Chapter 22 Chapter 22 How many men do you have? ...
"Shit, slop?"
Luo Fenglai swallowed hard, his mind going blank after hearing these two words.
I glanced down at the two daisies floating in the thermos, and my stomach started churning.
Not only her, the aunt with a shallow throat ran under the tree and started vomiting when she heard the word "shit", while the aunt with a deep throat was bending over and picking her throat. She didn't spit out what she had just drunk, but she squeezed out a few tears.
Seeing them leaning against the wall and vomiting, several police comrades frowned, but they did not dare to cover their mouths and noses directly to show their disgust, so they could only subconsciously move a few steps away from them.
"Don't you really know? What Ma Qiudong sells is not some 'magic water', but processed sewage."
"vomit!"
As soon as the policeman finished speaking, Luo Fenglai finally vomited as well. The light brown fecal water with a smell of medicine plus the undigested noodles from the morning... Tsk tsk, the smell was really unbearable.
After a detailed investigation yesterday, the police were able to basically rule out the possibility that Ma Qiudong "produced and sold the feces himself", which would reduce his crime a little. However, they still need to investigate the specific source of the fecal water before they can finally convict him.
To determine the source, we need to see whether there are other substances in the fecal water that has not yet been boiled into medicine.
The small bowl that Shen Miao brought the day before yesterday had been used up, so the police had to go to Ma Qiudong's house to look for it. Ma Qiudong's son said that his parents were in charge of it and he didn't know where the manure was stored, so he ran from Liulihe Village to Qinghe Village to find Luo Fenglai.
After vomiting round after round and clearing out all the acid in her stomach, Luo Fenglai finally sat down on the ground with a look of despair on her face. Smelling the unpleasant odor in the air, she vomited several times, but couldn't vomit anything out.
Hearing the vomiting and groaning noises outside, Shen Wanshan also walked out of the yard, but was immediately stopped by a pungent odor. Shen Miao was no longer in a hurry to go home to cook, and quickly helped her grandfather back to the house, waiting for the follow-up development of the matter.
"Master, do you think this manure can really cure diseases? Why hasn't anyone exposed him?"
Taking out two heavy iron bells and spinning them in his hands, Shen Wanshan sighed slowly: “The fecal water certainly can’t cure the disease on the body, but it can cure the disease in their hearts.”
When he went to queue up in Liulihe Village the day before yesterday, Shen Wanshan discovered that not many people actually came to see a doctor. Most of them wanted to buy a bottle to take home as a health product to "prolong life", or they just wanted to join in the fun and didn't drink it. They just kept it at home and drank it when they really felt unwell.
At 15 yuan a bottle, and sometimes the price goes up, how can ordinary villagers afford it? Only those who are rich will buy it, and they have to be rich and a little superstitious, because not everyone will buy the gimmick of "magic water".
When most people get sick, they will go to the health center or the city hospital first. Only superstitious people would think of using "magic water" to cure the disease.
In the field of traditional Chinese medicine, as long as the mental illness is cured, it will also benefit the body, just like Xu Zhicheng. Since his mental illness was cured, his phantom limb has hardly hurt.
Therefore, the manure water boiled by Ma Qiudong actually cured their worries.
There may be patients who cannot be cured, but who would want to admit that the miracle drug they bought at a high price is useless? In addition, the effects of the miracle drug are exaggerated outside, so naturally they will regard it as their own problem and swallow this loss in silence.
"Then Wang Qin's milk-removing disease..."
"You're stupid," Shen Wanshan rolled his eyes at her, "You give her medicine and massage every day, but it's all in vain? It's just that the effect is a little slow. Do you really think that it's the feces that makes her produce milk?"
That’s right, I went to Zhou’s house every day during those few days, and my achievements were almost wiped out by the sewage.
The grandparents and grandchildren were chatting in the room when the reporters who came with the police slowly walked into the clinic and greeted them politely, "Doctor Shen, may we come in?"
"What's the matter?"
When she lifted the door curtain, Shen Miao recognized them. They were the female reporter and her two followers who were guarding outside the police station yesterday.
