Chapter 753 769: OK
When planning the route, the construction team tries to go in a straight line, dig pits to bury the electric poles, avoid detours and waste wires. They also avoid locations with higher slopes and bury the electric poles halfway up the hillside. There must not be any tall trees around the buried electric poles.
There are many lime marks on the road connecting Baima Town and three villages near Funiu. After the location of the electric poles is determined, each brigade has to send a certain number of people to help cut trees and dig holes to bury the poles.
The villagers of the three villages were particularly enthusiastic about helping the construction team dig holes and cut trees, and they quickly selected young and strong people from their own teams to work with the construction team.
Zhou Huaijun, Zhou Huaiqing and Xu Laosan brought a dozen men from the village as the main force of the Funiu Brigade to help the power construction team dig holes and bury electric piles. They used shovels and pickaxes to dig holes at the marks left by the construction team with lime circles for digging electric piles.
They were all men who were used to doing manual labor, and they all wanted to have electricity as soon as possible, so they actively participated with 120% enthusiasm and cooperated with the power construction team in cutting trees, digging holes and burying piles.
The leader of the construction team felt that the country people were more honest in their work. As long as they were given a job and agreed to do it, they would do it conscientiously.
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It was the end of the month. Gao Dalin went to the Chinese Medicine Hospital for a checkup. Doctor Liu asked him to put down his crutches and said, "Young man, try walking for a while."
Gao Dalin looked at Li Qiuxia who was standing at the door with her child, then stood up with the help of the desk, hesitating and not daring to take a step forward...
Doctor Liu stood in front of him and said with a smile, "Go ahead, don't worry. I'm here. What are you afraid of?"
"Yes!" Gao Dalin took a step forward cautiously. The second step, the third step, his injured leg no longer felt weak and powerless when he stepped on the ground like before. He walked firmly step by step.
He looked at Li Qiuxia, who was standing outside with tears in her eyes, excitedly, "Xiaoxia, I'm fine! I can walk..." Then he turned to Dr. Liu and bowed respectfully, "Thank you, Dr. Liu, thank you!"
Li Qiuxia also excitedly held her two children's hands and bowed to him to thank him.
Doctor Liu looked at the family who looked much better and said with a smile, "Be careful in the first few months. Don't do heavy work. Take good care of yourself and you'll be fine. The wound will feel better as the weather changes. Keep warm and apply a hot towel and you'll be fine."
The couple was so happy that they just kept nodding their heads, "We'll remember it..."
After returning home, Gao Dalin said to Li Qiuxia: "I am well now. I should go to my third sister's house sometime to thank them. If it weren't for them, I would still be lame!"
"If we go now, the money for buying things will also be given by Third Sister..." Li Qiuxia looked at him, "I want to wait until we earn money, and use the money we earn to buy things and visit Third Sister."
Gao Dalin nodded, "You said it all, there are still many people eating at the street food stalls. We already owe Third Sister a lot, so let's borrow some more from her and set up the snack stall."
"Um!"
Li Qiuxia went back and asked Yang Dongmei to help take a letter to Li Qiuyue, telling her that Doctor Liu had checked and found that Gao Dalin's leg was healed and he could walk steadily without the crutches.
In half a month, the cleaning lady from the hotel will be here, and they plan to try to set up a stall selling fried potatoes, jelly and cold noodles.
After thinking about it, Li Qiuyue decided to send Li Qiuxia to Zhou Yumei's shop, letting her study there for a while before going out to set up a stall.
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In February, the rape flowers in the rape fields are in full bloom. Against the backdrop of sunlight, the golden sea of flowers is extremely beautiful.
The industrious little bees are busy collecting nectar in the sea of flowers, and the Zhou family has also started hiring people to plant saplings in the forest they have newly acquired.
Grandpa Zhou and his father went around the village and told people that they could earn two yuan a day digging holes and planting trees. The idle villagers were willing to earn some money to supplement their family income.
During this period, Zhou Huairong also purchased some honey flower trees, as well as chestnut, Magnolia officinalis, Eucommia ulmoides, and Sichuan laurel seedlings at the purchasing point.
These saplings vary in size, with some just reaching the knees of an adult and others more than one meter tall. They were all dug up by villagers who went up the mountain to dig truffles.
There are very few truffles during this period. Sometimes, it takes several days to dig up as much as in the past day. Although one truffle can only be sold for 20 cents, if a family is lucky, they can find 20 to 30 truffles a day and earn a few dollars.
Villagers from Baicaoping, Baicaopao and Bailingshan searched the woods and wrapped the dug-up saplings with straw, including the roots and soil. When Zhou Huaian went to transport goods, he brought them back and planted them.
The next day, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding were going to the purchasing point to pick up some goods. Zhou Huaishan took Xu Hongbing, Li Wu, and several villagers hired from the village, and pushed a chicken bus to the honey flower forest that Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding had found in the mountains some time ago.
Everyone used hoes and shovels to dig around the small saplings and half-grown honeysuckle trees, digging them up with the roots and soil, then put them into large bamboo baskets on both sides of the chicken bus and transported them back for planting.
Everyone carried the saplings that had been placed in the pit beside the vegetable field and followed the old man and Zhou's father to the Xinbao Forest. They were all talking about how Zhou Huaian was too much of a troublemaker.
