Chapter 17
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Chapter 17: Bai Chen Takes Action
Liu Yuming looked at the unconscious old man with a changed expression and quickly stepped forward to check his pulse.
“Xiao Ya, did your grandfather take his medicine regularly?”
Liu Yuming asked while feeling the pulse.
Zhao Ya nodded, her face filled with anxiety.
“Grandpa Liu, please save my grandfather!”
“Don’t worry! I need to check the pulse first!”
Seeing this, Li Guifang stood aside with a strong look of disdain.
“Hmph! What a show!”
After saying this, Li Guifang turned to Zhao Ya.
“Little girl, if you don’t want your grandfather to die at the hands of a quack, you should hurry and take him to the hospital!”
“These traditional doctors are all frauds! Their favorite thing is to deceive us! Western medicine is the best!”
Hearing Li Guifang’s words, Zhao Ya couldn’t help but frown.
“Who says traditional medicine is bad! Grandpa Liu was the greatest healer in Lintai, and it was traditional medicine that made him famous!”
“You are so blindly following the West!”
Li Guifang’s expression changed upon hearing Zhao Ya’s words.
“I’m just trying to help, and you’ve got the nerve to talk back! You truly don’t know what’s good for you! I’ll watch your grandfather die at the hands of traditional medicine!”
“You!”
Zhao Ya’s face turned red, clearly infuriated.
Liu Yuming said a few comforting words, and Zhao Ya finally withdrew her gaze, focusing all her thoughts on her grandfather.
Meanwhile, Xue Shan Hai also determined Yang Tianzhi’s condition.
“Ms. Li, Mr. Yang has had a heart attack. I will perform some emergency measures, and then we will take him to the hospital!”
Li Guifang was overjoyed to hear this.
“Great! Thank you, Doctor Xue! I’ll give you a big red envelope afterward!”
A look of delight appeared on Xue Shan Hai’s face as he began applying emergency measures to Yang Tianzhi.
Seeing this, Bai Chen reminded,
“I told you the patient has both a heart attack and pericardial effusion. If you don’t clear the pericardial effusion first, you are undoubtedly harming the patient!”
Hearing Bai Chen’s words, Xue Shan Hai sneered.
“Can’t I detect if the patient has pericardial effusion? The instruments didn’t show any! Don’t cause trouble here! You haven’t even looked and act like you know everything!”
Li Guifang joined in the mockery toward Bai Chen.
“Do you know anything about medicine? We have professional equipment. What need is there for you to speak? A person who studies traditional medicine can only deceive us!”
“There should be no traditional medicine in Jiuzhou! It’s completely useless and trash!”
Bai Chen shook his head.
“Since you are unwilling to listen, that’s fine. It’s just a pity for the patient; within ten minutes, he will certainly die!”
Li Guifang, upon hearing this, glared at Bai Chen in anger.
“Get away! Having you here is just bad luck!”
Bai Chen said nothing more and turned his attention back to Liu Yuming’s patient.
Liu Yuming merely checked the pulse, and his expression turned to one of surprise.
“Your grandfather is also in a coma due to a heart attack and pericardial effusion!”
Li Guifang, hearing this, let out a cold laugh.
“I want to see what you traditional doctors can do! If you end up killing someone, they won’t let you off the hook!”
Zhao Ya, anxious upon hearing Liu Yuming’s words, pleaded,
“Grandpa Liu, please save my grandfather!”
Liu Yuming waved his hand. “Xiao Ya, don’t panic.”
After saying this, Liu Yuming immediately took out his silver needles, heated them over the fire, and then began to treat Old Zhao.
Li Guifang watched Liu Yuming’s actions and couldn’t help but sneer.
“What a show!”
Bai Chen watched Liu Yuming’s techniques with great interest; he found them somewhat familiar.
Once Liu Yuming finished his treatment and noticed Bai Chen gazing intently, he couldn’t help but smile.
