Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The old man started to have a warm and swelling feeling in his head. His also had a swelling feeling in his eyes.
âHow do you feel?â asked Wang Yao.
âI have a warm and swelling feeling in my head,â said the old man.
Warm and swelling feeling?
Wang Yao stopped massaging.
He checked the old manâs pulse. His held his fingers on the old manâs pulse for some time.
Then he waited next to the old manâs bed for about an hour. Afterwards, he checked the old manâs pulse again. After making sure the old man was fine, he started to massage the old manâs head again to stimulate the acupuncture points and meridians in his head cautiously.
The old man still had a warm feeling in his head. Now the feeling became stronger, like waves, one after another. However, this time, he also had a prickling feeling in his head.
Shush!
The old man took a deep breath.
âAre you alright?â asked Wang Yao.
âMy head is aching,â said the old man.
âReally?â Wang Yao stopped massaging immediately.
âWhere about?â asked Wang Yao.
âItâs a bit hard to say,â said the old man.
âIâll press your head gently, tell me if you feel pain,â said Wang Yao.
âOkay,â said the old man.
Wang Yao gently pressed his finger on a spot of the old manâs head.
âIs it here?â asked Wang Yao.
âYes, you are right,â said the old man immediately.
This was where the thrombosis was.
Pain was not always a bad thing.
Wang Yao reckoned the pain was a good sign, but he chose to stop treating the old man. Instead, he sat next to the old manâs bed to check his pulse every half an hour. He kept doing that until noon.
The old manâs wife had been standing next to the bed as she watched Wang Yao treat her husband. She stood up to prepare for lunch, and was about to kill a rabbit for them to eat.
âTell your auntie we wonât have lunch here. I have to take someone to the airport,â said Wang Yao to Pan Jun.
âOkay,â said Pan Jun.
He went out of the room to speak to his uncleâs wife.
The old woman came back a moment later.
âDr. Wang, youâre not going to have lunch here?â asked the old woman.
âNo, Maâam, thank you. I have to take a friend to the airport later. I appreciate your invitation,â said Wang Yao, smiling.
âSorry to keep you busy for the whole morning,â said the old woman.
âDonât worry about that,â said Wang Yao.
After he made sure that the old man was fine, he left the old manâs house. He left behind part of the decoction he brewed for the old man, and told the old woman about the precautions of taking the decoction.
âAsk him to take the decoction on time. Warm the decoction before he takes it,â said Wang Yao.
âOkay,â said the old woman.
âYou need to take care of yourself too. Donât work too hard.â Wang Yao could tell that the old woman was not fit. She had a kyphotic posture, so she slumping over a bit.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âOkay,â said the old woman.
âWe are leaving now. You should go back into the house, itâs quite cold outside,â said Wang Yao.
He and Pan Jun left the village in his car. The old woman didnât go back into her house until she the car was out of sight.
âWhat a nice young man,â said the old woman.
âWhat is the fee for the treatment?â asked Pan Jun in the car.
âDonât worry it about until I cure your uncle.â Wang Yao shook his hand.
For many, he would charge a lot for treatment. For some, he wouldnât provide treatment no matter how much they were willing to pay. For the others, he would treat them for free.
Wang Yao had his own standards. But sometimes, he just did what he wanted on a whim.
For instance, the two elderly people he just met reminded him of his own grandparents. He felt close to them.
Everyone wanted more money. The more, the better. However, Wang Yao was quite happy with his earnings.
âShall we have lunch together?â asked Pan Jun.
âNo, thank you. I really do have to take a friend to the airport,â said Wang Yao.
âOkay, you can drop me anywhere convenient,â said Pan Jun.
After dropping Pan Jun at an intersection, Wang Yao went to the hostel to pick Chen Ying.
Chen Ying didnât bring lots of luggage with her. She just had one large backpack.
âSorry for being late, I had to see a patient this morning,â said Chen Ying.
âThatâs fine,â said Chen Ying, smiling.
Wang Yaoâs car was traveling fast on the broad highway.
âWhat do you think of my hometown?â asked Wang Yao.
âItâs nice, especially Nanshan Hill,â said Chen Yiing. âIt was like a cave paradise.â
âHaha!â laughed Wang Yao.
A âcave paradiseâ in Taoism referred to places where the gods and goddesses lived. Most of the cave paradises were in those famous mountains. However, there was no gods or goddess in the world nowadays.
Nanshan Hill was not special in terms of the view. However, it was filled with good aura, which was very rare. Therefore, Nanshan Hill was not a half penny worse than those famous mountains. It deserved to be called a âcave paradiseâ.
