Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

The amount of anthelmintic herbs received by the service hall these days is very limited and can only be used for fumigation in more important occasions. For example, the service hall has to burn mugwort every day to repel insects. The hospital and administrative departments also need to fumigate with mugwort every day to repel insects. The collected mugwort cannot last long.

However, it seemed that the insects could not be completely eliminated. Li Yimin arranged for Liang Cancan to lead a team to the mountains to look for usable herbs. They have had some small gains in recent days.

Most residents living in the south like freedom, and many of them spontaneously form teams to go up the mountain to look for wild vegetables and fruits. In addition, the base collects a large amount of herbs, which makes them more enthusiastic about going up the mountain.

Many people often check out what new circles Lanlan has posted, because each herb in her circles has pictures and descriptions, which really solves the urgent problem and allows even herb novices to quickly remember the characteristics of the herbs.

The list of medicines was as long as more than thirty kinds. Lanlan was busy for three days to send out all of them. However, she found it very interesting and not troublesome at all. She studied the barefoot medical book more attentively every day.

Dao Ge, who lives in the South District, leads his team to the mountains to look for food every now and then. His family has been catching snakes for generations, so snakes, insects, rats and ants are no problem for him. His team has about twelve people, all of whom are strong and healthy young people. Every time they go out, they make an appointment to go together. Seeing Lan Lan's social circle today, he is confident that he can bring back some herbs.

Thanks to the first batch of medicines, the wounds of most patients in the base are no longer getting worse, and other complications have also stabilized. Although the situation is still very bad, the daily death toll is decreasing.

People coming and going on the street were all wearing masks, or covering their mouths and noses as they hurried to the South Gate, apparently going up the mountain.

Su Yun has been following Brother Dao for more than a month. He loves going up the mountain to hunt and seems to be very experienced. He always takes a circle of photos before going out and posts them. Today, he saw Brother Dao’s circle again, and that group of people went up the mountain again.

Brother Dao: Today’s tools.

Illustration: a hatchet, a water bottle, a hat, a trekking pole, a small hoe and a bulging backpack.

The temperature outside has risen to 33 degrees, which is a temperature that can make people feel stuffy. After two months of growth, the vegetation on the mountain has become lush and green everywhere. The Su family has also prepared the tools to go up the mountain. As the temperature rises in the future, now is the best time to get the most out of the Shiwan Mountains.

At first, Su's mother and father also felt that it was too dangerous and advised his mother not to go up the mountain. The family was not short of food. However, thinking that it would be extremely hot in the future and the two families on the 5th floor might not be able to survive, Su's mother kept convincing herself that she should just go up the mountain with the two families on the 5th floor to pick wild vegetables.

Dad Su later figured it out. The reason why his children exercised so hard every day was to have more courage to face the unknown. Besides, they were fully equipped, so he felt more confident.

They were well prepared. Each person had a tight stab-proof suit, which they wore inside their clothes and a jacket outside. It was light and safe. The latest type of stab-proof suit could act as a buffer even if they were stabbed by a sharp knife, let alone a snake bite.

These days, Dad Lan has woven more than a dozen straw hats with bamboo strips, then surrounded them with mosquito nets and closed the bottom with elastic bands so that he doesn't have to worry about mosquito bites. The backpack is equipped with a water bottle, a saber, a rope, a whistle, a first aid kit, compressed biscuits, etc.

The most important thing is that everyone should bring devil pepper spray for self-defense.

There were six people who went up the mountain this time: Su Zhangming, Wang Jie, Su Yun, Zhang Lili, Su Zhibang and Lan's father. After they were all armed, they set off the next morning.

They walked to the south gate, swiped their ID cards, and went out smoothly. This was their first time going up the mountain in two months since they arrived at the base. The group first walked along the creek where they had fetched water before. They did not dare to walk too far on their first time up the mountain, and basically reconnoitred the mountains around the creek.

Su Yun brought a telescope, and they could see from afar that there were people active on many mountains, probably looking for herbs. They specifically found a mountain that seemed to be deserted and headed forward. From a distance, the mountain was covered with green plants and turned turquoise.

When they got away from the stream and came to a remote area, they found that there were many snakes in the area. They encountered several entangled flower snakes every ten minutes.

Wang Jie was leading the way in the front, occasionally spraying small doses of chili water under his feet to repel insects and snakes. Most of the spotted snakes on the ground hid far away when they smelled the pungent smell of chili water. Su Zhangming and Lan's father were leading the way in the front with sickles in their hands. Zhang Lili followed behind, looking at the medical books to see if there were any Chinese herbal medicines needed by the base in the nearby vegetation.

Su Yun held the telescope and looked in the direction from time to time, memorizing the route up the mountain in his mind.

