Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

Probably because of being stimulated by the old lady's words "I'm your mother, I won't hurt you", the man who came to seek medical treatment suddenly shouted: "If it weren't for you, I would be like this, you made me like this! "

"How did I hurt you! I did it for your own good!" The old lady screamed, "None of you can rest easy! If you didn't listen to the master, how could you live like this!"

She also said to the people around her: "You help me get the third child home, if he doesn't get treatment, he will die!"

Generally, people in the village would help them, but to Mu Qiong's surprise, these people ignored the old lady.

The old lady cursed at the gate of the ruined temple.

At this time, another woman came with a child in her arms.

The woman was very thin, with a pale complexion. As for the child, it was wrapped in a swaddle, and it was probably not born yet.

"Mom, I beg you to let us go, I beg you." When the woman saw the old lady, she knelt down with a "plop".

"You loser, you caused my son to break his leg!" The old lady cursed again.

The pronunciation is different in ten miles, and the customs are different in hundreds of miles. Mu Qiong couldn't understand many of the words she scolded.

"Why did you run out? You're still in confinement." When the man saw the woman, he was about to walk towards the door, but he turned and fell down.

Mu Qiong quickly supported him, only to realize that he was still running a fever.

This is not a good sign...

And this point, Fu Yun'an who immediately knelt down to check him also found out, he said to the man: "Your condition is not very good, it is best to amputate... In fact, even if it is an amputation, you may not be able to survive. "

"I..." This man's mouth was swollen and he couldn't speak, and his eyes were moist: "I can't survive... Even if I survive, I will starve to death without my legs..."

Fu Yun'an looked at him, thought for a while, and said, "I'll try to operate on you, but I can't guarantee that you will recover, nor can I guarantee that your leg will be saved. Do you want to try?"

"Think." The man gritted his teeth, then looked at the kneeling woman at the door.

"I'll bring her in." Mu Qiong stood up.

The old lady was still scolding the woman at the door, and the people around were watching the excitement in a circle, and there were children laughing and laughing.

Mu Qiong came to the woman and said, "Stop kneeling here, come in with me."

"I..." The woman raised her head, her face was full of bewilderment and numbness.

"If your man's leg is not healed, he will die. Why don't you go and have a look?" Mu Qiong said.

The woman just got up and carried the child into the ruined temple.

"Please clean up a room, I want to operate on him." Dr. Fu said to Lin Shoufu.

"There is a room that has been cleaned up, I will move him there immediately." Lin Shoufu said, while talking, he carried the man into the room with the coachman.

There was a bed made of door panels in the room, and they put the man on it, and then moved the bed to the door according to Fu Yun'an's request.

This will make it brighter and make it easier to operate.

"His leg must be operated on. Before the operation, I want to tell you one thing. The operation is dangerous, and he may die." Fu Yun'an said to the woman.

In the Republic of China, before Western medicine operated on humans, they directly asked the patients to sign a contract like a life-and-death certificate. In the end, it was best for the patient to be fine, and even if something happened, the doctor could not be blamed.

Of course, the average patient will not go to the doctor's trouble.

At this time, if you accidentally eat a bad stomach, you may die from diarrhea... Most patients have very low expectations for doctors.

The woman cried again.

The man said: "I know... there were people in the village who were injured less seriously than me before, and they all died. I couldn't survive, so you can treat me... Then what surgery?"

The woman nodded too.

After hearing his words, Dr. Fu immediately treated his wound, while Mu Qiong asked him the reason and condition of the injury.

Only then did Mu Qiong know that he had been injured for almost half a month. He was a long-term worker. When he was helping the master's house repair the roof, he fell off the roof and broke his leg. At that time, the master's family carried him to the town and found A doctor prescribed some medicine.

After applying the doctor's medicine, his bleeding stopped, but the doctor also said that even if the leg can grow well, it will be crooked.

The master's family sent him home and gave him some money, and the matter was settled. Although he was desperate at the time, because his wife was about to give birth, he was able to hold on.

As a result, his wife gave birth within two days, and his mother came to take care of them, and she insisted that the doctor was cheating money, and he was not allowed to apply the doctor's medicine, and he was not allowed to buy any more medicine, and even bought some messy medicine for him to use.

His leg rotted away.

