Chapter Six: A Small Hand Appears

  "Mom!" Seeing Han Jie's painful appearance, Min Fang exclaimed and didn't dare to move again, for a moment he was at a loss.

  "Brother Min, with a skeletal injury, it's best not to move around too much. It's better to maintain your current posture until the ambulance arrives." Cheng Xiaodong saw that something had happened at the Min household and although he didn't want to intrude, he couldn't just sit in the car without doing anything. After thinking for a moment, he followed them inside to see if he could help. As soon as he entered the house, what he saw made his heart skip a beat.

  "Ah, Xiao Dong, this is really unexpected. With my mom like this now, I definitely can't go to the Agricultural Institute with you." Min Fang's heart ached for his mother, but he didn't lose his composure.

  "Min Big Brother, the injured person is in a hurry, our matter will be discussed later, now the most urgent thing is to send Auntie to the hospital!" As he spoke, Cheng Xiaodong walked in through the door.

  "Xiao Tao, you're fine, even with a hurt waist you can still live. Look at you, a big boy like you, and you cry so much just because of a hurt arm? You're not a hero, are you?" Cheng Xiaodong's provocative words were effective, the little boy looked at him lying on the ground, sniffling, no longer making a sound.

  "Xiao Tao, is this arm injured?" Taking advantage of the child's gaze, Cheng Xiaodong pinched his small hand and asked.

  The little boy nodded with a "hmm".

  "It's this one, isn't it? This one is obviously good!" Cheng Xiaodong said, moving the little guy's other arm with his hand.

  "This is it!" The little boy was annoyed, where did this nonsense come from?!

  Taking advantage of Xiaotao's momentary distraction due to anger and neglecting his injured arm, Cheng Xiaodong raised his right hand, paused for a moment, and then supported it with his left hand at the crook of Xiaotao's elbow. As soon as he let go, Xiaotao burst into tears on the spot, regardless of whether he was in pain or not.

  The kid's voice is so loud that Cheng Xiaodong felt his hair fluttering, and he smiled at Xiao Tao: "Does it hurt? Are you crying?"

  "Ouch!" The little guy loudly retorted, unconsciously hugging his injured arm to his chest, and sobbed as he complained to the young woman: "Mommy, he's a bad man, kick him out!"

  Cheng Xiaodong's movements made Min Fang stunned for a moment, and then he saw his son clenching his fist, and immediately understood that Cheng Xiaodong had just reset the child's dislocated joint.

  "Xiao Dong, can you set bones?" Min Fang asked somewhat uncertainly.

  "My paternal grandfather's orthopedic skills, passed down through generations, I followed and learned for a few years when I was young", the reason for learning the skill is complicated (will be explained later), but it's not enough to tell outsiders, even if there are thousands of hardships, Cheng Xiaodong said calmly.

  "Can you let my mom take a look?" On the other side, his wife was already comforting their little one and trying to gently move his injured arm. But this time, the little guy wouldn't cry out in pain again. This scene fell into Min Fang's eyes, with some added expectation.

  "Okay, Brother Min will lift up Auntie's clothes a bit and expose her waist." Cheng Xiaodong nodded and walked forward, squatting behind Han Jie. He gazed for a moment before gently pressing his fingers on the vertebrae at the base of Han Jie's spine. "Now it looks like a dislocated coccyx, but there doesn't seem to be any fracture. However, Auntie is old, so let's be cautious. When the ambulance arrives, we'll go to the hospital for an X-ray to get a clearer examination. Adults aren't like children, their bones aren't that fragile."

  One arm is naturally hand-to-hand, involving an elderly person of advanced age, Cheng Xiaodong was very cautious and suggested after preliminary diagnosis.

  "Xiao Tao, does it still hurt?" The woman on the other side asked the child in a soft voice, still somewhat uncertain.

  "No!" The little guy was still puffing away, but he shook his head.

  "Is that it? Last time at the hospital, I saw several doctors twisting and turning, making a child cry out of tune before curing him. But our little Tao just now definitely didn't feel any pain, otherwise, he wouldn't have stopped crying so easily!" The young woman's eyes were filled with admiration as she looked at her son whose joint had been properly reset.

