Day four, at Li Daoqing Clinic.
Day five, at Zhang Yuanming Clinic.
Day six...
Lu Jiu drifted around the three clinics on Garden Street like this every day.
Eventually, he irritated the municipal authorities. When they ca, they didn’t even issue a warning and just loaded up all his tables and chairs, inviting him to have tea at their office.
Since he was occupying the road but not doing business, the authorities couldn’t really do anything. After they released him, Lu Jiu ca back the next day with nothing but himself, standing outside Li Daoqing Clinic.
This ti, he had no table or chair, just a copy of the "Complete Collection of Prescriptions and Proofs" tucked under his arm, yet people still crowded around him.
This ti, people learned to be smart; they stood on the steps instead of blocking the road. So even went inside Li Daoqing’s clinic, but not to see Li Daoqing—they just wanted a place where they could hear Lu Jiu speak.
This way, the municipal authorities had no solution. Seeing Lu Jiu as a sticky plaster, they couldn’t be bothered to deal with him anymore.
But this really caused trouble for Li Daoqing.
No business, and his space was being taken over.
In anger, Li Daoqing had no choice but to close the clinic and stop practicing dicine.
By closing his doors, he inadvertently fueled Lu Jiu’s arrogance.
This made Zhang Yuanming a bit uneasy too.
Fearing that Lu Jiu would turn his chaos towards him next, he wrote a note and secretly handed it to one of his nurses to deliver to Lu Jiu.
Watching the nurse leave, dressed in a different outfit and wearing a mask, Zhang Yuanming looked quite tense.
In this situation, it’s down to saving oneself at the expense of others; if soone was going to report Lu Jiu, better it be him than soone else.
Soon, amidst the crowd, Lu Jiu noticed a hand slipped into his pocket, and by the ti he realized it, the hand had already been withdrawn.
When Lu Jiu pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket, it explicitly said one thing.
"Dr. Lu, the person who reported you was Li Daoqing."
Oh?
The dogs are starting to bite each other?
Lu Jiu intentionally looked at the note a couple more tis, which naturally caught the attention of others around him, especially those standing behind him.
"Hey? Soone slipped Dr. Lu a note. It says that the person who reported Dr. Lu’s clinic is Li Daoqing."
"What!?"
"So it was a colleague all along!"
"So it was him!!"
"How despicable, it must be because Dr. Lu hurt his business, so he wants to ruin Dr. Lu!"
"He would do anything for money, what a scumbag!"
"Other clinics charge forty per shot, he charges sixty, and every cold requires five or six shots. I didn’t know before and thought he was using good dicine. But Dr. Lu said a cold takes six or seven days to cure, or the sa if left untreated—a complete rip-off. Get out here!"
"Li Daoqing, get out here!!"
"Get out!!"
"..."
The more people cursed loudly, the less willing Li Daoqing was to co out.
He didn’t understand why, after being closed for just over an hour, people outside started cursing him and telling him to co out.
How on earth did this guy stir them up?
Isn’t he afraid that making a scene would get him arrested?
On the contrary, he had called the Health and Family Planning Commission several tis, but aside from city managent coming to drive him away, no one from the health commission showed up.
Could it be that this guy has connections in the health commission?
Suddenly, Li Daoqing felt a bit of regret.
If he had known that this guy played by his own rules, he shouldn’t have reported him.
It was a miscalculation!
Even though his business was affected before the reporting, he still managed to earn so money. Now with Lu Jiu making this ss, he couldn’t even run his business normally.
Perhaps the commotion was really too big this ti, as a passerby chose to call the police directly.
By the ti the police arrived to ask about the situation and dispersed the crowd, Lu Jiu was once again invited for tea.
However, the venue was different.
But similar to before, after asking a few questions and understanding the basic situation, Lu Jiu was let go.
With things escalating to this point, Lu Jiu didn’t need to stoke the flas any further.
Even if the note-passer was framing Li Daoqing, it didn’t matter to Lu Jiu.
He just needed a target, one everyone could see, and one that he’d thoroughly ruined.
It’s like when a student gets beaten up by seven or eight others, focusing on beating one person senselessly would make the others scared and stop.
They’re not afraid of how well you fight, but afraid of becoming the next victim!
Returning to the clinic, Lu Jiu saw Lu Mountain supervising the workers who were under construction.
"Grandpa, how’s it going?" Lu Jiu asked.
"I’ve already talked it over with the landlord. Luckily, the whole building belongs to him, otherwise, to install a 15-ter exhaust pipe, we’d have to explain it floor by floor. Once people hear it’s for exhaust, they’d definitely refuse," Lu Mountain replied.
"Alright, I’ll go buy the stuff," said Lu Jiu.
A fifteen-ter exhaust pipe would cost a few thousand, which wasn’t a small amount for Lu Jiu, but he had to pay it. After all, the sll of moxibustion was indeed a foul odor!
He went to the market, made arrangents with the shopkeeper, paid, and instructed them to deliver it. Only then did Lu Jiu return to the clinic.
After two days of construction, the exhaust pipe was finally installed.
