Chapter 89 A Handful of Grabs (Seeking First Subscription and Monthly Tickets)

  Xiao Yu got off the car and stood outside the door, looking at his own clinic. He said he was back home, but he couldn't stay at home for a few days, running out every day, and this time he went to the ancient city for more than half a month.

  Xiao You sighed, saw Wang Zhiguo had driven back to report, and walked towards his own clinic. Inside the clinic, his mother was taking someone's pulse, his sister was fetching medicine from the cabinet, and two or three people were sitting beside them waiting for their turn to see a doctor.

  "Little brother is back!" The sister who was busy grabbing medicine saw Xiao Ye return, and exclaimed with a surprised face. However, because she was in the middle of her work, she didn't stop what she was doing.

  Xiao Jianying heard her daughter's cry and looked up to see her son standing at the door, gesturing with his hand that he was busy seeing a patient and didn't speak to him.

  Xiao Yu put down his backpack and walked to the medicine cabinet to help his sister grab some medicine. Xiao Yu had been following his grandfather since he was a child, learning about the properties of medicines and how to identify them, so grabbing medicine was not unfamiliar to him.

  With Xiao Yu's help, Xiao Yu's medicine-picking speed naturally increased a lot, and soon he finished picking it up and handed it over to the patient. The total cost of five doses of medicine was 35 yuan.

  Xiao Yu looked at his sister collecting money and couldn't help but reveal a wry smile. Although Xiao Yu didn't know the exact cost of these medicines, he knew they definitely weren't cheap. The cost price was at least 30 yuan, which means that Xiao Yu's clinic only made less than 5 yuan from treating this patient.

  No wonder the number of people studying traditional Chinese medicine is decreasing, and purely traditional Chinese medical clinics are almost extinct. Even if there are any, they are just using the name of traditional Chinese medicine as a cover, most of them use Western medicine, earning 5 yuan for five days of traditional Chinese medicine, averaging 1 yuan per day, while Western medicine can earn at least 50 yuan by hanging an IV bottle.

  Although Western medicine is expensive, people still prefer to see a Western doctor. Nowadays, except for some elderly people who have grown old, young people rarely go to see a traditional Chinese doctor. In the minds of young people, Western medicine is science, while traditional Chinese medicine is superstition. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more unpopular, and it is estimated that in a few decades, traditional Chinese medicine will become extinct in its place of origin.

  Another reason is that traditional Chinese medicine has its own schools of thought and inheritance, which are rarely passed on outside the family. Some families even have a tradition of passing it down to sons but not daughters, so even if it's passed on, it's only superficial, which is also one of the reasons for the decline of traditional Chinese medicine.

  Moreover, to learn traditional Chinese medicine without over 10 years of hard work, one doesn't even have the right to prescribe medication. Now, how many young people can persist for over 10 years with little or no income? Even if they persisted for over 10 years and became a doctor, seeing patients all day wouldn't earn them as much as selling bottled water.

  Western medicine is a completely open and standardized education, anyone can learn it, and it only takes a few years to master it. There are established models for diagnosing and treating diseases, and the income of Western doctors is 10 to 100 times that of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.

  These are the reasons why traditional Chinese medicine has declined. Someone once advised my mother to combine traditional Chinese and Western medicine, but she refused without even thinking about it. She didn't want to destroy what her father had passed down to her.

  Xiao Jianying quickly finished examining the patient and smiled as she watched Xiao Ye grab the medicine, seeing how skilled he was at grabbing the right amount of each ingredient without needing to look.

  "You young man, isn't this harming people? Can medicine be casually grabbed like this? What if someone eats the wrong thing, you know that some Chinese medicines are toxic and can kill people if taken in excess!" An elderly man in his 70s, seeing Xiao Yu grab a handful of medicinal herbs and put them on the paper, couldn't help but speak out in anger.

  "Haha, old man, you're not a local from around here, are you?" A patient who came to see the doctor next door chuckled and said.

  "What's wrong with not being a local? You're even cheating on medical treatment! I'm telling you, I'm from Wangzhuang, it's not far from here!" The old man said with his neck stretched.

  "Haha, you're already so old, how can you still have such a big temper? Let me tell you, this young man is a well-known master of grasping in this area. His grasp is just right, not too much or too little. Don't believe me? Try weighing it yourself!"

  The patient saw the old man's furious face but didn't panic, instead he smiled lightly and said.

  "It's impossible, if he were fifty or sixty years old I would believe it, but he is so young, I don't believe it, I have to weigh it!" The old man looked at Xiao Yu and saw how young he was, his face full of disbelief. In his opinion, picking medicinal herbs was something that could be mastered with practice, but those people had spent decades honing their skills. To say that Xiao Yu, who was so young, could accomplish this, he refused to believe it.

  "Haha, don't believe me? Just try it and see! I'm telling you, not just now, but even five years ago I didn't believe it either. But after trying it once, I believed!" The patient said with a smile, seeing the old man look at Xiao Yu's young age with skepticism.

  Xiao Yu saw the old man taking medicine to weigh and didn't get angry, anyway it wasn't the first time someone had questioned him. Xiao Jianying and Xiao Yu were even more nonchalant, smiling as they watched the old man go to weigh the medicinal herbs.

