"Yo, isn't this little Glitter. How could such a clever little Glitter come to me? ”

After standing outside the examination room for a long time, little Gerrit stepped into the examination room.

In the consultation room, as usual, there were many people who had nothing to do and spent tickets to see a doctor operate.

There are also patients waiting for treatment.

The doctor had just finished an amputation, and the patient who was conscious and dripping with sweat was already carried down.

He was wiping the blood from his hands.

Seeing Little Grett's figure, he said to Little Glitter with mockery.

"Can I still work with you, Dr. Munch."

Walking into the doctor's office again, little Gerrit was just because of these changes now.

Hopefully have a job that will make some money and at least earn some income.

Even if it's 200 copper coins a month, you can do something with it.

"Oh, can you still work here? You say that, such a smart little Gerrit, little Glitter with so many problems, do you still need my job here? ”

"Oh, I didn't think I would come to me again."

The doctor spoke pompously, unreservedly mocking little Glitter.

"Oooh......"

The audience who was originally watching the operation next to them was excited to see the excitement.

Although they don't know what happened before, it doesn't affect their ability to see the doctor's attitude.

"How powerful you were before, how courageous you were...... Look, our smart, wise, brave little Glitter...... Then why did you come back to me......"

The doctor opened his hand and continued to speak pompously, still holding the blood-wiping handkerchief in his hand.

Little Glitter didn't react much to this, just turned around silently and prepared to leave.

“…… You're going to come back to work with me, okay, you can continue to work with me. ”

But just as little Gerrit turned, the doctor seemed to change his mind again, and spoke aloud.

Little Glitter turned around, looked up, and looked at the doctor in silence.

"What are you doing standing there, hurry up, be my assistant, and the next operation will start soon."

The doctor shouted again at little Gret.

Little Gerrit paused and walked over silently.

The recent changes that have puzzled little Gerrit make little Gerrit hope to help the family have more income.

Before he stepped into the doctor's office, he knew he was going to face ridicule.

He can accept ridicule and harassment.

The audience next to them was a little disappointed when they saw that there was no good show to watch, and let out some strange screams.

However, seeing that the next surgery was about to begin, it attracted their attention again.

Little Glitter, who walked over silently, took up the work of Dr. Munch's assistant.

Tidy up the tools to be used for the next operation, heat the furnace of the soldering iron a little hotter, and put the soldering iron on top to preheat.

And Dr. Munch was like a magician in the circus who stirred up the atmosphere, shouting at the audience two more times to make the audience excited again.

Taking advantage of the gap where the next patient is lifted up and fixed,

Dr. Munch turned to little Gerritt again, lowered his voice, and said viciously,

"Boy, because of your impiety, now your income is only one hundred and fifty copper coins a month!"

Little Glitter didn't react much to Dr. Munch's fierce expression,

Just asked,

"Then when will it be restored to two hundred copper coins?"

"When you're religious enough."

With another word, the doctor turned around.

Little Glitter, who continued to work silently, had doubts in his eyes.

Can ungodliness to the Lord be solved with money?

Little Glitter lowered his head and made the stove burn a little brighter.

"Come here, stand here."

"Hand me my axe."

The doctor pointed to the location next to him and said to little Gret.

The previous doctors didn't like people standing next to him when they were operating, and even little Gerritt, who was an assistant, could only stand behind him and hand him tools.

Little Gerrit handed the doctor the axe and stood beside him.

The doctor takes the axe and prepares for a new operation.

Little Glitter turned his head to look at the patient, who had been secured to the operating chair.

The patient on the operating chair is a middle-aged man wearing a supple fabric and a wide garment.

The sleeve of his left hand was rolled up, and the exposed left hand was tied to the shelf next to the operating chair.

This amputation operation will amputate the left hand of this middle-aged man.

His left hand was festering from the elbow down, and the rotten flesh was bleeding yellowish-white pus, and it emitted a foul smell.

Some wounds have small white dots on the surface, which may be eggs of flies or maggots.

The patient who was about to have an amputation had a sickly flush on his face, some nervousness about the next surgery under his eyes, and some expectations for the treatment.

"Ready, the operation is about to begin."

Presumably because the patient had spent more money, the doctor shoved a piece of cork, which was still brand new, into the patient's mouth and told him to bite it.

At the same time, he raised the sharp surgical axe in his hand.

The audience around to watch the operation immediately became excited, and some people blushed and screamed,

Someone stood up excitedly, dancing and raising his hand.

