Chapter 12: Dreams in Measles
When we celebrate the New Year here, every household will beat a kind of sugar, which is beaten with rice, which is particularly crunchy, and is usually eaten as a snack, and the sugar beaten during the New Year can often be eaten for a year. I don't know when it began, the family milk got up in the middle of the night to eat candy, in the dead of night, when you heard the creaking sound what it feels like? There was a box of candy on the bedside table, and as soon as it got there, the family milk got up and ate it, because she was hungry, very hungry, and had to eat it.
Not only did my grandmother feel like I was hungry at night and didn't eat for several days, but one arm was cold and cold, and I could compare who was more cold, the problem was that there were no other symptoms except hunger, and it was fine after eating. My uncle also gave my grandmother a pulse, and if it is normal, it is abnormal. The grandmother said that there was no need to alarm the old man, so she inquired about a local goddess.
On the weekend, I found the goddess's house with my grandmother, the goddess's house looks very ordinary from the outside, and when I go in, there is a lot inside, the goddess is a kind grandmother, I didn't ask anything, and I simply explained a few words and asked for yin directly.
After a while, the goddess began to sing, shouting Mom while singing, calling Mommy? She said that she was hungry, and the grandmother immediately cried, she sang and said, she used to want to eat, but no one paid attention to her, she wanted to talk, and no one paid attention to her, so she starved to death, she died of hunger and cold, and then the whole family forgot about her, she had no money and no clothes to wear, so she came up to find the grandmother.
The grandmother also has a daughter who starved to death? How so? The grandmother was in tears, and she didn't know what to say. After singing her heart, the goddess looked at me again and said, "You are the daughter of the eldest sister, you have grown so big." ”
This is my aunt I haven't met? I can't describe my feelings, it's weird, it's weird, it's weird, a person who has been dead for many years and has never met knows so much about the world? How incredible, how incomprehensible! After saying that, the grandmother promised to burn paper money for her every year, and the aunt said goodbye to us, and the goddess quickly rushed into the back room, and when she came out, she was already back to normal, and completely forgot what she had just said.
The grandmother told the truth about the aunt, it turns out that I really have an aunt, who starved to death in the era of Grandpa Mao's big canteen, and was just an infant child when she starved to death, and after so many years, the family grandmother forgot to cook something for her, I didn't expect that the little baby would grow up even if it died, which is really amazing. What's even more amazing is that after the grandmother went home and burned the paper money for her aunt, she would never wake up hungry in the middle of the night and crunchy again, and her arms would not be cold.
The matter of the family milk is over, and the weather in late autumn is always very comfortable here, neither hot nor cold, but it would be better if there were not so many people in our class who had measles together.
When I was in elementary school, I had a splash, and it was also a class-wide infection, and my grandmother said that splashes and measles are something that everyone must live, even when I was a child, there are still many people who have lived this when they grow up to be thirty or forty years old, and now I know that not everyone has passed, and there are very few people who can be ignored.
Measles is a nasty thing, because there are a lot of taboos, if you live well, it is a good thing, if you don't have a good life, if you don't have a good life, if you don't have a good life, it will be a disaster, for men, once is a lifetime, and the sequelae are also a lifetime, and for women, you can also make up for it in confinement.
It's really a big event in life, so be sure to take care of yourself. And here to add, now some women in confinement do not pay attention to taboos, that is a big mistake, some people may not be able to show when they are young, but when they are old, they will appear, this is not squeamishness, it is the experience passed down by ancestors. However, some people have not had a good time with measles for the first time, and the next time someone has a good time, I think that although it is still troublesome, it has more opportunities to regulate themselves, which is a good thing.
There are a lot of taboos over measles, the first is not to see the wind, of course the school has to take a holiday, the holiday is to feel that life events, what to do if the school is smashed if there is no holiday, the second is afraid of infection, a week on vacation, more than half of the students in the class can not come, or you come and I delay learning, this is not a university, the teacher does not care if you come to listen or not, there are so many absentees in a class in middle school, the teacher has to repeat the lessons over and over again, it is really sad, in view of the above, the school patted the paw to approve the holiday.
Late autumn is not cold, but I have been asked by my grandmother to wear cotton pants at home, and it is the same as confinement. The grandmother asked that this week, you can't eat hard, you can only eat noodles and drink soup, and you are afraid that you won't be able to bite your teeth or be laid off in advance; I can't eat it when it's hot, I'm afraid that my mouth will bubble when I eat it in the future; You can't eat the salty ones, as soon as you eat them, you will itch the measles on your body, and if you scratch your hands, it will be like a splash, leaving a pit and turning into pockmarks; You can't eat oil, for fear that you will have diarrhea or nausea when you eat heavy oil in the future; I can't eat the cold, I'm afraid that the cold won't be able to come out after entering the body, and rheumatism, coughing, and coughing will come one after another; You can't go out and can't blow the wind, this reason is described in the previous article; If you don't read books and watch TV, you are afraid that you will use your eyes too much, and your eyesight will be not good, so you should be even more taboo; You can't wash your face, brush your teeth, wash your hair, and take a shower...... Anyway, I summed it up by lying down and sleeping for a week.
If I had been told this good thing when I was in school, I would have laughed off my big teeth. But if you really want to lie in bed and do nothing, except eat and sleep, you must be crazy. Three meals a day is a fixed porridge with broth and sugar noodles, because you can't put oil, salt and other ingredients, then you can only put sugar, now it's terrible to think about, how to eat it at that time, the broth does not put oil itself, and the milk will salvage the oil floating on it and then give it to me to eat.
