A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] chapter 40

“What’s this? It’s no way for urticaria to cause such a serious infection.” Song Qinghan said, pointing at a festered wound on the femina male’s leg.

Upon listening, the femina male was showing a exceedingly painful countenance on his face, clenching his fist and saying, “I cut it myself.”

Not even asking the reason, Song Qinghan could clearly figure out his intention from his expression, he then came to ask, “You think those rashes are ugly, right?”

The femina male lowered his head, while Song Qinghan opening the door and speaking to Lin Dafu, “Please help me deliver the liquor and gauze!”

Standing there dumbfounded, Lin Dafu gained his attention back again when he heard the order from Song Qinghan, he then returned to the carriage and, not long, brought back the liquor jars and gauze in his hands.

Yet, right in the room, the femina male was huddling up himself at the corner, trembling and witnessing Song Qinghan closing the door, murmuring, “What are you gonna do? Do you really have some treatments to cure us?”

Song Qinghan delivered him a kind smile, opening the wooden box and taking out one of the scalpels, he poured some liquor on the blade of the scalpel while speaking to the trembling man, “Let’s not mention the urticaria, if you keep ignoring the festered wound. With more serious infection, you probably will lose your leg and get it cut wholly to save your life.”

Gathering all his distrust on face, the femina showed an extreme astonishment with his mouth wide open. He never expected the seriousness of the festered wound, saying after thinking for a brief while, “It’s just kind of mild injury, I will recover very soon exposing myself under the sunlight for few days. Moreover, inner bones are not involved, how come my leg will be useless?”

“Sunbath?” asked Song Qinghan, surprisingly shocked, “Who told you that exposing yourself under the sunlight could save your life? Sometimes that will be a fatal catalyst, festering your symptom.”

Something seemed to occur to Song Qinghan in a flash while he was taking a pause.

That’s right! The sunlight is one of the culprits incurring the symptom of the urticaria. Moreover, the sun is almost the commonest thing in daily life of everybody. That’s why people refused to blame the sun for the illness.

At the moment Song Qinghan lost in thought, the femina male retorted right away, saying, “That’s bullshit, the sun is the lord, the origin of the life. How can it be the reason? Nobody is able to cure us now, but the SUN!”

When Song Qinghan regained his attention, the femina male had already got himself dressed and headed out to the yard ready for his another round of sun-bath.

“Wait!”

Song Qinghan reached forth his arm trying to stop the femina male.

Taking a sudden pause, the femina male seemed to nurse a great grievance, saying while crossing his arms on his chest, “What’s wrong with you?”

Song Qinghan took a clear glance at the femina male, he found that the man in front was a totally good looking guy. Without the sufferings from the urticaria, this femina male probably would have married, getting himself a far more better life.

“What’s your name? How old are you?” asked Song Qinghan.

Facing the sudden question, the femina male was stunned but then came to answer with impatience, “You Yunyun, nineteen years old.”

Song Qinghan nodded, saying, “Alright, You Yunyun, would you like to make a bet with me?”

For a moment You Yunyun stood there little puzzled by this queer request, not knowing exactly what Song Qinghan intended to do, he answered with no earnest, “Say it directly, but I have no money and no food for that bet. How can I make a bet with you?”

“Nothing, but your health!” said Song Qinghan, pointing at the body of You Yunyun.

In a further explanation, Song Qinghan continued to explain, “I will help remove the festered wound from your leg, and you keep ingesting the drugs prescribed from Doctor Luo. But in the meantime you have to comply to my orders. If the urticaria doesn’t fester any more within one month, you should comply everything from my orders. Are you fine with that?”

You Yunyun frowned, asking, “Then what if it still remains?”

Saying so, he still wished he would lose the bet.

No urticaria within one month? That would be a luxurious dream for him right now.

Song Qinghan smiled confidently, saying, “You can accuse me of all the matters if it still remains. But you have to strictly comply to my orders.”

You Yunyun took a disdain glance at Song Qinghan, saying in a taunting tone, “How? Tell me, how am I supposed to accuse you? You are carrying a baby. Oh, how about this, you deliver your baby child to me if you lose the game?”

Upon thinking for a brief moment, Song Qinghan shook his head, saying, “I don’t own the baby alone myself and I can’t make that decision. But I would love to stake myself. If I lose the bet, I would love to be your servant serving you. Isn’t it a good deal?”

You Yunyun wasn’t taking it seriously at all, but when he noticed the all-round seriousness showing on Song Qinghan’s face, he couldn’t reject but answer, “Whatever you like.”

Seating himself on the corner of the bed, he took off his clothes again under the orders of Song Qinghan.

Again, Song Qinghan poured some liquor on the blade of the scalpel, and then he used the gauze dipped with liquor to wipe the festered wound on You Yunyun’s leg, raising his head and looking at You Yunyun in equanimity, saying, “It’s gonna be a bit painful, hold on and don’t move.”

You Yunyun delivered Song Qinghan a smile of bitterness, saying, “Well, no worries because pain for me now is nothing.”

With You Yunyun’s confidence towards the upcoming operation, Song Qinghan showed no more hesitation and commenced his business.

He got a quick move that You Yunyun couldn’t even feel any pain at all, and finished quickly.

You Yunyun only could feel some pains while Song Qinghan was binding up the wound, he turned to look at Song Qinghan in an astonishment, saying, “You’re quite a expert on using the knives!”

