Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Wang Yao didnât go home. Pan Jun asked someone to cover his shift. He booked a restaurant and notified all the friends.
The same friends came to the restaurant. They all arrived early.
âHi, Yao, I heard from Mingbao that you two took a trip to Qinzhou?â asked Wei Hai.
âYes,â said Wang Yao, smiling.
He briefly told his friends about the situation of the village he and Wang Mingbao visited.
âShall we make a donation?â Wei Hai immediately thought about donation. In fact, he had made a donation to charity organizations such as Red Cross every year since he had that weird illness. He did it for his peace of mind.
âYes, I think it is a good idea,â said Wang Yao.
âHmmm, I will make a contribution,â said Wei Hai. His business had grown really big, and he no longer put money ahead of everything else due to his illness.
âIâll make a contribution, too,â said Wang Mingbao.
Everyone at the dinner table agreed to make a donation.
It didnât matter how much they were all going to contribute, as long as they wanted to help those poor villagers.
âSo how are we going to do it?â asked Wei Hai.
âIâm not sure. I need to think about it,â said Wang Yao.
âDo you need to do it through an organization?â asked Wang Mingbao.
âYou know what? We can create a charity fund ourselves,â suggested Wei Hai.
âThatâs a good idea!â Wang Yaoâs eyes brightened.
âI agree, we can created a charity specifically for people in need,â said Tian Yuantu.
âGreat!â Everyone agreed.
They had made a decision on making a charity before the dishes and wines were even served.
âDo we need to register it with the government first?â asked Wang Yao.
âThatâs simple. Leave it to me,â said Wei Hai.
He and Tian Yuantu were good at the administration side of things.
âSo what should we call our charity fund?â asked Wang Yao.
âCompassion Charity Fund?â suggested Wang Mingbao.
âThat name must have been taken already,â said Tian Yuantu.
âNanshan?â said Wei Hai suddenly.
âNanshan?â Wang Yao was dazed for a second.
âThatâs a good idea,â said Wang Mingbao.
âI donât think so.â Wang Yao didnât agree.
The name was too obvious because he lived on Nanshan Hill.
All the names they thought about were not suitable. While they were still thinking about the name of the fund, the staff of the restaurant started to serve the dishes.
âLetâs eat first,â suggested Wang Mingbao.
âOkay,â said Wang Yao.
It was not that easy to form a charity. They needed to register first, and then hire staff to both manage the fund and deal with any issues that arose. Only Tian Yuantu and Wei Hai had experience in business administration and management. However, neither of them could devote all their time and energy into managing the fund.
In the end, they still hadnât come up with a suitable name by the time they had a few glasses of wine and almost finished dinner.
âThis is too complicated. How about each of us write down a name, then we all decide which one we should use?â suggested Li Maoshuang.
âThatâs a good idea,â said Wang Mingbao.
Each of them wrote a name down on a piece of paper.
In the end, Wei Hai, Li Maoshuang and Tian Yuantu all wrote Nanshan on their piece of paper.
âNo, we canât use Nanshan.â Wang Yao shook his hand.
He wrote âDream Startâ, indicating starting a dream, but also didnât sound right.
âWell, letâs make it Nanshan. You came up with this idea, you live on Nanshan Hill, and you cured all of us. We should just name it the Nanshan Charity Fund,â said Wei Hai.
âI agree,â said Li Maoshuang.
Only Wang Yao was against the name Nanshan, but the minority had to follow to the majority.
Therefore, the name of the fund had been decided. As for whether it would be approved, no one was worried about it at this stage.
âI will ask about how to register the fund,â said Tian Yuantu.
They didnât discuss about the registration fee .
Both Wei Hai and Tian Yuantu were billionaires. Wang Mingbao also had his own business and should be able to contribute over one million yuan. Wang Yao could contribute the same amount. The registration wouldnât cost too much comparably. The key point was how to manage the fund in the future.
By the time Wang Yao arrived at his cottage on Nanshan Hill it had passed 8 pm.
I didnât expect to achieve this much during my visit to Lianshan town center, thought Wang Yao.
If the charity fund could be run smoothly in the future, it would definitely help a lot of people.
A dot of light appeared on Nanshan Hill. It looked like a soybean from distance.
It was very windy on the hill, the trees were shaking in the wind.
Wang Yao was reading a medical book in the cottage.
Which herb could resolve thrombosis and improve blood flow?
He was looking for a suitable herb.
Licorice roots were wonderful, but he couldnât completely rely on them.
He didnât go to sleep until the middle of the night.
The next morning, Sun Zhengrong arrived at the clinic at about 9 am. He also brought a lot of gifts for Wang Yaoâs parents.
âHow come youâve brought so many gifts again?â said Wang Yao.
âJust some small gifts,â said Sun Zhengrong with a smile.
âPlease come in,â said Wang Yao.
There was a private room in Wang Yaoâs clinic. He took Sun Yunsheng into the private room.
âPlease take off your clothes,â said Wang Yao.
The therapy method was the same this time. The only difference was that Wang Yao passed his own Qi to Sun Yunsheng as well as absorbing heat toxin from Sun Yunshengâs body.
The whole therapy session went for about two and a half hours with a few breaks in the middle.
âIâll give you a therapy session every three days,â said Wang Yao after he checked Sun Yunsheng over following the treatment.
âOkay,â said Sun Zhengrong.
It was lunchtime by the time he finished. Wang Yao invited Sun Zhengrong and Sun Yunsheng to a small restaurant that was next door. He ordered some local delicacies.
âHmmm, the food here tastes good,â said Sun Zhengrong.
âYes. I normally take my friends here to eat,â said Wang Yao.
