Chapter 57: There's Something in the Water
It's already the third day after the disaster, and it stands to reason that it should have arrived, after all, there was such a big thing, and Linhai City is not a remote mountainous area, it is a first-tier city.
But it just didn't arrive.
Everyone can only comfort themselves in their hearts, maybe the rescue team will start from the urban area to save people.
A few old people were left to watch in the temple, and the others followed Granny Yu up the mountain to pick wild vegetables.
There is a lot of rain and hot weather, in addition to the hot and humid want to bathe, it also means that the growth cycle of plants is shortened, and wild vegetables are everywhere.
Of course, hot and humid weather can not only produce a large number of wild vegetables, but also make a large part of the cold-blooded animals overactive.
Granny Yu walked in the front, holding a casually folded branch in her hand, and knocking on the grass around the path, which was the easiest way to dodge, and hit the grass to startle the snake.
The road on the mountain is difficult to walk, the sky is hot and scorching, and the foot is a slippery mountain road, alternating between hot and cold, easy to catch a cold.
At night, after picking wild vegetables and cooking well, Granny Zhang and Granny Yu both lay down.
Coupled with the fear of the past few days, my throat is swollen and I can't speak.
Heat cold.
As soon as Yu Yao wanted to go over and take a hand, he saw Wang Jushi take the medicine list he prescribed, calmly entered his house, and took two boxes of amoxicillin and a bag of banlangen powder.
Yuyao: ...... What kind of prescription do you have to work so hard to prescribe!
Wang Jushi: I'm just a barefoot doctor.
Granny Yu and Granny Zhang were sick, leaving a big problem - everyone's food problem.
The old men are very good at bragging and drinking tea, but when they mention cooking, they all shrink back and retreat, so the burden is on the heads of the only two women in the healthy population, Yu Yao and Li Xiaoya.
Holding an iron spoon that can be compared to the size of his face, Yu Yao is a little numb.
She didn't have any culinary skills.
But haven't you ever eaten pork and never seen a pig run? I can't do anything else, but the wild vegetable porridge will still be boiled, that is, put the rice in the pot, add water, and then throw the wild vegetables.
Then that night, everyone had a dry meal of wild vegetables......
In addition to the food problem that has a small situation from time to time, there is also a rescue team that has been looking forward to it every day, looking forward to it every day, but has never come.
There was no cell phone signal either. There was no way, after dinner, Wang Jushi took out his radio with a sense of age and began to tinker.
It didn't work out either.
Day 5.
On the sixth day, Grandpa Li had already wiped his tears twice.
They seem to be trapped on a forgotten island.
On the eighth day, the sea rose almost 20 steps, and the vertical drop from the mountain gate of the Mazu Temple was less than 30 meters.
But there's one piece of news that sounds like good news in all the bad news – the sea is rising at a slower pace.
In the beginning, it was three hours to climb one stone step, but now, it may only be possible to climb one stone step a day.
The water beneath your feet is also gentle.
Everyone has thought about swimming out, and the people in the temple, except for three-year-old Li Wenyu, everyone else can swim, but the key is where to swim?
The sea water overflowed halfway up the mountain, the sea surface expanded twice, and when it went into the water, not to mention the urban area, it was the eagle's beak cliff on the opposite side, and the straight-line distance was more than three kilometers.
Except for Yuyao, no one can swim over.
Moreover, there is something in the water......
When the tsunami came, in addition to the people who were forced to run up the mountain, there were many domestic animals, near the foot of Feifengling Mountain, there was a dairy farm, I don't know who was kind, when I ran to open the gate of the cattle pen, a few cows did not die, and also ran up the mountain.
There was nothing else on the mountain, there was enough forage, and a few cows were quite comfortable, but just yesterday, a half-sized calf accidentally rolled down the mountain and fell into a water hole not far from the temple entrance.
The water was not deep enough to reach its neck, but when it suddenly rolled down the hill, probably fainting, the calf got up and swam around in the same place until the cow on the hill mooed.
The calf swam to the shore with its big head.
The cow knows how to swim ashore, as long as the water is not too urgent, but it does not.
Two meters from the shore, the calf could be seen to have stepped on the ground, and it raised its head and barked twice proudly towards the mountain, but suddenly, its cry changed, and it mooed and mooed rapidly, and its feet kept stepping.
Yu Yao was pouring water from a basin of rice washing.
When he heard the sound, he looked in, and then he saw a clump of "black thread" wrapped under the calf's body.
As the calf struggled more and more violently, the sea beneath him slowly turned red.
Half of the calf's body was crooked into the water.
By the time the cow mooed and rushed down on the mountain, there was no sign of the calf on the water.
Like a cannonball, the cow rushed into the water angrily, and the explosion splashed everywhere.
With his head down, he stomped vigorously under his feet, and spun in circles and mooed low at the water.
Yu Yao could clearly see from a high place that the black line that had just been washed away by the cow's water slowly gathered back at the cow's feet.
The cow's cry suddenly was high-pitched, the bull's eyes were huge, the horns of the cow poked into the water, and shook wildly, but as the black lines gathered more and more, the cow roared, and the four hooves exerted force, and rushed to the shore.
The cow that washed ashore was bloodied with its hooves, and there was something black writhing near the joints of its thighs.
The cow mooed in pain, and her head chased her tail in place, but the black strip bit so tightly that the cow finally lay down on the ground and threw the thing off her body.
The cow turned her head and slammed her horns against her.
A high-pitched scream.
The cow frantically trampled the black stripe under her feet with her four hooves, then ran back, barked low at the surface of the water for a while, lingered on the shore for a long time, and finally ran up the hill with a grieving cry.
There is no natural gas in the temple, the big stove that has been used, one person cooks and one person burns the fire, Yuyao cooks, Fang Chen helps to light the fire, but the water in the pot is dry, and the person who washes the rice has not come back, and he came out with a burning stick to find someone.
I saw Yu Yao standing at the gate with a rice basin, and the rice was still soaking in the water.
What to see? was so distracted, Fang Chen went up and patted it.
As a result, Yu Yao came back to his senses, directly stuffed the rice basin into Fang Chen's hand, and ran down the mountain by himself.
Fang Chen could only follow behind.
Yu Yao turned around the place where the cow was crazy a few times, found the black strip that had been trampled on, and carefully picked it up with a wooden stick.
"This is an eel?" Fang Chen, who caught up, hugged the basin and frowned.
Yu Yao also asked herself in her heart, is this an eel? The eel has a fierce temperament, but the strange fish in front of him, which is meters long, has thick arms, is black, and has outturned fangs, and can drag calves into the water and actively attack adult cows?
Yu Yao turned around uncertainly and asked Fang Chen, "Can an eel grow to such a big size?"
Fang Chen shook his head with a heavy face, "I've never seen such a big one, in the natural environment, the largest individual of an eel is about half a meter. ”