After listening to Li Ying's analysis, Team Leader Tian also felt that it made sense. His niece liked Cao Xinqiao so much, and the wedding date between the two families had already been set. How could his niece possibly be flirting with someone else?
"Comrade Li Ying, thank you for your reminder. I will go back and discuss it with my elder brother and sister-in-law."
"We want the deceased to rest in peace."
Team Leader Tian nodded emphatically and turned back to his work.
Li Ying glanced around and saw a person acting suspiciously at the entrance of an alley not far away. Upon seeing Li Ying, the person quickly withdrew their head.
Learning from her previous experience, Li Ying knew she couldn't act alone, so she called Yin Shu over, feeling more at ease working together.
Li Ying chased after Yin Shu from one end of the alley, while Yin Shu blocked her from the other end.
They successfully cornered a middle-aged man. He was very thin and tall, giving the impression that he could be blown away by a gust of wind. His features were unrecognizable, but you could tell he must have been very handsome when he was young.
“You…” The man nervously rubbed his hands together and lowered his head.
"Tell me, why were you sneaking around the clinic?" Li Ying questioned.
The man raised his head and then lowered it again, finally collapsing to his knees with a thud after a long while.
"Dr. Li Ying, please, please save my wife!"
Li Ying frowned slightly: "Is your wife sick?"
The man nodded: "She has angina, which she's had since she was young. But recently she believed a doctor named Cao who said he could successfully transplant her heart. My wife is obsessed with this and insists on having the surgery. I can't persuade her no matter what I do. I've heard that Dr. Li Ying is a highly skilled doctor. Please, please save my wife. I really can't watch her continue like this."
When a man speaks of his sorrows, his tears flow freely.
“I can tell you’re quite ill.” Li Ying glanced at the man; he was emaciated, except for some swelling in his abdomen, a symptom of late-stage liver cancer.
The man sighed, "My illness is incurable, but my wife is different. She just has angina, and the pain only comes when she thinks about bad things. As long as she doesn't think about it, she's fine. I want her to be well, so that when I die, there will be someone who remembers me."
“That’s not necessarily true. Maybe she’ll forget you. I can’t even remember what my man looks like now.” Yinshu’s words struck a chord with the man, who burst into tears.
Li Ying glared at Yin Shu, who quickly shut up.
"Where do you live? I'll come with you to see it."
The man gave an address.
Li Ying frowned. It was a place in the western part of the capital city where nobles used to live. It used to be a place where royalty and nobles lived. Now, the people who could live there were not simple either.
After the man left, Yinshu asked, "Sister Ying, are you going?"
"Go ahead, why wouldn't you go?"
Although Li Ying had many questions, she still wanted to find out some things that were on her mind, namely, why so many people were obsessed with this heart transplant surgery.
Chi En had no idea what the two women had gone to do. Seeing Li Ying packing her medical kit and leaving, he asked, "Is this a house call?"
"Hmm, I encountered a very strange patient today. He said he had angina. He was at home, so I went to check on him."
Chi En was worried: "No, I have to go with you."
Li Ying laughed: "Give me a break. Look at your arm, it's all messed up, and you still insist on coming to work here. I really admire you."
"No, we're worried about you going alone. If I go with you, maybe those people who want to take advantage of you won't be able to, right?" Chi En thought that since he was a man, it would be good to have a man with him.
"I'll go with Dr. Li Ying." Chen Ping strode into the clinic.
"Let Chen Ping come with me."
With Chen Ping with them, Chi En and Yin Shu were less worried.
After everyone left, Yinshu picked up the gauze and said, "Cousin Chi, shall I change your gauze?"
Chi En jumped up immediately: "No, I can do it myself."
He had witnessed the strength of this girl's grip before and didn't want to suffer further injury.
Li Ying and Chen Ping arrived at a street in the western part of the city that the man had mentioned.
The man was waiting at the gate of a courtyard house. This house was bigger and better than Li Ying's.
"Dr. Li, you're here! Come in quickly!" The man was very excited, and his breathing became much more even as he spoke.
Seeing him like this, Li Ying reminded him to take his medicine.
"The medicine is no longer effective, and I don't want to go through any more trouble. I just want to get my wife cured, that's all I need."
The man had lost all hope for life, but desperately wanted his wife to survive.
Li Ying couldn't help but be moved by this love.
As the man entered the yard, they crossed the front yard and arrived at the back yard.
The house in the backyard is a bit lower, so it gets plenty of sunlight.
In Li Ying's memory, such a design was rare, but it also showed the owner's affection for the women.
The man entered a room where the woman lived. The windows were open, letting in light, making the whole room bright and cozy.
A woman, around forty years old, was lying on the bed in the room. She had delicate features and was quite beautiful.
"Tao Hong, this is Dr. Li Ying." The man stepped forward and reached out to help the woman, but she dodged his hand and looked at Li Ying.
"Are you the famous Dr. Li Ying from Beijing's elite circles?" Tao Hong asked immediately.
Li Ying didn't mind and nodded: "It's me."
Tao Hong sized up Li Ying, somewhat disdainfully: "Since you're famous throughout Beijing's social circles, why can't you cure your heart disease?"
“Ms. Tao Hong, you don’t seem like an uneducated person. You should know that everyone has their own area of expertise. I studied traditional Chinese medicine, which means I can treat most diseases. But some diseases, such as those of the five internal organs, require diagnosis and treatment based on syndrome differentiation. It’s not that they can’t be cured, but that patients lack confidence in doctors, which is why they say that.”
Tao Hong felt that Li Ying's words were evasive and not rigorous at all.
"Old Li, I already said that Dr. Cao is enough to treat me, why do you still need to bother Dr. Li?" The woman was obviously very angry, glaring at the man, her voice turning cold.
Old Li coughed for a while, almost coughing up blood, but he managed to calm down and advised, "Tao Hong, just listen to me and take your medicine slowly. Don't listen to what that Dr. Cao said about heart transplants or anything like that; it's too unscientific." Old Li didn't believe anyone could get a heart transplant.
Li Ying did not refute this, saying that it was indeed unscientific in this era, but much more scientific in modern times.
Therefore, the man's concerns are not unreasonable.
"What's all this talk about science? Dr. Cao guarantees he can cure me. Even if he can't, and I die on the operating table, that's still a contribution to humanity, isn't it?" Tao Hong's perspective broadened instantly.
Li Ying couldn't help but admire her dedication.
"Your illness can be cured with proper care."
Li Ying affirmed.
Judging from her appearance, her angina is caused by overthinking, not congenital heart disease, so she doesn't need a heart transplant.
"Dr. Li has already said it, so please listen to Dr. Li this once!"
"She can cure me completely after just one dose of medicine, so I trust her."
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