Chapter 1 Returning to the village to see a doctor
The third industrial revolution in the 21st century has reached the first level of the earth, the rapid development of science and technology, the Internet has spread all over the world, the "code" of human genes has been cracked, nuclear energy and atomic energy have emerged in an endless stream, various kinds of robots have been born, and transgenic food has made people "love and entangled", which can be said to be a great era of rapid development of science and technology.
In China, an old and somewhat painted minibus was driving at high speed on a potholed cement road in the mountains and forests, and the driver was a middle-aged fat man in his forties.
This fat man was dark-skinned, in his forties, with a bare crown, and in mid-March, he was wearing a yellow white vest.
The fat man was humming a little song while playing the steering wheel, and the 28-seater minibus was squeezed with 35 people, children and luggage were not counted.
The people in the car were noisy, and the people in the car were like a big pot of boiling water, buzzing, making the atmosphere that was already boring due to poor air circulation even more restless, just because this was the only way to go back and forth to the mountain village, so the people in the car had to endure it.
Lin Li sat on the minibus by the window, the car was too boring to open the window to breathe a breath of fresh air outside the window, in mid-March when the old trees were budding and the young grass was sprouting, the air contained a fresh smell. It actually makes people have a feeling of "grass and trees are wild, and mountains and rivers are ancient".
Lin Li had lived with the old man in an obscure mountain village for as long as he could remember, but some changes occurred when Lin Li was ten years old, so the old man asked Lin Li to go to the city with the young people in the village to earn a living.
Over the years, he has traveled from south to north, wandering between various cities, experiencing the hot and cold of the world, and the warmth of people, so he has a wealth of personal experience in Lin Li's only twenty-three-year-old life.
The main reason for going back to the small mountain village this time was that the old man called Lin Li to urge him to go back to see a doctor, why did he go back to the small mountain village to see a doctor?
Because this disease cannot be explained and cannot be cured with modern medicine, Lin Li has been to many famous big hospitals in private from the old man over the years, and has done all kinds of "new" examinations, but the results given by the hospital are very unsatisfactory, and Lin Li can't find out what is wrong with him, his physical condition is good, and his physical fitness is very good, which is much better than his peers.
But Lin Li knew that there was indeed something wrong with his body, and the situation was still very serious, and in the early morning and evening of the first and fifteenth days of the new year, his body was stiff and unable to move, and then his whole body was as painful as if there were thousands of small insects burrowing into his body.
Not only that, although the body can't move every time I get sick, but my brain is very clear, so every time I get sick, I can feel the heart-wrenching feeling very clearly.
If you want to talk about this disease, you have to talk about thirteen years ago, when Lin Li was ten years old, he clearly remembered that day was the spring equinox in the twenty-four solar terms.
On that day, Lin Li was in the back mountain, and there was the only old ox in the village every day, and there was a canyon in the jungle behind the mountain, where the grass was particularly fresh, and every time Lin Li, he drove the old ox there.
The canyon is not very big, so Lin Li has already turned around the canyon, but this time he met a strange cave that had never appeared before, looking at the dark and secluded cave entrance, Lin Li felt as if something was calling to him, so he walked in with courage.
When Lin Li woke up again, he was already in his bed, and I heard the old man say that the old scalper walked back by himself in the evening that day, but he didn't see Lin Li's figure for a long time.
After the old man learned about it, he hurriedly went to the mountain to find Lin Li for a night, and the next morning he found it on a big stone under the bottom of the canyon in the jungle of the back mountain.
Lin Li told the old man about the strange cave he met at the bottom of the canyon, so their grandfather and grandson went to the bottom of the canyon together, but this time, no matter how their grandfather and grandson looked, they couldn't find the cave that Lin Li said and had to return in vain, but since then Lin Li began to get sick, and then Lin Li went to the city with the people in the village.
From the onset of the disease to the present, this disease has tormented him for almost thirteen years, during which Lin Li has also privately found some "masters", head lowering masters, and famous doctors, they all have different opinions, some say that they are being ghosted, and some say that they have offended someone, they have been cursed, and they have "lowered their heads", and some say that this is a congenital disease inherited by their own family, and there are various theories.
But Lin Li understood that his disease must be related to the strange cave that disappeared, and if he wanted to solve this disease, he had to trace the source and find the disappeared cave, and only by finding that cave could his disease have any hope of being cured.
The old man called him this time to let him go back to the village to see a doctor, I am afraid that he found the news related to the strange cave so hurriedly let himself go back, Lin Li looked at the scenery outside the car window and thought.
In the evening, under the light of the last bit of sunset, the dilapidated minibus finally arrived at the terminal station, Qingxi Village.
