Even sitting in the car, Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong felt a little dreamy.
Save a person from five kilograms of Fritillaria?
Really cheap, too cheap!
The person who was bitten by the snake was Qiu Chunlei, their cousin and nephew, who was brought out to make a fortune together. It was all good at first, but when we went to dig caladiums today, there weren't many caladiums in the ditch where the three of us were. Qiu Chunlei said he wanted to dig in another ditch.
The two people didn't agree, but they couldn't resist the young man, so they let him go. As a result, they actually found a good Fritillaria ditch. When it was getting dark, Qiu Chunlei was carrying a bag. Fritillaria hurried over, but was bitten by a snake before he could get there. When he was first bitten, he was so angry that he grabbed the snake and killed it. Later, he felt his legs were numb and swollen. Only then did he know It's a poisonous snake.
The two of them couldn't think back anymore, so they picked up their nephew and ran out of the mountain. Now they thought that the only one who could save their nephew was Li Long. Because Li Long has medicine here.
"Are you two going?" Li Long watched the two people lift the people onto the tractor, and then they all climbed on.
"Go, go, all go." Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong both said.
"Okay, sit still, you'd better squeeze the blood from his wound to see if the poisonous blood can be squeezed out."
"Would you like to suck it with your mouth? ?" Qiu Bingzhong asked.
"If you have no wounds or ulcers in your mouth, you can try it, but it's best not to try it."
With the door of the wooden house locked, Li Long couldn't care about the things outside. It was more important to save people.
The tractor drove out suddenly, and the sound spread far in the night sky. There were people in the forest who were planning to come over to sell Fritillaria. When they heard the sound of the tractor, they were a little confused. What was going on out there at night?
I can’t change it, so I have to go back.
But there are also those who do not believe in evil, so they go to the wooden house to take a look.
Li Long pulled the gear to the maximum, and the tractor came out of the mountain quickly. When he arrived at Qingshuihe Township, Li Long stopped and said to the two people in the bucket:
"You guys go to the bathroom quickly." Please go to the hospital and ask the doctors here if they can save you!"
Qiu Bingyi was stunned for a moment, but Qiu Bingzhong reacted quickly, jumped out of the car and ran to the township hospital.
There was a doctor on duty at the health center at night. When he heard Qiu Bingzhong’s words, the doctor who was eating threw down his chopsticks and ran out. He ran to the tractor and took a look, and then waved to Li Long:
"Quick, go to the county hospital!"
Li Long was about to shift gears, and the doctor shouted again:
"Wait a minute!" He ran in again, ran out with a scalpel, and cut a cross on Qiu Chunlei's wound. Said to Qiu Bingyi:
"Squeeze. Just tie your legs at the beginning, now... squeeze."
The tractor started again, and when we arrived at the county hospital, it was... It's completely dark.
Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong carried Qiu Chunlei and ran inside. Li Long got off the tractor and went to help, mainly to see if anything was needed.
These two people were also rich. At this time, the hospital still focused on treating patients first. When they heard that it was a snake bite, they took it very seriously and sent them to the emergency room immediately.
Li Long watched and finally had no choice but to wait, and he said to Qiu Bingyi:
"Then you wait here, I have to go back to the mountains. Some of my things are still outside. Leave it alone.”
"Thank you, thank you so much!" Qiu Bingyi held Li Long's hand, "We will send those five kilograms of Fritillaria to me as soon as possible!"
Leaving the county hospital, Li Long opened the tractor With the lights on, we rushed to the county at night.
At that time, in order to save people, the pots, stoves, beaten eggs, rice, and more than ten kilograms of caladiums left out in the sun were not packed away.
I don’t know what it is like now.
It was too dark, and although Li Long's headlights were bright, they could only illuminate a small area.
After passing Qingshui River Township, Li Long smiled when he looked at the things jumping in front of the headlights.
A long-eared jerboa was jumping quickly in front of the headlights. This thing later became a second-level protected animal, but in this era, there are many of them in the wild, and they are very fun.
