“Don’t worry. What I’m doing is what I like and enjoy the most, so I wouldn’t feel tired at all,” Zhao Shanlin imdiately said with a smile after hearing Fang Qiu’s words.
“Though you enjoy working, you must get enough rest and stay healthy,” said Fang Qiu with a smile.
“All right.”
Zhao Shanlin looked at the people who were opening the land up and said, “I will study this book carefully. Even if I have to risk my life, I will definitely help you complete this great plan!”
“Well, as for the plan, we can take it slow. Your health is what concerned the most. We still have ti. There’s no hurry.” Fang Qiu comforted him.
“Alright. I’ll go and help them first.”
As soon as Zhao Shanlin said that, he couldn’t help rushing forward again and working with everyone.
Fang Qiu went to find Zhu Benzheng and his two companions. He told them to take good care of Zhao Shanlin and not to exhaust him. The three n knew well that they should take good care of Zhao Shanlin without needing Fang Qiu to tell them. After all, they were Zhao Shanlin’s students when they were still in the school.
After making all the arrangents, Fang Qiu was ready to leave the village.
Everything here was on the right track, and there was nothing that needed his help, so he decided to leave.
Moreover, it was ti to carry out his third plan.
But before he left the village, he had one more thing to do.
That was to ask Old Yang to leave the village and use his dical skills in the outside world.
After going down the mountain and returning to Leprosy Village, Fang Qiu went to Old Yang’s room, a place he was very familiar with. When he arrived, the class happened to be over.
“Hello, Mr. Yang.”
Fang Qiu went straight to Old Yang, who was sitting in his seat. He reached out his hand to him.
“Did you learn my surna from the Village Chief?” asked Old Yang with a smile.
“No.”
Fang Qiu shook his head and said, “I learned it from a friend of mine.”
“Oh?”
Old Yang was stunned and asked, “I don’t know many people in my life. Are you sure that you didn’t mistake for the person your friend ntioned?”
“Yes.”
Fang Qiu nodded with a smile and said, “My friend’s na is Lin Yu!”
“Lin Yu?”
Old Yang was stunned for a mont. The young man who went up the mountain to contract the virus several days ago, stayed in the village with him, and ca up with a thod to cure the infected people, appeared in his mind.
He vaguely rembered that one day when they were chatting in this room, that young man told him that his na was Lin Yu.
Thinking of this, Old Yang imdiately laughed and said, “Did he ask you to co here?”
Fang Qiu nodded and said, “Yes. He was the one who told about the situation here. He also told that there were dendrobes and that the people here needed help. So I ca.”
“I see,” Old Yang imdiately smiled with relief and said. “He did what he promised, and he didn’t let down. He is a good man and good doctor.”
“But he told that you’re a good doctor. To cure the disease, you got yourself infected and stayed here for forty years to take care of the patients. You’re really a good doctor,” said Fang Qiu.
“He actually told you so much about .”
Old Yang shook his head and smiled.
He was not angry when he said those words. On the contrary, he thought that Lin Yu told Fang Qiu so much about him just because Lin Yu trusted Fang Qiu.
Besides, he had seen everything Fang Qiu did for the village. Thus, he had a particularly good impression of Fang Qiu.
“Mr. Yang, actually, I ca to you because I hope that you can promise sothing,” Fang Qiu said with a smile.
“What is it?” asked Old Yang.
“I hope that you can leave the village and use your dical skills in the outside world.”
Fang Qiu continued, “Lin Yu told that you refused to leave the village because you wanted to teach the children here about dicine. But it would be a waste of your dical skills if you stay here.”
“Since Lin Yu had told you about it, I won’t repeat it,” Old Yang shook his head and said. “I really appreciate what you did for the village. But stop inviting to leave the village.”
“Please don’t get angry, Mr. Yang. I have my own reason for asking you to leave the village. Could you please allow to finish my words first?” asked Fang Qiu.
“Okay, go ahead.”
Old Yang gave a wry smile.
Fang Qiu was being too polite to him, so polite that he felt he must allow him to finish his words though he didn’t want to leave the village.
“I know you’re concerned about the children in the village and want to teach them about dicine. But have you ever thought that you would be able to teach more people about dicine if you leave the village? If you’re worried about the children, you can take them with you to the outside world so that they can see what the outside world is like and learn so modern knowledge. More and more people would co to this place with the continuing developnt of the village, and the villagers would be able to know more things. But what you could teach them is just dical skills, instead of modern technologies and other modern knowledge. So even if they could master all your dical skills, they would not be able to adapt to the modern world.”
Fang Qiu paused for a mont and asked, “Do you really want that to happen?”
