Tao Xiaodong, who is not a philanthropist, left with the box the next day. The store didn't care about any work, packed a few sets of clothes, took a tattoo machine, brought a few cans of colors and consumables, and threw everything in the store to Rhubarb.
First, I went to an old friend's shop in Italy to stay in the shop for ten days, working day and night for ten days. The owner is a world-class master and is very prestigious in the circle. It was Tao Xiaodong's year-end friend. Tao Xiaodong stayed there for more than a year when he was young. When he first started working in the company, the other party sent people over several times to support him in the store. Tao Xiaodong always remembers this sentiment. Now that Tao Xiaodong is famous, he is also a world-class master, but every year he has a few days to go to the Italian store for a few days, see old friends, and communicate and absorb at the same time.
He met the people from the hospital at the intersection of the road from Lhasa to a certain city.
The hospital contacted Tao Xiaodong halfway through. Tao Xiaodong learned that they were on the same road, so he had him thrown in Qushui. He waited in Qushui for more than an hour when the hospital convoy arrived.
A fleet of several buses and equipment vehicles, with two commercial vehicles at the front. One of them stopped exactly in front of Tao Xiaodong, the driver came down to help him with the suitcase, and at the same time the commercial car door slid open, Tao Xiaodong smiled and greeted, "Doctor Tang."
Tang Suoyan smiled and nodded, and said to him, "Xiaodong."
A temporary stop on the side of the road, not a long-term stop, Tao Xiaodong got into the car and sat in the middle with Tang Suoyan. There were five people in the car, including him, and Tang Suoyan introduced him.
The driver is a local volunteer, the co-pilot is Director Xu, an anesthesiologist, and the one in the back row is Dr. Liu, another chief physician of the ophthalmology department. After greeting each other, Director Xu turned back and said, "I should have asked Mr. Tao to be in the other car. There is a colleague who specially receives you, and I plan to show you the scenery of the Tibetan area along the way and tell you about it."
Tao Xiaodong waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you don't need to receive me."
Director Xu said with a smile: "Director Tang also said it's okay, let you take our car and say that you can be more at ease."
Tao Xiaodong smiled at Tang Suoyan: "Well, I've known Dr. Tang for a long time."
Tang Suoyan also smiled and asked him, "Is Xiaonan okay?"
"Very good. You were on a business trip last time. Doctor Chen showed it. It has been very stable." Tao Xiaodong said.
"Well, Xiaonan's situation has been good. He said Happy New Year to me during the New Year's Day. I chatted with him a few words. He is still pretty good as when he was a child." Tang Suoyan brought a bottle of water to Tao Xiaodong and handed it over.
Tao Xiaodong took it and smiled: "He likes you."
This is a medical aid project of the third hospital, and it is also a tradition of the third hospital.
This kind of medical assistance is carried out every year. For the poor areas with backward medical care such as the Tibetan area and Sichuan area, all branches have come out to provide assistance, and there are long-term and short-term projects. Since a few years ago, the state has called on provincial and municipal hospitals to provide medical assistance in groups to the backward areas. For a long time, there have been teams of doctors stationed in Tibet, and there are also three hospitals.
This time, it is an aid project for ophthalmology in Tibet besides the group medical aid. Tang Suoyan is the leading doctor, and Tao Xiaodong is the equipment investor.
These areas lack not only doctors, but also equipment. This is not the first time Tao Xiaodong has invested in such a medical aid project, he invests almost every year.
Spring is a period of high incidence of eye diseases, and the plateau itself is more prone to eye diseases. Some people in isolated mountainous areas may have never been to the hospital for treatment. This time, the local hospital made publicity in advance. It is said that there are already long queues around the hospital, all of which are patients with eye problems. In fact, the publicity is still not in place. In recent years, the overall medical level in Tibet has improved a lot, but there are still many retail households and herdsmen who would rather go to the gods and worship Buddha than go to the hospital for examination.
This time, the three hospitals and the local government jointly conducted a free clinic project, which is free of charge for both examinations and operations. Many patients came from other cities in order to allow experts to see their eyes.
There was a photography team that accompanied me from beginning to end. It was a self-organized filming organized by medical students who wanted to make a set of documentaries. It is propaganda, and it is hoped that more hospitals or other organizations in the society can participate in the medical assistance projects in poverty-stricken areas.
There was also a handheld camera in the car they were sitting in, which was fixed in a corner, and Tao Xiaodong didn't notice it at first.
