Chapter 164: Chapter 164: Leadership Chapter 164: Chapter 164: Leadership In the vehicle, Li Dongliang looked at Bai Xiao sucking on a lollipop and asked Han Weiguo beside him, “This girl is incredible. She seems unremarkable, but her acupuncture is immensely skillful. I thought I was a goner just now, and dying is an awful feeling. Then, she stuck the needle in, and I felt a rush of heat surge up from the spot of the insertion, and the pain at the wound eased, with the bleeding stopping too.” His eyes were filled with deep admiration.
But he heard no reply from Han Weiguo. When Li Dongliang turned to look, he realized Han Weiguo’s mouth was dripping blood, and he had rolled his eyes back and passed out.
He quickly shouted to the person next to him, “Hurry, call that acupuncture girl, someone has passed out here!”
The person turned to glance at Han Weiguo, and upon seeing the blood still bubbling from his mouth, shuddered with fright! There had been too much blood seen today.
He rushed over to call Bai Xiao.
“Miss, miss! There’s someone who passed out over there! You need to come quick, they’re spitting up a lot of blood!”
Bai Xiao looked up, “Where?”
Pointing at the jeep, “Right here!”
With a silver needle in hand and still chewing on her lollipop, Bai Xiao walked briskly over, saw Han Weiguo’s condition, and frowned. Hadn’t he just refused to let her save him? Wasn’t this self-inflicted suffering?
She decided to let him suffer a bit. Otherwise, he might think she had been joking.
Bai Song followed, and Yan Chunlu had turned into a tail as well, trailing behind. The moment she saw Li Dongliang, she stood up straight, terrified, “Greetings, Chief!” My God! It was the top boss of their local area.
What was the meaning of this?
Li Dongliang smiled and waved his hand, “Don’t just stand there.”
Pointing at Han Weiguo, he said to Bai Xiao, “Quick, take a look at him. Why did he suddenly pass out like that?” He always thought that he was the one with the serious injuries. Just now, Han Weiguo had been chatting and laughing with him, both sitting there watching the young lady treat and save people. And now, for him to suddenly vomit blood and faint was extremely worrying.
Bai Xiao took out a silver needle, “I was going to pierce him earlier, warning that he had internal injuries and internal bleeding, but he adamantly refused. Now, I’ll do my best!” As the needle pierced, Bai Xiao gently twisted the silver needle, and Han Weiguo gradually began to moan with his eyes closed.
Bai Xiao removed the silver needle, “Take him to the hospital, it’ll be too late if we wait any longer.”
The doctors and nurses had already hurried over, and upon hearing that a Chief was involved, they had dispatched additional ambulances. Several hospitals had also been alerted and sent their emergency vehicles.
Now the medical examiners were checking, and a stretcher was brought over! They prepared to carry the person to the ambulance to be taken to the hospital.
Li Dongliang asked Bai Xiao, “What’s your name?”
Bai Xiao didn’t answer, but pointed to Bai Song, “The one who saved you is him. His name is Bai Song!”
This big shot from the region would better remember Bai Song’s kindness rather than hers. She didn’t need any credit for herself.
Li Dongliang looked at Bai Song, then back at Bai Xiao, “You both are commendable.”
The hospital executives had already arrived; how could they not when a Chief was involved in a car accident.
“Don’t let these two leave; have them follow me to the hospital,” said Li Dongliang. With that order, two individuals in white coats stopped Bai Xiao and Bai Song from leaving.
Bai Xiao rolled her eyes. Could this be a case of repaying kindness with ingratitude?
This time, I didn’t show any abnormalities—the most I did was delay the worsening of injuries. I only administered minor treatment to those with severe wounds. Could it be that I’ll be taken away for research and dissection just for doing that?
Then that research institute must be really cheap, grabbing anyone off the streets to dissect.
Bai Song protected Bai Xiao, “Chief, what are you doing? If there’s anything, you can talk to me, it has nothing to do with my sister.” His nature was straightforward, he wasn’t one for beating around the bush. Protecting Bai Xiao was his top priority.
Li Dongliang laughed, then turned to them and said, “I mean no harm, I just want to invite you both to come with me for a chat.”
Bai Song breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn’t malicious.
Bai Xiao was aware that the Chief might have taken a liking to her—not in the inappropriate sense, but probably intrigued by her medical skills.
She got in the car with Bai Song.
Sitting in the ambulance, Li Dongliang lay on the stretcher, while a medic was inserting a needle into his arm for an IV.
“Girl, your acupuncture skills are remarkable! The way you stop bleeding and stabilize the condition, you really know your stuff,” Li Dongliang said excitedly.
Bai Song quickly responded, “My sister isn’t a doctor.” He didn’t know how else to reply to Li Dongliang’s statement, so he resorted to this.
Bai Xiao almost laughed, big brother was really something.
“Your sister isn’t a doctor, then who did she learn this acupuncture from? It looks like she has really skilled technique! This isn’t something she just picked up overnight!” Li Dongliang’s eyes were incredibly sharp, he could tell that Bai Xiao’s hand didn’t even tremble when she inserted the needle! That was the true mark of ‘a needle that reveals blood.’
“My sister learned it from my father, it’s a family tradition. It’s nothing sophisticated enough to impress anyone; please don’t laugh at us, Chief.” This was the consistent story agreed upon by their family; the Bai Family now supposedly had a traditional acupuncture technique.
Li Dongliang saw how Bai Song was protective of Bai Xiao, “You’re treating me like a weasel, not even letting your sister speak for herself. She’s old enough to interact with others, you can’t substitute for her in everything.”
Bai Xiao realized that the Chief really wanted her to speak up.
“Chief, just speak your mind. I’m just an ordinary girl from a regular family. The acupuncture is something I learned from my parents, and I can barely use it to treat and save people. But if we really get down to it, I only provide temporary relief, not a cure. To truly treat these illnesses—like the wound you have—you’d need to go to the hospital for the doctors to stitch it up and perform surgery. My acupuncture really can’t heal that.”
She placed herself humbly, giving the best excuse for her medical skills. Even though she had saved Wang Han in the past, Wang Han had no visible wounds; their ailments were invisible to the naked eye. It could be said that her acupuncture cured him or conversely that it was a fortunate coincidence that the person recovered.
Nobody could find fault with her for that.
So far, she hadn’t treated anyone with visible injuries, mostly just internal ailments, hardly visible to the naked eye. The only significant injury she might be associated with was the purulent fracture on her nephew Li Haishun’s leg, but that was a secret known only to their own family, not to outsiders.
She believed her elder sister had already instructed her three nephews to keep the matter to themselves.
Li Dongliang chuckled, “Young lady, what do you do? And your brother, what’s his job? Even though you’re not saying, one can tell you’re both formidable. And you? Are you interested in joining us here?”
Bai Xiao now understood, he was attempting to recruit her.
“Chief, I’m here to report at the aviation school. I’m not yet a student, but once I register, I guess I’ll be one of you.”
With that, the Chief should rest assured, as she’d be their person and couldn’t run away.