In their village, work injuries are unavoidable, and once the wound rots so rotten, it is almost dead, and it is precisely because he knows this that he came to seek medical treatment like a living horse doctor.

This man came to see a doctor with a cane, and he probably managed to get here. Now that he relaxes, he becomes a little confused. He screams for pain, asks his wife to find someone else to marry, and scolds his mother for hurting him. .

"Save your energy. Although you may die, it's just a possibility." Mu Qiong said, "Doctor Fu is very powerful. Foreigners and high-ranking officials all seek him out, and he will cure you."

There was hope in the man's eyes.

The woman next to her was crying again, but she kept suppressing it and didn't cry too loudly.

It's just that when she cried, the child in her arms also cried.

When modern children cry, they usually cry loudly and full of anger, but this child cried softly... Seeing the child crying, the woman untied her clothes and took out what was almost left of her. The breasts under the next layer of skin were stuffed into the child's mouth.

Seeing this scene, Mu Qiong looked away in embarrassment, and Zheng Weixin and Sun Yiyao blushed even more.

However, the child stopped crying for a while, and suddenly cried again.

"This child, does he know that his father is not well now?" Sun Yiyao, who had not spoken much, had red eyes.

Mu Qiong doesn't really believe in these supernatural things, and doesn't think that the child cries because of this... But after being reminded by Sun Yiyao, he suddenly thought of one thing - this woman is a bit too thin, maybe she is not milk?

Thinking of this, Mu Qiong took out his rattan basket, and took out a piece of dry bread that the previous volunteers didn't want to eat, and gave it to the woman: "Do you want something to eat?"

This woman didn't pull up her clothes, and tried to feed the child, but the child was no longer willing to eat, sobbing softly... Mu Qiong shouldn't have watched this scene, but at this time, it's actually unnecessary avoid arousing suspicion.

The woman was stunned when she saw the bread in Mu Qiong's hand, then grabbed it and took a bite. After chewing, tears came to her eyes, then she lowered her head and fed the bread in her mouth to the baby in her arms. child.

The child smacked his mouth and stopped crying.

Children are still young, so they should not be able to eat anything other than milk powder and breast milk. It is very unhealthy to chew things like this to feed the children... But when I tell people these common senses, why not eat minced meat.

Mu Qiong looked at Zheng Weixin: "Go get some water."

Zheng Weixin responded and went to get water.

At this time, there is already a thermos bottle, but it is not as convenient and easy to use as the modern thermos bottle. There is only one in the carriage that Fu Yun'an and the others are riding in, and the water in it has long been drunk.

Fortunately, as soon as Lin Shoufu settled down here, he started to boil water, and now there is boiling water.

Zheng Weixin quickly took a bowl of water and brought it over.

The water was very hot, but the woman was probably very thirsty, so she couldn't wait to take a sip.

"Slow down." Mu Qiong said, taking a piece of bread, breaking it into pieces and throwing it into the water.

The woman couldn't wait to drink a few mouthfuls of water soaked in bread, and then fed the child a few mouthfuls, and then stopped eating: "The head of my family hasn't eaten anything for a few days."

"You've finished eating, he still has more." Mu Qiong said, and took out some more bread for the woman.

"Isn't it made of white flour?" The woman looked at the tasteless dry bread with a full face, "It's really delicious."

Mu Qiong looked at her thin hands, and took out a candy to her: "Eat it."

"What is this?" the woman asked.

"Take the medicine with milk." Mu Qiong lied to her, or it couldn't be said to be a lie... This woman is probably malnourished, so she lacks milk.

The woman ate it, her eyes widened in surprise, and she asked vaguely with sugar in her mouth, "Sweet... can children eat it?"

"If the child gets stuck in his throat, he will be out of breath." Mu Qiong said.

He asked Zheng Weixin to get water again, and then put the sugar he brought into the water, and asked Lin Shoufu for some salt to put in, and fed it to the man who was undergoing surgery.

This woman is so hungry, this man is probably not much better... Eat some salt and sugar water, at least it can replenish energy.

"I'll go out for a while." Zheng Weixin said suddenly, and went out after speaking. When he came back, he was holding two chickens in his hands.

The two chickens were struggling all the time, and he was a little helpless grabbing the wings of the chickens, not knowing what to do. Finally, Lin Shoufu went over and took the chickens: "I was going to the village to buy a chicken...I will kill it right away." .”

