Apocalyptic Tundra Age

Dr. Zeng's hand was still amputated. Of course, the operation was not done by Cheng Yuming, a master of theory and a veteran in actual combat;

Vegetarian Cheng Yuming didn't know the position of the blood vessels and muscles in his arm at all, and he couldn't even figure out where to tie the tourniquet. If he was really asked to do the surgery, it would depend on who Cheng Yuming didn't like.

In the end, Dr. Zeng saw off his left hand abruptly with his right hand, relying on his rich experience and terrifying willpower, and even sewed up the wound himself.

It was snowing heavily that day, and the sky was dark. Dr. Zeng asked Xu Zhonglei to tie half of his injured body to a small bench that was at the same height as the bed, and he gestured at the wound with an alcohol-sterilized handsaw.

The villagers who didn't know how to know the news looked around through the windows and made a lot of noise. Cheng Yuming was so angry that he went out and kicked out all the young people and old women who were watching the fun, but after a while, they came back again, but they dared not speak. , Just stretch your neck through the crack of the door to see.

On the small table on one side were catgut, hemostatic forceps, and a debridement knife. The guy said it was too late, but the doctor found a suitable seat, and he cut the knife with his right hand without hesitation.

"Ka-zhi-" "Crackling creaking crunching"

In less than ten seconds, half of the blackened arm was sawed off. Cheng Yuming quickly picked up the debridement knife and scraped out all the rotten flesh and flesh from the incision. Meat sound, and then use a cotton swab dipped in alcohol to disinfect the cross-section and sprinkle large pieces with anti-inflammatory drugs.

The tourniquet was tied, and with the doctor's 40 years of experience, the blood flow was not much, and half of his hand was thrown aside by Xu Zhonglei.

"Hiss—" It was the sound of inhalation.

"Ouch-" "Bang!" That was the sound of Zeng Cheng, who couldn't help but want to vomit, and pushed open the door to go out, vomiting acid water.

"You don't know how to suture, do you? I taught Zeng Cheng, but it's a pity that he is too young to be useful. Stone, bring the needle and thread..." Dr. Zeng was sweating profusely, and his logic was not chaotic at all.

He was sweating profusely and his face was pale, but his hands didn't shake when he was suturing. Everyone in the room admired this old barefoot doctor who has been rooted in the countryside for more than 40 years.After all, the scene was so bloody that even his own son vomited out his breakfast.

He's a ruthless man, a werewolf.

After that, Cheng Yuming talked about this ruthless country doctor with relish at the dinner table for three consecutive days, until Xu Zhonglei asked him to water the vegetables for five days before decisively shutting up.

Xu Zhonglei sent a lot of gauze and anti-inflammatories to Dr. Zeng.Dr. Zeng is still recovering from his injuries. Zeng Cheng cooks every day, and the fire is smoky.

"Doctor Zeng, I just can't figure it out. Zeng Cheng said that you gave all the antipyretics to Yu Yu and Zhu Yu, why bother?" Xu Zhonglei chatted with Dr. Zeng, and couldn't help but ask the question that bothered him. Long time question.

"They're all from the same village. Who hasn't known each other for 50 or [-] years? Don't tell me Zhu Xi, she's just a shrew. Her family has a lot of people. If there is a trouble, I can't please; as for Yu Yu, only one of her family survived." Grandson, she wants to raise the child to grow up, I thought it was not easy for her, so I didn't care about her." Dr. Zeng's originally smiling expression changed.

"As a doctor, I only know that I have been ill for a long time and have no relatives. Unexpectedly, I was sick for a few hours, and people would not recognize my Zeng family name, haha. Later, Xu Zhiping asked Madam Yu and the others to return the medicine to me. As a result, I have been cultivating for four or five days, heh, now I understand what is meant by the fickleness of the world, and what is meant by bullying the weak and fearing the hard!"

The words "bullying the weak and fearing the strong" were said with a smile on his face. Xu Zhonglei could hear the anger in it. It was a kind of anger that I would kill you sooner or later. The werewolf who saw off his own arm didn't have to worry about being bullied again. .

"Your family, Zeng Cheng, has changed a lot. Now that he is sensible, he went to my house and called me to save people." In the kitchen, Zeng Cheng sounded suffocated by the smoke and kept sneezing. Xu Zhonglei couldn't help but change the subject. Back to Zeng Cheng.

"It's not bad now. My child has never suffered from doing laundry and cooking. Now that the world has changed a lot, I think of a sentence: Life is impermanent." Dr. Zeng couldn't help laughing, showing a satisfied look .

