chapter 100

The bulky men shouted one after another as they found out the trace of smallpox on Qingfeng’s face and body. They screamed loudly as if they were chased by a ghost with a terrifying look. They cried as hard as they could and stepped back into the yard, “OH BUDDHA! HELP! The scary disease was leaked!”

They trembled and shivered there, some of them even got their legs paralyzed collapsing on the ground. They were so frightened that they even forgot how to cry.

All of them were scared but none of them dared to get out of the house. Probably this group of ruffians still got their own consciences, they might know that it was a disease with high infectiousness and that they shouldn’t spread it by running around, thought Song Qinghan.

He didn’t figure out that the main reason the ruffians didn’t run away was that they got their legs feeble because of scare. And in addition, they were afraid that if their screams were heard by people from outside, they probably would be beaten to death.

Song Qinghan chuckled with pride there watching these ruffians mourning, and then he withdrew the smile on his face and said calmly, “Obey to my arrangement if you guys want to live. We’ve found the way to eliminate the disease.”

It seemed that there were fires of hope lit up all of a sudden in these bulky men’s eyes as they were informed something like that, they struggled to get them closer to Song Qinghan, begging, “SAVE US! Or we will kill you instead! NO, we will  suffer you till you die!”

Song Qinghan frowned with resignation as he saw that these ruffians were still being fierce, and then he responded indifferently, saying, “Well, getting the disease is indeed a suffering though, I can feel it right now myself without your execution. How dare you threatening me? Aren’t you afraid that I will leave you alone suffering in the rest of your life?”

The bulky men stared at each other, silent and dumbfounded, as if they didn’t expect that they would finally fail to threaten the other but be threatened instead.

However, at this crucial situation, they got no other ideas expect admitting their defeat towards Song Qinghan unless they were able to prove that the festered skins on Qingfeng’s body were fake, or that Song Qinghan actually didn’t get any idea or method to defeat the smallpox.

“Then, then what do you want us to do?” asked one of the ruffians.

“Stay tight with us in this house these days, I will start treating you as the man inside the room is going to recover.” Song Qinghan snorted, pointing at the other empty side room.

“And, we’ve prepared all the food ingredients here. You should bear the responsibility to cook for us. Remember! Inform us in advance as the meal is served. Otherwise…” warned Song Qinghan.

He squinted and glanced at all of them manecingly until every single bulky man lowered down their head with guilt.

Eyeing all the ruffians got into the side room one after another obediently, Song Qinghan clapped his hands and knocked on the door of the side room where the rest of people stayed, saying gently, “It’s fine now, come out now.”

But beyond his expectation, no one answered the door at all while there burst out an intense quarrel inside the room with some fierce sounds of crashing chairs and desks.

“We can’t let him in! He didn’t take any measures to protect himself when he entered the room where Qingfeng stays. What if he was infected?”

Pausing, Song Qinghan could figure out that it was the voice from the servant.

“Then let me out! I want to stay with my Master!” shouted Yuan Wenxuan.

Probably he was just physically fighting with the servant right now because he got a trembling tone with rage.

“You nasty young boy! Go out and die!” roared the servant.

And as the servant finished the last bit of his words, the door opened with a creaking sound. And then Yuan Wenxuan was evicted being kicked on the butt.

Through the gap in the door, Song Qinghan could clearly see the resignation shown on Doctor Shi’ face. Then he knew this must be the decision made by the servant’s own. And then he just nodded to Doctor Shi, motioning that everything would be fine.

Yuan Wenxuan grabbed the corner of Song Qinghan’s shirt and frowned, saying, “Master, are you alright? Don’t mind the words of that guy. I believe that Qingfeng is going to be fine.”

Song Qinghan caressed Yuan Wenxuan on the head, consoling, “I’m fine. It’s kind of late now, we should take a rest now.”

Yuan Wenxuan nodded obediently, and then went to rearrange the remaining empty rooms.

The next morning, Song Qinghan surprisingly found that those ruffians did serve them with breakfast while all of them were waiting there.

Song Qinghan didn’t feel any guilty at all. He took a bowl and dispensed some for Qingfeng and then he ate all the dishes on the table together with Yuan Wenxuan.

Soon, there came a sound from the room where Doctor Shi stayed, and three masked men with facial masks and gloves walked out from it.

The servant roared as he saw Song Qinghan and Yuan Wenxuan were binge-eating by their own, “We bought this food ingredients! How dare you!?”

Doctor Shi finally jumped out, he stretched forth his arms to stop the servant, warning, “Don’t you be a rude savage! Apologize to Doctor Song and Yuan Wenxuan!”

Since the servant had argued with Yuan Wenxuan for Doctor Shi yesterday, he had been in a bad mood. And now he just saw that Doctor Shi showed partiality for Song Qinghan, he got his eyes red-rimmed all of a sudden and rushed back the room, feeling wronged.

Doctor Shi sighed with a resignation while melancholy lingered around his eyebrows.

He had always pampered the servant for a long time, which made him be so capricious and act in unruliness. He couldn’t just let it be.

