Chapter 135 Chapter 135
Ye Qing said that applying to the higher authorities was no joke.
During this period, there was a large shortage of Chinese medicinal materials in the health station, so unless it was necessary, she only wrote prescriptions for patients and did not allow them to get medicine in Kaoshantun. She asked everyone to take the prescriptions to their own commune or town health station to get the medicine.
There are simply too many patients, and the Kaoshantun Health Station was only built at the end of last year, so there is a serious shortage of medicines, especially Chinese medicinal materials. Most of the medicines stored in the pharmacy now were collected and prepared by Ye Qing himself in Changbai Mountain.
She originally thought that in Kaoshan Village, or even in the entire Hongqi Commune, how many people would come to see a doctor every day? On average, her health station could only see a dozen or twenty patients at most.
Therefore, before applying to build this health station, Ye Qing felt that she had done sufficient preparations and never thought that she would worry about too many patients and a lack of medicines in the health station.
But there was no point worrying about medicines. Seeing how much attention she received from the higher-ups, the county health bureau had already allocated a large portion of its resources to Kaoshantun. If she went to the county again to testify that there were not enough medicines, not to mention whether the county would agree to allocate medicines and medicines to her, even the health stations in other towns and communes would protest.
After all, the resources of the entire county health bureau are fixed. If more are allocated to Kaoshantun, other health stations will get less. How can other health stations possibly stay put?
So Ye Qing could only solve the problem of shortage of medicinal materials by himself.
However, if she were to go into the mountains to collect herbs by herself, the efficiency would be very low. Considering the huge demand for herbs in Kaoshantun today, her contribution alone would be just a drop in the bucket.
Moreover, once she takes her apprentice into the mountains to collect herbs, the health station will have to close, which will definitely delay a number of patients who come to see the doctor. This approach is obviously not very reasonable.
Ye Qing was also very troubled by this, and he even had a bad idea. He gathered all the children in Kaoshan Village, gave them training classes every day, taught them how to identify medicinal herbs, and tried to train every child in the village to become an expert in plant encyclopedias.
Then, when spring comes and the weather warms up, everything in the mountains comes back to life and all kinds of plants start growing rapidly, we send these children out and let them go into the mountains in groups to help the health station collect herbs.
But whether this method works or not, let alone whether it can get the children out of school quickly, is actually quite risky if a large group of children go into the mountains. If they are attacked by wild beasts in the mountains, who will be responsible?
But apart from this, Ye Qing couldn't think of any better way. After all, as soon as spring comes, the whole village will enter the busy farming season. Every household with labor that can earn work points will go to the fields to work. At that time, apart from the children, who will have the time to wander around in the mountains from time to time?
Ye Qing had not expected that while she was struggling with this matter, someone brought her a pillow just when she felt sleepy. The box of medicinal herbs brought by Li Yong and the words of Guan Changzheng that he conveyed to her gave her an idea instantly. She realized that when it came to the supply of medicinal herbs, her choice did not have to be restricted to this small Kaoshan Village. There were completely other solutions!
The people at the forest farm deal with trees and shrubs in the mountains every day. Even if they don't know the medicinal herbs and don't know the medicinal properties of a certain plant, as long as she draws a picture and carefully marks the obvious identifying features of the medicinal herbs, the people in the forest farm will be able to quickly match the picture with the real plant according to the picture.
Even if there are occasional identification errors, it doesn't matter, because there is still Ye Qing, the "quality inspector", who will do the final screening and approval, saving the most arduous and troublesome step of collecting herbs. In the end, the only part Ye Qing is responsible for is the drying and preparation of the herbs, which means her workload has been reduced by 60 to 70 percent.
Therefore, on the night when Li Yong left with the two bags of fine grains, Ye Qing couldn't wait to write an application to her superiors, explaining the current shortage of medicinal materials in Kaoshantun and the predicament of the forest farm's lack of refined grains. She then wrote down in detail her specific intentions and details of the cooperation in having the forest farm supply medicinal materials exclusively to the health station, hoping that the county health bureau could give an accurate reply as soon as possible.
The next day, Ye Qing asked Wu Yongbing to help deliver the application form to the commune. After reading the application content, Lai Guochang immediately realized that the shortage of medicinal materials at Kaoshantun Health Station was urgent and he must discuss a solution strategy with his superiors as soon as possible, so he went to the county without stopping that day.
Ye Qing didn't have to wait too long, only three or five days. Lai Guochang brought two office workers from the county health bureau and the person in charge of the forest farm to the health station and talked on the spot about cooperating with the forest farm to purchase medicinal materials.
Knowing that it was Ye Qing who took the initiative to propose this cooperation intention, and that once the deal was reached, the Health Bureau would provide the forest farm with an additional batch of food benefits, the person in charge of the forest farm was very excited. He expressed his willingness to cooperate on the spot and solemnly stated that he would make sure that his workers and their families, in addition to completing their work tasks, would do their best to cooperate with Ye Qing's requirements for collecting medicinal materials.
