Bai Xiao arrived at the hospital, and when Li Xiangqian saw Bai Xiao, he couldn’t help but congratulate him, "Doctor Bai, I really didn’t see it coming, your level of skill is so impressive. Have you been playing dumb these past few days? Why do I feel like you’re bullying everyone?"
Today, the news had spread all over the hospital that Traditional Chinese Medicine specialist Bai Xiao, using acupuncture in place of anesthetic, successfully saved Director Jin’s life. The story had been told in vivid detail, and how could he not know about it.
To say there wasn’t a tinge of resentment in his heart would be a lie.
All this time, he and Bai Xiao had been working in the same clinic. She had such amazing acupuncture skills, yet every day, with each patient, she neither took their pulse nor prescribed any medicine, causing all the patients to flock to his side instead.
His workload had really been substantial.
Wasn’t this just like sabotaging your own teammate?
"Doctor Li, I really wasn’t playing dumb, I’ll tell you the truth. The medical skills passed down through my family only taught me acupuncture. I can treat illnesses, but I only have one trick up my sleeve, and that’s acupuncture. So, with each patient, I neither take pulses nor prescribe medicines. I can only ask if they want acupuncture. If they do, I’ll treat them with needles.
If they don’t want it, I can only ask them to go to you for treatment. To put it bluntly, I’m like Cheng Yaojin with his three-pronged axe, but I’ve got just this one move, I don’t know anything else." She was definitely telling the bald truth.
Upon hearing this, Li Xiangqian realized that was the case.
Actually, her acupuncture skills were enough; they could already treat many illnesses. His own family came from a long line of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with his grandfather, and great-grandfather before him, all being doctors. His family’s acupuncture was said to be sublime, with legends saying that the best acupuncture could cure a hundred diseases.
Unfortunately, by the time it reached his grandfather’s generation, it had been nearly lost.
Many acupuncture techniques required practical experience and the accumulation of time, as well as the doctor’s control over the acupoints and accurate judgment when treating diseases.
If it was passed down through her family, he truly couldn’t blame Bai Xiao.
This kind of transmission from generation to generation, keeping secret manuals within the family, was common.
And the methods of treating patients varied; not taking pulses and not prescribing medicines were indeed not mistakes.
"It’s fine. I think your one trick is pretty impressive. I don’t have your level of skill. If I knew how to do that one trick, I bet my ancestors would be so happy they’d jump right out of their coffins." Li Xiangqian had his own unique way of giving compliments.
Bai Xiao felt awkward. If your ancestors really did jump out of their coffins, they’d scare so many people!
"Doctor Bai, the Dean is looking for you!" the head nurse called from outside the door.
Bai Xiao quickly responded, wondering what the Dean could want from her this time. It was probably still about the foreign experts.
It seemed like they had a bone to pick with her.
"Doctor Li, I’ll leave this to you for a bit," she said.
Li Xiangqian nodded, "Go ahead, go ahead. You’re the star of our hospital now."
With a smile, Bai Xiao left the room, heading straight for the Dean’s office.
From a distance, she could see a group of foreign experts with an interpreter heading toward the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, seemingly beelining for her clinic.
Were they coming to confront her?
Bai Xiao turned quickly and made a detour through another hallway, taking a different staircase to the Dean’s office.
She knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Yu Shaohua’s voice came out.
Bai Xiao looked left and right as if she were a thief, then pushed the door open and quickly shut it behind her.
Yu Shaohua, seeing Bai Xiao’s sneaky behavior, felt both exasperated and amused. "Doctor Bai! What are you doing? Skulking around like that."
Bai Xiao stuck out her tongue, "Dean, I was afraid the foreign experts would corner me. They even came to my house last night. You have to say something to them; they’re seriously invading my personal life." This was her way of subtly tattling to the Dean.