"Father's illness" in the morning.

About ten years ago, there was a story of a famous doctor in S city:

His home phone used to be 1 yuan and 40 cents, especially 10 yuan, which doubled in the middle of the night and doubled out of town. One night, the daughter of a family outside the city was seriously ill and came to invite him. Because he was impatient, he asked for 100 yuan. They had to obey him. When I arrived, I just took a look, said "Never mind", wrote a prescription, took 100 yuan and left.

The patient seemed to be rich and was invited again the next day. As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw the host greet him with a smile and said, "I took my husband's medicine last night, which is much better. Please come again." Still being led to the room, the old lady took the patient's hand and paid the bill. As soon as he pressed it, it was cold and had no pulse, so he nodded and said, "Well, I understand the disease."

Slowly walked to the table, took the prescription paper and wrote:

"Pay Angelababy one hundred yuan." Here is the signature, draw a bet.

"Sir, this disease seems to be very serious. I am afraid it will be heavier if you take medicine. " The master said behind his back.

"Yes," he said. So the other party opened a square:

"Buy a ticket for Angelababy for 200 yuan." Here is a signature and a chess piece.

In this way, the shopkeeper received the prescription and sent him out politely.

I have dealt with this famous doctor for two years because he came to see my father every other day. Although it was already famous at that time, it was not so anxious; But the consulting fee is already one yuan and forty cents. In today's cities, it's not unusual to have a consultation for ten yuan at a time, but at that time, one yuan and forty cents was already a huge sum, and it was not easy to raise money. Besides, every other day.

He may be special. According to public opinion, medication is different. I don't know anything about drugs, but I think there are very few "drug introductions". If the new prescription is changed, you will be busy. Buy medicine first, then ask for medicine introduction.

He doesn't need two pieces of ginger and ten pieces of bamboo leaves. At least reed roots must have been dug by the river; Once the sugar cane has been frosted for three years, it will take at least two or three days to find it. But strangely, there are always things that can't be bought later.

Public opinion believes that the magic lies in this place. There was a patient before, and all kinds of drugs were ineffective; It was not until I met Mr. Ye Shi Tian that I added a blind medicine introduction to the old prescription: Wu Tongye. Just one dress, and then it soon recovered. "Doctor, meaning also." It was autumn, and the phoenix tree prophet was autumn. First, we don't give all kinds of medicine, but now we use autumn breath to make them feel angry, so …

I don't know, but I admire it. I know that any panacea must be hard to get. People who ask for immortals even have to go to the mountains to collect them.

After two years, I became familiar with each other and almost became friends. Father's edema is getting worse every day, and he will not get up; I have gradually lost confidence in the sugar cane that has been frosted for three years, and it seems that I am not so enthusiastic about buying medicine. Just then, one day he came to the clinic, asked about the symptoms and said very sincerely:

"All my knowledge has been exhausted. There is also a Mr. Chen Lianhe here, whose technology is higher than mine. I recommend him to have a look. I can write a letter. However, it doesn't matter if you are sick, but with his hand, you can get better soon ... "

It seems that everyone is unhappy this day, so I respectfully sent him to the sedan chair. When I came in, I saw my father's face was very strange, so I chatted with everyone to the effect that my illness was probably hopeless; Because he looked at it for two years, it didn't work, and his face was too familiar and he felt a little hard, so he recommended a green hand at the crucial time and took care of himself completely.

But what else can we do? Besides him, there is only one famous doctor in this city, Chen Lianhe. Invite Chen Lianhe tomorrow.

Chen Lianhe's consulting fee is also one yuan and forty cents. But the famous doctor's face is round and fat, but he has gained weight: this is very different. Medication is different. Last time, a famous doctor could do it himself, but this time, it is not appropriate for him to do it himself, because his prescription always has special pill powder and strange drug introduction.

He has never used reed roots and sugarcane that have been frosted for three years. The most common one is "a pair of crickets", and the small note reads: "The original match, that is, the pair in the same nest." It seems that insects have to be chaste, have mistresses, or die again, or even lose the qualification of medicine. But this job is not difficult for me. You can easily buy ten pairs when you walk into the Herbal Garden. I tied them with a thread and threw them alive into the boiling soup.

However, there are "ten trees on the ground", but no one knows what they are. Ask pharmacies, country people, herbal sellers, old people, scholars and carpenters, and all just shake their heads.

It was not until the end of that day that I remembered my distant uncle, an old man who likes to grow some flowers and trees. He ran to ask before he really knew that it was a small tree born under a tree in the mountains, which could bear red flowers like coral beads. It is usually called "Lao Fu Da".

"Iron shoes have nowhere to break, and they are effortless." The medicine has been found, but there is a special pill: Bai Gujing Pill. This "drumstick pill" is made of broken old drumsticks; Edema is swelling. You can subdue him by breaking a drum skin.

The fortitude of the Qing dynasty, because of its hatred of "foreign devils", was prepared to beat them and trained some soldiers called "Tiger God Camp", which meant that tigers can eat sheep and gods can hide ghosts. This is the truth.

