An amputation operation in the clinic ended with the excited shouts of the audience.

The doctor, who had more blood in his clothes, took the handkerchief handed by Little Gerrit and wiped the blood from his hands.

The patient, who needed to have his leg amputated, had already fainted by this time, and the wood in his mouth fell out and hung to the side.

He was torn off by the doctor and thrown aside.

"Alright, let's take it back."

The doctor shouted to the peasant woman who was waiting nervously outside the clinic,

The peasant woman walked in with some fear, looking at her husband's severed leg that had been amputated and burned with a soldering iron to stop the bleeding.

The peasant woman's hands trembled a little, and she wanted to support her husband.

It's just that he doesn't have enough strength in his hands, but he can't hold it, he pulls it a few times, and only drags his husband off the operating chair a little, but his whole body is still on the operating chair.

The audience next to them watched the excitement and coaxed excitedly, and the doctor wiped his hands and watched the peasant woman rub and pull her husband, frowning.

The peasant woman just buried her head lower and tried harder to pull her husband up and get out of here.

In the end, it was little Gerrit who stepped forward to help.

"I'll help you."

Little Gerrit stepped forward and said loudly.

"You, where do you have enough strength."

The peasant woman looked up a little, and glanced carefully at little Gret.

Little Glitter was still a half-grown child.

Little Gerrit didn't say anything more, but just reached out to help the peasant woman to help the old peasant.

The peasant woman did not speak again, but reached out and tugged at her husband.

Even if little Gerrit didn't have the strength to do it, there was no one else here to help her, unless the doctor threw them out if he was too late for his next operation.

Little Gerritt and the peasant woman pulled the old farmer, who had just been amputated, up from the operating chair.

With great effort, I brought this old farmer to the side of the road outside the clinic little by little.

The whole process, those who gave the tickets to the audience, were coaxing,

There was mockery and teasing, laughing, as if seeing something funny,

There are exaggerated, shouting some inexplicable words of encouragement, and laughing with them.

The doctor, who was frowning earlier, also looked at it with a smile.

“…… That's all, thank you...... Thank you ......."

Just brought the old farmer and the peasant woman outside the clinic, and little Gerrit was already so tired that he couldn't stop panting.

The peasant woman took her husband out of the consultation room, and seemed to be much more relieved.

So she hugged her husband and squatted on the side of the road, letting her husband lie on the side of the road and leaning on her feet.

Raising his head, he gasped and said to little Glitter.

Little Glitter looked at the old couple silently and did not speak again.

He really didn't have any more strength, sweat rolling down his forehead, and both hands were trembling.

"I'm sorry."

Little Glitter apologized to the peasant woman.

The peasant woman looked up at little Gerrit with some confusion,

She didn't know why Little Glitter apologized to her.

"You shouldn't apologize to me."

"Thank you."

The peasant woman said again to little Glitter.

Little Glitter nodded in some silence, then turned around and buried his head back into the examination room.

“…… Hurry up...... Don't waste any more time! ”

"Hurry up, let's start the next operation!"

"Amputation, amputation!"

The operation of the peasant woman's husband just now was just one of the surgeries in the clinic this afternoon.

After an operation, the audience who gave the ticket began to urge again,

No one went to the old couple at the door of the clinic anymore.

The doctor beckoned to bring in the next patient who needed treatment.

Only little Gerritt turned his head from time to time to look at the old couple on the side of the road outside the door of the clinic.

It's just that the consultation room is crowded, and the old couple can't be seen from time to time.

Finally, the peasant woman who was squatting on the ground and holding her husband by her hand,

In the end, it was probably her child, or some other acquaintance who arrived.

Together with the peasant woman, he left with the old peasant who had completed the operation.

And even when he left, it seemed that the old farmer who had fainted had not yet woken up.

……

“…… Doctor, what if the patient's money is not enough to pay for the treatment? ”

"Then maybe they can be more interesting and see if the audience will pay for them."

Today's few out-of-school treatments and amputations are over, and the spectators are already leaving,

The doctor wiped the blood from his face, and little Gerrit was beside him, who had been silent for a long time, and asked very suddenly,

The doctor turned his head and replied to little Glitter with some pompous expression.

"What if the audience doesn't want to pay for them, and they just die?"

"Of course, it's all because of their ungodliness, I'm a devout believer in the Lord, I'm a pious physician of the Lord, and any devout believer will be favored by God and will be healed by me."

"Damn it, little Glitter, you don't want me to treat the ungodly, the blasphemer."

The doctor said more exaggeratedly, as if in exchange for the laughter of the people around him,

But little Gerrit did not laugh, but was somewhat silent.

"God's favor?"

"Yes, God's providence, as long as the believers are religious, the Lord will show them the way, how can they not be treated."

That is to say, those who have money are devout believers, and those who do not have money are blasphemers and ungodly people. So they don't get treatment? ”

Little Glitter said very seriously and asked very seriously,

But the doctor's face turned ugly.

"Little Gerrit, what nonsense are you talking about! The people I have treated are devout believers! Those who are not healed are disloyal people who have been abandoned by the Lord, and who have not kept their piety in order to be bewitched by demons! ”

"God will care for every devout believer!"

Little Glitter was not as angry as the doctor, he just continued to ask very seriously,

"Doctor, can anyone who gets your treatment be able to be treated?"

"Of course not, some people are not religious enough and my treatment will be ineffective."

"There are some who have come to return to Heaven, and the Lord is waiting and calling them to return, but they themselves are unwilling to stay."

"Doctor, what kind of people are not religious, and what kind of people are returning to heaven because of the Lord's call?"

"Why do you have so many problems!"

"Doctor, you said that the people you can treat are all favored by God, devout believers, but if the treatment is not good, why are they ungodly?"

That's because of God's grace, and that's because they're not religious enough! That's enough! This is your salary for today, hurry up and leave for me! ”

"Don't come again! I doubt your devotion to the Lord! ”

Little Glitter was not angry at the doctor's expulsion,

Just with answers to some of the questions that have already been answered, and more doubts,

Some were silent, took today's salary, buried their heads, walked out of the consultation room step by step, and then left step by step.

And when little Gerrit is about to go out of town again,

But he saw his father Hoss again.

"Little Gerritt, let's go. Let's go back. ”

"I see you, you haven't come back yet."

Father Hoth was still wearing the clothes that he had gone to the farm, and he hadn't changed.

There are some muddy water that has dried up and grass seeds and rotten leaves on the farmland.

It's probably because little Gerrit is a little late today and hasn't arrived in the village yet.

His father, Hoss, hurried to the town without changing his clothes, and came to pick up little Glitter.

"Hmm...... Father, I seem to understand something, I have figured out something. ”

Looking at his father, Hoss, little Gerritt said.

"yes, that's great, when you really understand everything, go tell Miria."

"Hmm."