Chapter 6: This is outrageous. I advise you not to play the game of refusal with me...
Shen Jiang then remembered that he had applied medicine on his hands before going to bed. At this moment, the pain in the palm of his hand had long disappeared, and there was no trace of the previous tingling sensation.
She suddenly perked up and sat up immediately. The dressing on the palm of her hand had already dried up and could be completely removed with a light peel. However, Shen Jiang was stunned.
The redness and swelling on her palms had subsided, the blisters had disappeared, and even the small cuts had mostly healed, leaving only a shallow, almost invisible red mark.
Shen Jiang looked at her hands back and forth in disbelief. If it weren't for the painful feeling that went straight to her heart, she would have thought her hands had never been injured at all.
She stared blankly at the dried-up medicine residue on the bedside table and thought: Maybe grandma's medical expenses have been settled.
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"Ms. Shen, to be honest, I've seen this kind of tactics many times. Changing your mind at the last minute is just an attempt to raise the price."
Shen Jiang frowned slightly. The buyer, Mr. Wang, was very blunt and harsh. The few previous negotiations had made her feel uncomfortable. But after all, he was the buyer and the price he offered was high, so she tolerated it and pretended not to hear it.
It is quite common for buyers and sellers to go back on their word before a contract is signed. Although it is morally wrong, it is not impossible.
Shen Jiang remembered the agent's kind advice just now, asking her to think it over carefully. If the other party went to see other stores, she would have no place to cry even if she wanted to regret it.
I thought the same thing as her.
"Thank you for your interest in this house. Actually, there are quite a few vacant businesses around here. If you really like it, you can ask the agent to inquire about other properties. Maybe we can become neighbors in the future."
The other party fell silent, as if they had never expected her to say that.
Shen Jiang felt that the matter was almost over. After all, she had said everything she needed to say.
A cold snort sounded from the other end of the phone, and the arrogant male voice interrupted her abruptly.
"Ms. Shen, please stop wasting your energy making excuses. I know everything about your store. A while ago, your doctor was hospitalized due to a medical dispute. I think Miss Shen must be short of money these days, so she offered such a high price. I'm not doing charity, but how is this price different from charity?"
You said you didn't want to sell. Are you hoping to keep running that shop and continue treating patients? Do you think, with your shop's current reputation, which patient would dare come to see you? How about this, we both make a compromise and I'll raise the price a little.
My time is valuable, so I advise you not to play these half-hearted games with me."
Shen Jiang took a deep breath, a cold look in his eyes. He really didn't want to continue to tangle with such a self-righteous person.
My grandmother got into trouble because of a medical dispute, and this matter is now almost known to everyone.
After the news came out that an old Chinese doctor in Nanze City was beaten into the hospital by medical protesters, it seemed to touch a nerve among netizens and sparked heated discussions among the whole nation overnight.
Unlike Western medicine, where medical disputes and injuries occur, the public will spontaneously sympathize with the doctors and condemn the disputes. However, this time, after learning the whole story, most netizens actually sided with the patient, thinking that the patient's family was unlucky and pitiful. The old man was treated badly by the doctor, and the pillar of the family had to go to jail for seeking justice. It was truly a tragedy.
The critics of traditional Chinese medicine are setting the pace, and various marketing accounts are smelling the heat and coming to the rescue. In short, public opinion is fermenting and growing uncontrollably in the worst direction, as if everyone is talking about this matter now.
When those netizens initially harassed Shen Jiang, she simply turned off her phone and ignored them. It wasn't until some aggressive netizens stormed into the hospital and started harassing her that she realized the situation had gotten out of hand.
What upset Shen Jiang the most was that some old patients who had come to the clinic to see their doctors came out and accused Mingxintang, saying that they had long lost their original intentions, that not only were the medicines not as effective as before, but they were also more expensive, and that this clinic only cared about making money...
It turns out that a person’s years of hard work and efforts can be wiped out in an instant, and allowed to be arbitrarily misinterpreted, slandered and fermented.
Shen Jiang's eyes flashed coldly, and he was about to hang up. But Mr. Wang's words, "I advise you not to play the game of playing hard to get with me," lingered in his mind like a demonic voice, brainwashing him. In a flash, Shen Jiang thought of the nightmare he had that morning.
Shen Jiang probed, "You're not the real buyer. Is your boss's surname Su? Su Xingran."
There was silence at first, and then the other party responded as if regaining consciousness.
"...So you know who my boss is, that's why you're so eager to raise the price. Haha, let me tell you..."
After receiving the expected and unexpected answer, Shen Jiang did not give the other party any chance to continue speaking rudely. Her eyes were cold.
"Xiao Wang, I hear you sound irritable and harsh. It's probably because of your liver. If left untreated, it could very well develop into a serious illness. That's all I have to say. Don't call me again."
After hanging up the phone, Shen Jiang was given a one-stop blacklisting service, but he did not feel relieved. He just felt like a big stone was blocking his heart.
Shen Jiang has always had a good memory. She was sure that Mr. Wang had never mentioned that he had a boss. She also didn't know any Su Xingran before today. This was just the name of the man who appeared in her ridiculous and tragic dream that morning.
Is everything in the dream real?
Shen Jiang looked at the familiar furnishings in front of him and felt that everything before him was both real and magical.
