"Keep your voice down!" Lin Tao reprimanded in a low voice: "Perform well in the next few days, someone from the commune will come to check. If your performance is good, then the quota should be yours. This is all thanks to Brother Zhou's efforts. You must not let me down this time, otherwise I will not be able to keep it."
Li Quan didn't care: "Don't worry, cousin, who else can help me with my studies?"
Seeing that he didn't care, Lin Tao angrily slapped him on the head and said unhappily, "Isn't she the female doctor from Peijia Village next door? What if the captain finds out and makes a scene, and something goes wrong?"
"...I know." Li Quan thought of Jiang Xi and felt a little scared, but he was also a little unwilling to be so sneaky. He muttered, "Isn't this because of Brother Zhou?"
Lin Tao laughed, "How could that be possible? If Brother Zhou really had this ability, how could he still be a deputy captain? His family has some connections, but not that much. He fought for it from the commune. We haven't had many doctors in recent years, so we wanted to send someone over to study for a few months and then come back to be the team doctor. We fought for three spots in total, and gave two to the team next door. Brother Zhou asked for the last one to come over, saying that our team already has a team doctor, so we can just send him over for further studies."
Li Quan didn't expect this to happen. He covered his mouth in annoyance and went to open the door stealthily. Only when he saw that there was no one outside did he relax.
It turned out that the quota was given by the commune.
Then he can't waste it.
Once he goes for further studies, his position as team doctor will be secure.
Before that, it must be kept secret and no outsiders should get wind of the news.
Lin Tao laughed, "If there really was someone, he would have heard it long ago, idiot."
He shook his head and strode away.
Li Quan smiled awkwardly, trying to explain that he was relying on the backing of others. But his cousin had already left, and he let out a foul breath. He had come back because it was not time to get off work yet, so he came to take a break. Now that he was going to study, he had to be serious.
He took out the notebook he had kept when he was an apprentice with his master and began to read it again.
There was not much content, just all simple treatment methods and prescriptions. He had not yet learned acupuncture. In fact, when he first started working as a doctor, the villagers who came to see him did not trust him.
I feel like he can’t even do acupuncture, so how can he be a doctor?
However, he imitated his master's stern face and acted a little cold, and no one dared to continue talking. But Li Quan himself knew that he was not confident enough, especially with Jiang Xi, who seemed to have some ability, watching him covetously. The captain was determined to get rid of him, so further study was a must for him.
Li Quan watched with a restless heart, and didn't read much. He was only thinking about whether he could get the quota as soon as possible.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
He frowned habitually: "Come in."
"Doctor Li!" Zhou Baoquan came in with a smile and closed the door.
Li Quan's eyelids jumped, and he asked unhappily, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Baoquan coughed twice and said awkwardly: "It's like this, wasn't I constipated before? As a result, I had a lot of blood in my stool today. I asked my wife to look for you, but she didn't find you, so she ran to look for the one next door..."
Seeing that Li Quan's face was getting worse, Zhou Baoquan quickly said, "If we hadn't found Doctor Li, we wouldn't have to go so far. The medicine she prescribed is very expensive..."
Hearing the last two sentences, Li Quan's eyes flickered slightly.
Although he had never seen Jiang Xi in person, the two of them had had friction before. If it weren't for this person's talkativeness, how could his credibility be destroyed just after he came here to serve as the team doctor?
Originally, he had been thinking about finding an opportunity to return the favor and let that girl know that being a doctor is not that easy. How can a woman treat a man?
I didn't expect that Zhou Baoquan had already done it.
It was hard to explain where his problem lay. As a woman, she actually went to Zhou Baoquan for a checkup and even used expensive medicine?
Li Quan asked slowly: "What medicine did she prescribe for you?"
Zhou Baoquan quickly handed over the prescription and explained, "We are from Zhoujia Village, and we don't know if the medicine she prescribed is good or not. Please take a look. She said that I may have a polyp in my intestine, which needs to be treated, otherwise it will turn into cancer. I need to take it for three months. Although a prescription costs 80 cents, it should cost several dozen yuan to take it for three months, right?"
