Chapter 42 Prejudice is never absent(1/2)
Before dawn, Bunir supported his father early and lined up in front of the mission hospital.
The summer dawn is still a bit chilly.
The poor old father, even though he was wrapped in a thick coat, would cough twice from time to time, which was heart-wrenching.
"Bunier, don't look at it. Go home. I can't treat this disease well. It will be a waste of time and delay your work."
Even though he had come, his father still refused to see a doctor.
"Okay, you're already here, why are you saying this?"
When Bunir heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little irritated in his chest.
My father is always so "disgusting".
When he first started feeling uncomfortable with his heart, he didn't say anything to anyone, but he went to church to pray significantly more frequently.
The family was busy making a living, so they didn't notice this.
It wasn't until one day while working that my father suddenly fell ill, and the family didn't know that he had been sick for a long time.
My family is poor and cannot afford to go to a private clinic.
You can only come to the mission hospital.
In fact, my father was reluctant even to come to the mission hospital.
He always felt that the "illness" was God's punishment for his sins.
Going to the hospital will let the neighbors know that he has committed a crime, which will only make him unable to hold his head up even more.
In the end, it was he and his sister who tried to persuade him to come over.
However, the diagnosis plunged the family into despair.
——The church doctor said that my father’s illness is incurable and can only be delayed by taking medicine.
"It's good to take some medicine to soothe it. It can last for three days at a time. It's better than trying to endure it at home, right?"
Seeing his father's expression of silence, Bunir's mouth softened again.
The mission hospital has a very limited supply of medicines due to free medical treatment. In addition, in order to prevent stray lambs from selling medicines privately, they only prescribe medicines for one to three days at a time.
This is the fundamental reason why Bunir came to line up despite knowing that his father's illness was not curable.
Time passed slowly while waiting in agony.
The queue behind us is getting longer and longer.
——No matter how devout your faith is, it is difficult to resist the fear of death.
Finally, when the clock struck seven o'clock from the clock tower, the door of the mission hospital's outpatient clinic slowly opened.
Several older nuns, leading the young nuns as young as eight or nine years old, stood in front of the door to maintain order and began a busy day.
Bunir arrived early, received his number plate early, supported his father, and headed to Angela's clinic.
"Sister Angela, excuse me."
As soon as Bunir entered the door, he smiled and looked apologetic.
He had brought his father over many times to collect medicines. To be honest, he was very embarrassed not to mention the gossip from the neighbors.
"Oh, you guys came just in time. The famous doctor I told you about happened to be here today to report. Let's go, I will take you there."
Angela, who was sitting in front of the stethoscope table, stood up with excitement on her face and was about to introduce Arthur to Bunir's father without any explanation.
In fact, she also wanted to see Arthur's insights on the diagnosis and treatment of Bunier's disease!
She had a hunch that Arthur would be able to cure Bunir's father.
"Really? Gee, thank you so much, Sister Angela."
Bunir was overjoyed and quickly supported his father and followed Sister Angela to a consulting room diagonally opposite.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce him. His name is Arthur. You can call him Dr. Arthur. His medical skills are particularly powerful..."
Angela introduced Arthur excitedly while pushing open the door of Arthur's room.
Bunir, who was full of expectations, had just walked to the door, and his expression suddenly froze.
In the plain white clinic room, a young man with black hair and black eyes was sitting at the table with a book on the table.
"Sister Angela, he, he is Dr. Arthurs?" Bunier asked with a stiff face.
"yes!"
Angela hadn't realized anything yet, so she nodded solemnly and said to Ning Xiuyuan:
"Arthur, this is the uncle I mentioned to you before. His heart is not very good. Even if he uses 'special' medicine, he can't do anything. Please take a look!"
Ning Xiuyuan nodded, feeling a strange feeling in his heart.
On earth, he has had nothing to do with the profession of doctor for eight lifetimes, but now he is sitting openly in front of the auscultation table and has become a "famous doctor"?
This feels so ridiculous and amazing!
"Oh my god, that black-eyed... devil, why is he sitting there? Could it be that he is a doctor?"
"From Sister Angela's words, he seems to be a real doctor."
The patients who were queuing up in front of Angela's clinic suddenly looked around curiously when they saw Angela leading Niebuhr and his son into Ning Xiuyuan's clinic.
When they discovered that the person sitting inside turned out to be a foreigner who was listening to the conversation and was also a doctor, they were all shocked and started talking about it.
"Do barbarians know medical skills?"
"He's still reading. I've never seen any other doctor read. Is he just starting to study?"
"Yeah, isn't this a matter of disregard for human life?"
"I heard that he is not even a believer in our Lord. It was the bishop who took pity on him and took him in and made him a lightkeeper in the church."
"Why did the light-keeper suddenly become a doctor? This, this is too ridiculous."
"Niebuhr, I tell you, you must not let him see a doctor. Your father is a believer in the Lord. How can you let the devil see a doctor?"
Faced with Angela's passionate words, Niebuhr, who originally wanted his father to give it a try, was completely shattered when he listened to the discussions of the believers behind him, especially the last sentence.
"Sister Angela, you also said that my father's illness... is all the Lord's will. I will come over to get some medicine. Do you think you can prescribe some medicine for us?"
Bunir spoke his words carefully and politely declined Arthur's diagnosis and treatment.
Angela, who was originally very excited, suddenly froze.
She subconsciously glanced at Ning Xiuyuan and couldn't help but said: "Arthur's medical skills are really superb. With my faith..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ning Xiuyuan.
"Sister Angela, God said, don't make promises easily or make rash oaths. My medical skills are very limited, so please stop defending me."
Ning Xiuyuan said sincerely.
To be honest, he had already predicted the patient's reaction.
Not to mention the general rejection of young new doctors by patients;
Put yourself in his shoes, he went to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and suddenly he saw an old black or white man squatting behind the auscultation table with a serious look on his face. He probably looked confused as well.
What's more, the aborigines here have never seen anyone of his race before, and their rejection will only become stronger.
"This..." Angela hesitated, and she, who had always been kind, suddenly felt a little unhappy in her heart.
"Go to work quickly, time will tell everything." Ning Xiuyuan comforted, he didn't want to make things too embarrassing.
"Well, time will tell."
This sentence shocked Angela, and she nodded solemnly in response.
She stopped trying to persuade Niebuhr and turned around to leave Ning Xiuyuan's clinic.
Niebuhr also quickly helped his father and chased him out.
The patients queuing up at the door looked at this scene and couldn't help but start talking again.
"Listen, he himself admitted that his medical skills are very limited!"
"Yeah, I really don't know how he became a doctor?"
"Maybe you really know some medical skills?"
"Whether he understands it or not, I won't go anyway."
"I won't go either."
The patients in the queue were whispering, and this new thing immediately became a topic of conversation in the boring queue, spreading from the door of Angela's clinic to the long queue outside.
"Hey, what happened?"
"I heard there's a new doctor!"
"Really? How are your medical skills?"
"Forget it, it's that alien race, the alien race with black eyes! I really don't know how a light-keeper boy suddenly became a doctor?"
To be continued...