Chapter 161 Moral Kidnapping & Ge Hong's Life Story
Shu Jinyue actually didn't want to answer Brian's call. It wasn't because she didn't care about the old friendship, but because she learned something from Lin Zhen that changed her opinion of him.
Brian was a selfless, humorous and friendly old man when we first met him. His experience of "eating duck along the way" made the Dragon people present feel very close. The young Jin Yue also thought that he was a pretty good person, a scholar and doctor worthy of respect.
Of course, he did do something beneficial to her - he wrote a letter of recommendation for Lin Zhen. Over the years, whenever Jin thinks of him, he will think of his goodness. She firmly believes that if it were not for his recommendation, Lin Zhen would not be able to represent traditional Chinese medicine on the international stage.
But she only recently realized that such "good" is limited. When Lin Zhen went to medical school, he was limited to writing recommendation letters. Later, when Lin Zhen applied for a doctorate, a supervisor asked for his opinion on the matter. He gave not very good feedback, forcing Lin Zhen to change supervisors.
In fact, he didn't need to say anything nice. He only needed to objectively and rationally say "I'm not familiar with her" and Lin Zhen wouldn't fall into such a dilemma.
Not to mention, all these "good things" come at a price - during the three years that Lin Zhen was studying for her master's degree, he used this "favor" to ask Lin Zhen to help him with many personal matters, and even "gave" him a very important toxicology research result, and asked Lin Zhen's parents-in-law to invest a lot of money in his clinic. For this, Lin Zhen was almost at odds with him.
There is no free good in the adult world, and there is no free lunch. Shu Jinyue knew this iron rule clearly, but she still felt uncomfortable. She always thought that his letter of recommendation was a token of gratitude for her treating him and an affirmation of her medical skills, but the fact was that he seemed to have "forgotten" this, and the letter of recommendation became her "bargaining chip" to threaten Lin Zhen.
Shu Jinyue has met many people like this. She is not angry, but that doesn't mean she can be a saint and lend a helping hand whenever he asks for help.
Anna looked at her face and said quickly, "Then I will refuse."
Jin Yue nodded.
Soon, a new day of outpatient work officially began. Jin Yue looked on and saw a circle of "students" sitting on each side. While seeing the patients, she would also take time to teach whenever she had the chance, explaining what the disease was, where it came from, what syndromes it was divided into, or why certain medicines were used in a certain prescription. The knowledge was scattered, but useful.
Everyone cherished this hard-earned opportunity. They nodded repeatedly while listening and took notes quickly.
Finally, after seeing the last patient, Jin Yue sat there too lazy to move. "It's getting late, everyone should go to the cafeteria to eat. I won't be doing outpatient clinics this afternoon, so you can take a rest."
Everyone said they didn't need to rest if they were not tired, but Jin Yue smiled and stretched her waist. She was actually quite tired, having overworked for several nights in a row. She really wanted to lie down and have a good rest.
"Teacher, do you have sore waist and numb hands? Let me massage you. I have taken massage as an elective course before." Xiao Wang took the initiative to speak.
Everyone around slowed down their pace to pack up their things, thinking to themselves, this guy is really something, to the extent of flattering someone? ! Is it his turn if Dean Shu wants a massage? They will too!
“I’ve learned that, too!”
"I can!"
"I've massaged my mother before. She has high blood pressure and often feels dizzy. She says it feels so good every time I massage her!"
They all swarmed up to give Jin Yue a massage. Shu Jin Yue laughed and said, "I'm not numb. You guys go and have dinner." They really treated her as an old lady. She was about the same age as them. They had been told many times that they could just be friends.
"It's okay, teacher. I'm not hungry. I've massaged my mother before, so I have experience." The speaker was a young girl, only about seventeen or eighteen years old. She was Zhang Xuewen's niece, and attended a technical secondary school, a health school in Beijing. She had a lively personality and had just arrived in the past two days. She was the last to join Jin Yue's team, but she was the team's funny fruit. The others were relatively older and didn't like to joke as much as she did.
Shu Jinyue also likes this kind of little girl, "What did you say happened to your mother just now?"
"Hypertension, for many years, inherited from my grandma. Of course, my grandma didn't know it was hypertension at that time, so I guessed. My mother said that my grandma always complained of numbness in her hands when she was in her forties. She found an old Chinese doctor to take her pulse, and he prescribed some Gastrodia elata to stew chicken at home. After eating it for half a month, she was cured. Didn't the teacher just say that Gastrodia elata is an important medicine for treating hypertension? I guessed that my grandma must have had high blood pressure back then."