Li Quan took the prescription and took a look at it.
The handwriting on the paper was very beautiful and clear, unlike his master's, whose handwriting was messy and he couldn't even recognize it.
He knew all these words, and the herbs were all familiar to him, all of which were aimed at promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Forgive him for his limited knowledge and not knowing how good this prescription was, but he just looked at it and felt that this man was indeed quite capable.
My cousin was right to worry.
Just polyps?
Need medicine?
Li Quan checked Zhou Baoquan's condition and found that it was not that serious at all. At most, he had too much heat in his body, which led to constipation. Now Jiang Xi said it was so serious, but she was not like the doctors in the hospital. She did not have so many Western medical instruments to understand the human body. Could she determine that Zhou Baoquan had a polyp in his intestine just by looking, smelling, asking and feeling?
A 17 or 18-year-old girl really thinks she is a deity?!
Looking at the prescription again, it promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, so there won't be any problem for men.
Judging from his own experience, Li Quan instinctively felt that Jiang Xi definitely wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune!
She must have known that Zhou Baoquan had been suffering from constipation for many years and that was why she did this.
Li Quan sneered.
Zhou Baoquan had been staring at him. When he saw him smile, his heart skipped a beat: "Is there going to be any problem?"
"No problem." Li Quan said casually.
Zhou Baoquan was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he said, "Even if it's useless, she's only 17 or 18 years old. She's not an old doctor who has studied medicine for decades. How can she tell at a glance that you have a polyp in your stomach? The medicine she prescribed can invigorate blood circulation and dissolve blood stasis. It may have some effect on women, but for men, it's just like eating. It has no harm, and no benefit."
Zhou Baoquan: “!”
He just knew it!
Zhou Baoquan was so angry.
I don’t know how much money our family has wasted on his illness. Not only did they fail to cure him, but they even cheated him out of his money?
His preconceived distrust made him believe 80% of what Li Quan said when he said it.
But he still asked carefully: "Doctor Li, is what you said true?"
Li Quan said seriously, "Of course it's true! You said it yourself, she just learned a little from an old doctor. Even if she is smart, she can't be so amazing, right? Even my master can't tell what's growing in a person's stomach at a glance!"
Zhou Baoquan found it even more reasonable and believed it completely.
He bit his back teeth and said in a deep voice, "Thank you, Doctor Li. I have something else to do. I'll leave first."
Li Quan knew what he was going to do when he saw him like this. This man had a bad temper from the beginning. He was originally worried that if the medicine he prescribed didn't work the second time, he coaxed him to go to the county hospital to avoid hurting himself.
Now that's good, Jiang Xi has the blame.
After all this trouble, especially at this critical moment, she will definitely not be qualified to continue her studies.
Maybe the little girl was so scared that she didn't even dare to be a village doctor anymore.
That’s right!
And the fact that she showed such private things to a man really showed her husband a dumbass, otherwise he would probably quarrel with her every day.
Pei Family
As the time to get off work approached, a lot of people suddenly came into the yard.
Pei Shengcai came in with the two culprits of the fight, Zhang San and Li Si. Pei Deming also came with his wife and son, as they were concerned about their father's injury.
When there are too many people, Jiang Xi can't handle it.
The kitchen needed someone to watch over it, so she took her two younger sisters and replaced Pei's mother and hid in the kitchen.
The two people in the yard began to apologize, and Jiang Xi knew the reason, and she was completely stunned.
What is this?
It turned out that she cured the stubborn kidney stones of one of the father's father, so that he didn't have to go to the town for intravenous drip every now and then due to the pain. Therefore, the other party highly praised her medical skills and kept praising her, while belittling Li Quan everywhere.
But Li Quan was the person Zhou Xin insisted on keeping, and Zhou Xin's cousin also trusted him very much.
It just so happened that the two of them had liked the same girl before and had fought several times in school, but they never got along. Now they happened to be together, so they started arguing verbally.
When the quarrel was unbearable, Zhou Xin's cousin Zhou Chungeng started to push and shout.
But Lin Rong did not dare to show weakness and directly resisted. At first, people around him did not take it seriously, thinking that the two guys were just bad-tempered and did not take it seriously, until Zhou Chungeng and Lin Rong got angry and picked up the sickle.
It was the last time to harvest the rice, and he picked up a sickle, a farm tool, and was about to hit someone with it.
But the sickle was sharpened to a very sharp point. If it hit someone, it would definitely cut off a piece of flesh. Pei Zhong, who was picking grass, passed by and heard the topic coming up in their conversation. He thought that they were fighting about his daughter-in-law's medical skills. He was afraid that something really happened, so he hurried over to stop it.
Unexpectedly, the two young men hit Pei Zhong with such force that he knocked him down. He rolled down a slope and the sickle went down with him, injuring his leg.
The sight of blood finally calmed the two men down.
The captain came to handle the matter. He first had Pei Zhong sent back, then called the two men to the brigade headquarters and criticized them severely, wanting them to pay compensation and apologize.
The gifts were meat, money and tickets, but the Pei family had no adults, so they were not sent over. Now that they saw the smoke coming from the kitchen, they hurried over.
Both of them had bruises all over their faces, and they knew they had gotten into big trouble. They bowed their heads and whispered, "Auntie, I really didn't mean to do that. Please keep this!"
"Auntie, I'm so sorry..."
Although they were not at odds with each other, they did not want to implicate others, especially an old man, so their apologies were particularly sincere.
Mother Pei didn't like the two people who had caused her husband such a great loss, but she couldn't think that they would be spared for this accidental injury, so she could only accept the gift uncomfortably and immediately chased them away: "Alright, let's go."
The two did not expect it to be so easy, and they asked the captain for help out of guilt.
Pei Shengcai didn't want to say anything, and said with a fierce face: "Okay, get out of here."
Seeing this, the two men ran away quickly.
At the gate of the courtyard, they bumped into each other and almost got into a fight again. Pei Sheng was so angry that he ran over and kicked each of them, making them stagger. Then he came back and asked Pei Zhong if he needed any help.
Mother Pei was still depressed and didn't want to say more. She just said, "It's nothing. The third boss and his comrades came to see him. They just helped us deal with it. It's nothing."
Pei Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, went forward to greet Xiang Yiyang and Shi Zhonghua, and then left.
After everyone left, Pei Deming, who had been waiting for half a day, asked hurriedly: "Mom, Dad is being taken care of by the second son, so I won't go over for now, otherwise I will lose the work points of two people and won't be able to divide it."
Mother Pei's face became uglier and uglier, and she said coldly: "I didn't let you go."
Pei Deming smiled dryly. He was the biological son and had the obligation to show filial piety. He would still feel guilty if he refused at this moment, so he nodded to the two people standing at the door of the main hall and wanted to leave.
Instead, his three children surrounded Pei's mother and asked about Pei Zhong's situation with concern.
However, Xu Cui pulled him and motioned him to look into the main room.
Pei Deming subconsciously followed her gesture and saw the mountain of gifts on the table in the main hall. His eyebrows jumped and he hurriedly said, "Mom, the third comrade came and brought a lot of gifts, right?"
This third brother is really enviable. It has become like this, Jiang Xi took the initiative to marry him, and his comrades gave him gifts. How can an ordinary person get so many gifts? At first glance, he seemed to have seen the leg of lamb? !
Pei's mother was in a better mood. When she heard this, she picked up the broom beside the kitchen door and hit them: "Get away! This is for the third child. What do you care how much it is?"
Pei Deming was startled. He didn't expect his mother to be so irritable. After being hit twice, he explained, "I'm just asking. Besides, gifts have to be returned. Aren't you going to pay them back in the future?"
"I won't return it. Are these little streams enough?" Mother Pei said with a dark face, "If you had paid more attention to your father, I wouldn't be so angry. Why haven't you asked me if there is enough money at home? Does your father need anything?"
Pei Deming's face immediately turned red, and he was unable to refute it.
He waited until now because he was afraid of being late for work. After arriving, he just mentioned it briefly without asking for details. He was just afraid that he would be pushed over to be taken care of.
So he accepted the scolding from Pei's mother.
