As soon as this was said, the previously one-sided crowd began to show doubt. Those who had been speaking indifferently immediately asked, "Hey, that girl, what illness exactly did your father catch that he has to go to the capital for treatment? Hope you weren't cheated by some quack doctor."
There are quite a few barefoot doctors in each village, some of whom are hereditary Chinese medicine practitioners and truly not bad, while others are those who learned a few things at the local health clinic and then came back—they would prescribe painkillers for a stomachache or apply red medicine for an injury. The barefoot doctor from the Jishui Team next door is like that; when the pig of the production team had a difficult labor, they called him to have a look, and he ended up smearing the pig's rear with red medicine, earning him a good scolding when the vet finally arrived.