Su Zhibang walked at the back holding a machete.

After a long period of extreme cold, everything on the mountain grew wildly. The weeds underfoot were as high as the knees, and all kinds of shrubs were desperately sprouting new buds, blooming and bearing fruit. If you ignore the terrifying flower snakes, what you see is indeed a beautiful sight.

When Su Zhangming saw the lush green grass, he wanted to graze cattle and sheep on the mountain. But when he thought about how his father often arranged for him to go to the mountain to buy unwanted sugarcane leaves to feed the cattle, he felt that these natural pastures were being wasted.

In addition to the flower snakes that you often encounter along the way, there are also many wild fruits, the most common of which are snakeberry and nightshade.

There were a few lonely wild fruit trees on the roadside, but everyone consciously ignored them, thinking it was a waste of time. They were in a hurry, so they left the wild fruits to those who were destined to enjoy them.

It took them three hours to reach the bottom of the mountain they had set their sights on. They saw a patch of lush green wild wormwood and many seabuckthorn trees scattered irregularly in the wormwood field. Everyone was shocked. Zhang Lili repeatedly checked with the medical book that the half-man-high bushes were indeed orange-yellow ripe seabuckthorn fruits. The medical book said that seabuckthorn fruits tasted similar to kiwifruits and had high nutritional value. Seabuckthorn fruits could often be seen in rural fields.

What a shit luck! No wonder Brother Dao and his friends like going up the mountain so much. These Ten Thousand Mountains are simply a place of treasures. Of course, the risks are also great, and it is not suitable for people who are timid and afraid of insects to take risks.

Lan's father broke off a few long branches and gave them to everyone, asking them to use them to hit the dense mugwort bushes in front of them. Su Zhangming hit it with a stick, and several small snakes jumped out. Fortunately, everyone was wearing stab-proof clothing under their clothes and wrapped their ankles with tape to ensure that there was no risk before going up the mountain.

Looking at the mugwort that was knocked all over the place by Su Zhangming's stick, it was a pity to waste such good mugwort. Wang Jie sprayed pepper spray around everyone's waist, so that the messy insects would automatically avoid it when they smelled the spicy smell. He found this trick very useful when he just went up the mountain, and immediately regretted not stocking up more devil pepper powder.

Sure enough, after being sprayed with pepper spray, they could not avoid inhaling some of it, so everyone was crying while swinging their sickles.

Fortunately, they brought enough sacks. They cut the mugwort for an hour. Everyone worked hard to compact the mugwort and piled up 1 bags. The harvest was huge. The points they exchanged for the mugwort were enough to cover their rent for several months. While everyone was picking sea buckthorn berries, Dad Lan took the time to cut two old bamboos nearby and quickly cut a few makeshift shoulder poles to share with everyone.

Sea buckthorn fruit is rich in vitamin C and has special nutritional value. Zhang Lili wishes she could dig a few and plant them at home.

After a busy afternoon, the sun had already set when they came down from the mountain and returned to the stream. There were other teams on the road in groups of three or four, rushing back to the base. Everyone was carrying things, so Su Yun and his team did not stand out.

They returned to the South Gate at night. The soldiers at the gate conducted a routine inspection. Seeing so many mugwort and sea buckthorn berries, they could not help but envy them. Su Zhangming took a few sea buckthorn berries with branches and stuffed them into the arms of the duty personnel. The duty personnel drooled when they saw the large bunch of orange sea buckthorn berries.

There was only one street lamp on in the base far away, and it was pitch black all around and the road could not be seen clearly. Wang Jie walked quickly with a large mining lamp on his head, and the five people behind him did not dare to stop. It was really uncomfortable not being able to use transportation.

It was already 8 o'clock in the evening when we returned to Lingyun Community, and it was already dark. If it weren't for the satellite phone that could help her get in touch in time, Su Ma would have gone out to look for someone.

Several people did not have a proper lunch at noon. Su Yun took a quick shower in a hurry and saw Su Xiaogu braised a big pot of noodles. The others gathered around the round table and wolfed down the meal.

The weather was hot and humid, so Su Yun took out a bowl of mung bean soup to cool off. Everyone drank two or three bowls before they felt satisfied.

Normally, we don't carry a shoulder pole, but today we were forced to do it. We found that not only our waists and legs were sore, but our shoulders were also burning and the skin was peeling off.

One or two people lay on the sofa with a grimace in their eyes, rubbing their knees with medicated oil, and the peeled skin on their shoulders could only wait for it to slowly heal.

The situation of Lan's father downstairs is better. He often goes up the mountain to chop firewood and is very good at carrying a shoulder pole. Lanlan has already cooked porridge at home, and paired it with pickled sauerkraut, which is very appetizing.

