Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Opening
After dinner, Gu Ling'er carried the things that had been prepared long ago, a small dilapidated table, two small chairs, her own set of medical tools, and a wooden plaque with "Gu's Clinic" written in calligraphy, and slowly walked out of the house.
Tonight is the first day of the opening of her "Gu's Outpatient Clinic", and Gu Ling'er must go over early to set up the booth and give herself a good start.
After a stick of incense, Gu Ling'er came to a wide open space on the side of the road at the entrance of the village. Since it is a transportation fortress for the whole village, it is a necessary route for people to come and go in and out of the village. Therefore, Gu Linger chose her stall here.
The disc-like moon hangs high in the night sky, like a huge pearl inlaid on an endless black cloth.
The soft moonlight gently sprinkled on the ground through the mottled branches, as if spreading a faint layer of silver frost on the earth.
Although it was night, it seemed like day, Gu Ling'er's mood suddenly improved.
If there is no moonlight on weekdays, it is a black oppression, and you can't see your fingers. Even if the people in the village pass by here at night, they will inevitably be a little frightened.
However, tonight's moonlight is surprisingly bright, as if Chang'e in the Moon Palace in the sky knows all kinds of things in the world, and knows that there is a girl in the world who has suffered a lot and is still strong, and she will deliberately light up the lights on the moon a little bit tonight.
Gu Ling'er glanced at the moonlight, her pink lips were slightly raised, and a smile couldn't help but appear on her delicate little face.
When everything was ready, Gu Ling'er sat on a chair and waited for the patients who came to see her.
Gu Ling'er used the method of counting numbers, counting them one by one. By the time she counted to three thousand six hundred, half an hour had passed, and there was not a single figure to be seen.
If it was this time in the past, the uncles and aunts in the village would come out to sit down after dinner and pull out how this year's harvest was, the rise and fall of grain prices and the level of prices, how would the lives of the common people be? Or they will say that whoever is next door has a girl to whom, and who is angry has even divorced her heart.
But tonight, for some reason, it doesn't rain, my mother doesn't marry, but now I don't see a single figure? What a hell of a life.
The days of waiting are not easy, and Gu Ling'er is running out of patience. At this moment, if she could, Gu Ling'er would rather drag her injured leg and endure the piercing pain to climb the mountain to collect medicine than continue to wait here.
It's just that tonight is the first night of Gu Ling'er's outpatient clinic, and in order to be auspicious, she has to wait, no matter how late she is!
At this moment, Gu Ling'er suddenly remembered one of her classmates who sold insurance in her previous life.
Gu Ling'er clearly remembers that when her classmate entered the insurance company, there was a three-month probationary period. This means that if you can sell an insurance policy within three months of the probationary period, you will be considered to have passed the probationary period, if you have not sold a single policy. Then I'm sorry, roll up and leave.
And Gu Ling'er's classmate is the very unlucky girl. So, three months later, in order to keep this job, she could only swallow her broken teeth into her stomach, save money, and scrape together 3,000 yuan with her classmates to buy an insurance policy in her own name. In this way, her job was saved.
But what Gu Ling'er didn't expect was that since her classmate bought an insurance policy for herself in her own name, her work was particularly smooth, and her performance rose in a straight line until she reached the position of general manager of the business.
Gu Ling'er had even thought about it, if there was really no one tonight, she would follow her example and be a doctor herself. Open business, can't be zero.
Seeing that the time passed minute by minute, Gu Ling'er was upset and impatient, just as she was about to give up the stall, a figure suddenly came out of the darkness, and the figure was getting closer and closer, and it became clearer and clearer.
When she saw this figure, Gu Ling'er looked eager and excited, she seemed to be a hungry wolf who had been hungry for a long time and finally waited for food. Like a deer who has been thirsty for a long time and is almost desperate, and finally waited for the water source, he can't wait to go up immediately and pull him over to see him.
This is the first patient of her Gu Ling'er's "Gu's Outpatient Clinic", even if she doesn't need any consultation fees, Gu Ling'er is willing to serve him.
"Ah~ It's Uncle Li?" After seeing that the person who came was Li Dagui, who lived in the east of the village, Gu Ling'er took the initiative to greet him, "Hello Uncle Li!" ”
"Why is this voice so familiar? Girl, are you? ”
Li Dagui looked puzzled, rubbed his eyes, and looked in the direction where the sound source came, but he still couldn't see the other party's face clearly after rubbing it for a long time, and he could only barely hear that the other party should be a girl. He already has the problem of old eyes and dizziness, not to mention that at night, he can't see the other party's face clearly.
"Uncle Li! I am Ling'er, the daughter of the Gu family, Gu Ling'er! Gu Ling'er stood up as she spoke, helped Uncle Li to the chair, and let him sit down slowly.
"Oh~ It's Ling'er! Who was I at that time, I didn't sleep in the middle of the night! Ling'er, what are you doing? ”
Gu Ling'er smiled and told Uncle Li about opening an outpatient clinic here, she originally thought that Uncle Li would praise her for being a good child who can endure hardships and be filial, but she was slapped in the face by Uncle Li.
"Ling'er! Uncle saw that your father had been sick for many years and was paralyzed in bed! Your mother has broken her foot again, and I have not yet made a good deal of advice. It's good that you have this filial piety, and the uncle is also very sympathetic to you, but our Xingyue Dynasty has had the ancestral motto of 'women are not doctors' since ancient times. ”
"Uncle, I ......"
As soon as Gu Ling'er spoke, she was interrupted by Uncle Li, "Okay Ling'er, Uncle knows that your family is not easy!" But the uncle is also a lonely old man with no income! While speaking, Uncle Li slowly put his big wrinkled hand into his pocket, touched it for a long time, and finally found six copper plates, stuffed them into Gu Ling'er's hand, and said earnestly: "Ling'er, you take these copper plates first, and treat them as your income tonight!" It's just that in the future, you won't set up any stalls or outpatient clinics here! ”
Gu Ling'er was just about to say something more, but Uncle Li had already stood up, waved his hand to her, and left slowly.
"Uncle Li, thank you for your kindness! It's just ......" Gu Ling'er looked at the few copper plates in her hand, her eyes were filled with a hot liquid, she sighed lightly, and muttered, "It's just that Ling'er can't listen to you!"