The raw diamond was dirty, stained with black and yellow stains, and emitted a foul smell. Li Du could guess where it had been hidden.
The guards did not think it was dirty. Someone grabbed the diamond, wiped it in the dark river, and brought it back to Remonin.
The general was no longer grinning. He looked gloomily at the miners who had been brought around by the guards and began to growl in a language that Li Du did not understand.
"What is he saying?" asked Li Du.
"Explaining the rules of the mine and warning the miners that he is going to punish the poor man," said Lu Guan.
The lion hunter looked at him in surprise. "You know Portuguese?"
Lu Guan shrugged. "A little."
Li Du felt that Lu Guan's development direction was wrong. He should be doing diplomacy or translation work because he was so talented in languages. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was a foreign language genius.
The miners looked at the skinny boy with resentful eyes. Some picked up stones from the ground and made to hit the boy. Many shouted at him with angry faces.
Li Du was surprised and said, "Is the general so popular here?"
He was surprised that the workers were so protective of Remonin's interests.
"No," said Lu Guan. "There is a punishment for this. Everyone's food stamps will be confiscated today."
The lion hunter added, "The general has made a rule that if someone steals a diamond and no one finds out, but he finds out, everyone's food stamps will be confiscated as punishment."
Li Du understood that this was a vicious move.
The boy was trembling with fear. Remonin put his big hand on his shoulder, and a guard took out a bayonet and handed it to him.
The others put away their angry expressions and became a little frightened.
Li Du knew that the next punishment would be very cruel.
He wanted to stop it, but he could not. This was not China or the United States. This was not a civilized world. If he intervened, he would be a busybody.
The rules set by the warlords in the mines were very cruel. In order to prevent their men from stealing gems, the mine owners were very cruel.
Remonin hit the boy's shoulder with the bayonet. The boy was like a lamb under a butcher's knife, his body trembling. He occasionally looked up, his face twisted with fear.
Li Du knew what Remonin was trying to do. He was trying to scare the young man and destroy his will. At the same time, he was trying to warn the other miners.
The young man raised his head and saw Li Du. He seemed to have noticed that Li Du was different from the others around him. Like a drowning man who had found a life-saving straw, he stretched out his hand and shouted, "My life!"
Li Du was stunned. Is this Chinese? He could tell that it was obscure Chinese, but it was indeed Chinese.
All along, Li Du, Remonin, and the others had thought that the young man only knew how to speak in their native tongue.
Now, hearing him speak Chinese, Li Du showed a surprised expression. Remonin and the others did not understand. They had never heard Chinese before.
The teenager saw the change in his expression and shouted even louder, "Baba, drink your life! Yay, yay, the life of wine! "
Hearing this, Li Du was even more certain that he was speaking in Chinese, but the way he addressed him was a little strange.
Remonin thought that he was speaking in the local dialect, so he didn't care. Instead, he tore off his trousers and held them tightly. He shook his head vigorously, "Baba, it's a drunken life! Yay yay, the life of wine! Wine, wine, wine! "
Two guards came up to hold him back. Remonin continued to tear off his trousers and put the sharp bayonet on the thing between the young man's legs.
Li Du couldn't help but stop him and said, "General, are you going to castrate him?"
Remonin smiled and said, "Of course."
Li Du, after all, was soft-hearted. He said, "If you want to punish him, even if you want to kill him, you can do it. Why torture a boy like this?"
Remonin frowned and looked at him. "Torture? No, this is not torture. I'm going to prepare a dish for you. "
Seeing that Li Du did not understand, he continued, "I just said that you are in luck today. If I don't cut off this thing, how will you be in luck?"
Li Du was shocked by this and said, "What do you mean?"
Remonin said, "Don't you know? This is a pygmy, a pygmy's penis. This is a delicacy with magical effects. "
Hearing this, Li Du understood his intention. He wanted to castrate the young man and cook with his genitals.
Thinking of this, Li Du almost vomited. He shook his head and said, "No, no, no, I'm not a cannibal. I'm sorry, General. I appreciate your kindness, but I will never touch this kind of thing!"
His words made Remonin laugh. Remonin said to the lion hunter, "He doesn't understand, does he? He doesn't understand. "
The lion hunter nodded and said, "Yes, he doesn't understand. Li is American, he doesn't know this. Let me explain it to him."
Then he introduced Li Du to the pygmies.
Most of the world's ethnic groups, under the impact of modern civilization, continued to develop and progress. However, there were still some ethnic groups who lived in isolation and maintained extremely strange customs.
The pygmies were such a people. They were a very primitive people who had existed in the world for thousands of years. They lived in the dense forests of central and southern Africa.
This ethnic group was very unique. Not to mention their culture, traditions, and way of living, their appearance alone was not even considered 'human' in a primitive place like Africa.
The reason for this was that the pygmies were very different from humans in terms of appearance. They were the shortest people in the world. The average adult man was no more than 1.5 meters tall. Women were generally shorter than men by about 10 centimeters and weighed no more than 40 kilograms.
Yes, even if they were well-nourished, they still could not grow up. They were truly a race of little people.
Li Du thought that this small man named Musa was a teenager, but he was not. He was already an adult. It was just that his body did not grow big. At most, he could grow to a little more than 1.4 meters, like a teenager.
Another point was that normal humans had to be at least 11 or 12 years old to reach sexual maturity. Pygmies did not need to do so. They developed very quickly. At the age of eight or nine, their sexual functions matured, and they began to marry, have sex, and then have children.
They could reproduce at such a young age, and there was no lack of living space and food in the rainforest. However, the number of pygmies was not explained by generation. The reason was that they aged very quickly and did not live to 40 years old.
There was a legend in Africa that the witch doctors of various tribes believed that the reason why the Pygmies could have children so early was because their penis had been blessed by God. It had a mysterious effect that could strengthen one's physique, enhance one's ability under the bed, and make one smarter.
In short, in the witch doctor culture, this thing was a miracle medicine!
So, when Remonin found out that Musa was a pygmy, he planned to chop off his genitals and give them to Li Du to go with wine. It was also for this reason that Lion Hunter said he wanted a share.
They were serious.
When Remonin took off Musa's pants, Musa knew what was going on and struggled hard. However, it was obviously useless.
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