In May 2021, Zhao Yukang the old man unfortunately died of illness. More than 170 villagers came to carry the coffin for him, and more than 1,000 villagers spontaneously came to see Lao Zhao off for the last journey. At the moment the coffin was buried, countless people were crying.
And Lao Zhao is just an ordinary barefoot doctor who lives in the countryside all his life and is the last guardian of the countryside.
The vast North China Plain , which has a history of nearly 3,000 years, silently embellishes it.
In this ancient county, there is a village named after the Ming Dynasty. This is the product of the great immigrants in the early Ming Dynasty and has no other meaning. On the first day of February 1949, the Zhao Yu Gang was born in this unknown village.
His grandfather was a poor scholar. He was so poor that he had no meals, but he forced his only son to study. He also gave him a literary name.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident , the poor scholar asked his son to join the Eighth Route Army, with the pseudonym Zhao Tiechui.
Zhao Tiechui can be both literary and military, and soon became the battalion commander. He is a famous combat hero in the Eighth Route Army Hebei-Shandong Border Region .
people are afraid of becoming famous, so even if they use pseudonyms, there are "smart people" to report the news. So the poor scholar and his wife were captured by " Returning to the Hometown Group " and never came back.
Zhao Tiechu injured one leg during the war and hid at home to recuperate. When his injury healed, the old army had already gone to the Northeast and had changed its number.
Zhao Tiechui is too famous, and the "returning home group" comes to cause trouble every now and then. In desperation, Zhao Tiechui had to change his real name and go to his wife's house to be a son-in-law.
Now I am walking face to face with the people from the "returning home group". People would not have thought that the son-in-law who was hunched over and dragged a lame leg in front of me was Zhao Tiechui they were looking for.
After the end of the Qingcang Battle, all the people in the "Return to the Country" went to the guillotine, and Zhao Tiechui took his wife back to his hometown and lived an ordinary life.
A year later, their son was born and named Zhao Yubang.
Many people say that Zhao Yubang is a child prodigy. When he was in elementary school, the teacher had some words that he didn’t recognize and asked him for advice.
In 1960, 11-year-old Zhao Yubang dropped out of school. It was not because his academic performance was not excellent, but because there were no teachers in the school.
The house was leaking and raining. Zhao Tiechui was isolated and investigated due to the unexplained history during his recovery period.
11-year-old Zhao Yugang took on the burden of his family too early, followed the adults to work during the day, and took care of his frail and sick mother when he went home at night.
A year later, the village primary school reopened, and the 12-year-old Zhao Yubang became the youngest teacher in the school.
Two years later, Cangzhou Health School recruited students, and Zhao Yubang, who did not want to be a teacher and wanted to study, successfully passed the school.
Among the students, he is the youngest and has the richest work experience. Perhaps because he has been a teacher, the 14-year-old Zhao Yubang was called Lao Zhao by his classmates. Not only did the students call him that, but the teachers also shouted that later.
There were very shortage of professional medical staff at that time. After Lao Zhao graduated, he had no worries about not being able to find a good job.
In 1965, Lao Zhao was about to graduate. Zhao Tiechui, who had already become the village party secretary, found the school and ordered his son to return to his hometown to practice medicine after graduation. There are more than 3,000 villagers in their village. The "health care station" built in the village has been built long ago, but there is not even a decent doctor, even the doctor who sells Daliwan.
Even though Lao Zhao was unwilling to do so, his father's orders could not be violated. After graduation, he returned to his hometown and became the webmaster of the village "health station". There was no such thing as a barefoot doctor at that time.
Webmaster has no salary, and the village will give work points , ten a day, 5 cents per work point, and you can earn more than 180 yuan a year.
Not long ago, someone asked a question: What work was relatively leisurely in the production team back then? The answers are varied, but none of them choose barefoot doctors because their hard work is obvious to all.
Village "Health Station" is three low and humid thatched houses, which look full of them. Two of them confiscated the landlord's Chinese medicine cabinet . The top of the cabinet is full of calf paper bags of all sizes. The bags are filled with Chinese medicine, and the villagers call it herbs.
Next to the Chinese medicine cabinet is a Western medicine cabinet, which contains only a few essential cold medicines, which seem empty.
It’s not that Lao Zhao didn’t know the efficacy of Western medicine, but that Western medicine was short of at that time and could not buy it even if he had money, let alone not having money.
