Chapter 208: He Says He Doesn't Fight or Compete, But He Competes with Me in Secret
"Don't be afraid, I'll take out the needle for you right away." Xi Lin said, putting one hand on the patient's shoulder to prevent him from moving out of fear, and preparing to take out the needle with the other hand.
Just as his finger was about to touch the silver needle, the patient suddenly jumped up, stretched out his hand and pushed him hard.
Xi Lin was so focused on saving people that he was not prepared at all. He was pushed back several steps by this full-strength blow, and his lower back hit the edge of the table where the prescription was placed.
With a loud bang, the table fell down.
Xi Lin's face instantly lost all color as a sharp pain came from his waist. He could no longer support himself and knelt on the ground.
Zhuang Shihan heard the noise and took a look, sneering, "It's not a festive occasion, but Divine Doctor Xi suddenly offers such a big gift. I can't handle it."
"Xi?" The patient became nervous instantly when he heard her name.
He was about to ask when Zhuang Shihan stopped him with a look.
She sternly scolded, "You dare to move even though there's a needle in your neck? Are you trying to kill yourself?"
When he heard that his life was at stake, he dared not move.
After Zhuang Shihan took out the last needle, she turned around and found that Xi Lin was still kneeling on the ground, motionless.
She sneered, walked to him and stopped, and said in a very mocking tone: "Aren't you following Song Yanxi's side as an assistant?
Why, did you realize that she was just a fame seeker with no real skills besides talking big, so you decided to turn to the light instead of the dark side?
After she finished speaking, Zhuang Shihan couldn't help but laugh.
She smiled and said, "You go back. I won't keep anyone around her."
Seeing Xi Lin still didn't move, she couldn't help but sigh and said, "Even if you're not hers, I have no intention of accepting you as my disciple. Just give up on this idea."
"Just you?"
Hearing the words "accepting a disciple", Xi Lin, who had not reacted until now, finally raised his head, his beautiful fox eyes full of disdain.
He said, "I am a descendant of the Xi family."
Zhuang Shihan raised an eyebrow and said nonchalantly, "I don't care about your West or East sects. It's nothing more than the same old tricks of looking, listening, asking and feeling. What use are they?
It's such a simple truth that one can survive by breaking an arm or a leg, but they insist on forcing people to hold on and eventually lose their lives, and even use the excuse of saying that one's body and hair are given by one's parents and cannot be touched.
If that's the case, wouldn't everyone hang themselves out of shame if they lost a few strands of hair every day when they combed their hair?
Xi Lin's face was pale, and he gritted his teeth and squeezed out four words.
"It's a farce."
"It's clearly your feudalism."
Zhuang Shihan looked at the patient with a strange expression and asked, "Which is more important, your arms and legs, or your life?"
The man said almost without hesitation: "Of course life is important."
Xi Lin chuckled and asked him, "What would you do if I cut off one of your arms and let you live?"
The man's expression changed instantly, and he cursed, "You still say you are a descendant of the Xi family, how can there be a doctor with such a black heart like you?
I'm a blacksmith who makes a living with my hands. You might as well take my life instead of my arm!"
Zhuang Shihan's face darkened. "You're trying to change the concept. People are different."
"I don't understand the concept. I only know that as a doctor, I heal people and save their hearts. If I am lucky enough to save a life, it may cause the person to lose the skills they rely on for their livelihood for the rest of their life, their family will be separated, or they may even be reduced to death.
Let me ask you, did you save him or harm him?"
This has been a problem that has been bothering Xi Lin for more than two years.
It was not until Mo Jinchuan was in a coma that he could no longer hold back and asked Song Yanxi for her opinion on the matter.
He originally thought that she would give him the same answer as many others: being alive is more important than anything else.
But she didn't say anything, and just asked him to go to the city to find a family where the man was a former soldier named Lu Hei.
When he went there, the family was holding a funeral.
He learned the whole story from his neighbor and found it extremely absurd.
He had heard about the border town from outside before. He only heard that a beautiful and kind medical genius had come to the border town. She was beautiful, kind, and had great medical skills.
Even if a person is missing an arm or a leg, he can still be saved.
At that time, he was still glad that he had to leave the border town to look for medicine in order to detoxify Mo Jinchuan. With such a skilled doctor in the city, there would definitely be fewer casualties in the army even if there was another battle in the future.
But he could never have imagined what kind of life those who lost their legs but survived would face in the future.
Those who died in battle in the army were considered meritorious, and their relatives could receive a generous pension, enough for their wives and children to maintain a normal life for several years.
However, the disability allowance received is only one tenth of the former.
Moreover, the soldiers who were treated by Zhuang Shihan recovered very slowly because their wounds were too large, and they had to continue taking medicine even after returning home.
The medicine would take at least a month and at most three months. How many ordinary people can afford it?
Even if they had accumulated some wealth, after this ordeal, there would be nothing left.
Many of those people have elderly parents and wives and children to support. The only hope of the whole family has become a disabled person, and the burden of the family can only be placed on the wife alone.
In today's world, it is not easy for women to make a living, let alone having to show up in public and try every means to earn money to support the whole family?
In the words of a neighbor: "Some smart people who encounter such a situation would just abandon their children and remarry. Only Heizi's wife is loyal and determined to carry on the family.
You said she was a woman, even if she worked day and night to wash clothes and mend shoes and socks, she still couldn't support a family of five. Fortunately, her husband felt sorry for her and took poison to die on his own to avoid adding burden to the family.
When they talked about it, they were even very happy. They were happy for Heizi who no longer had to suffer, and they were also relieved for Heizi's wife who no longer had to suffer.
Xi Lin thought that if he, an outsider, was not there, they might even applaud and praise Lu Hei, saying "good thing he died".
"I saved his life, isn't that enough?" Zhuang Shihan was furious when she heard this.
She couldn't help but ask: "Am I his father or his mother? Saving his life is not enough, I also have to be responsible for the future food and clothing of these people?
There are so many disabled people in the world. How do they manage to be strong-willed and overcome difficulties to live a normal life?
Their inability to do so only proves one thing: incompetence."
She asked Xi Lin, "Why, not only do you treat people's illnesses, but you also take care of their future marriages and children?"
“Don’t be too funny.”
Xi Lin moved his lips and wanted to say something but Zhuang Shihan spoke first.
She stared down at him, with a look of disgust on her face, "Song Yanxi must have asked you to come."
Without waiting for Xi Lin to refute, she said to herself, "This person is really interesting. He says he won't fight or compete, but secretly he's competing with me in every way.
Seeing that they can't win openly, they plan to do something sneaky and brainwash you into condemning me morally?
She only uses these shady methods, and she doesn't find it disgusting!"
She wanted to say something else, but Xi Lin interrupted her coldly, "What qualifications do you have to criticize her?"
Zhuang Shihan narrowed her eyes and suddenly smiled.
She bent down slightly, reached out and lifted Xi Lin's chin, forcing him to look at her, and said with interest, "So you like her too."
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