Gorgeous Female Tenants

Chapter 132: Yin and Yang Complement Each Other

Ouyang Yujian coldly looked at Xu Xiangbei, "Kid, my dad is in great health, he just performed a set of punches. Don’t talk nonsense. Brother, where did you find this fraud? Daring to criticize our ancestral martial arts—too arrogant. You’re not welcome here, please leave."

Seeing Ouyang Yujian issuing an eviction order, Xu Xiangbei helplessly stood up, ready to leave, but was stopped by Ouyang Zhan.

Ouyang Zhan extended his right hand, which trembled like that of a stroke patient, "Dr. Xu, wait a moment, what you said actually makes sense. I’m afraid my hand really is a result of practicing the Dragon Tiger Divine Fist."

Both Ouyang Yujian and his brother were stunned, not expecting their father’s hand to tremble so severely.

"Dad, what’s going on? How long has this been happening?"

Xu Xiangbei interrupted, "The recent hot weather has led to rising liver heat; it probably started about a month ago, right?"

Ouyang Yujian snapped, "Don’t speak out of turn, no one asked you."

Ouyang Zhan nodded, his tone tinged with age, "Dr. Xu is right. It only started trembling heavily about a month ago. It would occasionally twitch before, and I thought it was muscle tension, so I didn’t pay attention. My senior brother advised me when I changed the punching style, but I didn’t believe him. What he said was exactly what Dr. Xu said. I didn’t expect that after so many decades, such retribution in my own lifetime. Everything is cause and effect, where there’s cause, there’s effect."

The courtyard was silent for a moment, Ouyang Yufei asked Xu Xiangbei, "Dr. Xu, can my father’s hand be treated?"

Xu Xiangbei shook his head, looking troubled, "It’s caused by years of accumulating wrong punching techniques, not a common ailment, very hard to treat."

Ouyang Yufei asked worriedly, "Is there really no hope at all?"

"Not completely without hope, there’s just a little bit."

Upon hearing there was hope for recovery, Ouyang Zhan’s eyes lit up. For a martial artist, having a disabled right hand was distressing; forget fighting Iron Gall, even holding chopsticks was inconvenient.

If possible, he was willing to exchange a lifetime of savings for free movement.

Suppressing his inner excitement, he asked, "Young man, can you really cure my ailment?"

Xu Xiangbei replied smugly, "As long as I’m willing to treat it, it can surely be healed. Elder Liu, you know, a friend of your family was bedridden, but I treated him, and now he can stand up and walk, even go to the park and play mahjong without problems."

Ouyang Yujian looked at Xu Xiangbei with caution, noting how young Xu Xiangbei was, not like a seasoned doctor.

He made a call to Liu Hongan, "Brother Hong An, it’s Yujian. Elder Liu was bedridden last time, how is he now, has he recovered?"

Liu Hongan’s laughter came through the phone, "A month ago, Elder Liu was treated by Dr. Xu and is now able to walk freely. Why are you asking this now?"

"It’s nothing, I was just asking. Please send my regards to Elder Liu."

"Also extend my regards to Elder Master Ouyang."

Ouyang Yujian had the speakerphone on, confirming that everything Xu Xiangbei said was true, changing his attitude.

"Dr. Xu, please sit down and have a cup of tea."

Ouyang Yujian poured a cup of tea and respectfully handed it to Xu Xiangbei.

Ouyang Zhan’s old face turned red, "Young man, I’m old, and inevitably muddle-headed. Don’t be offended by what I said earlier."

Xu Xiangbei sat down again, savoring the tea, chuckling, "I’m the most magnanimous, can accept the inexcusable world, not angry, not angry."

Ouyang Zhan knew Liu Rulong had been bedridden for over half a year. He recently visited Liu Rulong, seeing him lying with a bloodless face, almost dying, treated by many doctors yet still untreatable. How could Xu Xiangbei cure him?

Hope appeared in his eyes, with an excited expression, "Young brother, do you truly have confidence in curing me?"

"Of course, but after you’re healed, you can’t practice the current Dragon Tiger Divine Fist anymore, or it will relapse."

Ouyang Zhan vowed solemnly, "Naturally, not only will I not practice the Dragon Tiger Divine Fist, but Yufei and Yujian also won’t train in it."

Xu Xiangbei smiled with squinted eyes, "Training is possible, as long as you return to the original style, with the combination of Yin and Yang and the balance of extremes, there won’t be any issue."

Ouyang Yufei and his brother asked concernedly, "Dr. Xu, when can you treat my father’s hand? As for compensation, don’t worry, however much you say."

Xu Xiangbei squinted his eyes, counting fingers like a half-immortal, calculating for a long time before shaking his head and letting out a sigh.

With his sigh, Ouyang Zhan, Elder Master Ouyang, Ouyang Yufei, and his brothers all stared wide-eyed, not daring to breathe loudly, afraid of hearing bad news from Xu Xiangbei.

"It’s not a matter of money, but of method. I need Elder Master Ouyang to take a cold pill to balance out the excess Yang energy within. This pill isn’t easy to make."

Xu Xiangbei thought of the sections on alchemy in the Ancient Primordial Scriptures, where a pill like the Nine Nether Yin Gathering Pill could have such effect, but the herbs for making the Nine Nether Yin Gathering Pill weren’t cheap.

Since it was his first time making an elixir, he wasn’t sure.

Unlike the eight reverse needles where weight and urgency could be controlled, the effect of the elixir was beyond his control, so he couldn’t say he had a hundred percent certainty.

"Give me three days, I’ll see if I can gather the herbs first and then call Ouyang Yufei. Once the elixir is successfully made, I’ll come to treat Elder Master Ouyang."

Upon hearing that Xu Xiangbei was first going to gather herbs, Ouyang Zhan asked his second son, Ouyang Yujian, to issue a check.

He smiled at Xu Xiangbei, "Dr. Xu, we will first give you five million to buy herbs. If the elixir is perfect and cures my ailment, I’ll give another ten million. How does Dr. Xu feel?"

Xu Xiangbei was delighted. To be paid five million before even starting treatment, he was certainly happy, but it’s not a matter of money; having money doesn’t necessarily equate to acquiring the herbal ingredients.

He was frank about it, "The herbal ingredients on the recipe for the Nine Nether Yin Gathering Pill are not readily available. It’s not for ordinary headache or cold but a special remedy. But..."

He was about to say he’d use every means to acquire the herbs but was interrupted by Ouyang Zhan.

Elder Master Ouyang decisively said, "I understand Dr. Xu’s meaning. Yujian, issue another five million check, we’ll first pay ten million to buy herbs for the elixir. If successful, I’ll pay the balance of ten million. Dr. Xu, how does that sound?"

Xu Xiangbei smiled wryly; he wasn’t looking to raise the price, the herbs were indeed hard to find, yet it wouldn’t require ten million. With ten million you could open a large herbal store.

What else could be done? Saying anything more might prompt Ouyang Zhan to further raise the offer, leaving Xu Xiangbei in a bind. He could only agree, "Alright, deal."

The mere twenty million was a trivial matter for the Ouyang family.

Xu Xiangbei could hardly believe in the short span of a few hours tonight, he’d earned twenty million, plus an outstanding ten million to collect in some days.