Chapter 1719

Driver Niu really wanted to say he wouldn't buy it.

He was just an ordinary worker, whose only advantage was having a stable job and good benefits, but at middle age, with elderly parents and young children, all his income combined wasn't that generous.

But the leader praised it, Secretary Wang highly recommended it, and 799—he didn't even know how much the price had gone up now...

He forced a smile: "Then I must try it! My waist really needs some conditioning."

Just treat it as a thousand; grit your teeth and spend it!

It would have been so good to buy things from the Song family before! His parents were getting older, and they didn't have much of an appetite; he should have let them taste it too!

However, just at this moment, he saw Secretary Wang coming over with a water cup: "Come, let's go get a cup of water first."

Driver Niu:??? People outside were huffing and puffing as they added water to that big bucket; where were they supposed to get water? Surely they weren't going to drink water from the vat.

But seeing Secretary Wang's expression, he immediately followed him out.

Just as he stood at the door, he saw Secretary Wang lean in and whisper:

"Master Niu, don't refuse however much medicine she prescribes for you; if you don't need it, I'll buy it at the original price."

Driver Niu was bewildered: "Then why not just..."

Secretary Wang cleared his throat, looking a bit uncomfortable: "It's not that I'm after the efficacy of this medicine, but because it's for health maintenance; I've been particularly obsessed with this health maintenance lately... In short, this medicine is usually limited for ordinary people; it's already a surprise that Guo Yi gave this much, so it wouldn't be appropriate to ask for more—remember, if you think it's too much, I can take it all!"

Driver Niu was even more confused: If you don't buy medicine for its efficacy, why buy it? Also, isn't health maintenance an efficacy?

But he was a sensible person, so he nodded:

"Okay."

He had originally wanted to say he didn't want the medicine and would give it all to him.

But then again, if even they wanted it so much... then he had to try it no matter what.

Otherwise, if this came up next time, he wouldn't have anything to talk about with the leader; that was a big taboo!

In short, Doctor Xiao Guo finished organizing, and then called Secretary Wang in for pulse-taking.

His problems were a bit different from the leader's.

The leader had chronic old ailments, plus he was busy with work.

Secretary Wang, however, indeed had some issues with his kidneys, spleen, stomach, liver, and gallbladder.

But, in their line of work, it's an occupational disease.

Going hungry when busy, holding it in during meetings—those were all common occurrences.

Doctor Xiao Guo took his pulse solemnly for a long time, explained the specific situation to him, but suggested he go find a doctor in Ningcheng for conditioning.

After all, it's a provincial capital; the doctors there are not only highly skilled, but it's also convenient for follow-up visits.

Secretary Wang naturally understood his own physical condition; although he frowned, he nodded calmly and looked at Doctor Xiao Guo expectantly.

Doctor Xiao Guo:... Got it, got it, really.

She took a new box and packed it one by one; Secretary Wang saw over twenty pills packed inside and felt a surge of joy.

He then said: "It's not easy for Brother Niu to come here once either; Guo Yi, feel free to condition him however you need to, and prescribe whatever medicine you need to."

As for what medicine was prescribed, there was no need to spell it out, right?

In less than ten minutes, he also went into the room and lay down side-by-side with the leader.

The scent of moxibustion gradually grew rich; Doctor Xiao Guo adjusted the moxibustion rack next to the leader, and it was Driver Niu's turn.

After only a few minutes of pulse-taking, she frowned again.

"Your other things are fine; your liver, gallbladder, spleen, and stomach are just in a normal sub-healthy state; you should know what needs conditioning."

"It's just this lumbar spine... we'll do acupuncture later, and moxibustion; after we're done, I'll see the effect before prescribing medicine..."

With Secretary Wang backing him up, Driver Niu was very calm: "Okay!"

Thus, when Song Tan arrived with Zheng Qu and Huo Huo Xueying, the three people lying on the hospital beds in the side room for moxibustion had only just changed two acupoints.

"Doctor Xiao Guo, I'm bringing them to cut the line—is it convenient now?"

Doctor Xiao Guo replied: "It'll take another ten minutes to fix the rack here; wait a moment."

Huo Huo Xueying was full of excitement: "Your village clinic is so popular; I want to watch! I love watching!"

Once you reach a certain age, you'll wake up to it; in short, you'll be interested in Chinese medicine.

Zheng Qu, however, was a bit hesitant: "It's not very convenient for me to drink Chinese medicine at work, or for follow-up visits..."

Huo Huo Xueying looked at him with a half-smile: "Stop acting fake; just tell me, if there's a chance and an excuse next week, are you coming back or not?"

