"Xiaomin, Xiaomin!" I shouted, and Xiaomin hurriedly walked over.

"Big brother, what's the matter?"

"Is there any way to help me cook pig's blood, duck's blood, or chicken blood?" I said, "I'm seriously injured, and I have to replenish my anemia, and I can only eat blood." ”

Xiao Min thought for a while and said: "I will go to the village butcher to buy pig blood for you early tomorrow morning, we have more than a dozen ducks at home, and I didn't finish killing two of them during the New Year, and I will now let my father kill the ducks." ”

"Thank you. "I'm very moved, really moved, I don't know all my life, they help me like this, which is rare in today's society, especially people like me who are seriously injured, I don't know the bottom line, they are willing to take me in.

I made up my mind that when I got better, I would find some money to give them, and looking at the appearance of their family, they were not rich.

In the evening, Xiao Min came in with a bowl of steaming duck blood and put it on the table, then helped me up and leaned against the side of the bed.

Then like feeding a child, she fed me bite by bite, and her heart was sincerely moved, in fact, she was still a child herself.

After taking a bite, I found that after the duck blood entered my mouth, I only chewed two bites, and it was absorbed in an instant, and I didn't even have to swallow it, I was dumbfounded.

"What's wrong, isn't it delicious?" Xiao Min saw my surprised expression.

"No, it's delicious, it's delicious, I haven't eaten anything so delicious in a long time. ”

Xiao Min was very happy, fed me another bite and said, "Then you can eat more." ”

Then a voice came from outside: "Carpenter Luo, let's pull the coffin." ”

"Here, I'll help you carry it down together. ”

"Okay, your place is so inconvenient, you can't get a car. ”

Then there were voices of several people outside, apparently carrying the coffin out of the house.

Soon after they left, someone came from outside the door: "Carpenter Luo!"

"My dad went down the mountain and came back in a while. Xiao Min put down the bowl and said to me, "Doctor Luo is here." ”

Then an old man with a brown leather medicine box with a red cross on it, a pair of glasses, half-white hair, and half-old walked in, and when he saw me sticking to the bed, his mouth opened wide in surprise, and he said in disbelief, "Wake up?"

"Well, woke up, woke up at noon. ”

He walked over quickly, directly reached out and rolled my eyelids up, looked at my eyes, took out the earpiece and listened to the heartbeat, and said in surprise: "Oh my God, my heart is beating so fast." ”

Then he checked his pulse again, and he was also dumbfounded: "This pulse and heartbeat have caught up with the mouse." ”

I didn't say anything, I said, "I feel like everything is normal." ”

He turned his head to look at the duck blood on the side, his face twitched slightly, and said, "It's just a little better to eat such a greasy thing, don't you want to die?"

I smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm hungry and want to eat." ”

He looked at me intently for a long time, then took out a bottle of glucose, injected some potion with a syringe, hung me again, sighed and said, "I don't understand you, maybe our rural doctor's technical knowledge is not enough." ”

I didn't speak, then he took out a list and handed it to Xiao Min and said, "Xiao Min, give him this list when your father comes back, these are his medical expenses for more than a month, they are just pure medicine expenses, the total is more than 3,000, I don't need this salary, but this medicine costs money." ”

"More than 3,000 ......" Xiao Min took the list in surprise.

I hurriedly said out loud: "It's okay, when I'm ready, I'll pay this money, if it doesn't work, call my family when the time comes, this money is fine, you count your salary, I can't let you help in vain." ”

Dr. Luo was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "If you dare to be kind, let's add a salary of 1,000 yuan." ”

"Okay. I nodded.

Dr. Luo smiled and said: "I was still thinking, they are estimated to be in debt for this matter, you are alive now, it's okay, if you go like that, these more than 3,000 yuan is a lot of money for the carpenter's family, I persuaded them to leave this matter alone, but I didn't expect that their father and daughter were kind and stubborn, so they took it for you, if you have money at home, you have to subsidize them." ”

"I know. I nodded repeatedly.

"A few days later, the people in the village had originally organized to run the mountain, and I still thought that I would let Carpenter Luo go, so I shouldn't need it now. Dr. Luo said.

"What do you mean?"

Without waiting for me to ask, Xiao Min grabbed it and said: "Doctor Luo, help my dad sign up, my dad hasn't had any wood work recently, and he is idle when he is idle, if he can run to something, then he can also earn a little, and he is also idle at home." ”

"Alright then, I'll go first. Dr. Luo got up with the medicine box, and then Xiao Min sent him out.

Xiao Min came back and continued to feed me duck blood with a bowl, and I asked while eating, "What is running a mountain?"

"Don't ask. "Xiao Min just doesn't say it.

"If you don't say it, I won't eat it. I shut my mouth angrily.

"You ......" Xiao Min saw that I was angry, so he said: "Okay, okay, I'll tell you, but you can't tell others, because it seems that these things are not legal." ”

"Isn't it legal?" I said dumbfounded, "Is running up the mountain secretly to steal wood or hunt?"

"No, although everyone in the village does the same. Xiao Min hesitated for a while and said: "There used to be a terrible custom in our Dawushan area, which was passed down thousands of years ago, that is, there are many parasitic caves on the mountain, also called self-death caves, that is, when the old man reaches the age of sixty and loses his labor force, he will be sent to the mountain to dig a parasitic cave, and the space will not be very large, in fact, it is a small cave, almost the size of a vegetable cellar." ”

"Why are you sending it there?" I was dumbfounded, and I had a bad feeling.

"What else can you do, wait for death. Xiao Min blushed and said: "In ancient times, there was a shortage of food, and people who lost labor could no longer waste food and leave food to future generations. ”

"What a mess. A feeling of nausea came up, and when I saw the duck blood in the bowl, I instantly lost my appetite.

"I don't know, it's all customs handed down from the past, but after the founding of New China, these customs were banned, but in the years when people starved to death, some people did it again. Xiao Min continued.

The years she said should have been the years when the grains were not harvested, how many people starved to death in the country in those years, and the grass roots, bark, Guanyin and soil were eaten, and it was almost impossible to eat each other, so it was not surprising this kind of parasitic cave again.

In the past, this phenomenon also existed in Japan, and I didn't expect that this phenomenon existed in our country before, but now that life is better and everyone has solved the problem of food and clothing, such a thing will definitely not happen again.