The lady asked in surprise, "Dr. Jin, what is this?"
Jin Dachun chuckled, "This is my new apprentice! Xiao Su! Xiao Su, this is your Aunt Jiang!"
"Hello, Auntie!" Su Ruyi greeted her.
"Dr. Jin, since you're treating Old Shen, why don't you let this little girl in?"
Aunt Jiang glanced at Su Ruyi from head to toe, ignoring her, and instead chased after Jin Dachun, "Didn't you say last time that we shouldn't let strangers approach Old Shen?"
Jin Dachun turned around, his face turning cold: "Jiang Chunlai! Are you still going to treat him or not?!"
Jiang Chunlai was stunned for a moment: "Why... is it incurable?"
Jin Dachun angrily threw down a crutch: "Are you blind? Can't you see I'm injured? If you don't let my apprentice in, who will give your man acupuncture?"
Jiang Chunlai was even more stunned: "Dr. Jin, you just took on a disciple, and you brought him to Old Shen... to practice on him?"
Su Ruyi was also a little confused—was she really going to have to treat General Shen's illness?
"Let them in!"
At that moment, a clear sound came from the bedroom. Although the sound was not loud, it carried an imposing air.
Jiang Chunlai quickly stepped aside.
Xiao Zhao retrieved the crutch, and Jin Dachun, angrily leaning on the crutch, quickly moved to the bedroom.
Xiao Zhao immediately stood at the door.
Su Ruyi followed him in and saw a middle-aged man with gray hair lying on the bed. She could still see the bright eyes and sword-like eyebrows he had when he was young, and he looked a bit like Shen Heping.
However, General Shen Guoliang's face was dark, and there was a faint dark aura between his eyebrows, making him look quite like Su Manao after his misfortune.
His eyes were quite kind: "Old Jin, don't take it to heart!"
Jin Dachun was still fuming, pointing at Su Ruyi: "Old Shen, my apprentice, most people would beg her to treat patients! And you're doing this for you? Old Shen, my apprentice is a lucky person, she just saved a child! I brought her here hoping you could share in her good fortune, but now, your long-mouthed woman has ruined everything!"
Su Ruyi only partially understood what she was hearing, but she knew that this was somewhat beyond the scope of traditional Chinese medicine.
Shen Guoliang was silent for a while, then sighed: "Chunlai is too young and has an unstable temperament. You are a magnanimous man, please forgive her!"
Jin Dachun stepped forward, examined Shen Guoliang, and took his pulse.
Then he called to Su Ruyi: "Come on, I won't say anything, you come and invite me!"
She then introduced her to Shen Guoliang, saying, "If nothing unexpected happens, this will be my only apprentice in this lifetime. Her surname is Su, and her name is Su Ruyi. She comes from a family with a long tradition of martial arts."
Shen Guoliang smiled and nodded: "Hello, Comrade Xiao Su."
Su Ruyi stepped forward: "General Shen, hello."
The atmosphere created by the two of them made her realize that Shen Guoliang's illness was very likely a so-called "false illness".
She practices traditional Chinese medicine, not some kind of sorcerer!
But she still gritted her teeth and placed three fingers on Shen Guoliang's wrist.
A dozen seconds later, Su Ruyi's heart skipped a beat, and she looked up at Jin Dachun.
Jin Dachun looked at her with a smile, without saying a word.
Su Ruyi reached out and flipped open Shen Guoliang's eyelids, then looked at his tongue and fingernails, and pulled out his hair.
Then, she was shocked to discover that every symptom Shen Guoliang exhibited pointed to the same result—he was poisoned!
Moreover, it is a slow-acting poison, a complex one, with lead and mercury components subtly combined to both keep one conscious and cause unbearable pain.
It was probably not a single act of poisoning, but rather the result of multiple cumulative poisonings.
The poisoning has lasted for at least half a year!
Su Ruyi looked at Jin Dachun again, stammered, and whispered, "General Shen... he's been poisoned."
Shen Guoliang and Jin Dachun both laughed.
Su Ruyi was unsure and asked again in a low voice, "Master, did I say something wrong?"
Jin Dachun laughed and said, "That's right!"
Shen Guoliang said, "He is indeed a promising talent! You know, even many veteran Chinese medicine doctors who have practiced medicine for decades dare not diagnose me as being poisoned!"
Jin Dachun then asked Su Ruyi, "Tell me more about his symptoms!"
Su Ruyi pondered for a moment: "There should be intermittent high fever, headache all day long, severe headache at the time of day, that is, at dawn and dusk, and getting weaker and weaker, and unable to sleep at night."
Shen Guoliang's eyes lit up: "Old Jin, my insomnia only started about a week ago, after you gave me acupuncture last time. Your little apprentice is amazing!"
Jin Dachun smiled smugly and then asked Su Ruyi, "Tell me how to treat it?"
Su Ruyi said, "To relieve headache symptoms, first apply acupuncture to the acupoints and then insert ear acupuncture. If it is only to treat the symptoms, then use the Seven Skills Poison-Repelling Needle for seven consecutive days."
Upon hearing this, both of them fell silent instantly.
The "Seven-Skill Poison-Repelling Needle" was a method that was highlighted in a book about poisons that she had studied a few days ago. On that day, eight out of the ten patients in the space needed to be treated with the "Seven-Skill Poison-Repelling Needle." She had already mastered every acupoint and every technique.
However, she did not know that the "Seven-Skill Poison-Repelling Needle" was an ancient technique that had been lost for more than three hundred years.
For the past six months since General Shen was poisoned, he has been searching everywhere for masters and hermits, all in order to find someone who still possesses this unique skill.
Jin Dachun said in a trembling voice, "Ruyi...you know the Seven Skills Poison-Repelling Needle?!"
Shen Guoliang asked in surprise, "Isn't this your apprentice? How does she know the Seven Acupoints Poison-Repelling Needle?"
Su Ruyi took out her needle case from her satchel, which was actually her spatial storage, and retrieved seven special gold needles: "This isn't a difficult method, but it requires seven consecutive days of acupuncture. Shall we begin now? Or would you like to eat something first, General Shen? After expelling the poison, you need to abstain from food and water for an hour!"
Jin Dachun was stunned when he saw the needles that Su Ruyi took out this time.
This needle... is exactly the same as the Seven-Skill Needle from the ancient book fragments he had seen!
The needle tip is as fine as silk and as soft as autumn cattail; proper needle placement depends entirely on skillful technique.
Jin Dachun's face suddenly turned bright red—he had actually taken Su Ruyi as his apprentice! With her skills, she was more than qualified to be his master!
Seeing that Su Ruyi had already started disinfecting the needle, Shen Guoliang hurriedly said, "Now! I've had enough of lying in bed! Little girl, I believe you!"
As she spoke, she took off her clothes without thinking.
Jin Dachun craned his neck to watch.
Su Ruyi smiled, and the first needle was accurately inserted into his Zhongwan acupoint.
She released her divine sense, controlling the direction of the needle tip.
This injection is to stabilize the toxins and prevent them from spreading.
The second needle is inserted into the Qihai point, followed by a special technique of rotating the needle to stimulate the body's internal energy and expel toxins that do not belong to the body to the vicinity of the Zhongwan point.
The third injection...
The fourth injection...
...
For the seventh needle, Su Ruyi selected the Shenque acupoint!
As soon as the seventh needle was inserted, General Shen's abdomen began to rumble.
Then he let out a long string of smelly farts.
General Shen closed his eyes in embarrassment.
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