Back in the village, it was already afternoon. Lu Fan took out the small pills refined with Great Leaf Ash, dissolved them in water, and mixed them into the feed for the wild boars, pheasants, and rabbits. Then, he pondered that it seemed he should go into the mountains to capture more wild chickens and rabbits. This was the best shortcut to expanding his operations.
However, expanding the scale meant he would need to refine more Great Leaf Ash for medicine and carry water to the pine forest to cultivate mushrooms. It seemed he really had quite a bit of work, and time was becoming tight.
"Xiao Fan!" Suddenly, Zhao Rongrong walked out of the room and called out to Lu Fan.
"Mom! Is something wrong?" Lu Fan turned and asked.
"This morning, your Uncle Zhang in the village had a sudden heart attack. Your dad gave him a box of quick-acting heart-saving pills, and then rushed him to the county hospital without delay! You weren't home then!" Zhao Rongrong said.
"Ah? Is Uncle Zhang alright?" Lu Fan exclaimed in surprise. Zhang Minggui had been diagnosed with heart disease a few years ago, so he had always been very careful. The quick-acting heart-saving pills kept in the small clinic were almost prepared for him. It seemed this time the attack was quite serious.
"He's hospitalized. I don't know the specifics. As soon as they got to the hospital, they asked for a deposit of twenty thousand yuan! Sigh! In our little mountain village, twenty thousand yuan is already a huge burden!" Zhao Rongrong sighed.
"Heart disease!" Lu Fan knitted his brows, his mind racing. A prescription for treating heart disease immediately surfaced in his mind.
"Looks like I need to go to town to buy medicinal herbs! I'll put other things aside for now. After all, life is at stake," Lu Fan muttered to himself.
"Xiao Fan! What are you muttering about?" Zhao Rongrong asked urgently, seeing her son's expression.
"Mom! I need to go to town to buy medicinal herbs to prepare medicine for Uncle Zhang's heart condition." Lu Fan pushed his electric scooter and left the yard.
"Xiao Fan... Slow down!" Zhao Rongrong watched Lu Fan, who had rushed out, with surprise and muttered, "Can this child really treat heart disease?"
Lu Fan rode his electric scooter straight to Fengyuan Town. After more than ten minutes, he arrived in town. He looked up at the Limin Pharmacy and couldn't help but smile. After he had dealt with that old man last time, he wondered if he would still sell him medicinal ingredients. But since he was already here, he had to go in and see.
Putting down his electric scooter, Lu Fan entered the pharmacy. Inside, the plump woman and the thin old man from before were gone. Standing behind the counter were a young girl around twenty and a middle-aged woman in a white coat around fifty.
"Oh! Haven't been here for two days, and the staff has changed?" Lu Fan chuckled and asked provocatively.
"Oh! The previous staff had some personal matters and resigned. What would you like to buy, young man?" Lin Fang looked up at Lu Fan and said calmly.
"Dispense according to this prescription!" Lu Fan handed over the prescription he had prepared earlier.
Lin Fang took the prescription, looked at it, and suddenly frowned. She then looked up at Lu Fan again: "Young man! This should be a prescription for treating heart disease, right? This isn't a prescription given by a hospital, is it?"
"It is indeed for treating heart disease, but it's not a prescription from a hospital! I wrote this myself." Lu Fan was somewhat impressed. This middle-aged woman could tell at a glance that the prescription was for heart disease; she was quite experienced.
"Young man! You can eat more, but you can't take medicine carelessly! If it's not taken correctly, it can be fatal! Your prescription clearly has an extra ingredient, and the dosages are also very different from the normal ones. I hope you can go to the hospital and get your medicine according to the doctor's instructions. Don't blindly trust unqualified quack doctors and take their prescriptions indiscriminately," Lin Fang said, handing the prescription back to Lu Fan.
"Wow! You can tell all that? Are you a doctor?" Lu Fan wasn't angry but looked at Lin Fang in surprise. He could tell that this woman was very responsible, a world of difference from the thin old man before.
"I used to be a doctor! But... I retired!" Lin Fang's expression changed slightly as she spoke.
"Auntie, you're retired! You take such good care of yourself, you don't look like you're of retirement age!" Lu Fan immediately flattered her.
