colonization operations in Nanyang and Taiwan. It is still beyond the means to export. Therefore, quinine preparations currently belong to
"Sales of controlled drugs" can only be sold with a special prescription. In the case of the exploration team, only the veterans have the right to declare their use.
Although the tense atmosphere caused by malaria has not yet passed, with the guarantee of a miracle cure that can cure the disease, drilling and camp construction are still in progress.
Lin Laowu rested for a few days because of his whip injury. Everyone in the shack disliked him. It was Tao Liliu who he tried to "violate" in the first place who helped him fetch food and water because of their friendship on the same boat. Let Lin Laowu
Lao Wu was extremely ashamed.
The injury was better, so naturally he couldn't lie down in the shack and eat for nothing - the Senate was not so kind. Although he couldn't do heavy work for the time being, he helped with some chores in the camp.
Lin Laowu's scar has healed and he has forgotten the pain. He still peeks at the shed where the salt water girls live from time to time. It is daytime now, the workers are working on the construction site, and most of the salt water girls are resting in the shack to prepare for the night.
In the business, occasionally someone would come out to relieve himself in a pair of clothes, which became the focus of Lin Laowu's attention.
He saw a saltwater girl coming out of the shack, carrying a wooden basin to wash clothes. The weather in Nanyang was hot, and she was rude and her clothes were simple and casual. This saltwater girl was only wrapped in a piece of bright Indian cotton.
Her shoulders were exposed, and her dark thighs and arms glowed seductively under the sun... Lin Laowu's heart was instantly moved.
The woman came barefoot to a corner of the beach and washed her clothes next to a stream. She spread the washed sponges and clothes on the rocks to dry.
Lin Laowu followed quietly, peeping at the woman. He didn't realize that there was a string of curses hanging from the corners of his mouth...
As if she sensed that someone was peeping at her, Xianshui girl turned around and caught Lin Laowu, who was watching enthusiastically.
After all, Lin Laowu is a veteran pirate with many years of experience. He didn't know what shyness was, so he immediately chatted up with a calm face: "Sister, do you want to do the laundry?"
He didn't know where Xianshui Mei was from, but the Chinese here in Nanyang were mostly Guangfu, Hakka and Minnan. Even the locals could speak a few words. He could easily communicate in these three languages. He started by using Cantonese.
Fuhua asked.
The saltwater girl didn't answer, she just stared at his face carefully. Suddenly, the saltwater girl quietly waved to him!
Lin Laowu's coke blossomed. He knew that the Xianshui girls were under the control of their leader, and the money for "business" was also obtained by the leader. They were not allowed to "do business" in private on weekdays. In broad daylight,
The leader was sleeping, and the girl suddenly waved to him to come over. Could it be that she wanted to "do private business" quietly?
Lin Laowu felt that the opportunity was rare, and the prices charged by girls in "private business" were generally not high. He had recently accumulated a few small sums of money, which he earned by "working on behalf of" the laborers.
After looking around to make sure no one was paying attention, he boldly moved towards Xianshui Girl. As soon as he reached her side, before she spoke, Xianshui Girl took Lin Laowu's hand and signaled him
Dive into the woods.
Lin Laowu was secretly happy. When he got into the bushes, he was about to do the casual thing. However, Xianshui girl asked in a strange Minnan dialect: "Brother, do you often go to the big ship on weekdays?"
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Lin Laowu was already horny and pressed for time. He was afraid of being discovered, so he was quite impatient with this inexplicable question: "Yes! Yes! Yes! Sister, let me get rid of my anger..." He couldn't wait to take action.
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However, Xianshui Girl dodged her body, blocked Lin Laowu's dirty hands with a smile, and said: "Brother, don't worry, do you have money? It's not easy for us to do this. If we don't have money, we will be beaten...
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"Brother is rich!" Lin Laowu said and took out all the money in his pocket. Unexpectedly, the salt water girl showed contempt when she saw it, and said: "Brother, you should keep these money."
