Doctor Meng Shiqi

At sunset, on the official road twenty miles away from Macheng, there is a simple teahouse built with thatched sheds. Behind the teahouse are two small houses.At this time, there were very few people on the official road, only six or seven guests were sitting and resting in the teahouse.

The three big men at the table next to the door drank two pots of tea in one go, put down their copper coins, and hurried away with their bags on their backs.The old man who opened the teahouse took a rag and went to clear the table. He was about to go to the back kitchen when he heard a childish voice not far away: "Grandpa, please save my father."

The other guests in the teahouse were all attracted by the sound. When they looked over, it was a little girl about six or seven years old. Two slender braids hung down from her ears to her collar. Ethnic style, the whole body is covered with a layer of dust, and the face is also disfigured. Looking at the feet, it is actually missing a shoe, and he is slowly walking into the teahouse with one deep foot and one shallow foot.

"Little girl, what's wrong with you?"

The little girl cried immediately: "Grandpa, my father is very sick, please help him!"

"Little girl, old man, I'm just a tea seller. I still need to find a doctor to cure diseases and save people. There is only a medical clinic in Macheng within a radius of [-] miles. Let your father take you into the city quickly. The city gate will be closed in a while. .”

"My father is very sick and can't move, please help us." The little girl cried and begged.

"Old man, I'm old, and I'm not a doctor, so I can't help you. Girl, why don't you ask some guests over there to see if they can help you. Oh, poor child." After finishing speaking The old man picked up the tea set and went to the back kitchen.

"Uncle, please save my father."

"Little baby, I'm not a doctor. I can't save your father. You should find someone else." The middle-aged man patted her head, then picked up his burden and left.

The little girl turned her head to look at the young couple at the table not far away. The woman in the couple looked anxious, and immediately pulled her husband out of the teahouse. The man looked back at the little girl with an unbearable expression on his face, but was reprimanded by the woman : "What to look at, mind your own business!"

Seeing the couple leave, the little girl had no choice but to walk up to the last guest, and just as she called out the word "uncle", the young man interrupted: "Little girl, uncle has to go on his way, if he doesn't get into the city, he will go to the city." I'm going to sleep in the wilderness here." Said, put down the money, picked up the burden, and walked out.

Seeing that this was the last hope, the little girl didn't want to give up, so she chased the man out with one bare foot, grabbed the man's sleeve, and cried, "Uncle, uncle, please, please help my father, please help me!" Please."

"Little girl, let go. It's none of my business if your father is sick. I'm still in a hurry. There is a village near here that has the plague. What if I'm kind enough to help you? What if your father got the plague and infected me? Let go quickly. Let go!" After speaking, the man simply ignored and pushed the little girl away.The little girl staggered and fell to the ground, the man rushed out immediately and walked along the official road, leaving the little girl crying outside the teahouse alone.

After crying for a long time, the little girl felt that the light in front of her was blocked. Someone came in front of her, and she saw that person's shoes.The little girl looked up and saw that man, a very tall man. The man stood against the light so that she could not see his face clearly. She only saw a light blue cloth belt tied on his forehead. His left ear hangs down behind his ear, fluttering in the wind, sweeping up and down his neat gray gown.The man was carrying a rectangular bamboo basket on his body, and he squatted down slowly, and only then did she see his appearance clearly, he was prettier than all the brothers in the village.She watched him stop crying, but there were still tears on his face.

He spoke, his voice was male and female, five points magnetic, three points gentle, two points deep: "Little sister, I'm not a doctor, if you trust me, take me there, maybe I can help."

He helped her up, wiped her tears and patted the little girl's dusty clothes, and asked her, "Where is your father? I'll help you."

The little girl seemed to come back to her senses, and immediately replied, "I'll take you there."

He hugged her with one hand and said softly, "Okay, let's go, you can show the way."

The little girl was lying on his shoulder, looking curiously at the bamboo basket behind him, and fiddled with the buttons on the top cover of the bamboo basket with her little hands.

"Little sister, what's wrong with your father?"

"I don't know, I just know that Daddy is very uncomfortable, lying on the ground, unable to move, screaming for pain all the time, and sweating profusely."

He repeated the information provided by the little girl, "Can't move, hurts, sweats... Is your father fat or thin?"

"Daddy is very thin."

"Did you eat more or less recently?"

"Daddy hasn't eaten much recently, saying he can't eat much."

The afterglow of the evening sprinkled on the empty official road, the gray figure was covered with sunlight, hugging the child and carrying a bamboo basket, walking slowly, from far to near and from near to far, the two of them asked and answered without knowing each other. When Jue arrived at the place where the little girl's father was, he was already sweating profusely and his arms were numb.

When the little girl saw her father, she wanted to rush over immediately.Sensing the will of the little person in his arms, he quickened his steps a few steps, and put the little girl down.

"Daddy~Daddy~"

The little girl's father was lying on the ground with his eyes closed, his facial features twisted into a ball, his lips were pale and trembling slightly, and his face was bloodless. Beads of sweat slipped from his forehead and neck, wet his hair and collar .Hearing his daughter's voice, the man barely opened his eyes and saw the little girl, and finally made a weak voice: "Yang'er~Yang'er~".

"Daddy, I've got big brother to help you."

"Brother, are you uncomfortable there?"

The little girl's father glanced at him, and squeezed his left hand covering his abdomen, and the man nodded knowingly.

"Brother, I'm not a doctor. I have a medicine here. It may cure you. Even if it can't cure you, it can help you relieve pain. I'll give you medicine now, do you agree?"

