sinovels Chapter 1759 Two Gangs Head to Lao'anzi
Chapter 1759 Two Gangs Head to Lao'anzi
Chapter 1759 Two Gangs Head to Lao'anzi
In the shed in the backyard of the Zhao family, on a makeshift and sterilized operating table, Zhao Jun was performing surgery on Hua Long. He used sterilized scissors to cut open the simple stitches on the mountain and pulled out the intestines that Gu Yang had stuffed back into Hua Long's stomach.
The Zhao family's dogs ate well, and each one was fatter than the last, so their intestines inevitably had oil stuck to them.
Oil is fat, and fatty tissue has few capillaries, making it difficult to heal and prone to necrosis. After necrosis, it liquefies, further affecting the healing of surrounding tissues.
So Zhao Jun was only doing emergency treatment on the mountain. At this point, he used sterilized scissors to cut off all the oil hanging on this section of intestine.
"Water!" Zhao Jun gave the order after completing this step, and Li Baoyu, who was acting as his assistant, stepped forward with an aluminum basin in his hand.
The aluminum basin had also been disinfected, and it contained warm boiled water that Zhao Youcai had poured from the thermos.
Zhao Youcai added salt to the warm boiled water, and Zhao Jun gently washed Hua Long's intestines with the diluted salt water.
After washing, Zhao Jun stuffed the intestines back into Hua Long's abdomen. Then, Zhao Jun took a needle and thread and stitched the wound up again.
At this point, the wound from Hua Long's disembowelment was treated.
Next, Zhao Jun treated the flesh that Hua Long had torn open by the brown bear.
Bear claws are extremely lethal; at best, a single claw will leave a deep groove, tearing the flesh apart. At worst, a large chunk of flesh will be ripped off.
Hua Long's injuries were like this; the skin and flesh of his right ribs were almost torn open.
This wound needs to be stitched in two layers: first the flesh, then the skin. And before stitching the flesh, the torn flesh has to be cut away.
Thankfully, Hualong was given the secret pill beforehand, otherwise the dog would have been in excruciating pain.
Zhao Jun sewed the dragon flower with 166 stitches. Zhao Youcai sewed Erhei with over 140 stitches.
After Zhao Jun finished sewing up Hua Long, Zhao Weipeng and Zhao Jinhui carried him to a specially made hospital bed.
The five dogs, severely injured, will have difficulty moving around for the next few days, so they will have to stay in this shed.
A tent that can accommodate forty tables can definitely hold a few dogs.
First, lay clean wooden planks on the ground, then lay straw on the planks, and finally lay clean burlap sacks on the straw.
After Hualong was placed in a hospital bed, a nurse came to give it an injection.
Li Tongyun learned a little bit from her mother, and she can now give people and dogs IV drips and injections without any problem.
After giving Hualong the injection, Li Tongyun went to check on Erhei, who had been admitted to the intensive care unit earlier. Erhei was already asleep. Looking at the stitches on the dog's body, Li Tongyun sighed softly and walked towards the regular ward.
In the regular ward, the seven lightly injured hunting dogs, including Qinglong and Qinglaohu, have all received injections.
They can move around normally and definitely can't stay in the ward. We'll let them out after their injections are finished.
This wasn't the first time these dogs had received IV drips. When they saw Li Tongyun approaching, they wagged their tails at her, but their legs, with needles in them, didn't move.
"Brother Chen," Li Tongyun said to the caregiver, Xie Chen, "It's alright, I'll go back to my room first. If you need another injection later, just knock on the back window."
After saying that, Li Tongyun came out of the shed.
As soon as she came out, she saw Black Tiger fawning over the red female dog.
Li Tongyun glanced to the side and saw Bald Tail watching longingly. The dog had drooping ears and a drooping tail, looking like it had suffered a great grudge.
Zhao Youcai had always wanted Bald Tail and Red Female Dog to breed together, but Bald Tail's tail was bitten off by Black Tiger, and he didn't dare to provoke Black Tiger.
"Go away!" Li Tongyun felt sorry for the bald-tailed tiger and went over to poke it away with her foot. The tiger glanced at Li Tongyun, but didn't dare to say anything and went back to its den.
……
At 5:50, the commuter train arrived in Yong'an, its whistle carrying far and wide. Wang Meilan, Jin Xiaomei, and others who were working hurriedly packed their things and headed home.
"Aunt Zhao, are you tired?" Wang Meilan asked with concern. Old Mrs. Zhao waved her hand and said, "Not tired. I'm not idle at home either."
Wang Meilan originally didn't want her and the old lady to come, but Zhao Weipeng's mother insisted on coming, saying that she also came from a poor family and could do all kinds of farm work.
On their way home, Wang Meilan and the others ran into Li Dayong and his three companions who were getting off work.
As they entered the gate, they saw a Liberation truck parked in front of the house in the distance. Wang Meilan immediately smiled and said, "My son and his family have brought meat again."
But when the group passed the Liberation truck, they saw Li Tongyun coming out of the house.
