Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 448 - Chapter 448 448.Aged Solar_1

Chapter 448: 448.Aged Solar_1 Chapter 448: 448.Aged Solar_1 “Yes,”

Old Li also sighed leisurely, “Everything else is fine, I can play cards and sleep, but there’s just no money.”

“And who says eating doesn’t cost money? Don’t you have to buy rice and flour? There’s only so many vegetables in the garden, and if you want to change it up, you have to go buy some, right?”

“You even have to wait for someone’s fruit truck to buy fruit. If they don’t come, we have to go to the town–besides, raising kids is so expensive now! If I don’t help out, my son and daughter-in-law will have to work outside their whole lives.”

“By running the clinic in town, I can help out with the kids, saving them from not having a school in the village.”

Speaking of this, a deep pain stung in Secretary Xiaozu’s heart.

With the aging of the rural population, the elementary school closed years ago, and now even fewer young people want to take root in the countryside–

After all, adults might enjoy the mountains and fields, but children can’t.

All she could do was sigh deeply.

Old Li’s grandson needs to attend school; you can’t stop him, can you?

Old Li then noticed Guo Dong beside her and asked, “In this scorching heat, you two girls aren’t afraid of the sun. What brings you here? Need medicine?”

He knew the routine well, “Do you have your health insurance card?”

“No,”

Secretary Xiaozu waved her hand, “The thing is, there’s a doctor visiting Lao Song’s family, and I came to see if she’d be willing to take over your position.”

What?

Old Li looked at Guo Dong in shock, “Girl, don’t be foolish!”

“Look at you!”

Secretary Xiaozu was displeased.

She had spent so much effort talking, and she still had a delicious bowl of silver ear soup left untouched! And here was Old Li fanning the flames.

She gulped down the remaining silver ear soup, which was cooling and refreshing, “She’s an aspiring young person who, while still unmarried, wants to contribute more. Come on, Old Li, tell her about the clinic’s services.”

What services are there to talk about?

I mean, what else can a clinic do?

Give insulin injections to diabetes patients, prescribe blood pressure medication to those with hypertension, apply plasters to sprained ankles, administer IV drips for fever–

That’s it, just these few services all year round; what’s there to talk about?

But he moved his lips and ended up inviting Guo Dong to look inside the house anyway.

The decoration in a rural house is always very simple.

Guo Dong followed Doctor Li inside the house and noticed it was just white-washed walls, tiled floors, and ceiling lights full of tiny flying insects…

Next, they reached the two sickbeds in the corner room.

Doctor Li honestly admitted, “Nobody has laid in them for a year; I’ve just bunked here during these days.”

All the furniture had been moved to the town, leaving just him and his dog at home.

Those who came for IV drips usually preferred to sit in the yard and chat with everyone. The ones without serious issues would just grab some medicine, stick on a plaster, and go.

The sickbeds were really unnecessary.

Doctor Li wasn’t some sort of miraculous healer; his medical skills were ordinary, and the more complex cases were beyond his means.

On the other side was a large medicine cabinet–quite empty.

Even emptier than the medicine cabinet was the large examination room itself, equipped with a few stools and a couple of IV stands. That was all.

Behind the examination room were two bedrooms that Doctor Li had already cleared out.

Walking further out, on the side were the kitchen and a storeroom, with the toilet in the corner.

As for the washroom, it was tucked away next to the kitchen.

The entire house was very spacious.

The yard was a neat cement ground, cleaned thoroughly, with only a small flower bed made from bricks in the corner, which contained a crabapple tree now full of green leaves and a citrus tree that wasn’t too large or too small.

Above, the citrus tree bore quite a few green Youyous–nothing much to look at.

Doctor Li spoke candidly, “Anyway, this is it. But if you stay in our village, you’ll at least save on renting a place.”

“This house was built with government funds, it’s not mine. As long as you work as a doctor in the village, you can stay here, which is more convenient.”

“Just buy a bed later, have a set of pots and pans ready, and there you go, you’ll have everything you need,” he said.

“Oh, and I installed the solar water heater myself…”

He looked up reluctantly and said, “Forget it, I’ll leave it for you! It’s not easy for a young girl on her own.”

No sooner had he made the generous offer than Secretary Xiaozu chimed in beside him, “An old appliance is worthless once it’s taken apart… Don’t bother keeping it, just replace it come springtime after you kept complaining it was always breaking.”

“If you really can’t part with it, have someone come over and collect it.”

Secretary Xiaozu knew how to soothe people without making them unhappy on such matters.

Otherwise, if Guo Dong agreed and then got doused with cold water during her first shower, who wouldn’t be angry?

Doctor Li: …

He called, but the scrap collector complained there was nowhere to store it, saying he’d either sell it as scrap metal or just keep it himself.

So here it was, almost half a year later, completely unused.

But, the solar water heater didn’t cost much when he installed it–just over a thousand yuan, and it’s been years since then…

“Not that many years…”

Old Li grumbled, “Only five, six, seven, eight years, but sometimes it still works…”

Meanwhile, Secretary Xiaozu had already turned away, no longer paying him any mind.

He was enthusiastically pointing out to Guo Dong:

“Look here, you can place a set of your traditional medicine cabinets, and over there, you could put things like a grinder and a decoction machine–you could even provide acupuncture treatment on that sickbed!”

“Right, can you administer injections and IV drips to people?”

The implication was, as someone who had rotated through a hospital, what couldn’t she do?

Debridement and suturing were right up her alley–though she wasn’t quite as proficient at tattooing yet.

The more Guo Dong described, the more satisfied Secretary Xiaozu became.

Look at that!

How versatile!

If they couldn’t keep her here, the loss would be tremendous.

She thought for a moment and added, “Plus, if you stay and work as a doctor in our village, I guarantee the locals definitely won’t try to fix you up with anyone.”

Why’s that?

Villagers have their own little schemes.

After all, if a young woman were to be introduced to someone, she’d surely head for the city, who would stay in the village then? And then they’d be without a doctor again, wouldn’t they?

So, Secretary Xiaozu earnestly said, “If your family tries to arrange something, I promise everyone in our village will band together to drive them away!”

It had to be said, Guo Dong was quite moved by this.

But she managed to keep her composure, merely looking calmly at the citrus tree in the corner, “That citrus tree will need some fertilizer soon…”

She then turned to Zu Jun and said, “Let’s go, it really is quite sunny and I still need to deal with the Golden Sakura that Qiaoqiao picked this morning.”

Without saying more, Secretary Xiaozu had already picked up on her mood, now a mix of happiness and trepidation, and as they were leaving, she didn’t forget to wave to Old Li:

“Thanks for your hard work, Old Li. I’ll find someone to help you move tomorrow!”

Old Li: …

He scratched his head, confused, “What’s there to help with? Haven’t I moved all my things out already? I’ll just take the village bus to town tomorrow morning…”

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