Chapter 79: Eating Loneliness

Su Tang originally thought that Wei Yan would have to wait at least two or three days before moving in next door, but she didn't expect that when she got off work the next day, she had already heard the movement in the next room.

The sound insulation effect of the old residential quarters is not very good, especially since the decoration team on the other side was in a hurry to complete the work, and focused on the internal cleanliness of the old residential quarters, and did not pay attention to the sound insulation.

Therefore, as long as the conversation next door is a little louder, Su Tang can hear the conversation through the glass of her own house.

next door.

The familiar voices of Wei Yan, Secretary Zhao and others came into her ears through the glass window.

Although I couldn't hear the specific content of the conversation clearly, it was still easy to tell who was speaking by the tone of voice.

In addition to Secretary Wei Yan and Zhao, there was also a slightly old voice that made Su Tang feel a little familiar, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

Su Tang scratched her cheeks and hesitated: "Hey~ This flying patient lives next door... Should I go over and say hello?"

"What are you doing standing there like an idiot, mumbling to yourself?" Su Yanbang glanced at his young lady, stroking her hair which had obviously turned from white to black recently, with an expression that was hard to describe.

How come he just heard his daughter mumbling to the next room?

Could it be that he has his eyes on those young guys in suits who just moved in next door?

Thinking of this, Su Yanbang suddenly felt unwell. The middle-aged man's facial features were wrinkled and the wrinkles on his forehead were almost enough to kill a fly.

Although he had no contact with the neighbors opposite, Su Yanbang saw the backs of several adult men going upstairs today.

Because these people were wearing suits in the middle of summer and drove luxury cars, they were noticed by many people before they even entered the community.

Even Su Yanbang, who was busy in the clinic, could hear the voices of his neighbors talking and the tall figures falling behind the team.

It was only today that Su Yanbang found out that the two units above his house had also been bought by the other party.

However, the upstairs was not renovated, and the original residents were even asked to leave all their furniture behind. The cleaning company team simply did some cleaning during the day, and then people moved in.

Su Yanbang pulled at his boss's favorite white old man's shirt and frowned, "I tell you, those guys are obviously not serious people. They all wear black suits in the hot summer. You can tell they are not very smart. Who would wear a suit in the hot summer? Look at me, I travel the world in an old man's shirt!"

"Besides, there are more than a dozen men on the opposite side, all of them are big and strong, without even a woman or child. They might be gangsters collecting protection fees." Su Yanbang was worried. When these people came today, he felt that something was not right. Who would buy a house without a woman or child?

There were no women, no old people, no children, and all of them were big and strong men wearing black suits. Some of them even wore sunglasses and had bulging waists. Su Yanbang was very worried. What kind of illegal gang was this?

Su Tang choked and was a little embarrassed: "Dad, you think too much... The people next door are all decent people. That person is my flying patient, and the rest are their bodyguards and drivers. They are busy recently and can't go to the hospital, and they need treatment. That's why they moved next door to us..."

It was difficult to describe the patient's specific condition, nor was it easy to explain the other party's identity, so Su Tang could only give a brief introduction of the other party.

In order not to worry his parents and to save money to hire bodyguards and marines at critical moments, Su Tang only took out 500,000 yuan to improve his parents' lives after receiving the medical expenses a few days ago.

Even so, Su Yanbang and Fang Guiping were frightened enough, thinking that Su Tang had committed some crime and made money by secretly reselling some banned items.

However, this also let Su Yanbang and the others know that Su Tang had such a generous flying patient.

When talking about flying patients, Su Yanbang and Fang Guiping immediately thought of the 500,000 yuan given by their children a few days ago.

Both parties became more alert and stopped saying that the other person was not serious.

"Oh! Why didn't you tell me earlier, kid?"

Fang Guiping slapped Su Tang on the arm and said, "You should have told us earlier that it was the man who spent 500,000 yuan to see you. We should have explained it to the neighbors during the day."

Su Yanbang stroked the newly grown stubble on his chin and said, "So this is the patient you mentioned earlier? No wonder he has the money to buy three houses in one go. He is indeed a wealthy man."

