There is a remote mountain village in Xinghe Town, Xijiang County, known as Spoon Handle Village. There is only a ten-mile-long winding path leading to the outside of the village, and the whole village is three or four times the size of other villages, but there are only about 200 families and more than 1,000 people.

Gao Jinbang, a barefoot doctor, lives in the village of Spoon Handle.

Gao Jin Bang, this is a very bookish name, this name was taken by Gao Jin Bang's father, counting on the title of Gao Jin Bang, soaring. It's a pity that he was extremely short-lived, and when Gao Jinbang was seven years old, he climbed a mountain to dig medicinal herbs and fell to his death.

Gao Jinbang's mother dragged Gao Jinbang to the age of thirteen, and she also died of illness.

Gao Jinbang, who became an orphan, naturally couldn't continue to go to school, and dropped out of school after a week of junior high school, and studied medicine under the only barefoot doctor in the village, Lao Sun Tou.

I don't know if Gao Jinbang is hard-hitting, and the old grandson became Gao Jinbang's master for less than three months, he drank and fell into the gutter and suffocated to death.

The village of spoon handles, which has more than 200 households, is too far away from the outside world, and it is very much in need of a doctor. As a result, Gao Jinbang, who only learned a little bit of medical skills, became a barefoot doctor in Spoon Handle Village.

At this time, Gao Jinbang had just turned fourteen years old.

If you are underage, you can't be a doctor. However, in the far away place of Emperor Gao, there is not so much attention. The villagers come to see the doctor on weekdays, and it is not a serious illness, headache and brain fever or something, and Gao Jinbang can also be cured if he ponders and ponders.

With the passage of time, ten years have passed, Gao Jinbang has continued to learn while practicing medicine, and now he is a very good barefoot doctor, and he can treat any minor headache and brain fever among the villagers.

After all, the place is remote and there are few patients, and just a few medical fees cannot completely solve the livelihood. And Gao Jinbang often gives people free treatment.

In his spare time, Gao Jinbang also grows a few vegetable plots of his own, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers and so on.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, after watering the cabbage, Gao Jinbang rode his second-hand motorcycle to Grandma Niu's house in the east of the village. Grandma Niu is a lonely old woman, now in her eighties, and she is sick in bed.

There are three or four miles of mountain roads to walk.

The road is difficult, there are potholes everywhere, and the motorcycle can only be ridden slowly. It took half an hour to get to Grandma Niu's house.

It was dark in the house. It was almost evening, and the house was low and there was not enough light.

"Grandma Niu. Gao Jinbang called out and sat down in front of the bed.

"Doctor Gao, you're here. Grandma Niu struggled to sit up, but she didn't have any strength.

Gao Jinbang practiced medicine at the age of fourteen, and Grandma Niu was used to calling him a little doctor, so even if Gao Jinbang became an adult, Grandma Niu did not change her words. Compared with Grandma Niu's age, Gao Jinbang is indeed small.

After listening to his heartbeat and taking his temperature, Gao Jinbang sighed. Grandma Niu's illness is really because she is old and her vitality is exhausted, and it seems that it is only in this day or two.

"Doctor Gao, am I dying?"

"Grandma Niu, don't think nonsense, take care of your body. ”

"You don't have to lie to me. Birth, old age, sickness and death, grandma I can think of it. Doctor Gao, go and bring the flower cloth bag in the cupboard. ”

Gao Jinbang opened the cabinet according to Grandma Niu's instructions and found the flower cloth bag.

"Open. Grandma Niu gasped.

Gao Jinbang opened the flower cloth bag. He was a little curious, this flower cloth bag was wrapped in three layers inside and three layers outside, which was obviously an extremely important thing. Grandma Niu, a lonely old woman, what else is important?

The flower cloth bag is opened, and it is an antique small tripod.

"Doctor Gao, I'm about to die, you take this thing. I don't know what it is, but it's been passed down from generation to generation, so it's supposed to be a good thing. ”

"Grandma Niu, how can I ask for your things. ”

"Doctor Gao, you must take it. You often give me free medical treatment, Grandma and I are alone, and I can't bring this thing into the coffin. You accepted this thing, and Grandma felt better. ”

Gao Jinbang was about to resign, but Grandma Niu was angry and kept coughing. Gao Jinbang was afraid that something would happen to her, so he hurriedly accepted this Xiaoding.

