Chapter 135: A long-term illness leads to a cure
Si Tian pushed the wheelchair to her side and said, "Juanjuan, are you watching ants moving?"
"Uncle, are they all here to work in the workshop?" Juanjuan asked him while leaning on the armrest of the wheelchair.
"Yes, is there any problem?" Si Tian didn't know why she suddenly asked this.
"What if they are scammers?" Juanjuan's little face was full of confusion.
"Liar?" Si Tian was a little confused.
"Well, if you don't test them, how do you know if they know pharmacology?" Juanjuan was very curious.
Si Tian found that they really didn't seem to have considered this issue: "It was Second Uncle who overlooked it."
Madam Si also felt that since he said he knew pharmacology, he must take a test.
She walked up to Doctor Huai and said a few words to him.
Doctor Huai nodded, stood up, and shouted to the people queuing outside, "Those who are here to register in person, please stay. Those who are here with their families, please go back!"
"Why? My child can't make it in time. Can't we register him first?" the people in the queue shouted.
"My workshop is not hiring many workers right now. If your child can't make it back, then come back next time." After saying this, Doctor Huai threw aside the names he had written before and started over.
"Doctor Huai, my son knows medicine, but he really can't come back today. Can I help him sign the indenture contract first?" A man squeezed to the front and said.
Doctor Huai was a little hesitant. After all, there were relatively few people who knew medical knowledge. If he could find one, it wouldn't be impossible to find a back door.
"Shasha. His son doesn't know any medical knowledge at all. He's just a chronically ill person." An ant trembled its antennae.
"Rustle. There's a saying among humans: 'A long illness makes a doctor.'" Another one stopped to the side and tilted its head slightly to look.
"Rustle. This father probably wants Doctor Huai to sign his son and let him die in the workshop, and he can get twenty dollars." After saying this, Ant walked forward.
Juanjuan frowned and looked at the people in line: "Second Uncle, he is lying."
Si Tian looked down at her: "Doesn't his son understand medical principles?"
"Yeah, yeah. Yiyi said that little brother has been sick for a long time!" Juanjuan nodded vigorously.
Si Tian said something to the person behind him and asked him to check the situation of the man’s son immediately.
He also gave Doctor Huai a wink, asking him to wait.
"You wait here for a while. If I don't recruit enough people, I will add your son." Doctor Huai looked at the man.
"Okay, okay, thank you, thank you." The man walked to the side confidently and waited.
Juanjuan looked at the people queuing up and pulled Si Jinchen's sleeve: "Brother."
"What's wrong?" Si Jinchen leaned slightly closer to her.
Juanjuan covered his little ears with her two little hands and said a few words.
Si Jinchen looked at the people in line and nodded.
He ran to Madam Si and whispered in her ear, "Grandma, the fifth person knows pharmacology, so we can't have him. His hands and feet are not clean."
"The seventh person looks honest but we can't accept him. He's a gambler. And the third..."
Madam Si looked at him in shock, then turned to look at the girl squatting in the corner: "Did Juanjuan tell you?"
"Yeah, she's listening to the ants gossiping." Si Jinchen's little face was full of bright smiles.
Old Madam Si wrote down all the people he mentioned, and their Juanjuan never felt lonely wherever he went and could always find a place to play.
Juanjuan squatted on the ground and looked at a row of ants: "Ant, are you going to move?"
"Shasha. We don't like the taste of the herbs here. Let's move to another place."
"Then come back and play with me when you have time!" Juanjuan said as she took out candies from the small bag, unwrapped them and placed them next to them.
"Shasha. Wow! You're so generous!"
"Shasha. You can come to us if you need our help in the future."
A group of ants happily picked up the candies given by Juanjuan and walked towards their new home.
Si Jinchen walked over to her and squatted down to look at the candies they took away: "Did Juanjuan give it to them?"
"Yeah." Juanjuan smiled and showed her little teeth.
Although the workers signed a fixed-term contract, they would receive monthly wages, which was very high for ordinary people.
As an apprentice, you won’t get a penny a month, and those with a conscience will even give you a few dimes.
The illiterate laborers only earned six to ten yuan a month. Compared with the unstable income, the workshop directly offered them ten yuan a month with food and accommodation included.
Anyone who is not a fool knows what to choose.
At Madam Si's instruction, Doctor Huai quickly selected ten people to sign the death contract: "I apologize to those who were not selected."
"Doctor Huai, didn't you say that I need someone who knows medical knowledge? I know medical knowledge, so why didn't you choose me?" a man said unconvinced.
There were only a few people out of ten who knew medical knowledge. He felt that he had a sure win, but he was rejected, which made him very dissatisfied.
"How do you know medicine and how did you lose your job? Do you need me to explain it in front of everyone?" Si Tian pushed the wheelchair to the front.
"Second Master Si, since you are recruiting openly, you should be fair." The man bet that Si Tian didn't know his past.
"You served as an apprentice at Minsheng Medical Clinic for a year. During that time, items were lost from the clinic many times. It was eventually discovered that you secretly took them away and sold them. Am I wrong?"
"If you're still not convinced, I'll go talk to the owner of Minsheng Clinic." Si Tian looked at him coldly.
The man didn't dare say anything else and ran away into the crowd in shame.
The man who had previously wanted to lie to Doctor Huai that his son knew medicine immediately withdrew his gaze and turned away when he met Si Tian's eyes.
Juanjuan stood at the door and looked at the street. Her little nose twitched and her pretty little eyebrows wrinkled slightly.
Madam Si walked over to her and looked in the direction she was looking: "Juanjuan, what's wrong?"
Juanjuan: "Grandma, I'm sick and need a lot of medicine!"
"Juanjuan, what do you mean?" Old Madam Si didn't quite understand.
Juanjuan was a little anxious and didn't know how to express what she meant.
"Achen, Atian, come here." Old Madam Si turned around and called them.
"grandmother."
"Mom, what's wrong?" Si Tian looked at the two of them in confusion, but didn't find anything wrong.
"Juanjuan, can you please say what you just said again?" Madam Si said softly.
Juanjuan: "I'm sick. I need a lot of medicine."
Si Tian also didn't understand: Who is sick? Who needs so much medicine?
He turned to look at Si Jinchen: "Achen, do you understand what Juanjuan means?"
"Juanjuan, who is sick? Does he need a lot of medicine?" Si Jinchen asked tentatively.
"Brother, there are so many people with runny noses, sneezing, and coughing!" Juanjuan was a little anxious and expressed himself unclearly.
"Juanjuan, don't be in a hurry, just talk slowly. Many people are going to get sick and need a lot of medicine, right?" Si Jinchen hugged her and comforted her gently.
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