I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 400 Questions and Answers

An amputation operation in the consulting room ended amid the excited shouts of the audience,
The doctor with more blood on his clothes took the veil handed over by Little Gerrit and wiped the blood from his hands.

The patient who needed to be amputated had already passed out at this time, and the wood he was biting in his mouth fell out a little and hung to the side,
The doctor pulled it off and threw it aside.

"Okay, take it back."

The doctor shouted to the peasant woman waiting nervously outside the clinic,

The peasant woman walked in timidly, seeing that her husband had been amputated, and scorched the broken leg with a branding iron to stop the bleeding.

The peasant woman's hands trembled a little, trying to support her husband,

It's just that my hands are not strong enough, but I can't hold them. After pulling and pulling a few times, I only dragged my husband off the operating chair a little bit, but his whole body was still on the operating chair.

The audience next to them watched the excitement and booed excitedly. The doctor wiped his hands and watched the peasant woman dragging her husband, frowning tightly.

The peasant woman just buried her head lower and tried harder, trying to pull her husband up and leave here.

In the end, it was little Gerrit who stepped forward to help.

"I'll help you."

Little Gerrit stepped forward and said aloud.

"You, where are you strong enough?"

The peasant woman raised her head and took a careful look at little Gerrit.

Little Gerrit was still a half-grown child.

Little Gerrit didn't speak any more, just reached out to help the peasant woman to help the old farmer.

The peasant woman didn't speak any more, and stretched out her hand to tug on her husband.

Even though little Gerrit was not strong enough, there was no one else here to help her, unless the doctor thought it would delay his next operation and threw them out.

Little Gerrit and the peasant woman pulled the old farmer who had just had a leg amputation up from the operating chair,

With great effort, he brought the old farmer to the side of the road outside the clinic door,

Throughout the whole process, those audiences who gave tickets were booing,
Some mocked and laughed, laughing loudly, as if seeing something funny,

Some exaggerated, shouted some inexplicable words of encouragement, and laughed along with them.

The doctor who was frowning before also looked at it with a smile.

"... let's stop here, thank you... thank you..."

Just brought the old farmer and the farmer woman outside the consulting room, and little Gerrit was already so tired that he couldn't stop panting heavily.
The peasant woman took her husband out of the consultation room, and seemed to feel a lot more relieved.

She hugged her husband, squatted on the side of the road, and let her husband lie on the side of the road, leaning on her feet.

He raised his head and said to Little Gerrit panting heavily.

Little Gerrit looked at the old couple silently and didn't speak any more.

He really didn't have any more strength, sweat rolled down his forehead, and his hands were trembling.

"sorry."

Little Gerrit apologized to the peasant woman.

The peasant woman raised her head and looked at little Gerrit suspiciously,

She didn't know why little Gerrit wanted to apologize to her.

"You shouldn't have apologized to me."

"Thank you."

The peasant woman said to little Gerrit again.

Little Gerrit nodded silently, then turned around and returned to the consulting room with his head buried.

"...Hurry up...don't waste time!"

"Quick, let's start the next operation!"

"Amputation, amputation!"

The operation performed by the husband of the peasant woman just now was just one of the operations in the consulting room this afternoon.

After an operation, the audience who gave the tickets began to urge again,
No one is going to take care of the old couple at the door of the consulting room.

The doctor greeted and brought up the next patient who needed treatment.

Only little Gerrit turned his head to look outside the clinic door from time to time. The old couple on the side of the road,
It's just that the consulting room was crowded with people, and the old couple couldn't be seen from time to time.

Finally, the peasant woman squatting on the ground, supporting her husband,
In the end, it was probably her child, or some other acquaintance who came,

Together with the peasant woman, he left with the old farmer who had undergone the operation.

And even when he left, it seemed that the fainted old farmer hadn't woken up yet.

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"...doctor, what if the patient's money is not enough to pay for the treatment?"

"Then maybe they can be more interesting and see if the audience pays for them."

Today's several after-school treatments and amputations have ended, and the audience is already leaving,

The doctor wiped the blood from his face, and Little Gerrit was beside him, who had been silent for a long time, and asked suddenly,
The doctor turned his head and replied to Little Gerrit in a somewhat pompous manner.

"What if the audience doesn't want to pay for them, are they going to die like this?"

"Of course, this is all because of their impiety. I am a devout believer of the Lord, and I am a devout doctor of the Lord. Any devout believer will be favored by God and will receive my treatment."

"Damn it, little Gerrit, you don't want me to heal the ungodly, the blasphemer, do you?"

The doctor said more exaggeratedly, as if he wanted to get the laughter of the people around him,
But little Gerrit didn't laugh, but remained silent.

"God's favor?"

"Yes, God's favor. As long as the believers are devout enough, the Lord will guide them. How could they not get treatment?"

"That is to say, those who have money are devout believers, and those who have no money are blasphemers and impious? So they can't get treatment?"

Little Gerrit spoke very seriously, and asked very seriously,

But the doctor's face became ugly.

"Little Gerrit, what nonsense are you talking about! Those who get my treatment are devout believers! Those who don't get treatment are disloyal people who have been abandoned by the Lord. Bewitched to invade!"

"God will take care of every devout believer!"

Little Gerrit was not as angry as the doctor, he just continued to ask seriously,

"Then doctor, can all the people you treat be treated?"

"Of course not, some people don't have enough piety, and my treatment will lose its effect."

"Some people have reached the time to return to the kingdom of heaven. The Lord is waiting and calling them to return, but they are unwilling to stay any longer."

"Then doctor, what kind of person is not pious enough, what kind of person is going to return to the kingdom of heaven because of the call of the Lord?"

"Why do you have so many questions!"

"Doctor, you said that those who are treated by you are favored by God and are devout believers, but those who are not treated well, why are they impious?"

"That's because of God's grace, that's because they are not devout enough! Enough! This is your wages for today, hurry up and leave!"

"Don't come here again! I doubt your devotion to the Lord!"

Little Gerrit was not offended at the doctor's expulsion,
Just with answers to some questions already answered, and more doubts,

Some remained silent, took today's wages, buried their heads, walked out of the consulting room step by step, and then left step by step.

And when little Gerrit was about to walk out of town again,
But he saw his father Hoss again.

"Little Gerrit, let's go. Let's go back."

"I see you, you haven't come back yet."

Father Hoss was still wearing the clothes he probably left in the farmland,
His body was covered with dried mud and rotten grass seeds and leaves from the farmland,
Probably because little Gerrit is a bit late today and hasn't arrived in the village yet,
Father Huss hurried to the town to pick up little Gerrit without changing his clothes.

"Well...Father, I seem to understand something and want to understand something."

Looking at his father Hoss, Little Gerrit said this.

"Really, that's great. When you really understand everything, go tell Milia."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)