What a great excuse a follow-up visit for Chinese medicine is!

Zheng Qu:...

He rubbed his nose, recalled the taste of that breakfast, and his usually forward-looking personality couldn't help but feel regret for missing out last night.

Also, his girlfriend was being too direct.

Song Tan laughed:

"What excuse do you need? I said I'd host you, so I'll host you. At most, if I'm too busy to pay attention to you, just wander around and buy some local specialties; don't feel neglected."

And another thing—

"Doctor Xiao Guo's medical skills aren't that great; if you really need long-term conditioning, the doctors you can find in the provincial capital are definitely more capable. She's mainly strong in a few areas..."

Doctor Xiao Guo, listening from inside, couldn't help but have black lines on her forehead: "Look at all the patients waiting outside; don't expose my secrets!"

Song Tan laughed even harder: "You say these things yourself all the time; do the patients believe you every time you say it?"

Whether it's effective, whether it's good stuff, they can feel it.

Otherwise, would they be able to persistently line up here early in the morning?

Huo Huo Xueying and Zheng Qu were confused: So are the medical skills good or not? Is humility at such a high level now?

But her mind jumped, and she quickly asked: "There's Chinese medicine, but does your village have anyone who's really good at fortune-telling?"

There really isn't one.

Song Tan herself wasn't good at it; she hadn't opened her mind to this aspect. She sighed in frustration: "Just say what's missing!"

This is the same as Chinese medicine; it's also something you wake up to at a certain age. Friends and family talk every few days about how someone in such-and-such a place is very good at 【reading fortunes】, and many people spare no effort to drive for hours to see them!

But remembering who Doctor Xiao Guo was busy with inside, she cleared her throat: "Respect science, reject feudal superstition."

Huo Huo Xueying shook her phone: "I'm not being superstitious; I'm just burning incense in cyberspace—look, I even tap an electronic wooden fish every day! Ah, let me draw an electronic fortune for Zheng Qu!"

As she spoke, she pinched her boyfriend's finger and quickly tapped the screen—

After a flash of special effects, a proverb blending East and West appeared:

【You will meet an unexpected noble person by your side today】

Ah!

Huo Huo Xueying was full of expectation: "Is it Song Tan? Is the noble person Song Tan?"

Zheng Qu was noncommittal about his girlfriend's little hobby, but having worked in an office for years, he was good at nitpicking: "It says 【will】, so I haven't met them yet... Is it real or fake? Can it bless me to be more valued by the leader at work?"

Song Tan:...

She leaned over to look at Huo Huo Xueying's app and solemnly noted it down:

"I'll introduce it to my mom and the others later; she likes paying attention to this too."

I don't know how it happened by accident, but it's actually quite accurate.

However, if it were in Wu Lan's hands, if it came true, she would shout it to everyone around her.

If it didn't come true, it was just for fun—can you believe things on the internet?

Huo Huo Xueying also shared with a giggle: "It's just that they sell sandalwood pendants or little dolls or whatever at the bottom; don't believe any of that. I just scold the leader every day and tap the electronic wooden fish... just to relieve stress."

Zheng Qu watched the two of them chattering at the app, and his expression became complicated.

He thought Song Tan was a pragmatist and should be dismissive of these things.

Who would have thought that just a casual remark could make people so immersed?

Well, if the pension from his unit isn't enough when he's old, he'll just go sell health supplements. Judging by the intelligence of young people today, there should be a big market.

In less than ten minutes, Doctor Xiao Guo came out.

Huo Huo Xueying saw the curtain move, and there seemed to be people lying inside.

Looking at the people sitting in the courtyard outside cooling off and chatting, she couldn't help but be full of expectation for her medical skills.

However, she had always been healthy and well-proportioned, with some occupational diseases in her cervical and lumbar spine, a slightly poor spleen and stomach, and a cold stomach... other than that, there was nothing else.

Huo Huo Xueying made a bitter face: "And you call that nothing? I feel like my heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys all have problems..."

Doctor Xiao Guo laughed: "Do you stay up late? Do you play with your phone in bed? Do you work at a computer? These are basically common ailments for young people, plus takeout, snacks, heavy flavors, spicy, cold, and stimulating foods..."

"Now that everyone has them, it naturally seems like nothing."

"But it's better to condition it if you can; my ability in conditioning is quite good—do you want to prescribe medicine? If you prescribe medicine, it will be bagged after it's boiled in the afternoon, and you can take it back to drink every day."

"Prescribe it!"

Huo Huo Xueying didn't hesitate: Since I'm already here, how can I not prescribe it!