They did not come empty-handed today. The tall man carried a camera on his shoulder, the fat man carried a bag in his hand, and the woman walking in front held a microphone. The attitudes of the three looked very kind.
The woman took another small step forward. "We want to interview you about some details about the 'feces falling from the sky' incident."
Shen Miao remembered Wang Dongmei's instructions, so she replied to her, "I'm sorry, if you have any questions, you should ask the police. Didn't you come here together?"
She almost let the cat out of the bag at the police station gate yesterday because of her carelessness. After returning, Shen Miao thought about it carefully before realizing that this matter really could not be casually told to the reporters.
Is it glorious to be taken to the police station for investigation?
What's more, she was taken away for investigation because of "stealing fecal water". Although the final result was that fecal water was worthless and she was released, she did not want her name to appear in the news "Why did the doctor in the clinic steal fecal water?"
After returning to the house, Shen Miao quickly closed the door, "Just leave, don't ask us, we don't know anything."
Reporters all have intuition and keen insight, and her intuition tells the female reporter that Shen Miao must know a lot of inside information.
Since she wanted to learn more of the truth from Shen Miao, of course she had to confess her true purpose: “It’s like this, we are going to do a special column to popularize science, and this time we mainly want to collect some materials.”
"In recent years, the city has been promoting science and resisting superstition. We think that this news about treating sewage as magic water is very representative. It can allow the audience to get closer to science by understanding the full picture of the matter."
"Besides, isn't Ma Qiudong selling fecal water under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine? This is also a good opportunity to draw a clear line between feudal superstition and traditional Chinese medicine."
After listening to the female reporter's eloquent words, Shen Miao felt a little soft-hearted.
Some of what she said was correct. Once the news of Ma Qiudong selling fake drugs spreads, it will definitely affect many people's impression of traditional Chinese medicine.
If we can use this column to distance ourselves from the relationship between traditional Chinese medicine and superstition, maybe it would be a good thing?
Shen Miao looked at Shen Wanshan, asking for his opinion with her eyes.
Shen Wanshan's hand fiddling with the iron bell gradually slowed down, and it could be seen that he was also a little moved.
However, he didn’t know many details, whether it was gossiping with others while waiting in line or chatting with people who drank fecal water, it was all done by Shen Miao, and he was not a good person, so he just said “you can do whatever you want” and got up to go back to the inner hall to rest.
It's up to you = I agree.
So after Shen Wanshan returned to the room, Shen Miao opened the closed door again: “Okay, let’s make it clear first, we will only talk about this manure, and we won’t talk about anything else.”
The female reporter nodded quickly and agreed, "Okay!"
After sitting down, they briefly introduced themselves to Shen Miao: the woman’s name was Jiang Xiaozhen, she was a reporter from the TV station who went to the frontline, and the other two were her colleagues, one was named Zhang Yang and the other was named Xu Feng.
They told them that originally the police would not inform the media when investigating a case, but this time, in order to do a good job on the popular science column "Science and Me", they allowed the TV station to follow and record the footage.
Today is the second day of the case investigation. The police don’t know much, so they will not only interview Shen Miao, but will also interview more insiders later. However, Jiang Xiaozhen’s intuition tells her that Shen Miao must know more of the truth, so interviewing her has the highest priority.
Facts have proved that her intuition was correct, Shen Miao was indeed a "know-it-all", and there was a lot of information that even the police hadn't investigated yet.
"Where was this manure found?"
"In the fields, most of them were found in Ma Qiudong's fields."
"How can they be sure that this feces water is safe to eat? Aren't they afraid of getting an upset stomach?"
"The old generation believed in superstition and said that this was rootless water and was very clean."
"How did Ma Qiudong sell this manure water? It still has a smell after it is dissolved."
"Just add a few Chinese herbs randomly, and that will cover up the bad smell."
From the source of manure water to Ma Qiudong's history of making a fortune, although Shen Miao was an outsider, after piecing together the fragments she heard from various sources, it really was an incomparably complete story.
After telling Jiang Xiaozhen everything he knew, Shen Miao lowered his voice again and said, “If you know how this manure water turned into ice, remember to tell me too.”
Jiang Xiaozhen nodded in understanding, "Don't worry, I'll tell you the latest news as soon as possible."
