The doctor said that the toxicity is so severe that just taking medicine and applying ointment is not enough. But she only had 15 yuan with her. She had brought 5 yuan with her when she came here, and she only spent 1 yuan on the bus. It was already noon, and she was hungry, so she walked out of the hospital and ate 1.5 yuan at a simple food stall on the street. After drying the noodles, I returned to the hospital for a diabetic injection.
But before giving the injection, you have to pay 2.5 yuan for a test injection. The nurse has to wait for a moment before taking the injection. If she is allergic, she cannot give the injection yet.
Of these processes, the most impressive thing for her was paying. She only had 11 yuan left on her. She kept thinking: It was so unlucky to touch that damn hedgehog and get poisonous gas all over her body. It seems that the money from selling the hedgehog will be spent too much. I don’t know if I can get rid of the root of the scrapie. She was worried about the scrapie, and sure enough the scrapie bothered her.
She took the big needle for three hours. The sun was already setting in the west, and her body was still itching faintly. When she got home, she swallowed pills and applied medicine. She still tossed and turned at night and couldn't sleep well. Her husband simply slept in a separate bed with her, not because he disliked his wife, but because he was afraid that he would also contract scrapie, and the family had no money to treat it.
A few days later, the pills were swallowed and the ointment was also applied. I washed my body with warm water, but there were still red bumps like toad skin on my skin. It hurt when I scratched it hard, itched when I scratched it lightly, and pus formed in some parts. At this time, my mother-in-law came over and said that the poisonous gas was really powerful and that Western medicine might not be able to cure it. It would be better to find a Chinese medicine doctor and prescribe some Chinese medicine to decoct and wash it, which might be effective. Liu Mei asked Wang Meng to take her to Hou Pei, a famous Chinese medicine doctor in the town.
Hou Pei looked at her symptoms and said that his medicine shop only had medicines that could be boiled for drinking, but not for washing. So he opened a list and listed the names of medicinal materials such as willow leaves, calamus, and neem seeds, and asked her to Dig in the wild. But it was summer, and there was no chinaberry at all. chinaberry was only available in the autumn. Wang Meng raised this question, and Hou Pei looked for it in the medicine cabinet, but couldn't find it. He said, "It's okay without chinaberry, but the effect is slightly less." Difference.
At this moment, Wang Meng and Liu Mei thanked Hou Pei and walked out of the pharmacy. The sun was scorching outside, and Liu Mei, who felt uncomfortable due to the heat, walked to the roadside where there was shade. Wang Meng found a willow tree by the ditch in front, so he rushed over to pick willow leaves and picked a lot of willow leaves. Liu Mei also came. She pulled a thin cane from the thorn bushes by the road and pulled the willow leaves. Leaves tied. Wang Meng said to send the calamus now, I will go to the ditch to find it, you can stand under this willow tree to take a rest!
Where can Liu Mei have time to live? Carrying a small bundle of willow leaves, he headed towards the green grassy mountains to look for them. Wang Meng was still searching beside the ditch, but couldn't find it. He suddenly thought that calamus did not grow beside ditches, but usually grew on the banks of shallow lakes. Yes, there is a horse lion lake on the other side of the mountain. It is called this by the locals because the shape of the lake is like a horse and the grass on the lake is like a lion's hair.
There is a wide loess road leading to Masi Lake. The loess road connects to a mountain ridge. The upper section of the mountain ridge is full of thorns and miscellaneous trees, and green masson pine also grows in it. Liu Mei followed this loess road to the mountains. Her husband had already crossed the mountains quickly, and his figure was gradually obscured by a large tree with lush branches and leaves.
Standing on the mountain ridge, Liu Mei felt hot and stuffy. The sun was dominating the cloudless blue sky, and dark fires were lingering and spreading in the air. She felt it was difficult to move, her forehead was dripping with sweat, and her whole body was itchy. Feeling uncomfortable, she couldn't help but scratch or rub the itchy parts, and looked at the green upward branches of a pine tree in the forest holding up conical light red tassels, hoping that it was also a medicine to treat itching. oh! But she didn't understand its medicinal properties, it was just an unrealistic delusion.
Suddenly three men appeared in the woods, walking towards the loess road where Liu Mei was walking. They were all bald and wearing cassocks. They were obviously monks. Two of them were older, one was fat and the other was thin. They could be called old people. There are obvious age spots on the fat face, and the thin face is full of wrinkles. A young monk is carrying a luggage and walking very smoothly. At their feet was a forest bird path leading directly to the loess road.
When Liu Mei saw the person coming, she stopped moving her itching hand and endured it even though it was painful. She retreated to the front of a thick and tall pine tree to rest in the shade. This pine tree was like a green umbrella, intercepting sunlight like raindrops in the air. Although it was hot under the pine tree, it was more comfortable than being exposed to the sun.
There was no good place to sit here. She stood, hoping that the three monks would hurry up and walk over. However, the three monks walked very slowly on the loess road. Their eyes were always staring at the ground, as if they were looking for something. , which made Liu Mei feel curious. What are they looking for? There are only messy rotten leaves, pebbles and dirt on the loess road, as well as green leaves that have fallen recently and have yellowed edges, and have been wilted and curled by the sun.
Amitabha! A young monk suddenly put down his burden and quickly moved one foot away. An ant was stepped on half to death. Half of its limbs were still moving, but the other half was broken and stuck to a grain of sand. The little monk looked at it with an expression of repentance, devoutly clasped his hands together and recited several Buddha's names, hoping to save this poor ant.
The fat monk looked at him and scolded: Little novice, walk slowly, don't step on the crawlers on the road. Reptiles also have spirituality. They suffer reincarnation in the animal realm. As Buddhists, we must know how to pity living beings and not add suffering to them, Amitabha!
Liu Mei found it quite interesting to listen to the three monks talking. She stood under the pine tree on the roadside and watched them walk by casually. The fat monk still had a string of Buddhist beads hanging around his neck. He was twisting them with his hands and his lips were moving. It was like chanting sutras, but the sound was so low that Liu Mei couldn't hear it. They walked forward for about a few meters, and Liu Mei followed quietly. These three monks were all very interesting. After walking such a long way, no one looked back.
This gave Liu Mei a sense of security, and she could scratch itches freely. It was strange that after only scratching twice, her body was not itchy anymore. Although the heat from the scorching sun was still very hot, she seemed to have forgotten all this. I have a sense of curiosity about the monks, because this is the first time I have met them, and I began to hate their weird appearance. But when I really saw them, my mood changed again. They were all kind-hearted, and I can conclude that they are definitely good people.
She followed behind and climbed a gentle slope. When she reached the highest point of the mountain, she could see Mashi Lake at the bottom of the mountain. The lake was covered with green calamus and the center of the lake was as clear as a blue mirror. Liu Mei's man was bending down to pull up clumps of calamus in the shallow lake. Liu Mei was a little excited and wanted to walk downhill quickly and wade into the shallow lake to pull up calamus with her husband.
