Approaching noon, Zhao Ziqiao got up and shook off the sweat beads on his arms, I don't know what happened today, it was so hot, and now the heat can catch up with the hottest one or two o'clock of the day.

"Brother and sister, you and your sister should go back to cooking first!" When Zhao Ziqiao shook off the beads of sweat, Zhao Dongshan 1 suddenly said, asking Zhao Yunfang and Liu Fang to go back to cooking.

Zhao Yunfang looked up at the sun, said hello, and beckoned Liu Fang to go back to cook together, looking at the sweat-soaked clothes on the chest and back of the two, Zhao Ziqiao felt a little uncomfortable, although his mother and aunt can go back to cook now, but this time is not idle, and they have to work for the meals of five people.

Looking at the fields that have not even been harvested by a third, Zhao Ziqiao can only bend down silently, and now he can only do more work to dissipate the uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

"When did this leech bite me?

As soon as Zhao Ziqiao harvested two rice plants, he heard his mother Liu Fang's voice sound, looked up, and saw that his mother was picking up a leech with the thickness of a little thumb, and his round body could be seen clearly by Zhao Ziqiao from such a distance.

The three men who were still in the field lifted their feet almost at the same time, trying to see if they had leeches on them.

Leech is a very common creature in the field, the body is dorsal and ventral flattened, the front end is narrow, and the whole is leaf-like or worm-like, looking at it makes people feel a little creepy, and also a little disgusting, although it belongs to medicinal materials in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", in recent years, it has been reported that some people have been artificially bred, but for this kind of thing that not only lives in the field, but also can live in the mountains and forests, Zhao Ziqiao has a very disgusted mentality, who called this little thing when he worked in the field when he was a child, often bitten him? Especially its soft body, which is disgusting to the touch.

Now that he was pinching such a large leech, he directly pinched it in front of several people, blood flowed down from her hands, and the speed at which Zhao Ziqiao lifted his feet was even faster.

"Damn! I have it on my leg too. Seeing a leech sucking his own blood on his leg, Zhao Ziqiao ran directly to the irrigation canal.

Zhao Dehua and Zhao Shandong both laughed when they saw Zhao Ziqiao's exaggerated performance, and at the same time reached out and ripped off the leeches on their legs.

It is said that their rough practice can easily keep the mouthparts of leeches in the body, thus causing infection, but as a rural person, they don't pay attention to these at all, and their bodies are not so expensive.

The most scientific way to remove leeches from the body is to use a needle with heat or use a lighter to directly burn the body surface of the leech, so that it can feel the burning sensation, automatically activate the protection mechanism, and fall down in a clump.

However, Zhao Ziqiao does not have these things at this stage, and after washing the mud on his legs in the irrigation canal, he found a thin line-like leech, compared to the leech that was sucking blood, this one had just climbed to his leg and did not have a mouth.

After bending his fingers to bounce the thin thread-like leech away, Zhao Ziqiao endured the discomfort, reached out and pulled off the leech that was sucking blood, and then slammed it to the cement surface.

The leech was thrown into a clump directly, but the concrete floor was hot in the sun, and it stretched out its body in the next second, squirming to find a safe place.

Zhao Ziqiao looked at the bleeding hole on his leg, how could he let go of this goods, walked a few steps in the irrigation canal, picked up the shoes that were taken off the side, and ran over to the soles of the shoes.

With a 'pop', a ball of plasma bloomed on the cement surface, and the leech, which was still a little large, was like shrunken clothes, directly shrunk to the size of soybeans, and the dead could no longer die.

"Let you suck my blood!" Even if the sole of a shoe is afraid of killing this leech, Zhao Ziqiao also feels very relieved, when he was a child, he caught this kind of leech that sucked his blood and poured salt on it, watching the salt-covered leech writhing in pain, this is the most relieving way.

Zhao Dehua couldn't help but smile when he watched his son's movements like a child, he seemed to remember what Zhao Ziqiao looked like when he was a child.

"Brother-in-law, why are the leeches so big this year?" As soon as his leg hurt, Zhao Dehua carried another leech and threw it away, and asked a little speechlessly.

The size of these leeches looks really big.

"I haven't thrown lime into the field for two or three years, and I thought that the leeches were all killed, but I didn't expect there to be so many this year. Zhao Shandong also said a little annoyed.

In the past few years, he will pour some lime water into the field almost every year, there is lime water, the aquatic creatures in the field are not dead, and basically there will not be much, in the last year or two, when harvesting rice, I have not bitten, Zhao Shandong also felt that there were no leeches in the field, but I didn't expect that this year directly gave birth to so many, and there are a lot of them.

Zhao Dehua is also a little helpless, leeches, if you give it a little living space, it can give birth to a large number of offspring, how can it be killed? Not to mention that it has not been taken care of for a year or two, can it not be allowed to breed and grow?