"Grandpa, your kids are really capable. They collect eels, herbs, grow herbs, mushrooms, and truffles. They do everything well. They must have made a lot of money in the past two years, right?"
"You know, collecting herbs and mushrooms is just running errands for the boss, and we earn some money. Growing herbs and selling them is just like growing crops. We depend on the weather. If God favors us, we can have a full meal. If not, we can only tighten our belts and bear it!"
"Of course not. After all these years, life has only become more relaxed in the past two years. It would be great if it could continue like this!"
"In the past two years, Zhou Laoyao and his grandchildren must have made a lot of money, right? I think your family is the richest in the village now."
"That's right, old man. Look, there are more than 30 people, and the daily wages are 60 or 70 yuan. No one would believe you if you said you have no money."
"The four brothers and Yiding jointly contracted the forest, and each person only earned about ten yuan. Don't worry, you will be paid for a day's work, and I won't owe you any wages."
"Uncle Zhou, that's not what I meant! Don't we believe in your family? Let alone daily wages, we won't worry even if we pay after the work is done."
Everyone arrived at the woods, chatting and laughing, put down their loads, picked up hoes, crowbars and pickaxes, and started working.
Zhou Huaian designated an area specifically for planting honey flower trees, and planted chestnuts, Magnolia officinalis, Eucommia ulmoides, and Cinnamomum cassia trees interspersed among them.
Yang Chunyan and her two sisters-in-law carried the saplings on their shoulders. After the hole was dug, they put the saplings in. The people behind them began to fill the hole with soil, dug a circular ditch around the saplings, watered them, sprinkled them with fermented fertilizer, and covered them with a layer of soil.
This way of fertilizing can not only avoid root burn, but also prevent the fertilizer from being lost easily, and the seedlings after fertilization are more likely to survive.
Seeing countless little bees flying in and out of the beehive, Zhang Xiuxiang asked Yang Chunyan in surprise, "It's only been a short time, and the youngest has already raised so many wild bees!"
Yang Chunyan: "He and Yiding had placed several bee traps in the woods before, and after the New Year they went to find a few nests of wild bees. Now there are a total of seven beehives inhabited by wild bees."
Li Qiuyue said happily: "It seems that in a few years, there will be honey nectar for sale."
Yang Chunyan also thinks so. "Not only honey flowers, but when the herbs we planted grow up, we can harvest many kinds of honey from this forest in the future."
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "Chunyan, both forests are in the back mountain. We need to give them names so that we won't be confused about them later."
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "The back hill is called Baicao Garden, and this side is called Baihua Forest. What do you think?"
Zhang Xiuxiang: "Okay, both names are good. Once the saplings are planted, we'll put up a sign."
The three sisters-in-law went out with their baskets, and Zhou Huaizhong's wife Chen Ping came over and said, "Chunyan, my lower back was fine this morning, but suddenly a few blisters appeared. It hurts so much when I put clothes on it. Another one appeared this afternoon. My mother said it might be a snake wrapped around my waist. Do you think it's true?"
"Let me see!" Yang Chunyan followed her to a tree and saw a red patch as big as a sea egg, covered with blisters as big as soybeans. "Sister-in-law, you have a snake around your waist!"
"Snake around the waist" is the saying here. Some places call it "dragon around the waist", "snake coiled around the waist", "snake string sores", and medically it is called herpes zoster. It is said that when the snake wraps around the waist of a person, there is no medicine to cure it.
Chen Ping gently put down her clothes and said, "It hurts so much, and the barefoot doctor of the brigade hasn't come to work. Do you have any herbal medicine that can be applied? My mother said that if the pain persists, we can try some traditional remedies."
"Beheading" is a folk remedy for dealing with snakes wrapped around the waist. The specific method is to find a straw rope and wrap it around the waist. When it is dawn, hold the rope towards the east and chant something.
Then chop the rope into several pieces with a knife, and circle the affected area with ink, once a day, until it is healed. If you have a good resistance, it will heal itself after a period of time. If you have a poor resistance and delay the treatment, it will really kill you.
Yang Chunyan shook her head, "Home remedies won't work. I still have some snakes at home. But I'll go back and grind some honey and apply it on. Tomorrow morning you and Huai'an will go to Ning'an to see Doctor Wang and ask him to prescribe some Chinese medicine."
Chen Ping held her arm and said happily, "I told you I'd come to you. You probably have a solution!"
"It just so happened that I saw my old man treating her." Yang Chunyan said hello to Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue, and took Chen Ping down the mountain and back home.
The traditional Chinese medicine name of Snakehead is Kangbangui, which is the dried above-ground part of the Kangbangui plant of the Polygonaceae family.
Harvest it in summer when it blooms and dry it in the sun.
It has many aliases, and the name is different in each place, such as plowshare thorn, inverted golden hook, branding iron grass, upside down purple golden hook, snake grass, tiger tongue grass, etc.
Its leaves are triangular, a bit like a plowshare used for plowing fields. The stems are reddish and have barbs on them. The young leaves taste sour and are very thirst-quenching.
Because its stem is covered with barbs, even snakes have to back away when they encounter it, so people call it snake scorpion.
(End of this chapter)
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