Only then did Wang Meilan realize that her gang of dogs had suffered serious damage today.
When Wang Meilan and the others ran to the backyard, the first thing they saw was a series of drip tubes connected to the roof beams.
"Oh my god!" Wang Meilan walked quickly inside, and the lightly injured hunting dogs all got up when they saw her.
"Don't move!" Wang Qiang shouted at the dogs, then came to greet Wang Meilan, saying, "Sister, you're back?"
Wang Meilan didn't respond to Wang Qiang's obvious question. Instead, she frowned and asked in return, "Qiangzi, how did we make it like this?"
"Don't even mention it, sis," Wang Qiang said. "We ran into three brown bears on the mountain today..."
"Huh?" Before Wang Qiang could speak, Wang Meilan exclaimed in surprise. Although she didn't hunt, she listened to her family's gossip every day.
Three brown bears—it's bound to be a fierce battle.
"Are you all alright?" Wang Meilan asked first. Wang Qiang shook his head and said, "No, sister, no one is hurt."
"Is the dog dead or not?" Wang Meilan asked, looking around. Then she heard Wang Qiang say, "Sister, Lao Hei is dead."
"Oh dear!" Wang Meilan sighed with a sorrowful expression, "That dog was so good, so obedient."
Wang Meilan could still bear it, but the sentimental Ma Ling's eyes instantly reddened when she saw the injured dogs and heard that Big Black had died.
"Alright, sis." Wang Qiang gently patted Wang Meilan's arm and said, "You two go back inside, you've both had a long day."
"Sigh!" Wang Meilan sighed again, then gestured with her chin toward Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai, who were still busy, and said, "They still have half a day to go before they finish?"
"It'll be done soon," Wang Qiang said. "My brother-in-law and my nephew will finish sewing those two dogs and that'll be it."
……
Twenty minutes later, in the outer room of the Zhao family's house, three tables were filled with men, women, and children, who were eating and drinking.
"Tsk!" Zhao Youcai put down his cup after taking a sip of wine, picked up a small fried crucian carp with his chopsticks, took a bite, and then threw the other half into his bowl.
At this moment, Li Baoyu was recounting his response to the battlefield and the subsequent changes.
"When I saw that I had run out of bullets, I quickly made a feint and turned to run." Li Baoyu gestured with his chopsticks as he spoke in vernacular Chinese, "As soon as I turned my horse and ran, those two tyrants chased after me relentlessly. Just at this critical moment, I saw my brother."
I shouted, "Brother, help me!" My brother looked up and said, "Baoyu, hurry! I'll handle the pursuers."
At this point, Li Baoyu put down his chopsticks, raised his hand, and said, "Now I know what to do. When that big female bear gets within ten paces of me, I leap into the forest, and then I hear a 'bang,' and the big female brown bear rolls over and falls to the ground..."
Although Li Baoyu embellished his own words, the description of the process was basically accurate.
"My brother killed two bear tyrants with ten shots, but unexpectedly there were still some that escaped." At this moment, Li Baoyu stopped eating and said, "The bear tyrant was so anxious that it rolled down and was right in front of us in the blink of an eye, but my brother's gun was out of bullets!"
At this point, Li Baoyu clapped his hands and said, "What should we do?"
At all three tables, men, women, and children stopped eating and stared intently at Li Baoyu. Everyone wanted to know what to do, except for Li Ruhai, who was secretly annoyed that he was born a few years too late; otherwise, wouldn't he have gone up the mountain with them?
Seeing Li Baoyu take a sip of wine, Lin Xiangshun said, "Baoyu, what should we do?"
"Run!" Li Baoyu shouted, slamming down his cup. "Of the thirty-six stratagems, running away is the best!" My brother dragged his steel spear and rode back, pulling a quiver of bullets from his leopard-skin pouch as he went. Just then, a man with a gun came running up, and when he looked closely... oh dear..."
“This child…” Zhao Weipeng, captivated by the story, pointed at Li Baoyu, while Wang Qiang beside him smiled and said, “Me.”
"What the hell?" Zhao Weipeng was taken aback, then heard Wang Qiang say, "Oh dear, it's me."
"Hahaha..." Everyone was amused by Wang Qiang's words, and then they heard Wang Qiang say, "I killed that little bear bully with one shot, and then I went over and shot him again."
"Uncle, look at you!" Li Baoyu said to Wang Qiang unhappily, "I can talk for five or six minutes straight, but you can only manage two sentences."
"Hehehe..." Wang Qiang chuckled and picked up his wine glass to drink with Zhao Weipeng and the others.
"Oh dear!" Li Dayong sighed, putting down his cup, and said to Zhao Youcai, "Brother, why didn't you go with the kids? Do you think it would be this dangerous if you went?"
Li Dayong said this to give Zhao Youcai an excuse to go up the mountain. Upon hearing this, Zhao Youcai glared fiercely at Zhao Jun, thinking, "Do you think I don't want to go? I spent the whole night researching and finding out everything, and this brat won't take me!"
