Tao Tao, who had been leaning weakly against the recliner, sat up straight instinctively upon hearing this: "Are you a doctor?"
Although my eyes lit up for a moment when I heard that she had returned from studying abroad, they only lasted for a split second before shattering.
"My illness is incurable..."
Seeing that he didn't quite believe her, Xiao Jiu gestured for him to place his wrist on the table.
Tao Tao chuckled self-deprecatingly and obediently extended his hand, while Xiao Jiu pulled up a stool and sat down to begin taking his pulse.
While taking his pulse, we will also ask him some detailed questions based on his pulse, mental state, and facial features.
Tao Tao didn't hide anything and told her everything, even teasing her a little.
"Didn't you study abroad? How come you also know traditional Chinese medicine?"
"Yes, I studied traditional Chinese medicine before I started studying Western medicine."
Xiao Jiu uses the pulse at the cun, guan, and chi points on both hands to assess the internal changes in disease patterns.
After a thorough examination, both inside and out, her brows furrowed unconsciously.
Before Tao Tao's family had produced his medical records, she tentatively inquired.
"Brother Tao, could it be an intestinal disease? Like... a tumor?"
In the case of an acute inflammatory disease, such as acute enteritis, the pulse may become deep and rapid.
This is caused by heat evil attacking the large intestine.
If it is a chronic disease, such as chronic enteritis, the pulse may be weak.
This is mainly due to the prolonged illness, which depletes qi, blood, and body fluids, making it impossible for qi and blood to propel the pulse.
Since the lungs and large intestine are internally and externally related, the pathological condition of the large intestine can be diagnosed by taking the pulse at the cun position of the right hand.
Tao Tao's pulse was weaker than that of someone with a chronic illness, especially considering his weak voice, the angle at which he was lying down, and his thin body.
"You're quite capable, it's just a pity..."
Upon hearing Xiao Jiu's diagnosis, Tao Tao's wife couldn't help but gasp in surprise, but her eyes quickly welled up with tears, and she turned her head away.
Tao Tao, however, seemed to have come to terms with everything and answered her calmly.
"I have rectal cancer. Although part of it has been surgically removed, as you can see from my physical condition, I'm afraid it won't get better."
Over the years, I have traveled to many places and visited many famous doctors, but regardless of whether they are traditional Chinese medicine practitioners or Western medicine practitioners, they all gave me a death sentence.
It's just a matter of time, so little sister, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I really can't do anything about it.
"If I could just take action against the Song family, we wouldn't have had to wait until now."
After finishing his speech, Tao Tao felt exhausted and waved his hand, unwilling to say anything more.
He Yuan came in and gestured for her to enter. Xiao Jiu looked at Tao Tao, who was terminally ill, and ultimately couldn't bring herself to say anything too forceful.
"Brother Tao, please get some rest. I'll come see you again when I have time. Keep these nutritional supplements to help you recover. I wish you a speedy recovery."
When Xiao Jiu came, she brought fruit and nutritional supplements, but I never expected that she would actually visit a patient.
"If you want to know about the Song family, I can tell you about it."
But girl, you need to be prepared. The Song family is practically all-powerful in Luo City, if not completely invincible.
They've even had their share of murder cases, and look at them now, they're still safe and sound, aren't they?
It is said that the Song family's protectors are people in the provincial government. They have many brothers and their influence is very deep. They are like local tyrants here.
That house in Liuxiang might just be one of their properties, since the location isn't exactly prime.
Most of them are occupied by distant relatives; if they didn't occupy the space, they wouldn't be able to collect money, and it would be too much trouble.
When He Yuan left, he didn't mention anything about working together again.
This shows that not only Tao Tao, but also they, were wary of the Song family.
Even the black market people are wary of her. She's no longer active in Luo City and has to take care of her third brother and sister-in-law, so there's really no need for her to cause trouble for herself.
"It seems I was too naive."
Tao Tao's health condition suggests he may not live for more than a few years, so he has given up on himself.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have kept her medical records hidden, nor would they have asked her about her background.
He had no interest in her medical skills, and even less interest in collaborating with her.
This only proves the Song family's power; he can't touch them.
It seems this trip was in vain.
Do you really think she cares about that house?
She just wanted to see what the Weng family had left her.
As for the house...
Perhaps when the time is right, there will be a chance to take it back?
The good days for this so-called committee are coming to an end. When that time comes, she won't even need to lift a finger; someone else will take care of them.
Since we can't get a house, let's not bother with building one yet.
That evening, she went back to the guesthouse and had dinner with her parents. After they went to bed, she secretly left a note and went out.
She was quite familiar with the Weng family in Liuxiang. The place where the two elderly Weng family members used to live must have been rented out to outsiders.
After the two families fell asleep, she slipped the sleeping incense through the crack in the door, and only after one stick had burned out did she climb over the wall and enter the Weng family's house.
Although this method is somewhat underhanded, it is also the safest, at least ensuring that they will wake up after a good night's sleep and will not be harmed.
It's unclear whether the Song family and their associates are bad people or what they've done, so it's not advisable to take direct action.
Aphrodisiacs have existed since ancient times. They are not easy for others to obtain. Over the years, she has traveled across the ocean and obtained a lot of filthy things from the lowest of the low. She can get what she wants without firing a single shot.
No one kept dogs in the courtyard. There were three main rooms, three rooms each in the east and west wings. There was no kitchen in sight, but stoves were visible at the door of each house.
It seems this courtyard has been turned into a tenement, with at least one family living in each room. That makes things easier.
They still used the incense to deliver it to each room, and then waited for it to burn out before emerging from the space.
Once you find the well, start counting steps: twenty steps to the left, ten steps forward, and six steps to the right. Then squat down, take a shovel, and dig about thirty or forty centimeters. You actually manage to dig out a tile.
Seeing the tiles meant she had dug in the right place. She found the right spot and dug three meters deep. It would probably take her until dawn to dig all by herself.
Fortunately, there were many farming tools in the space, and after digging for three or four hours, I finally poked the wooden box.
She dug out a space where she could crouch down, and with a gentle touch, a large box was transferred into her space.
The mound collapsed the moment it was taken away.
There was no time to fill in the soil, so we continued to follow the password left by the old couple and found the backyard.
There, they dug out two small boxes, and when they opened them, they found they were full of yellow croaker of various sizes.
Later, six boxes of various sizes were found in the four cardinal directions of the courtyard.
By this time, it was already broad daylight, and it had started to rain.
Fortunately, the door was tightly closed, and the sleeping potion she used on them meant they wouldn't wake up for a whole day.
They dug and dug until they finished, and it was already the evening of the second day. It had been raining all day...
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