Chapter 88 Even if you kowtow, you have to pay
No one interrupted the woman's crying. She held her child and tears flowed down her face.
Xingxing stood aside, listening to the annoyance, regret, and self-blame in her crying, which finally all intertwined into a vague hatred.
This human being doesn't even know who to hate at this moment.
Until the child in her arms slowly woke up, his skinny little hands tried to grab her tattered sleeves, and he called out "Mom" in a hoarse voice.
"Bao'er! My dear Bao'er! You finally woke up..."
Then Xingxing heard all her hatred disappear in an instant, turning into ecstasy of regaining what she had lost. She hugged her only remaining child and burst into tears again.
With the help of Qiuqiu, Xingxing weighed the appropriate amount of medicine. Before handing it to his brother to help boil it, he glanced at the skinny child, lowered his head and accurately picked out a few grams of the medicine from the pile.
Prescriptions are usually recorded according to the amount required by an average adult. If it is for a child, the dosage must be reduced.
And to this extent, the stars have decreased again.
Because the child is too weak, even though it is a detoxifying medicine, if it is accidentally overdosed, it may cause damage to his kidneys.
While Wei Jinan was helping Xingxing to boil medicine, the people who had gathered in the clinic to watch did not leave.
The doctor was actually a five-year-old kid. Just for this reason, it was worth it for them to stay here to watch this rare event. They wanted to know whether Xingxing could cure the child.
Whether it was eating scabies, inducing vomiting, or a five-year-old kid practicing medicine...these were all topics that could be brought up for after-dinner conversation, so no one was willing to leave.
Of course, the patients in the clinic were not in a hurry to see Xingxing for treatment.
Compared to the crowd who were watching the excitement, they were more cautious and nervous, so even when Xingxing asked them if they wanted their pulses taken and the diagnosis examined, they just endured the discomfort and pain in their bodies and said awkwardly that they would wait a little longer.
The child with a weak breath in the woman's arms at this moment was like a difficult question placed in front of Xingxing. Only if he answered the question correctly, these "examiners" would feel at ease to hand over their lives to him.
While waiting, they also had other topics to chat about and pass the time.
This so-called topic naturally led from Xingxing to another child of the same age who was already well-known throughout the world.
"...I heard that when the child was born, the sky was covered with a thousand-foot-high rosy clouds, and he was born on a battlefield. The enemy was so frightened by the strange phenomenon that they pissed and peed in panic and threw away their weapons..."
"Not only that! My wife's brother's distant relative's sister-in-law sells snacks in Kyoto. She said that the child is simply a lucky doll with golden light all over his body. He will bless anyone who treats him well. Even the emperor treats him very well and makes him his godson, with the same surname as other princes and princesses!"
"Hiss... This is not a lucky doll, it's just a nugget of gold, right? If a doll like this fell into my house, wouldn't I be able to eat meat every day? I wouldn't have to worry about losing my life anymore."
"Tsk! You're dreaming. Such a lump of gold is something that lowly people like us cannot afford. People are born to enjoy happiness in this world. They are golden babies that can only be born in the nest of wealth. We can't afford to raise them!"
“…Is he really that amazing?”
"That's right. Everyone says that the child has a special fate. Although he is unlucky for his parents, it's because he was born with great luck. His parents were not so lucky and died early because they couldn't bear it.
Only the emperor is the Son of Heaven, so he can inherit such a great blessing. I heard that the child is most likely a god from heaven. Even the Imperial Observatory said that the child's horoscope is very good! It can't be fake!"
"If I also offer him sacrifices every day, can he bless me to have a full meal every day next year?"
"Who can say for sure..."
“…”
They did not lower their voices deliberately during their chat, but instead became more and more heated. Even if Xingxing had blocked his supernatural powers, he could not cover his ears.
The more Qiuqiu listened, the more outrageous it seemed to him. What with the golden nugget and the lucky doll, and the strange phenomena in the heaven and earth... He could only say that word of mouth as a way of spreading public opinion did have some substance.
It is estimated that even if it is just an ordinary person, after being described by one person after another, he will eventually become a strange unknown creature with three heads and six arms.
It's either gods or ghosts, immortals, demons, good and evil, cause and effect, these are the characteristics of this era.
However, when it comes to the male protagonist Li Jinyuan, Qiuqiu thinks of the system around him.
When assisting the host to complete the task, if any unexpected situation occurs, the Space-Time Bureau will have corresponding measures, but more often it will require the host and the system bound to it to solve the problem by themselves as much as possible, which can be regarded as another form of tempering and growth.
Therefore, Qiuqiu did not rush to ask his superiors to solve the problem this time. Instead, he decided to find an opportunity to capture the system and investigate it carefully to see where on earth the courage came from to impersonate the system appearance of the General Administration of Space and Time, and to secretly cause trouble with the male protagonist in the small world under the jurisdiction of the General Administration of Space and Time.
Qiuqiu even thought about it. Once he caught the system, he would dismantle it from the inside out into parts! Then he would steal the other party's database information, install all the useful things on the other party on himself, and finally sweep up the remaining garbage, pack it up and hand it over to the General Administration to see if he could recycle the waste and exchange it for some points to buy candy for Xingxing.
