I Became a Medical Genius in the 80s

Chapter 469 - 468: Inquiries

In the Chinese medicine department, Liu Jing’s expression became more grim. She initially thought that if she were transferred, she could start anew. But unexpectedly, after reaching out to numerous connections and gifting extensively, there was no response, and nobody paid attention to them.In the past, Luo Xinfang might have shown some concern, considering that they worked in the same clinic. However, she currently had no interest in paying attention to her.

That day, she and her husband Mei Ren’an waited outside the Tian Family’s door for a long time. Luo Xinfang was still somewhat resentful because of the morning’s incident. However, not having any evidence, she didn’t discuss it with her husband. She quietly slipped away to the back street of the Tian Family under the pretense of needing to use the bathroom.

She came here purely on a hunch. Perhaps it wasn’t to see if the person she saw that morning was Beisitian, but rather she simply thought that with so many people outside, the Tian Family couldn’t possibly be unaware, and they would be coming in and out of the gate, wouldn’t they?

However, to her disappointment, after waiting at the back door for a long time without any result, she finally checked the time and had to return, leaving the back street.

She returned just in time to catch the people inside coming out, and many pairs of eyes immediately turned to look.

Two women came out, one older and one younger. Seeing the two of them chatting and laughing as they got into a car, everyone felt a sense of disappointment.

However, Luo Xinfang’s eyes widened. Could the young woman be anyone other than Beisitian!

It seemed that she hadn’t mistaken what she saw that morning. The person she saw was indeed Beisitian.

Beisitian knows the people from the Tian Family!

Luo Xinfang was so certain because after lunch, all the important folks had left. If Beisitian were a niece or nephew brought over by those folks, she would have certainly left with them.

For some reason, Luo Xinfang decided not to tell her husband, keeping the matter to herself.

The next day, she went to work hoping to find a chance to privately ask Beisitian about her relationship with the Tian Family. However, Beisitian took half a day off in the morning.

Therefore, for the entire morning, the 2nd clinic room was extremely quiet. When there were no patients, the room was as silent as if you could hear a pin drop, with both women appearing preoccupied and not speaking.

Luo Xinfang hesitated originally, unsure of how to bring up the subject. But after waiting all morning and unable to wait a minute longer, in the afternoon as she saw Beisitian going to get water, she hurriedly grabbed her thermos, which still had more than half left, and went out.

She arrived at the hot water room of the surgery building, smiled, and said to Beisitian, "You’re getting water too."

Beisitian turned around, smiled, and nodded.

Luo Xinfang put the thermos under the faucet, waited a bit, and then casually asked, "Does Xiao Bei know the people from the Tian Family?"

"Yes, that’s my grandparents’ house," Beisitian replied.

Luo Xinfang was taken aback, looking at Beisitian with a newfound curiosity. The current generation of the Tian Family doesn’t have a daughter, so how could there be a granddaughter?

But since Beisitian said so, it should be true, especially since she attended this ceremony.

"Hasn’t Xiao Bei always lived in Anding City?" Luo Xinfang remembered Master Qin mentioning it initially.

"No, I used to live in Kao Village. Later my husband was transferred to Anding City, so I went over. Then later, I moved to Beijing," Beisitian said.

Luo Xinfang’s thoughts raced, suddenly recalling hearing from her father-in-law and others that the Tian Family once had a young daughter who eloped with someone. Could Xiao Bei be the child of that young daughter?

This explanation made sense. Otherwise, why would she always live in the village? It seems that the young daughter, after eloping, didn’t live well. If Beisitian hadn’t found a good man, she might have had a hard time returning to Beijing.

Thinking of this, she felt a sense of pity for Beisitian. But fortunately, the tides turned, and she returned to Beijing. Even as a granddaughter, the presence of the Tian Family meant she wouldn’t be bullied.

Luo Xinfang thought this because she knew that since the Tian Family allowed her to attend the ceremony, they must be quite fond of her. Otherwise, they wouldn’t let her participate in such an important occasion.

Beisitian answered Luo Xinfang’s question candidly. After all, anyone interested could easily find out these things, so there was nothing to hide.

When Beisitian returned to Clinic Room 1, Qin Fengwang was examining an elderly man in his seventies. The man’s face was covered in age spots, looking close to his end, with droopy eyelids and slightly swollen cheeks, appearing low in spirit.

This old man was a ’regular’ in the Chinese medicine clinic, with a consultation duration of up to five years.

This old man was also very persistent, convinced only by him because Doctor Qin Fengwang, an old physician here, had been serving here for decades, and he didn’t trust anyone else.

The old man used to be a soldier who had seen battle. He had many injuries on his body due to these old wounds. Whenever it was rainy, his whole body would ache, forcing him to lie on the bed moaning, and painkillers were of no use.

Though there weren’t many rainy or snowy days in Beijing, just a few occurrences were enough to threaten the old man’s life with his condition.

This pain was like a toothache, not lethal but excruciating!

With it being overcast these days, the old man’s body started aching again. The medicine prescribed by Qin Fengwang earlier was still effective, so he returned.

However, as he drank the medicine more, the effects became less effective each time.

"Ah, Brother Qin, what should I do? The medicine you gave me isn’t as effective as it was initially. Please come up with something. Nowadays, I’m afraid of cloudy days, rain, and snow, and just thinking about it makes me shiver. If only I could just die, it would save me from enduring this pain, and spare the children at home," the old man lamented.

The man’s name was Ma Sanqiang. It was said that back in the war against Japan, as a soldier of the worker-peasant army, he killed three enemies with three bullets, hence the name Ma Sanqiang!

Ma Sanqiang sighed deeply, nowhere near the brave and spirited soldier he used to be.

Qin Fengwang also felt helpless, having racked his brains to find solutions and changed several prescriptions. If each prescription lasted more than a year, it was considered quite good.

"Brother Ma, you’re taking this medicine too frequently. You live out of three hundred and sixty-five days a year, almost three hundred and sixty of them taking medicine. This way, your body can’t handle it, and any medicine taken excessively becomes less effective," Qin Fengwang said.

Ma Sanqiang nodded helplessly, saying, "What can I do? Who wants to take medicine? I’ve even selected herbal medicine; if it were Western medicine consumed like this, I would probably have died several years earlier."

Actually, no one truly wants to die. People like these old revolutionaries, having been lucky enough not to die from the last bullet in the war of resistance, now that life is better, who wouldn’t want to enjoy it? But when the body hurts, at that moment, they truly wished they could just pass away.

Qin Fengwang was speaking when he saw Beisitian enter with a thermos, his eyes lit up immediately, and he enthusiastically called out, "Xiao Bei is back at the right time; come and take a look at Brother Ma."