Zhang Xudong was busy as soon as he arrived at the hospital because there were so many people coming to see the injured that the doctors and nurses were overwhelmed, so he had to stay and help.
Most of the injured were not seriously injured, but some had their heads cracked by bricks and tiles.
Some of them twisted their feet in the panic, or broke their chins, or had their faces scratched by monkeys.
The worst-off was a boy of five or six years old. There was a monkey skin hanging in his house, so he suffered the most severe revenge from the monkeys.
The angry monkey not only stole the monkey skin and all the food in his family, but also basically tore his house apart.
An old monkey took advantage of the chaos and snatched the boy away, carrying him up a tree.
After reaching the tree, the old monkey loosened his claws and the kid fell from a height of three or four meters.
Fortunately, the child’s father also chased to the tree. Seeing that things were not going well, he reached out and caught the child, so a tragedy was avoided.
However, the child's arm was broken in the panic, which can only be said to be a blessing in disguise.
Zhang Xudong was busy in the hospital all morning and didn't return home until almost noon.
Zhang Xudong had just filled his stomach with a bowl of noodles when he heard the cry of the ugly mule in the production team coming from outside the door.
Zhang Xudong walked out of the yard and saw that Uncle Gen had tied the mule to the tree at the door and was unloading the mule cart with a basket in his hands.
Zhang Xudong hurried over to help lift the basket down.
"Uncle Gen, you haven't eaten yet? Come on, let's go home and we'll make you a bowl of noodles." Zhang Xudong let Uncle Gen go home.
"Dongzi, I've eaten at home, so you don't have to bother. Just let your uncle move this basket home." Uncle Gen said quickly.
Zhang Xudong walked into the house carrying the basket in one hand, and asked as he walked, "What's in the basket? It must be about 50 or 60 kilograms, right?"
Uncle Gen explained after entering the house, "This is the meat that the team gave to your family. We also gave you some extra. We can't let the kids eat and drink for free here, right?"
After hearing this, Zhang Xudong put the basket on the ground.
"Uncle Gen, this isn't appropriate. My family didn't contribute to this hunt, so it's inappropriate to give us a share of the meat, right?"
Uncle Gen said with a dark face after hearing what Zhang Xudong said:
"Not suitable? Then it would be appropriate for you to go hunt wild boars by yourself and feed the whole village?
Ask the villagers, who would dare to say anything wrong? Could they eat their conscience along with the meat?
Zhang Xudong agreed with this and thought, just do what is yours. Why think so much?
Zhang Xudong picked up the basket again and went into the main room.
Zhang Xudong asked Uncle Gen to sit down, poured him a bowl of water, and then asked:
"Uncle Gen, how was the village yesterday? Was there any damage?"
"Hey, Dongzi, I came here today to talk to you about this. Luckily, your uncle Zhuang got your reminder yesterday, and he went back and dealt with those hateful guys.
They were all put into sacks and buried deep in the ground, and two buckets of manure were poured on the ground to ensure that neither wolves nor monkeys could smell the scent of their cubs.
Your uncle Zhuang gathered all the militiamen and young men, and gave out guns to those who needed them, and gongs and drums to those who needed them.
Even the three-barreled guns in the members' homes and the firecrackers left over from the New Year were collected.
He also asked everyone to prepare twenty or thirty piles of dry firewood at the other side of the village near the mountain and prepare a large amount of firewood.
Hehe, you never know, it really works.
Last night, as soon as it got dark, the beasts came down the mountain. It was a dark mass! The first place they ran to was our village.
Under the command of your uncle Zhuang, everyone started to burn the firewood pile. Then they had people beat gongs and drums and fired three-barreled guns.
It was so noisy that it almost broke the heavens. It actually intimidated those beasts.
Your uncle Zhuang and the militia took the opportunity to knock down a few wild boars. This time they didn't fight the wolves and monkeys, but turned the door to take care of the wild boars.
When the gunshots rang out, the group of beasts panicked even more and ran away around our village. Our village was spared this time.
However, the loss was not small. The group of animals were the advancing team wading through the crops, and they destroyed a lot of the good corn seedlings.
We lost a few wild boars, but we also lost a lot of crops. I don’t know if this is a loss or a blessing for us.”
Uncle Gen sighed after he finished speaking.
"Uncle Gen, just be content! We're lucky that no one was killed or injured and the village wasn't destroyed.
Look at what has become of the county town? How many houses have been destroyed? Hundreds of people have been injured, and you still have the heart to calculate the gains and losses?"
Zhang Xudong looked at Uncle Gen speechlessly.
"Hey, Dongzi, uncle is just worried about our crops.
You don’t know that our village escaped this disaster thanks to you and Zhuangzi.
The situation in Biede Village was particularly dire, especially for the Qianjin Brigade, whose people hadn't had a proper meal in ages.
Yesterday, when meat suddenly became available, everyone ate it to death.
As a result, because his stomach had not been exposed to oil for a long time, he ate so much meat at once and his stomach broke.
Fortunately they didn't die from diarrhea, because they excreted the same amount they ate. Their calves were cramping and their whole bodies were shaking from diarrhea.
When this group of beasts rushed into the advancing group, the consequences can be imagined.
"It was with our help that they were able to drive those beasts away. But even so, four or five people from their village died, and many more were injured."
Zhang Xudong was shocked when he heard Uncle Gen's words and asked anxiously:
"Uncle Gen, you mean to say that more than five people have died so far? Weren't they at all wary yesterday?"
"They said that they had already killed so many wild animals in the mountains, so why should they be afraid of a few beasts coming down from the mountains? If they come, they will be killed and eaten.
How could they have imagined that there were not just a few animals coming down the mountain, but a huge black group!
Although the militiamen and young men in each village killed a lot of animals, they were not prepared enough and the animals entered the village, causing heavy losses.
Dongzi, the households that suffered the greatest casualties in these villages are those that have monkey skins and wolf skins at home.
The roof of their house was torn down by monkeys, the courtyard gate and the door to the house were smashed to pieces by wild boars, and people were bitten by wolves. It was so tragic that it was beyond words.
A lot of crops were destroyed in various villages, but those crops didn't produce much food to begin with, so the damage to our village's fields was greater, so we'll have to harvest a lot less."
Uncle Gen sighed after he finished speaking, his eyes full of confusion and sadness.
In the end, Uncle Gen drove back to the village alone. Zhang Xudong asked Uncle Gen to go back to the village and see the situation first.
If those beasts don't make trouble tonight, we can take the children away tomorrow.
Countless people living at the foot of the mountain spent the last night of July in anxiety and uneasiness.
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