Si Wenjie patted the little girl's shoulder and said, "Xiaoyu is now a top student among the new generation of our school. I specially transferred her here to work with you."
He turned to Gu Youran and said, "This girl heard that you were coming back, so she reviewed the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine three times overnight."
Gu Youran nodded with satisfaction and signaled Chen Xiaoyu to prepare to start the consultation.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the seventeenth patient pushed the door open.
A young boy in a blue and white school uniform stood at the door holding a guitar, the tips of his canvas shoes rubbing the ground nervously.
"Um... Doctor Gu..."
His ears flushed red, his fingers unconsciously plucking the strings, "My dad tore up my art exam application form..."
Gu Youran gestured for him to sit down, picked up a silver needle and twirled it between her fingers. "Do you know the Hegu acupoint?"
Without waiting for an answer, the needle tip had already accurately pointed at the base of his thumb, "The key point for relieving pain."
She suddenly reached out and plucked the strings, and the clear overtones spread across the clinic. "Just like a C major chord can soothe anxiety."
The boy stared with wide eyes as she improvised a melody using the rhythm of "Tangtou Gejue".
"I want to listen to your arrangement of 'Ode to the Meridians' during the review next week."
When the clock struck eleven, the last patient had not yet arrived.
Gu Youran was about to pack up when the door of the clinic was gently pushed open a crack.
A chubby cat strolled in slowly, holding a saliva-soaked list in its mouth.
Gu Youran looked down at it and found that it was wearing a custom-made bow tie around its neck, with Shi Heng's sapphire cufflinks pinned to the bow tie.
A faint signature was stamped on it with a paw print:
[Name: Xingmang; Symptoms: Missing my wife so much that I lose my appetite].
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