Chapter 3006 Initial Results
Zhou Man watched from the side with his hands in his sleeves. After he finished the acupuncture, he nodded and was very satisfied. Although his hand was not very steady when inserting the needle and the speed was a little slow, the merits outweighed the flaws.
She said to Wen Tiandong, "I'll leave this case to you. After I see the patient, I'll teach you how to diagnose and prescribe the right medicine. After he's finished with the acupuncture, you can take his pulse."
Wen Tiandong was overjoyed, but remained expressionless. He respectfully responded and watched her leave.
Zhou Man returned to her own clinic and continued to call in the next patient. There were not many patients at the back, so Zhou Man had some free time after she finished. She checked the time and went into the room to chat with the patient who was getting acupuncture. "You guys are going to have the autumn harvest next month, right?"
The little girl had fallen asleep and didn't answer. The woman accompanying her nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, the rice ears in the field are already drooping. We can harvest them in ten days or so."
"Will you still be able to see a doctor then?" Zhou Man was curious. "It's the off-season, so you came to the city to see a doctor?"
The woman sighed and said, "Although I'm busy in the fields, I still have to come see a doctor if I'm sick."
That’s what they said, but if their son and daughter hadn’t contracted a disease that would end their offspring, they wouldn’t have rushed to the county town for medical treatment at this time.
Not only does it cost money to get the medicine, but traveling back and forth to the county town also takes time.
Zhou Man nodded and began to plan. If there was no one in the medical office during the busy farming season, should she go to Qingzhou City to build a medical office and go to the countryside in Yidu County on the way?
At that moment, a violent quarrel was erupting in a household in Daxingtun, Beihai County. A young man rushed into the house, carried out a quilt, and spread it on a cart. Then he returned with a hunched, thin woman on his back.
Before he could put the woman on the cart, a thin adult man came out of the house in anger and kicked the boy in the butt. The boy fell forward and fell on the cart...
The woman was horrified, afraid that she would crush him, so she quickly propped up her arms to get up, but her arms didn't have much strength, and she couldn't get up after pressing on him. Seeing that her husband was about to come up and kick her, she quickly waved her arms to block him, "Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, I won't go, I won't go..."
A girl of seven or eight and a boy of four or five ran out of the house crying. They didn't dare to come forward, but just stood aside and cried, calling out "big brother" and "mother" in a shrill voice...
The young man supported his mother's body with one hand and climbed up with the other hand on the cart. He then put his mother on the cart to lean against it. He looked at his father with red eyes and said, "The head of the village said that it is illegal for a father to beat his wife and son."
"Bullshit! I gave you your life. What law am I breaking if I hit you?"
The young man stubbornly raised his neck, his eyes red as he said, "The village head said that it's free for households to go to the medical office for treatment. And yesterday, Aunt San and her family came back from the medical office and said that they don't charge for medicine. Why didn't you agree to let mother go and see a doctor?"
"What's the point of her seeing him?" the man said with disgust. "He's been paralyzed in bed for so many years. Who can cure him? They say the medicine is free, but who knows if that's true? And he says he can go to the city for free, and he can eat, drink, and live for free. The autumn harvest is almost here, can't you just be more obedient?"
The boy insisted, "I want to take my mother to see it. Third Aunt and the others have already been there, and it's free!"
The man was furious when he saw his son repeatedly disobeying him. "I won't allow it!"
Seeing that he was about to attack, the boy stepped forward to block his mother. His legs were shaking a little, and even his voice was trembling. But he still looked straight at him and shouted loudly: "If you don't agree, I will go to the head of the village and tell him that you hit us again. The head of the village said that this is illegal, it is illegal!"
Thinking of the last time his son complained and the village head called him in to give him a scolding, making him lose face, he couldn't help but clench his fists.
But he didn't move for a moment. The woman hesitated, wanting to reconcile the father and son. But when she looked up and saw her eldest son's frail figure, and thought of the past few years spent lying in bed in a state worse than death, she gritted her teeth and endured it. Her mind kept repeating what her son had whispered to her during this period, "...a very good doctor who can even treat the emperor and empress. He's an imperial physician. The wife of the village head said that the princess lives with her. Such a great person will definitely be able to cure my mother's leg."
The woman was silent, the man was silent too, so the boy turned around and quickly lifted up his fallen mother and the cart, stuffed the quilt onto the cart in a haphazard manner, bent down to pull up the cart, secretly looked up at his younger brother and sister standing by the door, then he turned around and left with the cart.
Seeing this, the man became furious and kicked the stool in the yard away while cursing.
The two children standing at the door were frightened. The girl immediately pulled her brother back into the house, picked up a package, slipped into her mother's room, opened the window and threw it out.
Sure enough, the boy was behind the window. He took the package and told the little girl, "Watch your brother and stay away from him. If he hits you, run to anyone's house in the village and go inside."
The little girl nodded.
The young man was about to leave when the woman suddenly said, "Da Lang, let's take your sister and brother with us."
The boy was stunned and looked back, only to see his younger brother and sister lying by the window, looking at him with their round eyes.
The boy's heart sank, and for some reason he felt a little scared. His father was still restrained when he hit someone, provided he didn't drink. Once he started drinking, he lost control of his hands.
In the past, he and his mother could protect them at home, but if they weren't at home...
The boy put down the cart, returned to the window, and whispered, "Climb out, I'll hold you."
The little girl and the little boy were overjoyed and climbed out of the window one after the other...
The boy closed the window, pushed the cart and walked away quickly, "Hurry up, if he finds us, we won't be able to leave."
The little girl immediately took her brother's hand and trotted to catch up...
In Xiaoxi Village, on the other side of Beihai County, a young girl was running home at full speed. Panting, she pushed open the door and yelled, "Mom, Mom, my second aunt and her family are back from the county town. They said treatment at the county government office is free."
The woman who was twisting hemp rope in the yard brightened her eyes when she heard this. "Really?"
"Really!" the girl said happily, "Mom, let's take Dad to the county town to have a look. Maybe he can be cured."
The woman hesitated, "Can it really be cured? I've seen so many doctors before..."
"But this doctor is from the capital, and he's an imperial physician. Do you know an imperial physician? He's an official, a miracle doctor who can treat the emperor and the empress. Even Second Aunt and the others don't need to pay for the medicine. Our family is even poorer than theirs, so he's definitely not going to charge. Let's go."
There was a heavy coughing sound coming from the room. She didn't know if it was due to inhaling wind. The coughing lasted for a long time before stopping. She felt both irritated and distressed when she heard it. Finally, she nodded and said, "We'll go when your eldest brother comes back from the fields."
As more and more people went to the hospital for treatment, more and more people received free medicine, and the hospital's reputation spread further, and more and more patients came...
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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