Chapter 28: A Woman with a Haggard Face and a Strange Disease Like a Messy Thread
"Actually, we've only known each other for less than two hours," Katherine said, her face flushed with excitement. "It's hard to imagine, Ellis!"
"At first, I thought she was an evil black witch, but she first stopped my hiccups and then cured my mother. Later...that's why I thought of asking her to come and see Cecilia. You won't blame me for taking the initiative, right?"
Ellis shook his head and fell silent.
Catherine was so convinced of the witch that Ellis could not express the dark speculations in his heart. He had no way of telling Catherine that he had hidden something from her.
It's not that he hasn't sought help from a healing magician to cure his mother's illness, but to no avail.
The reason why my mother became what she is now may be because she was rejected by God and cursed by the devil because she was a human and had a union with her orc father.
The thought that Catherine might become someone else's bride in the future made Ellis feel heartbroken and even more depressed.
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Shen Jiang placed the herbs in their old place in the yard, together with the herbs that had not been prepared yesterday, waiting for his uncle and the others to continue preparing them.
A whole night had passed since yesterday. When Shen Jiang opened his mobile phone, he was instantly overwhelmed by various messages.
What Shen Jiang had been expecting finally happened. The vicious insults were covered by comfort and encouragement, and countless heartwarming words touched Shen Jiang's heart through the fonts.
Zi Ning: "Sister Shen Jiang! You are amazing! Your medicine is truly a miracle drug!"
Officer Zhang: "We've already contacted Mr. Mei Muchuan. With his guarantee, I'll definitely investigate the Shan Family Herbal Medicine Store thoroughly!"
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The chest that had been stuffy suddenly felt much lighter. Shen Jiang let out a long breath. The dark blue sky seemed to indicate that today would be a good day.
Family members are not allowed to visit the ICU ward of the municipal hospital. On this day, the head nurse of the ICU felt a headache when she saw the outside of the ward crowded with family members holding flowers.
"You're the family of Bed 17's Shen Anlian, right? There are so many flowers being sent to you, sitting in the hallway. I can't even walk. Come and take them away!"
Shen Jiang's heart tightened when she saw the phone call, but after hearing the whole story, she felt a little amused. She had no choice but to rush to the hospital early. Seeing the flowers piled up in the nurses' lounge, she suddenly felt overwhelmed. The feeling of having good intentions become a burden was really terrible.
Shen Jiang logged into her Weibo account. Her latest post was about her birthday last year. Her followers increased from a dozen or so to over 2,000 overnight. Her comments were all brightly colored 99+, and her private messages were about to explode.
Shen Jiang posted a pinned Weibo post: "Thank you all for your kindness. I receive your thoughts! But my grandma and I don't need donations right now. Please don't waste money sending flowers to the hospital. I really don't have the energy to process them. Your willingness to believe that my grandma didn't treat a bad person is the best support you can offer. Thank you!"
The accompanying pictures are bouquets of flowers so dense that they fill the entire room.
I don’t know if it was the netizens’ great wish power that worked, but to Shen Jiang’s surprise, good news came from the doctor in the afternoon. The patient’s symptoms suddenly stabilized. If nothing unexpected happens, he can be transferred to the general ward the next day or the day after tomorrow.
Shen Jiang hid from the enthusiastic netizens who came to visit her by the hospital's flower bed, and practiced the basic skills of standing still for a while. When she was about to leave, she was stopped by a strange woman.
"Excuse me... are you Doctor Shen from Mingxin Hall?" The woman asked hesitantly. Seeing with her own eyes how young Shen Jiang was, she finally understood why the young man had advised her not to have too much hope. This young girl looked like a student, not a miracle doctor at all.
Shen Jiang was startled, especially after seeing the appearance of the person who came.
The woman before him was bloated, her body empty beneath her clothes. Her face was pale, making the dark circles around her eyes particularly noticeable. Even without being a doctor, one could tell she was extremely ill.
Shen Jiang was even more surprised to learn that the other person's name was Lin Yunqing, and the reason why she came to see her was that she was indirectly introduced to her by Chen Quan.
