Chen Qingshan was no physiognomist; what she said just now was just random nonsense. She could describe Gao Xiang's life so accurately because she had met him in her previous life and had a deep impression of him.
At that time, Qingshan had just started working and was working as an intern, mainly responsible for the treatment of patients in the ward.
There was an old lady in the ward who was suffering from lymphoma. It had already infiltrated her bone marrow and was in the late stage. She was lying in the intensive care unit and was dying.
The old woman's son was very filial. He took care of his mother's excrement and urine, and served her from morning to night without taking off his clothes for more than a month.
Unfortunately, the old man was already terminally ill and there was no way to save him. On New Year's Eve, he looked at his son's face reluctantly and took his last breath.
That day happened to be Chen Qingshan's night shift. She will never forget that moment: outside the ward, the sky was filled with brilliant fireworks, and inside the ward, a middle-aged man was kneeling in front of the old man's body and crying heart-wrenchingly.
Later, Qingshan heard the gossip of the young nurses in the department and learned that the middle-aged man was Gao Xiang, the CEO of Tianan Real Estate, a man whose stomping of his foot could shake the city's economy. The young nurse was so resourceful that she even dug up Gao Xiang's life story and told another nurse about it with great enthusiasm, and Qingshan heard it all.
Gao Xiang's father died in a mine when he was just born. The unscrupulous owner of the illegal coal mine paid 50,000 yuan to buy a life. The family took the money and regarded it as silence. They put their fingerprints on the compensation agreement and the matter was settled, and no one could bring up the past anymore.
In that remote little place, the coal boss is like a local tyrant. Ordinary people cannot do anything to gain control of him and can only accept defeat by paying money.
With tears in her eyes, Gao Xiang's mother took the money that had saved her husband's life and came to Lian City with her baby in her arms to live with relatives. Because she had no education, she could only do dirty and tiring work like a cleaner, and raised Gao Xiang alone with great difficulty.
Gao Xiang also worked hard and was doing very well in his early twenties. Old Mrs. Gao also enjoyed the good life with him.
Unfortunately, the good days did not last for a few years. A lump the size of a date appeared on the base of Old Mrs. Gao's neck. It was not painful or itchy, but felt hard like a rubber bump. Gao Xiang took his mother to the hospital for a check-up, and the result was malignant lymphoma.
Hearing this news, Gao Xiang was struck by lightning. He didn't know what lymphoma was, but he understood the meaning of "malignant".
The doctor said that his mother's disease needed chemotherapy to be cured. Gao Xiang couldn't bear to see his mother suffer this way, so he took her all over the world to find excellent Chinese medicine doctors to prescribe Chinese medicine, and the old lady actually lived for nearly ten years.
However, unless she meets a master like Qingshan, Chinese medicine cannot cure Mrs. Gao's illness. Although Mrs. Gao has lived for nearly ten years, she is just living with the tumor. If an infection or other sudden situation occurs, the disease will flare up and her physical condition will take a turn for the worse.
That winter, Mrs. Gao caught a cold and never got out of bed. Seeing her condition, Gao Xiang felt that she might not be able to survive without Western medical treatment, so he sent her to the hospital. Unfortunately, she still didn't make it to the New Year.
That day in Li Ergou's private room, Qingshan remembered this person after hearing Gao Xiang say his name, but he was not yet a powerful real estate tycoon, and he looked much younger than when she met him in her previous life.
Ever since Qingshan inherited Xuan Huizi's legacy, he's been trying to cure his blood disease and make up for the regrets of his previous life. In the past few days, when he's been in contact with Gao Xiang, Qingshan has noticed a worry on his face. Calculating the date, it's not long since Old Lady Gao was diagnosed with lymphoma.
Qingshan felt grateful that he was a filial son, so he helped him cure Mrs. Gao's illness, fulfilling his wish to be filial to his mother.
The reason why Chen Qingshan chose to treat Old Lady Gao after the college entrance examination was not because he wanted to concentrate on preparing for the exam and was afraid that seeing a doctor would delay his studies, but because Qingshan was now short of a few medicinal herbs to treat Old Lady Gao, and she would have time to find them after the college entrance examination.
There are many types of Chinese medicine, which can be roughly divided into plant-based, animal-based, mineral-based, and other miscellaneous categories. Chen Qingshan had long noticed that Xuan Huizi's medicine cabinet only contained plant-based herbs, lacking the other major categories. She had assumed that the prescriptions Xuan Huizi left behind didn't require herbs other than plant-based, but she was wrong. The prescriptions contained all kinds of herbs, including the main, auxiliary, adjuvant, and guiding herbs.
Qingshan asked Ruyi what was going on. Ruyi explained that during Xuan Huizi's time, herbal medicines were widespread and varied. Some grew on cliffs, some in deserts, and some in miasma-infested swamps. They were found throughout China and were relatively difficult to find. That's why Xuan Huizi took such great pains to create a medicine bracelet and planted all the herbs he could gather inside it.
The mountains behind Xuan Huizi's cave were teeming with deer, roe deer, wild deer, tigers, leopards, bears, and wolves. He could easily obtain medicines like deer antlers, musk, tiger bones, and bear bile as needed. Other venomous insect, snake, and ant medicines were even easier to come by. Since Green Branch was a venomous snake, wouldn't she have as many as she wanted? So there was no need for inventory.
Qingshan couldn't help but complain in his heart: Ancestor Xuan Huizi, you are so wealthy that you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. You should keep a little for backup.
The global climate has changed so drastically since millennia ago that animal-based medicinal herbs have become increasingly scarce. Common ones like cicada molts and silkworms are easy to find, and those bought from pharmacies are fine if you're not particular about their effectiveness. But tigers and bears are nationally protected species, and medicinal herbs like ambergris and rhino horn are extremely rare. Does she really have to venture into the mountains and seas to find them herself?
She has to kill monsters and bosses before she can cure diseases and save people. Oh, how miserable she is!
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