"Seal it. Don't drink the water from this well," Wang Yao said to the villagers.
"Okay."
They sealed the well with wooden boards and added a few big stones around it.
It was already afternoon when they finished all this.
Wang Yao was about to find a place to drink water when the secretary of the village came to invite him to his house.
The secretary of the village was called Gong Zurong. He was an old man in his 50s.
"Thank you, Dr. Wang," Gong Zurong said.
First, he treated the children. Then, he saved two families. The key was that he didn't ask for anything in return. That alone was very rare.
"You're welcome."
"Well, Dr. Wang, where did the poison in the well come from?" the old man thought for a while and asked.
"I really don't know. We have to wait for the inspection and quarantine results in Shangjun to further analyze and judge."
"Is there any problem with the well?"
"There is no problem for the time being," Wang Yao said.
"Well, Dr. Wang, are you free tonight?"
"Ah, I am free."
"Then, why don't you come to my house for dinner?"
"Okay."
After leaving the secretary's house, Wang Yao went back to Gong Aiguo's house and found that there were several guests in his house.
"Dr. Wang." After seeing Wang Yao, they all stood up and greeted him.
Wang Yao had seen some of them before, but he didn't know some of them at all.
"Hello," Wang Yao responded with a smile.
"Dr. Wang, is it expensive to treat your illness?" one of them asked.
"Ah?" Wang Yao was stunned. He immediately understood that these people came to see him for treatment.
"That depends on what kind of illness you have," Wang Yao said with a smile.
"Can you take a look at me? I am very uncomfortable," the man said. "It always hurts when I bend down."
"Okay."
Wang Yao took a look at him. It was a typical lumbar muscle strain.
"Lumbar muscle strain. You are tired from working. Rest more on weekdays. I will give you a massage."
Wang Yao then used the massage technique and a little bit of Neixi to massage him for treatment.
"Comfortable!" That person enjoyed it very much. He only felt that his waist was warm, as if he was lying on a hot brick bed in his house. Moreover, it didn't hurt that much anymore.
"Amazing!"
The patient's intuition was the best indicator of the problem. After only half an hour of massage, his body was obviously much more comfortable.
"Well, how much should I pay you?"
"Forget it. Go back and rest more. But sleep on a hot bed and apply a hot compress," Wang Yao said with a smile.
"Oh, okay. Thank you so much." The man smiled and left.
Then there was the second person. This was a woman in her forties. Her hair was grey and she had a headache. Whenever the weather turned cold, the pain would be especially severe.
This was a cold that had entered his brain.
Wang Yao gave her a massage and she felt much better. Then, he gave her a prescription.
"This is the prescription. Go find a pharmacy and get the medicine. Show it to me when you get it back."
"Alright, thank you."
"You're welcome."
The third person also had back pain. His condition was the same as the first person's and he received the same treatment.
After the three people left the meeting, the sky darkened. It was already night. Gong Aiguo's wife had already started to prepare dinner at home.
"We won't be eating at your house today." Wang Yao told her about going to the secretary's house for dinner.
"Oh, okay."
"Why do you want to treat us to dinner?"
"You'll know when you get there."
The village secretary's family's financial situation was not better than Gong Aiguo's family. It was even worse. Dinner was a few simple home-cooked dishes.
The wine was good.
"My son brought me wine from outside. I usually can't bear to drink it."
"You have to taste it well," Wang Mingbao said with a smile.
After drinking two sips of wine, they gradually became familiar with each other.
"Dr. Wang, Manager Wang, I really have to thank you this time."
The people from the county town came back. They said that the people who were treated were sent to the hospital in time. Otherwise, their lives might have been in danger. They were also worried about how to deal with them. The old party secretary knew that it was all Wang Yao's credit.
"You're welcome."
"How can a good well be ruined?" The old man sighed and said.
"Dr. Wang, I heard that you didn't ask for money to treat a few people in the afternoon."
"Oh, that's a small matter," Wang Yao said with a smile.
"It's a small matter to you, but it's a kindness to us!" The old party secretary drank a mouthful of wine alone.
"Our mountain village is inconvenient with no special products. The villagers are poor. They are so poor that they don't have money to see a doctor or go to school. You don't know that it's difficult for the villagers to marry a wife now," the old man said.
"As soon as they heard that they were from our village, they didn't want to come over."
"The nearby villages are not very good, right?" Wang Yao said.
He saw that the dirt road was still extending into the mountain. There should be other villages on it.
"It's similar to our village."
"I see that there are quite a lot of antiques and jujube trees in the village."
The millet and jujube trees in Qinzhou were very famous.
"There are quite a lot of them. Some people come to buy them, but they can't get the price," the old party secretary said.
