Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

When night falls, it is the mosquitoes’ home turf!

The mosquito repellent lamp handmade by Han Zhaozhao emits a blue light and can be used for the entire summer with one battery.

Xiao Sanzi and Niu Xiaomin were on duty at night and went to the nearby stinky ditch with mosquito lamps. Han Zhaozhao was afraid that they would be eaten by mosquitoes, so she gave them a bottle of homemade mosquito repellent floral water.

Since she started learning Chinese medicine, she has been practicing making many of these daily necessities that are commonly used in life.

Things like toothpaste, toner, body lotion, essential oils, wind oil, shampoo, shower gel, detergent... get some of them.

Of course, once the things were made, she could only use them secretly in the space. Except for the soap, she dared not take anything out.

There was no way. She was used to the convenience of various daily necessities in later generations. In this era, there were only toothpaste, soap and horse oil for her to buy and use. It was really a bit difficult to get used to it.

There was a time in her previous life when she became obsessed with making handmade soap through short videos. She bought a lot of materials and set up a studio at home. She even bought a book called "Cosmetic Formulation Science and Process Technology" for this purpose.

Many of the flowers planted in the space have mutated. Not wanting to display them to attract attention, she can only grow them for herself, make cosmetics by hand, and digest them all by herself.

In this life, she studied Chinese medicine and tried to extract the essence of Chinese herbal medicine and then add it to daily chemical products. She tried it and the effect was very good.

The next morning, Niu Xiaolian and Niu Xiaoyun went around collecting the mousetrap boxes they had set up the day before before dawn.

The old lady hasn't gone out to work yet, and her friends have all arrived.

The two girls each carried two mousetrap boxes, while the two boys each carried a mosquito lamp in one hand and a jar full of black mosquitoes in the other.

"Zhao Zhao, come and see! What a great harvest! Look at how many mosquitoes we caught. They must weigh more than a pound!"

“Zhao Zhao, we have gained more, come and pick me up, I can’t lift it anymore, the box is almost full.

Hahahaha, I estimated that there must be four or five kilograms of rats in the box!"

Everyone is particularly happy today because it is another good day for harvest!

"Brother Min, what's wrong with your hand? Why is it swollen like a bun?" Niu Xiaolian was very careful and noticed her brother's swollen hand as soon as she entered the door.

"Well, don't mention it. I fell asleep late last night and was stung by a scorpion."

Han Zhaozhao was surprised and delighted: "Yes, there are more scorpions at night now. It's strange. Brother Sanzi is not afraid of being stung, so the scorpions don't go after him, but instead go after you who is afraid of being stung.

Brother Min, I've got an idea. I'll help you get revenge tonight! Not only do we need to catch mosquitoes, we also need to catch lots of scorpions to sell for money.

Brother Sanzi, do you still remember what you promised me last year? Now, it's time for you to fulfill it! "

Xiao Sanzi smiled and said, "I won't forget what I said. If I wasn't worried that Xiaomin couldn't watch the mosquito lamp by himself last night, I would have torn down the adobe wall and caught the scorpion for you."

Han Zhaozhao found a silver needle to help Niu Xiaomin pick out the scorpion's tail needle, mixed it with soapy water, and instructed him to clean the affected area. He then found a tea bowl and used cupping on him to draw out the remaining poison.

Finally, I gave him a bag of honeysuckle and asked him to take it home and soak it in water to drink. Honeysuckle clears away heat and detoxifies. Drinking it in this season can not only clear the remaining scorpion poison, but also prevent heatstroke.

Niu Xiaomin rubbed his slightly swollen hands and said, "You don't know, the people outside are crazy now, there are people everywhere at night, they didn't catch enough rats and flies during the day, they actually wear short sleeves and expose their arms to attract mosquitoes!

If Xiao Sanzi and I hadn't kept a close eye on it, our mosquito killer lamp would have been stolen long ago."

Xiaoyun was shocked: "Don't they sleep?"

