"Dad, when is this happening? Can you please stop making trouble?"
Hu Xiaoxian's mother didn't seem to buy into the old man's fault. She muttered in a low voice, "If my mother-in-law had been sent to the hospital earlier, she...she wouldn't have died because she couldn't get treatment in time!"
"What did you say?!"
Although the old man is not young, his ears are very good. After hearing what his daughter-in-law said, his face suddenly showed an angry look, his eyes were wide open and his beard was bulging, and he looked very scary.
"Does this family have some stories?"
Ye Tian and others who had just opened the door and walked in happened to see this scene, and they couldn't help but secretly guess that Hu's mother did not look like the kind of person who was unfilial to the elderly, but the attitude in front of them seemed a bit bad.
Perhaps she didn't want to quarrel in front of outsiders. After seeing Yu Qingya and others coming in, Hu's mother softened her tone, looked at the old man and said, "Dad, please, let the doctor check Xiaoxian again. You haven't
Have you seen that Xiaoxian looks much better today? She really can’t bear the trouble!"
"Oh, it's up to you. After all, Xiaoxian is also your daughter."
After hearing what his daughter-in-law said, the old man let out a long sigh. He seemed to have suddenly aged more than ten years. He stretched out his big hands like the roots of an old tree and gently placed his hand on his granddaughter's head.
He stroked it.
Although the old man was very skilled in medicine, he could not find out what kind of disease his granddaughter had. Moreover, Hu Xiaoxian was only relying on normal saline to maintain his life. He prepared several medicines but he could not get Hu Xiaoxian to take it.
"I'm leaving. I'll come back tomorrow!"
Seeing a group of people pouring into the room, the old man stood up from the bed a little lonely, and walked out of the ward without saying hello to Ye Tian and others.
"Youngster, Xiaowei, you guys are laughing at me. Xiaoxian's grandfather has this temper. He is a doctor himself, but he still believes in those ghosts and gods. Why did my mother-in-law, oh, tell you all this?"
After the old man went out, Hu's mother stood up and offered her seat. Although she was concerned about her daughter, Yu Qingya and others came all the way from the capital to visit her daughter, and she did not want to be rude.
Ye Tian's heart moved and he asked: "Auntie, what happened back then? I don't think Grandpa Hu is an unreasonable person?"
"It's true that Xiaoxian's grandfather has great medical skills, but Chinese medicine can't cure all diseases. He just doesn't listen to others' advice. When my mother-in-law suffered from acute appendicitis, he just didn't want to be sent to the hospital..."
Hu's mother is not a person who can hide her words, and this matter is like a thorn in their family. No one is willing to mention it at ordinary times, and it has always been suppressed in their hearts.
More than twenty years have passed, and Hu Xiaoxian's father is still in conflict with the old man because of this matter. Although it cannot be said that they are not in contact with each other, the relationship between father and son is undoubtedly much weaker than that of ordinary families. Therefore, when Ye Tian asked, Hu
My mother started talking.
It turned out that just over two years after Hu Xiaoxian's parents got married, Hu Xiaoxian's grandma suddenly fell ill. Hu Xiaoxian's grandfather was running a clinic at the time and used Chinese medicine to treat his wife.
However, regardless of taking medicine or acupuncture, Hu Xiaoxian's grandma's illness did not improve. At that time, Hu Xiaoxian's father was about to send his mother to the hospital, but the old man stopped her.
The older generation of people who study Chinese medicine are quite stubborn in their thinking and believe that diseases that can be cured by Western medicine can also be cured by Chinese medicine.
So the old man refused to send his wife to the hospital no matter what. Instead, he used some "feudal superstition" passed down from his Hu family's ancestors (so Hu's mother thought) to treat her mother-in-law like magic, but in the end it still didn't work.
Seeing that his mother was about to die, Hu Xiaoxian's father ignored his father's objection and sent his mother to the hospital. Upon examination, it turned out that she had acute appendicitis. However, it was too late to send her to the hospital and she died in the end. She was only in her forties.
age.
As a result, Hu Xiaoxian's father was convinced that his father had killed his mother, and he did not have any contact with his old father for several years.
After this incident, the old man also closed the clinic and lived alone in an old forest deep in Changbai Mountain. It was not until Hu Xiaoxian was born that the relationship between father and son eased.
This is also the main reason why Hu’s mother reacted so violently when she heard the old man mentioning the dancing master. When her father-in-law treated her mother-in-law, although he was not a dancing master, he still invited the dancing master to take care of her. There was not much difference between the two.
"So this is ah?"
After listening to Hu's mother's story, Ye Tian lowered his head and said to himself in an imperceptible voice: "It seems that the inheritance of Hu's lineage is also lacking, otherwise it would be impossible to treat a disease like appendicitis.
Okay, but it’s okay to take some relief.”
From the old man's body, what Ye Tian sensed was only the surging blood energy, but there was no trace of the aura that a person should have in the technique. However, the old man knew some techniques to cure diseases, so Ye Tian concluded that the old man should
It's the inheritance that's been lost.
