stance towards marrying Yunxi; after all, since he took the oath of Celestial Master, his life had been entwined with Yunxi's. Unless Yunxi changed her heart, there was no way Xiao Yu and Yunxi would...Chapter 173: Consultation

"Old嶽, when did you get a junior apprentice Why haven't I heard about it" After greeting Xiao Yu with Old Tang Wensheng, he turned to ask Old Yue his doubt.

Hearing Old Tang's question, Old Liu also looked at Old Yue in confusion.

"Haha, old Tang, old Liu, you should know the origin of our family’s medical skills," seeing the puzzled looks on his two friends' faces, Old Yue chuckled and said.

Since the end of the chaos and the start of reform and opening-up, it has no longer been a secret that the Yue family's lineage of medicine was inherited. Some elderly figures in the traditional Chinese medical community were aware of this fact.

"Old嶽, could he be..." Upon hearing Old Yue say so, Old Tang froze for a moment before realizing something and looked at Xiao Yu in astonishment.

Old Yue nodded. Now that Wan Sheng Hall's sign has been hung out, the fact that Xiao Yu is an heir of the Xiao family will inevitably spread throughout the traditional Chinese medical community; therefore, it doesn't matter if it’s revealed beforehand.

In this day and age, which isn’t wartime, there’s no need for the Xiao family to remain incognito to preserve their lineage. At present, the field of traditional Chinese medicine is flourishing with a myriad of schools of thought, making it unnecessary for the Xiao family to conceal their identity.

Upon receiving Old Yue's confirmation, both Tang and Liu took deep breaths. As heirs of prestigious lineages in the traditional Chinese medical community, they well knew how illustrious the Xiao family once was, having been at the helm of Northern Traditional Chinese Medicine not just a hollow boast, but unfortunately, their lineage had broken off during times of war.

Only recently did people within the medical community come to realize that the rising Yue family was actually a branch of the Xiao family.

And now, here appeared Xiao Yu, an heir of direct descent from the Xiao family. Therefore, it’s understandable why they would be so astonished.

"Doctor Xiao, please sit down!"

At this moment, Old Tang and Old Liu were much more cordial towards Xiao Yu than before.

The people in the room were either from the Deep Sea People's Hospital or Western medicine experts they had invited. Among them were only a few old traditional Chinese doctors and Tian Boran, so none of them understood what was being discussed.

Though confused, they clearly noticed the shift in Old Tang’s and Old Liu’s attitudes towards Xiao Yu, prompting their curiosity when looking at him.

Although Director Hu didn't know exactly what was happening, seeing how the old traditional Chinese doctors behaved made him realize he had made the right decision by inviting Xiao Yu.

At this moment, a few people came walking in from outside the courtyard; they were precisely those who had been waiting at the hospital entrance earlier.

After a few people entered the room, it was obvious that there were not enough chairs. Two young doctors from the hospital quickly went to fetch more.

Once everyone had taken their seats, they chatted and laughed but did not discuss Cao Er's condition at all, which suited Xiao Yu just fine.

"Please wait a moment, experts from Beijing will be arriving shortly. The patient has just fallen asleep. Let’s convene once the experts from Beijing arrive," said the mayor’s secretary, who walked from the corner to the center of the room.

After speaking, he joined hands with a man in his fifties coming down from upstairs and left the room together.

"President Liang..."

"President Liang..."

As this fifty-something-year-old man passed by, doctors from the hospital greeted him warmly.

The president of the Sea Hospital was in a foul mood. He seemed not to have heard any greetings and walked straight out of the room.

The president had been reprimanded by the mayor for his incompetence and felt humiliated that he couldn’t cure such an ordinary illness, leading him to seek help from quacks. This left him feeling disgraced as the hospital's president.

Not long after leaving, they returned with three men in their fifties and a man in his sixties following them.

The former were experts Cao Er had invited from Beijing hospitals, while the latter was the doctor responsible for Cao Gelaoshi's health.

"Due to space constraints upstairs, doctors from the Sea Hospital will not be joining us. All other doctors should follow me!" said Cao Jingmin’s secretary as he stood in the middle of the room.

Upon hearing this, all the Sea Hospital doctors lowered their heads in shame; it was a disgrace to have been excluded on their own turf. President Liang also had an unimpressed expression and glared at them from outside the room.

However, no one dared to argue back since they had failed to identify Cao Er’s condition after watching him all night long. There was no reason for others to let them in.

Xiao Yu followed everyone else casually. As soon as he entered the courtyard and found out that the patient was Cao Er, he decided to watch the spectacle before leaving.

The second floor was a large room equipped with various medical instruments, even more so than an intensive care unit.

In this room were two middle-aged men in their fifties sitting on the sofa looking haggard. The patient, wrapped up from head to toe in bandages and restrained to the bed, laid motionless inside the room.

Seeing everyone walk up, the middle-aged couple sitting on the sofa stood up and walked towards them.

Although this middle-aged man looked a bit haggard, his gait still exuded an air of authority befitting his position.

"I'm truly troubled by all you experts! I, Cao Jingmin, feel overwhelmed!" Cao Jingmin said when he reached the group.

