"You brat, shut up!"
Bai Su, afraid that Chen Xiao's words would further enrage Jiang Xiuzhu and make her negotiation more difficult, rushed forward to cover Chen Xiao's mouth. Her plump and sexy body, remarkably well-preserved for her age, pressed almost entirely against Chen Xiao, exuding a captivating fragrance.
Seeing Bai Su, who usually had a good personal relationship with her, focused entirely on Chen Xiao, Jiang Xiuzhu felt her lungs would explode with anger. She provocatively challenged him with a fierce expression:
"Hmph! Chen Xiao, since you keep calling me a mentally ill patient with severe violent tendencies, do you dare to make a bet? If the examination results from the psychiatry department show that I am mentally sound, you must immediately apply to resign and get out of Central Hospital forever!"
She admitted to herself that after a few days in Juxian Mountain Prison, her temper had indeed become more volatile. After all, in the past, no matter how angry she was, she wouldn't dare to talk back to Bai Su, the hospital director.
However, she absolutely refused to believe she had a mental illness with severe violent tendencies. She naively assumed her anger was a result of her unjustified imprisonment and her hatred for Chen Xiao. Her expression was filled with an inexplicable confidence, as if she could already see Chen Xiao shamefully leaving Central Hospital.
Chen Xiao, clearly not expecting Jiang Xiuzhu to voluntarily undergo a psychiatric examination, was delighted. He casually pulled away Bai Su's hand still covering his mouth and agreed without hesitation:
"A bet is a bet!"
Fearing Jiang Xiuzhu might go back on her word, he added eagerly as soon as he finished speaking:
"If I am indeed misdiagnosed, I will not only leave Central Hospital immediately but also voluntarily revoke my practicing physician's license and never work in the medical field again!"
"You said that?"
Jiang Xiuzhu became even more excited and made to leave the director's office:
"I'm going to the psychiatry department for my examination right now!"
"What?"
Bai Su was completely panicked. She rushed to block the office door and said indignantly:
"Jiang Xiuzhu, this bet is completely unfair! What if my son wins? If he wins, shouldn't you also resign immediately and permanently revoke your practicing physician's license?"
In a flash, Bai Su had made up her mind. From now on, even if it meant abusing her power, she would use her position as director to get the psychiatry department to falsify Jiang Xiuzhu's mental health examination results.
Chen Xiao said with a wry smile:
"Dear Director, if Vice Director Jiang is indeed diagnosed with a mental illness with severe violent tendencies, she won't be able to continue working in a legitimate medical field, even if she doesn't want to! Moreover, my diagnosis of her will be absolutely correct, so how could I possibly lose?"
Using the diagnosis from the wordless golden formula, Chen Xiao knew that Jiang Xiuzhu was on the verge of dangerous violent behavior due to emotional outbursts at any moment. Fearing Bai Su might get hurt while blocking the way, he quickly pulled her aside.
"Chen Xiao, you just wait here. I'll settle the score with you after I come back from my examination at the psychiatry department!"
Jiang Xiuzhu glared at Chen Xiao fiercely and then impatiently rushed out of the director's office.
"You brat, you... you! You're going to get me killed!"
Bai Su was extremely anxious. She quickly and guiltily closed the door heavily and then nervously picked up her phone from the desk.
"Aunt Bai, you're not going to call my mom to complain, are you?"
Seeing this, Chen Xiao hastily and with a wry smile stopped her:
"You know my mom is seriously injured. There's no need to make her worry unnecessarily, right?"
"You're worried about your mom worrying, but aren't you worried about putting me in a difficult position? You brat, I've doted on you for nothing!"
Bai Su was so wronged that tears almost fell. Her spittle almost sprayed onto Chen Xiao's face, but she couldn't bring herself to get truly angry with him. After a pause, she said tearfully:
"At this point, to protect your job at Central Hospital and your future, I have no choice but to call Mo Shuting, the administrative director and chief physician of the psychiatry department, Sister Mo. I hope she can help me forge a fake examination report. Sigh!"
As she spoke, she instinctively bent over slightly and covered her abdomen, her face turning slightly pale, clearly showing signs of abdominal pain.
Chen Xiao had known about Bai Su's chronic abdominal pain since he was very young. However, without the wordless golden formula to diagnose her condition, and with Bai Su being so reluctant to seek treatment, she had always kept her illness a secret, so he had never paid much attention to it.
"Sigh! I never expected Aunt Bai to be so seriously ill."
At this moment, Chen Xiao, using the mysterious wordless golden formula in his mind to diagnose Bai Su's long-standing stubborn ailment, felt a pang in his heart. He quickly helped Bai Su to sit down, snatched her phone, and said with great concern:
"Aunt Bai, forging examination results is illegal. Don't worry about it anymore. I guarantee that Jiang Xiuzhu is indeed a mentally ill patient with severe violent tendencies, and there's no need to risk forging examination reports. Besides, I've slept in your bed since I was little. Do you think I would say something without confidence?"
"But..."
Bai Su was skeptical, her words trailing off. Her pale face, due to nervousness, gradually regained some color, but the abdominal pain became more unbearable. As Chen Xiao carefully helped her sit on the sofa, her back could not straighten up. Helplessly, she had to temporarily put aside her worries about Jiang Xiuzhu and repeatedly rolled her eyes at Chen Xiao, saying:
"Forget it, forget it. The cart will find its way when it reaches the mountain. My stomach hurts too much. Hurry up and rub it for me. In short, as long as I'm here, no one will be able to harm you in the slightest."
Saying this, she sighed and lay back on the sofa. Then, without any hesitation, she lifted her skirt to expose her abdomen, revealing her fair, long legs and the safety shorts underneath for modesty.
"Okay."
Chen Xiao had often massaged Bai Su's stomach since he was young and felt no embarrassment. He quickly sat beside her on the sofa and did as he was told.
Considering that Bai Su's illness involved her privacy as a woman, and Bai Su had always been reluctant to seek treatment, Chen Xiao decided not to reveal it. However, he couldn't help but use the Two-Yin Massage technique, which was specifically designed to relieve various abdominal pains, and intentionally reminded her:
"Aunt Bai, I recently learned a massage technique from an ancient Chinese medicine book left by my maternal grandfather, which is specifically for relieving abdominal pain. It might be effective for your old problem, but it might hurt a bit. Can you bear it?"
Bai Su's mind was entirely occupied with how to help Chen Xiao deal with Jiang Xiuzhu's mess. Without thinking, she said:
"I've been in pain for decades, what can I not bear! Hiss..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Su unexpectedly felt a sharp pain that was even more unbearable than her abdominal pain sweep through her entire body. She gasped in pain and instinctively raised her hand to look at Chen Xiao's hands massaging her stomach.
To her surprise, Chen Xiao not only didn't increase the pressure but seemed to be very careful.
Moreover, Chen Xiao had massaged her stomach before, so she shouldn't have felt any additional pain.
But after the pain subsided, she clearly felt that her abdominal pain had suddenly lessened. Both surprised and delighted, she put aside the medical principles and quickly said:
"It hurt a bit, but it's truly worthy of the Chinese medicine massage technique inherited from Old Master Chen Jishi. It seems to be effective! Chen Xiao, don't be afraid of hurting me, just rub with all your might!"
Chen Xiao continued to massage Bai Su's fair and delicate, youthful-looking flat abdomen with great care, and deliberately persuaded her in an indirect tone:
"It's enough that you can endure the current pain. This massage technique emphasizes gradual progress. Even if I use more force, the pain-relieving effect will be the same. Moreover, your chronic abdominal pain has lasted for at least ten or twenty years. As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain collapsing and leaves like drawing silk. To fully recover, long-term and effective treatment is definitely required."
In front of Chen Xiao, Bai Su was very open and didn't have the idea of avoiding medical treatment. She gave a bitter smile and shook her head pessimistically, saying:
"You must have heard Jiang Xiuzhu say why I'm still single in my early forties, right? I used to think you were too young, so I didn't tell you the truth. In fact, as Jiang Xiuzhu said, the reason I can't have children is due to congenital ovarian underdevelopment, and chronic abdominal pain is one of the symptoms. In recent years, it has even been accompanied by complications such as intermittent amenorrhea caused by premature ovarian failure. If I remember correctly, my last period was more than half a year ago. There's no cure for this illness, sigh!"
Chen Xiao had already accurately diagnosed the series of complications caused by Bai Su's congenital ovarian underdevelopment. To avoid increasing Bai Su's psychological pressure, he deliberately appeared calm and continued to patiently encourage Bai Su:
"A drop of water can wear through a stone, and an iron rod can be ground into a needle. Aunt Bai, as a doctor, and even the director of a hospital, why are you so pessimistic about illness? In my opinion, as long as you put in enough effort, there is no illness that cannot be cured. After all, the symptoms of any illness are fixed, while our medical skills as practitioners are constantly improving. Just like smallpox, which once made humans tremble, isn't it also conquered now?"
"This..."
Bai Su was clearly taken aback by Chen Xiao's words. She felt that this little guy who used to like to snuggle in her bed when he was little had truly grown up. She was also greatly encouraged and nodded heavily:
"Alright, alright. Since you're so confident, you'll have to trouble yourself to come to my house often to rub my stomach. Although I don't expect to recover in my lifetime, as long as you can make my stomach hurt less, I'm willing to be your laboratory mouse for overcoming congenital ovarian underdevelopment."
In just a short while, the abdominal pain that had made her unable to straighten her back had almost completely disappeared. Considering Chen Xiao's predicament, she couldn't continue letting Chen Xiao massage her. She quickly tidied her skirt, which had almost reached her chest, and picked up her phone again, muttering to herself with a headache:
"But before that, I absolutely must get Sister Mo to help forge Jiang Xiuzhu's examination report, otherwise your mother will flay me alive..."
Before she could finish speaking, Bai Su was suddenly terrified because Mo Shuting, the administrative director of the psychiatry department, happened to call at that moment.
"Could it be that the examination results for Jiang Xiuzhu are out so quickly?"
Thinking of this possibility, Bai Su's exquisite face, which seemed to defy age, instantly turned as pale as paper. She couldn't help but resentfully blame Chen Xiao:
"You brat, you've given me such a difficult problem!"
As she spoke, she also pinched Chen Xiao's waist.
Chen Xiao gasped in pain and said with a wry smile:
"Aunt Bai, don't get angry yet. Hurry up and answer the phone. Director Mo must be calling you at this time because Jiang Xiuzhu has indeed been diagnosed with mental disorder. Even if not, hiding won't help!"
"You..."
Bai Su was speechless. After thinking for a moment, she had no choice but to brace herself and answer Mo Shuting's call, pretending to be calm:
"Sister Mo, is there something?"