Chapter 10

Hearing that the working hours were all day, Yu Huai was dissatisfied, but after hearing that the salary was 100, Yu Huai nodded in satisfaction: “Okay, then I will go to Lin’an City with you. When do we leave? I have to go back to get my package first.”

Chi Xu pressed his forehead with his hand, “Why keep that pile of junk? Just throw it away first.”

“No, I have two sets of clothes inside. Wait here for me and I’ll go back to get them. Shall we leave now?”

Chi Xu’s head hurt from her chattering. “I’ll give you ten minutes.”

Yu Huai nodded quickly and ran back to the bridge arch. He spread out his big package, took out a few sets of underwear and clothes, and threw the rest of the pots and pans there.

When I was walking back with some clothes, I happened to see the man across the street. He was holding the little boy and limping forward.

Yu Huai looked away, not wanting to care about it. The moment he turned his eyes away, he saw the little boy stretching out his little hand to wipe the sweat off the man’s forehead. Yu Huai breathed a sigh of relief and walked across the street.

The little boy smiled when he saw Yu Huai, “Sister!”

Yu Huai responded, walked up to the man, and said, “I think there’s something wrong with your knee. Sit by the roadside and I’ll take a look at it for you.”

The man was a little hesitant and embarrassed, “Well…I don’t have any money on me.”

Wawa just bought some medicine and has already spent quite a bit of it. The rest needs to be saved for food for the next two days.

“I’m being merciful and giving you a free viewing. I’m in a hurry, so hurry up.”

The man didn’t waste any more time. He put the child aside, sat down, and rolled up his trouser leg. He pointed at his right knee and said, “This area hurts all over. It was so painful that I couldn’t sleep in the first half of the night. It will be less painful later.”

Yu Huai nodded, held his hand and took his pulse. “You have knee osteoarthritis, a type of wind-cold-dampness arthritis. The treatment is to dispel wind and cold, promote dampness and dredge the meridians. The prescription is Yiyiren Decoction with modifications.”

“I’ll give you acupuncture first, then prescribe you a medicine. Follow the dosage, one dose a day, for three months. I can’t guarantee it will cure you, but it will make you feel much better.”

Yu Huai took out his needle, heated the tip of the needle with a match, and inserted it into the acupuncture points around the knee joint.

Needles were inserted into Liangqiu, Xuehai, Yanglingquan, Yinlingquan, and Zusanli acupoints.

Taking advantage of the break in acupuncture, Yu Huai took out the small notebook he carried with him, and found coix seed, atractylodes, angelica dahurica, angelica pubescens, saposhnikovia divaricata, ephedra, and cinnamon twig for internal use.

For external application, grind up Arisaema, raw Chuanwu, raw Caowu, etc., mix them into a paste with vinegar or wine, and apply it to the painful area of the knee joint. It can dispel cold, relieve pain, reduce swelling and remove blood stasis.

The man looked at her and said gratefully, “I don’t know the doctor’s name. How will I thank him in the future? My name is Fang Mingqiang, and this is my son Fang Xiaoyu. Something unexpected happened at home. A fire burned everything in the house. His parents died in the fire, and his mother also died in an accident on the road. I’m so old, and it’s so hard to have this son… Oh, I won’t say anymore.”

“Doctor, even if I don’t have the ability to repay you in the future, Xiaoyu will repay you when he grows up.”

Since Yu Huai started practicing medicine, he has seen many poor patients. There is no distinction between young and old when it comes to illness, and there is no distinction between the young and the old on the road to the underworld. However, the hemp rope will break at the thinnest part. After going through one hardship in life, the next one will follow. Everyone’s life is not as they wish. Despite this, people’s mentalities are indeed different.

She handed the completed paper to Fang Mingqiang and said, “No need to repay the favor. My name is Yu Huai, and being able to help you is a good deed for me.”

After about fifteen minutes of acupuncture, Yu Huai withdrew.

Fang Mingqiang stretched his legs twice, a look of joy on his face. “Doctor, it really doesn’t hurt much anymore!”

Yu Huai: “This is just a temporary relief. Remember to take medicine and apply topical treatment when you get home.”

She took out a hundred dollars from her pocket. If she had found a job and a place to live now, she would really be reluctant to spend this hundred dollars.

“This is for you. You and your child’s illness both need money, and there’s no time to waste. From now on, you’ll have to rely on yourselves.”

Fang Mingqiang, a man in his fifties, had gone through so much hardship without shedding a tear. But when Yu Huai offered him the money with such kindness, tears and snot flowed from his eyes. He took the money with trembling hands, pulled Fang Xiaoyu to his knees, and said, “Dr. Yu, I, Fang Mingqiang, will never forget your kindness. If I can help you in the future, I, Fang Mingqiang, will do my best to help you. I, Fang Mingqiang, swear here.”

Yu Huai hurriedly helped the man up and said, “No need to be so polite. This is too serious. I have something else to do, so I’ll leave first.”

She reached out and touched Fang Xiaoyu’s head, then ran away in a hurry, not knowing that Fang Mingqiang would actually help her a lot in the future.

Good deeds bring good karma.

When I returned to the original place, Chi Xu was no longer there. It wouldn’t have been long before he left.

Not far away, in a black car, Chi Xu opened the window, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers twice, “Here.”

Yu Huai heard the sound and trotted over. Looking at the blackened sedan in front of him, he felt very satisfied. It seemed that this man was indeed financially capable. The car seemed to be a Toyota, but Yu Huai had no idea what model it was.

She naturally walked to the other side to open the car door, but it was locked from the inside.

Yu Huai tapped the door twice. “Open the door, aren’t we going?”

A young man with a crew cut leaned out of the front passenger seat and said to Yu Huai, “Miss, Mr. Chi asked you to go to the Genting Hotel. Go… take a shower first, then wait at the hotel. Just tell the front desk my name is Lu Qiyuan.”

Yu Huai looked down at her clothes, then leaned in to smell herself. There was no smell, just that her clothes were a little torn. Since coming to Yunzhou City, she had been carrying a bucket of water to the nearby public toilet to take a bath every day.

Before Yu Huai could say anything, the car suddenly drove away, leaving the exhaust fumes spraying all over Yu Huai.

Yu Huai coughed twice after being sprayed, covered his mouth and stepped back repeatedly.

Damn, my fist is hard.

She wanted to be a nanny for such a rude person? She must be out of her mind.

Yes, she was out of her mind.

She took a deep breath and swallowed her anger. She didn’t know where Yu Huai of the Genting Hotel was, so she asked as she walked. It took her half an hour to get there.

When she saw the hotel, Yu Huai’s anger subsided a little, or perhaps she forgave him with money, and she was no longer unable to tolerate him.