Chapter 82 The more grief-stricken and sad the Master's Wife becomes, the more discordant it becomes
Returning to the place where he had lived for more than ten years and had been away for four years, Qi Fang felt as if nothing had changed, and yet everything had changed.
The old buildings are still on both sides of the street, but the pedestrians are dressed much more simply. The most fashionable ones are wearing green military uniforms, and from time to time a group of people with red armbands pass by.
Qi Fang had a letter of introduction on him, so he was not afraid of being checked, but he still paused at the side of the road.
When Wang Zhengrong saw this, he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?" He was afraid that he was sad because of the scene.
Qi Fang turned and walked towards the post office on the side of the road. "I'm going to send a telegram home to let them know I'm safe."
Wang Zhengrong was stunned at first, then laughed, "You said you weren't afraid of your wife getting angry."
He didn't seem to understand the situation. "You have to come back anyway. It doesn't matter if you bring him here sooner or later. Bringing him here will also reassure your sister-in-law."
Qi Fang didn't explain much. He picked up the pen and was about to write when Wang Zhengrong remembered something and said, "Don't fill it out yet. My aunt has changed her address."
Changed address?
Qi Fang paused, remembering that his teacher and his wife had previously lived in the school’s family housing.
This made him lower his eyes, "Where did Master's Wife move to?"
"Give it to me and I'll write it." Wang Zhengrong took the pen and the list directly.
What was written on the paper was not any place in the city, but an unfamiliar rural area in the suburbs.
Qi Fang looked at Wang Zhengrong, who just nodded without saying anything.
Only after leaving the post office did he lower his voice and say, "That's why I said my aunt is in a bad situation. She went to teach in the village primary school."
Qi Fang didn't say anything else, and remained silent all the way, especially after he discovered that the place was even more remote than he had imagined.
The two even changed buses and walked for nearly two hours before arriving.
We arrived at a low earthen house behind the village primary school. The windows at the forest farm were mostly glass, but here they were still paper-covered.
In the hot summer, the doors and windows of the house were closed tightly, like a cage, locking the people inside.
Wang Zhengrong stepped forward and opened the door. "Auntie, look who I brought back to you?"
There was no response from inside. When he walked in, even the door to the inner room was closed, and a hot and humid air hit his face.
For some reason, Qi Fang thought of the second old lady and hurriedly quickened his pace. Wang Zhengrong also pushed open the old door of the inner room.
Sure enough, a figure was curled up on the kang. Despite the scorching heat, he was covered in a thick quilt. His face was pale, his lips blue. Upon hearing the noise, he muttered vaguely, "Changqing."
Wang Zhengrong called her several times. Although she had opened her eyes, she was not conscious. "It's cold, Changqing, put on more clothes."
The voice was as light as the seemingly non-existent wind in this summer, and the breathing was so weak that it seemed like it would break at any time.
This was so much like the moment of death that Wang Zhengrong panicked. "Auntie! Auntie, don't scare me! I'll take you to the hospital right now."
Just as he was about to reach out to hug the person, Qi Fang stopped him, "Don't move. It may not be what you think."
Qi Fang remained calm and quickly felt Master's Wife Wei Shuxian's pulse. "The pulse is very fast. It should be acute shock."
If a person is dying, his pulse will gradually slow down, instead of being faster than a normal person like it is now.
Qi Fang touched his master's wife's curled up hands and feet again and found that they were very cold. He suspected that it was because her blood pressure was too low to maintain blood supply, which caused her heart rate to speed up.
He quickly raised the head of his master's wife and said, "I'm afraid she can't move like this. You are familiar with this area. Go borrow a bicycle and find a doctor."
As he spoke, he took out a few big unity notes from his pocket, but Wang Zhengrong waved them away and said, "I have some in my pocket."
How could Wang Zhengrong accept his offer? He turned around and ran out, went straight to the brigade secretary, threw down two yuan, and said, "Lend me your bicycle."
The secretary of course had a bicycle at home, so he immediately pushed it over to him and couldn't help asking, "What's the urgent matter?"
"My aunt is not feeling well. I need to see a doctor." Wang Zhengrong thanked him, got in the car and was about to leave.
The secretary called him from behind, "Liu Laonian'er's father in the village used to be a doctor. Do you want to see him first?"
