Over at the tent, Qiao Qingqing had also gotten up and had breakfast. She was exhausted the whole day yesterday, and this morning she only felt sore in her arms, so she had to rub them herself.
Without much rest, Qiao Qingqing continued to work.
Yesterday, a fishing team from the fleet encountered a group of sharks, and the fishing boats were overturned. It is said that only 30% of the people escaped, and they were all seriously injured. Qiao Qingqing was called by Doctor Tan to help. The follow-up rescue team went out and rescued four more people, all of whom were dying. Last night in the early morning, she was still helping to stop the bleeding with acupuncture so that Doctor Tan could sew the intestines back into the abdomen and then suture the abdominal cavity.
After one night, two of the injured who had been rescued died.
The atmosphere in the camp was very bad, and everyone was talking about: "Why are there so many sharks!"
They had encountered sharks once or twice before at sea, but not in such large numbers. They didn't expect to encounter a school of sharks while fishing nearby after being docked for more than ten days. The fishing team's luck was so bad!
“There seem to be more sharks!”
"Haven't you heard about it? There's a fishery over there, and it was destroyed by sharks. I think they are just messing around. The smell of humans is enough to make sharks drool, and they still set up a fishery. They really don't fear death."
Listening to their conversation, Qiao Qingqing's heart was also shrouded in a shadow.
Qiao Qingqing was busy for another two days and only went home after get off work on the evening of the third day.
Qiao Songzhi looked at her face and said distressedly, "How come you've become so much thinner after just three days away from home!" She prepared to stew a chicken for her and asked Qiao Qingqing to get the chicken, American ginseng, wolfberries and red dates.
While taking things, Qiao Qingqing looked at Shao Shengan's face and asked, "What's wrong with the left side of your face?"
"It's from the sun, it'll be fine after a rest." Shao Shengan smiled, not thinking that the sunburn on his face was a big deal. Qiao Qingqing frowned slightly, but didn't say anything, just took out the ointment after taking a bath and applied it to him.
"I applied some medicine, it's really fine."
"Wipe it off. It makes me feel uncomfortable."
"It's really okay. Did you see those woods? My brother and I found a forest..." Shao Shengan looked up and wiped her face, happily telling her about his gains in the past few days.
Of course Qiao Qingqing saw the two pieces of wood, and the smell of the wood could be smelled throughout the camp.
"Let it dry in the sun for a while, and then I'll add two coats of paint."
Seeing Shao Shengan talking happily, Qiao Qingqing felt sad and asked him how far the forest was. She felt even more distressed when she learned that it was 34 kilometers one way. No wonder her face got sunburned. She rode so far in the bright sun...
Shao Shengan pulled her hand and asked her to sit next to him: "You must be busy over there. I go over to take a look every evening. I met Sheng Miao yesterday. She told me some news. Song Sanhe also said that fishing is too risky recently. Their harvest has dropped sharply for several days. Su Cong and his friends just came here and can't catch the good time. Song Sanhe sent some fish over, and I sent some to them too."
"The threat posed by the sharks was so great that they could even overturn small fishing boats. Fortunately, everyone in the fishing team could swim, otherwise no one would have survived."
"Even if this land really collapses in the future, we have speedboats and can escape quickly if we encounter sharks. At worst, we still have a boat. If we encounter sharks, my eldest brother, my father and I are three strong people and can row the boat far away quickly. Moreover, our boat will definitely follow Tangzhou's fleet closely. They have weapons and can definitely kill sharks." Shao Shengan said in a gentle voice.
Qiao Qingqing held his hand, and the couple leaned against each other. She let out a long breath. She was exhausted physically and mentally these past few days, and worried about the future. Now that she was back home, she felt that she had finally found her feet on the ground. She had to take one step at a time, and she had to survive first.
Five days later, Qiao Qingqing was finally able to take two days off, and she went to the forest with Shao Shengan and his brothers to fetch wood.
They bumped along the way until they saw a strip of water shining in the sunlight in the distance. Qiao Qingqing raised her hand to cover her forehead and asked, "Are we there yet?"
"Yes! Just cross that little ditch and you'll be there."
The small ditch was not small, more than three meters wide, and the depth was unfathomable. When he first came here, Shao Shengan made sure that there were no dangerous creatures in this crack in the ground, so he went into the water and swam carefully. He found that he could not find the bottom at all, so he did not dare to swim further into the darkness below.
This time, Shao Shengan had some experience, so he brought two wooden boards that he had cut himself, which fit perfectly on the road and allowed the car to pass through. After the car passed through, Shao Shengfei put the boards away.
There was someone fetching water not far away. He looked up at them after hearing the noise, then picked up the bucket and left. Qiao Qingqing followed him with her eyes until he disappeared behind some ruins.
"There are quite a lot of people living here. My brother and I came here the other day and saw some people chopping firewood." Shao Shengan explained that there was a long landmark crack in this area with water in it, which would definitely attract survivors to live here.
After walking another seven or eight kilometers, Qiao Qingqing finally saw the shadows of the woods.
She couldn't help but be a little shocked: "This poplar forest is so big, are they all living trees?" She was suspicious. The climate and environment have been bad in recent years, especially in the first few years of the natural disaster, with extreme cold and high temperatures. These trees should have become dead trees long ago. Even if the hot weather ended and the forest regenerated, and acid rain hit again, these trees would not be able to grow into towering trees in a short time no matter how much they grew again. This is unreasonable.
