Although the living environment of Binhu Middle School is simply the difference between heaven and earth compared with the living environment of Gucheng No. 1 Middle School, it is such a living environment that has not affected Mu Zhen's study of various subjects. When Mu Zhen came into contact with the new curriculum, whether it was homework or questions from the teacher, he was able to deal with them easily. But the next illness seriously affected his work and rest.

I don't know when, and I don't know from which dormitory came a terrible skin disease— Scabies, speaking of this scabies, in fact, for modern people, may not be so terrible, the prevention of this disease focuses on hygiene, to maintain a dry living environment, it can be said that this disease is closely related to the dirty and humid environment, once discovered, lice have undoubtedly become the mainstream of the spread of this disease, as for why it can be spread in the dormitories, there is no way to investigate, in short, when a dormitory found this disease, it did not attract the attention of the students, and no one thought of isolating the sick or improving the environment of the dormitory, but let it develop, soon whether it is a men's dormitory or a women's dormitory, are quietly spreading, all dormitories are not sparedLater, even a resident teacher also suffered from this disease. The disease came quite suddenly, at first, no one thought about the horror and severity of the disease, as the epidemic expanded, at the door of the dormitory, you can see the empty plastic bottle of "UniVe Ointment" at any time. At that time, there was a mantra when I was at school - "Scabies is like a dragon, go up from your hands first, coil your waist three times, and camp in your crotch".

Mu Zhen is naturally not immune to this epidemic. It was a winter morning, and when he got up, he found two small blister-like bumps on his right thumb, and he was so frightened that he immediately asked his classmate in the next bed to check it, and the classmate told him with certainty: "You've really been hit! This one is 100 percent scabies!"

Mu Zhen was very scared, although it was no news for him to be infected with scabies in the school, but he was not mentally prepared, so he was inexplicably infected. During the middle of the physical education class, he asked for leave, and he had to go to the commune health center alone.

"Here again, do you have a cold again?" The doctor who sat in the clinic was still Dr. Lu, nicknamed "Light Metal", although he asked Mu Zhen with a smile on the surface, he hated it very much in Mu Zhen's heart, and muttered in his heart: "Old guy, do you think I am willing to come?"

Mu Zhen involuntarily stretched out her hand and described while letting Dr. Lu look at it: "Look, I have two blisters on my hand, and the water comes out as soon as I squeeze it, what's going on?"

"Is it itchy?" asked Dr. Lu, looking at the little blister.

"I just found it this morning, and I don't feel itchy! Is it scabies?" Mu Zhen still had doubts about whether her blisters were scabies, so she asked in a tentative tone.

"This looks like scabies, scabies is caused by scabies infection, once infected, this scabies will burrow under the skin, hide during the day, and be active frequently at night, so it is more itchy at night!" During these days, many of the patients that Dr. Lu came into contact with were students who came to see this kind of disease, so he was not surprised by Mu Zhen's scabies at all.

Mu Zhen heard that her scalp was a little numb, and she didn't know what to do, she still had some luck before coming here, and she still had some doubts about the "scabies" said by her classmates in the neighboring bed, and after Dr. Lu's explanation, she immediately felt a chill in her heart, although she didn't know whether the disease was serious, but judging from the empty plastic medicine bottles thrown in front of the dormitory, this disease would not be as easy to cure as a cold.

"Is there a quick cure?" Mu Zhen said as if pleading.

Dr. Lu also tried to treat this disease, and the initial prescription was only "fluocinolone olmster" to relieve itching, and with the increase in the number of patients treating this disease, the hospital only entered a batch of "Youlifu ointment" as needed, as for the efficacy, Dr. Lu is really not very clear, at least among the patients who came, no one has told him that the medicine he prescribed has not come to him because there is no effect. This time, when I saw Mu Zhen's scabies, I naturally preferred the "Uniskin Ointment" launched later.

"There really is no special medicine, the most effective medicine is hygiene, frequent bathing and frequent change of clothes, which is very beneficial to treatment. Dr. Lu's tone contained twelve points of affirmation.

"Prescribe some ointment first, wipe it and see!" Dr. Lu said easily.

