Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 205 Free Clinic
"I'll say it again, my mother and you have severed ties, we're no longer siblings. So let go and stop bothering me."

Bai Yang was incredibly annoyed by the middle-aged man who was clinging tightly to his arm.

His grandmother died such a tragic death, it was already a miracle that his mother didn't kill them both, let alone dare to come looking for them.

What about the face?

If it weren't for the fact that his uncle had been kind to him when he was a child, he would have had his head chopped off long ago.

However, after not seeing him for several years, how did this person turn into a mangy dog?

"Little Yang, Little Yang, you can't treat your uncle like this. I'm your own uncle, your own uncle."

Uncle Li was in tears, clinging tightly to Bai Yang's arm, refusing to let go.

He cried and seemed to be confessing, "Your maternal grandmother is my own mother. Do you think I wanted her dead? I didn't want her to either. Go tell your mother that I regret it, I really regret it. She can hit me or scold me as she pleases, but she can't disown me as her brother, her own brother."

"Pah! Brother? You dare call yourself that?"

Bai Xiangqian walked out of the village and almost spat on Uncle Li's face.

He looked at him with disdain and said, "Back then, you killed the old lady and even tried to smear Xiuer. Why didn't you say you were her brother then? Now you're trying to establish a connection, but it's too late."

The foolish and greedy couple, not wanting to bear the infamy of causing their mother's/mother-in-law's death, returned to Pengcheng and made up an excuse, saying that his sister Li Xiu deliberately called to lure the old lady back. Although they were unwilling, their mother cried and made a fuss, and they had no choice but to drive her back overnight.

Unexpectedly, his old illness relapsed halfway through the journey, and he passed away.

The couple cried and complained to Li Xiu, questioning why she had made the old lady go back to Pengcheng.

My straightforward aunt was so angry that she fainted.

That's not all. The shameless couple even used the pretext of holding a grand funeral to ask the old lady for her savings.

My second aunt's father passed away a year before the old lady fell ill. After the old lady finished the funeral, she divided the family savings in half and gave them to her siblings equally.

She still wants to live in the house in Pengcheng, and no one has given it to her.

Of course, this is what she said on the surface. In reality, the old lady intended to give it to Bai Yang, her grandson who had grown up with her since he was a child. Compared to her granddaughter, whom she only saw a few times a year, she was closer to her grandson.

The house is nearly 200 square meters. Although it is almost 15 years old, it is well maintained, and the community management and property management are also good.

Therefore, the second aunt's eldest brother was determined to get the house. He never thought that his mother would consider giving it to his sister, after all, he was the son.

But as soon as the family left, the old lady quickly completed the property certificate change and transfer registration.

At the time, she thought that she was still in good health and had a lot of pension. Although the house had been given to her grandson, she was still living there and her grandson wouldn't be able to get it in the short term. She would leave the money she saved to her granddaughter.

That's fair and impartial.

But plans never keep up with changes. Six months later, a serious illness cost her a leg. During the two months she was hospitalized, her son visited three times, staying for less than a week in total. Her daughter-in-law and granddaughter only made a brief appearance, and were never seen again until she was discharged.

Although Bai Yang was studying, he spent every weekend at the hospital taking care of her. Although a caregiver was hired, his daughter and son-in-law still took turns staying at the hospital every night.

At that moment, she was secretly glad that the decision she made early on was indeed the right one. As for the savings plan for her granddaughter, she decided against it. Given her health, even with a high retirement pension, she might not be able to save any money.

The old lady of the Li family was quite shrewd, but no matter how shrewd she was, she never imagined that one day she would die so pathetically in her son's car.

Every time the second aunt thinks about it, she feels like tearing her eldest brother and sister-in-law apart.

The real severance of ties occurred after the old lady's funeral. Uncle Li wanted to sell his parents' house, and then he naturally learned that the house had been transferred to Bai Yang's name, and he was no longer entitled to sell it.

At the time, the couple even sued their second aunt and Bai Yang, hoping to use the law to reclaim the house that should belong to them.

The result, of course, was a loss.

Uncle Li was furious and, before even leaving the courthouse, he loudly proclaimed that he was severing his sibling relationship with Aunt Li.

My second aunt couldn't have asked for it more.

Since then, the two families have had no contact. It has been exactly three years now.

For two years after the apocalypse, although my second uncle and aunt had been in Baiguoyuan, they were always busy and had long forgotten about this family.

Why didn't they die somewhere else?
It really does prove the saying that evil can live on for a thousand years.

Memories flashed through his mind, and when Bai Xiangqian looked at Uncle Li again, his face was full of disgust.

He said to his eldest son, "Your mother said she has no brother, and you have no uncle. If anyone tries to stop you or do anything to you, you'll have to deal with it yourself."

