Chapter 157 Do I look like someone who can be bought with money?

Before Feng Yao, most of his doctors were older male doctors.

He rarely interacts with women of the same age.

Hearing Xia Yue say such things suddenly made him somewhat flustered.

However, he quickly calmed down and took off his shirt in a nonchalant manner.

The young man was tall and slender, in his early twenties. Although he did not yet have the physique of a man, he was exceptionally pleasing to the eye.

However, this is only the beginning.

The back is completely the opposite.

Xia Yue noticed that a third of her brother's back was covered in burns, making it look particularly gruesome.

Her expression immediately turned tense, and she asked, "What's going on here?"

Feng Yao didn't mind and said casually, "When I was a child, my house caught fire and I was accidentally burned, but I was fine, cough cough... it's all in the past."

Xia Yue felt even worse after hearing this.

She thought that she had suffered enough, having lost her mother at a young age and been abandoned in the countryside by Liu Meilan.

Unexpectedly, my brother, living with his biological mother in a large family like the Feng family, had an even harder life than I did.

"Does it still hurt?" Xia Yue asked softly, lowering her voice.

Feng Yao assumed Xia Yue was just asking a normal question, so he truthfully replied, "It hasn't hurt for a long time."

Then, Feng Yao asked in a low voice, "Divine Doctor, my health has never been very good. Could it be related to this burn? Cough cough..."

Xia Yue carefully examined the burns.

These marks are over ten years old and have no effect on Feng Yao's current health.

However, in his earlier years, Feng Yao was physically weak, and the burns drained his body's nutrients, resulting in a poor foundation for his health.

Xia Yue began taking Feng Yao's pulse and performing acupuncture with a serious expression, inquiring about the medicines and food he usually ate.

She discovered that the medicine Feng Yao usually took consisted mostly of Coptis chinensis, Sophora flavescens, and Gentiana scabra, which were very cold in nature.

The food he ate consisted mostly of seafood, and almost all of the meat was considered "heaty" or "inflammatory."

The more Xia Yue learned, the angrier she became.

"The medicine and food you usually take are very cold in nature. Normal people shouldn't eat too much of them, but you eat them every day."

If you have a weak constitution, eating these things will make your body feel even worse.

Your cough is one of the signs that you have a cold constitution.

"How exactly did the doctors who examined you before treat you? Why didn't they tell you about these taboos?"

Xia Yue was furious.

After learning the truth, Feng Yao was not too excited.

He had long known that his health was incurable because of the machinations of certain members of the Feng family. He had secretly consulted doctors, but to no avail.

Looking back now, those doctors were probably bribed long ago, which is why they didn't tell him the truth.

Feng Yao gave a self-deprecating laugh.

He coughed again, his face pale, and looked at Xia Yue, asking, "Divine Doctor, how much longer can my body hold out? Give me a definite answer."

"Seven...eight..."

"Seven or eight months, cough cough—or seven or eight years?" Feng Yao asked anxiously, his eyes clearly showing his worry.

Xia Yue patted Feng Yao on the shoulder and gave him a confident answer, "Seventy or eighty years. If you take good care of yourself, you can live to be a hundred."

"One hundred?!" Feng Yao was shocked when he heard this answer.

Xia Yue continued to give Feng Yao acupuncture, stimulating key acupoints on his body.

She then began writing prescriptions and searching for elixirs.

She took out some medicinal powder that she had previously prepared with thousand-year-old Gastrodia elata. "You can divide this medicinal powder into ten portions and take one-tenth of it every day. It is very effective in treating coughs, and the cough will be greatly relieved after ten days."

"Thank you." Feng Yao solemnly accepted the medicine powder.

Xia Yue then gave the prescription to Feng Yao, saying, "Get the medicine according to the ingredients listed here, brew it, and take it three times a day, preferably after meals."

I will also prepare some more ointment to treat the burns on your back.

I will come over every afternoon to give you acupuncture, or you can come to me. Each treatment will last half an hour, and I will treat you for half a month first.

By the way, do you like staying up late? From now on, go to bed at 10 pm every day and get up at 6:30 am. This is the best time to recuperate your body…”

Xia Yue gave earnest instructions, saying a lot of things.

Feng Yao memorized everything.

This was the first time a doctor had shown such concern for his condition.

In the past, most doctors would say there was no cure and then leave.

A warm feeling flowed through Feng Yao's heart.

Is he really going to be saved?

"Thank you, Divine Doctor." Feng Yao said sincerely, looking directly at Xia Yue.

Her bright eyes seemed to hold the stars and the sea.

That was a ray of hope.

For the first time, Feng Yao had hope for survival.

Xia Yue was delighted to see that expression on her brother's face.

Although I regret not meeting my brother sooner, which caused him so much suffering.

But it's not too late now.

She even proactively revealed that, "Before coming here, Master Feng approached me and offered me a higher consultation fee, telling me not to treat you properly."

Although it might be redundant to say it, you should still be careful around him.

Feng Yao had heard from Granny Yang that she had "snatched" the person from Second Master Feng.

In the past, Master Feng would at least pretend, but I never expected him to be so blatant now.

While expressing his gratitude to the divine physician X, Feng Yao couldn't help but ask, "Then... why did you reject him? Cough cough..."

"Do I look like the kind of person who can be bought with money?" Xia Yue blinked and asked back.

Feng Yao suddenly smiled.

He simply found this divine physician incredibly endearing, which made him involuntarily happy.

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