Su Zhibang was the worst off. He was just a driver and had never done much physical work or exercised regularly. It was really hard for him to carry the shoulder pole all of a sudden. Seeing Su Zhangming and Su Yun carrying mugwort and walking in the front, he was unwilling to fall behind. He gritted his teeth and followed them all the way. As soon as he got home and took off his protective suit, he lay on the bed and couldn't get up. His wife massaged him for a long time before he recovered.

This time, they collected a total of 8 large bags of mugwort and 3 bags full of sea buckthorn berries. Su Yun felt that this trip was not enough. The extreme heat was about to come, and it would take a lot of time to go up and down the mountain every day. Next time, they must stay in the mountains for a few more days to find the most valuable mountain products to bring back.

The next morning, everyone gathered in Room 601 to distribute the supplies, with each person getting about one and a half bags of mugwort and half a bag of sea buckthorn berries.

The two families on the 5th floor took it down and dealt with it themselves. It was their freedom to keep it for their own use or sell it to the base.

The wild wormwood on the mountain is warm in nature and bitter in taste. It has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, dispelling wind and dampness, warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

It has higher medicinal value than ordinary mugwort.

So Su Ma and Su Xiaogu put the mugwort from the mountain on the 7th floor to dry. There were two carts of ordinary dried mugwort in the space, and Su Xiaogu and Su Ma took one to the service hall to slowly exchange it for points.

This way they can have some legitimate income and have no worries when using their points.

As for the two bags of sea buckthorn fruits, put them in the space for the time being and eat them as after-meal fruits later.

At noon, Su Xiaogu and Su Ba, brother and sister, went to Room 7 on the 702th floor to dry wild mugwort. Fortunately, there were two empty rooms. They pulled up woolen ropes and hung the mugwort carefully. The temperature outside was getting drier and drier. The temperature of more than 7 degrees made people sweat profusely when they moved, but it also greatly facilitated them to dry some crops on the th floor.

Two days later, Su Ma and Su Xiaogu went to the service desk window one after another and exchanged more than 5000 points with the ordinary mugwort that Su Yun had stockpiled before. It happened that the wild mugwort upstairs had been dried, and Su Yun and the others had recovered.

In the evening, the six people planned in the living room of the Su's house what to pay attention to when going up the mountain again tomorrow, and went back to rest early. They had to carry their own dry food and equipment. The two families on the 6th floor asked the people going up the mountain to go to bed early, and they made the final replenishment and inspection of the equipment.

The service hall received more than 600 kilograms of dry mugwort from the Su family, and immediately distributed it to the heads of each district and asked them to mix the mugwort with other Chinese herbal medicines they had received before and burn them to repel insects. The entire base has been shrouded in smoke since the mugwort was received. Walking on the streets was as dreamy as in a fairyland. The smell of mugwort mixed with other herbs was particularly choking. The staff ran back and forth in the base while covering their mouths and noses, and even rats, cockroaches, snakes and insects on the streets were running around everywhere, scaring many people.

Some brave ones took shovels and slapped the ground randomly, often hitting rats and snakes. The whole base was shrouded in white smoke, and snakes, insects, rats and ants kept fleeing outside. Even the soldiers guarding the gate wisely opened the entrance and exit to let the insects run out quickly.

Li Yimin asked them to hold mugwort tied into the shape of brooms and smoke everywhere in the base. Fresh leaves of certain trees were also mixed in. The thick smoke from the dry and wet insect-repellent brooms could spread across an entire street in a short time.

I don’t know which talented person came up with this trick, but it is very effective. Su Ma can smell the smoky smell in the air even on the 7th floor.

Mugwort is used for fumigation in the hospital every day, so the patients are already used to its smell. But today the smell was particularly strong. Many elderly people kept coughing, and the younger ones also had their eyes burned by the smell, and they couldn't stop crying.

After two hours of burning all the materials, the insects that had been rampant in the base disappeared. Li Yimin called Director Li of the hospital and said, "Director Li, according to the feedback from the monitors, 95% of the insects in the base have been driven out. You must have a way. It's worth sending so many people out to find herbs. You are great."

"It's all thanks to this last batch of mugwort, otherwise even a skilled cook would be helpless without rice." While talking on the phone, Director Li was making Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying for the patients in the Chinese medicine room. Without the insect plague, the pressure on their hospital would be less.

Last time, many patients with mild symptoms took the medicine diluted with water, and most of them controlled their condition and went home to rest. Now the hospital is basically full of seriously ill patients. Their festering wounds are difficult to heal, and they can only wait for the experts from above to come down and perform amputation surgery to save their lives.

The wound on Aunt Peng’s grandson’s hand has already scabbed over. As long as the blood scab falls off, it will be completely healed.