The fun part is that during the day they are far away from people and are basically invisible. But at night, as long as there are car lights, they will follow them. Although it looks fast, it is actually much slower than cars and tractors. In the next two years, when there will be more motorcycles, this thing will also follow the motorcycles, and the final outcome will probably be death under the wheels.
In the 1990s, when asphalt roads were slowly becoming more common, it was common to see the bodies of these things on the road, crushed into pieces like pieces of paper.
Now is the time when there are a lot of these things. At first there was one, then two, and then many more. Li Long didn’t dare to drive fast. He was afraid that if he stepped on the accelerator, these piles of them would be destroyed. All the cute little things died.
But there is no way. This thing is relatively fast compared with people, but it is much slower than a tractor anyway. Li Long can only turn the lights on and off. This thing My son particularly likes lights. The lights go out as soon as they are turned off, which can still protect a few of them.
This is not the only thing that has phototaxis at night, and sometimes it can attract rabbits.
When he was approaching the mountain pass, Li Long stopped the tractor. He saw a round thing crawling on the roadside and smiled.
It’s rare to drive a tractor at night, and it’s really rewarding.
Li Long got off the tractor, took off his coat, wrapped up the round thing, looked around again, and found nothing else, so he threw it into the bucket of the tractor, and then continued to move forward. .
This is a hedgehog.
Good stuff.
When the tractor drove to the wooden house, Li Long looked at the scene in front of him, squinting and angry, but also a little helpless.
The pot is still on the ground, but the beaten eggs are gone, the rice is gone, and the stove is cold. The dozen or so kilograms of caladiums that I had washed and dried but not completely put away were gone.
There was no way to find out who took it. Li Long was a little angry, but he didn't regret it.
Saving people is important.
He cannot yet ignore human life. Lin Xiaohu and He Yiku both deserved to die, so he would not pity them, but if Qiu Chunlei could be saved just now, if he didn't, he might regret it for the rest of his life.
After simply packing up his things, he still felt a little hungry. There was no more rice, so he went into the house, lit the fire in the stove, and ate the rice. He nibbled a small piece of this crispy rice cake at noon. It was originally intended to be a snack, but now it can only satisfy his hunger.
It was too dry to eat, so I poured hot water to soak it, then took a steamed bun and baked it under the stove. After I made my stomach full, I went to sleep.
I feel a little unfair, but there is nothing I can do about it.
When Li Long got up early the next morning, he heard strange noises when he left the house. Following the sound, he found the hedgehog in the car crawling anxiously, so he thought about forgetting about this guy.
The big hedgehog weighed five or six kilograms. When he saw Li Long, he immediately retracted his body into the thorns. Li Long looked amused, so he went to the house to break off a piece of rice cooker and put it in front of him, and then went to put in the water.
The hedgehog waited for Li Long to finish, exposed his sharp beak, smelled the rice cooker, and then slowly started to chew it.
Hedgehogs are omnivores. Li Long had raised them before. They eat sunflower seeds, watermelon rinds, and various fruits. They also eat grains. They have no problem feeding them human staple food. They seem to also eat insects.
Li Long originally caught this thing with the intention of making a sacrifice, but he didn't have time at the moment. He had to finish breakfast first, and then planned to go to see how the fish was doing where the net was placed.
Breakfast was also eaten by Hu Limatang. What happened last night made him feel a little complicated. On the one hand, he was a little proud of saving someone, and on the other hand, he was a little upset because of his own loss.
In fact, the loss is not much, only a few dozen dollars, but this is the first time, so I feel like this.
The sun rose, and the dewdrops on the grass tips shone with colorful light after absorbing the sunlight. Li Long came to the valley less than one kilometer southeast with his gun on his back.
The stream here is larger, the terrain is complex, and there are many places with drops, and Li Long has seen fish swimming in it.
He stepped on the grass and followed the stream to find the place where he set the net. Before he got there, he saw a fish jumping at the bottom of the net pocket.
Because they are all in the water, these fish are still alive, big and small.
