Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Doctor (C)
After another period of time, it was autumn, Ye Yongcheng estimated that he was afraid that he would not be able to shoot animals in winter, so he soaked in the mountains all day long, shot a lot of voles, yellow skins, and even wild cats. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe smell in that room was so red that I couldn't sleep all night. What's even more outrageous is that Ye Yongcheng also made a lot of rat traps, put them in the factory, and the rats he caught were also made into bacon when he picked up the fat. Min Hong really couldn't stand it, every day when she opened her eyes, she was hanging on the roof of the house, and wanted to go back to her parents' house to live for a few days, but she didn't expect Ye Yongcheng to lose her temper again, and even beat her. Min Hong was an idealess and weak woman in her bones, so she had to endure it at home.
For the first Chinese New Year after marriage, Ye Yongcheng allowed Min Hong to buy some meat and dumplings, but he didn't eat any of them, just drank wine by himself and ate his fried dried voles, Min Hong plucked up his courage and asked Ye Yongcheng why he only ate the meat of these wild things? It's too unhygienic? Ye Yongcheng was stunned for a moment, but still told her the reason. In a reconnaissance mission, a squad of them went deep behind enemy lines, but was discovered by the Vietnamese army and trapped in the encirclement of the Vietnamese army. But the survival instinct of people makes them eat everything they can eat, snakes, rats, birds, hedgehogs, pangolins...... Later, in order to save bullets, the warriors had to dig rat holes and snake holes in the ground, and hunt those slow-moving animals for food. After a while, the matches and lighters ran out, and everyone had to eat raw meat.
In this way, they held out for three months, leaving only two men, and only when the troops advanced on the entire line to the south were discovered and returned to the troops. When he first returned to the army, the cooking squad leader personally cooked and made a table of dishes for the two comrades-in-arms who escaped death, and Ye Yongcheng ate it until he couldn't stand up. But after that, he would feel sick to his stomach, nausea, and vomit when he ate pork, beef and mutton. After eating vegetarian for a while, his body quickly collapsed, and the memory of surviving in the rainforest turned into a yearning for wild meat, which made him start catching snakes and rats again, eating yellow skins, and eating hedgehogs, until he was demobilized and changed jobs, and there was no interruption.
Min Hong listened to her husband's painful and even desperate memories, and she already understood most of it in her heart, but she felt more sympathy. Min Hong's parents are farmers in the suburbs of Beijing, and during the Chinese New Year, they heard Min Hong talk about Ye Yongcheng's deeds as heroic deeds, and they were very worried, so they told Min Hong that in the folk sayings of old Beijing, yellow skins, hedgehogs, snakes, rats, and cats are all eight immortals of the earth, and they are animals with aura. Especially the yellow skin and hedgehog, some have cultivated for many years, and Ye Yongcheng ate all the eight immortals of the earth, which will be unlucky and retribution. Min Hong was thinking about how to talk to Ye Yongcheng, he could accept it, and something more terrible happened.
In the summer of the next year, Ye Yongcheng's skin had a large piece of crust, itching so much, but as soon as he scratched hard, the skin would ooze fishy pus, and he went to the hospital to see it, the doctor said that it was a rare skin disease, called squamothyromy, there was no effective treatment, but fortunately, it would fall off in winter, not so painful, and only soak in water in summer to keep the skin moist, and people would be less painful. There was no way, Min Hong had to wipe Ye Yongcheng's back seven or eight times a night before he could fall asleep, and soon Min Hong was also haggard. Ye Yongcheng's temper became more and more irritable when he became ill, and when he was very itchy, he tore off the crust piece by piece, making his flesh and blood blurry, Min Hong wanted to stop him, but was knocked unconscious by Ye Yongcheng, who lost his mind.
In the autumn, the pores on Ye Yongcheng's back began to become thicker and thicker, and soon began to grow hard hairs, Min Hong shaved twice for him with a blade, but soon it would grow again, and it became thicker and thicker, like a steel needle. Ye Yongcheng could no longer lie down to sleep, he could only lie on the bed, and occasionally turn over in the middle of the night, he would be woken up by a needle and screaming. Maybe the contrast from a hero to a weirdo is too big, Ye Yongcheng resolutely stopped going to the hospital, asked for leave, and endured it at home, Min Hong couldn't do anything except look at him with tears in his eyes.