Now the couple not only stopped saying that the man was indecent, they even thought of buying fruit to thank each other.

"Lao Su, go downstairs and buy some fruit for him later... to thank him for taking care of our candy business."

"Isn't there enough fruit? How about inviting him to our house for a meal? After all, he spent a lot of money to invite Tangtang to have a checkup, and we don't have much to thank him for."

Su Tang was very upset, and always felt that her parents were overthinking.

Although Wei Yan had a high status, he was indeed very generous in spending money on flights and medical consultations.

But that was something she earned through hard work and ability, okay?

What the hell is business?

"Oh, Mom, please don't bother me..."

Seeing that the parents were so enthusiastic that they wanted to run to the next door immediately, Su Tangxun shuddered and hurriedly stopped them, saying, "He is a patient. He bought a house and lived next door to me so that he could get the best treatment. He doesn't care about fruits at all. It would be better if I prepare some for him when I stew the medicinal food tomorrow."

"Medicinal food?"

Su Yanbang and Fang Guiping looked at each other subconsciously, nodded and decided, "Okay, that's it!"

Medicinal food smells good and tastes even better.

But there is still a difference between medicated diet and medicinal diet. Although Su Tang had prescribed medicated diet to many patients and residents in the community in the hospital before, after a month or two...

Every day when people in the community cook, the most fragrant smell comes from - their house!

The lady was particular about herbal cuisine and never used slaughtered chicken from the market for stewing. She would always buy the chicken home and massage it before rubbing it.

Although Su Yanbang and Fang Guiping didn't understand why, unlike other chickens that jumped around and struggled when they were slaughtered, after being massaged by their daughter-in-law, even when their neck was cut, the chicken was extremely quiet and motionless, like a doll.

When they first saw it, they were so scared that they thought the chicken would die after being massaged.

In addition, the cooking techniques are exquisite, the cooking time of the medicinal food is precise, and the heat is well controlled.

Their medicinal food is the most delicious in the neighborhood every day!

So it goes without saying that the medicinal food cooked by the patients next door is definitely not as good as theirs.

"I'll go to the community market to buy some vegetables later. Tell me what kind of herbs are needed for his illness... I'll get them for you from the clinic."

Su Yanbang was a man of few words, and he immediately urged Su Tang, "Since you are going to give acupuncture to people, then be proactive, go early and come back early, and come back later to have dinner together."

As a pharmacist in a clinic, Su Yanbang discovered the business opportunities of herbal medicine in the community early on.

Therefore, the Su Family Clinic downstairs specially took out the Chinese medicine cabinet from the storage room when Grandpa Su was alive as early as last month and started selling Chinese medicine again.

Their medicinal materials are affordable, and the neighbors are willing to come to the clinic to buy them because of Su Tang. After more than a month, they can earn three to four thousand yuan more by specializing in medicated food and medicinal materials than before, which makes them very happy.

The door was closed with a bang.

Su Tang was urged by Su Yanbang and Fang Guiping to sweep the floor and go out.

Su Tang sighed with a sad face, holding the needle bag and alcohol in her hands, and knocked on the door of the next room with resentment.

"Doctor Su, please come in quickly."

The first person Fu Bo saw when he opened the door was Su Tang. He immediately greeted her with a smile, "I thought Dr. Su would wait until after dinner to give you acupuncture. I didn't expect you to come so early."

In recent days, Uncle Fu has watched Wei Yan's physical condition getting better day by day. Even his originally thin body has gradually begun to become fuller, and his skin is no longer as pale, haggard and dull as usual.

The whole person's energy and spirit are improved.

Fu Bo's favor towards Su Tang also grew rapidly.

Su Tang had a pretty good memory. When she saw Uncle Fu, she immediately remembered that he had come to the clinic a month ago to ask her for a prescription for a herbal medicine.

Su Tang suddenly realized!

She was wondering why the person who had ignored her before suddenly came to her for treatment?

Even willing to pay such a high flight fee.

"Okay, thank you..." Su Tang greeted the other party in a friendly manner and asked about Wei Yan's location.

