Chapter 3 Grandma's Advice

My hometown is in the west of the ancient city of Luoyang, a place called Qiantang Zhizhai, it only takes half an hour to reach our county seat by urban and rural bus, and then take a minibus to reach home in 20 minutes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

However, the door of my house was locked, fortunately, I had the key, opened the door and entered, messed around with some steamed buns and pickles from the kitchen, and after eating and drinking, I lay on the bed while reading this "Compendium of Materia Medica" while waiting for my parents to come back.

I fell asleep while reading the book, and dreamed that I had entered a warehouse of medicinal herbs, which was full of all kinds of medicinal herbs, and I was busy comparing these medicinal herbs with the patterns in the book, and I learned a lot of medicinal herbs that I had never seen before.

I was woken up by my sister, and when I opened my eyes, it was already dark.

"Why didn't you even say hello when you came back, my grandmother was seriously ill, and my parents rushed to my second uncle's house to take care of it!" My sister explained while lighting a fire and cooking.

I hurriedly asked, "Is my grandmother seriously ill?" Have you been sent to the hospital for treatment? ā€

The younger sister added water to the big iron pot and responded: "I have been sent to the town center hospital, the doctor said that my grandmother is old and needs to be kept in the hospital for observation, and she is still waiting for you, the big doctor, to come back to treat her!" ā€

After hearing this, I was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "I'll call our director to ask for leave, I came back in a hurry this time, and I only asked for one day off!" ā€

My sister said seriously: "Brother, don't worry, I'm joking with you!" But Grandma really wants to see you again! ā€

At that time, mobile phones had not yet become popular, so I had to go to the town to borrow a public phone to ask our director for leave, and my sister asked me to call again tomorrow on the grounds that the store was closed.

After dinner, I asked my sister about my grandmother.

My sister introduced: "Grandma's disease is a chronic disease, high blood pressure plus the sequelae of stroke, which cannot be cured, the doctor in the central hospital has asked my uncle to prepare for my grandmother's funeral, and I just hope to stay up one more day." ā€

My grandmother was thin and small, but she was a strong rural woman, my grandfather died of illness when I could remember, at that time my three uncles and aunts were not married, and when building a marriage house for my uncle, there was an accident, resulting in the death of a middle-aged man in the same village, the family was in debt, my grandmother was still very tenacious, for my third uncle to study in high school, and then sent him to work abroad. She raised a lot of cows, sheep, and pigs, and I followed my grandmother to herd the sheep when I was young.

The second uncle's family was not in Biling, and when he got married, he became a son-in-law, and he was inserted in Mengjin, which is adjacent to our county.

The next morning, after eating my sister's breakfast, I hastily packed up my things, and went to the town with my sister to take the bus to Mengjin.

Mengjin is next to the Yellow River, which is an ancient ferry, and on the bus, I took out the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and continued to read it.

An uncle with a scruffy beard next door accosted: "The young man is also going to Mengjin?" ā€

I nodded in response, "Go and visit relatives." ā€

He looked at the old book I was reading again, and continued to ask, "Are you studying medicine?" ā€

My sister knew that I loved to read and was worried that it would affect me, so she answered for me: "My brother has graduated from college and is now working as a doctor in Luoyang Mine Rescue Hospital!" ā€

The passengers in the same car all showed envious expressions after hearing this, and the uncle also praised: "There is a future, but do you doctors not treat their own illnesses?" ā€

"Medicine is not autonomous." I explained that this is the rule of doctors, but this old rule has been gradually broken by the new generation of medical practitioners.

I couldn't answer, so I nodded yes.

The uncle was very talkative, so he shouted: "I heard that in the deep mountains of Shanxi, there is an old Taoist priest who lives in seclusion, who is at least 150 years old this year, and it is reported on TV!" ā€

I was also surprised when I heard it, it is rare to live to be 100 years old, I don't know how this old Taoist priest lived to be 150 years old, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to meet!

