A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] 134

No matter what, it was Wu Dahu’s credit again to perfectly protect the room, their territory, and at the same time he did ascertain the actual situation of his two opponents. At least from the current situation, they were all good at close combat. Yet it was his great curiosity to figure out the others whether they were good at distance combat or not.

After Song Qinghan supported Hualian back to the room, he got the medical medicine ou t to help Hualian apply the medicine. Seeing that Hualian was still depressed and gloomy on face, he washed some golden berries for Hualian to eat while consoling, “It’s not your fault. They are the ones who took the initiative to get us troubles. Besides, both the master and the servant get some martial skills themselves. It’s quite normal as you failed to defeat them.”

Hualian shook his head and bit his lower lip, whispering, “Sorry, Young Mistress, I am too weak to protect you, I got nothing talent to help you and Young Master, and I even became a drag on you…”

Noticing that Hualian’s tone was becoming lower and lower while his face became sullener, Song Qinghan pondered for a while and asked as if he was about to discuss, “Don’t be so pessimistic, alright? Maybe we should get you a shop and you will be the shopkeeper for us? In that case, you don’t have to think of bunch of ideas to please us and take care of us. On the other hand, you will get things to do and money to earn, won’t it be good?”

“I am not going to be the shopkeeper, Young Mistress… I can be your helper in that shop, but not a shopkeeper…”

The lotus refused in a hurry. His face was full of stubbornness and toughness, as if he was not satisfied with her current situation.

Song Qinghan did not say anything to comfort him, because this feeling of inferiority that came from the bottom of Hualian’s heart and was deeply influenced by his original family could not be changed through language. He could change only by actions.

So he continued, “Hey, it’s not something like ‘shopkeeper’, your responsibility will just be like the one you did in the provincial capital, sell the goods and get the coins. But we get a biggest problem here now, we do not have something new to sell here. It will be quite awkward for us to sell only spices here, right?”

Although Song Qinghan had never asked about the renting price of the stores outside, he still knew the fact that in this state capital where the price of every single inch of land possessed an equal value of a piece of gold, just a tiny shop probably would cost them all the savings.

Hualian frowned tight and thought about it. He then answered softly, “If, if you don’t mind, I might think of making some snacks!”

The reason why he made such a suggestion was that he felt that selling the spices was not enough, and if it was made into food, he would be able to unleash the greatest advantage of the seasoning and spices and even sell more and earn more.

Moreover, he had secretly observed the conditions along the way as they came here. The shops here obviously still hadn’t found the secret of the seasoning, the food delivered by the other servants were still with plain and even bad taste, it was just like the flavor Song Qinghan once mentioned before, they were just a suffering to their taste buds.

Seeing that Hualian had his own thoughts in mind now, Song Qinghan was quite surprise while the happiness showed on his face, he nodded and answered, “Alright, that’s how it is decided. Let’s go out to search for the unused shops and see if we can get a suitable one for boosting our business. If that isn’t going to work, we will go get our stall on street, well, the good news for that is we can save a lot for getting just a stall.”

Excitement overwhelmed Hualian’s brain after he was informed by Song Qinghan with such a breathtaking idea, it seemed that he had never thought that he would be taken so seriously by others, he then made up his mind, raised his head and swore to Song Qinghan, “I, I… I will never let you down, Young Mistress, I will earn bunch of money back to you!”

Song Qinghan laughed and patted Hualian on the shoulder, saying with satisfaction, “Okay, go and get yourself a good rest then. We will go out again with Wenxuan later after lunch to search if there’re any medical mansion out there. If there come again some people like those two unreasonable bastards, just leave them there and you should just let them be themselves and stay away from them, alright?”

Hesitation flashed across Hualian’s eyes. But just as he caught the decisiveness in Song Qinghan’s eyes, he nodded and then responded, “Okay, Young Mistress…”

After lunch, Song Qinghan took a shower and got his relatively refined clothes. Even Yuan Wenxuan was dressed by him, only till everything was all-prepared did they go out together with Wu Dahu and Little Shitou.