“This is the Zhongjing acupuncture technique; it is one of the top acupuncture methods in our traditional medicine!”
“It has been passed down for over eighteen hundred years! Legend has it that Zhang Zhongjing learned it from an immortal.”
“Unfortunately, I’ve spent a lifetime understanding it, and I still haven’t fully grasped it!”
“However, I’ve heard that our Number One Divine Doctor in the Nine Provinces has completely mastered it!”
Hearing Liu Yuming’s words, Bai Chen suddenly understood; that was why it felt familiar.
It turned out to be the same technique he taught Zhang Zhongjing.
After being treated, Old Zhao’s complexion visibly became healthier.
However, in the next moment, Old Zhao suddenly coughed up a mouthful of black blood, and his face turned pale again!
Li Guifang saw this and immediately burst into laughter.
“I told you! I said traditional medicine is a scam! Look, he’s vomiting blood now!”
“What a bunch of useless people!”
Liu Yuming also became flustered at this point and hurriedly checked the pulse, his expression changing dramatically.
“Oh no! Your grandfather is not okay!”
Bai Chen glanced over and noticed the patient’s condition as well.
“The patient has too much pericardial effusion; it is blocking the blood vessels, and if no measures are taken, he will die within five minutes.”
Upon hearing Bai Chen’s words, Zhao Ya’s face turned pale.
“Grandpa Liu, please save my grandfather!”
Liu Yuming also looked troubled. “I don’t know what to do!”
Xue Shan Hai sneered.
“Pericardial effusion blocking the blood vessels can’t be guaranteed to be treated even with our special equipment. You know it’s beyond your means.”
Li Guifang continued to mock Liu Yuming and Bai Chen.
“Two frauds! I wonder what you can do now!”
Liu Yuming’s expression stiffened, but the next second, he focused his gaze on Bai Chen.
Since Bai Chen could accurately describe Old Zhao’s symptoms, did that mean Bai Chen had a way to treat him?
Thinking this, Liu Yuming immediately said to Zhao Ya, “I can’t do anything, but this young brother Bai Chen might have a solution!”
Hearing Liu Yuming’s words, Zhao Ya turned her gaze to Bai Chen.
When she saw that Bai Chen was just a young man, doubt appeared on her face, and she showed an expression of distrust.
Li Guifang laughed derisively.
“Old fraud is no good, so now he’s letting the young fraud treat him!”
“You traditional doctors don’t have any real skills; your trickery is top-notch!”
Bai Chen glanced at Yang Tianzhi and couldn’t help but shake his head.
This man was about to die.
Worried that Bai Chen might refuse, Liu Yuming stepped closer to him and said,
“Old Zhao is my good friend. His family runs a medicinal herbs business; the purple ganoderma you need might just be with them!”
Hearing Liu Yuming’s words, Bai Chen’s eyes lit up, and he immediately approached Old Zhao, ready to take action.
Bai Chen expertly picked up the silver needles, preparing to administer treatment using the same technique Liu Yuming had used earlier.
“Zhongjing acupuncture technique?” Liu Yuming couldn’t help but exclaim at Bai Chen’s movements.
The next moment, something even more astonishing happened.
Bai Chen’s fingers deftly moved the silver needles back and forth over Old Zhao’s body, the speed so fast that it left shadows in the air.
“This, this!”
Liu Yuming’s mouth fell open in disbelief.
Bai Chen had a much better grasp of the Zhongjing acupuncture technique than he did!
How could this person be so confident? He didn’t even need to look at the acupoints; he just acted!
Liu Yuming stared wide-eyed, his heart pounding, fearing that Bai Chen might make a mistake.
After Bai Chen finished his acupuncture, Old Zhao’s body swayed, and a large amount of effusion immediately surged from the area where Bai Chen had treated him.
Seeing this, Liu Yuming finally breathed a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat beads that had already formed on his forehead.
Meanwhile, the situation on Yang Tianzhi’s side suddenly changed as well!
