Chapter 36: Saving People (Two Chapters Combined into One) ◇
"What the hell! Why is there someone here?"
"You're not going to die, are you????"
Zhou Yu exclaimed.
"What??"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jin pulled Zhou Yu behind him and was shocked to see the "corpse" that suddenly appeared in the deep mountains and forests!
He wondered if it was a nearby hunter. But the clothes didn't look like it. Furthermore, the tattered clothes on the "corpse" looked so familiar! He felt like he'd seen them somewhere before.
"Brother, let me see if he is dead or not."
Zhou Yu felt that it was not her style as a doctor to watch someone die without helping, so she wanted to go forward and take a look.
"Wait, let me take a look first!" Zhou Jin stopped his sister and walked forward first. He found a branch and turned the body over...
"Huh? Why is it him?"
No wonder Zhou Jin thought the clothes of the "corpse" looked familiar. Turning it over, he discovered that the corpse was actually the young man he had met once at the pawnshop in town!
"Brother, do you recognize him?"
"Yeah, that's the guy I told you about, the one I met at the pawnshop," Zhou Jin replied to his sister, leaning over to sniff the boy's nose...
"Ayu, he's still breathing! Come and take a look!"
It would have been fine if a stranger had died right before his eyes, but Zhou Jin had met the young man before him once before, and they had even held hands and run for several blocks. Seeing him die in the jungle, Zhou Jin felt a little sad. He thought that if the young man died, he would dig a hole and bury him, so that his body would not be exposed in the wilderness...
Unexpectedly, when he sniffed the boy, he found that he was still breathing faintly. He quickly asked his sister to come over and see if he could be revived...
After hearing this, Zhou Yu hurried forward to observe the young man...
Of course, the boy's face was even dirtier than when Zhou Jin saw him. Zhou Jin was able to recognize him mainly based on his memorable clothes and his long eyelashes that impressed him so much.
"This kid must have been bitten by a snake!" Zhou Yu saw the boy's clenched jaw, difficulty breathing, and flaccid skeletal muscle paralysis. He immediately thought of snake venom and hurriedly pulled open the boy's trouser legs to search his leg. Sure enough, he found a wound with teeth marks on the boy's left calf.
The wound was not red or swollen, so it was determined that the boy had been bitten by a venomous snake with neurotoxins, and that the bite had probably occurred some time ago. At this time, the boy had already shown signs of coma. [Note 1]
Zhou Yu hurriedly tore a piece of tattered cloth from the boy's body and tied it tightly about fifteen centimeters away from the wound. He then said to her brother:
"Brother, quickly use your knife to cut a cross on this kid's wound and squeeze out the poisonous blood. Be careful not to cut yourself, otherwise you might get poisoned too!"
After instructing his brother, Zhou Yu picked up a wooden stick and searched the surrounding grass. After a while, he found several herbs that could detoxify.
Because the boy's poisoning symptoms were already very serious, Zhou Yu hurriedly found a clean stone and smashed the herbs. He then applied the crushed herbs to his brother's wound, where the poisonous blood had already been squeezed out. He then took out the three-edged needle he carried with him and pierced the eight wind and eight evil acupoints on the boy's hands and feet in turn. He then widened the needle hole to release the poisonous blood... [Note 2]
After this operation was completed, Zhou Yu said to Zhou Jin beside him,
"Brother, let's quickly use the space to take this person back. I don't have much experience in dealing with snake venom, and there aren't enough medicinal herbs here. I'd better go back and let my master take a look at him before I can rest assured..."
"Okay, but are you sure this kid is unconscious? Don't let him reveal the secret of our space." Zhou Jin said.
"Don't worry, he won't wake up for a while." Zhou Yu said confidently, "Saving people is the most important thing. Brother, go put the roe deer we killed into the space first. I'll go pick the Ganoderma lucidum, and then we'll hurry back."
The roe deer they had killed was still lying there, and the Ganoderma lucidum had not been picked yet. These were things that could be exchanged for money, and the brother and sister had no intention of just throwing them away.
So Zhou Jin ran to release the prey, while Zhou Yu took a dagger and a stick and walked towards the Ganoderma lucidum at the roots of a tree not far away.
The dagger is used to collect Ganoderma lucidum, and the stick is used to prevent snakes. Zhou Yu has heard his master say more than once that magical herbs like ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum will become spiritual once they have aged, and there will be many poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts guarding them, so she must be more careful when collecting herbs.
At that time, Zhou Yu was very dismissive of her master's words, thinking that it was not scientific at all. She thought that poisonous snakes and fierce beasts are all carnivores, and they don't eat Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng, so why should they guard them for no reason?
