Siheyuan: What bad intentions could a veterinarian like me have?

Chapter 25 What a monster! What a monster!

Li Xiangdong took out a white candle from the medicine box, lit it with a match, dripped a few drops of wax on the bench, gently pressed the candle on it to fix it, then dragged a bench out and sat in front of Wang Li.

"I will give you acupuncture in a moment. Your legs will feel a little numb during the process. Try to bear it. I will prick the acupuncture points and it will not cause you any pain. Are you ready?" Li Xiangdong looked at Wang Li and asked softly.

"Ready...ready!" Wang Li nodded and looked at Li Xiangdong vaguely. The forehead of the steely man was covered with sweat, which showed that the pain was inhumanly painful. He gritted his teeth and asked nervously: "Li...Doctor Li, what did you say just now about lupus erythematosus? What disease is this?"

"It's an autoimmune disease!" Li Xiangdong knew all about this disease and told the truth, "If I'm guessing correctly, your father also had similar sores on both sides of his forehead when he was young. Because he didn't get timely treatment, he became blind, right?"

Old Master Wang was shocked and gripped the bamboo chair under his buttocks tightly in disbelief. "How did you know? Doctor Li... Doctor Li, you can actually guess why I was blind when I was young? You, you really have some ability."

Wang Li's shoulders also trembled. Although he didn't understand what the autoimmune disease in Li Xiangdong's words meant, he was able to judge the diseases suffered by the two people in the Wang family just from the condition of the father and son. It was simply amazing. He inexplicably developed some confidence in Li Xiangdong.

"I said before that lupus is an autoimmune disease," Li Xiangdong said truthfully, "which means that it actually has some genetic factors!"

"Ah?" Wang Li trembled, and the luck he had just felt was gone like water splashed on him. He couldn't help but look at his two sons and one daughter hiding by the door, and said sadly, "So you mean they..."

Li Xiangdong tilted his head towards the door and smiled, then shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'll cure you first and we'll talk later!"

"Autoimmune disease?" Lin Yanqiu chewed over this sentence carefully, looking confused. "Dad, what does this mean?"

She turned her head to look, and found that Lin Jun was standing against the door with an excited look on his face, his eyes flashing, and he had whispered this sentence several times.

"Autoimmune disease, autoimmune disease, no wonder, I mean why some people with poor health have frequent relapses, it turns out it is related to their own immune ability! I've got an epiphany, an epiphany!" Lin Jun laughed excitedly, "Yan Qiu, just tell me if he is a talent! He can actually come up with such a theory, great, great, great!"

A word, a sentence, actually made Lin Jun feel as if a thick fog that he couldn't understand or see clearly before was quietly cleared away, giving him a feeling of seeing the sun after the clouds had cleared.

How did Li Xiangdong, a veterinarian, know such professional medical terms? Moreover, autoimmune diseases have never been mentioned by experts in China!
What else does he know? What is in his head that we don’t know about? Where did he get all this medical knowledge?

A series of questions emerged in his mind, and Lin Jun immediately scratched his head. He wanted to rush in and ask Li Xiangdong what the profound explanation of this autoimmune disease was, what the particulars were, and whether there were many difficult and complicated diseases that he didn't understand...

No, I can't go in!
I can't disturb him while he's giving acupuncture. I can also dig out more medical knowledge from this young man that I don't even know about!

Lin Jun held his excited heart and forced himself to calm down.

He was afraid that he would forget, so he quickly wrote the words "autoimmune disease" on the ground with his fingers, and watched Li Xiangdong's every word and action in the yard with full concentration, afraid that he would miss anything.

"..."Lin Yanqiu was dumbfounded when he saw his father who was almost going crazy.

She had never seen her father so excited in her life, and there was a hint of weirdness in her eyes when she looked at Li Xiangdong.

In the courtyard, Li Xiangdong had already started giving acupuncture. Zhao Rong had already brought in a small square table, on which was placed Li Xiangdong's medicine box, which looked like a treasure chest.

Silver needles of varying sizes, lengths and thicknesses were neatly arranged in a suede bag. When Li Xiangdong spread them out on the table, they sparkled with silver light, dazzling the eyes.

Li Xiangdong put on a pair of rubber gloves, squinted his eyes and gestured on Wang Li's calf, then took out a silver needle from the bag with his right hand, disinfected it in the orange flame of the candle, and then made a lightning-fast move, suddenly piercing into the skin.

Duo.

The hand was steady, accurate and ruthless, without any delay. The moment it pierced Wang Li's foot, a muffled sound was heard, like the sound of pulling out the cork from a wine bottle.

Then, Li Xiangdong followed the same method and began to grab needles, disinfect and insert needles like a fairy scattering flowers.

"Diji Point...Leugu Point...Yangfu Point...Xuanzhong Point..."

As Li Xiangdong kept chanting and applying acupuncture, Wang Li's feet were soon covered with silver needles. They were densely packed with silver needles of various sizes, long and short, which made people's scalp numb.

In the small courtyard, the three children held their breath, Zhao Rong held tightly to the edge of the bench and breathed rapidly, and Xu Huizhen dared not breathe for fear of disturbing Li Xiangdong's magic.

Everyone was extremely nervous, swallowing their saliva and staring at the two people, one still and one moving.

Even Mr. Wang felt the tense and solemn atmosphere in the courtyard. His Adam's apple rolled and he couldn't help but try to control his heavy breathing.

At the gate of the courtyard, Lin Yanqiu couldn't help but break out in cold sweat on her forehead. It was really because of her nervousness.

She never expected that a veterinarian, a veterinarian in his twenties, could perform acupuncture so skillfully.

She was not an uninformed girl from a military compound. Her father was a retired military doctor. When she was a child, she followed her father to see medical patients for the leaders and witnessed with her own eyes several old Chinese doctors performing acupuncture, but they all used gold needles.

Compared with those national doctors, Lin Yanqiu actually had an illusion that Li Xiangdong's hands seemed to be steadier and more powerful than those veterans, and his speed and accuracy were much better.

"That's weird. Could this guy be from some secret medical family? But it doesn't seem like it. I've been to his house and it's very ordinary. Besides...if he has inherited medical skills, how could he be a veterinarian?"

Lin Yanqiu was shocked and even more confused.

Lin Jun, who was standing beside her, was so excited that he almost jumped up and down, saying with emotion: "Old Chinese doctor, old Chinese doctor! This kid, does he have 20 years of clinical experience? He has been treating animals since they were born? What a monster, what a monster!"

However, the next scene almost made the father and daughter scream out in shock and stood there in a daze.

(End of this chapter)