Wilderness Romance!

The following morning, following the information provided by Dafei, Lu Pingchuan arrived near Li Cheng's house early in the morning.

Twenty minutes later, he received a call from Dafei.

"Pingchuan, Li Cheng is on his way back with the family doctor. Are you ready on your end?"

"understood."

Lu Pingchuan didn't say anything more and hung up the phone with a "click".

Immediately afterwards, he took out Li Cheng's photo and glanced at it, memorizing the other man's appearance.

Ten minutes later, a luxury car stopped in front of Li Cheng's house, and a man and a woman got out of the car.

The man was around forty years old, about 1.8 meters tall, with a sturdy and upright build, cold and sharp eyes, and an aura of aloofness that kept strangers at bay.

This person was none other than Li Cheng, whom Lu Pingchuan had been waiting for.

The woman beside him was carrying a medical kit, wearing glasses and a mask, so her face was not visible. She was probably the family doctor that Li Cheng had invited.

Looking at the other person's figure and basic outline, Lu Pingchuan had a feeling of déjà vu.

Without thinking much, he winked at his underling Gao Qiang behind him and quickly walked towards the other party.

He had only taken a few steps when Gao Qiang rushed out from the corner.

"Mr. Lu, please wait."

Lu Pingchuan stopped in his tracks, feigning confusion as he looked at Gao Qiang: "What's wrong, Mr. Gao?"

Gao Qiang caught up with Lu Pingchuan, panting heavily. Then, he took a thick envelope out of his bag and stuffed it into Lu Pingchuan's hand.

"Mr. Lu, you cured my father's illness, please take these."

"No, no," Lu Pingchuan pushed it back. "You've already paid me for the consultation; I can't accept this money."

Just then, Li Cheng and the family doctor brushed past them, walking hurriedly without even glancing at Lu Pingchuan and Gao Qiang.

Upon seeing this, Gao Qiang raised his voice by half an octave: "Mr. Lu, you are truly a miracle doctor! I took my father all over the country, but no one could cure his illness. Yet you miraculously cured my father's illness completely in just a few days."

"I really don't know how to thank you enough. Please accept this money."

Sure enough, when Li Cheng heard the words "miracle doctor" and "he had traveled all over the country but no one could cure him," he immediately stopped in his tracks.

Instead, he approached the two of them and looked Lu Pingchuan up and down: "You're a doctor?"

Before Lu Pingchuan could speak, Gao Qiang interrupted, his tone becoming increasingly admiring, full of heartfelt praise.

"More than just a doctor, Mr. Lu is practically a miracle doctor."

Gao Qiang spoke with great enthusiasm and eloquence, praising my father's illness to the extreme: "Countless top-tier doctors and senior experts in the country have been helpless in treating my father's illness."

"They even predicted my father wouldn't live more than three months, but under Mr. Lu's acupuncture treatment, my father's illness miraculously disappeared in just a few days. Isn't that amazing?"

"Brother, if anyone in your family falls ill, you must seek out Mr. Lu. If even he can't cure you, then I'm afraid no one in the world can."

Gao Qiang's words instantly piqued Li Cheng's interest in Lu Pingchuan.

At this moment, the family doctor that Li Cheng had hired let out a sneer and walked towards the group.

Can someone who practices traditional Chinese medicine be considered a doctor?

"Without data support, without clinical double-blind tests, without discussing pathological structures, relying solely on so-called observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation, a few words about deficiency and excess, cold and heat, a handful of grass roots and tree bark, and a few silver needles to cure diseases? It's pure self-deception."

"For critical and acute illnesses, we rely on instrument detection, surgical intervention, targeted drugs, and precise treatment to save lives. Traditional Chinese medicine treats minor illnesses by delaying treatment and major illnesses by gambling. If it cures a patient, the doctor is considered a miracle worker; if it fails, the patient is considered weak and short-lived."

"Mr. Li, please don't believe him. Traditional Chinese medicine is just a bunch of quacks, how could that be..."

The woman walked up to the group, and when she saw Lu Pingchuan's appearance clearly, she was obviously stunned for a moment.

"Who do we have here? It's you, the convict."

Upon hearing the words "labor camp inmate" and hearing the familiar voice, Lu Pingchuan's heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition welled up inside him.

Could she be Shen Yaxin?

Since returning to Qingshui County and learning the cause of his elder brother's death, Lu Pingchuan's hatred for Shen Yaxin has intensified.

Although Luo Sanpao killed the eldest brother, the root of all this was Shen Yaxin.

If she had given Fang Yinuo compensation back then, her older brother wouldn't have had to work so hard to earn money, wouldn't have gone to work at the sand washing plantation, wouldn't have met Luo Sanpao, and wouldn't have died.

He didn't know at the time that his older brother had died because of this; he was just trying to get revenge on Shen Yaxin for ruining her plan to marry into a wealthy family.

But his elder brother's death made him realize that this kind of revenge was far from enough.

He desperately wanted to meet Shen Yaxin again, because only then could he take revenge, but he absolutely did not want to encounter her under these circumstances.

The woman took off her glasses and mask, revealing her true appearance.

Lu Pingchuan guessed correctly; the other party was none other than Shen Yaxin, the white moonlight in his heart and the one for whom he was willing to take the blame.

A hint of hatred flashed in Shen Yaxin's eyes, her face full of disdain: "Lu Pingchuan, we really are destined to meet again. I never expected to run into you here."

"So you've gotten out of prison and can't make a living anymore, so you've turned to being a charlatan?"

"What, Dr. Shen? Do you know each other?" Li Cheng asked.

"Of course I know him." Shen Yaxin glared fiercely at Lu Pingchuan, gritting her teeth as she said, "Even if he turns to ashes, I will never forget him."

"Mr. Li, he was my classmate in medical school, but he went to prison five years ago and was expelled from medical school. He was only released two weeks ago. How could someone like that know anything beyond the basics be a doctor?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Qiang, who was standing to the side, became anxious.

"Nonsense."

"Mr. Lu's medical skills are superb; otherwise, how could my father have recovered?"

Shen Yaxin scoffed, her gaze turning unfriendly to Gao Qiang: "I bet you're all in cahoots, aren't you?"

Upon hearing this, Gao Qiang's face instantly turned bright red, partly because he was angry, and partly because he had been seen through.

Lu Pingchuan dared not be negligent; if things continued like this, Gao Qiang would be exposed sooner or later.

Moreover, if he doesn't demonstrate some real skill now, Li Cheng won't believe him at all.

Thinking of this, Lu Pingchuan shook his head and grinned, "Shen Yaxin, are you still holding a grudge against me?"

"You went to the hotel with me willingly in the first place, so don't blame me if your fiancé catches you and kicks you out."

"Besides, whether I can cure diseases or not is not up to you to decide."

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