Go ahead and buy some sweet potatoes for yourself, my sister is not short of your sweet potatoes."
Lin Laowu knew that she disliked the lack of money, so he begged and said: "Good girl, I have dozens of taels of daughter-in-law books at home, but I don't have the money with me now. Do you think you can pay it to me first, and wait until I can?"
Once you leave here, I will give you double the amount, no! I want to redeem you from my mother-in-law! How about it?"
"Giggle, bro, you really can talk better than the sparrows in the mountains, but your empty words can't coax the sparrows in the trees..."
The words of Xianshui Girl instantly made Lin Laowu discouraged. Without their free money, these Xianshui Girls couldn't be fooled by just a few sweet words.
"It doesn't have to be money..." The girl smiled mysteriously, and then said, "I have a few things to ask you. If you answer well, the girl will serve you comfortably without charging you money, hehe.
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"Just ask, sister!" Lin Laowu regained hope, "I'll tell you whatever you want to know!"
"Did one of you get the disease a few days ago?"
"Yes, he's the well digger who talks about Lao Tzu every day."
"If I see him like that, he won't be able to survive for a few days. Did I see him digging a well yesterday?"
When he talked about this, Lin Laowu became proud, "It was the Australians who cured him. The Australians just gave the laborer a few bowls of potion and he was fine!"
“Is there really such a medicine?!”
"Is this even false?! My brother has been taking care of him these past few days. He can see clearly with his eyes. He told me that the Australians have a miracle cure for the disease. By the way.
, now we have to drink that potion every day, it tastes bitter. My brother said that drinking this potion can not only cure jaundice, but also prevent it - that is, you will not get jaundice."
"So magical?" Xianshui girl pondered for a moment and said, "Then...if you can help me get this medicine, I will stay with you for ten days and a half without any money from you."
"Seriously??" Lin Laowu asked overjoyed.
"Of course it's true!" Xianshui girl said with a smile, "Well, since you promised me to get the medicine, I can't let your joy be in vain. Let's give it to my brother."
Lin Laowu, who had not tasted meat for a long time, had endless aftertaste. Thinking that the girl could accompany him for ten and a half days for free, as soon as he returned to the shack, he began to figure out how to steal the Australian miracle medicine.
Medicine is not that rare. It is distributed every day in the camp. As long as you are a laborer, a health worker will come over with a big bucket after breakfast every day. Each person will take a bowl and watch you drink it. The taste is a bit bitter, but it is not difficult.
drink.
The problem is that this large bucket of potion cannot be stolen, and even if it is stolen, it will be unlucky. However, Lin Laowu knows that the medicinal soup must be boiled with herbal pieces, and it will be much easier to steal if the pieces can only be found.
He suddenly thought of another thing, this disease is serious. Although people infected with it may not die for a while, they are in excruciating pain. No matter you have money or not, there is no cure for the disease. If you can get Australia
If you ask a Chinese medicine doctor to identify the decoction pieces of the miracle medicine, wouldn’t it mean that you will get a false "prescription"? With this prescription, you will have no worries about food and drink for the rest of your life, and you will have a group of wives and concubines... A mere saltwater girl is nothing.
What!
At this moment, Lin Laowu forgot that he was still a prisoner, the scar on his butt, and the "boat girl" in his hometown who was still waiting for him to redeem himself and become a husband and wife. It was as if he was already a "miracle doctor", full of gold and silver.
House, three wives and four concubines, seven sons and eight sons-in-law...
He giggled "hehe" a few times, and sat down on the bed excitedly. A burning pain came from his buttocks, and Lin Laowu couldn't help but jumped up. Then he realized that the medicine hadn't been received yet!
How to get the medicine? According to his observation, the health workers go to the ship every day to get the medicine, and then go to the shack of the health center to prepare it. The medicine should be on the ship.
He won't be able to go on the ship for a while. Apart from the big boss of the Australians, only sailors and a very small number of "fake men" can get on board.