Comfort Women's Japanese Aberdeen (novella) Zhang Baotong 2017.12.22

The child is getting older day by day, but Wei Shaolan's body has not improved significantly, often has mental depression, dizziness and tinnitus, waist and knee pain, weakness, nightmares, insomnia at night, especially menstrual disorders, two times a month, sometimes three menstruation. Originally, Wei Shaolan and her mother-in-law thought that this was the sequelae of being destroyed by the devil soldiers in the Japanese artillery tower, and as long as they made up for their bodies after giving birth, they would slowly get better. However, the children are more than half a year old, and they still don't see Wei Shaolan's health getting better.

One morning in the spring, Wei Shaolan went out to wash his clothes, but as soon as he finished washing his clothes by the pond, as soon as he stood up, he felt that the world was spinning in front of him, his head was dizzy, and his eyes were black, and he immediately fell to the edge of the pond. It was a sister-in-law from a neighbor's house who helped her back home. She lay in bed for a long time before she felt better.

When the mother-in-law came back from outside, when she heard that she had fainted, she immediately used a wooden cart to let her son pull her to Xu Langzhong's house. Xu Langzhong asked about the situation, gave her a pulse, and said to her, "Your situation is disorderly menstruation, menstruation is irregular, always feeling mentally aggrieved, depressed, nightmares, night sweats, physiological discomfort, frailty, and weakness, the main reason is mental depression, poor mood, and lack of blood, heat and qi." ”

Listening to Xu Langzhong's diagnosis, the mother-in-law hurriedly asked, "Is there any way to cure it?" Xu Langzhong said, "There is a way, but it needs to be carefully conditioned, and the process may be very slow." Luo Xianxian asked Xu Langzhong, "Can she still have another child?" Because the last time he came here to see a doctor, Xu Langzhong said that Wei Shaolan might no longer have children. If they can't have children, then their Luo family will be cut off from grandchildren. Xu Langzhong gave Wei Shaolan another number of pulses, and replied in a serious tone, "If you recover well, have normal menstruation, have a good mood, and have a strong physique, maybe it is still possible, otherwise, I'm afraid that's it." ”

Hearing this, Luo Xianxian's face changed, and he hurriedly asked, "As long as there is a way, we will do it." Xu Langzhong said, "I will give her some medicine to adjust her qi and blood and functions, but you should be careful not to give her spicy and heavy food and seasonings, nor should she eat raw, cold, and indigestible food." She lost a lot of blood during her period and needed to eat more vegetables, eggs, and meat. As he spoke, he wrote a prescription, and grabbed ten pairs of medicines for Wei Shaolan according to the prescription, and then said, "This medicine should be boiled and drunk, one pack a day in the morning and once in the evening, and it should be drunk for ten days. ”

Wei Shaolan boiled medicine and drank medicine every day, and the decoction was very bitter, but in order to cure the disease, no matter how bitter the medicine was, he had to drink it. She has been drinking for more than half a year, plus food supplements and rest, she feels that her menstrual period is somewhat normal, and she is also a little fat. However, I still can't get pregnant. Her husband, Luo Xianxian, sighed from time to time, feeling that she was really infertile. She also felt that she might not be able to do it really. Therefore, when her mother-in-law wanted to take her to see a doctor again, she said that she didn't want to go or spend that unjust money anymore.

Originally, the Luo family was not rich, but their lives were still good, but in the past six months, they had been treating Wei Shaolan and taking medicine for three days and two days, and all the money that the family had was sent to Xu Langzhong. The family was poor and pitiful, and they didn't dare to buy anything. Whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter, she does not even have a thick mattress on the mat, and she always wears clothes when she sleeps in winter, wraps herself in a quilt and falls asleep. In the summer, sometimes the heat is unbearable, so I pick up the piece of wood on the cabinet and fan it. Especially in the summer, there are a lot of mosquitoes, because they can't afford to buy mosquito nets, they sleep at night with a quilt to cover their faces, sometimes they are so hot that they sweat, they will lift the quilt to cool down for a while, and then cover their faces with the quilt and continue to sleep.

