Wang Jianzhang: Corns

Putting on the new leather shoes, people also look energetic, and walk with a spring breeze. After a few days, I felt a grain of sand on my right heel, took off my shoes and rubbed them, put them on and left. Who knew that the next day it was like sand drilling into the shoes, and then taking off the shoes, taking out the insoles and carefully touching them with your hands, and taking them clean before putting them on. But it still hurts, and the road is not good. At night, I poured hot water on it, soaked my feet and touched it at the heel, and it felt a little hard, and it hurt when I pressed it. Raise your legs and look as if you've planted a meat brace. Quickly tell this strange thing to colleagues. The elder teacher Hu said: "That is called chicken eyes, and the shoes are not comfortable to grind out." The middle of the small circle is hard, resembling a corn to get its name. Just put on corn cream and scrape with a knife. ”

This reminds me of the small stalls in the market that specialize in chicken eyes, put up a cloth signboard, pictures and texts, look at the strange but do not care, do not want to really meet today, but also grow knowledge. Corn cream is easy to find, not expensive, and general plasters are the same, but the volume is smaller. I scalded my feet with hot water, aligned them, and walked with springs on the soles of my feet, upside down. Two days later, the corn cream was removed, the meat was soft in a circle, the color was white, and it was not painful to cut with a knife, but it hurt to touch the meat braze slightly. So several times, using three or four plasters, the meat was deeply rooted, the surrounding area was cut into a pit, and when he saw blood, he still insisted on not moving, and the pain was unbearable when he touched it.

Teacher Hu was very enthusiastic and gave a new method. He said that he had a colleague when he was young, who was also troubled by corns, and tried several methods to no avail. One day I couldn't bear it anymore, so I thought of a stupid way. Nail a nail to the bottom of the tree, sit down, and connect the meat brace to the nail with a thin, firm thread. Closing his eyes, holding his breath, slamming his legs together, with an "ah" sound, the flesh with blood was pulled out, and the blood gushed out. Use the medicated cotton pads and alcohol prepared in advance to disinfect and stop the bleeding, wrap up the Yunnan Baiyao, and it will be fine in half a month. Speaking very easily, listening to all the rash people, who dares to do that!

When I was in distress and helplessness, I thought of my middle school classmate Fan Minxue. Minxue University is a medical student and works at a nearby factory staff hospital. When he saw Minxue, he seemed very excited, didn't care, and laughed at me for being in so much pain that he came to him. He said that as long as he was not afraid of pain, it would be fine to use a needle, and he said it very definitely. At this time, pain is not a problem, the key is to be able to remove this flesh thorn as soon as possible, restore foot strength, and turn long pain into pain is the real wish. When I came to the single dormitory of Minxue, I washed my feet and lay on the bed, clutching the head of the bed with my hands. Minxue took out the long needle from the small bag and asked with a smile, "Are you ready?" I said, "Okay," but my body trembled a little. Close your eyes, hold your breath, and wait for the needle. In a panic, the heel seemed to be an electric shock, and the needle was inserted into the flesh. Turning his head to look, he pierced deep enough, lost on the heel, and then pierced through the point further. After a slight pause, Minxue said, "Attention, I am turning the needle." The handle of the needle twisted lightly between the fingers, the needle was peeling in the flesh, the head was sweating with pain, and it was impossible to scream, and his hands were tightly clutching the head of the bed. In this way, it took less than a minute, and then the needle was pulled out, and there was no blood at the eye of the needle. Minxue took a cotton ball to cover the eye of the needle and asked me to press it with my finger. I got up and sat on the bed, and we talked for a while and he said, "Okay, you can go back, in a few days you'll be fine." I asked doubtfully, "Isn't the meat brazing out yet?" He said that the sole of the shoe was not soft, the place was squeezed and ground for a long time, and the blood did not circulate and the flesh was necrotic. As soon as the needle was pierced, it was unclogged, and the meat braze slowly disappeared. I don't understand it, but thinking about it may be the same as the ice in the water melting.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before the wound healed and returned to its original state. For more than twenty years, I occasionally found that there was a swollen meat in the original chicken eyelet when I took a bath, and there was a hard spot in the middle, and it was okay to gently cut it off with my fingernails. At that time, the relationship between classmates was really simple. For many years, there was no contact, but Minxue's indifferent smile was still so clear, and his "needle" kung fu.

Author: Wang Jianzhang, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Weinan Normal College, laid-off worker, is now a security guard of Jinxin Property Company in Linwei District.