1. Past lives
In the late summer of 1979, a teenager sat on the slope of a small mountain village on the outskirts of Kyoto City.
There is also a crooked river, and there is a stone bridge over the river, and the teenager who built it is not very clear.
A little further away is a quiet little mountain village. The boy sitting on the hillside was sixteen or seventeen years old.
This young man has a name that matches this era called Zhou Shanwa, and those who are older or similar in the village are called Shanwazi, and the younger ones are called Shanwa.
But now the boy sitting on the hillside has a pair of eyes that are not similar to his age, and there is a trace of excitement and vicissitudes in these eyes, to be precise, the current Zhou Shanwa is no longer the previous Zhou Shanwa, it is the soul of a middle-aged uncle from 2018.
The middle-aged uncle was also surnamed Zhou in his previous life, but he was called Zhou Yongkai instead of Zhou Shanwa, as for why it became like this, it starts with the uncle's righteous and courageous behavior.
Uncle is a person who has been honest and down-to-earth all his life, although the uncle is obscene but not obscene, he has never seen righteousness and courage in his life, and he has not the habit of doing good deeds without leaving a name.
The pressure of life over the years, the unsatisfactory work has smoothed the edges and corners of the uncle, the uncle from a rural teenager to a strange city wandering alone to do odd jobs, set up stalls, do all kinds of work that can support himself, the uncle's efforts are not in vain, and finally bought a house in the city, doing a small business that is not big but can be worry-free.
Maybe it's because human beings have too many desires, the uncle feels that he has some small money, the uncle floats, and the uncle also learns to go to KTV, to nightclubs, and to bars.
Uncle has been in the city for so many years and has made some friends, as well as a few big friends.
The uncle forgot that he was once a poor child in the countryside, a poor child who lived with his parents in two thatched huts.
Uncle was a bit naughty when he was young, and he didn't have much culture, so with the 'help' of his friends, he also learned to do big business and play futures.
The funds were insufficient, and several of the uncle's friends were also very righteous to lend money to the uncle, but the interest was a little high, and in the end the uncle was sad, the uncle lost money, the business store was gone, and even the house was repaid.
In the end, even the uncle himself can't figure out what he is running for, the uncle is single, his parents have passed away a long time ago, when he was young, the uncle's family was very poor, very poor, how poor the uncle's family is.
Let's take an example: on a rainy day, especially a rainy day, if it rains for several days, the uncle's family will suffer.
There is a light rain in a few places in the heavy rain house outside, and there are a few places in the small rain house outside that are dripping, and this is not counting, there are two places in the house like spring water when it rains, and the ground is permeable, and one is in the west corner of the inner room.
One is at the mouth of the stove pit, many people have seen and know the stove, the stove pit is the place where firewood is added under the stove, and the uncle will be very busy on a rainy day.
It is necessary to do a good job of the drainage system in the yard of your house, so that there will not be too much water in the house, and the small pit dug in the two permeable places in the house, and then the uncle and the mother will carry a small bucket to carry out the water in the two permeable pits, so that the house cannot accumulate water.
You take away the water from the pit in the house, and after a while the pit is full again, because it is raining outside, and there is also dripping water on the house, so you have to catch it with a basin, and when it is full, it will be poured out, so it is very busy.
But this old earthen house was still strong, and it was not pushed until the uncle was very big. As for the uncle's parents, they were very typical simple rural people in that era.
My mother was sick from overwork and suffered from a serious heart attack, which was only discovered when my uncle was about ten years old.
But at that time, the rural areas were basically very sick, and there was a shortage of medical treatment. When the uncle was seventeen or eighteen years old, the uncle had already practiced the ability of intravenous injection with one hand;
Because my mother's heart disease was basically in the middle of the night, I couldn't even breathe when I got sick, and later the quick-acting heart pills were not very effective and could only be injected intravenously.
But it's really hard to go to the township clinic in the middle of the night, some people will say that you go to the big hospital in the city to have a good look, money, money, money, and the countryside was really backward in all aspects at that time.
The uncle's house has medicines and needles for infusion, and the medicines are mainly salvia. In fact, most of these medicines were bought with money from my sister who worked outside.
I have a sister who is 7 years older than my uncle and is married while working outside.
Once in the middle of the night, the uncle's mother was very dangerous, and the uncle could only secretly run to the yard and kneel on the ground to pray, willing to exchange his life for his mother to live a few more years.
The uncle was not young and wanted to get out of the mountain village, so the uncle went to the physical examination to become a soldier, and the uncle failed to pass for two consecutive years, and the uncle was cold, and the uncle was really in a bad mood during that time.
The mother is also very anxious, she can only comfort and care, and her parents are really good to the uncle.
One night when the uncle was eighteen and a half years old, the bad luck finally did not escape, and the mother fell ill again, and took the fast-acting heart pill.
In fact, the fast-acting heart-saving pill is really hard to eat, to put it in the mouth, that thing is very spicy, the uncle also put a little bit of it on the mother, but the effect is really not very good, the uncle's heart is really like a knife, let the father call the brother-in-law, and let the brother-in-law go to the township health center to call the doctor.
Originally, my mother had a heart attack, so it was no longer suitable to push my mother to the hospital in a toss, which would be more dangerous, and there was no 120 emergency in the countryside at that time.
My father was also very anxious, so he immediately rushed to his brother-in-law by bicycle, and soon his brother-in-law came with a doctor and a bag of oxygen.
The doctor hurriedly injected oxygen to his mother, asked after taking the fast-acting heart-saving pills, and asked what medicine was used after looking at the drip of the injection, and said that it was used in a timely manner, and there was no problem with the medication.
But the problem is that my mother's illness has been very serious, and it has been delayed for too long, more than ten years.
There is no better way for doctors, the medical conditions in the township are like that, and the patients are very dangerous, and they really can't be tossed casually.
If you go too far to the city, it is all bumps in the dirt road, and it will be a few hours late to get to the city, and some people ask if you don't see it before the onset of the disease, to be honest, there is really no money, I once went to the city for a check-up, and the doctor also asked about the condition, but the medical conditions in that era were too poor.
I spent a few hundred dollars to come back and feel sorry for my mother for a long time. And if there is no precursor to the onset of my mother's disease, the illness will come quickly, and you won't have time to go.
At this time, the uncle felt very powerless and helpless, so he could only hold his mother's head and pray in his heart.
In fact, this doctor also knows that the township is so big, this doctor's surname is Su, everyone calls him Dr. Su, the person is not bad, and he came in the middle of the night.
And the weather is still very cold this season, in fact, my mother has called Dr. Su many times over the years after the illness in the middle of the night, and then the uncle's family felt embarrassed to trouble people often.
Every New Year's holiday, he gave Dr. Su some gifts, or a big rooster raised by himself, or two bottles of wine or something, so the uncle also asked Dr. Su what patients should pay attention to, what first-aid drugs to use, and also practiced self-injection, and pricked his arm at the beginning.
This is destined to be a painful and unforgettable day for the uncle's life. After Dr. Su checked the used medicines, he wanted to use some more medicines, but he stopped again.
First looked at the drip, then looked at the mother's pupils, removed the oxygen from under the nose, tested it with his hands, and finally looked at our father and son, and said in a very low voice The person is gone, the person is gone, these three words are very light, but in the uncle's ears, it is like thunder.
This is impossible, the mother's hand is still holding his own hand, and the uncle really feels that the sky is falling at this moment.