Actually, he did not know why he would do so, dressed up neatly and made himself and his little disciple decenter. But probably it was just like a situation when he looked for a job in the modern time. Subconsciously, he thought he should take care of his look and appearance before setting off, in case leaving no good impression to the ‘interviewer’.

It seemed that medical mansions in state capital were much more diverse and various than in any other ordinary towns and cities. Here in this state capital, various medical mansions or shops like ‘Xinglin Shop’, ‘Miaoshou Shop’ and so on could be caught in sight. And from the sight of scale and outlay of them, they were not small at all.

Of course, the first thing they thought about was the Huichun Shop which they had gotten along with so many times.

However, it seemed that it was much more difficult for them to make such a ‘diplomatic’ communication this time. Finally Song Qinghan felt a bit lashed out at the third time when they were refused and kept out of the mansion gate by the servant inside.

For this situation, Yuan Wenxuan was the first to accept it. He came up and said with a mature tone, “Doctors in various medical mansions or shops always refuse accepting strangers, but if we got someone familiar inside, probably we will get a chance.”

As for why he was so clear, it was naturally because he had been rejected so many times before he met Song Qinghan. In the end, he completely accepted the rules of the medical mansions and didn’t complain about anything as if he had been totally assimilated. And, he felt quite shocked when he was accepted by the Huichun Shop in the provincial capital so easily.

However, he knew that being accepted by the famous medical mansion was totally Song Qinghan’s credit. If Song Qinghan had not shown any marvelous medical skills, they would not have been able to catch Doctor Shi’s eyes, let alone to get a chance to lend a hand and learn something from it.

Song Qinghan was woken up by Yuan Wenxuan’s words and then he pondered for a while. He took out the wooden board that Doctor Luo had given him before. In the second consideration, he thought this might count as an acquaintance to the medical mansion. And then he called out again the servant inside the yard, delivered the wooden board to him.

It could be seen from the servant’s expression that he was quite impatient. After all, no one would feel good when he was bothered again and again by someone other for no reason, especially he was occupied by bunch of things. But the servant seemed to be quite well-trained and didn’t say anything unpleasant. He didn’t even look at the wooden board but just took it and walked inside directly, ready to take it for a show before rejecting Song Qinghan once again.

However, beyond his expectation, the result seemed to be different from what he had just imagined. The shopkeeper inside did not throw the unconspicuous wooden board away at all, but just carefully scrutinized on it for like thousand times for a long while. Just as the servant thought the shopkeeper was out of his mind, the shopkeeper finally commended, “Let them in, this is the entrance certificate from Doctor Luo, let’s see what relationship they got with this miracle doctor.”

“The famous doctor, Doctor Luo?” repeated the servant as he tried his best to search several related memories in his mind. Finally, penny dropped, something important seemed to occur to him all of a sudden, and then he rushed out quickly, welcomed Song Qinghan and his ‘retinues’.

The servant walked while smiling and talking, “If you told me earlier that you’re the acquaintances with Doctor Luo, I wouldn’t have done something stupid like just left you outside the gate. But from the root of this matter, I still should be blamed anyway. A great man rarely stoops to pettiness. I would like to beg for your forgiveness, Childe.”

Song Qinghan was not angry at the servant at all, he felt nothing but just some kind of confused, he then asked curiously, “Doctor Luo is just a doctor in a tiny town. Why do you care so much about the people he introduced? Logically speaking, you don’t have to worry about what he will do to you. In fact, even if he wants to, he can’t make anything real. Thousands of millions of miles far away from there, you know.”

