Chapter 32 The Operating Table
Shufen is also depressed!
This is also the "head of the family" who is also a child, and climbed to the top of the inkstone mountain alone.
Shufen looked at Mao'er Mountain, which was equal to the height of the opposite and the foot of Yantai Mountain, these two towering mountains that tightly surrounded Yangjiawan, frightened the gentle Shiqiao River to bypass its footsteps, leaving behind the terrifying Human Life Bay and the barren Yangjiawan. When I was a child, my grandfather told me the most not the ghost story of the Bay of Human Lives, but the beautiful myth of the two mountains.
Grandpa said that a teardrop that Nuwa Niangniang unintentionally slipped made the originally flat land of Bashu instantly turn into a vast ocean, and people were displaced and wailed all over the wilderness. There is an ancestor named Zikui who rowed a bamboo boat to a lonely island in the ocean, where the fairy mist is shrouded and peaceful, and it is said to be Emei Wonderland. Zi Kui prayed to the immortals day and night, and he was willing to stay on the island as a cow and a horse, hoping that the gods could save the people there. The practicing Bodhisattva was moved by his piety, so he turned into a big cat, took the inkstone around him, and put it in the choppy sea. The sea is receding, but it still hasn't returned to its former state. The big cat leaned over, and gradually swallowed the vicious sea water with all his strength, and the entire land of Bashu also revealed its original appearance. It's a pity that because of the location of the inkstone and the big cat, the little trickle that there was was was also blocked, and Yangjiawan became a mountain recess without water. This is where the names of the two peaks come from.
However, in the real and vast history, who will really take a glimpse of the smoke and rain in the depths of this Ba Mountain; In the vast land of China, who will really paint a picture of the streams of the tributaries of this great river!
Now, the mythical disaster has returned, but the sleeping sunflower has never woken up, but is scarred; But at the foot of the top of the inkstone mountain, this perennial almost bare mountain beam, there is no loss. There is no house on the top of the mountain, compared to the broad-leaved forest below the mountain and the coniferous forest on the mountainside, these shrubs seem a little desolate, many bare stones have been weathered, and occasionally a tenacious pine nut sprouts here, but they do not dare to be presumptuous in this high mountain, and they are also shy to peel off the appearance of shrubs.
Only the ignorant thatched grass despises the aliens called "trees". Holding his head high, pulling out the clusters of thatched flowers, the small white parachute is lightly attached to the fluffy "dog tail", swaying with the autumn wind, those beautiful little umbrellas are flying, but they are wandering at the mercy of the wind, maybe they land in Yangjiawan in Shanyin, maybe they blow away to Mao'er Mountain on the opposite side, or they may drift into the Shiqiao River in Li Yansi Village, Shanyang, and then go to the water......
In this way, the barthatch has nothing to be proud of! It's like itself, at the mercy of life. The dream of going to the city to be a cadre was shattered a year ago, and I thought it was gone, but I came back so cruelly. Uncle Seven's arrangement made her wish within reach, but the burden of the family had to make her give up. What could be more cruel than that? The swallows, which are sometimes flying high, are also about to leave because of the arrival of autumn! Yes, even Gorky's petrel still has wings to fight the storm, right? And his own wings were broken alive again and again.
Shufen stood on the top of the mountain, opening her mind like an eagle spreading its wings, closing her eyes to listen to the howling mountain wind and feel the morning glow in the sky. She opened her voice and cried out aloudโ"Ah! ......" This loud and crisp voice echoed between the two mountains, shaking the big cat on the other side trembling slightly. When you open your eyes, you will be much refreshed. A red sun rose from the direction of Renming Bay, and a big red lantern was hung over Yangjiawan.
The hot land at the foot of the mountain has lost hope because of the collapse of the Shihe weir, this round of disasters has just receded, and the drought of next year's spring ploughing is quietly approaching. Shufen glanced back at the empty back basket, and quickly brandished her sickle to cut a kind of hay called "reed thorn grass", filled a large back basket, and then carefully carried it down the mountain......
It was already noon when I returned home, and my mother hurriedly took the basket and beckoned Shufen to go to Xie Jiaba quickly - the eldest sister had a difficult birth, and she had not given birth in the morning!
Shufen was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled her mother and ran in the direction of Dripping Rock. According to this custom, the mother's family is generally not notified before the birth of the child, and even after the birth, the mother's family does not go to "play three mornings" to celebrate. But Shufang, who had a little strength left, prayed and wanted to take a look at his mother, so Guoqiang asked someone to shout, and in less than five minutes, the news spread from Xie Jiaba to Mao'er Mountain and then to the foot of Yantai Mountain.
Shiqiao's backward medical conditions and rural traditions, children are generally born at home, and Shiqiao does not have a special midwife, most of them are barefoot doctors who come to deliver babies, and barefoot doctors are all men. However, people who are accustomed to this type of fertility do not feel embarrassed.
