Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 176 Mountain Mosquito
Honey locust tree.

Li Hongbing remembers that in the early years, every household in the village would plant a tree. This kind of tree grows fast and has lush branches and leaves, but the trunk and branches are covered with long, sharp and hard thorns. If you are not careful, you will be pricked by it. Full House".

When I was playing in the village when I was young, the children would avoid the saponin tree, but the thorns are good things. I found the oldest thorns from the tree and put them on the head of a stick.

In autumn, the saponin trees are full of saponins longer than lentils. Adults will specially pick some fresh saponins, because these saponins can not only be used for washing clothes, hair and hair, but also can be eaten.

The way to eat saponins is different from other wild fruits. It is easy to eat a few handfuls and invite the whole village to eat. First, the saponins are peeled off and boiled on the stove. Just like sugar water, this was one of the few opportunities for Li Hongbing to eat sugar when he was a child.

It's a pity that after Li Hongbing returned to the village, Jiu found that the saponin trees planted in the village had disappeared.

how to say!

Back then, the saponin tree was planted because of the needs of the environment. At that time, there were no such things as washing clothes, detergent, shampoo, etc. If you want to wash clothes, wash dishes, wash hair, etc., you have to use something that can produce foam and has a cleansing effect. Functional plants, and the fruit saponins of the saponins is one of them.

Nowadays, soap and shampoo can be bought everywhere, and it is easy to use, so the saponin tree loses its value and is doomed to be cut down. Even wild saponin trees are much less.

Li Hongbing's search for the saponin tree is naturally not to relive childhood joy, this time the goal is to find saponin thorns and make ghost-sealing needles.

Because the thirteen needles of the ghost gate cannot use ordinary acupuncture needles, and the saponin root thorn is also called the sky nail, which means that it is a nail given by the sky. It is as hard as iron and is not easy to break.

Similarly, Tiannail is also a kind of medicinal material, with pungent and warm nature, and belongs to the Liver, Stomach and Lung Meridians. It can use its sharp thorns to reduce swelling and penetrate pus, eliminate toxins and attack toxins, search for wind and kill insects, and even promote qi and blood circulation.Endogenous sores and external sores, various swollen toxins, stubborn ringworm, and retained placenta can all be treated with it.

The thirteen needles of the ghost gate were used, but it was not as light as Li Hongbing said.

Among them, the early steps are extremely cumbersome. Select old soap thorns, which require hard, long, thin, straight, smooth, black and purple in color, and dry them regardless of how much they are.

After the selection, smooth the tail of the soap thorn with a knife, and then drill a small hole half an inch deep in the middle of the tail.

Use two parts of bletilla striata, one and a half parts of cinnabar, half part of realgar, and half part of silver vermilion to make a very fine powder, and use rootless water (water that does not stick to mud when it rains) to blend into a paste.

Fill the prepared ointment into the hole at the end of the soap thorn, fill it tightly and compact it, and take it to an outdoor half shade and half sun place (the junction of light and shade) to dry.

The process and steps are quite complicated.

Bypassing the kiln and climbing up the hillside, the dense miscellaneous trees along the way were cut down, and only some wild fruit trees remained. A few thick and big trees came into view, with piles of brown spikes growing between the trunks and branches. It seems to be warning strangers not to enter.

found it.

Li Hongbing stepped forward quickly and picked out the saponins thorns he needed.

Old thorns are needed to make ghost-sealing needles, the older the better, you have to find them from the root of the saponin tree, the selected thorns must be hard, long, thin, straight, smooth, and black-purple in color to meet the standard of sky nails .

Four saponins trees, only [-] standard sky nails were found. One can imagine how harsh the conditions are.

Wrapping the selected sky nails in red paper and preparing to go home, Li Hongbing stood on the hillside and saw the initial prototype of the village primary school and the spacious and flat playground.

Not to mention, Zhao Fu's work efficiency is really fast.

In less than a month, the school is almost capped.