"Hmm~" The voice was still weak.

The man put down the bamboo box, opened the top cover, took out a thing that looked like a plant root, broke off two sections for the little girl to hold, and rummaged through the bamboo box to find something that did not belong to this era. : A utility knife and two cards!One of them is clearly the second-generation ID card of China!The other one is from a certain bank!Under the puzzled and curious eyes of the little girl, the man smiled, wiped the two cards with a clean cloth, cut the two rhizomes into small pieces, clamped them with two cards, and brought them to the little girl's father. Signal him to open his mouth, then squeeze the card against his mouth, allowing the juice from the root to flow into his mouth.The man sucked as hard as he could, and didn't put down the card until there was no more water coming out, and shook his sore arms and hands.

"Brother, you should rest for a while and see if it will get better. When I came here just now, I saw a stream not far away. Now I will take my little sister there to treat her foot injury."

The little girl's father nodded slightly, then closed his eyes.The man tidied up briefly, carried the bamboo box on his back and carried the little girl to the creek.

When he got to the stream, the man took a closer look. There were several cuts on the little girl's soft and tender left foot, and the sole of the foot was also pierced by stones in many places. There were even several stones still embedded in the flesh. It looked good. It is distressed.

"Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." The little girl shook her head.

"It may hurt a little later, bear with it."

"Ah."

He carefully picked out the stones from the soles of the little girl's feet one by one, put her little feet in the stream to wash carefully, then took out the remaining plant roots, took three sections, chewed them up one by one, and applied them to the little girl. The girl's wound was covered, and then he took out a piece of light blue cloth from the bamboo box and brought it to her to wrap up the wound.

After doing this, he looked up to see the little girl frowning, trying to endure the pain, touched her head, and comforted her softly, "It won't hurt after a while."

"Well. Thank you, brother."

"You're welcome."

When he carried the bamboo box on his back, picked up the little girl and walked back, he found that the little girl's father had fallen asleep, and his face was better than before. His expression was no longer twisted, and his lips had returned to blood, which was a good sign.

"It seems that my medicine is working, little sister, your father will be fine tomorrow."

"really?"

"Well, really." The man put the little girl under the tree, "Sit down obediently, and I'll bring you some food and water."

His bamboo box is like a treasure chest, it contains everything, including miraculous medicine, strange knives, unknown small pieces of wood, and cloth belts, and now he took out oiled paper bags and kraft water bags from the bamboo box and handed them to him. little girl.

"Hungry, eat quickly."

The little girl opened the oiled paper bag, picked up the snack and started eating immediately, took a few bites and then stretched out the oiled paper bag in her hand to the man.

"Brother, you eat too."

"Okay." The man smiled and took the snack.

After eating and drinking, the two sat together under the big tree.

"It's getting dark, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid, dad and brother are here!"

"So cute" the man frowned and patted her head. "Then we'll sleep in this wilderness tonight!"

"it is good."

He got up and picked up some dead branches around, and lit the bonfire with a lighter.Then he took out a small quilt and a large coat from the bamboo box, and covered the little girl's father with the quilt, while he sat with the little girl in his arms against the tree trunk, and the coat covered the two of them.

"Go to sleep." The man hugged the little girl and closed his eyes after saying this.After a while, I felt some movement in my arms, and I opened my eyes and asked her, "What's wrong? Can't sleep? Does it hurt?"

"Um……"

His arm retracted a little: "bear it, it will be fine after a while. Let me chat with you for a while."

"it is good."

"What's your name?"

"Luo Yang."

"Can you write your own name?"

"Will do."

He stretched out his hand to signal Luo Yang to write for him.Luo Yang understood, and wrote his name on his palm stroke by stroke with his small hand.

"It turned out to be these two words."

"What's your brother's name?"

"Meng Han." Luo Yang also imitated Meng Han, reaching out to ask him to write her name on her palm, Meng Han smiled, and gently wrote the word Meng Han.

"Xiao Luoyang, how old are you?"

"Six years old, how about you, brother?"

"My brother is nineteen."

"Brother Meng Han."

"Ok?"

"What is this on your head?"

"This one?" Meng Han pointed to the light blue cloth band on his forehead, Luo Yang nodded.

"This is called a forehead strap, brother likes it very much. Haven't Luo Yang seen it before?"

Luo Yang shook his head, but suddenly thought of something: "Then what is wrapped around my feet is also my brother's forehead band?"

"Yes."

"Ah? Then I can't wear this one..." Luo Yang said with some disappointment in his tone.

"It's okay, brother has other forehead straps."

"No, when I get home, I must give my brother the best forehead band in the world."

"Haha, okay, then I'll wait for Xiao Luoyang to give me the best forehead band in the world."

"Brother, you are amazing"

"why do you say so?"

"My brother said that he is not a doctor but he can cure my father. Also, my brother has many things that I have never seen before. My brother's forehead band, basket, and the magic medicine in the basket, a knife, a small board, can breathe fire iron block."

"Haha, you are really observant. The bamboo basket and forehead band were designed by my brother himself, so it's normal that you haven't seen them before. The other things are all things from my brother's hometown. As for treating your father, this It's a coincidence, it happens to be the right medicine."

"Where is my brother's hometown?"

"In a place far, far away..."

The fire not far from the two of them burned more and more vigorously, and then gradually weakened the fire until it went out.At this time, the elder and the younger had already slept together for a long time.

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This is a story about growing up.