"You’re just like Old Li," Lu Guoquan couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

"I’m just speaking the truth," Lin Fangling said irritably.

"I’ll give Old Li a call and ask,"

"Go ahead."

Lin Fangling said, "I’ll go cook. When you talk to Old Li, don’t forget to tell Xiaoxuan and the others to come back for dinner."

"Got it."

Lu Guoquan replied, and then he turned around and sat on the sofa to call Li Feng.

The call connected quickly.

"Old Li, how’s it going today?"

"Busy?"

Lu Guoquan asked directly.

"It’s almost crowded to the brim, what do you think?" Li Feng said, a bit helplessly.

Lu Guoquan was stunned, "Crowded to the brim? Old Li, are you kidding me? I know exactly how our clinic is doing, even at the busiest, there are only about twenty or thirty people a day, including those who come to buy medicine but not get injections. It’s never been as severely crowded as you’re saying."

"Today is different," Li Feng explained.

"What’s different?"

"Could it be that there’s more people because of a holiday?"

"Even if there are more, it shouldn’t be crowded to the brim. Our clinic isn’t a hospital, it’s not as bad as you say."

Lu Guoquan still didn’t believe it.

"Have you forgotten?"

"Forgotten what?"

The two were talking.

Lu Guoquan was puzzled, wondering what Old Li was trying to say.

"Your son is here today," seeing that Lu Guoquan still hadn’t figured it out, Li Feng had to give a hint.

"My son?"

"Lu?"

Lu Guoquan still didn’t realize what Li Feng was trying to say, "Yeah, he went there to help out, what’s the matter?"

"Help out?"

Looking at the long line outside the door, Li Feng’s voice was sour: "But now it’s a bunch of us helping out your son."

"My son..."

Lu Guoquan was still thinking about having Li Feng really busy, so that he could get Lu Xuan to work hard, but when he started saying it, he realized something was off, and quickly said, "No, you’re saying you’re helping Xiaoxuan?"

"Isn’t that right?"

Li Feng said irritably, "You’ve finally caught on now?"

"What’s going on?" Lu Guoquan asked.

Li Feng explained, "Xiaoxuan came over not long ago and treated a few people, and as soon as people saw Dr. Lu’s extraordinary medical skills, they lined up for him to feel their pulses. Some even pulled others to come, and with word spreading, by around ten in the morning, there was already a long queue outside the clinic. At first, I didn’t pay notice, but once I did, the clinic was packed. I think you should stop opening a Western medicine clinic and directly open a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, let Dr. Lu see patients. It would make a lot more money than this, and at this rate, it’s possible to make millions a year, though Xiaoxuan might be a bit busy seeing patients alone."

Lu Guoquan was shocked, but the next moment he said, "Forget about opening a Chinese medicine clinic, Xiaoxuan is going to become the head of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital soon, what’s he doing seeing patients at a home clinic? Really, if we’re opening a Chinese medicine clinic, we’d have to wait for later."

"Dr. Lu is going to become the head of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital?"

Li Feng was stunned and asked, "The County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine?"

"The Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Yong City."

"Geez!"

Li Feng was visibly shocked, and it took him a while to recover, saying in a complex tone, "I shouldn’t have asked."

"What, are you jealous?"

"Not exactly jealous, but I’m wondering what great deeds you, Lu Guoquan, did in a past life to have such a remarkable son?"

Lu Guoquan laughed heartily, saying, "Let’s not talk about that, just tell Xiaoxuan to come back for dinner in half an hour."

"Dinner?"

Li Feng glanced at the queue, and said, "By the time these people finish, it’ll take at least another hour. I think you better bring the food to the clinic, and bring me a serving too, I might not have the time to go back."

Lu Guoquan: "..."

...

A middle-aged woman in her 40s pulled a girl along and came up to Lu Xuan, casting a reluctant glance at the girl, before she smiled and said, "Dr. Lu."