Uncle Fu smiled and said, "Let me take you in. The young master is in the room inside."

Following Uncle Fu through the entrance hall, Su Tang saw the entire room clearly for the first time. Except for the wooden floor that had not been cleaned due to the short time and was covered with a white carpet, the entire room was almost entirely white. Even the various household appliances were all presented in this white color. Except for the electrical appliances and furniture necessary for basic life, there were no green plants or small ornaments in the room. Even the cups for drinking water were white and square.

A little bit of minimalism, a little bit of OCD and asexuality, plus a bit of kerasity?

Su Tang blinked, and without thinking much, she followed Uncle Fu and walked into Wei Yan's room...

Good guys!

The decoration style of this person's room is even more exaggerated than the outside.

Su Tang: “…………”

Su Tang's expression froze, and she almost thought she had plunged into an operating room in a horror movie!

From the bed sheets to the carpets in the room, everything in the bedroom is white.

Fortunately, he has money after all, so even though it’s all white, it still has some exquisite designs.

But Su Tang wondered if she was nearsighted and didn't wear glasses, at first glance, someone who didn't know would think it was a white ghost room!

This time Su Tang was sure that this person must have a mysophobia!

Su Tang: “…………”

Su Tang looked at Wei Yan, who was wearing a white home suit and sitting in a metal wheelchair.

For a moment, I felt that the other party had done the greatest kindness to the Sixth Hospital by not decorating the light green background of the hospital wards white a few days ago.

Su Tang blinked, shook off the thoughts in her head, and put on a serious attitude.

"Mr. Wei, let's start acupuncture on your entire pulse... How are you feeling today, Friday afternoon... Are there any other changes in your body, or are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?" Su Tang put down the needle bag and chatted with Wei Yanxian as she did with other patients in the past.

This is what is called "observation, auscultation, inquiry and palpation".

Even if it is a patient whom he has just seen this morning, Su Tang will try his best to observe the patient's condition again carefully before proceeding to the next step of treatment.

Wei Yan was used to Su Tang's habits. He stretched out his bony left wrist and said in a cold voice, "Nothing special has happened today. It's just that these past few days, I always feel that my calf muscles occasionally twitch automatically..."

"But when I looked carefully, I didn't find any changes in my calves..." Wei Yan frowned slightly, as if he remembered the joy he felt when he felt his leg muscles trembling, but when he looked again, he felt disappointed.

Su Tang nodded and said with a smile, "We still have a short time... It's a good thing that the leg muscles can change. These days, I have focused on stimulating the lumbar spine. It seems that the meridians in this area are unblocked. Maybe it can solve most of Mr. Wei's problems."

Wei Yan nodded, thinking that what Su Tang said made sense.

All in all, in recent days, Wei Yan could clearly feel the changes in his body, and these changes became more and more obvious as time went by. However, it was precisely because of this that Wei Yan was unwilling to delay any day of treatment. Seeing that the company was relatively busy recently, he directly asked the old housekeeper to buy the house opposite Su Tang's house.

After talking about these, Su Tang also carefully checked Wei Yan's pulse.

The man took off his coat as usual and lay directly on the bed, allowing Su Tang to give him acupuncture.

The long and thin silver needle was gently pinched at Su Tang's fingertips. However, after a series of disinfections, the silver needle in her hand pierced into Wei Yan's acupuncture points without hesitation.

The silver needle rotated along with Su Tang's fingertips, and Wei Yan could easily feel the silver needle tumbling in his skin and flesh.

It wasn't painful, but it felt weird.

However, as the Su Tang needles were inserted into his body one by one, Wei Yan soon felt a current of heat, which gradually gathered in his body and rushed through his meridians.

Wei Yan had never known that the human body had such things as meridians. In his opinion, meridians should be the fascia, tendons, etc. on the hands, feet and limbs.

However, with Su Tang's acupuncture, Wei Yan has learned more and more about the human body's meridians.

Especially since this heat flow itself was flowing through his meridians, dispersing the blood congestion that had been blocked, it made Wei Yan understand the magic of traditional Chinese medicine even more.

