After hearing this, Zhou Ruonan quickly walked in and looked at Father Li with a worried look.

Seeing that his father's face was a little pale, Li Changle quickly comforted him: "Abba, it's okay, don't worry."

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Father Li gave him a weak look, "You can do it, you're the one who talks about everything!"

Li Changle choked on his words, blame him!

Dr. Xiang came over with a scalpel, alcohol, and a cupping pot, and handed a thick piece of wood to Father Li, "Bite the cork, and I'll cut open the wound and extract the poison."

Father Li took it and bit it. Li Changle squatted down and picked up his leg to fix it. Doctor Xiang made a cross on the wound, and black and red poisonous blood rushed out. He wiped off the poisonous blood and tore it off. A piece of tissue soaked in alcohol was burned and placed in a bamboo tube.

When the straw paper in the bamboo tube is almost burned out, turn the bamboo tube upside down at the wound location and pull out the poisonous blood. Repeat three times until the blood that flows out starts to turn red in color and then stops.

Li Changle felt his father's legs shaking. He looked up and saw that his head was sweating profusely in pain. His heart felt as if he was being pricked by needles. "Abba, relax, it's okay."

Father Li closed his eyes and ignored him, still regretting that he had not disciplined his son well and had harmed others and himself.

"The poisonous blood has been pulled out. There is serum in the town. If you take it, it will be fine." Doctor Xiang also comforted him, took a few cotton swabs, dipped them in iodine, wiped the area around the wound, and opened a small paper bag. , sprinkle the snake medicine on it.

At this time, there was the sound of a tractor driving outside. Li Changle squatted in front of his father and said, "Abba, I will carry you to the town on the tractor."

Father Li didn't want to go. "It's all money to go to the hospital. Doctor Xiang has already removed the poisonous blood for me and applied snake medicine. Is it okay if I don't go?"

"Abba, you can't go. The five-step snake is very venomous. You have to go to the hospital to get serum. I still have money. I'll get it when I go back and wait for you at the intersection." After Zhou Ruonan said that, he turned around and ran out.

"Old Li, this is not the time to save money. You must go to Tuqiao Hospital for serum detoxification." Dr. Xiang said, helping him onto Li Changle's back and asking him to carry him away quickly without delay.

When I went out, I saw Li Changqing parked the tractor and came over to greet him, "Ale, my second uncle was really bitten by a five-step snake?"

"Yes! Go to the hospital quickly."

"I'll go up and pick it up."

The two of them worked together to get Li's father into the bed of the tractor and sit against the bed of the truck. Li Changqing jumped off, released the brake, pressed the clutch, and the tractor sped towards the entrance of the village.

At the intersection, Zhou Ruonan and Li's mother stood there waiting with their two children in hand.

"Ale, I only have sixty-two here. My eldest brother and my second brother have gone to sea. My two sisters-in-law haven't come back yet. When they come back, I will call them to go to town."

Li Changle took the money, and suddenly thought of a place to make money in his mind, and said to Li's mother: "Mom, come up and go together. If the money is not enough, you can watch my father in the hospital, and I will come back and find a way to find money."

"Oh!" Li's mother hurriedly carried her things and sat next to Li Changqing, while the tractor suddenly emitted black smoke and drove towards the town.

Half an hour later, as they were about to arrive at the hospital, Li Changle noticed that his father seemed to be in a very uncomfortable state. He was afraid that he would be the same as in his previous life, and his voice had a vibrato unconsciously.

"Abba, please bear with me, the hospital will be here soon."

Father Li felt cold all over and even had no strength to speak. Hearing his voice trembling, he endured the discomfort and opened his eyes and nodded to him.

After a while, Li Changqing parked the tractor in the courtyard outside the outpatient department, "Ale, you hurry up and call the doctor. I'll carry my second uncle in."

"Oh!" Li Changle jumped off the tractor and ran into the hospital. He hurriedly went to the window with the emergency sign, "Help, doctor, help, my father was bitten by a five-step snake..."

A middle-aged male doctor turned around and asked, "Are you sure it was bitten by a five-step snake?"

"I'm sure it was checked by the village doctor."

"Send the person to the diagnosis room next door!" the doctor said as he came out and walked towards the next door.

Li Changle turned around and saw Li Changqing striding in with Father Li on his back, and Mother Li quickly followed behind, "Ah Qing, this way."

The three of them brought Li's father into the consulting room. After the doctor turned on the light and checked, he determined that it was bitten by a five-step snake. "How long has it been bitten? When was the poisonous blood injected?"

Father Li said weakly: "For about two and a half hours, before I came here, the village doctor used a cupping pot to remove the poison from me and applied snake medicine."

After hearing this, the doctor said to the two nurses who followed him: "You take them to the hospital for a blood test, and you wait to get the prescription and get the medicine."

"Okay, Dr. Lin!" The round-faced nurse stepped forward, pushing the diagnosis and treatment bed, and said to the three of them, "One of you will follow me to the inpatient department for a blood test, and the other will stay and pay."

"Ale, I'll follow you!" Li Changqing took the pale-faced Mother Li and followed the nurse.

Dr. Lin sat down at the desk and wrote a prescription and handed it to the nurse who stayed behind. He began to write out the bill for the treatment fee. As he wrote, he said: "First pay the hospitalization fee of 300 yuan in advance..."

"Doctor Lin!" Li Changle took out the money he brought with some embarrassment, "I only brought one hundred and fifty. Don't worry, I will make up for the insufficient money within two days."

