At this time, Dr. Yao was no longer working in the commune hospital. He was finally dug up by the city hospital.

Before Dr. Yao left, he made another request and transferred Yao Jinfang back to the commune hospital. The reason is to take care of the home. The village clinic gave full authority to the barefoot doctor to take care of it on National Day. National Day and Yao Jinfang's medical skills are 108,000 miles away from Dr. Yao. Regarding the change in Mao Shengniang's physical signs, he can't break off the ugliness. It's just that when you're older, it's natural to feel uncomfortable, so it's not a big deal.

On this day, Maosheng and his family came back from work. The two hurriedly made dinner, and asked Zhong'er to bring a bowl to grandma, and brought Xingzi over to eat together. Zhong'er went for most of the day, and then came back with Xingzi crying and mourning, saying that her grandmother was gone, and even the little yellow dog who was kept in the West Courtyard to care for her family was gone, and she didn't come back until now.

At the beginning, Maosheng and his family thought that their mother was going out temporarily and would not go far, so they asked them to come over and eat first. After eating, Maosheng went to the west courtyard to check again, but he still didn't see his mother come back. Maosheng and Muqin were anxious in their hearts, saying that their mother's eyes and legs were not good, and they had never gone out when it was dark. Now, it's getting dark, but don't do anything. A family of four panicked all over the village shouting Maosheng Niang. Immediately, the villagers were alarmed, and they all helped to look around.

In the chaos, Jin Lian led Bin Bin and Wenwen out of Zhenshu's house after dinner and was about to go home. Seeing Maosheng leading Zhong'er to shout everywhere, she hesitated, muttered a few words, and couldn't help but say to Maosheng, you have to hurry up and look for it at the foot of Beishan, maybe where you went.

Maosheng is also in a hurry, and anyone who tells him a message will believe it. He didn't bother to ask the old man what he was doing there, let alone how she knew, so he dragged Zhong'er and went straight to Beishan.

Running to the foot of the mountain, Mao Sheng shouted a few times, and listened attentively, and sure enough, he heard the low barking of the dog and the low ** sound of the old man. Following the sound all the way, I saw Mao Shengniang lying sideways in a dry ditch, holding her legs with her hands and screaming. The little yellow dog squatted to the side, vigilantly watching over her.

Mao Sheng hurriedly picked up his mother, led Zhong'er and the yellow dog and hurried home. He also complained to his mother, why did he run here alone, scared to death.

Mao Shengniang said that at the next evening, she saw a fire fox running into the yard, so she chased it out. Who knows, she takes a few steps, and it takes a few steps. If it doesn't wait, it won't leave. She walked back, and it followed. There was no way, so she drove it all the way out. All the way to here, the fire fox is gone. But he fell into this ditch and could no longer move.

Mao Sheng said, you are dazzling, and you treat the little yellow dog as a fox.

Mao Shengniang said, why could you be wrong, it's just a fiery fox. Black lips, black ears, white lips and beards, red tails, yellow fur, like flames. Hearing this, Mao Sheng was full of cold wind on his back, and his scalp was fried.

Back at home, Mao Shengniang told the people who came to visit her over and over again the reason for her departure. People didn't dare to respond, but said that she was dazzled, and saw the little yellow dog as a fox, but she was muttering in her heart. Du secretly said, what she said was the same as what the dead ghost Xigui said. As soon as they thought of Xigui, people quickly stopped such cranky thoughts and did not dare to think further.

Mao Shengniang's right thigh was twisted, and she couldn't move while lying on the bed. For the first time on National Day, I encountered a broken tendon and bone, and I didn't know how to deal with it for a while. He hurriedly gave an anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving injection, saying that he had to go and find medicine for the bone as soon as possible. Mao Sheng and Suan Zao rushed to the commune overnight and found Yao Jinfang. According to the prescriptions left by Dr. Yao in the past, Yao Jinfang prescribed a prescription for the treatment of bruises:

Angelica sinensis 15g, Chuanxiong 15g, white peony 15g, rehmannia 15g, broken paper 15g, woody fragrance 15g

Wuling fat 15g, Digupi 15g, parsnip 15g, frankincense 3g, myrrh 3g, blood exhaustion 3g

File all these herbs, pour 15g of the root bark of the night lily tree into a large wine jug, add an appropriate amount of soju, boil the heavy soup for half an hour, take it out and take it.

Yao Jinfang also took great pains to tell Mao Sheng that this is a secret recipe for treating bruises, broken tendons, broken skin and flesh, and unbearable pain, called "Repair Bone Elixir". It worked very well, and the storage was able to heal the old man's leg injury.

I took more than a dozen medicines, but the injury on my leg just didn't get better.

Mao Shengniang lay in bed all day long, couldn't turn over and couldn't sit, the pain was so bad that she couldn't eat and urinate, and even had to lie on the bed to solve it. Her meal is not as good as before, her spirit is sluggish, her face is sallow, and she is even more ruthless. Muscles and bones break out from under the folded and flabby old skin, supporting a shrinking skin.

After all, Mao Shengniang was a military martyr, and her illness alarmed the commune.

The commune specially sent Xiao Jia, a civil affairs officer, to the village to visit the old man, and discussed with Mao Sheng that it seemed that the old man had little hope of seeing well, so he should start to prepare for the future, so as to be prepared. If the old man really can't do it, the commune will come forward to organize a memorial service, so that he has a number in his heart.

Mao Sheng agreed one after another, and said that he had already begun to prepare for the future. The shrouds, coffins, etc. are almost done.

Under the careful service of Maosheng and his family, Maosheng Niang easily survived until the end of the year. In the end, she gave up.

From Mao Shengniang's return to her hometown to the time she closed her eyes, for more than a year, she rarely answered with the xylophone, and always deliberately avoided meeting the xylophone. Even when she was seriously ill, she still didn't talk to the xylophone. She often stared directly at the apricot boy, and there were cloudy old tears rolling out of her eyes.

Xylophone said to Maosheng behind her back that her mother still felt guilty in her heart, and she couldn't rest assured that Xingzai. It seems that her hour is near.

At the most critical juncture of Mao Shengniang's life, Muqin said to her mother-in-law, don't worry, Xingzi is my baby. I take him like Jing'er and Zhong'er, and he doesn't have two hearts. Don't worry.

Since listening to Xylophone's words, Mao Shengniang no longer stared at Xingzai. She lay peacefully on her bed, waiting for death to come. When she died, she kept her eyes closed and did not leave a word.

Mao Shengniang's funeral was carried out in full accordance with the specific rituals of the public family, and there was no such thing as sending soup and sending plates to wrap around in the old custom. It was only the Armed Forces Department and the Civil Affairs Department of the Commune who sent people to organize a solemn memorial service attended by the whole village. Then he was laid to rest.

After Mao Shengniang's death, Mao Sheng completely cleaned up the west courtyard, renovated the walls, doors and windows, and rebuilt the roof. prepared a house for Jing'er, who was about to graduate, for him to marry and have children in the future.

This was already in the spring of 1980.