novelraw Chapter 119 Chenjiatun Health Clinic Officially Opens
Chapter 119 Chenjiatun Health Clinic Officially Opens
"Haha, who told you I'd leave home after I got married?" Yuheng ruffled Xiaoqi's hair and said with a laugh:
"If your second sister joins the army, does that count as leaving home? Later, your third and fourth sisters will also join the army, and when you grow up, you might go to university in a faraway place. Would that count as leaving home?"
Xiaoqi looked at her older sisters, feeling lost. She didn't want any of them to leave home, especially her eldest sister. For the past year, she had been the backbone of the family, even more reliable and safer than their mother.
"We will all grow up, leave home to do our own things, and have our own families, but we will come back and reunite. Perhaps the time we spend together will be short, but that makes it all the more precious, doesn't it?"
"If none of us are home, Mom will be very lonely, so Uncle Liu will stay by her side and take care of her in our place. We should be nicer to Uncle Liu in the future." Yuheng took the opportunity to educate her younger sisters and improve their father's image.
"Should we call him Dad? But he's not our dad!" Yu-hsuan thought of her father who had sacrificed his life, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"Maybe he is our father? Don't you think that apart from his appearance, his speech, habits, and understanding of each of us are all just like our father?"
The fifth sister's words shocked all the other sisters, including Tong Yuheng! What did she mean? Did she also believe that their father had been resurrected? Are highly intelligent girls more likely to accept unbelievable things?
"Yuhan, let's just talk about this among ourselves, sisters. We absolutely mustn't let any outsiders hear," Yuyao said quickly, a sudden chill running down her spine. But then she thought that her father might be nearby, and her heart filled with joy!
One day, she was looking for a small photo frame that her father had carved for her, but she couldn't find it anywhere. Uncle Liu then made one for her, exactly the same one she was looking for! It was carved with her favorite rose pattern. How did he know that this was what she wanted?
"This world is amazing, full of mysterious things we don't understand. We don't need to understand everything, or people will think we're crazy. As for Uncle Liu, as long as he's good to Mom and good to us, nothing else matters!"
Tong Yuheng ended the topic, and everyone hurried off to work. She sensed someone watching her, so she deliberately stayed behind. She noticed the mute old woman coming into the woods to collect dry branches, but she didn't think much of it and left.
It's already mid-July, and the school has been on summer vacation for a month. The working hours in the village are from 6:00 to 10:00 in the morning and from 3:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon, avoiding the hottest time at noon.
Li Chengsong has gone on another mission and hasn't come over recently. Aside from work, Tong Yuheng spends her time reading and studying in her room, or tending to her vegetable garden, orchard, and herb garden in her spatial dimension, or practicing her martial arts.
The evening medical classes were also suspended because Tong Anfu had new work assignments. The higher-ups called the commune, which then informed the brigade leader that Tong Anfu would become their village's barefoot doctor.
Chenjiatun needed to build its own clinic, with a daily wage of eight work points. Each month, residents could collect a fixed amount of medicine and disinfectant supplies from the commune hospital.
Captain Chen summoned Tong Yuheng directly and asked her how the clinic was going to be built. Their village was so poor that it was impossible to build a clinic on its own. Wasn't it obvious that they wanted her to do the work?
"Captain, what do you think about using the place where my grandfather used to live in the cowshed? The room where my uncle and the others used to live is also empty. Why don't we fence off a small courtyard outside and build a small clinic behind that hut?"
The newly built room will serve as the clinic and store some commonly used medicines. The old room will be converted into an observation room with a small door, and the old door will be sealed off. The new house will be built using the leftover, flawed bricks from my home. They'll give me a few full work points, and I'll donate them all!
"You silly girl, are you really that short of a few centimeters?" The brigade leader wondered if her idea was feasible, feeling the location was a bit out of the way. He had originally planned to convert Tong Yuheng's backyard into a clinic so that the whole family could live together.
Tong Yuheng strongly objected; his family didn't like large groups of people!
In rural areas, barefoot doctors are required to be available 24/7, year-round. If a patient knocks on the door in the middle of the night, no one in the family gets any rest. Besides, they have so many secrets; they can't just let anyone in and out.
Finally, the brigade leader convened a meeting of the villagers to discuss the matter and decided to follow Tong Yuheng's suggestion to build a room outside the cowshed to serve as the clinic's examination room, and to use the empty room as an observation room. The original door was blocked off, so that villagers could come to see a doctor without having to contact the sent-down personnel inside.
With the villagers working together, the small clinic was built in just two days, and a small courtyard of more than 40 square meters was also enclosed, where Tong Anfu could dry and process herbs.
On the day the clinic officially opened, the commune sent a car over with a medicine box, medicine cabinet, and some medicine. They shook hands with Tong Anfu and were very friendly.
They all knew that Tong Anfu had been exonerated and had heard that his medical skills were quite good, so they were all willing to do him a favor. After all, no one could guarantee that they would never get sick in their lifetime, right?
The villagers had no idea how good the old man's medical skills were, and besides, they rarely went to see a doctor, so he had been living a very leisurely life lately.
Tong Yuheng would send him some herbs to prepare, and he would also take out his treasured medical books to study. When he got tired, he would drink some tea and rest. Life was so comfortable!
This peaceful life didn't last long, until Chen Erniu's wife in the village gave birth. Nowadays, rural women give birth at home, and very few go to the hospital.
There are no obstetricians; instead, there are midwives from the village. They receive some basic training from the county, which mainly covers things like disinfection and the use of simple birthing tools. However, they are not good at handling serious problems.
Chen Erniu's wife suffered severe postpartum hemorrhage that wouldn't stop, and her face turned as pale as paper. There were no tractors in the village, and even using an oxcart wouldn't be fast enough to get her to the county, let alone the commune!
At this point, someone suggested inviting Dr. Tong to come and take a look, so someone ran to fetch him. After Dr. Tong arrived, he took Chen Erniu's wife's pulse and then inserted a few needles to stop the bleeding.
To ensure her safety, he cut open a bag of saline solution, added a little spring water, and gave it to her to drink. In less than ten minutes, Chen Erniu's wife's bleeding stopped, and her complexion improved somewhat.
For Chen Erniu, this was a life-saving act for his wife. How pitiful it would be if their two children, both under ten years old, lost their mother. And with this baby in tow, he, a grown man, probably couldn't support them.