Chapter 134 Chapter 134

Ye Qing thought that Song Hongying's pregnancy was not so strange. As long as she took good care of her body, ovulated normally, and the man did not have problems with weak or dead sperm, she could have a baby at the age of 46, let alone 36.

But just because Ye Qing didn't take it seriously didn't mean that Song Hongying and Xu Xianzhen had the same mentality as her.

After all, Song Hongying has been unable to conceive for more than a decade, and has become obsessed with it. She has fallen into a state of madness. If she continues like this, she will probably drive herself crazy.

Now there is finally good news, and Song Hongying can finally relax the tension in her heart.

Therefore, Ye Qing's move not only saved Song Hongying's marriage and family, but also saved Song Hongying's life.

Although the two of them spent a lot of money buying the medical consultation number from the villagers of Kaoshantun this time, Song Hongying did not think it was expensive at all. Instead, she felt that the money did not reach Ye Qing's hands, making Ye Qing suffer a loss.

However, the health station has posted rules and regulations on its outer wall during this period, which clearly stipulate that in addition to consultation fees, no medical staff of the health station are allowed to accept any additional property from patients. Patients and their families are also required not to secretly give doctors red envelopes of thanks. Once discovered, medical staff who violate the regulations will be severely punished, and serious violations will be directly dismissed.

Seeing that the health station was becoming more and more prosperous, with patients begging to come every day, some of the villagers around who were smart immediately became interested and thought that there was profit to be made here. As long as they became doctors at the health station, they could just ask for some benefits from the patients and live a good life with plenty of food and drink.

So even though many people failed to meet Ye Qing's standards when she recruited apprentices last time, there were still many people who refused to give up.

These people have been eyeing the jobs at the health station, thinking that since their children cannot become Ye Qing's apprentices, they might as well find another way out and do something else at the health station.

If you can't be a doctor and prescribe medicine, can you also do odd jobs like making fire, boiling medicine, sifting and grinding herbs? Anyway, as long as you work in a health station, you will come into contact with patients. Isn't it easy to make extra money from it?

Therefore, ever since the health station became popular, many villagers have come to Ye Qing's place and tried to use their connections to get their children in through her backdoor. The reasons and excuses those uncles and aunts gave were varied, with all kinds of weird logic.

Moreover, these villagers have their own filters of parenthood, and when they praise their own children, it is absolutely from the bottom of their hearts. Every one of them claims that their child is a genius prodigy, as if if Ye Qing missed it, it would be like losing a medical miracle, a terrible loss. Their confident and solemn looks made Ye Qing speechless and at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Perhaps seeing through those people's thoughts, not long after, Ye Qing posted a set of rules and regulations specifically for the medical staff of the health station outside the health station.

As soon as this rule came out, work at the health station immediately lost its appeal, and the surrounding villagers who had been trying hard to get their children into the health station also gave up.

If we are not allowed to charge benefit fees from patients, then what is the point of working in this health station? We have to be busy inside and outside every day, and have to follow Ye Qing everywhere. We work so hard but only earn so few work points. We can earn more than doing farm work in the production team.

Ye Qing's move finally made her ears quieter. She had no shortage of money or worries about food and drink, so she didn't want the red envelopes that the patients gave her for benefits.

Fearing that her apprentices might make mistakes due to financial constraints, she gave them special lessons and instructed them in person to strictly abide by the rules and regulations of the health station.

Of course, as a master, she would not keep blocking things. Ye Qing understood the principle that it is better to loosen than to block, and she would not be stingy with the salary subsidy.

In addition, Ye Qing also tried his best to arrange some extra money-making opportunities for several apprentices, such as giving training courses to the production brigade under the Red Flag Commune last time, teaching sows the technology of artificial insemination of sows; taking them to work outside the army farm; submitting their articles to Hang Tingfang, looking for opportunities to earn coupons and subsidies from the newspaper, etc.

In short, while studying and working under Ye Qing, Ye Qing would definitely not let his own people suffer losses. Although the rules and regulations on the surface directly cut off the medical staff's source of income, the subsidies in private were enough to make the pockets of several female apprentices bulge.