So Wang Zhengrong came back in a hurry riding a bicycle, with an old man with almost no teeth falling out riding on the back of the bicycle. As soon as the bicycle stopped, he screamed "Ouch" and almost fell off the bicycle.
Wang Zhengrong didn't care whether he was groaning or not, and carried him directly into the inner room. "There's an old Chinese doctor here, I wonder if he can see me."
At this time, Qi Fang had already raised the legs of his master's wife Wei Shuxian to relieve the pressure of blood supply on the heart.
The old doctor didn't even feel the patient's pulse after being put down. He first looked at the patient's face, then at her hands and feet. "She's hunched up, her hands and feet are cold, her breathing is weak, and she's sweating profusely. The sweat isn't sticky... My eyesight isn't very good, are her lips still blue?"
The voice was unclear and slow due to missing teeth, but Wang Zhengrong still nodded, "Yes, yes."
The old doctor withdrew his hand and said, "This is a case of Yang deficiency. It's either heavy bleeding or a long-term illness that has depleted the Yang energy."
Upon hearing that her Yang Qi had been completely depleted, Wang Zhengrong became even more anxious. "Then, then, can my aunt still be saved?"
"Do you have any old ginseng at home?" the old doctor asked. "If not, go out and buy some quickly. Don't plant it. Cut six grams of it and boil it, then drink it. Maybe it will help."
Ginseng is the best for replenishing Yang Qi. Generally, for acute cases of severe cold and loss of Yang, we use Ginseng Soup to replenish Yang Qi first with this powerful Yang ingredient.
"I'll go buy it right away." Wang Zhengrong hurried out again, but was stopped by Qi Fang, "I have it here."
Wang Zhengrong was stunned, and Qi Fang himself had a complicated expression, but he quickly found the item and handed it to the old doctor, "Do you think this can be used?"
Even if the old doctor's eyesight was poor, he could still tell the size of the ginseng. "Your ginseng weighs more than four ounces, right? Sixth-grade leaves?"
Qi Fang didn't answer him. "Just tell me if it can be used. If it can be used, I'll fry it right away."
"Of course it can be used. Your ginseng is hundreds of years old. The ones you buy at the herbal medicine store can't compare to this."
When Wang Zhengrong heard that it was a century-old ginseng, he hesitated, "It must be worth a lot of money."
"Saving people is the most important thing." Qi Fang said nothing and went outside to find something to cut.
This is not a mountainous area, so good ginseng is hard to come by. I'm afraid we have to go to the city to buy it. How can my master's wife afford to wait like this?
Finally, the old doctor stopped him and said, "Don't cut it randomly, it will be a waste." He weighed it and cut off a leg of ginseng.
After the ginseng soup is boiled and drunk, the next step is a long and difficult wait.
Wang Zhengrong was still worried, so he rode his bike to the town and prepared to ask another doctor from the hospital to come and take a look.
However, the old doctor did not leave. He and Qi Fang observed the condition of Qi Fang's master's wife Wei Shuxian together.
Almost half an hour passed before Wei Shuxian's sweating gradually stopped and her hands and feet were no longer so cold.
The old doctor touched the patient with his trembling hands and breathed a sigh of relief. "The patient should be recovering and will wake up soon."
Sure enough, after a while, Wei Shuxian's pupils, which had been unfocused, finally regained focus. She stared at Qi Fang for a long moment, "Xiao Fang?"
Although still very weak, at least he could recognize people. Qi Fang immediately responded, "It's me, Master's Wife."
Wei Shuxian opened her mouth and wanted to say something else, but Wang Zhengrong's voice came from outside, "Doctor, please come back!"
This time it was a middle-aged man in his forties, carrying a medicine box on his back. "Let me see if it's acute shock."
After coming in to check, he said, "Indeed, it is. But he has recovered now. I think that Du Shen Tang you mentioned is working."
Wang Zhengrong and Qi Fang immediately looked at the old doctor. The middle-aged doctor also looked over. "Is that the Du Shen Tang you prescribed?"
The old doctor nodded and said, "It's a pity that he has grown old in recent years and can no longer do it. My son is also unwilling to learn."
"It's the same for everyone. My son is the same. He insists on being a worker, saying it's glorious to be a worker."
The middle-aged doctor took out saline solution from the box and looked at Wang Zhengrong and Qi Fang. "You are quite lucky. This disease can't be treated and can't be delayed. If you don't handle it well, the patient will die."
