Chapter 36 036 "Why is my stomach gone?"
The Zhao family members quickly said that there was no rush, and at worst he could just take a few more days off.
After they left, Zhao Wanqiu was a little worried. "This extraction injection has very high requirements for the purity of the active ingredients. I'm afraid we have to find a pharmaceutical factory?"
"But I've been a nurse for so many years, and I don't know anyone from the pharmaceutical factory. If I had known that I would be asking for help now, I should have turned a blind eye and not argued with them before."
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, "If you don't quarrel, can you tolerate them making those stupid mistakes?"
"Why should I endure this? This is not a matter of face. It's about the patient's life and health. They injected undiluted drugs directly into the patient's vein. Isn't this life-threatening? And they gave the patient an IV too quickly in order to get off work. If I hadn't discovered it early, the old lady would have died!" Zhao Wanqiu got really angry when she talked about it.
"I can tolerate mistakes when I first start clinical work, but I can't tolerate such low-level mistakes after working for several years. If you were the patient's family member, wouldn't you be angry?"
Shu Jinyue nodded and comforted her. It had been many years since this happened, but she was still reading it. She had read it so many times that she knew since she was in middle school that □□ could not be injected intravenously without dilution. Although she didn't know the principle, she just couldn't do it, otherwise her life would be in danger.
"Alright, alright, I'll go ask Grandma Hu tomorrow. Last time she criticized me for not making the Xiaoyao Pills properly, so this is a good opportunity to ask her for advice."
Anyway, Chinese medicine injection is not high-tech, and her family should have made it before.
Dinner was the soup left over from yesterday’s rabbit meat. The meat was gone, but the soup still had flavour, so we just added some vegetables to it and cooked it. Ordinary people didn’t have so many particulars in their daily lives. It can also be eaten with corn rice.
"Why hasn't my second brother come back yet?"
"He came back just before getting off work and rode his bike away, saying he was going to build a bridge. He also took two rabbits with him."
They couldn't bear to eat the four rabbits, so they fed them all with the freshest tender grass, and occasionally fed them with leftover carrots from the vegetable store. They kept them plump and shiny. They ate one of them yesterday at noon, and it was so delicious that Jin Yue was drooling just thinking about it.
But she was more curious about why her second brother went to the ghost market. Was he selling rabbits? He seems to be short of money recently. A few days ago, I heard someone ask her to ask her second brother for acrylic pillowcases, saying that she had agreed with him.
They clearly stopped this a few months ago because they were afraid of attracting attention. Why are they starting it again now? Shu Jinyue also heard Sister Qiao sigh, saying that the crackdown on these speculators has been very strict recently, and her husband has not been able to get off work on time for several days.
Shu Jinyue was a little worried, and hoped that his second brother would be more restrained.
Fortunately, not long after dark, Shu Wenming came back empty-handed. Shu Jinyue breathed a sigh of relief and pulled him into the house, "Second brother, did you sell the rabbit?"
He nodded uncomfortably, "I was thinking of asking for your opinion, but I was in a hurry to use the money, so I didn't wait until you got off work."
"Here's eight dollars for rabbits, four dollars a piece. Not bad. Just consider it a loan from you, okay?"
Shu Jinyue didn't want to argue with him about money. "I would like to remind you to avoid building the bridge recently. I heard from the people in the street office that they are tightening the rules these days."
"Well, I won't go for now."
"By the way, are you short of money recently?" She looked him up and down suspiciously, wondering if her second brother had picked up some bad habits.
"It's not that I'm in short supply. It's just that Wenli has a fever and it keeps getting worse. I'm worried. I want to buy her some nourishment to strengthen her immunity."
Jin Yue breathed a sigh of relief. This was a very legitimate reason to spend money. "If it still doesn't work, bring her here and I'll give it a try."
"I thought so too. But she will be well soon. It's just a minor illness and the doctor didn't allow her to be hospitalized. She doesn't want to take sick leave, so she goes to work every day despite being sick... She's so pitiful." He sighed softly. He used to think that Xu Wenli was a daughter with a good family and she had everything she needed. But he only recently realized that family warmth cannot be bought with money.
She has been ill for so long, but Xu's father was busy with work and didn't take her to the hospital. Xu's mother was sent by her unit to the county below for training, and it was said that she would not be back for half a year.
"Every time she goes to the hospital alone, I can't take a leave. It's annoying just thinking about it. I really don't want to do this crappy job anymore!" It's so easy for regular employees to ask for leave, but he, a temporary worker, is like digging up the manager's ancestors' grave. He tried to be careful and took the initiative to work overtime, but he still refused to approve his leave.
