Chapter 69: Chapter 67: Treating Illness with Bai Zhi (Second Update) Chapter 69: Chapter 67: Treating Illness with Bai Zhi (Second Update) “Little girl, do you really know how to treat illnesses?!” After a while, Doctor Bai retracted his scrutiny and slowly spoke, “Do you have any evidence?”
Qin Qin gave a faint smile, “What kind of evidence does Doctor Bai want? Do you want to exam a patient?”
Doctor Bai nodded, and Qin Qin’s gaze passed over him, looking toward the little girl who had been watching them from behind Doctor Bai.
The little girl was nad Bai Zhi. Seeing Qin Qin look her way, she smiled shyly at Qin Qin and then lowered her head, withdrawing her gaze.
Qin Qin looked at Doctor Bai, “Doctor Bai, your granddaughter is quite cute. May I examine her?”
Hearing Qin Qin offer to treat his granddaughter, Doctor Bai frowned deeply, “Little girl, you can’t cure my granddaughter’s illness. If you really want to prove your dical skills, why don’t you take Xiao Yuan’s pulse and see if he has any symptoms lately?”
“I haven’t treated him yet, how can Doctor Bai be sure I won’t be able to? As for him, he must have eaten too many spicy peppers recently, probably a bit constipated! Drink more water and take so herbs to clear heat and relieve fire. That should do the trick.”
Doctor Bai was startled, and so was Xiao Yuan by his side. Indeed, he had eaten quite a lot of hotpot recently, and was a bit constipated.
“How did you know? Don’t you need to take my pulse?” Doctor Bai asked, still incredulous. Traditional Chinese dicine emphasizes diagnosis through observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking, but being able to discern soone’s ailnt with just a glance was definitely not sothing an ordinary practitioner could do.
Qin Qin shook her head. With her abilities, a single glance was often enough to know, unless the illness was very serious. Now, with her “ghost eyes,” she could indeed identify the ailnts of others with a re look, so there was no need to take the pulse.
“Doctor Bai, your granddaughter’s illness is not incurable. If I heal your granddaughter’s illness, how about you transfer the pharmacy to ?”
Doctor Bai shook his head with a bitter smile, “Little girl, even if your dical skills are excellent, my granddaughter’s illness is sothing you can’t cure.”
“But what if I succeed?”
Doctor Bai looked up at Qin Qin, his eyes firm, “If you succeed, I’ll give you the pharmacy.” Ten years ago, his son and daughter-in-law left him one after the other. He was in such pain that he wished to die. Fortunately, he still had his granddaughter and Xiao Yuan to keep him company, giving him hope to continue living. Now, his granddaughter was suffering from an illness that even he couldn’t identify, an illness that multiple hospitals had failed to diagnose. In his despair, he had no desire to run the pharmacy. If this girl could truly heal his granddaughter, what harm was there in giving her the pharmacy? All he wanted now was his granddaughter’s safety.
“Good, that is your promise, Doctor Bai!” Qin Qin smiled, then moved towards Bai Zhi. Seeing Qin Qin approach, Bai Zhi still managed a shy and sweet smile, calling out to Qin Qin tenderly, “Sister.”
Qin Qin went to Bai Zhi and sat opposite her, “I’m only a few years older than you. You can call Qin Qin.”
“Sister Qin,” Bai Zhi smiled sweetly, still politely calling her Sister Qin. Qin Qin let it go without further ado.
Looking affectionately at Bai Zhi, who was still smiling sweetly despite being tornted by illness, Qin Qin felt a pang of distress. She looked at Bai Zhi with a smile and said, “May I help you with your illness?”
Looking sowhat timidly at Qin Qin, Bai Zhi replied hesitantly, “Yes, but Grandfather said my illness can’t be cured. Sister Qin, can you really heal ?” If she could be healed, she wouldn’t have to stay at ho all the ti and could freely run and shop with her friends, sothing she hadn’t done in a long ti. She was looking forward to being the healthy version of herself.
Watching the heartbreaking Bai Zhi, Doctor Bai secretly wiped away tears.