With some hard work, Lin Li successfully squeezed out of the minibus that was crowded with large bags of luggage, and most of the teenagers around the station looked at the minibus, looking at the people who got off the bus with anticipation, trying to find a familiar figure.
It's a pity that Lin Li, the first one to get off the car, because he only has a backpack, so he squeezed it down smoothly, but the children were not disappointed, and then looked at the people who came down with hope, hoping that there was their father inside.
Most of the young people in the village have gone out to work in the city, leaving only the old people and children, and at this time of the day, the children gather around the station and watch the people who get off the minibus, hoping that there are their parents among them, and there is an old man standing aside in this special greeting procession.
He is 1.76 meters tall, wearing a blue and dark tunic suit, nearly 70 years old, his hair is still black and oily, neat and dense. A face eroded by the years, two deep-set eyes, deep and bright, look very divine. The waist pole is straight, showing a unique temperament that does not belong to his age.
"Lin Yanzi, here. The old man also kept staring at the minibus and saw Lin Li get off the bus, and hurriedly waved his hand to greet Lin Li.
Lin Li ran to the old man with his bag on his back, hugged the old man warmly, and smiled happily, "Old man, I'm back." ”
"It's good to be back, it's good to be back, our grandfather and grandson should not have seen each other for more than a year, this time our grandfather and grandson must have a good drink." The old farmer laughed.
"Yes, another year has passed, old man, you are getting more and more energetic," Lin Li hugged the old man and sighed.
The old man's surname is Lin Zhenying, is the only family surnamed Lin in Qingxi Village for thousands of years, he went out of the mountains in his early years and wandered outside, not only that, but also asked for a foreign daughter-in-law outside and brought him back to the village, which has never been in Qingxi Village for thousands of years, and the people in the village praised him for his ability.
When wandering outside, the old man studied medicine, so he opened a medical house in the village to help the villagers see a doctor, the old man has good medical skills, and the diseases of the villagers only need to be treated by him. The people in the village are grateful to the old man, to give him the archway, the old man said that the study of medicine is to hang the pot to help the world, cure the disease and save people, and resolutely do not let the village people only give up the archway.
In the second year, they added a boy to their family, and the family was happy and happy, but unfortunately there were unforeseen circumstances, and the foreign daughter-in-law was seriously ill in less than two years, and the old man could cure all kinds of intractable diseases of the people in the village, but he could not cure his daughter-in-law's illness, which was ironic, and then the foreign daughter-in-law died of illness.
The people in the village were worried that he would never recover, and they wanted to renew the strings for him and let him remarry, and he was unwilling to say that he would never marry a child left by his foreign daughter-in-law wholeheartedly.
Later, when the child grew up, he insisted on going out to wander, but the old man disagreed, but the child insisted, and then the child fled on a dark and windy night.
This walk is more than ten years, more than ten years later, the child came back with a baby in his arms, knelt in front of the medicine house for a day and a night, left the baby and left, this walk has never returned.
"The moon seems to be extra round tonight, huh?" Lin Li's grandfather and grandson were drinking wine and eating dinner in the small pavilion outside the medicine house, and they toasted Lin Zhenying with a glass of wine, and found that the reflection of the moon in the cup was exceptionally round.
Lin Zhenying also picked up the cup, took a sip of wine, and said, "Tomorrow is the spring equinox, and of course the moon is full tonight." ”
After three rounds of wine and five flavors, and the food was almost the same, Lin Li asked Lin Zhenying, "Old man, have you found that cave, or have you found news related to that cave?"
"Come with me tonight, you'll know the back mountain. The old man pretended to be mysterious, and laughed.
"Oh?" Lin Li looked at the old man suspiciously, trying to find the answer from him, but unfortunately Lin Zhenying didn't speak, just quietly drinking and eating.
After eating, Lin Zhenying instructed Lin Li to prepare things and go up the mountain for a while, Lin Li purchased equipment before returning to the village, the latest LED super-strong flashlight imported from Germany, and the latest ATKA saber from the United States.
When the two met at the entrance of the village, Lin Li found that Lin Zhenying was carrying an oversized bamboo basket, which was twice as large as the medicine basket that Lin Zhenying usually used to go up the mountain to collect medicine, and the bamboo basket looked heavy and should contain a lot of things inside.
"Old man, what are you doing with such a large frame?" Lin Li looked at the oversized bamboo basket and was speechless, the mountain road is already rugged and difficult to walk, plus such a large bamboo frame, how can you hurry?
"These are all things that will come in handy later, it's not too early, let's go quickly" After speaking, Lin Zhenying strode in front of Lin Li, the oversized bamboo basket did not cause any inconvenience to the old man, and Lin Li hurriedly kept up with Lin Zhenying's pace when he saw this.
The two passed by the path at the edge of the village by the moonlight, and after a while, they left the mountain village and disappeared into the moonlight.