Barefoot Doctor: I Relied on a Manual to Survive in the Mountain Village

Cao Xinglin, an educated youth, was given a copy of "The Barefoot Doctor's Handbook" by the team leader. He couldn't even take a pulse, so he became the only "doctor" in the team. On the first night, he faced a child with high fever and convulsions. A page was torn out of the manual - and in pencil writing on the chipped page it read: "DO NOT USE NEEDLE." But he had already dug in. The child was saved, but Old Zhou, the previous barefoot doctor, also used the same manual to give the same injection to the same disease. The child stopped convulsing and stopped breathing. Lao Zhoutou later committed suicide by drinking medicine. What exactly was ripped out of the manual? What page did Old Zhou turn to before he died? From then on, Cao Xinglin earned work points by pulling weeds during the day, and at night he read manuals, went to the mountains to collect herbs, dealt with superstitious folk remedies, and fought for patients with the powerful goddess. He saved children bitten by snakes, cured postpartum women, and withstood the entire double-digit season's medical treatment load - but there was always a thorn in his heart: was the torn-out manual a page, or a life? 3 Million words, a true record of the life and death of an educated youth barefoot doctor. It's not a cool novel, it's the whole process of a young man growing into a "doctor" in the soil.