The medical hall was indeed noisy, it rarely occurs throughout the year. Inside, a woman was holding a boy of six or seven years old and crying while beating her chest. On the other side was a man, who seemed to be the woman’s husband, pulling a young man in a white suit who seemed to have just returned from studying abroad.
That young man looked annoyed, and that man held him tightly, afraid that he would run away.
When the medicine boy saw Xu Hang coming, he hurried over to him and said, “Head of the household, you’re here. Look at this… they’re making so much noise that we can’t do business!”
“What’s going on?”
The medicine boy lowered his voice and spoke slowly. It turned out that the family of three went to burn incense at Chenghuang Temple this morning. At the entrance of the temple, they bought Qingtuan for the child to eat. The child was in such a hurry to eat that he choked and fell down immediately, unable to swallow or spit it out.
The family tried to hit and push, but there was nothing they could do. Seeing that the child was rolling his eyes and was about to die, this young man stood up from the crowd.
The young man took a look and said that the airway had to be opened, but the temple was too far from the hospitals and the medical stores, and they might not be able to make it in time. The couple immediately knelt down and begged the young man for help. The young man said that he was not a standard medical student and his hands were not clean either, so he did not dare to treat him.
Seeing them crying and kowtowing, he felt so sorry for them that he could only take out a pen and stab it into the child’s chest. Then they took the child to Heming Medical Hall, and only then did he feel relieved.
But what’s interesting is that although the child was rescued, this couple grabbed the young man and refused to let him leave, insisting that the young man had to pay for the wound on his chest. If anything serious happened during the surgery, he would be held accountable.
At this time, that woman howled, “Aiya, my son is fine ah, he just ate the snack too hastily, but he pierced a bloody hole in him! This is murderous ah!”
That young man was obviously so angry that he laughed instead, and his face showed disdain for having to argue with such a person. Other people in the store also pointed and talked, they were very disgusted with such people.
Xu Hang watched coldly for a while before finally saying, “Get out of here.”
His voice was not loud, but it had a unique force, as cold as spring water that had not yet melted, which made people feel chilled. The medicine boys looked at Xu Hang and stretched their ears, thinking that they had heard wrongly. Xu Hang pointed at the couple holding the child and repeated, “Kick them out, don’t take their money either, and throw out the gauze, scissors, plasters, etc. that were used to treat them. My Heming Medical Hall does not accept such patients.”
“Yes!” The medicine boy had been fed up with it for a long time already, but he didn’t dare to do anything because of the medical hall’s reputation. Only after the head of the household gave the order did they act quickly.
The couple’s faces turned pale, and that woman even lay on the ground and yelled, “Someone is about to die, someone is about to die! There are even people in the medical hall who watch people die without helping!”
Upon hearing this, a medicine boy grabbed the woman and dragged her to the door without any courtesy, pointing at a sign on the door and sneering, “It’s not that we watch people die without helping, our medical hall has the ‘three no-help’ principles!”
When the couple heard this, they opened their eyes wide and looked, but even after looking for a while, they were still confused. It turned out that they were laymen and could not read.
At this time, Xu Hang slowly read out, “We won’t save those who committed adultery and robbery, those who smoke and drink, and those who are ungrateful. The last one is for people like you.”
“Did you hear clearly? If you heard clearly, then hurry up and leave. Don’t you even know where you are?” The medicine boy pushed and shoved and hurriedly drove the couple out.
The couple blocked the door and quarreled, even knocking their heads against the door. The shopkeeper couldn’t stand it anymore, so he rushed out, glared, twisted his chin, and said with a fierce look, “You old fools! I’ll tell you, even the Commander didn’t dare to yell so loudly when he came to our medical hall. Are you bigger than the Commander? If you cause trouble again, I will invite the Commander to punish you!”
When they heard the word “military officials”, the family felt as if their throats were being strangled. They stared at each other for a while but still felt shame and left unwillingly.
Back to the hall, Xu Hang finished his business and went to the counter to look at yesterday’s account. That young man came forward and stretched out his hand: “Thank you for your help. My name is Yuan Ye. It’s a miracle that I can encounter such a thing just after returning to China. Thank you very much.”
Xu Hang stared at the hand. The joints were long, and there were no calluses on it. It didn’t look like a hand that could heal illnesses. He didn’t return the shake but calmly said, “You’re welcome. I’m not helping you. I just don’t like people making noise here.”
Yuan Ye still maintained that posture: “But you still helped me, I’ll accept you as my friend… ah, sorry, that was a bit presumptuous.”
Maybe it’s a habit that comes from studying abroad. Xu Hang still stretched out his hand but only grasped it to the first knuckle and then retracted it. “The situation in China is different from that in other countries. The world is in chaos and you can’t always get away so easily.”
“En… maybe, but I will still do it next time I see something like this.” Yuan Ye smiled. He did not feel the slightest bit of resentment after being bitten back at all. He had a rare, innocent heart.
The little noise at Heming Medical Hall died down after a while, completely obliterated by the bustling atmosphere of the world.
However, the gunpowder smoke from the British Consulate in the concession area was not so pleasant.
