Chapter 72: Black-hearted Phlegm (Seeking Recommendations and Bookmarks)

  "Director Li, what are you doing here?" The man looked at Li Chuan with a strange expression. His own daughter Luo Jiao was getting married and he had also invited Li Chuan, but the other party had sent a gift and declined to attend, saying that he needed to take care of his mother's illness. He hadn't expected to see Li Chuan sitting in the hall when he went to send someone off just now.

  "Ah, isn't this the old problem again? Let Xiao Lao Di take a look!" She said, her eyes turning to Xiao Yu who was taking their mother's pulse.

  Yun Xi sat beside him, looking at Xiao Yu's serious face, and found that the Xiao Yu who was diagnosing the patient had another mysterious meaning. Just by feeling the pulse, he could tell where the patient was from. Yun Xi looked at Xiao Yu with a curious and inquiring expression, wondering if this was really just an ordinary man working in a small clinic?

  Lu Bingyang followed Li Chuan's gaze and saw a young man examining an elderly woman, who coughed from time to time. Lu Bingyang was surprised to see Xiao Yu so young, and wondered if Li Chuan had brought his mother all the way here just for this young doctor to take a look at her, especially since he had declined his own invitation.

  Moreover, when Li Chuan spoke of Xiao Ye, he didn't have the slightest condescending tone, just like an ordinary patient. It's worth noting that although Li Chuan was only a deputy director, as the secretary of the first person in Gu City, even some directors and deputy mayors would show him respect.

  This young doctor who came to see the patient seems to be a Chinese medicine practitioner, but isn't that kind of famous Chinese medicine practitioner usually over 50 years old? The wedding banquet has already started, and Luo Bingyang didn't rush to leave, he just wanted to take a look at this young man, what's so special about him that Li Chuan treated him like that?

  "Aunt, you've had this cough for over thirty years now! And it was better a few years ago, but in recent years it's gotten worse!" Xiao Ye didn't answer her question, instead saying to the old lady, although it was a question, he sounded quite certain.

  "Yes! Let me think, isn't it over thirty years already? In the past few years, I was still okay on rainy days and occasionally coughed, but in recent years, I've been coughing more and more!" The old lady listened to Xiao Yu's words, looking at him with an increasingly surprised gaze, just like what she had seen with her own eyes.

  Looking at Xiao Yu who was examining the patient in front of her, looking at his confident face, Yun Xi's eyes flashed with a bright light, this is the doctor she had in mind.

  Li Chuan thought of letting Xiao Yu take a look at his mother because he saw Wan Shuji and his family's admiration for his medical skills when Xiao Yu treated Wan Shuji's daughter. Although Wan Shuji's daughter had not woken up yet, Li Chuan himself did not have much direct understanding of Xiao Yu's medical skills. However, just as Xiao Yu casually took her pulse, he surprisingly got everything right. At this time, Li Chuan was filled with confidence that Xiao Yu could cure his mother's illness.

  Lu Bingyang was also surprised, could it be that this young man really had some skills?

  "Director Luo, Director Li, Miss, Mr. Xiao invites you to have some tea!" At this time, a mature and charming woman walked over with several cups of tea. This woman was Wang Mei, the general manager of Gucheng Hotel, who also served as the deputy director of the Comprehensive Department of the Municipal Government Office. Seeing that Li Chuan and Luo Bingyang were both sitting here, she brought over several cups of tea.

  Wang Mei put down her teacup and saw Xiao Yu examining a patient, with a look of surprise on his face. She knew Xiao Yu, as the general manager of Gu Cheng Hotel, she was aware that Xiao Yu lived in the exclusive suite on the top floor of Wan Hong Guang's mansion. Previously, she had thought Xiao Yu was some relative of Wan Hong Guang's, but it turned out he was a doctor.

  "Ah!" The old lady let out a painful cry, and it turned out that Xiao Yu's hand was on her back, constantly patting. At first, the old lady felt quite comfortable, but when Xiao Yu patted her left lung area, she suddenly felt a sharp pain like needles, and couldn't help but cry out.

  "It's here, Auntie. Did you suffer any injuries before the coughing started?" Xiao Ye asked, pressing down on the old lady's painful spot.

  "Let me think... It's been decades." The old lady fell into thought after hearing Xiao Yu's question.

