Mrs. Lin carried the medicine box and went from house to house to check if any villagers were injured.
It was just after the flood, and most of the wounds at this time were skin injuries. Although they were not serious, they should not be taken lightly.
Infection is the most avoidable thing for trauma. Nowadays, everyone is soaking in water. Impurities and dirt in the water, and even air, can get into the wound through contact. Once infected, the high fever will not go away, which will cause a series of uncontrollable diseases.
Malaria and plague are the main enemies after floods.
The water on the road spread over the calves. The water was so turbid that it was difficult to see what was going on in the water. From time to time, I kicked a brick or bumped into a wooden board.
Mrs. Lin had just come out of one house. The water was flowing and she was about to rush to the next house. Her calf suddenly cramped and she almost lost her balance and fell into the water. Fortunately, she was supported by Mrs. Lin who arrived in time.
"Mom, your legs are just gone. The water is too cold to soak in them."
"No, look at the village. How many people were injured by collapsed houses. The weather is so cold. There is no place to take shelter from the cold at night. Women and children are suffering from the cold!"
Lin Laosan couldn't care about so much. He only knew that his mother had been lying in bed for seven or eight years. She was finally able to walk this year. It was a blessing from God, but she couldn't spoil God's will.
Seeing that my mother was holding her kneecaps with both hands, it was obvious that she was in severe pain. Without saying anything, she squatted down and carried Mrs. Lin back.
"If anyone is sick, please come to our home for treatment. If you fall down, the villagers will really have no hope."
On the way back, I happened to meet Chun Sheng who was fishing for a chicken coop in the stagnant water.
There was blood on his forehead, and half of his face was stained red. He didn't care about the touch on his arm, and his hands kept moving.
Lin Laosan was horrified and shouted: "Chunsheng! What's wrong with your head?"
Chunsheng held the escaped chicken in one hand and hooked the chicken coop in the water with the other: "When the flood came, the roof of our house was overturned, and the falling beam hit my head."
Lin Laosan came closer and realized that the wound was not serious. There was a scratch as long as an index finger, and the skin and flesh were turned out, which was shocking.
Mrs. Lin hurriedly got off her son's body and ran into the water to check Chunsheng's injury. Fortunately, the wound bypassed his right eye and was scratched from the center of his forehead to the end of his eyebrow.
Otherwise, half of his eyes will be damaged!
Mrs. Lin slapped him on the back: "I don't want to die! It's such a big hole, don't you know how to find something to cover it to stop the bleeding?"
When it first hit, Chunsheng felt a sharp pain in his forehead, and Chunsheng almost thought he wouldn't survive.
After realizing that a flood was coming, he couldn't care less about himself. He placed his pregnant wife in a safe place and then went to the chicken coop to look after the chickens.
As a result, all the dozens of old hens that were raised at home ran out, and he hurriedly followed them and shouted. They were kept to provide nutrition for his wife and the child who was about to be born.
When he became nervous, the wound on his forehead actually didn't hurt so much. Lin Laosan almost forgot about it if he didn't mention it.
"Auntie, I'm looking for chickens. There are three more that have gone somewhere. I'll wait until I find them..."
"The chicken's life is more important than yours. Do you really have no idea how serious your injury is?" Mrs. Lin took out the powder and poured it on Chun Sheng's wound, finally stopping the bleeding.
Chun Sheng smiled naively and went to find the chicken again, but Mrs. Lin grabbed her ear and walked towards her home.
"If the wound is deeper, you can go directly to see the King of Hell. Thank you for laughing! If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your wife, who is about to give birth. What will you do if you have her!"
Chun Sheng tilted his neck and didn't dare to move. He saw his wife lying on the wall of the courtyard and looking over anxiously. No matter what he said, he could only swallow it in his stomach.
You're right, he needs to be well, he hasn't seen the baby in his wife's belly yet.
Mrs. Lin gave Chun Sheng Mafei Powder and sewed a few stitches on his forehead. After finishing the treatment, she found that her feet that had been standing were painful and itchy.
My knees felt like they were being eaten by thousands of ants. This was an old problem coming back.