After giving Grandma Niu a drip, seeing that she was asleep, Gao Jinbang came out and found Grandma Niu's neighbor Tian Cuihua.

"Aunt Cuihua, be vigilant, Grandma Niu is estimated to be in the past one or two days. ”

Cuihua nodded, and her eyes immediately turned red.

Grandma Niu is a five-guarantee household, and her future affairs will be handled in the village, so naturally she doesn't need to worry about Gao Jinbang.

Riding a motorcycle, I found a person at the door, who was Li Yishan, the principal of the village primary school.

"Doctor Gao, please. When Li Yishan saw Gao Jinbang coming back, he stepped forward and said, "The school is going to have a substitute teacher, can you help me pick it up in the town tomorrow, you have a motorcycle in the village." ”

"Good. Gao Jinbang said happily, "Principal Li, the school has finally come to the teacher." ”

"Yes. Looking forward to the stars and the moon, finally looking forward to it. Li Yishan was a little excited, "Doctor Gao, the substitute teacher is from the city, his name is Tang Yanran, twenty-one or twelve years old. ”

"Woman, or is it from the city?" Gao Jinbang thought in his heart, the conditions in the village were poor, and the substitute teachers who came in the past couldn't last a month before leaving. The female substitute teacher in the city can stay here for a few more days.

Li Yishan knew what Gao Jinbang meant, and sighed and said: "This time, no matter what, if you want to keep people, the children need a teacher too much." ”

The situation in the school, the high gold list is clear. There are more than 130 students in six grades, but there are only four teachers, Li Yishan, Niu Minghua, Tu Yongqiang, and Ouyang Lan.

Except for Li Yishan, the others are all village-hired substitute teachers without establishment......

Early in the morning, Gao Jinbang collected some vegetables and tied them up in a burlap bag and put them on the butt of the motorcycle.

Although this second-hand motorcycle sells a little differently, it is easier to drive than a new car and has enough horsepower under the service of Gao Jinbang.

The road in Spoon Handle Village is really not easy to walk, and it is bumpy all the way.

After walking through the dirt road of Spoon Handle Village, I got on the cement road. In the past two years, the construction speed of Xinghe Town has been very fast, except for a few remote villages such as Spoon Handle Village, other villages have built cement roads.

"When will our village be able to build cement roads?" Gao Jinbang thought to himself, feeling that this was really a good wish. In fact, there is already a rumor in the town, and a special amount of money has been allocated to the village to repair the road, but the village has to raise half of the funds by itself, and it is this half of the funds that stumped the village, and the villagers are begging for a living on the ground, and they can't save a few dollars after a year of hard work.

When he arrived in Xinghe Town, it was already dawn, and Gao Jinbang was worried that the teacher in the city would be late, so he gave the food to a vegetable vendor cheaply, and the vegetable vendor suddenly smiled.

Then, Gao Jinbang came to the bus station along Zhenxi Road, and the shuttle bus from the county seat to Xinghe Town made four trips a day, twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon.

I only know that the teacher from the city is called Tang Yanran, and I don't know what he looks like, Gao Jinbang can only distinguish it by feeling when he sees the shuttle bus coming.

On the shuttle bus at eight o'clock, Gao Jinbang stretched his neck and looked, he didn't find one that looked like Teacher Tang, so he waited patiently for the next one.

The next one was the one at eleven o'clock. There were still three hours left, and Gao Jinbang leaned over to watch a few people play cards.

Those who play cards are all picking up customers at the bus station to do motorcycle or kidnapping business. During the New Year's holidays, Gao Jinbang will also do motorcycle business at the bus station, and he is familiar with these people.

"Gao Jinbang, do you want to fight a few?"

Gao Jinbang shook his head.

"Blind, you don't know Gao Jinbang, smoke, drink, drink, gamble, a good young man. ”

"Gao Jinbang, then what are you doing with your money?"

"Gao Jinbang, your medical skills are so good, if you go to the town to open a clinic and keep it for a fortune, why do you want cats in that place where rabbits don't poop?"

Several people are old acquaintances with Gao Jinbang, and there are not so many taboos when talking, Gao Jinbang responded with a smile: "Everyone has their own pursuits, and it is because of the inconvenience of transportation that Spoon Handle Village needs a doctor more." Not only do we need doctors, but we also need teachers in the village, and I'm here to pick them up today. ”