You know what, she’s quite smart, Jin Yue smiled.
However, as she was laughing, she suddenly thought of something, "Your grandma's first symptom was numbness in her hands?"
"Yes, my mother said that she was so numb that she couldn't hold a pen. My grandmother was a Chinese teacher and couldn't hold a pen or write with chalk. Later, the principal transferred her to be a physical education teacher."
Shu Jinyue's attention was on the first half of this chatterbox. She suddenly remembered that Li Si's symptom was numbness in his hands. I have checked everything I could, but there is still no relief. Could it be the most unlikely thing, high blood pressure?
But Li Si's blood pressure was not high. She had measured it at the beginning to rule out cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
But Jin Yue thought again, that might not be the case, after all, it was only measured once. Blood pressure is a vital sign that varies when a person is in different states. Maybe it was measured when his emotions were stable?
Thinking of this possibility, Shu Jinyue immediately asked Ge Hong to call Li Si again, "Tell him that this time he may be asked to carry an ambulatory blood pressure monitor, which will take a long time. Ask him to take time off to come over for a day."
Ge Hong agreed to go, and Shu Jinyue went home for dinner. Today, Xu Wenli brought back some fresh seafood from the supermarket. Recently, her supermarket opened a fresh food stall. It does not sell vegetables or fruits, but specializes in selling live seafood. The price is expensive, but the quality is guaranteed. As soon as the advertisement was released, many people went to buy it.
Even a three-year-old child knows that the Wenli Supermarket opposite the San Department Store has good and fresh products and a good service attitude. Customers can choose whatever they want and the salesperson will be smiling the whole time.
Nowadays, there are more and more wealthy people who are willing to spend money on food and drink. Ordinary chicken, duck, fish, beef and mutton are no longer tasty, and they still have to eat something that swims in the water. But people are also tired of eating tilapia and bullfrog, and the nouveau riche are starting to crave seafood.
"I reserved this a long time ago, otherwise it would have been snatched up by customers in a short time." Xu Wenli said, "My three children like to eat these shrimps and crabs. They used to eat frozen ones, but they were boring. These things must be alive."
"Look at how rich you are."
Xu Wenli grinned, and after everyone finished their meal, she pulled Jin Yue into the study to talk.
"Jin Yue, can you help people lose weight?"
Shu Jinyue looked her up and down, "Second sister-in-law, you are not fat."
"It's not me. Your second brother said he likes me like this. He calls me round and smooth."
"Okay, okay, I know you two have a good relationship. It's been almost 20 years and you're still like a newlywed couple. Everyone around here would say you two are so sweet. Let's get down to business."
Xu Wenli laughed twice. "It's like this. My brother is the child my parents had later. I've been busy with business these past two years and haven't seen him for a long time. A few days ago, they came to the supermarket and found out that I opened it, so... you know, they thought that I must have a lot of money to be able to open such a big supermarket, but they didn't think that I also have my own difficulties."
She had saved some money from running a convenience store a few years ago, but compared with the cost of opening a supermarket, it was a drop in the bucket. She was also a bit too strong-willed and didn't want Shu Wenming's help, so she took out a loan herself. Now she still has to pay back the loan every month. Not to mention the principal, the interest alone is over ten thousand yuan a month.
Every day when she opens her eyes, she has to pay three or four hundred yuan in interest, which puts her under a lot of pressure. But Xu's father and mother only saw her glory, and thought that since her life was better, she should "help" her brother so that his brother could also benefit from her glory, and that she should not enjoy the blessing alone.
"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid. I've given them every penny I should give them. Over the years, your second brother and I have given them enough to buy them two courtyard houses. Isn't that enough? But they don't want to spend it on themselves and save it all for their son. Humph."
Before the Chinese New Year, Xu's mother complained about her toothache for two months, saying that she did not take good care of herself after giving birth to Wenli and drank cold water. Now her teeth have been aching for many years and she cannot go to work. Xu Wenli gave her 3,000 yuan during the Chinese New Year, saying that she could go to the dentist and get some better dentures. But she took her son to the dentist instead, saying that one of her son's teeth was a little crooked and she wanted to get it fixed. Not long after, she came to Wenli again and said that she had a toothache and was in so much pain that she couldn't eat and had lost several pounds.
"Her teeth were almost decayed, and she was reluctant to spend a penny. Her son only had a crooked tooth. She thought he could fix it when he grew up and earned money, but she refused to do so and insisted on using her own medical money to fix it for him. Now that he's well, she comes to me again to ask for it, but I didn't give it to her."