Chen Quan eventually followed her advice and went for the examination. Lin Yunqing was the patient waiting behind him. She waited until Chen Quan finished the biopsy and finally found out who Dr. Shen from Mingxintang was. Then, she searched online and saw a flood of trending searches asking for justice for Dr. Shen. She was startled, thinking that Dr. Shen, as Chen Quan had mentioned, had met with an accident.
After reading for a long time, I realized that this was a misunderstanding. The Dr. Shen that netizens were praising was an old lady over 70 years old. The Dr. Shen that Chen Quan was talking about should be Dr. Xiao Shen. Except for being mentioned to seek justice for the grandmother, almost no one discussed Dr. Xiao Shen's medical skills.
Lin Yunqing came to see her because he wanted to try his luck. After all, Dr. Shen was very good, and Dr. Shen, as her successor, should also be quite capable.
"You can tell by looking at me that my health is terrible, but I've had all sorts of tests and nothing can be found. Western doctors say I just have an endocrine disorder. Later, I went to see several famous Chinese medicine practitioners..." Lin Yunqing sighed slightly, "The Chinese medicine practitioners said that almost my entire body is sick, with problems everywhere. But after taking their medicine, not only did it not get better, it got worse day by day."
After hearing what she said, Shen Jiang frowned. Since her colleagues would say so, it was obvious that it was not easy to argue for her.
Chinese medicine cures diseases with just twelve words: observe the pulse and symptoms, know what is wrong, and treat accordingly.
But the most difficult thing about Chinese medicine is dialectics, which is the goal that all Chinese medicine practitioners must strive for throughout their lives.
Shen Jiang took her to a secluded place, held her wrist and began to feel her pulse. "Let's sit here and talk slowly."
Lin Yunqing felt the other person's warm fingers on his wrist. Seeing the worried look on the young female doctor's face, his eyes reddened as he spoke of his condition. "I have headaches, nausea, and vomiting every day. It feels like there are three stones in my stomach pressing against me. My stomach is bloated and I belch all the time. I vomit as soon as I eat. I can't even drink water. I can barely eat anything now."
Shen Jiang frowned and asked her about her menstruation and urination. The more he listened, the more serious his expression became.
The human body is divided into three parts: upper, middle and lower Jiao. Lin Yunqing had problems with the lower Jiao, which meant that the condition was very serious.
Besides, what are all these symptoms? They are a mess all over the body. Putting so many symptoms together is like a tangled thread, which is impossible to analyze.
"How could you be so sick?" Shen Jiang was confused from the bottom of his heart.
Lin Yunqing faced the sun, closed her eyes, and tears flowed down her face. "Doctor Shen, I'll be honest with you. A year ago, my fiancé eloped with my good friend, but that's not the most unacceptable thing for me. I ran a shop with that bastard for several years, and he took away almost all the money we had worked so hard to save. I called the police, but they said it wasn't their job. I was so angry that I felt like my chest was blocked every day, and I even vomited blood. Tell me, that bastard didn't get any retribution, so why am I, a victim, so unlucky?"
Shen Jiang looked up and found that although Lin Yunqing was still cursing, she was no longer angry because her spirit was so bad that she couldn't even muster up the energy.
Shen Jiang sighed. Look at how important emotions are to a person's body. This woman became ill entirely because of her heart disease.
However, she is not yet able to draw a conclusion as to the exact cause of Lin Yunqing's illness.
Shen Jiang took his pulse and continued, "Do you feel particularly uncomfortable when the seasons change?"
Lin Yunqing's reaction was a little slow. After thinking for a while, her eyes suddenly lit up and she said excitedly, "Yes, yes! My heart hurts in the summer, and my hands and feet are very cold. It won't get better until autumn."
After hearing this, Shen Jiang felt relieved. She was finally able to string all of Ms. Lin's symptoms together and come up with a reasonable explanation!
"Do you still have the prescription for the medicine you took before? Let me see it." Shen Jiang asked her for the prescription naturally. If a doctor had already prescribed the same prescription as hers, then her thinking was wrong and she could not cure Lin Yunqing's illness.
Lin Yunqing was stunned. The previous doctors were also in the same situation. After taking medicine from several doctors, she realized that she was their experimental subject, testing their medical skills again and again.
She didn't expect that Dr. Xiao Shen would say the same thing.
