After entering the house, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin helped the man onto the bed.
"Thank you...the medicine kit is in the cupboard, over there..."
The man who was helped to the bed gasped and pointed to a cloth wardrobe in the corner. Xu Tongdao remained silent, turned on the light in the room, glanced at the wardrobe, and gave Xu Tonglin a wink.
With a wry smile, he walked over to find the medical kit.
Xu Tongdao looked at the man in black on the bed. He had a long face, thick eyebrows, strong facial features, and short hair standing straight. His face was very pale at this time, and even his lips had no color.
"Let me see the wound for you!"
As he spoke, Tongdao Xu reached out to help him unbutton his shirt. When he pulled the shirt to both sides and saw three wounds with rolled flesh, to be honest, Tongdao Xu regretted helping this man.
Because such a wound looks so scary, if you don't go to the hospital, you may not be able to save it.
"I suggest you go to the hospital! Don't take your life for granted!"
Xu Tongdao frowned and said.
He was not confident that he could handle such a serious wound.
The man in black also looked down at the wounds on his chest, smiled weakly, and said: "It's okay! They're all flesh wounds, they look scary... Actually, they're okay. Could you please help me disinfect them with alcohol?"
Give me some white medicine and wrap me in a few more layers of gauze? Please... I, I can't go to the hospital..."
While talking, Xu Tonglin had already come over with a medical kit. Seeing the wound on the chest of the man in black, Xu Tonglin was too scared to come over.
At this time, Comrade Xu felt a little bit like he was riding a tiger.
If he hadn't helped this man in just now, he could have stayed out of it. Now...if he just let it go, if this man died in this room later, the police might find him, and he and Xu Tonglin were only 17
He was 17 years old and he didn’t even have an ID card. The police asked him to take out his ID card, but they couldn’t.
"Are you sure?" Xu Tongdao asked with a frown.
The man in black forced out a weak smile and nodded slightly, "I'm sure, I'm sorry to bother you! Thank you!"
"Trail..."
Xu Tonglin couldn't help but called Xu Tongdao, but stopped talking.
Tongdao Xu glanced at him and knew what he meant. He just wanted him to leave the matter alone.
"Bring me the medicine kit!"
Xu Tonglin gritted his teeth, bravely walked over, and placed the medical box in front of Xu Tongdao.
Comrade Xu opened it and took a look. There was indeed alcohol, Yunnan Baiyao, gauze, scissors and other items in the box.
He thought for a moment, then suddenly approached the man in black's chest and took a closer look at the wound. When he was sure it was just a flesh wound, he breathed a sigh of relief, then picked up alcohol to clean the wound, and then sprinkled the wound with medicinal powder.
It was still bleeding, and much of the powder he had sprinkled on it had been washed away.
"Yes, there is hemostatic cotton..."
The man in black, grinning in pain, reminded him intermittently.
Comrade Xu was startled. He reached out and rummaged through the medicine box and found some snow-white, cotton-like things. He hesitated and picked up some and asked, "Is this it?"
He had never used this thing before, or even seen it.
"Yes Yes."
The man in black smiled bitterly and nodded.
Xu Tongdao then picked up some of these hemostatic cotton and stuffed it into the wound. Not to mention, this thing looked as fluffy as cotton candy, and the effect of stopping bleeding was really good.
After a while, no more blood came out.
"Sprinkle some more medicine..."
The man in black reminded weakly.
…
When Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin returned to their rental house, it was already more than an hour later.
As soon as he entered the room and the door closed, Xu Tonglin hurriedly walked to the bed, sat down, breathed out, and said with lingering fear: "Oh! It scared me to death, Xiaodao, what on earth were you thinking?
Would you like to save such a person? Alas! I didn’t expect our county to be so chaotic, it’s so scary..."
Comrade Xu walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed.
His face was as heavy as water, and his thoughts were in confusion.
Of course he knew that saving such a person might involve him and Xu Tonglin in inexplicable right and wrong.
Can……
He has seen what kind of people the owners of the three barbecue stalls set up by the river tonight are.
With two 17-year-olds like him and Xu Tonglin, it will definitely not be easy for them to get a share of the pie there.
And the man in black who was injured just now probably lived in this county.
He saved his life, which may help him and Xu Tonglin gain a foothold in this area.
What he is not sure about now is whether the man in black can be saved... and whether that man has a character that repays kindness.
"Lin Zi, do you regret coming to the county with me now?"
After a long silence, Xu Tongdao suddenly asked Xu Tonglin in a low voice.
A wry smile appeared on Xu Tonglin's fat face and he nodded slightly, "Absolutely! I saw such a scary thing on my first day in the county. How could I not regret it?"
Xu Tongdao was silent.
He can understand.
"How about...can you go back tomorrow?"
Tongdao Xu thought for a while and said this.
Xu Tonglin turned around, looked at Xu Tonglin and said, "What about you? Are you going back too?"
Comrade Xu smiled helplessly and shook his head, "Lin Zi! The situation of our two families is different. My whole family is still waiting for me to earn money to support the family! Can I go back? You can go back by yourself! Don't worry about me."
Xu Tonglin frowned, "Oh! Forget it! Since you don't go back, then I won't go back either. I'll accompany you!"
Comrade Xu turned around and said, "Lin Zi, you'd better go back! Really, I won't blame you!"
Xu Tonglin shook his head, "I won't go back! Xiaodao, we are brothers! Since you won't go back, I will definitely not go back! Don't try to persuade me. It's getting late. Let's go to bed early! Do you want to go out tomorrow?
If it’s a stall, we still have a lot of things to prepare tomorrow!”
Seeing his firm look, Comrade Xu smiled and stopped trying to persuade him.
…
The next morning, when they got up early, Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin simply cooked some noodles and ate them. By the way, they also gave a bowl to the man in black who lived at the east end of the yard.
Then I went out to buy something.
Because he didn't have much money, Xu Tongdao didn't buy an oven. Instead, he went to the scrap station to find a piece of iron sheet and a piece of steel mesh and made it himself.
Tables and stools cannot be omitted.
He also bought cheap ones, including three folding tables and twelve plastic stools that could be stacked together.
Among them, mutton skewers is what he plans to sell tonight.
As for the other ingredients, he decided to grill them first to see if they tasted good and then sell them to takeout. If they didn't taste good, he would keep them all for testing.
Among them, grilled eggplant was his favorite food in the past and is the focus of his research today.
For this purpose, he specially bought a pound of garlic, an onion, and some spring onions, and planned to make the minced garlic for roasted eggplant as soon as possible when he came back.