She kept saying that she got sick because of her, but her children were too lazy to find out whether it was true or not. But even after giving her such a huge sum of money, it would have been enough to see her five or six times, but she still said she had no money. Bystanders could guess the reason with their toes.
Shu Jinyue knew that at times like this, it came down to who had a harder heart between mother and daughter, and the one who wasn't tough enough would definitely suffer.
Xu's mother bet that her daughter was soft-hearted and would definitely not want to see her suffer.
"We have been very respectful to her over the years. She shouldn't be using this trick on me again."
"Then give them less money in the future, and try to buy them things they need, things that can be used directly. For example, if they are not feeling well, then accompany them to see a doctor. Pay what they should pay. Buy them rice, flour, grain and oil during festivals, and buy furniture for them... Change all your care from money to things." She could no longer support her son.
Xu Wenli's eyes lit up, "Okay, good idea!"
"I came to you today because I want you to help my brother. He's too fat. He's only 1.6 meters tall, not even as tall as Mengmeng, but he weighs 180 pounds. He's like a cube. My parents spoil him and have raised him like a ball. I thought you could help him lose some weight. Maybe he'll be in better spirits and make some progress in his studies."
Being so fat, on the one hand, he had poor physical strength, a dull brain, slow reaction, and could not learn anything; on the other hand, his classmates gave him nicknames, and his personality gradually became much gloomier.
"I don't want him to be more successful, but at least he should be healthier both physically and mentally, what do you think?"
Of course Shu Jinyue was willing to help. She had never tried to help a person in the shape of a cube lose weight. Moreover, she also liked that her second sister-in-law was so clear-headed. She didn't give money directly to his career, but encouraged him to lose weight and become healthier. Even if he couldn't get into university in the future, he had to have a healthy body just to work a random job.
"He has started to grow a beard recently. If he doesn't lose weight, he will have this beard in the future. It's strange that he doesn't feel inferior. I told my parents not to let him eat so much and to get him out for exercise, but they thought he was still young and wanted to feed him everything good. They don't even raise pigs like this."
"Okay, then you decide when to call him home or take him to the hospital."
"Don't let them come to my house, to avoid another disturbance." If the three of them saw the good life of the Shu family, who knows how much trouble they would cause. "My parents have some problems with their ideas. They can't stand us, who used to be worse off than them, living a good life."
Commonly known as pink eye. Shu Jinyue smiled but didn't know how to respond. The two of them were about to make an appointment when the phone in the living room suddenly rang.
Listening to the clacking sound of slippers, it should be Su Yue who answered the phone. She said something in a baby voice and then called out: "Mom, the phone is ringing!"
"Hello, how are you?"
"Shu, it's me. I'm Brian."
It was this haunted fellow again, "Tell me, what's going on?"
"It's still about the K virus. I heard that someone in your country was infected with the virus, but it was quickly contained using traditional Chinese medicine, so you must have a way, right?"
Shu Jinyue said nothing.
"I knew it was you. You must have a way. I beg you to save our A country's children. They are innocent."
Shu Jinyue sneered and was still blackmailing her morally. Aren't the children of the Long people innocent? Did her child, Shu Jinyue's, deserve to be chosen as the first batch of targets for poisoning? He really wants to stand on the moral high ground after doing bad things!
The matter of candy poisoning has not been disclosed yet. Jin Yue held back and did not mention it. Maybe it will be of greater use in the future and can help to win back the international public opinion. It is not good to expose it too early now.
But this tolerance made Jin Yue even angrier. She was indeed soft-hearted, but she hated these people's moral kidnapping even more. They always said "children are innocent". When they said this, did they ever think about whose children these were?
"I can't say much about other things, but I asked for your help this time because my own granddaughter is also sick. Not only my granddaughter and grandson, but also my daughter's three children and my cousin's six children. At least 13 children in our family are sick. Just last week, my cousin was at a party in Beverly Hills."
Shu Jinyue raised his eyebrows. Has the K virus spread to the point where even famous wealthy people live?
However, to put it bluntly, the Brian family has no idea of priorities. The K virus has become so prevalent in their country, shouldn't normal people stay at home, isolate themselves and protect themselves? They actually held a party and brought so many young children along!
Let her say anything good about them, forget it, she should be more careful with her words.
"The children in my family are in a critical condition now. I need your help, Shu, please."
