Chapter 153: Chapter 158 Exhaustion
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Eight
"You can heal?" Bai Xuehen didn't believe it and was annoyed, "Do you even know what illness my grandfather has? How can you say you can cure it without having seen him?"
Although Long Xiaoshan was very formidable in a fight.
Even Wei Zhentian couldn't defeat him.
But being good at fighting was one thing, and medical skills were another.
Long Xiaoshan's nonchalant tone made Bai Xuehen angry.
After all, her grandfather was a very important person to her, and her mother was even willing to give up Bai's Medicinal Materials for the sake of her grandfather's health.
So, she was unhappy about Long Xiaoshan "joking" about her grandfather's illness.
Bai Susu also frowned slightly and felt displeased.
Seeing the expressions of the mother and daughter,
Long Xiaoshan knew they definitely didn't believe him and thought he was joking.
Long Xiaoshan glanced at Bai Xuehen and suddenly grabbed her hand.
Bai Xuehen's hand was caught in Long Xiaoshan's grasp, immediately turning a bit red with embarrassment and anger. She tried to pull away, but Long Xiaoshan held on tightly, and she could not break free, "What are you doing?"
"You're injured!"
Long Xiaoshan lifted Bai Xuehen's hand.
There was a cut on her middle finger, bleeding outward—it was made when the guzheng string broke earlier.
"It's nothing, I'll just put a band-aid on it later," Bai Xuehen said nonchalantly.
"No need, I can heal it right now."
Long Xiaoshan extended a finger, touching Bai Xuehen's injured finger, and a surge of Longevity True Qi flowed out.
After Long Xiaoshan had mastered Longevity Art True Qi,
he found that its healing power was incredibly strong.
For minor injuries, there was no need for the Golden Needle, as he could heal them easily.
However, usually to avoid attracting attention, he would still use the Golden Needle.
Now, to make Bai Xuehen and the others believe, Long Xiaoshan didn't hold back anymore; he let the Longevity Art True Qi flow out, and a faint spiritual light enveloped the junction of their fingers.
Under the nourishment of True Qi, the blood from the small wound stopped immediately, and the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. About a minute later, Long Xiaoshan wiped the fresh blood stuck to his finger away.
Bai Xuehen looked at her finger, as smooth as a green onion, and blinked hard.
She said incredulously, "Where did the wound go?"
Bai Susu had been watching the whole time and now, seeing not even a trace of the wound on Bai Xuehen's finger, she too showed a shocked expression.
"I told you I could heal. Do you believe me now?" Long Xiaoshan said.
"This... This..."
Bai Xuehen was at a loss for words.
But Bai Susu looked deeply at Long Xiaoshan, as if trying to see through this young man.
Yet even with her nearly twenty years of insight into worldly affairs, she felt like there was a mist around Long Xiaoshan, seemingly real and illusory, impossible to discern.
The more she interacted with him, the more she recognized his extraordinariness.
Suppressing Wang Sihai, defeating Wei Zhentian, and now revealing the ability to heal wounds with a mere touch;
Even though it was just a small cut, it was telling.
Perhaps, he really could cure her father's disease.
A glimmer of hope arose in Bai Susu's heart.
Thinking this, she said, "Xiaoshan, Auntie Su needs to trouble you. If you really can cure my father's illness, no matter what conditions, Auntie Su will agree."
Long Xiaoshan's heart stirred slightly, and a hint of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Indeed, like mother, like daughter.
Why are the conditions always the same?
However, facing Bai Susu, he certainly didn't dare to flirt with her as he would with Bai Xuehen, after all, she was an elder.
Bai Xuehen, with a glance at Long Xiaoshan's smirk that wasn't quite a smile, seemed to sense his sleazy thoughts and gave him a light glare.
Long Xiaoshan quickly restrained his smile and said, "Auntie Su, forget about conditions. I will do my best to treat Elder Bai."
Bai Susu showed a hint of gratitude and said, "Thank you."
"Auntie Su, why don't I go and see the old master right now?" Long Xiaoshan checked the time; it was already two in the afternoon.
"Won't you rest for a while?"
"No, I'm not tired."
"Then all right, let's go now."
Bai Susu made a phone call to the property management to have them tidy up the courtyard, then drove out with Long Xiaoshan and Bai Xuehen.
Hechuan City Furen Hospital is the largest private hospital in Hechuan City, said to be funded by overseas Chinese. It has stronger medical resources than the city's public hospital, and its VIP wards are populated by the rich and the influential.
Patriarch Bai, Bai Tian Sheng, was residing in one of Furen Hospital's VIP wards.
However, Elder Bai had now fallen into a deep coma, relying only on machines to maintain his vital signs.
Bai Susu brought Long Xiaoshan and the others to the ward at Furen Hospital.
Upon entering, they saw a middle-aged couple in their forties.
The slightly portly middle-aged man bore some resemblance to Bai Susu; if he were twenty years younger, he might be considered handsome.
Seeing the couple, Bai Susu hesitated before saying, "Elder brother, sister-in-law, what are you doing here?"
The middle-aged woman with thin lips and dyed red hair said, "Oh, Su Su, the way you talk, it's as if our Heming isn't the old master's own son."
"Sister-in-law, that's not what I meant," Bai Susu quickly explained.
"Enough, Xiaohong, don't say too much," Bai Heming's expression darkened as he spoke to Bai Susu, "Little sister, the Drug Administration has been busy lately, so I haven't had time to visit Dad."
"Elder brother, it's okay, I will take good care of Dad," Bai Susu replied.
Bai Xuehen, seeing the two, stepped forward and called out, "Uncle, Aunt."
Bai Heming nodded slightly while the middle-aged woman did not even lift her head.
Long Xiaoshan thought to himself that relations between these two families didn't seem very good.
However, he was here to treat a patient, so naturally, he wouldn't get involved in family affairs.
As for Bai Heming and his wife, he couldn't care less. He said, "Auntie Su, let me first take a look at Elder Bai's condition."
"Sure, thank you for the trouble," Bai Susu replied.
Long Xiaoshan stepped forward and took hold of the hand of the elderly man lying in the hospital bed.
"Hey hey hey, what are you doing?" Ma Xiaohong quickly exclaimed.
Bai Heming frowned and said, "Little sister, who is this?"
"Elder brother, Xiaoshan is a doctor. I've asked him to come and treat Dad," she explained.
"To treat him? Bai Susu, what are you doing, thinking this little brat can treat Dad? I think you're deliberately trying to kill him," Ma Xiaohong exclaimed disdainfully upon seeing Long Xiaoshan's clothes.
"Ridiculous!" Bai Heming also showed a look of dissatisfaction and couldn't help but rebuke.
Long Xiaoshan looked to be just over twenty.
Could such a person be capable of treating patients?
And it wasn't just any illness; the old master's condition was nearly hopeless.
However, Long Xiaoshan remained silent, examining Elder Bai's body and slowly frowning, realizing that it wasn't as simple as he thought. It wasn't an ordinary illness that Elder Bai had; it was aging, which meant his life span was reaching its end, causing multiple organ failures.
This wasn't something that medical skills could reverse.
No wonder they mentioned Hundred-Year-Old Medicine.
Only such spiritual medicine could extend his life a little longer.