A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] chapter 50

Waving hands, Qin Aye came to say, “That’s not his fault at all. And if I wasn’t going to send the clothes to them but others, I would just happen to fell down. How can you just blame it for Dahu? Silly boy, go back your home now!”

Youning still clung to a rage, nursing a grievance, and saying, “NO, if you just visited them once, you wouldn’t happen to fell. You just kept visiting them and they just kept their absence. They were never at home. That’s the point, alright? So if they are not the culprit, who will be?”

With a sudden jerk in mind, Song Qinghan took a glance at Wu Dahu, saying, “Qin Aye, Is that true? We had been absent for some days because we got some more important things to deal with. We’re so sorry for that.”

Facing all the matter with such an awkwardness, Qin Aye didn’t admit to it nor did he deny, saying, “I told you, it’s not your fault. Don’t listen to this young little boy. Just grab tight your clothes and go back home.”

Frowning, Wu Dahu murmured, “Well, I know we are not the direct reason causing your accident, we should bear the major responsibility. Please come with us to the town before sunset.”

Qin Aye retorted, saying, “NO! I mean it! I’ve prepared myself some herbs for medicine. It will just be fine in few days. Don’t waste money for my unconspicuous injury.”

With that shout, Qin Aye sat down on the chair with a rage, crossing his arms in front his chest, seemingly he was such a tough guy without showing any softness to compromise.

Witnessing Qin Aye was being tougher on his attitude, Song Qinghan pondered a while, suggesting, “How about that, you just sit in your bed, and let me check out your leg which is broken, and let me see how serious it is. Although I am not an expert or experienced doctor at all, I do know some treatments, maybe that can help you a bit.”

Youning stood aside by Qin Aye with his face full of disdain, saying, “Ha? You just confess to us that you’re just a dabbler. So how can you be such a conceit guy saying as if you are capable to cure Qin Aye? It’s been a long while since he got injured, can you just shut up and be responsible? If Doctor Luo is here, he probably got some REAL treatments.”

Just at the moment Youning finished his utterance, Qin Aye patted this young man on his shoulder, frowning and saying, “Youning, stop talking nonsense. Go back home and ready for dinner.”

That actually wasn’t a punch or a thump at all, but the action seemed to break the young man’s self-esteem, and then Youning got his eyes red-rimmed all of a sudden, stamping his foot, and saying with a rage, “What I did and said is good for you. Did you forget the fact that it was me who carried you home, and ask the prescription for you. Well, it seems that you don’t need that anymore, so I won’t come here again.”

With that shout, he ran away and left the house, wiping tears out of his face.

Song Qinghan frowned standing there, and then heaved a sigh, coming up to support Qin Aye, persuading in a sympathy tone, “Youning isn’t a bad boy at all. Don’t worry, we won’t show any resentment on him.”

Qin Aye didn’t respond in a flash, he was just staring at the direction where Youning left. It was Wu Dahu who read out the worrisome look lingering on Qin Aye’s face, he consoled, saying, “He is just a kid, and I believe that he will surely come back here to visit you as soon as he is at all peace. Don’t worry about that!”

Shaking head, Qin Aye showed his sullen face all of a sudden, saying slowly, “He is a young kid of kindness. His femina dad will punish him if he dares to come, so every time he just visited me, he got lectured and punished. But he still insisted on it. Well, I think it will be much better if he never comes again. That’s good for him not wasting time on me, I’m just a pathetic old man with no money and prestige.”

Well, even Qin Aye said so, Wu Dahu and Song Qinghan could still read out the sorrow deep in this old widow’s eyes. They knew that it was a sorrow showing his reluctant to part with the boy. They knew exactly that was just a lie he was pretending to cover his masked grief. Just as Song Qinghan looked at Wu Dahu, they glanced at each other eye-to-eye, and then both of them reached an agreement to visit Youning for a profound and sincere talk.

Qin Aye walked slowly to the bed with the escort and support of Song Qinghan. Sitting on the bed and stretching his broken leg on the edge of the bed, he slowly untied the gauze wrapped on his leg.

A pungent and unpleasant odor mixing with a smell of some unknown herbs and rotten flesh just sent out in the air at the moment Qin Aye untied the bandage. Song Qinghan couldn’t help but frown.

“It’s been tied so tight. Dahu, go home get the kit, liquor and gauze for me.” Said Song Qinghan.

Responding, Wu Dahu left the room in a flash. He didn’t lend a chance for Qin Aye to say no.

Qin Aye had no choice now, but only to turn to Song Qinghan, saying, “I’m quite old now, it’s not that easy to cure. Don’t waste time on me.”

Shaking head, Song Qinghan answered in a decisive look, saying, “Trust me, that is not too bad. I am going to boil water. Please wait here for a moment.”

Then he went straightly to the kitchen and put a pot of water on top of the firewood, and ignited the fire.

He had just checked out the broken leg of Qin Aye, he came to draw a conclusion that Qin Aye didn’t break his leg at all, but was just scratched by something like rocks on the ground. In addition, the torn skin wasn’t treated and cleaned in a good way, Qin Aye just randomly wrapped it with herbs. And what’s worse, he didn’t change the medicine frequently. That’s how the scratched wound just festered.

Speaking of which, people in his previous modern world would also choose this way to somehow “Save the medicine”, Song Qinghan witnessed a lot of such cases.

But he knew that only those middle-aged or elderly people would do something like that, for one reason those kinds of people were just a money-saver, or money slave, they would never waste money on themselves unless there posted a risk. For another, no one was aside by them helping them out. They just waited there until everything just went worse. To that end, the perfect time for their treatment just slipped away.

Hissing, the water started boiling. And at the same time Wu Dahu came back.

