Zhang Qingwan reluctantly paid for the meal and was then dragged to the hospital by the sullen-faced captain.
Meng Zhiyu followed his friends back to the educated youth's courtyard. Feeling his rumbling stomach, he asked his friends, "How about we have butter pancakes and some dumpling noodle soup tonight?"
Li Tingman was curious, "Can you also make butter cakes?"
Meng Zhiyu nodded, very sure, "This is my specialty."
After all, it can be sold for two gold coins.
As he was speaking, he heard a chaotic sound of footsteps and saw seven or eight children carrying two children, accompanied by crying, "Brother, am I going to die, am I going to die..."
"It shouldn't be, nothing will happen." It was Goudan's voice. His voice was a little hoarse and easy to remember.
Meng Zhiyu and the others ran over, "Goudan, what happened?"
When Goudan saw the adults, his tense mood immediately became uncontrollable, and tears streamed down his face. "Sister Meng, what should I do? My brothers Tiedan and Ludan were bitten by snakes."
Several people were shocked, "Bitten by a snake?"
Any sensible child knows that the consequences of a snake bite are very serious, and there are many cases of death, especially now that medical care is not well developed and there is not much serum available.
Meng Zhiyu, hoping that it wasn't a poisonous snake, checked their wounds. One was on the left calf, the other on the right arm, both bite marks oozing black blood.
Meng Zhiyu frowned, "Brother Mu, run faster and get a basin of clean water. No, one basin isn't enough. Tell Jiang Zhiqing and the others to bring more. Be quick."
Mu Ziwei nodded and turned to run. Meng Zhiyu looked at Song Guangye again, "Brother Song, go to Zhou's house and call someone. Ask them to borrow the captain's bicycle and take Tiedan and Ludan to the hospital."
Song Guangye nodded, took Goudan's hand and ran towards Zhou's house.
Meng Zhiyu directly grabbed Tiedan and Ludan's shirts, tore off a piece of cloth from each of them, and tied a ligature about 10 cm above the wound. This was to block the return of lymph and venous blood, and prevent the snake venom from being transported to various parts of the body through the blood circulation.
Although it is not known how long the two children had been bitten, the treatment must have had some effect.
Meng Zhiyu used his consciousness to communicate with Wangcai, "Wangcai, please buy me a knife."
"Ding Dong, it's done, host."
Thinking of something, Meng Zhiyu asked, "Wangcai, do you have serum in your mall?"
"No host, due to limited conditions, the items in the mall are not complete."
Meng Zhiyu pretended to take out a knife from his pocket, "Listen, Sister Man, Qingqing, help me hold down Tiedan's legs and don't let him move."
"Okay." The two men responded, each holding down one leg.
Meng Zhiyu grabbed the knife and cut it open against his teeth. Tiedan immediately cried out in pain, "Ah, it hurts..."
Tiedan started to struggle. Li Tingman and Li Qingqing increased their strength and held him down. "Don't move. Sister Meng is trying to save you. Don't be afraid. It will be fine in a moment."
Li Tingman looked at the painful Tiedan and thought of her son in her previous life. She reached out and hugged him, "It's okay, it'll be fine soon. Don't be afraid."
Then he cut open the wound on Tiedan's body. Meng Zhiyu first squeezed gently from the proximal end of Tiedan's injured limb towards the direction of the wound and around it repeatedly, and a stream of black blood flowed out of the wound.
When I was about to squeeze it for the second time, Mu Ziwei finally came running over with a basin, panting, "Here it comes, the water is coming."
Following behind were Li Qingqing, Jiang Zengzhi and others who were also holding basins.
At the same time, the Zhou family also came running over crying. Zhou Dasao and Zhou Ersao both knelt down and threw themselves on Tiedan and Donkey. "Son, Tiedan/Donkey, how are you?"
Mother Zhou was panting and sweating, and she scolded, "Why are you crying? It's not time to cry yet."
Meng Zhousongbai squatted next to Meng Zhiyu, glanced at the wound oozing black blood, and frowned, "What can I do?"
Meng Zhiyu continued to squeeze, sweat pouring down his face. "Follow my movements and squeeze the poisonous blood out of the donkey's egg."
Then he looked at Song Guangye, "Brother Song, help him water the plants."
After Zhou Songbai took a look, he started to work. Song Guangye held up a basin of water to help wash away the flowing black blood. When the basin of water was used up, Li Qingqing, Mu Ziwei and others ran to fetch more water.
Meng Zhiyu squeezed out as much poisonous blood as possible. When the blood turned bright red, Meng Zhiyu sat down on the ground, panting heavily and shaking his hands.
Seeing her stop, Zhou's mother squatted in front of her, wiping the sweat from her head with her hand, and asked in a tense voice, "Meng Zhiqing, how is my grandson? Can he survive?"
The others also looked at her expectantly. Meng Zhiyu flexed her hands and said, "Have you borrowed a bicycle? We should hurry and get the child to the hospital for serum injection."
Mrs. Zhou burst into tears upon hearing this, "There's no point in going to the hospital."
Mother Zhou couldn't help but tear up. "Meng Zhiqing, you don't know, the county hospital can't help. We have to go to the provincial capital, but the provincial capital is so far away, I'm afraid the child won't be able to hold on."
The key point is that provincial hospitals may not have serum because the amount is too small.
Zhou Songbai explained, "Two men from the neighboring village went up the mountain and were bitten by poisonous snakes. They were sent to the county town, but they refused to take them, saying they couldn't be treated. They told us to send them to the provincial capital, but they died before they even got halfway there."
The villagers who came out after hearing the cries echoed, "Yeah, yeah, I heard that too."
"One of the men just had a son, not even a hundred days old."
"Even grown men can't stand it, let alone a child."
"This Zhou family is so unlucky. How come they lost two sons at once?"
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