Chapter 159 This night was barely over.
Chapter 159 This night was barely over.
Upon seeing the patient, Lin Fengzhi was completely focused on the patient's condition and how to treat him, and couldn't think of anything else.
Fortunately, Lin Fengzhi was somewhat obedient and followed Huangfu Qian's orders.
"Why don't you go see other patients with different illnesses?" Huangfu Qian suggested in a low, hoarse voice.
He doesn't have Xia Mo's voice-changing skills, but he can still make sure others can't recognize his voice.
Lin Fengzhi, who was pondering what methods could be used to treat tuberculosis patients, nodded blankly and let Huangfu Qian lead him to see patients with other illnesses.
As dusk approaches—
All the doctors examined the patients and began to make choices about which disease to treat.
Xia Mo and Huangfu Qian, who served as medicine boys, were somewhat distant from the doctors.
There is also a hierarchy of contempt among the apprentice medicine boys.
"Our doctor used to work at the Imperial Medical Academy. He's out here to practice medicine in order to accumulate medical skills. He'll be returning to the Imperial Medical Academy in the future!"
"Tch, the doctor I'm with is a renowned old doctor, is yours as famous as mine?"
"..."
The medicine boys noticed that during their argument, neither Xia Mo nor Huangfu Qian, the two medicine boys of different heights, spoke up. So everyone looked at Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo, who were disguised.
"The doctors you two follow are just itinerant physicians. You must be feeling bad about it, right?" Zhao Yaotong said with disdain.
Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo remained motionless, still looking dazed.
"You two..."
The gathered medicine apprentices began to lecture Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo, these two short-sighted medicine apprentices. However... after the two of them did not respond, the group of medicine apprentices also got bored and moved away from the two.
Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo continued to stand there, pretending to be in a daze.
Xia Mo used her divine sense to separate the conversation.
Xia Mo transmitted his thoughts, saying, "I obtained a piece of jade before. Because it was well preserved, it became even more lustrous and pleasing, which made the other jade look dull and worthless. So the dull and worthless jade disappeared."
Huangfu Qian immediately understood the implication Xia Mo had made with the jade.
Huangfu Qian frowned.
If possible, this would be beneficial to the dynasty, and he did not want to ruin it. However, Xia Mo's meaning was also very straightforward: the more brilliant Lin Chengzhi was, the more dim Lin Fengzhi would appear. If Lin Fengzhi became dim, he would also lose his luck.
Huangfu Qian pursed his lips almost imperceptibly, then resumed his dazed expression.
Their act must continue.
The doctors dispersed and rested in the manor; tomorrow would be the official time to select patients.
Huangfu Qian and Xia Mo followed Lin Fengzhi, and the three of them returned to the rest room arranged by the Lin family.
Xia Mo is now dressed in men's clothing, and the three of them have been assigned to a room, or more precisely, a cramped little room.
The young apprentice who brought Lin Fengzhi there said expressionlessly and with disdain, "There are limited rooms in the manor, so the three of you will have to make do."
"No, this..." Lin Fengzhi remembered that Xia Mo was a girl, so he couldn't let three people sleep in one room. What kind of situation would that be?!
"Or do you want to give up on this medicine competition?" the servant threatened, just as readily as he could.
Lin Fengzhi wanted to say something more, but Huangfu Qian stopped him with a look.
Lin Fengzhi endured it, and after the servants left, he whispered to Huangfu Qian, "Young Master Huang, do you know that Miss Xia is a woman? How can you let a woman stay in the same room with two men?! That will affect Miss Xia's reputation! Miss Xia will get married in the future."
Lin Fengzhi felt a pang of sadness when he heard that Xia Mo was getting married.
He admired Xia Mo, but he also knew that Xia Mo looked down on him because of his timidity and would never be interested in him. In the future, he would just watch Xia Mo get married.
“There are only three men here,” Xia Mo whispered a reminder.
Lin Fengzhi thought about Xia Mo's disguise, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
"There are only three people here who know my identity: you, me, and him. If someone were to reveal it, who would it be?" Xia Mo looked at Lin Fengzhi.
Lin Fengzhi immediately raised three middle fingers and swore to the heavens, "I won't say it."
"So, what are the consequences?" Xia Mo asked with a half-smile.
Lin Fengzhi nodded.
After persuading Lin Fengzhi, they sat down at the square table in the room and began to discuss what they had seen that day.
“I can’t tell which ones are mild cases,” Lin Fengzhi said, lowering his head in frustration.
Lin Fengzhi doubted his own diagnostic abilities, but he never doubted the information provided by Huangfu Qian.
"The patient in the eighth room of Hospital A, the patient in the third room of Hospital B, the patient in the seventh room of Hospital C..."
Xia Mo gave Lin Fengzhi an answer with a blank expression.
Lin Fengzhi stared in astonishment, his eyes wide, and said, "I examined those people; they were clearly the most seriously injured, on the verge of death!"
"Facial complexion can be faked, so why can't pulse be faked?" Xia Mo asked expressionlessly.
Lin Chengzhi's arrangement of this move was premeditated.
Lin Fengzhi gritted his teeth, secretly glanced at Xia Mo, and lowered his head in frustration. He hadn't been able to diagnose it. Was it because... his medical skills were actually quite poor?
Lin Fengzhi's dark side is about to surface again.
"Don't you have any other way to fake your pulse?" Xia Mo's hands were itching again, and she wanted to slap someone.
She was most annoyed by Lin Fengzhi's self-destructive attitude, so she didn't take action directly; she considered the situation.
Lin Fengzhi nodded and replied softly, "Of course."
"Oh, so can others tell that you're faking your pulse?" Xia Mo pressed.
Lin Fengzhi shook his head: "The patient originally had this condition, I just made it look serious, so others can't tell at all."
Xia Mo fell silent.
She said all this simply to guide Lin Fengzhi.
Lin Fengzhi said, "No wonder those patients all look the most seriously ill. I'm afraid that when selecting patients tomorrow, all the doctors will avoid those patients, right?"
Xia Mo and Huangfu Qian exchanged a knowing glance, confirming that they both wanted to slap Lin Fengzhi.
That evening, in the other rooms of the manor, servants delivered food and water to the doctors' rooms for the doctors and their apprentices. However, the room where Xia Mo, Huangfu Qian, and the other two were staying was deliberately "forgotten".
After a long day of intensive diagnosis and treatment, Lin Fengzhi was already exhausted and hadn't eaten, leading to his collapse.
Xia Mo pretended to take something out of the large medicine box, but in reality, she took out food and water from her soul space.
“This is strong liquor, it’s perfect for disinfection,” Xia Mo said, leading the cleanup.
In reality, she used her divine sense to isolate herself from the source of the disease, making it impossible for her to be infected, but she still pretended to be infected.
After cleaning themselves, Huangfu Qian and Lin Fengzhi began eating the dry rations that Xia Ben had brought.
Then there was the blanket for resting, just a tattered, smelly blanket.
The Lin family looked down on Doctor Yang Jianxin and naturally paid him no attention. The servants, seeing the situation, also deliberately neglected him.
Besides these, there are many other things that, if mentioned, would seem like making a mountain out of a molehill.
Under such circumstances, the night barely passed.
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