Wu Huixian was instantly terrified, her face draining of color, and she quickly went to help.
Under the lamplight, she noticed blood flowing from Wu Huimin's leg, which made her even more frightened, her hands and feet turning cold. Trembling, she stammered, "This is bad! There's bleeding! Xiao... Brother Xiao, please help me flag down a taxi to the hospital!"
"Let me take a look first!"
Chen Xiao, with the benevolent heart of a physician, could no longer disregard his inner reservations. As he spoke, he quickly knelt down and reached out to feel Wu Huimin's pulse. The mysterious, wordless golden prescriptions in his mind spun rapidly, and he was immediately struck with alarm.
Clutching her greatly aching abdomen, Wu Huimin cried out in pain and forcefully pushed Chen Xiao away. "You scoundrel! Hurry and get a taxi! You're a good-for-nothing who can't even concoct Jinkui Shunqi San, what do you know?"
"Hmph!"
Chen Xiao snorted coldly and said irritably, "You should be thanking your lucky stars that you ran into me. Otherwise, even if you hadn't fallen, you might have ended up with both mother and child lost in the next few days!"
Wu Huimin became even more enraged, roaring ferociously, "How dare you curse me?"
If it weren't for the pain that made it impossible to stand, Wu Huimin's shrewish and overbearing nature would have long since led her to tear at Chen Xiao.
Suppressing his revulsion towards Wu Huimin, Chen Xiao said nothing. He casually took out the silver needles from his pocket, lifted her clothes, and inserted one.
"Ah—"
Wu Huimin cried out in shock, anger, and pain.
Wu Huixian watched, also terrified, as if she didn't recognize Chen Xiao. She choked out, her voice trembling, "Brother Xiao, my sister is usually harsh to you, but... but you don't have to harm her at this critical moment, do you?"
Chen Xiao said with a wry smile, "Why would I harm her? I'm saving her!"
As he spoke, he inserted another needle into Wu Huimin's pregnant belly, which was covered in stretch marks. Wu Huimin's distended abdomen immediately began to writhe violently.
This time, not only did Wu Huimin weep even more hysterically, but Wu Huixian also couldn't help but cry out with tears streaming down her face, "Waa! Chen Xiao, please don't hurt my sister anymore, or I won't be friends with you anymore, woo woo... woo woo woo..."
But as she cried, Wu Huimin suddenly spoke with shock on her face, "Strange, why do I suddenly feel like my stomach doesn't hurt anymore?"
"Really?"
Wu Huixian was dumbfounded, her face filled with shock.
Then, seeing Wu Huimin stand up on her own as if nothing had happened, she finally realized she had misunderstood Chen Xiao. Feeling utterly ashamed, she apologized tearfully and embarrassedly, "Brother Xiao, I'm sorry. My sister and I wronged you."
Chen Xiao shook his head magnanimously, "It's alright. After all, it happened so suddenly, anyone would have misunderstood. But if you'll forgive my bluntness, you'd best take your sister to the hospital for a C-section and treatment as soon as possible. Her placenta has undergone a fatal malignant cancerous change. Even my acupuncture can only barely ensure her safety tonight. If she doesn't deliver soon, both mother and child are in mortal danger..."
"Nonsense!"
The more Wu Huimin heard, the angrier she became. She fiercely interrupted Chen Xiao, "You, surnamed Chen, stop spewing dire warnings and cursing me. I just had a prenatal check-up yesterday, and the doctor said the fetus is developing very well in all aspects. It's due next month!"
Saying this, she aggressively pulled out the two silver needles Chen Xiao had inserted.
Having repeatedly helped save a life out of kindness only to be rebuffed, even Chen Xiao, made of clay, couldn't help but get angry. He turned and went inside, saying without looking back, "If you don't believe me, then consider me to have said nothing!"
"You..."
Wu Huimin was so angry her lungs felt like they would explode. She aggressively followed and blocked the door, "You caused me to fall, and I don't know if the baby in my belly is injured yet. You want to dismiss it with just 'consider me to have said nothing'?"
Frowning slightly, Chen Xiao asked coldly, "So?"
Wu Huimin retorted aggressively, "Either pay me twenty thousand yuan to settle this privately, or accompany me to the hospital for an examination. Otherwise, I'll call the police right now!"
As she spoke, she actually took out her phone.
Seeing this, Wu Huixian hurriedly tried to dissuade her, "Sister, let's just forget it. I saw you fall by accident. How can you blame Brother Xiao? Besides, Brother Xiao's acupuncture saved you..."
"Bah!"
Wu Huimin flew into a rage, fiercely pushed away Wu Huixian who was supporting her, and roared like a madwoman, "Huixian, how much of that scoundrel Chen has poisoned your mind? Why are you always siding with outsiders? Haven't you used your brain to think, how could he possibly have the ability to save me? The fact that I suddenly feel no pain is clearly because the baby in my belly is blessed with good fortune!"
Just then, a luxury car arrived at the entrance of the Jishetang in a hurry.
Zheng Liming, Pan Haitang, and Zheng Youen, a family of three, scrambled out of the car.
Wu Huimin recognized Pan Haitang at a glance and her demeanor changed instantly, becoming excited. She nervously pulled Wu Huixian and said, "Huixian, isn't that Professor Pan who arranged the non-invasive DNA test for me not long ago?"
As she spoke, her face was full of fawning as she went to greet them, "Professor Pan, why... why are you here? Could it be... could it be that you've personally come to deliver my test results? You're too kind!"