“Hey! This slingshot is not half bad! Did
your grandpa make it for you?” When Zhang Lihu saw the slingshot in her hands,
he shoved the hare into Gu Ming’s hands and took the slingshot from her. He
stretched it out a few times and felt that its elasticity was even better than
his.
Gu Ye had taken apart a metal alloy sling
shot and replaced the handle with a wooden one. Naturally the high-quality
rubber band had much better elasticity than that of Zhang Lihu’s. No wonder
Lihu didn’t want to put it down.
Gu Ming and Gu Ye didn’t want to hold
Zhang Lihu and his father back so they parted ways quickly. The two of them
headed toward their traps to check. The dried grass on top was it had collapsed
from the weight of the snow and it was empty inside.
Even though there were nothing in their
traps, the two siblings didn’t exactly return empty-handed. Gu Ye shot one
pheasant and three birds with her slingshot. Her incredible precision with her
slingshot made Gu Ming envious and kept asking her to teach him how to use a
slingshot.
“Gu Ye, was the old man that you saved
really a reputable doctor? I heard that he was the one who treated and cured
your grandpa’s leg?” asked Mrs. Wu with a smile as she walked up to the
siblings when they returned to the village carrying with them their catches.
A hint of greed and envy flashed passed
Mrs. Wu’s eyes when she saw the pheasant in Gu Ye’s hand. But, even though a
pheasant was important, the assignment given to her by her husband was even
more important.
“Whether my master is a doctor, or
whether he’s an incredible doctor does not concern you.” Gu Ye did not like
this Mrs. Wu a bit. Her shamelessness was astonishing. All she thought about
all day long was how to take advantage of others.
“Master? The doctor took you as his
disciple? Why her? She is still just a child!” Mrs. Wu was very alarmed by what
she had just learned. She didn’t want more competition for her husband!
Her original intention was to find out
when the skillful doctor was going to leave town. There were about thirty or so
households in Qingshan Village and, every winter, a lot of them would get sick
and that’s Mr. and Mrs. Wu’s main source of income.
Early that morning Wu Danggui ran into
the crippled Fifth Gu and noticed that the condition of his leg had improved
greatly. He didn’t even need to use a cane when walking in the snow. Slightly
disturbed, he went up and asked and found out it was the man that Gu Ye saved
from the mountain who had cured him. He was immediately alarmed: If that old
doctor were to stay in his village for the entire winter, what would he live
off of in the coming year?
That’s why Mrs. Wu waited for almost two
hours in the cold weather for the two siblings to return. But the first new
that she found out was the damned child Gu Ye had become the old man’s disciple
to train to become a doctor. The old man was just staying at Fifth Gu’s house
while recovering from his injury; he had got to leave one day. But if this brat
learned his skills, their business would be ruined.
“I have never heard of a woman becoming a
doctor. Think about it, there are lots of bodily contact when you examine a
patient. You are a girl, if words got out that you touch men’s hands and bodies
day in and day out, who’d want to marry you? Gu Ye-er, I only have your best
interest in mind. This is not a good path for you!”
Mrs. Wu figured that bringing up concerns
about her future marriage would be enough to deter this timid girl from wanting
to become a doctor.
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