Hu Junrong
胡君荣
“The Wrong Prescription”
His Story
Called in Chapter 69 to You Erjie, who is pregnant and ailing in the establishment Jia Lian keeps outside the house. He reads the pulse wrongly, treats her for something else, and the medicine brings on a miscarriage — the child she loses is a formed son. Then he is gone, before anyone can hold him to it. Erjie swallows gold not long after. He is the novel’s flat demonstration that a bad doctor is simply a killer with a fee.
In Xiang Li's Hands
She paints the exit. He is caught mid-stride, gown sweeping out behind him, mouth open in his beard, one hand reaching ahead into bare paper. No consulting room, no patient, no prescription. Only a man leaving fast.
The Calligraphy
Inscribed 胡君荣 in full down the right edge beside the moving figure — the plain name, with no title to dignify it.
Connections
- You Erjie 尤二姐 — the patient whose pregnancy he misreads.
- Jia Lian 贾琏 — her husband, absent when it happens.
- Wang Xifeng 王熙凤 — whose campaign against Erjie surrounds the episode on every side.
Others of the same kind · doctor Zhang Youshi 张友士 · Wang Jiren 王济仁 · Bao Taiyi 鲍太医
Dream of the Red Chamber
Xiang Li painted all 413 characters of the novel between 1975 and 1985, the first person to complete the entire cast. See the whole collection · Chinese Empresses
