Rebirth after the college entrance examination

Chapter 217 Private Doctor
Xia An's trip took only a little over two hours, and the two empty beds in the ward were already full.

He introduced his "second uncle" to Lin Jiajia and the old lady, which left Lin Jiajia stunned. She rolled her eyes at him but didn't ask any questions.

When the old man was taking the old woman's pulse, looking at her eyes and tongue, the doctor and a group of nurses came to make their rounds.

Two young nurses recognized Xia An on the spot, exclaimed in surprise, but were glared at by the director.

Seeing the old Chinese medicine doctor's demeanor, the doctor frowned and asked what was wrong.

Xia An explained that he was a relative who knew a little about medicine, so he managed to fool them.

After reading through the three parts and nine levels, the old man smiled and told Grandma Lin to rest well. Then he went to the corridor and gave Xia An a wink before leaving.

Lin Jiajia followed Xia An out of the ward.

In the corridor, the old man asked Xia An if she smoked. Xia An said no. The old man said, "Then come with me to the rooftop for a smoke."

Lin Jiajia stayed with her.

With nowhere to hide, the old man exhaled a smoke ring on the rooftop, looked at Xia An, and asked, "Then I'll just be frank?"

Lin Jiajia was very nervous. Xia An hugged her and whispered, "I'm here, don't be afraid."

Then he looked at the old man and said, "Please tell me."

The old man said, "Unless there's an elixir of immortality..."

Xia An waved his hand, interrupting him, "Don't be so frivolous, just tell me how many more months you can live?"

The old man shook his head: "I'll prescribe a medicine for you. You find a place to buy the herbs. Drink three bowls a day. It won't take more than three months, not until summer."

Lin Jiajia squatted down abruptly, burying her head and sobbing.

The old man, with a cigarette between his fingers, advised, "Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the natural course of life. Everyone has to die; it's just a matter of sooner or later."

Xia An rolled her eyes. Second Uncle was good at giving advice.

The old man said again, "This prescription will take two months to make, and it will cost at least 300,000 yuan. Are you willing to spend it?"

Before Xia An could speak, Lin Jiajia looked up at her tear-streaked face and said, "I have money, I'll spend it."

The old man tilted his head, looking at this and that, and took out an old-fashioned Hero fountain pen and a small notebook from his suit pocket. He then asked Xia An to turn around and wrote a prescription on his back, stroke by stroke.

Xia An looked at the torn piece of paper. The penmanship was sharp and the characters were very beautiful. Every character was clear, but he didn't recognize many of the medicine names.

Holding the prescription, he asked the old man, "To be honest, I could read the whole thing even if you added two more zeros, but seriously, where do I buy the herbs? Can you give me some pointers?"

The old man gave him a deep look and said, "I still have one more ingredient I haven't added. I was worried about whether you were truly willing to treat me, but now I see that you two young people are not bad people. Change the thirty-year-old ginseng to wild ginseng. I have a place where I can buy genuine ginseng. If you trust me, I will contact them, but it will cost 500,000."

Lin Jiajia still had nearly 700,000 yuan in her hands, so she immediately nodded. Xia An pressed her down and laughed, "Do you still need to spend money?"

Looking at the old man, he smiled and said, "You go and contact them. They can prepare the medicine within an hour. I won't be a minute late in transferring the money."

The old man nodded, stubbed out his cigarette, and left.

Lin Jiajia hugged Xia An in the afternoon sun and the crisp, cool breeze, and said, "I told Grandma I like you."

Xia An said, "Don't lie to the old lady, it's me who likes you."

He took Lin Jiajia's hand and led her back to the ward.

The old lady was eating an orange; she was missing a few teeth, and she was chatting with another old lady next door with a big smile.

Seeing the two of them enter the room hand in hand, the old lady on the next bed pointed at them and said to Grandma Lin, "Is this your granddaughter and grandson-in-law? They are so good-looking."

Grandma Lin didn't answer, but looked at Xia An with a smile.

Xia An chuckled and put the apples the old Chinese medicine doctor had bought into a bag. "Thank you for your kind words. I've been pursuing her, but she hasn't agreed yet."

The two old ladies were overjoyed. Lin Jiajia's face was a mixture of shyness and sadness. She walked to her grandmother's side and said, "Your second uncle went to prescribe Chinese medicine for you. You'll get better."

