Chapter 10 Recruiting Patients



"Mom, it's time to eat~" Su Tang went downstairs with a clatter, and skillfully served the dishes and brought the bowls.

The Su family clinic is relatively small and not as formal as a large hospital. There are only a dozen seats in the lobby. In addition to a nurse who helps to keep an eye on the patients during work hours, Fang Guihua also sits in the clinic lobby or outside the door every day to keep an eye on the patients in the lobby.

There were still two patients in the clinic today, so Fang Guihua naturally had to eat downstairs.

Holding rice in one hand and soup in the other, Su Tang walked down from the upstairs, passed through the corridor, and when she passed the door of the outpatient hall, the two patients in the clinic stretched their necks to look outside.

Fang Guihua turned around early and took the bowl and chopsticks from Su Tang's hand.

The rich aroma of chicken soup as the bowl of soup approached dominated Fang Guihua's attention.

Carefully taking the bowl of soup, she took a sip. The rich aroma had a refreshing taste, and a hint of medicinal sweetness. Not only did Fang Guihua not taste any fishy smell, but she also didn't taste any bitterness of other Chinese medicines. Instead, it had a light herbal fragrance. It was pure, fresh, and extremely sweet. It was so delicious that Fang Guihua almost swallowed her tongue!

This tastes absolutely amazing!

"Gululu——"

An old man beside him looked at Fang Guihua with narrowed eyes, looking as if he was enjoying the food to the point of ecstasy. He immediately took a deep breath of the rich and fragrant chicken soup and swallowed his saliva with a gulp...

"Oh my...it really is chicken soup." A little old lady with silver hair widened her eyes in surprise and couldn't help muttering.

They just thought Xiao Fang was lying. How could chicken soup smell so delicious... ?

"Su Tang, how do you make this chicken soup? Why does it look so tempting? Come and tell grandma so that I can cook one myself when I get home." The old lady's surname was Zhou, and she lived upstairs from the Su family.

The old lady had lived here for decades but this was the first time she smelled such a delicious aroma. She couldn't help but look around the chicken soup, but she couldn't make out anything from the bowl of yellow chicken soup. Instead, the fresh and fragrant chicken soup made her head and face full of the smell, and she couldn't help swallowing.

"Grandma Zhou, this is a medicinal food, which is a little different from ordinary chicken soup. I asked my dad to stew this soup for a whole afternoon~!" Su Tang is well-known in the community for being well-behaved and sensible. Her smiling face makes the old men and women smile.

It's a pity that the pot of fish maw, poria and hen soup today was so powerful that the old men and women focused their attention on it and completely forgot about Su Tang.

"What kind of medicinal food is this? Let me see... Aren't you just adding candied dates, poria, yam, and wolfberry? I usually put yam and wolfberry in my chicken soup, but it's never as fragrant as this."

An old man who was a little thick-skinned came forward with a licking face and said cheerfully: "Xiaotang, your family doesn't run a restaurant, so if you have any secrets for making soup, please tell us about it."

"This soup smells so good..." The old man took a deep sniff and sighed.

When he saw Fang Guihua eating without raising her head, he became even more greedy.

This chicken soup is really delicious. Just one sip captured Fang Guihua's heart.

The chicken is stewed until it is tender and you can tear it off with just a light bite. The fresh and rich soup is golden and tempting. The boiling soup with a hint of grass fragrance spreads throughout the mouth. Fang Guihua shivered from the scalding, but she was reluctant to spit out any of it. In addition, the soup is soft, sweet and fragrant with candied dates and the soft texture of yam.

Fang Guihua dared to swear that in her life of fifty or sixty years, she had never tasted such delicious chicken soup!

"My dear, please have a good talk with Grandma Zhou about how this soup was made..." Resisting the urge to drink the whole pot of chicken soup in one breath, Fang Guihua suppressed her surging hunger and tried hard to raise her head from the chicken soup.

The people chatting there are all regular customers of the clinic. They will come to their clinic for treatment whenever they have a cold or fever.

Just as the old man in front of me said, the Su family runs a clinic, not a restaurant, so I just told them the method of cooking chicken soup, just consider it as a good omen.

"Grandpa Jiang, you are wrong. I didn't just put candied dates, poria, yam and wolfberry here. I also put a lot of other herbs! But I took those herbs out in advance after they were boiled." Su Tang smiled and had no intention of keeping the cooking method of the chicken soup to herself. Instead, she boasted about it to the person she was talking to.

