Then came the staff member who had picked them up from the hotel on the first day.
As soon as the staff member came in, he introduced them to each other.
Sarah stared at Li Chu in surprise. This time she looked very carefully, but she still couldn't tell his age. She didn't even know how to define a general range.
Judging from the smoothness of her skin, she looked to be in her early thirties at most, but she just couldn't quite put her finger on it.
The person in front of her seemed to be older than thirty.
After exchanging greetings, Li Chu naturally picked up their medical records and lab reports from their country, which were placed on the bedside table next to them.
Sarah leaned close to her husband's ear and whispered, "Honey, how old did you tell me he was?"
"Ma'am, isn't it a bit impolite to talk about someone's age in front of others?"
Although Sarah didn't understand what he said, looking into those bright eyes, she suddenly felt a pang of guilt.
After a moment of hesitation, the staff of the External Liaison Office translated the sentence.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Li, I didn't mean to offend you," Sarah quickly apologized after hearing the translation.
Li Chu smiled at her and Charles, said nothing more, and lowered his head to continue looking at the test results in his hand.
It was only then that Sarah and her husband realized what was happening. Charles asked in surprise, "Dr. Li, you can speak our language?"
"Hmm~" Li Chu nodded without even looking up.
"Then why do we need to translate?"
This time, Li Chu ignored him and instead patted the staff member from the external liaison office on the shoulder.
Tell him why.
After he finished speaking, he turned around, looked at the two students and Wenxuan behind him, and waved the test report and various films in his hand.
"Can you understand these things?"
Li Chu's question elicited different reactions from the three people.
Wenxuan nodded naturally: "I can understand it."
Duan Jianing took the stack of lab reports, looked at them, and then said, "Teacher, I can generally understand lab reports from China, but this one..."
Liu Ziqiang didn't even glance at it: "Teacher, I don't know how to read Western medical test reports, whether they are domestic or foreign."
"It's okay if you don't know how to do it now. You'll learn it later. You're learning this so that it will be easier for you to explain to patients and their families in the future. It's not that you'll rely on this to treat patients. You must distinguish between primary and secondary points."
After saying this, Li Chu turned to them and asked, "Have you finished explaining to them?"
"Dean Li, we've already explained it to them."
"very good!"
"Ms. Sarah, now that we're about to begin the treatment, I'd like to ask first, are you familiar with Traditional Chinese Medicine?"
After listening to the translation, Sarah shook her head and said, "I don't know. I've never seen a traditional Chinese medicine doctor. In my area, you can't get insurance coverage for treatment at a traditional Chinese medicine clinic."
When Sarah or Charles were speaking, the staff member didn't need to translate, so Duan Jianing and Liu Ziqiang were completely confused and couldn't understand anything.
Duan Jianing glanced at Li Wenxuan beside her, tugged at his clothes, and asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, can you understand?"
"Can"
Do we need to learn English to study Traditional Chinese Medicine?
"It's not mandatory to learn it, but I'm learning it because my wife is an English teacher now, and I want to help her practice her spoken English."
"Could you translate this for us? It's so frustrating not being able to understand it."
Wenxuan thought for a moment before nodding in agreement.
“I know a little,” Charles chimed in from the side.
“I’ve seen traditional Chinese medicine doctors in my area touch your wrist, and I don’t know the exact principle behind it, but they seem to be able to tell what disease you have just by touching your wrist.”
"Yes, you're not wrong, it's about touching your wrist."
Li Chu was too lazy to explain to them, and he couldn't explain it clearly anyway. He couldn't possibly explain all the diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine, such as observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation, as well as the principles of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements theory, to them.
He came to see a doctor, not to popularize basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine.
"Now we will begin the treatment. I will explain things to you when necessary. Please keep quiet when I am not speaking."
After they nodded, Li Chu continued, "Ms. Sarah, these three are my students. I need to teach them here. I hope you don't mind."
What could they do even if they minded? Sarah and Charles both understood the principle that one has to bow one's head when under someone's roof, and they nodded obediently.
Since Li Chu and the others came in, Karl, who had automatically retreated to the corner of the ward, had been observing Li Chu.
He had heard of this person for a long time, but had only seen photos of him before; this was the first time he had met him in person.
If he hadn't seen the photos and only looked at the publicly available information, he would definitely have thought the person in front of him was fake.
More than two years ago, someone in China approached him, offering him 100,000 yuan to find a way to get Li Chu out of Beijing alive.
Is 100,000 a lot? He would need to work for four years without eating or drinking to save that much money.
But he still refused without hesitation. Money is a good thing, but you have to be alive to earn it and also be alive to spend it.
As someone familiar with China, Karl knew that this wasn't America. If he dared to make any trouble here, he would be dead without even knowing how he died.
He heard about what happened afterward. The person who had been looking for him found someone else, and then... that was it. The person who had taken the mission is now either dead or alive, no one knows.
Karl, lost in his own thoughts, suddenly felt someone touching him. When he came to his senses, he realized that everyone in the ward was looking at him.
"Huh? What's wrong, Charles?"
"Karl, that's very rude of you. Why are you staring at Dr. Li?"
"I'm so sorry, Dr. Li, I was thinking about something else just now. I'm really sorry." Karl apologized hastily, not wanting to cause any unnecessary misunderstandings here.
Li Chu didn't say anything, just nodded slightly, then turned around and arranged for Duan Jianing to take Sarah's pulse first.
Seeing that everyone's attention had shifted, Karl wiped the sweat from his forehead.
To outsiders, Li Chu's last glance at him just now seemed perfectly normal.
But in that instant, he felt as if he were being stared at by a ferocious beast; the hairs on his entire back stood on end, and cold sweat poured down his back.
At that moment, Karl made a deep vow in his heart that he would absolutely stay far away from this man from now on. The world is so beautiful, and he hadn't lived enough yet.
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