Chapter 20 Plague Strikes
Qin Muxue had a lot of food stored, but even so she had to be careful. She and Ding Manman only ate until they were 70% full every day, and they never missed exercising.
The two have recently revisited the Tai Chi they learned in college to exercise their bodies and cultivate their temperaments.
In order to strengthen the physique of several people, Qin Muxue also replaced the water that the two people, the dog and the cat usually drank with spiritual spring water.
She would go into the space from time to time and plant the rice seeds she had bought before.
Generally, rice in reality needs to be replanted, but after Qin Muxue's observation, it does not need to be replanted in the space. After planting, it will mature in two days and can be harvested. Qin Muxue took out some of the mature rice, removed the husk with the rice mill she had bought before, and cooked some to taste.
After being cooked in a wood-fired pot, these quick-grown rices have an extremely strong aroma and are crystal clear.
Qin Muxue served a bowl of rice. The taste was very sweet just by eating it. Compared with the real rice, it was several levels better and seemed to have the effect of strengthening the body. Even Baozhu, who usually didn't like rice, ate a big bowl of it.
Qin Muxue felt that her skin was now several levels better than before and looked radiant. Even Ding Manman's originally dry and yellow hair began to turn black and beautiful.
Not to mention dogs and cats. Baozhu's leg tendons are unusually developed. She is already six or seven years old, which is considered middle-aged for a dog, but she is unusually energetic.
The cat climbing frames prepared for Pearl have been tortured beyond recognition.
This time she also picked a lot of vegetables that she had planted before from the space. The bok choy, cabbage, and lettuce were all ripe.
There were quite a lot of cabbages harvested. Ding Manman looked at the dozen cabbages and felt troubled. "Why not make them into kimchi and sauerkraut?"
First wash the cabbages, cut them and apply salt on them. After removing excess water, add an appropriate amount of sugar and some MSG. Since both of us can eat spicy food, we added some chopped peppers, and then added a few spoons of the Korean hot sauce we bought earlier, and mixed the cabbage evenly.
Put it in a pickle jar and you can take it out and eat it after a few days.
Another part of the cabbage was made into sauerkraut, which is very simple. Just cut the cabbage, spread salt on it, and put it in a jar in layers. After filling all the space, add some boiling water on the top to isolate it from the air. It takes about a month to pickle the sauerkraut.
Qin Muxue just helped out at the side, watching Ding Manman do all this, "Manman, you are really amazing, how come you can cook all kinds of dishes."
"I'm originally from the Northeast, and I often work at my uncle's house, so it's not difficult for me to do this. By the way, what do you want to eat for lunch?"
“Just do whatever you want.”
So Ding Manman stir-fried some greens and lettuce, and chopped the pork that Qin Muxue had just taken out from the space into meatballs. She made braised pork meatballs and ate them all with sweet rice.
Baozhu's lunch was boiled beef with some vegetables, while Zhenzhu ate two cans of top-grade venison in one go and still felt unsatisfied. If she ate without eating with her huge body, Qin Muxue doubted whether she could feed her.
Qin Muxue has a lot of books stored in her space. She originally bought a bookstore and stored all the books in the space. She would take out the books and read them in her spare time.
It used to take her three or four days to finish a book, but now she reads very quickly and has an extremely fast learning ability.
Taoyuan Village is now like an island, surrounded by floods. It has been raining for the past few days. Although the rain has decreased, without the sun, the electricity in the reserve batteries will run out sooner or later.
Qin Muxue looked at the flood downstream and had an idea.
She made a small waterwheel and used water power to make a small generator. Although it only produced enough electricity to light a light bulb, it was enough to amaze the children in the village.
Children don’t have the messy thoughts of adults. They are very simple. After seeing this beautiful big sister make a light bulb, they were surprised and praised: "Big sister is amazing!"
In fact, Qin Muxue didn’t think about it that much. She just thought that if there really was not enough electricity one day, hydropower could still play a certain role.
"It's not that great!" She scratched her head embarrassedly.