Inside the room, Song Qinghan cleared out the decomposed herbs on Qin Aye’s leg carefully.

Indeed, this kind of herbs was something of tiny and jumble, which required a hard work for Song Qinghan to tear them off. And it took a total one hour for him to finish the work.

With the herbs fell, the rotten flesh was exposed right in the air. Qin Aye sighed with a helpless tone, shaking his head and saying, “This leg is supposed to be declared worthless.”

Song Qinghan didn’t come to console at all, but just disinfected the stuffs he was about to apply to use, while ordering Wu Dahu, “You come here to press and fix Aye later, it must be a bit painful when I am applying to cut off the rotten flesh.”

With a sudden jerk in mind, Qin Aye came to a halt, shivering there. Although he was old enough and had been through so many times of hardship in his life, he still trembled there when he heard the word “CUT OFF”.

It then was Wu Dahu who came to console, he said, “Don’t worry, Qinghan is quite good at this. It will be just in a flash and then everything will be done.”

But since he was informed that Song Qinghan was quite good at this, Qin Aye stared at him with a face of utter astonishment, he wondered why Song Qinghan would be good at such an operation of “Cutting Flesh”.

Without pausing, Song Qinghan raised the scalpel in the air and took the operation in a rather quick move on Qin Aye’s leg.

Looking at Song Qinghan’s serious expression, Wu Dahu came to a smile while the scene he peeled the bearskin just was occurring to him.

Well, this time it seemed to be not the same situation as what Xiaoqing’s femina dad and Zhuer suffered. Qin Aye got the rotten flesh in a large area, it couldn’t be done in a quick move.

Fortunately, Qin Aye was mentally prepared. Without Wu Dahu’s help, he just gritted his teeth and endured the pain himself.

When Song Qinghan finished the action on his hand, Qin Aye was just showing his expression of surprise.

He finally came to understand what Wu Dahu meant, Song Qinghan was just so skillful on his so-called scalpel that he could take the operation in a rather smooth way. What’s more, he cut the rotten flesh off without bleeding.

However, Song Qinghan hadn’t finished it yet. He grabbed a burning candle and liquor over for a secondary disinfection on the scalpel in his hand. And then moved the candle closer to Qin Aye’s leg, carefully, he picked out every tiny filth inside the flesh.

Enduring the pain and looking down at the small gravels on the ground, Qin Aye was utterly astonished, mumbling, “Hmm? Why are there some gravels inside? I thought I was with a good sight. But I never expect that yours is better than mine. That’s so marvelous for you to pick out the gravels in such a tiny size.”

Song Qinghan didn’t answer. Instead, he just absorbed in scanning the leg of Qin Aye with concentration. Only at the moment he could make sure everything was fine did he come to a halt.

Well, he wasn’t possessing a good sight as Qin Aye said, but was just too familiar with every single detail of the flesh.

It would be hard for anyone who wasn’t a major in surgery to discern the detailed gravels among the flesh. But as for Song Qinghan, those tiny gravels was just like some sneaky and nasty thieves hiding among the veins of flesh, it wasn’t that hard for him to catch them.

Yet, speaking of the difficulty of such an operation, it actually was nothing special.

After handling all the rotten flesh and those gravel stuffs, Song Qinghan commenced worrying.

From his previously visual scanning, he could draw a conclusion that Qin Aye didn’t break his leg. But since he was able to diagnose by touching Qin Aye’s bones, he found out this old man got a slight bony crack. This was kind of case of seriousness, so if Qin Aye couldn’t recover from it, he still couldn’t walk smoothly as before.

Seeing that Song Qinghan was deep in thought, Wu Dahu took out the can of medical cream left by Doctor Luo from his arms and asked tentatively, “Will this work?”

With subconsciousness, Song Qinghan took over the can, nodding and mumbling, “That would be perfect if I got plaster here…”

Plaster? What plaster? Pondering, Wu Dahu asked, “What’s the use of a plaster?”

Applying the medical cream on Qin Aye’s leg, Song Qinghan came to answer, saying, “Of course to fix the leg. If we just do nothing, the bones of Qin Aye’s leg will still displace even if he just stay in the bed without any movement. Only fix the leg could he recover soon.”

Pondering for a while, Wu Dahu left the room without a word.

Song Qinghan didn’t notice the absence of Wu Dahu, after he finished applying the cream, he spoke to Qin Aye in a rather gentle tone, saying, “Aye, please just stay in bed as possible. As for the meal, don’t worry, it falls to me and Dahu now. I will observe the recovery of you in these three days. If it’s not going to be better, I’m afraid that we have to get Doctor Luo here.”

Waving hands, Qin Aye seemed to reject in the thought that he would trouble the couple again. He felt so guilty, saying, “Cooking isn’t hard though, I can make it myself. You guys get so busy and you should focus on yourself.”

With a countenance of seriousness, Song Qinghan got his tone tight, saying, “Dahu gets hurt now and I am pregnant. We just have nothing big to do, it’s not a big deal to take care of you. Please don’t just refuse our sincerity every time. That’s ruthless. And what’s more, if you aren’t going to coordinate with me, I will never let you to meet this child.”

As Song Qinghan was speaking, he pointed at his belly at the same time, as if he was showing off a treasure he had long hidden inside his belly.

Qin Aye pulled a wry face listening to Song Qinghan. He couldn’t retort anymore since Song Qinghan said so. Pondering for a moment, he just answered with such a reluctance, saying, “Alright. So no matter how much degree I will recover, you guys just leave me alone. It’s just a broken leg, it’s really nothing, I still can walk by another one. That will be much more pathetic if I got my eyes blind.”