Chapter 217 - Patients Showed Up (2/2)
“Right.” Liu Shuai nodded, “grandpa Hu summarized the core of Chinese medicine as Cure Disease and Save People with the Spirit of Benevolence, which expresses the principle of Return to the Innocent. But it is possible that the words of grandpa Hu just now may cause reproaches from others.”
“Yes, grandpa was reproached by people outside the field of the Chinese medicine, such as the family Yi in the field and some entrepreneurs from Fei family.” Xiao Yun nodded, “Also some patients disagreed too and always posed their doubts in the process of treatment.”
“Their doubts about what?” Hao Ning asked quickly and doubted if the Fei entrepreneur was Mr. Fei. If that’s true, it was so strange that he appeared everywhere.
“Just like you, they suspect that we are not real Chinese medicine doctors.” Xiao Yun smiled. “Once a patient asked me why they need to do a blood test in this Chinese medicine hospital when they just get diarrhea?”
“Ha ha ha,” Liu Shuai laughed. “So, we know that those patients must be misguided by some TV serials. There are some unique features and some treatment methods in Chinese medicine. The combination with western diagnoses such as virology can help confirm the cause of disease. Although the disease like diarrhea is very common, it is still necessary to determine whether it is caused by bacterial or viral, or white blood cells, neutrophils or even blood cells. It is better to treat patients with double medical methods.”
“Oh?” Xiao Yun pretended to be calm and she was surprised to look at Liu Shuai, “my grandpa told me that you guys are talents in the IT field. I am so surprised that you know so many details about medicine.”
“I majored in biology in university.” Liu Shuai was shy and scratched his head. “And I studied some elective course about Chinese and western medical knowledge. There are some famous medical universities in Chang’an and I always went to attend the relevant course just for personal interest. Ha ha.”
“Wonderful!” Xiao Yun nodded with a smile. “I envy people like you that you can spend all the time to study subjects you like. If I have a chance, I want to communicate with you more.”
“OK” Liu Shuai answered quickly. “Although my job has nothing to do with biology, I have much interest in that. Welcome to communicate.”
Liu Shuai and Xiao Yun just had a pure interest in biology. But Jienan who stood aside turned to be a little upset. He, as the secretary of Zhang Dalong, knew much about knowledge of Internet and he fell in love with Xiao Yun.
Knowledge was diversified and he knew nothing about medicine which Xiao Yun had an interest in. He just had martial arts and he knew he could not use this to attract Xiao Yun. Xiao Yun stood aloof with him because they had no common topics. Today, Liu Shuai’s ordinary words attracted Xiao Yun very much. He did not know how they would communicate. Upset and depressed, Jienan walked slowly behind those people and saw Liu Shuai and Xiao Yun talking to each other happily.
Hao Ning knew what Jienan was thinking about. Considering the behavior of Xiao Hong recently, he sensed that young man and women always trapped in love. He did not want to create any troubles and then he slowed his pace and said to Jienan secretly, “Calm down. Liu Shuai won’t loot your lover.”
“How do you know that?” Jienan blushed, which clearly showed his love for Xiao Yun. He stammered, “I, I, I don’t, um…”
Hao Ning signed and felt funny that Jienan was free and easy in common time. But now when talking about love, he became such a shy boy. At this age, a girl would not come closer if a boy did not act actively. Hao Ning knew that why Xiao Yun stayed aloof with Jienan. Jienan believed that great martial arts could attract girls. Now he had no interest to be a matchmaker and he just wanted Jienan not to misunderstand Liu Shuai. He added, “Liu Shuai has already had a girlfriend and they are so sweet. Liu Shuai just has normal communication with Xiao Yun. Don’t worry.”
“Really?” Jienan felt excited after he heard it and expressed his gratitude to Hao Ning, “thanks to your guidance, brother Hao Ning!”
Then, they went to the top floor of this hospital, which was the ward. Different from the scene when Hao Ning and his friends went to see Qi Li, the ward was full of patients and some were even lying in the passage.
“Is this the emergency clinic?” Liu Shuai asked, “Why are there so many patients here? And emergency clinic won’t be set on the top floor!”
“This is not an emergency clinic.” Xiao Yun sighed, and said embarrassingly. “This floor is a little bit special, where most of patients who got rare diseases and need to be hospitalized. The ordinary hospital won’t set this ward. But here, we Chinese people have the belief. They want to have a try to be treated here when they have no other method to cure their diseases.”
Liu Shuai agreed with her words and nodded, “Grandpa Hu has great medical morality…”
“I don’t understand your words.” Hao Ning did not understand how Liu Shuai got that idea. He thought Liu Shuai had no reason to flatter grandpa Hu. But from Jienan’s face. He thought Liu Shuai was flattering Xiao Yun. In order to avoid some misunderstandings, he asked with an emphasizing mood on purpose, “how do you know that grandpa Hu has great medical morality?”
“You can think about it.” Liu Shuai analyzed seriously, “The diseases that are hardly been cured by other hospitals are really tough in the most cases. Thus, no hospital will let those people with incurable diseases in and set such a ward to treat them. That will cause a high death rate in hospitals, which will cause bad fame of those hospitals. Only a virtuous doctor who has sincere heart to treat patients can take in people with incurable diseases. Maybe only the doctor who cares about no fame can afford the sentence of Cure Disease and Save People with the Spirit of Benevolence.”
