Chapter 1: A Midsummer Night

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A cool breeze hits in the middle of summer

The air is mixed with a stinking and smoky smell, which is very disgusting to outsiders, and for those who live in this land, it is the smell of money, and cutting rubber is the biggest source of income for Xishuangbanna people

Su gasped, raised his hand and flipped through the watch recorder, the distance was 10 kilometers, the time was 1 hour and 20 minutes, the consumption was 2,000 calories, and the heart rate was ......

With a long sigh, he wiped his cheeks with a towel, the sweat on his body sliding like a trickling stream across the obvious vest line

The music flows in the ears, the moonlight sprinkles dappled light and shadow between the dense leaves, and the fireflies in the grass on both sides of the highway flicker and fly like colorful lights

What Su is best at is using a magnifying glass to look at the beauty around him, and this satisfaction is tantamount to buying a bunch of LV and Hermes

Listening to the song, and so absorbed in the night, Su did not notice the slightest movement in the grass, until a man rushed out like a leopard and collided with her

"Ahh

"Hiss"

One rubbed his forehead, the other rubbed his shoulder

"Standing on the side of the road in the middle of the night?" The man's tone is not good

"Yes, hit you a big-headed ghost", Su pushed back, bumped her without apologizing, and shouted at this man for bad reviews

In the next second, the man pulled her into his arms with his right hand, and volleyed her with his left hand

The speed was too fast, Su slammed his chin on the man's shoulder blades, bit his tongue and didn't say anything, and felt that his jaw was about to dislocate

The man looked at the teary-eyed woman in his arms, and was about to open his mouth to comfort him, but then he snorted and bent over to cover his lower abdomen

A few inches below the waist, between the legs, the man died. Su made enough horsepower, raised his knees, and hit it hard

"You ......"

"I", Su pointed to himself, raised his leg and kicked twice, "How did I kick?" I ...... you stinky rascal."

Before he finished speaking, he was thrown to the ground by the man's fierce tiger servant and took advantage of the momentum to roll out two laps away

The man commanded, "Don't move"

Due to the excessive range of movement, the earbuds fell, Su heard a sound of "snort, snort, shhh

"Your leg is within its attack range, don't move, stabilize it first"

It should be a shameful posture for women to go up and down for men, but at this moment, Su has no chance to think about it, snake! She looked shaky at the sight of her death

Cobras are very spiritual and more patient, people don't move, snakes don't move

After a long time, Su was inevitably distracted, could it be that he pulled himself to avoid this snake just now? Isn't that a bit ...... yourself?

"You move your legs slowly, and then roll to the right", the man's voice was very soft but unmistakably majestic, and the hot air was a little itchy in his ears, "If you don't want to be bitten by a snake, you have to be faster than it"

Su pouted, people are faster than snakes, when she is a snake catcher? As soon as I thought about being bitten, my whole body stiffened, and I took a deep breath and moved my right leg at the speed of a snail

The cobra spat out the letter and bowed his head to admire the two in front of him

Su tightened his heartstrings, sweat slipped from his forehead to the tip of his nose and then fell down the cheeks into the man's chest, and he admired it silently

Holding a position for a long time, the numb arms and legs made Su unable to support his body and shook a little, and the cobra noticed a strange and fierce attack

The man under him jumped up like a lightning carp, pushed Su away with his right hand, grabbed and flung it with his left hand, and the cobra was thrown into the bushes across the road

"Oh my mom", Su lay on the ground and was glad that he didn't die

The man next to him sat bent and did not speak, and he could not see his expression clearly

"Well, I just misunderstood, huh...... Thank you,"

The man still ignored it

If you know your mistakes, you can change them to be a good boy, not to mention that you also attacked others, thinking of this, Su Su's face was slightly hot, but fortunately, the night is the best cover

"Don't put on a stinky face, I'll treat you to supper?" Su got up and squatted beside him, as gentle as a teacher coaxing a kindergarten child

"Okay, you said it"

Looking at the 360-degree change of face, Su was dumbfounded, and the coldness of this thing just now was pretended? Full marks for good actors' acting skills

The wind was cold on a cool night, and Su felt a little cold in a sports vest, and proposed: "It's 10 kilometers from here to the town, let's run forward, and walk back to the barbecue stalls are closed."

