The child was drowsy and scratched all night, but he didn't feel anything at all, and when he woke up in the morning, he was frightened and cried when he saw the blood on the pillow.

My father also gave birth to a girl before me, named Dafeng, is my sister, three years older than me, at that time still slept with me, heard me crying, also woke up, saw my neck full of flesh and blood, also frightened half to death, crying loudly, saying that my brother is going to die, my brother is going to die, Dad, come and see. After shouting several times, my father ran up from the courtyard downstairs on stilts, rushed into the room to take a look, only to see that half of my neck was bloody, and the pillowcase filled with straw was also full of blood foam.

I nodded and said it was uncomfortable, my neck was so itchy, it was so itchy, I couldn't help but want to scratch it.

I held up my right hand to show my father, there was a lot of dried blood on his hand, and the nail shells that had become long overnight were full of flesh foam, which looked very scary. My father is a barefoot doctor in the mountains, in addition to going to the county for training, my ancestors also passed on some traditional Chinese medicine, seeing that my pupils are not dilated, although my body is weak, but the spirit is also fine, so I breathed a sigh of relief and asked my sister to go to the kitchen to bring hot water.

My sister was well-behaved, and quickly went to get a cloth and a hot water wooden basin, and my father hugged me, changed the bed, washed my hands, and then carefully helped me wash the blood off my neck.

Because I scratched all night, many wounds were scabbed, and the blood stains were hard, so it was difficult to get it, the water was too hot or the strength of my hands was heavy, and I was shivering in pain, my father was a rough old man on the surface, but he was also distressed, every cry I made seemed to poke in his heart, his brows were furrowed, and his hands and feet became lighter and lighter.

My father scrubbed me for more than half an hour, and then I washed my neck, and when I looked closely, I saw that there was a large piece of fiery red tender skin on the right side of my neck, and there were large scales in the shape of gray-white or gray-brown polygonal diamonds on the surface, most of which were round, and the front end was obliquely inserted into the dermis, and each other was arranged under the epidermis in a shingle-like manner, and there were several rows of serrated protrusions on the edge, which looked like the scales of the carp.

Yesterday it was only red, but overnight half of my neck actually grew fish scales, and a lot of fish scales were scratched off by me unconsciously, and the washed wound spit clear mucus, emitting a foul-smelling fishy smell, my father smelled nauseous, but in the end it was his own child, he couldn't leave it alone, and told my sister to help me keep applying water with a cloth and cloth, and then ran to the room to find his barefoot doctor's guide.

My father didn't even eat a bite of breakfast that day, and after discussing it with my mother in the hall for a long time, he hurried down the mountain and went to the countryside to buy medicine.

That day I was restless, I felt that my neck was hot, and I wanted to reach out to grab it, but my sister was watching from the side, and she resolutely obeyed my father's instructions before leaving, and absolutely did not allow me to scratch it with my dirty hands. At that time, the countryside could not afford to use soft towels, and the homespun cloth woven by home was hard and stiff, which made me scream, and my mother looked at it next to me and shed tears, saying that this baby made sins, and it never stopped since birth.

I had heard from the people in the village that when I was born, there was an incident that almost made me not survive, but this thing was taboo in my own home, and I was not even allowed to mention it, and I was so dizzy that I didn't have the heart to inquire about it, but I was able to endure the pain, and I didn't let the dragon root jokes that came to me to play.

At noon, my mother made a rare bowl of egg custard, steamed out of a clay pot, and served in a white porcelain bowl.

The days in the mountains are hard, I have never eaten any white rice since I can remember, bud grain and artichoke are often the staple food in the pot, sometimes the grain is out of food, but also go up the mountain to dig a kind of mango root, boil a food called "mangba" to eat, although the family raises chickens, but eggs or something are taken down the mountain to pay back salt, this day is very tight, and this egg custard is almost made of three eggs, which is not a long time before my family, it is simply too luxurious, my sister only added lips to see it, and shed a lot of saliva.

I was small at the time, but I was very close to my sister, and I scooped a big mouthful with a spoon, swallowed it in my stomach, so that my tongue was about to swallow it, and when I saw my sister watching from the side, I pushed her to eat it.

Although my sister was greedy, she was already sensible at that time, so she glanced at my mother, who knew that the mother who served a bowl of water on weekdays was very flat at this time, but her face was up, and she reprimanded my sister: "Eat, eat, what do you eat, your brother doesn't have a few mouthfuls in total......"

My mother is usually a very kind woman, but at this time she looks very strict, her face is crumbling tightly, my sister can't stand this anger, her eyes are red, and she twists her body and runs out.

At that time, I felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, but the child couldn't bear the hunger, my mother coaxed a few words, I finished the bowl of egg custard mixed with bud rice, and the drowsiness came up again, and I was so confused that the sun set, and my father rushed back. It takes less than three hours to walk from Longjialing in Mali Mountain to the township, and the reason why my father came back so late was because there was no medicine he wanted in the township health station. According to my father, my disease is called ichthyosis, and I need to use Western medicine, tretinoin and vitamin D.

My father was confident, but my mother's tense face never relaxed, but she still beckoned me to eat something, and then took the medicine.

After taking the medicine, I felt more comfortable, the fish scales on my neck were not so itchy, and I fell asleep again. But I didn't sleep for long, I felt someone blowing at me in my ears, cold, as if someone had put ice ridges into my neck, and vaguely I also heard the sound of a child crying, it was the kind of three- or two-year-old hairy child, woo, woo, woo......

I was upset when I heard it, tossing and turning, and it was still there, so I suddenly opened my eyes, and was about to scold my mother, when I suddenly saw a pair of white-eyed people, staring at me deadly.

Yes......

I screamed so hard that I jumped up from the bed and threw my fist in front of me, and then out of the corner of my eye I saw a white shadow beside the bed, and I was even more frightened, and I gritted my teeth and threw myself at the white shadow, kicking and punching.

As a result, before I could kick a few times, the white shadow shouted: "Brother, brother, it's me, I'm your sister!" ”

I looked down and saw that this white shadow was really my sister, and the disease on my neck had to be applied constantly, and she was still holding a handkerchief in her hand, which was taking care of me. Seeing all this, my whole body softened, and then my father and my mother hurried to the room again, and after asking about the situation, I asked my sister to go to their room to sleep, and they guarded it.

My sister was so sleepy that she was beaten by me after working for most of the night, and she was relieved to hear this, and went to sleep in the next room, while my father and mother stayed in the room and coaxed me to sleep.

I was really scared of it just now, but with my father and mother by my side, I was a little relieved, but my neck was hot, numb and itchy, and I tossed and turned for a long time before I fell asleep, but now the drowsiness is much lighter, I don't know how long it took, I heard my mother crying next to me, I woke up a little, and listened to her in a daze: "Lao Chen, the second egg is not sick, he is evil." ”

My father was silent and didn't say anything, and after a while, my mother said again: "At the beginning, the crazy old Taoist priest said that Erdan's life was too hard, and we couldn't support it, so it was better for him to take it, it seems that this is the answer." ”

At this time, my father replied in a rough voice, saying that it is a bullshit, this is my son, why should he be raised?

My mother cried again, saying that he raised you, isn't this all your son? Do you want to watch your cub get killed by that evil devil like this? Why are you so ruthless?

My father was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "Alas, it's late, when he was born, he just let that crazy Taoist take him away, and now it's a fart?" ”