The police outside were still talking to Luo Fenglai, and it was estimated that they would leave in a while. It was no use waiting, so Shen Miao took the initiative to take their pulses, "There shouldn't be many Chinese medicine practitioners in the city, sit down and let me take a look? After all, the people studying medicine in our village are not all like Ma Qiudong who are in short supply."
"Okay." Jiang Xiaozhen agreed readily.
Putting his hand on her wrist, Shen Miao felt it for a few seconds and said, "Did you eat something raw or cold before going to bed last night? Did you also drink cold water? Well, you are under too much pressure and your sleep quality is not good. You must have had a nightmare last night. You didn't eat this morning when you went out..."
Just a few words shocked Jiang Xiaozhen again and again. It was her first time trying Chinese medicine, and it really shocked her.
“Oh my god! How did you know?” Touching the part where Shen Miao had felt the pulse, Jiang Xiaozhen had a look of admiration on her face, “Chinese medicine is actually so amazing!”
Growing up in the city, they basically went to street clinics or hospitals. Their impression of traditional Chinese medicine was just the unpleasant smell of medicinal herbs and the quack doctors in TV dramas. They never knew that traditional Chinese medicine was so magical.
Being praised by Jiang Xiaozhen, Shen Miao subconsciously straightened her back, but she remained calm on her face, “Oh, taking a pulse is relatively basic, a person’s mouth may lie, but the pulse will not.”
"Let me try it too, let me try it too!" Zhang Yang on the side couldn't wait to stretch out his arm.
Putting his fingers on it again, after a while, Shen Miao said slowly: "Your body is fine, but your liver and stomach fire are a little strong. How long has it been since you last had a bowel movement?"
Zhang Yang said embarrassedly: "Three days."
"oh?"
"Seven days." Zhang Yang changed his words again.
Shen Miao: “Hmm?”
Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, he had to confess honestly: "Okay, ten days... I couldn't help it. I couldn't poop."
Xu Feng: "Oh my god, Zhang Yang, are you a Pixiu? You only eat and don't poop."
Jiang Xiaozhen: "Isn't your stomach bloated?"
Seeing that he was telling the truth, Shen Miao continued, “If you can’t poop, just eat some food that moisturizes the intestines. Using your hands is not a big deal. You have torn your intestines and caused inflammation.”
Xu Feng: ???
Jiang Xiaozhen: ???
Zhang Yang:!!!
At that moment, he really wanted to kneel down to Shen Miao and beg her to stop talking, while Jiang Xiaozhen and Xu Feng glanced at his rough fingers and silently stepped back a little.
The dirt between his fingernails, could it be that...
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A week later, a special program called "Science and Me" was launched on Henan Provincial TV.
The show starts at 8:30 every night after the urban news report ends. The name of the first episode is exactly about the incident of Ma Qiudong selling fecal water. The name of the show is also nice - Strange "Ice" Falling from the Sky.
There is no doubt that the largest audience of this program is the various villages near Yu City, because they are all people who have bought the "miracle medicine". If Ma Qiudong had not been arrested and the sign of Ma's Medical Clinic had not been confiscated by the police, they would not know what had happened.
So I would sit in front of the TV almost on time every night, waiting for the show to start.
“What exactly is that magic water?” Luo Yingzi asked Shen Miao impatiently as soon as she placed her wrist on the pulse pillow.
This incident was edited into twelve episodes, each half an hour long. The fourth episode was broadcast yesterday. At the beginning, it told the story of how Ma Qiudong became rich by relying on the "magic water". It is estimated that it will take another seven or eight days to reveal the secrets.
Although they didn’t know what happened later, Shen Miao knew, so as a good sister, Luo Yingzi took advantage of the fact that she was not busy with work in the fields these days and quickly made an appointment to come to the clinic to listen to gossip.
Fortunately, Grandpa went out for a medical consultation today, so Shen Miao dared to talk to her about this matter. However, thinking that there were still many patients waiting in line outside, she deliberately lowered her voice when she spoke: "The water leaked from the toilet on the plane."