Lu Xuan raised his head upon hearing this and asked, "What’s the matter?"

"Where do you feel uncomfortable?"

The middle-aged woman pulled the girl closer, handed the girl’s hand to Lu Xuan, and said, "The child’s hand has been peeling for 2 years. We’ve seen many dermatologists before; the medicine helped a bit, but not much, can’t eliminate the root cause. Every early summer it flares up; at first it’s just itchy, then pimples show up, and then it peels, and it’s dry and uncomfortable. Because we’ve seen dermatologists before and couldn’t cure it, we didn’t go this year. When it’s bad, we just buy some medicine to apply, but it doesn’t help much."

"Eczema on the palms..."

"Yes, yes, yes, doctors have said it’s eczema on the palms, but those ointments don’t work. We’ve tried several types, they don’t work, and also took some medicine, still no use." The middle-aged woman quickly nodded and explained. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Lu Xuan felt the girl’s pulse, looked at her tongue, and then said with a smile, "Go home and prepare some Chinese Mahonia leaves, which is the leaves from the Amur Corktree, boil them for use. Take bitter almond and peach kernel in equal parts, fry them, grind them while they’re hot into a fine paste, place in a porcelain crock, mix with boiling water into a paste, and then place the crock in boiling water to stew for a few minutes, take it out and let it cool.

Soak the hand in cork tree leaf water for 5-10 minutes, dry it, take a pinch of the two medicines and rub them on the affected area, and rub with a bit of force until there’s a warm sensation, apply twice daily, and results should show in about a week."

As he spoke, Ji Xiuwen quickly noted it down on paper, and after a while, handed the written prescription to the middle-aged lady.

"Will it really get better?"

The middle-aged lady looked at the three medications Lu Xuan prescribed; they were very common. The leaves of the Amur Corktree might be less common, since there aren’t many cork trees planted in the county generally; as for bitter almond and peach kernel, those are just everyday foods and she already has them at home.

Lu Xuan smiled and said, "It’s not a major illness, those three medicines will do. After a week you’ll know; if it works, you can keep using it for a while to consolidate the results, and it shouldn’t relapse in the future."

"Thank you, Dr. Lu."

The middle-aged woman left joyously with the prescription after paying fifteen yuan as a consultation fee to Li Feng.

"Next."

"Dr. Lu."

The next person was another mother, but this time the woman was holding a young girl wearing a mask, about six or seven years old, who seemed shy and turned away as soon as Lu Xuan looked at her.

"What’s wrong with the child?" Lu Xuan was already used to people bringing sick children for consultation. If there were no health issues, people typically wouldn’t bring children to the clinic.

The child’s mother began explaining her child’s condition: "The child has had asthma since she was four, and it often acts up. It’s been quite severe recently, even though we’ve been treating it at the hospital, but the condition remains. So I brought her out and given we live nearby, heard about your skills, thought I’d try my luck bringing her here."

"Asthma?"

Lu Xuan frowned slightly and asked, "Does the child have any other symptoms?"

"Coughing, wheezing, lots of phlegm, the phlegm is sticky and white."

The mother thought for a moment and said, "She doesn’t have much appetite, often vomits after eating, so we don’t dare to feed her much. Also, she often says she feels a faint pain in her abdomen."

Hearing this, Lu Xuan felt the child’s pulse and checked her tongue.

The child’s pulse was strong on the left and weak on the right, with a red tongue tip.

"Dr. Lu, can traditional Chinese medicine cure my child’s condition? What medicine does she need?" The mother asked worriedly.

Lu Xuan thought for a moment and said, "The child’s coughing and wheezing isn’t due to emotional disturbances, it’s mostly due to foods hurting the lungs. There’s external cause here, that’s why the chi doesn’t settle and reverses backward, causing coughing and wheezing. Also, from your description, it’s clear the child has a disordered stomach chi, which influences her coughing and wheezing."