  Xiao Yu knew that her younger brother was very accurate at grabbing medicine, which made her sigh at the importance of innate talent. She had been grabbing medicine since she was 15 years old and it had already been ten years, but she still needed to use a scale to weigh it. However, her younger brother, who didn't like medicine from a young age and only grabbed medicine sporadically, was surprisingly very accurate at it, and was known as the best grabber in their area.

  Xiao Jianying knew from a young age that his son had a good talent, otherwise his father would not have passed on his mantle to Xiao Yu. However, Xiao Yu did not like medicine from a young age, and although the old man tried every means to get him to practice medicine, he was unsuccessful. He didn't expect his son to end up back in this field after going around in circles.

  The old man carefully weighed the medicine according to the prescription, and after finishing, he took a deep breath and said nothing, but stretched out his thumb at Xiao Yu.

  "How's the old fellow? I told you so! Hehe, he was just like you back then!" The patient said with a smile.

  "Ah, quite good, young man! I was mistaken!" The old man nodded his head and said to Xiao Yu.

  "Grandpa, don't say that, medicine isn't something you can eat a lot of. What you said is right, being serious is necessary!" Xiao Yu scratched his head and revealed the smile he had been practicing for two months.

  The old man looked at Xiao Yu's silly and sincere smile, nodded and said: "Young people are really good, not arrogant or impatient!"

  Xiao Yu quickly finished preparing the medicine and handed it to the patient, while Xiao Yu went forward to collect the money and sent away several patients. The traditional Chinese medicine clinic of Xiao Yu's family was not very busy since there were only a few patients, so after they left, things quieted down.

  "Little brother, how was it? Are you done with the medical examination?" asked Xiao Yu, smiling as she looked at her brother's proud face after all the patients had left.

  "Alright, I've finished reading!" Xiao Yu nodded and said.

  "How is it? Is it cured?" Xiao Yu asked cautiously when she saw that her brother didn't seem too happy, fearing that he hadn't recovered.

  "Heh heh, your brother is out, will there still be any illness that can't be cured?" Xiao Yu saw his sister's careful appearance and felt a warmth in his heart, he put his hands behind his back, looked up at the roof, and revealed a smug smile.

  "By the way, Xiaoyu, do you know? Jia Youcai's family was haunted by a ghost. One time, he was taking a bath and suddenly shouted that there was a ghost, then ran out onto the street without any clothes on, it was so embarrassing! In the end, they spent 100,000 yuan to find a Taoist priest to perform a ritual, only then did it stop!" Xiao Yu suddenly revealed a relieved smile and whispered to Xiaoyu.

  "Ah! Really?" Xiao Yu said with a surprised expression, but in fact he was clearer than anyone else that the Taoist priest had just removed the spell. Heh heh, it's probably because the effect of the talisman has worn off, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to remove with just a Taoist priest, and 100,000 yuan? What a bargain!

  "Haha... Of course it's true, so relieving!" Xiao Yu said with a big laugh.

  "Don't talk about others behind their backs!" Xiao Jianying heard the two of them talking about Jia Youcai, although she also disliked Jia Youcai's behavior, but her good upbringing still made her speak out to stop her son and daughter.

  Xiao Yu made a face at his sister to tease Xiao Yu, but the result was being chased by his sister all over the house.

  Xiao Jianying looked at her son and daughter, revealing a relieved expression. Her daughter was living happily, and her son had finally followed in his father's footsteps to become a doctor, inheriting his legacy. Although her husband hadn't said anything before he passed away, she knew that he had hoped Xiao Ye would inherit everything from him.

  Xiao Jianying wiped the corners of her moist eyes and walked towards the back house. She was going to burn incense in front of her father's memorial tablet to tell him that the Xiao family legacy had not been broken, but instead was even better than he had hoped. The vegetative state! It was actually cured by his son.

  At noon, Xiao Jianying went out and bought a big pile of dishes, and also brought out a bottle of wine that his father had treasured. His son has finally grown up.

  "Wife, wife........." Xiao Yu's family was having dinner when an excited voice came from outside the door.

  Xiao Yu was taken aback and recognized that it was her husband Lu Jianhong's voice, filled with puzzlement in her heart, what made him so happy?

  Xiao Yu stood up and walked out, just as he reached the door, Lu Jianhong pushed it open and came in to see Xiao Yu pick him up and spin around in a circle, with an excited smile on his face.

  "What are you doing? Can't you see that mom and little brother are here?" Although she didn't know why her husband was so happy, she was happy too. However, when being hugged by her husband in front of her mother and little brother, she couldn't help but hit Lu Jianrong twice.

  "Mom, Xiaoyu is also back!" After being reminded by his wife, Lu Jianhong only noticed that his mother-in-law and younger brother-in-law were also in the house, feeling embarrassed, he scratched his head and greeted them.

  "Haha....... Wife, do you know? I just received a notice from the ancient city committee, Secretary Wan wants to transfer me to the ancient city to be his secretary!" Lu Jianhong said excitedly to Xiao Yu after finishing his greetings with Xiao Jianying and Xiao Ye.

  "Really? That's great!" Xiao Yu was also happy for her husband, knowing that his ideal was to make a career in the officialdom, but at first he gave up on a famous school and attended an ordinary one just to be with her in the same city. If it wasn't for his father-in-law Lu Guozhang, he wouldn't even have solved the problem of being a deputy department head now.