The mesh of this net bag is one finger, so the smallest fish that can be caught is as long as a palm. The longer ones are due to the length of the chopsticks, and the smaller ones can escape.
When Li Long lifted the net, a few fish squeezed out of the net pocket and fell into the stream. Then Huan Kuai Bo got to the bottom of the rock and disappeared.
Weighed it, it was two or three kilograms, not bad.
There are mainly two kinds of fish, pike (alpine loach) and white stripes.
These two kinds of fish are more troublesome to handle, but they taste exceptionally fresh.
Li Long walked back with a net bag and a gun on his back. The net bag was dangling on the stream. Occasionally, one or two fish would squeeze out of the bag and fall into the stream, which was considered a new life.
After leaving the valley, Li Long quickened his pace. When he was approaching the wooden house, he saw someone coming there again.
Two people, one in the east and one in the west, looked like water from a well but from the river. There was a bag of caladiums at each of their feet.
Bolati was further away and ignored these two people. After Li Long came, he rode over on horseback and asked with a smile: "Li Long, you went to get fish." ?”
“Yes. Why are you here so early?”
"I collected some caladiums yesterday and I will sell them to you today. By the way, give me some wine. I don't drink the bulk wine. I brought it to others."
Li Long ignored those two people. , the two people didn't dare to move, but seeing that Bolati didn't care about them, they became a little bolder.
After Li Long weighed the fritillaries to Polati and gave him money and wine, he reminded him to pay attention to snakes.
“This thing is very annoying!” Polati said, “Every year we have several horses or sheep bitten. Once bitten, it’s over and lost.”
"Next time you encounter someone who is bitten, tell me and I will buy it." Li Long's heart moved and he said immediately.
"Really? Can you still eat it if you bite it?" Polati didn't understand.
"Snake venom is different from other poisons." Li Long couldn't explain to him what neurotoxins are and what blood circulation toxins are.
"Okay, I'll come and call you if necessary." Polati said to Li Long and left on horseback.
The two men just came over.
"Boss Li, thank you." A person said.
"What?" Li Long didn't understand.
"If you don't arrest us when you encounter a forest patrol, it should be because of your face." The man said with a smile.
"Well, he doesn't care about you in this area, but outside of this area, I won't be able to take care of you." Li Long said.
"It's already very good." The other person reacted and immediately said, "It's a good thing we met here today, otherwise we would have lost a lot."
It seems that these two There has been personal loss.
After Li Long weighed the two people, the two people probably wanted to thank Li Long and asked for half of the money, and exchanged the rest for food, supplies, etc.
Including Bolati, the three people brought 47 kilograms of fritillary to Li Long.
Li Long saw that some of the fish he brought back were dead, so he put the fritillaries aside and cut open the fish first.
Compared to flat fish like crucian carp, this fish looks like a thin stick. It is not easy to handle, but it is delicious and has no thin spines. There are also wild peppergrass nearby, which is perfect for cooking fish. Li Long has already thought about most of it, two kilograms of which are used to stew and more than half a kilogram to make fish soup. The fish soup only needs a little salt, and it will definitely be extremely delicious.
Hearing the hedgehog moving in the cart again, Li Long threw the guts of the fish to it to see if it would eat it.
To Li Long's surprise, this guy actually ate it.
It’s so easy to make a living!
After packing the fish, Li Long soaked it first and then washed the fritillaries.
After all, it’s still some time before lunch.
These caladiums were newly dug, and most of them were covered with soil. Li Long washed them very carefully, and after washing, he spread them out on the handles and the wooden floor.
He has thought about it now. Maybe he can check the source of the caladium to see who has taken away his caladium.
After all, washed caladiums are still different from fresh caladiums. Even if those blind people clean and dry the caladiums, or send them over again, they will definitely not be as clean as their own.
Of course, this hope is a bit slim, and I don’t know if I can encounter it.
After drying the fritillaries, Li Long put the two stoves outside on the fire, poured half a pot of water into one of them and boiled it, and prepared the soup here.
Although he ate rice yesterday, there is fish today and he plans to braise the rice. The fire in the back room was just right, so he boiled water to cook rice. Li Long went around to the west and picked some pepper and mugwort to prepare fish stew.