Hearing this, Wang Zhengrong was terrified. He didn't even have time to catch his breath after riding the whole way and asked hurriedly, "Is it still dangerous now? Do I need to be hospitalized?"
"If you're hospitalized, you'll need to get saline solution. Just ask the health center to administer it. The key is to manage your condition."
The doctor patted the back of Wei Shuxian's hand and said, "The patient must have been ill for quite some time. She couldn't have been ill recently, or had a heavy hemorrhage, so she wouldn't be this weak."
"It's my fault that I didn't take good care of him." Wang Zhengrong immediately blamed himself when he heard it.
But he also has his own home, his own job and his own life. How can he stay here every day? How can he untie the knot in Wei Shuxian's heart?
Qi Fangdao remained calm and directly asked what he was most concerned about: "How should I treat it?"
"Didn't you use the Single Ginseng Decoction to save him? You should still have some ginseng, right? Prescribe some aconite root and boil it into a ginseng and aconite decoction."
The recipe for ginseng and aconite soup is simple. After the old doctor saw that the patient was fine, he stood up and said goodbye.
Wang Zhengrong was about to go out and pay the doctor's fee when the old doctor turned back and asked Qi Fang, "Young man, are you going to sell that ginseng?"
If you're not planning to sell it, who would carry something so valuable? It would cost a city dweller two years' salary.
Unexpectedly, Qi Fang paused and said, "No, my wife asked me to bring it with me. She said it might be useful."
Not to mention the old doctor, Wang Zhengrong was stunned when he heard this, "Did your sister-in-law ask you to wear it?"
Even if he didn't understand, he knew from what the old doctor said that this thing must be very valuable. He didn't expect that it was Yan Xue who asked Qi Fang to take it with him.
Qi Fang didn't expect to encounter such a situation as soon as he arrived. The ginseng that Yan Xue asked him to bring with him just in case turned out to be the life-saving medicine for his master's wife.
The air was quiet for a moment, and when the old doctor saw it, he gave up the idea of buying some from Qi Fang in case of emergency.
This thing is still too rare. He thought he couldn't afford to buy the whole one, but he could get some broken pieces from Qi Fang.
When I went back this time, Master's Wife Wei Shuxian had already fallen into a sleepy state, but judging from her complexion, she was no longer in danger of death.
Qi Fang left the exhausted Wang Zhengrong behind and sent the middle-aged doctor back himself, prescribing aconite for him.
The two of them took turns guarding her until the third day, when Wei Shuxian finally recovered some strength and was able to speak normally.
"Xiao Fang." She looked at her husband's beloved disciple in front of her, "I heard from Zhengrong that you are married?"
Qi Fang thought she would immediately bring up the teacher, but he didn't expect her to ask this. After a pause, he said, "Well, I am married."
When he said this, his voice unconsciously lowered, and Wei Shuxian looked at him for a long time, "That's great."
There was not only happiness in his eyes, but also love, a sigh, and the peace of mind of an elder looking at a younger person.
Qi Fang also told her about Yan Xue, "Her name is Yan Xue, she is two years younger than me. Next time I come over, I will bring her to you."
As she spoke, she thought of something and took out a photo from her bag. "I have a photo of her here. Do you want to see it?"
His introduction was brief and straightforward, without any further comment, but he always carried a photo of his wife.
Wei Shuxian's eyes lit up with a smile, "Then bring her here. I heard she was going to come this time, but you wouldn't let her."
Yan Xue asked Wang Zhengrong to bring the ginseng, and it was impossible for him not to mention her to his aunt. As he kept mentioning her, he couldn't help but mention her more and more.
This made Qi Fang pause, but he still handed the photo over first, "She's pregnant, I'm worried."
The photo shows a perfect couple, and although it is in black and white, you can still see that they are well-matched, especially the girl, whose smile seems to be sweet enough to touch people's hearts.
"This is your wedding photo." Wei Shuxian took it with great effort and looked at it. "The little girl is pretty."
Qi Fang, who was a reserved person, actually said "hmm" when he heard this. Wei Shuxian looked at him and smiled even more.
"After all, they are married. You all know whether the little girl is pretty or not." Wei Shuxian smiled and handed the photo back to him.
"I'm relieved that you can find someone close to you. When you left here, I was afraid you would never be able to leave. You were only eighteen years old."
After hearing Wei Shuxian's recollection of the past, Qi Fang lowered his eyes, put the photo away, and his voice returned to calm. "What did Professor Lin tell you?"
