I got sick the next day.

It came very suddenly, strangely, and the longest I've had in 22 years.

It is also a gift from God, God has given me many disasters and many misfortunes, but it has given me a good body. Growing up, I barely took any medicine, let alone went to any hospital.

Nowadays, children have to go to the hospital to hang needles for a few days when they catch a cold, and at that time, no matter how serious my cold was, it would be good to stay up.

This time, I was almost half a month sick.

I remember that night after my aunt left, I washed up and lay down in bed to rest, and after saying good night to my brother, I began to have nightmares. Nightmares one after another. I always wake up from nightmares. I woke up in a cold sweat. So much so that I didn't dare to close my eyes and sleep later.

And so, when my aunt came to my room the next day to wake me up, I woke up and found that I didn't even have the strength to sit up. My aunt tried to help me get out of bed, but when I sat up a little, I felt like the world was spinning and had to lie back in bed.

Auntie touched my forehead and exclaimed.

It turned out that I had a high fever.

I was going to stand up as before, without taking medicine or seeing a doctor, but what I ate and vomited (in fact, I didn't have any appetite at all), and this state of weakness made my aunt feel at ease, and she couldn't stay up until the afternoon, so she went to call a very famous female doctor on the street.

A temperature was taken, 39.5 degrees, and even the doctor was taken aback.

"I said how can this girl survive so much, 39.5 degrees, and if she burns again, her brain will burn out." The doctor said.

The female doctor hung me with salt water for three days, and at the same time gave me three buttocks and three times a day, but my body temperature never went down.

When the potion took effect, the body temperature would be below 38 degrees, but after an hour or two, the body temperature would rise again to over 38.5 degrees.

And every night I still have nightmares. And every night I would dream of the uneven stone wall that had been divided into two halves, and dream of the words "never leave and never abandon and be united forever" flashing on the stone wall.

Sometimes I dream that I and my brother climb the Tiger Slope and re-climb the Optimus Pillar, often when they climb to the bottom of the Optimus Pillar, the Optimus Pillar suddenly collapses, and then wakes up in fright.

I also dreamed that the police suddenly broke into the house and took my father away. I woke up crying and realized that my father had left me forever and ever.

……

I feel like my body is getting weaker and weaker.

My aunt has moved to the bungalow to sleep with me. My aunts and uncles both suggested that I move to the building, but I didn't agree, because there was a father's smell in the bungalow, and I was reluctant to leave.

My aunt had to come to the bungalow to accompany me.

Once I woke up in the middle of the night, I felt dazed, and even my mind was a little blank. Maybe it's caused by a high fever that doesn't go away, right?

My aunt gave me medicine and talked to me.

"Qiqi, you've been crying in your dreams several times, brother-brother-keep shouting, I know it's definitely not Qi Zhengzhe. Wouldn't Kiki have a brother? Auntie said.

I shook my head.

"Also, you always have words, I can't hear it clearly, as if you are saying something out of your breath, what else is concentric, what are you dreaming of? You know, you don't know how sad it is. Auntie's heart was broken. Auntie continued.

"It's all weird dreams," I was a little conscious, "and I don't remember anything when I wake up." ”

"Also, how do you have a sarcoma like this on your hands? At first glance, it looks like a flesh-colored ring, but if you look closely, there is a small notch, which my aunt has not noticed for so many years. Was it innate? ”

I nodded, not wanting to say anything.

……

The medicine added by the female doctor to the saline was changed and changed, but it still couldn't lower my body temperature, and she ran out of options. "What's going on? I've been practicing medicine for more than 30 years, and this is the first time I've encountered this situation. Zhengzhe's mother, you better send it to the hospital. ”

"Or," the female doctor left my room with the medicine box on her back, and when she walked to the door, she turned to talk to her aunt, "you better look for Aunt Jin Lian." ”

"Looking for Aunt Jin Lian?" Auntie was a little surprised. Aunt Jin Lian is a person on the street who is very good at "scare".

Kiki was probably scared. Speaking of which, I, as a doctor, shouldn't believe that. However, many things are still good to believe. The female doctor was very helpless.

"Okay, then I'll go find Aunt Jin Lian right away."

After the female doctor left, Qi Zhengzhe took his mother's hand, "Mom, I think it's better to let Qiqi go to the hospital." Isn't the 'scare' aimed at children? ”

During my illness, Qi Zhengzhe came to accompany me whenever he was free.

"Dr. Yu advises so, just 'scare' first, and then go to the hospital." Auntie said.

Qi Zhengzhe did not insist anymore.

"Intimidation" is the name given by the people of Qijiatun to a kind of local method to deal with a certain disease. A person who is frightened by something sudden or encounters or bumps into something unlucky (this thing is often only found in the underworld - or can be referred to as a collision with evil spirits) gets sick and has a fever, and then asks someone like Aunt Jin Lian to deal with it (different from the Taoist practice but a bit similar, or can be seen as a side branch), it is called "receiving fright".

However, such patients are often infants and toddlers of one or two years old, two or three years old, and I have never heard of an adult of my age still having to be "scared".

Aunt Jin Lian was soon invited. It's evening time, of course. I have the impression that "scare" is always done at night. Later, however, when "scare" became a profession, it was also carried out during the day.