"Let's make chicken soup. My sister-in-law eats chicken soup during confinement." Zheng Weixin said.

"Actually, there is no other way." Lin Shoufu smiled and went to kill chickens.

Since then, no other patients have come.

Missionary Edward went to the door, trying to preach to others, but Dr. Mary stayed beside the woman and said to his assistant in English: "This child doesn't look very well."

"Ms. Mary, is there any problem with the child?" Mu Qiong asked in English.

"He looks too small and too weak, I don't know if he can survive." Dr. Mary was very worried.

"Although he is weak, I believe he can survive. He is a tenacious child and he has a strong mother." Dr. Muqiongmai chatted a few words.

Mu Qiong understood both French and English, so he could understand what Ms. Mary and Dr. Edward said along the way, but he never spoke to them and stayed by Dr. Fu's side all the time.

Now he was talking to Dr. Mary, Dr. Mary was not surprised because those volunteers could speak foreign language, but Zheng Weixin and Sun Yiyao looked at Mu Qiong in surprise.

After these few days of getting along, although they knew that Mu Qiong was very knowledgeable, they really didn't know that Mu Qiong could speak English so well.

"I didn't expect you to be able to speak English." Zheng Weixin looked at Mu Qiong in surprise.

"I have learned it before." Mu Qiong suddenly said in French: "I can also speak French."

Zheng Weixin: "..."

He studied in a church school since he was a child, learned English and French, and his speech was not as standard as Mu Qiong's...

Speaking of which, missionary schools at this time taught children foreign language from an early age, trying to make these children abandon their motherland and identify with their country.

It's a pity that the effect is not very good. Many patriotic youths have graduated from missionary schools.

Fu Yun'an operated on that man for a long time.

The man's wound was cut open, disinfected with alcohol again and again, and then his bones were reattached... He was trembling with pain, but was suppressed by Mu Qiong and others.

And that woman was a little scared at first, but later Mu Qiong told her that wine was used for disinfection, so she didn't say anything.

It is impossible to pour something as precious as wine on her man to kill her man...

"His bones are not broken, but broken. Maybe this leg can really be saved." Dr. Fu said in English.

Mu Qiong also felt a wave of anticipation in his heart.

None of them wanted this man to have an accident.

The man fainted after the operation. Dr. Fu bandaged him with medicine and fixed him with a wooden board... After everything was done, the group sat down to eat.

In the evening, I ate white rice and stewed chicken. Other than that, there was only steamed pickles, but no one was picky.

The woman refused to eat this meal with them anyway, but Mu Qiong still gave her a bowl full of rice with a chicken leg in it.

After she finished eating, she was given two more bowls of chicken soup.

No one said anything, and the others didn't lack the stutter.Zheng Weixin, who spent money to buy chicken, even set aside some chicken soup, saying it was for the man to eat when he woke up.

After dinner, it was already late.

There are not enough beds here, and there are also a few extra door panels, so Lin Shoufu can only get a lot of straw and spread it on the ground for everyone to make a floor.

"I live with the patient and watch him a little at night." Fu Yun'an said.

"Doctor Fu, I'll be with you. We can change shifts then." Mu Qiong said immediately upon hearing this.

Fu Yun'an agreed.

The woman also wanted to be with them, but she was finally persuaded to leave and lived with Dr. Mary—she hadn't given birth for long, and she didn't know how to take care of patients, so there was no need to stay up without sleep.

The patient was lying on the bed, in a daze, while Mu Qiong and Dr. Fu spread bedding on the thick straw.

Mu Qiong brought a quilt, and Dr. Fu also brought it, but Mu Qiong's quilt was made by Zhu Wanwan with a red floral quilt. Looking at the very festive quilt, Fu Yun'an's quilt was off-white with no patterns at all.

Putting the two quilts together, the difference is quite big.

"Zheng Weixin and Sun Yiyao didn't bring bedding, so I'm afraid they will freeze to death tonight." Fu Yun'an said suddenly.

Hearing what Fu Yunan said, Mu Qiong felt a little sympathetic to those two people.

But he only brought his own quilt, so he wouldn't be kind enough to share it out.

What's more, there is a patient here who has no bedding and is only covered with a blanket brought out by Fu Yun'an...

Mu Qiong covered the man with the thick padded jacket she brought, and said, "Doctor Fu, I've decided how to write my novel."