Let the blind and silly children take the saponin thorns home first, Li Hongbing went down the mountain and turned a corner, came to the primary school construction site, looked at the playground paved with blue bricks, tried the feeling of the feet, and felt that the children finally did not have to use it Physical education class in the mud.

It happened that Sister Cui and Zhao Fu came out of the construction site with the design drawings. Seeing Li Hongbing's appearance, Zhao Fu nodded and bowed to meet him.

"Welcome Doctor Li to inspect the construction site."

Li Hongbing waved his hand. He was already immune to this almost obsequious attitude, and praised the efficiency of the construction team. "Mr. Zhao, your construction speed is good. You can catch up with the construction companies in the city."

"Over there, Doctor Li, Teacher Cui, and Boss Xu are taking care of them."

Zhao Fu is very good at talking, and the order of compliments is also good. He knows who the real boss of this school is.

Sister Cui deliberately sarcastically said, "Isn't this the village chief? Come over to inspect the work."

Little village head.

It is a new nickname given to Li Hongbing in the village. As the name suggests, it is a little lower than the village head, but equal to the village head.

Li Hongbing shook his head and smiled wryly, "Sister Cui, I haven't provoked you recently, why are you so angry?"

Sister Cui snorted coldly, turned her head and said to Zhao Fu, "Mr. Zhao, the construction period must be rushed forward, and the rainy season will soon come. You also know the special situation in Caogou Village. If it drags on until the mosquitoes come out, then the construction will have to be suspended and wait until autumn." Start working again."

After finishing speaking, Sister Cui raised her face, ignored Li Hongbing, and left the construction site twisting her hips.

The two men looked at each other, seeing the embarrassment in each other's eyes.

Zhao Fu spoke first, passing on his experience as someone who had experienced it.

"Well, Dr. Li, you can't let this poor woman relax too much. You need to clean it up. If you don't clean it up, you will ride on your head and shit and pee."

just you!

Forget that you married two wives.

Li Hongbing was too lazy to exchange experience with the old scumbag, saw the construction progress of the elementary school, and changed the topic, "Mr. Zhao, I didn't mean to build a new house next to the old house last time. How about it? Are you interested?"

After hearing this, Zhao Fu looked anxious and said painfully, "I'm sure I'm interested, but I really can't find any manpower. Teacher Cui can't wait to urge me six times a day, and keep on rushing to work. The workers on hand are so busy that they don't get caught , just now some workers complained that there are mountain mosquitoes at night.”

It's only the beginning of June now, and the mountain mosquitoes are out.

Li Hongbing froze for a moment, and confirmed to Zhao Fu again, Zhao Fu didn't hesitate, and directly stopped a worker passing by.

"Dahai, were you bitten by a mountain mosquito last night?"

The worker immediately pulled up his trouser legs, and saw two coin-sized red envelopes on his calf. There was a small blister on the top of the red envelope, surrounded by scratches from scratching.

"Zhao Tou, not only me, but other people have also been bitten. The mosquitoes here are very poisonous. If you bite, you will die. When will the work stop, I don't want to feed the mosquitoes."

"Okay, hurry up and finish the work early." Xiao Zhao Fu glared at the negative worker, and spread his hands to Li Hongbing, "Doctor Li, look, I'm in a hurry right now."

The moment Li Hongbing saw the red envelope on the worker's lap, Li Hongbing was sure that the mountain mosquito had come out.

Mountain mosquitoes are also called poisonous mosquitoes in forest areas. Their characteristic is poison. When they bite people, they will form a red envelope. The sign is that there is a blister on the top of the red envelope, which is extremely itchy, and itches into the bones.

In previous years, when the rainy season came, the mountain torrents submerged the meadows, forming a vast swamp, and the mountain mosquitoes would lay eggs in the swamp and hatch more mountain mosquitoes.

At this time, the villagers of Caogou Village either went to other places to work, or went to seek refuge with relatives, or stayed at home and did not go out, and those who sold animals sold animals. Anyway, they only had to survive for two months, and then returned to the village when the temperature dropped in autumn.