Shu Jinyue still didn't say anything. She didn't have any negotiation skills and knew that the more she said, the more mistakes she would make when facing such an old fox. It would be better to listen to what he had to say first.
"I heard that your traditional Chinese medicine is very effective against this virus. We can't go to Longguo for the time being. Can you sell us some medicine? Don't worry, we will pay a very high price for it."
Shu Jinyue was a little reluctant a second ago, but at this moment he suddenly figured it out. Yes, since they all want to make money, why not start now and start from the rich area? It seems that it is not impossible, right?
"We really need your special medicine, please, Shu."
Shu Jinyue was annoyed by his repeated chatter, "Wait for me to think about it."
"How long will it take you? Two hours? Or four hours? You know, this is really urgent and I really need your help."
Shu Jinyue really regretted leaving him her home phone number. He would definitely be able to find it at the hospital, there was nothing she could do about it. In the end, it was she who took the initiative to leave him her home phone number. Why didn't she be more careful at the time?
In the evening, when Xu Duan came back, the couple discussed, "The price cannot be decided by him. I will negotiate with him, and you don't have to interfere."
"By the way, I have asked Aunt Hu, and she said that it can be sold to the public, but only finished medicines can be sold, and secret recipes cannot be involved. It needs to be kept confidential."
"She can rest assured. I would never sell the secret recipe to them even if I kill myself." She would not sell it even if he gave her 100 million US dollars. This prescription is different from those beauty recipes. It can save lives at the critical moment.
Even for drugs like gastric fluid and rhinitis medicine that have no life-saving effect, after working with Sato Shizuka for so many years, she had tried to sell the secret recipe several times with high prices, but Shu Jinyue refused to sell it.
This is not a question of money.
***
Sure enough, just after four hours, Brian's overseas call came on time again. At first, he treated Xu Duan the same way as Jin Yue, but he found that after all his self-torture tactics had been exhausted, the man on the other side remained unmoved. He began to realize that this man was not simple. The two sides tried several times but failed to reach an agreement.
Jin Yue was not in a hurry even though they didn't reach an agreement. He still went to work the next day.
It was also a coincidence that as soon as I arrived at the door of the clinic, I saw Ge Hong and Li Si waiting there. They seemed to have been waiting for a while.
Jin Yue went in to put on his work clothes, and the student called them into the room, "You sit down first, Dean Shu will be here soon."
"how are things?"
"It's still the same numbness and burning sensation, and it seems to be a little worse than last time."
The more she looked at it, the redder Li Si's face became. She confirmed her thoughts in her heart - a red face and a stringy pulse might be high blood pressure.
No wonder I couldn't figure out why his face was red and his pulse was stringy last time. It always seemed strange, but all the conventional reasons have been ruled out. Now it seems that it should be high blood pressure. But the student's next sentence made Jin Yue confused again -
"Teacher, this is the result of dynamic blood pressure, there is no abnormality."
Jin Yue was stunned, took it and looked at it, Li Si's blood pressure was very stable, with a little fluctuation occasionally, but it was far from the level of high blood pressure.
It’s so strange, this situation has nothing to do with high blood pressure!
"Are you really not dizzy, have a headache, or have pain in the back of your neck normally?"
"No."
Suddenly, Shu Jinyue remembered what Zhang Xuewen's niece said, "Do your parents have high blood pressure?"
This time, Li Si remained silent.
Ge Hong said, "Yes, both parents have high blood pressure and need to take medication all year round."
Jin Yue felt a little strange. Li Si seemed to avoid this topic. But if Ge Hong said it was true, then it couldn't be false, and then Li Si's illness would make sense.
"Hypertension also has certain genetic factors. Generally speaking, if both parents suffer from hypertension, the probability of their children suffering from hypertension is also higher than that of the average person, and can even reach 50%. Comrade Li Si estimated that this is the case."
Jin Yue was not interested in the patient's privacy that was not related to the condition, but this time was different. Li Si's high blood pressure was clearly related to his parents. "Do you remember what medicine your parents took at the time, what was the dosage, and how many times a day?"
Li Si still didn't speak, but his face was pale and his hands on his knees were trembling slightly, revealing his nervousness and even a little grief.
Ge Hong answered a drug name for him, but Jin Yue felt it was a little unfamiliar, as she had never even heard of it. She looked at the "student" beside her who had been an attending physician in the Department of Cardiology for many years.
