Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 837 - 681: Love Spans Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [28]

Chapter 837: Chapter 681: Love Spans Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [28]

Gui Lanzhi cannot stand hearing anyone call her son ungrateful.

With red-rimmed eyes, she immediately said urgently, "Ah Sheng, how can you speak like that? Ming Yan genuinely had something to attend to in town. You all know he’s working at the clinic and understand why. Today, the girl really fell ill and it’s quite serious. He’s a doctor; shouldn’t he go out to buy medicine and treat her? It’s a sickness; he didn’t know the calf would get scalded at this moment..."

The villagers seemed to realize they might have spoken too harshly.

Looking sheepish, one glanced at the child in their arms, saying, "I was just anxious."

Gui Lanzhi’s eyes reddened, "Being anxious doesn’t mean you should speak like that..."

Feng Chengyue inside couldn’t hold back anymore. Struggling with discomfort and a headache, she got out of bed. Pushing open the door, she looked at the child in the villager’s arms, saying, "It’s just treating an illness! I can do it; is it necessary to speak like this about Qiu Mingyan and me?"

The villagers were momentarily stunned, seemingly not expecting Feng Chengyue to defend herself, nor that her face would look so pale.

With a trembling heart, they paused briefly before quickly coming to the point.

Quickly bringing the child next to Feng Chengyue, saying, "You can treat illnesses? Hurry, look at my little calf here, it’s scalded so badly, what can be done?"

Initially, Feng Chengyue truly didn’t want to treat villagers like these, but seeing the dirty child crying so heartbreakingly, she tempered herself. As a doctor, she couldn’t stand to see patients suffer, and softened her stance, saying, "Put him down, I’ll go get the medicine kit."

Later, fifteen minutes passed, and Feng Chengyue had examined the child.

She applied ice water to cool the burn, disinfected with iodine, and used other emergency treatment methods before saying, "This area has already lost sensation and is sluggish in response. It should be a deep second-degree burn. Soon the skin here will blister and rot; to prevent infection, you should go to a big hospital for intravenous antibiotics, and also get some specialized burn ointment to apply."

These were just ordinary instructions a doctor gives after an examination, and Feng Chengyue felt it wouldn’t cost much. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

However, upon hearing this, the villager’s face turned ghostly pale, "We have to go to the hospital for IV drip and get burn medication?"

"What else?" Feng Chengyue asked.

Suddenly, the villager wailed loudly, "Where do we have money to go to the hospital? Earlier this year my dad broke his leg, and we could only tie a piece of wood to it for him to heal on his own. Going to the hospital costs several hundred, we can’t afford it..."

Feng Chengyue momentarily twitched her lips.

Although she understood that nowadays without insurance, healthcare costs of hundreds to thousands were challenging for poor people, the child was in such a state, and his father’s leg broke, yet they couldn’t produce several hundred?

Feng Chengyue was stunned, and Gui Lanzhi next to her listened with a conflicted expression.

Suddenly, soon the Qiu Family was filled with this villager’s various cries of poverty. Feng Chengyue was embarrassed, and finally, after nearly half an hour, she could only say, "Alright, stop crying, I have some money here, take it to get the child treated."

Turning around, she went back into the house.

Such an act undoubtedly made Gui Lanzhi feel uneasy, but although she tried to open her mouth, there was nothing she could say.

She had no choice but to watch Feng Chengyue take out several red RMB bills from her wallet and hand them to Ah Sheng’s family.

Ah Sheng took the money without thanking her, seemingly too hurried, or thinking it was justifiable, grabbed the money, and left with his son.

Such behavior left Feng Chengyue truly speechless: "..."

...

What made Feng Chengyue feel even worse and despairing was that shortly after, once word spread that Ah Sheng’s family had received 500 RMB from Feng Chengyue for treating their child, another family with a sick member came over.

The approach was almost identical.

First, they sought out Qiu Mingyan for treatment, and unable to find him, Feng Chengyue had no choice but to step in.

After treating them, there was a long half-hour cry of poverty, lamenting how hard times were back then, how they scraped together food to support Ming Yan, and now with another illness, alas...

Feng Chengyue truly couldn’t bear to continue overhearing this, nor the implied sense that Qiu Mingyan owed the villages who were still struggling with birth, old age, sickness, and death...

She didn’t mind being wronged, but wouldn’t let Qiu Mingyan bear this reputation.

But her bitterness rose again, leading her to give money once more with the result —

The second family took 300 RMB, and threw back, "How come it’s less than Ah Sheng’s family? Back then we contributed more food than Ah Sheng’s family!"

This sentiment almost made Feng Chengyue’s heart bleed as they turned away and left.

Afterwards, the heartache was indescribable; with the first family, followed by the second, the third, and the fourth came one after another.

The cries from each family, the urgency of each to see a doctor, left Feng Chengyue unable to utter a single word of rebuke.

They were genuinely struggling and truly couldn’t afford treatment. For them, tens or hundreds in medical expenses seemed astronomical.

What can a hundred RMB buy? Salt, oil, grains, eggs, meat, vegetables, exercise books, pencils, floral clothing, backpacks, and many other things... and after purchasing all this, there’d still be some left over.

People here precisely measure money down to the hair, considering medical costs luxurious; how could they afford it?

In the end, meeting those eager eyes, each time she could only pull out money.

But her cash was limited, and eventually ran out, leaving her with no choice but to write them promissory notes.

Such actions made Gui Lanzhi’s gaze toward Feng Chengyue gradually fill with disappointment.

In these few days of interaction, Gui Lanzhi realized her son truly doted on this young woman to the extreme.

She didn’t know how much money her son currently had.

All she knew was that in just one morning, Feng Chengyue promised away over 2000 in astronomical figures!

Gui Lanzhi knew that when her son returned and found out, he would certainly take it upon himself to help this girl pay out.

Having grown accustomed to impoverished lives, 2000 was... Despite having money her son gives her, Gui Lanzhi felt this amount was heart-wrenching to hand over!

Thus, when Gui Lanzhi ultimately looked at Feng Chengyue, truly her gaze was filled with disappointment, unable to say anything more, she turned and walked into the house, not even preparing lunch for Feng Chengyue.

Being rejected by the Qiu Family for the first time, Feng Chengyue understood what pit Mai Manxiang had dug for her.

Feeling even more aggrieved and speechless.

Already ill, feeling physically unwell, and now seeing Qiu Mingyan’s mother angry at her while on an empty stomach, Feng Chengyue for the first time had no choice but to go into the kitchen to make something to eat herself...

Confronted with a firewood stove she couldn’t comprehend, tears of grievance rolled out instantly...