Every time she fell, Tang Baozhu would mutter to herself, "Could it be that she's getting her comeuppance?"
Although she spoke very softly, it was still within her audible range.
After doing it a few more times, she never dared to do it again. It's unclear whether she temporarily stopped or learned her lesson.
Based on Tang Baozhu's understanding of her, it was almost impossible for her to truly master the art; it could only be said that she had temporarily restrained herself.
When the children in the orphanage turned eight, they went to school in the village. Although there were no subsidies, tuition was waived for the children from the orphanage.
Although tuition fees were waived, the cost of textbooks was still a significant expense.
In this era where making money is extremely difficult, the headmistress had no choice but to try her best to get all the children into the fifth grade. If they wanted to continue their studies, they had to rely on themselves.
In the third year that Tang Baozhu stayed in the orphanage, the reputation of the puppet doctor became more and more famous. Finally, one day, Tang Baozhu met this puppet doctor in the orphanage.
Because many of the children in the orphanage were sick, and there were only three adults in total, it was impossible to take all the children with us.
There was no other way for the orphanage director to bring the miracle doctor to the orphanage. If it weren't for the fact that the miracle doctor mostly used herbs to treat people and didn't cost much, they probably wouldn't have been able to afford to hire him to treat the children.
By the time Tang Baozhu was old enough to go to school, almost all the sick children in the orphanage had been cured by the miracle doctor.
Because Tang Baozhu felt particularly sorry for the sick children in the orphanage, she tried to charge only the cost of the medicine when she had the puppets treat the children. She even let them pick the herbs they could find outside themselves, which saved them money.
Perhaps because the voice sounded too approachable, many people left their sick children in orphanages, and then quickly took them away after they recovered.
This made Tang Baozhu feel that the orphanage director seemed to have a kind of overly kind mentality, and that this "miracle doctor" was just a puppet playing a role. What if he was really just an ordinary old Chinese medicine doctor? If she did this, the old doctor might not even be able to earn his living expenses.
They exploit the pitiful state of the children in the orphanage to fleece the miracle doctor.
Perhaps because the policies have become more favorable, and the orphanages have received government donations, the atmosphere within the orphanages has become somewhat unhealthy.
The headmistress and her parents are all very old, and the children who have grown up are about sixteen or seventeen years old.
They never thought about going out to find work and earn money to subsidize the orphanage. On the contrary, they treated the orphanage as their own home and had a hostile attitude towards the other children.
Because everyone's household registration is under the name of the headmistress, some children with ulterior motives saw that the headmistress and her family of three were so old and had the idea of taking over the house.
These children, who were already that old, could have left the orphanage long ago and survived on their own. Unfortunately, they had a kind-hearted director who acted as if all the children were her own, spoiling them all.
We never intended for them to survive outside. Even if we didn't expect them to subsidize the orphanage, they should at least have the ability to support themselves.
Unfortunately, Tang Baozhu couldn't see that the children in the orphanage had such thoughts. After graduating from fifth grade, they all stayed in the orphanage, eating the food provided by those three old people.
So when Tang Baozhu was old enough to start first grade, she went directly to the puppeteer and asked him to go to the orphanage and tell her that he wanted to take her in, that he was getting old and wanted to take on an apprentice and pass on his medical skills to her.
When the other children in the orphanage found out, they started having ulterior motives again, all wanting to become the master doctor's apprentices, since the doctor's medical skills were famous throughout the capital.
Tang Baozhu didn't dislike the children from the orphanage at first, but after spending time in the orphanage herself, she felt that the children there really had all sorts of problems.
Over the years, the family has grown to more than 30 children. The three of them, including the headmistress, are getting old. It's already quite an achievement that they can keep everyone from going hungry.
There simply wasn't enough time to properly teach them, so the children in the orphanage were left to their own devices. In addition, the orphanage had very little resources, which created a competitive environment.
Naturally, one's mindset will change; even with government subsidies and donations, the amount received will be minimal.
Even if some kind-hearted people donate some unwanted clothes, it's not much, because most people in this era still have that frugal mentality, and they can't bear to throw away clothes they can't wear anymore.
So when those clothes arrived at the orphanage, all the children would fight over them.
Tang Baozhu wanted to leave the orphanage with the miracle doctor because each room housed about ten children, and some of them had a habit of petty theft, the source of which was unknown.
Even the mudfish she caught in the summer, or the herbs she dug up in the mountains, would be stolen after selling for a few cents or dollars, so she no longer wanted to stay there.
Some children are born actors; they can act exceptionally well-behaved in front of you, but in the blink of an eye, they can be talking badly about you elsewhere.
When Tang Baozhu was six years old, she slept in a bed alone with two three-year-old children. This was because when children reach a certain age, they are expected to help take care of the younger children.
At first, Tang Baozhu treated them like her own children. Because she was already quite old, she couldn't help but treat the two two- or three-year-old toddlers like her own juniors.
They would even secretly take White Rabbit milk candies from their spatial storage and give them to eat.
I just don't know why, maybe it's not worth it. When we're eating candy, she says all sorts of nice things to our faces, calling us "sister" this and "sister" that. But behind our backs, she says all sorts of unpleasant things to others, saying that she's too stingy, only giving us one or two pieces of candy and expecting us to say so many nice things.
After Tang Baozhu found out, she never took anything out of her space again. Even when she ate, she only ate for herself, and no one else was allowed to take advantage of her.
“Dean Mama, the miracle doctor said he wants to take me as his apprentice. I want to learn a skill from him, so I’m telling you this, and I hope you can agree.”
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