ner room (the actual patient room) and an outer room (a living space). When Xiao Yu and his companions arrived, Wan Hongguang and Song Haling were sitting in the living space, looking through the glas...Chapter 118: Grandpa Yue's Shock (Please vote for monthly ticket!)

"Haha, auntie, this ear piercing must have been done when you were a child! Back then, it seemed that poor peasants wouldn't get piercings!" Xiao Yu didn’t get angry despite the old lady interrupting him. Instead, he smiled and pointed at her ears.

The old lady was stunned. She subconsciously touched her earlobe with admiration in her eyes. Then she stopped talking.

"Boom..." When they saw the old lady's reaction, the surrounding crowd and those waiting to see a doctor all realized that Xiao Yu had spoken the truth. Suddenly, everyone started whispering excitedly as if their fuse had been ignited.

Grandpa Yue was even more pleased. Even when he did his own pulse diagnosis, he wouldn’t have discovered so much about her illness. At this moment, Grandpa Yue was convinced that Xiao Yu possessed the skills of a national-level doctor.

"Your body has an inclination towards heat energy, which is why you sweat so much. Back then in the countryside, people usually bathed in rivers. However, your condition stems from cold poison that accumulated many years ago and it's located on your waist. That’s why I said you were sent down to work in the north. During summer, when it gets very hot up there, after sweating a lot, one would bathe with cold water. Your waist is where most of your labor takes place, so it’s also the area that’s easiest for cold poison to invade."

Xiao Yu paused and took a sip of water before continuing, "Because you have an inclination towards heat energy in your body, cold poison has formed a balance with it. Before this illness occurred, you must have sweated heavily and then bathed or wiped yourself down with cold water. Now that you're old and weak, the use of cold water after sweating heavily disrupts the balance within your body, which causes your illness to flare up! Since your body’s balance has been disrupted, even a slight chill can trigger an episode; however, once you warm up again, it’ll subside."

Hearing Xiao Yu's diagnosis, the old lady said with admiration, "Doctor, I almost forgot. The day before my illness started, I went out and came back right at rush hour when the buses were packed. So I decided to walk home. That day was very stifling; I sweated a lot on the way back. After returning home, I wiped myself down with cold water."

Upon hearing this from the old lady, everyone who had been watching quietly lined up behind her. At this point, no one cared about Xiao Yu's age or deliberately ignored it.

Xiao Yu wrote out the prescription and handed it to Grandpa Yue, saying, "Senior Brother, please take a look!"

Professor Yue accepted the prescription, although he knew that Xiao Yu's prescriptions would be problem-free, he still took a look. The diagnosis on Xiao Yu’s prescription was wind-cold exterior syndrome with blocked and stagnant meridians; the medicine listed were all warming and dispelling cold drugs. As Professor Yue read through Xiao Yu's prescription, his brows gradually furrowed.

The reason for this was that there was nothing particularly outstanding about Xiao Yu’s prescriptions until he saw the last two ingredients; only then did Professor Yue's frown slowly ease up. These last two ingredients were truly the finishing touch, despite their seemingly ordinary nature, they could effectively harmonize liver and kidney functions to boost the body’s vital energy.

Professor Yue nodded as he looked at the prescription and handed it over to a clerk named Xiao Liu to fetch the medicine.

Xiao Yu then proceeded to examine another five or six patients in succession. These patients didn’t have serious issues, just requiring some medication for body regulation. After examining these half a dozen cases, Xiao Yu went to the toilet and upon returning, Professor Yue had already started diagnosing his next patient. Xiao Yu observed from the side; it was also a rare opportunity to learn useful knowledge through certain medical practices or prescriptions.

After Professor Yue finished writing out another prescription, he habitually handed it behind him. Since the clerk named Xiao Liu hadn't returned from fetching medicine yet, Xiao Yu accepted the new prescription. After taking a look at it, he held onto it while waiting for Xiao Liu to return and fetch the medicine. However, when Professor Yue wrote out his next prescription, Xiao Liu still hadn’t finished with the previous one.

Seeing that busy Xiao Liu was already sweating profusely behind the counter, Xiao Yu walked over to him; patients waiting for their prescriptions followed suit.

The hardworking Xiao Liu saw Xiao Yu holding two prescriptions and noticed more patients following behind, he said with a drenched forehead: "Doctor Xiao, please leave your prescriptions here. After I finish this one, I’ll start on those!"

Xiao Yu observed that Xiao Liu hadn’t even finished half of the current prescription and had an exhausted look on his face, so he offered: “How about I help you fetch some medicine too!”

Hearing this, Xiao Liu’s expression turned to one of amazement. He didn't expect Doctor Xiao with such advanced medical skills would also consider their clerks’ difficulties. Furthermore, Xiao Liu was indeed quite tired and wanted to hurry up so he could go observe Professor Yue diagnosing patients; observing the professor each time taught him a lot.

"I’ll owe you one then!" Xiao Liu said gratefully.

Xiao Yu waved his hand and walked into the counter, looked at the prescription, and immediately remembered all the ingredients. Xiao Yu laid out a piece of yellow straw paper on the table and turned around to look inside the medicine cabinet, memorizing roughly where each type of herb was located before starting to dispense them. He casually opened one drawer, grabbed a handful of herbs without looking, then placed it onto the straw paper, followed by opening another drawer for more...