I really want to quit my job a hundred times every day!
"Forget it, forget it. Don't say such impulsive words. A minor cold is not a big deal. Sister Wenli is an adult. She can handle it on her own. She doesn't need someone to accompany her."
"By the way, if you want to give her some supplements, I'll ask Brother Zhao. He used to go to the Northeast often. He said that a fellow villager used ginseng to exchange with him for something that was not available in the Northeast, but he took it to the herbal medicine company and they said it was worthless. Why don't you buy it for Sister Wenli?"
Shu Wenming's eyes lit up. "Okay, ask for me right away. Any amount is fine."
"Look at what you have accomplished." Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, remembering that when she was preparing to buy a job, she sold a ginseng given by Liu Huifang. Now thinking about it, considering the quality of that wild ginseng, the price was actually too low. Fortunately, the money was not used in the end and became her own pocket money. In the end, it was her parents and siblings who helped her.
"Brother, seriously, if you are short of money, I will pay you back what I owe you."
"No, I don't need that much for now. Wenli's illness isn't serious, so it won't cost much."
Seeing that he really didn't want it, Shu Jinyue didn't mention it anymore. She would definitely pay back the money. Not only that, but she would also make up the amount for him when he needed it.
"By the way, have you ever thought about where you're going to live after you get married?"
Shu Wenming had a headache. His two younger sisters were not married yet. He would feel bad if he occupied the only house just to get married.
Although, in Shilan Province at that time, the family house was tacitly prepared for the son, he was not that kind of person.
"We can't accommodate them at home. I think we should rent a house outside. It will be safer for you and Wenyun to live at home. Don't worry, Aunt Zhao's sons also rented houses when they first got married, and they saved enough money to buy houses within two years. We are not bad either."
Jin Yue wanted to say that it was not impossible, but it was too slow. It was already 1974, and a large number of educated youth were about to return to the city. Housing in the city was becoming increasingly tight. Not only did the rents increase, but even the house prices also skyrocketed.
By then, their cost of living will be higher and their hope of buying a house will be slimmer.
Shu Jinyue gritted her teeth and said, "Second brother, let's buy a house." She thought so the last time she talked about this topic, but she was afraid it would be too "shocking", so she laid the groundwork first.
"Buy a house?" Shu Wenming was surprised and looked his sister up and down. "What are you thinking about? Where can we get so much money?"
"You don't have to buy the good ones. Just buy something casual, even if it's not habitable."
"Leave it alone for now. When I have more money in a few years, I can renovate it and it will be habitable."
Many houses look dilapidated from the outside because of the destruction caused by those people, but the location is good. In the future, the Housing Authority will arrange people to repair them. The homeowners can pay some renovation costs and live in a house with water, electricity, and a separate bathroom. Isn’t that beautiful?
I don't know about other cities now, but Shucheng will apply to be a historical and cultural city by the mid-1980s. The government will vigorously repair dilapidated houses and improve the living conditions of citizens. With only a small amount of money, a small dilapidated house can be completely renovated.
"Do you really want to buy it?" Shu Wenming held up his chin and looked at her, "Tell me the truth, how much money do you have now?"
"Not much." Just kidding, she wouldn't tell the truth to anyone who asked her.
"How much is not much?"
Shu Jinyue played Tai Chi with him and refused to mention the amount. "I can't afford a big and good one, but it's not a problem to buy a house in a large compound."
Shu Wenming rolled his eyes. "You're so cunning. Just wait. If you really want to buy me, I'll come up with a solution."
"What about you? You can't wait until you get married to rent a house, right?"
Shu Wenming lowered his head and thought for a moment, "If I buy something smaller and more broken, do you think Wen Li would dislike it?"
"Based on my understanding of Sister Wenli, she definitely won't do that. If she dislikes you, she won't like you. Be bold and confident. Believe that the bond between you two is stronger than gold."
Shu Wenming always felt that what she said was nice, but it just felt weird. It might be because they were always arguing, so it was rare for them to talk to each other nicely.
"I don't know if Wenyun will buy it."
"I won't buy it, you guys can buy it." Suddenly, Shu Wenyun poked her head out from the bed.
"Sister, you are here, why don't you say anything? It's so scary."
"I saw you were chatting animatedly, so I didn't interrupt you."
Shu Jinyue knew that she really didn't want to buy it, so she didn't force her. After all, she was going to marry a potential man in the future. Xu Siqi's family had so many big houses, probably more than one, so she wouldn't have to worry about where to live.