The smile disappeared from Wei Shuxian's eyes. "Did you know about Xiao Wu using your teacher's system?"
"I know." Qi Fang did not hide it from her, "But he used the semi-finished product that the teacher had previously used, and the system design had flaws."
"But your teacher repeatedly stressed that scientific research must be done steadily and cautiously, and that the safety of the country and its people's lives and property must not be taken lightly. He just wouldn't listen."
Wei Shuxian smiled bitterly. "Everyone now thinks Changqing's research on hydrostatics is useless. Professor Lin is his last chance. If he doesn't make any more progress, the project will be completely shut down. It might not start for ten, twenty, or even thirty years."
Wei Shuxian sighed, "My health is failing. I can't let Changqing die and be scolded. My life's hard work will be buried and I will be scolded."
"Master's Wife, Wu Xingde once said he wanted to redress the teacher's wrongdoing. He came to me to ask for the teacher's research results and even robbed my home."
After Qi Fang heard her finish, he calmly dropped a bombshell, causing Wei Shuxian's eyes to widen. "He even asked you for the results?"
"Not only did he want to pass, he even threatened my wife, saying I was involved in the teacher's case and asked her if there was anything suspicious around me."
"He, he..." Wei Shuxian has been teaching and educating people all her life, and she really can't say any curse words, so she can only gasp in anger.
Qi Fang helped her calm down and poured her a glass of water. Seeing that she had calmed down, he whispered, "I don't know if he has given up yet."
This made Wei Shuxian silent for a moment. "You are doubting..." She shook her head and said, "Impossible. Lao Lin is not that kind of person. He even spoke up for your teacher before."
"I didn't say Professor Lin was that kind of person." Qi Fang's tone remained calm. "I was just afraid that he might be deceived too."
This speculation was too hard to believe, and Wei Shuxian fell silent again.
At this time, Wang Zhengrong's voice came from outside, who was decocting medicine, "Professor Lin, are you here?"
It turned out to be Professor Lin who came. Wei Shuxian and Qi Fang both looked towards the door.
Sure enough, a hoarse voice outside asked, "Is your aunt sick again?" Then footsteps approached.
The person who came in was a man about fifty years old, with a thin face and gray hair, and a slight limp in his left leg when he walked.
Qi Fang didn't look at him any further before looking away. He stood up and greeted the newcomer, "Professor Lin."
But he clearly remembered that Professor Lin didn't walk like this before...
Professor Lin looked at him and seemed a little hesitant to recognize him. "Are you Qi Fang?"
Qi Fang nodded, "It's me." Wei Shuxian, who was lying on the kang, also sat up with Qi Fang's help, "It's him."
Professor Lin couldn't help but sigh, "I didn't expect you to be this big already. You were just a child when you first came to school."
"Yeah." Wei Shuxian sighed a little, "I think he's so quiet because he's been around grown-ups since he was a kid, so he's just pretending to be mature."
"Who says he's smart? I've been teaching for half my life, and I've never seen many people like him."
The two exchanged a few words before Professor Lin got to the point. "Did you tell him about what I told you before?"
Wei Shuxian wanted to nod, but when she thought of what Qi Fang had said before, she inexplicably slowed down her pace and said, "I just said a little bit."
Qi Fang also wanted to hear what the other party had to say, "Master's wife wasn't feeling well when I came."
"She's really not in good health. I didn't expect her to be this thin. If Chang Qing knew..."
Professor Lin sighed and said nothing more, but Wei Shuxian still thought of Su Changqing and her eyes dimmed.
"Look at me, why are you bringing this up again?" Professor Lin quickly changed the subject. "I was just transferred back here to oversee hydrostatic research. The timeline is tight and the workload is heavy. I wasn't involved in this before, so I wanted to bring you all back."
He was helpless. “A lot of the information was destroyed, and there were problems with the project before. I don’t know what can be used and what cannot be used.”
This is indeed the case when taking over someone else's project halfway, especially when the previous one was not even halfway through and had flaws in its research.
Professor Lin looked at Qi Fang and said, "It's good that you're back. You're the one I wanted to find the most here. After all, you were the one who did this with Chang Qing."
"I don't know much, actually." Qi Fang lowered his eyes. "After all, it's been so many years, and this isn't what I've been doing these past few years."
