27 Giving in to temptation (1/2)

Ren Xiaosu felt a little puzzled. He was merely telling the truth, yet somehow, he still received the patient's gratitude.

Both Yan Liuyuan and he had the mindset that people would only be grateful if they were given something for free.

Ren Xiaosu had attended one of Mr. Zhang Jinglin's class where he described how great human civility used to be. This made him wonder why the graciousness that took several thousand years to build up had collapsed so quickly.

Today, this couple made Ren Xiaosu gain a vague understanding. However, he could not quite put a finger on what it was.

On the same day, Ren Xiaosu had Xiaoyu take down the sign that was hung outside the clinic to sew on the additional word ”wounds” before the word ”clinic.”  Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

He'd lied, cheated, and stolen many times, but he only did them selectively.

Today, Ren Xiaosu made a decision. From now on, he would only treat illnesses that he could treat. If he couldn't, then so be it.

In the end, none of the patients that came today suffered from any sort of wounds. Instead, all of them had aches and ailments that he did not know how to treat. To his surprise, when he told these patients that he honestly couldn't do anything for them, he still managed to raise the number of gratitude tokens to ten at the end of the day, without even having to use any of the black medicine!

Ren Xiaosu sat in the clinic in a state of confusion. What the fuck was going on?

He didn't know everyone had accumulated grievances with the previous doctor, Yu Tong, over a long period of time. Through Ren Xiaosu's actions, those who had gone to seek treatment from him started publicizing him. ”I think Ruthless Ren Xiaosu is a much better person than that previous bastard of a doctor, Yu Tong! If he doesn't know how to treat your illness, he will never try to make money off you by prescribing medicine on a whim!”

When some busybodies heard about this, they thought, 'Wow, there's even something like that?' Then they went to the clinic to check it out.

While they had their fun, Ren Xiaosu was feeling hard done by. The number of patients that consulted him exceeded the number of gratitude tokens he earned by at least ten times!

Some of them complained of headaches while others thought that their faces had suddenly swelled up. The fact that someone even came to him to get their fortune told left Ren Xiaosu speechless.

But once Ren Xiaosu made up his mind on something, he would make sure to do it. He advised the townspeople and sent them away like how he had explained things to the couple.

Afterwards, the townspeople realized that Ren Xiaosu really did not charge at a whim for his medical services.

Their initial impression of Ren Xiaosu was that he was a very ruthless person. This was because the young Ren Xiaosu had to take care of Yan Liuyuan and wanted to gain a foothold in this town. As such, he had to compete bravely and ruthlessly against others to have even a slim chance of survival.

Later, everyone's impression of him changed to… drug dealer.

But right now, everyone was beginning to think that if they ever received a wound, they would immediately go to the clinic to get treated by Ren Xiaosu.

Such word of mouth had come from nowhere and puzzled Ren Xiaosu greatly.

At noon, Xiaoyu went to town with her basket to buy some groceries. During this recent period, they could afford the better things in life as their savings reached 3,400 yuan. As such, they could also get better raw ingredients from the town's market.

Xiaoyu would even buy some fine salt and pigskin occasionally. The texture of fine salt in the mouth was quite different from that of coarse salt, while oil from the pigskin was extracted to be used for frying.

There were pig farms located outside of this town. Domesticated pigs had also evolved after The Cataclysm, but as long as they were neutered while they were young, they would grow up to be very docile animals.

Without a doubt, humans were the most adaptable species and were good at utilizing the environment around them. No other species came close.

Usually, the good meat from these pigs was shipped into the stronghold for consumption. Only a tiny quantity of the remainder would remain in town for sale.