The man said quickly, "This drug was used in a small area to treat severe hypertension in the 1950s. It was very effective at first and was recommended by many international experts. But later it was discovered that the pharmaceutical company had added ingredients that were harmful to the heart. Long-term use can lead to heart poisoning and eventually death... Because many people had already taken it when the news broke, public outcry arose and the drug manufacturer declared bankruptcy."
So that's how it is, Jin Yue thought, no wonder she had never heard of the name, because these were all things before she was born, and the medicine was used on a small scale, so even Zhao Wanqiu might not know about it.
But today's gains were not small. Jin Yue was basically certain that the numbness and burning sensation in Li Si's hands were caused by high blood pressure. Although his blood pressure could not be measured to be elevated, Jin Yue called it a precursor to high blood pressure.
With the diagnosis, it is easy to determine the direction of medication, because there is a professional term in traditional Chinese medicine for hypertension called "hyperactivity of liver yang". Although the two cannot be completely equated, they are highly related. According to his symptoms, Jin Yue prescribed a prescription to calm the liver and suppress yang, and guide the blood downward, and added several medicines to cool the blood and promote blood circulation.
"Try eating three sets first, and avoid hot and stimulating foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, beef and mutton, and don't stay up late."
Li Si took note of it, and Ge Hong took him out.
The students behind him gossiped, "Teacher, this gay man is Sister Ge Hong's boyfriend, right?"
Shu Jinyue also wanted to say that Ge Hong must be so concerned about him, but Ge Hong didn't take the initiative to introduce him, so she didn't know what to say, "Okay, okay, let's go to work."
When he got home that night, Jin Yue couldn't help but ask Xu Duan, "Do you think Ge Hong and Li Si are a couple?"
Xu Duan was looking through some documents, and even marked some parts with a pen. Hearing this, he just looked up at her and said, "They can't be together."
"Why? I think Ge Hong cares about him a lot, and Li Si also has a familiarity with her that is different from ordinary relationships."
Xu Duan stopped writing and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
"Nonsense, if you don't want to know why I'm asking you, just tell me."
"Ge Hong is Li Si's sister. To be more precise, Ge Hong was adopted by Li Si's parents. Later, Uncle Li and Aunt Li passed away, and the two of them became homeless and had a very difficult life."
Hearing this, Jin Yue suddenly remembered Li Si's attitude today, "Li Si seems unwilling to talk about his parents' death. It was like this the last time I asked him, and it was the same today."
"His parents died because they took a blood pressure medication for a long time, called..."
Jin Yue immediately said the name he had just heard today.
Xu Duan nodded. "That kind of medicine has serious side effects, but the people of Longguo didn't know about it at the time. Instead, you needed to have certain connections to buy it. Uncle Li and Aunt Li have always had high blood pressure and have been taking it for a long time... I heard that a large blood vessel in the heart broke, and blood gushed out of their mouths. He was alone at home at the time, and he watched his parents die with his own eyes, which left a psychological trauma."
Jin Yue sighed: "How old was he then?"
"Six."
He was only six years old, not even as old as Xiao Ping'an is now, but he watched his parents die in such a tragic way. It would be strange if he didn't have psychological problems.
"Ge Hong is a few months younger than him. They were adopted by different families, but their situations were not very good."
Jin Yue wanted to ask what was wrong, but after thinking about it, she decided to give up. Zhao Wanqiu was also an adopted child, and she had heard these things since she was a child.
"When Ge Hong was twelve or thirteen years old, she was molested by her adoptive father. Li Si helped her and accidentally killed someone. If he was not a minor and the circumstances were extenuating, he might not have been able to do his current job."
Shu Jinyue opened his mouth, "So, even though he knew about Ge Hong's feelings, he has been avoiding her and his previous experiences?"
"Well, when I met Ge Hong before, she was in prison because she did something not very good."
"What's wrong?"
"She rescued a girl who was molested by her uncle, but he was too aggressive and almost crippled her."
No wonder, when Ge Hong sees little girls during his medical practice, he always pays extra attention to them. Once, he met a patient with "abdominal pain and weight gain", and Jin Yue arranged for her to do an ultrasound examination. It was Ge Hong who took the initiative to ask to accompany the child and even followed into the examination room.
At that time, Jin Yue was still puzzled. She usually looked like she didn't care about anything, so why was she so enthusiastic towards a stranger?
"That scum uncle deserves it."
"She had blood all over her face and her eyes were lifeless, but she said the same thing as you."
Shu Jinyue thought to himself, no wonder Ge Hong, with such a high education and IQ, has been wandering around in society.
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