Age of Chaos: Life and death exchange
[The computer is broken, and the text will be updated tomorrow when the new accessories arrive~]
There was once such a strange thing, there was a family, the old man died of illness a few years ago, leaving a seriously ill son. This disease has been bad for many years, the money has been spent, and the places have been run all over the place, but I didn't see a result.
After a long illness, he could only lie in bed and rely on his mother to take care of him for three meals a day. Seeing that her son has become an old bachelor lying in bed, she is also a poor mother, and she wants to find someone who can take care of her son before she dies. But the family is surrounded by walls, and they have to rely on relief food to make a living, who would want to, let alone the son is in this situation.
Her family has three acres of land, and there is no labor, so she can only rely on her neighbors to help her complete the work in the field. The son can't take care of himself, and even has to rely on her mother, who is nearly sixty years old, to take care of him.
Every time the son looked at his mother, who was getting old day by day, and looked at his already gray hair, wrinkled face, and rough hands, his heart hurt like being pricked by a needle. He once asked his mother to give him a bowl of pesticides, but he didn't want to live for a long time, and when he died, his mother was freed.
But his mother pleaded with him, "Son, if you die, I will follow you." In this world, we depend on each other, and if you live for a day, I will have a relative. The old mother burst into tears, and she lifted her shirt to wipe her tears. Mother, I'm dead, you can still be brisk for a few years, I live a day and drag you down for a day, you know that I lie in bed and feel worse than death, he hates himself for this incurable disease.
A few years ago, my mother sold everything she could sell at home, and she went around asking for medical advice, but she didn't know how much medicine he had taken. There is no other smell in the mouth all day, it is a bitter and astringent medicinal smell, and the whole house is perennially filled with all kinds of unknown medicinal smells, but whenever a neighbor comes, if it doesn't last for a while, people will smoke it and want to vomit.
Later, he didn't take any medicine anymore, so it was better for him to take some medicine that didn't improve than to lie down and wait for his return. But day by day, year by year, he has survived until now. In the past, my father was still there, some people worked in the fields, and my mother still had someone to support, but then my father was gone, and my mother was only a waste son.
Since she knew that her son wanted to die, she hid knives, scissors, and pesticides, and she knew that her son couldn't get out of bed, and he couldn't get these things if they were kept far away.
One day, when she was busy with her son, she went to the ground, and when she walked on the road, she felt uncomfortable, and insisted on walking for a while, but the pain became worse and worse, and she could only stop and squat on the side of the road. There was an old man who was herding sheep, who was also from one of their villages, and saw her from a distance and hurriedly came over to help. At that time, she was so painful that she was lying on the ground and couldn't get up, and when she was dying, she saw an old man from the same village walking towards her.
When she woke up again, she was lying on the hospital bed in a ward, and Old Man Zhang was guarding her. Big sister, you're awake, you've been in a coma for two days. What's wrong with me? No, I have to go home quickly, I still have a son at home, and if I don't go home, he won't have anything to eat.
Old man Zhang held her down. Don't worry, your son has someone to deliver food, I asked my daughter to send it, you lie down and rest. Thank you, thank you so much. Her cloudy eyes were filled with tears, and she wiped them with her sassy hand. What kind of illness am I, I can't be hospitalized, and it's a lot of money to lie down for two days, right? Old man Zhang said that the report can only come out today, it should be no big deal, you may be tired.
Then I'll leave today, but I can't lie in the hospital anymore. In the midst of a stalemate, the doctor came in with a report and wanted to tell her about her condition.
Old man Zhang watched the doctors come in in three or two together, and he was shocked, and he didn't estimate it well. Doctor, tell me, what disease I have, I can stand it. The doctor was not very easy to speak, and he said to Old Man Zhang, are you a family member? Come out and I'll tell you alone. Old man Zhang hurriedly followed the doctor out.
Your family member has stomach cancer, which is already at an advanced stage, and our hospital can't treat it, so you should see if you should go to a big hospital to see. Old man Zhang shook his body, this is a terminal illness, he knows that people who have this disease will die nine times out of ten, and if they want to be treated, they will have to spend a lot of money, and in the end they will die. He hesitated to ask the doctor how long he would have to live if he was not treated. The doctor thought about it and said, it's not easy to say, some people can live for three or five years, and some people don't last half a year and leave.
Old man Zhang was so distraught that he walked back to the ward, he couldn't make a decision for her, but he knew that she would definitely not be cured. But he still had to tell her the truth. Even if you die, you have to die clearly. She didn't wait for Old Man Zhang to come back and knew that she was a disease that was difficult to treat, this disease was suffered by several people in the village, but they were not cured, the money was spent, the sin was suffered, and finally she died, and some of them couldn't stand the pain and hanged themselves. She ignored Old Man Zhang's obstruction and was discharged from the hospital.
The son lying on the bed saw his mother shaking in, and when he saw his mother's overwhelmed face, his heart hurt like a knife, and in the past two days, the people from the same village brought him two meals, and told him that his mother was tired and fainted in the field, and now she is in the hospital and will be back soon.
He asked again, and people said that he must be tired, he believed this, she knew that her mother had worked hard over the years, she was alone in the field, she was also alone in the family, and she had to serve him, a big living person. When her mother returned, she hid her illness and continued to work in the fields as usual.
Once, she went to find an old man alone and took out five hundred yuan. She saved up for two months and sold something to make up the money. Old man Zhang hurriedly pushed the money back, big sister, don't be so polite, I know what is the situation in your family, this money is nothing. If you insist on giving it, you're slapping me in the face. Besides, whoever you meet in this matter will take a hand.
But she insisted on giving it, and she said that if she didn't pay it back, she couldn't feel at ease when she died. When Old Man Zhang heard her say this, he had no choice but to accept the money. He asked, "Big sister, do you have any plans for this illness?" She thought for a moment and said, it's okay if I'm dead, but my poor son has no one to take care of, I didn't tell him about this illness, I want to last one day at a time. Old man Zhang also nodded again and again.
I thought, she hesitated a little, and I wanted to go one step further. Old man Zhang didn't understand for a while, he looked at her with his eyes open and couldn't believe it, big sister, do you mean you want to find another household?
Well, I want to find relatives for my son while I'm still alive, and when I'm dead, someone can bury me, and my son can have someone to kiss. Her voice choked as she spoke. Big brother, now only you know that I have this disease, don't say it, I'm afraid that people will know about it, and no one will dare to agree. Old man Zhang was dumbfounded, when he heard the please, he came back to his senses, nodded again and again, and promised not to say it, just because I didn't know.
She went home, found a new dress from a few years ago, combed her hair, and went to find a matchmaker. When the old man of her family left ten years ago, she didn't listen to how many people persuaded her to remarry.
Someone persuaded her that she was less than fifty years old, clean and neat, and it should not be difficult to remarry with her son, but she didn't listen. Now think about it, if she had found it at that time, this son would not have no relatives. The matchmaker is an old woman who is about the same age as her, and as soon as she said her thoughts, the old woman was shocked, why do you still want to marry at your age?
She said seriously, she just felt tired of living. Ten years ago, you could have looked for it, and now at this age, and with such a son, who would want to find a burden for yourself in old age. If the son is sound, it's okay to say, find a wife in his old age, someone to cook and someone to take care of, but with a son like that, no one will want to. I know it's hard to find, so I'll trouble you to inquire, and she left absolutely after speaking.
When she went out, she laughed at herself in her heart, she wanted to find someone to marry, and find someone to rely on for her son, how easy it was to talk about it!
Within a few days, the matchmaker really came to the door and talked about her outside, and happened to be heard by her son who was lying in the back room. He couldn't understand that his mother still wanted to find someone at this age, and he knew that his mother couldn't make such a plan for no reason, and there must be something hidden from him. After the matchmaker left, his mother came in and turned him over, and he spoke his question.
His mother didn't dare to look at his face, but sighed and said that she was really tired of being alone and wanted to find someone to share it. The more relaxed his mother was, the more he suspected that something must be hiding from him.
Mother, if you don't tell me, I don't care about you, I hope you will kill me before leaving, and no one will dare to mention me as a burden. Mother, just give me a bowl of pesticides. The mother saw her son's heart broken when she saw her son begging for death, and she could no longer hold back the tears that came out of her eyes, and she whimpered and sobbed.
Mother, what the hell is going on, you must be for me at your age to remarry, she wiped her tears, and thought, she can't tell the truth, she can't let her son bear this heart, he is already bitter enough. Son, I thought, when I leave later, who will take care of you, and I want to find you another relative while I am still alive, even if I leave in the future, you can have someone to help.
Mother, it's me who is not filial, you gave birth to me and raised me, I can't support the old age, I can't make you happy in your old age, and I have to drag you down to old age and remarry for me. Mother, I'm sorry for you, he scolded himself. His mother took his hand, son, you forgive my mother for not being able to accompany you to death. At that moment, the mother hugged her head and cried.
She is nearly sixty years old and still wants to look for it again, and there are really a lot of people who point fingers behind her back. The neighbors who used to meet and greet each other often sent some good things to their mothers because of sympathy for her family, but since it was rumored in the village that she was going to remarry, everyone avoided her and scolded her behind her back.
I don't want to think about who will want you with such a big burden in tow, isn't it a joke? The discussions came and went, and she heard them all to some extent, but no matter how ugly the words were, she could only hold them in her heart, for the sake of her son, she had only one way to go.
He was lying on the bed, he didn't have to listen to those rumors, and he also persuaded his mother, let's live one day at a time, and when you can't do it, I will go with you. Whoever can bury the bodies of our mother, we will leave this house to whom, okay, mother, don't take this step. I didn't think how old I would have lived, and if it weren't for the fact that you were still here, I would have killed myself. But she made up her mind that she couldn't turn back.
Her son's words were discussed with her son before, but she didn't expect the sudden illness to advance all this, her son was not yet forty years old, and she couldn't pour him a bowl of medicine and follow her before she died. She hopes that her son can still stand up, she feels that as long as her son is alive, there is still hope, and she can't kill her son's life just because she is going to die.
So she must go one step further, she hopes that her son can live, she doesn't believe that her son's fate in this life is like this. She vaguely remembers that not long after her son was born, one day she was basking in the sun at the door of her house with her son in her arms, and a beggar came to her door, and she carried her son in and gave him food. The beggar glanced at the son in her arms and said, "This child has an unusual appearance, and his fate is not good."
At that time, she couldn't understand these words, and she went back to learn from the master, and she didn't say half of it right, and the owner didn't figure out the meaning, so she gave her a sentence, you take a begging word seriously, if his words are so spiritual, do you still need to beg? She thought about it, too, in order to beg for a steamed bun to say something auspicious, but what he said was not auspicious, and then this matter was always in her heart. Every time she saw her son, she remembered the words of begging.
Although she still didn't fully understand the meaning of those two sentences, she probably knew in her heart that her son could live a good life as long as he could get through this hurdle, and she stubbornly thought so. So ten years ago, she couldn't remarry someone else for her own happiness, she had to take care of her son to get through this hurdle. But right now, she's afraid she doesn't have a chance.
After many days of gossip, there was no result in the end, two months have passed, these days she is scared, she is afraid that she will not be able to get up again as soon as she falls, she has to use her limited life to find a way back for her son. She felt that her body was getting worse day by day, and she gritted her teeth and held on until Old Man Zhang came to the door.
Old man Zhang didn't treat himself as an outsider, he first looked at her son lying on the bed after he came in, and then called her to the yard, eldest sister, I have heard about you, this age is not easy to find, it is difficult to find a similar one, there are children in the family who oppose it, find someone older than you, you go, he can't expect to take care of your son. Big brother, you're right, I didn't think about what to look for, I just wanted to find someone who could live longer than me.
Well, you can see what I can do, right? He spoke frankly. She was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, Big brother, aren't you kidding? How can I drag you down? Big sister, what I said is true, I understand your hard work, you mainly want to find someone to become a family, and when you die, your son can be regarded as someone to take care of, right, in this way, I will take care of your son, it doesn't matter whether we become a family or not! She looked at Old Man Zhang speechless.
Old man Zhang died of his wife the year before last, and his wife also died of cancer. He is 65 years old, physically strong, and has two daughters. He didn't want to trouble his daughter, so he raised a dozen sheep himself. It stands to reason that his conditions are good. Big sister, you see that my body should be fine for another ten or twenty years, you can rest assured! Big brother, let me think about it again. After Old Man Zhang left, she went into the house and told her son about it.
The son said, "Mother, if you want to, I won't say anything." Uncle Zhang is willing to understand our family's situation, which means that Uncle Zhang is a good person. If you can have a companion in your old age, my heart will feel better as a son. She also thinks that Old Man Zhang is a good person, but she is afraid that his two daughters will embarrass him. got her son's consent, she was relieved and boldly went to the old man Zhang, and told the old man what she was worried about, the old man Zhang said, you can rest assured of this, I am in charge of my own affairs, anyway, I don't rely on them to support me now. Listening to it, there must be opposition behind this. She sighed, and there was only one way to go.
It didn't take long for the old man Zhang to announce that he had married her, and he didn't hold a banquet, so he sent some joy candy to the nearby Lingju, and everyone stood outside the door with the joy candy and looked at them as if they were laughing, and they couldn't help but say congratulations, and they all held back their laughter. They don't care about these either, whoever likes to joke will laugh at it. The two went to get the certificate the next day. Old man Zhang lived at his daughter's house, and he moved his bedding to her house on the afternoon of the day he received the certificate.
Some people in the village began to talk again, chewing the root of their tongues together in groups of three or five, it turned out that Old Man Zhang had this idea, no wonder he didn't dislike having a paralyzed son, just the two rooms in her house, I said how could Old Man Zhang be so kind, so old and still be a stepfather, regardless of face. The discussion rang out for a few days before it stopped.
In these days, her illness was worse day by day, but she insisted on not going to the hospital, the pain was terrible, so she asked Old Man Zhang to go to the hospital to prescribe some painkillers, but this medicine could only be managed for a while and could not cure the disease, until she died of pain and had to go to the hospital. The doctor told Old Man Zhang that there was no other way, it was too late, go home and wait, it would be a waste of money and no treatment in the hospital.