Ding Manman often played with these children and taught them to identify which wild vegetables in the fields were edible and which were not. The children picked a basket full of wild vegetables and brought them back, which improved the family's food and was praised by their parents. As a result, they admired Qin Muxue and Ding Manman even more.
That night, someone knocked on her door. A family named Wu at the head of the village knocked on her door. He held his child in his arms with an anxious look on his face and said in a reproachful manner, "You asked my child to pick wild vegetables to eat, and look at what she has become of them. Those wild vegetables must be poisonous!"
Ding Manman frowned. It was absolutely impossible, because she had read in professional books that the wild vegetable was non-toxic.
But when she saw the child's pale face, severe constipation, and vomiting and diarrhea, she found it very strange.
"Not only your child ate it, other children also ate this wild vegetable."
"It's not just the child at home, there's something wrong with the child's grandmother as well."
"Let me see." Qin Muxue carefully asked about the child's symptoms. Considering that the child also had a rash on his body, this was definitely not a symptom caused by wild vegetable poisoning.
Qin Muxue thought for a moment, looked at the rainy weather, and asked, "Where is your family's food stored?"
"Where else can it be? In the granary, of course."
"Look at it, it's still like this, and there's no doctor in the village. What should I do?" The man was so anxious that sweat was pouring down his forehead.
Qin Muxue remembered him. He had helped them move and had given Ding Manman a lot of vegetables. He was not a bad person. He said those words just now because he was worried about the child's condition.
"I know some medical knowledge. Take me to your home."
Wu Yong was so anxious that he had no choice but to take Qin Muxue to his home.
Qin Muxue first observed the old man's condition and found that he also had red rashes on his body. At this time, Wu Yong also felt itching on his body. He looked at his arms and found that his hands were also covered with red rashes.
Ding Manman asked in a low voice: "Xiaoxue, do you really know medical skills? What's going on with them?"
Qin Muxue said: "Don't worry, it's definitely not because of those wild vegetables."
Then she came to the granary and put on protective clothing and a mask before entering.
She found a few fat rats in a dark corner. They had just given birth to a litter of cubs. Also, due to the humid weather, a lot of rice in the granary had begun to mold.
It would be strange if people didn't get sick after eating such rice, but Qin Muxue knew the real reason was the plague.
Ding Manman originally wanted to come in, but Qin Muxue shouted, "Don't come in! The rats here are carrying the plague, which is highly contagious!"
This is the culprit that caused them to become sick, and it was not ordinary plague, but an evolved plague. The size of these mice was obviously many times larger than normal mice.
Ding Manman stood there in a daze, looking at Qin Muxue with a worried look. Although she had taken protective measures, she was still afraid that she would be infected.
After Qin Muxue came out, she sprayed a bottle of disinfectant on herself. This plague can only be transmitted to humans by rats, and it cannot be transmitted between people.
Wu Yong looked worried, while Qin Muxue pointed at the mouse nest through the window and asked, "Do you see that mouse nest?"
"I used rat poison before, but it seems to have no effect on these rats. They appear again." Wu Yong was anxious, "What should I do?"
"Right now, we can only burn down the granary and the nest of rats to prevent the plague from spreading."
The man lowered his head in shame. "I'm sorry, I wronged you. It turns out that these rats are the real trouble..."
"But our whole family relies on this rice to survive. If it's all burned, what will we eat?" He felt very sad. Seeing that rescue was nowhere in sight, everyone couldn't go hungry!
The villagers who had come to join in the fun looked at each other and said, "We have some at home. There are more than a hundred households in the village. We can give each of you a spoonful, which is enough for you to eat."
One spoonful of rice for each household is not much, but it can save an entire family's lives, so the villagers all agreed.
Under everyone's persuasion, Wu Yong reluctantly set fire to the granary. Under the blazing fire, the contaminated grain and the rats were buried in the sea of fire...
The villagers did what they said. Those families who had food took out some rice, and Ding Manman gave them a few more kilograms of rice. Wu Yong was so moved that tears filled his eyes and he didn't know what to say.