Lin Yunqing stiffly pulled out the prescriptions from her bag, but she began to debate whether to take the medicine prescribed by the doctor. Perhaps what the young man named Chen Quan said was right. This Doctor Shen was just a half-baked doctor who looked great. After all, she was still so young, so it was normal that her skills were not up to par.
She was just too unlucky. Her fiancé ran off with her best friend, she lost all the money she had saved up over the years, and even the restaurant she ran was about to go bankrupt.
Shen Jiang's joyful voice interrupted Lin Yunqing's internal friction, "You're lucky. Our Mingxintang just got a batch of high-quality Cistanche deserticola these days. I'll take you back to the store to get the medicine."
"What?" Lin Yunqing's thoughts almost couldn't keep up with her.
Shen Jiang did not complain to the patients that the prescriptions prescribed by these colleagues were simply outrageous. They were completely following the thinking of Western medicine. They treated the headache with the head and the foot pain with the foot. When they saw that the patient had belching and could not eat, they prescribed Hewei Jiangni Yiqi Decoction. When they heard that she had insomnia, they added Chinese jujube seeds. They were simply not treating the root cause.
She looked at Lin Yunqing with some distress. The price of medicine in Mingxintang has always been high. Considering Lin Yunqing's condition, it would take at least seven days for him to recover, not to mention that there are precious and endangered medicinal materials like Cistanche deserticola in it. Although she would not raise the price, the price of Lin Yunqing's medicine would not be too cheap.
"I've found the cause of your illness. It looks complicated, but it's actually a problem with the flow of Qi. Just correct it, and everything will be fine. And you're really lucky. You know, Cistanche deserticola is a rare herb. It warms and nourishes the kidney yang, moisturizes and promotes bowel movements. Compared to other laxatives, it's completely harmless to your vital energy. You might not be able to get it elsewhere."
Lin Yunqing was a little moved. After all, she was really troubled by constipation. She murmured softly, "My luck is pretty good, isn't it?"
Shen Jiang understood her implication and asked, "Do you think there is no one in the world more unlucky than you?"
Of course not, Lin Yunqing shook her head. There were so many miserable people in this world, but she didn't want to compare her misery with others. She really felt that her luck was too bad.
Shen Jiang smiled matter-of-factly and said, "If life has already reached its worst, it can't get any worse than it is now. Think about it the other way around. Every step forward in the future is an upward trend. Your good luck is already on its way."
Shen Jiang thought that their good luck was on the way.
Lin Yunqing didn't know how, but she followed the young female doctor to Mingxin Hall in a daze. When she came out, she was holding a big bag of medicine, and more than two thousand yuan was deducted from her card.
Lin Yunqing had already spent tens of thousands of dollars on medical treatment. If this medicine could really cure her illness, she would think it was not expensive.
Chen Houkang and his wife Chen Ru were originally planning to take a bus back to the countryside, but because Shen Jiang happened to come back, they simply waited until their niece finished getting the medicine for the patient.
They had something to tell her.
"Shen Jiang, I agreed too hastily last time. After I went back and discussed it with your aunt, I realized that I almost took advantage of you." Chen Houkang said sullenly with a dark face.
Shen Jiang exclaimed "Ah", not quite understanding why he looked so self-blaming and guilty.
Chen Ru explained with a smile, "You don't have much work here. We only need to come once a week to pick up the medicine and prepare it. You don't need to pay us two old men a salary. Just give us a small processing fee."
Shen Jiang was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. It seemed that her uncle and aunt were too practical, afraid that they would take advantage of her.
Shen Jiang didn't force them, but gave them a heads-up: "What if I can't prepare enough herbs?"
My cousin's aunt immediately smiled and said, "If your business is really that good, then we will definitely come to help. We are just worried that we will have to sit in the store all day with nothing to do, which would be so embarrassing."
Shen Jiang immediately understood that Mingxintang was not open for business and had no income, and she had not brought back many medicinal herbs yesterday, which led to the misunderstanding between the two of them.
"Let it be. Aunt, you must remember what I said today. Come when Mingxin Hall needs you." Shen Jiang said meaningfully.
When she found the right herbalist, she could bring back half a month's supply at a time. By then, they knew that even living in the store every day wouldn't be enough to handle the workload.
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