Chapter 74 (1/2)

Owing a Favor again

“Then I will call you little doctor Qin, okay? That’s right, the situation with my both legs is due to an incompletely cured illness from my youthful times. When Wenxiang, this child was eight years old, his father left us and so, I had to shoulder the family’s farm work by myself.” Old lady Yan’s tongue became loose when she heard Qin Lang’s question.

“There was a year when I fell ill during the rice transplanting period and I suffered from fever for several days, but my eyes only saw that other families had already planted the rice seedlings nicely whereas there was no activity in our paddy field. My heart was anxious, if the water leaked out from the paddy field then there would be no way to transplant any rice seedlings. Due to my anxiety, I immediately braved the illness to go to the farm but who would have known, that day while I was planting the rice seedlings, I felt ‘the sky spinning and the earth going round’ and fell head first in the paddy field. Fortunately someone pa.s.sed by otherwise I am afraid I would have choked to death inside the paddy field.”

“Later, the villagers took pity on us, an orphan child and a widowed mother, and helped us by transplanting the rice seedlings. But from that year onwards, my incompletely cured illness fell down and moreover, became worse each year.”

“Good——you old woman, why have you never told me about this matter!?” Wu Wenxiang looked apologetically at his mother. If it was not for Qin Lang asking this question, he would have never known how his mother suffered from this illness. Now, Wu Wenxiang’s tone somewhat changed, he was evidently touched by this.

“At that time, you were still young, why on earth would I chat with you about these matters?” Old lady Yan said, “All these years, I have shouldered this illness but who could have thought that even when I got old and my body was dying, I was still not able to resist this illness.”

“So it was actually like this——esteemed elder, this was caused by cold-hot bi syndrome and moreover, in those days, when one fell ill, there was no way to receive appropriate treatment which resulted in blocked meridians and hence, this illness got more and more unbearable every pa.s.sing year. I used the bee venom therapy to stimulate your meridians and suppress the cold-hot poison, so you became oblivious to pain. Anyway, your illness is not acute and to thoroughly cure it, you would still need to take several medicines and take good care of yourself.” Qin Lang said, “Additionally, you should pay attention regarding your diet, elderly should mainly eat light food and not too greasy food.”

“Little doctor Qin, everything you said is correct. My son makes me eat like this every day along with a lot of supplements but instead, I feel faint with blurred vision and my body is not as agile as before. Talking of the past, I did houseworks and what not but there were no problems………”

“Mother, I didn’t consider about your body.” Wu Wenxiang gave a bitter smile, he indeed had filial piety.

“There is no problem in occasionally taking the supplements but nothing like taking it everyday.” Qin Lang smiled faintly. He reached out for a pen and paper which Wu Wenxiang handed over and wrote a prescription before handing it to Wu Wenxiang. He also informed of some things which needed to be paid attention. Wu Wenxiang immediately expressed his thanks.

Wu Wenxiang knew this time, he again owed a big favor  to Qin Lang but he knew Qin Lang, this kid was not simple, so in his heart, he didn’t want to owe a favor to Qin Lang thus after Qin Lang wrote out the prescription, Wu Wenxiang took out six thousand yuan notes(~USD 915) from the room and handed it to Qin Lang: ”Little Qin, a small gesture, think of it as your examination fees.”

”Mayor Wu, what is your meaning!? Take it back quickly ——don't tell me you think the treatment I gave to the esteemed elder's rheumatic pain and made her able to walk properly is only worth this few thousand yuan notes? Furthermore, if the esteemed elder feels unwell later, you are not intending to allow me to come and check?” Qin Lang deliberately said with a stiff face, saying in his heart ‘You, Wu Wenxiang don’t want to owe me a favor but I insist on you in owing me one.’

”This..........little Qin, I didn't mean that!” Wu Wenxiang promptly explained, ”You are a doctor, when you see patients, don’t you always receive examination fees?”

“As for the examination fees, right?” Qin Lang said with a dark face, “I rarely check patients, only my master sees to the patients but nevertheless his diagnosis is worth its weight in gold, and not the cash ‘gold’, but rather gold ‘gold’. When the old man checks the patients, if there isn’t at least thousand taels of gold then he won’t agree to even feel the pulse!”

Old Poison naturally very rarely gave people ‘diagnosis’, but still previously, there were people who would request Old Poison for detoxification and those people who were able to request his help, let alone thousand taels of gold, they even took out ten thousand taels of gold but Old Poison still may not necessarily agree to put his hand to it.