The words say:

Trace into the wolf's den, bend the bow and shoot the dragon snake. On the cliff, the cliff is like a slope. Hunt bears and wield big axes, carry firewood, and sing woodcutter songs.

The earthly world begs for life, and there is a lot of suffering in the ordinary. Grind life and wanton grinding. Where there is no nail in the mountain, it turns cold and heat, and it is easy to stumble.

- "Tang Duoling".

It is said that after the old man got his son's bangs, although his wife lingered on the sickbed, his son was clever, and he could be regarded as having a lot of comfort, and it didn't matter if he suffered for his wife and children, but it was only a few years after such ordinary years, and he was unstable again.

——I never thought that one day when Xiao Bangs was three years and six months old, he suddenly had a strange illness, and when he attacked, it was obviously very painful and unbearable, Xiao Bangs cried, his limbs twitched, and his body contracted and curled!

Later, Xiao Liu's voice was hoarse, and he fell asleep in pain, and he couldn't wake up even if he screamed, just like a dead man! The old man's heart, the distress was mixed with sadness, disappointment, and discouragement, and it was difficult to say.

At first, the old man only thought that his son was dead, and his tears fell silently, and his wife also said that her son was dead, and since then there is no inverted basin shelf, and the cry is dark.

The neighbors were all alarmed, and naturally they all rushed to the old man's house, and everyone asked what was going on with great concern.

The old man pointed to his son, who was lying on the small bed, silent, and choked up: "My son is gone." ”

Most of the neighbors have the same surname, so they have other surnames, and they are nothing more than the surname Wang and Zhang, and they are all close to their own families. Some people listened to the old man's words, sighed and expressed sympathy, and some people listened to the old man's words, so they walked to the small bed and stretched out their hands to caress the body of the little bangs, expressing pity and love.

But he said that the one who stretched out his hand to caress the little bangs, but after stretching out his hand, he exclaimed in surprise: "Old man, don't you look bad, right? Xiaohai's hands are still warm!"

Listening to this person's words, the people in the courtyard seemed to see hope all of a sudden, and in the midst of all the discussions, there was a humane: "Hurry up and send Xiaohai to the Hejing Medicine Hall!"

Some people bring horses, and some people are willing to go with them. So the old man held his son, who was still warm, accompanied by two neighbors, rode a horse, galloped all the way, and arrived at Hejing Medicine Hall.

Seeing the old doctor and Youshui, the old doctor stretched out his hand to open the eyelids of the little bangs, and carefully called the ** pulse, and then said with a smile:

"Old man, I think you are in a hurry to hurt your son. This kid is sleeping soundly, what's wrong?!"

The old man looked at the son in his arms, and sure enough, his face was ruddy, and his breathing was normal, as if he was asleep usually!

However, when the previous illness occurred, others did not know what his son was, but the old man knew it clearly. At that time, the old man told He Youshui about the situation.

He Youshui was very strange: "Well, if that's the case, then this problem is really weird!"

Speaking of this, the old doctor Heyoushui stretched out his hand again, grabbed the little arm of the little bangs, clasped the little wrist, closed his eyes and stared, and trumpeted the pulse again.

The pulse was finished, and He Youshui shook his head and said, "Old man, I'm really just sleeping!"

When the old man heard this, he wanted to wake up his son, and he said, "He is sleeping soundly now, what should he do?"

When the old man heard this, he no longer woke up the little bangs, but only hugged them in his arms, and rode home with his neighbors on a horse.

I didn't know that the road was bumpy immediately, but after arriving home, the little bangs still didn't wake up. The old man told his wife about the situation of the visit with some apprehension, and the hearts of the two of them were also half let go at this time, and they were still hanging half.

On the second day, the little bangs still didn't wake up, and on the third day, he still didn't wake up, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he shouted!

The old man was really anxious, hugged his son again, and came to the Hejing Medicine Hall by himself, and the old doctor of Heyoushui listened to the old man's story, and was also very surprised.

"Ahem, old man, I really can't tell what's going on! Judging by the pulse, it's clear that he's sleeping soundly - according to common sense, where can such a thing happen?"

In desperation, the old doctor and Youshui had another painful needle, however, the little bangs were still asleep!

In the end, he was not discouraged by the old doctor, but the old man himself was deflated first: "With the old doctor, we all admit your medical skills, my fate is not good, in order to give birth to him, his aunt has been in it for a lifetime! Alas, looking at him as a smart baby, who knows that he has this strange disease!"

As he spoke, the old man choked up a little.

He Youshui said: "Although he is so unconscious, his life is not in serious danger - don't be sad, old man, I will go to your house every ten years to see how he is doing, until he finally wakes up - in the meantime, I will not charge any paperwork fees, so be it." ”

The old man expressed his gratitude, and in addition to thanking, he had no choice but to worry about his heart and go home with his son in his arms.

When I returned home, time passed day by day, shouting that he would not wake up, feeding him without food, and watching my son get thinner and thinner day by day in his sleep!