Even though what Song Qinghan said was a bit of obscurity, the servant had miraculously understood. He smiled ingratiatingly and explained, “Well, there’s no distance saying in the medical field at all, though Doctor Luo had chosen to live in seclusion, people still remember him for his marvelous medical talent, people pay their respect to him and admire him. In fact, we did get several chances to meet him before to discuss about some situations of difficult disease. If he knows that we reject people he introduces, he won’t feel good towards it. Though he might not nurse any grievance over that, we will feel much guilty ourselves either!”

Song Qinghan nodded. He knew that this was just like the situation in modern medicine. Once they encountered a problem, the experts from all sides would gather together to discuss and cooperate to find the best resolution. Although generally speaking, doctors from richer places should possess profounder skills and bear greater responsibility. Yet there still existed a minority of them who did not care that much about the fame and money and preferred to move to the remotest mountain area to devote themselves into helping others.

In addition, Doctor Luo was the one who retired from the Empire Palace, his ability was beyond all doubts. At least he was able to recognize the ‘Heartless Herb’ himself which was a trouble for Doctor Shi.

After walking for a while, the servant finally succeeded leading Song Qinghan and his ‘retinues’ to the shopkeeper. And then he turned around and walked away in a great manner as the group of people started their conversation.

The innkeeper was smiling and then he said with a harmless expression, “Hey young brother, are you coming here to get a diagnosis or…?”

Song Qinghan pushed Yuan Wenxuan forward and took the initiative to say, “I want to take my apprentice here for studying. We don’t need any piece of coin at all and we are all willing to do anything, if you get something inconvenient, just tell us and we won’t be two flies buzzing around.”

The expression on the shopkeeper’s face became stranger as he heard Song Qinghan’s words.

According to what Song Qinghan meant, he was also a doctor, and moreover, a doctor who got an apprentice himself. It wouldn’t be strange at all if Song Qinghan was coming here to be a full-time doctor. The queerest thing was that he did not want any coin at all and just came here for studying?

Seeing that the shopkeeper had been silent for a long time, Song Qinghan thought he might have had made something wrong, he said again in confusion, “Hello, shopkeeper? We can talk for the further details and we’re not that kind of unreasonable people. We come here not only for studying something, but we do lend a hand. We’re good helpers!”

The shopkeeper seemed to be more hesitant now as his expression was even stranger, as if it was totally out of his capacity to think of a proper way to treat Song Qinghan.

After all, Song Qinghan’s meaning in his words was rather obscure in the shopkeeper’s ears. What did he actually mean about the ‘good helpers’? Or was he a famous doctor as well? He got a profounder skill which made him only show up when he was needed?

“Oh, alright then, I would love to invite you to check this guy out.”

An aged and old voice sounded behind them. And suddenly, the shopkeeper got his eyes lit up and he made a dogtrot outwards, supported the old man in the yard while saying respectfully, “What brings you here, Sir Xian. Are you alright recently?”

The old man who was being called Sir Xian glanced at the shopkeeper faintly, and then said expressionlessly, “Shouldn’t I be alright? Just look at the so-called doctors here in your mansion, all of them, will you? All of them haven’t done something which I am satisfied with. If one of you is capable of surprising me, I should have left here to enjoy my pitiful resting days. I will, I will try my best to struggle to live more several years to view the beautiful scene in this world instead of being trapped here in this cage trap!”

Cold sweat fell from the shopkeeper’s forehead, but he still had to pretend that he didn’t understand the meaning of Sir Xian’s words. He smiled ingratiatingly and responded, “The Huichun Shop deserves to be called Huichun because of you, Sir Xian. Instead, I don’t think they are not some doctors of impotence. It’s just because that you’ve reached the ceiling of the medical talent, they will definitely fail to walk in abreast with you even they ride a horse to catch!”

“Ride a horse to catch me, ha? It seems that the ability of yours to butter someone up is getting worse and worse, doesn’t it? Oh, hey, kiddo over there, did you hear my words just then?”

Sir Xian raised his heavy eyelids. A sudden light lit up in his blurry eyes just at the moment he caught the sight of Song Qinghan.