But the most urgent task is to be a good person with Xingxing.
In fact, Qiuqiu cannot define what it means to be a good person. After all, it is just a ball. But it thinks the stars should know. Even if the stars cannot express it, their actions are definitely moving in that direction.
So Qiuqiu quickly focused his attention on the male protagonist, flew back to the child, scanned his body again, and showed the results to Xingxing as a standard answer. This would correspond to the answers from Xingxing's own diagnosis, allowing Xingxing to grow better and faster in medicine.
Xingxing didn't pay any attention to the lucky doll that was as big as himself. He was checking and learning about the medicines in the clinic.
Less than two months have passed since I decided to study medicine.
Xingxing has a photographic memory, but this doesn't allow him to make much progress in Chinese medicine and herbal medicine.
In two months, apart from memorizing prescriptions, he spent the rest of the time learning about medicinal herbs with the help of his brother and Qiuqiu.
The herbs that grow in the soil are completely different from the herbs that are pulled out and processed for use as medicine. Xingxing must be familiar with both the herbs that grow in the soil and those that are placed in the medicine cabinet, and also know their age, medicinal effects, and so on.
So to be precise, Xingxing, who just owned a small clinic, was actually... just a rookie who had just started learning Chinese medicine.
But by chance, he came across an ownerless clinic and met a patient who was in urgent need of treatment.
After the woman cooled the bowl of medicine her brother brought her little by little and fed it to the child, and finally waited until he opened his eyes and his pulse stabilized, Xingxing officially became the chief doctor of Yushan Town.
A five-year-old little doctor.
The woman who knelt down with her son and kowtowed to the stars gratefully called him "little miracle doctor."
Xingxing stared at the mother and son who were kneeling and kowtowing in front of him. She did not avoid them or give way. Instead, after they stopped, she lowered her eyes and said seriously, "Even if you kowtow, you still have to give me money."
He heard the woman's intention to default on her debt.
The stars don't want to understand, nor do they like it.
Sure enough, the next second after he finished speaking, the woman's face suddenly turned pale. She tightly grasped her son's wrist, tears in her eyes, and knelt on the ground, looking up and begging humbly: "Little doctor... It's not that I don't want to pay, it's really, really that I can't even find a grain of rice at home..."
"The treatment is not free. If you don't have money, you can write an IOU." Xingxing was unmoved.
But the woman started crying again, and kept kowtowing to Xingxing and begging, "Little doctor, I really have no money. I will work like a cow or a horse for you in my next life. Please give me and my child a way to survive!!"
Some people feel sorry for her.
But not including stars.
Xingxing didn't look at the woman again, but looked at the kneeling child, and said to him: "You drank the medicine, and you have to pay when you recover. If you don't have money, you can write an IOU and pay it back slowly in the future."
The woman was not poisoned and did not take any medicine. She was not Xingxing's patient, nor was she the person Xingxing wanted to collect debt from.
Here in Xingxing, there is no concept of the mother paying for the child's debt. Whoever takes the medicine pays, it's that simple.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the woman protected her son, her eyes red and she gritted her teeth and said, "I'll pay! I'll write an IOU, I'll pay..."
Even if she is penniless or in debt, she just wants to bear it alone.
Xingxing met her resentful gaze, listened to the human beside her sighing softly about the strength of a mother, and tilted her head in confusion.
Is it a good thing to receive medical treatment for free, which is worthy of praise?
Just by kneeling down and kowtowing, can you deny your debt?
Asking the mother for money means refusing to give her a chance to live, and asking the child for money means the mother immediately writes an IOU. Is this what it means to be a strong mother?
Until the woman pressed her fingerprints on the IOU with tears in her eyes and hurried away with her son and the medicine, Xingxing looked at their backs, with more and more doubts in her heart.
He seldom interacts with stranger humans, and there are only one or two humans who come and go in his life, so his understanding of humans is a bit narrow and sparse.
However, he did not plan to ask his brother or Qiuqiu to answer his previous questions.
The newly appointed young doctor knelt on the stool again and took the pulse and asked about the condition of the person who couldn't wait to sit down for the consultation.
Not far behind him, Wei Jinan, who had seen everything that had just happened, was leaning against the wall of the medicine cabinet with his arms folded. He said nothing, but occasionally, he would sharply glance at a few people who were whispering about the doctor being unkind, with a cold and sharp look as a warning.
A doctor’s heart is kind?
In Wei Jinan's eyes, his brother's ability to save the child's life was the greatest kindness.
Otherwise, given the child's condition, if he went to the nearest town, his mother would probably collect his body before he even left this town.
What's more, they were the first patients of my brother's clinic. If the first person started to default on his payment, then there would be so many patients who came after him. Each one would have a difficult time and suffer a lot. Doesn't each of them need Xingxing to save their lives for free?
When the woman tried to bully Xingxing's young and soft-hearted heart by making him kneel down and kowtow, Wei Jinan was ready to sentence the child to death again.
Since you are unwilling to spend money to buy your life, then return this life to the King of Hell.
He ensured that his move would be swift and decisive.
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