Chapter 15: The Mysterious Bottle
Nan Zhiqiao held the mouth of the bottle with tweezers and shook it gently, and there was a yellow liquid at the bottom of the bottle shaking, "Take this bottle back." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Now that Nan Zhiqiao has spoken, Ye Zhenzhen hurriedly took out a large specimen collection bag, opened her mouth, and carefully handed it to Nan Zhiqiao.
Nan Zhiqiao put the glass bottle in the specimen bag with tweezers, Ye Zhenzhen sealed her mouth, and took a closer look at the glass bottle in the bag.
The bottle is a wide-mouth glass bottle without a lid, the bottle is transparent, and there is some residual yellow liquid at the bottom of the bottle, like rainwater mixed with mud.
"Senior Nan, this bottle is not like an ordinary beverage bottle, and the mouth of the general beverage bottle is not so big. Ye Zhenzhen carried the specimen bag and asked.
Nan Zhiqiao did not answer, but continued to search in the livestock shed.
When the village chief saw that the two disease control personnel were staying in the livestock shed, he also came up and asked, "What's wrong in the pigsty?"
Ye Zhenzhen raised her head, "Pigsty?"
"Yes, basically every household in our Paolou Village raises pigs, and there is a pigsty in the yard, you see, the black ones over there are all pig dung, Liu Shishi's pigs were just sold a few days ago, so the pigsty is empty now. ”
The village chief stood outside the pigsty and explained, Nan Zhiqiao suddenly took out a transparent thing from a pile of pig manure, "Take the specimen bag, this will also be brought back." ”
Ye Zhenzhen hurriedly took out an empty specimen bag and walked to Nan Zhiqiao, looking down, Nan Zhiqiao was holding a round glass bottle cap with tweezers in his hand, the glass cap was round and transparent, and it was covered with black pig dung.
The glass bottle cap was put into the specimen bag, and Ye Zhenzhen took a closer look and found that in addition to the black pig manure, there was also an intermittent white film-like thing on the glass cap, like a parafilm that had aged for many years.
The glass cap, the aging parafilm, and the glass bottle just now, a faint doubt was about to come out in Zhen Zhen's heart.
"Senior Nan, isn't this a wide-mouth glass bottle commonly used in the laboratory to hold reagents, how can it be in a pigsty in this small village?" Ye Zhenzhen finally remembered the purpose of this bottle, not a beverage bottle, but a reagent bottle.
"You've found a clue that this may be the source of infection, send it back to the lab for testing, and we'll check the source of this bottle again......"
Nan Zhiqiao was explaining the task to Ye Zhenzhen, and suddenly, Xiao Wang, a policeman at the gate of the small courtyard, shouted at a group of children wandering at the door: "It's dangerous here, don't get close." ”
The children dispersed, except for a little boy of twelve or thirteen, who, after walking away two or three paces, staggered to return, glancing in the direction of the pigsty from time to time.
Ye Zhenzhen came out of the pigsty, beckoned to the boy, and motioned for him to come over.
The little boy looked at Ye Zhenzhen dressed in a white protective suit, was a little scared, and took two steps back, but when he saw the bottle in Zhen Zhen's hand, he stood in place and hesitated.
When the policeman Xiao Wang saw that Ye Zhenzhen wanted the little boy to come over for questioning, he also helped greet him and said, "Hey, child, come over for a while." ”
When the police shouted like this, the little boy ran even farther.
Ye Zhenzhen hurriedly asked the village chief standing aside for help, "Village chief, that little boy seems to know something, help me stop him." ”
Village Chief Liu Dazhi yelled: "Xiaohu, come here." ”
The boy named Xiaohu immediately obediently walked to the side of the small courtyard, walked to the door of the small courtyard, stopped, and stared at the glass reagent bottle in the specimen bag in Zhen Zhen's hand, with a frightened and speechless expression on his face.
Ye Zhenzhen took two steps forward, approached the little boy, kept a distance, pointed to the reagent bottle in her hand, and asked, "Have you seen this bottle?"
The little boy nodded.
Zhen Zhen felt a burst of joy in her heart, someone knew the origin of the bottle, and it seemed that there would be a breakthrough.
"Where did you see it, how could this bottle be in Liu Shishi's pigsty?" Ye Zhenzhen asked.
The little boy looked at Ye Zhenzhen, then looked at the bottle in Zhenzhen's hand, and glanced at the village chief Liu Dazhi who was standing aside, and finally lowered his head and rubbed the tip of his shoe against the ground with a tangled expression.
Liu Dazhi, the village head, was in a hurry, and when he saw the little boy twisting like this, he shouted: "Xiaohu, what are you rubbing? Tell everything you know, as long as you have a little clue, you can help everyone." ”
The little boy raised his head, stared at the village chief Liu Dazhi, and muttered, "Uncle, don't tell my father, I'll say it." ”
"Little monkey cub, dare to tell me the conditions......" Liu Dazhi was a little angry, and he raised his hand and wanted to hit the little boy.
The policeman Xiao Wang stopped the village chief and persuaded: "Don't be busy taking care of the children first, it's important to get down to business." ”
Village Chief Liu Dazhi eased his temper and withdrew his hand, "Okay, I won't tell your father, you can say it quickly, you can't miss a word." ”
The little boy got the assurances of the village chief, and he became bolder, and said, "That bottle was found by me and Da Fat from the ghost cave in Turret Mountain. ”
As soon as he heard this, the village chief suddenly became furious and shouted: "What? You have gone to the ghost cave on the Turret Mountain? It is a forbidden place, who gave you the courage to run there, see that I don't pick your skin today......
Liu Dazhi, the village head, scolded and was about to start beating people, the little boy was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and the policeman Xiao Wang grabbed Liu Dazhi and scolded: "Stop! ”
Liu Dazhi, the village head, took two breaths, stepped aside, and said angrily: "Xiaohu, as long as you explain the matter of the bottle and the ghost cave clearly today, I won't beat you." ”
What Xiaohu was about to say was frightened by the village chief just now, and he was a little timid, and he didn't know where to start.
"What kind of ghost cave, who's Chubby?" Ye Zhenzhen asked.
"Chubby is the eldest grandson of this family. Xiaohu pointed to the small courtyard where Zhen Zhen was.
"Is Chubby Liu Shishi's grandson?is the little boy among the first people to die in Paolou Village?" Ye Zhenzhen was shocked, and various associations came to mind, it seems that this bottle and ghost cave are inextricably linked to Chubby's death and this anthrax epidemic.
"Where's the ghost cave?"
Xiaohu pointed diagonally upwards to the Turret Mountain behind the village, "Just on the Turret Mountain, there is a cave, there are many things in the cave, and I often go with Xiaopang." ”
"What? You still go often?" Liu Dazhi, the village head, was angry again.
The policeman Xiao Wang hurriedly made a gesture to stop, the village chief stopped, and Ye Zhenzhen asked: "How did you find this glass bottle, and how did you bring the bottle back here?"
Xiaohu glanced at the village chief and began to talk about the experience a few days ago, "Five days ago, Chubby's cousin Erya came to Fatty's house to play, I and Xiaopang originally agreed to go to the Turret Mountain to dig out birds' eggs, Erya came, we took her with us, and climbed to the halfway point of the Turret Mountain in the morning, where there are two uninhabited turrets, there are sparrows' nests in the turret, there are bird eggs in it, it is very easy to dig, I and Xiaopang took out a dozen or so bird eggs, and when we were about to come back, it began to rain. Because the turret was too dilapidated to shelter from the rain, the three of us went to the cave near the turret to take shelter from the rain, which was what the adults called the 'ghost cave'. ”