Chapter 304 Two Patients Arrive
This family, surnamed Gao, owns several plots of land and has no worries about food or clothing. They are considered a local tyrant in the village.
They often take advantage of their abundant grain to overlook the poor families in the village.
Moreover, the family's values were also poor.
The old lady of the Gao family was a shrew. She drove away three of her daughters-in-law, and finally drove her fourth daughter-in-law to jump into the river.
Now the son in the family has married a fifth woman, and this fifth daughter-in-law, surnamed Miao, has given birth to a son who is now three or four years old.
However, Boss Gao found another woman outside and was constantly thinking about driving away his wife and child and bringing that other woman into the family.
A few days ago, Gao's wife thought the Zhou family's suggestion was not bad, so she accepted the seeds that Du Wanchun gave to everyone.
As soon as Old Mrs. Gao returned, she began to hurl insults at her.
Taking advantage of the situation, Gao Laoda picked up a wooden stick and beat his wife, whose screams lasted for more than two hours.
Finally, the villagers couldn't stand it anymore and stopped him.
The people were stopped, but Miao was already half-dead and lying on the bed barely clinging to life.
Not only that, the little child was also beaten, lying on the ground calling for his mother.
The villagers, upon seeing this, all covered their faces and wept.
But the eldest brother showed no pity whatsoever, cursing the mother and daughter as idiots before going out to sleep with his other woman.
Grandma Gao didn't care at all, and even spat water at Miao's door, saying, "If you want to die, go die outside, don't die in my house and dirty our bed!"
The villagers couldn't stand it anymore. "Grandma Gao, she's still your eldest son's daughter-in-law. How can you treat her like this, not even as a human being!"
"Yes, and this child too, so young, but he's still your grandson!"
"Grandma Gao, you should take them to see a doctor."
However, Old Mrs. Gao retorted sharply, "A stupid daughter-in-law is better off gone! Any child born of a stupid person will be stupid too. My son is strong and healthy; if he finds another woman, she'll give birth to a grandson just the same!"
"If you can't stand seeing them like this, then take them away! Give them medical treatment!"
"I'm not going to spend a single penny on them!"
Seeing her aggressive attitude, the group had no choice but to carry Miao and the child to find a doctor.
There are few doctors in their village, so they have to go to several neighboring villages to find doctors, but the mother and daughter probably won't last that long.
Just then, someone suddenly said, "Let's go to the Zhou family's estate."
"The Zhou family's estate? What are we going there for?" someone asked, puzzled.
The man said, "There's a doctor in Zhoujiazhuang. Let's take the mother and daughter there to get a checkup first."
“That works too. Zhoujiazhuangzi isn’t far from here.”
After discussing it, everyone decided to take the mother and daughter onto the carriage and head towards Zhou Family Village.
Inside the village, Xiao Mianmian and Xiao Qing'er had finished picking the herbs with Doctor Xu.
Seeing that the two children were clever and liked to stick to him, Doctor Xu decided to teach them medical skills.
People in Changliu Village say that Doctor Xu is a hunter and a country doctor. In fact, his father has been a doctor for generations, and there were even miracle doctors several generations before him.
Although he had only learned a small part of it, it was enough for him to be comparable to the imperial physicians in the palace.
If he hadn't been so determined to leave the village for the battlefield, he probably would have already learned all the medical skills from his father.
In truth, he really had to thank the Zhou family.
Before the Zhou family came, he spent his days in the village in a daze.
However, ever since the Zhou family arrived, everyone in the Zhou family, from the youngest to the oldest, has respectfully addressed him as Doctor Xu.
Gradually, he came to see himself as a real doctor, which led to who he is today.
He placed the dug-up medicinal herbs in a basket beside him, slowly spreading them out and selecting them.
Little Mianmian and Little Qing'er also helped with the selection, looking quite professional.
Du Wanchun brought over some sweet soup from the back kitchen of the manor.
Just as they were about to eat, a voice called out from outside the manor gate, "Madam Zhou! Madam Zhou!"
After hearing this, Du Wanchun walked towards the entrance of the manor.
Because of the incident where those old women caused trouble in the village last time, Du Wanchun specially selected two exceptionally skilled guards to stand watch at the gate, preventing any unauthorized personnel from entering.
When Du Wanchun arrived at the door, she saw several villagers rushing over in a panic. "Madam Zhou, do you have a doctor in your village?"
Du Wanchun became cautious and respectful. "Who are you?"
The villagers replied, "We are from a nearby village. Yesterday, your Zhou family gave us some new rice seeds."
Du Wanchun suddenly realized what was going on and asked them, "What do you want?"
A girl covered her mouth and nose and cried, "The Gao family's wife in our village was beaten by her husband and is now barely alive. She wants the doctor in your village to take a look at her."
After he finished speaking, everyone opened the curtains of the carriage.
Du Wanchun looked up and saw that the mother and child in the carriage were covered in injuries.
She quickly said, "Bring them in quickly."
Upon hearing this, the villagers felt a glimmer of hope and quickly pushed the horse-drawn cart to bring the mother and child inside.
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