84: A scene of carnage!
The supermarket office was bright and clean.
Lin Chuan sat in his executive chair, playing with a future smartphone in his hand. It looked like an ordinary Nokia, but it actually contained high-tech from the year 2077.
In his mind, the system's notification sound rang out again.
[Ding! Host's prestige value has broken through the critical point! The system mall has upgraded again!]
[New items unlocked!]
Lin Chuan's eyes lit up, and his consciousness instantly sank into the system.
On the glittering golden interface, three new icons were prominently displayed, each emitting an enticing glow.
1. [God-level Western Medicine Mastery]
Price: 100 million
Description: Includes a full set of modern medical knowledge such as anatomy, pharmacology, and pathology, as well as cutting-edge medical achievements from the next fifty years. It will make you a god-level surgical expert.
2. [God-level Traditional Chinese Medicine Mastery]
Price: 300 million
Description: The crystallization of five thousand years of Huaxia's medical arts.
Observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking; Yin and Yang and the Five Elements; meridians and acupoints.
Includes long-lost ancient prescriptions and pill formulas.
Upon full mastery, one can bring the dead back to life and grow flesh on bare bones.
3. [Taiyi Divine Needle (Secrets of the God-level TCM Branch)]
Price: 100 million
Description: An acupuncture technique of wuxia novel caliber.
“Good stuff!”
Lin Chuan took a deep breath, his heart pounding.
These days, who can guarantee they won't get sick?
Who can guarantee their family will stay safe and sound forever?
With these medical skills, it was like adding a protective shell to his whole family's lives!
Especially that Taiyi Divine Needle—it was the god-level acupuncture technique that most often appeared in 'Expert Down the Mountain' novels!
Its effects were incredibly miraculous!
He never expected that one day, he would obtain it himself.
“Bought! I'm buying them all!”
Lin Chuan waved his hand grandly, full of heroic spirit.
The numbers in his account instantly decreased by 500 million.
[Assets: 677.9 billion!]
“It hasn't even been that long, and I've already spent over a billion! I need to make more money; the later rewards are getting better and better!”
“Damn! If this keeps up, will I be rewarded with a few buckets of Pangu blood in the future? Hahaha—hic!”
Lin Chuan thought fancifully.
These 500 million were well spent!
Buzz—!
A massive stream of information instantly flooded into his brain.
There was no splitting headache, only a clarity like a divine revelation.
Countless human meridian diagrams, herbal maps, Western medicine molecular formulas, and surgical techniques!
Everything was mastered and integrated in an instant.
At the same time, a warm current flowed through his fingertips.
Lin Chuan stretched out his right hand and looked at his slender fingers.
Now, these hands could both hold a scalpel for the most precise heart transplant and pinch a silver needle to perform the life-saving Taiyi Divine Needle.
“Awesome!”
Lin Chuan clenched his fist; that feeling of controlling life was even more fascinating than owning trillions in assets.
Just then.
“Bang!”
The office door was pushed open violently.
Lin Chuan looked up and saw Long Wu rushing in hurriedly.
This tower-like man was now full of guilt, his eyes rimmed with red.
“Boss!!”
Long Wu rushed to the desk in a few steps and plopped down on one knee.
“I am guilty!”
“Such a big thing happened yesterday! You had a gun pointed at you! And I wasn't by your side!”
“As a bodyguard, I've failed in my duty!”
“Please punish me, Boss! If you fire me, I won't say a word!”
Long Wu truly wanted to slap himself twice.
If something had really happened to the Boss yesterday, he could never make up for it even with ten thousand deaths!
Lin Chuan smiled, stood up, walked around the desk, and helped Long Wu up.
“Alright, alright, it's no big deal.”
“Get up quickly.”
Lin Chuan patted Long Wu's solid shoulder and handed him a cigarette.
“Yesterday you went to the hospital to see your mother. In the whole world, filial piety comes first.”
“Besides, aren't I fine?”
“Those little bastards couldn't hurt me.”
Long Wu took the cigarette, his hands shaking, and tears almost fell.
The Boss not only didn't blame him but even comforted him in return.
Such breadth of mind, such magnanimity!
“Boss...”
Long Wu wiped his face, his voice choking up.
“Enough, don't do that useless stuff.”
Lin Chuan sat back in his chair and asked:
“Since we're talking about it, how is your mother's illness?”
“I remember it's uremia, right? Did she go for dialysis yesterday?”
At the mention of this, a cloud of gloom instantly covered Long Wu's resolute face.
He took a deep drag of the cigarette and sighed:
“Yeah, the dialysis was quite successful.”
“But, sigh, Boss, you know, that thing is painful!”
“My mother is at that age; she was already weak. After every dialysis session, she's completely exhausted and can't even eat.”
“And her arms are covered in needle marks; it really hurts to see.”
“And this is with money for dialysis; if we didn't have money, I wouldn't even dare to imagine!”
Long Wu lowered his head; this 1.9-meter-tall man was very helpless right now.
This illness not only burned money but was also slowly draining her life away.
Hearing this, Lin Chuan's eyes flickered.
The god-level TCM knowledge he had just acquired instantly began to work in his mind.
Uremia.
From a Western medicine perspective, it's renal failure, which is irreversible and can only be maintained by dialysis or a kidney transplant.
In the eyes of a god-level TCM doctor,
it was the exhaustion of kidney Qi, internal accumulation of damp toxins, and blockage of the Triple Burner.
Using decoctions to warm and supplement kidney Yang and discharge toxins and turbidity,
a cure was not impossible!
“Long Wu.”
Lin Chuan suddenly spoke, picked up a pen from the desk, and pulled over a sheet of A4 paper.
“Don't worry anymore.”
“Do you trust me?”
Long Wu was stunned and nodded subconsciously: “Boss, of course I trust you!”
“That's good.”
Lin Chuan's pen moved like dragons and snakes as he scribbled down a list of Chinese medicine names on the paper.
Aconite, cinnamon, prepared rehmannia, dogwood, poria... they were all potent drugs for warming kidney Yang and promoting water metabolism, but under Lin Chuan's formulation, they were perfectly balanced as Sovereign, Minister, Assistant, and Envoy.
“Take this prescription.”
Lin Chuan handed the paper to Long Wu.
“Go to a Chinese medicine shop and get three doses.”
“Go back and brew it for your mother to drink, once in the morning and once in the evening.”
“After she finishes these three doses, go to the hospital for a checkup.”
“I guarantee that your mother's illness will be cured, and she won't have to suffer through dialysis anymore.”
Holding that flimsy piece of paper, Long Wu was completely dumbfounded.
He widened his ox-like eyes and looked at Lin Chuan in disbelief.
“Boss?”
“This is a prescription?”
“You know how to treat illnesses too?”
This was too far-fetched!
The Boss was rich, could fight, and was smart.
But this was treating a disease! And it was a terminal illness like uremia!
Just these few herbs, and she'd be better in three days?
If it weren't Lin Chuan sitting in front of him, Long Wu would have thrown a punch already.
This was just too ridiculous!
“You don't believe me?”
Lin Chuan looked at him with a half-smile.
“When have I ever lied to you?”
“I believe you!”
Looking at the Boss's confident eyes, that unexplainable sense of trust welled up in his heart again.
The Boss could even block a homemade cannon and throw away hundreds of millions casually; what else couldn't he do?
Long Wu carefully folded the prescription and tucked it into his inner pocket.
“Boss, I'll go get the medicine right now!”
After speaking, Long Wu turned to run out.
“Hey! Wait a moment!”
Lin Chuan suddenly stopped him.
Long Wu braked hard: “What other instructions do you have, Boss?”
Lin Chuan rubbed his chin, and a figure suddenly flashed through his mind.
It was his sister-in-law.
Big Brother Lin Jiang's wife.
A simple and kind rural woman.
Since marrying into the Lin family, she had worked hard without complaint, serving her parents-in-law and taking care of her brother-in-law.
But her health had always been poor.
She was sickly all year round; whenever it was cloudy or rainy, her whole body would ache, sometimes so much she couldn't get out of bed.
No matter how many times she went to the hospital, they couldn't find the cause; they just said it was rheumatism or neurasthenia.
She could only rely on painkillers to get by.
Among rural women of this era, this kind of illness was too common, mostly caused by exhaustion or poor recovery after childbirth.
But in the eyes of a god-level TCM doctor,
this was a deficiency of both Qi and blood, with cold and dampness penetrating the bones.
“Get another dose while you're at it.”
Lin Chuan picked up his pen again.
This prescription was different.
Angelica, astragalus, cinnamon twig, white peony root... it focused on nourishing and activating blood, warming the meridians, and dispelling cold.
“Get three doses of this prescription as well.”
Lin Chuan handed the second sheet of paper to Long Wu.
“When the time comes, have someone send it to my big brother.”
