Chapter 137 - 134: Frowning with a Stern Face
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To solidify the maliciousness of the Wang Family’s siblings, Zhang Shanni directly scooped up her little aunt in her arms and briskly made her way to the Village Committee.
There was no other option; although there was a healthcare station in the team’s location, Qingfeng Village, being remotely nestled in the mountains in the south, didn’t have any remarkable selling points.
Remoteness signified poverty. People with a bit of connection were reluctant to come to this primitive land of the Southern Barbarians.
As a result, Qingfeng Village’s healthcare station was nothing but a formality—a place without nurses, doctors, or medicine. How could this even be called a healthcare station?
Therefore, Qingfeng Village’s healthcare station was just a small room next to the office of the Village Committee.
It was after some thought that the Qingshan Team asked Wang Guicai to voluntarily take on the role [compensated, but meagerly, as treatment was paid for with goods] – usually, Wang Guicai was either gathering herbs in the mountains or preparing medicine. Apart from making house calls for medical treatment, he usually stayed in the Village Committee office to manage the healthcare station, or chatted with the old cadres.
Wang Guicai originally agreed to ’stoop to’ this because it allowed him to frequently stay in the same environment as the village cadres, give face to the Qingshan Team and casually improve his public image.
Although the old mothers and children in the village disliked Wang Guicai’s ’greed’ immensely, they were also thankful that he was willing to settle in Qingfeng Village, providing medical care and diagnosis to its people.
Dislike mixed with gratitude, which was actually a product of poverty. Even though some villagers privately called him ’Wang Lao Cai’ out of anger, Wang Guicai was aware of it, but what could he do?