The man continued to curse: "If you don't finish the chopping and go back, you will spend the night on this mountain! The mad cow disease has come out to eat people. When you are eaten, you will know how terrible it is."
"Got it." The other voice was a girl's, and she also sounded angry, "It's not like I didn't chop it, why are you yelling!"
Cut? Cut what?
The man continued to curse: "Hurry up, damn, you are eating and living at my place now, and you are still being arrogant, right?"
The girl retorted: "I came back to see my grandfather! That's my grandfather's house, and my grandfather let me live there! And didn't I give you money? If the city hadn't been closed down and quarantined because of mad cow disease, who would want to live with you?"
"Grandpa let you live here? Go around town and ask which ancestral house is related to a little girl? It's passed down to males, not females!" The man said with a pah sound, "You gave me money, but what's the use of money now? You can't even buy me a piece of shit!"
The girl suppressed her anger and said, "Are these enough to make a fence?!"
When Qiao Xuejun heard the sound of wood hitting the ground, she thought, it turns out that they are not here to pick mugwort, but to chop trees and split wood to make a fence.
"Not enough. Didn't you see how vicious the mad cow disease is? The two Zhangs haven't come back yet, they might be dead! How can we stop that monster if we don't build it solid? If you hadn't learned the carpentry skills from your grandfather and knew how to make things, I would have kicked you out long ago! Chop more, faster!"
It seems that they are not here to pick mugwort, but just to chop wood.
If there is time, Qiao Xuejun would also like to pick up some branches and wood. Now all the fallen branches on the mountain have been dried in the sun and are very suitable for burning as firewood. If you cook or boil water, you can use firewood as fuel, which is more cost-effective than using electricity and can save diesel for more important things.
But that will be for next time. This time, our main focus is collecting mugwort.
Qiao Xuejun avoided the couple and walked around from another direction.
Soon we arrived at the wetland.
The wetland was not big, it was located in a low-lying area on the hillside. Now the wetland was almost dry, the soil had cracked, and the surrounding plants had all withered. Qiao Xuejun saw the dried mugwort at a glance.
The mugwort issued by the CDC is written as "Artemisia argyi" in the proposal, which is what many families hang at their doorsteps during the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits and disasters. It usually appears together with calamus, but people in Qiao Xuejun's hometown are used to calling it mugwort. In fact, mugwort and mugwort are two different plants.
After finding the mugwort, Qiao Xuejun took out a dagger and began to harvest it. It had been dried, but the unique herbal scent was still strong.
She cut a bunch of mugwort from the surrounding area. After all, just hanging it up can drive away mutated mad cow disease. One bunch can be hung for a year, and you don't need to eat it, so you don't need to store a lot. But since it's here, it would be a waste if you don't take it, even if you use it for firewood.
Qiao Xuejun finally cut a large bundle.
She squatted on the ground, took out the rope from her backpack, and tied up the bundle of mugwort.
After tying a circle, Qiao Xuejun suddenly heard the sound of a branch being broken by foot.
She became alert instantly, and immediately pulled out a slingshot from the small leather pocket hanging around her waist. She stood up and turned to look at the source of the sound.
There's someone! Just over ten meters behind her!
The sky was gray now, but Qiao Xuejun could still see that the person coming was a man, who was old. However, his clothes were tattered and had marks of being scratched by branches. There was dried blood around his mouth... His eyeballs were bulging, round like cow eyes.
It's a mad cow disease patient! When did he appear?
The man also saw Qiao Xuejun and rushed towards her at a faster speed, opening and closing his mouth and making low, hoarse roars like a wild beast.
He's going to bite!
Qiao Xuejun almost screamed. She raised her slingshot and subconsciously shot a steel ball out.
She pulled with all her strength the first time.
The round solid steel ball was ejected by the taut belt, heading straight towards the mad cow patient. Qiao Xuejun subconsciously aimed at the neck, but her accuracy was not good enough, and she only hit the shoulder of the mad cow patient at a distance of seven or eight meters.
With a bang, the steel ball hit the mad cow disease patient, followed by a click, and Qiao Xuejun seemed to hear the sound of a bone breaking.
She immediately threw another steel ball and shot it in the same direction.
After a few hits, the mad cow disease patient fell to the ground. One of his arms was hit several times by steel balls and was hanging twisted and unable to lift it up. His body lost balance and he was unable to stand up.
But he seemed unwilling, and did not care about his broken arm. He stared at Qiao Xuejun with his bull eyes, which were covered with bloodshot. His mouth kept opening and closing, and saliva flowed out.
Facing the attack of the mad cow disease patient, Qiao Xuejun's heart was pounding so hard that it almost jumped out.
This mad cow disease is really mutated and abnormal. Ordinary mad cow disease is definitely not like this!
However, like the video she had seen online, mad cow disease looks scary and can bite people, but its defense is not very high. In that video, the mad cow disease patient was knocked down by a stick. She also watched the entire attack on the Zhang family before, and they were also captured by the Zhang family not long after.
I didn't see him during the day, so he must have been hiding and only appeared at night... He is nocturnal and afraid of light.
So, does mugwort really work? There are so many mugworts here, but he still came here.
Qiao Xuejun was screaming for help, help, run, run in her heart, but she controlled herself with reason. She picked up a piece of mugwort from the ground and slowly and carefully approached the person infected with mad cow disease.
At first, the mad cow disease infected person just stared with his eyes wide open and made random hoarse howls, as if he was going to pounce on Qiao Xuejun and bite her to death in the next second.
But when Qiao Xuejun got to within five meters of him, his howling suddenly turned into painful sound. He kept using his hands and feet to support himself and move backwards to avoid the attack, struggling in fear, like a cockroach that was sprayed with insecticide and was running around in panic.
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