In previous years, in June, when the first rain and thunder sounded, the village began to make preparations. Maybe this year, the weather was hot and early, and the mountain mosquitoes came out of the mountain half a month earlier.

This is a bit of a hassle.

Li Hongbing bid farewell to Zhao Fu in a hurry and rushed to the village committee. Li Huaizhong had to be told the news.

At this time, Li Huaizhong was sitting in the village committee, frowning. Although Li Hongbing was the guarantor, he felt uneasy and always felt that something was going to happen.

boom!
The door of the room was kicked open, and Li Huaizhong grabbed the teacup on the table in fright, and when he saw Li Hongbing, he complained angrily.

"Hong Soldier, why are you like Hong Qi, you like kicking doors with your feet?"

Li Hongbing was not in the mood to joke with him, and when he told about the construction team being bitten by mountain mosquitoes with a cold face, Li Huaizhong's expression changed drastically.

Should not be!

According to the time, there is still half a month before the mountain mosquitoes will come out of the mountain. How could it be so early this year.

After finishing speaking, he immediately turned on the tweeter in the village and called Dakui, Tie Zhu, Fu Sheng, and Daquan on the radio, and some men with the right to speak in the village came to the village committee meeting.

Dakui and the others have finished hauling stone materials. They have been resting at home for the past few days. After hearing the radio, they came to the village committee one after another.

Seeing that Li Hongbing was there with a straight face, he couldn't help muttering in his heart, put away his laughing expression, and found a place to sit down in the room.

Soon, more than 20 men, old and young, crowded into the already narrow village committee room, not allowed to speak, and simply smoked and smoked.

Li Hongbing couldn't stand so many people smoking at the same time, the house was filled with smoke, and the faces of the villagers could not be seen clearly, so he stood up and opened the window.

A thick puff of smoke poured out the window.

Seeing that it was almost time for people to come, Li Huaizhong cleared his throat on purpose, and everyone in the room looked at him.

"Mountain mosquitoes have come out of the mountain."

What!
Immediately, the house seemed to be boiling with boiling water, and the villagers began to churn one by one.

"It's so early, the day hasn't arrived yet."

"In previous years, the mosquitoes did not come out of the mountains until the rain and thunder sounded."

"Is there a mistake?"

"It's not going to work. My sheep haven't fattened yet, and they're going to lose money this year."

"My pigs haven't been fattened yet, and I haven't bought any feed yet."

boom!
Li Huaizhong slapped the table, "Mother Du Te, shut up."

Fusheng's family has sheep and pigs. If the mountain mosquitoes really come out of the mountain, the first batch of victims must have his family, and I feel very anxious.

"Huaizhong, are you sure it's a mountain mosquito?"

"The red soldier just came back from the elementary school construction site and said that all the workers there were bitten."

"What! Did you read it wrong?" Fu Sheng stood up abruptly, walked towards the door, and said as he walked, "I'll go home and take a look at the pigsty."

These days I have been busy pulling stones for Uncle Red Soldier, and my mother-in-law is doing all the work of feeding the animals at home. If there are mountain mosquitoes, the animals will definitely not escape.

The whole room waited for Fu Sheng to come back, smelling of burnt mugwort on their bodies, and instantly understood that what Li Huaizhong and Uncle Hong Bing said was true.

With a gloomy face, Fu Sheng entered the room and nodded at everyone, "Young son, the pigs have been bitten, they are mountain mosquitoes."

Everyone's face darkened.

For villagers, there are many ways to resist mosquitoes, but it is different for livestock.

Livestock that have been bitten by mountain mosquitoes will not eat well, lose their appetite, and have a bad rest. This is especially harmful to pregnant livestock, seriously affecting the normal development of fetuses and easily causing disease transmission.

"What about this?"

I don’t know what to say, and the whole house fell silent. Almost every family has livestock, ranging from small chickens and ducks to large cattle, sheep and pigs. These livestock are the lifeblood of the villagers. make money.