Qin Qin raised her head and touched Bai Zhi’s head, smiling, “Of course, Sister Qin is very skilled. Once I cure you, you can go out and play, and you won’t vomit blood anymore. Does that sound good?”
When Bai Zhi heard what Qin Qin said, she nodded vigorously, “Good.”
“Then stretch out your hand and let Sister Qin have a look,” Qin Qin said gently to Bai Zhi.
Bai Zhi obediently lifted her hand onto the table, and Qin Qin reached out to take her pulse. She had already used her ghost eyes to examine Bai Zhi and found no problems with her body, except for taking her pulse.
Qin Qin took Bai Zhi’s pulse seriously. Bai Zhi’s pulse was very steady, the sa as a normal person’s. Qin Qin couldn’t help frowning, and after taking the pulse more carefully, she finally noticed so unusual fluctuations. She then looked deeply at Bai Zhi and withdrew her hand to approach Doctor Bai.
Doctor Bai, seeing Qin Qin’s expression, imdiately shook his head, “No need to say it, I already know her condition. Her body has no issues, and even the pulse is normal.”
It was precisely because of this that he couldn’t find the cause of his granddaughter’s illness and thus couldn’t cure her.
“Doctor Bai, who says your granddaughter’s pulse is normal? If you take her pulse carefully, you’ll find that there is a part of her pulse that is very irregular and weak—a sign of poisoning.”
“Poisoned?! Impossible?” Doctor Bai walked to Bai Zhi and took her pulse again with great care. After a long ti, he finally detected the abnormality in the pulse, looking at Qin Qin in shock, “This truly is a sign of poisoning.”
After speaking, he stood up and was about to kneel before Qin Qin, but she quickly caught Doctor Bai, as she could not accept his kneeling.
“Doctor Qin, I didn’t expect soone of your young age to possess such exquisite dical skills. I was presumptuous before; please don’t take offense,” Doctor Bai quickly said, his tone filled with apology.
“Doctor Bai, I understand,” Qin Qin replied.
Doctor Bai, smiling sowhat sheepishly, then hesitantly spoke up, “Doctor Qin, although I can detect that my granddaughter is poisoned, I cannot determine or treat the poison.” He prided himself on his dical skills, yet he never imagined that he would be stumped by the poison affecting his own granddaughter.
Qin Qin flashed a smile, thinking that the poison affecting Bai Zhi was not particularly difficult to deal with, yet it was not exactly easy either. After checking her pulse, the Heavenly dicine Scripture suddenly surfaced in her mind, and she realized that the poison in Bai Zhi was one described in the scripture, nad Heartbreak Grass. Bai Zhi must have ingested the Heartbreak Grass by accident at so point, leading to her poisoning.
Heartbreak Grass was not a lethal poison, yet it could turn a healthy person gradually weaker, causing them to vomit blood at least three tis a day. A weakened person could at most live to the age of forty, which ant Bai Zhi could live up to forty at most.
“It’s normal for you not to know; in fact, your granddaughter is suffering from a poisoning by an herb called Heartbreak Grass, which is why this is happening. The symptoms of Heartbreak Grass poisoning appear several days after ingestion, and the patient will vomit blood several tis a day, undetectable even with hospital dical tests.”
Hearing Qin Qin’s words, Doctor Bai had a sudden realization followed by an eager plea, “Doctor Qin, since you know of this poison, could you please save my granddaughter?”
Heartbreak Grass was an herb he had never heard of, and Doctor Qin’s ability to identify such poison left him deeply impressed.
“I can help. I’ll write a prescription first, have him prepare the dicine, and afterward, I will detoxify your granddaughter. Within seven days, she must drink the dicine according to the prescription I write,” Qin Qin instructed Xiao Yuan to bring paper and a brush. She then wrote the prescription. Xiao Yuan, admiring the sweeping script, didn’t dare to delay and quickly went to prepare the dicine.
After Qin Qin swiftly finished writing the prescription, Doctor Bai leaned in to look and couldn’t help but be amazed. Following his astonishnt, he was filled with admiration. He knew he could never compose such an exquisite prescription. Qin Qin was indeed a remarkable doctor, and his granddaughter must have hope for recovery.
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