tall and rhubarb

Gao Chang remembered that Grandma Gao told him that in the past it was common for men to carry a load of several hundred catties to walk on mountain roads, but now he was almost crushed by a wild boar, and he couldn't help but start to suspect that human beings have been living in the past few years. Is it degraded again.This is still his physical strength after practicing. If it were to be left in the past, for example, when he lived in the city in his previous life, it would probably be enough for two hundred catties.

"Rhubarb! Let's go!" Gao Chang carried the wild boar and took a few steps forward with his legs spread apart, but he stopped and called to it when he didn't see Rhubarb catching up.

"There's a litter of piglets over there." Rhubarb, who had injured one leg, jolted to Gao Chang's feet, and whispered to him.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" With a bang, he unloaded the wild boar on his shoulders to the ground.

"I didn't notice just now." Rhubarb was also quite wronged. As soon as it arrived on this hillside, it was followed by this big wild boar. It probably felt that Rhubarb was the most dangerous for its cubs.

"Where?"

"There is a small ditch over there, which seems to have been dug out by a sow." Rhubarb raised one leg and pointed to the small dark slope behind. Originally, he had three legs, but now he pulled out another leg, and finally Unable to stand up anymore, his jaw hit the ground with a slap.

"Uncle Ashan, you guys go first, I'll follow in a while." Although the other party has gone far no matter what Gao Chang said or not, he still felt that he should say hello. The mountains here are not as dangerous as people think.

Although the piglets are small, they are still meat, and for the people living nearby, letting these piglets grow up is definitely a dangerous thing. Several yards in their village are drawn from springs in this area. It is common to go up the mountain to check the water pipes and springs. If the mountain is occupied by wild boars, they will not be far from the water cutoff.

Gao Chang followed Rhubarb to a ditch that was neither deep nor shallow, and he saw a group of black and round wild boar cubs, counting them, there were as many as twelve.Gao Chang couldn't bear enough to carry a big wild boar, so he didn't have the energy to get these small ones back, so he had to cut some vines nearby and tie up the piglets one by one.

The group of little piglets were quite aggressive at the beginning, and they rushed over to bite people, but they were photographed by Dahuang one by one. When they were going downhill, Dahuang pulled them forward, and some piglets were pulled from the hillside by it. Rolling up and down, and then being caught by vines, four legs scrambling in the air, some simply turned around and ran up the mountain, playing tug-of-war with Dahuang.Rhubarb dragged the group of piglets down the mountain expressionlessly. In its eyes, this group of piglets was actually a group of pork.

After finally arriving at the yard, Gao Chang slammed the back door, and soon someone came to open the door. The atmosphere in the yard was rather depressing, probably because of Zheng Guoxi and his colleagues.Gao Chang carried the wild boars in the yard, and Rhubarb pulled the piglets to follow him. He encountered some trouble when crossing the threshold. These piglets had short legs, and the 20-centimeter-high threshold was difficult for them. They were too big, whimpering and screaming, but they couldn't get in. Rhubarb had to stand on the threshold and drag them in one by one.

Gao Chang looked back after unloading the wild boars, and happened to see Da Huang leading the group of piglets towards his home, the group of little wild boars were making a lot of noise along the way, and many people in the yard were watching. Affected, he limped and walked towards his own house. When he reached the door and couldn't get in, he turned his head and glanced at Gao Chang, telling him to go over and open the door.Gao Chang was thick-skinned, and in front of everyone, he took out the key and opened the door, then took the cane from Dahuang's mouth, picked up the bunch of young wild boars and threw them directly into the house.

"How is Zheng Guoxi?" Gao Chang asked Zheng Chunhua next to him.

"I just took medicine, and the snake venom is not easy to detox. Two pieces of flesh were gnawed off on my thigh, and the bleeding was too much. I don't know if I can save it." Zheng Chunhua shook his head and said regretfully, but his eyes were staring straight. Stare at the wild boar on the ground.

"I'll go and have a look. Tell some people to clean up this wild boar."

The downstairs door of Uncle Ashan's house was not closed, so Gao Chang went up to the second floor by himself. The room behind was Zheng Guoxi's room. At this moment, he was lying on the bed with a pale face. It seemed that the situation was very bad.Uncle Ashan and Aunt Ashan were standing by and watching, their expressions were also very bad.

The old ninth uncle in the village is cleaning Zheng Guoxi's wound. This old ninth uncle used to set bones for people. Their family has ancestral herbal medicine prescriptions and is familiar with the meridians and acupoints of the human body. He often pricks people in the village to catch loose things. Yes, he can even help to see which livestock are sick.