He took off his mask and gloves, and then made a bow with hands folded in front to Song Qinghan, saying sincerely, “It’s all my fault for the unruly child. Please, don’t mind that, Doctor Song.”

Xia Yunfei couldn’t understand what was going on with them. He obediently took off his mask and gloves as Doctor Shi did. He took a deep breath when he took a glance at those ruffians in a line. He still chose to trust Song Qinghan and exposed himself under such an environment.

Song Qinghan smiled slightly, reached out to support Doctor Shi by his shoulder, and then said in calmness, “It’s fine. Child is always a child. They are all eager to excel and love to argue for something. He should be fine as he grows up.”

Doctor Shi relaxed his shoulder and heaved a sighed with relief since Song Qinghan was being so generous, and then he nodded with another resignation, saying, “AH, I hope so.”

Xia Yunfei made three more breakfasts, delivered one to the door of the room where the servant stayed.

While they were having breakfast, Song Qinghan had gone to the room where Qingfeng stayed and was absorbed in observing updated situation on Qingfeng’s skin. He was rather surprised to find that the rashes on Qingfeng’s skin tended to get smaller.

Qingfeng found out the relaxing expression on Song Qinghan’s face, he seemed to guess something, and then he asked in excitement, “Doctor, am I going to recover? Am I going to get rid of this nightmare?!”

Song Qinghan didn’t say anything with full assurance but delivered Qingfeng an optimistic signal. He smiled slightly and answered, “It’s a good sign, if this situation keeps its momentum, it will be quite promising for you to recover soon.”

Those bulky men stuck to the door while listening carefully to Song Qinghan’s utterance. And when they heard something like “Promising” Song Qinghan mentioned, they broke in without permission, hustling, “Doctor, doctor! You need to treat us too.”

Song Qinghan raised his eyebrows and said calmly, “For really? To treat you guys?”

The bulky men then looked at each other and whispered there in a distance, “Maybe we should wait! What if we didn’t even get infected?”

“You donkey! How can we be exempted from the disease as we just stay with them?”

“Exactly, we should take the treatment as soon as possible. It will be so scary to get our body full of rashes…”

“BUT! We have to make sure whether we got the disease or not! It will be more dangerous to get us treated if we don’t get the disease at all.”

“…”

Seeing that they had been arguing for a long time, Song Qinghan stood up calmly and said, “Get out of the way, I will get myself treated first.”

Since the pus vaccination did really work, Song Qinghan wouldn’t choose to waste any time now. It took quite a long while for the antigens entering human body and the body producing antibodies, after all.

Xia Yunfei stretched forth his arms without hesitation in front of Song Qinghan when he noticed that he was required again.

After disinfecting everything, Song Qinghan took a pause and then placed the scalpel into Yuan Wenxuan’s hands as if something occurred to him all of a sudden, he said calmly, “Come one, you do it.”

Doctor Shi was utterly shocked when he saw that Song Qinghan was about to get himself another experiment, but then he approached and dissuaded when Song Qinghan ordered Yuan Wenxuan to manipulate it, “Do it yourself, or I will take it. He is just an eight-year-old child, he can’t even hold the scalpel tight!”

Hesitation showed on Yuan Wenxuan’s face, he didn’t know what to do since Doctor Shi said so.

Song Qinghan smiled and explained patiently, “There are quite a lot people in the Moshang Town ready to get such an operation. I’m afraid that we can’t make all operation only by our two within three days. So Wenxuan should get involved too. And we should also get these ruffians involved since we’ve got the labor for free.”

Song Qinghan actually wouldn’t keep these ruffians stayed if he didn’t think that they could give a hand.

Hearing that, Yuan Wenxuan recalled the day he made a first try on that rabbit and the fact that his old playmate was still suffering from an unknown disease. He then got a decisive look and grabbed the scalpel tightly in his hands, “Master, Doctor Shi, I can make it, let me do it.”

Doctor Shi was actually persuaded by Song Qinghan, but he was still worried, more or less. Yet all the worries lingering in his mind turned into a surprise when he saw that Yuan Wenxuan got quite a smooth movement on that operation.

How could such a boy imitate the movements of Song Qinghan completely without mistake?

Song Qinghan was also surprised when he saw the wound cut by Yuan Wenxuan on his hand.

Well, this disciple was a real talent for the operation too!

On the other hand, Yuan Wenxuan seemed to have completely absorbed into the operation while his gaze was fixed on it just like Song Qinghan did when he was operating, calm and peaceful. In a rather smooth and quick move, he applied the pus extruded from Xia Yunfei on Song Qinghan’s skin, and then put down the scalpel and commenced wrapping with a clean gauze.

After that, he was a bit dazed standing there while looking at Song Qinghan, he asked, “Master… Have I, have I finished it yet?”

Song Qinghan coughed slightly and then answered peacefully, “Are you going to place the scalpel right there just like that? Nothing is done before everything is packed up neatly!”

Yuan Wenxuan’s face reddened when he was informed like that, and then he commenced gathering every tool up.

Song Qinghan nodded with satisfaction.