Chapter 488

Even sitting in the car, Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong felt a bit dreamy.

Five kilograms of fritillaria bulbs to save a person?

Really cheap, too cheap!

The one bitten by the snake was Qiu Chunlei, their cousin, from the same family, brought out to get rich together. Originally everything was fine, but today when they went to dig fritillaria bulbs, the gully where the three of them originally stayed didn't have many fritillaria bulbs, Qiu Chunlei said he wanted to change to another gully to dig.

These two people didn't quite agree, but couldn't resist the young man, so they let him go. As a result, he really found a good fritillaria gully. When it was almost dark, Qiu Chunlei hurried over with a bag of fritillaria bulbs, but before he reached them, he was bitten by a snake. When he was first bitten, he was so angry that he caught the snake and killed it, later he felt his leg go numb and swell up, only then did he know it was a poisonous snake.

The two people couldn't care less this time, lifted their nephew and ran out of the mountains. Now the only one they could think of to save their nephew was Li Long. Because Li Long had medicine here.

"Are you both going?" Li Long saw the two people lift the person onto the tractor, and then both climbed up.

"Go, go, both go." Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong both said.

"Sure, sit tight, you'd better squeeze the blood from the wound for him, see if you can squeeze the poisonous blood out."

"Do you want to suck it with your mouth?" Qiu Bingzhong asked.

"If you don't have wounds or ulcers in your mouth, you can try, but it's best not to try."

The wooden house door was locked, Li Long couldn't care about those things outside, saving people was urgent.

The tractor chugged out, the sound spreading far in the night sky. There were still people in the mountain forest planning to come over to sell fritillaria bulbs, hearing the sound of this tractor, they were a bit puzzled, what was the fuss about running out in the middle of the night?

Couldn't exchange, so they had to go back.

But there were also those who didn't believe in evil, so they ran to the wooden house to take a look.

Li Long pulled the gear to the maximum, the tractor chugged out of the mountains quickly, when they reached Qingshuihe Township, Li Long stopped and said to the two people in the bucket:

"One of you hurry to the health center, ask the doctor here if he can save him!"

Qiu Bingyi was stunned for a moment, Qiu Bingzhong reacted quickly, jumped off the car and ran into the township health center.

The health center had a doctor on duty at night, hearing Qiu Bingzhong's words, the doctor who was eating threw down his chopsticks and ran out, ran to the tractor to take a look, and then waved to Li Long:

"Quick, go to the county hospital!"

Li Long prepared to shift gears, the doctor shouted again:

"Wait a moment!" He ran back in, took a scalpel and ran out, cut a cross on Qiu Chunlei's wound, and said to Qiu Bingyi:

"Squeeze. You should have tied his leg at the beginning, now... squeeze."

The tractor started again, and when they reached the county hospital, the sky was completely dark.

Qiu Bingyi and Qiu Bingzhong lifted Qiu Chunlei and ran inside, Li Long got off the tractor and went to help, mainly to see if there was anything that needed to be done.

These two people also had money, at this time the hospital was still mainly for treating illnesses, hearing that it was a snake bite, they also attached great importance to it, and immediately sent him to the emergency room.

Li Long watched and saw that there was only waiting in the end, so he said to Qiu Bingyi:

"Then you wait here, I still have to go back to the mountains. Some of my things are still left outside."

"Thank you, thank you so much!" Qiu Bingyi held Li Long's hand, "Those five kilograms of fritillaria bulbs, we will definitely send them to you as soon as possible!"

Leaving the county hospital, Li Long turned on the tractor's headlights and hurried to the county in the night.

At that time, in order to save people, the pot, stove, beaten eggs, rice, and more than ten kilograms of fritillaria bulbs drying outside were not tidied up.

Didn't know what it was like now.

The sky was too dark, although Li Long's car lights were bright, they could only illuminate a small area.

After passing Qingshuihe Township, Li Long looked at the things jumping in front of the car lights and smiled.

A long-eared jerboa was jumping quickly in front, following the car lights. This thing became a second-class protected animal in later generations, but in this era, there were many in the wild, and it was especially fun.