Seeing Hu's mother talking to Yu Qingya and the other girls, Ye Tian quietly stood up and chased outside the hospital.
The old man didn't leave for long. When Ye Tian chased him to the door of the hospital, he happened to see the old man untiing a carriage and sitting on the shaft.
Horse-drawn carriages running in the city are extremely rare in the mainland, but Changbai City is surrounded on three sides by Changbai City. The mountain roads into the mountains are difficult to walk, but horse-drawn carriages can be seen everywhere on the roads.
Seeing the old man raising his whip, Ye Tian quickly ran over, grabbed the horse's rein, and said, "Old man, please wait a moment, I have something to ask you!"
"Huh? Are you the young man in the ward just now?" The old man couldn't help being surprised when he saw Ye Tian grabbing the horse's head.
As the saying goes, the expert knows the way, and the layman sees the excitement. Although Old Hu has not yet drawn the whip, the horse has already started, and without the strength of several hundred kilograms, it is impossible to pull it.
Ye Tian made it difficult for his four-year-old horse to move with just one hand. Old Hu asked himself that although he could do it, he would never be able to do it with Ye Tian's calm expression and ease.
"I didn't expect that my little friend is a member of the same profession, but I don't know where the mountain is, which incense stick is burning, and who is in charge?"
The heroes in the Northeast did not want to be enslaved by the Japanese. Before liberation, they lived among the white mountains and black waters. However, the old man Hu's quack talk was nondescript, somewhat like the conversation between thieves and beards in the past.
Ye Tian smiled slightly and said: "Old man, I am not from the Jianghu Road, but my senior brother has been to the three eastern provinces before and paid a visit to a dock named Hu Yunbao Laobazi. I wonder if the old man knows him?"
"Hu...Hu Yunbao?"
Old Man Hu, who was still sitting on the car's shaft, suddenly widened his eyes when he heard the name. He slapped his right hand on the handlebar, and his whole body turned over from the horse and landed in front of Ye Tian.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, Old Man Hu grabbed Ye Tian tightly with his right hand and asked, "Little friend, you...how did you know my father's name?"
You must know that before the liberation, Old Man Hu's father was a famous bandit leader of the generation who was assimilated to Changbai. After the liberation, he changed his name from Hu Yunbao to Hu Tianbao and lived in seclusion in the Changbai Mountains for fear of being under dictatorship.
Not to mention an outsider like Ye Tian, even Old Man Hu's son didn't know the real name of his own grandfather, so hearing his deceased father's name suddenly hit Old Man Hu's ears like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
"Old man, I told you that it was my senior brother who knew Mr. Hu Yunbao." Ye Tian glanced around and then said, "It's not appropriate for us to talk here, why don't we change places?"
Although there are many horse-drawn carriages in Changbai City, Old Man Hu's car is blocking the entrance of a hospital, and it attracts people's attention when coming and going. Ye Tian can't be friends with him here, right?
"Don't call me old man. Since your senior brother knows my father, you are a generation older than me. My name is Hu Hongde. You can just call me Lao Hu!"
Hu Hongde tied the carriage back to a tree outside the hospital, carried a package in his hand, pointed at a noodle shop opposite, and said: "My friend, let's go inside and sit down and talk!"
"good!"
Ye Tian nodded and followed Old Man Hu into the noodle shop. It was around three o'clock in the afternoon, and no one was eating. They were the only ones in the whole noodle shop.
After sitting down, Old Man Hu was not in a hurry to ask Ye Tian. Instead, he ordered two large bowls of ramen, and then ordered a pound of beef and mutton to be cut. He also ordered a bottle of Daqu wine. After the food and wine were served, he asked.
He said: "My dear friend, may I ask what your senior brother's surname is, and how did he know my father?"
Ye Tian didn't hide anything and said straight to the point: "My senior brother's surname is Gou. He is a famous scholar. He came to the three eastern provinces in the 1940s. I wonder if you have heard Mr. Hu Yunbao mention it?"
After hearing Ye Tian's words, Hu Hongde stood up suddenly. The sound was so loud that the glass of the noodle shop trembled, and the meat-cutting chef inside was so scared that he almost chopped off his fingers.
"Golden-eyed Eagle? I didn't expect that my senior brother would have such a name?" Ye Tian was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He had never heard his senior brother mention this nickname of his.
However, Ye Tian didn't know that Gou Xin's family worked for Zheng Hu back then. This nickname also had mixed reputations and reputations. He made many friends, but also enemies everywhere, so he didn't mention it to Ye Tian.
"Sir, can we lower our voices? We can't stand your voice!" Hu Hongde made too much noise, but the noodle shop waiter refused.
Hu Hongde also realized his gaffe, smiled apologetically at the waiter who came out, sat back on the chair, and lowered his voice and said: "Little friend, he...is he still alive?"
"Senior brother is still here. Before I came this time, he told me the name of my respected father." Ye Tian looked at Hu Hongde with some curiosity and asked: "Mr. Hu, have you seen my senior brother?"
