"Go and have a look. I heard that someone was beaten to death at the intersection ahead. Someone died!"
Someone died?
Yu Shu looked at the direction of the crowd. It was not far from Zhao Hui's wonton stall. Worriedly, she quickened her pace and pushed through the crowd, provoking a few curses. When she squeezed to the front and emerged from the crowd, she saw that Zhao Hui's wonton stall had been smashed to smithereens. The stove had been pushed over, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.
She was stunned and quickly looked for Zhao Hui's figure. She saw two men and a woman standing at the place where the accident happened and cursed: "Bah! This jinx still has the face to stay in Yiyang City. No wonder our family's Fengshui is not good. We lost a few big business this year. It's all because of her! "
"Big brother was killed by this bitch. Just now she dared to stab me with a knife. She really doesn't want to live long. She deserves to die!"
"Bad luck, bad luck. Let's go back."
The three people cursed to their heart's content. They looked around at the onlookers. The two men waved their hands and said: "What are you doing? Get out of the way, get out of the way!" Zhao Hui often set up a stall on this street. She was a kind person. People often came to her stall on credit to eat wonton. Seeing this scene, someone stopped them: "You can't go. She was beaten up by you. She's still in the clinic. We don't know if she's alive or dead. You have to wait for the government to come."
As soon as these words came out, several people responded. The two men and the woman looked at each other and flashed away in panic. They turned back and said fiercely: "What are you waiting for? You're blind. You didn't see that she stabbed us with a knife first. She accidentally hit the stove. What does it have to do with us? If she doesn't die, we have to go back and report it to the government.
Humph, get out of the way! "The three people pushed and shoved away. Yu Shu just recovered from the pool of blood on the ground. She looked at the three people's backs with a gloomy face. She didn't chase after them. Instead, she grabbed the passerby who had just spoken for Zhao Hui and asked anxiously:" Uncle, where did you say she was sent to? Which clinic? "
"Hey, isn't this the child who was helping Sister Zhao's stall? Where did he go just now? Hurry up, your Aunt Zhao has been carried to the clinic behind the street. Hurry up and go have a look!"
Yu Shu didn't even have time to say thank you. She pushed the people away and ran to the back street. Her mind flashed with the pool of blood on the ground, and her heart was pounding. She ran forward as if she was flying, and when she saw the signboard of a clinic by the roadside, she rushed in. She tripped over the steps and fell forward two steps, knocking into a shop assistant.
"Hey, hey, where did this reckless guy come from!" Yu Shu panted and said, "My, my aunt was just sent here. Where is she?"
The waiter's face went blank. "The auntie that was sent here just now was your aunt. Quick, come with me. I was just looking for someone to make a decision."
The waiter backhandedly grabbed Yu Shu's arm and dragged her to the back hall. He pulled down the curtain and shouted into the room, "Uncle He, the auntie's family has come."
There were three or four people standing in the back hall, and they all turned their heads to look. Yu Shu's eyes only fell on the bamboo couch. Her head and face were covered with blood, and she couldn't even see her face clearly. Yu Shu's heart trembled, and she hurried forward.
Coincidentally, the doctor who was wrapping Zhao Hui's head with a white gauze was the one who was kicked out by the Ji family and asked by Cao Zixin to see a doctor. His name was He Fangzhi.
"Aunt Huei, Aunt Huei?" Yu Shu saw that Zhao Hui's eyes were closed and she was barely breathing. She didn't even dare to raise her voice and called her softly.
"Don't shout, she's fainted." Doctor He's hands didn't stop moving. He deftly performed a simple first aid. He first covered the blood on Zhao Hui's head before he diverted his attention to talk to Yu Shu. "You're a relative of her family?"
Yu Shu nodded. Her gaze moved and she saw that the back of Zhao Hui's hand was also covered in blood. Her sleeve was red. It was obvious that it was scraped by a piece of debris.
"Besides you, is there anyone else in her family?"
"No." Yu Shu hadn't heard Zhao Hui talk about it. If she hadn't seen it on the street earlier, she would have thought that Zhao Hui was an outsider who came to Yiyang City to do some small business.
He Fangzhi sighed and said, "She hit the back of her head. There's a hematoma in her skull and she's lost a lot of blood. Her heart and lungs are injured. She looks like she's suffering from tuberculosis. If we just stop the bleeding, I'm afraid she won't be able to make it for a few days when she wakes up."
Yu Shu's heart went cold. Her mind was a mess. She said in a panic, "Doctor He, are you saying that my Aunt Huei can't be cured? How can that be? Do a good deed and save her. You must have an idea!"
Yu Shu's heart was a bit unreal. When Zhao Hui went out in the morning, she was still fine. She even said that she would make a few vegetarian dumplings for her to eat. In just half a day, she became like this. She couldn't live?
He Fangzhi pondered for a moment and looked at her with pity. He took the needle from the medicine boy and held Zhao Hui's hand to pick the debris on the back of her hand. He said with difficulty, "If you want to treat it, you have to use the needle. I've been a doctor for 26 years and I've treated this case twice. I can't guarantee a full recovery, but there's at least a 70% chance of success. I know you aren't a rich family and doctors have the heart of a parent. I don't need to charge you for the consultation fee, but the cost of the medicine is a big number. Deer antler goblins need to be fed continuously. You … I'm afraid you can't afford it." Yu Shu's mind was buzzing. It was as if she had returned to many years ago. Outside the hospital ward filled with the smell of disinfectant, her parents hugged each other and cried bitterly. This was what the doctor told her.
