In the blink of an eye, it’s Sunday, a rare break.
In the past few days, everyone except Wang Ke was covered in sweat from running around. Eating is no longer important, the key is to take a shower.
Xishan is also short of water, but it is much better than Tunliu Village.
When he got up at five o'clock in the morning, Gu Maolin shouted to go to Angezhuang Town to take a bath. It is less than thirty kilometers away from Angezhuang Town, and more than forty kilometers away from the barracks. It's not worth running dozens of kilometers to take a shower.
What Wang Ke means is to boil some water at home so that everyone can wipe it.
Just as I was about to go out, there was a "click" of lightning in the sky. When I looked up again, I saw black clouds rolling in the sky and it was going to rain.
"Liang Xiaolong, Zhao Mingming!"
"arrive!"
"Quickly bring the black donkey into the house and bring in some fodder and firewood."
"Yes." The two ran out.
The thunder in the sky is like a drum, one sound as loud as the other. Rolling from the sky.
Spring rain is as precious as oil. "Gu Maolin, stop making trouble. Why don't you take a bath? Either boil the water now, or wait until the rain comes down and you can wash in the yard. God doesn't want you to go to Angezhuang at all." Wang Ke said to Gu Maolin with a smile.
"God is so fucked up. Why is it raining today? It could have rained yesterday or tomorrow, but it rained today during the break. And it made us get up so early." Gu Maolin complained here, but he walked to the kang stove. Next, start boiling water.
"God is so funny that it didn't rain on the way." Wang Ke said with a smile.
The black donkey was led up. Since Gu Maolin found it again last time, the donkey has slowly integrated into the group in the past few days. It started to rain outside.
There was a roar of thunder. After a while, the electricity also stopped, and several lanterns were lit in the house.
The soldiers began to take a bath in the room one by one. "Wait a minute, one of you can send some water to Section Chief Chang so that he can wash himself too." Wang Ke said. He thought for a moment, and after the rain stopped, I still have to send a letter myself. I went to Uncle Dong Pianfang’s house for lunch at noon and wanted to buy something.
The little black donkey was obviously not used to the heat in the room. His ears kept wagging back and forth and he sneezed loudly in his nose. Four legs wandered around the room.
"Squad leader, doesn't this donkey also want to take a bath?" Song Ruimin asked.
"Your donkey needs a bath!" Niu Suozhu retorted.
"It's sweating too, come on, come on, please give me a moment and I'll wipe it with my bath water." Song Ruimin came over with a basin of dirty water. When the little black donkey saw there was water, he opened his mouth and wanted to drink.
"Don't drink, don't drink, the water is poisonous." Gu Maolin shouted, pushing Song Ruimin's washbasin away.
The little black donkey took one look and followed Song Ruimin forward. Gu Maolin stood in front of the black donkey, determined not to let the black donkey drink Song Ruimin's bath water. When the little black donkey saw it, he immediately turned his buttocks around and prepared to kick Gu Maolin with his hind legs.
"You stubborn donkey, you are really kicking Lu Dongbin. You don't know a good heart. His bath water is dirty, smelly and poisonous. Hurry up. Get him some water to drink, this guy is going to riot." Gu Maolin shouted , Wang Ke quickly grabbed the reins of the black donkey and dragged it over, but its butt still bounced up and kicked up its hind hooves. Although the kick missed, it still shocked Gu Maolin.
There was a burst of laughter from everyone, and Liang Xiaolong, the sweet potato, brought a basin of water. The black donkey gave up and lowered his head to drink the water.
"Listen up, everyone, this donkey in our class is precious. You can feed it delicious food in the future. Other water for washing your face, washing your feet, bathing, and washing clothes cannot be fed to the donkey. It will ruin your stomach. Can’t afford to pay.”
