Tuo Shizhan was in the yard, mixing a bunch of herbs.
This weirdo who has been obsessed with studying medical skills all his life likes to find new ways.
When Mr. Tuo dispenses medicine, he doesn't follow the "Soup Song" at all.
Compatibility of Chinese herbal medicine.
Predecessors have done a lot of experimental verification. But Tuo Shizhan likes to completely throw away the constraints of the original rules.
Let him continue to rearrange various herbs based on his own experience and lessons.
Judging from his posture, he is preparing to brew Chinese medicine, but I don’t know what secret recipe he is working on?
I saw him reduce a certain amount of medicine for a while, and then add a few more medicines for a while.
"Hai Li, please go inside and don't do your rockery or planting flowers."
As soon as Luo Xuan entered the door,
Tuo Shizhan, who has extremely sensitive senses, immediately sensed that the person coming was none other than his granddaughter, the guy he longed for.
Takumi Rei couldn't go out during the day, so she could only plant flowers and grass in the small yard, and tried to dig a hole to make a rockery and a small pool.
Hearing this, his face turned red.
She quickly put down the hoe in her hand, and then washed her hands with the water in the small pool.
I ran to the yard again, to the simple cement tank, and fetched water to wash my face.
Wash your hands and face carefully.
After thinking about it,
Tuo Haili rinsed her mouth with warm water again, and then she slipped back into the house slowly, but actually very quickly.
After a while...well, a long time later.
Tuo Haili and Luo Xuan were lying side by side on the bed in the bedroom.
At this time, Luo Xuan, whose anger had completely subsided, asked her in a low voice: "Have the conditions of those who have been living in Hongxing Commune improved during this period?"
"It's a little better than a while ago."
Tuo Haili lay on Luo Xuan's shoulder and replied softly: "Now there are more and more wild vegetables in the ground. Like bracken, horsetail, dandelion, spinach...
Moreover, the sweet potato vines in the production team's field are getting longer and longer.
Due to the severe food shortage a while ago, there are not many fat pigs in the breeding rooms of each production team.
So there are so many sweet potato vines, they can cut some of them to satisfy their hunger. The members of the production team generally don’t bother with them cutting the sweet potato vines.”
As the weather gets hotter, crops in the fields have withstood early locust plagues and droughts.
Including the replanted improved corn seedlings and rice seedlings, they are growing well.
What's more important is that the Zhengxing Brigade is "lending" grain to others in a semi-open manner; in addition, Tuo Haili and Tuo Shizhan, their two grandsons, are also throwing grain out.
So the entire Red Star Commune,
For local production team members, their lives this year are no longer as difficult as they were in the previous period.
Life is better for the members.
In turn, the lives of those living on the territory of Red Star Commune have also improved compared to the previous period.
After all, only local commune members, if the food shortage on hand is not that serious, will not compete with outsiders for the wild vegetables and sweet potato seedlings in the barren slopes.
There is water in the big rivers, but the small canals are not dry.
That's the truth.
Luo Xuan patted Tuo Haili's face and asked her: "How do you feel about letting you two grandsons do this?"
"My heart is both painful and happy."
Takumi stroked her ears and hair,
He replied with a flushed face: "Whenever I see those people huddled in caves or groves, they are living such a difficult life.
My heart feels like it is being cut by a knife.
Especially among them are some young and strong laborers, who rely on their better physical fitness.
When he actually went to snatch the few grains of rice left in someone else's pot, together with the chaff and wild vegetables to make a thin porridge.
Seeing this scene, I wanted to kill them on the spot!"
Takumi said,
A pair of beautiful big eyes began to fill with crystal tears.
Her pretty and delicate face also showed a trace of rare anger: "You are simply worse than a beast!
But this kind of thing happens all the time.
At the beginning, I could beat him up hard. But later, when I saw this situation, I could only feel a sense of sadness and a deep sense of powerlessness in my heart..."
Luo Xuan stretched out his hand,
Gently pat her silky back to express comfort.
"It's okay. Overall, everyone's life has improved to a certain extent. At least hope has been rekindled in their hearts."
Takumi smiled charmingly: "I go out every night and am a little tired. But when I think that we can help others, I feel very happy in my heart."
"Thank you."
Tuo Haili raised her head, stared at Luo Xuan seriously and said: "It's you who let me know the meaning of human life.
It was you who made me know that life is not about grabbing, but about giving. Only in this way can people get true happiness in their hearts."
"Don't make me sound so great."
Luo Xuan smiled faintly, "If nothing else, don't I just take from you and not give anything?"
Tuo Haili smiled: "I do! I have thought about it. From now on, I will be a barefoot doctor like you said.
I will never marry for the rest of my life, and I will just treat other people's diseases with peace of mind. Do you know? Now we are already concentrating on developing a specific medicine to treat infertility."
Luo Xuan asked her: "So how's the progress? If you need anything, just tell me where I can help.
Dr. Huang, the director of the township health center, has more complete medicines than you."
Takumi smiled and said: "That special medicine, I feel like it is almost successful.
If I need your help, I won't be polite to you; so if you need anything from me, you can't be polite... I'm willing to buy it for a thousand dollars!"
Knead Luo Xuan,
Takumi stuck out her tongue.
She smiled tenderly and said: "Hey, you still want to vomit? Life is going well, but your physical fitness is different!"