Unfortunately, there is only one company selling this magical medicine in the city, which is five miles away from my home, but unlike flat wood, it has to be sneaky. After Mr. Chen Lianhe opened it, he explained it to us in detail.

"I have a kind of Dan," Mr Chen Lianhe once said. "If you put it on your tongue, I think it will work. Because the tongue is the seedling of the heart. The price is not expensive, as long as two yuan a box ... "

Father pondered for a while and shook his head.

"I can't use this medicine effectively," Mr. Chen Lianhe once said. "I think you can ask someone to have a look, but what's the grievance (qi ā n)? Doctors can cure diseases, but not diseases, right? Naturally, this may be past lives ... "

Father pondered for a while and shook his head.

Any national player can come back to life. We often see such a flat head when we walk past the doctor's door. Now it's time to give in. Even the doctor himself said, "Western medicine is good at surgery and Chinese medicine is good at internal medicine." But there was no western medicine in S City at that time, and no one thought there was so-called western medicine in the world, so anyway, it could only be arranged by disciples of Xuanyuan Qibo.

Xuanyuan is a witch doctor, so until now, his disciples are still ghosts. They think that "the tongue is the spiritual seedling of the heart." This is the "fate" of China people, and even famous doctors can't be cured.

I refuse to put a panacea on my tongue. I can't think of "injustice" Naturally, what's the use of eating "drum pills" for more than 100 days? Still unable to break the edema, my father finally lay in bed panting.

Please pay a visit to Mr. Chen Lianhe. This time it's Teba, and the ocean is ten yuan. He still calmly wrote a prescription, but he stopped taking pills and the drug introduction was not very magical, so the medicine collapsed after frying for a long time, but he came back from the quarrel.

From then on, I no longer deal with Mr. Chen Lianhe, but in the street, I sometimes see him flying around in the fast sedan chair of three bearers. I heard that he is still healthy, practicing medicine, doing Chinese medicine periodicals, and competing with western medicine who is only good at surgery.

There is indeed a little difference between Chinese and western thoughts. It is said that China's dutiful son, as soon as he was about to "delay his parents' sin", bought a few kilograms of ginseng and poured it in the soup, hoping that his parents could catch more weather, even for half a day. One of my doctors taught me a doctor's position: cure what can be cured, and die without pain if it can't be cured. -but this gentleman is naturally a western doctor.

Father gasped for half the weather, and even I heard it with difficulty, but no one could help him. I sometimes think like a flash of lightning: "Let's finish breathing quickly …" I immediately feel that this idea should not be, that is, I have committed a crime; But at the same time, I think this idea is really reasonable. I love my father very much. Even now, I still think so.

In the morning, YanTaitai, who lives behind a door, came in. She is a woman who is proficient in etiquette and says that we should not wait in vain. So he changed his clothes; Then burn the paper ingot and a classic of Gao Wang into ashes, wrap it in paper and hold it in your fist.

"Ah, your father is dying. Call quickly! " YanTaitai said.

"father! Father! " I will scream.

"loudly! He can't hear. Why don't you scream? ! "

"father! ! ! Father! ! ! "

His calm face suddenly became tense and he opened his eyes slightly, as if he were in some pain.

"Call! Call quickly! " She urged.

"father! ! ! "

"What? ..... don't shout. ..... No ... "He whispered, and gasped in my haste. It took him a long time to regain his composure.

"father! ! ! "I called him until he swallowed.

I can still hear my own voice at that time, and every time I hear it, I feel that this is my biggest mistake to my father.

1October 7th.

The main content of Lu Xun's essay "Father's Disease" is this: In Shaoxing City, the author's childhood, his father suffered from severe edema and could not recover for many years. Two doctors called "imperial doctors" were invited to see him at home. The consultation fee is high, many prescriptions have been prescribed, and many strange drugs have been used, but the effect has never been seen.

My father finally passed away. I heard that the imperial doctor still sits on his back every day, living in luxury and strong physique. It's really irritating.

Extended data:

The density of life experience and the scattered atmosphere of the times have created the thoughts of different people in different times. The exaggerated image of "fighter" makes people feel Lu Xun's "coldness" too much, just like his most common photo.

When we put aside Lu Xun's aura and look at the flowers carefully in the morning and evening, we will find a pure land in his heart. It is in this pure land that there are many flashes of human nature, which makes his articles full of warmth.

Lu Xun (188 1 September 25th-19361October/0/9), formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou, was renamed Zhou Shuren in 1898 and later Yucai. A native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is also called "Zhou's three brothers" with his second brother Zhou Zuoren and his third brother Zhou.

His works include essays, short stories, papers, essays and translations of namib desert, which have had a profound influence on China culture after the May 4th Movement. China's main writer in the 20th century, one of the founders of modern novels, vernacular novels and modern literature in China, the leader of the new culture movement and the supporter of the left-wing cultural movement.

President Mao Zedong commented that he was a great proletarian writer, thinker, revolutionary and critic, the main commander of China's cultural revolution and the spirit of China.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Father's Disease