As if he felt the change in atmosphere in the ward, Ning Siyuan tactfully broke the silence and broke his brother out of his awkward spell.
“Cough… Ms. Su was invited here today for Qirui’s sickness. I heard Ms. Su noticed the abnormalities on Qirui with just one look when you first met and advised him to go for a body check-up.”
“Yep, that’s right.”
Ning Siyuan’s eyes glinted. “How was Ms. Su able to tell that there was something wrong with my brother?”
“I’ve been taught traditional Chinese medicine, and it’s very particular with the four diagnostic methods – Observation, Auscultation and Olfaction, Inquiry, Palpation. To observe means to look at a patient’s face and judge if their organs are healthy, and from there determine a patient’s health condition.”
“Traditional Chinese medicine?”
Su Yayan had expected Ning Siyuan’s confusion. In this world they live in, after two major relocations, Chinese herbal medicines were mostly extinct, and traditional Chinese medicine was lost in transition.
“This is gonna be a little hard to explain. In layman’s terms, all parts of the human body are interconnected. If a problem occurs on the inside of the body, it would be manifested on the surface. You may not feel like you’re unwell, but to those who know what they were doing, your outward appearance was already emitting warning signs.”
Ning Siyuan accepted her explanation. He frowned and asked, “What you mean, Ms. Su, is that you can tell what’s going on with the insides of a body by looking at its face?”
“Yes.”
“Can Ms. Su tell me if there’s anything wrong with me?”
Su Yayan knew that he was testing her. In a curl of her lips, she said faintly, “Young Master Ning, your breathing is shorter and more labored than one of a normal person. It should be asthma from birth.”
Su Yayan’s words changed the expressions of a few people present at the scene, especially Ning Qirui.
No one knew better than him that his brother had asthma since he was born, and even though it might not be fatal, it was still painful to watch when an attack did happen.
Ning Siyuan was a lot calmer than his brother. Not many people knew about his asthma, but it was not a secret either. It did not mean anything for Su Yayan to be able to tell him that.
Su Yayan was clear about this too, so she continued. “Other than that, your stomach isn’t very healthy too. You’ve been having frequent gastric attacks lately, right?”
Ning Siyuan’s pupils constricted as he finally took the person before him seriously.
“Brother, your stomach…” After what he had experienced, Ning Qirui was afraid. He looked at Su Yayan pitifully and asked anxiously, “Is my brother’s gastric problems a severe one? Does he need to go for a check-up too?”
Su Yayan burst out in laughter. Ning Qirui stared at her blankly, color slowly creeping onto his face.
For someone that was questioning, skeptical, and upset about the other party for a few days up to a few minutes ago to have completely different thoughts and beliefs right after, Ning Qirui felt his face burned with shame.
Su Yayan did not make things difficult for him and gave her honest opinions. “It’s not that severe so far, it’s just mild gastritis, but since it’s already inflamed, it will continue to worsen unless you take it seriously and take good care of yourself.”
Ning Qirui sighed in relief, turned to his elder brother, and nagged. “Heard it, bro? You’ve gotta take care of your stomach, don’t ignore your health now.”
Ning Siyuan, “…” He’s here to persuade his brother to accept treatment, why is he being nagged now?
“Let’s talk about Qirui then. Ms. Su, since you could tell that there was something wrong with Qirui with just one look, you’d be able to heal him, right?”
Su Yayan’s eyes sparkled. She was still vexed yesterday for having nowhere to practice. Had she just gotten herself a free guinea pig?
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