In the mountain village, one had to rely on the sky to make a living and ask for money from the ground.
"It'll be better if the road is built."
"The county has no money," the old man said. "Our county is poor."
"That's a problem," Wang Yao said.
He accompanied the old man to drink a few glasses of wine. He listened to the old man talk about some things and complained about some things. When the two of them went out, it was already past 8 p.m. The sky was completely dark.
In the evening, Wang Yao sat alone in the courtyard and looked at the sky. The sky in the village was relatively high because of the less pollution.
"What are you looking at?" Wang Mingbao asked with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Celestial phenomenon."
"What can you see from this?"
"Oh, right."
Huh?
Wang Yao suddenly stood up and looked at the sky.
"What's wrong?"
"It's strange!" It was the first time he had seen such a strange celestial phenomenon.
Wang Mingbao didn't know what his brother was talking about.
That night, the village dogs kept barking for no reason.
Oh, no!
Wang Yao suddenly woke up.
"Get up."
He first woke up Wang Mingbao, then Gong Aiguo's family, and went to the courtyard.
"What's wrong, Dr. Wang?"
"Go and wake up the people nearby."
"What's wrong?"
"I think it's going to be an earthquake."
"What? Earthquake?"
"It's too late. Cover your ears."
Wang Mingbao subconsciously covered his ears. Gong Aiguo's family also covered their ears. They didn't know what the young man was going to do.
"Get up!"
The roar was like thunder. It rolled in all directions and shook the windows of the house.
"What's going on?"
The people in the village were all awakened by the roar. Or rather, they were awakened by the shock.
Wang Mingbao and Gong Aiguo's family were all dumbfounded.
Rumble. Then the earth began to shake.
There was an earthquake.
The people in the village ran out of the house.
Then it was calm.
Huh?
It was gone?
The village dogs were still barking. The villagers didn't dare to go into the house to sleep.
"Is it still shaking?" Wang Mingbao asked.
"How would I know?"
After staying in the yard for two hours, the barking of the dogs in the village subsided.
"It should be fine now."
"Then let's go into the house to sleep."
They went into the house to sleep. The others stayed in the yard or gathered together. They didn't dare to go into the house.
"Ah, I'm so sleepy!"
"Why is there an earthquake all of a sudden?"
"Hey, didn't you hear the last one?"
"Of course, I heard it. It was like thunder. I got up all of a sudden. What was that sound?"
"I don't know. Was it a firecracker?"
"It sounded like someone was shouting."
"Shouting? Who could have such a loud voice?"
The next morning, almost all the villagers were listless. After all, no one slept well the night before. There was a loud roar, followed by an earthquake.
Although they didn't have the energy, they still had to work for the day. Breakfast was also a must. Therefore, the villagers yawned and went to the only well left in the village to fetch water. As a result, the water they brought up was murky and unclear.
"What's wrong with the water?"
"It's not poisonous, is it?"
The villagers were worried. Someone took the water to Wang Yao.
"It's poisonous. You can't drink it anymore," Wang Yao said after tasting it.
"What should we do?"
Both wells were poisonous. The drinking water in the village had become a problem.
There was no poison in the water at first. After the slight earthquake last night, there was poison.
Did the poison come from underground?
Wang Yao stared at the bucket of water and thought about it.
Although yesterday's earthquake lasted for a short time, it did happen. The most obvious problem was that the walls of several old houses in the village were cracked.
There was a large trench on the hillside south of the village. It was more than 10 centimeters wide and about two meters deep.
There was no water in the village.
This was the most direct problem faced by hundreds of families.
"What should we do?"
"No, we have to fetch water from the reservoir to the village."
"How far away is that?"
There was another reservoir about a kilometer away from the village, but it was far from the village. It was usually used for irrigation.
"The water doesn't taste good either!"
"Why don't we take advantage of this opportunity to connect the tap water?"
"It's easy for you to say," the villager said. "What about the money? Who will pay for it?"
When it came to the issue of money, everyone shut up.
What the village lacked was money.
At this time, Wang Yao was on the hill outside the village.
He was staring at the crack in the ground.
"What's going on?"
He felt a unique aura seeping out of the crack in the ground. It was definitely not the aura of the earth. He felt a sense of coldness from the aura.
Strange!
He stared at the crack and thought for a while. Then, he turned and went back to the village. After a while, he came back with a shovel and a pick in his hand.
Then, he chose a suitable place and began to dig a hole.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Wang Mingbao came out of the village. It took him a long time to find him. At this time, Wang Yao had already dug a square pit.
"I think there may be something underground."
"Something? What is it?"
"I don't know. Let's dig and see."
As he kept digging, he felt that the cold aura was getting stronger and stronger.
"There must be something special underground!"
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