“Doctor Xiao, you can’t just grab the medicine like this, you need to use scales…” After Junior Liu finished dispensing one herb and looked at Xiao Yu, he realized that Xiao Yu simply grabbed a handful of herbs and put them onto the paper. Alarmed, Junior Liu shouted out.

Junior Liu didn't think that Xiao Yu possessed Old Yue’s level of expertise. He believed that although Xiao Yu was skilled in medical knowledge, he had never learned how to properly dispense medicine, hence his unfamiliarity with it. The two patients waiting for their prescriptions saw the way Xiao Yu was grabbing herbs and wanted to say something but hesitated; they were relieved when Junior Liu shouted out.

Old Yue, who had just finished writing a prescription and was preparing to hand it over, heard Junior Liu’s shout from across the counter and turned to look. Upon seeing Xiao Yu dispensing medicine, he was startled. In Old Yue's mind, with Xiao Yu’s medical prowess, he must have started learning early on and thus didn't have time to practice dispensing medicine like they did.

Upon hearing Junior Liu’s shout at this moment, Old Yue inwardly cursed as Junior Liu had been dispensing medicine for several years and was quite skilled. This meant that Xiao Yu must be making a mistake in his herb selection. Hurriedly getting up, he rushed over.

The people waiting to see the doctor stretched their necks to look over and even some patients who were done collecting their herbs followed Old Yue over.

Xiao Yu didn't respond to Junior Liu’s shout but simply smiled as he continued dispensing medicine. Seeing that Xiao Yu showed no intention of stopping, Junior Liu was about to continue shouting when he saw Old Yue approaching and decided not to say anything more, merely watching Xiao Yu work.

Xiao Yu's speed in dispensing herbs was quick; he would grab a handful from each drawer without looking then place it onto the yellow straw paper. In just this short while, Xiao Yu had already dispensed most of the medicine.

The two patients waiting for their medicine originally thought that Xiao Yu would stop when they heard Junior Liu’s shout but seeing him continue as if nothing happened caused them to show worry on their faces. Who could possibly take medicine prepared like this! Many herbs in traditional Chinese medicine are toxic, and taking too much can be life-threatening—this was something the two patients knew all too well.

"Maste…" Old Yue walked over intending to stop Xiao Yu but seeing how familiar he looked with dispensing medicine and that each handful of herbs had varying sizes caused him to pause his words in his mouth.

Sitting Doctor solemnly walked to the package of herbs that Xiao Yu was picking, and with three fingers gently picked up one herb to feel its quality. After Sitting Doctor weighed it in his hand, his expression immediately changed; he looked at Xiao Yu again with a strange look on his face because Sitting Doctor could tell that Xiao Yu’s measurement of the herbs was precise.

Sitting Doctor didn’t even know how to describe Xiao Yu. He was so young yet had such excellent medical skills! This indicated that Xiao Yu had great talent and a good teacher, which might have cultivated him into someone like this. However, herb picking could not be faked—it required familiarity and diligence. The fact that Xiao Yu exerted himself in such a tedious task showed how hardworking he was when studying medicine.

Indeed, without excellent natural talent and perseverance, it would be impossible to achieve something as extraordinary as this.

In reality, Sitting Doctor didn’t know that when Xiao Yu was young, he hated learning medical skills. His medical knowledge came from his grandfather forcing him to memorize everything by rote. Before inheriting Judge Zhong’s legacy, Xiao Yu had no practical experience whatsoever. Without the inheritance and integration of Judge Zhong's memory, there would be no way for Xiao Yu to achieve such accomplishments.

It was worth noting that Judge Zhong’s medical skills were inherited from Hua Tuo’s lineage, and after years of research, his medical skills had reached a divine level. If Xiao Yu had Judge Zhong's cultivation, he would be able to bring the dead back to life with just Yin-Yang Life-Death Eyes.

Xiao Yu also had an innate connection with herbs; there was no need for him to practice picking them diligently. When his grandfather made him practice herb-picking, he found various excuses to avoid it. But even so, Xiao Yu never needed a scale when picking herbs and could always pick accurately.

Xiao Yu’s sister had practiced herb-picking diligently since she was young in order to set a good example for her brother, but she still couldn’t do blind picking after all these years. However, Xiao Yu managed it after only one year of sporadic practice.

This clearly showed that Xiao Yu had an exceptional natural talent for medicine. But because he hated learning medical skills, his grandfather could do nothing more than force him to memorize the theories. Every time he thought about this, Xiao Yu’s grandfather would shake his head and sigh in helplessness.

Watching Xiao Yu pick herbs, Sitting Doctor's eyes were full of admiration but also a hint of jealousy. Sitting Doctor started as an apprentice herb-picker and only after years of practice was he able to distinguish different herbs and then start learning medical skills. Even so, it wasn’t until the age of thirty-eight that he could do blind picking.

Moreover, Sitting Doctor still hadn't finished his apprenticeship at Xiao Yu’s current age! However, Xiao Yu had already achieved the level of a national master by this age and even mastered blind picking. So even the usually broad-minded Sitting Doctor couldn’t help but feel envious. even if these soldiers seemed to be pumped up like bulls, Jin Xianglin didn't show any signs of worry towards Xiao Yu.Xiao Yu remained unmoved by Zhang Dahai's posture and simply stood there looking...