Moreover, the so-called Lingzhi is simply an annual or biennial fungus, and its most essential part is its seeds, or spores. Once the mature spores of Lingzhi have finished erupting, it has no medicinal value. [Note 3]
So, from what Zhou Yu had learned, thousand-year-old ginseng might be useful, but thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum? That was probably just a piece of wood!
But considering that the young man had just been bitten by a poisonous snake near this Ganoderma lucidum, Zhou Yu no longer dared to ignore her master's instructions. She carefully used a stick to pull up the grass around the Ganoderma lucidum. After making sure that there were no poisonous snakes nearby, she dared to go forward and pick the Ganoderma lucidum.
There were eight Ganoderma lucidum at the tree's roots, their stems and stems already reddish-brown, making it the perfect time to pick them. Zhou Yu carefully plucked each one and placed them one by one in his space. He also placed a toothpick from his space at the tree's root where he had found the Ganoderma, intending to return next year when new Ganoderma lucidum grew. [Note 4]
After doing all this, he returned to the injured boy. At this time, Zhou Jin had also released the prey.
The brother and sister worked together to lift the boy into the space and put him on the bed in the RV. After putting the boy down, they hurriedly changed their jackets. Zhou Yu sat in the driver's cab of the RV, started the RV and shouted "Toothpick in the grass at the foot of the mountain". The RV space searched and rushed out. In the blink of an eye, they arrived at a dense grass at the foot of the mountain where they came from.
Zhou Yu brushed off the grass debris on his body and said to his brother who had just stepped out of the space with the boy on his back,
"Our space is great in every way, except that people who shout while driving get thrown out, which is really scary!"
Because of this, they always choose a hidden place to appear from space, just to prevent themselves from suddenly appearing and being seen by others.
"That's right," Zhou Jin also felt that this aspect of space was quite buggy, but he also felt that it was better to be safe than sorry. Although the locations they chose were very careful, what if?
For example, what if they happened to encounter someone urinating or doing something unspeakable when they appeared in some bushes or woods? ! !
That wouldn't just be embarrassing, would it?! If that were to happen, anyone who saw them would be frightened to death, or they would be mistaken for monsters and beaten to death by the locals. Neither outcome would be fun!
"Ayu, how about we put on masks before using space to move in the future? If we run into someone, we can quickly hide in the space to avoid being recognized." Zhou Jin suggested. He thought that as long as they could ensure that they would not be recognized, whether the person would be scared or scared to death was not within his consideration.
"I think it's okay. It's better to be safe than sorry!" Zhou Yu thought his brother's idea was very good.
After the two men discussed it and made sure that there was no one around, they walked out of the bushes. One of them carried the boy on his back, and the other followed behind, walking home one after the other.
When they got home, several families gathered around them in confusion to see that the brother and sister had been out for a long time and not only didn't buy anything, but also brought back a stranger.
Zhou Jin first arranged the boy to sleep on the kang in his room, and asked someone to call Zhou Ruifeng, who was drying herbs in the new house, before telling everyone the story that the brother and sister had made up.
"Originally, I took Ayu with me to the mountains to set some traps and see if there were any gains from the traps we set a few days ago. I thought if there were any prey, I could take them to the town to exchange for some silver tomorrow. But after entering the mountains, I don't know how I got lost. I wandered around in circles until almost noon before I found the direction. Ayu and I were exhausted and wanted to hurry back, but who knew I would see this kid fainted in the grass..."
Zhou Jin and his sister had originally intended to explain to everyone why they had been in the mountains for so long before returning, but everyone else had a completely different meaning...
Everyone thought that Zhou Jin was short of money but was too embarrassed to borrow from everyone, so he took the risk and went to the mountains to hunt!
After hearing this, Zheng began to feel that she was useless as a mother. She had to worry so much about her children when they were still so young! She almost got lost...
Zhou Zesheng and others thought it was no wonder that Zhou Jin and his sister went to the mountain alone without telling anyone. It turned out that their family was short of money, so they wanted to go to the mountain to catch some prey and sell it?
But there are a lot of wild animals in the mountains of Liaodong, and it would be too dangerous if no one follows. Li Gui said that even experienced hunters dare not go too far in!
Zheng's eyes turned red when she heard this, and Zhou Luo beside her started crying right after that.
"Woo woo!! Boss! I was wondering why you left me so early in the morning, woo woo! If you need money, just tell me, brother. You've helped us so much, my dad will definitely lend you some money! Ugh! It's not a loan, we brothers are talking about a loan!"
I've long considered you my biological brother, so my father is naturally your biological father, and my family's money is naturally your family's money. If you need money, just tell me! !"
