Chapter 120 Chapter 120
When Ye Qing brought the snakeskin bag of books to the place agreed upon with Li Yong, Li Yong was already waiting there.
After she noticed the strange behavior of the old man at the scrap yard, she followed him from a distance.
The old man rode the scrap station's tricycle from street to street, buying up the scraps that had accumulated from various households. He didn't move very fast, and he didn't shout, but perhaps because of his dirty clothes and the fact that he appeared frequently on the streets, everyone knew what he did.
Therefore, as soon as he appears, people will quickly stop him and ask him to wait, and then each household will voluntarily give him the waste that they have been storing for a long time.
The old man quietly stopped the car and waited, then silently weighed everyone's waste and calculated the value of each type of waste. He then carefully took out a roll of change wrapped in a black handkerchief, gave the money for purchasing the waste to the resident, and recorded the type, weight and amount of waste in a booklet, and asked the other party to sign on it. After confirming that the money was paid, he rode his car to the next alley.
Ye Qing was afraid of being noticed by the man, so he did not dare to follow too closely. After the old man left, he found an old lady who had just sold scraps and asked her about the recent purchase prices of various scraps. He also asked if the old lady at the nearby scrap station was easy to deal with. Finally, he asked about the origins of the old man who rode a bicycle to collect scraps.
"Old donkey? This guy is unlucky. He has a paralyzed mother in her seventies who is bedridden. He married a dumb wife and gave birth to a son with a dull brain."
"This old man has no ability, and he has to support three burdens. He can only be used like an animal."
"In the early years of public-private partnership, he went to various factories to carry bags and bricks to sell his labor. Everyone thought he was just like a donkey, who only knew how to work hard, so they nicknamed him Old Donkey."
"But later on, the unit became a government-owned enterprise. All the jobs in the factory were very different. He couldn't get a job there, so he naturally couldn't do the manual labor jobs. He was old, so he worked as a temporary worker at a recycling station, dealing with dirty waste all day long, but at least he could make a living."
"His son? He must be about 20 or 30 years old, right? When he was little, I often saw him wandering around the streets, often doing stupid things. Later, when he grew up, I heard that he hugged every girl he saw on the street. The old donkey was afraid that he would be mistaken for a hooligan and arrested and shot, so he simply locked the child up at home and didn't let him out."
The old lady loved to chat, and after Ye Qing took out a handful of peanuts, she immediately became as friendly to Ye Qing, a stranger, as if she were her own relative. She talked about all sorts of things and told him everything she knew about the old donkey.
Ye Qing chatted with her for nearly half an hour, and finally ended the conversation which had gone off on a tangent with her aunt looking unsatisfied. When she arrived at the agreed pick-up point, she was indeed ten minutes late.
Fortunately, Li Yong was still there and did not ask Ye Qing why he was late. After Ye Qing climbed into the car, he immediately started the tractor and rushed to Kaoshantun.
On the way back, Ye Qing asked Li Yong if he had any acquaintances at the County Revolutionary Committee.
When Ye Qing asked this, Li Yong's hands holding the steering wheel couldn't help but tremble.
He used to engage in black market speculation with Nie Wei, and now he is secretly farming and raising livestock in the mountains. No matter which of these things is discovered, he will definitely be in trouble.
He was nervous and guilty, afraid that someone would find out what was going on. He was busy hiding from the Revolutionary Committee, so how could he rush to deal with the people there?
Li Yong was a little embarrassed: "Ye Zhiqing, why are you asking about this? Did something happen? Or should I go ask Nie Wei?"
Ye Qing just asked this question. Mainly because she was just suspicious about today's incident and had no evidence or certainty. If she made a mistake and wrongly accused someone, then she would be doing something bad with good intentions.
Moreover, it was obvious that the old man's family was full of the elderly, the weak, women and children, who could not withstand any hardship. If something happened to her and someone died, she would probably have to live with the guilt for the rest of her life.
Thinking of this, Ye Qing was tangled up. He glanced at Li Yong, whose expression was not very natural, and shook his head, rejecting Li Yong's suggestion:
"Forget it, it's not important. I'll take a look."
No matter what, this trip to the county town was worthwhile. Not only did she give an explanation to the two patients, but she also brought back a snakeskin bag of good books. Even though there was a small incident that made her feel doubtful, Ye Qing was still very happy overall.
After returning home, Ye Qing couldn't wait to take out all the books from the snakeskin bag.
She found a total of eleven books on basic Chinese medicine published after the liberation, all of which were printed from the 1950s to the early 1960s. Some of them looked like textbooks used by some colleges and universities in earlier years. Ye Qing flipped through them and felt that they would be very helpful for several of her apprentices to lay the foundation, so she picked them all up.
The rest were all thread-bound books with covers wrapped in newspaper by Ye Qing.
Tearing off the newspaper, revealing the yellowed pages inside, Ye Qing held his breath unconsciously.
"Golden Chamber and Jade Box Classic", "Annotated Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Medical Research", and "Secret Seed Elixir" are all ancient Chinese medicine manuscripts. Among them, the "Medical Research" set of books has a total of six volumes, including "Complete Book on Heatstroke", "Original Pulses", "Complete Book on Yinsi", "Essentials of Pathogenesis", "Complete Book on Treating Febrile Diseases", and "Proven Prescriptions for Treating Various Diseases". She actually collected them all at once.