Su Tang squeezed into the crowd with a small stool and said cheerfully: "Don't think that this soup is much different from ordinary chicken soup, but this is a genuine century-old imperial medicinal food - fish maw, poria cocos and old hen soup!"

"Not only is the old hen for the stew a free-range chicken that I specially asked an acquaintance to buy from the countryside, but the fish maw is also the freshest and best. More importantly, a lot of special stewing herbs from my master's school have been added to it, which can remove the fishy smell and enhance the fragrance, as well as replenish blood and qi. This is a standard health-preserving soup for middle-aged and elderly people, and I specially prepared it for my parents to drink."

Su Tang took the initiative to approach a few old men and women and said, "Grandpa Jiang, Grandma Zhou, how about I check your pulses and prepare some medicinal food for you?"

"But my medical license is now registered at the Sixth Hospital of our city, and we don't have any Chinese medicine here at our clinic. Why don't you go to the Sixth Hospital tomorrow during the day and register for my outpatient number?"

Su Tang's eyes lit up, and she actively promoted herself: "The consultation fee is not expensive, only 5 yuan. I will prescribe some herbal medicines and give you free injections. I can give you injections for coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and high blood lipids."

People around: “…………”

It would have been fine if the girl didn't say anything. Why do they feel she is so unreliable now that she is talking about it?

A group of people were full of doubts.

Isn't it just stewing soup? Why do I have to register at the outpatient clinic of the Sixth Municipal Hospital?

Especially for coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and high blood lipids, can they be cured with just an injection?

"Xiaotang, if we go to the hospital for a physical checkup every year, we don't need to go to the clinic for injections, right?"

Grandpa Jiang said dryly, "It takes half an hour to get to the Sixth Hospital by car. It's so troublesome. Why don't you write down the recipe for us here, and we can go to other Chinese medicine stores to buy some later."

"Grandpa Jiang, it's not that I don't write prescriptions for you."

Su Tang blinked, looking aggrieved and innocent. "Two years ago, the higher authorities issued a notice strictly prohibiting illegal medical practice... Ordinary medicinal food is fine, as it has almost no medicinal effect. But my fish maw, poria cocos and hen soup contains not only poria cocos and wolfberry, but also more than a dozen other medicinal ingredients. If someone secretly reports this, my license will definitely be revoked..."

When Su Tang said this, many people were dumbfounded. They didn't expect that hospitals nowadays would be so particular.

Fang Guihua finally finished the bowl of chicken soup, wiped her mouth and said seriously: "Mr. Jiang, my daughter is telling the truth. If you don't believe me, you can check it online. It is much stricter now than before. My daughter just went to work at the hospital today. You can't offend the hospital staff just for two bowls of chicken soup, right?"

"Besides, the registration fee is only 5 yuan. Is it possible that such delicious and fragrant chicken soup is not even worth 5 yuan?" Fang Guihua held up five fingers and asked soul-searchingly: "Many vegetables in supermarkets now cost more than this price."

The people around were silent for a moment: "…………"

Well, it seems to be worth it...

Several old men and women immediately became restless.

Since they have plenty of time anyway, why not go to the Sixth Hospital tomorrow morning... ?

But before the old man and old lady could say anything, a middle-aged man who was also attracted by the smell of chicken soup raised his eyelids and said confidently: "Hey, old man and old lady, aren't you afraid that there are poppy shells in the soup? I heard that some stores used to put poppy shells in the soup to attract customers. The chicken soup just now was obviously abnormally fragrant. I say that this thing must have been put in it, otherwise how could it be so fragrant?"

As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, there was a moment of silence around him, and some people subconsciously thought about what the middle-aged man said.

However, before the people around him could think further, Su Tang's face darkened and he said, "Boss Qian, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."

Everyone around was silent at this moment. They looked at Su Tang and Boss Qian, looking back and forth between the two, wanting to see who was making more sense.

"Why did I say something nonsense? Then can you explain why this chicken soup smells so good?!" Boss Qian refused to give in. His family owned a noodle shop not far next door, and as soon as the aroma of chicken soup came out, the two customers who had just sat down in the noodle shop patted their butts and walked out, making him furious.

Isn't it just a bowl of chicken soup? Who knows what's in it?


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