Tao Xiaodong actually arrived many days earlier than the people in the hospital. He went to Nyingchi first, where a friend he had promised a few years ago said that he would tattoo scriptures on his back next time he came. Tao Xiaodong and his companion's car once broke down in the no-man's land, and was finally met by this young man riding a motorcycle to herd sheep, and then took him back to his tent.
The young man's name is Sambu, and Tao Xiaodong went to find him this time. He is a nomad and a devout Buddhist.
Sambu said he still took a bath last summer, when it was so cold in winter that the river froze. The exposed skin, which has been blown by the plateau wind all the year round, is dry and chapped, but after taking off the clothes, the skin is not as vicissitudes as the hands and face. His six-year-old son smiled and used a cloth towel rolled up into strips to brush his back, brushing off that layer of oil, revealing the most pristine and cleanest layer of the skin, to endure and accept the pain of engraving the scriptures on his back.
Tao Xiaodong has been to Tibet several times, and the first few times he had no altitude sickness, but this time, the reaction was very serious in the first few days. The other party reluctantly spoke extremely non-standard Chinese, and smiled shyly and said, "Don't shake your hands."
Tao Xiaodong smiled at him and said no.
"I don't know when you will come. I'm afraid you won't be able to find me, so I often ride farther and go around." Tao Xiaodong took a long time to understand what this man said before he understood what he meant.
Tao Xiaodong asked him, "Why didn't you call me?"
"The note has long been lost and can't be found," he said.
In the tent, their daily items were piled up in a mess, and a few cotton-padded clothes for winter were hanging outside. The simple fence made a large circle, and inside was their tent and more than a hundred sheep. The yaks are scattered outside relatively freely, and when the grass is almost eaten, they will change to another place.
Tao Xiaodong completely engraved the scriptures he gave on his back. During this process, the other party always smiled, shyly, but also showed the joy of getting what he wanted. His son laughed too, finding the buzzing machine sound novel and fun to draw on the skin, and he even wanted to draw a few strokes on his own hands.
The child does not speak Chinese, and his father reprimanded him in Tibetan, presumably because he was not allowed to touch the guests' belongings.
Tao Xiaodong smiled and asked, "Aren't you going to teach him to speak Chinese?"
"I teach, but I can't. 'aoe' is not yet pronounced," the father said.
"Where's his mother?" Tao Xiaodong asked.
He said a place name, this Tao Xiaodong could hear it clearly, the other party continued, "She has bad eyes, and there are dark shadows in front of her eyes. There are many doctors from the hospital over there. They come from far away and don't want to pay for surgery Eyes, I told her to go too."
Speaking of this shy Tibetan man, he seemed very happy. He half turned his head and said to Tao Xiaodong: "I say that he is a very powerful doctor, and he can be cured even if he can't see it. In recent years, doctors have often come from far away. Treat everyone, they're fine."
Tao Xiaodong was a little surprised, then smiled and said, "Yes, they are really good."
Tao Xiaodong never denied this, even more so when he was in it.
The medical staff from the third hospital are tacit and skilled, and it is not the first time they have come out. The local hospital has never encountered a battle where so many patients gather, so it seems a little chaotic. On the contrary, these foreign medical personnel and volunteers organized quickly and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.
They were so professional and brought order to the chaotic scene very quickly. When there are not enough staff, Tao Xiaodong is just an ordinary volunteer. When he has a lot of things, he doesn't care about his identity. Some volunteers don't know who Tao Xiaodong is, so they are not polite. Tao Xiaodong is quite easy to use. He works fast and stably. After all, he is well-informed and more experienced than a young man.
In the evening, Tao Xiaodong was carrying two boxes and was seen by a doctor who knew him. He quickly said, "Why are you still working? Mr. Tao, take a rest."
Tao Xiaodong lowered his body and gave in, and said, "You hurry up with your work, Mr. Tao."
The other party hurriedly left again, and the patients were like endless, unable to finish.
For the first three days, I just sit for a clinic and do a check-up. It is time for the surgery after you have finished watching it. There are a lot of cataract and glaucoma surgeries. Eye diseases are common in the plateau. In fact, it is not an intractable eye disease, but many people have been living blind lives because of these problems.
Tang Suoyan has been seeing doctors and seen hundreds of patients.
The students' photography team was divided into several groups to shoot, and one person with a handheld camera followed Tao Xiaodong all the time. Tao Xiaodong said later: "I have something to shoot, let's shoot more of others."