This is the first time I have met Aunt Jin Lian. He is in his sixties, with silver hair and kind eyes. She stretched out her slender hand and touched my forehead, said "It's so hot", and then exchanged a few words with my aunt, and then handed my aunt a bamboo tube for scooping rice (Qijiatun people call it a lifting tube).

It is an old lifting cylinder, and the bamboo grain has been smoothed, so it is speculated that there are not a few people who are looking for Aunt Jin Lian to "scare".

The aunt went out with the liter tube. Aunt Jin Lian paced around the house and briefly communicated with me about my father's death.

The aunt came back with a full drum full of rice.

Aunt Jin Lian took the cylinder, smoothed the rice, covered it with a cloth, walked to my bed, shook the cylinder at me above where I was lying flat, and said something in her mouth.

Aunt Jin Lian's eyes were half-squinted, with a look of piety.

For some reason, when Aunt Jin Lian was doing this, I always felt a stream of heat swimming in my body, and my stomach kept growling. I can't tell what kind of heat it was, but it warmed up wherever it went. It's not the heat from the fever, because the feeling of warmth is absolutely clear.

After about half a minute, Aunt Jin Lian suddenly took a step back and let out an "ah" sound, startling both me and my aunt.

But neither I nor my aunt dared to squeak.

I saw Aunt Jin Lian stop shaking the lifting cylinder in her hand, and opened her eyes to look at me for a while.

I was looked at extremely uncomfortable. Strangely, Aunt Jin Lian stopped shaking, and the feeling of something wandering in my body disappeared immediately.

This is really evil. I was extremely tired, but I came back a little refreshed.

"Kiki is so scared this time," Aunt Jin Lian finally spoke.

"yes, yes, I've had a high fever for three or four days." Auntie said.

"I'll ask something,"

"Ask me?" Auntie said.

"No, I asked Kiki."

"What's the matter, mother-in-law?"

"Kiki recalls, did you encounter anything very different when you were a child? It's like, how to put it, it's weird, it's weird. Aunt Jin Lian's old voice was very penetrating.

I felt a pang in my heart. To say that the very ghostly thing I encountered when I was a child was of course a bump stone, could it be that this incident was also sensed by Aunt Jin Lian? If so, that's amazing.

"Nope." That's how I replied to Aunt Jin Lian.

"None? That's not right," Aunt Jin Lian's turn was surprised this time, "It's impossible, I obviously felt ...... when I did it just now."

Aunt Jin Lian whispered a few words in her aunt's ear. Auntie's eyes widened.

My aunt said to me, "Kiki, you remember it again, have you forgotten?" ”

"Not really, Auntie."

"Oh, that's probably because my mother-in-law is wrong," said Aunt Jin Lian, "but my feelings are always wrong, and today is a little weird." Leave this alone, Zhezhe's mother, I'll show you the rice road in the elevator. ”

Auntie leaned over to listen to Aunt Jin Lian study Milu. The so-called rice road refers to the groove that appears on the smoothed rice surface after Aunt Jin Lian shakes it all (strictly speaking, after Aunt Jin Lian's practice), and this groove is like a small path, pointing to the place where the patient is frightened. Aunt Jin Lian explained the terrain in a far-fetched way (perhaps disrespectful to Aunt Jin Lian) and pointed out that the place where I was frightened was at the corner from the building to the bungalow.

As soon as Aunt Jin Lian's words came out, the aunt sighed with emotion, "Yes, I said Aunt Jin Lian, you are too accurate, that night I was there waiting for Kiki to come back, Kiki didn't pay attention, was frightened, and had a fever the next day." ”

"Zhezhe's mother, you are mistaken, how can we scare people into high fever, is that there is a foreign body in that place, and that foreign body shocks people's souls, besides, didn't Qiqi's father last month? There is a lot of yin here. ”

"Yes, yes."

"Then let's go, go and call the soul. Bring the drum on. ”

The aunt followed Aunt Jin Lian out with the lifting cylinder, and after a while, the sound of them shouting souls came from outside the door.

"Roadside, bridgeside, riverside, wellside, all come back." This is Aunt Jin Lian's voice.

"Come back, come back." This is the voice of the aunt who echoed it.

"The end of the alley, around the corner, all come back."

"Come back, come back."

……

Brother, the reason why I told you about this incident in detail is that I still find it strange, that seemingly pediatric "scare" move, without a little scientific approach, really lowered my body temperature.

I didn't have any more nightmares that night. The next day, I still couldn't get out of bed, but I was able to eat a little.

Of course, there is also a possibility that the medicine that Dr. Yu gave me happened to work on the night of the "intimidation", and this credit happened to be taken up by the "intimidation".

But who knows?

I just didn't test it myself: if you shake the lifting tube like Aunt Jin Lian, will there be a rice road no matter how you shake it?

However, when Aunt Jin Lian was doing this, I could feel a stream of heat swimming in my body, and Aunt Jin Lian always suspected that I had encountered something strange when I was a child, and these two points still convinced me that there might be a certain degree of science in the scare.

It also reminded me that my illness was probably related to the fission of the Optimus Pillar, because I had made a decision that went against those eight big characters.

However, when I was back and I was able to eat, drink and sleep, I thought back to it and felt ridiculous - it was outrageous.