Moreover, sick livestock cannot be sold and can only be disposed of in a harmless manner. For the already poor villagers of Caogou Village, it is simply one disaster after another.

Now that the mountain mosquitoes came out of the mountain ahead of schedule, everyone panicked.

All eyes in the room were also on Li Hongbing.

Uncle Hongbing has the most and the most miscellaneous livestock in the village. Uncle Hongbing is also a village doctor, so he must have a solution.

Li Hongbing lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

I don't know if animals that have used the power of the source can resist the bite of mountain mosquitoes.

Suddenly feeling that there was no movement in the room, I looked up and saw pairs of expectant eyes.

After thinking for a while, he said, "In the medical book left by grandpa, there is a prescription for Qixiangsan to repel insects. I don't know if it will work or not."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he pulled the old man again.

Everyone seems to have grasped at straws, and echoed one after another.

"The prescription left by the old master will definitely work."

"Uncle Red Soldier, why don't you give it a try."

"That's right, let's dig up the mountain for any medicinal materials we want."

Li Hongbing hesitated for a moment, then nodded heavily.

"That's fine, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. I need a lot of Qixiangsan herbs, mugwort, calamus, angelica, clove, mint, ageratum, perilla, and live ones with roots."

With the backbone opening, Li Huaizhong put on the appearance of taking the lead.

"Mother Dut, do you hear me clearly? The herbs that the Red Soldier asked for by name must be kept alive. Don't lose the chain. The whole village, men, women and children, are digging in the mountains. We must unite as one and win this tough battle. no confidence."

There is a hanging confidence.

I didn't hear Uncle Hongbing say that a dead horse is a living horse doctor.

Listen to your blindness, how many herbs I dig less.

Someone has already run out of the house and went home to get tools to dig grass.

Seeing the villagers so shameless and rushing out one by one, Li Huaizhong could only hold his breath in his stomach. Don't pay attention to the shouts of the village chief when he usually meets the village chief, but if something happens, he will be the first to be pushed out to take the blame .

"Red Soldier, you go home and wait, I'll let you know on the radio later, and make sure you don't lose the chain."

"Okay, I'm going back."

……

Walking on the mountain road home.

Down the slope is an endless meadow, which seems to be connected to the sky from a distance, like a green carpet, covered with colorful flowers, and embroidered a beautiful picture scroll on the boundless green carpet.

Who would have thought that this beautiful picture scroll would become a disaster that Caogou Village feared in a month.

Nature is fair, and what is lost must be gained.

Back home, Li Hongbing immediately told everyone about the appearance of the mountain mosquito.

Shan Xing was so frightened that her face paled, she quickly called the animals to her side, and checked them one by one, while the blind man and the fool ran to the barn on the grassy slope to check the pigs, horses, cows, and sheep.

When everyone returned to the yard, the result was that none of the animals or livestock in the house had been bitten by mountain mosquitoes, but there were indeed mountain mosquitoes on the meadow.

Sure enough, it was still ahead of schedule.

Li Hongbing settled down.

It can be determined that the power of the source can drive away the mountain mosquitoes.

If one's own livestock is fine, other livestock in the village will suffer.

If all the livestock in the village were to be used up with the power of the source, Li Hongbing really didn't have the heart of the Virgin.

I can only try to see if the Qixiang powder mixed with the original power is useful.

"Blind man, come with me."

The two walked to the backyard, and a circle of small-leaf mugwort was planted around the Baicao Garden. This was when Li Hongbing cut the mugwort on the Dragon Boat Festival, he deliberately left some mugwort with roots, and planned to use it for moxibustion when treating patients in the future. use.

These mugworts have been lifted by the power of the source, each stalk is as thick as a thumb, more than two meters high, the leaves are shiny, and emit a strong bitter fragrance.

"Blind man, chop some mugwort and send it to the pharmacy."

　There is no update, because the previous chapter was inexplicably blocked, so the latest chapter cannot be displayed. It is certain that I did not drive, and I am speechless. I can only apply for unblocking. Sorry everyone.

　　
　
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