When Shufen's mother and daughter arrived, Shufang was already in danger, and the hemorrhage had caused Guoqiang's mother and sister-in-law to mess up, and red towels and bath towels kept coming out of the delivery room, which was their wedding room. The barefoot doctor, Mr. Ho (as Ishibashi used to refer to doctors as "sir"), sweated profusely like a mother, and he didn't bother to brief his mother's family on the situation, and explored ways to save lives through the sunlight shining through the brown glass windows. Although he had already made the decision to send him to the hospital, the Xie family did not respond for a long time, and only blindly asked him to do his best. Mr. Ho is a Western-educated family traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and countless successful examples have made the family trust him more, but this trust has put more pressure on him at this time than any birth delivery - he asked Guoqiang to run several times to his house to move something he can use - Shufang's left hand has been hung with a liquid to replenish energy.
When Shu Fangniang saw her pale daughter, she didn't even have the strength to open her eyes and take a look. The mother used to hold Shufang's hand tightly, and this resolute woman wanted to pass on her endless strength. Shufen was stunned by the pool of blood still flowing, and begged Mr. Ho to save her poor sister in tears. She leaned over and saw that a lovely little life had poked its head out, and she wanted to come to this world as soon as possible and open her eyes to see this beautiful early autumn.
Mr. He shook his head, the best rural doctor in Shiqiao Township, who even had to be hired by Shiqiao Township Hospital in case of a difficult birth, and had given up at this time. "Send it to the hospital, I can't be the master of this anymore, adults and children can only keep one!"
Dear readers and friends, don't be disdainful of this cookie-cutter thunder sympathy knot, it happened so truly and cruelly in the palatial compound of Xiejiaba. This is the embodiment of the responsibility of a village doctor - Mr. He, who is in his early twenties, is the first barefoot doctor in this township to say this.
"**Tell me to send me to the hospital now?" Guoqiang finally roared uncontrollably!
"Brother Guoqiang, this is the third time I have said it! Now there is no choice, I have to be sent to the hospital, with the current medical equipment and my ability, I can only save one, but I don't have the right to take responsibility for another life! "The first midwife doctor in Shiqiao wearing a white coat and wearing sterilized gloves is neither humble nor arrogant!
"You fucking looking for death...... Guoqiang picked up the sledgehammer at the door of the delivery room, but was stopped by Shufen rushing over.
"I'm going to smash you and smash me!" The little girl also roared, "With your strength, go find a sliding rod!" โ
Guoqiang was shocked by the momentum of his second aunt, and hurriedly found a stretcher, but he didn't care about any embarrassment, and the three brothers carried Shufang to the sliding pole together. Dr. He carefully handed the liquid bottle to Guoqiang, neatly put away the messy tools, and followed closely with the sanitary box on his back. The dying Shufang has been holding her mother's hand, and this woman who has experienced vicissitudes of life also walks along the narrow path to give the child invisible encouragement.
"Guozhi, you run fast, go to the township health center first, and give this to Dean Lu!" Mr. He handed over a note that had just been written and asked Xie Laosan to go first.
Guoqiang and his eldest brother carried the sliding rod, and Dr. He personally held the hanging bottle, and cautiously rushed to Shiqiao Township along the dripping rock......
In the face of saving lives, several men showed the fighting spirit of warriors, the three kilometers of rugged mountain roads did not stop for a moment, and the great mother also persevered with amazing perseverance and did not fall behind. In the face of danger, even if she takes an inch, she is worried!
But Shufen, who climbed Yantai Mountain once in the morning, was left far behind!
Dean Lu of the health center took two students who were interning at the health school to meet the Shiqiao bridge early, and when they saw Dr. He and his entourage coming, they quickly changed the sliding rod into a medical stretcher, and the two students also went straight to the low-slung bungalows.
The health center in this corner of the township is a world of difference compared to the Xie family's compound. From this simplicity, it can already be inferred that his medical condition is good. There is no real obstetrician and gynecologist in the health center, and it is only the public who eats and supplies to be hospitalized!
The makeshift delivery room has just been set up, and the operating table made of several tables holds all the tools needed for surgery. Dean Lu took the critical illness notice and asked the family to sign it, and the voice of "only one can be saved" echoed in the minds of everyone present!
Xie Guoqiang, who could only write his own name, listened to Dean Lu's inform, and this big man who could lift thousands of pounds of stones collapsed to the ground, begging the doctor like a child - I want both! The eldest brother helped the second brother up and asked the second brother to sign first, no matter what, there will always be a way to get to the hospital.
Everyone was invited out of the "operating room", surgeons in blue coats and masks hurried in, and intern students went in with disinfectant towels, alcohol and cotton and closed the doors!
This is an unprecedented operation, just 20 minutes later, the first case of cesarean section in Shiqiao fell to the ground, and the intern came to report the good news: the daughter is coming, the mother and child are safe!
When the surgeon opened the door and took off the hat and mask, Shufen had just arrived, the handsome young man, his angular face caught up with the coldness of the previous second, the corners of his mouth bloomed with a different fragrance, and the high and erect bridge of his nose and his dark and deep eyes were even more magnificent......