Doctor Xiao Guo waved her hand and wrote down the prescription:

"Then at five this afternoon, the medicine here isn't boiled in a big pot; we have many people, so we carefully divide it into gentle and strong fires to decoct, and the medicinal materials are all good ones..."

Huo Huo Xueying nodded and agreed, looking at Song Tan with a smile: "With Song Tan's personality, when I asked her about her hometown before, she said it was very poor and boring, and had no scenery... How humble and conservative! This proves that your skills are very high and definitely worth trusting."

Song Tan:...

If you had come a year earlier, you would have known that what I said wasn't fake!

Doctor Xiao Guo held back her laughter, thinking it's no wonder Song Tan could get along with people with such a personality; who doesn't like a sweet girl who is a bit silly and innocent?

Huo Huo Xueying stepped down, and Zheng Qu replaced her; Doctor Xiao Guo raised her eyebrows as soon as she touched him: "Your body is quite good."

Although there were some occupational diseases, they were all minor; the most critical part for a man was actually...

Cough!

She reflected deeply: As a doctor, I can't just keep my eyes focused there just because I've received a few banners saying 【Greatly Displaying Heroism】!

Her expression was a bit complicated, and Zheng Qu, who was always good at reading people, smiled:

"Feel free to prescribe whatever medicine you need to condition it; I'll follow the doctor's orders."

The tone of this was so similar to the person inside!

Doctor Xiao Guo glanced at him: "It's not a big problem; you exercise often, right? At most, you have some dampness and a little occupational disease—since you're here, just drink medicine for a week to condition it; I won't prescribe anything else for you."

Zheng Qu became proud: "Right, I go play basketball every day after work, sometimes badminton or tennis, and sometimes I just walk or jog."

Walking is of course with Huo Huo Xueying.

Jogging... she refuses to do it no matter what.

"Hmm," Doctor Xiao Guo nodded and looked at the time: "There's half an hour before the formal consultation; that's enough time for you two to have a moxibustion session—do you want to try?"

Huo Huo Xueying didn't hesitate: "I want to try, I want to try!"

Then she pointed to the side room: "Is it in there? Do men and women have to be separated? Do we have to take off our clothes?"

Doctor Xiao Guo nodded: "Separated; girls go this way, this is a few rooms that were recently added by a construction team..."

They were originally intended to be staff dormitories, but later they thought it wasn't convenient, so they were all changed into pharmacies, storage rooms, and therapy rooms.

"As for the men..." she pointed to the side room: "There's just one room like that; there are two empty spots there, there are disposable sheets on the head of the bed, I have patients inside, and finally I have to hold the moxa for a while to get a good effect, so please find a bed and lie down yourself... is that okay?"

That's no big deal!

Zheng Qu nodded: "There are so many people waiting outside, yet we can cut the line—Guo Yi, please don't be polite."

Huo Huo Xueying pointed to the room: "Can I go in?"

Doctor Xiao Guo nodded: "Yes."

Actually, moxibustion in one room is nothing; it's not like cupping, you don't even have to take off your clothes, you just need to moxa the key acupoints.

But it's still more convenient to be separated, so a separate room was partitioned off when it was added.

As for the room originally used as the therapy and infusion room, after tidying it up, it can now hold five beds, which is just about the limit they can take care of at the same time, and it's just right.

However, if the leader feels it's inconvenient...

She went into the room to ask again, and after getting an affirmative answer, she called them over.

And Huo Huo Xueying pushed her boyfriend and curiously followed into the room.

Song Tan watched from the side and suddenly asked: "Are you really not afraid of meeting the leader on the weekend?"

Zheng Qu was bewildered: "What's there to be afraid of? He won't give me any tasks."

Just as he was speaking, someone inside suddenly asked: "Little Zheng?"

Zheng Qu:...!!!

Why is this voice so familiar!

He looked at Song Tan with some horror.

Song Tan laughed and waved her hand: "I have to get busy; you guys have a good therapy session."

Zheng Qu stood stiffly at the door of the room, not daring to open his eyes, hoping it was a hallucination.

And Huo Huo Xueying curiously leaned in to look—three people were sitting side-by-side on the beds in the room, and the moxibustion racks in front of them corresponded to different acupoints.

She didn't recognize the older uncle inside.

The one in the middle had a gentle face and looked a bit familiar.

And the other one...

Seems like she saw him in a photo on her boyfriend's phone?

He had his pant legs rolled up and was moxa-ing the acupoint below his knee; seeing them, he smiled gently:

"Little Zheng, I said your voice sounded like yours; young people have good bodies, that's great—you need to add more burden, right? Right? Leader."

?? I have to go to the dentist again tomorrow... sigh.