Tianguanzhi

Chapter 20 Poor People, Good People, "The Story of an Orphan"

The boy frowned and lowered his head: "I heard from my sister that that is not a place where a good person should go."

Ji Xiang showed a thoughtful expression.

"What your sister said is right, but it is not comprehensive. The world is not black and white, there are many gray areas, and many people have no choice but to do so. There is an old saying among Haitang people: What you see on paper will eventually feel shallow, but you must know how to do it. . I think you should go see it with your own eyes and maybe think differently."

Seeing Gu Tianyu's expression, he was still a little hesitant. Jixiang added: "I am a registered teacher at Tiande Public School. My files have been carefully reviewed by the authorities. Today, dozens of students heard with their own ears that I am keeping you in the hall. Tianyu, I have no reason to harm you."

"Teacher Jixiang, I don't have such an idea. I trust you." Gu Tianyu finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, Teacher Jixiang, I will go with you."

Seeing the boy's promise, Ji Xiang smiled: "Tianyu, I don't want to use your curiosity to seduce you. I can guarantee that what you saw today is something you have hardly learned in books before. This will be your A valuable lesson.”

The two of them greeted the gatekeeper of the public school and got on the tram heading toward the port together. The entire journey was silent.

……

There were crowds of people on the hotel street. Jixiang held Gu Tianyu's hand and walked around on the road despite the occasional strange glances, until he arrived in front of a magnificent Western-style building.

Like a pot exploding, many people in ragged clothes and haggard looks on the street came forward, surrounded Ji Xiang and Gu Tianyu, and were talking in a flurry of words. Because it was too noisy, Gu Tianyu couldn't hear clearly. .

"I'm sorry, please give way. It's not going to solve the problem if everyone is crowded here."

Jixiang opened his hands and tried to dissuade him softly, but it was obviously to no avail. Until two big-bodied dog ring thugs pushed the crowd away, the fat manager wiped his neck with a handkerchief and trotted over: "Teacher Jixiang, you are finally back. I'm so sorry, dog." There's something going on here, come with me."

"This is my student. He came with me." Jixiang pointed at Gu Tianyu: "Let everyone line up first, I will see the doctor soon."

"Good good."

The manager nodded and bowed.

Ji Xiang took Gu Tianyu into the dog farm and took the escalator upstairs. Gu Tianyu watched the splendid hall with a blank expression, men and women drinking wine and chips, colorful chips and turntables sinking in the field of vision until they disappeared. It was a row of corridors, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant.

"You come into this room."

Jixiang pointed to a small house on the left. Gu Tianyu entered as he was told. There was only one group of seats and a huge glass curtain wall in the room. It was filled with large medical equipment that Gu Tianyu could not recognize, as well as many people wearing white clothes and hats with masks tightly covering their faces.

Lying on the hospital bed were various fighting dogs with varying degrees of injuries. What impressed Gu Tianyu the most was a brown dog whose breed he couldn't recognize. It was over a meter long and its thick forelimbs were full of explosive power. Even lying on the bed, it made people feel cold all over. Only one of the pitbull's eyes is left with a black skull, half of the skull is exposed, and a scarlet brain full of wrinkles can be seen. Next to the hospital bed is a half-covered helmet made in the shape of a pitbull's head, with a half-covered helmet on it. Stained with blood and other unknown bodily fluids.

Not long after, Jixiang also walked into the operating room behind the glass curtain wall. He could be easily identified from his tall figure and exposed blue skin. He quickly communicated with the people around him, then picked up the instruments and started the operation.

Gu Tianyu came closer. He wanted to see more clearly. The whole process lasted about forty minutes. He couldn't see much, but he still felt extremely shocked. The columnar lens organ, about five centimeters, Gu Tianyu guessed was a prosthetic implant to replace the eyeball, and there were tubes of injections of unknown colors. The curves and numbers that keep beating on the screen, the sharp-edged metal instruments and the joints of flesh and blood. Various surgical knives and suture needles are flying around on the high-end operating table...

Finally, the operation was over, and after the final electrocardiographic resuscitation was completed, the unknown brown dog's chest began to rise and fall. Jixiang walked out of the operating room, leaving the others to continue their work. After a brief cleaning, he came to the room where Gu Tianyu was.

"how do you feel?"

"It's very magical." Gu Tianyu thought about it for a moment and added dryly: "It's very magical."

"There are some basic textbooks in my office that I compiled myself. They introduce a few simple reconstructive surgeries and the surgical instruments used. Come with me and I will give them to you."

Gu Tianyu followed Ji Xiang to an antique office. The bookcases were filled with large atlases and medical information, and above were some philosophy books and a few fashionable novels. For example, the one with the bookmark on the top was "Lady Charles" by the rose writer Gustave.

"Do you also like reading novels?"

Jixiang is in the mood.

"I don't read much, and I usually have a lot of classes." Gu Tianyu pointed to the book "The Orphan" by Charlotte Bronte on the bookcase: "But my mother used to like reading this book very much. There is another copy now.”

Ji Xiang pushed up his lenses and shook his head: "I don't like "The Story of an Orphan". The author always emphasizes that people have good morals and self-esteem rather than beauty and wealth. This is completely self-deception! Morality and self-esteem are fundamental. It's not that practical. The ending of the novel is even more vulgar. The poor heroine gets a large inheritance and then goes to find his fallen lover Rochester to get back together. How do you convince the readers to accept this ending? Do people with morals do that? Are you favored by God? How ridiculous. Ahem."

Ji Xiang seemed to realize that his emotions were a little out of control, so he coughed to cover it up.

Gu Tianyu didn't answer. Ji Xiang's occasional complaints made him relax a lot. Unconsciously, his last bit of wariness about the unfamiliar environment had disappeared.

"The information is over there, you can read it yourself. I have to receive some patients."

"Are they the ones outside the dog park just now?"

"That's right. Most of them are homeless people in the countryside, coolie workers and helpless old people." Jixiang opened the drawer and took out the stethoscope: "Mr. Xiong, the owner of Yiyuan Dog Farm, is a graceful gentleman. He promised me to open The dog farm allows the poor to have a place to come to me for consultation, and also promised that I can give them some anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers that are due. The premise is that I have to complete my work first."

After a pause, Jixiang added: "So I have to cure the dogs in the dog farm first, and then go to treat these patients. Because these dogs have people to check out, but there are no people."

Gu Tianyu's eyes moved slightly and he said, "You are a good person, Teacher Jixiang."

Ji Xiang stretched out a finger and shook it at him: "I am a heavenly being, not a good person."

Gu Tianyu lowered his head and smiled, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

(End of this chapter)