"This is a war without gunpowder, and there must be countless difficulties and obstacles along the way. But we will never abandon, we will not give up, we will not retreat; We will dedicate our blood and youth to poverty alleviation work, and dedicate ourselves to the vast mountainous areas, day by day, until the people get rid of poverty and become rich and live a stable life, and win the battle against poverty!"

- Declaration on Poverty Alleviation

"Huang Liang, guess who I am?" a pair of gentle hands covered his eyes from behind.

The person behind him deliberately lowered his voice, but he still couldn't cover up the originally beautiful female voice.

Her voice was all too familiar to Huang Liang.

He gently grabbed the gentle hand, turned around and smiled: "Zeng Nanke, you are a little naughty." ”

But there was no one in front of him.

When I looked down, my hands were empty.

Nan Ke ...... Nan Ke!" Huang Liang woke up, it turned out to be another dream.

Outside the window is the wind and the rain.

In Beixing Town, the night is slightly cool.

Seven years after breaking up, I still kept my promise to come to your hometown to help the poor, Nan Ke.

"Knock knock!" suddenly came a quick knock on the door, followed by a younger-sounding man's voice, "Brother Huang, Brother Huang!

When Huang Liang heard the words "something happened", he suddenly fell asleep, and a carp jumped off the bed and opened the door barefoot.

Outside the door stood two panting teenagers, led by a barefoot child on his back.

They didn't have umbrellas with them, they were dressed in patched clothes, and the rain drenched them in soup.

"What's wrong, Jin Yun?" Huang Liang gently put his head on the young man's shoulder, and leaned sideways to signal them to come into the room to talk. He recognized these children, they were the left-behind children in the village, and they were also one of the poverty alleviation targets of Huang Liang's unit.

Jin Yun refused to enter. His eyes were red, and he choked up, "Brother Huang...... My sister Jin Shuang was bitten by a seven-step snake released by Li Xiaoming...... She...... She took four steps, and there were only three steps left......"

"That's right, fortunately, I stopped Jin Shuang early and asked Jin Yun to carry her to you, otherwise she would have died if she walked a few more steps!"

Huang Liang couldn't laugh or cry. If you are bitten by a seven-step snake, you don't mean that you will die after taking seven steps. But it is indeed very toxic and cannot be delayed.

He hurriedly took out the umbrella from behind the door and handed it to Jin Yun and Fat Dun, then quickly put on a raincoat, took Jin Shuang from Jin Yun's back and held it in his arms, covered it with a raincoat, and ran to the health center in Beixing Town.

……

"Comrade Huang, I arranged anti-inflammatory and anti-tetanus treatment for this little girl. The seven-step snake venom had not yet been injected because her wound did not look like she had been bitten by a seven-step snake. Are you sure that snake is a seven-step snake?" Dr. Wang from the health center came out of the treatment room and walked in front of Huang Liang, who was pacing back and forth at the door with his trouser legs rolled up and barefoot.

"Oops!" Huang Liang patted his head, "I didn't see that snake, it was her friends who told me." I was afraid that it would drag on for too long and cause her poisoning to deepen, so I hurriedly carried her over, forgetting to confirm whether it was a seven-step snake. But I also brought her little friend with me. Jin Yun, come over here. ”

Jin Yun rushed over first, panting and said, "Brother Huang, doctor, how is my sister?"

Huang Liang touched his head and said softly, "Did you see that your sister was bitten by a seven-step snake?"

"Remember!" Jin Yun nodded heavily, "My sister was digging and playing with us by the Beidu River, and Li Xiaoming didn't know where it came from, threw the snake over, and shouted, 'Look at my seven-step snake, bite you to death', and then my sister didn't dodge, she was bitten by his seven-step snake." ”

The fat dun who followed up then shouted: "Yes, it's the seven-step snake released by Li Xiaoming!

Doctor Wang said, "Then what do you see the seven-step snake look like?"

Jin Yun and Fat Dun described it word by word:

"The big triangular snake head with a sharp and upturned snake snout!"

"The back is tan with large patches and scales in the middle. ”

"The abdomen should be white, there seems to be black patches as well, and that place is a little dark, I'm not sure. ”

"But I saw that there was also a 'Buddha nail' on the tip of its tail, it must be a seven-step snake!"

Doctor Wang frowned, his face solemn: "The seven-step snake venom is blood circulation poison. The wound of the injured person should be bleeding profusely, with severe pain, local redness and swelling, and swelling that spreads rapidly to the upper end of the limb. Blood pressure also drops in people with severe poisoning. But the wound of the golden cream did not show the slightest sign of inflammation, and the blood pressure was normal. I suspect that the venom in her snake may be nerve venom, and she must have been bitten by venomous snakes such as krait and sea snake. ”

Jin Yun and Fat Dun, you look at me, I look at you, a little overwhelmed.

Huang Liang said: "Jin Yun, you said that the seven-step snake was released by Li Xiaoming, which Li Xiaoming is it?"

"Li Xiaoming of the old Li family at the entrance of our village, my neighbor. Jinyun's village is also the village where Huang Liang's unit is stationed, and it is called "Shanbei".

Huang Liang immediately ran to the consultation desk of the health center, borrowed a phone and called the director of the village committee of Shanbei Village, explained the situation succinctly and clearly, and asked him to immediately notify the parents of both sides to bring Li Xiaoming to the health center.

There are two committees in rural areas: one is the village party branch committee, which is referred to as the village branch, and the other is the villagers' self-government committee, which is referred to as the village committee. The head of the former is the village party secretary, and the head of the latter is the head of the village committee, commonly known as the "village head".

After hanging up the phone, Huang Liang thanked the nurse at the consultation desk and was about to leave, but he heard a delicate voice - "Wait a minute".

I saw the little girl nurse at the consultation desk lifting a pair of clean slippers, handing them to Huang Liang, and said, "Sir, wear a pair of shoes, it's cold on a rainy day, don't catch a cold." ”

Her hands are white and tender, which is rare here in Beixing Town.

"Thank you. Huang Liang took it with a smile, his mind moved, and said, "I feel that you are very strange." ”

The nurse was stunned: "I ...... What's the weird?"

"Strangely pretty. ”

The nurse sneered, her little face flushed.

"Listening to the accent, you shouldn't be a local, right?" Huang Liang asked.

The nurse nodded, stared at Huang Liang with big eyes for a while, and said, "You shouldn't be from Beixing either, right?"

"Yes, I came down from the city to Shanbei Village to help the poor. ”

"Which unit?"

"Food and Drug Administration. While he was talking, there was a commotion outside, and several people broke in shouting, it turned out to be Jin Yun's grandfather and Li Xiaoming's grandmother.

Only one of the adults in Jin Yun and Li Xiaoming's family stayed in the village, and all their parents went to work in other places, and they would only come back during the New Year's holidays.

When Jin Yun heard Old Man Jin's voice, he immediately rushed out, took Old Man Jin's hand and said with a crying voice: "Grandpa......! I was bitten by Li Xiaoming's seven-step snake, and I'm still being treated!"

Huang Liang hurriedly greeted him and said, "The doctor is looking for Li Xiaoming to check the breed of the seven-step snake so that he can inject the serum into Xiaojinshuang." ”

Li Xiaoming, who had been hiding behind his grandmother, poked his head out at this time, made a grimace, and said, "There won't be that kind of serum." ”

Everyone was shocked in their hearts, could it be some kind of strange snake?