"Mayor Cao, you are being too polite..."

"That's right, Mayor Cao. Healing patients is our duty; there’s no need to be so courteous..."

These doctors were from the Deep Sea People's Hospital and were experts brought over from other hospitals, so they naturally knew the mayor of Deep Sea City. Upon hearing Cao Jingmin's words, they hurriedly responded with respect.

"Doctor Li, thank you for your efforts!" After waving at these doctors, Cao Jingmin turned around to face a sixty-something-year-old man from Beijing and those behind him, speaking very warmly and courteously.

"Mayor Cao is being too polite. When we came, Old Cao instructed us to do everything in our power to heal Young Master Cao!" the elderly man replied.

"Doctor Li, please; experts, please! I entrust my son's illness to all of you!" said Cao Jingmin as he gestured courteously towards them.

The group of doctors who had come numbered around fifteen or sixteen people. Due to limited space, they went in groups to examine the patient.

Four individuals—Xiao Yu, Elder Yue, Elder Tang, and Elder Liu—went up to diagnose him in rotation, with Xiao Yu taking his turn to feel the pulse of Cao Er after them. When it was Xiao Yu's turn, he placed his hand on Cao Er’s wrist.

About a minute later, Xiao Yu and the others finished their examination and returned. Although Xiao Yu appeared calm, inwardly he felt satisfied; these vengeful ghosts’ retaliation was indeed effective—there wasn’t an inch of Cao Er’s body that hadn't been affected, his spirit was extremely weak, and he could potentially die at any moment.

Actually, what Xiao Yu didn’t know was that it shouldn’t have come to this point. In his mind, he wanted him to suffer for a few days before dying; however, after sending Cao Er to the hospital yesterday evening, Xiao Yu's gathering煞符 (sacrifice attracting talisman) took effect.

With the dense yin energy in hospitals and numerous ghosts lingering around due to many deaths there daily, when Cao Er was brought to the hospital last night, Xiao Yu’s gathering煞符 attracted a large number of ghosts which almost immediately caused Cao Er's mental state to collapse.

Before leaving, Xiao Yu glanced at the vengeful ghost hiding under the bed and then released his grip on Cao Er’s wrist.

The moment these doctors finished their pulse diagnosis, another group of them took over. These were Western doctors who had already completed all necessary tests yesterday evening, so they simply compared their results with previous ones while using some simple medical instruments for a check-up.

After the examination, each doctor returned with furrowed brows.

Until the local doctors from Deep Sea finished their examination, those physicians who came from the capital city saw that each of the local doctors had furrowed brows and sneered proudly. Then they walked over to Cao Er’s side.

The few individuals were from the capital city where they believed that its foundation was solid and deep because it was near the imperial palace. Moreover, their hospital in the capital city also had another title domestically—Imperial Hospital.

Therefore, these people looked down on the doctors here from the bottom of their hearts, thinking that these local doctors were just quacks who could fool commoners but would cower at places where they need to show off their medical skills.

The few individuals carried an arrogant look and took some equipment which they brought over with them from their hospital in the capital city. They walked over to Cao Er’s side, starting on all sorts of examinations for him.

And this time, it was done thoroughly—without looking at any of Deep Sea People's Hospital’s examination results, they did everything again using their own small instruments that they brought with them.

After these few doctors were finished with the折騰 (examinations), two hours had already passed. Due to Professors Old Yue, Tang and Liu being elderly, they went down first to rest in the lounge on the floor below.

When all of the examination results came out, these doctors from the capital city’s hospital were rendered dumbfounded—each result showed that Cao Er was perfectly normal.

"Doctor Li, how is it What disease did my son contract" Seeing Doctor Li and his group finish their examinations, Cao Jingmin walked up to ask.

Cao Jingmin’s expression looked rather calm on the surface but the anxiousness in his eyes could not be concealed at all.

"This… We still can’t make a diagnosis for now. Since we’ve also checked him, let’s convene and discuss this matter before making any final conclusions!"

At present, Doctor Li looked at the various examination results in his hand and dared not speak straightly. If he said that they were unable to diagnose Cao Er’s illness as well, wouldn’t it be a self-refutation

Since so many people were here for a consultation, naturally, he would pull everyone else down with him!

Doctor Li and the others went downstairs together. A secretary of Cao Jingmin brought them to the conference room on the west side of the lounge. In there, Old Yue, Tang and Liu had already been seated.

The moment everyone sat down, Cao Jingmin also came into the room—he could not bear leaving here so he decided to listen in as well.

"Since you all have done your examinations too, please share your opinions," Doctor Li said while standing at the main seat.

The moment his words fell, the previously noisy conference room suddenly became silent. All of the doctors lowered their heads and looked through their examination results in their hands—no one dared to speak up.

These people were not fools; none would be the first to speak, especially since they all checked Cao Er’s body and found no problems at all. Thus, they all suspected that there might have been a problem with his mental health.hes across various regions or even at headquarters in Beijing. Additionally, local officials always gave a green light for anything related to the Hu Shan Group.In today's society, if you were to star...