"Second brother, please don't go to the ghost market recently, but you can help keep an eye out for any houses for sale near us." Most of the houses in Liuye Hutong are public housing, which were allocated to various factories and mines, and the units allocated them to their respective employees. After more than ten years of development, considering the needs of families with many children for marriage, separation, etc., a large-scale buyout of property rights was carried out in the mid-1960s. Families with the ability could use the money to buy out the house they lived in, and the property rights belonged to them, but some families could not come up with such a large sum of money and had to give up.
Many families think that since they are living there anyway, they can live there without paying any rent, but buying out the house requires paying such a large sum of money at one time, which is not cost-effective, so many families are unwilling to buy out the house.
Teacher Shu and Zhao Wanqiu had been honest friends all their lives, but they did have a little foresight for once and scraped together enough money to buy out the two rooms.
Jin Yue remembers that after the bungalows were converted into buildings, because their house had property rights, they were allocated one more house than other families, which made the neighbors in the compound very envious.
What Jin Yue wants to buy now are those with property rights. It doesn't matter if they are small or broken, as long as they are within her means. On the one hand, she plans to move out and live on her own after her second brother gets married, so that she can enjoy an independent private space. On the other hand, she also regards it as an investment.
She actually has no financial sense and is not good at stock funds. She only knows that buying a house will not lose money, so she chooses this one.
"Second brother, you must help me."
"Don't worry, I'll find out for you."
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The next day at noon, Jin Yue went to see Grandma Hu, carrying the soft eggplants stewed at home and a bowl of specially cooked millet porridge.
Recently, someone from the neighborhood office has been sending her meals, but the Shu family hasn't been sending her any. They just make something delicious and soft and send her a portion of it at one meal.
"Grandma Hu, have you eaten?"
The old lady curled up like a skinny shrimp, lying on a recliner basking in the sun, motionless and silent, as if even her chest could not be heard rising or falling with her breathing... Jin Yue was startled and quickly walked over and put his hand under her nose.
"I won't die." The old lady opened her eyes faintly and sniffed her nose. "Is it the eggplant stewed by your mother?"
"Yes, my mother cooked it. You have a really good nose. Would you like to try it?"
The old lady stretched out her hand, and Jin Yue understood the situation and immediately helped her up and washed her hands before eating.
In fact, she couldn't eat much, so she just tasted a few mouthfuls of food casually, but after eating she would rinse her mouth with clean water and pick her few teeth to keep herself clean and fresh at all times.
When Shu Jinyue saw it for the first time, he was amazed. Only then did he realize that it was true that the people in Dream of the Red Chamber rinsed their mouths with scented tea before and after meals.
"We stewed rabbit meat a few days ago, but it wasn't tender enough so we didn't send it to you."
"No need, it's not like I haven't eaten before."
"Yes, yes, you are well-informed and have tasted all kinds of delicacies. I came here today because I want to ask you something."
The old lady lazily sat down on the rattan chair again, looking at the girl in front of her with a pair of unclear eyes. Although Shu Jinyue has been busy recently, he would come personally to deliver meals whenever he is free. "What have you been busy with these days?"
Jin Yue then quickly told the old lady about Zhang Dayong's story. The old lady nodded repeatedly and said, "You are quite quick-witted, but you still can't be proud. When you are young, success is mostly based on luck."
Shu Jin wanted to say that the old lady really didn't know how to praise her, and she was too lazy to explain it to her in detail. "I want to treat him with acupuncture injection now. I want to ask if you have any experience in extracting Chinese medicine injection. I would like to ask you for advice."
"What are you going to use?"
"Mix astragalus and cimicifuga in a ratio of six to one, and try to keep the purity as close to 100%. Do you think this will work?"
"Where's the recipe?"
This was taught by Jin Yue's master in the countryside. He said it was passed down by his master. It is very effective in treating visceral prolapse diseases. However, they used a decoction. Jin Yue felt that it could be upgraded to an injection. The effect would definitely be better if injected through axue sites.
The old lady thought about it and nodded, "Okay, but I haven't touched these things for many years. If Cuiguo was here, she would definitely be able to help you make it. Cuiguo..."
Jin Yue did not interrupt her thoughts. In addition to the relationship between master and servant, she also had a sisterly relationship with Cuiguo, and more importantly, she felt regret for the loss of the Hu family's pharmaceutical technology. Cuiguo's grandfather was the eldest disciple personally trained by Grandpa Hu's father. He was the culmination of the Hu family's skills. No one else had learned as well as him. Unfortunately, he was misunderstood and abandoned by the old man. Fortunately, Cuiguo was talented and learned her grandfather's skills.
Unfortunately, this only descendant of the inheritance has been missing for more than 30 years because of a word from the eldest lady.