But these are not something that can be told to outsiders. After all, in Ye Qing's view, being a doctor cannot just focus on utilitarianism. Saving the dying and the wounded is the doctor's vocation, but people who value money are not pure enough in their mentality, and do not respect and love this profession enough. It is easy for them to go astray in the process of practicing medicine and eventually go down a path of no return. Therefore, Ye Qing only wants people who truly love this industry. If they come for the benefit of patients, Ye Qing will not thank such people, and she will never accept them no matter how talented they are.

Of course, this topic has gone too far. Let's just talk about Song Hongying. She is grateful for Ye Qing's help and she really wants to express her gratitude to Ye Qing, but the health station does not allow red envelopes, and Ye Qing, as the stationmaster, must set an example. Song Hongying can't let Ye Qing take the lead in violating the rules, so giving money or valuables is definitely not an option.

So after returning home, Song Hongying discussed with her husband how to express her gratitude to Ye Qing and make Ye Qing happily accept the gifts, but at the same time, she would not let anyone catch Ye Qing's mistake and make him a target.

Song Hongying's husband is Guan Changzheng. You can tell his approximate date of birth from his name. He is a down-to-earth and hardworking man who is always willing to be at the forefront of any hard work. Therefore, he has made a lot of good friends during the years he has worked in the forest farm.

Previously, when Song Hongying and Xu Xianzhen went to Kaoshantun to seek medical treatment, Guan Changzheng did not have much hope, and even wanted to persuade his wife to be more open-minded and stop making trouble. Although he wanted a child, if he really had no chance of having one in this life, he would not force it. The couple should watch out for each other and support each other, and it would be fine to live like this in the forest farm for the rest of their lives.

But he never imagined that this time, his wife found the key to the couple's infertility for many years, which turned out to be the long-term poisoning by his elder sister-in-law.

Guan Changzheng was greatly stimulated, and finally realized that blindly forbearing and giving in would only make that blood-sucking leech become more aggressive, so he comforted his wife on the surface, telling her not to panic, just to calmly deal with the dirty things in the house as if nothing had happened, and not to rush to reveal her cards so as not to alert the enemy. But privately, he immediately found someone to think of a way, ready to wait for an opportunity to retaliate against that family.

Of course Song Hongying certainly didn't know about this. She thought her husband was a simple and honest man with no evil intentions.

Now that Song Hongying is really pregnant, Guan Changzheng is also very excited. He immediately tells Song Hongying to take good care of the pregnancy. As for what thank-you gift to give her, he will think of a way and Song Hongying doesn't need to worry about it.

So, more than a week later, Ye Qing received a small wooden box about ten inches in size that Li Yong had helped to bring.

Li Yong scratched his head and explained with a smile:

"I have known Guan Changzheng from the forest farm since I was still doing black market business in the county. His forest farm has all kinds of mountain products, wild vegetables and game, so many of the things I sold in the black market were obtained from him. Now he is also my long-term partner. The monthly procurement tasks issued by my factories can only be completed smoothly with his help."

"Song Hongying, Ye Zhiqing should still remember her, right? She is Guan Changzheng's wife. I heard that she has not been pregnant for more than ten years after marriage. Unexpectedly, she got pregnant after being treated here by you, Ye Zhiqing. Guan Changzheng has been so happy recently that he has been showing off every time he sees me. He also hopes that his wife will give birth to a sweet little baby this time. Don't mention how proud he is."

Then Li Yong pointed at the box:

"They may not have other good things in their forest farm, but they have a lot of medicinal herbs. They can enter many areas that outsiders are not allowed to enter. There are many old medicinal herbs collected by various families. Look, he collected some and asked me to bring them to you. Let me convey my gratitude to you."

After hearing what Li Yong said, Ye Qing was really surprised. After opening the box and seeing clearly what was inside, Ye Qing sat up straight, so shocked that he was speechless.

There were at least ten kinds of things in the wooden box, with animals and plants neatly arranged in different categories.

Animals include bear gall, tiger penis and bones, badger oil, musk, dried forest frog and deer antler, etc.

Plants include sun-dried Ganoderma lucidum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Schisandra chinensis, Cistanche deserticola and Rhodiola rosea.

In addition, a few pieces of agarwood and realgar were preserved separately, which were basically rare types of medicinal materials in daily life, filling up an entire box.

These things are rare and precious medicinal materials. Even though the forest farm is close to the water platform, it is easier to collect these herbs than others, but collecting such a large box is definitely not as easy as Li Yong said.

