Midwinter.

Qingcheng Mountain is covered in silver.

Lijia Village at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain is also covered with snow.

The Qingcheng Mountains are continuous, and Lijia Village is one of the many villages around the Qingcheng Mountains.

There are only 100 households in the village, and they make a living by planting orchards around the village in spring, summer and autumn, and the snow covers the land in winter, and the villagers spend the winter in the house, and the idle strong laborers will go into the Qingcheng Mountain to dig traps and hunt.

Living in the west of Lijia Village is Li Erzhu's three generations of grandchildren, a family of five, the head of the household Li Erzhu just passed his 59th birthday this year, living with his wife, son and daughter-in-law and three-year-old grandson.

Although Li Erzhu is almost 60 years old, he has a strong physique, and he goes into Qingcheng Mountain to hunt every winter, and he has a harvest every time.

From pheasants to hares, each game brought back can add a few dishes of game to the family's winter food.

This year is no exception.

Although the mountain was covered with heavy snow, Li Erzhu still relied on his familiarity with the terrain of the mountain and entered the mountain along the path with slightly thinner snow.

As early as the first few days of winter, he laid a trap in advance in the place where hares often haunt the mountain, dug a few traps, and put some food as bait.

Three years ago, he caught a wild boar in a trap, which caused quite a stir in the village at the time.

In the next few years, Li Erzhu still dug traps in the mountains every year, but he never caught wild boars again, but he still caught a lot of hares near the traps.

This winter, he prepared in advance, seeing that there had been a heavy snowfall, and the wild animals in the mountains would definitely come out to find food after holding back for a long time, and it was a good time to hunt.

Early in the morning, as soon as the snow stopped, and before the road in the village could be cleared, Li Erzhu carried a rope and a sack into the mountain.

All the way into Qingcheng Mountain, one foot deep, one foot shallow.

There are many small animal footprints left in the snow.

As he approached the trap's destination, he slowed down and took a closer look at the snow around him.

There are no big animal footprints in the snow, and it seems that there is no hope of catching wild boars this time.

Further on, a row of slightly smaller footprints appeared in the snow.

The footprints are light and shallow, smaller than the footprints of wild boars and larger than those of hares.

Li Erzhu's heart was raised, isn't it a wild deer?

No, the footprints of a wild deer are not so shallow.

He quickened his pace, and saw in the distance something above the snow in the lower cover.

The mass was as white as snow, but as the breeze blew, the surface of the mass swayed like waves in the wind.

This is what the fur of an animal looks like when it is blown by the wind.

What would have such snow-white hair?

White bear?

In the entire Lianhai City, and even the entire southern area, I have never heard of a white bear infested.

And the white bear won't be just that.

Seeing that he was approaching the target, Li Erzhu's pace slowed down.

He was afraid of scaring away his prey, and his heart was in his throat.

As I got closer, the white stuff in the snow still didn't move.

Isn't Mo dead?

Li Erzhu had already walked up to him, squatted down, and reached out to touch.

The mass of white fur had stiffened.

Sure enough, he was dead.

Flip over the fur to see that it is a white-haired animal that has frozen to death.

Covered in snow-white fur, a retreat was covered by thin wire, and although its body was stiff, it still maintained its state of struggle before death.

The limbs stretched out to the sides, as if looking for a way to break free of the noose.

This trapped animal was very different from the wild things Li Erzhu had usually seen, larger than a domestic cat and smaller than a native dog, with a pointed nose and short ears.

It's a bit like a wolf, and it's a bit like a dog.

But not wolves, not dogs.

This is a white-haired wild fox!

There are wild foxes in Qingcheng Mountain, and Li Erzhu has heard the older generation mention this, but no one has ever caught it.

I caught a wild fox today.

It's still pure white hair.

Li Erzhu was ecstatic.

I was really lucky today.

This wild fox must be worth a lot if it is alive.

Even if it's dead, it's worth going back to the village to show off.

Wild foxes are extremely elve, and it is difficult for ordinary people to catch them.

Although this white wild fox does not have as much as wild boar, its fur is useful.

The little grandson in the family just lacks a fur hat, so how many people have to arouse the envy of the white wild fox's skin to make a fur hat and wear it on the little grandson's head?

Li Erzhu also wanted to be happier, carrying the wild fox and walking back, the snow was almost up to his knees at every step, but he didn't feel tired, thinking that with this fox, it would not be in vain to go into the mountains in winter.

When he got home, Li Erzhu first showed the wild fox he had caught in front of his family.

The little grandson felt the novelty and held the wild fox in his arms and played for a while.

But the wild fox was already a dead thing, and when it was brought back to the warm house, its stiff body began to soften, and blood began to emerge from the corners of the wild fox's mouth.

Li Erzhu's wife felt dirty, so she took the wild fox back from her little grandson and asked Li Erzhu to skin the wild fox in the east wing.

The peeled fur was propped up with wooden sticks and hung in the west wing, and the meat and bones that had been disemboweled and disemboweled were stewed in a pot at night, and the family of five had eaten, and there was still a lot left.

That night, Li Erzhu began to have a fever.

His temperature soon soared to 39.2°C, and the high fever lasted until dawn, when he began to cough.

His wife Li Chunhua felt that he had a cold and fever because he was frozen in the mountains the day before, so he took out the leftover cold medicine from the drawer at home and fed Li Erzhu two pills.

When it was almost noon, Li Erzhu had a high fever and coughed more and more.

The sputum turns from a thick yellow in the morning to a blood-red color at noon.

The phlegm was getting more and more, it had filled his alveoli, and he was coughing harder and harder, but he was coughing up less and less sputum.

The phlegm blocked his lungs, he couldn't cough up, and he couldn't breathe.

The muscles on his face and neck burst out, and he was bruised all over.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, he was suffocated to death in his bed by a mouthful of thick phlegm.

Li Erzhu died of a sudden illness, and the family was very sad.

According to the customs of Lijia Village, people should be buried in time after death.

reported the funeral to his relatives, issued a death certificate from the village committee, and with the help of his neighbors, Li Erzhu was successfully cremated and put into the ground.

After the funeral, the Li family set up two more tables according to custom, as a thank you to the neighbors and relatives who helped.

A day later, relatives and neighbors who had attended the funeral developed fever and cough one after another.

Li Erzhu's wife, Li Chunhua, and his youngest grandson also had a fever and cough.

On the third day after the funeral, Li Chunhua and his youngest grandson died, and Li Erzhu's son and daughter-in-law were seriously ill.

Three of the four neighbors who carried the coffin were seriously ill.

Lijia Village was in a panic.

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Lianhai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Office.

The emergency response team of 6 people was busy on their own.

Lu Li counts recent influenza epidemic data on the epidemic website.

The peak line of flu data is very obvious, and Lu Li sighed: "The flu season in Lianhai City is here again. ”

Wang Xiaoxiao: "The high incidence of influenza in winter and spring is the epidemic law of flu here, and it is now the middle of winter, and it is normal to have influenza." ”

Gao Fei accosted, "My girlfriend's kindergarten had a flu outbreak in the class a few days ago, and 14 of the 20 children got the flu. ”

Lu Li: "Recently, the number of flu clusters has skyrocketed, which has increased the incidence rate of the entire population in Lianhai City. ”

Zhou Lao: "The school is about to have a winter vacation, and the incidence rate will drop a little bit." ”

Wang Xiaoxiao felt an itchy throat, and after coughing twice, he answered, "It's dry in winter, everyone pay attention to hydration." ”