Mu Zhen nodded, took the medicine list prescribed by Dr. Lu to the medicine collection office, paid the money and took the medicine out, and couldn't wait to open the bottle of Youlifu ointment, squeezed the soybean-sized ointment on the two blisters on his hand, and slowly applied it with his other hand, trying to let the ointment penetrate under the skin as soon as possible through gentle massage, and kill the scabies hidden under the skin. The blisters on the ointment didn't feel anything, but Mu Zhen wished that the scabies would be strangled in the cradle and that it wouldn't spread further.

Two days have passed, the blisters on Mu Zhen's hands have not disappeared, on the contrary, the same blisters have been found at the junction of the thumb and index finger of the left hand, Mu Zhen began to despair of the "Youli Skin Ointment" prescribed by Dr. Lu, even so, for a child, what can he do, if there is a way, how can this disease be prevalent in school?

Although the effect of the ointment is not obvious, Mu Zhen feels that since there is no better way in the hospital, this ointment should still have an effect, but the "light metal" mentioned about hygiene, frequent bathing, and frequent change of clothes, for herself, she can only stay in words, and the most important thing is that she can only rely on this ointment.

A week later, Mu Zhen found that the first two blisters disappeared, but the backs of the two hands sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and there were several more of the same blisters, and things didn't just stay on the hands, these blisters seemed to have feet, and soon spread to the lower body, and the itching at night often woke him up from sleep! When he woke up, it was an unspeakable torment, according to his classmates, the blisters could not be scratched, and where the broken water flowed, it would rise, and it would quickly infect the whole body, so he did not dare to scratch, let it itch, and sometimes when the itch could not stand it, he would apply some ointment in the bed.

Mu Zhen began to doubt the "light metal" medical skills in the hospital, he felt that maybe in gynecology, he could be called a competent doctor, but for the level of skin medicine, he could only be regarded as a quack.

During this period, Mu Zhen personally experienced how contagious the disease is, since the onset of the disease, he never dared to live at home, for fear of infecting the people at home, every weekend, after dinner, he would always make up "I want to go to the school dormitory to accompany the classmates who have not gone home to live" and many other reasons to prevaricate Lao Mu and his family.

For a fourteen-year-old boy, the night without street lights is a bit scary, not to mention Mu Zhen, who is already a little timid, and it is even more unthinkable to walk alone at night, but in this helpless move, Mu Zhen's courage has become bigger, he no longer knows what the difference between night and day will be, he just thinks that night is just a continuation of day, just to show people a different space in the way of night. One was in his dorm room, with tears streaming down his eyes as he applied an ointment that showed no effect at all, and that was perhaps the best placebo for the lack of a better treatment.

After two weeks, the blisters in the lower body gradually increased, and whenever he walked, he would feel itchy because of rubbing his underwear, at this time Mu Zhen was really at a loss, he had to find the "light metal" again, although he was ashamed to speak, he also had to take off his pants, so that the "light metal" had an unobstructed view of his lower body.

"Light Metal" looked at the blisters on Mu Zhen's lower body expressionlessly and asked, "Is the rest of the place okay?"

"In some places, after applying the medicine, it will be fine, and in other places, it seems that it has no great effect!" Mu Zhen replied as she lifted her pants.

"Is there any other good way?" "Light Metal" obviously doesn't have any tricks for Mu Zhen's good times, and asked as if looking at Mu Zhen.

Mu Zhen was a little annoyed, and said in her heart: "You are a doctor, you ask me how to treat it, so what do you want you to do here?" Although he scolded this incompetent "light metal" in his heart, where can he go to treat this disease?

"I don't know how to cure it!" Mu Zhen responded with a pleading look.

For "light metal", it seems that only those ointments will be prescribed, and there is no other way, and the medicine list once again reads "two of the ointments of Youlifu".

Two months have passed, and Mu Zhen has spent the pain and suffering of scabies, although he does not dare to relax on his studies, but this illness has seriously affected his work and rest. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night because of itching, and when the application doesn't work, he can't help but rub it for a while, and sometimes he is distracted in class because of the itching, and he can't concentrate enough, and he really can't bear the weight.