"Ahem!" Lin Fang was clearly pleased by this remark. No matter how old one is, everyone likes to be told they look young. That's a fixed rule.
"Auntie! To be honest, I wrote this prescription myself! And I can guarantee that there are no problems with this formula. Just help me dispense the medicine!" Lu Fan felt very favorably towards Lin Fang and didn't hide anything, saying immediately.
"You can treat illnesses? You are... just graduated from university, aren't you?" Lin Fang looked at Lu Fan with suspicion.
"Hehe! Auntie, your eyesight is really good. To be honest, I haven't graduated yet. I dropped out due to some family matters. However, I can truly treat illnesses. How about this! Please dispense the medicine for me first, as a patient is in urgent need." Lu Fan was a bit anxious, as he had many things to do.
"Alright! Since you want to get the medicine, I have no right to stop you. But, can you tell me where this patient is?" Lin Fang hesitated for a moment and asked.
"No problem! The patient is at the county hospital. His name is Zhang Minggui!" Lu Fan immediately provided the hospital name and the patient's name.
Lin Fang didn't insist further. She turned around and directly started dispensing the medicine for Lu Fan. After it was dispensed, she calculated the cost. Lu Fan left in a hurry with the medicine. Lin Fang, however, took the prescription and looked at it carefully, then took out her phone and made a call.
Lu Fan didn't go home. Instead, he went to a nearby small hotel and paid thirty yuan for an hourly room. A young lady in the hotel, dressed very scantily, looked at the young man who had booked an hourly room by himself with surprise. He... could he have brought a toy with him?
Lu Fan had no time to pay attention to the young lady's surprised and somewhat expectant gaze. He entered the room, locked the door, refined the medicine into a few pills, and then hastily checked out. He left amidst the young lady's stunned eyes.
It was already around three in the afternoon when he arrived at the county hospital. Zhang Minggui was lying in a hospital room, accompanied by his daughter, Zhang Xiaofeng. Both of them had very grim expressions. They had just scraped together twenty thousand yuan for the deposit, but the doctor then told them they needed to prepare over a hundred thousand yuan... Where would they get so much money?
"Uncle Zhang! Sister Xiaofeng!" Lu Fan greeted them as soon as he entered.
"Xiao Fan! Why are you here!?" Zhang Xiaofeng quickly stood up and went to greet him.
Zhang Xiaofeng had been working in the county town for half a year, earning about two thousand yuan a month. However, after expenses, not much was left. Upon hearing that her father had been hospitalized, she rushed over immediately.
"Xiao Fan!" Zhang Minggui also nodded at Lu Fan.
"I heard from my mom that Uncle Zhang was hospitalized, so I rushed over. How is it? What did the doctor say?" Lu Fan asked urgently.
"The doctor said he needs to be hospitalized for observation for two days! If... if his condition doesn't improve, he might need a stent. Sigh! They said... to prepare over a hundred thousand yuan first! My mom went back to raise money!" Zhang Xiaofeng lowered her head, her face full of worry.
"Damn it! They collected twenty thousand first, and then told them to prepare over a hundred thousand... This is like trying to strip a house bare!" Lu Fan couldn't help but curse inwardly.
He walked to the bedside, held Zhang Minggui's wrist, and felt his pulse. Lu Fan frowned even more. Zhang Minggui's heart disease was indeed very serious. It looked like the hospital would definitely need to prepare a stent for Zhang Minggui.
"Uncle Zhang! Fortunately, I came in time. This is a pill I refined myself, and it can cure your heart disease." Lu Fan took out a small pill and handed it to Zhang Minggui, then added, "However, whether you can trust me and whether you want to take it is entirely up to you!"
"Xiao... Xiao Fan! What are you doing..." Zhang Xiaofeng beside him was completely bewildered. When did Lu Fan learn to treat illnesses?
"Xiao Fan? Did you really cure your dad's leg?" Zhang Minggui suddenly stared at Lu Fan and asked.
"Yes! My dad's leg, and my mom's rheumatism, were all cured by me. Also, Xiao Hu from Sister Taohua's family had pneumonia, and I cured that too!" Lu Fan nodded.
"Hey? What are you doing? Who told you to give things to patients randomly?" Suddenly, a nurse at the door noticed the situation and shouted.