Chapter 240 Malaria 5
The water just drawn from the well, under the sunlight, revealed tiny dark brown worms clearly.
This kind of insect is called a mosquito larva, which is the larva of a mosquito. In the past, you could often see it in stinky ditches or water tanks that had not been cleaned for several days.
Mosquitoes are rampant these days, and I often see a few insects in the water I pump from the well, but never as many as I saw today. There are at least thirty or forty insects in the water I pumped today. Even if I boil the water, I still feel sick when I drink it.
The reason why the masked man asked angrily was not to extort an extra bucket of water, but to let the soldier report this situation to the higher-ups so that they could think of a way to kill these bugs. You can't let them drink this bug water every day, right?
The onlookers saw the insects swimming happily in the water in the bucket, and they asked the two soldiers guarding the well for an explanation.
Out of desperation, one of the soldiers went to his superior to ask for solutions, while the other one continued to stay and watch over the well.
Xia Xiaoman didn't mind the bugs in the water and continued to queue up to get water. Some people who were in a hurry to go home didn't bother to wait and continued to get water.
After returning home, Xia Xiaoman scooped up the insects with gauze and threw them away, then boiled water and put it into the space for use later when needed.
There are mosquitoes everywhere outside, so she rarely goes out except to fetch water, not even to the yard. She just stays at home to train her eggs and exercise. But she puts the chicken coop in the yard every day and lets the chickens catch mosquitoes and eat them.
After several attempts to repel mosquitoes, there was no mosquito in the house. However, Xia Xiaoman was still worried, so she lit a plate of mosquito coils by the door every day to drive away any mosquitoes that wanted to come in.
After waiting for several days at home, Sun Qing, who said she wanted to open a store in Fucheng, did not come. Xia Xiaoman hesitated for a while and sold the medicine that was prepared for Sun Qing to the trading point. Just like last time, he disguised himself and changed to a more distant trading point for the transaction.
Many people have died of malaria recently, and the long-extinguished crematoriums have started burning again. There are few pedestrians on the road, and even if there are people walking, they are wrapped tightly, with only a pair of eyes showing.
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The southerly weather lasted for about a month and a half. After the southerly weather passed, the seeds that Xia Xiaoman had taken out also sprouted. She planted these seeds one by one in a disposable water cup and placed them in a corner, waiting for the tender sprouts to grow into seedlings before planting them in the ground.
Before that, she needed to tidy up the land in the yard. Because she didn't plant much, Xia Xiaoman only turned over a small piece of land and sprinkled the wood ash accumulated in the winter as fertilizer.
The south wind has ended, the weather is not so humid, and there are fewer mosquitoes than before.
When Xia Xiaoman was turning the soil in the yard, he found that people in the community went out early every morning and came back very late at night. When they came back, they were holding bulging bags in their hands, and no one knew what was in the bags.
When Xia Xiaoman saw Sun Haiyun, who was on vacation, also followed the people in the community to go out early and come back late, he asked curiously and found out that everyone in the community had gone to the mountains to dig wild vegetables.
"It rained a while ago, and then the sun came out. The wild vegetables on the mountain grew one after another, and they were very juicy. Many people go to the mountain to dig wild vegetables. If you are lucky, you can even encounter steel-toothed rabbits hiding underground."
Sun Haiyun said: "I saw you staying at home every day and not going to class, so I thought you went out to pick wild vegetables with other people in the community. I didn't expect that you really stayed at home and didn't know anything about the outside world!"
Xia Xiaoman touched her nose awkwardly, "I've been busy tilling the soil and planting vegetables these past two days, so I haven't paid attention to the news outside. Are there many wild vegetables on the mountain? What did you dig up?"
"There were a lot of wild vegetables when the rain just stopped, but now they have almost all been picked by others. If you want to pick wild vegetables, you have to go further up the mountain, otherwise they will all be old stems left by others." Some ignorant people pull up the wild vegetables by the roots, without caring whether there will be any wild vegetables to eat in the future.
Sun Haiyun opened the bag in his hand and continued, "I don't know many wild vegetables, so I picked some purslane, shepherd's purse and dandelion. Do you want some? I'll sell you some."
Xia Xiaoman heard this and bought some purslane. She liked to eat purslane very much. After blanching it in water, she added chili pepper, garlic, salt, vinegar and sesame oil. It was spicy and appetizing.
She doesn't like the other two wild vegetables because they are bitter and taste like Chinese medicine.
"Are you going to pick wild vegetables tomorrow? If you do, you can go with Chen Peiqiong. She is having a day off tomorrow and also wants to go pick wild vegetables." Sun Haiyun asked.
Xia Xiaoman was a little hesitant. She didn't have any vegetables in her space, otherwise she wouldn't have turned the soil in the yard to grow vegetables. But if she went out to dig wild vegetables and left Maodan alone at home, she was worried.
It’s not that she was worried about bad guys breaking into the house, but she was afraid that if she left Maodan, a wolf, at home all day, he would tear down her house.
After thinking for a while, she said, "Forget about digging wild vegetables. We need someone at home. If it's convenient for you, please buy some wild vegetables for me at the trading point when you get home from get off work. Except for the bitter ones, you can buy any other vegetables. I'll take them all."
Sun Haiyun said a little embarrassedly: "I'm a little busy recently, and my working hours are not fixed. How about this, I'll ask Chen Peiqiong to help you bring it. She often goes to dig wild vegetables after work and can sell them directly to you."
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "Alright, then please tell Chen Peiqiong."
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The temperature and humidity were both suitable, and the grass and trees on the mountain grew wildly as if they had been injected with growth agents. The seeds and roots of these grasses and trees were very tenacious, and after a cold winter, they were not frozen to death, but became more resilient than before, with tender shoots vying to break through the soil.
Xia Xiaoman could buy a lot of fresh wild vegetables from Chen Peiqiong every day. She did not limit the quantity. No matter how many wild vegetables Chen Peiqiong had, she would buy them all.
After staying at home for a long time, people around her would be suspicious of her when they saw her taking out supplies to buy wild vegetables every day. So Xia Xiaoman would drive a pickup truck out every once in a while, and when she came back, the truck was full of things.
In the eyes of those who don't know, they would think that Xia Xiaoman went out to do some work and brought back a lot of good stuff. In fact, the car was loaded with large rocks that she found outside, but it was covered with rainproof cloth so that no one could see it.
She had found these big rocks with great difficulty. The floating city was all dirt hills, with few big rocks. She found these rocks near the park. They were probably the landscape rocks in the park before, but they were thrown on the roadside when the mud was cleaned.
Even though these stones are useless, they can be used to hit people accurately. They are much more useful than the marble table in the space.
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