Reborn in 1977

Chapter 268 Injury

Riding his horse out of Team 5, Chen Fan strolled through the fields, where a busy scene unfolded everywhere.

Someone spotted Chen Fan from afar and immediately shouted, "Teacher Chen, out for inspiration?"

Chen Fan looked in the direction of the voice and saw many women "scattered" in the fields, holding verdant rice seedlings, deftly inserting them into the paddy fields.

Each paddy field had anywhere from ten to eight people, and with a dozen or so paddy fields, there were over a hundred people.

In addition, many people were pulling seedlings from the seedling beds, placing them in baskets, and then young, strong men were carrying the baskets, transporting them to the edge of the fields for the women to plant.

Chen Fan snapped out of his daze and quickly responded loudly, "That's right, gathering inspiration, I'll broadcast it in our own team tomorrow."

Someone immediately laughed, "Teacher Chen, then you must write nicely about us."

Chen Fan smiled and said, "No need to write especially nicely, just write the truth, you are the best production team members."

A burst of laughter immediately echoed around.

Someone shouted, "As expected of Teacher Chen, a cultured person knows how to talk."

Amidst the cheerful laughter, Chen Fan passed through the responsibility fields of Team 5, crossed the main road of Lujiawan and the wooden bridges over two ditches, and arrived at the territory of Team 6.

The situation in Team 6 was similar to that in Team 5, basically divided into two groups: one group busy pulling seedlings from the seedling beds and transporting them to other plowed paddy fields, and then the people waiting there would plant the seedlings in the paddy fields.

Seeing this scene, he suddenly thought of a poem, "Hands pinch green seedlings to plant blessed fields, bowing the head one sees the sky in the water.

Six roots cleansed to become rice, retreating is actually advancing."

The people responsible for planting were mainly women, but there were also many men, who held the seedlings in their hands, rolled up their trouser legs high, stepped barefoot into the paddy fields, and planted the green seedlings one by one into the paddy fields as they retreated.

Chen Fan greeted everyone along the way, observing the planting situation, and according to the current progress, it would probably take at most five or six days to complete all the planting work.

Although it couldn't compare to the high efficiency of rice planting machines, it wasn't much slower.

Just as Chen Fan was pondering, a cry of surprise suddenly came from afar.

His heart stirred, and he immediately looked up, only to see some commotion in a paddy field, and his brow furrowed slightly.

If he remembered correctly, that should be the educated youth field?

Now there was only one educated youth left, and that was Jiang Lili, but such a large paddy field couldn't be planted by her alone, so the team took over the management.

Now, planting this field with her were Yang Ju and her group, as well as a few other young girls.

Chen Fan hesitated only slightly, then pulled the reins, turned his horse around, and ran towards that side.

The little mare was as steady as walking on flat ground on the narrow ridges between the fields, and soon arrived at the edge of the field.

Chen Fan supported himself on the horse's back with his palm, jumped directly over the horse's head, landed on the ridge, and saw Yang Ju and Huang Ying supporting Jiang Lili as they walked towards this side, with Liu Dan supporting her back.

One of Jiang Lili's feet was raised high, and Chen Fan could clearly see blood all over her foot, she must have stepped on something and cut her foot.

Yang Chuanfu was also nearby, running barefoot towards this side, while shouting loudly, "What's going on?"

Chen Fan patted the little mare and said softly, "Turn around."

Then he took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and stepped into the field.

At this time, Yang Ju shouted to Team Leader Yang, "Lili stepped on a clam shell and cut her foot."

Yang Chuanfu was both surprised and angry, "Clam shell? The paddy field has been plowed three times, where did the clam shell come from?"

As he spoke, he turned around and roared angrily, "Who plowed this field?"

The field, which had been filled with laughter just now, was now silent.

Chen Fan was expressionless, striding through the water, then took Jiang Lili from the panting Yang Ju and Huang Ying, carried her horizontally, and walked towards the ridge.

Team Leader Yang didn't hear anyone answer, his face became even more gloomy.

Turning his head and seeing this scene, he didn't say much, but said loudly, "Xiao Chen, you first carry Jiang Lili back on the horse, it's best to take her to the brigade headquarters and have Doctor Zhang take a look."

Being carried by Chen Fan, Jiang Lili's face was already flushed, and hearing Team Leader Yang's voice, she couldn't help but say, "N-No need."

Team Leader Yang ignored her and said to himself, "Go find Doctor Zhang, the medical expenses will be paid from the public account."

The people around didn't say anything, firstly because the medical expenses were not much, such cuts usually only cost a few cents, and secondly, this could be considered a "work-related injury."

Who would have known that there would still be clam shells in the paddy field that had been plowed several times?

Who would know if there were still clam shells in the paddy field?

Would the next person injured be themselves?

At this time, Chen Fan finally came back to his senses, first looked at Jiang Lili's foot, there was a long wound on the sole of her left foot, and it was covered with silt, mixed with blood, looking shocking.

He turned his head to look at Jiang Lili, who was covered in cold sweat, and asked softly, "Does your foot still have feeling?"

Jiang Lili gasped for breath, "Yes."

After a pause, she said softly, "It just hurts a lot."

Only in front of Chen Fan did she dare to say the word "hurt."

Chen Fan hooked the corners of his lips, "It's okay if you know it hurts, it shouldn't be very serious, I'll take you back to put some medicine on it."

