"You're awake! You had a high fever last night. I carried you back."
"I know," I sat up from the bed, rubbed my head and said, "Thank you, little brother."
"hey-hey."
The skinny boy scratched his head and smiled, showing his white teeth.
"Young man, wake up, where did you come from? Come on, you are drinking a bowl of ginger tea, and you are not feeling well yet."
"Thank you, sis."
I held the bowl and said with a smile: "Sister, I am a foreigner here for tourism. I heard people say that our place is a mosquito-free village."
The eldest sister smiled and said: "I think so. No one in our village can afford a car. Yes, I have never seen a mosquito since I was a child. I heard from the elders that it is related to the toad stone in the village. It is said that toads are
There is a toad god living in the stone, so no poisonous mosquitoes within a radius of more than ten miles dare to come close."
"What, mother! What era are you in! Those are all feudal and superstitious ideas of yours. I also grew up in the village. Why haven't I seen the Toad God?"
The skinny boy said proudly: "The Jiangsu TV station came to our village the year before last, and several powerful experts came. I followed them to see it, and the experts discovered the secret of why our village is mosquito-free."
I sat cross-legged on the bed, took a sip of ginger tea and asked, "Oh, really, what do the experts say?"
The skinny boy gestured: "We all live high in the village. Because the drainage ditches are well built, there will be no accumulation of water in the village. If there is no accumulation of water, there will naturally be no stagnant water. Without stagnant water, mosquitoes cannot live."
"In addition, there are many camphor trees here, and there are camphor trees everywhere on the mountains. Experts say that female mosquitoes only suck human blood, while male mosquitoes drink tree sap. Camphor tree sap has the effect of repelling mosquitoes. The male mosquitoes will leave if they have nothing to eat, and the female mosquitoes will
Naturally, he will not stay in our village."
The skinny boy is very articulate and speaks in one sentence.
I analyzed the reason he said and asked: "Camphor tree has a certain repellent effect, but it has little effect on mosquitoes. If you don't believe me, take a look and see which brand of toilet water or mosquito coils has camphor tree in the ingredient list, right?"
"
"This..." The skinny boy scratched his head vigorously.
"Haha," I said with a smile, "You can't blindly believe what the experts say. Your local county chronicle has written that this place has been mosquito-free for thousands of years. The county chronicle will not write nonsense. If you think about it, a thousand years ago, your village's drainage ditch was
Is it repaired so well?"
"Holy shit! Brother, you are so awesome. How come you know everything."
I said of course, there was nothing I didn’t know.
After breakfast, I ran back to the car and took a look. I was still breathing a sigh of relief when I saw my bag. When I came back, I saw the eldest sister chasing the skinny boy around the yard with a stick.
"Stop hitting me! Mom! Stop hitting me! I was wrong!"
The skinny boy held a tattered thick book in his hand and shouted over his shoulder as he ran.
The eldest sister stopped, holding a stick in her hand, and panting: "Stinky... stinky boy! If you have the guts, don't run away, I can't beat you to death!"
"What's wrong, sister?"
"Hey, little brother, are you kidding me? This brat doesn't do his job every day! He doesn't even do his homework! He only reads those crappy books!"
My first reaction was that the skinny boy was peeking at pornographic books and his mother caught him.
"Sister, children are not born. They need to be educated. This kind of book is actually nothing. You have to save some face for her."
"That's right, brother is right."
The skinny boy came over and said, "Listen, mother, as long as you don't let me read it. My book is full of knowledge! You can use it in the future!"
I glared at the thin boy, meaning to say to him: "Shut up, damn it. Do you mean you still want to find a female classmate to fight with? You are going to shake the world."