The most prepared health care stations are red potions (2% red mercury and 98% alcohol or water tincture), anti-inflammatory powder, purple potions (gentian purple), rubber cream, bandages, etc.
A large village with more than 3,000 people are injured almost every day, especially those cut by sickles when the wheat is ripe, which often fills the house.
Lao Zhao is always patient, treating the wound with anti-inflammatory treatment and then carefully bandaging it. Generally, if you don’t do suture treatment at this time, it will be useless if you do it. Turn back, the wounded picked up the sickle and went to the ground to cut the wheat.
At that time, there were many children in rural areas. Whenever the wheat harvest was harvested in autumn, the school gave the children a holiday. Those boys who were idle were most keen on fighting, and they often had their heads bleed.
Every time this happens, Lao Zhao becomes very serious. If the child is young, head injury is likely to leave sequelae. After the wound is treated, it is usually necessary to use suture suture. Boys are active but not quiet, and the wounds are not easy to heal naturally.
Lao Zhao is good at skill. After he sutured the wound, 7 days stitches and were removed, and there was no scar at all.
Lao Zhao is famous. The villagers in all villages will also seek treatment for Lao Zhao if they are injured.
In order to make boys less fights, they usually pay for the fight costs.
is free to treat wounds. After Lao Zhao has treated the wound, he will tell the children's parents very seriously: the child's head is bleeding, which may affect the child's intelligence in the future. Go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy kilograms of walnuts for the child to replenish his brain.
At that time, a pound of walnuts cost more than three yuan, which was similar to a bottle of Moutai liquor . The parents of children naturally couldn't bear to buy them, but they were really worried about the sequelae of their children, so they bought walnuts for one or two taels.
For children in the countryside, walnuts are a rare delicacy. Since you can enjoy this delicacy by breaking your head, the children are even more happy with fighting, so that the walnuts from the supply and marketing cooperatives are often sold out. The saying "break your head and compensate for walnuts" spread wildly.
Prescription note used by barefoot doctors
In a sense, the clinical experience of barefoot doctors is much richer than that of doctors in large hospitals.
In the summer of 1971, a little boy drowned while taking a shower in a nearby village. After more than half an hour of emergency rescue, the barefoot doctor in the village still did not breathe.
The child's parents cried and cried, and Lao Zhao happened to pass by. He borrowed a cow from the production team and lie on the back of the cow. He led the cow and circled around the child's drowning pond, and rumbling around the child's drowning pond. Warn the " water ghost " in the pond. If you continue to act evil again, drain the water in the pond and make it have no place to live in the world.
Later some people said that Lao Zhao was engaged in feudal superstition, but those present at that time believed Lao Zhao's words.
After more than an hour, the child miraculously resumed his breathing.
Every spring and autumn, superiors will carry out water conservancy projects, commonly known as "carrying rivers" in rural areas. Young and middle-aged people in the village have to bring their luggage and tools, walk to their work location, and the farthest one has to go out three or four hundred miles.
As the barefoot doctor with the richest clinical experience in the village, Lao Zhao always appears on the first place on the list every time he goes out to "snatch the river", without exception for more than 20 years.
Another year went to Tianjin to "picture the river". A young farmer from Ningjin got tetanus . His abdomen was severely spasm . His torso twisted backwards to the limit and was in a bow shape. The doctors who came to the hospital were helpless.
Finally, Lao Zhao said that he has a folk remedy for treating tetanus, you can try it. Anyway, there is no other choice, just treat it as a living horse.
Lao Zhao pried open the patient's mouth, clamped the tongue with forceps, and then cut the purple blood vessels under the tongue with scalpel , and a sticky black blood flowed out, with a strong fishy smell.
I don’t know if it is another basis or a mistake, but the patient recovered on the second day and never had a recurrence again.
Lao Zhao In Beijing
In the summer of 1977, epidemic encephalitis broke out in the local area and it developed very rapidly. Lao Zhao picked many weeds commonly known as heroes ( beef tendon grass ) from the field, boiled juice in a big pot and sent it to the school, forcing every student to drink a bowl.
Popular encephalitis not only affects intelligence, but also induces severe gray hair. In the surrounding villages, many gray-haired primary school students appeared.
Only the children from Lao Zhao and the village were infected because they drank the strange-smelling medicine.
is facing farmers with loess facing the sky. Overwork has caused many people to suffer from arthritis, strokes, and there is also a kind of "hysteria" that cannot be explained by science.
If you have these diseases, most people choose to be counted as one day. They have no money to be hospitalized for treatment. The most important thing is that the hospital cannot cure these diseases.