“Just say it's tonic medicine I prescribed for Sister-in-law.”
“Sister-in-law's health really needs to be properly conditioned.”
Long Wu took the second prescription, completely won over.
The Boss has truly become a divine doctor!
After all, even remembering these names wasn't easy.
Moreover, the Boss really kept those around him in his heart!
He even remembered his sister-in-law's illness.
“Got it, Boss!”
“I'm going right now!”
This time, Long Wu had no doubt at all. He tucked the two prescriptions away like imperial edicts and ran off like a gust of wind... Just as Long Wu left,
Lin Chuan just wanted to brew a cup of tea for himself and take a break.
Suddenly,
the sound of high heels clicking on the floor came from outside the door.
And it wasn't just one person.
It was two!
The sound was hurried, forceful, and even carried a hint of murderous intent.
“Oh?”
Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow; this rhythm felt a bit off!
Outside the door.
In the supermarket corridor.
Two stunning beauties met on a narrow path.
The one on the left was in a crisp olive-green police uniform, looking valiant and heroic, holding a file folder.
It was precisely the police beauty Officer Su Qingyi.
The one on the right was wearing a moon-white qipao, carrying an Hermès bag, with long straight black hair, flaming red lips, and looking incredibly sexy.
It was precisely the underworld heiress Chu Yueli.
These two women, one the embodiment of justice and the other the queen of the underworld,
usually minded their own business.
But now, they had bumped into each other in this narrow corridor.
The smell of gunpowder was sizzling in the air!
Chu Yueli stopped first, pulled down her sunglasses, and sized up Officer Su Qingyi from head to toe with her fox-like eyes.
A playful smile curled at the corner of her mouth.
“Yo? Great Officer Su?”
“What's this? No work today?”
“In the middle of the morning, instead of catching bad guys, what are you doing here?”
“Could it be that you're using official business as an excuse to catch up with someone?”
Chu Yueli's words were thorny.
Officer Su Qingyi was no pushover either.
She stood straight, her righteous aura not losing at all to Chu Yueli's noble air.
She snorted coldly and hugged the file folder to her chest.
“Miss Chu, what kind of talk is that?”
“Protecting the lives and property of the people is our duty as police officers.”
“Especially for an outstanding young entrepreneur like Lin Chuan, who has made significant contributions to Harbin.”
“Of course I have to keep a close eye on him.”
Officer Su Qingyi took a step forward, staring sharply at Chu Yueli.
“Lest some shady people lead him astray.”
“After all, some people come from the wrong background and do nothing but foul things.”
“Lin Chuan is a clean and innocent university student; he can't be tainted by others.”
“Who are you calling shady?!”
Chu Yueli's eyebrows shot up; she was about to explode on the spot.
“Who are you calling foul?!”
“My Chu family are respectable businesspeople now!”
“On the other hand, Officer Su, coming to find a man in broad daylight.”
“I think you're the one with impure motives.”
“I'm concerned about the case!!” Officer Su Qingyi's face turned red, and her voice rose an octave.
“Tch! Who'd believe that?”
Chu Yueli rolled her eyes hard.
“Does 'concerning yourself with the case' require stroking someone's back for five minutes?”
“And asking him if it hurts here or there?”
“Officer Su, if we hadn't been there at the time, would you have reached into his pants?”
“You!! How can you be so vulgar!”
Officer Su Qingyi was poked in her sore spot, her chest heaving violently with anger.
“Chu Yueli! Please mind your manners!”
“I have no manners, so what?”
Chu Yueli crossed her arms, looking like a dead pig that didn't fear boiling water.
“Like you said, I'm from the underworld; how much is 'manners' worth per pound?”
“You're shameless!” Officer Su Qingyi's eyes welled with tears.
“You're the one who's shameless? That night, weren't the lipstick marks on Mr. Lin's face all yours?”
“Usually you act all proper, but as soon as you're off work, you dive into karaoke bars!”
“What are you pretending for?”
“Fine! I just love kissing Lin Chuan, so what? We even touched tongues!”
“It felt great!”
Officer Su Qingyi cried out of anger and just threw caution to the wind.
After the truth was revealed, it was Chu Yueli's turn to lose her composure.
“You're really shameless!”
The two were like two fighting peacocks, refusing to give an inch in front of Lin Chuan's office door, saliva flying.
Inside the room, Lin Chuan's head throbbed as he listened to the commotion outside.
Having too much luck with women is also a headache!
How is this the 'blessing of having a wife and a concubine'?
This is clearly a Shura Field!