The reason why they didn't dare to buy anything and saved the money to give her medical treatment and medicine was so that she could give birth to a boy and a girl to the Luo family. However, after more than half a year of seeing a doctor and taking medicine, she still did not see her pregnant, so she herself lost confidence. However, the mother-in-law continued to follow Xu Langzhong's statement and persistently treat her and take medicine. When the medicine was caught and boiled, she couldn't stop drinking it, because it was bought with money.

Wei Shaolan was born in a poor family, and she has been strong since she was a child, whether she is planting rice in the field or digging the ground, she is one of the best among women of her age. Once, when a man was away from home, he had to carry the burden of millet to Xinping Town, seven or eight miles away, to pay off his debts. Originally, her mother-in-law wanted her father-in-law to deliver food, but her father-in-law fell ill that day, so Wei Shaolan went to the town with the load of grain. The load of millet weighed about 150 pounds. However, although Wei Shaolan was tired enough, he still walked and rested, and sent the load of grain to the people in the town. At that time, when did Wei Shaolan get sick and see a doctor? However, after being caught in the turret by the devil for three months, she became like this, like a sick seedling all day long, and she couldn't be cured. She knew that her vitality had been damaged, and that she had been severely damaged both inside her body and deep in her mind. Xu Langzhong also said that although menstrual disorders are relatively simple, they are very difficult to treat, and if they are not cured, the body will not be able to recover and be healthy.

Seeing that taking medicine and cultivating for a long time did not have much effect, Wei Shaolan was discouraged, she didn't want to see a doctor anymore, she didn't want to take medicine anymore, but her mother-in-law was patient and meticulous, persevering, boiling medicine for her every day, urging her to drink medicine, and keeping all the eggs laid by the chickens at home for her to eat. The more the family treated her, the more she felt sorry for her, feeling that she owed too much to the Luo family. So, she thought about doing more to make up for the debt in her heart.

It was the late rice harvest season, and there were two acres of paddy fields in the flat field outside the village. Under the autumn sun, the yellow and heavy ears of rice are swaying in the wind, and the wind exudes an intoxicating aroma of rice. Looking up, the fields are full of abundant harvests, and families are nervously harvesting. In their field, the husband Luo Yinxian and his father-in-law were cutting the rice with a sickle, while the brother-in-law picked up the harvested rice and threshed it in the barn. Originally, Wei Shaolan was watching the children at home, but she asked her mother-in-law to take the children, and she went down to the field to help the men cut rice.

Rice harvesting is the work of men, women can only plant seedlings and weeds in the field, and late rice harvesting does not require time like "double grabbing", and can be done without hurry. Therefore, when she saw Wei Shaolan going to the field to cut rice, her father-in-law asked her to go home to see the children, but she had to help everyone work together. She waved her sickle and began to cut the rice, and as soon as she had done it for a while, she felt that she was not what she had been before, and that she had dared to compare herself with a young man, but now, before she had squatted for a while, she felt dizzy and very uncomfortable. She didn't want others to think that she couldn't do her job, so she stuck to it. However, after only a while, she was out of breath and nauseous enough to vomit. She hurriedly dropped her sickle and went up to the edge of the field, panting incessantly.

Because she was uncomfortable and wanted to vomit, she went back to the house. The mother-in-law saw that she was pale and uncomfortable, so she asked her what was wrong. She said she felt a little uncomfortable and lay down on the bed. When it was time for dinner, her mother-in-law told her to get up to eat, but she still felt dizzy and nauseous and did not want to get up to eat. The husband blamed her and said, "If you don't have to work, you have to do it, and now it's okay, but before you can do it for a while, it's uncomfortable again." Listening to her husband's complaints, she couldn't reply.

When she went to the toilet in the evening, she found that she was menstruating again, and she couldn't help but panic a little, because she had only come a few days ago, and there had been no four or five days in between, and now she came again. She was really annoyed, but she didn't dare to speak up, for fear that her mother-in-law would find out and blame her again. In order to treat her, my mother-in-law didn't know how long she had been busy for her, and she almost spent all the money in the family. She didn't want her family to think that just because she had worked in the field for a short time, she had ruined all the results of her mother-in-law's medical treatment and medicine in the past few months.