"I was also shocked when I saw it, so I thought I must bring you to see it." Shao Shengan's face also became serious.
After entering the forest, Shao Shengan took Shao Shengfei to look for fallen trees. There were many fallen trees when they came a few days ago, but this time they were sparse on the ground. Shao Shengan remembered the fresh deep wheel tracks he saw on the road, and realized that a large team had come to move the fallen trees.
Qiao Qingqing was studying the secrets of this forest. She had also seen the two logs at home. They were said to be damaged by a tornado. After Sheng An and his team repaired them, only half of the trunk remained, but it was still possible to see that the trunk was about 30 centimeters in diameter. From the cross section, she did not find any growth rings, which she found very strange.
She chose an intact tree and decided to cut it down to take a look.
"How's it going, Qingqing?"
Shao Shengan came over sweating profusely. When he heard Qiao Qingqing say that this tree was chosen, he nodded and said, "Then I'll chop it down. My brother and I are collecting some fallen trees over there. You can go over and collect them first."
"good."
Qiao Qingqing went to find Shao Shengfei and collected all the trees.
"We have the materials to build ships, and we also have the fuel for the future. This forest is truly a treasure land." Qiao Qingqing was in high spirits.
Shao Shengan used a chainsaw to cut the tree and quickly cut through the thick tree.
"Bang!"
The three of them quickly moved away, and after the smoke and dust cleared, Qiao Qingqing squatted down to check the incision.
When she saw this, her brows furrowed tightly.
"I can't see any growth rings, or there are no growth rings." Shao Sheng'an was puzzled after looking at it. "If this is a tree from a tropical rain forest, it makes sense that there are no growth rings, but this is a poplar tree, how could it not have a circle of growth rings?"
Qiao Qingqing stroked the cut surface. The tree was very healthy. She looked up and looked around. Apart from the traces of the tornado, the poplar forest was full of vitality. But at this moment, she felt creepy. A mysterious and dangerous change had occurred unconsciously.
She calmed down and said, "Don't worry about it. Let's take the wood we need first. This place is too far away and we won't be able to come here often in the future."
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
During the collection process, someone entered the forest to cut wood. Qiao Qingqing and her companions did not greet the strange survivors, but just focused on their own work. Avoiding people, Qiao Qingqing smuggled a large number of poplar trees into the space, and the night was her paradise.
At night, the three of them slept in the tent. The wind howled in the poplar forest at night. The wind passed through the forest, drilled through the branches and rolled up the leaves. The rustling sound was like the best background sound in a ghost story. Qiao Qingqing couldn't sleep at first, but Shao Shengan, who was sleeping in the middle, patted her arm gently, and she fell asleep after a while.
The next day, the three of them worked hard again. When they returned home, it was already past eleven o'clock at night. The three of them were exhausted, so they quickly washed up and went to sleep, leaving a pile of wood next to the duck shed. At night, two dark shadows came up and headed towards the wood. Dabao was hatching eggs in the nest and suddenly shouted loudly. Shao's father, who was sleeping outside, woke up immediately, opened the curtain and turned on the flashlight: "Which little thief dares to steal things!"
There was an angry shout, followed by a loud noise nearby. When Qiao Qingqing and the others came out, the thief had already run away, and two pieces of wood on the ground had moved a little.
"A wood thief." Shao Shengan said, approaching the duck shed and looking at Dabao inside. He smiled and said, "It's a good thing Dabao is here."
Dabao looked at him and closed his eyes.
"Give Dabao a snack tomorrow. Let's go back to sleep." Qiao Qingqing called out, thinking that she had to set up the trap, otherwise there would be more and more people here, and it would be easy for trouble to happen with too many people.
She went to work the next day. She gave the job of setting the trap to Shao Shengan and gave him the materials.
So Shao Shengan made traps first. They had enough wood, and they needed the main trunk of the tree, and some branches had to be cut off. After cutting the branches, Shao Shengan selected some suitable ones to make fences, and after simply surrounding the camp, he dug traps under the fence on this side of the camp, and put down glass fragments and acid rain.
Qiao Qingqing went to work with peace of mind. After two days of rest, she started to get busy again. Sheng Miao came to change the medicine. Qiao Qingqing was introduced by her. The relationship between the two was getting better and better. Today, Sheng Miao came to chat with Qiao Qingqing for a while: "The commander is going to send people to kill the sharks. The convoy over there is also seeking cooperation. It will probably be in the next two days." She told Qiao Qingqing this as a reminder to make preparations. If the shark-killing team was injured, Qiao Qingqing would have to be busy again, and the ointment that should be made in advance should also be prepared in advance.
"I understand. Let me ask you one more thing. Do you think the operation to kill the shark is going well?"
Sheng Miao stopped talking. After a while of silence, he said, "This must be done. We can't let them multiply like this."
"I understand. I will be prepared. By the way, my family has found a poplar forest. If the fleet needs wood, we can go there and collect it."
"Then thank you in advance. I will tell my superiors. If necessary, please ask your family to show me the way."
Qiao Qingqing nodded.
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