“Cough~cough cough…!!”
What a mess! What do you mean my dad is also your real dad?!
Zhou Zelin's face flushed at his youngest son's words, and he couldn't help coughing again. While coughing, he glanced at Zheng who was standing beside him with embarrassment. Seeing that Zheng was looking at her son with tears in her eyes and didn't pay attention to what her youngest son said, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He slapped his youngest son on the head to stop him from crying, and then smiled at Zhou Jin.
"Ah Jin, uncle knows you're ambitious, but you're about to go to the military camp. Settling down your family and purchasing equipment are the top priorities. If you're short of money, uncle can help you out first. Once you've established yourself in the military camp, earned military merit, and received rewards, you can pay me back. You're fighting alone like this. Do you treat our families as outsiders? Or do you think you don't have the ability to earn money in the future?"
"That's right, Jin'er, if you treat your uncle as an outsider, he will be really angry! After we had a falling out with the side branches on the way to exile, if you hadn't brought Dai'er and Luo'er to find food for us every day and lent us grain, we would have starved to death! What's the use of asking for money if we're going to lose our lives? If you continue to be polite to your uncle now, I won't pay any attention to you in the future!" Zhou Zesheng said angrily.
"Yes, boss, if you continue to be polite I will ignore you!" Zhou Dai also echoed his father.
What the hell?! Zhou Jin didn't know what he said that made everyone think he was desperate for money. Of course, he was short of money, but it wasn't to the point where he couldn't survive without borrowing money, right?!
Now he still has more than sixty taels in his pocket, and the prey and Ganoderma lucidum in the space can also be sold for a lot of money. All these together are enough for their family to eat and drink well for a year or two!
But no matter how he explained, everyone thought he had no money and insisted on lending him some.
"What is this for?!"
Fortunately, Zhou Ruifeng came in in time and rescued Zhou Jin from the embarrassing situation of being stuffed with silver. Zhou Ruiquan also came back with him. After the new house was built, Zhou Ruiquan went to the new house every day for the past few days.
"Master, please come and take a look at this patient. He's been bitten by a venomous snake. I can't tell which kind of snake it was, and I don't know if the medicine he used is correct."
When Zhou Yu saw her master coming back, she hurriedly greeted him. Then everyone remembered that there was a patient in the room who was unconscious after being bitten by a snake. So they stopped bothering Zhou Jin and stood aside to make way for Zhou Ruifeng.
Zhou Ruifeng stepped forward and carefully examined the boy's symptoms. He then asked what medicine Zhou Yu had used, then nodded in satisfaction and said:
"The medicine you used was very good, though a few were missing. But given the situation at the time, finding these few was already quite good. You also drained the poisonous blood from him, forcing out most of the venom from his body. Even if I were right there with you, this would have been the only way I could have handled it.
I'll prescribe him a prescription, and after a few days of medicine and acupuncture, he should be fine!"
"That's good. Master, you write the prescription and I'll go make the medicine for him." Zhou Yu was relieved when she heard that her treatment was correct. She thought that the sooner the snake venom was eliminated, the better, to avoid any sequelae. After hearing this, she hurriedly asked her master to write the prescription quickly.
Zhou Ruifeng was not in a hurry. After all, Zhou Yu had already dealt with the snake venom, and the remaining medicine would not be a big deal for a while. He thought it was a good opportunity to test his apprentice, so he said,
"If it were you, what prescription would you give him now?"
Zhou Yu...
Well, this pop test came really suddenly. I knew that the master wanted to train me, so I thought for a moment before reporting a recipe that I thought was useful.
After reporting for a long time, she still didn't hear any comments from her master...
Zhou Yu thought to himself, "Can you at least give me an answer as to whether I passed the exam or not? Is it a common teacher's habit to keep students in suspense like this?"
Just as she was about to ask more, her master slapped her on the shoulder and sighed at her:
"Alas! Such wisdom! Such sophistication in the use of medicine! How could such a genius be a girl? Alas!"
After saying that, he walked away, sighing and shaking his head every few steps.
Zhou Yu...
That's enough, huh?! You old stubborn man who favors boys over girls, why are you acting so sad?!
The author has something to say:
「Note 1」「Note 2」「Note 3」「Note 4」: The symptoms of snake venom and the first aid methods afterward are all referenced from Baidu and the author's own imagination. As I said, this is just a fictional novel, you can just read it and don't take it too seriously!
In addition, Cai Cai wants to find a partner for Zheng, and there are currently three candidates:
One, Song Yayi, two, Zhou Zelin, three, Han Baihu. If you have any ideas, please leave your comments in the comment area!
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