Gu Maolin said it seriously. Everyone thought he was in love with donkeys and didn't take it seriously. But Wang Ke asked him afterwards why he said that and what was the significance of it. Gu Maolin looked around and no one told him that the dirty water and fossils on the human body would dissolve the donkey treasure in the stomach. Some people raise donkey treasures. Get up specifically in the middle of the night to feed them concentrated feed and purified water.
The rain got heavier and heavier, and it continued until almost half past ten, when it finally let down a little. The little black donkey ran out long ago and played happily in the rain. After running around for a while, I was soaked all over, and then I ran to the eaves on one side and ate the wet grass there.
"Let's go, but let me go first. I'm going to buy something to bring to Uncle Dong. You will come back with Section Chief Chang later." After Wang Ke told Gu Maolin, he rolled up his trouser legs and plunged into the light rain.
When I walked to the school gate, I realized that it was raining heavily this morning. On the road below, the rain was already ankle deep. Wang Ke didn't bother to take off his shoes, so he stepped on them and started running. I ran to the canteen in one breath, threw the letter I wrote to Ye Xianqian into the mailbox here, bought a few bars of soap, and bought two kilograms of meat. He turned around and ran towards Uncle Dong Pianfang's house.
By the time I got to Uncle Dong Pianfang's house, I was already wet. The "bah, bah, bah" in a pair of shoes is full of water.
"Boy, why are you the only one here? Where are they?" Uncle Dong Pianfang asked as soon as he saw Wang Ke.
"They are at the back, Uncle Dong. Here are a few bars of soap and two pounds of meat that I bought." Wang Ke handed the items in his hand to Dong Fangfang.
"You, hurry up and wipe it with a towel. Don't buy anything when you come home from now on. Come on, change your shoes." As he said this, Uncle Dong Pianfang took off his shoes and handed them to Wang Ke. Then he picked up the things and put them inside. Walk to the room.
Wang Ke saw it and said, "Just put it on. Uncle Dong hurts him."
After taking off his shoes and wiping the water off his body, Wang Ke walked around the hall.
At this time, Uncle Dong Pianfang put on a pair of shoes and walked out, holding a bowl of water in his hand.
"Boy, drink this bowl of brown sugar ginger tea. I grind the ginger powder myself and brew it with boiling water. This spring rain can easily make you sick if it touches your body, so drink it while it's hot."
"Thank you, Uncle Dong." Wang Ke picked up the bowl of brown sugar ginger tea and drank it one sip after another.
Dong Pianfang stood aside and looked at him lovingly.
"Hey, Uncle Dong, I have something to ask you." Wang Ke suddenly remembered the donkey treasure in the black donkey's belly, and asked him quickly before anyone came.
"What's up?"
"What is a donkey treasure?"
Dong Pianfang looked at Wang Ke, "Why do you care about this matter?"
"I'm just curious and want to learn something."
"Well, donkey treasure, also called donkey sand, is a kind of Chinese medicinal material, which belongs to the stone category and is very rare. You know, kid, cows have bezoar. The bezoar gas is fragrant and can be used to relieve fever, detoxify, and calm convulsions. It is a valuable Chinese medicinal materials. The production of bezoar is mainly due to gallstones formed by inflammation of the gallbladder of cattle. However, the body structures of donkeys and cattle are different. Donkeys do not have gallbladders."
"That means the birth of donkey babies has nothing to do with the gallbladder."
"Yes, donkey treasure is a calculus produced in a donkey's stomach. It is finally transferred to the heart and liver along with the blood vessels. The book says that the probability of occurrence is about one in 100,000. It has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, detoxifying, calming the nerves and purging fire. It is used to treat neurological diseases, epilepsy, childhood convulsions, nameless carbuncles, sores and other difficult and severe cases. Since the probability of the occurrence of donkey treasure is smaller than that of a bezoar, it is very valuable. It is more expensive than a bezoar. A piece of donkey treasure is as valuable as an egg. It’s not cheap. I’ve only seen one the size of an egg, like a little hedgehog, and it sold for 200,000 yuan.”