Lu Jiu imdiately called the environntal protection departnt. Shockingly, they told him to wait because they were too busy to co right now and would check later when they were free.
Lu Jiu was furious!
What? Wasn’t coming to inspect also part of their work? And now it’s not?
...
Buzz, buzz, buzz~
Deputy Director’s office of the Health Commission.
Lu Feng saw the phone vibrating on the desk, glanced over, and seeing it was Lu Jiu calling, he chuckled and answered, "I knew you’d call ."
Lu Jiu sighed, "Uncle, so business in small towns really depends on connections?"
Lu Feng laughed heartily, "It’s easy to see King Yama but hard to deal with his little demons. That’s how society is. You’ve probably got so little demon’s attention. No worries, I’ve talked to Director Gu. You shouldn’t worry about this. But I see you’ve been quite the troublemaker lately, getting ’jailed’ twice. You’re the first in our Lu Family, hahaha."
Lu Jiu covered his face, "It’s not like I had a choice."
Lu Feng laughed, "You handled things a bit roughly, but as long as you didn’t get caught, it’s fine."
Lu Jiu said, "I won’t do it again."
Lu Feng said, "Okay. Oh, by the way, there’s a National Master of Chinese dicine coming to Jianghan City in late December. They’re forming a traditional Chinese dicine teaching group. I hear there are two spots for Jianghan City. Do you want to try for it?"
Could it be Master Huang Fusheng and his team?
Forming a teaching group for traditional Chinese dicine?
Lu Jiu asked, "Uncle, what’s the purpose of this teaching group?"
Lu Feng replied, "The city decided to make the Experintal Primary School a pilot school for integrating traditional Chinese dicine into elentary and middle schools. They will start with the second and third grades, with sixteen classes in total, requiring eight traditional Chinese dicine practitioners to teach. The National Master’s team is providing six people, and the remaining two spots will be filled from within Jianghan City. I think you’re a good fit, any interest?"
Teaching elentary students traditional Chinese dicine?
Is this feasible?
Lu Jiu asked, "How long is this supposed to be implented?"
Lu Feng laughed, "It should be a long-term cooperation, otherwise they wouldn’t invite a National Master. Besides teaching, they’ll also establish a dicinal herb base. If you get selected, it’ll greatly benefit your future. At least with official backing, those pesky troublemakers won’t bother you again like before."
That’s true!
Being tough only deters for a mont, but to truly avoid trouble, this path seems like a good choice.
Teaching won’t take up too much of his ti.
After all, academic progression still matters the most now. Even as a pilot school, they might only have one interest class a week, more than that and the parents would raise hell, not to ntion the school.
So, the teaching task shouldn’t be too overwhelming.
Yet Lu Jiu had never taught before. Elentary students know hardly any basic knowledge, let alone traditional Chinese dicine; can he really teach them?
After a mont of thought, Lu Jiu made up his mind, whatever, whether he can teach well or not is secondary, getting this status is paramount.
Lu Jiu certainly didn’t want to open his clinic and have pests buzzing around.
"Alright, Uncle, do I need to do anything?" Lu Jiu asked.
Lu Feng laughed, "When the ti cos, the National Master will assess the local Chinese dicine practitioners who’ve signed up in Jianghan City. If you pass, you’ll be selected. Don’t worry; there aren’t that many Chinese dicine practitioners in Jianghan City. Given your skill level, it shouldn’t be a problem. This should be kept between us, understood?"
Lu Jiu said, "I understand."
After hanging up, Lu Jiu, feeling bored, started reading the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor.
Before long, the environntal departnt staff finally arrived.
The ones who ca this ti seed different from before. After checking the exhaust pipe installation, they lifted the inspection on Lu Jiu’s clinic.
Thus, after nearly ten days of hassle, Lu Jiu’s clinic was open for business again!
Yet, so rejoiced while others worried.
After a video of Li Daoqing reporting Lu Jiu was posted online, it was imdiately t with a storm of criticism. There had already been complaints about his clinic, and now, more and more people were reporting it.
Consequently, workers from the Health Commission went straight to his clinic and, after a thorough inspection, indeed found issues.
This guy had been abusing restricted antibiotics in his practice, resulting in imdiate legal consequences.
It’s said such an infraction usually cos with a fine below thirty thousand, slightly more serious ans losing prescription rights for six months to a year, and the most serious leads to license revocation.
But even the lightest punishnt was enough for Li Daoqing to suffer badly.
Because once the offense is confird, even if his clinic reopens, no one will co.
Having a tarnished reputation for reporting a competitor and misusing restricted drugs during practice, these deeds already made him infamous in Jianghan City.
Seeking his dical help?
You’d have to be out of your mind!
After this incident, it was all joy and celebration on the Jianghan sa-city video platform.
An act of justice prevailing over evil was always a welco sight, considering how infrequently it happens.
With a triumphant victory, Lu Jiu’s clinic was busier than it was ten days before. It attracted not only returning patients but also nurous ones with complex illnesses that hospitals couldn’t treat.
Their arrival heralded Lu Jiu’s impending challenge in dealing with difficult cases...
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