Chapter 21 A Roving Doctor (1/2)

In the high-tech district in the north of the Jialing River.

Ning Tao walked among modern office buildings with an advertising sign of tarp, on which was written the slogan designed by himself ”Rapid diagnosis and treatment with ancestral medical skills; Compensation is guaranteed if misdiagnosis occurs; Treatment fee is optional; Acupuncture for cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar muscle degeneration and other occupational diseases; Curative effect is immediate, otherwise no charge.”

Ning Tao, a young and vigorous roving doctor holding a strange advertising sign of tarp draw surprised and curious looks wherever he was.

It was almost noon when Ning Tao arrived at an office building.

Two men in suits were smoking at the smoking spot near the entrance to the lobby of the office building.

”Oh my god, there is a roving doctor in modern society!” cried a middle-aged man with a slight bald head in an exaggerated tone.

”He must be a liar. I don't believe he's a doctor anyway,” remarked the younger man with a look of contempt. ”This guy's head must have gotten squeezed in the door. He should not pretend to be a doctor even if he wants to swindle money. Who will believe in doctors going from street to street now?”

The middle-aged man with slight baldness said, ”We'll know if he is really a doctor after a try?”

”Dude, you're not serious, are you?” yelled the younger man with a dramatic expression on his face.

The middle-aged man with a slight bald head called out, ”Hey, doctor, come here!”

Ning Tao stopped and looked at the two men, but didn't go toward them as he asked. In his eyes, the two men were wrapped in a colorful air. He also saw their I.D. badges hanging on their chests, and learned that the one with slight baldness was named Ma Yingqiang, and that the younger one was Chen Chao. They were both employees of Blueprint Biotechnology Company.

”Doctor, I asked you to come here. Didn't you hear me?” Ma Yingqiang shouted as he beckoned to Ning Tao.

”You've got a bad scapulohumeral periarthritis, and it's hurting now, isn't it?” Ning Tao asked. ”Come here and I'll treat you.”

Ma Yingqiang looked at Ning Tao in surprise and asked, ”How did you know I'm having scapulohumeral periarthritis?”

Chen Chao scoffed, ”I guess he's bluffing. Yingqiang, don't go there. Beware of being taken in.”

”You're Chen Chao, isn't it?” Ning Tao asked dryly. ”Have you been having trouble getting an erection lately?”

Chen Chao opened his mouth in disbelief. It was an unspeakable secret, but how did the roving doctor know it?

Ma Yingqiang's eyes fell on Chen Chao with a little doubt and distain.

Chen Chao suddenly walked over to Ning Tao and said, ”Humph, haha, what are you talking about?” When he reached Ning Tao's side, he put his hands on Ning Tao's shoulders and whispered, ”Doctor, can you treat me?”

”Yes,” Ning Tao replied curtly.

”Let's find a place to have a good talk,” Chen Chao suggested, his eyes lighting up with excitement.

But Ning Tao took his hands off his shoulders and said, ”I said I could, but I didn't say I'd treat you. I'm a liar whose head must have gotten squeezed in the door!”

Chen Chao's face darkened as he spat, ”I made you look good and allowed you to treat me. How could you refuse to see me? You must be a liar. It's not that you don't want to see me, it's that you can't, right?”

Just then Ma Yingqiang came over. As he listened to Chen Chao's words, his eyes also showed suspicion.

Ning Tao said, ”Ma Yingqiang, huh? I can cure your scapulohumeral periarthritis in three minutes. Would you like to have a try?”

”Cure my scapulohumeral periarthritis in three minutes?” Startled, Ma Yingqiang wondered if he had heard wrong.

Chen Chao sneered, ”Whew! You really think you're a miracle doctor. Let him cure you, Yingqiang. If he fails to cure your chronic ailment of scapulohumeral periarthritis in three minutes, I'll immediately give him two slaps, making him dare not to boast or lie!”

Ning Tao wore a poker face.

Ma Yingqiang made up his mind and said, ”Okay, I'll try! But let me be clear. I won't give you a penny if you can't cure my disease within three minutes.”

”Now put your hands behind your back and try to feel your vest,” Ning Tao ordered lightly.

Ma Yingqiang gave it a try and then gave up with a painful expression. He couldn't do it at all.

”Do you know how to treat disease?” Chen Chao scolded in a tone of some sarcasm. ”Have you ever seen a doctor let a patient touch his vest? Yingqiang, he must be fooling you.”

Ning Tao ignored Chen Chao, opened his small medicine chest and took out two blue Sacred Needles. Then he took a needle in each hand, raised his hands and stuck the needles into Ma Yingqiang's left and right shoulder blades without looking at the acupoints. At the same time, his Niwan acupoint quivered slightly, and the black and white spiritual power rushed out of it and split in two, along his arms into two Sacred Needles and then into Ma Yingqiang's shoulder blades.

Ma Yingqiang gave a shiver and his face broke into a strange expression.

Chen Chao froze for a second before he snapped, ”What are you doing?”

Ning Tao shot a glance at him and said coldly, ”Would you please be quiet? I'm doing acupuncture on your friend.”

”Acupuncture?” Chen Chao repeated with a wry smile. ”You're not doing acupuncture at all. How could you do acupuncture without taking off his clothes? And you didn't even look at the acupoints!”

Ma Yingqiang suddenly said, ”I... I feel something flowing in my body. It's hot yet cold... What a comfortable feeling!”