"Cut, cut!"

"Cut off his hands! Chop off his hands! ”

In the midst of that strange cry of excitement,

The patient who was biting the cork also had a red face and wide eyes,

The tied left hand was still struggling and writhing unconsciously.

Little Glitter stood beside him, looking at the patient, and then at the enthusiastic and excited audience next to him.

And at this very moment,

Dr. Munch's axe finally fell,

Accompanied by the sound of chopping bones, and the excited shouts of the surrounding audience.

The patient's festering left hand was cut off.

And little Gerrit, who was standing next to him, was splashed with pus and blood all over his head.

Little Glitter subconsciously closed his eyes,

I heard the laughter of everyone next to me,

"Haha...... You see......

The audience laughed excitedly.

Little Gerritt took the handkerchief in his hand that he was going to hand to the doctor, and wiped his face,

When I opened my eyes, I saw that the audience around me was laughing.

The doctor next to him had already picked up the red soldering iron to stop the bleeding of the patient.

looked at little Glitter, also with a smile on his face.

Even the patient who was soaked in sweat and had not passed out after the amputation,

It's also like seeing a very funny scene, biting on the cork and grinning.

"Alright, take a handkerchief and wipe it well, and we will move on to the next patient soon."

Facing the laughter of the people around him, Little Gerrit didn't speak, but silently wiped the blood and pus that could be wiped off his body.

Dr. Munch seemed to have laughed enough at little Gerritt before speaking out loud.

There was someone in the consultation room who carried the previous patient down, replaced it with a new patient, and sat on the operating chair.

Just looking at the patient on the operating chair, Dr. Munch frowned,

"How is it a woman, did I say I was going to treat a woman?"

Dr. Munch yelled angrily.

The audience next to him shouted excitedly,

Little Glitter, who wiped the blood from his body, looked up at Dr. Munch,

Know that this is a wonderful performance by Dr. Munch.

It's like he'd seen before operate on a farmer who couldn't afford to pay.

Dr. Munch is like a superb performer, always able to attract the attention of the audience and always arouse the emotions of the audience.

“…… Damn it, you bastards, how dare you let a woman lie on my operating chair......"

Dr. Munch yelled at the people in the exam room who were responsible for fixing patients.

The more the surrounding audience saw this, the more excited they became, and the people who were scolded kept their heads down.

"Operate on her, damn it, give her ......"

"Let her blood splatter your entire surgical chair...... Haha......"

Some people were so excited that their faces were full of hideousness, and some were impatient with excitement.

Didn't pay attention to the woman on the operating chair who was already secured.

Little Glitter looked at the patient.

As with the 'performances' I've seen before,

The immobilized woman's face and body were rough and yellow,

Her expression was cramped and uneasy, and every time the doctor scolded, her whole body trembled.

Her wound was on the leg.

Probably some farm tool hoeed to the feet,

She had a wound on the instep of her foot that was torn open up and down, and the flesh was turned outward.

The flesh inside was rotting, and along the rotten wound, the flesh around it seemed to be moldy.

Rotten piece after piece.

When I got to the toes, the toe bones were already peeking out of my hands.

“…… Damn, you're such a bastard, take it......"

"Take it, I want to see your operating chair stained with women's blood!"

In the midst of the audience's scolding, the doctor received enough money, and the audience threw it down,

He turned around, grabbed the axe, and continued the operation.

But before he started, he glanced at little Gerritt and stopped.

"Little Glitter, you can do this surgery."

"Me?"

"Yes, here you come."

"Ma'am, although the enthusiastic audience pays enough for your surgery, I never operate on a woman, so let my assistant come."

The doctor turned to the woman who was fixed to the operating chair.

The woman's frightened gaze shifted from the doctor to little Glitter.

Little Glitter met the woman's gaze and shook his head.

"Dr. Munch, I won't operate."

"Then let this patient go home and wait for death, if you don't amputate her, she will die tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"Come on, hold this axe, well, hold it tight, and aim it here, see it, aim it here, chop it down, and it's over."

The doctor stuffed the surgical axe in his hand into Little Gerrit's hand, and forcibly dragged Little Gerrit's hand and swung it up and down with the axe.

The audience, who knew what the doctor was going to do, became even more excited, shouting indiscriminately.

Little Glitter took the axe, looked at Dr. Munch, and then at the woman who was fixed to the operating chair.