The fun part was that during the day they would be in places far from human habitation, basically not seen. But once it was night, as long as there were car lights, they would follow the car lights and run. Although they looked fast, they were actually much slower than cars and tractors. Two years later, when there were more motorcycles, this thing would also follow motorcycles and run, and the final outcome would basically be death under the wheels.

In the nineties, when asphalt roads gradually became popular, you could often see the corpses of this thing on the road, pressed like paper.

Right now was the time when this thing was extremely numerous, at first it was one, later it was two, and later many, Li Long didn't dare to drive fast, he was afraid that if he stepped on the gas, this pile of cute little things would all die.

But there was no way, this thing was a bit faster than people, but no matter what, it was much slower than a tractor, Li Long could only turn the lights on and off, this thing especially liked the light, once the lights were off, they would scatter, this could still be considered protecting a few.

It wasn't just this that was phototactic at night, sometimes it could also attract rabbits.

When they were about to reach the mountain pass, Li Long stopped the tractor, he saw a round thing crawling on the side of the road, and smiled.

It was rare to drive a tractor at night, it was really a full harvest.

Li Long got off the tractor, took off his coat, wrapped up the round thing, looked around again, didn't find any others, so he hugged it and threw it into the car bucket, and then continued forward.

This was a hedgehog.

Good thing.

When the tractor drove to the wooden house, Li Long looked at the scene in front of him, a bit angry, and a bit helpless.

The pot was still on the ground, but the beaten eggs were gone, the rice was gone, and the stove had cooled down. The more than ten kilograms of fritillaria bulbs that he had washed clean and was drying but hadn't completely collected were also gone.

There was no way to check who took them, Li Long was a bit angry, but didn't regret it.

Saving people was urgent.

He still couldn't ignore human life. Lin Xiao Hu and He Yi Ku deserved to die, he wouldn't pity them, but Qiu Chunlei just now, if he could save him and didn't, that might be a regret for a lifetime.

Simply tidying up the things, he felt a bit hungry. The rice was gone, so he went into the house, added fire to the stove, and gnawed on the scorched rice. He gnawed a small piece of this scorched rice at noon, originally planning to use it as a snack, now he could only use it to satisfy his hunger.

Gnawing it was too dry, so he poured hot water to soak it, and then took a steamed bun and roasted it under the stove, after filling his stomach, he went to sleep.

There was always some injustice in his heart, but there was no way.

Waking up early the next morning, Li Long went out of the house and heard a strange sound. Following the sound, he found the hedgehog in the car bucket crawling anxiously, only then did he think he had forgotten this guy.

The big hedgehog was five or six kilograms, seeing Li Long, it immediately shrank its body into the thorns, Li Long found it fun, so he went into the house, broke off a piece of scorched rice and put it in front of it, and then went to release water.

After Li Long left, the hedgehog revealed its sharp mouth, smelled the scorched rice, and then slowly gnawed on it.

Hedgehogs are omnivorous, Li Long had raised them before, sunflower seeds, watermelon rinds, all kinds of fruits it would eat, grain it would eat, the staple food people ate was no problem to feed it, it seemed it also ate insects.

Li Long originally caught this thing planning to have a treat, but right now he didn't have the time, first solve breakfast, and then prepare to go see how the fish were where he put the net.

Breakfast was also eaten in a mess, yesterday's events made his mood a bit complicated, on one hand, he was a bit proud of saving a person, on the other hand, he was a bit annoyed because of his own loss.

Actually, the loss didn't count as much, just a few dozen yuan, but this was the first time, so he had this mood.

The sun rose, the dew on the grass tips absorbed the sunlight and flashed with colorful light, Li Long carried his gun and arrived in the valley less than a kilometer to the southeast.

The stream here was a bit bigger, the terrain was complex, there were many places with drops, and Li Long had seen fish swimming in it.

He stepped on the green grass and followed the stream to find the place where he put the net, before he reached it, he saw fish jumping at the bottom of the net bag.

Because they were all in the water, these fish were still alive, big and small.

The mesh of this net bag was one finger, so the smallest fish he could catch were also palm-long, longer ones were chopstick-long, smaller ones leaked out.