My grandmother is now supported by my second uncle, whose home is in Tonggu Town, Mengjin County.

In the ward, I met my uncle, my second uncle, and my parents.

My grandmother was thin and thin, lying on a dripping on the hospital bed, her eyes wide open, but she had no energy.

I hurriedly greeted my uncle and parents, and then checked on my grandmother's condition.

My mother hurriedly shouted to my grandmother, "Your grandson who has been talking about you has come to see you!" ā€

Grandma understood, her eyes lit up, and she said to me tremblingly, "I dreamed of your grandfather, and he said to pass on his knife to you!" ā€

After hearing this, the uncle responded: "Is it the broken woodcutter at home?" It's been rusting for a long time, and I'm about to sell it as scrap metal! ā€

I hurriedly said: "Uncle, this broken knife is an old antique, and it is worthless to sell it, so leave it for me to think about." ā€

The grandmother trembled and told her children, "It's time to get your father's coffin out, he's had enough in that cave!" ā€

My two uncles hurriedly agreed, and said to me, "Can you help when your grandfather's grave is moved?" ā€

My grandfather died of a sudden illness and could not be buried immediately after his death, so he was placed in an abandoned cave in a small ravine near my home, but when I thought of the eerie cave, I immediately refused.

My uncle wasn't reluctant, but my parents started complaining about me.

It's not that I'm timid, it's that I'm scared there.

On the way to my second uncle's house after leaving the central hospital, my sister asked me why I refused to help my uncle move my grandfather's grave.

I'll tell you the truth. When I was very young, I was thrown by my parents to my grandmother's house, and my grandmother herded cattle and sheep, these sheep were honest, but a calf was very naughty, like to run around, I chased it unconsciously to the small ravine where my grandfather was buried, at this time it was already dark, and the calf was gone, and my uncle who heard the news asked me to look for it in the cave where my grandfather was placed, and he looked for it along the ravine.

The cave was pitch black, and the inside was blocked by a bluestone slab, and I stood in front of the stone slab, my legs trembling with fright, knowing that my grandfather was behind this bluestone slab.

My grandfather had throat cancer and was starved alive. Before I died, my eyes were sunken, skinny, and I didn't blink to death, with a bell in my mouth, lying in a dark coffin, I looked into the coffin, and I will never forget it.

Although I have grown up, studied medicine, dissected many corpses, and know that there are no ghosts in this world, I still dare not face my grandfather's coffin alone.

Because I only took one day off, I didn't stay long at my second uncle's house, and after lunch, I went to the central hospital to say goodbye to my grandmother, and asked my parents for living expenses, so I rushed back to Luoyang Hospital by car.

Lao Ma, who had been in a car accident, had already undergone surgery and was placed in the orthopedic ward, and in order to figure out the word "longevity" tattooed on his arm, I went to the orthopedic ward to see him.

Lao Ma's daughter-in-law was slightly injured, and his son was dark and fat, and he was also a driver, but he drove an excavator.

When Lao Ma saw me, he was a little puzzled, and his daughter-in-law hurriedly introduced me as the doctor who saved him. Of course, the old horse immediately cast a grateful look at me and invited me to sit down on the edge of the bed.

I deliberately went to inspect his arm where the infusion needle was pricked, and then asked, "Why do you have a longevity tattoo on your arm?" ā€

The old horse wanted to speak and stopped, so I hurriedly said: "You don't have to mind, I just asked casually, but I heard that this longevity word is more common in Guding, and there is also another kind of thing." ā€

Lao Ma's daughter-in-law hurriedly explained: "My old horse also wants to live a long life, and my son has the name of his object tattooed on his arm, which is too cheesy!" ā€

The pony who drove the excavator raised his arm and showed the name tattooed "Zhang Manxia".

But the word "Shou" on the old horse's arm is a little different from the tattoo, and it looks like it has been branded. And his eyes regained their vitality, and the black qi that had previously shrouded his head was gone, and the black eye sockets disappeared with it.