The courtyard wall was only more than one meter high. Wangfu wanted to climb over it, but he found that the top of the courtyard wall was strewn with broken glass. It seemed messy, but there were rules. The broken glass was not piled together like garbage, but like broken glass. They were stuck vertically on the courtyard wall like a broken blade. The holes were sharp and gleaming with cold light. They were lined up in rows, like fully armed guards, ready to attack the invading enemy at any time.
Looking at the tempting fruit-bearing jujube tree, Wang Fu really wanted to climb over the courtyard wall. Taking advantage of Uncle Tan and the others before they got up, he quietly climbed up the tree and picked a handful of dates as a tooth sacrifice. But now he gave up on climbing over the courtyard wall. thoughts. Can you climb over from the top of the courtyard gate? This courtyard door is facing the main entrance of Uncle Tan's house. Although the main door is closed, there is no guarantee that Uncle Tan or Qin Yue will suddenly open the door and see him, which will cause embarrassment.
While he was hesitating, there seemed to be soft footsteps behind him. Before he could fully react, someone tapped him on the shoulder and said: Wangfu, why are you here so early? It was Uncle Tan who was speaking. He turned around and Uncle Tan was looking at him. He thought to himself: It's so dangerous. If he climbs over the wall, he will catch him. He pretended to be calm and said: Why is Uncle Tan sleeping outside?
The scorpion is kept at a neighbor's house, and if you want to protect it, you have to sleep outside. Uncle Qin also held a gauze swatter in his hand, which was used to swat flies. Scorpions love to eat flies.
Could you please let me go to your neighbor's house and take a look at the scorpions you raise? I've never seen a scorpion before? When Shi Wangfu said this, he raised his head, his face flushed by the faint morning sun. Uncle Qin saw that it was still early, so he raised the gauze swatter harder and said, "Then let you go and have a look!"
At this time, the rising sun was obscured by a black mushroom cloud, with a dazzling golden light shining through its edge. Uncle Qin led Shi Wangfu to the right and passed through a dark alley. After exiting the alley, there was a tile-roofed house with a lock on the door. Uncle Qin said that he rented this house to raise scorpions. As he spoke, he took the key to unlock the door, and then opened the door. There were four large vats inside. The vats were covered with raised light blue gauze covers. They looked like standing eggs.
Shi Wangfu approached a jar with a strange look. Through the gauze cover, he could clearly see scorpions with shiny bodies crawling inside. The two serrated front pincers were like pliers, opening and closing at times, showing A combative attitude.
Is this kind of thing valuable? Shi Wangfu asked with emotion.
Uncle Qin walked into the house and said: It is valuable just because it is highly toxic. Uncle Qin stepped on the bamboo bed with the cover rolled up in a circle, raised the gauze racket, and opened the half-covered wooden window sash. The house suddenly became brighter.
Shi Wangfu looked at another large tank where scorpions were kept and found a scorpion crawling out from the gap in the gauze cover. He cried: Alas, the scorpion has come out. Then he tried to grab it with his hands, but before he could catch it, the scorpion actually climbed onto his left arm. He failed to knock it off with his right hand, but was bitten by the scorpion. The bite happened to be on the inside of his left arm, causing a sharp pain. , making him fight hard to knock down the scorpion. The scorpion fell to the ground and became motionless.
Uncle Tan rushed over to see and saw that Scorpion had been beaten to death. Of course, Uncle Qin didn't scold Shi Wangfu. Shi Wangfu's bitten left arm obviously began to swell. He secretly regretted that he shouldn't have brought Shi Wangfu to see the scorpion. He could tell that something was going to happen.
He should have found a reason to refuse Shi Wangfu's arrival, but he did not foresee such consequences at all. He took a look at the gap in the gauze cover and concluded that it was bitten by a mouse. He had no time to worry, so he quickly turned to the bamboo bed, picked up the mattress sheet, bit it with his teeth, pulled it with his hand, and tore off a piece of cloth. He took it and wrapped it around the upper end of Wangfu's left arm. , tie a knot hard to block the blood path and prevent the scorpion venom in the wound from spreading to the upper left arm or even the whole body.
Afterwards, Uncle Tan asked him to go out, locked the door, and took him hurriedly to the village clinic two kilometers south of Tianfan.
There was a man and a woman in the health room, a doctor and a nurse respectively. They saw that the bare left arm of the young man in a coat was swollen and black. They asked why it was a scorpion bite and immediately came to rescue. He asked Uncle Qin to cooperate and help Wang Fu lie on his back on the hospital bed.
The morning light came in from the window, stinging Wangfu's eyes. He closed his eyelids, but he could still feel the bright red light, like blood flowing out of his wound filled with scorpion venom. A burst of terror made his heart palpitate.
The doctor used a sterilized knife to make a cross on his wound, and dirty blood came out. Wangfu frowned in pain, cried out "oh oh" in pain, and cried in pain. Uncle Qin said, why not take anesthesia?
The anesthetic is gone. The doctor squeezed hard around his wound with both hands until the blood slowly reduced. The nurse placed a basin under Wangfu's elbow. Suddenly, the blood covered the pelvic floor. Uncle Qin was trembling with excitement as he looked at it.
Wangfu struggled and shouted at first, and then fainted from the pain. The bathroom became quiet again. The doctor basically drained all the blood from his wound, and the nurse came over and dipped the medicated gauze in a tweezer on his wound.
It would be very valuable to have surgery under anesthesia in the county hospital! Uncle Qin heard what the nurse said and realized that Wangfu's medical expenses were cheap here. He had no reason not to bear it. He was the one who took Wangfu to see if he was bitten by a scorpion. Thinking of this, he secretly complained that he should not have accepted this child to learn how to raise a scorpion. Of course, this was the trouble caused by his son, Qin Yue. Qin Yue should not have brought Wang Fu home, otherwise, nothing would have happened.
How much does it cost for this child to have this rescue operation? Uncle Tan asked anxiously.
I can’t explain clearly, but after the scorpion venom has been expelled, I still need to be given intravenous injections to reduce inflammation, which will take several days. The doctor explained and asked him to settle the bill. He now wanted 200 yuan for the surgery.
Uncle Qin touched it and took out only 50 yuan. The nurse asked him to go home and get 150 yuan to make up for it. Seeing his reluctance, the nurse showed his cards: If the money is not enough, we will stop taking the medicine. This child is infected and his condition worsens. If a lawsuit arises, it will be your responsibility.
Uncle Qin heard that someone in the village was involved in a lawsuit over a forest dispute. In the end, both the plaintiff and defendant lost money, money and energy. At this moment, Uncle Tan followed the nurse's instructions and found a way to pay for the medicine.
He suddenly felt that raising scorpions was a risky business and he needed to be very careful, lest he get bitten by a scorpion as if he were hoping to get rich. Not only would he be in trouble of one kind or another, but he would also spend money unjustly.
When Uncle Qin went back, the first thing he did was to find some scraps of gauze. Then he went to the room where the scorpions were kept and carefully patched up the gauze cover that had been bitten by the mouse to prevent the scorpions inside from crawling out again.
A week later, Wangfu sat up from the bed in the health room. He had basically recovered. Although the wound on the inside of his left arm was still wrapped with a cotton wool bandage, it did not affect his ability to move around. Before Wangfu left the clinic, the doctor asked Uncle Qin to pay the bill and pay all the money for the next few dressing changes.
Wangfu looked at Uncle Tan, his face full of guilt, as if he wanted to say something but didn't say it. Uncle Qin raised his voice and said to him because he was carrying it, "You are healed, don't learn how to raise scorpions from me anymore, you go, I'm afraid of you, I can bow to you three times."