Jiang Xiaozhen promised her that she would tell her as soon as there was a follow-up, so after collecting the materials, she came to Qinghe Village, one to show her the footage captured by the camera, and the other to help Zhang Yang get medicine to regulate his spleen and stomach...
After several days of investigation, they finally figured out the source of this "magic water": the plane's sewage pipe leaked, and when it flew over Liulihe Village, the manure water happened to fall into the fields.
In order to prevent the excrement on the plane from fermenting during storage, some chemicals are added to help microorganisms and bacteria decompose it. When the plane is flying at high altitude, the temperature is too low, causing the leaked excrement to solidify on the fuselage, and then the temperature rises when it is about to land, so it falls off the outer shell of the plane.
So the reason why the manure water does not have the color it should have is because it has been chemically treated, and the strange fragrance is the smell of chemicals.
After hearing what Shen Miao said, Luo Yingzi covered her mouth in shock: “Oh my God, those people who bought the medicine must have eaten shit…”
“Who said it wasn’t?” Shen Miao curled her lips.
"How many years will the man surnamed Ma be sentenced to?"
"Five years, not only will the money you earn be confiscated, but you will also have to sell your property to pay the debt," Shen Miao stood up and took a few painkiller ointments from the medicine shelf and gave them to her, "I think the painkiller ointment that Auntie brought last time has been used up, so you can take it back later."
Ma Qiudong deserved it. His family had been living in poverty and had finally enjoyed a few days of good life. Now this incident has brought his family back to square one.
A few days ago, I heard from a patient who came to see a doctor in Liulihe Village that many people were blocking his door and demanding compensation. Ma Qiudong is still in the police station, and only Luo Fenglai and his son are dealing with it.
The more civilized ones would just ask them to pay for the money they had lost, while the uncivilized ones would just start smashing pots and pans and even start fighting.
Fortunately, the Ma family paid compensation for the last time they caused trouble at our house, otherwise I don’t know if there would be a chance to get it back.
Taking the painkilling ointment brought by Shen Miao, Luo Yingzi took out two one-dollar bills from her pocket and placed them on the table. When she stood up, she saw the long queue in the yard outside and couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many people queuing, how come there are people from the city?"
Shen Miao followed and glanced outside, “Yes, those who have been queuing up recently are all from the city.”
This is all thanks to Jiang Xiaozhen's publicity.
Ma Qiudong was selling medicine under the banner of traditional Chinese medicine at the time, which was purely to discredit traditional Chinese medicine. In order to prevent the public from being misled after the program was broadcast, a real medical consultation process was shown at the end of the first episode.
There were no images, only sounds, which were recorded by Zhang Yang when Shen Miao treated a patient last time.
The program aims to emphasize the magic of traditional Chinese medicine, comparing the diagnosis and treatment process of traditional Chinese medicine with Ma Qiudong's, proving that traditional Chinese medicine is not feudal superstition, but some villagers still heard Shen Miao's voice.
Word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. In just two or three days, more and more villagers knew about the Shen's Clinic in Qinghe Village. In addition, some people who worked in the city already knew about the Shen's Clinic, so the Shen's reputation also spread in Yu City.
Those who came to see the doctor these days, oh no, not all of them came to see the doctor, because many of them came because of the doctor's reputation. Even if they don't feel any discomfort for the time being, they still want to have a pulse check by Chinese medicine to see if there are any potential problems and what needs maintenance.
After all, people's lives are getting better day by day nowadays. Rather than treating illnesses when they feel unwell, they would rather prevent them before they happen.
In the past few days, Shen Miao has prescribed many nourishing and nourishing prescriptions. Some people are not sick but insist on buying something, so Shen Miao sells them a diet therapy list that his grandfather wrote before and asks them to go back and follow it. The price is also cheap, only 5 cents a piece, and there is no cheating for everyone.
After sending Luo Yingzi away, Shen Miao poured herself a glass of water and called out the number behind her: “Number 49, number 49 can come in.”
"Here I come."
Number 49 was a fashionable woman who looked to be around 30 or 45 years old. She had a not-too-delicate makeup on her face and it was obvious that she was from the city.
The woman sat down on the chair naturally and put her bag on her lap: "Little doctor, you look so young. You are really young and promising!"