When Li Long lifted the net, there were still a few fish squeezed out in the net bag, fell into the stream, and then happily drilled to the bottom of the stone and disappeared.

Weighed it, two or three kilograms, not bad.

Mainly two kinds of fish, dogfish (alpine loach) and white strips.

These two kinds of fish were relatively troublesome to deal with, but they were exceptionally fresh to eat.

Li Long carried the net bag and the gun and walked back, the net bag swayed above the stream, occasionally one or two fish would squeeze out of the bag, fall into the stream, and could be considered to have gained a new life.

Until he left this valley, Li Long quickened his pace, when he was about to reach the wooden house, he saw someone coming over there again.

Two people, one east and one west, looking like they didn't interfere with each other, each person had a bag of fritillaria bulbs at their feet.

Bolati was further away, didn't care about these two people, after Li Long came over, he rode his horse over and asked with a smile: "Li Long, did you go to get fish?"

"Yes. Why did you come so early?"

"Collected some fritillaria bulbs yesterday, came over to sell to you today, right, exchange some wine for me. Loose wine, not for me to drink, I brought it for someone else."

Li Long didn't care about those two people, those two people didn't dare to move, but seeing Bolati didn't care about them, their courage grew a bit.

After Li Long weighed the fritillaria bulbs for Bolati, gave the money and wine, he reminded him to pay attention to snakes.

"This thing, it's annoying!" Bolati said, "Every year a few horses or sheep of ours are bitten, once bitten, it's over, lost."

"Next time if you encounter one bitten, tell me, I'll buy it." Li Long's heart moved, and he immediately said.

"Really? Can it still be eaten after being bitten?" Bolati didn't understand.

"Snake venom, it's different from other poisons." Li Long couldn't explain to him what neurotoxin was and what circulatory toxin was.

"Good, if there is one, I'll come over to call you." Bolati said to Li Long and rode away.

Those two people only then came over.

!.

"Boss Li, thank you." One person said.

"What?" Li Long didn't understand.

"Encountered the forest patrol, didn't catch us, it should be for your face." That person said with a smile.

"Hmm, he doesn't care about you in this area, but once you leave this area, I can't take care of it." Li Long said.

"Already very good." The other person only then reacted and immediately said, "Fortunately encountered here today, otherwise would have lost a lot again."

It seemed these two people had lost before.

After Li Long weighed for the two people, these two people probably wanted to thank Li Long, asked for half the money, and exchanged the rest for grain, supplies, etc.

Plus Bolati, the three people brought Li Long forty-seven kilograms of fritillaria bulbs.

Li Long saw that some of the fish brought back were already dead, so he put the fritillaria bulbs aside and first gutted the fish.

This fish was like a thin stick compared to flat fish like crucian carp, not easy to deal with, but it was delicious, no fine thorns. There was also wild pepper grass nearby, perfect for making fish. Li Long had already thought about it, most of it, two kilograms of it would be used for stewing, and more than half a kilogram would be used for fish soup. Fish soup only needed a little salt, it must be exceptionally delicious.

Hearing the hedgehog move in the car bucket again, Li Long threw the fish guts he had gutted to it, wanting to see if it would eat it.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that this guy actually ate it.

Really easy to raise!

After dealing with the fish, Li Long soaked it first, and then went to wash the fritillaria bulbs.

After all, there was still some time before making lunch.

These fritillaria bulbs were all newly dug, most with soil, Li Long washed them very carefully, and after washing, spread them out on the carrying poles and wooden floor.

He had already thought about it now, maybe he could check from the source of the fritillaria bulbs to see who took his fritillaria bulbs away.

After all, washed fritillaria bulbs and fresh fritillaria bulbs were still a bit different. Even if those vagrants would clean the fritillaria bulbs before drying them, or send them over again, they definitely wouldn't be as clean as what he made.

Of course, this hope was a bit slim, didn't know if he could encounter it.

After drying the fritillaria bulbs, Li Long set up fire on the two stoves outside, one of them poured half a pot of water to boil, preparing to make soup here.

Although he ate rice yesterday, he had fish today, and he planned to steam rice. The fire in the inner room was just right, so he boiled water to prepare to steam rice. Li Long went to the west side for a turn, picked some pepper grass, preparing to stew fish.