Jiang Lili tried hard to purse her lips and smiled, her lips trembling slightly, "Mm."

Only then did Chen Fan raise his head to look at Team Leader Yang, who had already walked up to him, and said to him as he quickly walked onto the ridge, "I just checked Xiao Jiang's injury, it's necessary to stop the bleeding immediately, I'll take her back to clean the wound and stop the bleeding first, if it doesn't work, then go find Doctor Zhang."

Yang Chuanfu took a deep breath, his face was still very ugly, but he didn't say much, "Okay, you arrange it."

He then gritted his teeth, turned his head and looked, "Damn it, we must find the person who did this."

At this time, Chen Fan suddenly thought of something and said softly, "Captain, I remember a few days ago, a group of children were playing war games with clam shells in the village, could it be that they ran over here and accidentally threw them into the field?"

Hearing this, Yang Chuanfu immediately reacted, it was really possible.

There definitely wouldn't be clam shells in a paddy field that had been plowed several times, but if children threw them into the field, then there was nothing to be done.

When the pond was cleared before the Spring Festival, many clam shells were cleared out, large and small, the meat was dug out and fed to the pigs, and the shells were piled up by the pond and no one cared, so they became children's toys.

Usually, the adults wouldn't care about them, but they didn't expect it to cause today's incident.

As for what to do with the remaining things, Yang Chuanfu would naturally have a headache, now Chen Fan had to quickly send Jiang Lili back for treatment.

He turned around and helped Jiang Lili onto the horse's back, then patted the horse's butt, the little mare immediately walked forward, and he picked up his shoes and quickly followed behind.

Ignoring the gazes of the people around him, Chen Fan led the horse and walked back quickly, and soon arrived at the educated youth point.

Jiang Lili endured the pain and turned over to jump down, but halfway through the jump, she was directly caught by Chen Fan and held in his arms, and her face immediately turned red.

Chen Fan didn't let her down either, and carried her into the comprehensive room, while saying, "You are injured now, don't move around, wait for me to wash your feet and apply medicine."

Jiang Lili buried her head and murmured, "N-No need, I can do it myself…"

Before she could finish speaking, she was carried by Chen Fan and sat down on a chair, and then he went to fetch water.

Now the weather was already warming up, and the charcoal stove that had helped Chen Fan get through the winter had long been sealed up, and there was no hot water in the kitchen, so he could only boil it now.

While boiling water, Chen Fan directly brought a basin of cold water over and placed it next to Jiang Lili's feet, then took a clean piece of coarse cloth and wiped her feet.

Jiang Lili retracted her leg, "I can do it myself."

Chen Fan didn't even raise his head, grabbed her foot, and wiped it clean little by little.

Then he changed to a basin of half-boiled hot water and re-washed the wound.

The wound on the sole of her foot was about five centimeters long, almost a quarter of the length of her foot, the wound was split on both sides, and the flesh was a little pale, which looked painful.

Only then did Chen Fan raise his head and smiled at Jiang Lili, "It's not a big problem, the mud has been cleaned up, then get some strong liquor to disinfect it, bandage it up, and it will be completely healed in a few days."

At this time, Jiang Lili's ears were red, and her voice was a little trembling, "T-Thank you."

Chen Fan put her other foot into the basin of hot water, then pulled a chair over and put the injured foot on it, smiled and said, "Didn't you often help me fetch water before, I didn't say so much thank you."

Then he walked to his room, took a bottle of 56-degree Yunhu Daqu, poured a little into the jar, and used a cotton ball to carefully wipe the wound.

As soon as it was applied, Jiang Lili couldn't help but retract her leg, but she quickly endured it.

Chen Fan raised his head to look at her, smiled at her, simply pulled the chair and sat down, put her foot on his lap, held it firmly with one hand, and wiped it clean with disinfectant with the other hand.

When it was wiped clean inside and out, he took out a small pottery bottle, pulled out the stopper, poured a little powder on the wound, lowered his head and smiled, "You're lucky, this is my own anti-inflammatory and muscle-regenerating powder, I've never used it on anyone before, you're the first."

Enduring the strangeness on her foot, Jiang Lili pretended to be calm and said, "Then I've become a guinea pig."

Chen Fan turned his head to look at her, laughed, "Are you afraid?"

Jiang Lili pursed her lips and smiled, "Not afraid, I believe you."

Chen Fan continued to apply the medicine, "Hey, it's right to believe, although this medicine hasn't been used on people, I've already tested it on rabbits several times, I guarantee it will work."

Jiang Lili wrinkled her nose, "Ah, then you didn't treat me as a rabbit."

Chen Fan applied the medicinal powder, then took out a package of unopened bandages from the bag, "You're much stronger than a rabbit, rabbits only have coarse cloth to bandage, this is a professional bandage I got from the veterinary station, which has the effect of preventing inflammation and accelerating healing, I guarantee you'll be able to get out of bed in three days and be jumping around in five days."

Jiang Lili said reproachfully, "Bandage from the veterinary station? Then isn't it still a rabbit."

Chen Fan laughed, bandaged her foot, and also tied a bow on the back of her foot, "Then it's also a good-looking rabbit."

Hearing this, Jiang Lili's face was covered with red clouds again, and she lowered her head and didn't speak.