TCM Gaoyuan

Chapter 410

Gao Yuan looked at Yan Xun and felt uncomfortable in his heart.However, in his fifties, he already has white hair, a haggard appearance, and deeply sunken cheeks, covered with criss-crossing wrinkles and lingering decadence.In just two years, Yan Xun's condition was not as good as that of an old man like him.

"Old...teacher?" Yan Xun stuttered. He tried his best to open his eyes wide, trying to see the person in front of him clearly, but he did not dare to open his eyes too wide because he was afraid that he would see wrongly.

"Alas..." Gao Yuan sighed deeply.

Hearing this familiar sigh, Yan Xun stood up quickly, but his skinny body could no longer stand upright and was always half-bent. He looked at Gao Yuan nervously, and then lowered his head in shame.

Gao Yuan asked him: "No one came to pick you up?"

Yan Xun did not dare to raise his head and shook his head slightly in shame.

Gao Yuan looked around and said, "Now you know what passing clouds are and the cycle of cause and effect. What you think is brilliant and blooming, but without the people as the cornerstone, it is even more illusory than the light screen of a movie."

"Woo..." Yan Xun burst into tears. He squatted on the ground and grabbed his hair in pain.

"Alas..." Gao Yuan sighed again, thinking of his past and present lives.In his previous life, he worked hard, but in the end he ended up in the palace for the second time, and his family was also implicated because of him.In this life, he worked hard to be the people's doctor, and that's how he got to where he is today.

Gao Yuan looked at Yan Xun and felt a little softer in his heart. He said: "It's also my fault that I was busy with various chores and neglected to discipline you. You made you forget your original intention in the tide of the times. This, I Teachers also have responsibilities.”

"Teacher, I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong." Yan Xun hugged Gao Yuan's thigh and burst into tears.

Gao Yuan felt even more uncomfortable and his eyes were moist.This is his eldest disciple, and the disciple who has been with him for the longest time.His expectations for Yan Xun were even higher than those of his own son.How could Gao Yuan not feel uncomfortable as he watched Yan Xun reach the point of no return step by step? His heart almost felt like a knife. He didn't know how many days and nights he blamed himself.

Caressing Yan Xun's head of white hair, Gao Yuan said distressedly: "Why are my hair so gray..."

Yan Xun cried for a while and then gradually stopped.

Gao Yuan didn't have a car, so he took Yan Xun and the package, and the two of them walked slowly outside.After walking a few kilometers to reach a populated area, Gao Yuan found a small restaurant on the roadside, ordered two bowls of noodles, and ate them with Yan Xun.

Gao Yuan asked Yan Xun: "What are your plans next?"

Yan Xun whispered: "No... I don't know."

Gao Yuan asked him again: "Are you looking for the child?"

Yan Xun was silent for a while and then said: "He doesn't want to talk to me anymore. He thinks it's embarrassing to have me as a father. I...I miss him very much, but I don't dare to go find him."

Gao Yuan looked outside the door and didn't know what to say for a moment.After a while, he said: "It has been so many years since your Uncle Li passed away. Have you ever visited him?"

Yan Xun said: "I...I don't dare to go."

Gao Yuan said: "To eat a bowl of noodles, let me take you to pay homage to your Uncle Li first."

Hearing this, Yan Xun nervously grabbed the chopsticks, and then timidly put them down.

……

The two set off again, took the bus, and then went to the bus station to transfer. It wasn't until the afternoon that they arrived at Li Shengli's grave.

Gao Yuan pulled the weeds in front of Li Shengli's grave, arranged several sacrifices, and said, "Let's pay our respects together."

The two bowed three times to Li Shengli's grave.

Gao Yuan looked at the blurry photo on the tombstone and said to Yan Xun: "Go to our clinic to help. There are many people coming to the clinic for treatment now, from all over the world. Just us old guys are a bit busy. Alright." Yan Xun turned around and looked at Gao Yuan blankly.

Gao Yuan also looked at him and said: "No father would give up on his children, just like no teacher would give up on his students."

Yan Xun's eyes suddenly turned red.

Gao Yuan said earnestly: "There are always many bumps and valleys in life, and you will gain wisdom only by going through them. This lesson is a bit profound for you, but you should keep it in mind. What you owe the local people, you have to pay it back yourself. .”

Yan Xun shook his head and said: "I am already a filthy person, and I can no longer harm your and Uncle Li's reputation."

Gao Yuan frowned.

Yan Xun said to Gao Yuan: "Don't worry, I will repay the debt I owe."

After saying that, Yan Xun knelt down and kowtowed three times to Gao Yuan seriously. He said, "I hope that one day, I will have the qualifications to call you 'teacher' again."

Yan Xun stood up, turned around, and walked down the mountain alone.

Gao Yuan watched Yan Xun's back go further and further away, until he could no longer see it, then he slowly looked back. He turned around, gently placed his hand on Li Shengli's tombstone, and two lines of tears slowly flowed down his face.

……

Later, Yan Xun returned to the county town and worked in someone else's small clinic.

Gao Yuan goes south several times every year and passes by the small clinic when riding in the car. However, Gao Yuan never goes in. He only takes a look at it from a distance through the car window every time.

In 2002, Gao Yuan went south again.But I saw that the small clinic was being inspected, with big caps coming in and out, and the clinic owner kept pleading.Her wife pointed at Yan Xun and yelled, and Yan Xun lowered his head in embarrassment and did not dare to say anything.

At that time, Gao Yuan passed by in the car and only saw this scene. He did not know the cause and effect.

After returning from his trip south, Gao Yuan went to inquire and found out that their clinic had been inspected due to incomplete licenses. Nowadays, the business area of ​​a traditional Chinese medicine clinic must not be less than 300 square meters, and the registered capital is very high. Without the strength, it is impossible to operate a regular traditional Chinese medicine clinic.

Obviously, this mom-and-pop clinic does not have much strength.The boss's wife scolded Yan Xun because she thought he was useless and couldn't find any useful connections, which made them unable to do anything even if they were investigated. She also said that Yan Xun was unwilling to make money for them, so he only knew how to prescribe cheap medicine.

When Gao Yuan arrived, Yan Xun had already left, and Gao Yuan didn't know where he went.At the end of the year, Gao Yuan received a letter from Wanjin Liang and learned that Yan Xun had gone to Huoxiang and opened a small Chinese medicine clinic in an abandoned cowshed.

After reading the letter, Gao Yuan could not let go for a long time, but in the end he could only sigh.Everything is fate, nothing is up to you.

During the Chinese New Year, Gao Yuan called Wanjin Liang and asked Wanjin Liang to deliver a bowl of dumplings to Yan Xun, who was practicing medicine in the cowshed, but he didn't let Wanjin Liang say it was him who sent it.

On February 2003, 2, Gao Yuan received a call from He Fang.

"Happy New Year, teacher. I have a question I want to ask you."

"Say." Gao Yuan responded.

He Fangdao: "A very strange pneumonia has appeared in a hospital here, and many medical staff have been infected by patients."

"Pneumonia?" Gao Yuan was slightly startled.

(End of this chapter)