Ye Qing also took the opportunity to bring up Guan Changzheng and mentioned him in front of the person in charge. Although he did not explicitly say that Guan Changzheng would be in charge of the purchase of medicinal materials, the person in charge of the forest farm was not a fool. How could he not understand what Ye Qing meant by mentioning a lumberjack in the forest farm?
After the specific cooperation intentions were agreed upon, Ye Qing didn't care about the rest of the matters and left it to the forest farm and the health bureau to sort out. Anyway, within two days, Li Yong brought Guan Changzheng to his home happily.
This was the first time Ye Qing met Song Hongying's husband.
He must be about 1.80 to 1.90 meters tall, with a strong and sturdy build, but his face looks very loyal and kind. He smiles unconsciously when he looks at people, which makes him look even more honest and clumsy. At first glance, he is an honest man with no ulterior motives.
Such a person, coupled with a quiet and introverted wife like Song Hongying, the couple almost have "easy to bully" written on their faces. No wonder they were bullied and harmed by a family of extreme relatives for so many years.
If it was something else, Ye Qing would definitely not consider asking someone like Guan Changzheng to be in charge. Such a person is not very sophisticated and is not flexible enough to handle things. He is easily calculated by others, and when he is sold out, he will still be counting money for others.
But the purchase of medicinal materials still requires a loyal, honest, simple-minded and sincere person. She needs this person to screen and strictly control the purchase of medicinal materials for her. Ye Qing cannot control other things, but inferior or even fake medicinal materials are absolutely not allowed to appear in her health station pharmacy.
And it just so happened that Guan Changzheng was the medicinal material buyer who perfectly met Ye Qing's expectations.
Guan Changzheng came to Kaoshantun this time mainly to get acquainted with the mountain and tell Ye Qing the good news that he had successfully become the person in charge of purchasing medicinal materials for the forest farm.
This guy didn't come empty-handed either. This time he brought not medicinal herbs, but two rainbow trout weighing seven or eight kilograms. And judging from the appearance of the trout, they were probably caught recently.
At this time, the ice in the lower bay was gradually showing signs of melting, but fishing was obviously not possible. Moreover, Ye Qing had never seen rainbow trout in the surrounding waters, and he had no idea where Guan Changzheng got such fresh fish.
Seeing Ye Qing staring at the two trouts curiously, Guan Changzheng quickly explained:
"These are fish from Tianchi Lake. A few days ago, a group of lumberjacks from our forest farm went into the mountains and cut through the ice to catch them. The fish is red, tender, fresh and sweet, better than any other fish we've eaten before. But we didn't catch many, so I exchanged these two with the workers using a few pounds of the fine grain you gave me last time, Doctor Ye."
When he said the latter, Guan Changzheng felt a little embarrassed. After all, when Ye Qing brought him some food, he said that the food was for his wife's pregnancy, but he ended up exchanging it for fish. He didn't know if Ye Qing would be angry if he knew about it.
Ye Qing really can't care about getting angry.
She was stunned when she heard that these rainbow trout actually came from Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain.
Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain is frozen for nearly eight months a year. It is a very lucky thing to be able to eat fish from Tianchi Lake, not to mention that this fish is rainbow trout.
Rainbow trout has strict requirements on its living environment and can only survive in clean and clear freshwater areas. However, the taste of its meat is unquestionable and its nutritional value is also very high. It is one of the few freshwater fish species that can be made into sashimi.
But it was the first time for Ye Qing to know that there were rainbow trouts of such huge size living in Tianchi Lake of Changbai Mountain!
This made her eager to go fishing. She thought that when the weather got warmer in August and September and the ice in Tianchi thawed, she would find an opportunity to go into the mountains and fish for rainbow trout in Tianchi!
After all, there are not many opportunities to go fishing in Tianchi Lake without any obstruction or restriction like this. In another ten or twenty years, Changbai Mountain Tianchi Lake will be planned into a protected development zone, and the part of Changbai Mountain located in China will be regulated by the government. Ordinary people will definitely not be allowed to enter casually. By that time, it will be impossible to experience the original ecological scenery of Tianchi Lake, and freely go boating and fishing on the lake.
Thinking that the huge Tianchi Lake is still to be developed, Ye Qing couldn't help but feel eager to try. She even wanted to take advantage of the ice and put on a set of one-legged donkey ice skates to go skate in the huge natural ice rink. In such a deserted place, she could let down her guard and indulge herself without any worries.
However, looking at the patients who came to see the doctor every day around the 10th of the day, and the large number of trivial matters waiting for her to deal with, Ye Qing couldn't help but sigh.
Spring is coming soon, and she has to find time to draw sketches of the medicinal herbs she needs to purchase as soon as possible. Only with the drawings can all the staff at the forest farm go out to find herbs for her. After all, not everyone knows about medicinal herbs, and only by knowing what they look like can you identify them correctly.
No one can do these things for her, so she is no longer a free person and has no right to wander around whenever she wants.
Thinking of this, Ye Qing became a little depressed and could only quietly suppress the urge to get excited that had just surged up in his mind.
However, he was still greedy, and faced with the delicious temptation brought by such excellent rainbow trout, Ye Qing could not bear to refuse, and shamelessly accepted the thank-you gift brought by Guan Changzheng.
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