Chapter 20: I Feed You, My Darling (1/2)
”You are skilled in judging from appearance. You are so versatile.”
An old doctor of TCM was skilled in judging from appearance? It seemed so weird. Su Mo was embarra.s.sed about Xing Biao who was playing up to the old doctor.
Old Zhang did not refuse. He took the money and put it into pocket. Xing Biao found a chair for Su Mo, and the old doctor lifted the leg of Su Mo and put it on the chair. It was really swollen. With gauzes wrapped on the left foot, his shank was also swollen.
”I fell down due to a stone. I did expect that it is so serious.”
”What's wrong with it? We'll get married on the 30th day of this month. Will he recovery then?”
”Yes, he will. But he needs more rest. His sprain is serious, with bone fracture and injury on the tendon of his ankle, involving in the shank.”
Old Zhang asked Xing Biao to take some liquid medicine for injuries from falls, fractures, confusions and strains. He toasted his hands hot and then ma.s.saged with the liquid medicine until the palms were red. Then he pasted his palms on the leg of Su Mo.
There were severe pains on the foot, the muscles, the place of the bone fracture, rus.h.i.+ng to the brain. Su Mo's face turned pace due to the pains, and he could not help holding the chair.
Xing Biao held Su Mo in his arms.
”Be gentle, ok? He seems so painful!”
Xing Biao rubbed the back of Su Mo repeatedly.
”Darling, breathe. You cannot be beaten by the pains. Look at me, deep breath, breathe!”
Su Mo was so painful and angry but wanted to laugh. Xing Biao was showing how to breathe for him.
”Leave me alone. I'm injured on my foot. I'm not delivering a baby.”
Xing Biao took a tumble. Anyway, he was painful. He rubbed repeatedly on Su Mo's back side of head, as if he was rubbing a dog.
”Relax, darling. I'll buy you some candies later.”
”Leave me alone.”
Su Mo pushed him away, and his hair looked like a chicken with messy feather. He glanced at Xing Biao fiercely.
”Why are you glancing at me? I'm afraid that you are painful.”
”You were like comforting a woman delivering a baby just now, and you are like cheering up a child. You make great progress. Your wife delivered a baby for you and the baby grew up within a minute.”
Old Zhang laughed, and pasted his palms on the leg of Su Mo again. It was not as painful as just now. The heat permeated to subcutaneous tissues through the skins, and the blocked blood vessels were broken through, relieving the pains a lot.
The old doctor had really good skills.
Xing Biao squatted, staring at the skills of the old doctor.
”Is it good for him if I ma.s.sage for him every day?”
”The leg has obstructed blood vessels due to bone fracture. He feels sore and swollen on his leg if it is drooped all day long. It is good to ma.s.sage for him, to avoid arthritis when he grows older.”
”I'll ma.s.sage for you every night, darling.”
”Do you have time?”
Old Zhang interrupted Xing Biao before Su Mo said something.
”What about your baby? What about your brothers and your workplace? You have no time to recheck for your injury. You have time to do such things?”
Xing Biao covered the mouth of Old Zhang. Did he want to cause the dispute?
Su Mo smiled at Xing Biao.
”Baby?”
”That is the name of somebody.”
Xing Biao glanced at Old Zhang fiercely, ”stop talking!”
Su Mo nodded.
”You'd better not telling a lie.”
Xing Biao had sweat on his back. Saying nothing else, Su Mo had especially obvious threatening meaning.
”Old Zhang, keep quiet! Or I'll smash here.”
Old Zhang did not look at him at all.
”You can talk to me if you have time. I'll tell you all things about him from the year he was 18. I'm sure you don't know that he was beaten seriously or hunted down by others. I,”