"People say raising children to guard against old age. Tell me Shitou, except for the old men and old ladies in the countryside, who still clings to their sons? But now I want to understand, it's not that if you have a son, people don't bully you, and it's not that there are three men in your family. People don't bully you; people, you have to be dumbfounded, you have to be tough, you don't just give in to get good results, and you have to show your muscles. I think Zeng Cheng is not enough! I raised him too softly, You have to polish it well." After this battle, Dr. Zeng had a great realization.

***

Xu Zhonglei didn't have time to visit Dr. Zeng's house every day. Cheng Yuming took over his watering work, and Xu Zhonglei came to deliver medicine when he was free.

Saying goodbye to Dr. Zeng and Zeng Cheng, Xu Zhonglei's seamless connection was blocked by Xu Zhiping.

At the beginning of the conversation, Xu Zhiping first talked about Dr. Zeng: "I still understand Yu Yu, an old lady in her 60s, who wants to raise her nine-year-old grandson to grow up. Let it go, I don’t agree, I don’t agree, I still think it’s acceptable in my heart; it’s Zhu Yu, you know her, Xu Hui’s mother, six people in their family survived. If seniority is ranked according to population, the whole village has to Listen to her family."

Xu Zhiping dragged Xu Zhonglei to his home. Sister Liu had a leg amputated and she didn't usually go out.She was cooking on a stand, while her youngest daughter, Yinyin, was making trouble, and she grinned when she saw Xu Zhonglei coming.

"What are you doing? I'll come and I'll come, you go and rest!"

Xu Zhiping drove Sister Liu back to the room, picked up the spatula by himself, and Xu Zhonglei also helped to light the fire.When Xu Zhonglei's house was built, he also helped with a lot of small work and was familiar with the process.

"There are so many people in Zhu Yu's family. At that time, there was no shortage of food. No one in the middle-aged labor force died. Why did they still lack a mouthful of food and cry to ask for things from Dr. Zeng? When the house was built, they took it. I bought a lot of things from other people's houses, and I am addicted to taking advantage of it." Xu Zhiping said while wielding a wooden spatula, with a puzzled expression on his face, it seemed that he really couldn't figure out how such a person could exist.

"Dr. Zeng said, brother Zhiping, you want them to return all the medicine?" Xu Zhonglei remembered what Dr. Zeng said just now.

"Well, the village is so big. Everyone can see clearly what happened in which house. Who doesn't know it's a robbery? Doctor Zeng endured it at the time, and I can't pursue it. Now the doctor himself has no medicine. , Can it be cheaper, that old woman? I also know that Zhu Yu and Yu Yu are selling those medicines, and the prices are so expensive that the villagers dare not speak out. No one wants to be the first bird and be hated by the whole family." As Xu Zhonglei said, he added soy sauce and vinegar to the rice, and added some vegetable leaves to make it look a bit green.

"The catastrophe is approaching, all birds want to come out for a walk." Xu Zhonglei sighed softly.

"What are you talking about, I don't have much food at home, so stay here for a bowl of rice!" Xu Zhiping greeted.

"Don't, don't, I've eaten, I've eaten, I've really eaten." Xu Zhonglei quickly refused, not because he was being polite, but because he had really eaten. Besides, Xu Zhonglei could imagine that all the families are eating now. Counting rice grains to eat, how dare I eat other people's rice for nothing.

Xu Zhiping didn't invite any more. He brought out three bowls of fried rice with soy sauce, and brought out another two bowls, "Wait, I'll deliver rice to your sister-in-law. You warm up by the stove, and I'll be right there."

Two bowls of fried rice with soy sauce had already been delivered, and there was only a little bit left in the pot. Xu Zhonglei felt that it was just enough to fill the smallest bowl. It was hard to imagine that a big man would eat such a small amount for lunch.

Probably Xu Zhonglei's eyes staring at the cauldron were too straightforward, Xu Zhonglei explained when he filled a small bowl of rice.

"Actually, our family can still eat food for a few more months, but the weather is too evil now. Your sister-in-law is afraid that she won't be able to grow anything for the time being, so eat less now, and found a lot of oil and salt in Baiyang Village Sauce and vinegar, eat less in this weather, eat more when you have to work, I have never seen it before, it has been snowing for seven or eight days, right?"

Xu Zhonglei rubbed his hands and said, "Yes, it has been eight days without stopping for a moment, and the temperature has dropped to more than minus 30 degrees, and it looks like it will continue to drop."

"Oh, Doctor Zeng, this is still a trivial matter. If our village lacks food, it will be a big problem. If I miss a meal, I will be beaten to death in the house." Xu Zhiping finished his meal in a few mouthfuls.

"People are like iron and rice is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry." Xu Zhonglei remembered this saying.

"Sorrow, worry, God is really hard-nosed." Xu Zhiping complained, "Stone, I go to the greenhouse every day to see if my vegetables are frozen to death. I am so worried. I just haven't gone today. , go with brother!"