Xiao Sanzi rubbed his eyes and yawned: "Why are you sleeping? You don't know, not only the school has stopped classes, but I heard that many factories have also stopped working.

Everyone has tasks, and every family has quotas. Those who fail to complete them are considered laggards.

Everyone wants to be the first and no one wants to fall behind. In order to complete the task, many people don’t even have time to eat, let alone sleep! "

Niu Xiaolian also nodded: "My eldest brother said this morning that their teacher organized them to go to the countryside to catch mice, saying that there are many mice in the fields now, so it is easy to complete the task."

When the old lady heard that all the rats in the city were fighting for the food, she didn't even have time to eat breakfast and hurried back to work.

Old Man Wang can’t do it alone, and if someone breaks into the scrap collection station, how can they complete the task?

Han Zhaozhao kept Niu Xiaomin and Xiao Sanzi to have breakfast, and sent them home to catch up on their sleep. She, Xiaolian and Xiaoyun went to the street to catch rats.

They agreed that everyone would rest in the morning, collect fly traps at noon, set up mousetrap boxes and mosquito lamps in the evening, and hand in the task in the morning.

This arrangement allows them to stagger their work hours and leave time for rest. In addition, Han Zhaozhao also wants to lead his friends to make money together.

They want to fight for advancement and earn money!

Scorpion = all scorpions = small money, they are coming!

The time they chose was just right. There were only a few people handing in their tasks in the morning, so everyone went out to "eliminate the four pests."

When Director Zhang saw the 123 mice and more than a pound of mosquitoes they handed in, his face flushed with excitement.

They received verbal praise again, and Director Zhang encouraged them to keep up the good work and never get discouraged.

In view of their performance, Director Zhang set up a special account book to record the achievements of these activists.

After completing the task, Niu Xiaolian and Niu Xiaoyun went to set up fly traps, while Han Zhaozhao went home to make tools for catching scorpions.

Hehehe! Yesterday afternoon, she didn't stay in the scrap collection station for nothing. When she was looking for something to make a mousetrap box, she found some good stuff.

In particular, there were several palm-sized pieces of colored glass. She had gone into the space last night and used a grinder to grind the purple and blue pieces into small discs.

It can be used on a flashlight so that she won't be caught cheating.

After installing it, she tried it out and it worked fine, so it should work.

After lunch, everyone had enough rest and started to move again.

This time, they all went out, spread out all the fly traps they had, and separated into several locations, focusing on catching flies.

You have to keep an eye on them. People nowadays are too crazy. There are people everywhere, men, women, old and young, all joining in the battle. Han Zhaozhao was shocked.

"Oh my god, why are there so many people here today? In order to 'eliminate the four pests', the factory has actually stopped production?"

Niu Xiaoyun's face flushed with excitement, "Of course we really stopped work! You don't know, 'eliminating the four pests' is now a political task. Listening to the party and following the party is what everyone should do!

The factory now evaluates you not based on how much work you have done, but on whether you have completed this political task!"

Han Zhaozhao: Oh my god, the government's appeal is really strong these days! But isn't it a bit too much to stop work and school for the whole nation to "eliminate the four pests"?

How much money does a factory lose if it stops working for one day? Students stop going to school, which is not the case in later generations, unless there is a heavy rain, typhoon or a major epidemic.

Legal holidays must be counted as weekends, and even the Minister of Education does not dare to suspend school unless there is a major accident.

However, these were just thoughts in her mind. She dared not do anything or say anything. She could only merge with the masses, go with the flow, and become a person without a stance and without bottom line.

In the evening they made friends, went home for dinner, and then went out together again.

Xiaoyun was left in line to hand in the flies, and Xiaolian was left to set up the mousetrap box. She and the two boys went to the city wall in the dark.

I thought there would be no one here, but unexpectedly I met several groups of people catching mice in the dark.

Afraid of being discovered, the three men had to move their position and continue walking out of the city.