"You must help me find her, remember?" The old lady seemed to have a little memory confusion, and she would say this every time Jin Yue came.
"Okay, I promise."
The old lady finally closed her eyes, basked in the warm sun, and slowly dozed off. Shu Jinyue thought that the old lady was really terrible. She had such a bad memory that she couldn't remember what she had just said in less than two minutes.
Forget it, she should go somewhere else to think of a solution.
"Go to the Chinese Medicine Factory in Shucheng and look for Kang Yongxin."
"Hmm?" Jin Yue turned around and wanted to ask her what she meant, but the old lady had fallen asleep and was unwilling to speak again no matter how she asked.
It took Jin Yue two minutes to react. What she meant was that if he wanted to make the injection, he should go find this person and he would help. Maybe he was an old acquaintance of the Hu family, or maybe he was Grandma Hu's friend. No matter what the situation was, Grandma Hu was willing to provide this person, which meant that he was reliable.
"Thank you, have a good rest, I will come to see you tomorrow."
Jin Yue just went out and happened to meet Xu Duan. He handed him two bottles of milk and said, "I have something to do in the next few days and will not be in the bookstore. If you have anything, you can go to my brother. Remember?"
"Yeah, okay, I'll remember that."
He didn't say where he was going, and Jin Yue didn't ask. The two chatted for a few minutes and then parted ways. However, Jin Yue only stayed at the company until 3:30. She said hello to Zhu Daqiang, went out and took the bus to the Municipal Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory.
The Chinese medicine factory is in the south, and you can smell a strong scent of Chinese medicine when you get nearby. In addition to preparing and packaging herbal medicines, Chinese medicine factories now produce various finished medicines. The famous Xiaoyao Pills in later generations are the product of the Shucheng Chinese Medicine Factory.
Decades later, a series of products developed by Shucheng Chinese Medicine Factory, including toothpaste, lipstick, hand cream, shower gel, shampoo, etc. with Chinese herbal formulas, were also very popular in later generations, and advertisements for toothpaste were even broadcast on CCTV.
However, today's Chinese medicine factories are not very large in scale, and their land area is far smaller than that of large heavy industrial plants such as machinery plants and steel mills. Shu Jinyue arrived at the gate, but didn't rush in. He looked at the notice board at the door first, but didn't see Kang Yongxin's name.
That person should not be a member of the factory's leadership team, but a technical staff member.
"Hey, little girl, who are you from? Are you looking for an adult?" The security guard saw her standing at the door and thought she was from someone's family and was in high school, so he asked her.
Jin Yue was about to say that she was not a factory employee, but suddenly she had an idea and deliberately stuttered: "I'm looking for Kang...Kang Yongxin..."
"Hey, are you from Master Kang's family? You must be his relative, right? He has only a disabled sister but no children."
“Yes, yes.”
"Master Kong's R&D department is not busy these days. You can go there. It's in that separate building." The guard was kind enough to point in the direction. Jin Yue thanked him and hurried over.
She was afraid that if he asked one more question, she would be exposed.
She arrived at the small building, found an office where someone was talking, and knocked on the door.
"Who are you looking for, comrade?"
"Hello, I'm looking for Master Kang Yongxin."
Everyone looked at her and wondered who this was. Could she be the new nanny hired by Master Kang for his sister? That's too young.
But he looks like a scholar, so it shouldn't be difficult to communicate with him.
Master Kang's sister has been bedridden for many years, and Master Kang is a man, so it is very inconvenient to take care of her. But the nanny he had been using last month said that something happened in his hometown and asked him to pay her one month's salary first. But she hasn't come back since she went back. Everyone said that Master Kang was cheated and he should find a new one quickly.
You have to report the money that was defrauded to the police, which is very troublesome.
Shu Jinyue felt that everyone looked at her strangely, as they had no idea that such things had happened.
"The first room on the second floor, turn left. It's probably busy. Knock on the door first. Don't rush in. Wait until he speaks before entering. Remember, this is Master Kang's temper."
You see, everyone sympathizes with her. Let’s teach her the rules first to prevent her from making mistakes in the future.
Shu Jin felt more and more strange, but she didn't think much about it. She hurried to the second floor again. The door was closed. She knocked twice until she heard the word "enter". Then she pushed the door open and walked in: she saw a man in a white work suit who was bowing his head in front of a pile of bottles and jars. He didn't even raise his head when he heard the footsteps.
Shu Jinyue didn't say anything, so she stood in front of the desk, waiting for him to finish his work, then turned around and asked, "You are..."
"Hello, Master Kang. My name is Shu Jinyue. I came to see you because Grandma Hu introduced me to you."