Feeling a little guilty under Zhao Youcai's glare, Zhao Jun quickly changed the subject, saying, "Nobody expected that three bears would suddenly appear."
“Four, Brother Jun,” Jie Chen chimed in. “Didn’t you see there’s still one dead in front of that pit?”
“I saw it,” Zhao Jun said. “They died from poison.”
"Thank goodness the medicine died," Zhang Yuanmin said. "Otherwise, with four Xiong Bas, it would have been a real pain. These three would have been enough to make things difficult."
As Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Xie Chen said with pride, "It's only because we ran into the Zhao family gang that we were able to fight this battle. Otherwise, who else in these surrounding villages could have fought this battle?"
"Hmm?" Upon hearing Xie Chen's words, Zhao Youcai's small eyes widened and Li Dayong paused with his chopsticks.
“Those three were really close,” Wang Qiang said. “Luckily we all had semi-automatic ones, or we would have been done for.”
“Yeah, right,” Zhao Jun chimed in. “It’s a good thing the dogs were wearing armor, otherwise they would all be done for.”
"Brother," Zhang Yuanmin called to Zhao Jun, "I see that some of the armor pieces are beyond repair..."
“Let’s make more,” Zhao Jun said. “We still have cowhide in our warehouse, let’s find someone to make a few more.”
Perhaps he was too sensitive; the moment he heard the word "cowhide," Zhao Youcai's face immediately darkened. But of the cowhides in the warehouse, only one was his; the rest were gifts from the Yongxing Brigade to Zhao Jun.
"Oh right, son." At this moment, Wang Meilan from another table asked Zhao Jun, "The bear bile has all been extracted, right?"
“It’s done, Mom,” Zhao Jun said. “My third uncle dipped it.”
As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, Wang Meilan asked again, "Do you still want the meat from those three bears?"
“Sure,” Zhao Jun said. “We started late, so it’s not that hot today. It won’t break. We can just take sacks up tomorrow, see if we can get rid of them, and carry them down.”
After saying that, Zhao Jun added, "Brother Jin and his father-in-law have been taking medicine to those three big guys for several days now, so let's just forget about it."
"Jun," Lin Xiangshun suddenly reminded Zhao Jun, "You guys have to be extra careful when you go tomorrow. Don't let that big guy or something attract Xiong Ba or Hei Xiazi again."
"Yes, Second Brother," Zhao Jun replied. "Tiger isn't injured. I'll take care of him tomorrow."
“That’s right!” Lin Xiangshun said, “Having a dog can remind you of anything you encounter.”
"Yes..." Zhao Jun had just started to speak when Li Dayong interrupted him, saying to Zhao Youcai, "Hey, brother, why don't you go with the kids? What are you doing at home?"
The way Li Dayong said it made it sound as if Zhao Youcai didn't want to go with Zhao Jun.
"Oh dear!" Hearing Li Dayong's words, Zhao Youcai sighed, pretending to be helpless, and said, "Alright, then I'll go for a stroll with them tomorrow."
“I’ll go too, brother,” Zhao Weipeng chimed in. Zhao Youcai raised his glass and said, “Alright, let’s all go together tomorrow.”
No sooner had Zhao Youcai finished speaking than Li Baoyu said to Li Ruhai, "Ruhai, you should go tomorrow too."
"Huh?" Li Ruhai's eyes lit up with surprise. "I can go too?"
Just as Jin Xiaomei at the next table was about to stop him, Li Baoyu said, "Sure, you can go and help us carry the meat."
Li Ruhai: "..."
Zhao Youcai: "..."
……
The next day was May 15th, 1988, which happened to be a Sunday.
Around four o'clock in the morning, Wang Meilan went to the fields with her daughter-in-law Ma Ling and niece-in-law Liu Mei.
Zhao Jun, Zhao Youcai, and Li Baoyu visited the hunting dogs, one seriously injured and one slightly injured. Seeing that the dogs were in good condition, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu went to feed them, while Zhao Youcai went inside to cook.
Li Baoyu and his wife also ate breakfast in the East Courtyard this morning. After breakfast, everyone prepared to go up the mountain.
Zhao Youcai solemnly put on his mountain clothes, while Zhao Jun took out a small yellow cloth bag from the kang cabinet, inside which were a pair of very sharp scissors and a deer antler spoon.
Zhao Jun held the cloth bag, feeling somewhat uneasy.
Although that mountain area is not suitable for the growth of wild ginseng, people who have been running ginseng for 20 or 30 years follow the rules, and Lao Zhao is generally not lying.
However, today is the 29th day of the third month in the lunar calendar, and we haven't arrived at Yacao Market yet, which means that the ginseng hasn't sprouted yet.
"Maybe next time?" Zhao Jun thought for a moment, then put the small cloth bag back into his shoulder bag. It didn't take up much space, so he could just carry it with him.
After getting ready, Zhao Jun left home and lit a firecracker.
The firecrackers exploded in mid-air, and members of the Zhao Family Gang and the Zhao Family Hunting Gang set off for the Zhao Family Compound.
(End of this chapter)