. Lao Zhao usually uses acupuncture to treat these diseases.
Especially for the treatment of "hysteria", acupuncture is the most effective treatment method, and it doesn't cost much money.
The patients who are most afraid of head treatment by barefoot doctors are those who are poisoned by pesticides. gastric lavage , enema, and it takes a day to make a toss.
The barefoot doctor has another job, which is to collect herbs, such as cicada shed , snake skin, dandelions, loofah pulp, bat shit, horoscope, earthen grass . As long as Lao Zhao sees it, he will pick it up and make herbal medicine. I don’t know how effective these things are. Anyway, it’s one advantage - cheap.
A rural laborer works hard and earns only a few cents a day. He wants to spend a penny in half. When they see a doctor, there is nothing more important than cheaper.
Unified Price List of Medicines used by Barefoot Doctors
Barefoot Doctors also have another feature of Barefoot Doctors is that they are convenient for use. Because someone gets an acute illness, Lao Zhao is often awakened late at night. There are more than 40 miles to the county town, all of which are bumpy and uneven dirt roads.
The patient was lying on the tractor hanger, and Lao Zhao and the patient's family were sitting next to the patient. With the roar of the tractor, he drove straight toward County Hospital .
The tractor can be opened as fast as possible, in order to save more time and prevent patients from having accidents on the road.
The summer is better, and it is more than minus 20 degrees Celsius at the night of the twelfth lunar month in the winter. When he arrived at the hospital, Lao Zhao was almost frozen and he still had to struggle to send the patient to the emergency room .
Lao Zhao experienced more than 300 times in such a case of sending patients to the patient late at night. Due to the timely and proper handling, no accidents have occurred.
One year in the twelfth month, when the tractor arrived at the hospital, it was already dawn. The dean was Lao Zhao's classmate. That day, he was on duty. Looking at Lao Zhao with a cold face, the dean said emotionally: "Why are you doing this? With your skills, you are more than enough to be a technical dean. If you stay in the countryside, it is the biggest waste."
Lao Zhao smiled bitterly and said, "We will talk about those idiots when we have time. Let's arrange for the patient I sent to be hospitalized first."
When he heard that Lao Zhao was going to work in the hospital, the villagers were mixed feelings. In the next nearly a month, no one woke Lao Zhao up late at night.
Until the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month that year, a villager died of sudden illness. Lao Zhao knew the condition of the villagers very well. If he could be sent to the hospital for treatment in time, he would not have any life-threatening danger.
The family of the deceased was heartbroken. He knelt in front of Lao Zhao and said in tears: Everyone in the village knows your affairs. I am afraid that you will never go back, so I didn’t dare to trouble you. If you leave, everyone in our village will poke my backbone.
Lao Zhao replied: I will not leave. I will be born here and buried here even if I die. I will never leave here in my life.
Lao Zhao has no hobbies and reads medical books in his spare time. He has learned to extract teeth, inlaid, bone correction, and bone assembly, but what makes people talk about the most is his acupuncture technique.
Lao Zhao's notes
The most ridiculous one was that one year, several classmates who had already achieved success came to visit Lao Zhao together, and finally found him in a village pigpen.
At this moment, Lao Zhao was holding a huge syringe in his hand and was injecting a pig behind his ear.
Several students laughed and said, "I didn't expect that our top student was actually an excellent veterinarian."
Lao Zhao replied seriously: "Who stipulates that barefoot doctors cannot treat pigs? A pig is equivalent to half a family for ordinary farmers."
There are a total of 12 production teams and more than 100 large livestock in the village. They get sick and are also cured by Lao Zhao.
The villagers have great trust in Lao Zhao. Even if a chicken is sick, the first thing they think of is "let Doctor Zhao give him an injection."
Lao Zhao's medical skills are not considered superb in the eyes of his peers. But in the village, he has unparalleled prestige.
The young couple quarreled, and the woman ran back to her parents' home. As long as Lao Zhao took action, she came to the woman's house and said: Dr. Zhao is here to pick you up. The woman followed obediently, without exception.
Several of Lao Zhao's classmates worked in the army and gave him two brand new military uniforms. Lao Zhao also used his savings for many years to buy a watch, bicycle and sewing machine.
Lao Zhao put all these things on the village health care station. The young man in the village went on a blind date, put on his military uniform, rode his bicycle, brought his watch, put his sewing machine at home, and then took the girl who was on the blind date. The success rate of the blind date was 100%.
