Hearing Su Qingluan's question, Skinny Monkey curled his lips and said, "If there were cheaper clinics, why would Huichuntang charge such exorbitant prices?"
Su Qingluan raised her eyebrows: "Is there no other clinic?"
"Yes! Of course not?" Skinny Monkey folded his hands, his face full of sighs, "But Huichuntang is capable and has the confidence to ask for such a high price!" As he said that, he raised his thumbs to show that he also admired them very much.
It turns out that Huichuntang does have some "origins". It is said that this clinic has had two generations of chief doctors who were able to treat nobles in the palace and even the emperor.
It happened that the throne was changed and a group of officials were purged. The doctor was implicated in the power struggle in the palace, demoted to a commoner, and exiled to the bitter cold land in the north.
Later, the new emperor ascended the throne and issued a general amnesty. The former imperial physician was also pardoned. He wanted to return to his hometown to spend his remaining years in peace, but he encountered war on the way. He fled to Lefeng County and opened the "Huichun Hall".
In this way, the doctor settled down in this small county town with convenient transportation but relatively remote location, and built a family and established a career. As he was getting older and had no children, he adopted two children with good qualifications and passed on all his medical skills to them, hoping that they would inherit his legacy.
One of them inherited Huichuntang when he grew up, while the other wanted to travel far and wide. However, more than ten years ago, the doctor who inherited Huichuntang fell seriously ill. As the saying goes, "a doctor cannot heal himself." Knowing that his time was running out, he sent someone with a letter to find his traveling junior brother and bring him back.
But when the master received the letter and hurried back, the doctor from Huichuntang had already passed away.
The junior fellow cried bitterly and buried his senior brother. He stopped traveling around and focused on running the "Huichun Hall" here until now.
Because of these "family traditions", the three generations of doctors in Huichuntang are all miracle doctors who can bring people back to life. Even if they are not as good as Bian Que and Hua Tuo, they are still better than ordinary barefoot doctors.
However, despite its superb medical skills, Huichuntang has both good and bad reputations here - if for no other reason than the ridiculously high medical fees and medicine costs, which are not affordable for ordinary people.
Therefore, unless the illness is serious to a certain extent, ordinary people will not easily go to "Huichuntang" for medical treatment and consultation - this is also the reason why when Su Qingluan just traveled through time and had a fever because of falling into the water, Su Guangfu and his wife did not call a doctor at the beginning, but later saw that Su Qingluan was breathing more than breathing in, so they gritted their teeth and asked a doctor from Huichuntang.
Back to the head of Xi Niangzi's family, Lin Sheng, this time he fell and became paralyzed. Su Qingluan, with her advanced knowledge, naturally understood that it was a spinal injury. Even with modern medicine, treating high-level paraplegia caused by spinal damage is very difficult.
What’s more, this was in ancient times when medicine was not very developed?
To put it bluntly, in this primitive medical environment where there is no medical license as a professional standard, no third-party supervision, and it is very idealistic, when you go out to seek medical treatment, there is a high possibility that you will encounter a scammer or a quack who has no real skills and can only treat bruises and injuries.
Since Su Qingluan traveled through time, she has heard of three cases in Huaxi Village and Lefeng Town where people died after seeing doctors.
Although neighbors and fellow villagers all said that the patients were unlucky and had died, Su Qingluan, after hearing about those bizarre "treatment methods" such as "drinking talisman water" and "bloodletting", felt that these patients were tortured to death.
At the same time, I felt a little scared and a little relieved thinking: Fortunately, she "woke up" in time, otherwise I don't know what weird and outrageous "treatment methods" she would have been subjected to.
So by comparison, it is not difficult to understand why, although Huichuntang charges an outrageous price, it is not pelted with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs. Instead, people speak of it with admiration and respect.
According to Shouhouer, many wealthy and powerful people from other places were willing to pay huge sums of money just to invite the doctors from Huichuntang to see patients, and even offered them land, houses, beauties and various generous rewards just to keep the doctors from Huichuntang.
However, starting from the first imperial physician who opened Huichuntang, there has been an unwritten rule in Huichuntang: you can move out of this place, but you cannot practice medicine alone for any powerful or wealthy family, no matter how generous the reward is.
After the old imperial physician passed away, his two apprentices who inherited his mantle also strictly abided by this rule. No matter how high the price was, the two brothers had only one attitude: they could practice medicine, but they could not become private doctors.
In fact, for most people, this is good news - after all, if Huichuntang becomes the private clinic of a powerful person, then even if ordinary people have the money to pay for the consultation, it will be difficult to find such a famous doctor.
"That lady Xi's husband," Su Qingluan carefully considered her words, "is he doing well?"
"It's more than just improvement!" Skinny Monkey exclaimed, "At first, I heard that Liu Sheng could only lie straight and move his neck, but in just half a year, Liu Sheng can even sit up with his upper body!"
Su Qingluan was also very surprised: in this era, such obvious recovery effects can be achieved in just half a year. Huichuntang can truly be called a "master of medicine."
Now she completely understood why Madam Xi looked so haggard with worry.
According to the consultation and medical fees charged by Huichuntang, even if Xi Niangzi's pancake stall was very prosperous, it would be difficult to pay the high medical expenses for such a long time.
But the treatment is very effective, and everyone understands that no matter what the disease is, it will become more serious if it is delayed. If you want to be completely cured, you have to do it as soon as possible.
Therefore, this treatment must not be interrupted.
Thinking of the arduous journey of seeking medical treatment in the last few years of her previous life, and thinking of those fellow patients who were forced to give up treatment due to various financial reasons, Su Qingluan sighed deeply.
After learning from Shou Hou'er about the difficulties faced by Xi Niangzi's family, Su Qingluan felt even heavier in her heart than before.
Emotionally speaking, Su Qingluan wanted to help Madam Xi's family. Moreover, Madam Xi was a generous and righteous person, and was someone worth making friends with.
But Su Qingluan is not a girl who acts impulsively when she is hot-headed.
She could naturally take out her own savings to help Madam Xi's family in an emergency, but as the saying goes, a favor is a favor and a grudge is a grudge. Su Qingluan could not guarantee that the other party would not have any bad intentions after seeing such a huge sum of money.
What's more, treating paralysis is always a long-term project that consumes money and energy, no matter in which era. Her money cannot guarantee that the other party will be completely cured - after all, this long-term chronic treatment is a bottomless pit.
Suddenly, Su Qingluan had an idea: Maybe there is a win-win solution...
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