Chapter 9: A ray of moonlight
Before I knew it, we had been on the island for almost a month and my foot injury was completely healed, but I still lied to the old captain that my foot was still a little sore because I really didn't want to leave Dr. Lowe.
Every night when I played the piano to the moon, he would hunch over, carefully bring me a bowl of steaming herbal soup, put it next to me, and then quickly put his hand to his mouth and blew it, looking like a child. The herbal soup is very unpalatable, but it is indeed a good medicine carefully prepared by Dr. Luo to dispel wind and cold, and he casually said that the temperature difference between day and night on this island is too large, and the people in the village do not pay attention to hygiene, and it is easy to be infected with the plague. When I heard the plague, I jerked my head up and locked my eyes on him, and he seemed to have said something, so he didn't say anything.
I like to be with Dr. Lo, if the old captain is like my elder, Dr. Lowe is more like my friend, willing to listen to my own story in my own words, he will laugh and sarcastic, but he will also give me advice when I am not doing it right. I think I'm really lucky, I should have ended my life a long time ago, but then I met so many people who loved me, I think my biological parents are just like that.
"If one day I go ashore, I will study medicine hard, live up to your expectations, and be a good doctor." I smiled in the bright moonlight and said to Dr. Lo, who was standing beside me.
"You better accompany the old captain first, don't look at him as if he usually doesn't need anyone, but he needs you." Dr. Lowe hugged his shoulders and shivered with cold.
"Of course I do." I rushed to answer. I found out that I was originally a child, not just in front of the old captain.
Once again, I thought of living here, but when I remembered the old captain's back, I had to sigh silently and say to myself, "You still belong to the ocean." ”
A few days later, Dr. Luo's nephew returned from the big city, and it is said that his brother went with him to go to school, but then he came back and his brother stayed in the city.
After we met and got to know each other, I finally had a chance to listen to Dr. Lowe's story in the city, so I pulled him aside.
"Why did Dr. Lowe come back?" I asked him.
"Uncle, he can't stand the medical environment in a big city, and he is not used to the people there."
"What kind of medical setting?"
"Ugh." He glanced back at Dr. Luo to make sure that he was reading carefully and did not hear us speak, and then said: "My uncle firmly believes that hanging pots will help the world, and he is not used to seeing the expensive medical expenses, and the common people cannot afford to see the sick, so he is anxious, so he came back in a fit of anger." ”
"Oh, it doesn't seem to be the same as the people in the village say."
"What do they say?"
"They said your uncle was mixed up badly." I replied.
"My uncle is not a good mix?" His voice was an octave higher, and immediately after speaking, he looked at Dr. Luo in the room again to make sure he didn't hear: "My uncle is a recognized medical genius in the school, and he was determined to be retained by the school as a teacher before he graduated, and he became a professor in less than a year, and he diagnosed people in his spare time, and the money he earned had no problem taking the whole village over!" ”
I didn't know what to say, I also glanced back at Dr. Luo, who was sitting at his desk frowning and reading, and sure enough, excellent people are different.
Dr. Luo's nephew is now the attending physician in the big city, and he still relies on some of the fur that Dr. Luo taught him, and this time he came back, that is, the wedding date is approaching, and he invited Dr. Luo to the city to attend his wedding. But Dr. Lok politely refused, saying that he did not want to set foot in the big city again, but I knew that he did not want the villagers to be left untreated.
"I don't want them to go into such a complicated life, and I don't want our children and grandchildren to be like that." When Dr. Lowe learned that I knew this, he sat beside me and looked at the moon and said slowly.
"I understand, I also have a friend who gave up life in the big city and came back to the village, and I asked him why, and he said because the moon is very round here." I smiled and looked into Dr. Lowe's eyes, only to feel my eyes moisten involuntarily.
"Really? I thought I was the only one who was so special. Dr. Lowe laughed too. The mist of the mountains was hidden by the twinkling stars, and the night wrapped us tightly in them.
Dr. Lowe's nephew left in a few days, and I dropped him off on the boat before parting. "Is it okay for you to go back by yourself?" I asked him.
"Hey, I'll do it myself." "Our whole village knows how to get to the city and where we live," he laughs. ”
"Well, you'd better be careful."
"Well, I know, and thank you for being by my uncle's side." He paused and said, "I haven't seen him so happy in a long time." ”
He glanced at me, then opened his mouth and said, "Actually, there is another reason why my uncle came back, that is, because a villager was sick with the plague and did not dare to tell his family, so he ran to my house to find my uncle. ”
"So... That's why he came back for treatment? ”
"Well, he drank a lot of preventive medicine when he left, and told us that it would be fine, alas, but a lot of people in the village died when I went back to the village this time." He lowered his head, pursed his lips, raised his head again, and said to me, "I'm gone, take good care of my uncle." ”
I watched him disappear beyond the horizon, and then thought of what Uncle Luo Yi said, 'Only heals people, not hearts...' Presumably he was fed up with the rumors and didn't want to explain, obviously he saved a lot of villagers, but he was treated as a plague god, "Alas." I couldn't help but sigh and slowly walked back to Dr. Luo's house.
Dr. Lowe sat at his desk frowning and reading as usual, and I walked over and helped him put his coat on his body.
"Send him away?" He asked me.
I let out an "um" and tried to tell him what his nephew had said before leaving, but I couldn't.
At night, I still sat next to the house facing the moon, but I didn't play the guitar this time, and my mind was full of Dr. Luo's affairs, I didn't want him to be criticized by the villagers for these things, I wanted them to know who was the one who really saved them and was really good to them.
"What do you think?" Dr. Lo placed the herbal soup next to me, pushed his eyes down, and looked up at the bright moon.
"It's nothing, Uncle Luo has thought about going back to the city?" I looked up and asked him.
"Why do you ask?" He sat down and said slowly, "If I wanted to go, I wouldn't come back." ”
"What's so bad about big cities? Can't forget this small mountain village? ”
"I can't say that there's anything wrong with it, it's just that I'm not suitable there, some people are destined to be only suitable for fixed places, such as the old captain is destined to be suitable for the sea, and I am destined to be suitable for my hometown."
"But the people in your hometown are so kind to you—" I looked at Dr. Luo's face, and didn't say the following words.
"Haha," he smiled heartily, as if to silence the whole valley, "Didn't I say that I'm just a doctor, saving people and curing diseases, that's all." ”