The narrator's ability to feel the seamstress's struggle causes him to
go on a reconnoitering trip to the diminutive village of
Yong Jing to
visit the hospital there.
The trip itself was by no means easy, as he
tramped through two days of ravenous mountains. It was his job to
locate the gynecologist and confront him about the prospect to perform
this abortion. He explains that it in this day and age, the seamstress
was in quite a predicament. The minimal age you had to be to marry was
25, and
abortions were strictly prohibited. He finds the hospital, and found the ward devoted to gynecology. It was filled to the brim with expecting women. Feeling
strange be a young man in there, the narrator attracted many glares and strange looks from the occupants. However, all he manages to do was get a glimpse of the
doctor.
Stumped as to how to get in with the doctor in order to get him to help the Little Seamstress, the narrator goes for two days without discovering anything, until one day, he tries to find an
old street sweeper who he and Lou had often seen while on their movie going trips. After discovering that he'd been hospitalized, he rushes back to the hospital, only to catch the old man speaking his last prayers. But in that same moment, he spots the gynecologist that he saw on the first day and rushes out the door to see him.
After a few exchanges of information, namely his father's position and a deal with some of the books they'd acquired from Four-Eyes, the doctor agrees to see to the Little Seamstress.
After the operation is complete, the narrator gives the Doctor
Ursule Mirouet and also his favorite book, Jean Christophe
. 
