No one saw the small pebble that shot out like a bullet, not even Mo Guoqiang himself. But his lower leg was suddenly immobile, the pain so excruciating he thought he would die. A few kind villagers carried him to the brigade clinic, but the medic there couldn't help him. Liu Fengying rushed over and had no choice but to get a tractor to take him to the commune health center. However, the barefoot doctor there said their facilities were limited and they couldn't treat his condition, telling them to go to Wancheng Hospital for an X-ray. Mo Guoqiang was jostled about on the tractor and moved around so much that he fainted from the pain. When they finally reached Wancheng and got the X-ray, it turned out to be a comminuted fracture!
Liu Fengying even got an earful from the doctor, who said they had aggravated the injury by jostling the patient around so much.