Dr. Lin hesitated for a moment, then rewrote the payment form, tore it off and handed it to Li Changle, "Go and pay!"

"Thank you, Dr. Lin! I'll hand over the money and go home to raise money right away."

Li Changle paid the money, took the list and searched around, only to learn that they had gone to the second floor of the inpatient department behind the outpatient building. When he rushed there, he saw Aniang and Li Changqing standing outside the operating room, circling anxiously.

He stepped forward and gave her the bill and the remaining three yuan, "Mommy, there is still one hundred and fifty yuan left for the hospitalization fee. You stay here and I will go back to find the money."

After Li's mother took it, she said angrily: "Where are you going to find money? Which of your little friends will lend you money? Go back and go to the beach to find your elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law. They have money."

Li Changqing also said: "Ale, I think the second aunt is right. If my family hadn't just built a house..."

Mother Li hurriedly said: "Aqing, please don't say that. Auntie knows that your family also owes a lot of money."

Li Changle knew that those friends were fine for eating and drinking. If they really wanted to help, it would be difficult to find any of them. He said they wanted to borrow money, which was just an excuse.

Then he thought again, if he didn't find valuable sea fish or pearls after entering, he would have to go to the two sisters-in-law to get money, so he said, "Okay, I'll go back to find the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law."

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Li Changle came out of the hospital and waited on the side of the road for a while before a minibus came that way. He sat worriedly for half an hour before it arrived.

Shatou Village is a small fishing village. It takes more than an hour to walk to the town. Because it is too close to the seaside and has little cultivated land, most of the people in the village make a living by fishing.

The Li family lives at the foot of Yantou Mountain at the end of the village. There are five brothers and sisters in the family. The eldest sister Li Changxi married to Li'ao Village, past Panzhen.

The eldest brother Li Changping is married and has two sons and one daughter. The second brother Li Changan is married and has two daughters and one son. The two of them are helping the ship, while the younger brother Li Changhuan is a soldier and has not yet changed his career.

Li Changle has two sons. The eldest is over five years old and the youngest is over three years old.

There are four stone houses lined up in a row. After the three eldest brothers got married, each of them was assigned a room, while the youngest lived with his parents.

Several members of the family are crowded into one house, and there is no money to fund the construction of a new house.

Li's father used to help the village sail boats. After he was assigned to a household to work alone, he used his family funds to buy a small fishing boat.

Small fishing boats cannot go to the open sea and can only fish offshore, which can only make ends meet for a year.

Li Changping and Li Changan went to their uncle's house to help on the boat, while the women stayed at home to scour the sea and weave nets to support the family.

As good fortune never comes singly, misfortune never comes alone. The old lady passed away a few days ago and the family boat also broke down.

Father Li sent the old lady away, and the remaining money was originally intended to repair the fishing boat, but now he was bitten by the five-step snake.

No wonder the old saying goes, hemp ropes are only broken at the thinnest places, and bad luck only seeks out the miserable.

Li Changle was thinking wildly when he got home. Seeing that no one was in the house, he took out his high rain boots and put them on. He also took out a pair of trousers and a headlamp from the cabinet, put them into an oilcloth bag, and then put them in a backpack.

Thinking about how I drank and didn't eat anything last night, after going to the sea, I couldn't do anything because I was hungry, so I went straight to the kitchen behind the house and looked up at the rafters.

I saw a rice basket hanging on a wooden fork tied with a rope to the beam.

He took it off and uncovered the gauze covering it, and saw that there were two wheat cakes inside. He rolled them up and ate them in two or two mouthfuls with boiling water until he was full.

Before going out, I went to find a flat knife, a large net bag, a net, a wooden stick, and a net rope. I closed the door, turned right, and walked about ten meters to the intersection of stone steps at the foot of the mountain.

Take three steps and two steps at a time, and walk up the narrow stone steps that can only allow two people to pass side by side.

Facing the morning light, many mosquitoes are flying in front of us. In the countryside near water sources, there are especially many snakes and insects in summer. When walking at night, you can see snakes quickly sliding into the grass.

When you go up Yantou Mountain, you will see the sea on the back of the mountain. Most of the mountains near the sea are not high, but very steep.

From the mountain to the seaside, you have to pass through a military cave that was dug manually before liberation and is now abandoned.

Half an hour later, he arrived at the cave and strode in. The cave was dark and gloomy where there was no light, and there were many poisonous insects hiding in it to cool off during the hot summer days. This was where Father Li was bitten.

Li Changle hit the ground with a stick, and the echo of bang bang echoed in the cave. From time to time, the sound of waves hitting the rocks could be heard in his ears.

After walking for about four or five minutes, we walked out of the cave and saw villagers fishing in the distance heading towards the pier.

As he walked down the mountain, several women who had returned from fishing met him. Seeing that he was carrying fishing tools, they looked at each other in unison.

A woman asked with a smile on her face, "Ale, why are you walking this way so early in the morning? Are you going to go fishing in the sea?"

"Go and see if there are any good products?"

After Li Changle said that, he walked around a few people and walked forward. Within a few steps, laughter came from behind.

"It's already this hour and you still want to hunt for good stuff? People go out to sea when the tide is low, but it's better for him to go when the tide is about to come in."

"Yes, there is a saying that even eating shit can't keep up with the heat. That's what he is talking about."

"Teacher Zhou has a hard life, finding such a lazy guy."
Chapter completed!