In Lihua Village, everyone called He Xii "Fatty," her body definitely stout.
"Young lady, you knocked down an old lady, you should take her to see a doctor. She’s old, her body is unstable, a simple touch could make her unsteady and fall to the ground. If she really got hurt from the fall, aren’t you harming her by not doing sothing?"
He Xii looked at Guaizi, and Guaizi looked at the old lady; for a mont, it wasn’t clear whether she had actually fallen or not.
"Grandma, grandma." A young woman rushed into the crowd, seeing the old lady on the ground, she exclaid, "Grandma, who knocked you down?"
The old lady pointed at He Xii: "It was this fat lady, her waist is so wide, a light bump from her and I couldn’t get up from the ground. Ouch, my back, is it going to break?"
The arriving girl, wearing a black hat, revealed a delicate face. Though her eyes were small and shiny, dressed in boys’ clothes, she clearly looked like a tomboy.
"It wasn’t , I didn’t do it." He Xii wanted to find Xiaofeng, who had just been called away, and told to wait outside with Guaizi for a while.
"How could it not be you? At my age, would I still lie?" the old lady snorted coldly.
"You knocked down my grandma today, and this matter surely can’t be settled in a few words. Tell , how are you going to deal with this today? Go to the hospital or what?" The young woman glanced at He Xii, her large eyes dignified, dressed quite decently.
But one’s skin does not lie; hers was dark and rough, clearly that of soone who worked outdoors often, likely from the countryside.
"Going to the hospital would be fine, just don’t let the back injury be serious." Guaizi was naturally honest, hearing that the old lady might have hurt her back, he worried that she might have really damaged it.
In the village, He Xii could argue with anyone, but this was the Imperial Capital. Even if you gave her a hundred guts, she wouldn’t dare to cause a scene.
Hearing Guaizi’s words, she also chid in, "Right, I just rember I didn’t knock you down, but we’re honest people, if we really hit soone, we wouldn’t deny it. If you feel unwell, we should go to the hospital to check."
Fortunately, their ho business had been growing, exposing her to more and more people, so even dealing with an old lady in the Imperial Capital didn’t bother her.
If it had been before, she certainly wouldn’t have dared.
"Going to the hospital is necessary." The young woman stood up, glanced at He Xii: "My grandma is old, if sothing serious happened, you definitely can’t escape responsibility. How about this, don’t bother yourselves about the hospital, just give the money and I’ll take her for a check-up myself."
"That works, how much?" Guaizi heard it, seed like it could work.
"Give a thousand," said the young woman, "you know, once you go to the hospital, you won’t co out without spending a few hundred to a thousand. Look everyone, my grandma’s back is scratched and bleeding. At her age, to fall like this, I’m just asking for a thousand for the check-up, it’s not expensive, right?"
"That amount of money isn’t much, a few tests will cost that much. Girl, you shouldn’t be naive, let them accompany her to the hospital, that way, if your grandma really does get hurt, let them take responsibility." A kind passerby advised.
"That’s right, young lady. If your grandma really hurt her back, what could you do with a thousand dollars? You should have them take her to a clinic or hospital for a check-up. There’s a clinic nearby, going there would let you rest easier, right?" Another passerby suggested.
"Okay," the young woman thought it over and said to He Xii, "Not far from here, there’s a clinic, let’s go take a look. If there’s nothing wrong, you can just give us so money. If my grandma is really hurt, then you’ll have to take responsibility."
He Xii thought about it, this seed okay and nodded in agreent.
Just as they were about to help the old lady, Xiaofeng and Ayun ca over.
"Xiaofeng, I’m not sure if I hit the old lady, but she insisted I had hit her." At that ti, she was carrying things and there were people around, so it wasn’t clear whether I had actually bumped into soone.
"You’re so strong, you should know whether you hit soone or not. Besides, I’m old now, my granddaughter is already grown up, can I still lie?"
"Grandma, why talk so much, if there’s sothing wrong, just have a doctor check it out and we’ll know," the young girl glanced at Xiaofeng and Ayun standing beside her, their presence starkly different from that of the plump lady.
The other party clearly looked like a young lady from a wealthy family.
He Xii couldn’t be sure if she had hit the woman, but the old lady indeed had an injury on her waist, so the group had to head to a nearby clinic and have the elderly doctor take a look.
The elderly doctor looked at the old lady’s face, first sighing and then appearing as if he wanted to say sothing but hesitated.
"Doctor, how’s my sister doing, she’s alright, right?" Guaizi was alard by the doctor’s expression.
There couldn’t be a serious issue arising from the fall, could there?
The doctor was not young, appearing to be in his early sixties and had an aura as if he was a skilled practitioner.
"The problem is not minor." The other’s expression was serious, "Due to the fall, the sit bones in her hip may have fractured. If left to heal on their own, it would take at least half a year. Furthermore, during these six months, she would need to stay in bed completely and avoid any physical labor."
"What?" The old lady was terrified, "Six months bedridden, wouldn’t that render useless?"
"Then how should she be treated to recover better?"
"It’s not that there are no options, I have a bone-healing dicine here. If you take it for a month, the fractured bones will heal within a month. Of course, with its efficacy, this dicine is also expensive; five hundred a dose, one dose lasts five days, six doses in a month, about three thousand. Add so supplentary dicines, and it’s around five thousand."
He Xii listened alard, five thousand, that was quite a sum.
"You heard it too, the doctor said my grandma’s dicine would cost around five thousand, I initially asked you for just over a thousand out of goodwill. Here’s what we’ll do, apart from the dicine cost, just give a thousand more for nutritional support, and we’ll call it even," he said, totaling six thousand yuan.
Guaizi, although pained by the six thousand yuan, they had no choice but to pay since it had co to this, just they didn’t have that much cash on hand, "Is it that if we pay this six thousand yuan, my sister’s case would have nothing to do with us anymore?"
"Yes, that’s right, I’m reasonable, won’t cling to you. Just hurry and pay for the dicine plus a thousand yuan for nutritional support, and you can be on your way."
"Xiaofeng, I don’t have that much cash on , where is the nearest Postal Bank, I’ve brought my passbook to withdraw so," Guaizi handed a passbook to Xiaofeng, asking her to withdraw money.
Xiaofeng didn’t take Guaizi’s passbook but instead stepped forward with a smile, pretending to check the old lady’s waist: "Grandma, where have you hurt yourself?"
"Waist, butt, it’s unbearable," the old lady instinctively replied.
"Grandma, not to hide it from you, my grandfather was a renowned doctor, my man is also a doctor, so I know a bit about treating injuries myself; I believe your injuries aren’t just on the waist, there must be other issues."
"Impossible, I just examined her, apart from the lower back, there’s nothing wrong with other parts." The doctor, hearing Xiaofeng question his skills, was quite displeased.
Xiaofeng listened to the doctor’s words with a half-smiling glance, "No, there must be other issues, the old lady fell so heavily, it’s impossible that only one part was injured."
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