Upon hearing what Qi Fang said, Professor Lin sighed again, "All the good seedlings were buried. But if Changqing hadn't done this in the beginning, he wouldn't have been able to protect you. You left early, so you didn't see it at that time..."
At this point, his eyes actually reddened. "So many years of hard work, and it's all destroyed, smashed to pieces."
No researcher can bear to see the work they have worked hard on for many years destroyed. Wei Shuxian was an eyewitness at that time and felt the same pain in her heart.
Professor Lin shielded his eyes with his hands. "It's okay for me. At least I'm still here and can be transferred back. But Chang Qing..."
His voice choked with sobs. "He's gone now, so I can't let people criticize me for what I've done, can I? He's been in school for so many years, and every time he didn't get the least funding and do the heaviest work? He could sit on a broken chair for three years."
This touched Wei Shuxian's sore spot. She closed her eyes, but tears still slid down uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.
The room was filled with sadness. Even Wang Zhengrong, who had just finished decocting the medicine, stayed at the door for a long time before coming in to ask Wei Shuxian to take the medicine.
Professor Lin calmed down when he saw this and said, "Don't be too sad, Xiao Wei. I can come back. If this can be done, maybe Chang Qing's matter..."
He didn't exaggerate, "After all, he made the product. By then, we won't be like we are now, with no say at all."
"You're right." Wei Shuxian wiped the tears from her face. "Evergreen is gone, and my life's work is being scolded. I wouldn't be able to face him even if I died."
She looked at Qi Fang and said, "Xiao Fang, you understand this matter. You can't let your teacher's research results be buried."
"He was also buried," Professor Lin said. "He had a promising future in scientific research, but he ended up repairing tractors at a machine shop down there for several years."
Qi Fang listened and watched, but he always felt that something was off. The more sad and angry the atmosphere in the room became, the more off-putting it seemed.
"I'll think about it." He didn't give a direct answer, which stunned everyone in the room.
Wei Shuxian was even more so. She immediately looked at him and was about to say something when there was a knock on the door.
"Excuse me, does Qi Fang's master's wife live here?" A sweet female voice asked outside, which made Qi Fang stand up suddenly.
He walked over in disbelief, and sure enough, there was a petite figure standing outside the door, with smiling eyes and her hands half-closed on her lower abdomen.
Wang Zhengrong was following behind Qi Fang and was also surprised. "Why are you here, sister-in-law?"
"Brother Zhengrong, it seems I found the right person." Yan Xue breathed a sigh of relief. "Qi Fang left something important at home, so I brought it to him."
She had already thought of her words, and after she finished speaking, she looked at Qi Fang anxiously, "Where is your master's wife's toilet?"
Wang Zhengrong took one look and guessed that she was pregnant and couldn't hold it in. "There's no school here. We have to go to the school in front."
"I'll take her there." Qi Fang had already taken the things from Yan Xue's hand and was walking out with her.
The couple seemed to be in a hurry, one of them was in a hurry to go to the toilet, and the other was in a hurry to take someone there. But after they walked a short distance quickly, the anxious look on Yan Xue's face completely disappeared.
Not only was she anxious, but the smile that she usually wore also disappeared. "You don't have to chase me away. I'm here to talk to you for a few words and then I'll leave."
Qi Fang was choked on what he was about to say, but he still insisted on asking: "Did you come here alone? Was it safe on the road?"
Yan Xue didn't answer him, nor did she look at him. "I've thought about it, and there are three questions here. You can discuss them with Master's wife."
Her voice was calm and composed, but it was too calm and composed, which in turn created an invisible sense of distance.
Qi Fang felt a tightness in his heart, and Yan Xue was angry.
But Yan Xue didn't give him any time to explain. "First, if this project is successful, whose name will be listed as the project developer? Will it be your teacher or you?"
Don’t think this is unimportant. Once Professor Lin denies it in the future, even if the day comes when he can be rehabilitated, Su Changqing will not be able to get his achievements back.
To be frank, if this matter is really related to Wu Xingde, it is hard to say whether Professor Lin is involved or not.
"Secondly, are the people who transferred Professor Lin back now the same group as the original group?"
This is also the reason why Qi Fang has always been unwilling to agree to Wei Shuxian. He does not trust those people, nor does he trust any enemy who killed his teacher.
"Third and most important," Yan Xue finally looked at Qi Fang, "Teacher asked you to take things out at the right time. Do you care about your reputation?"
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