But Xu Cui didn't think so. Her husband was beaten just because he said that. Why?
She was furious and said angrily, "Mom, that's not what you said. You know the situation in our family. Some people have less money, but not more. The third child is different. He can just lie down and find someone to take care of him, and he can also get a pension. Jiang Xi also has an income now, so why would he need us? We were separated from him a long time ago."
"Mother..." The eldest daughter Chunhong blushed when she saw her mother saying this. She couldn't help but pull her: "Don't say that."
Xu Cui then calmed down a little, but she still looked angry.
"You!" Pei's mother was furious. She was so angry that her body was shaking and her eyes were unstable.
Jiang Xi hurried out of the kitchen, supported her, and pinched her philtrum with one hand: "Mom, don't be angry, calm down..."
There was too much stimulation today. Pei's mother is not young anymore, and she has many health problems due to years of hard work. If she is stimulated a few more times, something might really happen.
Pei's mother was supported by her, and looking at Jiang Xi's nervous expression, she felt a little comforted and was not so angry anymore.
Xiang Yiyang and Shi Zhonghua both looked unhappy, but this was Pei's family affair, and it was difficult for them as outsiders to handle it, so they just helped to support Pei's mother into the house.
Jiang Xiteng looked at the eldest brother’s family as soon as he made his move.
Xu Cui stared at her with her chest puffed out and her hands on her hips, not realizing that she was wrong at all.
Pei Deming had a dark face and looked very angry.
However, his three children were more or less ashamed and avoided her gaze one by one.
Jiang Xi said coldly, "Brother, I hope you know that even if the family is divided, the fact that your parents gave birth to you and raised you cannot be changed. The gift for your wife was still given by them. If you are so ungrateful, be careful that your children will follow your example in the future."
Pei Deming's face changed drastically and he glared at her.
Xu Cui said shyly, "Shut up!"
Jiang Xi sneered and ignored them.
The two of them gritted their teeth, but they were indeed in the wrong in this regard, so they didn't bother any more and said hastily with a straight face: "Go back!"
Just as they reached the entrance of the yard, a man holding two packets of medicine passed them and ran into the house. He grabbed Jiang Xi and said, "Doctor Jiang, I don't want this medicine anymore. Return it to me!"
Jiang Xi frowned: "Are you sure? In your case, if you don't take medicine, you will continue to be constipated in the future, and it may become more serious. The cancer I mentioned is not impossible."
Zhou Baoquan said angrily: "How do you know if you are lying? You said something grew in my stomach, so it's true? I have been taking medicine for three months, and each dose costs 80 cents. It costs tens of dollars in three months!"
Jiang Xi's face turned pale and he simply nodded: "Okay, I've said everything I need to say. If you don't believe me, forget it. I'll refund you 1.6 yuan for these two packets of medicine."
"No!" Zhou Baoquan shook his head, as if he was afraid of being cheated by a profiteer: "Your medicine is useless. You have to return the money for the three packs."
Jiang Xi laughed out of anger. Except for the time when her reputation was not well known at the beginning, no one looked at her like this anymore. Especially when someone returned the product, but refused to acknowledge it after using it. She said coldly, "This medicine is for your symptoms. It is not up to you to say whether it is effective or not. I definitely did not lie to you. You boiled the medicine and cannot take it out. I cannot return the money to you. You should not lose money to see a doctor like this. Also, if you return the medicine from me, you don't need to come to see a doctor in the future. I can't afford it."
This precedent must not be set, otherwise people will often make trouble.
Especially since she was walking and sitting upright, she wasn't afraid at all.
But Zhou Baoquan didn't think so. Seeing that she was unwilling and threatened him, he was so angry that he cursed: "How dare you say you didn't lie? I'm already well, but you still made me take medicine for so long. What's the use? You just want money! Otherwise, how can you, a woman, be willing to look at a man's butt?"
The more Zhou Baoquan talked, the more he thought it was about that matter. He suddenly realized, "You must have thought that I was embarrassed to talk about my illness, so you tricked me?!"
Xu Cui took a deep breath and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, you are still showing your butt to men?!"