Kang Yongxin frowned, "Who?"
Jin Yue was worried, could it be that he no longer had any contact with Grandma Hu? After all, people are forgotten when they leave, and the Hu family has been like a big tree for many years.
"Mrs. Hu Peiyi."
Kang Yongxin put down what he was holding, took off his mask and goggles, washed his hands, and then looked at Shu Jinyue seriously.
He was a very serious middle-aged man, about fifty years old, with gray hair and beard, but the amazing thing was that his eyebrows were still black, making him look even more serious. His eyebrows were like two rulers of teachers in the old society, hanging over Shu Jinyue's heart, examining and judging.
However, paradoxically, he seemed to have the scent of incense burning under the kind-looking Bodhisattva in the temple.
Kang Yongxin was silent for a moment, as if he was judging the truth of her words. "Aunt Hu asked you to come to me. What's the matter?"
Shu Jinyue closed his eyes and thought, no matter what, since he has come here, he can't come in vain. He must trust Grandma Hu. She must have a reason for asking him to come to see this person: "I want to use the stomach-raising liquid I developed to treat gastroptosis for patients. I would like to ask you to help extract the injection liquid."
"Are you a doctor?"
Shu Jinyue nodded but didn't elaborate, guessing that the other party didn't want to listen.
"What is gastric fluid?"
“Astragalus and Cimicifuga are extracted in a certain proportion to produce an injection solution with a purity close to 100%, which is then injected into the patient’s specific acupoints through acupuncture…” blah blah.
As for the prescription, he was also knowledgeable and did not ask too many questions. He only asked which academies it was for, how much dosage they planned to use, how long they planned to use it for, how many courses of treatment they would have, and he even inquired in detail about Zhao Dayong's condition. Not only did he ask very detailed questions, he also judged whether the patient's condition was suitable for the use.
Shu Jinyue answered one by one. It was obvious that there was hope as long as he didn't refuse outright, and the more serious he was, the more relieved Shu Jinyue felt.
Although it is not easy to get along with such a serious person in life, she would feel more at ease if she entrusted the medicine for treatment to someone who is serious and responsible.
Sure enough, Kang Yongxin listened for a while and thought for a moment, "This is not difficult, I can do it for you, but——"
"Don't worry, as for the money, you can decide how much is appropriate for me, and I will give you every penny less."
"It's not a question of money. Is your gastric fluid-raising agent really effective for gastroptosis?" He was very skeptical.
"Logically speaking, if my diagnosis is correct, it should be effective. I will also give him some kidney-tonifying decoctions." Shu Jinyue remembered that Zhao Dayong also had a symptom of low back pain that day, which showed that the disease was no longer limited to spleen deficiency and qi collapse, but even affected the lower part of the kidney. At this time, if the kidney is not tonified and only the spleen is treated, it would be like suppressing one problem but causing another.
Kang Yongxin thought for a moment and said, "Okay, come and get it in two days."
Shu Jinyue breathed a sigh of relief, "Then what do you think is a suitable fee?"
"No need. Since Aunt Hu asked you to come, she must trust you." After saying that, she turned around and went back to studying his bottles and jars, as if those things were much more interesting than talking to a living person.
Shu Jinyue blinked quietly. Grandma Hu was indeed a centipede. Although she looked pitiful and indifferent to worldly affairs, she actually had some capable people under her command.
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During the two days of waiting, Shu Jinyue asked Zhao Wanqiu to go out and prepare the medicine according to the kidney-tonifying prescription he wrote, and then get the injection at the agreed time and give it to Zhao Dayong immediately.
"Let's start with a small amount, slowly, and then gradually increase the dosage after making sure there are no adverse reactions."
Zhao Dayong nodded quickly, "Doctor Xiao Shu, just treat it as you should. You don't need to tell us. We trust you."
As she spoke, Mrs. Zhao stuffed five pairs of woolen gloves at Zhao Wanqiu. They were all black, but some were big and some were small. "I have nothing to do these days, so I knitted these randomly. I don't know if they are suitable. You can just wear them."
"I'm going to knit two small sweaters for Huifang so she can wear them when she's one or two years old."
These gloves are very well knitted, with tight and neat stitches, and a circle of elastic around the wrist, making them easy to put on and not easy to fall off. "It's hard for you, but you have great craftsmanship."
"I usually have nothing to do, so I just figured this out."
Shu Jinyue also took it and looked at it, and gave a thumbs up, "This is not a random guess. The three of you have five-pointed stars, and the two pairs of mine and my sister have plum blossom patterns. Mom didn't notice it just now, right?"