Without a word, Song Qinghan kept his work on binding up the wound, and then disinfected again the tool, ready for dealing with the next wound.

The festered wounds on You Yunyun’s body weren’t that much, yet all of them were of seriousness. It could be predicted that if he kept this situation on, he would surely get an answer whether he would be paralyzed on his leg or not within one month.

Done. Song Qinghan stood up, saying, “Alright now, from now on, you are not allowed to step out from this room in the daytime within one month. You can open the window a bit for the fresh air but no sunlight inside. If you are eager to take a walk or something, do it at nights without moon. Do you understand?”

“Why can’t I bask under the sun? And, wait, what’s wrong with the moon?” said You Yunyun, shaking his head.

Well, Song Qinghan couldn’t explain to him right away that the moonlight was exactly reflected from the sunlight. He coughed a bit, saying, “This is our bet, you have to comply to my requests, and I assure you that you won’t suffer from the urticaria again this month.”

By that, what really mattered to You Yunyun wasn’t the bet itself, but the removal of the annoying illness.

“Are you sure it won’t remain?” asked You Yunyun with suspicion.

Song Qinghan chuckled, answering, “So what’s the benefit for me to lie to you? But listen, the drugs prescribed from Doctor Luo are also the crucial factor. I would say that it worked when you first ingest them, am I right?”

Yin Jinyun nodded hesitantly and recalled, “You’re right, it is true that when I first tried the drugs the symptoms mitigated in a flash. At that time, we showed great gratitude to Doctor Luo. But beyond our expectation, the demon rashes came again without a sign. We ingested again the drugs, it disappeared. But within days it recurred, this situation kept showing again and again. Awaits ahead us is just endless desperation, long haunting us. So we decided to quit the drugs even when the rashes recurred.”

With such a sympathy, Song Qinghan tied to console, saying, “Well, I can totally feel for you. True dat, the recurring symptoms are somehow annoying. So why not just combine my advise and the drugs from Doctor Luo. Let’s see the consequence.”

Seeing that he seemed to be have a well-thought-out plan, You Yunyun hesitated for a while but then answered, “Then I will give it a shot one more time. If it doesn’t work at all. I won’t do anything bad to you, but those people outside probably will punish you in any means.”

Song Qinghan answered, shaking his head, “No worries, I will go out now. You take a good rest here.”

Stepping out the room, he then found those peeking men gathered in a flash outside the room, seemingly walking into. But they were blocked out by the shut door. With nervousness and concern, one of them suddenly shouted, “What did you do to Yunyun? We won’t let you go if something happened to him.”

Song Qinghan answered in a plain complexion, saying in calmness, “You Yunyun took my advise and agreed with me on resorting a certain method to cure you guys. But we have to wait after one month. At that time, I will show up again.”

However, what Song Qinghan said didn’t arouse the curiosities of those men, the crowd just shouted and murmured outside the room, trying to get any respond from You Yunyun. For a brief while, Song Qinghan continued to lecture patiently, saying, “I know you guys won’t comply to my request at all. I will just help you bind up the festered wounds. As for the urticaria things, it depends on God’s will.”

Without conceiving any other better ideas, these men only had to comply right away. One after another, they followed Song Qinghan up to another room. It was a room allowing Song Qinghan to show his prowess. He proficiently removed the festered wounds using his scalpel, and then bound them all up using gauze.

Well, those men had to praise over the skilled prowess of Song Qinghan. Without the festered wound on their body, they gained more unprecedented comfort even though they felt a bit hurt. At least the removal of the rotten and stinky smell cheered them up.

Song Qinghan continued his lecture after all operations, though he knew exactly that these men would never comply to his advise. He paused until everyone showed their impatiences.

Getting out from this shack, Song Qinghan headed to another shanty with Lin Dafu. Again, the same lecturing style and the identical method to deal with the festered wound.

The whole trip within this desolate village was quite an exhausting task for Song Qinghan, finally they helped out the final family. Song Qinghan heaved a long sigh with relief, wiping his sweat on his forehead, saying, “Being a physician isn’t an easy task. People here are quite obedient to my request. If not, it will be another trouble.”

Lin Dafu stared at Song Qinghan with a shocking face, saying, “I’ve never seen you being so serious like today.”

Song Qinghan uttered no word, he was rather exhausted standing there. Delivering a smile, he didn’t want to explain any.

Night fell again when they arrived at Lin Mansion. Song Qinghan bathed himself after dinner and then went to bed directly.

He got a rather deep and good sleep tonight. The next morning when he woke up, it was nearly noon time.

Lin Dafu didn’t appear aside him today.

Song Qinghan sat aside the table ready for his lunch. But he found that dishes on the table were no more various and abundant, he muttered himself, complaining, “Is it because I’m ready to leave his mansion?”

It happened that Lin Dafu showed up out of nowhere, which brought Song Qinghan to an amazement.

He could clearly notice some ashy trace on Lin Dafu’s face, then he asked Lin Dafu in a tentative tone, “Did you cook the dishes?”

Lin Dafu put the dish in his hands in the center of the table, delivering a smile and saying, “Right, this is my first time cooking, I’m not a skilled cook. If they taste bad, forget it.”

Well, as for Song Qinghan who caught a glimpse at the later-on dishes, it could be told from the look of the them that they must taste bad.

Under the expectation of Lin Dafu who stared at him with his seemingly glittering eyes, Song Qinghan picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks.