Village Doctor's Women-Chapter 210 - 204 Can you not mess it up?

When Cai Qiong heard Angel’s voice, she thought she was hallucinating. But when she turned her head, she saw Wang Jian walking in with Angel and an unfamiliar middle-aged man.

"What are you doing here?" Angel was stunned. Not only was she surprised to see Cai Qiong, but she was also baffled to find her at Wang Jian’s house, dressed in such casual, at-home clothes.

"I..." Cai Qiong faltered, her gaze wandering between Wang Jian and Angel, unable to think of an excuse. She could only pin her hopes on Wang Jian, frantically signaling him with her eyes.

"Do you two know each other?" Wang Jian intervened.

"We’re classmates, from high school," Cai Qiong quickly replied.

"Right," Angel nodded, though she still looked at Cai Qiong with a puzzled expression. "Didn’t you say you’d come find me when you had time? How come..."

Before Cai Qiong could speak, Wang Jian sensed her predicament. Although he didn’t understand why, he came up with an excuse for her. "Her dad and I know each other. After a while, we became friends. She happens to be staying here for a few days."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes!" Cai Qiong nodded repeatedly, replying cheerfully. "I wanted to give you a surprise, so I deliberately told you I’d visit in a few days. I never expected you to come directly to his house. Well, so much for the surprise. It almost turned into a scare."

"Hahahaha." Angel didn’t seem to suspect anything, but when she looked at Wang Jian again, her gaze grew more appraising.

This village doctor actually knows the president of the Cai Group. That’s highly unusual. Not only that, but he’s also this close with the Cai family’s daughter... Forget a village doctor; even the director of the Cai family’s private hospital might not have this kind of personal relationship with the Cai father and daughter. And my intuition is telling me there’s something unspoken going on between this man and woman.

Wang Jian led the group into his house without lingering in the yard. Inside, he introduced Xu Qian and Chairman Kang to Angel.

Seeing that Wang Jian and Cai Qiong weren’t living alone together, her suspicions were somewhat allayed. However, she then discovered a new bombshell.

"Mr. Kang, judging by your accent, are you from Capital City?" Angel asked, just making small talk. "Are you also here on vacation?"

Chairman Kang shook his head. "Not for vacation. I’m here to study medicine with my senior brother."

Huang Long also looked puzzled. "Senior brother?"

"Yes," Chairman Kang nodded. "Doctor Wang is my senior brother. We had the same professor at university. I’m doing my internship now, and our professor approved my coming here to study."

Huang Long and Angel exchanged a look, thinking they had misheard.

A university student on his internship... instead of rotating through departments at a major hospital, he comes to learn from a village doctor? Is this a joke?

Angel asked directly, "Are you from Kyoto Medical University?"

That was the university mentioned in Wang Jian’s file. However, Chairman Kang hadn’t been around when Angel verified the information. She and her team were completely unaware that he had a student, so now that she’d heard, she naturally wanted to know more.

Chairman Kang nodded. "Yes. My professor is also Song Yijin."

"What?" Angel had heard of the professor. Years ago, when a severe infectious disease had broken out in the country, it was Professor Song who had provided the preventative formula that saved countless lives. She was certainly aware of such a remarkable figure.

They had assumed Wang Jian was just a village doctor. Their file only contained his school, and they hadn’t bothered to dig deeper into who his mentor was. In their minds, a student who couldn’t make it in Capital City wasn’t likely to have a significant academic background... Well, it turned out they were wrong. You never know until you look, and what you find can be a real shock.

But the more they learned, the less they understood. Even as they left Wang Jian’s house, they still looked completely baffled.

On the way back to the town’s guesthouse, Huang Long broke the silence. "So, what do you think his angle is?"

"Huh? Whose?"

"That college student, Kang," Huang Long clarified.

Angel mused, "Didn’t he say? He’s here to study."

"I know," Huang Long scoffed. "What I mean is, with so many hospitals in Capital City, even if his grades... his skills... aren’t that great, he could still find a place to learn, right?"

"It’s not that simple," Angel said. "The hospitals where medical students do their internships aren’t chosen randomly; they’re usually arranged by the school. For him to come here, there are two possibilities. One is that this place is truly worth it and his professor approved—otherwise, his graduation would be in jeopardy. The other is that this student, Chairman Kang, has incredibly powerful family connections and can intern wherever he wants, simply to pad his resume."

Of course, it was also possible that both were true.

Angel didn’t voice this thought, as it seemed too improbable.

Huang Long remained unconvinced. "He’s just a village doctor. What could there possibly be to learn from him? I think it’s most likely he’s just here to pad his resume."

It wasn’t surprising that Huang Long thought this way. Resources in this world were finite. The best resources and opportunities always congregated at the very top of the pyramid. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer—a saying that applied to more than just money. The brain drain from their province had been quite obvious over the years. It wasn’t a difficult concept to grasp.

For instance, if they weren’t filming a documentary about village doctors, they would never have paid any attention to this place, nor to the field of village medicine itself. Their subconscious perception, and the reality of the situation, was that a village doctor was not some kind of incredible master. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

Huang Long didn’t think there was anything special about Wang Jian. And yet, as someone who had filmed all sorts of subjects over the years, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something about this place was off.

Angel felt the same, so she didn’t respond to Huang Long.

"I have a feeling this isn’t so simple. Will it affect our filming?" she worried. She was worried they might have run into a fraud, which would mean all their footage would be unusable for the television station. If that were the case, they would have to pivot from a medical documentary to a cultural one.

Angel added, "This documentary should ideally make people aware of the deficiencies in rural healthcare, attracting more attention from various sectors of society. Maybe it could lead to improvements... but that doesn’t mean we can just film someone slacking off."

Huang Long nodded in agreement. "It’s fine. We’ll observe for a few days. Whether he’s genuinely skilled or just a slacker, we’ll have a way to handle it."

"Either way, it will create a contrast with other places... At worst, we can just get a doctor from the town or city. It’s not like we’ll be left with nothing to film."

Huang Long’s suggestion was a decent one. In the car, Angel closed her eyes to rest, mulling over the feasibility of these backup plans. As for how good Wang Jian’s medical skills really were, they could only observe for now.

Hopefully... the best-case scenario is that Wang Jian is truly what they’ve seen, that he’ll be their hidden gem.

Angel prayed silently, hoping her first time leading a team wouldn’t be a disaster.