Zhao Wanqiu took a closer look and said, "It's true. You can actually weave different patterns on woolen gloves. The plum blossoms are so lifelike. Oh my god, how can you be so skillful? It's so beautiful!"
Mrs. Zhao blushed and could only say "No way" and "No". Zhao Dayong was also a little nervous and didn't know what to say.
Jin Yue thought to himself, this is a really honest family, "Mrs. Zhao, you have such good craftsmanship, how much do you charge for weaving for your neighbors?"
"No, no, no, we won't accept yours. We can't thank you enough."
Shu Jinyue originally wanted to ask about the price, and then go to the street office to help promote the product and get her some business, but seeing that she really didn't want to say anything, he let it go. There was also a skillful woman in Liuye Hutong who did this, so he could ask her someday and get an idea.
Sure enough, when Zhao Wanqiu came back that night, she sighed, "To knit such a pair of shoes, not counting the wool, the labor cost alone is only two cents. If you are fast, you can only knit three pairs a day."
This is assuming that there is nothing to do at home and that I am not interrupted in the middle of the work. I can earn at most 60 cents a day by working without blinking. And such work is not available every day. There is a little more money around the beginning of winter, and there is no income at all in other seasons.
"It's a pity that Mrs. Zhao has such craftsmanship. If it were in the future, she would be a respected craftsman." Start a live broadcast, go to the link, and you have to pay more to buy the ones knitted by the anchor herself.
"Last time she said she could only sew and mend. She was really modest."
Everyone talked about it for a while, and after a while they were curious and moved on to other things. No one wears gloves in this weather, and it will take at least another two or three months before they can be used.
The next day, Zhao Dayong continued to come for treatment. Hearing that he had no adverse reactions, Shu Jinyue increased the dosage with confidence and let him come for six consecutive days, just in time for a rest on the seventh day.
The neighbors in the compound saw this person coming to Shu Jinyue for medical treatment every day, and heard some words from Zhao Wanqiu. Word spread quickly, and within a few days, when Shu Jinyue was at work, people from the street office came to ask her about the treatment of colon cancer.
"Oh, Xiao Shu is really a hidden talent. He can even treat colon cancer. That's amazing."
"I heard that colon cancer can be cured in six days with just a few injections in the legs. That's amazing!"
Shu Jinyue: “…”Ah, I didn’t, no, what are you talking about!
Sister Qian from the Publicity Department even asked, "Can Xiao Shu cure stomach cancer? A relative of mine was diagnosed with stomach cancer last month..."
Shu Jinyue waved his hands quickly, "This is a misunderstanding, a huge misunderstanding. He doesn't have colon cancer at all, he just has gastroptosis. You heard it wrong."
People didn't believe her and thought she hadn't been cured yet. She didn't want to tell anyone and just dealt with her with an expression that said "Don't worry, I understand."
Shu Jinyue was really speechless. Ordinary people just don't believe in science and prefer to believe these hearsay stories about "miracle doctors".
However, when it comes to gastroptosis, Liu Jinbu became interested. After carefully asking her about her treatment ideas, he suddenly changed the subject and said, "My brother-in-law also has gastroptosis. How about you take a look at him?"
Zhu Daqiang interrupted: "The one who drinks Moutai?"
"How is that possible? If it was him, I wouldn't care. He's my second aunt's lover. He's tall and thin. In the past few years, he's always complained of bloating, hiccups, heartburn, and inability to eat. He's also lost a lot of weight. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with gastroptosis, but it wasn't to the point of requiring surgery. He's taken a lot of medicine, but it only relieved the symptoms."
Shu Jinyue nodded. People with tall and thin stature are indeed more likely to suffer from this disease than people of average build.
"Now that you mention it, I'm afraid my niece also has this disease. She is tall and thin, and she stands at the counter in a department store. Their manager won't let her sit down, and she has to stand even when there are no customers. Standing for a long time after a meal is also a risk factor. I asked her to come to see Jin Yue, right Jin Yue?"
Lao Zhu and Liu Jinbu both spoke up, and Shu Jinyue naturally agreed, "Okay, you can come anytime."
These two people are different from others. Others have to wait and see how Zhao Dayong's treatment goes and see if it's effective. But they know Shu Jinyue well. If she is sure of curing the disease, then she is really sure of curing it. In just two days, she actually brought their relatives over.
Although they both suffered from gastroptosis, the pulse conditions of these two people were completely different from Zhao Dayong's. Their stomach discomfort was very obvious, typical of weak spleen and stomach, and sinking of qi in the middle. Anyone who had studied a little Chinese medicine could see that, and Zhao Dayong's was indeed a difficult and complicated disease.
