Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 21 A Roving Doctor

In the high-tech district in the north of the Jialing River.

Ning Tao walked among modern office buildings with an advertising sign of tarp, on which was written the slogan designed by himself "Rapid diagnosis and treatment with ancestral medical skills; Compensation is guaranteed if misdiagnosis occurs; Treatment fee is optional; Acupuncture for cervical spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar muscle degeneration and other occupational diseases; Curative effect is immediate, otherwise no charge."

Ning Tao, a young and vigorous roving doctor holding a strange advertising sign of tarp draw surprised and curious looks wherever he was.

It was almost noon when Ning Tao arrived at an office building.

Two men in suits were smoking at the smoking spot near the entrance to the lobby of the office building.

"Oh my god, there is a roving doctor in modern society!" cried a middle-aged man with a slight bald head in an exaggerated tone.

"He must be a liar. I don't believe he's a doctor anyway," remarked the younger man with a look of contempt. "This guy's head must have gotten squeezed in the door. He should not pretend to be a doctor even if he wants to swindle money. Who will believe in doctors going from street to street now?"

The middle-aged man with slight baldness said, "We'll know if he is really a doctor after a try?"

"Dude, you're not serious, are you?" yelled the younger man with a dramatic expression on his face.

The middle-aged man with a slight bald head called out, "Hey, doctor, come here!"

Ning Tao stopped and looked at the two men, but didn't go toward them as he asked. In his eyes, the two men were wrapped in a colorful air. He also saw their I.D. badges hanging on their chests, and learned that the one with slight baldness was named Ma Yingqiang, and that the younger one was Chen Chao. They were both employees of Blueprint Biotechnology Company.

"Doctor, I asked you to come here. Didn't you hear me?" Ma Yingqiang shouted as he beckoned to Ning Tao.

"You've got a bad scapulohumeral periarthritis, and it's hurting now, isn't it?" Ning Tao asked. "Come here and I'll treat you."

Ma Yingqiang looked at Ning Tao in surprise and asked, "How did you know I'm having scapulohumeral periarthritis?"

Chen Chao scoffed, "I guess he's bluffing. Yingqiang, don't go there. Beware of being taken in."

"You're Chen Chao, isn't it?" Ning Tao asked dryly. "Have you been having trouble getting an erection lately?"

Chen Chao opened his mouth in disbelief. It was an unspeakable secret, but how did the roving doctor know it?

Ma Yingqiang's eyes fell on Chen Chao with a little doubt and distain.

Chen Chao suddenly walked over to Ning Tao and said, "Humph, haha, what are you talking about?" When he reached Ning Tao's side, he put his hands on Ning Tao's shoulders and whispered, "Doctor, can you treat me?"

"Yes," Ning Tao replied curtly.

"Let's find a place to have a good talk," Chen Chao suggested, his eyes lighting up with excitement.

But Ning Tao took his hands off his shoulders and said, "I said I could, but I didn't say I'd treat you. I'm a liar whose head must have gotten squeezed in the door!"

Chen Chao's face darkened as he spat, "I made you look good and allowed you to treat me. How could you refuse to see me? You must be a liar. It's not that you don't want to see me, it's that you can't, right?"

Just then Ma Yingqiang came over. As he listened to Chen Chao's words, his eyes also showed suspicion.

Ning Tao said, "Ma Yingqiang, huh? I can cure your scapulohumeral periarthritis in three minutes. Would you like to have a try?"

"Cure my scapulohumeral periarthritis in three minutes?" Startled, Ma Yingqiang wondered if he had heard wrong.

Chen Chao sneered, "Whew! You really think you're a miracle doctor. Let him cure you, Yingqiang. If he fails to cure your chronic ailment of scapulohumeral periarthritis in three minutes, I'll immediately give him two slaps, making him dare not to boast or lie!"

Ning Tao wore a poker face.

Ma Yingqiang made up his mind and said, "Okay, I'll try! But let me be clear. I won't give you a penny if you can't cure my disease within three minutes."

"Now put your hands behind your back and try to feel your vest," Ning Tao ordered lightly.

Ma Yingqiang gave it a try and then gave up with a painful expression. He couldn't do it at all.

"Do you know how to treat disease?" Chen Chao scolded in a tone of some sarcasm. "Have you ever seen a doctor let a patient touch his vest? Yingqiang, he must be fooling you."

Ning Tao ignored Chen Chao, opened his small medicine chest and took out two blue Sacred Needles. Then he took a needle in each hand, raised his hands and stuck the needles into Ma Yingqiang's left and right shoulder blades without looking at the acupoints. At the same time, his Niwan acupoint quivered slightly, and the black and white spiritual power rushed out of it and split in two, along his arms into two Sacred Needles and then into Ma Yingqiang's shoulder blades.

Ma Yingqiang gave a shiver and his face broke into a strange expression.

Chen Chao froze for a second before he snapped, "What are you doing?"

Ning Tao shot a glance at him and said coldly, "Would you please be quiet? I'm doing acupuncture on your friend."

"Acupuncture?" Chen Chao repeated with a wry smile. "You're not doing acupuncture at all. How could you do acupuncture without taking off his clothes? And you didn't even look at the acupoints!"

