Chapter 47: Formal Reunion with Uncle
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Bai Zhi had arranged with Dr. Zhou that a relative's patient needed treatment, so she had to leave work an hour early at noon to go out and give the patient acupuncture, and return before 2 p.m.
"Your relative is sick again?" Dr. Zhou said. "Then why don't you take him home tonight for treatment?"
Bai Zhi explained, "That's right. I need to give him not only acupuncture, but also moxibustion with medicinal sticks. As you know, moxibustion is quite particular about the timing of treatment. It is most effective when the yang energy is at its peak at noon. It is not suitable at night."
Dr. Zhou didn't know anything about moxibustion, but he couldn't admit it, so he just nodded and said, "Oh, then go ahead."
With no patients around, Bai Zhi had nothing to do, and there was still no news from her uncle.
She still felt a little uneasy.
My heart was burning with anxiety; every second felt like an eternity.
So, I looked at Dr. Zhou, hoping to chat with him to distract myself.
"Dr. Zhou, I have a question that has always been a mystery to me. I wonder if you could help me answer it?"
"What confusion? If I can solve it, I will. If I can't, you can figure it out yourself."
Dr. Zhou looked visibly nervous. He knew his own medical skills best, and if this girl wanted to discuss any cases with him, he really wouldn't know what to say.
Awkward.
Bai Zhi leaned against the medicine cabinet, resting her chin on her hand, and asked curiously, "Why did you open a pharmacy? Is your dream to become a doctor?"
She couldn't help but feel that this Dr. Zhou's ideal was to roam the martial arts world.
Upon hearing her question, Dr. Zhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He explained, "Just like you, it's an ancestral tradition, a mantle passed down through generations."
"I see. Your father must be a very skilled doctor."
Dr. Zhou replied casually, "It's fine as it is. My brother studied Western medicine, but we can't let our family's traditional Chinese medicine tradition die out. I can only be forced into this role."
Speaking of this, it's a heartbreaking and tearful story.
He looked at Bai Zhi and said, "Your maternal grandfather is quite open-minded. Our Zhou family has a long tradition of traditional Chinese medicine, which is passed down to sons but not daughters."
Besides, she's my granddaughter.
Bai Zhi said with a smile, "My grandfather had no choice. My uncle didn't want to learn medicine from him. You saw me when my uncle came the day before yesterday. He's a big boss who makes a lot of money, and he has no desire to learn traditional Chinese medicine and practice medicine."
Upon hearing this, Dr. Zhou's eyes flashed with envy, and he gave a thumbs up, saying, "I admire your uncle's courage."
He didn't have the courage to refuse the old man's arrangement.
Speaking of Ye Tiandong, Bai Zhi looked on with admiration, "My uncle is very capable, especially good at business, and knows how to make money."
His judgment of people is just not very good.
I was badly deceived by a woman.
"Sigh, someone like me who can't make money can only be manipulated and live like a salted fish," Dr. Zhou said, picking up his martial arts novel again.
After finishing the previous book, he started reading another one.
Dr. Zhou stopped talking to her, and Bai Zhi, resting her chin on her hand, began to feel irritated again.
It was already ten o'clock, and she still hadn't heard anything from her uncle. She couldn't help but worry about his safety.
Their hometown is a poor, remote place. Ye Tiandong has an outstanding temperament and is quite flamboyant. If someone were to target him, it would be disastrous.
Bai Zhi suppressed her worries and decided to pack her cloth bag and set off early to give Lu Ye moxibustion.
Just as I put the silver needles into my bag, the curtain of the pharmacy was lifted.
When Dr. Zhou saw the man enter, he smiled and asked, "Mr. Ye is back?"
After hearing from Bai Zhi that Ye Tiandong, like him, also disliked being a doctor and had successfully rebelled, Doctor Zhou looked at him with even more respect.
Bai Zhi also looked up and gazed over.
Ye Tiandong was still wearing the same clothes he had worn before he left, but the clothes were now very wrinkled and dirty, and his hair was flat and limp.
He looked disheveled and had just come from a long journey.
He looked at Bai Zhi, his emotions running high. He moved his dry lips, but his nose stung, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Seeing his appearance, Bai Zhi couldn't tell what he was feeling, nor did she know if he had figured out the truth during his trip.
She looked at Ye Tiandong and asked cautiously, "Are you alright? Have you seen my dad?"
"Call me uncle." Ye Tiandong's voice was hoarse as he gazed at Bai Zhi and said this after a long while.
Upon hearing his words, Bai Zhi knew that Ye Tiandong had confirmed her identity.
Her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.
Fortunately, her identity was clarified without any mishaps.
She called out sweetly, "Uncle."
With trembling hands, Ye Tiandong gave Bai Zhi a hug.
"My child, you have suffered."
Ye Tiandong's voice trembled with tears, "Why didn't you acknowledge us sooner, child?"
After he finished speaking, he remembered that she had learned medicine from the old man, and changed his tone with a hint of complaint, "No, why didn't you acknowledge me sooner?"
Bai Zhi explained, "Uncle, I know you're very busy with your business and always traveling around, so I haven't had a chance to see you before."
Ye Tiandong snorted coldly, "I don't believe it. It must be that old man who's preventing you from acknowledging me, isn't it?"
Bai Zhi hurriedly denied it, "Uncle, absolutely not. My maternal grandfather has never done such a thing. He even told me about you, saying that you opened a restaurant and the business is booming. He said you have a talent for business and are very outstanding..."
Ye Tiandong frowned and interrupted her, "Alright, stop making things up."
Bai Zhi, “…”
"Tell me quickly, how exactly did your mother die? Was she killed by Bai Zhicheng?"
Because he was eager to reunite with Bai Zhi, Ye Tiandong did not linger in Qingshui County.
Of course, he also knew that he wouldn't be able to find any information there.
Even the village chief might not tell him the truth.
Bai Zhi looked solemn and shook her head. "Uncle, I don't know exactly how my mother passed away. I only heard from my grandfather that after giving birth to me, her body was weakened and she was in a bad mood for a long time. I never even saw my mother. The only black and white photo I have was given to me by my grandfather."
"Poor child, how did you grow up in that kind of family?"
After witnessing the true colors of that family, Ye Tiandong felt as if his heart was being torn apart.
It must have been incredibly difficult for his niece to grow up in that kind of environment.
Bai Zhi comforted him in a lighthearted tone, "I've lived with my grandfather since I was little, and he's been very good to me."
Bai Zhi lowered her head and wiped away her tears. "But he passed away three years ago."
In her previous life, she became an orphan after her grandfather passed away.
Her father and stepmother didn't dare to bully her before, but after her grandfather passed away, they became unscrupulous.
She lied to her, saying that the Lu family looked down on her.
He took away her jade pendant and threatened her to get engaged to Zhao Kai.
She then turned around and had Bai Weiwei take her place in marrying into the Lu family.
Bai Zhi looked at Ye Tiandong, who looked exhausted, and asked with concern, "Uncle, did they give you any trouble?"
"Those ants dare to make things difficult for me?" Ye Tiandong said. "But your half-sister is too shameless. How can she be so cunning at such a young age?"
Ye Tiandong mentioned Bai Weiwei, and Bai Zhi asked curiously, "What happened to her?"
"She's impersonating you, saying she's my niece, and wants to acknowledge us as relatives."
Bai Zhi, "???"
Is this some kind of clichéd plot?
“I decided to play along and made her slap her parents twice.”
Ye Tiandong's lips curled into a smug smile. "When I came out, the whole family was fighting like dogs."
Bai Zhi, "!!!"
No wonder he's her uncle.
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