When Xiangyun saw this, he felt extremely distressed. He was boiling plasters and boiling elixirs in space.
"I am old and no longer useful. I originally wanted to help, but now I have you, Abao, to worry about grandma. Grandma feels guilty."
Xiangyun felt sour and tears fell down.
No, it's because she's too young and doesn't even have the strength to get an acupuncture, otherwise it would be her fault whenever grandma needs to go out to do the work.
Mrs. Lin couldn't see her granddaughter's tears. Her heart softened and she held her in her arms heartily, coaxing her gently.
"A'Bao is the most well-behaved, don't you feel sorry for grandma? Grandma is doing good deeds to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. God sent you to our family, which is a blessing to our family."
"As the old saying goes, you can't make all the profits, and you can't enjoy all the blessings. Grandma knows that you are a blessed good boy, but she is also worried that your blessings will be too great for you. I only hope that grandma can practice medicine for you and save people, so that God can help you. Extend your life by one.”
Xiangyun was so moved that she couldn't tell her grandma that she had so much "blessing" that she didn't have to worry about using it.
Not long after Mrs. Lin returned, injured villagers soon came to visit.
There was no one in front of Lin's house from day to night.
After going back and forth, the herbs placed on the beams of the house were all gone, but the number of patients waiting in line for treatment only increased.
It turned out that the medical clinic in the town was full, and villagers from several surrounding villages gathered together and went to Lianhua Village to see Mrs. Lin for medical treatment.
Among them were many acquaintances who had come to Lin Family Medical Center to buy rheumatic pain plasters before.
Lin Tianci looked at the endless stream of patients and felt anxious. He didn't know that there was a pharmacy treasure box at home. He was worried that he had no medicinal materials, so he had to go back to the mountain with the basket on his back.
He was stopped by the sharp-eyed Mrs. Lin and ordered.
"Don't worry, there are enough medicinal materials. If anyone asks, just say that they were stored at home before the flood!"
Lin Tianci held back a lot of questions, but seeing his grandma's determined expression, he didn't feel comfortable asking any more questions.
Sure enough, in the next few days, he saw that the number of herbs in the futon hanging from the beams only increased.
Although he was confused in his heart, he wisely stopped talking. No matter what he said, it was a good thing. Nothing was more important than curing the disease and saving people.
The rain from the sky started to fall again.
Seeing the field ridges turning into lotus ponds and the creeks converging into the vast ocean, everyone dared not let go. No one could predict whether or when the second wave of floods would come.
The stagnant water flooded into the house, and the beds and tables were submerged in the water, making it impossible to live in the house.
The villagers dragged their families and ran towards the back mountain carrying rice and grain.
Xiangyun and Lin Silang leaned on the wall of the courtyard and looked out. They saw groups of familiar faces, big and small, walking hurriedly towards their home, and then towards the back mountain.
Classes at the college had stopped early, and Lin Silang was both worried about Yang Qiming's injury and fearful of the unknown.
He ran back to the house and said to his family: "Should our family go to the mountains to take shelter? What if the flood comes again and floods our house?"
Mrs. Lin also had this plan. Although the Lin family's house was on a high ground, the previous wave of floods also crossed the yard and began to flood into the house.
What if the next round of floods strikes in the middle of the night and people and their beds are swept away in their sleep? It’s not impossible!
Thinking of this, the Lin family quickly started to pack their things. The first thing they had to bring was food.
All the villagers ran to the mountains, and there would definitely not be enough wild vegetables to share.
If people occupy the space of animals, the birds and animals will be frightened and they will definitely have to hide in the mountains. Hunting will be even more difficult.
The Lin family put the food in baskets, sealed them with cloth bags, put them on the bullock cart, and covered them with mattresses and quilts.
I definitely can’t bring furniture or anything else with me, so I can only grab the necessary things first.
Mrs. Lin looked at the house full of things that could not be taken away, and when she thought about having to soak in the water when the flood came, she felt as if she had been soaked in water, sore and bloated.
Then I thought of something and ran towards my granddaughter's house.
Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Lin were packing up their daughter's clothes and bedding. When they saw Mrs. Lin coming in, they thought she was urging them to leave.
"It'll be ready soon. It's much colder in the mountains. Please prepare some quilts. I remember that I have a piece of linoleum at home to block the wind. Later, I will ask the third child to chop some bamboo and make an umbrella frame to hold it up to keep out the rain."
"Go quickly, go quickly, while the bamboo in the back room is not soaked, chop more for firewood."
After driving away her son and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lin hurriedly approached her granddaughter and stared at her little palm expectantly.
"Abao, do you have a bag that can hold a lot of things? Can you put everything you can't take away from home?"
Xiangyun blinked and glanced at the tables, chairs, benches, beds and cabinets in the room. Although they were not new, it was a pity that they were damaged.
The key is that if you want to use it again in the future, you have to spend money to buy it.
It’s so hard to make money these days, so of course you should save a little if you can.
She raised her chin and nodded vigorously.
His hand touched the small wooden stool beside him, and in the blink of an eye, the wooden stool disappeared.
Mr. Lin was very happy.
When the Lin family packed up their things and prepared to go up the mountain with the bullock cart, Mrs. Lin picked up her little granddaughter and walked at the end.
Suddenly there was an "ouch" sound, saying that something had been left behind, and he asked his family to leave first.
Zheng wanted to stay and help, but her mother-in-law drove her away.
After the family members disappeared at the entrance to the mountain, Mrs. Lin picked up her granddaughter and walked into the house.
From the main room to the bedroom and then to the kitchen, tables, chairs, benches, beds and wardrobes, pots and pans that were not taken away, and even a loofah bag for washing dishes were not left alone. They were all taken into the space by Xiangyun.
Neatly placed in the large corridor.
In less than half a stick of incense, the Lin family followed up with bandits and looted everything.
Not even a broom was left in the house.
If the house was not connected to the ground, Yaoling suspected that Xiangyun would take the entire house in together.
The Lin family, who was slower than everyone else to go up the mountain, walked straight to a stone house.
When Lin Laoer was planting bean seeds and Bupleurum, he built a small stone house here with soil mixed with sand and gravel in order to make it easier to see the fields at night and to save time on going up and down the mountain.
The area is not large, just enough for a dozen members of the Lin family and a cow to squeeze together.
It is impossible to lie down, but it is possible to keep warm with your back to back and face the wind and rain.
Because few people come to the mountain, the Lin family's house is not locked.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I got closer, I heard a noise coming from the stone house.
"Do you understand that it's first come, first served? My family saw this stone house first!"
Aunt Hu's broken gong voice clearly reached the ears of the Lin family.
There were obviously voices from other villagers in the stone house.
"What you see is yours? Did you write down your Hu family name? Who doesn't know that this house was built by the Lin family!"
Hu Er sat at the door, stretching his legs to block the door domineeringly. After a tiring day, he finally found a place to stay. No matter what, he would not let him out.
"The flooding in Lin's house is not serious, and her house is not on the mountain. This house is empty, and whoever comes in first belongs to it. Do you want me to teach you this? Hurry up and find a cave before it gets dark. If you stay later, be careful of sleeping with a wolf cub!"
As soon as these words came out, the villagers started talking even louder.
"Hu Er, we are all from the same village. There are only three people in your family. This stone house is large enough for another seven or eight adults. Why are you blocking the door and not letting us in?"
Hu Er didn't even bother to raise his eyelids: "Which of your eyes can see how big the place is?" As he said this, the three of them, his uncle and aunt, lay scattered in the room, and immediately there was no place to stay.
"Rogue! Scoundrel!"
The villagers were cursing and preparing to leave. When they saw the Lin family dragging a bullock cart, their expressions changed instantly, and they stared at Hu Ersan with a good show.
"The real owner is here, Hu Er. If you don't pack your things and get out quickly, do you still want others to coax you?"
Lin Lao San and Lin Lao San stood with their hips akimbo at the stone door. They stretched out their hands unceremoniously and pulled out the three Hu family members, throwing them outside the house like torn sacks.
"My house is small, you can find your own place to live!"
