Chapter 360: It’s a waste if you don’t take it
"Doctor, help him, help him quickly!" Adu ran to the clinic carrying his bloody brother on his back.
More than a dozen men from the same village were all covered in blood.
"Oh, what's going on?" The old doctor was startled. The bloody man who rushed in was carrying another bloody man on his back.
"Hurry! Come here!" The old doctor helped him onto the couch. The bloody man's face was as white as a piece of paper and his breath was weak.
"Quick, bring some cloth strips, hemostatic medicine, wound medicine, and hot water!" The medicine boy hurriedly brought some cloth strips, hot water, and wound medicine.
The old doctor cut open the trouser legs and tied the wounds tightly with cloth strips. The blood from the legs stopped flowing and the blood flow decreased and slowed down.
Wipe the wound with hot water and sprinkle it with hemostatic powder. The bleeding will slowly stop and no longer flow. Then apply some wound medicine and bandage it.
After a round of rescue, the bleeding stopped, but the person seemed to have lost his breath and it took a long time before he began to breathe slightly.
The old doctor put a piece of ginseng into the bloody man's mouth and held it there. Life or death was left to fate. He was a doctor in a poor village and this was all his medical skills.
"Doctor, how is my brother?" Adu's eyes were red and his expression was sad.
"Do your best and leave the rest to fate!" The old doctor took the patient's pulse and it was very weak.
The man had lost too much blood, but he was also strong and healthy, so he could hold on until now. Most people would have died long ago.
"Come here, young man, let me clean you up!" The old doctor saw that Adu was covered in blood, which looked even more creepy.
When he took off his coat, he saw knife wounds all over his chest, back, and arms, with the skin and flesh turned outward like bloody mouths.
"Oh my God, have you encountered bandits?" The old doctor saw that none of the dozen strong men were spared.
"Yes! We encountered bandits! Officials and bandits have been one family since ancient times! The ancients were right!" Adu gritted his teeth.
The old doctor wrapped Adu's upper body with gauze. His body was covered with wounds, and there were two or three knife wounds in his abdomen.
The rest of the people were cleaned up by a few medicine boys, who just applied some golden wound medicine and that was it.
When they were about to pay, they realized they were penniless. They looked at the old doctor awkwardly and said, "Doctor, we have no money today. Can you give us money on credit and pay us back in two days?"
"?" The old doctor looked around and saw that they were all Slang people. "Well, go, go. Everyone has troubles sometimes."
A pharmacist came up to the old doctor and whispered something in his ear. The more he listened, the more frightened he became! The people of Rong County will probably suffer in the future!
"Hurry up and leave!" After hearing this, the old doctor suddenly drove Adu and the others away.
"What do you mean, doctor? My brother's life or death is unknown. Please prescribe some medicine to save my brother's life!" Adu pleaded.
"Hurry up and leave! If you don't leave now, none of you will survive! The authorities will definitely come to arrest you soon!"
The old doctor has seen too many of them. Those yamen runners are very bad. How could he let it go?
"Doctor, I won't leave! Is there no law in this world? We, the Li people, are being bullied. We want to seek justice from the government!" Adu said stubbornly.
"That's right! They robbed us of our money, injured us, and left us on the run. How can this world be so evil?" The other men were also dissatisfied.
"Oh, gentlemen, they say a wise man never suffers a loss in front of him. As long as there is green, there will be no shortage of firewood. How can you be so foolish as to just sit there and wait for the government to arrest you?"
The old doctor was so angry that he slapped his thigh. These young men have never experienced anything and always think that there is only reason in the world. Who will reason with you, a grassroots with no power or influence?
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" The old doctor pushed them out the door. "Let's put justice aside and go back to get help!"
These men were unwilling to come out.
The old doctor asked the men to carry Apo, helped hire an ox cart, paid the fare, and urged them to leave the city as fast as possible.
Less than a quarter of an hour later, dozens of yamen runners rushed into the clinic with murderous intent, holding iron chains, shackles, water and fire sticks, and swords slung over their waists.
"Old man Mo, where are those slang people?" The squad leader Huang San came prepared, calling all the people the yamen could summon, and came to arrest people with weapons.
"Which slang person? There are so many people coming in and out of the clinic every day!" The old doctor calmly threw the last piece of bloody gauze into the stove.
"Old man Mo, stop pretending to be confused in front of me!" Huang San grabbed the old doctor's collar and looked at him.
"I'm old and can't remember so much!" said the old doctor lightly.
Huang Sanben is a ruffian in the city who is good at eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.
He used the dilapidated houses and his wife in the family as gambling money, and his parents were so angry that they died.
I don't know how he got close to the new County Magistrate Wang, but he suddenly became the head of the yamen.
He was arrogant and domineering. These days, he led the yamen runners to plunder the city, and the people, shops and vendors all suffered.
I'm afraid I can't escape today.
"Can't remember? I'll help you recover your memory!" Huang San punched the old doctor in the abdomen.
"Ouch!" The old doctor groaned in pain, his stomach aching. The government's method of punishing people was to target the soft flesh and boneless parts.
"Tell me! Where did you run to?" Huang San's face was ferocious and distorted.
Several yamen runners smashed the clinic and stole the money from the drawer.
"Squad leader, that group of Li people ran away! They fled the city and headed for Wu County! They were funded by Old Man Mo!" A yamen runner caught the medicine boy and beat him up, then found out the truth.
"Old thing! Are you tired of living?" Huang San pushed the old doctor to the ground.
"Old man Mo is colluding with the bandits. Take him back for detention and interrogation. The rest of you, follow me to chase the bandits!"
"Yes!" The yamen runners followed Huang San out of the city.
The remaining bailiffs put shackles on the old doctor and took him back to the prison.
"Master, Master!" Several little medicine boys were panicking and chasing after him crying.
"You all go home!" said the old doctor helplessly.
"Damn it! They actually got away!" Huang San said angrily.
We chased him all the way to the border between Wu County and Rong County, but there was no trace of him. We asked the guard at the checkpoint and he said he had passed by two quarters of an hour ago.
They were yamen runners from Rong County. If they wanted to go to Wu County to arrest someone, they had to go back to get official documents. Otherwise, if they went across counties to arrest someone, they would have to go to jail first.
"Sir, those bandits have escaped!" After returning to the yamen, Huang San reported to Wang Duanfang.
Wang Duanfang, who took over Rong County from County Magistrate Yan, was depressed looking at this poor and dilapidated county. There was no money at all and he cried bitterly. How could he survive?
When he was an inspector, he was righteous and would find faults in others and pick on every little thing.
As a local official, the emperor is far away and the sky is high. You should make as much money as you can! Otherwise, it will be a waste!
Looking through the files and official documents, the state government required all counties under its jurisdiction to cooperate with Jinfengzhai to open a sugar factory, and all sugarcane was supplied to the sugar factory, and the county government collected high profits and taxes from the sugar factory.
After asking around, I learned that Jinfengzhai is in Wu County and made a ton of money from brown sugar last year.
Wang Duanfang had an idea in his mind: instead of letting others make money, it would be better for him to make money himself.
I learned that the sugar factory has been built and is about to open, so it’s a good time to get it!
But I just arrived and I don’t have anyone to use, so I don’t know where to start.
Huang San asked someone to get in touch with him, and the two hit it off and became accomplices.
Huang San was plundering people everywhere, but he pretended to be deaf and dumb in the yamen, just putting money in his pocket and giving Huang San a share of the profits.
Whenever something happened, Huang San would take the blame himself and say that he was a temporarily hired yamen runner.
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