  "Ah, I remember now! It was over thirty years ago when I was working in the village production team to earn work points. Er Gouzi's father led an ox that got startled and kicked me here during a sudden movement, leaving a big bruise. But after nursing it for several weeks, the bruise healed, and I didn't think much of it!" The old lady suddenly slapped her thigh and exclaimed loudly a moment later.

  "That's it, the injury you suffered was a lung meridian injury! It wasn't thoroughly healed, and you also used to smoke, right? Generally, only Northeastern women smoked back in those days. Although you've quit now, it was only recently that you managed to kick the habit, wasn't it? The nicotine accumulated in your injured lung meridian and couldn't be expelled, which is why you keep coughing." Xiao Ye said calmly from the side.

  "Xiao Lao Di, then... can my mother's cough be cured?" Li Chuan asked hastily as soon as he heard that his mother had been coughing due to an old injury, fearing that the longer she was injured, the harder it would be to cure.

  "It can be cured, I'll give Aunt a few stitches and some medicine when I get back, and she'll be fine!" Xiao Yu said with a nod.

  Lu Bingyang and Wang Mei were deeply shocked, they had seen traditional Chinese medicine cure diseases before, but this was so magical, not only did it know where the person was from, but also knew about old injuries that were decades old. From Xiao Ye's words, it seemed that this illness wasn't difficult to treat, just a few doses of medicine and it would be cured?

  Yun Xi's small face was flushed with excitement as she gazed at Xiao Yu, who was talking enthusiastically, her eyes filled with adoration.

  "Brother Li, get a spittoon over here!" Xiao Yu turned his head and said to Li Chuan.

  "I'm going, I'm going..." As soon as Xiao Yu's words fell, Wang Mei hurriedly said, joking that if Li Chuan were to find something himself here, he might remember his hatred for himself. At that time, it would depend on Li Da's mood whether this general manager could still be in office or not.

  Before long, Wang Mei found the spittoon. Xiao Yu put the spittoon in front of the old lady and took out a golden needle from her backpack to perform acupuncture on the major acupoints of the old lady's lungs. With one hand clenched into a fist, she slowly tapped the injured area.

  As Xiao Yu struck, the old lady suddenly started coughing, and with each strike, her cough grew worse. In the end, her coughs merged into one continuous sound, leaving no time to catch her breath, her face turning bright red from suffocation.

  With a severe cough, the old lady's lungs seemed to be stuck with something. When she inhaled air, it made a hissing sound. Moreover, her throat made a gurgling noise.

  As Xiao Yu's pounding movements became more and more intense, the old lady felt as if there was a broken windbox humming in her throat.

  Looking at his mother's condition, Li Chuan felt a wave of worry. His mother was coughing so hard that she couldn't catch her breath. Li Chuan wanted to stop Xiao Yu for a moment to let his mother breathe, but seeing Xiao Yu's calm and composed expression, unchanged in the slightest, Li Chuan opened his mouth but didn't make a sound. He was afraid of affecting the treatment effect on his mother.

  Lu Bingyang, Wang Mei and Yun Xi looked at the old lady's appearance and were also worried. They never thought that coughing would make people so miserable.

  "Cough hard......" As soon as Xiao Yu's voice fell, his fist slapped the old lady's injured place.

  "Cough... Cough cough... Cough cough cough..."

  As Xiao Yu's fist fell, the old lady let out a more violent cough, suddenly something seemed to be stuck in her throat, her face turned bright red and she couldn't make any sound. Xiao Yu patted her back gently at the position of her heart.

  The old lady suddenly spat out a black, ping-pong ball-sized glob of phlegm, emitting a wave of foul odor. When the phlegm landed in the spittoon, it even jumped up and down a few times.

  The rest room was suddenly filled with a foul smell, and Wang Mei and Yun Xi rushed out of the rest room after dry vomiting several times. Wang Mei quickly ordered someone to remove the thick phlegm and sprayed air freshener in the rest room before stopping.

  The old lady now, however, couldn't care less about the smell, as if she had put down a heavy burden that was weighing on her body, feeling light and relaxed all over. Originally, every time she coughed, she felt like there was something in her lungs that she couldn't cough up, and at those times, the old lady would have liked to dig out her lungs, wash them clean, and then put them back in.

  P.S: My computer doesn't know what's going on either. I couldn't reply in the book review section, it always says I'm posting too quickly, who knows what's wrong?!