Soon, Yu Shan went to the cowshed and told Zheng Hedong about it.
Zheng Hedong readily agreed, not only because it would relieve him of most of the labor, but also because it would allow him to pass on traditional Chinese medicine.
He's not stupid. He's so old, why would he choose to suffer instead of having an easy life?
Moreover, he, a person who had been sent to the countryside, dared to refuse and offend the village officials!
Isn't this just plain suicide?
Seeing Zheng Hedong readily agree, Yu Shan nodded, becoming even more satisfied with Zheng Hedong. He secretly considered arranging a less strenuous and inconspicuous job for him during the busy farming season.
He, Yu Shan, would not mistreat anyone who contributed to the village, even if that person was a sent-down youth.
The village officials acted quickly this time, and got everything sorted out in just a few days.
Moreover, things went surprisingly smoothly this time, because of the careless child, the villagers' attitude towards Zheng Hedong improved a lot.
After all, this is a truly miraculous doctor who can save lives!
The honest villagers all have great respect for people who are truly capable.
Hearing that they could learn from such a miraculous doctor, many families were excited, and some elderly men even wanted to learn a few tricks.
That's what adults think, but their children don't. Many young people have been exposed to traditional Chinese medicine, and after hearing rumors from outside, they all think that learning traditional Chinese medicine is a waste of time and a useless thing.
I strongly resist the idea of studying that my family arranges for me to do. I'd rather use that time to earn more work points!
This has resulted in the top students being mostly elderly people.
After all, they are the only ones who have time to be interested in traditional Chinese medicine without having to earn work points.
The team assembled on the field.
Yu Shan, his face dark, looked at the group of people below and said, "Very well, very well indeed!"
Where are the children?
Whose kid has such a beard that he can wrap his arms around their waist?!
Yu Shan glared at the squad leader beside him with a dark face, "How were you notified?"
The squad leaders were completely dumbfounded!
They were also wronged!
They really did manage to get the notification done; who knows how sharp their hearing is!
How could you get this wrong?!
We agreed that children who can read are allowed to learn to read!
They all said they understood, and that's what they meant by understanding!
The squad leaders glared angrily at the group of old men below, especially Wang Wan, who looked at his father in disbelief, almost ready to grab him and interrogate him.
The elderly men below felt their piercing gazes, and they all avoided eye contact.
Wang Wan's father even secretly hid in the crowd!
Yu Shan looked at the group of people with a great headache and sighed heavily.
Since he's already here, what can he do?
All I could do was curse and swear to get them to leave.
In the end, only three people remained at the scene.
Not all those who were left behind were happy.
The two children, Yu Daqiang and Liu Changhua, were both quite young, around eleven or twelve years old. They were at an age where they couldn't keep secrets. Their fair and clean faces, which hadn't been exposed to much wind and sun during the winter, were filled with reluctance.
As for the other one, it should be the older person Zhang Aiguo mentioned.
Xie Yan wanted to slap this inarticulate brigade secretary. He was still in his prime, and looked to be in his thirties.
How can you say someone is old?
Zhang Huaihai noticed Xie Yan's gaze, turned around and smiled amicably.
His sun-baked face was etched with tension, and it was clear that he was the only one among the three who genuinely loved traditional Chinese medicine.
Zhang Huaihai was nervously fidgeting with his hands.
He genuinely loves traditional Chinese medicine and has dreamed for years of learning authentic TCM from someone.
As for why it's genuine, it's because he was tricked into learning fake traditional Chinese medicine.
It was because he had witnessed truly skilled traditional Chinese medicine practitioners when he was young that he was able to wake up after being deceived for a period of time.
At that time, Zhang Huaihai was just a child. His father suddenly fell ill. At first, everyone thought it was just a cold and he took a lot of medicine, but it didn't work at all. Instead, it got worse and worse, and eventually he was bedridden.
He had been lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) for more than half a year, but there was no improvement whatsoever; in fact, his condition was getting worse.
By then, they had already given up hope and started preparing their coffins.
Unexpectedly, they encountered someone who wanted to ask for a drink of water. The person was an old Chinese medicine doctor who was passing through their village on his way to another place. He was so hot in the summer that he came over to ask for a drink of water.
While drinking water, I noticed their situation. After asking a few questions, I learned that someone in their family was dying. I went inside to check on his father, then turned to them and said, "It's alright, there's no need to prepare a coffin." I prescribed some medicine and told them to bring it to his father.
At that time, they didn't really believe it, nor did they think the medicine would work; they were just trying anything as a last resort.
I brought the medicine back and cooked it for his father to drink.
Surprisingly, the medicine actually worked.
It turned out that his father really got better after drinking it.
When his mother saw that his father could sit up in bed, she plopped down on the floor and started laughing and crying.
His father sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), his eyes red-rimmed.
The others who came upon hearing the news also cried when they saw his father from yesterday.
Although everyone was crying, the dark cloud that had been hanging over their family for so long finally dissipated.
From that day on, his father got better day by day.
None of them in the family expected that they would accidentally save their father's life.
When they came to their senses and wanted to repay the old doctor, he was nowhere to be found.
Despite making inquiries from various sources, no clues were obtained regarding the old doctor.
This incident deeply shocked Zhang Huaihai and was etched into his heart. From that moment on, he secretly resolved to study traditional Chinese medicine and become as skilled as that old man, healing the sick and saving lives.
However, fate played a cruel trick on him. Over the years, he had never encountered a reliable traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and his initial high spirits gradually turned into disappointment and giving up.
But there's always a way out!
Unexpectedly, the thing he had been longing for all these years suddenly appeared before his eyes. When Zhang Huaihai heard that he could really learn from the old Chinese medicine doctor, his eyes instantly welled up with tears.
He truly never imagined that he would actually have this opportunity in his lifetime.
When I came to report for duty this morning, I made a special effort to tidy myself up and put on my best clothes. Although they were full of patches, they were washed clean, showing that the owner cherished them. The clothes even had color.
Xie Yan glanced at them briefly, then quickly looked away and sat down with them to wait for Zheng Hedong's arrival.
Because classes were to be held, the brigade even cleaned up a storage room next to the brigade headquarters and set it up as a classroom for them.
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