Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 840? Why are you taking me seriously? (Bonus chapter for monthly votes)
Upon hearing Chen Keji's comments, Gu Mingyuan blushed.

Under the gaze of others, he felt as if his face was on fire, and Chen Keji's words made him feel extremely ashamed.

He just wanted to be quick, and then he remembered a recipe he had seen before, so he used it immediately.

Unexpectedly, Chen Keji commented on the prescription in this way.

"I knew this kid couldn't possibly be that quick-witted. He probably didn't even think it through and just wrote down a prescription randomly in order to be faster than Brother Fang," Yang Jingxiang muttered in a low voice.

Zhang Yanchang nodded and replied in a low voice:

"I just didn't expect that Director Chen hadn't planned to comment on him, but he ended up doing it himself."

Du Heng also whispered:

"This kind of person is really sick. Prescribing medicine is a matter of life and death. He just messes around like this. If he actually gets the medicine, wouldn't he be harming the patient?"

Yan Yifan covered his mouth and whispered:
“What he should be learning right now is not how to prescribe medicine, but how to be a normal person. I feel that he has become obsessed with competing with our Brother Fang.”

At this moment, Song Jianzhong asked the others:
"Who was his teacher again?"

Everyone shook their heads.

He didn't say it last time, he just said that he was the class committee member in charge of the team.

Song Jianzhong seemed to be thinking about something, then added:
"I'll look into this kid later."

Fang Yan didn't speak. He kept looking at Gu Mingyuan, observing the boy's face change from red to white and then back to red. He didn't quite understand what he had done to provoke him, that the boy always wanted to compete with him.

"Knock knock..." Chen Keji tapped the table, then said to Gu Mingyuan:
"You should reflect on yourself. Traditional Chinese medicine is not about competing with others to see who is better, but about competing with yourself. If you are better today than you were yesterday, then you have grown. If you can treat more people this year than last year, then you have improved. Don't always think about how to surpass others. If you think like this, why don't you go study sports?"

Hearing Chen Keji's words, Gu Mingyuan took a deep breath, then forced a smile, pretending to be very sincere and humble, and said to Chen Keji:

"You're right, I know I was wrong."

Chen Keji was taken aback, then felt disgusted by his fake smile.

This kid is still putting on an act even at this point.

Gu Mingyuan forced a smile at Chen Keji while bowing, but his fingers clenched into fists until his knuckles turned white as he said:
"Director Chen's criticism is absolutely right! I'll definitely copy 'Traditional Chinese Medicine' ten times when I get back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly turned towards the dialect and raised his voice:

"Fang is truly an expert on the editorial board. Please give us ordinary students more guidance in the future!"

When he deliberately emphasized the phrase "ordinary student," the deliberately drawn-out ending of the syllable instantly turned his humble words into a sarcastic tone.

He turned his head and said loudly:
"My biggest takeaway today is realizing that I can also be careless!"

Amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, he took the criticized prescription and argued:

"Actually, my prescription is remarkably effective at treating the symptoms, and there's no need to take three doses at all. The reason I wrote it this way is because I didn't write it clearly, which led to the disagreement with Director Chen, who emphasized treating the root cause."

Everyone around was stunned when they heard him say that.

Dude, you can even argue like that?
Chen Keji suddenly laughed, shook his head and said:
"Good, good, good, what a careless mistake, and what a miraculous cure."

Gu Mingyuan cupped his hands in greeting:

"Director Chen, I believe that medicine needs a diverse range of approaches."

Chen Keji: "..."

For a moment, he didn't know how to refute this jerk.

A reflection in dialect:

A tree without bark will surely die; a person without shame is invincible!
The key point is that when this guy said those things, he seemed to genuinely believe it.

At this point, even Fang Yan couldn't hold back anymore.

He felt that if he didn't teach this bastard a lesson, letting him get away with it today would be giving him too much credit. The real problem was that if this guy went out to get medicine, he might actually kill someone.

Fang Yan's eyes turned cold, and he said:

"Your 'treating the symptoms' theory sounds correct, but it's actually completely wrong."

As soon as he spoke in dialect, everyone turned to look at him.

Even Gu Mingyuan was somewhat taken aback.

You should know that when he tried to talk to Fang Yan before, Fang Yan completely ignored him.

This sudden and explicit pointing out of his mistake left Gu Mingyuan completely bewildered.

"And you yourself actually know you're wrong, but you just refuse to admit it and even try to argue. Do you really think everyone is a fool?" Fang asked coldly.

“You…” Gu Mingyuan didn’t expect that the dialect would become more and more offensive.

Fang Yan said to him:
"Don't you think you're right? Well, I'll tell you right now where you're wrong."

After speaking in dialect, he held up his finger and said:
"First of all, you took out the method that is clearly prohibited in the Inner Canon of Medicine, which makes the deficiency syndrome more deficiency and the excess syndrome more excess, and used it. This violates the correct treatment principles and treats the error as an innovation."

Gu Mingyuan opened his mouth, but he couldn't refute it because he knew for sure that it was his problem.

But he never expected that such a big "editorial expert" as Fang Yan would actually get involved with him, an "ordinary student".

Fang Yan continued:

"Secondly, Wu Jutong of the Qing Dynasty once severely criticized your 'crude and fierce' medical skills and reckless behavior, but you have beautified this as a normal academic debate and discussion, which is truly shameless."

The dialect phrases grew increasingly heavy, but to others, they somehow made perfect sense.

Because he wasn't exaggerating at all; Gu Mingyuan really did give everyone that impression.

Just as Gu Mingyuan was about to argue his point, Fang Yan said again:
"Thirdly, you have damaged and tarnished the dignity of the medical profession by using the kind of behavior of 'showing off one's reputation' that is opposed in 'The Great Physician's Sincerity'. You do not recognize your mistakes, but instead make them worse and refuse to repent."

“If we really treat the patient according to your prescription, at best it will worsen the patient’s yin deficiency and fire excess, and at worst it may even trigger the ‘reverse transmission to the pericardium’ described in the ‘Treatise on Warm Diseases’, which is a dangerous and serious condition where the febrile disease suddenly deteriorates and the pathogenic heat invades the pericardium.”

Fang Yan commented on him:

"This isn't a medical debate; it's blatant disregard for human life!"

"Don't even try to call yourself an ordinary student. It has nothing to do with whether you're a student or not. You just have absolutely no medical ethics."

That dialect is a bit harsh. If this gets out, Gu Mingyuan's school will take it seriously.

As people close to Fang Yan, Yang Jingxiang and Song Jianzhong immediately understood that Brother Fang intended to crush Gu Mingyuan to death.

They didn't give him a chance to pull or tug at them.

Just as they were about to speak, Zhou Zhongping from Gu Mingyuan's side said:

"Gu Mingyuan, Fang Yan is right. You do have a problem with medical ethics. Ever since we last met, you've been trying to fight with Fang Yan. You've even lost the most basic things a doctor should do. I'm ashamed to be associated with you!"

Gu Mingyuan was dumbfounded by Zhou Zhongping's statement.

Is this a case of even our own people kicking us when we're down?

He looked at Lu Xiuwen beside him and told him with his eyes, "Please put in a good word for me!"

Lu Xiuwen looked troubled, then said:

"Gu Mingyuan, you really went too far this time."

P.S.: I still owe you 67000 words after finishing this chapter.

There will be more this afternoon.

(End of this chapter)