Luo Xuan chuckled: "A gentleman talks but doesn't do anything. Haili, you are a very qualified female gentleman. I'm sorry to bother you..."
"I would like to..."
That night.
Luo Xuan and Tuo Haili, like Tuo Shizhan, were all dressed in black.
Each face wears a special black mask.
3 people dressed up,
Luo Xuan rode a bicycle in front, Tuo Haili rode a bicycle, and Tuo Shizhan followed behind.
On each of the two bicycles, there were about 10 small cloth bags containing 6 or 7 kilograms of grain.
When you go out to deliver food at night, you can't deliver too much at once.
Because most of the people Takumi Rei chooses to be rescued are the old, weak, sick and disabled, who are almost in despair.
The common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying the jade.
As old, weak, sick and disabled, their ability to protect themselves is very poor.
If you give them too much food, you risk causing disaster to them.
A group of three people rode two bicycles and rode along the main road with the help of the faint moonlight at night.
We had traveled approximately 15 or 6 miles.
On the right side of the road, in a large bamboo forest, there were faint bursts of fire.
No need to guess: these are those people who live in the Red Star Commune but have no relatives or friends to rely on.
There are militiamen on duty in the village and they cannot enter.
During the day, these people would go to the mountains and fields to look for wild vegetables, or go to the river to see if they could catch some fish and shrimp.
And when night comes, they either go to find a cave to stay.
Or find a small forest or bamboo forest to take shelter.
Generally speaking, living in a cave is the safest and most comfortable place.
After all, the evening wind is still very cool when blowing on the body. These people who are already weak have not much fat in their bodies, which is used to resist the cold.
If you can't find a suitable cave, then a small forest is better than a bamboo forest.
As a shelter, the worst place is the bamboo forest, mainly because there are many mosquitoes.
Especially at dusk, the mosquitoes flying around the bamboo forest are definitely counted in "ten thousand".
Densely dense and buzzing.
With one slap, it is possible to kill 10 to 20 mosquitoes.
It's not easy to spend the night in the bamboo forest.
So these people would go around to find some firewood and a few piles of fire.
As soon as it comes,
Fire can drive away some potential wild animals, such as stingers and bobcats, which are extremely ferocious and dangerous animals.
Secondly, fires can help people keep out the cold; the smoke can also drive away those annoying mosquitoes that are everywhere.
Among the homeless people, those who are willing to live in a small bamboo forest are the most vulnerable groups.
These people, who couldn't grab the cave or the grove, were Takumi Rei's first choice for help.
"Old rules?"
Tuo Shizhan had already smelled the smell of fireworks, and he was sitting on the back seat of the bicycle.
He asked Tuo Haili: "Take me, grandpa, to the path leading to the entrance of the village. I will be responsible for guarding, and you will deliver the food."
Takumi lowered her voice.
He said softly: "Don't worry, grandpa, I feel that something is not right about today's situation."
Tuo Shizhan whispered, "Tell me more specifically."
"There are quite a lot of people stranded in this small forest today."
Takumi slowly stopped her bicycle and looked at the small bamboo forest about 100 meters ahead with a wary face.
He opened his mouth and said, "They only have about 10 fires. Besides, Grandpa, you should be able to hear that the people inside are talking a lot, and it's quite mixed."
Tuo Shizhan heard the words,
He listened for a long time, then nodded slowly, "Yes. According to my estimate, there are at least about 50 people. Hey, what are they digging in the bamboo forest? It's really weird..."
Digging in the bamboo forest?
Those bamboo roots are tangled in the ground and are very difficult to dig out.
This bamboo variety in Bashu is different from the moso bamboo found in other places.
Because the bamboo grows almost airtight and can block the sunlight completely, there is basically no grass in the open space of the bamboo forest.
Since the ground is difficult to dig, and there are no wild vegetables growing there...
Why did they dig so hard in the bamboo forest?
Moreover, a large group of about 50 people, how could they come to the bamboo forest to suffer?
These homeless people,
Usually they are relatives and friends. Or they are from the same production team, or at least people from the same production brigade.
They will travel together and start their wandering journey in groups.
"So many people are crowded together in a bamboo forest. Can't they get an air-raid shelter or something?"
Tuo Haili frowned slightly: "We have been out so many times, and this is the first time that we have encountered such a large group of people, who can only squeeze into a bamboo forest."
Luo Xuan said: "Just wait here for a while, let me go and check the situation."
Takumi nodded.
Then she took the bicycle from Luo Xuan and stood on the side of the road with her grandfather, waiting silently.
Luo Xuan is a local.
Luo Xuan stepped forward to find out the situation.
If something unexpected happens, it will indeed be much easier to deal with it than Takumi Rei and the others.
Taking advantage of the darkness of night and the cover of weeds outside the bamboo forest.
Luo Xuan quietly approached the bamboo forest.
After walking around to the back of the bamboo forest and looking through the gaps between the bamboo poles, Luo Xuan could clearly see the situation in front of him.
I couldn't help but be surprised: these people who originally lacked food and drink, actually spent their precious energy in the bamboo forest...
They are digging a hole!
and,
Judging from the dirt piled up next to it, the size of the pit dug by these people was actually quite small!
What are they going to do?!
Bury someone?
With such a big pit, how many people would have to be buried in it...