Fine.

The temperature of the body feels like one or two degrees in the vegetable greenhouse. It can't kill people or freeze them to death, but most of the vegetables are still about inches long, and there is no sign of growing up at all.

"The plastic film I bought was the most expensive, but now I think it is worth it. I guess if the film is not so good, it will be crushed by the heavy snow if it is not torn in a hailstorm!" Xu Zhiping proudly introduced.

"Did it break when the hailstorm fell?"

"Ahem, it was broken, and then it was glued together with tape, and the ice and snow on it had to be removed every day, otherwise the shed would be ruined sooner or later." Things are okay, and later maintenance is more important.

There is also a small shed in the shed. The seedling-raising shed is green and green, which is much better than the half-dead vegetables outside. There are sundries piled up at the end of the shed, probably pipes and water pipes and the like.

"It's no way to go on like this. I'm always bored in the soil, and I can't grow and eat." Xu Zhonglei felt desperate. He didn't even have any heating equipment, and there were three steel stoves left, so he needed to equip a greenhouse. I'm afraid it's not enough, besides, where is there so much fuel?The fastest growing potatoes take up to three months to harvest.

"What do you think?" Xu Zhiping pointed to the bamboo poles supporting the plastic, "The snow is so heavy that it can fill up the entire film in a short time and pile up a thick layer. Look, bamboo is such a tough material. There are already cracks under there, and I have three sheds! Who the hell can do it, I'm going crazy after so many days of snow and ice removal."

Xu Zhonglei has a plan in mind. In such a snowy and windy weather, without energy and light sources, a fool would stick to the vegetable greenhouse.When Xu Zhiping called him to the vegetable greenhouse, Xu Zhonglei probably had a guess in his heart that this strong man probably couldn't hold on anymore and wanted to change his direction.

"Brother Zhiping, let me tell you this. No one knows how long the heavy snow will last. You can't keep the greenhouse going, so you can only change the plants." Xu Zhonglei walked to the end of the greenhouse, and Xu Zhiping followed.

"Yes, my idea is to grow things indoors, in the kitchen, bedroom, and living room, to develop indoor planting. The problem is that there is not enough sunlight now. The year before last, I bought a lot of grow lights, which can Installing three greenhouses is enough for the whole village, but now, there is no electricity."

Xu Zhiping was silent for a while, "I thought about it, Stone, I remember you have a wind turbine."

"and many more!"

Xu Zhonglei must be clear, and some things must be made clear first, "Brother Zhiping, do you still want to be a good person and distribute your own planting lights to our village for farming?"

"I... at first I really thought so..." Xu Zhiping turned around, "Your sister-in-law woke me up by scolding me, and then it was Dr. Zeng's incident that woke me up. It would be a disaster to do so."

"Brother Zhiping, if you can think clearly, that's good."

A year ago, when Xu Zhonglei checked the information and prepared for the catastrophe, he thought that he would make all the preparations and live alone;

But after reading some history books, Xu Zhonglei changed his mind: Human beings have always been social animals. Humans collect and hunt together. This is the basis for the continuation of human beings. Xu Zhonglei cannot do collection, collective fishing and hunting alone, and can only rely on the strength of the collective.

He can't be the only one who is good, and everyone else is bad. To survive in a difficult environment, Xu Zhonglei can't stand alone, at least dozens of teammates. After all, dozens of primitive people can hunt mammoths. Without Xu Zhonglei alone, he could only run.

"I discussed it with your sister-in-law. You and I, one will provide planting lights and the other will provide generators for the whole village. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are all planted in the drying room. Our villagers make a schedule. Work, when the time comes, the two of us, each of us will take two more crops as dividends." Xu Zhiping gave a rough plan, "Everyone is going to grow vegetables indoors, there is no planting lamp, and there is no generator , what is planted is nothing."

"Agreed." Xu Zhonglei was surprised that Xu Zhiping's distribution plan was not uniform. He thought that he had become a tool man again, providing tools for the villagers for free, but this kind of dividend seemed much fairer.Xu Zhonglei is such a stingy person, he will feel very uncomfortable because others use his things for free, and he will feel uncomfortable.

"Okay, just after dinner tonight, let's have a meeting in the village first, you and Xiao Cheng remember to come." Xu Zhiping acted vigorously, and the meeting time was set, "By the way, Shitou, how many generators can you provide?"

"Four sets should be enough?"

That was the boring smile of a rich man. Xu Zhonglei finally couldn't hide his identity as a landlord. Thinking of the remaining 50 wind turbines in the basement, the loss was still acceptable.

It is still very cost-effective to exchange a little investment for the cultivation of more than [-] teammates.