TFWYH – Chapter 363 Everyone is Selfish

“These damned bastards!” The man shoved the boy into his wife’s arms, stood up, and shouted, “Is everyone just going to stand by and watch those animals refuse to save people? I’m going door to door right now — even if I have to tie them up, I’ll drag those beasts here!”

“I’m going too!”

“Me too — Mom, help me watch my wife.”

“Count me in. Those heartless scum are used to being black-hearted. If my daughter dies, I won’t go on living either — I’ll fight them to the death!”

“Yeah, fight them!”

…

The crowd grew furious and worked up.

Before long, a group of them went off to make trouble at those medical clinics.

Only then did the constable who had spoken earlier finally let out a long breath of relief.

The constable beside him looked at him suspiciously. “Why are you so talkative today?”

The constable grinned. “The adviser told me to say all that.”

The other constable said, “…Then why didn’t you say so earlier?”

“I didn’t notice what was happening over here at first. The adviser said we must protect Madam Ling’s reputation and not let people smear her name.”

“That adviser is ruthless, but he sure cares about his wife.”

“Well, obviously. If my wife looked like her, I’d care too!”

“…”

While the two constables muttered to each other, Su Yuan was having no luck at all.

He went door to door to persuade them, but not a single closed clinic was willing to open and take in the wounded.

Su Yuan was furious. Staring darkly at the tightly shut doors, he resolved to thoroughly clean things up after this was over.

Just then, the townspeople led by that man arrived. One by one they smashed open the clinic doors and dragged the doctors outside.

Some hot-headed people, like that man, grabbed the doctors and beat them soundly.

Damn it — so many of us are waiting to be saved, and you, as doctors, hid yourselves away!

Thinking of their dead and severely injured loved ones, the people completely lost control and vented all their rage on these doctors.

Aside from Jishi Hall and Renhe Hall — the two clinics that had stayed open — every other clinic suffered.

Su Yuan had already been holding in a bellyful of anger. When he saw this, he didn’t interfere and didn’t allow anyone else to step in either — he let the doctors take the beating.

In the end, the doctors were beaten badly. Crying and begging, bruised and swollen, they ran to Su Yuan and said they were willing to handle emergency cases.

Su Yuan sneered and didn’t waste words with them. He directly ordered them to get to the livestock market.

With no other choice, the doctors tearfully gathered their medicines and, with their apprentices, went to the livestock market.

With their help, Tang Wan’s pressure was greatly reduced, and the death rate dropped significantly.

Even so, many people still died.

There was no way around it.

Everyone kept working until the Yin hour (around 3–5 a.m.).

Fortunately, there were no more aftershocks.

Both the rescuers and the rescued were utterly exhausted.

Some who had lost loved ones wept quietly.

And those doctors who had initially refused to accept patients were scolded mercilessly by the townspeople.

The doctors felt very aggrieved — they hadn’t come at first, but didn’t they help later?

Why were they still being cursed?

What an ungrateful bunch of ingrates.

They never stopped to think how many people died during the time they delayed taking action — how many lives were lost for lack of timely treatment, and how many families were shattered because of it.

Regardless of how much effort they later contributed, Su Yuan had already made up his mind to discipline them afterward.

Tang Wan, however, understood.

People are selfish — she was too.

Right and wrong are never absolute.

There’s nothing wrong with putting your own family first — but there should be limits.

When something can be done with just a small effort, how hard is it to lend a hand?