The person next to him helping him was a midwife from their village, who didn't live in their yard, and someone probably invited her to help him.Few people give birth in the village these days, and the midwife has been out of work for many years, but the veteran craftsmen in the village are accumulated by generations or even dozens of generations. In addition to delivering babies, this midwife can also watch some children frightened For minor ailments such as catching cold, the treatment and hemostasis of the wound are also quite good.

Gao Chang stood there for a while, but couldn't help, so he retreated. When he went downstairs, he saw the man from other places who rented Zheng Guoxi's house, sitting in a dark corner downstairs, looking emotional. Seems bad.Going out and turning into his own house, Gao Chang reached out and touched three boxes of medicine from the door frame. When he gave Zheng Rixin's son antipyretic medicine, he knew that such a situation would definitely happen again in the future, so he prepared a few boxes of medicine and put them outside. .

There are a total of three boxes of medicines on the door frame. The first box is antipyretics, the second box is anti-inflammatory medicines, and the third box is hemostatic medicines. They are arranged in order, so they are easy to find if you need them in the future. After all, there are cockroaches everywhere now. The paint is smeared, and you can't rely too much on your eyes for everything.Now there is no need to identify or worry about the order, just take all three boxes.

Gao Chang walked into Zheng Guoxi's room again, and handed the three boxes of medicines to the man sitting in the dark. The man took the medicine boxes without making a sound, but said to Gao Chang in a low voice: "My name is Gong Jian. , if there is anything you can use in the future, you can just ask."

Gao Chang nodded, and left the room without saying anything. For the time being, he still doesn't know where others can work for him. Although Gao Chang has always been a little indifferent during this period, he will never die in the future. There may be a lot of things to save, but he really can't do things like letting others go to the front line for him.

In the yard, everyone quickly dismembered the wild boar. Maybe because of Zheng Guoxi's incident, everyone couldn't be too happy, but everyone's movements were very light. This was the first time since the winter in their yard. The first time we had a group meal, the women were busy cutting meat and boiling water one by one, and the children were all gathered around the stove and refused to leave.

"Gao Chang, come to the hall." At this time, Zheng Guohong in the hall beckoned to Gao Chang to let him in. He probably had something important to say, and the other men in the yard were basically there as well.

"I believe everyone has heard what happened tonight. Seven of us went up the mountain and went to the spring to see that there was no problem. We checked the water pipes along the way and found that we were bitten by insects. When we came back, we met wild boars, Zheng Fangyi, Zheng Guolin and Zheng Guochao. I ran back first, Zheng Guoxi was seriously injured, and the situation is not good now.” The village head Zheng Guobang was speaking, and the villagers had heard the whole story of this incident, and now they heard the village head tell the whole story. Started whispering again.

"I won't talk about other things. The water pipe must be repaired. Whether Guoxi can be saved depends on his own life. It's about Zheng Fangyi and the three of them. Let's talk about it first."

"What's there to say? I don't have a gun, so what can I do if I don't run away?" Zheng Fangyi choked up immediately after the village chief said this: "Since you have a gun, Gao Chang, why didn't you just run away?" Take it out? When is this, and you are still hiding it, just watching the villagers go up the mountain to die?" Zheng Fangyi was not a good person, and now he is especially fierce when he bites people.

"Aren't you dead yet? You're alive and kicking, and you're living better than anyone else."

"What about Zheng Guoxi! He's dying!"

"That's Zheng Guoxi, I'm going to change you, and I won't give a damn about you!" People say such things before they are dead, as if they think that Zheng Guoxi just won't survive.

"Village Chief! Listen!" Zheng Fangyi seemed to have grasped Gao Chang's tricks.

"Fang Yi, I just want to ask you, what were you thinking when you ran down the mountain?" Zheng Guobang, the village chief, skipped the argument between Gao Chang and Zheng Fangyi and asked such a question.

"Then you can't blame me! That wild boar is so powerful, what can I do if I don't run away?" Zheng Fangyi was still confident.

"Then how do you know if you don't try?" the village head continued to ask.

"Village chief, haven't you tried it yourself? Look at your legs." Zheng Fangyi never took the village chief seriously, otherwise he wouldn't have smashed Zheng Zong away under the opposition of the village chief. The door of their room was forced to live in.Gao Chang used to look down on their village chief, thinking that he was a soft bastard who liked to be a good person, but seeing that his own leg was injured and he forcefully lifted Zheng Guoxi down from the mountain tonight, his opinion is a little different.

