I Can Talk to the Internal Organs-Chapter 288 - 254: That’s a Good Idea!

In the following days, after the adjustment with traditional medicine and Lu Jiu's acupuncture treatment,

Li Lanyu's facial complexion slowly returned to a normal state, and at least the butterfly-shaped birthmark was no longer as obvious.

At the same time, after using Jade Skin Powder for several days, Li Lanyu also noticed that the hardened skin was slowly softening, and her normal skin became smoother and her swollen face reduced significantly.

Seeing such a significant change in herself, Li Lanyu became even more cooperative with the treatment.

Her family, upon noticing her changes, also started visiting Lu Jiu TCM Hospital for treatment.

Especially her mother-in-law, who had been having all sorts of problems since menopause that had never been resolved.

This time, after consulting with Director Lan Mei at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, it took only three or four days to alleviate most of her ailments.

This kind of word-of-mouth, where familiar people bring more familiar people, led to an increase in patients at Lu Jiu TCM Hospital.

At the same time, Lu Jiu also made contact with the chairman of the Disability Federation.

Upon learning that Lu Jiu wanted to help some of the disabled people in their federation, Chairman Jian Yongchang was particularly cooperative and even compiled a list of disabled individuals himself.

He meticulously recorded details such as when they became disabled, which part was affected, and for how many years, and handed it over to Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu then took the time to individually visit and investigate those with not-so-severe conditions. In half a month, Lu Jiu identified over a hundred disabled individuals whose conditions were relatively mild and recent, indicating significant potential for treatment, and also informed Jian Yongchang, telling him to notify these individuals and their families to come to the hospital for a group public service examination on the day of the event.

...

Jianghan TV Station.

News Department.

"It's Monday, everyone, quickly report your topics. Zhou Tongyuan, you have covered the fewest news stories this month. You're not meeting the quota, and if you keep slacking off like this, you won't even earn a full month's salary."

"Director Liu, there's really no good news to shoot lately. Every time I shoot a social news piece, you hold onto it for weeks without airing it, and when it's no longer timely, you just throw it out. Aren't you just having me work for nothing?"

"But there's nothing we can do about it. There are many news pieces about the city's leaders this month. We only have fifteen minutes for the news, and sometimes we have to go overtime; we can't just omit the leaders' news, right? If they come asking, how do we explain it?"

"We're a media for the people, not an 'official' media. We are supposed to serve the people. Why must social news be sidelined, as if the affairs of ordinary people don't matter?"

"Shh!! Do you want to get yourself in trouble? Keep those words to yourself. Alright, I'll decide; go do some public service news, visit some welfare homes or the Disability Federation. The timeliness is not as strict, so this time we won't suppress your story."

"Ha, more public service, just meaningless stuff. I don't even have the contacts for the welfare homes."

"I'll give them to you!!"

"..."

Zhou Tongyuan, grumbling, drove away from the TV station with his equipment.

Sitting in his passenger seat, the intern host Wei Lele was also cautiously observing Zhou Tongyuan.

She noticed that every Monday at the meeting, Zhou Tongyuan would argue with Director Liu.

Of course, the conflicts were almost always about the topics.

Zhou Tongyuan had privately mentioned to her.

Our TV station is small, and the news department handles both political and social news. The political news is mandatory every day, while social news just fills the time.

So, the two reporters assigned exclusively to political news each month are always the two with the highest salaries, while the reporters covering social news often don't meet their quotas, resulting in lower performance bonuses and thus lower wages compared to those covering political news.

The key point is that the reporters covering political news don't have to worry at all; once they've shot the footage, the scripts are mostly press releases, and they don't have to worry about topics because city leaders have various meetings every day.

But it's different for the social news reporters. They have to find their own topics, arrange their own interviews, and even after finishing their work, they can't be sure when or if their stories will be aired.

Wei Lele had been following Zhou Tongyuan since she joined the station, and now it has been over half a year. At the start, Zhou Tongyuan acted like a seasoned veteran, being perfunctory about everything, which left a very poor impression on her.

After all, having just graduated from university and entering society, she had dreams and hopes for her journalism career. Yet everything she encountered at the TV station seemed vastly different from her expectations.

The so-called fairness and justice were nowhere to be seen here. The supervisory powers exercised by reporters seemed like nothing more than a paper tiger to many people, incapable of instilling any fear.

She even saw a greyer side of things.

She once accompanied Zhou Tongyuan on an undercover report at the People's Hospital, investigating doctors directing patients to buy medicine from outside drugstores. She was initially very excited about it, feeling like she was standing up for the public. But the story was never aired, and she later found out that the TV station and the hospital had co-produced a medical program, and the hospital had paid three hundred thousand.

Allegedly, Zhou Tongyuan also benefited from it, which made Wei Lele dislike him even more.

But later, while chatting with one of the hosts, she learned that Zhou Tongyuan used to be a passionate young journalist.

In the early days of his career at the TV station, he once went to a rural area to cover a story about a director illegally taking over village land. He daringly brought the village chief in front of the camera to identify the perpetrator and even assured the villagers that he would take care of it.

But in the end, the story was shot and produced, but when it came for review, the director called the TV station head and ordered the story not to be aired. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

At that time, Zhou Tongyuan was very persistent and disagreed, even confronting the TV station head.

In the end, to appease Zhou Tongyuan, they claimed the story would be aired. But the next day, all the story materials were gone.

After that, Zhou Tongyuan changed completely, and he never returned to the village he had promised.

"Brother Yuan, we're at the Disability Federation," Wei Lele pointed to the street side.

Zhou Tongyuan parked the car in a roadside parking spot, "Let's go, you go communicate with their chairman, casually find someone to do a couple of interviews. I'll grab some footage to hand in."

Wei Lele was already used to his way of operating, "Okay!"

After speaking, she got out of the car and went into the Disability Federation.

Because they had contacted Chairman Jian Yongchang earlier, when they arrived at the Disability Federation, Jian Yongchang had been waiting for a while.

"You must be Reporter Wei and Reporter Zhou. I'm Jian Yongchang, the one who contacted you earlier." Jian Yongchang smiled and was about to offer a cigarette to Zhou Tongyuan, but Zhou shook his head, indicating he didn't smoke.

Wei Lele immediately smiled and said, "Chairman Jian, have the interviewees we arranged arrived?"

Jian Yongchang immediately apologized, "Oh, I'm really sorry. We had arranged it, but he's not done with his treatment yet, so you'll have to wait a while longer."

Wei Lele asked curiously, "Is there no one else available?"

Jian Yongchang smiled wryly, "It's really unfortunate today. They all went to the hospital for treatment. Those with more severe conditions are at home, and most of them prefer not to appear on TV, so..."

Zhou Tongyuan frowned, "Chairman Jian, why don't you say a few words yourself? This is a public service news piece; it's short, just introducing some of the Disability Federation's work this year. Having interviews with disabled individuals would be great, but it's okay if we don't."

Jian Yongchang waved his hand, "I'd better not. I'm usually fine, but facing the camera, I really can't string a sentence together."

Zhou Tongyuan said, "No problem. I'll write you a couple of lines, print them on paper, and you can just read them in front of the camera."

They often did this.

Jian Yongchang again refused, "I really can't do it. How about I make another call to urge him to come quickly?"

Seeing this, Zhou Tongyuan said nothing more.

However, Wei Lele suddenly spoke up, "Brother Yuan, why don't we shoot some footage here and also go shoot some at the hospital? We can interview the disabled individuals there, which will make the news segment richer and might even give us two pieces to air."

Hearing the possibility of getting two stories, Zhou Tongyuan got excited.

"That's a great idea!"