Just as the words were on the tip of Zhao Yanli's tongue, about to erupt, Chen Xiao, with lightning speed and utter disgust, patted her back. The mysterious, wordless golden formula in his mind activated at his will.
"Ah—"
Zhao Yanli instinctively cried out. Immediately, she was shocked to find the urge to vomit vanish. The abdominal pain also rapidly subsided, and her limp limbs miraculously regained their mobility.
"Chen, you dare to hit me again? Just you wait, I won't let you off!"
Hurriedly throwing down a threat, she quickly abandoned Ye Huoshui, who stood stunned at the door, and fled.
"This... that... I..."
Ye Huoshui didn't know whether to stay or go. After stammering for a long time, she simply opened all the doors and windows of the examination room to ventilate. Then, with a mortified expression, she apologized to Chen Xiao:
"Dr. Chen, I originally admired your chivalry and helped my friend change her appointment to yours. I never expected to cause you trouble. I'm truly sorry."
Putting that aside, since Ye Huoshui was polite, Chen Xiao naturally wouldn't continue to be difficult. He said:
"Ms. Ye, you're too kind. I didn't take it to heart at all. Please, make yourself at home. I need to continue seeing other patients."
With that, Chen Xiao prepared to call the next waiting patient through the clinic's appointment system.
"Dr. Chen, please wait a moment."
Ye Huoshui was anxious and blurted out:
"I vaguely heard my friend speaking disrespectfully to you outside. It was right for you to refuse to treat her, but her stomach is definitely in serious trouble. Since a casual pat from you could alleviate her condition, you must have a way to treat it, right? So... so I would like to boldly ask you to give her another chance."
Fearing Chen Xiao's refusal, she even bowed solemnly to him as she spoke.
But Chen Xiao remained unmoved. He unhesitatingly pressed the mouse, calling the next waiting patient:
"Your friend does not need my treatment, and I refuse to treat her. As for why I reluctantly alleviated her condition just now, it was merely to prevent her from vomiting here."
"But..."
Ye Huoshui stopped mid-sentence.
At that moment, the next waiting patient, clutching his stomach and bent over, hurried into the room.
Coincidentally, this patient was also an emergency case of diarrhea.
And in terms of his symptoms, he was even more severe than Zhao Yanli.
After Chen Xiao examined him thoroughly and reviewed his medical history, he casually patted his back and abdomen three times each. In less than five minutes, without prescribing any medication, his diarrhea vanished as if by magic.
"This... this... this this this..."
Ye Huoshui became increasingly convinced that Chen Xiao's seemingly ordinary pats concealed profound medical mysteries. Astonished, she hesitated only for a moment before eagerly rushing out to call Zhao Yanli:
"Yanli, after Dr. Chen patted your back, did you find your diarrhea significantly relieved?"
Zhao Yanli, who had packed several sets of light, thin dresses in her bag, was currently changing in a restroom, gritting her teeth as she replied:
"That Chen guy hit me too hard. I will definitely not let him off. But speaking of which, after he patted me like that, my stomach did coincidentally get better. Huoshui, why are you asking this?"
Ye Huoshui corrected her with an even more excited tone:
"No! It wasn't a coincidence! It was miraculous medical skill! Yanli, where are you? Hurry back and find Dr. Chen. I just saw him use the same technique to cure a patient with even worse diarrhea on the spot!"
"How can a casual pat cure diarrhea? Huoshui, aren't you being too naive?"
Zhao Yanli had already changed into a clean dress and was about to go out to find Ye Huoshui when waves of diarrhea and abdominal pain suddenly struck. Her face darkened instantly, and she hastily crouched on the toilet.
As the saying goes, in desperate times, people resort to desperate measures.
As Zhao Yanli emerged from the restroom, still clutching her stomach, she suddenly had the idea to try Chen Xiao again. She deliberately sent Ye Huoshui away, then strutted into examination room number eight in her sexy high heels, and imperiously declared:
"Chen Xiao, as long as you cure my abdominal pain and diarrhea, I promise not to pursue your previous disrespectful behavior."
Chen Xiao had just finished seeing a patient and was about to call the next one. Seeing the self-important Zhao Yanli return, he was instantly annoyed. He instinctively pinched his nose and yelled:
"Cure your mother! Get lost, or I'll call security!"
With a smirk, Zhao Yanli casually pulled out a thick stack of hundred-yuan bills from her bag and threw them onto the examination desk:
"Here's ten thousand yuan. I don't believe there's any problem that money can't solve."
Chen Xiao raised an eyebrow and shook his head with utter disdain:
"Money can indeed solve problems, but ten thousand yuan is too little. I want a million!"