A thirty-two-year-old female doctor accidentally obtains a jade bangle and travels back 20 years. Unexpectedly, the bangle is a magical artifact from the immortal realm, containing a spiritual spri...
None of the patients today had any complicated or difficult diseases, so Qingshan basically finished the job in an hour and a half, and he could call it a day after seeing one more patient.
The last person to enter was a sturdy young man in his twenties, over 1.80 meters tall, with broad shoulders and arms. He was a well-built man, though he was a bit overdressed. Although it was still spring, the temperature in the area near the capital had reached a high of 20 degrees Celsius, which would have sufficed for a light jacket. However, this young man was clad in a short, zippered down jacket, a woolen scarf around the collar, and thick pants. He looked completely out of place in the spring atmosphere.
After the young man sat down on the examination chair, Qingshan looked him up and down with a smile, which made the young man feel embarrassed.
"Hey, Doctor Chen, do you think I'm wearing so many clothes that it's strange?"
Qingshan nodded without saying anything. The young man was also a chatterbox. Without waiting for Qingshan to ask, he automatically told his name and age. At the end, he put his wrist on the pillow and waited for Qingshan to take his pulse. It seemed that he was very familiar with the process of Chinese medicine consultation.
"My name is Hao Jianshe, I'm 29 years old, from the capital, and I work as a trainer at a fitness center."
"A fitness coach exercises every day, so he should be in great shape. Why are you wearing so much? Are you afraid of the cold?"
"Hey! Who said it wasn't true? I used to be really not afraid of the cold. I would even stand there in the coldest days of winter. My friends used to call me a fire in winter. But somehow, I'm getting worse as I get older. The older I get, the more I'm afraid of the cold. It's even worse after I turned 25. Others wear short sleeves and bare chested in the summer, but I don't even dare to take off my long underwear! My friends all laughed at me and said I had kidney deficiency. I didn't accept it, so I went to the hospital to check my kidney function, and it was normal! I went to see a Chinese doctor, and the doctor said I had a cold body. I've been drinking Chinese medicine soup for more than a year, and I'm still wearing a down jacket! I heard that your treatment here is very effective, so I came here to beg you, Doctor Chen, to take a look at what's wrong with me!"
"...What is a tail-pushing pipe?"
Hao Jianshe laughed and said, "Doctor Chen, you're not from the capital, are you? No wonder you haven't heard of it. We in the capital call drinking cold water from the tap 'jutting out the tail pipe'!"
Qingshan suddenly realized, haha, this is quite vivid!
"Do you often drink cold water?"
"I don't drink much tap water, but I do eat a lot of iced soda and popsicles! I have an uncle who works at the Beijing Cold Drink Factory in the capital. He drinks soda as much as he wants, and in the summer he brings boxes of popsicles home. My uncle didn't have any children, so he raised me like his own son, so I've been drinking a lot of soda since I was a kid! I rarely drank hot water until I was eighteen! It doesn't work anymore. Drinking room temperature water gives me diarrhea, and drinking ice water would probably kill me."
Qingshan looked at Hao Jianshe's bloodless lips and gloomy face, put his fingers on his wrist, and felt his pulse was weak and vague. He had the answer in his heart.
"Are you married?"
"I've been married for five or six years!"
"You definitely don't have any kids yet!"
Hao Jianshe raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Huh? Amazing! How did you know I don't have children? Are you a fortune teller or something? I've heard that doctors of your level are familiar with the I Ching, the Five Elements, and the Plum Blossom Divination. If you really can do that, could you please tell me a fortune? Don't worry, it won't be in vain!"
Qingshan withdrew his hand and complained in his heart that Hao Jianshe was really a Kanye and knew a lot!
"I can't tell fortunes, but I can diagnose illnesses! Your lips are blue, your face is yellow, your tongue is coated with a thick white coating, your hands and feet are cold, and your pulse is weak. This is a typical symptom of severe cold!"