Some people may think that such a fuss is not a big deal, but I am extremely grateful to my grandmother for taking care of me so carefully during the critical period of my life, and now my body is really good, except that my body is still cold, there is no problem. It may not be necessary to be so careful, but it does take care of it and be relieved for a lifetime. I didn't eat cold for half a year, and when I saw other children eating, it wasn't that I didn't want to eat, but my grandmother told me to take care of my mouth, why not refrain from a short period of time to give back a large part of my life in the future.
When I'm at home, I'm mostly sleeping. As soon as I closed my eyes, I felt like I was out of my body, and I was floating in the air like that, looking at myself still asleep, I stared at my feet and flew out of the room through the wall, so fast that I felt dizzy, and suddenly I fell from the sky and fell headlong.
I opened my eyes and lay on the ground, I wanted to move my hands, but I crawled some distance, why can't I lift my hands, I can't see them, I want to move my feet, and I crawled forward a little, this is in the wild, suddenly a fragrance came, it was so fragrant, yes, it was the grass in front of me, I could feel the pulse beating, the sound of blood flowing, suddenly there was a sound in the grass, there was a strong pulse sound inside, "squeak-" mouse?
The one who just got in was ...... With a rustling sound, a small spotted yellow snake swam out of it, familiar, but a little smaller than I remembered, and it swam towards me with a still "squeaking" mouse in its mouth. I seemed to see its smile, it came, and subconsciously felt that it would not hurt me, "Xuanzi, Xuanzi, Xuanzi...... "Milk, grandmother......
Ah, when I opened my eyes, my grandmother was holding a bowl of broth in her hand, and the aroma was fragrant, and the whole house was filled with a smell of meat, which should have been stewed.
The spotted yellow snake in my dream looks so familiar, could it be the snake that always sends mice to me to eat? Then this memory should not be mine, I touched the snake pendant given by the old man on my neck, he said to suppress the snake snake qi, that shows that my snake snake qi is getting heavier and heavier, so the previous memory will run out, but this memory is so clear, as if I have experienced it, the snake qi is getting heavier and heavier, will I become her in the end? Turned into a snake? Ah, I don't think about it, the more I think about it, the more terrifying it becomes.
In addition to sleeping at night, what I look forward to most is listening to my grandmother's stories from the past. The grandmother said that the ancients were very wise, although there were no televisions, no electric lights, and there were not many, many of them, but they were not boring, and they were very good at using wisdom to make up stories. There are a few stories that I have in my mind. One of them was that there was a god who turned into an ordinary person and went down to inspect it, and when he saw a man working in the field, he asked: "Reverse planting seedlings, can you plant thousands and hundreds of trees a day?" ”
The man was depressed and couldn't answer, so he went home and told his wife about the situation, and his wife patted her leg: "You son! That's not easy to answer, huh? You ask him, 'Do you pedal, walk thousands and hundreds of steps a day?' ’”
The next day, the man replied to the fairy in this way, and the fairy said, "I am going to your house tomorrow for dinner, can you prepare me a bucket of rice pots, a round table and a bench, and ten kinds of dishes?" ”
The man went home and accused his wife, "That's you! Let me say those things, now it's fine. ”
So he told the truth again, and his wife heard and said, "You fool! It's not easy! Let him come to dinner tomorrow and I will definitely be ready. ”
The grandmother said that the bucket is a bulging thing in the middle of the two sharp ends, which is used to hold rice, a bucket of rice pots, no matter how skillful the hands will not make so many pots, and at that time the family was poor and could not get together ten kinds of dishes, the fairy This problem is really high, but the next day, the man's wife used a big pot to cook a large pot of pots, shoveled down intact, kept a round shape, and put it upside down on the bucket, which is called a bucket of rice pots, and then she moved the stone mill at home to the hall, and the round table and bench were also prepared, and finally she burned two dishes, the same is a leek, the other is a casual ride, and the ten dishes are baked like this. The fairy was stunned when he saw it, and after eating, the fairy went out and got on the horse, and with one leg on the horse, he said to the man's wife, "Do you know whether I get on or off the horse?" ”
Who knew that the man's wife stepped up the threshold, "Do you know if I'm going in or out?" The fairy was in a hurry, tsk, this can't work, this woman is too smart, she will overpower the man, so she gave the man's wife a red heart-protecting belly pocket, and since then the woman's heart has been protected compared to the man's wisdom.
This story is obviously the solution to the oppression of the previous generation of women in the grandmother's house, there are a lot of child daughters-in-law in that generation, and women have no status, the story is a reflection of reality, a dissatisfaction with reality, and also reflects their wisdom and wisdom, where there is oppression, there is resistance, just like "Journey to the West" is to promote the pursuit of freedom, listening to it I will fall asleep.
I woke up under a patch of moonlight, the bright moon shining on my body, ah, I felt like my whole body was full of energy, I couldn't help but stick out my tongue, well, licked my nose, wait, my nose? I licked my nose! I stuck my tongue out again, ahhh My tongue cracked! Home milk! I've become a snake! I wanted to shout, but I only made a "ziz~ hiss" sound, I moved, and rolled on the ground, and when I was on my back, I saw the beautiful moon, and ...... A snake head!
I rolled over and stared at the snake, how could it be the spotted yellow snake again! I tried to reach out and pat the dirt off my body, but I took another step forward and hit the snake headbuttless, ah, it's disgusting, it's disgusting! I tried to pat my head and hit it again, and the snake seemed to have been knocked unconscious by me. As soon as it turned and slipped away, I was wondering if I should learn to crawl first and cry for a while, when it swam back and still ...... in its mouth With a mouse in his mouth......