Chapter 440: Chapter 440 Treating Lu Yichen’s Leg Chapter 440: Chapter 440 Treating Lu Yichen’s Leg Stone finished his meal and went to review his schoolwork; Lu Yichen cleaned up the kitchen while Luo Qiao prepared the things needed for the upcoming treatment.
Lu Yichen washed the dishes in the kitchen, his mind elsewhere the whole time. When he had gone to deliver something to Luo Qiao’s grandparents, he had paid particular attention to her second brother, Luo Xuyuan.
After leaving and while waiting for the car, he heard people discussing the Luo Family’s matters. They said the granddaughter that the Luo Family recognized had remarkable abilities—she healed their Big Brother and Second Brother’s ailments, and now Luo Xuyan was sent to study musical instruments with a professor from the music academy.
Second Brother Luo Xuyuan could also stand up on his own, walking hundreds of meters at a stretch. Lu Yichen believed that with more practice, he would be able to walk like a normal person. Hearing those words, he felt truly stirred.
He got busy afterward and put the matter aside for the time being. Now that he was about to face the treatment, he felt a bit nervous and somewhat excited. Dishes that usually took a moment to wash took half an hour today and were still not done.
Luo Qiao finished arranging and called out, “Brother Lu, are you done?”
Lu Yichen snapped back to reality: “I’m done, I’m done; I’ll be right there.”
Luo Qiao slapped her forehead, realizing that Lu Yichen was also wearing cotton pants, which put her in a bit of a conundrum.
So she said, “Stone, pack up the stuff and head back to our courtyard.”
Lu Yichen had just come out of the kitchen: “What’s the matter?”
Luo Qiao replied, “Let’s go back to your courtyard. That way, after the acupuncture, you won’t have to go out in the wind, and it’s warm inside your place. You’ll also need to change into summer pants soon, otherwise, these thick cotton pants can’t be rolled up, which will interfere with the needling.”
Stone had already packed everything. After locking the front door, the three of them left the alley for Lu Yichen’s courtyard.
Once inside the courtyard, Luo Qiao headed into the kitchen to heat a pot of water while Lu Yichen went to his room to change into summer pants. Then he called out from the doorway, “I’m changed.”
Luo Qiao didn’t delay, set everything up in the room, and noted that Lu Yichen’s injury was much easier to treat than Big Brother’s and Second Brother’s. One reason was because it was more recent, and another was that it was localized nerve damage.
Luo Qiao asked Lu Yichen to roll up the pant leg of the injured leg; after a careful examination, she sterilized the silver needles in her hand, then adeptly began the needling.
After inserting the needles, she used her special ability to sort through his body. Once she had finished, Lu Yichen felt an extraordinary ease throughout his body. Half an hour later, she removed the needles and instructed that he should not bathe for three hours and to avoid cold water when he did.
Luo Qiao sterilized the silver needles and put them away. She didn’t let Lu Yichen go outside and had Stone follow her to secure the front gate.
Lu Yichen could faintly sense changes in his body, and the area around his leg injury still felt warm. Looking at his injured leg, he couldn’t calm his emotions for a long time.
It wasn’t until after 11 p.m. that he took a hot bath as Luo Qiao had instructed. After the bath, he wondered if he was delusional, sensing that he might have become a bit fairer.
Moreover, he unexpectedly had a good night’s sleep. His leg was usually most unbearable during the winter and on rainy days, not because of pain, but due to a constant discomfort.
After seven consecutive days of acupuncture, Lu Yichen’s leg improved day by day. Eventually, one couldn’t even tell there was an issue unless they looked closely. He found it hard to believe—the experts in Capital City who couldn’t heal his leg nerve injury had been bested by Luo Qiao.
Luo Qiao specially prepared some medicine for Lu Yichen and told him to massage the injured area of his leg every evening for half an hour. Lu Yichen was deeply grateful, discovering that all the hidden injuries on his body had healed.
It seemed he understood that Luo Qiao’s daily talk about sorting through meridians was not simply in the general sense, but he didn’t ask about it. Only on the last day did he say, “Take it easy when helping others in the future.”
Luo Qiao had not realized she had been so careful, and yet Lu Yichen was so sensitive. With such an injury, she might have been able to heal it in one session, but to avoid his suspicion, she treated him over seven days.
Forget it, no more thinking about it. It seemed that in the future, she would have to slow down the treatment time even more—she didn’t want to attract any trouble.
After Lu Yichen’s leg healed, his luck with romance also arrived. Since he was transferred to the Capital City Public Security Bureau, he hadn’t returned to work at the local police station. After the New Year, his personnel records were also transferred to the city bureau.