She thought that the door was the most collapsed world she had ever seen, but she met a talking black dragon behind the door. Her worldview collapsed to the point of collapse. Now, the little worldview she had left collapsed again and again.
According to the dream, the entire universe is composed of countless fictional worlds. Each fictional world has its own protagonist, each independent and independent of the others. Her own world is one of these small worlds, and the entire story revolves around a male and female protagonist, a domineering boss chasing his wife to the crematorium.
She and her grandmother are both insignificant cannon fodder characters in this novel's world.
The center of this world - the male protagonist Su Xingran and the female protagonist Pei Jia, of course Shen Jiang doesn't know them.
But she knew the male protagonist's biological sister Su Qing, a wealthy second-generation from a wealthy family, and also Shen Jiang's college junior. Last year, she came to Mingxin Hall for treatment. After learning that Shen Jiang was her senior sister, she often came to her every now and then to discuss professional issues in traditional Chinese medicine.
Shen Jiang knew she was rich because, despite her alma mater being thousands of miles away in the capital, Su Qing would show up at Mingxin Hall at her own leisure, often coming to see her after class. Later, Shen Jiang learned she had her own private jet, allowing her to fly back and forth between the two places at any time.
That was the first time Shen Jiang realized how much money could buy her free rein. But her grandmother said, "Of course, money can buy not only time, but also life."
Shen Jiang was not used to being very friendly, but Su Qing was very warm and sweet to her, without any of her temper or airs. Whenever her grandmother saw Su Qing coming, she would say with a pleasant face, "You're here to see our Xiaogu again."
After a few interactions, the two gradually became familiar with each other.
Su Qing is a crucial supporting character in this novel world. As the driving force of the relationship between the male and female protagonists, it can be said that without her, the ups and downs of the emotional journey of the two protagonists would be missing more than half.
The male protagonist Su Xingran dotes on his younger sister very much. This time, when he heard that the idol senior sister that his sister often talked about had an accident at home, he directly bought Mingxin Hall with a large sum of money. Later, he even invited Shen Jiang to continue to see patients at Mingxin Hall, just to make his sister happy.
Shen Jiang, who encountered a family change and did not understand the whole story, was grateful to the buyer for a long time after returning to Mingxintang. Later, when he learned that Su Qing was the buyer's sister, he took even more care of Su Qing, his junior, and shared his learning experience with Su Qing almost without reservation.
Later in the dream, Su Qing graduated from university and came to Mingxintang to practice medicine. Perhaps because of the medical dispute, or perhaps because Su Qing became the master behind Mingxintang, Su Qing's attitude towards her changed a lot. She was no longer as warm and friendly as before, and from time to time she would show her temper.
Because Su Qing had just graduated and hadn't yet obtained her medical license, she could only work as a medical assistant for Shen Jiang, while also learning clinical experience from Shen Jiang. Shen Jiang asked her to follow him in taking patients' pulses, a skill she had learned from her grandmother since she was a child. Patients' problems were often complex and varied, and they weren't like the ones described in textbooks. Basically, each patient had their own prescription.
In order to repay Su Qing, Shen Jiang of course taught her the tricks of diagnosis seriously and without reservation.
Unexpectedly, her relationship with Su Qing would eventually fall apart because of this incident. Although Su Qing had a doctorate in Traditional Chinese Medicine, she only knew the basics. When Shen Jiang asked her questions about things like the Six Meridians and Eight Principles, she was completely baffled, not to mention the most basic theories like the Five Elements and Six Qi. She was often left speechless by Shen Jiang's questions.
Su Qing couldn't accept Shen Jiang's arrogant questions to her at all, and felt that Shen Jiang was deliberately trying to embarrass her in front of the patients.
The relationship between the two broke down very quickly.
The result was that Mingxintang closed down and Shen Jiang was fired on the spot.
Later, Shen Jiang went to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of a town hospital and sat on the bench for a few years. At that time, Su Qing had already become a well-known star doctor. She was portrayed as a talented young female doctor. She was sought after by many patients in her own large hospital and Yuejia, and she was also often active on big and small screens.
Because the county hospital's salary was low, Shen Jiang happened to be willing to hire a traditional Chinese medicine clinic with a high salary. In order to better care for her grandmother, Shen Jiang did not hesitate to go there. However, she did not expect that because the clinic was secretly trying to make money, it would choose her as a scapegoat when something went wrong.
During the time Shen Jiang was imprisoned, his grandmother, who had become a vegetable, starved to death at home because no one took care of her. She was discovered because the body emitted a foul odor, prompting neighbors to call the police.
After Shen Jiang learned the news of his grandmother's death, he committed suicide in prison that same day.
Shen Jiang felt a chill on his back when he thought of the ending of himself and his grandmother in the dream.
If this ending really happened, she'd have to drag the author out and severely whip his corpse. Why did the hero and heroine get a happy ending? Su Qing, who repeatedly courted disaster and soured the relationship between the hero and heroine and was ultimately disliked by her brother, only lost her job and was sent to marry into a family alliance. And she, a diligent and honest ordinary person, had her family torn apart. What did she do wrong? Just because she was set up as a cannon fodder?
It would be fine if he just touched her, but he even targeted her grandmother. She simply wanted to destroy this lousy, melodramatic novel world.
The more Shen Jiang thought about it, the angrier he became.
The phone rang again at this time. Shen Jiang wanted to hang up, but found out that it was Police Officer Zhang calling.
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