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Chapter 789 This Fruit Is Called Betel Nut
On the Wan Guo City side, with Wei Lin's hard work, the first batch of paper on the island was finally produced.

Although the quality of this paper is not very good, it is much better than the days when there was no paper.Not to mention anything else, just changing from bamboo leaves to paper, the treatment will be much better.

As for papermaking, Wei Lin is currently in charge.

She usually studies maps and has relatively free time, as long as she teaches the workers how to make paper, and she goes to the workshop to check it from time to time.

After the paper was successfully made, the equation came to Heitooth Island again.

This time he came to pick Lu Fengmei back to Wan Guo City.

After a day of sailing, two of the largest cargo ships in the City of Nations arrived at Black Tooth Island.

It was getting late when we went ashore, and under the reception of the civil affairs officer on the island, Fang was arranged to spend the night in the most luxurious mansion on the island.

The so-called most luxurious is actually the house of the civil affairs officer. Compared with other houses built with thatch, this wooden house is indeed much more luxurious.

Originally, the Civil Affairs Officer was going to hold a grand welcome dinner, but let the equation shirk it.

After a day of rough seas, he just felt very tired, and he didn't want to spend so much time making such a big battle.

After a brief dinner, Fang Fang called Lu Fengmei into the room and asked about the situation on Black Tooth Island during this period.

"How's this place?" Fang said jokingly, "Have the natives here made things difficult for you?"

"Where, do they have the guts?"

Lu Fengmei snorted lightly, the natives of the Black Tooth Clan have long been docile and willing to submit to Wan Guo City, so no one dares to mess around.

Talking about the observations of the investigation in Heitooth Island these days, Lu Fengmei seemed very interested, proudly took out a few green fruits, and put them on the table to show the equation.

"What is this?" Fang asked curiously.

"I guess this is betel nut." Lu Fengmei said, "On the island these days, I found that the people of the black-tooth tribe are not born with black teeth, but their teeth are stained black."

Fang Fang pointed to the betel nut suspiciously, and asked, "You said you dyed it black, so you probably use this thing?"

Lu Fengmei smiled and said: "It's really this. People, men, women and children love to chew this. If they chew for a long time, their teeth will be stained black."

"Have you tried it?"

"Chew it, do you want to try it too?" Lu Fengmei motioned for Fang Fang to try one too.

Fang Fang was curious. He had heard the name of betel nuts, but he had never chewed them. Anyway, Lu Fengmei would definitely not harm him, so he had nothing to worry about, so he picked one and stuffed it into his mouth and began to chew.

After eating this thing, it was like chewing a pile of wood dross. I didn't feel any taste, and I didn't know what was good to chew.

But the mouth couldn't help but kept chewing like this, and while chewing, I felt a little out of breath, chest tightness, flatulence, and dizziness, as if I was drunk.

"This thing is a little hot." Fang Fang felt his cheeks flushed.

"People here are addicted to chewing this, and they will take one wherever they go." Lu Fengmei reminded Fang, "Don't swallow it, this thing will be spit out after chewing."

After chewing for a while, Fang Fang felt his cheeks were sour, and felt that the wood dregs in it were tasteless, so he spat out the chewed betel nut dregs.

This vomit almost broke the equation, and even the saliva turned red, which looked like vomiting blood.

"Blood?"

"Don't panic, that's what happens when you chew raw betel nuts." Lu Fengmei explained.

Fang Fang complained, "This thing is scary enough."

Lu Fengmei said: "Eating this food for a long time has stained the teeth black. I think the name of the black-toothed family should be based on this."

"Is there any benefit to eating this thing?" To be honest, Equation's first impression of betel nut was not good.

"Almost none, it's all bad." Lu Fengmei said with a smile.

Fang Fang stared, "Damn it, old Lu! This is because you are not mean enough, and you let me eat all the bad things."

Lu Fengmei laughed and said: "If you don't talk about tricks and say it's toxic, it's just hooliganism. I just let you taste one, and you can understand what it is. This thing has been defined by the World Health Organization as a first-class carcinogen. Long-term consumption It is extremely harmful, hurting teeth, gums, mouth, and esophagus, and eating it is taking poison."

"Nimma, after taking the poison, there are still so many black-toothed people who want to eat?"

"It is addictive if it is a drug, and this thing is very addictive, it is not easy to quit, even if you quit, you will still be addicted."

Fang Fang wondered: "It is reasonable to say that this thing is so harmful, why have you not seen anyone from the Black Tooth Tribe?"

Lu Fengmei smiled and said: "This is called survivor bias, because the Black Tooth tribe people we deal with are all fine, so we feel that this thing has no effect on the Black Tooth tribe people. In fact, I also came to Black Tooth Island to live for so long I only found out after time that many elderly people of the black-toothed family suffer from serious oral diseases."

"Really? Then you must take me to see it tomorrow."

"Okay, I will arrange an itinerary for you tomorrow."

It was getting late, and the two of them had almost finished chatting. Lu Fengmei returned to her residence, and Fang Fang also went to bed to rest.

On the second day, Fang Fang was not in a hurry to see how the black-toothed man burned charcoal, but followed Lu Fengmei to the elderly with oral diseases.

Sure enough, as Lu Fengmei said, there are countless people suffering from oral diseases on Black Tooth Island.

Some of these people are only in their 50s and have lost all their teeth in their mouths; some have fibrosis in their mouths and can only wait to die day by day.

I haven't seen these people before, that's because those on the battlefield are all young and strong young adults, most of them have no problems yet, once they eat betel nuts for a long time, the results will be miserable when they age.

"These people are hopeless." Lu Fengmei said.

The truth sounds cruel, but the reality is that these people are basically hopeless and can only wait for death.

"If I don't want to, I really can't."

Equation lamented that the medical level of the island can only deal with surgical injuries, and there is no way to deal with this kind of oral disease, or even oral cancer.

"Betel nut is not a good thing." Lu Fengmei scolded.

Fang Fang said in a deep voice: "I still want to think about how to help these people get rid of the habit of eating betel nuts, so as to solve the problem from the source, so as to prevent more descendants of the black tooth family from repeating the same mistakes."

Lu Fengmei asked back: "Have you noticed that those black-toothed people in Wan Guo City don't eat betel nuts?"

Fang Fang suddenly said: "Indeed, I didn't see them eating again after arriving in Wan Guo City."

"It's very simple, because there are no betel nut trees in Wan Guo City, they have nothing to eat. Once they have nothing to eat, they will be able to get rid of their addiction over time."

"So what did you think of?"

"We cut down all the betel nut trees on this island, wouldn't the problem be solved?"

(End of this chapter)