Chapter 52: The Walking Langzhong
In 1949, the 18-year-old grandfather was divided, and the old lady fell ill because of the landlord in his early years, and he stayed up until the grandfather was 18 years old and left with the old grandfather!
New China was born in that turbulent era! The vast number of poor working people turned over as masters! Grandpa's family was a landlord in the past, and although it had already been separated, it was still affected to the scope of criticism!
At that time, he and his grandfather left the mansion with his cousin, the third grandfather! In his early years, because he was a national soldier, he was also affected, and he had no status in the village!
Grandpa's land was taken over by the village, and everyone needed to be reformed and labored in order to get a bite to eat! The family did not have a pillar of support, and the female dependents who came out with Grandpa and the third grandfather all went to their in-laws' family one by one and married far away. Only the mother of the third grandfather is still alive in the family! The mother of the third grandfather is living a hard life with two children!
Grandpa became a walking langzhong at a young age! Every day, he carried a small medicine box on his back and went to Shouxian City early to set up a stall to see people's diseases! Every day, the money he earned was only enough to make ends meet! Every day, he ran around outside, giving people a headache and fever! Sometimes he also saw an incurable disease!
After my grandfather became a foot man, he continued to practice medicine one village after another along the Huai River! Sometimes he could solve some incurable diseases! These were all taught by my grandfather!
That time, my grandfather got on the train going south, and he thought that he was practicing medicine in the neighborhood anyway, so this time it would be better to go to a farther place to see if he could find a suitable job in the south to do, and there was no future for him to be a foot doctor all the time!
Grandpa came to Fengcheng, Jiangxi, and along the way, he appreciated the great rivers and mountains of the country! For the first time, he knew that China was so big! After entering the county seat, he saw that the people in the town were in a hurry, and many families in the whole town were hung with black cloths at the doors!
Grandpa was very puzzled, and he couldn't understand the dialect of the locals! So he made a stall selling tofu flowers on the street, and asked if there was a pharmacy nearby, and wanted to prepare some herbs for medical treatment!
After drinking a big bowl of bean curd, Grandpa asked the boss why the people in the town were in a hurry!
"Brother, can you ask about something?"
"Big brother, listen to your accent, you're a foreigner!"
"I'm here from the north to beg for a mouth, brother, do you know which direction the pharmacy near here is!"
"Brother, I advise you to go home quickly! Do you see a black cloth hanging on the door of every house here? That's a dead person in the family! I've heard that the whole village of a village is dead, what a tragic situation!"
When my grandfather heard that there were dead people in every family, and that there was an incident of exterminating the village, his first feeling was that there was a plague here! Because of the experience of a foot doctor for several years, he has also encountered many areas with plagues, but it is not as serious as this place in Jiangxi!
"Brother, I'm sorry that I'm a footman! Is there a plague here?"
"Oh! You are really a living immortal, yes! There is a plague here, and many people have died in ten miles and eight villages, and I am ready to leave here after I finish this order today, and many people have died!"
"Brother likes it in seconds, can you tell me that the village with the most serious epidemic is going like this, I'll take a look!"
Soon, Grandpa was taken to the village head of Huangcun by the kind Tofu Flower Boss, saying that the boss was not willing to enter the village!
The whole village was full of dilapidated figures, and some of the corpses were wrapped in mats and lay in the halls!
Grandpa walked over and found that the deceased was skinny and had a belly as big as a bulge, and he had pricked the corpse with a silver needle! He lifted the yellow paper covering his face, opened the eyes of the corpse and looked at it, and then broke the corpse's mouth and looked at the tongue coating! This patient must have just taken his last breath, and his body still has some residual warmth! Grandpa stood up and shouted a few times, but no one responded!
Grandpa could almost conclude that the plague that had occurred here should be schistosomiasis! Grandpa burned the silver needle with fire, washed his hands with alcohol, and put on a sheepskin glove! Such germs can be contagious, so take precautions! Grandpa walked a few more steps, and found another villager who had died of illness! He walked many houses and saw many people dying!
In the middle of the 20th century, schistosomiasis brought profound disasters to the working people of more than a dozen provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the Yangtze River basin and south of China, and claimed the lives of many people.
Schistosomiasis is a stubborn disease that has plagued Chinese for thousands of years, and it has been prevalent for a long time, and this gray-white thread-like worm invisible to the naked eye poses a great threat to humans. After the eggs hatch into the water to form caterpillars, they burrow into the snails for vegetative reproduction, giving birth to countless cercariae, and then burrow into the human and animal bodies from the water to parasitize.
In China's Yangtze River and the vast rural areas of South China, where rivers and lakes are densely populated, people who come into contact with water in paddy fields or daily life will be infected in just a dozen seconds. The patient's excrement contains a large number of insect eggs, which becomes a new source of disease, and so the cycle spreads repeatedly, spreading very quickly and causing great harm.
Most of the patients have large bellies and thin bones, which is called "big belly disease". With this disease, young people lose their ability to work, married women do not have children, and the mortality rate is very high. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the hardest-hit areas of schistosomiasis, there was even a miserable situation of ten rooms and nine empty and barren countryside.
Lantianban area, Yujiang County, Jiangxi Province, within a radius of 50 miles, in the past due to schistosomiasis, in the 50 years before the founding of New China, more than 3,000 people died of schistosomiasis, more than 20 villages were completely destroyed, more than 14,000 acres of fields became wilderness, and the remaining villagers were yellow and thin, and the people were struggling on the verge of death.
Not only Jiangxi, schistosomiasis was raging wildly on the land of China at that time, covering 12 provinces and cities including Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc., with about 10 million patients and about 100 million people threatened with infection. Although the people of the past generations have been fighting schistosomiasis tenaciously, they have never been able to subdue the plague.
Seeing so many people dying in the village, Grandpa's heart was sad and compassionate, hoping to find one or two survivors in this village that was already full of dead people, and use all the medical skills he had learned to relieve them!
When Grandpa was about to lose his confidence, he suddenly heard a whining cry coming from a house! Grandpa searched for the cry, and in front of a dilapidated thatched house, a skinny man lay on a broken mat! This man had already swallowed his last breath! There was still the last tear that had just been left in the corner of his eye!
Grandpa walked over quickly, and the woman saw someone coming in, hugging Grandpa's legs and begging Grandpa to save her man! Grandpa opened and looked at the man's pupils, which had already dilated, and at the same time the man stopped breathing and heartbeat! This man had just passed away under Grandpa's eyes!
"Eldest sister, let's mourn by the way!"
The woman's cry turned into a howl, and she squatted on the ground, holding a little girl in her arms! When the grandfather saw the crying woman and the little girl, he took off his gloves again, and checked the little girl's eyes and mouth to make sure that she did not have the plague, and at the same time the woman who was whining and crying did the same thing! Thinking that these two people were the only people left in the village at present! He persuaded the woman to leave the village with the child, which had wiped out the entire population!
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