Moreover, these books are well preserved, with clear handwriting, no broken pages or smudges, and only a few pages with mildew on the sides, which is almost negligible.
Having studied medicine, especially learning flying needles from an old professor for many years, Ye Qing knows too well the value of these rare ancient medical books. Although he is not sure which period these versions are from, after a rough look through them, Ye Qing can basically determine that these are authentic works from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
These rare medical books not only have very important collection value, but are also of great reference value for the study of modern Chinese medicine.
Moreover, when Ye Qing was flipping through these manuscripts, he also saw dense annotations in them, which should have been written by the previous owner of this batch of medical books. It is unknown which medical master collected these medical books, and for what reasons these priceless medical books ended up gathering dust in the corner of the scrap station, or even being destroyed.
Ye Qing flipped through the annotations in it. Not only were there detailed comments, but there were also case examples to supplement them. After reading any chapter, he felt that he had absorbed a lot of new experiences and perspectives, which were very enlightening and beneficial.
The more Ye Qing read, the more shocked she was, and she couldn't put the books down anymore. She didn't even hear Meng Jia calling her several times outside.
"Master, it's time to eat. Stop working now. If you don't come out, the food will get cold!"
Meng Jia had no choice but to go into the house to call for help. Only then did Ye Qing come to his senses and carefully put away the handwritten medical books.
While eating, Ye Qing was thinking about those medical books.
She didn't know where the owners of these books were now, but she had the analytical judgment of a normal person.
She knew that these rare editions of ancient books were worth a fortune, and the great doctor who owned these ancient medical books would know this for sure. Moreover, the annotations on these books were rigorous and serious, and the old gentleman had poured countless efforts into them. But in the end, these books were sold to a scrap yard by weight, which meant that the old gentleman's situation might not be very good.
Ye Qing made a decision in her heart that she would carefully collect these rare books and try her best to find clues about the original owners in the books. If she could find that big boss, she would return these books intact when the policy was liberalized and the situation stabilized in the future.
So now, in order to prevent these books from being damaged due to her frequent reading, Ye Qing decided to take a few apprentices to copy these rare books, bind them and use them as teaching materials for her and her apprentices to read and study on a daily basis. After copying, the original books will be directly sealed in boxes for storage to prevent these rare books from getting moldy or being gnawed by rats.
Copying books is not an easy task, especially those medical books with various detailed annotations. Every word must be important and cannot be missed, because a mistake in any word may lead to a different meaning. The relevant arguments in pathology are closely related to the patient's condition. Once a mistake is made, it may be a matter of life and death, so it cannot be taken lightly.
So the four apprentices not only had to copy the book, but also had to proofread it, dividing the work and taking turns. The morning class time previously arranged by Ye Qing was also changed to copying the book at the desk. While copying, Ye Qing explained to them, and occasionally added some actual examples to ensure that the apprentices could fully understand the meaning of the book and quickly absorb it.
A few days later, someone from the Liu family came to take Ye Qing to the county to perform a second operation on Grandpa Liu.
Ye Qing took his four apprentices to the county hospital. After arriving at the hospital, Grandpa Liu had already been admitted to the intensive care unit. All the preoperative preparations had been completed. Ye Qing didn't say anything more. He packed up and prepared to enter the operating room.
This surgery is different from the previous ones.
Last time Ye Qing had an operation, everyone was against it. Many people were waiting to see her make a fool of herself. They all thought that her operation would definitely fail miserably and something bad would definitely happen.
But facts proved that Ye Qing was very powerful. The operation slapped many people in the face, but it also caused a sensation in the small Jiaotan County.
As a result, as soon as the news that Ye Qing was going to perform a second operation on his old man spread, seven or eight groups of people came to Jiaotan County People's Hospital in just a few days. They were all surgical elites selected from various county hospitals and even from the three surrounding provinces, who came specifically to observe and learn.
Most of these people were senior attending physicians in their thirties or forties, but Ye Qing did not show any fear when she saw them. After knowing their backgrounds, she even selected two people to serve as her assistants and asked her four apprentices to put on sterile suits and enter the operating room to face the high pressure brought by this large-scale surgery at close range.
The result, of course, was that Ye Qing's technique was neat and swift, and he successfully removed six shotgun fragments from the old man's body again. When the four disciples came out of the operating room, their faces were pale, their legs and feet were weak, and they were so nervous that their bodies were soaked in cold sweat.
After the operation, Ye Qing even responded to the hospital's request and conducted another post-operative discussion with those surgical elites. She conducted an in-depth analysis and discussion on the key difficulties she encountered in the previous two operations, shared some of her technical experiences and lessons, etc. When the surgical elites raised various tricky questions, she responded calmly and easily, and continued to chat until these elites were collectively satisfied and had no more questions to ask.
It can be said that through these two operations performed by Liu Yuanpeng, Ye Qing became famous overnight. In the medical community of Wusong City, Jiaotan County, he truly made a name for himself. Many people nicknamed him "Ye Flying Knife" and he was respected by many surgeons.
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