Ye Qing immediately stuffed the box back into Li Yong's hands:

"This is too expensive. I can't have it. Please return it to me the way you got it!"

Li Yong had been dealing with Ye Qing for such a long time and knew what kind of temper Ye Qing had. He had expected Ye Qing to react like this, but he did not accept the box that Ye Qing returned:

"Ye Zhiqing, what I said this time is not false at all. I saw Guan Changzheng exchange these things with the forest farm staff for a few bags of coarse grains. They were just some sorghum and corn grits, and his colleagues happily exchanged them with him. It really didn't cost him much."

"He was worried that you wouldn't accept it, so he told me to tell you not to have any psychological burden. If the health station needs any medicine in the future, feel free to ask him for help."

"And even if you get these herbs, you will definitely not keep them for yourself. You will definitely use them on the patients who come to seek medical treatment, so I think you should accept them."

Ye Qing glanced at Li Yong but did not rush to express his opinion.

After she hesitated for a moment, she stood up and walked out:

"Wait for me in the house for a moment."

As he said that, Ye Qing quickly went to the kitchen and went into the cellar. Not long after, he pulled out two large snakeskin bags from the cellar. Each snakeskin bag was filled with dozens of kilograms of food.

After bringing the bag to Li Yong, Ye Qing smiled and said:

"I'll shamelessly accept the box. Please thank him for his kindness on my behalf. But I can't take his things for free, so I'll have to ask you to run an extra errand for me and help me pass these two bags of food to Guan Changzheng."

Seeing that Li Yong seemed to be about to speak, Ye Qing raised his hand to stop him.

"There are several dozen kilograms of refined rice and flour in here. If I exchange them for his box of medicinal herbs, I'm actually taking advantage of him."

"I know they have a lot of wild game in their forest farm, but after all, these things can't be eaten every day."

"The vegetation over there is dense, and the most they can do on the wasteland is grow vegetables and corn and sorghum. There is definitely no rice or wheat. If you want to exchange refined rice and flour at the grain station, you need money, and the black market price is high, so it's not easy for them to get it."

"But you should know the situation here. I got full work points in Kaoshantun, and I also cooperated with the army farm next door to set up a large farm. Not only can I get several salaries, but the army farm also often gives me some food coupons as subsidies. So when it comes to eating this, my family has never been short of food. It's easy for me to get these grains."

"Song Hongying is finally pregnant now. She can't eat coarse grains all the time. She must eat fine food. If these two bags of grains are not accepted by the edible tube long march, you can say that I gave them to his wife to help her with the pregnancy. Even if he doesn't care about himself, he should at least consider the child in his wife's belly, right?"

"As for the problem of the shortage of medicinal materials in the health station you mentioned, I will definitely not let Guan Changzheng help in vain. I will report and apply to the higher authorities during this period. After obtaining the consent of the county, the health bureau will allocate funds. In the future, the health station will reach a cooperation agreement with the forest farm, and the forest farm will provide a dedicated channel for the supply of medicinal materials to the Kaoshantun Health Station, following the formal procurement process."

"Please ask Guan Changzheng if he is interested in this matter. If he wants to do it, I will let him be in charge of this cooperation project in the future."

Ye Qing's words really shocked Li Yong.

There are hundreds of people working in the forest farm, who deal with forests all year round. Almost everyone knows the vegetation in Changbai Mountain like the back of their hand. Medicinal materials are really their professional counterparts. If they can really get permission from the higher-ups to allow the forest farm to have long-term cooperation with the health station, then Guan Changzheng will be really lucky and have picked up a huge bargain!

You know, Li Yong has witnessed how popular the Kaoshantun Health Station is now. With Ye Qing here, patients will surely flock to it from all directions. This small obstetrics and gynecology health station will only get better and better in the future. Maybe it will be expanded into a health hospital, or even more daringly, it is not impossible for it to directly evolve into a large comprehensive hospital.

If it really reaches that scale, as the person in charge of supplying medicinal materials to the hospital, Guan Changzheng's status and position will naturally rise. By that time, who can still look down on him just because he used to be a lumberjack in a forest farm?

Li Yong really didn't expect that the box of medicinal materials that Guan Changzheng sent to Ye Qing would actually bring him such an unexpected surprise.