In summer, there are three treasures, watermelon, air conditioning, old popsicles.

There are three pests in summer, mosquitoes, flies, and stinky cockroaches.

Lianhai City has been particularly hot in summer this year.

The western end of the Yuntai Mountains, Shajia Village.

Shajia Village is surrounded by green hills, and there is a large natural lake in front of the village, and the water of the lake comes from the surrounding high mountains.

This lake has a beautiful name - Fairy Lake.

A beautiful legend has been passed down by the locals for generations, and long ago, this was the place where Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies met.

The legend is not verifiable, but it is just a place of good hope for the people, but the environment around the fairy lake is as beautiful as the legend goes.

The scenery of Fairy Lake is beautiful, and Shajia Village next to Fairy Lake has a long history.

It is said that Shajia Village was inhabited by permanent residents a thousand years ago, although the village is not large, after a hundred years, the villagers have come and gone, and after several changes, many places in the village still retain the architectural traces of various dynasties.

Green mountains and clear waters, thousand-year-old village.

Today, there are more than 200 households in Shajia Village, which is still not large, but the villagers live and work in peace and contentment, and live on weekdays from the 100-acre rice fields and orchards on the hillsides around the village, as well as fishing in the fairy lake.

Sha Hongyu's family, who live in the east of the village, are next to the lake.

Sha Hongyu and his wife, Li Xiaohua, are both in their 40s and have a son who attends college in the province next door.

The son only comes home once in half a year, and the two of them manage three acres of rice fields and seven acres of orchards on weekdays, and their lives are stable.

There is farm work to be done all year round.

Seedlings are planted in the spring, weeded in the summer, harvested in the fall, and pruned in the winter.

In the summer, Sha Hongyu and his wife went to the orchard on the mountain outside the village early in the morning to weed the fruit trees.

The climate in the Yuntai Mountains is hot and humid, and the weeds in the orchards are particularly vigorous.

The weeds grow too much and too vigorously to be too busy to do manual weeding, and the villagers will apply herbicides to the orchards.

First, knock down the knee-high weeds with a stick, and then spray the herbicide with a sprayer on your back, about once every half a month.

Sha Hongyu and his wife were busy from morning to noon to spray two acres of orchards, and at this rate, it will take two days to spray herbicides.

The weather was hot and humid at noon, so the couple decided to finish work early and go home to rest, and wait for the afternoon to be cooler before continuing to work.

When I got home, I pushed open the gate of the yard, and a big yellow dog rushed out and wagged its tail at the two.

Sha Hongyu patted the head of the big yellow dog and said with a smile, "Today I am going to get herbicides, it is too dangerous, otherwise I will take you there." ”

In the past, the two of them went to work in the fields, both with their own dogs, and the dogs scurried around in the fields when people worked, and occasionally they could catch a few mice and rabbits.

Li Xiaohua: "Rhubarb is hungry, I'll go and heat up the lunch first." ”

The two of them have regarded the big yellow dog raised at home as one of the family members, and they will give the dog whatever they eat.

After washing her hands and feet with the well water in the yard, Li Xiaohua went back to the kitchen to cook lunch, and Sha Hongyu sorted out the farm tools in the yard and prepared things for farm work in the afternoon.

In the cement yard, because the well water had just been used, the ground was wet, and the sewage flowed out of the yard along the waterway built in the corner.

In the north corner of the courtyard, there is a small house made of cement bricks and wooden boards, which is a dry toilet.

The sewage from the yard flows through the sewer, past the edge of the dry toilet, and into the fairy lake in front of the village.

The smell of the aqua toilet was unpleasant, and there were flies and insects flying around, many of which flew into the yard of Sha Hongyu's house.

Sha Hongyu packed up the pesticides and picked out a bottle of brown pesticide that was almost used up, which was the remaining organophosphorus pesticide used to remove insects in the orchard.

He opened the pesticide bottle, poured all the pesticides into the sprayer, added some water, turned around and walked out of the yard door, and sprayed the aqua toilet inside and out.