"Then if it's as big as a palm, is the smooth surface worth it?!"
"It's as big as a palm? And it's smooth? Boy, let me tell you, my master once said that he heard his master say that if the donkey treasure has a smooth surface, it can cost hundreds of dollars. If it's as big as a palm, you can buy it. Dozens of Nanshao villages. Stop dreaming, I have raised thousands of donkeys and I have never touched a donkey treasure once."
Wang Ke nodded. It seems that this donkey treasure is real and its value is real. That donkey must be raised well, at least it cannot be killed now. You still expect it to work. The most important thing is that if you kill the donkey, Uncle Dong Pianfang will definitely ask, how do you know that there is a donkey treasure in the donkey's belly.
"Uncle Dong, you taught me another trick. Let's see if I have this kind of luck in the future. The donkey you gave me might have a donkey treasure in its belly."
"That's a beautiful idea, kid. But let me reiterate to you, I didn't give you that donkey. You bought it from me with your own money."
Wang Ke chatted with Uncle Dong Pianfang for a while, and naturally also talked about the wordless heavenly book. Uncle Dong Pianfang said there is still no progress. I just found that there are several grasses that can be identified as herbal medicines, but when mixed with the pictures and symbols, I don’t know what they mean.
While chatting, Gu Maolin, Section Chief Chang and his entourage came wading through the water wearing raincoats, carrying shoes, and rolling up their trouser legs.
"Squad leader, this rain is bitingly cold. It's just like snow. Aren't you afraid of the cold?"
As soon as a few people entered the house, the rain and thunder started getting louder again.
"I don't know what happened this year, but the first spring rain was so heavy? Is there going to be a flood?" Uncle Dong Pianfang was worried.
"Uncle Dong, no way. Floods usually only occur in May and June." Wang Ke continued what Uncle Dong Pianfang said. However, when he saw the thunderstorm today, he felt a little frightened.
"Chief Chang, you are a water conservancy expert. It was weird that the snow here was so heavy last winter. Isn't it also weird that the first thunderstorm this year was so heavy?" Uncle Dong Pianfang asked Chang Gaofeng .
Section Chief Chang Gaofeng nodded. He was also worried. If it rained again, he would not be able to continue the survey mission and the ground would not be able to rain.
Wang Ke suddenly thought of something. The roads in this village were fifty or sixty centimeters lower than every house. When it rains, the road turns into a river. So where will the river flow to in the end?
"Uncle Dong, where does the water in our Nanshao Village go?"
"Of course it's the Juma River downstream! Of course it's only part of it." Uncle Dong Pianfang said casually, because the road in this village is not as high as the Juma River, and the remaining water seeps into the ground.
"Uncle Dong, if the water under the mountain, including the water on the Angezhuang side, is put down, and there is no time to flow out below, wouldn't it mean that there will be a flood here." Wang Ke asked this because of the terrain on the Angezhuang side. , judging from the altitude of the map, it is nearly a hundred meters higher than here, and from here down is the Juma River, which is nearly a hundred kilometers long. Since the Juma River is located on the Great Plains, the altitude difference is only a few meters. Water rushing down from hundreds of meters in a river channel with only a few meters drop for hundreds of kilometers has no time to flow down and will inevitably overflow.
"Yes, yes. Whenever there is heavy rain here every year, the area will be affected by disasters. Therefore, the small courtyards of every household are higher than the road in front of the door. My family is lucky, it is more than one meter high."
At this point, my eyes flashed like a movie screen. Why was I in the water, surrounded by rolling floods, with no houses or trees in sight? I was swimming hard in the water, avoiding the water washed away by the floods. Trees and broken furniture. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen this kind of scene, but it’s just the beginning of spring, where did the flood come from?
Wang Ke was begging in his heart at this time, this rain can't stop. Strike more thunder and disperse the clouds!