However, you have to continue to do the work that should be done, and if you are faster, as long as there are leeches in the place where you don't step on them, the probability of leeches trying to climb onto your legs will be reduced a lot.

After Zhao Yunfang and Liu Fang cleaned up, they went back to cook, and Zhao Ziqiao only stayed in the irrigation canal for a while, and then went down to the field, after all, there was still a lot of work to be done.

After another hour or so, Zhao Shandong's face turned a little red, licked his somewhat dry lips, and shouted at Zhao Dehua and Zhao Ziqiao: "Don't do it, let's wash and go home! It's too hot this day." ”

Zhao Dehua raised his hand and flicked it to the top of his head with his arm, and the beads of sweat on the tips of his hair fell, like a light rain, he also felt that today's weather was too abnormal, so he beckoned Zhao Ziqiao to go out, in this kind of weather, it is not the time to be strong.

Hearing that he was going back, Zhao Ziqiao walked out quickly with a sickle, and this morning finally passed.

Wash the mud on your hands and feet in the irrigation canal, and remove one or two leeches by the way, Zhao Ziqiao and the three of them walked home, Zhao Shandong and Zhao Dehua in front, and Zhao Ziqiao followed behind the two.

Looking at the clothes on the two of them that showed inverted triangle sweat stains, Zhao Ziqiao couldn't help but pull the wet clothes on his body, working in the high temperature, he couldn't think of sweating.

When the three of them got home, Liu Fang immediately served the three of them the cut watermelon, but Zhao Shandong walked into the house and came out with a big bowl of tea, drank it cleanly, and sat on the stool in front of the room to blow the wind a little comfortably.

Zhao Ziqiao came out while eating the watermelon, and just saw the layer of sweat beads on Zhao Shandong's arm coming out from scratch.

"Brother-in-law, this watermelon is sweet, go eat it!" Zhao Dehua walked out of the house, eating watermelon in his mouth, and beckoned Zhao Shandong to come into the house to eat watermelon.

Zhao Shandong nodded, as soon as they came, their bodies swayed a little to one side, Zhao Dehua and Zhao Ziqiao saw this situation, and hurriedly threw away the watermelon in their hands, and hurriedly went to help Zhao Shandong.

"Brother-in-law, are you okay?" Zhao Dehua asked with some concern, Zhao Shandong's face was a little not good at the moment.

"It's okay, maybe it's hot. Zhao Shandong waved his hand, signaling that he was okay, just take it slowly.

Zhao Dehua didn't believe that he was really fine, and immediately said to Zhao Ziqiao: "Ziqiao, go to the house and find two bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water for your uncle to drink." ”

Zhao Ziqiao sighed, hurriedly ran into the house, and after coming with a box of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Zhao Yunfang and Liu Fang also ran out, seeing Zhao Shandong's appearance, both of them were very worried.

Zhao Shandong saw that everyone had come out, squeezed out a smile on his face, and said flatly: "I'm fine, just take a rest, and you can continue to work in the afternoon." ”

Zhao Yunfang wanted to speak and stopped, but Liu Fang said: "Brother-in-law, you can do it slowly, but your body can't come from Hu!"

Zhao Shandong is now a little heat stroke, and he is still thinking about going to work in the afternoon, which makes Liu Fang a little angry.

Zhao Shandong smiled and didn't answer, but then drank another bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water.

In the countryside, there are many cases of heat stroke due to hot weather, but most people are like Zhao Shandong, as long as they don't need to go to the hospital, they are a little relieved, and they grit their teeth to work, after all, God will not take care of you because you are sick or unable to move!

Zhao Shandong slowed down on the stool for a while, and finally felt better, so he told the others that he was fine, and Zhao Ziqiao and the others saw that Zhao Shandong's face was indeed better, and they were also a little relieved.

If it's time to cook, just continue to cook, and if it's time to rest, take a break, and when it's time to eat, Zhao Ziqiao saw that some small white salt grains crystallized out of everyone's clothes, and the faces and necks of his father and uncle were even more red like a shrimp, in fact, he didn't need to look in the mirror to understand that his face and neck were also like the two of them, a slight tingling sensation, had already told him the answer.

This scene fell into Zhao Ziqiao's eyes, coupled with the picture of his uncle suffering from heat stroke just now, which made him eat silently.

After eating, everyone began to seize the time to rest, the rice in the field was not harvested, even if the sun was poisonous, they had to continue to work, the long pain is better than the short pain, finish it early, save worry early.

Just when everyone was about to start resting, Zhao Ziqiao ran away, ran back to his house directly, then locked the door, found several large old clothes from home, and plunged into the door.

He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, desperately trying to expose this secret on his body, he didn't want to see his relatives, and in order to harvest rice, he continued to suffer under the hot and poisonous sun in the afternoon.