Chapter 5: I'm molting
After this incident passed, we didn't mention it again, and I still leaned on my grandmother's lap on summer nights to listen to her tell her stories from the past, which was exciting and novel. My grandmother said that when they were young, they watched movies from place to place, running far and wide, and they didn't get tired of watching them over and over again, and they often came home at night.
Once walking in front of a little water, a look can be waded through, but it is going deeper and deeper, when I want to turn back, there is also an ocean behind, everyone is shocked, bad, I met a ghost hit the wall, at this time I can't go, fortunately there are many people, so I am not so afraid, everyone stops, chatting together, until the rooster crows, the ghost is gone. There are many, many stories like this, and I fell asleep under the fluttering fan of my grandmother when I listened to it.
Summer vacation is a paradise for our group of children, and they are not afraid of the sun at noon, so they take the wire and circle it around the stick, and then they go out to stick the dragonflies, and they become black charcoal with everyone, and when they go back at night, their bodies hurt and itch, and my grandmother blames me: "I'm crazy outside all day long, and my summer vacation homework is done?" β
I hugged my grandmother's arm and coquettishly, "Grandma, if you don't play now, you won't have time to go to school, I have so much pain in my body, what's the matter?" As he spoke, he scratched his hands on his body.
My grandmother looked at my neck and felt distressed, "Sunburned, ugly boy!" β
I looked closely at my arms, piece by piece, like spots, how did they get sunburned like this? I was too careless when I played it, and I didn't notice it. I woke up in pain at night and pushed my grandmother, "Milk, I'm in pain, and it's very itchy." β
My grandmother turned on the light, and when she saw my body, she was startled, and she lifted my clothes, and the thin skin inside seemed to be cracked, cracked and scary, piece by piece, and some of them were warped.
"Get up, get up, Xuanzi, let's go to your uncle!" My grandmother dressed me in a panic, and I touched my face, oh my God! It's rough! It's not the same feeling as yesterday at all, it's so hard to tan, I won't dare next time, I'm disfigured!
Knocking on the door of my uncle's house overnight, my aunt was shocked when she saw me like this, "Mom, what's wrong with Xuanzi?" β
"Yin'er, show it to Xuanzi! She said it hurts! When the grandmother said this, the uncle also panicked.
"Xuanzi, you seem to be molting like this, but this is impossible! Mom, call Xuanzi's parents and contact Mr. Gao! "My uncle told my grandmother to call, I was already itchy at this time, and my skin was in pain, and I felt like my whole body was crawling with things, and I couldn't shake it off if I wanted to, and I couldn't peel it off, and the outside of my skin was like a fire, and the inside of my skin was very cold, and I was really tormented to death, and my eyes were so cloudy, and I couldn't see things clearly.
I want to see my surroundings clearly, and it's really insecure to not see, "Grandma, did I bring my glasses?" I can't see with my eyes, what should I do? β
The grandmother said: "Panic who will bring that thing, go back and get it, don't be afraid, Yin'er, you call your Xuanzi parents, quickly!" β
Suddenly, I felt a sour feeling in my mouth, a feeling of nausea, "Vomit-"
"Xuanzi!" Everyone's anxious voice, and then I didn't know anything.
When I woke up, it was still night, there was a noise around, my grandmother was there, I seemed to hear my parents' voices, and the tears were about to come out again, would you not come until I was going to die? I've always known that I'm not normal, I'm different from other children, I'm taller than boys of the same age, whether it's summer or winter, I'm cold, since my eyesight is wrong, I feel really sensitive, whether I'm sleeping or with my eyes closed, I can feel the movement around me, as if I can see, it's not a sixth sense I know. Now there is still the phenomenon of molting, I am really afraid that after shedding the skin, the flesh and blood will be blurred, what am I? Is it a youkai? Otherwise, why don't my parents want me?
"Grandma, give me my glasses, I want to see what I look like now." The grandmother didn't speak.
"Grandma?" Still hasn't moved, wasn't it a grandmother just now? "Grandma! Home milk! "I cried out, don't even my grandmothers want me to be a monster?
"Xuanzi, don't cry, don't cry, it'll be fine in a few days." It's a house milk! I waved my hand to touch my grandmother, but I touched a damp cloth.
"Xuanzi." It's Mom.
"We'll help you take a bath in a while, peel off the skin with a wet towel, and you'll be fine when the skin comes off." Mom is really here, that means it's not night anymore, why is it still so dark?! My eyes!
"Ahh I don't want it, I don't want it! Am I blind? The old man said I wouldn't be blind! Why? Why? "I roared loudly, although I was not happy, but I did everything I could, I drank eye care tea, I took good care of my eyes, why is this still the case?
