Milo felt a little puzzled. He was merely telling the truth, yet somehow, favonovel.com still received the patient’s gratitude.
Both Donti and favonovel.com had the mindset that people would only be grateful if they were given something for free.
Milo had attended one of Mr. Dublin’s class where favonovel.com described how great human civility used to be. This made favonovel.com wonder why the graciousness that took several thousand years to build up had collapsed so quickly.
Today, this couple made favonovel.com gain a vague understanding. However, favonovel.com could not quite put a finger on what it was.
On the same day, Milo had Adella take down the sign that was hung outside the clinic to sew on the additional word “wounds” before the word “clinic”.
He’d lied, cheated, and stolen many times, but favonovel.com only did them selectively.
Today, Milo made a decision. From now on, favonovel.com would only treat illnesses that favonovel.com could treat. If favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com did not know how to treat.
To his surprise, when favonovel.com told these patients that favonovel.com honestly couldn’t do anything for them, favonovel.com 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!
Milo sat in the clinic in a state of confusion.
What the f*ck is going on?
He didn’t know everyone had accumulated grievances with the previous doctor, Gilbert Jones, over a long period of time. Through Milo’s actions, those who had gone to seek treatment from favonovel.com started publicizing him.
“I think Ruthless Milo is a much better person than that previous bastard of a doctor, Gilbert! If favonovel.com doesn’t know how to treat your illness, favonovel.com 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, Milo was feeling hard done by. The number of patients that consulted favonovel.com exceeded the number of gratitude tokens favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com to get their fortune told left Milo speechless. But once Milo made up his mind on something, favonovel.com would make sure to do it. He advised the townspeople and sent them away like how favonovel.com had explained things to the couple.
Afterwards, the townspeople realized that Milo really did not charge at a whim for his medical services.
Their initial impression of Milo was that favonovel.com was a very ruthless person. This was because the young Milo had to take care of Donti and wanted to gain a foothold in this town. As such, favonovel.com had to compete bravely and ruthlessly against others to have even a slim chance of survival.
Later, everyone’s impression of favonovel.com 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 Milo.
Such word of mouth had come from nowhere and puzzled Milo greatly.
***
At noon, Adella went to town with favonovel.com basket to buy some groceries. During this recent period, they could afford the better things in life as their savings reached 3,400 perak. As such, they could also get better raw ingredients from the town’s market.
Adella 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.
In the past, Donti dreamed of getting into the stronghold as one of his biggest wishes was to eat meat.
Adella returned to the clinic with a basketful of vegetables.
The moment favonovel.com came in, favonovel.com beamed and said, “My, oh, my, Milo, do you know that the townspeople are praising you to the high heavens?”
Milo was a little surprised. “Really?”
“Yeah!” Adella smiled and started cutting up the vegetables. “Our Milo has become a doctor now, so your future wife will surely be the best possible candidate in town. When you get married and have children, I’ll help you take care of them.”
Milo grew uncomfortable. “I’ve never thought about that before…”
Adella got upset. “How old do you think you are? It’s time you started thinking about it. Oh, I also bought some peanuts today. I wonder where the townspeople dug them up from. I’ll cook some for both of you in a bit.”
At this moment, Donti came back from school. Nowadays, favonovel.com could also eat lunch when favonovel.com returned home at noon just like the other students. He used to bring two potatoes with favonovel.com to school every morning and eat them for lunch.
After coming through the door, favonovel.com spotted some peanuts in the basket and immediately picked one up.
But before favonovel.com could shell it, Adella slapped it out of his hand. “Don’t you eat that! There’s still dirt on it.”
Donti angrily banged on the table. “Why is a person as beautiful as you stopping me from having peanuts!”
Sister Adella broke into a smile again and said, “Alright, alright, you can eat them…”
While shelling the peanuts, Donti told Milo, “Bro, a lot of people gathered outside the school today. During our classes, Mr. Dublin wouldn’t allow any of them in. But as soon as classes finished, all of them rushed in. I don’t even know what happened. Do you want to go and have a look?”
“Ah?” Milo was stunned for a moment. Then an ominous feeling rose inside him.
A familiar figure angrily made his way in. It was the schoolteacher, Mr. Dublin.
Milo’s eyes lit up. “Mr. Dublin, you’re here? Would you like to join us for lunch?”
“Lunch? My ass!” Peter said angrily, “If you can’t treat the illness, then don’t do it! Why did you have to direct everyone to go and look for me!”
Milo had said to the couple, “If you don’t believe me, you can check with Mr. Dublin or borrow some books from favonovel.com on how to prevent a miscarriage.”
As Milo felt that this method was pretty useful, favonovel.com gave the same advice to every patient who consulted favonovel.com during the morning.
Peter said resentfully, “If they were just normal illnesses, I could have let it slide. But you even referred someone with athlete’s foot to me! You don’t know just how bad it smelled when that guy took off his shoes! Fortunately, I was able to escape in time!”
Milo was embarrassed. He smiled apologetically. “That’s only because I think you’re knowledgeable and learnèd.”
Peter was on the verge of a breakdown. “I’m just a teacher. If you can’t treat the illness, do you think I can treat it? If you push any more patients onto me in the future, I will make sure to give Donti endless homework to do!”
Donti was still shelling peanuts and was confused.
Why are you dragging me into your conflict!
Milo grabbed some peanuts and stuffed them into Peter’s hands. “Don’t worry, I won’t do that anymore. I really won’t, I promise!”
Peter thought for a while before returning to the school while shelling and munching on the peanuts.