“If you meet my grandpa, he must treat you as his close friend.” Xiao Yun said with her eyes glittering. “I am too blind to see this when I stay with grandpa for curing people for such a long time.”
“You didn’t think of it because you are blind.” Liu Shuai laughed, “Your interest is in curing people other than personal fame. On this point, you are the same as grandpa Hu.”
Hao Ning got crazy after hearing those words. Liu Shuai talked about it with well-founded sincerity. But in Xiao Yun’s eyes, Liu Shuai’s words are the most reasonable praise in this world. Xiao Hong blushed and smiled without a word.
“Brother Hao Ning…” Jienan now felt pretty upset and regretted. Just now when Zhang Dalong let him wait for Hao Ning and his friends, he required to stay with Xiao Yun for communications with Xiao Yun. He did not think that Liu Shuai appeared in front of Xiao Yun and stole his show.
As for appearance, power, sincere heart and martial art, Jienan thought he was superior to Liu Shuai. But he never thought that Liu Shuai earned Xiao Yun’s favorable impression without any reason.
Men had no more jealousy, but Jienan was so upset.
Hao Ning looked at Jienan with a bitter smile and looked at Liu Shuai and pretty Xiao Yun. He found that there were three people with five roles: two were falling in love, two had no love emotion and one knew nothing. What is going on with these three people?”
“Brother Hao Ning,” Xiao Hong secretly pulled Hao Ning’s clothing and said with a serious voice, “Something is wrong here.”
“Ah?” Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong’s face and had no time to consider others’ love story. He asked in a low voice too, “What’s wrong? It is not like a hospital here.”
“No,” Xiao Hong shook his head, “there is no smell of any souls.”
“What do you mean?” Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong’s serious face but did not know what Xiao Hong meant. He pulled Zhou Yuan and Zhou Yuan had already heard Xiao Hong’s words. He slowed his pace and asked, “what is no souls’ smell?”
“According to Jienan, those people were sent to here in this morning.” Xiao Hong looked around and said in a low voice. And those three dead people’s souls must be here waiting for reincarnation. But I can’t feel their soul here waiting for reincarnation.”
Zhou Yuan got stunned. “It means that those dead people have already had no soul when they are alive. Is that what you mean?”
“Yes.” Xiao Hong nodded seriously. “Normally speaking, a man without soul will dead in flesh. But they, with no soul, are still alive to come to this hospital. Then, what is on earth in their bodies?”
“Maybe they are animal souls.” Hao Ning guessed. “It seems that Soul Hunting Sect have done this. Or these people have drink amulet water to remain the living flesh without souls.”
Hao Ning took a glimpse at Zhou Yuan. Lan Ruo who once took Zhou Yuan’s soul was planning to do this.
“No.” Xiao Hong shook his head. “Then I should also feel that.”
“You are so nervous.” Zhou Yuan seemed to understand something. “Is there any other reason?”
“Right.” Xiao Hong nodded. “I do not worry normal death, but I worry that it is a kind of witchcraft– the living dead can live without souls.”
“Ah?” Liu Shuai heard Xiao Hong was talking about living dead and he got great interest in engaging in the discussion. But Xiao Yun were still asking about the combination of Internet and medical technology. He thought that he had no to time to continue the topic with the little girl. He pulled Jienan back and said, “Jienan knows much more IT knowledge than me. How about letting him explain that to you. Excuse me.”
Ignoring Xiao Yun’s astonishment and Jienan’s happiness, Liu Shuai came to Xiao Hong and said secretly, “did you just say a witchcraft?”
“Hey, Xiao Yun.” Jienan now was like an idiot. “It seems that they have something to discuss. We shall not disrupt them. Maybe we can…”
Xiao Hong threw a look at Jienan and walked straight. “Let’s go and give them some space.”
“OK…” Jienan scratched his head and did not know what he should say, but he walked closer to Xiao Yun.
Seeing Liu Shuai rush in and the look of Xiao Yun and Jienan in the distance, Hao Ning thought to himself , ‘that’s all we can do for you, Jienan.’ He continued to listen to the discussion of Xiao Hong and Liu Shuai.
“Do you worry about the witchcraft?” Liu Shuai asked seriously. “But how it is possible?”
“I am not sure.” Xiao Hong described the reason simply. “Then, are there any other possibilities?”
“If it is true, it will be bad.” Liu Shuai frowned and stomped. “Really bad.”
“Eh.” Hao Ning felt so confused by those two people’s words and asked. “Could you tell me what you are talking about?”
“Living dead, the witchcraft, can drive dead people to move.” Liu Shuai said in a low voice. “It is said that the craft is so powerful that can make dead people do the same face and body expression. And it is hard to distinguish the difference. But in fact, those dead people are puppets.”
“The most distinctive difference is that they have no souls—” Xiao Hong thought the description was not so correct. “Correctly speaking, they have no souls for a long time.”
Now Hao Ning could not help to looking at Zhou Yuan because Zhou Yuan once acted like living dead when he lost his soul. He shuddered and stepped away from Zhou Yuan.