Chapter 106 Selfish Motive (2/2)
”Yes, yes. They must have been more concerned about hygiene!” Liu Shuai immediately went along with Wen's words.
Just as Long Fei was about to refute, he saw Liu Shuai glare at him fiercely. Then, he immediately scrunched his eyebrows because he could clearly see Liu Shuai had mouthed to him, ”No more Sea Lantern!”
”You deserve it!” Hao Ning wiped his sweat off at the side, looking remarkably relaxed. He was secretly laughing at Long Fei in his heart, ”Who allowed you to disrupt the peace and unity of others.”
”So, your cousin also found some experts this time?” Liu Shuai thought about the ”ex-perts” Zhang Chi Hang had mentioned during their first meeting, who were acquainted with Director Wang. So, he asked Wen, ”These experts made some talismans and cured those people?”
Hao Ning thought that it could be reasonable; these people were not actually sick, and Liu Shuai had just wanted to use Long Fei to ”cure” them. Liu Shuai obviously knew how to talk to Wen.
”Of course not. How could there be such experts? How could you even believe it?” Wen laughed lightly and then said somewhat embarrassedly: ”They were cured by a doctor of Chinese medicine.”
”Chinese medicine?!” Shouted not only Hao Ning and Liu Shuai but also Long Fei. For-tunately, they had already reached a floor where no one showed up; otherwise, they would be pinned by people's gazes.
”Sigh …” Wen shook her head as if she did not believe it herself, ”I had once learned some related knowledge of Chinese medicine. In terms of human vegetables, though it can't be said that Chinese medicine has no effect at all, it takes time. Usually, among dozens of vegetables, a few will wake up after a few months. However, the three people that were taken away by my cousin all woke up on the second day after accepting the treatment, as if they had only had a sleep. This is nearly impossible in terms of either medicine or probability. I couldn't explain it. It only showed that doctors didn't help much.”
Liu Shuai could tell that Wen was a very cautious person. When describing the entire treatment process, she tried her best to choose more neutral phrases, to avoid exag-gerating the results of the treatment and bringing her personal emotions into the situa-tion because of her being a doctor of Western medicine. When Liu Shuai heard this, he also felt that it was bizarre, although he was not a medical practitioner, during his univer-sity years, because of professor Chen, he had contact with clinically relevant cases. It would be impossible for ordinary human vegetables to wake up within such a short peri-od, not to mention that the situation of those people was more complicated. Even with Long Fei's method, it could take more than a month, how could they wake up the next day?
Liu Shuai was just about to ask when Wen suddenly stopped and pointed to a door on the left. Just as they were about to push open the door, they heard Professor Chen's voice from inside: ”You old lady, what nonsense did you talk? The older you get, the sillier! Where do those heretical ideas come from? Have you been brainwashed by some evil cult recently, or have you gone to practice some fake Qi Method? ”
Wen laughed awkwardly at everyone. Liu Shuai was also surprised that Professor Chen was usually a very amiable person who would never speak in such a straightforward manner and hurt others. It could be seen that he was more heartless to people close to him. When thought of this, Liu Shuai suddenly had recalled Zhang Quan. The way he spoke to Zhang Quan was also brutal, was it the same reason?
Before Liu Shuai could think it through, another voice came from inside, ”You said I'm old? You said I'm sillier? Don't forget that you're five years older than me! What did you say about me when we got together? You complimented me, saying that I was smart and avant-garde, and many thoughts of mine broke the convention, and that was the point you liked so much. Why are you so against me today? I only made some assumptions. Tell me, do you think I'm old? Have you got bored of me? After a lifetime of ups and downs, you suddenly complain that I'm old. Do you have someone else in Chang'an? Oh! I knew it, you must have a crush on that young woman in her fifties in your research lab!”
”A young woman in her fifties?” Hearing this, Hao Ning could not help but widen his eyes, holding his mouth while laughing. He never expected that the quarrel between the two elders was so funny. The old lady's imagination was truly plentiful. Within a minute, she had actually self-composed a family ethic drama in her mind which told about an old professor who loved her wife so much in their young age but turned to complain and tried to abandon his wife when she got old. It could be seen that knowledge was of lim-ited use to family conflicts. He looked at Liu Shuai and found that he couldn't help laugh-ing, too. Wen shook her head and smiled bitterly. She said something without sound, and Hao Ning read her mouth as ”the older, the more childish.”
But Long Fei pushed open the door and walked in with a surprised expression. Long Fei's action was obviously beyond others' expectations, so they did not even have time to stop him.
Author's words: Strictly speaking, Chinese medicine has some healing effects on human vegetables. But the patients wouldn't awaken very quickly. Instead, it would awaken in months. Besides, it is misleading that the probability for human vegetables to awaken becomes higher as time goes by. It is often the opposite. The questions raised by Liu Shuai and others in this chapter are merely based on their knowledge and the particu-larity of this incident. I have no intention to diss Chinese medicine.