After saying that, he turned around and walked back, took a few steps through the iron gate, and then slammed the gate shut.

As for the mother and daughter standing behind Uncle Li, he didn't even glance at them once.

The message is clear: it's up to Bai Yang to decide what to do. If he doesn't do it well, his mother will deal with him.

"Let go, or I won't be so polite."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yang skillfully broke free from Uncle Li's grasp, then darted to the car, opened the passenger door, and quickly got in.

Zhang Shaoda, who was already waiting in the driver's seat, stepped on the gas, and the car sped onto the highway and drove away at breakneck speed.

Uncle Li, who had been left behind, was so angry that he jumped up and down, but because this was Yunxi Village's territory, he only dared to curse in his heart and didn't dare to say a single swear word on the surface.

"Dad, what should I do?"

Li Yulan, Uncle Li's daughter, tightened her worn-out down jacket and asked, shivering.

She was a year younger than Bai Yang, but because they hadn't had much contact since childhood, the cousins ​​who should have been close were actually quite strangers.

Li Yulan glanced at the car that was about to disappear from sight on the highway, a hint of jealousy flashing in her eyes.

She had just seen clearly that there were two women sitting in the car, clean and presentable, with smooth and clean faces, and it was obvious that they lived a very good life.

And so does the poplar.

But her cousin never glanced in her direction, and he was also very impatient with her father.

What's there to be proud of?
Despite her resentment, Li Yulan knew that her aunt's family from the countryside, whom she had once looked down upon, now held a position in Shenzhen that they could never surpass, a position they had finally managed to gain entry into.

“Dad, you shouldn’t have let go just now. Hold on to Bai Yang. Even if Aunt doesn’t acknowledge you, even if we can’t get into Yunxi Village, he can still help make our family more comfortable in Pengwan Lake. Just like his college classmate.”

Uncle Li said angrily, "Do you think I want to let go? Didn't you realize he has superpowers? I can't catch him at all."

"Now what?"

"How would I know what to do? You're a grown woman, can't you figure something out yourself?" Uncle Li said, glaring at his wife again, "It's all your mother's fault. If she hadn't said she wanted to take your grandmother back to Pengcheng for medical treatment, she wouldn't have died on the way. If your grandmother were alive, I wouldn't have fallen out with your aunt. Even severing ties was instigated by your mother. I must have been incredibly unlucky to have married such a stupid and greedy woman like your mother."

Aunt Li looked up in astonishment at Uncle Li. She hadn't expected him to hold her accountable at this time. It was all her fault, he hadn't.

"Li Jingcheng, you're talking nonsense! You think you can just give me your own ideas? You listen to me so much? Why don't you eat shit then? It was clearly you who didn't want to spend money and caused your mother's death, and you're blaming me for it. Did I get a single penny of your mother's retirement pension? Didn't you take it to pay off your debts?"

"You're talking nonsense."

The once inseparable couple were now hurling insults and accusations at each other at the entrance of Yunxi Village, giving Li Yulan a splitting headache. Ignoring them, she turned and ran wildly back the road she had come from.

She wanted to go back to find He Ningzhu. Since Bai Yang had taken such good care of her, his college classmate, he would definitely come to visit her in Pengwan Lake in the future.

She had to keep a close eye on her; only in this way could she get in touch with Bai Yang and persuade him to help her cousin.

The conflicts between elders are the elders' business, and have nothing to do with her, the younger generation. Yes, nothing to do with her.

She was her grandparents' only granddaughter, and even for their sake, Bai Yang couldn't just abandon her.

Thinking this way, Li Yulan felt hopeful for her future. Although she was too hungry to run fast, she still ran back without hesitation.

Bai Yang was unaware of Li Yulan's plans, and even if he were, he would dismiss them with disdain.

what is this?

He was currently thinking to himself that he hoped his uncle would have the self-awareness to not appear in front of him again, otherwise he might really throw them out of Pengcheng and never let them come back in.

I spent two minutes thinking about Uncle Li's family, then felt disgusted and simply put them out of my mind.

The snow on the road had been mostly cleared. We arrived at the greenhouse area but didn't see Li Nan. We found Kunzi and told him why we had come.

"What? A free clinic?"

Kunzi thought she had misheard and stared wide-eyed in surprise.

"What are you guys doing?"
He meant to say that, but he swallowed the words back down.

Actually, they also have doctors here, and they are regular doctors from the pre-apocalyptic hospital. They have also built a clinic, just like in Yunxi Village.

However, they didn't value the clinic as much as Yunxi Village did, searching for and cultivating medicinal herbs everywhere, and collecting various books on traditional Chinese medicine.