  "I really didn't expect you to have such excellent orthopedic skills, I'm getting more and more curious, Xiaodong, look at my mom..." Min Fang was also surprised, just about to let Cheng Xiaodong take another look at his mother, when voices were heard from outside.

  Different families, the treatment of ambulances is also different. When arriving at Min's house, not only did the ambulance arrive quickly, but it didn't even honk its horn. It quietly stopped in front of the door, and two young men wearing white coats carried a stretcher in as if floating on air, thus solving the problem of the injured person being unable to move.

  "It's still better to go to a big hospital for an examination and take some pictures to see more clearly!" Cheng Xiaodong suggested.

  "Alright, but I won't be able to go with you to see Old Qin then. After I send my mom to the hospital for a check-up, if everything is fine, I'll hurry over as soon as possible." After curing the child's arm injury, Min Fang's attitude towards him was no longer that of superficial closeness, and the originally appropriate distance between them had also shortened significantly.

  "Alright, don't say anymore. Looking at Auntie's suffering, it's better to go to the hospital as soon as possible. I think there's no major problem, just a dislocation. Once we get to the hospital, she'll be cured." Cheng Xiaodong let out a sigh of relief. If he had rashly gone to see Qin Lao and exposed the trick, how would this play have been saved?

  "Xiao Dong, I'm really sorry, here's my business card. You contact me tomorrow, and also, I can find Qin Lao's phone number too. If you don't contact me, I'll have to look for you. Today's matter will definitely be settled with you." At this time, the medical staff had already opened up the stretcher from under Han Jie, reassembled it, and carried the injured person out while Min Fang explained briefly and hurriedly followed to take care of his mother.

  The Lao family had to go to the hospital, and although the child's arm was reset, they still needed to go to the hospital for an X-ray examination. Cheng Xiaodong followed them out of the hospital gate, watching as the ambulance drove away with its siren blaring, then walked to the street corner to wait for a ride.

  The gains and losses of this matter can only be seen in the evaluation of today's performance, but with Professor Qin as a great god behind to weigh the balance, it is still tilted towards oneself. Unexpectedly, going to Jinhuayuan to bid farewell to Xiaoyu turned out to be such an outcome.

  After leaving the Min's house, I took a bus back to school. By then it was already past noon. My stomach, which had only eaten a few fried dough sticks in the morning, was growling with hunger. The dormitory was empty, not a single soul could be seen, but of course that wasn't true, there must have been many people around, just no one was visible.

  Everything that could be taken away had been packed into luggage, and things that didn't want to be brought were also thrown into the trash heap. The thermos in the dormitory was left with only an iron skin, as for the inner bladder, it had already served as a drum on the cement floor last night. Looking at the house full of rubbish, even Cheng Xiaodong, who was always frugal, could only go to the street to eat at a restaurant. After thinking about it, he changed into casual clothes and hurriedly went to the snack street behind the Agricultural College.

  Ps: Bone-setting can be said to be a small trick, but people who are good at it are not many, especially those with deep skills, even more rare. Old Gu has a distant aunt who is well-versed in this way, and had the luck to see the bone-setting process several times. How to say it, it's simply amazing! In life, Old Gu always hopes that he can have such a skill, so that he can also earn some good wine (like Old Gu, Auntie is quite fond of drinking, only, she can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, while I get knocked out with just one cup)!

  One time, a patient with a dislocated hip came to my aunt. Guess how she treated him - it was like something out of a comedy: first, she had the patient's family members support the patient in a sideways lying position and lift one leg up high; then, grasping the patient's ilium bone, she used a paper stick to poke into the patient's nostril; with a big "Achoo!", she took advantage of the momentum to gently pry it back into place with a "click", and the patient was immediately able to stand up. The patient and their family looked at her with eyes like they were looking at a god, and Lao Gu felt even more envious.

  But what I admire most about this aunt is that she always sees patients for free, although she can cure severe orthopedic diseases with acupuncture and medication, she never accepts money. And surprisingly, she is a devout Christian? Can't figure it out!

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