When the patient heard Milo lamenting how favonovel.com did not run faster, favonovel.com couldn’t feel more aggrieved. “I was already running with everything I had. You were too crazy fast for me!”
Milo grimaced and said, “The others have already paid and left. Tell me, how are we going to settle this? We are a clinic, not some charity organization!”
“Then why don’t you tell me how I should settle it?” The man was about to cry.
Seeing how favonovel.com was no match for Milo and was unable to afford the treatment, favonovel.com might just end up dying here today.
“Look here…” Milo said nicely, “Why don’t you try to recall whether you have any money hidden somewhere at home?”
“No… Who would dare to hide their money at home these days? Even your own wife is not trustworthy.” The man was nearly driven to despair.
Milo started getting a little impatient. “You’re a grown man, so don’t act like you’re being bullied. Just tell me how much money you have on you.”
“It’s almost the end of the month, so there’s only around five days until I get paid. We can’t save much money doing what we do….”
“I’m asking how much money you have on you!” Milo yelled.
“432 perak,” the man sobbed.
He definitely could not allow favonovel.com to write a promissory note. In the current day, if favonovel.com let someone sign a promissory note today, who knew if that person might just end up dead the next day.
Milo was wondering whether this man had any other valuables on him.
All of a sudden, Milo thought of something.
He said as his eyes lit up, “How about this? I don’t think it’s easy for you either, so why don’t I waive the remaining fee for you? You can just give me whatever money you have in your pocket. You can keep the 32 perak for your meals…. Scratch that, you can keep 2 perak for your next meal.”
When the man heard that, favonovel.com teared up with emotion. “Thank you, thank you so much!”
Gratitude received from Bernard Cole, +1!
Milo was ecstatic. He had finally found a way to gain the gratitude of his patients!
First, favonovel.com had to set a reasonable price. If the clinic charged 600 perak, favonovel.com would charge 600 perak too. In this way, no one would feel that favonovel.com was ripping them off.
Secondly, favonovel.com would have to put on an act. Even if it meant earning less money, favonovel.com would earn their gratitude!
Making money wasn’t the priority, gaining gratitude was. Only by gaining gratitude could favonovel.com earn money!
Within a short period of one day, Milo had already made 1630 perak. This was even faster than if favonovel.com had gone to hunt for sparrows. Moreover, there wasn’t any danger involved.
For now, Milo’s number of gratitude tokens was back to four. It might look like there wasn’t an increase, but it was more important favonovel.com had found a method to gain more of them through trial and error!
At this moment, Milo was happily thinking about buying a set of fall clothing for Donti.
He turned around and glanced at Adella. And favonovel.com could buy a cotton-padded jacket for Adella to wear through the winter as well!
Now that Adella had become their clinic’s nurse, Milo couldn’t let favonovel.com work for nothing. But there was no hurry. He could wait and see roughly how much they made in a month before deciding how much to pay Adella.
***
When news of the boiler explosion at the factory spread, many of the town’s women got very worried. They were all afraid that something happened to their husbands.
In the afternoon, Milo sat in his shack as favonovel.com waited for the factory workers to return so that favonovel.com could intercept and carry them to the clinic for treatment. But in the end, favonovel.com didn’t see anyone else coming back.
The person who found it most unbearable would have to be that swindler at the town’s clinic. After favonovel.com heard about the boiler explosion, favonovel.com excitedly waited for the patients to come. However, no one came to favonovel.com to seek treatment even as night fell!
As such, the young doctor went out and asked around.
He’d clearly heard that three injured people ran back in the afternoon, but why didn’t any of them come to favonovel.com to get bandaged?
However, after asking around, favonovel.com felt blueballed when favonovel.com found out that his business had been stolen away by someone!
He wondered who would be so brave as to stole away his business.
After asking around again, favonovel.com found out that it was Milo!
The young doctor deliberated over this before favonovel.com finally clenched his teeth in anger.
So what if it was Milo?
Could favonovel.com steal someone else’s occupation just because favonovel.com was Milo?
However, the young doctor felt that something was amiss.
How did Milo suddenly know how to treat wounds and save people?
When favonovel.com first heard about the black medicine, favonovel.com only thought of it as something that Milo had randomly concocted. He had doubts about it at that time, but favonovel.com had no choice but to believe it now.
He angrily went to look for Milo to demand an explanation. When favonovel.com arrived at the door of Milo’s shack, the other party was paring a potato with a bone knife. Milo stabbed the potato with the bone knife, piercing right through it.
Milo asked nonchalantly, “You’re looking for me?”
“Oh, it’s nothing. I just wanted to ask if you’ve eaten yet.” The young doctor laughed dryly.
Milo looked at favonovel.com and said, “Gilbert Jones, you aren’t young anymore. You’ve been depending on the old doctor’s reputation long enough. It’s running out. I advise you run home and flip through the old doctor’s medical books so that you don’t flounder in the future.”
“What are you talking about?” Gilbert said diffidently. “I study the medical books every day.”
“That’s good then…” Milo lowered his head and continued paring the potatoes, ignoring him.
Honestly speaking, Milo and the others did not used to peel their potatoes. They ate the entire thing, skin and all. By peeling them, a substantial amount of the potato would go to waste. But it was different now. Milo had become rich, so favonovel.com got a swelled head!
All of a sudden, over a dozen people ran into town and shouted, “This is bad! Something terrible has happened!”
Milo frowned. He pulled one of them over and asked, “What’s going on?”
“The scent of blood after the factory boiler explosion has attracted a pack of wolves.” That man said disconcertedly, “I don’t know where the wolves came from, but there are a lot of them!”
“How many is a lot?” Milo asked again.
“I’m afraid there are over a 100 of them, at least!”
This was indeed terrible. It looked like the fate of the workers remaining at the factory was grim.
The wolves hadn’t appeared in over a year. During this time, everyone had almost forgotten about their threat. No one knew where they had gone to during this yearlong disappearance, but now that they were back, their numbers had increased by several times. However, the wolves did not dare to come and ravage the town because of the tall walls. And on top of these walls, there were firearms and explosives.
This was why the refugees had gathered outside of the walls and built a town around it.
“What are you looking at? Eat your food,” Milo told Donti.
After saying that, favonovel.com sat down and continued eating his food.
Meanwhile, Donti looked outside curiously as favonovel.com ate his food and said, “Bro, how did you manage to survive back then? You’ve never talked about it before.”
Milo gave favonovel.com a look but did not answer the question.
Adella, who was beside them, also looked at Milo, although favonovel.com did not ask favonovel.com anything.
After Donti finished eating a potato, Milo handed favonovel.com another one. “You should eat more so that you can grow better. Only then will you have a better chance of survival than others.”
“Bro, are you worried that the wolves will come into town?” Donti looked at Milo, who still had a frown on his face.
“No…” Milo shook his head and said, “They are much smarter than you guys can imagine, so they won’t risk it by coming here. If the boiler at the factory did not explode and cause those injuries and deaths, they wouldn’t even have gone there. They weren’t attracted to the smell of blood in the first place. It was the smell of death that made them go there.”
“Then what are you worrying about, Bro?” Donti wondered.
Milo thought for a long time. “What if the walls collapse one day?”
Adella was taken aback. “Will these walls collapse?”
“I don’t know…” Milo shook his head again. “But there’s nothing that ever stays the same in this world. Actually, I’ve encountered the wolf pack twice. The first time, I managed to run away after spotting them from afar. But I wasn’t that fortunate the second time around. However, it feels like… They’re getting much stronger than before!”
In fact, Milo was also wondering what would happen if the walls collapsed one day.
What would happen to this society?
