The wife of the injured worker hesitated upon hearing this.
"Who do you think you are? Stop talking nonsense here." A middle-aged woman standing next to the injured worker’s wife mocked Luo Shu cynically. In her view, money was more important. At her home, the mother-in-law was in charge, and the compensation money could be used by the entire family. As for her husband’s brother, whether he was crippled or not was none of her concern.
Luo Shu did not pay attention to the middle-aged woman and still looked at the injured worker’s wife, "Think it over for yourself, he’s your man, and you’re going to spend your lives together."
"I... I want him to be cured." After a mental struggle, the injured worker’s wife made her choice for her man. Luo Shu was right, he was her man, and they were going to spend their lives together. Plus, they had several children to raise.
Luo Shu smiled and turned to the injured person’s father, "And you?"
"My son got his head injured by her husband, can you heal him too?" The injured man’s father was clearly skeptical. The doctors had told him that even if his son recovered, he would not be able to do any heavy labor in the future—in other words, he would be a cripple. So why shouldn’t he take the money? At least they could have a better life in the future.
"Yes!" Luo Shu nodded confidently.
"Dad, don’t believe her, the doctors said it can’t be cured, and she’s not a doctor." The old man’s eldest son glared disdainfully at Luo Shu and spoke disdainfully.
"Who says she isn’t a doctor? She saved all of our lives, she is Little Divine Doctor Luo Shu," Wei Xiao said coldly. These people valued money over life itself, it was just too much!
"What? She’s the Little Divine Doctor who saved all the people of Cloud City?" Everyone present looked at Luo Shu in surprise.
Many of them had been infected with the virus back then, and had it not been for the antidote developed by the Little Divine Doctor, they would have died long ago.
"Would I lie to you for any benefit?" Wei Xiao glared at the crowd.
"Little Divine Doctor! Thank you for saving our lives, I want to kowtow to you." The injured man’s mother looked at Luo Shu with gratitude, bending over to kneel. Back when she had been covered with sores and thought she was going to die, the village cadre had distributed the antidote, which saved her life and her family’s life as well.
Luo Shu extended her hand to prevent her from kneeling, "Please, this is a separate affair. Today I only need your answer, you want to save the person or take the money?"
The crowd exchanged glances and made up their minds immediately.
"We choose to save the person!"
"Us too!" If it had been someone else, they would have been uncompromising, but Luo Shu was the one who had saved them.
Luo Shu glanced at everyone and said to Wei Xiao, "Let’s go to the hospital first."
"What about my man?" The injured worker’s wife asked anxiously when she saw Luo Shu was leaving.
"You go home first, and we will come over later," Wei Xiao said to the injured worker’s wife, then followed Luo Shu.
When Luo Shu and Wei Xiao arrived at the hospital, the injured worker had already been transferred to a general ward. Since his family couldn’t afford the medical bills, the hospital couldn’t just throw him out, so they had to place him in a general ward temporarily, waiting for his family to come and take him home.
The ward was crowded, containing four beds.
Upon seeing Luo Shu and Wei Xiao enter, both patients and their families eyed them curiously, guessing who they might be related to. They couldn’t help it; both dressed and carried themselves in a way that didn’t seem as if they belonged there.
Approaching the bedside, Luo Shu reached out to check the injured worker’s pulse, then said to Wei Xiao, "Ask the nurse for some cotton and disinfectant alcohol."
"Okay!" Wei Xiao replied and walked out.
Before long, he returned with a tray in his hands. Following him was a young nurse with a slightly red face.
"I thought you might need some help, so I brought someone with me." Wei Xiao placed the tray on the table beside the bed. He felt embarrassed to refuse the young nurse’s good intentions.
Luo Shu smiled and took out the Silver Needle from her pocket, handing it to the young nurse, "Could you please help me sterilize this Silver Needle?"
"What are you going to do?" the young nurse asked, looking at Luo Shu with confusion. She felt that Luo Shu looked familiar but couldn’t remember where she had seen her.
"To treat a patient!" Luo Shu stated plainly.
"To treat a patient?" the young nurse said in astonishment, "Are you a doctor at this hospital?"
Luo Shu shook her head with a smile.
"Then what illness are you treating? The doctors in our hospital can handle the patients here." The young nurse frowned as she spoke. If it weren’t for that man’s good looks, she would have lost her temper already. What kind of nonsense was this? Who comes to a hospital to treat people? If something goes wrong, who would be responsible?
Wei Xiao glanced at Luo Shu somewhat awkwardly, regretting that he didn’t firmly refuse the offer in the first place.
"I know who she is!" a patient in the ward suddenly exclaimed with joy.
"You know her?" the person beside the patient asked with surprise.
"She is the Little Divine Doctor who solved the viral crisis."
"Right, right, right! No wonder she looked so familiar."
"Little Divine Doctor, could you take a look at my illness?" After recognizing Luo Shu, the patients and their families in the ward became excited. It was a rare opportunity indeed!
The young nurse looked at Luo Shu in shock, then, coming to her senses and blushing with apology, said, "I’m so sorry, Little Divine Doctor! I didn’t recognize you just now. Please don’t be angry with me." If Luo Shu were to get angry, she would surely be fired by the hospital.
Luo Shu smiled nonchalantly, "Can you please sterilize it now?" The other person hadn’t said anything wrong, there wasn’t anything for her to be upset about.
"Yes! Of course!" The young nurse hurriedly took the Silver Needle from Luo Shu’s hand and began to sterilize it with alcohol cotton.
Luo Shu took the sterilized Silver Needle and quickly inserted it into several acupoints on the injured worker’s head. The patient’s head had sustained a serious blow resulting in internal bruising, which needed to be cleared.
The commotion in the ward quickly attracted the attention of others in neighboring wards, and soon people began to gather at the entrance to watch.
After recognizing Luo Shu’s identity, the crowd became even more excited, almost wishing they could rush into the ward for her to treat them. After all, she was the Little Divine Doctor who had solved such a terrifying virus—what were their illnesses in comparison?
The hospital authorities also received the news very quickly, and hospital leaders and doctors all hurried over to this ward.
Soon, the hallway outside the ward was so crowded that it was packed tight.