? "If life were a book, what category would you want you to be categorized in? If you were to grow old, what kind of old age would you want to live? Do you ...... believe in fate?" I was at a loss for words at his barrage of questions, and he slanted his mouth and smiled mysteriously.
He asked me to the crystal flower room that he had just arranged, this house is surrounded by glass, including the roof is also transparent, bright moonlight irradiated into the sky full of stars clearly visible, "What a beautiful night!" I couldn't help but marvel. He brought a bottle of red wine, poured it into a tall glass and handed it to my side, "No tea at night," he smiled.
"Have you heard of Wang Shude?" I froze, "of course, Dr. Wang, medical skill, known far and near, patients from five provinces and nineteen counties and cities, a lot of the disease in Beijing can not be cured to in his cure," I recalled. Once went to his clinic, the old dilapidated house, can not accommodate a few people, inside the light is not good, almost nothing medical equipment, if not to listen to the introduction of others, the general public can not find this, even if you find, look at the conditions, to let the city people to see a little bit of talk is also to be disdained a bit. But just as the old saying "the mountain is not high, there is a fairy is famous, the water is not deep, there is a dragon is spiritual", so because Mr. Wang's medical skills, good medical ethics, reputation, every time he saw a doctor to see a doctor, you have to register a week in advance in order to get in line. Dr. Wang, once the president of the county hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, or the founder of it! I have a few old folks used to suffer from varicose veins, psoriasis, rheumatism, in the province's big hospitals are not cured, but in this cure, the key is the price is also very cheap, everyone said Dr. Wang is a living God.
The key is that this old man is particularly strange. The key is that this old man is particularly strange. Speaking coldly but also funny, "Dr. Wang, I can still smoke in the future?" "You can, you do not want to live on the smoke it"; "Dr. Wang, I next time what time to come to the right?" "You don't have to come anymore" "Huh? Because it's already cured?" "Because you don't listen." There is even more strange, he does not let others give him publicity, "Dr. Wang, your ability to see the disease can be really powerful, I introduced you ah to my friends, they will be here in a few days to see the doctor", that Dr. Wang lifted his eyes from the frame of the glasses to look at, coldly said "who let you tell them, after you are all Not allowed to go out to the public, now these people still can't see it, but also dare to pass, want to exhaust me ah?". I'm not going to be able to do that. Of course, the strange man to see the strange disease, he said to the patients that he specializes in the treatment of difficult cases, so the more elsewhere can not see the disease, the more he is interested in.
"I heard the old man died last year, aye, what a shame", I shook my head sadly and went to sip my wine with my head down. "The ones you know are the ones everyone knows", "Is there much more to him that is not known?" I wondered, "His whole life, is a bowl of Chinese medicine, drink up bitter, but also can not taste exactly put which individual herbs, chaos in the bottom of the bowl can not be seen, even if it is poured into the belly, the drinker's mouth is still going to be bitter for a long time ah."
He looked up at the starry sky, pondering. "He is the dragon year of the second day of the second month of the dragon raised his head that day, his character, appearance and the trigram book is exactly the same, coincidentally died just a few days before the second day of the second month of the second day of the dragon brake north of the hour, this is to collect the dragon return to the sky of the day", he paused, "the dragon, such a spirit of the strange species, but also and he was so fateful ". I looked at him suspiciously, "It's quite a coincidence".
"He seems to have done only one thing in his life, is to see a doctor, his own body was originally good, everyone saw all praised him for his spirit, but who knows that he was suffering from cancer, just found out that it is the late stage, said no on no more. In the last days of his life was in the hospital, his whole body is full of all kinds of tubes, into the intensive care unit twice", he suddenly turned his head to look at me with frightened eyes "Do you know what it's like to be in the intensive care unit? No matter day or night, the big white lights are shining on you, your relatives can only come in to visit you at certain times, and the rest of the time, you are at the mercy of the nurses and doctors, who will push you around in various glass wards, plus the effect of the medicine makes you feel like the sky is spinning around, and unknowingly pass out, and it's good to pass out, and then you don't know anything anymore. It's hard to wait for the family to visit, you can only watch them say live, tell you 'you have to be strong, you are good', how you want to shout 'I want to get out, let me get out! But that damn tube in your mouth won't let you get a word out. Most of the rest of the time it's just fighting that peripheral pain, and you can't tell where it hurts, it's so annoying that you want to pull out all those peripheral tubes and jump off the ward and rush out, but you don't even have the strength to lift your arms, ah, and that damned big bulb, the tears just about to come out and dry up in the sun." He shook his head with a pained expression.
I shook his hand for comfort. He continued, "It doesn't get any better when he's not in the ICU, his sanity is not clear from time to time under the effect of drugs, he can't even remember the list of medicines that he is most proud of, which he pinches with his hands, it's a time of great loss and pain. The funniest part was at night", he smiled at me, "under the effect of the medicine, he would yell and curse the children who came to serve him, 'Help, who will help me? Someone is trying to harm me!' In the stillness of the hospital bed, he would cry out in terror, 'I want to go back to my ward, where is this again, please let me go back to my original ward'; in the dead of night, he would jump out of the hospital bed with all his strength like an outlaw, and his children who served him would be shocked, and help him to run around the floor. while shouting at the top of his voice, 'Run, go home, run!'"
He put his glass down and clasped his head in his hands, "He was such a facetious person that he ended up living like a madman. You know what? He is a person who loves face so much, he hates the way he is getting old, and he hates it even more when people treat him as an old man. He never let his children celebrate his birthday so as not to remind him of the fact that he was growing old, he wore a black wig, had to dye his eyebrows black, and had to get rid of the age spots on his face, he wanted to remain a refreshed old boy!"
"He's smart and he can specialize, so he's able to learn the deep arts of medicine. But there was also something he couldn't learn, he couldn't learn how to express himself, how to express his love, when he was young he spent very little time with his family because he was so busy with his work, he couldn't read his wife's mind or his children's minds, he had to do what he thought was perhaps what a husband should do, or perhaps what a father should do, and there were a lot of times he did things wrong, but he never wanted to admit it, but neither did he know how to remedy it. He liked to watch the news very much, after watching the local news he watched the central news, and then the international news, he believed that every word said in the news was true, he simply thought that caring about the affairs of the country should be what a citizen should do, right?"
I looked at the red wine rattling in my glass and said sadly, "What a nice guy, what a cute guy!" He stuffed a slice of candied ginger into his mouth, "He's a man who loves to lie to himself, he often encourages old people to 'seventy, eighty little brother, ninety, one hundred is not surprising', but in fact that's for his own ears. The world is unpredictable ah, until the end he realized that life is short, should be in time, he said to his children 'I learned to live, go back ah, give me to buy new clothes and electric cars, I want to live!'"
He looked at the stars in the sky, his eyes flashed, "If he is a book, no one will want to read, boring and difficult to understand, there is a bitter taste of medicine", "then he is a medical book ah, there will be a lot of love in the heart of the people to read! "
When he said goodbye to the world when the body is still full of tubes, vaguely hear, see the children, relatives and friends are crying and shouting, he also cried, but how to do it, if there is a next life he has to change the way to live, people, the most important thing in life is still the love!
I nodded heavily, my nose was sore and I wanted to go home. I asked him, "I heard that Dr. Wang only has four daughters, you are his what people, actually so understand him?" He froze for a moment and smiled warmly, "It's getting late, go home!"