Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 24 Acting Bravely
Although the dialect theory sounds ridiculous to professionals, children really believe it. The most feared thing during acupuncture for children is their lack of cooperation.

If the child keeps moving around, the doctor will be unable to give the injection.

Generally, at such times, you can either persuade the child directly or have someone restrain the child so that he or she cannot move. However, the risk of the latter is much higher than the first, especially when injecting needles in areas such as the face where the nerves are well developed.

With Fangyan's comfort, the child actually asked him to give him acupuncture on his own initiative. This was already a great progress. When the child closed his eyes and got ready, Fangyan took out the silver needle and decisively inserted it into the cheek-cartilage point. He did not hesitate at all, which made the child's grandmother grimace in disbelief and looked at the child's reaction worriedly.

"How do you feel?" Fangyan asked.

"No...no..." The child opened his eyes and responded in dialect.

At this time, he had already seen the dragon handle of the silver needle swaying slightly on his face, and found that there was really no pain, so he immediately relaxed his whole body.

Fangyan turned the needle slightly and stimulated the acupuncture point based on his experience and feel. Soon he saw the muscles on the child's face twitch slightly.

"It's a little numb!" the child told Fangyan truthfully.

Fang Yan nodded and said:
"It should be a little numb. Close your eyes first. I'll call you when I'm done."

The child responded, then closed his eyes obediently and waited for Fangyan to give him the injection.

When Mr. Lu, who was standing by, saw Fang Yan's acupuncture technique, he immediately recognized that this was the simplest basic method, but because of repeated practice, each injection was accurate and steady. Fang Yan's confidence in himself when inserting the needle was as if he had practiced it countless times.

Then Fangyan continued to insert needles into all the acupuncture points he had previously inserted. Without any accidents, he inserted the needles accurately and quickly. After inserting the needles, he glanced at the clock on the wall and said:
"Leave the needles in for fifteen minutes, then we'll start the acupuncture."

As he spoke he wiped his hands with a towel.

The store manager Wang Aiguo saw that it was already lunch time, so he said to the other people who had nothing to do:

"It's time for dinner now. Everyone should go eat instead of just standing here and watching."

After hearing this, Liu Zude, who had wanted to see Fangyan fail, was the first to leave. He had realized that Fangyan's skills were impeccable. He wanted to see him make a fool of himself, but it was doomed to fail. Instead of watching him show off his skills here, he might as well find a place to eat first.

As soon as he left, the two replacement employees except Jia Dapeng also left immediately. The other two old employees also went outside to heat up the meals they brought in the morning.

The only people watching were the store manager and five new employees including Kong Yao.

The old lady looked at her grandson's face full of needles and was a little worried about Fang Yan and the others leaving. Just as she was about to speak, Fang Yan seemed to see through her thoughts and spoke in advance:
"Don't worry, I will wait here until the treatment is finished before leaving."

After saying that, he looked at Lu Donghua beside him:
"Mr. Lu, there's no problem here. Why don't you go off work first? It's noon and the children will be hungry." As he said this, he pointed to the little granddaughter beside Lu Donghua.

Mr. Lu smiled and waved his hands, indicating that it was no problem and that it was okay to eat later. He would wait until Fangyan's treatment was finished.

After a while, the new employees who were watching were also sent away, leaving only the store manager watching.

It seemed like he was planning to wait here until everyone was done before going to eat.

At this time, he was also carefully observing the muscles on the child's face. After Fangyan's acupuncture, the crookedness seemed not so serious now.

Even the eyes could close more than half way. Although it was not cured immediately, it could be said that the effect was immediate.

Fifteen minutes later, Fang Yan took out the needles and finished the work. Then he asked Jia Dapeng to bring the moxa sticks and light them for moxibustion.

Moxibustion with moxa sticks produces much lower heat than moxa wool and ginger moxibustion, and is suitable for areas with dense nerves. However, during the moxibustion process, someone needs to hold the moxa stick and keep a sufficient distance, so this is definitely a hard job for Jia Dapeng. When Fangyan asked Jia Dapeng to hold the moxa stick and moxibustion the acupoints, he said to the child:
"It will take about 40 minutes to moxibustion the three acupuncture points. You may feel a little hot afterwards. If you can't bear it, you must speak up."

After what happened just now, the child already trusted Fangyan very much. When he heard this, he immediately nodded and agreed.

Only Jia Dapeng felt a little aggrieved. He was already hungry at this time, and he was trembling when holding the moxa stick. He needed to hold it like this for 40 minutes to moxibustion three acupoints, and maintain the corresponding distance at all times according to the burning progress.

So the next step is a test for him.

On the other side, Kong Yao and a few others who had bought food took their lunch boxes to the inner hall and said that the food they bought was for Fang Yan, Grandpa Lu and his grandson, as well as the store manager.

The only one they didn't buy was Jia Dapeng, because Jia Dapeng was a replacement and had had several verbal conflicts with them before.

Jia Dapeng was speechless. This group of people were obviously targeting him, but he had no choice. After all, the relationship between the two sides was not good. He had scolded them without mercy before, and now if they really bought something for him to eat, he was afraid that they would put laxatives in it.

After 40 minutes of finishing all the work, Jia Dapeng felt that he could hardly straighten his hands.

During the process, he was a little too close to the child and the child was almost scalded.

Therefore, Mr. Lu reminded me to concentrate.

Although Jia Dapeng agreed on the surface, he was very unhappy in his heart. He didn't learn anything from acupuncture today, and now he was asked to do such hard work as moxibustion?
But he also knew that even if he said it out loud it would be of no use, because what Mr. Lu valued was the dialect, and he was just an assistant who did odd jobs.

On the other side, the old lady saw that her grandson's face had improved a lot after acupuncture, and she thanked Fangyan profusely, praising him for his achievements at a young age.

Fangyan prescribed some medicine for the child to strengthen his body and eliminate evil, and told him to come back tomorrow morning to continue the acupuncture treatment in order to achieve a speedy cure.

The old lady nodded repeatedly, and now she believed that Fangyan definitely had this ability.

Jia Dapeng took the old lady out to settle the bill, and they had finished seeing all the patients for lunch.

Fangyan and his group set up the table in the back hall and opened the lunch boxes bought by Kong Yao and his friends.

When I opened the lid, I found that I had spent a lot of money on today's treat. Half of the dishes were meat, half were vegetarian, and there were meat-stuffed fried dough sticks. This lunch cost at least several dollars.

Only a family as wealthy as theirs can afford to do so. Others would definitely not be willing to do so.

Fangyan was not polite. He thought that since he was invited by someone else, he could just invite them back later.

After dinner, Mr. Lu took his granddaughter back home. Fangyan became the doctor on duty and sat there for about half an hour, but found that no one came in the afternoon.

Then the store manager Wang Aiguo told him that, considering he had just started seeing patients, he didn't have to work in the afternoon when Mr. Lu was not there.

After hearing this, Fangyan immediately packed up his things, said hello to Kong Yao and the others in the store, and left work.

I had nothing to do in the afternoon, and Fangyan just happened to have some ideas about Mr. Lu's Xingyiquan, so I took the bus directly towards Mr. Lu's home.

As a result, as soon as he got on the bus, he felt something was wrong in the car. His visual diagnosis skills significantly improved his observation ability. He took a look and immediately noticed a young man with shifty eyes in the crowd who was using a clip to pick a middle-aged woman's bag.

Seeing this, Fang Yan didn't think much about it. He immediately took a few steps forward to squeeze through the crowd, grabbed the other person's hand in a flash, and shouted:
"Catch the thief!"

(End of this chapter)