Grandma stroked her hand and nodded with a smile: "You'll get better, you'll get better. When Grandma is in a good mood, she'll get better." At dinner time, Xia An was going to buy food, but Grandma Lin asked Lin Jiajia to go instead, saying she wanted to chat with Xia An.

Seeing that the patient in the next bed was asleep, Grandma Lin asked Xia An in a low voice, "Does he have another six months to live?"

Xia An laughed and said, "What kind of talk is that? Both the chief physician and that old Chinese medicine doctor just now said it would take at least a year. Don't believe me? I'll go and ask the doctor to tell you in person. It's good that Jiajia isn't here, so you can have a better understanding of the situation."

The old lady was relieved and smiled, "I believe you. Xia, Jiajia has had a hard life..."

Xia An said, "I will definitely take good care of her. Listen to this, I said take good care of her, much better than just take care of her. I will take care of her personally."

The old lady smiled broadly and nodded, saying, "That's good. I'm not afraid of anything else, but I'm worried that she'll be all alone and won't be able to live a good life. Don't let her loud and boisterous manner fool you; she's actually quite timid. She used to live in the mountains and was too scared to go to the toilet by herself after dark. Now that she has a dog, she's a bit better."

The old lady reminisced and laughed, while Xia An sat beside her with her legs crossed, peeling an apple.

"If you ever have a disagreement in the future, you can scold her or talk to her, as long as you don't hit her or abandon her, it's fine. Grandma will be watching over you from heaven."

“What era are we living in? How can you hit someone? You should talk to her and tell her not to hit me,” Xia An said, her nose stinging with tears.

Xia, Grandma has a favor to ask you.

Xia An nodded, and then heard the old lady say, "Go home, let me sleep on the kang when I get back. I've been through so much in the past six months." She smiled and said, "Go back in the first month of the lunar year so I can check on the garden. When spring comes and summer arrives, I'll see if the roses that Jiajia planted can bloom. Big cities don't want people."

Xia An nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave tomorrow."

……

Lin Jiajia returned with the old Chinese medicine doctor.

While she was feeding the old lady, Xia An and the old man went up to the rooftop again and transferred 480,000 yuan to the herbal medicine dealer on the spot. The old man helped him cut the price down by 20,000 yuan.

"The old lady wants to go back to her hometown in Dongshan. Send the medicinal herbs there. I'll leave you an address."

The old man agreed, "That's true, let's go home. But can she bear the pain in the final stages?"

Xia An thought for a moment and said, "Let's get her a pain pump tonight."

The old man said, "It's quite a lot of money."

Xia An said, "Isn't the point of people making money to be comfortable?"

The old man said, "If I had known, I would have had a son too. I wonder if he would be as filial as you."

Xia An asked the old man for a cigarette and handed it to him, saying, "Old man, could you take a look at me and see if there's anything wrong with me?"

The old man put his hand on Xia An's wrist and pressed it left and right: "Tell me, you have a bit of kidney yang deficiency. No matter how beautiful your wife is, you have to be moderate. She's still so young."

Xia An leaned against the wall, took a puff of his cigarette, and chuckled, "I have four wives."

The old man wasn't surprised at all and laughed, "Youth is good. I'll write you a prescription." As he spoke, he took out his notebook again.

Xia An stopped him and asked, "How much money are you planning to charge?"

The old man said, "To be honest, the medicine supplier gave me a rebate of almost five thousand, so I'll charge you another three thousand. I won't charge you for the medicine you prepared yourself."

Xia An said, “You may not usually pay much attention to the news, but I’m actually very rich. How about this, you come back to my hometown with me and go to the mountains to recuperate for a few months. After the old lady passes away, I’ll open a traditional Chinese medicine clinic for you in the provincial capital of Donghai Province, and I’ll also get you a medical license.”

The old man smoked his entire cigarette without saying a word, then asked him, "What's your name?"

"Xia An".

"wait."

The old man took out his old cell phone, went to the side to make a call, and after hanging up and coming back, he looked at Xia An deeply and said with a smile, "I believe you really have four wives."

Then he said directly, "Okay, I'll go with you, but you have to bring the bird from home."

(End of this chapter)