Chapter 2419: line with translation of chapter title

"Boss, I think this guy is interesting." After leaving the Emergency Department, Su Yun said, smiling.

"Hmm, indeed."

"Most people are uninteresting, dull souls; you are the quintessential example."

Zheng Ren smiled and ignored Su Yun's provocation. Actually, that remark wasn't provocation; it was just stating the facts.

But what does it matter? I feel fulfilled, so fulfilled that I don't even have time to read novels.

Whether others think I'm interesting doesn't matter; as long as I'm happy, that's enough.

"Can Yu Zong go, Director Miao?" Zheng Ren asked.

"He said he has surgery this afternoon, so he can't go." Su Yun said.

It doesn't matter; Zheng Ren smiled, he and Su Yun went back to change clothes, and left 912.

The weather was gradually getting hot; Xiao Yi Ren changed Zheng Ren into a short-sleeve shirt, but fearing the weather might turn cold, she also brought him a jacket.

Zheng Ren draped the jacket over his arm, tilted his head back, narrowed his eyes, and gazed at the blue sky and white clouds.

"Truly deserving of being the man who saved the universe in a past life!" Su Yun said to Zheng Ren, mockingly praising him.

"Hmm, I think what you said is true."

Su Yun shrugged, glanced at the jacket on Zheng Ren's arm, and shrugged her shoulders.

They hailed a car; ten or more minutes later, the two arrived at the building where Director Miao lives.

This is a somewhat old residential area; Su Yun looked around, confirmed she hadn't made a mistake, and said: "Boss, Director Miao really doesn't have to do anything; he just waits for demolition."

If this place were demolished, the compensation would probably be more than what Director Miao earned working hard half his life. Indeed, he doesn't have to do anything, but such a life is also quite dull.

"Do you know the CEO of Goldman Sachs?" Zheng Ren suddenly asked a question out of the blue.

"David Solomon, right? I think his bald head is comparable to Old Liu's. If Old Liu keeps developing, he'll end up like him." Su Yun said.

Neither of them said why, and they just pressed the doorbell.

The CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, earns tens of millions a year, but whenever he has time, he goes to a nightclub to work as a DJ.

Year after year, for decades.

His annual income from DJing, several hundred thousand dollars, is all donated to charity.

For someone like David, money isn't important; being a DJ is his passion.

Life is like that; after a certain point, it's about what you love to do, what you enjoy, and it has little to do with money.

Perhaps few people reach that point.

Director Miao's residential building is rather old, lacking an elevator, so Zheng Ren and Su Yun walked up the stairs.

As they walked, Zheng Ren thought about what he would do if he had time, but after thinking it over, he still wanted to be with Xiao Yi Ren.

As long as Yi Ren is by his side, whatever he does seems rather interesting.

"Zheng Boss, you're here." Director Miao stood at the door leaning on a cane, his voice still a bit weak.

"Director Miao, just sit at home; don't tire yourself out." Zheng Ren hurried upstairs, wanting to help Director Miao.

"It's fine." Director Miao looked at Zheng Ren with a chuckle, moved his arm slightly, declined Zheng Ren's assistance, saying, "I'm much better now; I'm planning to go downstairs for a stroll these days."

Saying that, he glanced at Zheng Ren, smiled, and said, "Please come in, please come in."

Director Miao's home is simple and clean, the furniture is quite old, matching the overall style of the neighborhood.

After lightly supporting Director Miao to sit, Zheng Ren and Su Yun sat on the old-fashioned sofa beside him.

The nanny poured two cups of water, then went to other rooms.

"Boss Zheng, have you been busy lately?" Director Miao asked.

Zheng Ren noticed Director Miao had lost a lot of weight, his breath was weak, but his spirit was still good. His hair was almost completely white, making him look older than before.

Whether he's old or not doesn't matter; what matters is being able to live well.

"Lately I've been busy; it's just surgery, surgery every day. But it's much better than in Hai Cheng; at least I don't have to worry about receiving an emergency call and developing arrhythmia." Zheng Ren said with a smile.

Only those who often do emergency surgery would get this joke.

"Director Miao, how is your fracture healing?" Su Yun asked.

"Almost there; I won't wait a full hundred days—I'll start walking soon. As long as it's not strenuous, it's fine; lying in bed all the time is almost driving me crazy." Director Miao said.

"Is the length okay?" Su Yun, seeing Director Miao hadn't answered what she wanted to ask, added.

"Nonunion?" Director Miao glanced at Su Yun, smiled, and said, "No, no."

"Oh, that's good. A few days ago I heard Yu Zong mention that your callus is healing slowly, and I was thinking of finding a folk remedy for you." Su Yun said with a smile.

Folk remedies for serious illnesses are deeply ingrained in the Chinese psyche; even doctors can't escape that.

After all, many things cannot be diagnosed or treated by current medicine. Take nonunion, for example—if such a postoperative complication were to occur, it would be quite a headache.

The most common causes of nonunion are infection, poor local blood flow, and so on.

Due to continued activity at the fracture site, nonunion is usually accompanied by pain, greatly reducing the patient's quality of life.

"Hehe, Xiao Su, what folk remedy did you come up with for me?" Director Miao asked. It was just casual chatter; basically no one meant it seriously, they just said whatever came to mind.

"Baby fish." Su Yun said, "Unfortunately, it's now a nationally protected animal; wild ones are hard to find, but the artificially bred ones are still somewhat available."

"That report about eating baby fish raw? How credible is it?" Zheng Ren immediately recalled a case report and asked.

"I consulted Dr. Sui of the Traditional Chinese Medicine department at Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital; he said that in TCM, after a fracture, the liver and kidneys are deficient, the spleen and stomach weak, qi and blood insufficient, muscles and bones weak; treatment should focus on tonifying the liver and kidneys, boosting qi and producing blood, strengthening muscles and bones, and fortifying the spleen."

"The baby fish has another name, 'bone-uniting elixir'; I suppose it must be effective." Director Miao said.

"Exactly, bone-uniting elixir—just hearing the name suggests it's a good medicine for setting bones. However, it's best if you can grow your own callus. As for that remedy, the baby fish must be eaten raw, washed, then stuffed into a hot bun and taken immediately."

Zheng Ren frowned; he couldn't endorse that way of eating.

The key is to think about it… never mind, I'm not from the south, so I shouldn't even imagine eating like that.

"I heard they're doing similar experiments over at Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital; any news?" Director Miao asked.

"I don't know about that side; a classmate of mine who studied integrated Chinese and Western medicine later did pharmacological research, and is currently working on explaining how the bone-uniting principle of kidney-tonifying drugs can be understood in Western medicine." Su Yun said.

Director Miao became interested.

According to reports, they found in experiments that kidney-tonifying drugs can affect the Function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, regulating the production of ALP and GH, regulating calcium and phosphorus metabolism, promoting the differentiation of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells at the fracture site into Bone cells, thereby shortening the fracture healing time.