Although after getting married, all these things will be returned to Lao Zhao, there is some deceptive meaning, but the new wife doesn’t say anything else. If someone who doesn’t care about this, it’s just meddling in other people’s business.
Someone once joked with Lao Zhao: With three big pieces and two military uniforms, he cheated back more than 40 new wives like flowers for this young man in the village.
Lao Zhao replied with a smile: I am optimistic about the girls in our village, don’t let people use this method to deceive them.
With the development of the times, barefoot doctors have become a historical term. Lao Zhao's health care station has been dissolved, and Lao Zhao has also changed from a barefoot doctor to a village doctor.
Give the children vaccinations, treat the villagers, and give medicine on time to the military and martyrs in the village, as well as the elderly who are lonely and widowed. Still busy all day. He did not feel that his era had passed.
When other village doctors treat colds, they will hang infusion bottles for the patient without hesitation, Lao Zhao is still adhering to his 200 cents theory, 4 packs of medicine for treating colds, one pack of seven cents to ensure that the medicine is cured.
Lao Zhao did this to hurt the interests of some people. That year, someone found Lao Zhao's pharmacy in a fierce manner and asked him to show his medical qualification certificate.
When Lao Zhao took out the certificate of the chief physician, the people were stunned and left in shame.
After some days, these people made a comeback. This time they are looking for a medical license. Lao Zhao does not have this certificate of
, and he doesn’t know who to apply for it. I could only watch those people take his medicine away.
At this time, Lao Zhao was over 60 years old and had no ambitions of his youth. The disheartened Lao Zhao closed the pharmacy where he had put in 40 years of hard work.
The villagers in the village did not forget Lao Zhao. They had a headache and fever, so they were used to finding Lao Zhao for treatment.
I didn’t expect this would cause greater trouble to Lao Zhao. “ Illegal Practice of Medicine ” is a big crime. Fortunately, Lao Zhao’s classmates were spared from prison.
Director and Lao Zhao
Not long after, several hospitals sent Lao Zhao invitation letters to him and asked him to go to the clinic. For some reason, Lao Zhao refused one by one.
Lao Zhao locked himself in the yard and learned to drown his sorrows by drinking. When he got drunk, he lamented that he had a miserable fate. He had to insist on being a teacher back then, but now he has at least five or six thousand yuan in retirement. If you graduate from a medical school and don’t go back to your hometown, you will have a house, a car and a pension in the city.
But now he has no house, no car, no pension, and no pension insurance. Nothing was left behind except for a good reputation.
A few years ago, the relevant departments began to pay 400 yuan in retirement payments to the barefoot doctors of that year, which was not even enough to treat a cold once.
In February 2021, Lao Zhao was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, and everyone decided to keep his condition confidential.
But this trick can't be hidden from the experienced Lao Zhao at all, but he didn't say anything.
Three months later, Lao Zhao passed away. When sorting out the relics, he made new marks on the pancreatic cancer column in the medical books he collected. He even prescribed a Chinese medicine prescription for himself to treat pancreatic cancer.
However, Lao Zhao never let anyone take this prescription for him, which means he completely gave up the treatment. For Lao Zhao, this is also a kind of relief.
Lao Zhao went, and the whole village was immersed in sorrow. The villagers used their own ways to express their nostalgia for Lao Zhao.
The villagers can't afford a wreath, nor will they go to Lao Zhao's coffin to cry in a false way. The villagers chose to carry the coffin. The coffin weighing more than 3,000 kilograms was required to carry 32 people. When they were tired and sweating, they silently took the heavy coffin bar.
From three kilometers away from the cemetery, the coffin carried the coffin changed batch after batch, but never let the coffin land.
The coffin was buried. The local middle school principal, Lao Zhao's former student, sang and cried: Brother! You hurt me so much! Then he wailed on the ground and cried loudly.
Suddenly, there was a sob around him.
According to the rules, Lao Zhao's son should kowtow to the helper to thank the people. But when he fell to the ground, almost everyone kneeled down and returned the greeting.
There are only a few elders who helped Lao Zhao's son up and choked and said, "Your father is a good person. The men, women, young and old in our village owe him a favor."
In front of the high bulging grave, the villagers donated a tall monument. The lines of words are engraved on it: Mr. Yubang, the last guardian of the countryside, has passed through the ages. In the local rural areas, villagers are accustomed to calling teachers and doctors both gentlemen.
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