Ma Yingqiang suddenly said, "I... I feel something flowing in my body. It's hot yet cold... What a comfortable feeling!"

Chen Chao was stunned by what he heard.

Within three minutes, Ning Tao lifted the two Sacred Needles from Ma Yingqiang's shoulder blades, and the spiritual power came back to the Niwan acupoint along his arms.

"Is it already over?" Ma Yingqiang asked in amazement.

"Try to touch your vest with your hands again," Ning Tao said.

Ma Yingqiang put his hands behind his back and moved a little bit towards the vest. As soon as he put his hands behind his back before the treatment, his shoulder blades hurt badly, but now he didn't feel any pain and his joints were quite flexible.

"Don't push yourself, Yingqiang. It hurts," Chen Chao said.

Ma Yingqiang's hands quickly touched the vest and were even able to went up. He laughed with excitement and exclaimed, "It doesn't hurt at all. I feel my shoulders ten years younger. I can touch my own vest! Haha!"

Chen Chao was struck dumb for a minute.

Ning Tao put the two blue Sacred Needles back in the small medicine chest, closed the lid, and then picked up the advertising sign of tarp.

Ma Yingqiang suddenly came to his sense and hurriedly asked, "How much is it?"

Ning Tao pointed to the sign and answered, "Pay as you like."

Ma Yingqiang quickly took out the wallet and drew a 100-yuan note from it. After a pause, he seemed to think it was not enough and drew another note of the same value from his wallet and handed the two notes to Ning Tao with gratitude. "It's not much, please don't mind."

Ning Tao took the payment and politely said, "Thank you."

"No, no, no. Thank you. The scapulohumeral periarthritis has been tormenting me for two or three years. Neither massage, acupuncture, nor medicine worked. You cured it with two needles. Your medical skills are amazing. You are a miracle doctor!" Ma Yingqiang said a lot of compliments.

Ning Tao smiled, took the advertising sign and turned to leave. He was glad to make two hundred from his first patient.

"Wait!" Chen Chao called to Ning Tao.

Ning Tao looked back at him and asked, "What's up?"

"I'll pay you four hundred if you cure me," Chen Chao bargained.

"Four hundred?" Ning Tao said dryly. "I won't treat you even if you give me four thousand."

"You... " Chen Chao was choked with anger.

"Miracle doctor, can you tell me your telephone number?" Ma Yingqiang asked, "Or your WeChat ID. Several of my colleagues have cervical and lumbar spondylosis. Shall I go back and recommend you to them?"

Ning Tao thought for a moment and then replied, "Okay, I'll give you my WeChat ID. Ask them to add me as a friend and make an appointment with me to see them or do acupuncture."

"Thank you, thank you very much," said Ma Yingqiang politely.

Ning Tao opened the small medicine chest again, took out a common prescription and a roller ball pen, wrote his WeChat ID on the prescription before he tore out the prescription and handed it to Ma Yingqiang.

"What do you mean, doctor? Why do you refuse to treat me when you are willing to treat others? Are you trying to making me lose face?" questioned Chen Chao with a cold look in his eyes.

"Face is given, not asked for. Are you somebody important? Why do I have to give you face? It is not down there that you are most ill, but your mouth." Then Ning Tao turned and left.

Chen Chao groaned, "Damn, you're just a doctor, how dare you put on airs in front of me? Well, well, wait and see!"

Ning Tao didn't respond to his threats. Chen Chao was just a small potato in his eyes, and he didn't bother to argue or fight with him, or he was degrading himself.

"Chao, stop it," Ma Yingqiang persuaded. "Let's go back."

Chen Chao's face was flushed with fury. "Go back yourself. I'll return whenever I want. Leave me alone."

Ma Yingqiang shook his head and turned back to the lobby of office building where the Blueprint Biotechnology Company was located.

Chen Chao took out his phone and dialed a number, then looked at Ning Tao's back as he waited for the call to go through. A few seconds later the phone was connected. "Brother Yong," he said, "there is a swindler pretending to be a doctor and cheating near my company. Bring a few people here... "

Past the building of Blueprint Biotechnology Company was a small plaza with upscale restaurants and cafes, as well as some mobile diners that specialized in selling affordable box lunch which were popular with young clerks.

Ning Tao walked over to a mobile diner, ordered a box lunch, then sat down on the bench to eat. While eating, he skimed WeChat messages and found that several people wanted to add him as a friend, including Ma Yingqiang. He accepted the friend requests, but did not respond to their inquiries because he planned to reply after lunch.

That was why he was willing to give Ma Yingqiang his WeChat ID. He planed to built up a reputation for himself as a roving doctor, setting up his own "WeChat hospital". In this way, the patient could make an appointment through WeChat, and then go to him for treatment on time. In this way, he didn't have to go through the streets anymore.

Clank!

The sound of metal hitting the floor tiles pulled Ning Tao back from his sweet dreams. He turned his head and saw that some big urban management officers were staring at him fiercely, and that his trap was being trampled by a fat man with cross-grained features.

Chapter end