"Xiao Shu, how about we give you seven dollars for each course of treatment, including the consultation fee and medicine cost?" Liu Jinbu suggested, apparently having discussed it with Zhu Daqiang's niece.
Shu Jinyue originally wanted to say no, but then he thought that mild symptoms could be cured in one or two courses of treatment, so the cost was indeed not that much. After all, they have spent more than ten times this amount on various stomach medicines in recent years.
Although the herbs used to make the stomach-raising liquid were all leftovers from pharmaceutical factories, and the equipment was from Kang Yongxin's laboratory, the cost was negligible, but that was when only Zhao Dayong was using it. Now there are two more people, and there may be even more in the future. She can no longer feel at ease not charging any fees and using other people's things for free.
She has to give some fees to Kang Yongxin and his laboratory. She can't afford it herself, right?
"Okay, the director and Brother Liu also know that I need to find someone to make this injection, so I'll take the money. I'm not looking to make money, it's just the cost of the pharmaceutical factory."
She accepted it, and the two patients felt relieved. For people like them who had respectable jobs, monetary transactions were always better than owing favors to others.
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Shu Jinyue took time out that afternoon to visit the Chinese medicine factory.
Kang Yongxin had just come out of the laboratory, and had not yet taken off his mask and gloves. "Why are you here again?"
He said this without showing any expression, but Shu Jinyue could sense a strong sense of disgust. She chuckled and said, "I would also like to trouble Master Kang to make some stomach-raising fluid for me."
"Those are not enough. Are they not effective yet?"
"No, I have two patients with gastroptosis."
Kang Yongxin looked up at her, as if he was sizing up her expression, and seemed to be looking through her expression to see somewhere, thinking of someone, "Are you sure it's working?"
"Sure. Brother Zhao, tomorrow the patient I treated at the beginning will go to the hospital for a follow-up check. I will accompany him. We will know whether the treatment is effective or not."
Seeing that she was so sure, Kang Yongxin did not ask any more questions. "Okay, then come and get it the day after tomorrow. Oh, and bring the two test results of this patient Zhao... let me take a look."
Shu Jinyue quickly agreed and then talked about the issue of expenses.
"The cost is not urgent, and it won't cost much now." After saying this, he walked away without looking back, with the four big words "Don't bother me" written on the back of his head.
Shu Jinyue had no choice but to go back and record in a notebook how much injection she took each time, and then talk to him when the amount accumulated to a certain level. She even had a bold idea.
If my simple formula could be widely used among clinical patients, how many gastroptosis patients would be cured? Just like many large hospitals in later generations have some in-house preparations, which are unique formulas of the hospital or a certain doctor... At that time, it is not only a matter of profit, there are many more things that she cannot see at the moment.
Although she lived her life again, she was trapped above Yangcheng City, and what she saw and heard was limited. She couldn't think of how many specific benefits there would be, but she knew there would definitely be some.
But the next second, her heart sank again——
The example of three patients alone is far from enough to provide any effective data support. Others could just say "a blind cat caught a dead mouse" and she would have no way to refute it.
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The next day was Sunday, and it was also the day she had an appointment to have dinner with Mo Shuyi. Jin Yue had called in advance to discuss the matter. Today she was taking Zhao Dayong for a follow-up check-up, and he also wanted to see the results, so they agreed to go out for dinner after the check-up.
This time, Zhao Dayong registered openly and queued up to enter the clinic.
Mo Shuyi, dressed in casual clothes, lacked the seriousness he showed at work and instead looked more elegant and refreshing. He met several young nurses on the road, and their faces turned red when they called him "Doctor Mo". Walking in the hospital, even the patients' family members who didn't know him were secretly looking at him.
The more Shu Jin thought about it, the more he realized that this was the charm of a beauty. Regardless of gender, anyone would take a second look at beautiful things. If one could also say a few words to him, then one would be in a good mood for the whole day.
Alas, good-looking people are the focus wherever they go. Shu Jinyue looked at his small body of less than 1.6 meters and sighed.
"Come on, lie down first. I want to drink some water." Last time, Dr. Wang had just finished seeing a patient and couldn't help but nag, "I asked you to do the surgery. Lao Mo has already contacted the surgeon for you. Why are you so stubborn?"
Zhao Dayong didn't dare to speak, for fear of upsetting others.
Mo Shuyi took the initiative to explain for him, "He wants to try medication first, and if it doesn't work, then consider surgery. Surgery is painful and takes a long time to recover, and it will also affect his work."
"Why go to work when the condition is so serious? What's more important, work or life? Don't think that gastroptosis won't kill you. What if..."
