Chapter 87: What a Guts
"Hmm." Unexpectedly, Dr. Sun nodded approvingly, "Quicklime can grow muscles and flesh, stop bleeding, kill insects and detoxify, and it is just right." It would be better if it could be fried in an iron pot in advance to remove its fire, and then add ice chips to relieve its fire poison. ”
"But it's a good job, Xiao Zhi." Dr. Sun's eyes were full of approval, "Have you studied medicine?" Or did someone in your family teach you? ”
"I didn't study medicine." Zhiwen hurriedly shook his head and denied it, joking, how dare he say that he had studied medicine in front of Dr. Sun, according to the standards of this era, Zhiwen has not even recognized all the words.
"I just remember that you said that lime can repel insects and avoid epidemics, and there may be insects and plagues on the teeth of wild dogs, so use them to drive away." Zhiwen continued.
The corners of Dr. Sun's mouth twitched, speechless, this kid is so bold.
"Uncle Sun, I'm worried that if he has a fever, it will be dangerous." This is what Zhiwen is most worried about now, in the face of fever, he is helpless at all.
Doctor Sun pondered for a while, "I can still get forsythia to drink here, but I don't know if it will be right for him when the time comes." Hey, it's hard to find medicine now. ”
After the father and son finished eating, although Dr. Sun was awake, his body was still weak, and he was still lying in the shade of the tree to rest.
Zhiwen and the others accompanied Baqian to chat with the earthen kiln, helped to add charcoal and pick up ashes, and made it an established fact that they stayed to help, and also figured out the experience of Sun's father and son in the past few days.
It turned out that after Dr. Sun distributed the lime to Zhiwen and said goodbye, there was not much lime left in two days, the reason is that Dr. Sun is generous by nature, and he gives it away at every turn, and it is naturally consumed faster than Zhiwen and them.
The father and son decided to find a place to burn the lime.
And Zhiwen also knocked out the general steps of burning lime from Baqian's mouth.
The first thing is to find a stone suitable for burning lime, that is, the kind of stone that is piled up at the foot of the mountain, but these are deep mountains that have taken a lot of manpower and time to knock down from the stone mountain little by little, and it took a thousand hammers to get out.
Then it is to find a small soil bag, dig a small earthen kiln, and put the stones in the kiln, this step is the technical work, not only to ensure that the stones set up in the kiln can not be burned, but also to ensure ventilation, so that the flame at the bottom of the kiln can burn vigorously.
Finally, there is firewood, as soon as the kiln is opened, the firewood can not be shortened, until the lime is successfully out of the kiln.
Naturally, it was impossible for the two of them to find a stone mountain to chisel stones, so they could only look around for some small stones suitable for burning lime.
The kiln doesn't need to dig deep, anyway, with the two of them, it can't burn much each time, and the lime is burned for disinfection, so the requirements are not too high.
The amount of burning is small, and the time is not long, and it used to take three or four days from the kiln to the kiln.
Who knew that this time his father and son had great luck, and somehow found this place, there were large-scale stone quarries and quarried stones, better and deeper kiln pits, and even better firewood, charcoal, which they found in a cave.
According to Dr. Sun's inference, this kiln should be the village that Zhiwen and they passed by this morning, not far from here, but I don't know when all the people in the village fled from the wasteland, and the kiln was abandoned, but let his father and son pick up a bargain.
However, the kiln pit is deeper, and more lime can be burned, so it will naturally take longer.
From the previous three or four days, to the current minimum of six days of firing time, plus the previous preparations, the father and son worked here almost sleepless for five days, not only to burn lime, but also to find food, Dr. Sun finally fell tired in the early hours of this morning.
Eight thousand also survived, if Zhiwen and they didn't arrive in time today, they didn't know what the consequences would be.
"Thank you, Xiaozhi." Eight thousand sincerely expressed his gratitude to Zhiwen, in fact, he wanted to lie down and find something to eat after adding charcoal this morning, and who knew that he fell asleep.
"Don't be polite to us, I want to ask you more lime." Zhiwen said with a smile.
"No problem, my dad and I really burned a lot this time." Eight thousand patted his chest and promised.
"Goo ......", a long roar came from Yachi's abdomen, "uh", Yachi lowered his head in shame.
"Ha......" Dazhu and Xiaojie smiled.
Zhiwen also smiled, "Don't worry, you can eat dry, please eat cakes in a while." ”
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"Uncle Sun, you should think about it again. We're very good at looking for wild vegetables. Zhiwen patiently persuaded Dr. Sun, intent on letting his father and son join his team.
This is the third night after Zhiwen and they found Dr. Sun, the lime had been burned yesterday, and after the earth kiln was completely cooled during the day today, everyone went into battle and took it out, and everything that should be divided was divided, and tomorrow we will go back to the direction of the official road.
"Xiao Zhi, you are really good at finding wild vegetables." Dr. Sun nodded and admitted that he had fully realized this in the past two days, and he didn't have to worry about eating at all, and his tired body had basically made up for it a few days ago.
"But Xiao Zhi," Dr. Sun still refused, "my father and son are not only collecting the dead bodies of no one, as a doctor, I have to help people see a doctor." ”
"With you, I can see fewer patients." This is Dr. Sun's self-esteem, he is also a well-known doctor in his hometown, and he has been reduced to relying on a woman and a group of children to support him, which makes him feel that his face has no place to rest.
He is not worried about eating, digging medicine and looking for wild vegetables, they have always done it together, treating people, and they can still get some food, and they will not die of hunger.
As for this burnt lime starvation, uh, it was an accident, an accident.
"That Dacheng, fortunately, he didn't have a fever," Dr. Sun bypassed the topic again, "I've seen the wound, it looks very good, be careful not to get wet these days." ”
"Got it, Uncle Sun, don't get wet, you've said it several times." Zhiwen responded, "Besides, it's all luck, I applied the medicine." ”
I found an excuse to divert the topic again, it seems that it can't be done without a big move, Zhiwen said secretly.
"Uncle Sun, when we buried the corpses a few days ago, we found that many corpses were different from the others." In the past few days, Zhiwen has not told Dr. Sun about the plague, and he is waiting here.
"Oh, how is it different?" Dr. Sun's appetite was raised.
"When carrying the dead, we had to put our hands under the armpits, and we found that their armpits were very hard, piece by piece, and later we found that the same was true under the chin." Not to mention the groin, that part is too sensitive, easy to misunderstand, the spots formed by subcutaneous bleeding are not the same as corpse spots, and it cannot be said that a child understands this is not normal.
"Pimple! Da! Plague! Before Zhiwen finished speaking, Dr. Sun's face changed, and he said three words word by word.
When he and Yachi walked out of the official road, the plague should not have spread, and the two of them really had never seen a dead body infected with the plague and died.