The woman kept looking at little Gerrit, with a strong fear in her eyes, but she never said anything, and she did not object.

"Do you really have to operate on her? Are you going to watch her die? Maybe you can see how painful it would be for her to die like this. ”

“…… Haha, yes, that's it, pick up the axe and chop it down. You have to be fast, you have to be hard, you know? Otherwise, when you keep chopping, your patient will be extremely painful! ”

When he let go of his hand, little Gerrit was still holding the axe, and the doctor laughed.

"Here, chop it down...... Chop it down......"

The surrounding audience also heckled.

Little Glitter looked into the woman's eyes.

He didn't want to do it, but if he didn't, maybe the woman would lose the opportunity to be treated altogether.

At last

Little Gerritt took the axe and cut it down,

The woman's thin legs and feet were cut off from their ankles.

There was another deep tooth mark on the cork that the woman was biting.

The doctor laughed and picked up a soldering iron to stop the woman's bleeding.

The surrounding audience also laughed.

Little Glitter stood stunned, then put down his axe and looked at the woman who had not yet passed out.

"Look, how well you've done, little Glitter...... Do you see, little Gerrit, that the patients you have healed will soon be judged by the Lord. ”

"If they are not religious enough, they will be invaded by demons and die, and if they are religious enough, they will be protected by the Lord."

The doctor walked over to little Gerritt again,

He seemed to be refuting the last time Gerritt Jr. said about piety.

"If they don't get better, it's because they're not religious enough, you know?"

"We are the godly lambs of the Lord, the physicians of the Lord, and only the godly believers of the Lord can withstand the test and be healed."

"If so, what else do you need a doctor to do?"

Little Glitter turned his head and was not angry at the doctor's words,

I just asked the doctor suspiciously.

This time, Dr. Munch was silent, and he looked at little Gerrit with a frown,

After a pause, he just said something meaningless,

"Little Gerrit, I doubt your devotion to the Lord!"

And then the doctor didn't pay any more attention to little Gerritt.

"Take this patient out for me and bring the next patient to ......"

Little Glitter followed the treated patient out of the clinic door.

The doctor glanced at little Grett and said nothing about it.

The man who took the woman out of the examination room put her outside the door of the examination room and went back.

The woman leaned against the wall outside the door of the examination room and sat on the floor.

Little Gerrit crouched in front of the woman, not knowing what to say.

"Thank you. Little Gerritt, right? ”

The woman was weak, barely keeping her eyes open.

"I'm sorry."

Little Glitter said to the woman.

"Why are you sorry?"

The woman was astonished.

"You could have gotten better treatment."

"Does that make a difference, kid?"

Little Gerrit couldn't answer.

But the woman leaned back a little longer, and looked around at no one.

and then to little Gerritt's ear,

"It's all right, kid...... I took Dr. Munch's money. ”

How could a woman like a woman come to the town to find a doctor?

It's just that the doctor needs a show, and the woman is chosen.

“…… Child...... Can you do me a favor...... I still have a shoe, and I'm still in the office. ”

The woman said with some embarrassment.

The rotten foot of the woman who had been cut off before was indeed a shoe,

It's a pair of old straw sandals.

"Hmmm......"

Little Gerrit was silent for a while, then got up,

I went to the clinic and picked it up again.

He gave it to the woman, who took it in her bosom and laughed.

Later, little Gerrit saw a young man hurrying to pick up the woman.

The woman was carried behind by the young man, and on the way back she seemed to be smiling.

Little Gerritt went back to the office and worked as an assistant to the doctor until the evening.

"Alright...... This is your salary today, and tomorrow you come over at this time as usual. ”

After giving Little Gerrit five copper coins, the doctor waved his hand and let Little Glitter leave.

Little Gerrit looked at Dr. Munch again,

With the money, he turned around and walked out of the consultation room.

Dr. Munch, on the other hand, walked in the direction of the church after closing the consultation room.

……

"Father."

"Well, let's go."

Little Gerrit walked to the entrance of the town, and saw the familiar figure again,

It's Father Hoss.

I don't know how long I've been waiting here.

It was already late, but Hoss didn't ask what little Gerrit had done.

But little Glitter said it himself.

"Father...... I went back to working in the office, but my pay was reduced to only one hundred and fifty copper coins a month. ”

"Why? In fact, you can study well in school. ”

Little Gerrit didn't speak, but handed today's five copper coins to his father, Hoss.

"Well, I'll put it away for you, maybe, next year, you can continue to study."