Fortunately, after the winter, Ye Yongcheng's pain began to ease, and one morning, Ye Yongcheng asked Min Hong to go to Daoxiang Village in Dongdan to buy a little sweet, saying that he wanted to eat. Riding from the foot of the West Mountain to Dongdan, Min Hong spent a full two hours to buy snacks, she couldn't take care of eating, and rode back to the West Mountain, but when she got home, she found that the door of the inner room was locked, and she didn't open it no matter how she knocked on Ye Yongcheng, Ye Yongcheng asked her to wait outside and leave him alone, but the house was always his painful moans. Min Hong sat at the door, crying for an hour, the door opened, and Ye Yongcheng collapsed weakly in Min Hong's arms. Min Hong saw that on the ground in the room, there were large pieces of hard leather with gray hair, and it was vaguely human-shaped.
This time, after Ye Yongcheng molted, the pain was much less, but his body was very weak, but he would vomit when he was fed meat. Min Hong struggled for a long time in her heart, but she still took out the bacon made by Ye Yongcheng and burned it for him to eat. A few days later, Ye Yongcheng eased up, but Min Hong found that his husband had begun to have some new changes.
First of all, when he spoke, his face began to twitch frequently and unconsciously, at first it was just the corners of his mouth, and soon his whole face began to twitch, and his voice became thinner and sharper, which seemed extremely terrifying. Then, some tiny yellowish hairs began to grow on his face, and his body smelled of rotting flesh. Ye Yongcheng lost his mind several times a day, smashed the items at home, and tried to jump from the window several times, but was hugged by Min Hong, and Min Hong was beaten all over his body by the furious Ye Yongcheng every time.
About three weeks ago, Ye Yongcheng began to have a high fever and could not recognize people, so he was sent to the hospital for an infusion, and the fever subsided. But when he returned home, Ye Yongcheng's ears began to bleed pus, and his teeth began to protrude outward. Min Hong knew that she couldn't drag it out any longer, so she found a few colleagues to carry him back to the hospital.
The doctor thought that Ye Yongcheng had a rare form of rabies, but it was very different from rabies, and he was worried that Ye Yongcheng would attack others when he woke up, and he was also worried that his disease was contagious, so he isolated him. Min Hong couldn't see Ye Yongcheng later, so she had to go to the hospital once a day in the morning to ask the doctor about the treatment. The doctor just said that he hadn't found a suitable treatment yet, and asked Min Hong to wait a little longer, and he would notify her if there was a situation.
This was a week, and one night after that, Min Hong suddenly received a call from the hospital, saying that Ye Yongcheng ran out of the hospital at night, and asked her if Ye Yongcheng had gone home? At this time, Min Hong suddenly felt that someone was watching her from the window downstairs, she ran to the window and looked down, it was Ye Yongcheng standing in the shadow of the tree looking at her, she just wanted to shout, but saw Ye Yongcheng's eyes kept flowing with tears, waved his hand to her, turned around and disappeared into the night.
We all know everything that happened after that, Min Hong didn't say anything more, just continued to look out the window blankly, the look was simple and complex, and it was difficult to understand.
Team Cao and I didn't react to this bizarre story for a while, and neither of us spoke. For a long time, Min Hong seemed to say to herself: "Yongcheng was originally a combat hero, I only hope that he will always be a combat hero." ”
Coming out of Ye Yongcheng's house, my heart and Cao team's heart are particularly heavy, I went to Ye Yongcheng's factory to understand the situation, and there is no special discovery, Ye Yongcheng is serious and responsible in his work, and he does his best, but he has been sick after the Spring Festival, and has been asking for leave to rest, and he died unexpectedly, it can be seen that the factory leaders are sorry from the bottom of their hearts, but the chairman of the trade union inadvertently mentioned that Ye Yongcheng has a bad temper, and the neighbors report that they sometimes beat Min Hong.
We said goodbye, still immersed in the story told by Min Hong, Cao Team chatted with me intentionally or unintentionally while driving, "During the self-defense counterattack war, we also registered for the name, and the physical examination and political examination have passed, I am a reserve, I really want to go to the battlefield in person, but I was stopped by the old man of our family, I haven't talked to him for a few months, it seems that what he said at that time was right, this hero is not everyone can be a hero." "Let's go back to the hospital, Lao Cao, we have to talk to the doctor, you are right, the horror of war is not something that can be expressed in novels and movies, it will not only take away lives, but also change the fate of those who are lucky to survive." ”