"You... what... what are you talking about?" Gao Yan took two involuntary steps back.
"I said it's smelly. You know what I mean!"
Neither Lin Zhiyuan nor Lin Momo understood what Qin Haodong meant.
But Tang Tang hopped and cried, "I know! I know! Aunt Gao's breath really sticks. Once she did not wear a mask, and her breath smelled like fart and made me lose my appetite!"
The others then realized that Qin Haodong meant that Gao Yan had halitosis and wasn’t referring to her offensive words. They had thought Gao Yan wore a big mask because of a doctor's natural obsession with cleanliness, but now they knew that she was covering up her bad breath.
Although she took no offense to Tang Tang's words, Gao Yan was so ashamed that she wished she had disappeared.
She didn't have bad breath as a child but somehow developed it in high school. In order to cure this unspeakable disease, she’d chosen to become a doctor. She had seen numerous well-known doctors, but her halitosis was still not cured and had even got worse over the years. Despite being quite pretty, she couldn’t even get a boyfriend, because no man could stand her bad breath.
"Don't you believe in Western medicine? Why can't you cure yourself?" Qin Haodong addressed this question again.
Gao Yan gave him a bitter look and replied, "So what? Western medicine is scientific, but there are also difficult and complicated diseases that it cannot cure at present. You can't deny the role of Western medicine just because of this."
"Difficult and complicated disease?" Qin Haodong snorted with laughter. "Your halitosis is obviously caused by heavy stomach fire and gastrointestinal heat. In traditional Chinese medicine, this is a small problem that can be easily cured. But you don’t believe in traditional Chinese medicine, so you’ve brought this on yourself."
"That's impossible. You're lying! I've had a standard examination of my stomach and intestines. There's nothing wrong. How could this be due to my stomach and intestine?" argued Gao Yan.
"That's why I said you didn't know anything about traditional Chinese medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, the stomach and intestines is a system of passages, not organs as in Western medicine. It is precisely because of the limitations of Western medicine that it cannot find the root of your disease and ridiculously labels it a difficult problem. It would only take me a few minutes to treat an ailment like yours."
"What... What? You can cure my disease?" Gao Yan asked in disbelief.
"Yes! Of course! Doctor Magic is amazing. He can cure any disease!" Tang Tang yelled, clapping her hands. She was now the biggest fan of Qin Haodong. In her eyes, her Doctor Magic was omnipotent.
Gao Yan hesitated for a moment, then made a low bow to Qin Haodong, and pleaded earnestly, "Please, Doctor Qin, give me a hand. If you can cure my disease, I'll give you whatever you ask for!" Gao Yan had some faith in his medical skills now. What was more, she was almost driven mad by the disease and would jump at the slightest hope that it could be cured.
"Doctor Magic, Aunt Gao is so pitiful. Please give her some needles! If she hurts, I can sing a song for her!"
Qin Haodong lovingly stroked the little girl's head, turned to Gao Yan and said, "For Tang Tang's sake, I'll give you a little therapy."
Then he directed Gao Yan to lie down on the couch before he did acupuncture for her. For Emperor Green Wood, healing the gastrointestinal blockage was a piece of cake. Five minutes later, he put away his needles.
"It's over. Try and see if you still have bad breath."
"So soon?" Gao Yan hesitantly took off her mask. Then she put her hands together, breathed into them, and sniffed. She used to frown at her bad breath when she did this, but this time she didn’t smell anything.
"Is it true that the disease that has bothered me for more than ten years was cured in a last few minutes?" she wondered in shock.
With an unbelieving expression, Gao Yan breathed again into her palms. Still, there was not any of the original bad breath.
The little girl ran to Gao Yan and said with a silly look, "Aunt Gao, let me smell it!"
With that, she lifted her face close to Gao Yan's mouth, her lovely little nose sniffing, and then clapped her little hands and shouted, "No bad smell, no bad smell! Aunt Gao's mouth no longer fart!"
Gao Yan wept with emotion. She’d suffered the loneliness and humiliation of halitosis for so many years.
"Thank you, Doctor Qin. Thank you very much indeed!" Gao Yan fell to her knees in front of Qin Haodong with a flop. "I was wrong. I was shortsighted. I apologize to you, to Chinese medicine. I'm sorry!"
"Get up," Qin Haodong said. "I have cured you of your disease, but for your blind faith in foreign things, and for disparaging traditional Chinese medicine, I will punish you with three days of not being able to speak."
He was infuriated at the woman for her unprovoked denigration of traditional Chinese medicine, so he’d his therapy slightly to instill a small punishment.
Gao Yan got up from the ground, attempting to speak and failing. Only then did she realize that the magic of traditional Chinese medicine was far beyond the imagination of people like her, who studied Western medicine.
