“What… what do you mean by that? What could possibly be wrong with me going to the bathroom?”
Hao Quanyou felt offended.
Sure, he was old, but that didn’t mean he was useless.
Qin Jiang’s way of asking was simply too disrespectful.
Qin Jiang glanced at Hao Quanyou. This old man was as stubborn as ever.
Qin Jiang continued, “Sir, don’t you feel pain when you go to the bathroom lately?”
“I mean, when you urinate, it feels like needles pricking you, and you often can’t help but cry out in pain, right?”
Hao Quanyou was furious.
“Nonsense! I’ve never had any such symptom!”
It was Zeng Guifang who furrowed her brows upon hearing what Qin Jiang said.
“Actually, that does seem right. You’ve been spending more and more time in the bathroom lately.”
“Before, you’d be in and out in a few minutes. Why is it now taking you one or two hours?”
“And I don’t think I’ve ever seen you go for number one—it’s always number two?”
As Hao Quanyou’s wife, Zeng Guifang naturally knew his habits better.
Hao Quanyou hadn’t expected Zeng Guifang to suddenly expose him like that. He stammered, “I… it’s because when I go for number two, I just take care of number one at the same time.”
“What’s wrong, is that so strange?”
“No, Grandpa—then why is it that every time I walk past the bathroom, I seem to hear you making painful sounds in there? Are you constipated?”
Hearing Zeng Lanna say this, the viewers in the livestream chat went wild with laughter.
“Hahaha, can you even say that? As expected of grandpa and granddaughter.”
“Don’t they say a granddaughter is grandpa’s warm little cotton jacket? Why does this one feel like a leaky, black-hearted cotton pad?”
“This old man clearly hasn’t watched Dr. Qin’s livestreams. What’s the point of being stubborn in front of Dr. Qin?”
Seeing Hao Quanyou’s face turn green and purple, Qin Jiang spoke up. “Sir, you’re at that age now—it’s perfectly normal for your body to have some issues. Don’t carry any idol baggage. After all, you’re at that age now, right?”
Qin Jiang had hit the nail on the head.
The reason Hao Quanyou wasn’t cooperating wasn’t because he didn’t want treatment.
It was because he prided himself on being a health expert and had earned some status in his neighborhood.
He relied on this identity to chat and dance with the other elderly folks everywhere.
If people found out that he came to a TCM clinic and was diagnosed with all sorts of illnesses, how would he ever go out and tell people he was a health expert again?
Wouldn’t he become a laughingstock?
Zeng Lanna also tried to persuade him from the side. “Grandpa, didn’t you always tell me not to avoid doctors because of fear? If you have a problem, just let Dr. Qin treat it. Otherwise, you’ll be so uncomfortable.”
Hearing Zeng Lanna say this, Hao Quanyou fell silent.
He was originally someone who cared a lot about face, but now that everything was out in the open and everyone knew he was sick, there was no point in trying to save face anymore.
Helpless, Hao Quanyou could only sigh and say, “Alright then, give me proper treatment. I really don’t want to suffer like this anymore.”
After letting go of the burden in his heart, Hao Quanyou said to Qin Jiang, “Dr. Qin, let me be honest with you. About a month ago, I noticed it hurt when I urinated.”
“At first I thought it was inflammation, so I bought some anti-inflammatory medicine myself.”
“Did it work?” Qin Jiang asked.
Hao Quanyou said, “At first it had some effect, but later it stopped working. I don’t know if I developed some kind of drug resistance.”
“And the pain has been getting worse and worse.”
“At first it was just like needles pricking, but now it feels like a knife cutting.”
Qin Jiang nodded, indicating he understood.
“Let’s do a checkup first—take an X-ray.”
Under Qin Jiang’s guidance, Hao Quanyou went into the examination room and underwent a series of targeted imaging tests.
When the results came out, Hao Quanyou asked anxiously, “How is it, Dr. Qin? Is my condition serious?”
Qin Jiang pointed to the QR code on the table and said:
“You’re sure you want to be treated here, right? If so, please scan the code and pay first. That’ll be three thousand five hundred.”
“Huh?”
Seeing Qin Jiang ask for payment before treatment even began, Hao Quanyou was immediately unhappy.
After all, his generation had always believed in seeing the doctor first and paying later. If the treatment wasn’t good, they might not even pay at all.
Zeng Lanna naturally knew what Hao Quanyou was thinking. She said helplessly, “Grandpa, this is just how Dr. Qin works. It’s the same as when you go to a hospital and have to register first. Just pay up—Dr. Qin’s medical skills are really excellent.”
Hao Quanyou originally didn’t want to pay first, but he couldn’t withstand Zeng Lanna’s constant nagging beside him.
Helpless, Hao Quanyou could only take out his phone and scan the code to pay.
Ding.
[Detected that the host spoke frankly to the patient, naming the patient’s hidden condition and greatly helping the patient. Mission complete.]
[Congratulations, host, for earning the reward: Blood-Nourishing Wind-Dispelling Pill.]
Seeing Hao Quanyou successfully complete the payment, Zeng Lanna was even happier than Qin Jiang.
“Grandpa, don’t worry. As long as you pay, even if you had a heart condition or something, Dr. Qin would definitely be able to save you.”
Zeng Guifang glared at Zeng Lanna from the side.
“Jinx! What heart condition? Your grandpa’s heart is perfectly fine!”
Zeng Guifang’s words would have been better left unsaid—the moment she said that, the viewers in the livestream chat started laughing again.
“You can tell—the granddaughter is Dr. Qin’s hardcore fan, and this old lady is the old man’s hardcore fan.”
“Yeah, earlier she was saying the old man’s health was great and that he maintained his health every day. Now that Qin Jiang’s examined him, he’s got problems all over.”
“The scariest thing is exactly this kind of self-assurance—thinking you’re fine, and then suddenly something happens and no one can save you.”
“Damn, isn’t that basically me? I never go for physical exams, just because I’m afraid that one day they’ll find something I can’t handle.”
“Brother, that’s a bit of self-deception. What’s meant to be will be—you can’t escape fate.”
After confirming the payment was received, Qin Jiang finally said to Hao Quanyou, “What you have is urinary stones caused by hypercalcemia.”
“And these stones aren’t just in your kidneys—they’re in your ureters too.”
“Because of that, you feel obvious pain when you urinate.”
“Before, it was like needles pricking because your ureters hadn’t been damaged too badly yet. Now it feels like a small knife cutting because it’s become more serious. If you keep putting it off, this condition could develop into something else entirely.”
So there were stones in the ureters!
Hao Quanyou suddenly understood.
He thought back carefully, and it really did feel like that.
“Then Dr. Qin, does my condition need surgery?”
Qin Jiang shook his head.
“No need. Although you have quite a few stones, they’re all relatively small.”
“I’ll prescribe you some medicine. Take it home and keep drinking it consistently. After a while, these stones will be passed out.”