They basically don't care. The practice of several doctors taking turns seeing patients is just a formality because there's no medicine available. Even if they can diagnose a patient, they can't cure them.

So most of the time, the doctors take turns growing vegetables in the greenhouse.

After all, the pay for seeing patients is pitifully low, barely enough to fill one's stomach.

Kunzi knew it was wrong for them not to pay attention to medical care, but there was nothing he could do. There were many people and they were all different. In order to manage the entire greenhouse area, he was busy like a spinning top every day and had no energy to manage medical care.

Of course, the main reason is that these superhumans rarely get sick, so they don't need doctors or medicine for the time being.

Why bother with things you don't need?
Besides, didn't the management department post a notice?

The First Municipal Hospital will reopen soon.

Since the city is about to have a proper hospital, there's even less need for them to go through this unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, when Kunzi heard Bai Yang and Zhang Shaoda say they were coming to provide free medical consultations, he thought they were just bored and had nothing better to do.

But it's a good thing overall, especially since it's in their greenhouse area. Besides, the other party brought medicine. It would be a fool not to take advantage of such a good deal.

"Pass down the notice: the health center will be offering free medical consultations today, with priority given to women and children."

Kunzi called two people over, instructing them to inform the others while leading Bai Yang and the other three towards the clinic.

It was called a clinic, but it was actually just two empty rooms with a table and two single beds. The innermost room had a medicine cabinet against the wall, but it only contained a few bottles of disinfectant and some gauze and alcohol. There was nothing else inside.

Is this what you call a health clinic?

Xi Shuang and Xia Min exchanged a glance and felt that, in comparison, their clinic was much more presentable and luxurious.

Although their medicines are not complete, at least they have a full range of herbal remedies for treating colds, fevers, and even pneumonia. Not to mention the distant past, in just over a month, six pneumonia patients have been cured by Xi Shuang's hands, including two children and four elderly people, all of whom are ordinary people.

It's no exaggeration to say that if Xi Shuang hadn't prepared medicine for the six of them, they might not have survived this cold wave.

In this crowded and diverse environment, the number of people getting sick is likely to be higher than in Yunxi Village, where conditions are better. And perhaps, more people will die as well.

"How many people in your area didn't make it through this cold snap?"

As Xi Shuang was thinking this, Bai Yang had already asked Kunzi.

"About twenty or so. There's nothing we can do about it. We don't have any medicine. If they get sick, they can only tough it out. If they can't make it, there's nothing we can do."

Kunzi felt that this was already quite good, considering that even the elderly over sixty, who were least resistant to the cold, were provided with decent housing, sufficient charcoal, and plenty of food and vegetables. With this double guarantee of external environmental conditions and material support, none of the elderly over sixty fell ill during this cold snap; it was the younger ones who succumbed to their illnesses.

About half an hour later, people began to come into the clinic one after another.

Xi Shuang had a hearing aid around her neck and a pulse pillow on the table. She took the pulse of each patient who came in, while Xia Min sat beside her taking notes.

They brought three large bags of Western medicine that had expired in six months. Two hours later, only a few boxes of medicine needed for rare cases remained in the three bags, such as psoralen needed for albinism patients.

While Xi Shuang was taking the pulse of a patient, the doctor on duty that day sat next to her. He watched her take the pulse very carefully, and then looked at Xia Min's notes. Finally, after the patients finished their consultations and left, the middle-aged doctor named Su Yanxia asked Xi Shuang, "What problems did you find with those two pregnant women at the end?"

He noticed that Xi Shuang frowned slightly when she took his pulse, and then whispered a few words to Xia Min beside her.

He was somewhat puzzled and wanted to know if the young girl could diagnose the two pregnant women's breech presentation by taking their pulses.

Not only that, they both suffer from gestational hypertension. Although the condition doesn't seem that serious, they are only six months pregnant, which is considered the second trimester.

If you have high blood pressure in the second trimester, what about in the later stages of pregnancy?
It's unclear whether the city's hospitals can reopen before they give birth. If not, the two of them giving birth in the greenhouse area under such conditions would likely face a life-threatening situation.

This is completely in line with Xi Shuang's judgment.

A hint of appreciation flashed in Dr. Su's eyes. He was able to judge the condition of the two pregnant women entirely based on his more than 20 years of clinical experience, but how old was this little girl?

Judging from her pulse diagnosis, she seemed like a seasoned traditional Chinese medicine doctor, or at least a student of traditional Chinese medicine before the apocalypse.

"What specialty did Dr. Su practice before the apocalypse?"

Su Yanxia could sense Xi Shuang's extraordinary qualities, and Xi Shuang could also see that the other party was experienced and knowledgeable.

"Obstetrics and Gynecology".

good night!