Even with this punishment, Gao Yan looked at Qin Haodong with gratitude and admiration. Three days of silence was a small price to pay for finally being rid of her halitosis.
When Tang Tang saw that Gao Yan was suddenly unable to speak, she quickly covered her mouth with her two small hands and said to Qin Haodong, "Doctor Magic, I'm a good girl. Please don't make me unable to speak!"
The remark, full of childlike innocence, created a burst of laughter which dispelled the awkwardness in the room.
Lin Momo looked at Qin Haodong, her eyes alight with admiration. She felt a lot better about allowing Qin Haodong to be Tang Tang’s godfather.
"Doctor Qin, thank you for helping Tang Tang recover. Your medical skill is such an eye-opener to me!" Lin Zhiyuan said. He was old enough to know the importance of a skilled doctor to a family. With Qin Haodong, the Lin family had an extra lifeline. Thus, his enthusiasm for Qin Haodong was combined with respect. Now, none of the Lins dared to question Qin Haodong's medical skills.
All the ruckus caused their cook and nanny came into the living room to see what was going on.
Since nothing appeared to be wrong, the cook, Zhang Dafu, said, "Mr. Lin, breakfast is ready. When would you like to eat?"
With Tang Tang ill, Lin Zhiyuan hadn’t been in the mood to eat a few minutes ago, but her recovery had lightened his mood, and he decided to have breakfast immediately.
"Thank you very much, Doctor Qin. Please come and have breakfast with us."
He then politely invited Qin Haodong into the dining room and offered him his seat of honor.
"I want to sit next to Doctor Magic," the little girl cried as she climbed into a chair next to Qin Haodong's seat and held his hand lovingly.
"Mama, sit here," she said to Lin Momo, patting the chair beside her with her little hands.
Lin Momo took the seat. As she took a glance at Qin Haodong, a strange feeling came over her. It was like a family of three sitting together for breakfast.
The Lin family had a big breakfast, both Chinese and Western food. "Tang Tang, what do you want?" Lin Momo asked her daughter gently. "Mama will help you to get the food."
Having a look at the food on the table, Tang Tang wrinkled her nose and replied, "I don't want to eat, Mama!"
"No, it's not good for your health. If you are not in good health, you will be vulnerable to illness," said Lin Momo, filling a bowl with porridge, preserved eggs, and minced meat. "Tang Tang, have some porridge. Porridge for breakfast is good for your stomach!"
Looking at the porridge in the bowl, the little girl waved her hand to refuse, "No! No! Mama, I don't want to eat anything."
"No, you can't skip breakfast. You must have some, or Mama will be angry," Lin Momo threatened her, putting on an angry face.
"Miss Lin, Tang Tang just had a fever, and it's normal for her to have no appetite," Qin Haodong explained. "Let me cook Tang Tang some porridge. She will love it."
Lin Zhiyuan quickly said, "Doctor Qin, how can we let you do such a thing? You are an honored guest!"
"Tang Tang just recovered from illness. It's okay for me to make something delicious for her," Qin Haodong said, looking at his daughter.
Hearing the conversation, Zhang Dafu, who had been serving at the table, came forward and said, "Doctor Qin, how about you explain the cooking to me and I'll do it?"
"No, I'll do it." said Qin Haodong, getting up from his seat.
"Great, great, I want to eat the delicious food Doctor Magic cooks!" Tang Tang said, clapping her hands happily.
Zhang Dafu was a little upset. This was belittling his cooking. "Doctor Qin, your medical skill is masterful, but you are not a cook. Your cooking is not as good as mine."
He was in a position to be proud. His grandfather was the imperial chef of the former dynasty, and his father had made a state banquet for the senior officials of China. He himself was a top chef well-known in Jiangnan City, and the Lin family spent a lot of money to employ him as their cook.
Not caring what he said, Qin Haodong laughed and said, "Maybe Tang Tang likes my cooking!"
"Yeah! Yeah! I want to eat the delicious food Doctor Magic cooks!" The little girl immediately came out in support of Qin Haodong.
"All right, thank you, Doctor Qin," Lin Zhiyuan agreed before he turned to Zhang Dafu and said, "Take Doctor Qin to the kitchen!" If Qin Haodong was in the mood to cook, they might as well let him do as he pleased. Maybe he would waste some ingredients, but the Lin family was wealthy enough that it wasn’t a problem.
Zhang Dafu wasn’t happy with it, but he also wasn’t willing to disobey Mr. Lin. "This way please, Doctor Qin."
"Doctor Magic, let me help you!" Tang Tang exclaimed. She climbed down from the chair, grasped one of Qin Haodong's fingers, and they entered the kitchen together.
"Doctor Qin, what are you going to cook?" asked Zhang Dafu enthusiastically as they got to the kitchen."Tang Tang has just recovered from her illness, so she'd better have a light meal. I'll just make her some porridge," