Chapter 131 Pear Blossom Allergy
After a pause, Du Wanwan slowly replied: "I just want to provide a place for the poor and powerless people to see a doctor, that's all."
"Give the poor and powerless people a place to see a doctor? Give the poor and powerless people a place to see a doctor? Give the poor and powerless people a place to see a doctor?"
Liu Changshan slowly repeated this sentence several times, and after each recitation, he seemed to be inspired. The master was born into a famine-fighting people family, and he had seen too many people who had no power and could not afford to see a doctor and died tragically.
When he came to Liang County, he opened a very special clinic called the People's Clinic, which was dedicated to serving the general public.
Master is so young, but he has such great ambitions. He has been practicing medicine for so many years, why hasn't he thought about doing something for the people of Liangjun City?
"Doctor Du! Have you ever thought that your clinic will go bankrupt if it continues like this?" Liu Changshan asked the biggest question in his mind, "How long can your clinic last without charging for medical treatment and medication?"
"It depends on how you run it." Du Wanwan smiled calmly, "As long as I am here, my clinic will never go bankrupt. I charge for treating the rich and powerful, but I also don't charge for treating the common people. If they don't have money, they can use supplies to pay.
Some wealthy families buy chickens, ducks and vegetables from my clinic. Most of the money they pay is slightly higher than the market price. In more than a month, I have not only made no loss, but also made a profit. "
Liu Changshan immediately became interested: "What do you think if we, Huichuntang, also join in?"
"Forget it!" Du Wanwan shook her head. "You've run a clinic in Liangjun City for so many years and have your own network of contacts. Why do you have to follow the same path as me? If everyone follows the same path, the road will be crowded. You can follow your original path. This will allow a hundred flowers to bloom and a hundred schools of thought to contend. It will allow people from all walks of life to have their own place to see a doctor. Isn't that better?"
He lowered his head and thought for a while, and felt that what Du Wanwan said was right. Most of the patients who visited the People's Clinic were ordinary people, and the noble families would not join in the fun, as it would make them look inferior.
There are also common people in his Huichun Hall, but not many. Over the years, he has mostly served the aristocratic families and has neglected the common people.
Besides, the master is very capable. She doesn’t make money by treating common people, but she can make money by treating rich people.
I heard that the consultation fee from Zhou Siwen was one thousand taels, and from the mighty general as well. He earned more from these two alone than he could earn in a year.
What can he use to follow his master's path?
With a deep sigh in his heart, Liu Changshan bowed to Du Wanwan again: "Thank you for your advice!"
"Why are you being so polite? I've already said that we are friends." Du Wanwan gave Liu Changshan a helping hand. "If there is anything you can't solve, you can come to me and we can discuss it with each other."
Liu Changshan nodded with emotion: "Yes! I'll remember it!"
Du Wanwan wanted to say something else when she saw Mr. Chu come in with a graceful girl.
The girl had beautiful features and a good figure. She was wearing a pink coat and her hair seemed to have been casually styled, not very neat nor very messy.
There are red rashes on the apple cheeks on both sides of my face, and they are quite large. There are also some on the forehead, corners of the mouth, and chin, but the areas are relatively small.
Chu Hanfeng knelt in the ancestral hall in despair, neither sad nor happy, neither crying nor making a fuss. Her grandmother was seriously ill, and she developed a rash the next day. Her father said that she had offended her grandmother and was punished by kneeling in the ancestral hall.
Her mother had always despised her, saying that she had sinned in her previous life by giving birth to her, and that she had ruined her good reputation in vain. No one in the family liked her, and everyone avoided her like the plague.
The servants in the house called her a disaster star behind her back. She didn't know what she had done wrong and why she had become the disaster star despised by everyone in the family.
Her father rushed in, tears in his eyes, and pulled her up: "Feng'er! You are saved! Quick! Go back and change your clothes, tidy up a little, and your father will take you to see the doctor."
Feng'er! This name made Chu Hanfeng's heart hit hard. She stood up, tears welling up in her eyes, and she couldn't cry.
Her father hasn't called her "Feng'er" for many, many years.
"Don't cry, Feng'er! It's your father's fault for not being able to find a famous doctor to treat you. Now your grandmother is seriously ill, and Doctor Liu has invited Doctor Du from the People's Hospital to come to your home. He said that your condition is not an illness, but an allergy. Go change your clothes quickly, and your father will take you to see him."
"Yes! My daughter will be there soon."
When Chu Hanfeng heard that she was not sick, she was surprised and happy. She got up and went back to her room to change into a coat, casually tidied her hair, and followed her father to her grandmother's yard.
As soon as they entered the room, they saw Doctor Liu talking to a young man. The young man was about to say something, but when he saw the father and daughter come in, he stopped talking.
The young man had a delicate face and wore a long cotton gown. He had a Taoist bun on his head. He did not let his hair hang down on his shoulders like other educated men.
Probably because they were afraid that it would be inconvenient when practicing medicine, they all combed their hair up, tied it into a bun, and placed it in the middle of their heads.
There was no hairpin on the bun, just a cloth ribbon, which flowed down long, looking elegant and refined, with a unique temperament.
This Doctor Du was very young, about eighteen or nineteen years old, about the same age as her.
Chu Hanfeng was a girl in the boudoir after all, so she didn't dare to look at Du Wanwan too blatantly. She just glanced at her briefly and then lowered her head.
Du Wanwan was not so self-aware. She moved closer to Chu Hanfeng's face, took a closer look, and asked her, "Miss, think about it carefully. Is it that whenever you pass by a place with flowers blooming in recent years, this kind of rash will appear on your body for no reason?"
"Is there a place where the flowers have melted?" The eldest uncle of the Chu family exclaimed first, "There are flowers blooming in our house all year round, but my daughter only has an attack around the Qingming Festival."
Chu Hanfeng thought about it carefully and seemed to have a vague clue: "My rash seems to only appear when pear flowers bloom, not other flowers."
"Then Miss, can you eat pears?" Du Wanwan was afraid that she hadn't explained it clearly, so she reminded him, "Is it okay to eat pears after removing the skin and core?"
"Yes! Sir, you know that?" Chu Hanfeng looked up at Du Wanwan with a shocked expression, mist rising from her eyes. "It seems that my father really has invited a world-famous doctor."
"Hey! What a world-famous doctor." Du Wanwan laughed at herself, "He just happens to know something about allergies. Miss Chu! You are not sick. Go to places with pear blossoms less often in the future. Even if you have to go, you must wear a veil.
Since Miss knew that she was allergic to pear blossoms, why didn't she think of protecting herself?"
Chu Hanfeng's eyes gradually turned red. "I was just suspicious, not sure. Today, the gentleman mentioned it, and I just remembered it. Every year when the pear blossoms bloom, red spots will appear on my face and body.
I also eat pears. My daughter never dares to eat pears. There are several pear trees planted where I live. People say that pear flowers are white and elegant, but I didn't expect that they were the culprit that harmed my daughter.
When the pear blossoms bloomed, the peach blossoms also bloomed, and I'm not sure if it was the pear blossoms that were causing the trouble."
(End of this chapter)
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