Soon, the pungent smell of pesticides overshadowed the stench of the aqua toilet.

After Li Xiaohua finished making lunch, the air conditioner in the house gradually cooled down, but she smelled the smell of pesticides coming through the cracks in the window and knew that her husband was spraying the toilet with pesticides again.

She walked out of the kitchen, closed the door, and saw her husband coming back from the yard with a pesticide sprayer on his back.

"Spraying the hut again?" Li Xiaohua asked her husband while feeding the big yellow dog.

"Yes, there are too many flies and mosquitoes in it, and now the weather is hot, and there are a lot of maggots, and there was some insecticide left last time, just enough to spray it."

Sha Hongyu put down the sprayer, washed his hands and feet again, and prepared for lunch.

The weather was hot at noon, I don't know if it was because he had just sprayed pesticides, or because it was too hot, Sha Hongyu felt dizzy.

Li Xiaohua also noticed her husband's abnormality, only to see that his face was red, and his feet dragged the ground when he walked, not as brisk as before.

"Daddy, you're not feeling well?" Li Xiaohua asked worriedly.

"Well, dizziness, feeling uncomfortable, maybe it's too hot and heatstroke."

Li Xiaohua hurriedly pushed her husband into the air-conditioned room, which was installed with the people in the village at the beginning of this summer, when more than 200 households had dozens of households installed together, and the county town specially came to the installation team, and the situation was also huge.

Bringing a bowl of mung bean soup for her husband to drink, Li Xiaohua complained, "Why do you have heat stroke?" I haven't had air conditioning at home before, and I haven't had heat stroke, but this year, I will still get heat stroke if I install air conditioning? Don't just spray pesticides to get poisoned, right? ”

Sha Hongyu felt better in the air-conditioned room, lying on the bed, with a cat curled up at the end of the bed, lazily sleeping.

"It's not in the way, I've been fighting pesticides for most of my life, and I haven't had an accident, just drink some mung bean soup to cool off, I don't want to eat now, I'll eat it when I get up from sleep."

"It's good to take a break, I'll go make more mung bean soup."

Li Xiaohua returned to the bedroom after boiling mung bean soup and found her husband lying on the bed tossing and turning, with the corner of the towel quilt on his stomach and his arms and legs exposed.

Didn't you say you wanted to take a break? How do you turn it over and over again? Could it be that the symptoms are worsening and you can't sleep comfortably?

Putting the freshly boiled mung bean soup at the head of the bed, Li Xiaohua asked worriedly, "Daddy, is it still uncomfortable?" ”

"Uncomfortable! It's even worse than just now! The whole body is swollen uncomfortably, especially the arms and legs, and the thighs hurt ......"

Sha Hongyu was wearing summer clothes, and the exposed skin of his arms and legs was swollen and shiny.

My husband is not usually so fat, but he is really swollen.

Li Xiaohua gently pressed on her husband's swollen calf, and it took a long time for a nail-sized depression to recover.

Pain in the thigh? It can't be the ball's problem, right?

When I lifted my husband's shorts again, I found that the red lines on the roots of my thighs spread down from my belly.

Li Xiaohua was shocked, she had never seen a red line on her skin, what was this?

"Daddy, what's the red thread on your belly and legs?"

"Red line?" Sha Hongyu reluctantly sat up, opened his clothes, and found that there were indeed a lot of red lines on his belly, some extending to his arms, some extending to his thighs, dense, and looking terrifying.

He broke out in a cold sweat, "What's going on?" Two days ago, I found some red lines on my belly, which hurt and itched, I didn't care about it at the time, I thought it was a hot prickly heat or something bitten by an insect, but I didn't expect that now there are more and more red lines, and it is long towards the arms and legs. ”

Li Xiaohua reached out and touched her husband's forehead.

Not hot, no fever.

In Li Xiaohua's thoughts, as long as there is no fever, it is not a serious illness.

But what's the matter with the husband's swollen body?

And what about the red threads that spread everywhere on the body?