As he spoke, he started running, but the man next to him didn't move, still walking slowly

The place is remote, there are not even street lights on both sides of the road, Banna is a tropical rainforest area, rainfall and heat are abundant, so there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants, thinking of the cobra just now, Su felt the hair on the bottom of his heart, paused for a moment and then took out the mobile phone in his trouser pocket and opened the flashlight, and a beam of light pierced the darkness

"So that you are not afraid of stepping on snakes"

She held up her phone and shook it, her eyes narrowing at his stiff left hand

With a trill, he asked, "You?" Bitten? She ran over in a few steps, took the man's left hand, lifted the sleeve of her coat, and the four small holes of her blackened teeth reflected in the skin, which seemed to be covered with a layer of black gas

No wonder he walks slowly, it is best to lie still after being bitten by a poisonous snake, exercise will speed up the blood flow and make the venom spread faster

"Are you scared silly, you don't say anything when you are bitten by a snake?" Su sighed and put down his long hair, and tied the leather band that tied his hair over the bite wound to slow the spread of the toxin

It takes at least two hours to walk back to town, and if you don't inject antivenom within two hours, will you die? Su shook his head, this bet is better not to place, human life is at stake

In the distance, the lights were moving in the rubber forest, and Su snapped his fingers, and there were more people cutting rubber on the mountain at this point, most of them were riding motorcycles, looking for them to help send people to the hospital

The rubber was cut by a couple with headlamps on their heads and rain boots under their feet to prevent snakes, insects and leeches

"Old Mitao, my eldest brother was bitten by a snake, can you send us to Mengman?"

The people of the ethnic minorities are simple and straightforward, and they also save greetings when they are su, which directly shows that she needs help

When the husband and wife heard this, they looked at each other, and the man in charge asked, "Is it serious where the person is?" ”

As soon as he heard this, there was a joke, Su pointed and said: "On the road, I was bitten by a cobra falling from a tree, that guy is poisonous."

Of course, the people who have been going up the mountain to tap rubber for many years know that the cobra cannot be delayed, so he inserted the rubber knife into his waist and went to ride a motorcycle on the side road, "You go to the road and wait"

"Thank you", Su thanked him and turned back along the way

The man sat on the side of the road, staring at the bite on his arm with his eyes in the moonlight, and he couldn't bear it, it wasn't him who should have been hurt

"Don't worry, I've found a noble person to help," she put her hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him

The buzzing motorcycle drove out of the rubber forest to them, and Su helped him up to get into the motorcycle, and he took another one

There were almost no vehicles on the road late at night, because the couple who rescued people drove very fast and carried people directly to the town hospital

The town is underdeveloped, the hospital is relatively simple, two two-storey small buildings, arranged in a T-shape, the front of the open space set up color steel tiles, below put a dozen beds for the general drip people, the right side of a vacant land for parking

The dim light is the duty room, the rubber tapper man knocked on the door, saying that someone was bitten by a snake, the doctor on duty got dressed and came out, inspected the injury and asked some questions

Although the sparrow is small, there are many snakes and insects in Banna, people have to go up the mountain to cut rubber at night, and it is too normal to be bitten by snakes, but the general town hospital is equipped with antivenom for common poisonous snakes

After injecting the serum, Su breathed a sigh of relief, and the man lay on the hospital bed in the hospital on a drip

The couple was going back to rubber tapping, and Su sent them out, I wanted to express my gratitude, look at my dress, I didn't have anything but a mobile phone, only a strong thank you

The couple waved at her, "Go back, it's okay"

Su Lili likes it here, not only the beautiful scenery, but also the simple people, she has more than ten years of love and closeness to this land

The doctor on duty was very good and asked Su to pay tomorrow morning

Hospitals in border areas are quite humane, compared with hospitals in big cities that don't pay money and don't save lives, there is more humanity here

It is also based on the understanding of the customs here, Su only dared to share the money and did not have to be cheeky to come to the hospital, and he did not dare to be killed in other cities, and he had to pay the money before entering the hospital before talking about anything else

The man slept very peacefully, so he spread out the quilt on the bed next to him and wrapped himself tightly, it was too cold this night

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