Meng Yan's Transformation

Zhan Yu and his family came to the Great Northern Wilderness of Heilongjiang, and were settled by an old classmate in the Aobao Fourth Production Team of the Fendou Commune in Longjiang County. This is a remote mountain village surrounded by mountains on three sides. The mountains are not very high. There are only some short shrubs, weeds, and thorns on the mountain... From a distance, it looks bare. When you approach the hillside, you can see the dry and cracked soil, like a giant's face engraved with vicissitudes of time, full of indescribable desolation...

As Zhan Yu's family had just arrived and was unfamiliar with the place, Zhan Yu's old classmate asked someone to find a barefoot doctor job for Zhan Yu. The third son, Zhan Zichuan, went to the production team and learned to be a breeder from the old breeder, mainly feeding livestock used for farming, such as horses, cows, donkeys, mules, etc. The fourth son, Zhan Ziqiang, herded pigs and sheep for the production team. The fifth son, Zhan Zian, went to school. The sixth son, Zhan Zixun, the seventh son, Zhan Zijie, the eighth son, Zhan Zikang, and the ninth daughter, Yingying and Xiao Mengyan, were all at home, and Tong Yunqing was doing housework at home. As a newcomer, they had to borrow the ear room of a relative of Zhan Yu's old classmate. The family was crowded with the big north-south kang...

Every morning, Yunqing got up early to make breakfast. When she opened the door, she was often surprised: someone always put a basket of potatoes, a few eggs, a bag of millet, a bag of soybeans, a few radishes or a small bag of cornmeal in front of her house... Yunqing found the production team leader and asked whose family had lost the food. The production team leader told her earnestly: "Yunqing, the food and vegetables left at your door are all the villagers' silent help to the newcomers. You should accept them with peace of mind. You don't need to be surprised. If the villagers delivered them to your house personally, they might be afraid that you would not accept them, or that you are shy and don't want others to know about your difficulties..."

Zhan Yu's family had just settled down. Except for Zhan Zichuan, all the children in the family were infected with the local Keshan disease. They all had high fevers, and some also had diarrhea, headaches, nausea, palpitations and other symptoms. Yunqing was very busy when the children were sick. Each child needed careful care, which made Yunqing overwhelmed and overwhelmed. The most serious one was Zhan Zikang, who was unconscious and refused to eat or drink. Zhan Yu's medical skills did not work on the children, making Zhan Yu feel helpless. He was so anxious that he rubbed his hands and stamped his feet, and walked around in the house like an ant on a hot pot... Yunqing looked at the sick children helplessly. Tears welled up in her eyes. She wiped the sweat off one child and fed water to another...

One day, Zhan Yu's old classmate brought Aunt Zhang, who specializes in treating local Keshan disease in the village, and several elders in the village. As soon as Aunt Zhang entered the house, she checked the sick children one by one. Zhan Yu and Yun Qing briefly explained the children's conditions, saying that the severity of each child's illness was different, so the treatment methods were also different, but they all needed bloodletting treatment, and the location of the bloodletting needles for each sick child was also different. If bloodletting treatment was not timely, it would be life-threatening. People with this local disease would die in two hours at the fastest... Zhan Yu and Yun Qing were horrified and wide-eyed, their faces were ashen, their tongues were stiff, and they just nodded desperately, signaling Aunt Zhang to use needles quickly to treat the sick children with bloodletting. When Aunt Zhang opened her large needle bag for acupuncture, the children who were still conscious cried when they saw such long needles, and some even jumped off the kang to escape, but were caught and held down by adults. For a while, the children's crying, running around, Zhan Yu's scolding, Yun Qing's comforting voice...all kinds of sounds merged into one!

After bleeding the sick child, Aunt Zhang was so exhausted that she could not walk. The acupuncture points for bloodletting must be correct. If there is any mistake, the life of the child will be threatened. Aunt Zhang must concentrate highly every time she does bloodletting, and in this noisy room, it is difficult for ordinary people to concentrate...

The fourth brother, Zhan Ziqiang, had the most acupuncture points bled, more than twenty in number, and the treatment was the most complicated. After each bled point was bled, it would be circled with a brush dipped in cinnabar. He was shirtless and had a whip hung around his neck because the disease he had was called "monkey disease". Ziqiang was sweating profusely from the pain, but he endured it without saying a word. Only Xiao Mengyan had the fewest acupuncture points bled, only at two points on her temples, and Xiao Mengyan was also the one with the mildest disease.

After the children were treated with bloodletting, their conditions improved to varying degrees, except for the eighth child, Zhan Zikang, who remained in a coma for several days and never woke up...

When Yunqing went to the mountain to bury the eighth son, Zhan Zikang, she cried bitterly: "I regret that I should not have come to the Great Northern Wilderness, and I should not have brought little Zikang with me..." Yunqing said while crying. Because before coming to the Great Northern Wilderness Heilongjiang from Liaoxi, a good friend of Zhan Yu who had been married for many years and had no children came to her home many times to adopt Zhan Zikang. Yunqing thought: If I had left little Zikang with my friend, Zhan Zikang would have lived a happy life now. It was my and Zhan Yu's reluctance that harmed poor Zikang...

The mountains and rivers beside me make me cry, who should I blame for this love and hatred?

After many days of hard work and excessive grief, Yunqing suffered a miscarriage and became seriously ill...

Sick children need someone to take care of them, so the production team leader convened a meeting of all members of Aobao Team 4 to discuss who would take care of the sick children of Zhan Yu's family. They would take Yun Qing back after she recovered.

Zhan Zian went to one of his classmates' house, Zhan Zixun went to the production team leader's house, Zhan Zijie went to the old breeder's house, Yingying and Xiao Mengyan went to Song Ergu's house in the front yard...