Sun Zhengrong then discussed with Wang Yao about the village in Qinzhou. His charity would invest in that village. He would arrange people to fix the roads for the villagers.
âBy the way, I want to ask you something,â said Wang Yao.
He told Sun Zhengrong about his attempt to form a charity and asked some questions related to the registration and management of the fund.
âYou want to form a charity?â asked Sun Zhengrong.
âNot just myself, Iâm doing it with some friends,â said Wang Yao.
âIâm actually not exactly sure about the process. Well, I can ask someone to come to help you. He knows everything about how to form a charity. You can ask him if you get stuck,â said Sun Zhengrong.
âGreat! Thank you,â said Wang Yao.
One could find anything by chance after travelling far and wide for it.
Wang Yao had a nice lunch with Sun Zhengrong and Sun Yunsheng.
Sun Zhengrong and his son left after lunch.
Wang Yao also went home.
âYao!â called out Zhang Xiuying.
âWho was that Mr. Sun visiting us today? Why has he brought so much stuff?â asked Zhang Xiuying.
âHe brought his son to see me,â said Wang Yao, smiling.
âHe seems to be quite rich,â said Zhang Xiuying.
âYes, very rich,â said Wang Yao.
âI see,â said Zhang Xiuying.
âMom, donât think so much of the gifts. His son has a weird condition which is very hard to treat. He just wants to thank me for treating his son,â said Wang Yao.
âBut you still shouldnât take so much from him,â said Zhang Xiuying.
âIâve told him not to bring gifts many times,â said Wang Yao.
He didnât return to Nanshan Hill immediately. He stayed at home for a while.
It started to get dark.
The village was very quiet in the evening.
...
Meanwhile, Bingzhou, which was thousands of miles away, was still a busy city.
Inside a luxurious house, a distorted face was showing on the clean window.
Long Yunfei looked ferocious. His problem got worse in the last few days. He was able to walk a few steps a few days ago. However, he couldnât even stand up now, as if his legs no longer belonged to him. He was a doctor, so he knew what it meant to him. He was paralyzed. If nothing could be done to help him regain his mobility, he would have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
Why is this happening to me?!
He had thought about this question thousands of times. The most likely cause was Wang Yao, but Wang Yao hadnât given him a definitive answer.
âDad, itâs time for dinner,â called out his son.
âYou guys eat first. I want to be alone for a while.â Long Yunfei shook his hand.
âOkay,â said his son.
Long Yunfei stared at the city through the window.
Time slowly passed by.
Eventually he made a decision.
He wheeled himself to the table, picked up his mobile phone, found a number, then made the call.
âHello?â Wang Yao was a bit surprised to see the number showing on his phone.
âHello,â said Long Yunfei. âDr. Wang.â Long Yunfeiâs voice was hoarse and weak.
âWho am I speaking to?â asked Wang Yao.
âThis is Long Yunfei calling,â said Long Yunfei.
âOh, hello, Dr. Long,â said Wang Yao.
âIâm sorry, I made a terrible mistake,â said Long Yunfei.
No one could get those words out of the mouth of a very proud Dr. Long. Wang Yao could imagine how angry and upset Long Yunfei was at the moment. However, Long Yunfei couldnât do anything about Wang Yao.
âSorry, I donât know what you are talking about,â said Wang Yao.
âIâm talking about the formula you gave me. I will apologize in public for stealing your formula. As for the patent, I will give it up. Please send me your bank account details so that I can transfer all the money earned by selling the formula to you.â Long Yunfei had surrendered, completely surrendered to Wang Yao.
âYou could have acted differently. It didnât have to come to this,â said Wang Yao.
When dealing with a cheeky person like Long Yunfei, Wang Yao could have suffered a loss without being able to telling the world of it if he hadnât fought back.
Long Yunfei probably thought that he had the best attitude about the situation and had given Wang Yao his biggest compromise. After all, he was a senior officer of the health department of a province, while Wang Yao was just a common doctor. A lot of people in China thought this way. They thought they were superior to the rest of the population because they held a high position in the government. They felt entitled to do certain things and enjoyed the convenience their position brought to them. They thought they were supposed to benefit from their position.
However, Wang Yao didnât think Long Yunfeiâs apology was adequate.
Why should I let him off the hook so easily?! thought Wang Yao.
âThe roads going there were no good.â It seemed that Wang Yao said something completely irrelevant.
âWhat?!â Long Yunfei was dazed for a second.
But clever as he was, he immediately got what Wang Yao meant.
Wang Yao wanted him to build a road for the village.
It would certainly cost a lot to build a road, and money was not the only concern. It would require the cooperation of the local government. It was really complicated.
Long Yunfei started to become short of breath.
This was too much for him.
âIâll give you some time to consider it.â Wang Yao hung up the phone right away. He wouldnât waste his time waiting for Long Yunfeiâs answer.
It was getting late.
Wang Yao went back to Nanshan Hill alone.
The wind on the hill was very cold.
Wang Yao sat in the yard looking up at the sky late at night.
âIt should get cold,â said Wang Yao.
It was very windy overnight. The next day, the temperature dropped nearly 10 degrees. Winter was coming.
The wind was howling.
Wang Yao went up to the top of the hill early in the morning.
He look around. The leaves of the trees on the hills nearby had all dropped, except for several cypresses. Everything looked yellow and dark on the hills nearby. Nanshan Hill was an exception. All the trees on it were still green.
The sun came out. Wang Yao practiced Chinese boxing and did breathing exercise for a while.
It was a beautiful day. The sun had come out and the air was full of youthful spirit.
Screech! Wang Yao heard a loud sound coming from the sky.
It was an eagle roaring overhead.
Wang Yao looked up and waved to Da Xia.