"If the plague spreads, no one will be happy. You are doing this for everyone."
After the villagers dispersed, Wu Yong dared to ask Qin Muxue, "Miss, do you have any way to help my child? He has a high fever and I'm afraid he won't make it. I'm fine, but please save my child."
Qin Muxue knew that this little boy was named Wu You. He was cheerful and lively, very studious, smart and sensible. He was very cute and showed a maturity that was inconsistent with his age. He would become a supernatural being in the future.
Grandma Wu used to send them vegetables and fruits. When the group of people came to search their house, Wu Yong even spoke well of them. Based on this, Qin Muxue decided to save them first.
She immediately went back home, and the various medicines she had purchased at high prices came in handy. The treatment of plague requires streptomycin, and the combined use of tetracycline and sulfonamide drugs will have better effects.
Just because she knew about the existence of the plague, she stockpiled a lot of these medicines.
Qin Muxue first injected streptomycin into the children, and then told them how to take the oral medication and how many times a day to take it.
This evolved plague would require double the dosage of medicine to be effective.
Fortunately, after one night, the fever of everyone in the Wu family subsided.
Wu Yong even brought the only bacon in his home and insisted on giving it to Qin Muxue and Ding Manman. "I know this is nothing, but I really thank you for saving me, my child and my mother."
At times like this, a string of bacon is extremely precious.
Qin Muxue shook her head. "You should keep it for yourself. The child is sick and needs protein. We still have some eggs and vegetables here. If you don't mind, take them back and feed them to the child first!"
"How can this be?" Wu Yong was very embarrassed, but Qin Muxue didn't say anything more. She just stuffed the food into his hand and told him to go back and make something delicious for the child.
There was another reason why she was so nice to them.
Wu You's child is an explosive evolutionist with super destructive abilities.
She only saw him occasionally in her previous life. At that time, he had no father and no grandmother, and his face was calmer and colder than his peers. Wu Yong and Grandma Wu in the previous life should not have survived.
In this life, she planned to let Wu You cooperate with them and join their team, which is why she did not stop Manman from contacting Wu You.
Wu Yong carried the string of meat, eggs and vegetables back home. Grandma Wu saw that the gifts were not sent back, but instead brought back some more things, "Why didn't they accept them?"
"The two little girls are really good people. They didn't blame me for misunderstanding them. Instead, they saved our lives and gave me some vegetables and eggs to feed the children. These things are so precious."
Wu You was lying on the bed, and heard his parents talking about the two angel-like elder sisters. He felt warm in his heart, "Grandma, Dad, I'm hungry."
Grandma Wu is almost recovered after taking the medicine. Wu You is a child, so his resistance is inevitably weaker.
"The porridge is almost ready. Grandma will cook you an egg and stir-fry some vegetables later."
"Well, thank you grandma." He thanked her sensibly and silently remembered the kindness of the two older sisters.
Qu Yanbai rushed over and saw the two of them eating hot pot. "You guys, I thought something happened to you? You're eating hot pot here."
He unceremoniously took a pair of chopsticks and a bowl and sat at the table, looking at the spicy hot pot, "Two little girls eat so spicy?"
"Eat if you like it. If you don't want to eat it, get out!" Qin Muxue was not polite at all.
Qu Yanbai was used to her talking like this, so he asked while scooping up the fat beef, "Why did you save their family? I know that what you did is not as simple as it seems."
"The Wu family is a good family. If you want to save them, just save them. Why else?"
Ding Manman whispered, "Xiaoxue must be trying to help me." She was still frightened by the incident with Wu Yong.
"They weren't poisoned by wild vegetables, so don't blame yourself."
What Ding Manman was actually afraid of was implicating Qin Muxue. In her heart, Qin Muxue was a close friend, a partner who shared weal and woe, and also a lifesaver. She didn't know that Qin Muxue thought the same thing.
Qu Yanbai's face suddenly became serious: "Let's talk about serious matters. Have you noticed one thing? The flood level is starting to rise."
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