The situation of small bangs made the old couple helpless, and they went on day by day.

Nearly half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and just when the old couple and his wife are feeling hopeless, Xiao Bangs suddenly woke up, except for being thinner, it looks like everything is as usual.

The old couple was overjoyed, and the family of three sat around the bed, hugged each other and cried, but the old couple cried with joy, and the little bangs were inexplicable, and they were scared to cry by his father and mother.

The old man and his wife stopped crying when they saw that they were scared of the child, and the old man's wife said: "He's Dad, Xiaohai is awake, but it's all right! You go to Hejing Medicine Hall for a trip, thank you and the old doctor." ”

and the old doctor listened to the old man's report, and he was also happy for the old man in his heart.

After the old man came back, he only said that it was a family, although there was still a long-term bedridden, after all, his son was better, even if he was on the right track, how did he know that around the day of Xiao Liu's illness last year, it was when Xiao Liu was about four years and six months old, cough!

The old man ran around hard, I don't know how many times he ran to the Jingyao Hall, and one day this year, the little bangs woke up naturally, suddenly, and inexplicably!

In a blink of an eye, Xiao Bang was five years old, and the old couple were worried that their son would fall ill again when he was five and a half years old - sure enough, he really had the old disease again!

This almost suffocated the old couple to death.

Some people privately say that they are afraid that the old couple has done something unreasonable, and the child will suffer from such a strange disease.

Since the first episode of the disease, the small bangs have been once a year backwards, and they have not fallen every year. So much so that up to now, children who are six or seven years old have black and yellow faces and thin bodies.

Although a few people said that the old couple had done something bad and retribution, which was annoying, this could not make the old man really care, he was only worried about his son's illness.

In the past few years, the only property in the family has been spent, and the old man himself is twenty years old, looking like a sixty-year-old man, and his hair is completely white.

This old man was originally a battalion soldier, he entered the camp at the age of eighteen, and returned home at the age of thirty; His wife was the same age as him, and she waited for him at home for twelve years, and she resisted the pressure of relatives and family to persuade her to marry, and the old girl only got married to the old man when she was thirty years old, but it was not until she was thirty-six that the two had such a son.

The old man had not been happy for a few days, and when he saw that his son had come, his wife had collapsed, and because of this strange disease, the son could not count on it, and he could not afford to have another one, and he could not help but be depressed.

On this day, the old girl said to the old man with tears in her eyes: "Father, take the few good skins you have stored at home and go to the city to exchange them for silver, and go back and get some medicine for the child. ”

The old man understands that "those days" are the days when his doll has a seizure. In the past few years, the two have come to know that their son's illness attacks every year, and the days when they begin to attack are almost fixed, and those days are those days every year.

So the old man went to tidy up the leather he had laid.

His little bangs, playing at the head of the village at this time, ran behind a group of five or six older children, and he was a little too thin to keep up, and he was out of breath.

The lead child, who looked to be about eight or nine years old, was running and stopping in front of him, and after a while he turned around and shouted, "Bangs, hurry up!"

There were also two children who stopped running and shouted: "Hehe, Xiaohai hurry up, don't be caught by the tail!"

——This group of children was playing a game called "running oolong", and when they ran under the old willow tree at the entrance of the village, a group of children stopped—it turned out that someone had left the village and passed by the village in the west of the village.

This man was the old man, who led a dirt horse and carried a roll of leather on his shoulder, and stood under the tree waiting for his son.

"Uncle, are you going into the city?" the leader of the boy ran over and asked first.

"Hmm. The old man replied absentmindedly, his eyes looking at his son, and his eyes were full of pity and heartache.

"Abba, I'm going too!" Little Bangs ran over panting.

"Xiaohai, Abba has something to do in the city, you play with Da Zhuang and them, don't run outside the village, there are wild beasts outside the village, and the children's house goes outside the village, it's not safe!

You are obedient, go back and Abba will bring bone candy to the house for you to eat!"

As soon as they heard about "bone candy", a group of village dolls had their little eyes lit up, and they looked at the old man with a blank eye.

"Uncle, will you bring me two?" asked the big boy greedily.

It turns out that the people of this small mountain village rarely go to the city, but whenever someone enters the city and brings food for their own children, they have to distribute it to the children of the whole village, and some people only give it to the children of a few families with their own surname, which is related to the economic conditions of each family.

Those who have money are distributed to the whole village, and those who have no money are only distributed to their own surname. After all, there are only about 100 families in this village, and there are only more than 20 children under the age of 12 with the same surname.

And those who are already twelve years old are regarded as "adults", that is, older children, and they are not allowed to eat snacks given by others.

- The people here are simple, and they have always been like this.

Although the old man was admonished, the little bangs were clamoring to follow.

Helplessly, the old man said to the child named Da Zhuang: "Da Zhuang, you go to my house and tell your aunt, just say that Xiao Hai has entered the city with me." ”

"Well, Uncle Kui, I'll go. So the boy led a group of children and ran to the village. The old man picked up his son and sat on the horse, and the father and son set off.