“Dad, are you really going to force me to pull out my ultimate move to prove who I am?”
Zhao Shuo’s words immediately piqued Dad Zhao’s interest.
“Oh ho? You, a scammer, have an ultimate move?”
“Alright, show me what you’ve got. I’d like to see how you can prove it.”
Alright, alright. You won’t believe it until you see the evidence, huh?
Zhao Shuo said gravely, “Mom, right under the sofa you’re sitting on, there’s a hole. Dad has five hundred bucks of secret stash money hidden inside, taped to the hole.”
As soon as Zhao Shuo said this, the smile on Dad Zhao’s face froze.
Mom Zhao bent over and felt inside the hole. She really pulled out five hundred yuan.
“You good-for-nothing Zhao Wuji! You dare hide secret money behind my back!”
Dad Zhao looked extremely awkward.
“No, honey, there’s no way I hid that. It’s all a misunderstanding!”
Zhao Shuo continued, “In the second shoebox in the shoe cabinet, there’s that old cloth shoe you’ve always disliked. Under the insole of that old cloth shoe, there’s six hundred bucks hidden.”
Mom Zhao immediately got up and rushed to the shoe cabinet, soon returning with the six hundred yuan.
“Any more?” Mom Zhao asked.
Just as Zhao Shuo was about to speak, Dad Zhao panicked.
“Shut up, you unfilial son!”
“You have something to say, then say it! Don’t spout nonsense here!”
Dad Zhao was genuinely frantic.
He only had that little bit of private savings. If Zhao Shuo exposed it all, he wouldn’t even have money left for cigarettes.
“Now do you believe I’m your son?”
Dad Zhao sounded impatient. “I believe you, I believe you! Now hurry up and tell me, what’s going on exactly?”
Now it was Zhao Shuo’s turn to be embarrassed.
“Didn’t I just say? I’m sick, and I need some money for treatment.”
Zhao Shuo picked up his phone and panned it around the surroundings.
“Look, I’m at a traditional Chinese medicine clinic right now. I need thirty-one hundred for medicine. The doctor already prepared the prescription, just waiting for me to pay.”
Hearing that Zhao Shuo was actually sick, the elderly couple’s hearts immediately sank.
“Son, explain in detail. What exactly is wrong with you?”
Zhao Shuo hemmed and hawed, unable to get the words out for a long time.
Qin Jiang was starting to get impatient. For someone so young, why was he speaking so hesitantly?
Qin Jiang spoke up, “The young lady left ‘hickeys’ on his neck, which led to blood clots. It’s not a serious illness, don’t worry, you two.”
As soon as Qin Jiang said this, the elderly couple was dumbfounded.
Zhao Shuo and Chen Yao felt utterly mortified.
It took Dad Zhao a good while to react.
“Zhao Shuo! Didn’t you tell me you didn’t have a girlfriend!”
“You little rascal! Last year, you told me you absolutely wouldn’t get a girlfriend until you placed first in the whole province. Did you feed your words to the dogs?”
Mom Zhao, however, had a gleam in her eyes.
“My good boy, you have a girlfriend?”
“Hurry, let Mom see which girl it is. Look at how she covered you, tsk tsk tsk. Your dad was never this romantic.”
Under Mom Zhao’s questioning, Chen Yao shyly stepped forward to greet them.
It was their first meeting, but Mom Zhao kept nodding and smiling at Chen Yao, clearly very satisfied with this potential daughter-in-law.
Netizens in the livestream immediately felt jealous.
“Why did I suddenly get a mouthful of ‘dog food’ out of nowhere?”
“This guy kinda turned misfortune into fortune. He gets to take his girlfriend home to meet the parents early.”
“Quick, look at his dad’s expression, hahaha, he’s about to die from anger. First, his secret money gets exposed, then his son isn’t focused on his career but on love. Feels like he’s about to start cursing any second.”
“What career does a sports student need? Can’t outcompete others anyway. Might as well honestly go back home and be a PE teacher.”
Mom Zhao and Chen Yao hit it off immediately, chatting more and more animatedly.
Zhao Shuo, standing nearby, was almost in tears.
“Mom, stop chatting for now. Transfer the money to me first, please.”
Reminded by Zhao Shuo, Mom Zhao finally snapped out of it and hurriedly transferred the money to him.
Once the money arrived, Zhao Shuo immediately scanned the code to pay.
Qin Jiang casually handed the prepared Chinese medicine to Zhao Shuo.
“These are a few packets of ‘Huoxue Shengmai Yin’ (Blood-Activating & Pulse-Generating Drink). Take them home and brew them to drink. I also have a pot ready here; you should drink two cups now.”
Qin Jiang pointed to the teapot on the table. Zhao Shuo was stunned.
You could have said that earlier!
Did you have to wait until after I paid to tell me?
Zhao Shuo quickly drank two cups. The taste was slightly sweet, quite good actually.
Right at that moment, a system notification sounded in Qin Jiang’s mind.
Ding.
[Detected that the host spoke frankly to the patient, revealing the patient’s hidden ailment, greatly assisting the patient. Task completed.]
[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the reward: Calming & Sedative Pill]
Another new type of pill?
Qin Jiang carefully checked the pill’s effects and immediately felt a bit confused.
Wasn’t this Calming & Sedative Pill basically just a sedative?
Except this thing was taken orally, and its effects were especially good.
Did that mean the next patient would have insomnia?
Just as Qin Jiang was pondering this, suddenly there was a clang from the side.
Qin Jiang turned to look and saw that one of the boys who came with Zhao Shuo was now lying on the floor, clutching his chest, in obvious pain.
“Wang Hu, what’s wrong?”
“Doctor! Doctor, please come take a look!”
Something this coincidental?
Qin Jiang quickly walked over to examine him.
Taking a look, Qin Jiang got a fright.
Wang Hu was shaking his head and moaning in pain.
His entire face was flushed red, yet his lips were pale white.
This indicated a problem with his heart.
Qin Jiang took his pulse, only to find Wang Hu’s heart rate was incredibly fast, as if he had just undergone intense exercise!
Could it be an acute heart attack?
Just as Qin Jiang was thinking this, everyone heard a thump-thump-thump sound.
“What’s that sound?”
“Is someone drumming outside?”
“No, it’s Wang Hu’s heartbeat!”
Everyone looked closely. At Wang Hu’s chest area, there was a rhythmic expansion and contraction, a throbbing.
A heartbeat is normal, but what wasn’t normal was the amplitude of the throbbing at Wang Hu’s chest!
It was as if something alive was trying to burst out of his chest!
Crack!
A series of teeth-grating bone-cracking sounds rang out. Wang Hu let out a scream, tears of pain streaming from his eyes.
After that howl, Wang Hu seemed significantly weaker, as if a large portion of his vitality had been drained all at once.
“Quick, help lift him. Take him into the pharmacy.”
Given Wang Hu’s condition, there was definitely no time for a standard consultation. They could only carry him directly into the pharmacy for emergency treatment.
After Zhao Shuo and Qin Jiang carried Wang Hu into the pharmacy, the smart computer in the treatment room automatically began monitoring and scanning Wang Hu’s body.
When Wang Hu’s physical data appeared on the computer screen, everyone was stunned.
Heart rate: 200!
This guy is way too hardcore!
“Oh my god, a heart rate of 200? Wouldn’t his heart explode any minute?”
“Look, his chest is already swollen, a large area is red. It looks like a branding iron, so terrifying!”
“The human limit for heart rate is 170. His is 200. Feels like he’s almost a goner.”
Right then, Qin Jiang quickly took out the Calming & Sedative Pill he had just received from the system and forced Wang Hu to swallow it.