Now that there are no fresh chili peppers, we can only use dried chili peppers. Of course, it tastes good too.
After a while, the smell of fish soup floated near the wooden house.
When stewing fish, you need to fry it in oil so that the soup inside the fish will be milky white. As for the fish soup on the other side, Li Long had no idea. The longer it simmers, the better.
Pour the fish on the rice and eat and drink at the same time. It feels like...
My mouth is watering.
After eating and drinking, Li Long went to turn over the Fritillaria. The sun was strong at noon and it was drying quickly. He simply took out the bedding and continued to dry it. This will also prevent pests. Although the wooden houses in the mountains look weatherproof, some beetles can still get in through the cracks.
This wooden house is okay. If you live in a tent at night in summer, just wait and sleep with beetles.
No one came over when the weather was hot. Li Longjing was so restless that he lowered the net to the stream and changed the place. He planned to send some to his elder brother if he could catch more.
When the sun was setting in the west and the sunshine was not so strong, people came one after another to sell caladiums. Li Long inspected them carefully, seemingly checking the quality of the caladiums, but in fact he wanted to see if there were any of his own caladiums. mother's shadow.
Unfortunately, there was no such thing among the more than 100 kilograms of Fritillaria collected. They were all fresh.
When the sun was about to set, Li Long cleaned up here and prepared to go to Xiaobaiyanggou to inspect and accept today's lifts.
Halfway through the tractor, I saw Polati galloping towards me on a horse.
"Li Long, a sheep has been bitten by a snake, do you want it? Just five yuan!"
When Polati saw Li Long, he shouted loudly.
“Yes.” Li Long said, “Are you on horseback?”
Bolati had a sheep tied to his horse.
"Yes, yes, I was bitten by a snake on Beishan in the afternoon. I was almost bitten. I am still alive now, not completely dead. You can take a look."
" I believe you." Li Long got off the tractor and went to Bolati's horse. Bolati quickly dismounted, untied the rope that tied the sheep, put the sheep into Li Long's cart, and then saw that A hedgehog.
"Do you still keep this? I encounter it every day. If you encounter it later, I will catch it for you."
"Here you are, ten yuan." Li Long said, " This sheep weighs twenty kilograms anyway, and five yuan is too cheap. Take it.”
"Li Long, you are a friend enough." Polati was actually helping others. According to the past, if the snake bit the sheep, it would have to be thrown away if it died. He originally thought that by letting Li Long collect the five yuan, he could recover some losses. But Li Long gave him ten yuan, which was really a surprise.
"We are all friends, and we can't let our friends suffer." Li Long said, "Okay, you go back and tell them. I'll go to Xiaobaiyanggou to collect the money, and take care of it by the way. The sheep was skinned.”
"That's not possible. You have to help you skin the sheep. I'm better at this!" Upon hearing this, Polati said, "I'll go over first, and let's see who gets there first."
Then Bolati rushed over there on horseback.
Li Long shook his head, this seems a bit... okay. Who makes us popular?
After all, the mountain road was uneven and not completely calculated, so Li Long's tractor drove a little slower. When he arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Polati was already waiting there.
Xie Yundong and the others didn't know that Bolati had come to work. Several other workers were a little uneasy, but Li Jianguo told Lu Yingming that it was okay and that he didn't need to worry about it.
Bolati dismounted about twenty meters away from the cave, took out his knife, and found a stone in the stream to polish it. This behavior is a bit weird.
It wasn't until the sound of the tractor that everyone realized that this person was here and must be related to Li Long.
When Li Long's tractor stopped and he picked up a sheep from the bucket, Bolati immediately started skinning it.
At this time, no matter how stupid others are, they will understand.
Li Jianguo came over to ask, and Li Long explained the whole story.
“Then what are you going to do with this sheep?”
“I’ll leave you a leg, and I’ll take the rest back.” Li Long said, “Eat some and sell some. ”
“Okay, that’s good” (End of this chapter)