The grandmother grabbed my hand: "Xuanzi, don't make trouble, it will be fine, the old gentleman is also here." "Old man? He's got another kick?
"Your eyes are fine, trust me, old man, your skin will be fine in a few hours, and your eyes will see in a few days." The old man's voice.
Should I believe it? But what if I don't believe it? There was a squirming sound, I was pulled up and helped out of bed, and I got into the wooden bucket with my clothes, and my skin irritated by the warm water twitched, "Mom, let's go out first, call us if there's anything." Uncle's voice.
Suddenly, a hand pressed my head, "Xuanzi is good, Dad is outside." "With that, I heard the door closing. There should be only the grandmother, mother and aunt left in the house, gently wiped the towel, felt the skin on their hands were peeled off, slowly felt the peeled skin can breathe, the hand touched, very smooth, in this way, it should not look like flesh and blood blurred, I comforted in my heart.
After soaking in the water for about dozens of minutes, I was pulled up again to continue peeling, and I guess what kind of taboo it was. The whole process took several hours. It felt like being reborn, my body was so light, it didn't hurt at all, but I still couldn't see. It seems that what the old man said is true, and I am hungry after tossing for so long, "Grandma, I want to drink porridge." β
"What can I do, sir? She was still feeling hungry. "Is the grandmother asking the old man's opinion? I can't eat?
"Give her hanging water, she can't eat it." What the? Hanging water? So I was skinned for a few more hours, and then I was pricked with a needle, and the hanging water lasted for two days, but my stomach was already hungry, and what was the use of hanging water, and by the third day, my eyes were already shining through, and I was about to see!
After a good night's sleep, I opened my eyes, and there was a tingling pain, "Ahhh
"Xuanzi!"
"Grandma! I can see the light in my eyes, but it still hurts, what about the old man? "I was so happy and excited.
"Don't shout, be polite! The gentleman has returned, and I will call your uncle. "The old man went back, what about his parents? Go back, too, I'm a monster, and it's right to stay away from me.
"Xuanzi, your eyes haven't seen light for a few days, of course it hurts to open them suddenly, take your time, open them slowly, little by little." Under the guidance of my uncle's whisper, sure enough, the light came in little by little, although it was still dazzling, but it was not so stinging, I saw that my grandmother, uncle, aunt, and parents were really gone, and I was still a little disappointed in my joy.
"I saw it!"
"Xuanzi, you can eat today." It's Daddy!
"Add food!" Mom! Mom and Dad didn't leave! They just went grocery shopping! I used to dislike this amblyopia, but I'm really happy to get it back. Amblyopia can also see the world, see the people I love and the people who love me, and if I am blind, I really can't see my family anymore, I used to think that I was the most unlucky unlucky person in the world, but now I feel that I am so happy. I often feel unhappy because I always think about what I don't have, and ignore what I have, don't regret and complain about my life because of the loss of a horse, life has gains and losses, cling to what is lost, and what I have will become worthless.
"Xuanzi, what's wrong with you now?" Uncle asked.
"I'm fine, I'm just hungry." Everyone laughed, and this must have been the first laugh in a few days. By the way, I quickly jumped out of bed and ran to the mirror, I was still me, just whiter than before, as if I hadn't sunburned, touch it, the skin is really smooth, I was reborn from the fire! The most important thing now is to get to the bottom of it.
"Grandma, parents, uncle, aunt, I need to know everything, it's already like this, please sue me, I don't want to live in a daze, I will face it bravely." At this point, they should sue me too.
"Xuanzi, the family grandmother sues you, but you must be calm, here's how it ......"
It turned out that when my mother gave birth to me, it was the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, it was not a good day to see the lively Cheng dΓΉ, in fact, this is the coldest day of the year, at the end of the year, all kinds of things are rushing to run, you are lively and boiling in the world, and the underworld is no exception, this day is quite diligent, not to mention the last hours of the day. As the saying goes, the new year, the new atmosphere, the arrival of the new year, the old year of bad luck is all removed, the new year is open to the door, this is reasonable, the old saying still has to be listened to. In the old year, there were too many things, and the last few hours were more noisy, and the children born at this time were nothing more than hitting the muzzle of the gun.
But what can I do, the due date is early, and I can't be stuffed back from giving birth. Sure enough, the first month after giving birth to me, a lot of mice died in the town, the smell was coaxing, and the New Year's Day was more unlucky, of course, this kind of thing could not be suspected by others on my head, but it was a little strange in my family's heart, every year during the New Year, the mice will disappear for a while, yes, but it was scared away by firecrackers, but now there are so many dead mice, although the beginning of spring has passed, but the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar is earlier than the public spring, at this time the snake is still hibernating, and there are several snakes at home at once, how can this not be strange.