Your brother's legs can't be treated with the current medical technology. If you don't want to amputate them and keep his legs, you will need a lot of treatment fees. According to your family's situation, you can't afford it.
Yu Shu's throat tightened. She said in a low voice, "How, how much will it cost?"
He Fangzhi saw that the child's face was pale. He just thought that she was too young to bear this heavy burden. Although he sympathized with her, he couldn't help her anymore. "In spring, the price of tonics is always 10% or 20% higher than before. I don't have all the medicinal materials in my clinic. I have to go elsewhere to buy them for you. In general, it's about … five hundred taels."
Five hundred taels!
The people who kindly sent Zhao Hui to the clinic all gasped. Seeing that Yu Shu was so young, they felt pity for her and couldn't help but persuade her. "Child, you, you should take her back and take good care of her. Maybe she can live a few more days."
He Fangzhi looked at those people and shook his head. He said to Yu Shu, "Do you want to treat her or take her back now and take good care of her for the last few days?" "Of course, I want to treat her!" Yu Shu's eyes were red and she almost shouted. She was thinking quickly about where to get the money.
He Fangzhi had seen a patient's family like this before. He knew that she was just reluctant but in the end, she couldn't do it. Although he had the heart of a doctor, he didn't have the ability. There were a few medicinal materials in the clinic that could help this woman live for two days. However, he also had a boss, so how could he let his white hair be so kind?
Yu Shu saw that He Fangzhi didn't say a word. She could roughly guess his mood at the moment. She didn't want to make things difficult for him, but at this moment, she had no other choice. She made up her mind and knelt down with a thud. She begged, "Doctor He, please save my Aunt Huei. I can pay for the money. Give me three days, no, two days. Do a good deed and save my Aunt Huei first. I'll definitely get the money. Doctor He, I know you're a good person, so please do a good deed!"
After saying that, she kowtowed to He Fangzhi. The people around looked pitiful and turned their heads away. They couldn't bear to watch.
"Please don't be like this, please don't be like this." He Fangzhi hurriedly pulled Yu Shu and bitterly said, "Child, aren't you deliberately making things difficult for me? Do you think five hundred taels of silver is a piece of paper? Where can you get it?" Yu Shu didn't know what to do earlier, but when she saw him soften his tone, she calmed down a little. She knelt down and said, "Yes, I can get it. I won't hide it from you. I work at the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce as an accountant. I get five taels of silver a month. I know Head Steward Pei from the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce. I'll borrow it from him. I'll definitely get the money!"
Once she became an official employee, she would get five taels of silver a month. That would be sixty taels a year. Forget eight or nine years, as long as Pei Jing was willing to give her money for emergencies, she would be willing to work for him for twenty years!
He Fangzhi looked at Yu Shu in surprise. He had heard of the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce before. Just when he was trying to discern whether her words were true or false, he saw Yu Shu hurriedly taking out a book from her bag and handing it to him, "Look, look. This is the old account book of the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce. Head Steward Pei asked me to bring it home. I didn't lie to you."
He Fangzhi took the book and looked at it suspiciously. It was indeed an official account book. There were stamps and numbers, as well as annotations. He Fangzhi was even more convinced. He looked at Zhao Hui, who was lying on the bed, and then looked at Yu Shu, who was kneeling in front of him with red eyes. He sighed heavily in his heart and gave her the account book. He stood up and walked out, "I'll give her acupuncture treatment first. I have the herbs in my shop, so I'll give you some for now. I'll give you three days to gather as much money as you can. If you can't, don't force it."
Delighted, Yu Shu knelt down and kowtowed again. "Thank you, thank you, Doctor He!"
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In the end, He Fangzhi still forced himself to perform acupuncture on Zhao Hui. He took out an old ginseng from the medical shop, wrote a prescription, and asked the medicine boy to boil the medicine. Zhao Hui didn't have any other relatives, so Yu Shu couldn't leave. She followed her everywhere until He Fangzhi asked her to. She then spent money to hire a horse carriage and two people to help carry Zhao Hui back home. They cleaned up the bloodstains and waited for He Fangzhi's visit the next day.
When they returned to Zhao Hui's home, Yu Xiaoxiu was squatting at the door. When he saw Zhao Hui being carried back covered in blood, he was stunned. Yu Shu didn't have time to pay attention to him. She asked someone to gently move Zhao Hui onto the bed. She turned around and slapped him on the head, "What are you waiting for? Go to the kitchen and start a fire to boil water!"
"Oh, oh!"
Yu Xiaoxiu stumbled away. Yu Shu went to the opposite door and knocked on it. She called out "Brother Cao" a few times, but there was no response. She knew that he had already left the city to return home. Her face darkened. In fact, among the medical officers, the first person she thought of asking for help was not Pei Jing, but Cao Zixin.
She went next door and asked Aunty Hu, who lived next door, to come and take care of Zhao Hui. Because Zhao Hui was a good person, Aunty Hu put down the cooking utensils without hesitation and came to help. Yu Shu sternly warned Yu Xiaoxiu again and gave him two taels of silver for emergency. After that, she went back to her room and changed her dirty clothes. She washed her face with cold water in the courtyard and rushed to Vientiane Street to ask for help before the sky turned dark.
Unexpectedly, she ran to the main branch of the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce while panting. When she opened the door, she was told that Pei Jing had left in a carriage two hours ago to check the accounts in the neighboring city. Because he left in a hurry, he didn't leave a word or say when he would be back.
Without Pei Jing, no one in the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce would give her five hundred taels of silver.
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