"Hmm, Lao Wang, stop talking. You're scaring me."
Zhao Dayong's face turned pale. He was afraid. To him, what the doctor said was an imperial decree. He believed in it 100% and unconditionally.
Although Dr. Wang spoke directly and roughly, he expressed Shu Jinyue's thoughts. She also did not agree with Zhao Dayong resuming work in the short term.
But every family has its own problems. If Zhao Dayong stops working, will his wife be left alone? Is his son still single? These are objective difficulties that cannot be changed by outsiders.
As a doctor, you can only try your best to give the best advice to the patient. As for his difficulties and his family, those are things he needs to consider. Ultimately, it is his freedom to choose or not.
Zhao Dayong lay down tremblingly, silently lifted up his clothes, and did not dare to speak.
Doctor Wang put the probe on him, still scolding him, "You, what can I say about you? It's fine if you don't want to have surgery and just take medicine, but you even take Chinese medicine. You said that Chinese medicine... Tsk tsk, if you don't take it well, you have to go to the hospital for surgery? Why do you have to suffer that... Wait, where's your stomach?"
He frowned. This patient's condition was special. He remembered the location of the lower edge of his stomach very clearly and there must be no mistake. But why couldn't he find it there?
"Put your legs up so I can see."
"No, straighten it out and let me see."
"Turn your body towards me..."
But no matter which position Zhao Dayong used, he couldn't find the stomach in the pelvis. "Strange... Could it have really gone back?"
As he spoke, he moved the probe upwards step by step, and finally found it in the left upper abdomen, even back above the liver!
"Is it really back? Turn sideways and let me take another look." But no matter which position Zhao Dayong changed to, the position of the stomach was where it should be according to correct anatomy!
Doctor Wang was surprised. "You really have never had surgery?"
"You haven't had surgery in our hospital or any other hospital?"
"We didn't do it, how could we lie to you?" Mo Shuyi also looked shocked. He was more curious than Dr. Wang. He stared at the screen, trying to find the location of the stomach.
"In just six days, it was restored... and it was made with pure Chinese medicine. Old Mo, did your friend really only study Chinese medicine for three years?" He looked at Shu Jinyue and saw that she looked calm, as if she had expected this. He was even more shocked.
When she said that she inferred gastroptosis by taking the pulse, he didn't believe it, and even secretly guessed that this was another new way to attract Mo Shuyi's attention. But now the facts are in front of him, he has no choice but to believe it.
They don't have X-ray vision, but they have equipment. The equipment shows that it has gone up, and it won't deceive people.
Shu Jinyue was not good at dealing with this kind of situation. He paused and said, "In fact, the restoration is only temporary. If it is not properly taken care of later, it may recur."
"Of course." Doctor Wang looked at Zhao Dayong, "Did you hear what your attending physician said? You ignored what I said, but you have to pay attention to what Doctor Xiaoshu said."
Zhao Dayong looked excited, "Okay, okay, I'll listen to Doctor Xiaoshu."
Even when he left the hospital, he was still immersed in the joy of surviving a disaster. His face was flushed and his heartbeat was accelerated. "Doctor Xiao Shu, can I have two more courses of treatment? To consolidate the effect."
"Okay, has your back pain gotten better recently?"
"It's much better. It still hurts, but it's much less painful."
Shu Jinyue nodded, said goodbye to him, and walked towards the cafeteria with Mo Shuyi.
"I've heard of your hospital's canteen for a long time."
"Their braised chicken is good, it's a good time to try it." Mo Shuyi walked on her left and came to the cafeteria door. When they passed by the fly curtain, he stood aside and helped her lift it up so that she could go in first.
With this good start, the meal was a great success for both the host and the guests. Mo Shuyi was very curious about Zhao Dayong's case and was deeply impressed by the magic of Chinese medicine. She kept asking her questions, and this kind of questioning was not offensive at all. Jin Yue thought that being good-looking was an advantage.
After dinner, he asked almost everything, "To be honest, we often encounter patients with gastroptosis in the internal medicine department. We basically prescribe some drugs to enhance gastric motility, which can only slightly relieve the symptoms. The gastric fluid you developed is very effective. Are you interested in doing a clinical trial?"
Jin Yue was confused, "What clinical trial?"
"There are still very few in our country, but in foreign countries, especially in Japan, all drugs used on humans require a lot of data to verify their safety and effectiveness..." At the end, he added, "The requirements in our country are not so strict at present, but there is no guarantee that there will be changes in the future. If you want to go abroad, these traceability data are also indispensable."
Shu Jinyue thought to himself, it's true that when you feel sleepy you find a pillow.
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