Chapter 635: A Half-Baked Doctor (2)

Li Shichu had just returned from collecting herbs in the mountains when he saw Doctor Li turning over and drying the processed herbs while sighing with a sad face.

"Master, why are you sighing?" Li Shichu asked after putting down the medicine basket.

"Today, officials came to conscript young men again. This time, the age limit has been relaxed to thirteen to forty years old. Many pillars of the village have been conscripted. How can the whole family survive? When will there be peace in this world..." Doctor Li sighed and said to Li Shichu.

Li Shichu then realized that it was because of conscription. Fortunately, she was a woman and Doctor Li was old, so they escaped.

Today's dynasty has begun to come to an end. There are incompetent rulers and corrupt officials in the court and enemies invading the borders abroad. The whole world has begun to fall into chaos. In addition, there have been constant natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, making people's lives miserable. In many places, people who can't survive have revolted.

However, the place where Li Shichu lived was better, because the land was fertile, there were no natural disasters, the grain harvest was good, and the officials were not too greedy. So even though the taxes were getting heavier every year, everyone's life was still bearable, even if not as good as before.

"Grandpa, there's no point in worrying about this kind of thing. The world is still in chaos." Li Shichu said very directly. Indeed, according to the original owner's memory, the world would have to be in chaos for more than ten years before a hero who dominated the world successfully overthrew the corrupt imperial power and became the founding emperor.

But the original owner and Doctor Li died before that time.

Doctor Li nodded and said, "You are right. There is no point in me worrying. Let's save more patients."

Although Doctor Li and Li Shichu also live in Taohua Village, they only moved here in the last ten years or so. They do not have their own land, and they have to buy everything they need for daily life. So even though Doctor Li is a skilled doctor, he does not have much money saved. After all, people who come to see a doctor nearby cannot afford the high consultation fees and medicine costs.

"Tomorrow I will go to the town to see Mr. Wang. You can come with me." Doctor Li said to Li Shichu.

Mr. Wang was also the owner of a restaurant in the town. Whenever he was sick, he would always go to see Doctor Li. Li Shichu was also very familiar with him, so he asked, "What's wrong with Mr. Wang this time?"

"He suffers from insomnia and dreamy dreams, and has sores in his mouth. He asked someone to let me go over. I think he is just anxious. Because many young and middle-aged men have been recruited into the army, the town has become increasingly depressed, and his restaurant business is not doing well." Doctor Li sighed.

Li Shichu thought that his business would become even more difficult in the future, because soon people in the county closest to them would start an uprising. They were so close that they were afraid of being implicated, so everyone was more afraid to go out shopping. Wouldn't it be difficult to do business on the street?

But this is a situation that ordinary people are powerless to change. They can only save more money and food and survive.

In the original story, Doctor Li would die next year, leaving the original owner a teenage girl who was almost abducted. Fortunately, she still had some brains and disguised herself as a man, relying on the half-baked medical skills she learned from Doctor Li to make a living.

After Li Shichu arrived, she examined Doctor Li's body while he was asleep and found that he did not die of any serious illness, but his life span had come to an end. His organs had failed due to aging and he had lost his vitality. This natural law of birth, aging, illness and death could not be solved even by Li Shichu, who was a first-class Chinese and Western doctor. After all, she was not a god.

Knowing that he couldn't keep Doctor Li, Li Shichu decided to improve his life as much as possible while he was still alive. He cooked for him according to his taste every day, listened to him and studied medicine hard so that he wouldn't have to worry about himself, and prescribed medicine or acupuncture for him to make him feel better...

Therefore, Doctor Li was only troubled during this period because many men in the village were conscripted. In fact, everything was going well for him. In particular, Li Shichu had been very obedient and sensible recently, as if he had suddenly become enlightened. He was able to apply what he had learned to other situations, which surprised him a lot. He felt that his little apprentice would definitely achieve great success in the future and would be able to live a good life even without him as his master.

"Chu'er, how about I find a good family for you to marry into?" Doctor Li suddenly said this.

Li Shichu was so frightened that he shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, I don't want to get married!"

"I don't know if I was right to accept you as my disciple. Will I let you down? After all, being a female doctor is much more difficult than being an ordinary woman. Most women's lifelong expectation is to marry a good man, have a good home, and have children. When you become a female doctor, you can't live the life of taking care of your husband and children like ordinary women. I'm afraid you will regret it in the future." Doctor Li looked at Li Shichu worriedly and said.

"Master, I don't want to get married. What's the point of working for a man and children all my life? Being a female doctor is much better. I can cure diseases and save lives. This is a good deed. How can you think it's not good for me?" Li Shichu retorted, "And even if I get married, you see, there are conscriptions every two or three days now. What if my husband is drafted one day? I will be exhausted to death if I leave a big family behind?"

Doctor Li was choked by her words and was speechless. After a while, he said dejectedly, "You are right. If the man you marry dies in the war, you will become a widow. It will be even worse if you have children. You will live worse than a dog in this chaotic world. Well, it is better to just be a free female doctor."

Li Shichu said: "It's good that you have figured it out, so don't think about me getting married anymore."

Because Mr. Wang's illness was a mental illness, Doctor Li was not too worried. He took Li Shichu and walked slowly for more than half an hour to Mr. Wang's home in the town.

Mr. Wang's restaurant used to do good business, so his home was one of the best built in town, and he had several servants.

Li Shichu followed Doctor Li in and saw Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang sitting in the living room. Mr. Wang was very plump, with a belly as big as that of an ordinary woman who was six or seven months pregnant. But his complexion was not very good, and was dull and yellow. Li Shichu knew at a glance that he was suffering from a fever.

"Doctor Li, you are finally here. Please take a look at our master. He can't sleep at night, he has sores in his mouth and can't eat, and his temper is much worse than usual." As soon as Mrs. Wang saw Doctor Li, she told him about Master Wang's symptoms over and over again.

Doctor Li looked at his tongue coating, then lifted up his eyelids to take a look, and then took his pulse... He quickly came to the conclusion: he was just anxious and getting irritated, so he just needed to take some medicine to reduce his fever and keep his mood calm and relaxed.

Mr. Wang frowned and said, "The restaurant's business is getting worse day by day. How can I not be anxious and angry? Seeing that few people come every day, the ingredients in my kitchen are all stinking and can only be wasted. Sigh, how can people live in this world now?"

(End of this chapter)