The woman's voice is very nice and soft, and it makes people feel comfortable when accompanied by a few words of compliments.
Shen Miao smiled shyly and turned the page of the medical record: "Sister, are you feeling unwell? I see that you look pretty good, you don't look like you're sick."
"really."
The woman smiled sweetly, and when she turned around, she saw the man who came with her still standing outside. She quickly waved for him to come in, "Don't stand there like an idiot. Come in and sit down."
Compared to the woman in the spotted red dress, the man was dressed much worse. The two of them standing together did not look like a couple at all. They were from completely different worlds, especially in terms of age... He seemed to be much younger than the woman, probably only a few years older than himself.
But the man is tall and handsome, so they can be considered a match.
Holding the man's arm sweetly, the woman continued, "It's like this, I have never had a child. I have taken all kinds of tonics and had all kinds of checkups, but there is nothing wrong. I just wanted to come and see what's going on."
Shen Miao nodded and motioned for her to place her hand on the pulse pillow.
After a few seconds, Shen Miao frowned in confusion: “Sister, did you not come on time for that thing?”
"It's seven or eight days late, but that's normal. My calendar has never been very accurate."
After carefully feeling for a while and confirming that it was a slippery pulse, Shen Miao smiled and replied to her: “Sister, it’s not too late for you, it’s there!”
Touching her belly, the woman looked incredulous, "Really? I'm really pregnant?!"
Shen Miao nodded, "It's less than two months, but the fetus looks stable, she is pregnant, that's right."
"Weimin, did you hear that? I'm pregnant! Really pregnant!" The woman excitedly put her head on the man's shoulder and shared her joy with him.
But the man was not interested at all, he just pulled the corners of his lips dryly, "Okay, that's great."
Shen Miao usually eats a lot of melons, and judging from the man’s attitude, he has no joy at all in becoming a father, on the contrary, this good news is more like a mountain to him, pressing him so hard that he can hardly breathe.
It was obvious that he had been working hard to prepare himself mentally in order not to disappoint the woman. He put his arm around her shoulders and kissed her gently between the eyebrows. His tone became gentler than before, "We have our own child."
Intuition told Shen Miao that this man’s reaction was very wrong.
Pregnancy is a happy event for a family. How could it be that only the mother is happy while the father is frowning?
However, Shen Miao couldn't say much. After all, she was just a doctor, and the emotions of the patients and their families had nothing to do with her, so she just did her duty as a doctor, told the woman some precautions, and prescribed some pregnancy-maintaining medicine for her according to the woman's request, and then left it at that.
"Child, I'm going to have my own child~"
The woman was really happy. When she left, her steps seemed to be light as if she was walking on clouds. However, the man's steps became heavier. He walked behind her carrying her bag, as if he was carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders...
Coincidentally, just a few days later, Shen Miao ran into this woman again.
It was Sunday morning, and before Shen Miao opened the clinic, there were already groups of people waiting at the door. Seeing how energetic they were, they were probably here to spend money to buy peace of mind. After packing up, Shen Miao sat down and started calling out numbers: "Number one, number one can come in."
“Here it comes!”
It was a strong male voice, and a few seconds later a man with a briefcase under his arm excitedly opened the curtain, "We are number one."
The man held several pieces of paper with varying degrees of wrinkles in his hand. It seemed that he had bought the numbers of all the people in front of him.
Seeing that Shen Miao, who was seeing the patient, was only in her early twenties, he was not so nervous anymore, and even smiled and praised her, “Oh, the doctor doesn’t look very old, tut tut, it’s true that heroes have always emerged from young girls!”
This tone, this compliment... why do they sound strangely familiar?
Seeing that the person traveling with her was still not coming in, the man turned back to help her, "Hurry up, you finally got the number, why are you still dawdling?"
"They say the doctor in this village is amazing. Let's ask her to take a look at what's going on. Why can't we have children? We shouldn't waste our time eating this and that."
As they were talking, the woman was embraced by the man.
The moment she saw the woman, Shen Miao’s eyes almost popped out.
What's going on? Didn't she come to see me with her husband a few days ago?
Wait, if the man a few days ago was her husband, then who is the man hugging her today? !
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