It was less than a two hour drive from Lianshan town center to Haiqu airport. There were not many cars on the road at noon. Wang Yao was driving fast. It only took him an hour and a half to get to the airport.
âThank you for your hospitality over the past few days,â said Chen Ying.
âHaha, thatâs nothing.â Wang Yao waved his hand. He had only showed Chen Ying the hills.
âYou donât have to stay here with me,â said Chen Ying.
âNever mind,â said Wang Yao.
He had a chat with Chen Ying in the waiting area, and didnât leave until the ground staff announced time for boarding.
âThank you,â said Chen Ying again.
âYou are welcome,â said Wang Yao.
Wang Yao felt a bit embarrassed as Chen Ying kept thanking him. Actually, he couldnât completely understand what was on Chen Yingâs mind now. For Chen Ying, Wang Yao was an amazing person, a really capable and talented person, more capable than anyone she had ever met. Therefore, she highly respected him, and for some reason, she was even a bit intimidated by him.
She had witnessed how Wang Yao controlled the rain and wind on the Great Wall. It was raining heavily on that day, but Wang Yaoâs clothes were completely dry even though he was standing in the rain.
It was Wang Yaoâs ability, his true ability.
He was close to a sort of god.
âI wish you a safe trip,â said Wang Yao.
He didnât leave until Chen Ying had disappeared at the end of the corridor.
He took a detour on his way back. He went to the beach on a whim.
In winter, it was very windy on the beach. There was only a handful of people on the beach.
Wang Yao stood on the beach listening to the sound of wind from the ocean.
The sands underneath his feet were soft.
It was very windy and the waves were high.
Wang Yao stood quietly on the beach. He slowly released his Qi to communicate with his surroundings.
Walla-walla! A wave surged forward.
Wang Yao slowly pushed his palm forward. His Qi split the wave into two.
He pushed his palms forward in turns. One hold after another appeared in the waves.
He looked around and found there was no one nearby. Then he took a big breath.
His Qi was like a running river.
He did an air-splitting fist.
He used all this strength.
Pop!
A loud sound appeared in the air, like a gunshot.
Bang! The wave was split into two.
Following the direction of Wang Yaoâs fist, there appeared a crack on the surface of the sea. The crack was about 10 meters long. It only lasted for a few seconds. It was soon filled with water.
At the moment Wang Yao punched out, the wind around him stopped, as if all of the air surrounding Wang Yao was evacuated.
âGood,â said Wang Yao in low voice.
He had never used all of his strength, even when he was on Nanshan Hill.
He looked at the waves in the sea, and followed the rhythm of the waves to do his breathing exercises. He inhaled and exhaled with the waves as they rolled in and pulled out.
It seemed to be a good idea to go to the beach often.
The ocean was different from hills.
The hills were high while the ocean was endless. They were so different.
Wang Yao was practicing medicine and Kung Fu at the same time.
He didnât leave the beach until it was nearly 5 pm. It was getting dark.
âWhat are you doing?!â
Suddenly he heard someone shouting in the woods near the beach. It was a womanâs voice.
âNot here, letâs go!â said the woman.
âI want to do it here. Iâm excited to do it here,â said a man.
What the hell?!
Wang Yao knew immediately what the two were about to do.
He didnât get why people wanted to have sex in the woods next to the beach, where it was so cold and windy. Peopleâs tastes are so weird now. Is it that expensive to go to a hotel?
Aye!
Wang Yao made a low sound, which sounded like thunder.
âWhat the hell?!â
The couple in the woods were startled. They thought they bumped into a ghost. So they rushed out of the woods, but didnât see anyone.
âWhatâs going on!?â said the woman.
âItâs not good to have sex outside on such a cold day. Itâs not good for your Yang energy. The cold toxin would invade your body. Iâm doing this for your own good,â said Wang Yao to himself while walking.
He drove back home after he left the beach.
His mother had set up the table and cooked nice and warm dished.
âItâs so nice to be at home!â said Wang Yao.
âWhere have you been today?â asked Zhang Xiuying.
âI drove Chen Ying to the airport today. She left for Beijing,â said Wang Yao.
âBack to Beijing?â asked Zhang Xiuying.
âYes,â said Wang Yao.
âWhat about her brother?â asked Zhang Xiuying.
âI will go to Beijing soon,â said Wang Yao after he took a sip of the soup.
Wang Yao chatted with his parents after dinner. Then he went back to Nanshan Hill. He planned to go to the town center again the next day, not to see Li Maoshuangâs uncle, but to see Zhou Xiongâs uncle.
Zhou Xiongâs uncle had stayed in Lianshan for some time. He stayed in the same unit Zhou Xiong used to rent. Wang Yao had gone to see him several days ago. He was stable at the moment.