Hearing that, Old Yang smiled.
“I don’t think it will beco a problem. Since the village has begun to develop, it would definitely be able to keep up with the developnt of the modern world soday, though it may take a rather long ti. The children are still young, and when they grow older, schools may be established in the village. They could even go to the urban areas in the counties and cities to study in the schools there. So you didn’t have to worry about that,” he said.
“Children in modern tis would go to school at a young age. The children in the cities would go to school at the age of six. However, among the children in the village, the younger ones are about six or seven years old while the older ones are about ten years old. They have already been left behind by the children in the cities. If they couldn’t attend a school now, the gap between them and the children in the cities would grow bigger and bigger.”
Speaking of this, Fang Qiu smiled and continued, “Of course, this is just one of the reasons for my asking you to leave the village. The most important thing is, are you really willing to stay here for the rest of your life?”
“Yes,” Old Yang replied with a smile.
“You’re an outstanding doctor with superb dical skills. Yet, you achieved nothing during the years you stayed in the village. The pri of your life has been short. Are you really willing to stay here for the rest of your life?” Fang Qiu asked.
Old Yang was taken aback.
Ever since he beca a highly-skilled doctor, he had spent almost all his ti treating the patients in the village. He had only spent a few months treating his wife.
Did he learn all those dical skills just for them to be wasted like this?
“I’m getting old.”
Although Old Yang was moved by Fang Qiu’s words, he still shook his head and said, “It’s impossible for to leave the village.”
“In that case, I won’t try to persuade you anymore.”
Fang Qiu gave a wry smile and added, “How about this? You leave the village with for just ten days. I’ll take you to the university where I study, and could you please give lectures to the students in that university in those ten days?”
“Well...”
Old Yang hesitated.
“Chinese dicine has developed very well recently in Huaxia, and it has beco famous internationally. As far as I know, you’re a practitioner of Miao dicine, which has declined in the outside world. There is no major such as Miao dicine in regular schools, and most people who claid themselves to be Miao Doctors are just swindlers. Could you bear to see those swindlers ruin the reputation of Miao dicine?” Fang Qiu asked again.
“Okay, I’ll go with you,” Old Yang no longer hesitated and replied directly. “But just for ten days. I’ll show the people in the outside world what the real Miao dicine is like, and then I’ll co back.”
“Okay.” Fang Qiu nodded with a smile.
“In addition, I hope to take the children in the village with .
“You’re right. They were born in this poor village, which caused them to be left behind by the children in the cities. They have never left the village even once since they were born, so I want to take them with to see what the modern world is like, and I want to see it for myself as well.”
“No problem.”
Fang Qiu nodded at once and said, “Now pack up, and we can leave.”
Old Yang went to find the children’s parents and gained their consent before he left the village with those children and Fang Qiu. They headed for the city by car.
Along the way, Old Yang kept looking out of the window to enjoy the scenery just like those children. However, his eyes were bleared, giving a sense of vicissitudes, while those children’s eyes were full of curiosity.
“The world outside has already changed so much?”
Old Yang had all kinds of feelings along the way.
“Mr. Yang, what is this?”
“Brother Fang, what’s this?”
“What is that?”
The children kept asking questions while enjoying the scenery outside the window and chatting with each other and laughing.
Soon, they arrived in the urban area of the city.
The children beca a little timid and hid behind Fang Qiu and Old Yang. They looked even more scared when they ca to a crowded place. Old Yang kept looking around and when he saw those towering buildings, he was stunned.
The world outside had changed a lot from what he could rember.
Fang Qiu first took Old Yang and the children to buy so clothes and suitcases for them. Then, he dressed them up. When he was booking flight tickets on his mobile phone, he noticed that the children, who had been playing around, suddenly beca quiet. He turned around and looked at them, only to find that they were staring at a man who was eating instant noodles on the side of the road. The children kept sniffing the noodle smile in the air and swallowed their throats.
Seeing that the children were timidly suppressing their desire for the noodles, Fang Qiu was heartbroken.
He hurriedly took Old Yang and the children to eat delicious food.
Although Old Yang didn’t eat much, he was very happy. The children got food all over their faces while eating and even grabbed the food with their hands instead of using chopsticks.
Fang Qiu didn’t stop them.
He knew that those children couldn’t behave in such a naive way for long because they would learn table manners gradually. After they learned table manners, it would be hard to make them eat in such a way.
After the al, Fang Qiu took Old Yang and the children to the airport. When he was about to buy flight tickets, he was suddenly stunned.
Old Yang and the children hadn’t gone through the household registration procedures!
So how was Fang Qiu going to buy tickets for them?
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