Chapter 10 of the Year of Tranquility
How do you make the tree of life evergreen? How do you keep your flowers beautiful? The withered yellow branches will bloom green the next year, and the withered flowers will regrow the next year. What brings them back to life? What brings them back to life?
Is it the ravages of a cold winter? Does it have to be this devastation to be born again? Is it the same as the phoenix being reborn in Nirvana, all things cannot be reborn without going through the experience?
The secret of human beings to maintain their youth should be exercise, exercise, and people who exercise regularly look much younger than those who don't exercise often.
Ya thought, people should stick to a sport all year round. What kind of exercise is good? Jogging? When I kept seeing the news of the murder of the beautiful woman who ran at night, I thought about it as the safest at home and the best exercise at home, of course, this is what people like Ya like who don't like sports said.
Ya used to be very envious of people who could turn hula hoops, and the hula hoops seemed to be magically attached to them, and they wouldn't fall off no matter how they turned. Ya once thought: If I am so proficient one day, I will persist and not give up all year round.
Ya finally learned to spin the hula hoop, but she wanted to spend her time looking at her phone because she had too little free time.
My child is still so young, I am already seriously ill and there is no minor illness, what should I do when I am old? Although it is still a little early to get old, my husband has already shown impatience. When Ya moaned because of the unbearable headache, and sneezed constantly because of rhinitis, her husband not only did not show heartache, but scolded in disgust: "You still stay up late, you still look at your phone, you still wear singles?!" Why didn't he say, "Why don't you go to the clinic and have a look?" Although Ya rarely goes to the doctor for these diseases, she always finds some medicine for herself.
Well, it's decided that in the future, the hula hoop will be a lifelong exercise program, Ya thought. These days, she turns the hula hoop almost every day, and if she doesn't turn for a day, she feels like something is missing. When Ya felt that her nose was a little blocked, she took the hula hoop around, and after a while, her nose was dredged; Once you feel that your nose is going to be clogged again, you start to turn again.
She even thought of the image of her being able to turn a hula hoop when she became a white-haired old lady, and her grandchildren clapped their hands and shouted, "Grandma (grandma), you are so good!" Ya could even think of smiling with a toothless mouth, and it was a nuisance to be old and toothless. It is said that now you can have a dental implant, so you don't have to worry about a bare mouth and no teeth.
When people are old, not all of them die of illness, and there are also those who die of old age without illness and disaster, and those monks who passed away are sitting down, and Ya hopes that he will leave like this when he is old. When people die, there are sand burials, sea burials, mountain burials, earth burials, eagle burials, wolf burials (eagle burials, wolf burials are to let eagles and wolves eat the corpses of dead people), and so on, but in the end they all turn into dust.
If she can choose, Ya hopes that she is a mountain burial, climbs to the top of the ten thousand mountains, plunges down, enjoys the thrill of flying, and then merges with the mountains and rivers.
People will eventually die, but the way of dying is too tragic, which will leave a psychological shadow and fear on the living. People should face life and death calmly, just like "what should come will come eventually", or wait quietly and face it calmly.
It was noon when they got home, and Ya and her daughter didn't make lunch, which consisted of bread, biscuits and bananas. While eating, her daughter suddenly said to Ya, "Mom, I can't squat on this leg." Ya took a closer look and couldn't help but be surprised, her daughter's left foot was swollen like a steamed bun, and the whole foot was purple and shiny.
Ya was shocked and asked, "How did this happen?" ”
The daughter said, "I was bitten by an ant last night, and today it is like this." ”
The daughter said that the ant had a red head and a black body, and she pinched it to death. Ya had seen it by the pool, and she threw it downstairs with a stick, and Ya had always felt that the ants were working hard and would not harm them.
Ya remembered that last night, her daughter said that an ant had bitten her foot and it was so itchy, and Ya asked her to apply it with toothpaste. When she went to bed, her daughter also said that the foot was so hot, Ya wanted to be bitten by ants, it should be fine, she had also been bitten by ants, and she might not itch tomorrow. I can't imagine that my daughter's foot is swollen like this now!
Ya was a little panicked in her heart, she rode a motorcycle and took her daughter to a larger clinic nearby, but the clinic was closed by General Tie and had not yet opened.
Ya took her daughter to a personal clinic in the direction of the market, but fortunately, the clinic was open, and there were already patients with infusions inside.
The doctor looked at his daughter's feet and said, this is not serious, there was a middle-aged man yesterday, who was still being held by someone when he came, he was already dizzy and nauseous, and his eyes could no longer see anything. It was only after the infusion here that it was relieved. The doctor also said that a week ago, a customer was also bitten by red ants and was carried in when he came. He didn't dare to look at it, so he told them to hurry to the hospital, where they stayed for a week before being discharged.
Ya said in surprise: "Being bitten by ants is so bad? Isn't that similar to a poisonous snake bite? "The poisonous snake is still so big, this ant is so small and bitten so powerful, if it is bigger, it is undoubtedly deadly.
The doctor said: "The red ants in Guangzhou are very powerful, it is said that these ants are mutated, and they used to go in and out of the graves and live by eating the bodies of the dead. Now that burials are not allowed, cremation is carried out, and these ants have nothing to eat in the ground, so they climb up and start eating living people. ”
The doctor said, "These are all the arguments of the older generation. "Then they must have seen this kind of ant in and out of the grave.
Ya was mad when she heard this, the ants she saw in her hometown were all black-headed and black-headed, but most of the ants here were red-headed and black-headed. Can't these ants live on food, scraps, bugs, carcasses, etc., like other ants? Because you have eaten the body of a dead man, do you have to bite the living? This mutated ant is too powerful!
