The dragon is alive

Chapter 3 Dad's Hope

After Xiaolong's mother left, people around and passers-by began to watch. It is an old habit of Chinese people to watch the excitement. As long as there is something strange, there will be a group of people around, and Xiaolong's head will be smashed. , is an example, some adults even brought their children forward and said: "Look, this brother broke his head because he was naughty. You can't go crazy like this in the future."Hearing that someone used himself as an example to teach children, Xiaolong could only lower his head, he didn't have the guts to quarrel with those who watched the excitement.

The doctor also turned around to prepare the injections and asked Xiaolong to sit on the chair next to him and wait. After a while, the doctor came to Xiaolong with a disposable syringe full of medicine and said, "Come on, let's get a tetanus shot first. This way you won’t get sepsis.” It seems that this private doctor is really good, knowing that for an injury like Xiaolong’s, he needs a tetanus shot first to prevent it.

Not long after the injection, Xiaolong's mother brought an old man to the hospital. The old man carried a wooden box, which contained his food. When the doctor saw the old man coming, he hurriedly said, "Master, please help take this young man's food away." His head is shaved, and I will sew up his wounds."

"Oh, let me take a look first," the old man who shaved his head replied.

Walking up to Xiaolong, he plucked his hair, looked at the wound and said, "It's a bit difficult to shave the hair around the wound, but I can shave off the rest of the hair first, and then deal with the wound slowly." s hair".

"Okay, you can do it quickly, you can see that his wound is still bleeding," the doctor replied.

The master quickly opened his toolbox and took out a razor for shaving the head and a small broom for dipping in water.Let Xiaolong lower his head, and the master started to work. Since it was summer, Xiaolong didn't have any clothes on him, so the apron for shaving his head was also saved.

Soon the place where there was no wound on the little dragon's head was shaved bald by the master skillfully, and then he was about to treat the hair around the wound. The doctor on the side said: "Wait a minute, let me wash the sand from the wound first, by the way It can also be sterilized." After speaking, he turned and went to get the disinfectant.

The old master stopped what he was doing and waited for the doctor to take care of him. The doctor took a bottle of medical alcohol, opened the bottle cap, came to Xiaolong, asked him to stretch his head forward, and then the doctor poured medical alcohol on the small dragon's head. rinse the wound.

"Ouch! Ouch, doctor, it hurts so much!" Xiaolong, who had never complained of pain, yelled out because of the pain from the alcohol cleaning the wound.

"Hey, I don't hurt, it's you who hurts." The doctor laughed when he heard Xiaolong tell the doctor that it hurts.

When the surrounding spectators and patients heard what the doctor said, they all burst into laughter. Hearing the laughter around him, Xiaolong gritted his teeth, endured the pain, and never cried out again.

After the bottle of alcohol was used up, the doctor said: "Okay, it's your turn, the master. You can clean the wound after you shave his hair off."Now it was replaced by a barber, and in a short while, Xiaolong's hair was kicked clean, let alone this barber, the technique of shaving his head was not bad, even the hair around the wound on Xiaolong's head was shaved dry clean.

The master was about to leave after shaving his head. Xiaolong's mother asked him how much it was, and the master said it was only two yuan. Teacher: "Come on, master, here is five yuan. You don't need to look for it. You can see that you made a special trip and handled it so well. How can two yuan be enough?" Pushing to the right, the master finally charged five yuan and left.

The doctor is also seriously treating the wound on Xiaolong's head. He cleans it first, and the doctor stops cleaning until the three bottles of medical alcohol are used up.

"Young man, you don't need anesthesia at such a young age, and anesthesia on your head is not good for you, so you have to hold back later," the doctor said to Xiaolong.

"Come on doctor, I am not afraid of pain".

Hearing Xiaolong said that he was not afraid, the doctor also started to work, but when the thick and curved needle in his hand pierced Xiaolong's scalp, Xiaolong gritted his teeth, and there was a "hissing" sound of inhaling.

"Hehe, it hurts, right? Endure the pain. Who told you to go crazy if you have nothing to do? Let's see if you dare to play in the Dragon Cave after this lesson." Xiaolong's mother said beside her.

"Oh, it turned out that he was injured in the Paolong Cave! Today's children are getting more and more courageous, and they dare to go anywhere," said a bystander.Then a lot of people started to echo it, and started to say that some kids did this and that and other bold things.

After more than half an hour, the doctor finally took care of Xiaolong's wound and prescribed medicine for a few days. Xiaolong's mother paid the money and took him home.On the way, Xiaolong repeatedly asked his mother not to let his father know about it.

Xiaolong's father was uneducated, and his biological father died when he was very young. Later, his mother remarried, and Xiaolong's father followed his mother to the husband's side. So this stepfather did not let Xiaolong's father go to school, but let him do farm work since he was a child. Although Xiaolong's father is thin and thin, but because he has been doing farm work since he was a child, he has developed his strength. This may be the reason why children from poor families are in charge of the family early.

Xiaolong's father works at the railway station in the town. He is not a formal railway worker, but a temporary coolie, who is responsible for loading and unloading goods on the train. Dad has to go to work, so he usually doesn’t go home very often. Even though he is only 10-[-] minutes away from home, his meals are delivered to him at that time. He has to stay at the station all day and start working when the train arrives. .

Originally, after Xiaolong’s grandma remarried, the man’s family made a living by butchering pigs. Although Xiaolong’s father also learned how to butcher pigs since he was a child, but after he got married, he was uneducated, could not write and counted, so he just killed pigs. He couldn't do it, so he teamed up with others, and because he couldn't settle accounts, others kept plotting against him, so he simply gave up slaughtering pigs and found a job as a coolie at the town's train station.But since Xiaolong was born, his father had hope. No matter how hard it was, he had to let his son read a lot of books and not go his own way.So he gave his son a famous name, Yang Wenlong, which is the little dragon we smashed our heads today.His father said that his son should have a high level of culture and become a dragon when he grows up. This kind of thinking is also the common thinking of all parents in the world. He hopes that his children will become dragons and phoenixes when they grow up.

Xiaolong and his mother returned home, and Long's mother also started to make dinner, because maybe he would have to deliver food to his father in the evening, and Xiaolong also went into the house to rest under his mother's urging.When Xiaolong was lying on the bed alone in a daze, his mother suddenly ran in and said, "Xiaolong, your father is back. He has to eat dinner before going to the station. He will definitely find out about you. You can watch it yourself." After finishing speaking, Xiaolong's mother left the room and continued to make dinner.

(End of this chapter)