"Mom, I want to have a good talk with you today, for so many years, you have always avoided it, but now it seems that this matter is not entirely our family's private matter, it has something to do with my work. Let's talk while we eat. Chen Aili said as she brought out a few dishes from the kitchen, which were frozen semi-finished products she bought from the supermarket, and they were ready to serve as soon as they were heated up at home.

Chen Youyou saw that Ai Li's expression was a little serious, and he had already guessed what she was going to ask, but he didn't expect it to be related to her work. Chen Youyou sorted out his emotions and said with a smile: "Child, let's wait until I finish the meal and then tell the story slowly, don't worry, I won't run." ”

In 1983, a few years after graduating from university, Chen Youyou, a young obstetrician and gynecologist, responded to the call and took the initiative to join the Tibetan medical team and went to Tibet. At that time, living conditions in Tibet were very difficult. There is a shortage of materials, which can only meet the most basic living requirements; The traffic is inconvenient, and the few roads often encounter natural disasters such as landslides, mudslides, and landslides, and the dangers are continuous; Communication is not smooth, telephone is a rare thing and often cannot be reached, a letter on the road sometimes takes 3 months; Medical conditions are backward, there are no hospitals in many places, and the Tibetans still use primitive and crude ancient treatment methods. Chen Youyou, who had just arrived on the plateau, suffered from severe altitude sickness, often panting and having difficulty breathing. After more than a month of adaptation, she immediately asked to go to work in Naining County, the most remote border county.

The geology and landforms of Naining County on the border are complex and peculiar, with snow-capped mountains, lakes, wastelands, rivers, and canyons, and the connection with the outside world is only by a rugged and bumpy dirt road.

In addition to receiving regular treatment in the hospital, Chen Youyou also often goes to the countryside below for treatment. Every visit is a perilous journey: mountains on one side and cliffs on the other; Roads are muddy and slippery during the rainy season; In winter, it is icy and impassable without crampons; If you pass through the wasteland, you have to guard against the attack of wild beasts. The most dangerous thing is that this section of the border is disputed by the territorial boundary between China and its neighbors, and in many cases it is the area under the actual control, so although the Tibetans still live according to the natural villages where their ancestors have lived for generations, they may be unwittingly already under the actual control of the neighboring country.

It was under such difficult conditions that Chen Youyou completed one difficult operation after another with superb medical skills, and won the trust and love of the Tibetan people. The story of successfully rescuing a pregnant woman with amniotic fluid embolism published in major newspapers and magazines took place in Lamu Township.

That afternoon, Chen Youyou was on call in Lamu Township, and a multiparous woman gave birth quickly and smoothly, but Chen Youyou found some abnormalities. She noticed a little blood in the baby's nose and mouth, and then about 200 milliliters of blood that had not clotted at the delivery site. She immediately examined the mother and determined that it was an amniotic fluid embolism, so she decisively gave the mother the means to promote uterine contraction and fluid rehydration and blood transfusion, and quickly injected the blood into the mother's body before the mother's blood appeared to spray like a faucet, avoiding the tragedy.

In the rescue that day, Chen Youyou also donated blood herself, and she was extremely tired and dizzy and collapsed in the ward. At this time, a woman in a neighboring village had symptoms of dystocia, and her husband hurriedly came to the hospital to ask for a doctor's visit. Chen Youyou ignored her physical weakness, put the medical box on her back and followed her husband and disappeared into the night. It rained at night in Tibet, and on the sheep's intestine path covered with dark clouds and no moonlight, Chen Youyou, who was wearing a raincoat, followed behind the husband step by step. Suddenly, a large boulder fell overhead, hitting the Tibetan in front of him, and he rolled down the hillside with the stone. Chen Youyou was dumbfounded, she didn't know the way in the night, so she could only stumble and continue to walk forward, and finally she was exhausted and dizzy and fell to the ground.

When Chen Youyou woke up, she was lying in a cave, and next to her, a young man with curly blond hair was watching her with concern and feeding her sugar water in his mouth. His gray-green eyes were like a lake, clear and bright. Chen Youyou saw that the medical box was well placed beside her, and a bonfire was lit not far away to roast her wet clothes. She didn't feel like a bad person.

This young man's name is Richard, a native of M, an explorer and mountaineer. I was planning to climb the 8,000-meter-high snow-capped mountain near the village. When he saw the Red Cross on Chen Youyou's back on her back, he knew she was a Chinese doctor. But from his mouth, Chen Youyou learned a terrible news, it turned out that in the dark of night, Chen Youyou got lost and strayed into the actual control area of the neighboring country.

"Oh my God! How am I going back? Chen Youyou became scared.

Richard flipped through the map and carefully searched for the Chinese village closest to the area of de facto control, and he decided to send Chen Youyou back while it was dark. But when they touched the trail in the dark, they found that the landslide had blocked the road from the rains last night, and she couldn't go back.

Chen Youyou was so anxious that she hid in a cave during the day, fearing that she would be discovered by soldiers patrolling neighboring countries. At night they snuck out to see if the trail had been repaired. Richard is very interested in life, very good at taking care of people, and changing tricks to make Chen Youyou happy under simple conditions. He taught Chen Youyou a lot of wilderness survival skills, and also helped her evade patrolling soldiers many times with his wit and skill.

Finally, one night two weeks later, when the moon was bright and the stars were thin, they slipped to the sheep intestine trail and found that the path had been cleared out of a small gap, and Chen Youyou climbed over it smoothly. But she hid from her colleagues and leaders that she had strayed into the area of de facto control of a neighboring country, let alone Richard. She lied that she had lost her way and went to one of the most remote villages. In Tibet at that time, it was common to have no news for ten days and half a month, and as long as people came back safely, who would ask them.

"I thought I would never see Richard again in my life, until a year later, he suddenly appeared in front of our hospital." When Chen Youyou said these words, the whole person was immersed in memories, and the expression on his face was both happy and sad. Chen Aili regretted why she forced her mother to recall these painful pasts.

It turned out that after returning to China, he worked hard to win an opportunity to teach English in Tibet, China. He took advantage of the school vacation to take a long car ride to Naining County to come and see me. Under the blue sky and white clouds, we lay on the dusty, goose yellow and green grass, bathed in the sunshine, looking at the pyramid-shaped snow-capped mountains in the distance; At night, look up at the starry sky by the lake, count the stars of the Milky Way, and sprinkle each other with a handful of cold and silky lake water. He accompanied me to the countryside, helped me draw detailed and easy-to-understand topographic maps, and marked every major road junction. ”