The doctor gave her daughter a small injection, another medicine to smear, and a few packets of medicine to eat. When she got home, she let her daughter sleep, and the doctor said that she would be sleepy after the injection. After her daughter fell asleep, Ya saw that her ant-bitten foot was exposed, Ya touched it, and it was really hot, like the temperature of a person with a high fever, while the other foot was a normal temperature. Ya prayed in her heart for God's blessing to let her daughter get better soon.
On the second day, my daughter's feet were slightly lighter. The place where the ant bit was a white spot, Ya rubbed it with a cotton wool, and then applied the medicine, and the daughter's left foot was still much higher than the right foot. The daughter said that she would not cook in the future and that she was afraid of being bitten by ants again. Her swollen feet made it impossible for her to squat, and she walked on tiptoe.
In the afternoon, Ya bent down to look at the garlic seedlings in the flower pot, and she suddenly noticed that there was a terrible sight in one pot of garlic seedlings: Ya had poured the tea leaves she had drunk into the flower pot, and now the tea leaves had become a layer of black powder. There seemed to be countless small holes in the whole pot, and dense red-headed ants were burrowing in and out.
Ya felt that she had a dense phobia at this time, a red-headed ant had made her daughter almost unable to walk, and if she was bitten by multiple red-headed ants, it would be okay. The son is much thinner than the daughter, what will happen if he is also bitten by a red-headed ant? Ya didn't dare to think about it anymore.
There were no ants in the other pots of garlic seedlings, and Ya picked up the pots and quickly walked to the end of the corridor. This building is in an I-shape, Ya and her neighbors live in the middle of the I-shape, the upper row is uninhabited, and some neighbors put a few pots of flowers at the end of that row, are they also afraid of ants on the balcony?
The weather in Guangzhou is getting warmer and warmer, and ants don't spend the winter underground, but also run high-rise buildings. At night, the mosquitoes also came out, Ya lit mosquito coils, and now Ya pours mosquito coil ashes into the flower pot. Ya thought, if the remaining pots of garlic seedlings also have ants, she will definitely not raise any plants on the balcony, and the poison of Guangzhou red-headed ants is not weaker than that of poisonous snakes.
The grass downstairs is wide, Ya often throws food down, and the ants are probably full after eating a grain of rice, but why do they climb to the top of the tall building?
The daughter said that there were small mice under the pool, and she heard the chirping of the little mice. Ya had also heard it, probably the sound of a little mouse milking. Underneath the cement pond is a bulky fish tank, presumably left over from previous occupants, and rats are likely to be hiding behind or underneath the fish tank. Although Ya does not like rats to visit her home, she has a compassionate mood for mammals. She threw some of the food under the pool, so that they would not go hungry, and she was afraid that they would not come into the house without food, so she took the house as a base and did not leave.
Yabais wondered about these ants and mice: the grass downstairs is not only vast and rich, but Ya also throws food down twice in three days, why don't they live in the vast and free world, and have to climb so high to live with people?
Today is the eighth day of the new year. When she got up in the morning, she took a hula hoop and went outside the door. The eastern sky, covered with dark clouds, is like two huge dragons fighting for something, for the sun? The sun slipped away from their mouths like a bright pearl of the night, forming a dazzling jade rabbit shape under their necks. The sun continued to swim, but it was obscured by dark clouds, and in a short time it came out of countless crevices, and the eastern sky was like a great sea.
Ya turned around the hula hoop to look at the pot of garlic seedlings, and quietly, the scene of red ants busy drilling in and out yesterday no longer exists. Did they crawl down the wall into the grass downstairs? These mysterious visitors, who don't know where they came from, are ready to take the flower pots as their home and carve out countless cave halls. Now it's gone overnight, and I don't know where it went. Ya was worried that they would find their way back to the balcony and settle in the pots, but in that case, Ya decided not to plant anything on the balcony.
Ya returned to the house and came to the back balcony, only one building away, and the sky here was clear, and the white clouds were faintly pale. The eastern sky resembles the surging deep sea, while the western sky is a vast sea. Further afield, near the peaks, a huge white coastline appeared. Outside the coastline is the clear river, and there are no white clouds floating. A white seagull-like bird flapps its wings and patrols the secluded woodland. As they fly, fluttering their wings and swooping to the top of the trees, are they expressing their joy of embracing the blue sky and the earth in this way?
There is still the rumbling sound of firecrackers, which must be a celebration of the opening of the store.
In the afternoon, the daughter's swollen foot had subsided to the same size as her right foot, and she started making bread again. This time, she added not only yeast powder, but also sweet wine koji. After the bread is steamed, it is softer and more delicious than before.
At night, the fireworks shine brightly on the roof of the courtyard and should be set off by the security guards, because there is an open field next to the factory. A total of six fireworks were released, and Ya carefully watched the beautiful process of fireworks from liftoff to bloom, and the colorful beauty was interpreted in mid-air. Ya watched the beautiful fireworks while spinning the hula hoop, and she let out a soft sigh with the fireworks, which was a joyful expression......
In the afternoon, the daughter said, "Why hasn't my brother come back, I want to kill my brother!" Ya also said in her heart: "Son, lovely son, mother misses you so much!" I want to hold your little body every night and watch your sleeping little face fall asleep happily. Good son! Come back soon! ”
Ya calls her husband and asks when they will be back. The husband said that he and his son both had a cold and would come back in two or three days. Ya and her daughter were a little lost when they heard this.