Just then, the girl took out a sign from the roadside. She said the sign was just a piece of cardboard with the words "guide dog" written on it. She walked to the small tree where dogs are tied and tied the sign to the tree.
Li Yuzhu stepped forward and asked, "Hey girl, how much is your guide dog?"
The young woman looked up at Li Yuzhu and said, "Guide dogs are different from other pet dogs. This guide dog was carefully trained by my father back in our hometown. You can try it out first, and if you like it, we can discuss the price." After saying that, the young woman took the guide dog down from the tree and handed it to Li Yuzhu, saying, "Wherever my dog ​​has been, it can lead a blind person there. You can try it if you don't believe me. To be honest, I often walk on the street blindfolded, which is also a kind of test for my guide dog. It has never let me down."
Li Yuzhu noticed that the girl had come blindfolded, and guide dogs should be able to do that. She handed the dog to Zhu Xiaofei, and the girl said, "Xiao Huang, take her home."
As soon as the girl finished speaking, the guide dog led Zhu Xiaofei away from the dog market.
The girl and Li Yuzhu followed at a distance, while Li Yufei drove behind them.
When the guide dog led Zhu Xiaofei to the traffic light, the red light was on. The guide dog stopped and waited for the green light to come on. After the green light came on, the guide dog led Zhu Xiaofei forward.
This dog is really good; it knew to dodge cars and people on the road, and led Zhu Xiaofei home in 20 minutes.
The girl rented a room in the urban village, and ate and slept in the same room, which shows that her family was not well-off.
These days, training and selling guide dogs is a niche business. Putting aside whether guide dogs are difficult to train, even if they are successfully trained, they are hard to sell. If the price is low, there is no profit; if the price is high, no one wants them.
Guide dogs are unlike pet dogs. Pet dogs are profitable as long as they are good-looking, and they are bought by wealthy people who can afford them.
The situation is different for blind people. Blind people may have needs but not necessarily money, which is the main reason why guide dogs are hard to buy these days – it's all because they don't have the money.
Li Yuzhu said, "I'll take this guide dog. How much?"
The young woman was overjoyed. This guide dog had been sold at the dog market for over a year, and finally someone wanted it – how could she not be happy? She said, "Training a guide dog isn't easy. No bargaining, 20,000 yuan. No bargaining, no discussion."
It's the early 1990s, after all, and there are very few people who can train guide dogs. As a result, they are rare and valuable. It's normal for the girl to ask for 20,000 yuan. This is the provincial capital; you simply couldn't buy one in a small city.
However, in this day and age, 20,000 yuan is really not cheap for a guide dog. As long as it works well, Li Yuzhu doesn't care about the money. She asked, "Does it bite?"
This is the most crucial issue: guide dogs inevitably go to public places, and if they bite someone, no amount of money should buy them.
The girl said, "This guide dog was carefully trained by my father. We have been doing this business for many years and the guide dog has never bitten anyone."
To be honest, training guide dogs doesn't make money. It takes several years to train a qualified guide dog, and many dogs that fail to meet the standards after several years of training are eliminated. As you can see, I have to work every day to support myself.
To be honest, I've had this dog in the city for over a year, and I go to the dog market every day to try and sell it, but I still haven't been able to.
The girl's last sentence was the truth: in this day and age, no one can afford a guide dog for 20,000 yuan, and blind families don't live well. A guide dog for 20,000 yuan is only possible if you encounter a tycoon like Li Yuzhu.
However, guide dogs are indeed difficult to train, and Li Yuzhu eventually paid her 20,000 yuan to buy the guide dog.
The sun had already set, and I still had to walk a long way home in the dark.
The young woman handed the guide dog to Zhu Xiaofei and said, "Xiao Huang, from now on she's your master. You must only listen to her, understand?"
As soon as the girl finished speaking, the guide dog rubbed against Zhu Xiaofei. Perhaps this is how it recognizes its owner.
When Li Yuzhu helped Zhu Xiaofei into the car, the girl selling the dog said, "Don't help her, let the guide dog take her onto the car."
After hearing this, Zhu Xiaofei said, "Xiao Huang, take me to the car."
The guide dog led Zhu Xiaofei to the car, got in, and pulled her into the car.
This guide dog is very intelligent and understanding. With her by her side, it will be much more convenient for Zhu Xiaofei to go out.
I got back to my hometown around 8 p.m.
The next day, after breakfast, Li Yuzhu sent her younger brother to work while she took Zhu Xiaofei to see the traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
There are only one or two well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctors in this city.
There is a famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor named Li Laosan, who is over sixty years old this year. He is the third child in his family, hence the name Li Laosan.
Li Laosan's clinic is located in Chengbeiguan. Before 9 a.m., Li Yuzhu drove Zhu Xiaofei to the clinic.
Li Yuzhu helped Zhu Xiaofei into Li Laosan's clinic.
An elderly traditional Chinese medicine doctor was practicing at the clinic. He was probably over sixty years old. If I'm not mistaken, he should be the legendary old Chinese medicine doctor, Li Laosan.
The clinic wasn't large, just two rooms, but business was booming, with patients lining up in long queues. Li Yuzhu helped Zhu Xiaofei stand in line behind them.
It wasn't until after 10 a.m. that Zhu Xiaofei's turn came. Li Yuzhu handed the examination results from the provincial hospital to the old Chinese medicine doctor, Li Laosan.
After examining Zhu Xiaofei, Li Laosan took her pulse and said, "This disease is difficult to cure with Western medicine. If acupuncture is combined with traditional Chinese medicine, there is still hope for a cure, but it will take a long time. There is no fixed time for this disease to be cured; we can only wait for a miracle. You need to have acupuncture for at least an hour every day. Are you willing to undergo treatment?"
"If she's willing to be treated, I'll give her acupuncture right away. I have to do it myself for her condition; no one else can control the timing."
Li Yuzhu felt a sense of disappointment after hearing Li Laosan's words. It seemed that whether traditional Chinese medicine could cure the disease depended on a miracle. In the end, it was hard to say whether spending money and suffering would actually cure the disease.
If the big hospitals can't cure it, we can only rely on traditional Chinese medicine to see if it can be cured. Otherwise, there is no hope at all. Li Yuzhu said, "Thank you for your help, Dr. Li."
Dr. Li stood up and asked his daughter to take over his consultations. He said, "Please come upstairs with me?"
After Li Laosan finished speaking, he walked upstairs to the second floor, and Li Yuzhu helped Zhu Xiaofei upstairs with the doctor.
They went up to the second floor, where two rooms had been combined to form a treatment room with several beds.
Li Laosan had Li Yuzhu help Zhu Xiaofei lie down on a bed and began to give her acupuncture.
The silver needles are mainly inserted into the head, and are removed after one hour.
When it came time to pay, Dr. Sun said, "Acupuncture costs twenty yuan per session. If you prepay for a month's worth of treatment, you'll get a one hundred yuan discount, so it'll be five hundred yuan."
These fees are already quite high these days. Zhu Xiaofei said, "It's so expensive! Don't bother with treatment; there's no guarantee it will cure you."
After listening to Zhu Xiaofei's words, Li Laosan looked at Li Yuzhu. Sometimes, eye contact is a form of communication, meaning whether or not to treat her.
Li Yuzhu said, "I'll treat her no matter the cost?"
A course of treatment lasts half a month. Li Laosan prescribed a course of traditional Chinese medicine for Zhu Xiaofei. Li Yuzhu paid 800 yuan for the medicine and acupuncture. Such a high fee is really unaffordable for ordinary families.
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