As the heat flowed, the man's back straightened.

However, the acupuncture was over very quickly, and Su Tang stood by and waited for the needles to be removed so that she could turn around and go home.

But Su Tang couldn't help but think of the many things her parents said to her before she left. Su Tang pinched her face and felt a little embarrassed. In fact, even after such a long time, Su Tang still felt that the relationship between her and Wei Yan was just the simplest doctor-patient relationship, extremely unfamiliar, perhaps even more unfamiliar than unfamiliar.

But I dare not disobey my parents' orders.

Su Tang thought for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "Mr. Wei, my parents saw you guys move in today, and they wanted to get together with us and thank you for choosing me as your flying doctor. So they wanted to bring you some herbal food tomorrow, what do you think..."

Wei Yan was lying on the bed, face down, unable to see his facial expression, but the other party's cold voice slowly floated out: "Doctor Su, no need... My chef is upstairs, he will prepare a variety of nutritious meals and medicinal meals for me every day."

"Oh, okay then..." Su Tang didn't know whether she should breathe a sigh of relief or sigh that he was worthy of being Wei Yan, a bodyguard, secretary, housekeeper and chef, who brought so many people here just to move house.

However...

Su Tang blinked. Since Wei Yan had refused, she wouldn't have to worry about it anymore after returning home.

When she thought about her parents asking her about it and being able to give an explanation, Su Tang immediately smiled and cheered up.

It's a good habit to dislike troublesome people, and Su Tang likes this kind of patient!

Since the other party is unwilling, it is none of her business, Su Tang thought with a smile, she can go back directly after the needle is removed, which is also good...

Wei Yan, who was lying on the bed receiving acupuncture, suddenly let out a muffled groan.

Su Tang was startled and looked in the direction of the sound. She frowned and asked, "Hmm...? What's wrong with Mr. Wei? Are you feeling unwell?"

While Su Tang was asking, her eyes were busy moving back and forth on Wei Yan's back, fearing that something might have gone wrong with any of the silver needles.

"No... I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere..." The man said in a low voice, with a hint of disbelief and shock in his tone.

"Doctor Su, I think my toes can move..." A muffled voice came from the pillow, and Wei Yan subconsciously moved his dry throat.

This is unbelievable!

Even Wei Yan himself was stunned where he stood, unable to calm the magma surging in his heart for a long time.

Can move?! It seems like he can really move!

As the words fell, Wei Yan couldn't help but try hard to tighten his toe muscles, trying to make his toes move again.

Su Tang was startled, and immediately focused all her attention on Wei Yan's ten toes. In order to observe more carefully, Su Tang even half-squatted down.

"I'll count 123... move harder." Su Tang looked serious, but mostly happy, with a pair of dark pupils bright and clear.

She originally thought that it would take this person at least half a year to reach Master Cheng's level of 20 days, and a year to be able to walk without the help of others.

But Su Tang didn't expect that in less than a month, the other party could actually act like Wang Xiaomei? !

"1...2...3! Move!" Su Tang started shouting slogans with a happy face.

However, after shouting the slogan, Wei Yan exerted all his strength, veins popped out on his forehead, but his toes did not move at all.

Su Tang felt a little disappointed, but she cheered up again and shouted, "1...2...3, move!"

However, nothing happened the second time. Even though Wei Yan's face turned red under the pillow, his ten toes did not react at all.

"Well……"

Su Tang frowned, feeling a little disappointed, but she stood up and comforted him, "Don't worry, Mr. Wei. It seems that this may be your illusion. This situation is probably... just like the phantom limb pain that some patients experience after amputation..."

Wei Yan pursed his lips, his pupils hidden under the pillow were dark, his fingers clasped tightly on both sides of the pillow, and a muffled voice came from the pillow again: "Doctor Su, let's try again!"

"In that case... let's try again."

Su Tang looked at Wei Yan for a moment and saw that he had never given up. He immediately squatted down and nodded again, saying, "Focus on your toes. 1...2...3! Move!"

