Yang Jie exchanged several kilograms of sweet potatoes for the squid, for which he was criticized by Yang Weimin for wasting food. In fact, he just wanted his father to have some meat on his birthday.
For fear of waste, I was reluctant to peel off the outermost purple membrane of the squid, but I washed it several times.
Moreover, he deliberately dragged his feet and didn't pick up the bowl, just to let his father eat a few more bites of meat.
Jiang Ning observed the fried squid and looked at the squid tentacles with chopsticks. "Dried squid?"
"Yes, it's a very big squid, one piece weighs one pound. I cut it into quarters and fried it."
A pound of dried squid? Jiang Ning was surprised.
After being dried, ordinary farmed squid weighing 30 to 40 grams is considered very large, while purely wild ones weighing 100 grams are considered large.
Floods destroyed the aquaculture farms. The wild squids in the sea could never be that heavy. Even if there were some, they would have been salvaged long ago and divided into different groups after being brought ashore. It was impossible for the good stuff to reach the hands of ordinary survivors.
Yang Jie explained, "No, the dried squid they sell is very big, some weigh more than two kilograms."
Jiang Ning frowned and was suddenly startled.
She remembered Huo Yishen saying that extreme heat would melt the polar glaciers and that ancient viruses would most likely invade the ocean.
"Where's the squid?"
Yang Jie quickly took out the remaining dried squid from the kitchen.
Jiang Ning was dumbfounded. This dried squid... was not only several times larger than the ones she had stockpiled before, but the purple membrane coating on its tentacles was also thicker.
The squid has a lot of raised lumps of flesh, but they are not particularly obvious because they are dried, but you can still tell them apart if you look closely.
She smelled it and found it was indeed dried squid, but the taste was much worse than the ones she had stockpiled, and it had a particularly strong fishy smell.
If I'm not mistaken, it was an ancient virus that caused the squid to mutate, making it no longer edible to humans.
"There's something wrong with this squid." Jiang Ning said seriously, "Gastric lavage, now."
Without a gastric lavage tube, they could only pour water into Yang Weimin's mouth. When he had enough, he would naturally vomit, and then they could continue.
Yang Weimin didn't want to believe it at first, but Yang Jie was so scared that he started crying and almost knelt down to beg him, "Dad, just listen to Sister Aning. Mom is gone. If you leave again, what should I do?"
He was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and had become very sensible after two years of natural disasters, but at this moment he was crying like a child.
Yang Weimin didn't want to leave his son, "Don't cry, Dad will listen to you."
Drink water desperately and induce vomiting desperately.
Yang Jie was at a loss, he just wanted his father to have some meat on his birthday, how could this end up harming him?
He Tianming looked serious, "Xiao Jiang, why do you say there is something wrong with the squid?"
Jiang Ning did not hide anything and told the story of the ancient virus in a speculative way.
He Tianming was shocked. Over the past decade, the temperature has indeed been rising, and the polar glaciers have been melting faster and faster. Scientists' concerns about ancient viruses have also been reported in the media from time to time.
It’s just that ordinary people feel it’s too far away and forget it after seeing it.
Unexpectedly, it really happened one day, and it happened in the end times when there was no medicine.
Yang Weimin was fed half a bucket of water and even bile came out.
He Tianming asked with concern, "Old Yang, how do you feel?"
Yang Weimin kept panting, his body still aching, but much better than before, "I, I didn't eat much either."
It’s not easy to eat meat, so I thought of leaving more for my son.
It hurts so much after just a few bites. If I eat it all, my family will be doomed.
He Tianming was so frightened that his palms were covered with cold sweat. Unlike the inland areas or major grain-producing provinces, the industry here in the coastal areas is well developed and the geographical location is not suitable for building a strategic granary.
Since the natural disaster, the reason why many people are still able to eat is because they ask the ocean for food.
Salt, seafood, seaweed, etc.
If all these are affected by the ancient virus and become harmful, what will happen to the survivors?
He Tianming's voice trembled, "Xiao Jiang, are you sure?"
Jiang Ning shook his head. "It's just a guess."
"But if it's true, then we won't even have any hope of survival?"
Jiang Ning had no way to answer and could only choose to remain silent.
The Yang family had no medicine, so they could only endure it after gastric lavage.
Jiang Ning had done everything he could, so he decided to leave.
Unexpectedly, He Tianming called out, "Xiao Jiang, this is a serious matter. So much seawater and seafood come to Fengcheng every day. If there is a problem, who knows how many people will die. How about we go to the neighborhood committee and report this matter?"
Jiang Ning said politely, "Captain He, this is just my guess, and I don't have any evidence. If the investigation turns out that it's not true, wouldn't I be spreading rumors and causing trouble?
Not to mention that the police will give me a silver bracelet, I'm afraid those vendors will be the first to jump out and hack me to death.
I'm glad the deputy captain is okay. I'll go back first."
Coming out of Building 1, Jiang Ning sighed deeply. He didn't expect the virus to invade so quickly.
In her previous life, she lived a poor and displaced life, eating tree bark and chewing Guanyin soil, so she had no chance to enjoy seafood.
When they see survivors, they hide away for fear of being slaughtered like sheep, so the matter is really unclear.
It has been less than two months since he returned from the seaside, but he did not expect such a big change. Jiang Ning was deeply traumatized. How could he dare to eat 40 tons of fresh food and tens of thousands of kilograms of dried goods and sea salt?
No wonder a bag of salt could be exchanged for 30 kilograms of grain in the previous life. I guess the situation was quite serious.
She was a little worried, “What would happen if I ate something infected with the virus?”
Huo Yishen had no idea either. He was busy running around on the front line of disaster relief every day, and life and death were commonplace. He would fall asleep as soon as he had a little free time, and he really had no energy to pay attention to other things.
"There has always been a supply of seafood rice balls for disaster relief, probably because they were stockpiled in the past. Anyway, there has never been a case of death from poisoning. I only heard about it from others a few years later."
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