Lianhai City, the southern end of the Yuntai Mountains.

Yuntai Ranch.

The Yuntai Mountains are close to the sea, with a humid climate, abundant water and grass on the slopes, and many pastures in addition to large tea plantations.

Located in the southernmost part of the Yuntai Mountains, it is a hilly hill with gentle slopes and vigorous vegetation, and a large number of cattle and sheep are raised on it.

This hillside is the privately contracted Yuntai Ranch.

Herds of cattle and sheep are on the hillside of the pasture, and more than a dozen workers are busy in the pasture.

The rancher is a middle-aged man in his 40s, surnamed Wang, named Wang Likun, from Wangjia Village at the foot of Yuntai Mountain, and the dozen or so workers he employs are also villagers in Wangjia Village.

In order to expand the scale of the ranch, a week ago, the rancher brought in a group of goats from other places.

Before introducing the new breed of goats, the rancher went to the field to do research and found that the new breed of goat meat was delicious and very popular with consumers, so the rancher decided to buy dozens of goats back to the ranch at a time.

The male and female goats are selected according to a certain proportion and brought back to the pasture to be ready to reproduce on their own.

After the newly introduced goats entered the pasture, the rancher specially instructed the workers to take care of them.

At first, the new goats were in good shape, grazing in the hillside pastures during the day and being herded into the sheepfold at night under the care of the workers.

However, after a week, one of the new sheep in the flock began to become listless.

The sick sheep trembled all over, breathed rapidly, could not stand, and red liquid began to ooze from the corners of the nostrils and mouth.

Early in the morning of the second day, Wang Dali, a worker, was in charge of the morning shift, got up to check the sheepfold, and found that the sheep that was sick yesterday had died in the sheepfold.

Wang Dali, a worker, immediately reported the situation to the rancher.

The rancher personally came to the sheepfold to inspect and touch the corpse of the dead goat, and the rancher was very distressed.

Wang Dali, a worker, asked the rancher, "What about the carcass of sheep?" Is it buried? ”

The rancher hesitated for a moment, "It's a pity, the sheep's body hasn't stiffened yet, you find two people to come over, peel it and remove the internal organs, the meat is still edible." ”

Worker Wang Dali hesitated.

Seeing this, the rancher whispered to him, "Give you an extra day's overtime pay, and don't talk about it outside." ”

There was money to take, and it was the boss's order, Wang Dali nodded and agreed, and soon found two colleagues to skin and gutt the dead sheep.

The processed lamb is placed in the cold storage of the pasture, and the skins and internal organs are buried in a ravine in the hillside pasture.

On the second day after dealing with the sick sheep, there were sheep in the new flock who fell sick one after another, and the symptoms were the same as the first dead sheep, first the whole body trembled, shortness of breath, and then could not stand, and there was blood-like fluid flowing out of the nostrils and corners of the mouth, but in two or three days, the entire newly introduced flock began to get sick.

The rancher felt that the matter was serious, and this time the loss was going to be great.

The disease can be contagious, and in order to prevent the newly introduced sheep from spreading the disease to the previous flock, the rancher has the workers isolate the new sheep and kill them all, put the killed sheep into the pasture cold storage, and bury the wool and offal in the ravine of the hillside pasture.

A merchant came to Yuntai Ranch to order mutton, and the rancher sold the freshly slaughtered sick and dead mutton and some of the mutton frozen before to the merchant, making a profit.

The rancher calculated that the money for selling the mutton was about the same as the money spent on buying the sheep, and the ranch had no loss, but it was not profitable.

On the second day after the lamb was sold, the rancher woke up in the morning and found himself unwell.

He began to have a high fever, but he felt cold and shivered.

In the hot summer weather, he found thick clothes to wrap around his body, and he had no appetite and could not eat breakfast.

The rancher thought that he must have had a bad cold, so he took out the old cold medicine from the drawer, swallowed two, and tried to sleep but couldn't sleep.

He was lying on the bed, and every breath he took was terrible.

He didn't get better until noon, and after taking two more cold pills, it got worse, and the rancher decided to go to the town hospital to see if he couldn't go on like this.

He struggled out of bed, put a coat on his body, picked up the car keys, and considering that it would be dangerous for him to drive by himself in this state, he wanted to find a worker from the ranch to drive him to the town hospital, and was about to make a phone call when there was a knock on the door of his bachelor dormitory.

"Ahem...... Ahem...... Come in, the door is unlocked......" The rancher coughed out of breath and responded hoarsely.

The worker king pushed the door hard and came in.

His right hand was wrapped in gauze, his face was very anxious, and when he saw the rancher speak directly, "Boss, I want to ask for leave to see a doctor, you look at my hands." ”

Wang Dali carefully tore off the gauze from his right hand and brought his hand to the rancher.

I saw that his right hand and right forearm were very swollen, and there was a black scab formed by the skin on the back of his hand, and there were many blisters around the eschar, and the liquid in it seemed to be about to burst out.

Seeing this, the rancher gasped, "What's the matter with your arm?" ”

"Two days ago, there was a small blister on the back of my hand, I didn't care about it at the time, and then the small blister burst and it became this black hard lump, after I got up this morning, my whole arm was swollen, numb and I didn't feel it, I didn't think it was good, I wanted to go to the hospital in the town to see, so I came to ask you for leave."

The rancher originally wanted Wang Dali to drive him to the hospital, but now even Wang Dali is sick, and his hand is swollen like that, and he can't drive the car, so he has to find another person.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

The rancher coughed violently again.

Wang Dali: "Boss, are you sick too?" ”

"Well, I have a bad cold, a bad cough and headache, I'm going to the town hospital too, you can hitchhike with me, but we have to find someone to come and help us drive first."

The rancher usually drives his black car to and from the ranch to his village home not far from the ranch.

Recently, because the rancher's wife went to another city to visit her son, who is going to college, the rancher lived alone in the ranch's bachelor dormitory.

Wang Dali reminded the rancher, "Boss, Wang Shi is going to the town to deliver goods today, and we can take his delivery car to the town hospital, but the conditions are a little worse, and the small truck is not as good as your car." ”

The rancher suddenly remembered that he had arranged for Wang Shi, a ranch worker, to go to the town to deliver mutton a few days ago, and recently forgot about it because of illness.

"Okay, let's go with Wang Shi's car."

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Yuntaishan Town Hospital.

Rancher Wang Likun and worker Wang Dali were first delivered to Yuntaishan Town Hospital by delivery trucks.

Because it was noon, I could only hang out in the emergency room.

The two were treated by a gray-haired, slightly chubby, 60-year-old male doctor.

The doctor first looked at Wang Dali's symptoms.

Wang Dali's entire right arm was a little swollen, and the ulcer on the back of his hand had formed a black scab, and there were many small blisters around the black scab.

The old doctor only looked at it with his eyes and made a diagnosis, "It's cellulitis, and you need to be hospitalized for anti-inflammatory injections, I will prescribe medicine for you now, and you will go through the hospitalization procedures yourself." ”

From Wang Dali's entry into the consultation room to the old doctor's diagnosis and prescription, the whole process took only one minute.