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Chapter 456 Lack of Medical Supplies
"A doctor's skill lies in observation, listening, questioning, and palpation. Your facial features are already so clear. If I still couldn't see it, I might as well gouge out those eyes and let my mentor step on them for fun." Yan Daoxin answered the young shopkeeper's question in a nonchalant tone.

The more casually and concisely he spoke, the more the waiter felt that this customer was extraordinary. Coupled with Yan Daoxin's already handsome appearance, he seemed even more believable.

"Sir, are you a doctor?" The young waiter was taken aback. He hadn't expected that the man, so young, could diagnose the ailment that had been plaguing him for so long at a glance. He immediately moved closer to the table. "Then do you have a way to cure my ailment?"

"That's easy, bring me paper and pen!" Yan Daoxin waved his hand at him very kindly.

The young waiter hurriedly ran to the counter to get paper and pen. Yan Daoxin picked up the pen and wrote down a prescription, which listed the names of more than a dozen kinds of medicinal herbs and how to decoct and take them.

"Take this. Find a pharmacy and get the medicine according to this prescription. Take one dose a day for five days, rest for two days, then take it for another five days. I reckon that should be enough." Yan Daoxin handed the prescription to the young shop assistant and added, "You must take good care of yourself and never stop taking the medicine as soon as you feel a little better."

This problem isn't too serious, but it's not insignificant either. If it's left untreated, it will eventually damage the underlying health.

Upon hearing this, the young shop assistant quickly looked down at the prescription in his hand, but after only one glance, a bitter expression appeared on his face, as if he were in a bit of a predicament.

"What's wrong?" Yan Daoxin asked as soon as he saw this.

"So many medicinal herbs..." The young shop assistant scratched his head in distress. "Not to mention whether the pharmacy has every single one, even if it did have all the herbs... I... I still can't afford it!"

"How could this be?" Yan Daoxin looked at the young shopkeeper in disbelief, as if he thought he was joking. "Isn't your Brahma Land always growing more herbs than vegetables, with all kinds of common and uncommon medicinal materials?"

"You can't buy medicinal herbs here, or you can't afford them?"

"They did plant a lot of medicinal herbs, but after planting them, they didn't say they'd sell them to us ordinary folks..." the young man muttered. Then, probably realizing he shouldn't have made such a dangerous statement in front of strangers, he quickly swallowed his words, sighed, and didn't say anything more.

"These are all the most common medicinal herbs. Could it be that you can't even gather all of them or afford them?" Yan Daoxin pointed to the prescription in the shop assistant's hand, as if he felt that the shop assistant still didn't understand.

"Really, I'm not kidding you! If I could buy this, I would run to get the medicine right away!"
You have no idea how miserable I am every day. I can't sleep, and I can't wake up. My heart is pounding from morning till night, as if it's doing somersaults in my chest!

I feel dizzy and lightheaded every day, like I've lost my soul. It's an unbearable feeling.

"If there were any medicine that could cure my ailment, I'd be happy to do anything!"

Yan Daoxin looked at the young waiter with some sympathy, seemingly conflicted, but finally made up his mind. He took out a small paper packet from his pocket, opened it, carefully counted out ten pills, took the prescription from the waiter, tore off half of it, wrapped the ten pills inside, and mysteriously stuffed it into the waiter's hand.

He beckoned to the young shop assistant, signaling him to lean closer: "I have some medicine here, already made into pills, which I can give you for free."

The young shop assistant looked delighted, but then cautiously asked, "But... such valuable medicine, you're just... giving it to me like this? This... isn't appropriate?"

“My fellow disciples and I travel all over the world, practicing medicine and dispensing medicine wherever we go.” Yan Daoxin waved his hand at him. “It wouldn’t have been wrong to just give it to you directly, but we always decide how to dispense medicine based on the severity of the illness. The more serious the illness, the more difficult the condition, the more we should help and treat people.”

However, we have limited manpower and can't carry many medicinal herbs with us. On the way here, we also discovered that the medicinal herbs in this Brahma Kingdom don't seem to be as abundant as the rumors outside.

Now I hear you say that even in this capital city, you can't buy such common medicinal herbs...

Since we have this connection, I will give you the medicine today. However, please don't spread this around. If people find out, they'll all be begging me for alms for even the smallest ailments, leaving those who could be treated to die. Wouldn't that turn good deeds into evil?!

Upon hearing this, the young shop assistant quickly reached out and took the medicine, repeatedly thanking him in a low voice. He assured him that he would keep his promise and would not tell anyone about this, nor would he allow just anyone with a headache or fever to come and ask for the medicine.

Afterwards, Yan Daoxin continued eating as if nothing had happened.

After dinner, back in their room, Zhu Yu asked Lu Qing with some curiosity, "I know that medical diagnosis requires observation, listening, questioning, and palpation, but Yan Daoxin only looked at that young man today, without taking his pulse or talking to him to listen to his voice, yet he was able to make a definitive diagnosis and describe the man's condition very clearly."

"He's only this young, and his medical skills have already reached this level?"

Lu Qing chuckled and shook his head: "Madam, you really are prejudiced from the start, and you've blinded yourself to it!"

Because you always knew that Yan Daoxin was a skilled doctor, when you saw him diagnosing patients, you immediately considered his medical skills.

If you consider him a charlatan, then your question from earlier will probably be answered itself.

Zhu Yu was slightly taken aback. Following his suggestion, she changed her thinking and put aside Yan Daoxin's medical skills. In just a moment, she suddenly understood.

"Therefore, Yan Daoxin did not actually examine the young waiter just now, and the young waiter himself may not have had any problems."

However, given the current abnormal situation within the Brahma Kingdom, and the Brahma King's so-called strange illness, it seems that his own territory is in chaos and people are filled with fear.

The young man lived within the capital city, and whatever sudden changes occurred there could easily implicate the city's residents, making them the first to suffer.

Now that there are hardly any women to be seen anywhere, if this continues, the antidote or the catalyst that Brahma wants will either be a young child or a strong young man.

Nobody knew how things would develop next, so the young man was constantly on edge and distracted, which is why he developed those symptoms!