Lao Zhou's happy past

In the early morning of winter in long gang zhen, the coldest moment of the year has obviously not yet woken up. The number of winter clothes on the street has surpassed that of autumn clothes. Although it is tightly wrapped, the cold wave will soak the clothes and sting the skin. In this damn weather, the fire in the house is still shivering with cold. Few people want to walk around the street unless there is something particularly important.

In the east of the city, there lived a family named Zhou. Before liberation, the Zhou family was a big landlord. It was overthrown after liberation, and everyone died and fled. In the end, there was only one family left, and one was the only one. Lao Zhou has nothing in common with other people in the town. His family lives a very lonely life in such a big city. However, this is an outsider's view. In his heart, Lao Zhou still feels happier. The so-called happiness is mainly reflected in the fact that his father married him before his death, and his mother brought him a daughter and three sons before his death. Besides, he doesn't have to worry about food and clothes. Occasionally, even though his trouser pockets are tight, he still lives happily.

Recently, one thing worried Lao Zhou. He got up in the middle of the night to pee and went back to bed. He found his teeth very painful. He kicked his wife next to him and motioned for her to do something. He grinned and said, "bring me some vinegar. I have a toothache. I'm going to kill the bugs in it." It doesn't seem to help Lao Zhou to soak in vinegar in his mouth. He suddenly remembered the nearest town. In the middle of the night, he woke up his youngest son and soaked the urine in a bowl. He took the bowl of urine and thought about what the old Chinese doctor said. There are two ways to treat toothache with urine. One is to drink directly, but the effect is slow, similar to eating traditional Chinese medicine, and the other is to rub the cotton swab on the teeth back and forth. This takes effect quickly, which is similar to taking western medicine. He had a brainwave. He drank a little and rubbed a little, which should be much better than drinking and rubbing directly. In short, the toothache eased that night. The next morning, he braved the early winter to go to town to do something. Before he left, his teeth began to hurt again. He thinks it useless to think about his son's urine. He went to see an old Chinese doctor on his way to work, and then asked about the urine.

The old Chinese doctor didn't say anything about urine, but told him another method-deworming. Lao Zhou felt novel: "If the worm is removed, the tooth will not hurt any more," said the old Chinese doctor. "In principle, it is like this, but the process is a bit painful. Let me make it clear to you before deworming! " Lao Zhou was surprised: "Is there anything more painful than toothache?" The old Chinese doctor smiled faintly: "Not far from it," so Lao Zhou was relieved: "Then tell me about the process!" The old Chinese doctor is serious: "First of all, this method of expelling insects must pay attention to ways and means. From the beginning, you must scrape the eye mask with bamboo leaves in the morning and wash your eyes with pure well water at noon. Then at night, the corners of the eyes will itch slightly, and the insects will slowly climb out of the corners of the eyes around eight or nine in the evening. The process is not painful, but the moment when the bug crawls out. " Lao Zhou listened with trepidation and his hands and feet were numb: "How painful was it to climb out at that moment?" Old Chinese doctor: "You should know that your wife has a baby, and that kind of pain is no less than giving birth." Lao Zhou thought about it, and it was not so painful for him to watch his wife give birth to four children. He has a try attitude, that is, he gave birth to a bug in his eye! "

The old Chinese doctor admired his courage, and the doctor saved lives to help the wounded, aiming at alleviating the pain of patients. He repeatedly stressed that although his anthelmintic method can solve toothache, it also has disadvantages. Light bugs can't see the light for several days, and heavy bugs can't see the light anymore. It is difficult to decide whether it was seen in that era or not.

I heard that the confidence that Lao Zhou had just worked so hard to build here was suddenly shattered. He was too scared to ask again: "Just said, are there any patients in the past?"

The old Chinese doctor pointed to the medical book on the table and said, "It is recorded in the book. This treatment has never been used so far."

Lao Zhou began to feel uneasy. Before leaving, he said, "Forget it!"

On the way home, Lao Zhou thought that the old Chinese doctor should not be a liar. He has been in the town all his life, and I don't know how many people cheated him of his medical expenses. After the fight, Lao Zhou never went to the shop of the old Chinese doctor again. Not only that, Lao Zhou is also a kind-hearted person. Although he didn't have any relatives or friends in the town, he told his neighbors that he suspected the old Chinese doctor was a liar and warned them to be careful to be abducted by the old Chinese doctor.

The only life-saving straw has not been caught, and the toothache has not been solved. Lao Zhou is still not at ease. When the pain was severe, he still used the urine method of the old Chinese medicine boy. I just heard that the boy added a little lard to his urine, burned cotton wool in a kerosene lamp, and burned his teeth with the burning cotton wool until the fire went out. This process is a treatment, and every time his mouth is full of urine and meat. During that time, he enjoyed treating toothache in this way for a long time. The pain has not been solved, and the whole gum has blisters, which makes him unable to eat and can only drink some porridge.

Agree that scars forget pain. Lao Zhou's scar didn't heal, nor did his toothache. He occasionally heard someone say that sulfuric acid can cure toothache, but he had no idea what sulfuric acid was. He inquired about it and found it at home. Where is it? Isn't it a miner's lamp that he accompanies him every night? There is sulfuric acid in the miner's lamp, but this usage makes him sweat. Sulfuric acid is not edible. What if I accidentally swallow it in my mouth? He thought it over. In order to solve the toothache, he would rather take a risk. Caution can always keep the boat going forever. Lao Zhou is a stubborn man. While using sulfuric acid, I muttered, "vinegar can't cure you, urine can't cure you, insect repellent ... forget it, I can't remember ... I'll see where you go when the sulfuric acid comes!"

Alas, Lao Zhou didn't think so much. Sulfuric acid needs to be diluted. He put some water in it and put it in his mouth. Sour and refreshing. After a while, the whole mouth festered and became red and swollen slowly, but it was nothing serious. It's just that his teeth have fallen off since then. In the past, he only drank porridge when he had a bad toothache. Now he can only drink porridge every day.

People in the town have seen his jokes every day since his tooth fell out. Someone always asks him, "Lao Zhou, does your tooth still hurt now?"

Lao Zhou said with a bitter face and a closed mouth: "There are no teeth, what can it hurt!" Everyone laughed when they heard it.

After several years, people stopped caring about Lao Zhou's toothache and asked him about his happiness and misfortune. Lao Zhou replied, "What about happiness and misfortune? Who can choose happiness and misfortune in this life! "

July 30th, 20 16? end