"Then if you run into danger again in the future, you will run back?" Zheng Guobang, the village chief, sighed and silenced Zheng Fangyi's question with one sentence.

That's right, if you run for your life when your life is at stake, no one can say that you are doing something wrong, but the current situation is not the same as before. As long as you leave this yard, you may be attacked by some wild animals at any time. In this way, who can trust him after that?Who wants to work with him?If he didn't go out to work, why would he take the whole family to eat big pot meals in the yard?

"It's not that you don't run for your life when you encounter danger, but if you go out together, you have to come back together. If something happens, you just turn around and run away. What can you do in the future?" Zheng Guohong also stood up to speak at this moment Well, Zheng Guohong is no better than Zheng Guobang, he is recognized as a capable person in the village, and he has prestige in speaking.

"It's time for our yard to establish rules. Guobang and I have counted. There are 55 men living in our yard who are under the age of 43 and above. You can count them. We also count them No, nothing special."

"In the future, if there is any need to leave this yard, we will draw lots. The long lottery will not go to the short lottery. The ones that have been drawn before will not be drawn next time. After everyone has taken their turn, we will start from the beginning again. Everyone What do you think?"

As soon as Zheng Guohong said this, the yard suddenly became bustling again. Men and women whispered to each other. Some said it was fair, and some said it was not good. Go out to work in the yard?"

"No matter what the disease is, as long as you can get up, you have to go out to work. If you are missing an arm or a leg, you have to go. If your health is really bad, the villagers will take care of it." All the women in the village are not cheap. Lamp, if this is the first time, there will be more excuses in the future, and taking turns to work will become empty talk.

"Is my son included?" Someone asked over there again.

"Forget it."

"Oh, but my son hasn't turned eighteen yet. He made a mistake when he applied for the household registration. Leng wrote December instead of February. He's not yet eighteen yet!"

"Just according to the birthday on the ID card. Anyway, he will have to go out sooner or later. In the next few months, if there is any danger outside, the adults will help to block it." This is true. It's relatively simple, whether it's your own cub or someone else's cub, they will definitely protect them in case of danger, except for a few people, of course.

"I discussed this matter with Guobang. If you have any suggestions, you can come up with them now. If there are any problems in the implementation in the future, we can continue to improve. That's all for tonight. Here, if there are any families who really don't agree, we won't force it, and when the time comes, you can start the stove again."

When Zheng Guohong said this, it meant that those who did not work would not be allowed to eat in the big pot. There were still a few dissatisfied people, but now they all disappeared.The reason why they have an opinion is that they don't want their family members to go out of the yard to work. You must know that in the past two years, each household has not had much grain. If you don't go out of the yard to find food, the grain at home will have to be eaten sooner or later. After that, what else can we do if we don't have a big pot to eat?

"Well, the pork is all stewed, let's all serve it on the table." The originally solemn atmosphere was blown away by Zheng Chunhua's words.This guy has been staring at the pot all the time, and even the women went to the hall to listen to the village chief and Zheng Guohong, and he didn't pay attention at all.

"There's nothing else to do, let's all go to the table and eat pork."

Everyone left the hall and went to the table. The internal organs of this big wild boar were used to cook hot spicy soup. Three big pots were full, and a large fan of pork was unloaded and braised with bamboo shoots dug from the backyard. All the pork has been ordered and hung in the hall.

The adults and children were very happy, and the yard became lively while eating, and some were careful, and brought some meals to Uncle Ashan’s family, especially the midwife, Mrs. Wang, who was invited from another yard. Help, don't neglect food.

"You killed this pig, and you brought it back. Everyone means that the pig's head is not divided. I just dealt with it, and I will take it to you later."

Chen Yuzhen, who is in charge of the food in their yard now, said this to Gao Chang during the meal.This Chen Yuzhen is more than 50 years old this year. She has a big shoulder and a round waist. People from all over the world know that she is good at cooking. In the past, when their village wanted to do something, she was the one who organized the banquet. Many people in the nearby villages and towns organized it. During the banquet, she will also be invited to cook.

"Okay." Gao Chang did not refuse.

"The pork hanging in the hall, if you want, go and get it, just say hello to me and let me know."

"Well, I got it." Chen Yuzhen dared to say that, which meant that she could hold back, regardless of whether she would go to the hall to get meat to eat in the future, Gao Chang took the lead for this kindness.