Zhang Lisheng had a hopeless expression on his face seeing that there was no effect after paying such a huge price to feed the poisonous worm. He could no longer hold on to the incantation that he was chanting with great effort. The incantation in his mouth was cut off as soon as it was cut off.
As soon as the incantation was cut off, a counterforce spread through the young man's body. His face was distorted and his teeth were bleeding as he clenched them. At that moment, the disappointment that Zhang Lisheng had accumulated for years was ten times more unbearable than the pain on his body.
Seeing the centipede crawling toward him while bending, the young man had a ruthless expression on his face. He shouted, "100 drops of blood essence! You've taken 100 drops of my blood essence today but you're still disobedient. You're trying to kill me! You're trying to kill me!
"Other people have mothers but I don't.
Other people's fathers dote on their children, but my father didn't even say a word to me.
"Other people can play in town but I can only stay in this old house and feed this poisonous worm of yours three times a day …"
The more he spoke, the sadder he got. Eventually, he grabbed the centipede while losing his mind. He began pulling and biting the centipede crazily, venting the indescribable sadness in his heart. It was only until a series of heavy knocking on the door that pulled him back to reality from his madness.
After snapping back to reality, the young man looked at the dying centipede in his hand with a horrified expression on his face. However, he had no time to care about the venomous insect as he hurriedly threw it to the corner behind the door and opened the wooden door strenuously. "Mountain Worm! Hurry up! Open the door you damn brat! Something big has happened …" The sound of people pounding on the door made him unable to care about the venomous insect.
There was a middle-aged man with a long face outside the door. He was wearing a cheap black suit and was holding his head according to the adult Miaowei custom. He was the deputy village chief of Guawo Village, Tao Lielin.
Although he was only the deputy village chief, Tao Lielin was completely different from an ordinary villager when facing the Zhang family. As a grassroots cadre who used to be a rehabilitated soldier, he was not afraid of any evil spirits.
Tao Lielin shouted when he saw the young man appearing before him with mud all over his body, "Kid, you're taking a bath in the mud.
"Hurry, your father is in trouble. He's in the county hospital. Come with me now."
As he spoke, he grabbed the youth and hurriedly ran out of the village.
Zhang Lisheng only snapped back to his senses after being dragged by Tao Lielin for a while. He said in a daze, "Uncle Ah Lie, I-I locked the door."
"Lock your door, what kind of precious things can you have in your house? Besides, who in the village would dare to go to your Zhang house to steal?
Kid, your father was hit by a car in the county town. The police called the village and asked you to go to the hospital as soon as possible. We can't afford to delay. "The middle-aged man shouted while holding the youth's hand.
As they chatted, the two of them arrived in front of a green four-wheeled truck at the entrance of the village.
At that moment, many villagers had already gathered at the entrance of Guawo Village to watch the show. Seeing that the young man had arrived, they crowded him into the front of the truck.
Then, another twenty to thirty meddlesome young villagers shouted, "F * ck their ancestors, do you still want the central government's ethnic policy? How dare you attack our Guawo Villagers?"
"That's right, I won't comply. If he doesn't give us an explanation this time, we'll meet him in Beijing." They climbed into the back of the truck one after another. Soon, the back of the truck became a tin can filled with sardines.
The young driver looked at Tao Lielin who was squeezed together with Zhang Lisheng in the passenger seat through the rearview mirror and said while stuttering, "Uncle Ah Lie, this is a truck. The back of the truck can't carry people."
"We'll be fined and our car will be impounded when we get to the county town."
Tao Lielin knew that most of the young villagers in the back of the truck were making trouble out of nothing and wanted to disturb the city to see if they could take advantage of the situation. However, it was not the time to stop them. Moreover, he could not afford to offend these kids even if he was the village chief or the party secretary. All he could do was to say with a grim face, "The country will be safe if the traffic police still dares to investigate you after something like this happened."
"Kid, go now, go now, we can't afford to waste any more time."
The driver thought about it and agreed with what he said. He glanced at the skinny young man who was at a loss and sighed before starting the truck.
He felt that Uncle Ah Lie was implying something in his words. It seemed like Zhang Lisheng's father was in danger. Since they were from the same village now, even if Zhang Lisheng's father was afraid of people, he should not be too calculative. It would be a good deed for the father and son to meet each other for the last time.
The driver stepped on the accelerator without realizing as he thought to this point.
The truck was driving on the road to the county town. Although the solid asphalt road was a little bumpy due to the old road, it was still quite smooth to drive on.
Guawo Village's current transportation conditions had been greatly improved. Firstly, during the Xin Nation's founding war, there was a legendary Sichuan army general who was promoted from an official to the Minister of Transportation and built a dirt road for his hometown.