"No, my mission this time is to follow you. You are also worth taking pictures." The student said.
If he wants to shoot, he can shoot. Tao Xiaodong will not tell him any more.
On the afternoon of the third day, all the patients were finally read, and the doctors could rest earlier. In fact, some people in the team have serious altitude sickness, but they have been overcoming it, so when the work is temporarily over, some people go back to rest without even eating.
Others eat in the restaurant, and the local government has prepared for a long time in advance, but these people go straight to work as soon as they arrive here, and only then do they have time to sit down and have a good meal. Because everyone was too tired, they didn't go far, just at the hotel where they stayed.
Tao Xiaodong was sitting at a table with several interns in the hospital, with Tang Suoyan on his right.
Several leaders of the local government and several directors of the hospital were sitting at a table. Tang Suoyan came late just now. When he came over, Tao Xiaodong sat at the table of the intern and raised his hand at him, motioning him to come and sit with his eyes. He understood right away, came over and sat down beside him.
The leaders over there enthusiastically asked them to sit over there. Tao Xiaodong said, "It's the same wherever you sit. Just sit here when it's full over there. You're welcome, you're welcome."
The two said a few words in the past, and then went back to eat in a down-to-earth manner.
During the day, the doctors seemed to be in a state of battle, and every nerve was tense. After resting for a while, I finally relaxed the tense nerves, and each one showed a state of exhaustion and laziness.
Although Tang Suoyan didn't look too lazy, he was really tired.
Fortunately, sitting at the same table as the little doctor in his own hospital, there is no need to talk and socialize, and you don't need to hold your shoulders so straight. The doctor talked for three days in a row, and I really couldn't speak. It was too tiring to talk politely and socially at this time.
If Tao Xiaodong hadn't called Tang Suoyan to sit down before the leaders, Tang Suoyan should have had a couple of bites while socializing next to the city leaders. He's the lead ophthalmologist, and that's his job.
Tao Xiaodong asked him, "Are you tired, Dr. Tang?"
Tang Suoyan was not polite, nodded and said, "Tired, it's like this every time I come out."
Tao Xiaodong said, "You are working too hard."
"The hard work is in the back, anyway, I can still sit these days." Tang Suoyan smiled at him, like a little self-mockery, "You will see Superman from tomorrow."
Tao Xiaodong poured him a cup of tea: "The surgery is about to begin, right?"
Tang Suoyan said "um": "Seeing a doctor is easier than surgery."
The two of them were sitting close together, and there was a lot of noise in the dining room, so they chatted in such a low voice that they could hear them clearly. Tao Xiaodong eats fast, Tang Suoyan is too tired to eat much, and after eating, the two just sit and talk like this.
It's interesting to say, they really didn't know each other that well before, they just met through Tian Yi and had a meal together. After that, there was almost no contact with Tao Huainan except for each inspection, Tang Suoyan had more contact with Tao Huainan than they did.
But they are now like a pair of friends who have known each other for a long time.
It was a bit cold at this time of the night. Tang Suoyan was only wearing a shirt, and he didn't know where the coat was. He rubbed his hands and said, "It's quite cold."
Tao Xiaodong said, "It's cold at night."
Tao Xiaodong received a few messages on his mobile phone. He looked down and said, "It's Tian Yi, ask me where I am."
Tang Suoyan said "Junior Brother", but he and Tian Yi were not that familiar with each other. Ask Tao Xiaodong, "Have you known each other for a long time?"
Tao Xiaodong nodded and said, "We are in the same class in junior high school, I am the first and he is the second."
Tang Suoyan was a little surprised and raised his eyebrows.
Tao Xiaodong smiled: "Is it amazing? The junior high school graduates of your medical university are actually second."
Tang Suoyan also smiled and said, "It's really amazing."
"At that time, we were hanging from the tail of the class, and we fought every day. The school leaders didn't bother others when they saw us. I thought this was my god-destined good brother. Who knew that people would suddenly rise to super gods after high school. , I'm still the first, this kid is going to the top ten."
Tang Suoyan was amused by his words, and laughed twice.
Another news came in from the mobile phone. Tao Xiaodong glanced at him and said, "I said you were there, but Tian Yi said to go back and have a meal together. He is your little brother and has always admired you."
Tang Suoyan didn't say anything modest, just nodded and said, "Okay, go back and make an appointment."