The last voice seemed to have its own magic power. The big toe of the left foot, which had been unable to move even half a minute, started to move slowly at this moment, like a piece of wood! It's not the kind of motion that's like a doll, swaying randomly with gravity, but the kind of trembling that is caused by the tightening of human muscles, the participation of skeletal tendons, and the slight upward tilting!

Although the whole process only took less than a second, and the other party's toes returned to their original state, Su Tang still smiled happily~

"It's moving, it can really move!" The old butler was even more excited than Su Tang, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

Since ordinary three-bedroom apartments are small, even smaller than the two bedrooms in the villa, the old housekeeper, Secretary Zhao and others were worried that they would accidentally stand in the room and cause trouble, so they all stood at the door and dared not make any sound.

But this time, they couldn't bear it anymore!

Su Tang nodded, very happy: "Mr. Wei's toes can indeed move, this is a huge improvement... It seems that in half a month, Mr. Wei should be able to start the most basic rehabilitation of all ten toes."

"That's great!" Secretary Zhao was also overjoyed.

As Wei Yan's secretary, Secretary Zhao was always concerned about his boss's health and hoped every day that Wei Yan could recover as soon as possible.

"Dr. Su, thank you so much." Uncle Fu's voice was choked with sobs, and his slightly cloudy eyes looked at Su Tang steadily, full of gratitude.

Su Tang rubbed her face in embarrassment, but accepted it with a smile. When the acupuncture time was up, she pulled out the needles while saying to Uncle Fu, "Mr. Wei is getting better and better now. The most important thing for you is to help him gain some weight. The human body will be full of Qi and blood, so the treatment effect will be better and better. Tomorrow I will prepare some medicinal bath materials for Mr. Wei. When the time comes, boil the herbs and add the soup into the bathtub. Soak for 20 minutes..."

Compared with acupuncture, medicine, medicated diet and ointment, medicated bath is also a good choice.

This is also the prescription that Su Tang reconfigured after careful research in recent days.

After chatting with Fu Bo, Wei Yan and others for a few words, Su Tang packed up her acupuncture kit and alcohol disinfection tools, turned around and ran back home.

Secretary Zhao and Uncle Fu helped Wei Yan up from the bed and put him in a wheelchair.

Uncle Fu was delighted: "Master, it's time for dinner now. I'll go upstairs and bring you dinner."

"Thank you..." Wei Yan was also shocked by the joy of being able to move his toes. He paid no attention to the situation around him, nor did he notice Uncle Fu. He turned around and went upstairs to bring him dinner.

It was not until Wei Yan was pushed to the living room dining table by Secretary Zhao and awakened by the oncoming aroma of medicinal food that he calmed down, picked up his bowl and chopsticks, and prepared to eat.

Recently, the medicinal food prepared by the chef has become more and more fragrant, and even the taste has improved significantly. Wei Yan is very satisfied with this.

Secretary Zhao also smelled the mouth-watering fragrance. He tried his best to hold his breath and not let his saliva flow down from the corners of his mouth.

As expected, he is a high-level chef hired at a huge price. The medicinal food he stews and the delicious food he makes are so different!

He hadn't smelled any food more fragrant and mouth-watering than this in these years!

Secretary Zhao was thinking in his heart whether he should go upstairs and talk to the chef today to ask him to help stew some medicinal food and cook a meal...

An even stronger and more overbearing fragrance suddenly came in from the open window!

This overbearing aroma of the medicinal food instantly covered up most of the aroma of the medicinal food in Wei Yan's hand and re-invaded all of Wei Yan's olfactory nerves.

Wei Yan was a little confused: "..."

Meanwhile...

Wei Yan, Secretary Zhao and Uncle Fu heard the voices of the Su family next door at the same time.

The sound was cheerful and lively, mixed with the strong aroma of medicinal food...

"It's time to eat! Come and eat, my dear girl! Come and see if the medicinal food dad prepared is delicious! Come quickly! I told you that I spent three hours stewing this medicinal food today!"

Wei Yan: “…………”

Secretary Zhao: “…………”

Uncle Fu: “…………”