Old Zhou's fields were on the way they came. Yegou Village is surrounded by mountains, mostly terraced fields, but the fields where they harvested rice today were in the valley.
The fields are located in the middle of the mountain range, which is about three acres long. His fields are at the very end of the mountain corner. If you walk back, you'll find Old Zhou's fields, and if you walk further back, you'll find the fields of other villagers.
So on their way back, they first passed by Old Zhou's field ridge. The path along the ridge was shorter than the mountain road, but to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhou Erfu, Zhou Wufu, and Xingxing decided to take the detour.
By taking a detour, the rest of the Zhou family avoided them, but unexpectedly they ran into Zhou Dahua on the mountain road. Why was Zhou Dahua not in the fields harvesting rice at this time, but running up the mountain?
Actually, Zhou Dahua had run up to relieve herself. She had just pulled up her belt when she heard someone coming, which really startled her. When she saw the person getting closer, she was surprised to find that it was Zhou Erfu and his group.
Xingxing immediately became wary upon seeing Zhou Dahua. She remembered that this person had hit her before. It was truly a case of enemies meeting on a narrow road.
Given her previous inexplicable experiences, Zhou Dahua didn't want to confront Xingxing at this moment, but the mountain path was really narrow. She had just finished urinating and stood up from the bushes when she found herself in this awkward situation.
With her two older brothers around, Xingxing was fearless. She walked up to Zhou Dahua with her short legs and loudly questioned, "What bad thing are you planning to do now? What do you mean by deliberately blocking this way? How did you know we would pass by this road?"
Zhou Dahua subconsciously took a step back, wanting to get further away from Xingxing. For a moment, she forgot that there was a slope behind her. As she stepped back, one foot missed its mark, and she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, the area was full of trees. Although she tripped and fell, the trees prevented her from rolling down the slope. However, she suddenly felt a pain in the back of her foot.
"ah……"
Zhou Dahua screamed and scrambled to her feet, running a few steps forward, but quickly fell to the ground again.
Xingxing, Zhou Erfu, and Zhou Wufu stared in disbelief at how things unfolded, witnessing Zhou Dahua jump up and shake off a green bamboo viper from her foot. The more than one-meter-long bamboo viper then quickly disappeared into the grass and escaped.
The three of them ran up to Zhou Dahua and saw that she was not wearing shoes and her feet were covered in mud. That's right, she must have taken off her shoes when she was cutting rice, and she was barefoot when she ran to the small slope.
Just now, as she stepped back, she stepped on the tail of the bamboo viper. The green snake immediately turned around and bit her, leaving two obvious teeth marks on the instep of Zhou Dahua's foot.
The toxins from the bamboo leaf viper spread rapidly, and Zhou Dahua's instep was already swollen like a large steamed bun, with the wound gradually turning black.
"Her feet have turned black, she's been poisoned," Xingxing said helplessly, pointing at the other person's feet.
Zhou Erfu reacted quickly, immediately squatting down. He originally intended to tear a strip of cloth from his own clothes, but he paused in the act of tearing the clothes and turned to tear Zhou Dahua's clothes. After tearing off a strip of cloth, he tightly bound Zhou Dahua's ankles.
Zhou Erfu was strong and squeezed Zhou Dahua's feet tightly, which effectively prevented the toxins from spreading further. He then helped Zhou Dahua squeeze the toxins out of the instep of her feet.
It was thanks to his strength that he managed to squeeze out about 80% of the snake venom, until all the black blood on Zhou Dahua's feet was squeezed out before he stopped.
"I'm exhausted. What a damn bad luck! I had to take a long detour and still run into you here. If I wasn't worried that you'd die here and blame us, I wouldn't have saved you," Zhou Erfu said angrily.
Four years ago, although he and his four brothers were only five years old, they had already begun to remember things. The five brothers clearly remembered that at that time, their third and fourth uncles wanted to capture one of them and exchange him for a child to eat.
Zhou Erfu was even certain that, given the nature of his third and fourth uncles, if they were to switch places and still have nothing to eat, they would steal another child and resort to cannibalism.
The quintuplets harbored resentment towards Zhou Laosan and Zhou Laosi, and consequently disliked their children as well. Of course, Zhou Dahua and the others also disliked the quintuplets.
"Waaaaah, am I going to die? Has the snake venom been removed yet? Erfu, please have mercy and squeeze the snake venom out of my foot again. I don't want to die, waaaah."
Zhou Dahua screamed and howled, but none of her family members working below came to check on her. Was her life truly worthless in their eyes?
She felt completely weak, as if she had been paralyzed. She knew this was due to the snake venom taking effect, and she was terrified that she would die at any moment.
All they could do was keep begging Zhou Erfu and the others.
"Never mind her, she was bitten by a snake, what does it have to do with us? I'll go call the Zhou family up here and let them deal with it themselves." Zhou Wufu hugged the few wild rabbits hidden by tree branches, and he hated Zhou Dahua to death.
They wanted to rush back to kill the rabbit and cook it, but they ended up getting entangled with Zhou Dahua while taking a detour, wasting so much time. That woman is a jinx; nothing good ever comes from her.
The poison of the bamboo viper is very potent and spreads very quickly, but it can be treated. Unlike the venom of other poisonous snakes, it is not difficult to cure. If you can find an antidote, you can be saved.
The climate in Yegou Village is humid, so snakes are very common. In the summer, bamboo vipers can be seen everywhere. These green snakes especially like to block the road. They often hide their bodies in the grass and their tails are across the path. Villagers inevitably step on the snake's tail when they go up the mountain, and the bamboo viper will immediately turn around and bite you.
If you get bitten by a snake, you definitely have to see a doctor. After a while, some clever people would secretly pay attention to what herbs the doctor prescribed, and then go to the mountains to collect them. They actually managed to find them, and later most of the villagers in Yegou Village recognized that kind of antidote herb.
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