Secondly, it was thanks to the provincial government's Village to Village project that widened the original road and changed the one-lane road into a two-lane road.
Moreover, it was said that a new tourist line from the county town to Guawo Village was going to be built soon after it was approved as a natural ecological tourism area.
Zhang Lisheng sat in the front passenger seat of the truck and looked out the window at the lush primitive forest that kept retreating. He had no idea that the scenery outside the window had gradually turned from a dense forest to a small town and then to the bustling streets of the county town.
The truck came to a halt at the intersection near the entrance of the Qu County Central People's Hospital. The driver pressed the horn a few times in vain but he realized that nobody cared about the pedestrians who were occupying the motor vehicle lane. Instead, it attracted the attention of the police who were directing the traffic.
A traffic policeman with a big belly who was wearing a police uniform and a white and green fluorescent jacket whispered to his colleague who was on duty and ran to the truck's driver's window in a few steps. He saluted softly and knocked on the glass. He stuck his tongue out and said in Mandarin with a bad taste, "Driver's license, vehicle license. How dare you use your truck as a bus? Do you have a death wish?"
The driver secretly cursed 'unlucky'. He smiled habitually and took out the driver's license and vehicle license that he had prepared earlier. He also offered a cigarette. Just when he was going to explain, one of the Guawo villagers who was in his back pocket screamed, "Our Guawo Village's Zhang family's father was hit by a car in the city. The villagers are here to take a look, why do you have a death wish?"
"I don't like what a traffic policeman is saying. Do you think that the Miaowei people are easy to bully? Are you trying to cover for them?"
One must have a clear mind when working in an area where ethnic minorities gathered. The villagers were well-behaved and easy to deal with when they came out one by one. However, one must not offend them when there were more than ten of them gathered together.
Especially when it involved a car accident, it would be a major event that involved ethnic conflicts. Let alone a deputy squadron leader of the county traffic police who was not lucky, even the county head or mayor might be in trouble.
The fat traffic policeman looked at the billboard at the department store wholesale market next to him by instinct as he thought to this point. 'Developing eco-tourism, benefiting the country, the people, and the county; promoting ethnic harmony, for you, for me, and for him'. He did not even look at the truck's driver's license and vehicle license before returning it to the driver. He smiled stiffly and said in a friendly local dialect, "I'm responsible for your safety.
"We've been living in the same county town for a few generations, we're all villagers here. Why are you talking nonsense? I'll clear the traffic for you if there's an emergency. Let's go, let's go." He turned around and began to clear the road for the truck in high spirits as he spoke.
"Tsk tsk, the quality of the police in the tourist area has really improved after this incident." Although Tao Lielin, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was anxious, he could not help but praise the fat police officer while looking at his back.
"Forget it, Uncle Ah Lie. This bastard saw that we have a lot of people and it's a matter of life and death. If I were to use my own truck to fetch passengers, he would have confiscated my truck along with my pants."
"What do you mean it's a matter of life and death? Don't talk nonsense, the doctor is doing emergency treatment."
The traffic policeman had cleared a narrow path for the truck as they were talking. The driver dared not talk nonsense since he made a mistake. He drove the truck slowly and carefully through the intersection. They arrived at the entrance of the Qu County People's Hospital.
Theoretically, the Central People's Hospital that was responsible for regional emergency treatment should be built in a place that was convenient for transportation. However, due to the backward economy in the past and the consideration of convenience for people to see a doctor, most of the Central People's Hospitals in counties and cities in China were built in the center of the city, other than some of the big cities.
The crowd in front of the hospital was even more crowded. Tao Lielin said, "Ermu, wait here." He then pulled Zhang Lisheng, who looked like he was sleepwalking, out of the truck and ran to the emergency hall through the crowd.
With the rapid development of the economy, the emergency hall of the Qu County People's Hospital was usually crowded. Tao Lielin rushed into the hall and went straight to the nearest emergency room. He pushed the door open and asked the doctor on duty, "Doctor, I'm Damu Town's Zhang Daowu's friend. This is his son. He said that he was hit by a car when he answered the phone. Where is he now?"
The young emergency doctor was used to the anxious expression of the patients' relatives and friends. He looked at the reception record on the table and answered calmly in Mandarin with a heavy Sichuan accent, "Zhang Daowu, right? He was admitted at 12: 22 am. He's on the bed in the inner room. The patient's condition is very critical. It's best to sign the papers for the surgery immediately.
"Family members must be mentally prepared, the hope of saving him is not high."
The middle-aged hunk's face dimmed a little as the bad omen in his mind became reality. "Mountain Worm, go see your father now and sign the papers for the surgery." He ignored the doctor on duty and pulled Zhang Lisheng into the inner room of the emergency room.
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