Now there were no fresh chili peppers, so he could only use dry spicy skin. Of course, the taste was also good.

In a while, the fragrance of fish soup floated around the wooden house.

Stewing fish needed to be fried with oil, so the soup inside the fish would have a milky white color. As for the fish soup on the other side, Li Long didn't have any thoughts, the longer it stewed, the better.

Pouring the fish onto the rice, eating while drinking, that feeling...

Drooling.

Full and satisfied, Li Long went to turn over the fritillaria bulbs, now the noon sunlight was strong, drying very quickly. He simply carried the bedding out to continue drying. This could also avoid bugs. Although the wooden house in the mountains looked like it could prevent wind and rain, some beetles could still drill in from the cracks.

This wooden house was fine, if you lived in a tent at night in summer, then wait to sleep with beetles.

When it was hot, no one came, Li Long was quiet and wanted to move, went to put the net in that stream again, changed a place. He planned that if he could catch more, he would send some to his eldest brother's side.

The sun slanted west, when the sunlight wasn't so strong, people came one after another to sell fritillaria bulbs, Li Long checked carefully, seemingly checking the quality of the fritillaria bulbs, actually wanting to see if there was a shadow of his fritillaria bulbs.

Unfortunately, in the more than one hundred kilograms of fritillaria bulbs collected, there weren't any, they were all fresh.

When the sun was about to set, Li Long tidied up here, preparing to go to Xiao Bai Yang Gou to check and accept today's carrying poles.

When the tractor was halfway, he saw Bolati riding a horse and galloping over.

"Li Long, a sheep was bitten by a snake, do you want it? Five yuan is enough!"

Bolati shouted loudly when he saw Li Long.

"Want." Li Long said, "Is it on your horse's back?"

A sheep was tied on Bolati's horse's back.

"Yes, yes, bitten by a snake on the north mountain this afternoon, the person was almost bitten, now it's still alive, not completely dead, you can take a look."

"I believe you." Li Long got off the tractor, went to Bolati's horse, Bolati hurriedly got off the horse, untied the rope tying the sheep, hugged the sheep and put it into Li Long's car bucket, and then saw that hedgehog.

"You still raise this? I encounter it every day. If I encounter it later, I'll catch it back for you."

"Give it to you, ten yuan." Li Long said, "How can this sheep be twenty kilograms, five yuan is too cheap, you take it."

"Li Long, you are a good friend." Bolati was actually helping others, according to the past, if this snake bit the sheep, once dead it could only be thrown away. He originally thought about Li Long collecting it for five yuan, which could be considered recovering a little loss. But Li Long gave ten yuan, this was really a bit unexpected.

"Everyone is a friend, can't let a friend suffer a loss." Li Long said, "Alright, you go back and tell them, I'm going to Xiao Bai Yang Gou to collect carrying poles, and incidentally skin this sheep."

"That won't do, skinning a sheep, still need me to help you. I'm relatively good at this!" Bolati heard and said, "I'll go over first, let's see who arrives first."

Then Bolati rode his horse and rushed over there.

Li Long shook his head, this seemed a bit... alright. Who let us have good popularity?

The mountain road was not flat after all, and didn't completely count as a road, so Li Long's tractor drove a bit slower, when he arrived at Xiao Bai Yang Gou, Bolati was already waiting there.

Xie Yun Dong and the others didn't know Bolati came to work, the other few people working were a bit uneasy, but Li Jianguo told Lu Yingming it was fine, no need to care.

Bolati got off his horse more than twenty meters away from the dugout, took out his small knife, and found a stone in the stream to sharpen it. This behavior was a bit strange.

Waiting until the sound of the tractor, everyone reacted, this person was here, it should be related to Li Long.

And when Li Long's tractor stopped, he hugged a sheep down from the car bucket, Bolati immediately started skinning.

At this time, no matter how stupid the others were, they understood.

Li Jianguo came over to ask, Li Long told the ins and outs.

"Then how do you plan to deal with this sheep?"

"Leave a leg for you, I'll take the rest back." Li Long said, "Eat some and sell some."

"Good, this is good." (End of chapter)