Chapter 548: Chapter 548 Showing Off One’s Skills Before an Expert
Kong Qingfeng cleared his throat, looking proud: "I am a professor of acupuncture at the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Today, we are offering free consultations, not charging a penny. Just let me perform acupuncture on your grandson, and his headache will be cured. When you get home, give him some cold medicine, and he’ll be completely well. But whatever you do, don’t believe certain people’s nonsense, claiming it’s because of eating something wrong. It’s pitifully ignorant."
Kong Qingfeng’s last two sentences were directed at Xu Xiangbei. He glared at Xu Xiangbei with disdain, but Xu Xiangbei just had a smirk on his face, looking at him cheekily.
The grandmother exclaimed with joy, "Miracle doctor, please quickly perform acupuncture on my grandson."
"Alright, don’t worry. You’re lucky to have run into me today. If you went to a Western doctor, he’d be fine for days after IV infusions, but the headache would still be there."
Kong Qingfeng took out a small, slender rosewood needle box from his chest, engraved with orchid and bamboo patterns. The design was ancient and elegant, with a subtle rosewood aroma. Just by looking at the box, it was clear it was an antique of some age.
He pressed a button on the wooden box, and with a snap, the lid opened, revealing several silver needles of various lengths and thicknesses on red velvet inside.
Some needles were as thin as hair, while others were short and thick like bamboo sticks. The onlookers, students, couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration, "Professor Kong has such treasures."
"Indeed, a miracle doctor, even the tools are unique."
Listening to everyone praise his silver needles, Kong Qingfeng smiled proudly. He wiped his fingers and the silver needles with a cloth soaked in alcohol.
Feeling smug, Kong Qingfeng glanced at Xu Xiangbei. Kid, watch closely. See how uncle gives you a proper lesson and learn how I treat patients.
"Don’t worry, I only need to insert four needles, and his headache will immediately go away. Students, help the child sit down and watch me perform acupuncture."
Kong Qingfeng had the students help the child sit on a chair, remove his shoes and socks, and lift the clothes on his belly. He gently inserted a needle at the Baihui point on the child’s head, inserted two needles in his belly, and finally inserted a needle at the Shaochong point on the child’s foot.
Watching someone insert needles into him, the child initially looked tense, but soon after the needling was done, he smiled — the headache he’d been feeling had truly disappeared.
The child jumped up joyfully and held his grandmother’s hand, "Grandma, I want some ice cream."
Kong Qingfeng looked at Xu Xiangbei smugly, "Dr. Xu, did you see that? This is acupuncture. Can you do it? Treating illness and saving lives is a virtue of being a doctor, something money can’t buy..."
As Kong Qingfeng was about to reprimand Xu Xiangbei, the child suddenly held onto his stomach, sat on the ground, and began to cry out in pain, "It hurts, my stomach hurts."
The grandmother grabbed Kong Qingfeng’s arm and also began to cry sorrowfully, "What have you done to my grandson to worsen his condition? Give me back my grandson, give me back my grandson."
Seeing how the child was in severe pain, Kong Qingfeng panicked and quickly felt the child’s pulse. His face turned deathly pale, "How could this be, why are there signs of poisoning."
Xu Xiangbei snorted coldly, "Incompetent doctor, these few needles are making the child suffer a great deal."
Kong Qingfeng’s mind raced, unable to determine why this had happened. Baffled, he couldn’t dare to retort in the face of Xu Xiangbei’s mockery.
Xu Xiangbei gently tapped the child’s shoulder, an extraordinary Inner Strength flowed through his finger, quickly entering the child’s meridians to seal the Liver Meridian of the Foot Shaoyin.
As the meridians were sealed, the child’s pain significantly reduced, though tears still stained his small face.
Seeing the child no longer crying out or calling for help, everyone felt strange; some knew it had to do with Xu Xiangbei’s tap.
Sun Ze asked with delight, "Dr. Xu, did you seal the child’s meridians with a tap?"
Xu Xiangbei glanced encouragingly at Sun Ze, smiling, "Though you’re playful by nature, you’re quite smart. If you genuinely want to learn martial arts, you will achieve something."
Kong Qingfeng stared blankly at Xu Xiangbei, "You, can you use finger to condense needles? Are you using..."
Xu Xiangbei pointed angrily at Kong Qingfeng’s nose, "Incompetent doctor, who said acupuncture must use needles? Can’t I perform acupuncture without needles? You talk about doctors having the heart of parents, treating and saving lives. Watching you, I see an incompetent doctor just causing harm."
Kong Qingfeng’s face looked like he had lost a battle, hanging his head in shame. Beads of sweat as big as beans appeared on his forehead.
He looked at Xu Xiangbei in doubt, both tense and excited, his voice trembling a bit, "I’m sorry, Dr. Xu, my view was short-sighted and I overstepped myself, but I don’t believe you can do such legendary acupuncture. Can, can you perform it again for me to see?"
Seeing the previously arrogant Professor Kong showing respect to Xu Xiangbei, being admonished by him, the grandmother seemed to understand something — this young doctor was right all along.
She quickly grabbed Xu Xiangbei’s arm, "Turns out you’re the real miracle doctor. Please save my grandson, I beg you."
Xu Xiangbei shook off her hand, internally displeased at her earlier disbelief, deliberately scaring her: "Didn’t you not believe me? Then I have no reason to treat your grandson. But I’ll tell you, this incompetent doctor has doomed your grandson. The toxins in his body were initially suppressed near the liver but have now been exacerbated by chaotic needling, poisoning the heart — it’s almost incurable now."
Hearing her grandson has toxins poisoning his heart and is beyond cure, the grandmother sat on the ground with a thud, slapping her thighs and crying until she nearly passed out.
Some students now understood Xu Xiangbei was right about the child eating the wrong thing. Eating something wrong and poisoning, the liver, being the body’s most important detoxification organ, couldn’t neutralize such toxins, triggering a series of chain reactions seemingly resembling a headache caused by a cold. In reality, it was poisoning.
They felt ashamed too and apologized to Xu Xiangbei, earnestly asking him to treat the grandmother’s grandson.
Xu Xiangbei had just been scaring the grandmother, deliberately speaking severely. In reality, he played a word game, saying toxins poisoned the heart and almost incurable, but he didn’t say they couldn’t be treated.
A soft voice came through, "Xu Xiangbei, the grandmother and child are really pitiful, please help them and don’t be angry, okay?"
The voice sounded so familiar.
Here, the only person who could call him Xu Xiangbei by name was none other than his old classmate Song Yuting.
She had indeed come, and Xu Xiangbei’s heart fluttered as he turned around with a smile, looking at Song Yuting behind him.
Song Yuting had her hair in braids, wearing her plaid dress, like a graceful daffodil, with a smile on her face that moved Xu Xiangbei’s heart.
"Didn’t you take leave from work? Is everything settled now?"
"Yes, I’ve finished my work and came to join the event. What’s wrong, you don’t like me being here?"
In the midst of those beautiful female tenants, often proudly considered sophisticated, Xu Xiangbei didn’t know why, confronting his first love still felt somewhat flustered and tongue-tied.
"Of course I like you... oh no, I mean I like you being at the event."