With tears in his eyes, Old Man Zhang pulled her home again. That night, she left, and as she went, she scratched the skin on her body, looked at the roof with her eyes open, and died in great pain. Old man Zhang cried like a child, he sympathized with this woman, and he had been married to her for more than a month, and she left. didn't leave a last word, he knew it, and he didn't need her to say anything more.
Lying in bed that night and unable to move, he heard Old Man Zhang crying outside, he vaguely guessed something, cried and climbed out of bed, and fell to the ground with a grunt, he supported his body with his elbows, and crawled out little by little, his legs could not move, like a tail holding up.
Crawled to the outside room, saw the mother who was lying on the bed and was dead, her heart was like a knife, and she hit her head on the door, mother, you wait for me, my son will accompany you, I will honor you in the next life, and we will be companions in the underworld.
Once, twice, three times, he smashed his head and bled all over his face. Old man Zhang hurriedly came over to stop him and dragged him back to the bed. He said everything he was going to die.
Old man Zhang had no choice but to tell her mother's illness, and for the sake of his future life, he wanted to find someone to remarry. I don't know when I will leave, I am afraid that you will be helpless, I know that you are going to die, why should she take this step. Don't worry, if I have a bite to eat in the future, you will have a bite to eat, and I won't let your mother die blindly.
The next day, Old Man Zhang asked someone to help take care of his mother's funeral. And lying on the bed, he fell out of bed again, crawled out of the door, and crawled into the yard, and in a place where sundries were placed in the corner of the wall, he felt out a bottle of pesticide, he knew the words, and knew that this pesticide was highly toxic. He knew that as soon as he drank it, he would be relieved of everything. He doesn't want to bother anyone anymore, his mother is gone, he has no relatives in this world, he wants to die early, reincarnate as soon as possible, and repay his mother's kindness in the next life.
He craned his neck and drank the whole bottle of pesticide upside down, and when he was done, he threw the bottle and lay there waiting to die.
After only a while, he felt that his whole body was hot as if he was being roasted by fire, and with the heat, his five internal organs and six abdomen were burned, and the pain made him distort his five views, and then he felt sick to his stomach, he vomited out the heart, liver and lungs that had been corroded by pesticides, and he vomited up the rivers and seas, and he thought that this was going to die?
His stomach burned uncomfortably, his whole body ached, his mouth foamed at the mouth, and a foul smell came out of his mouth, accompanied by the pungent smell of pesticides, as if he was going to vomit out all the medicine he had drunk for many years, and all the food he had eaten, and the whole yard was filled with a foul smell, and he vomited a large pile of filth like pus and blood, and he couldn't tell what it was, like the internal organs of animals, and like rotting meat.
When he finished vomiting, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and his legs seemed to be strong. He was thinking that he could still be so easy before he died, without imaginary pain.
He lay on the ground, his eyes full of tears, staring at the sky above, and he waited for his life to pass. But for some reason, the sharp pain in his body gradually disappeared, he tried to move his hands and feet, he was still alive, he climbed his legs a few more times, he was surprised to feel the strength in his legs, he was eager to stand up, he supported the ground, bent his legs, and when the soles of his feet really stepped on the ground, he knew that he was not dead and stood up.
This scene startled the old man Zhang who had just come in from outside, he shouted as if he saw a stranger, who, who was standing there, when he turned his head, the old man Zhang was so frightened that he took several steps back, he couldn't believe his eyes.
He was bent on death, but he unexpectedly survived, and he was cured of a disease that had not been cured for many years. Thanks to that bottle of pesticides, he knew that pesticides could cure his illness, and he would have drunk them a long time ago, and he would not wait until his mother died to drink the medicine.
The world is impermanent, who can guess fate, put it to death and live after. He still remembers one time when he had just unscrewed the medicine bottle, his mother rushed over and cried and snatched the medicine from his hand, and then the medicine was spilled on the ground, and he could not drink a sip, and in the cry of his mother's heart, he swore that he would never die again.
Later, he went to the hospital, and even the doctors shouted miracles, and only used an unscientific statement that you were cured with poison. Who can think of drinking poison to cure the disease without a doctor, he can only say that his life should not be extinguished, and death is exchanged for life.
After recovering, he was like a normal person, when he was 38 years old, he went out to work, and after two years, he came back and rebuilt the house, and made the old man Zhang as filial as his father.
After two years, he earned money outside, and someone in the village came to him to say goodbye, at the age of 42, he became a father, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the old man Zhang became a grandfather again, and praised him for his filial piety and blessings. I don't know what happened to him later, it is said that he became the boss, some people say that he will not be old, and some people say that he will not be old, and some people say that he ......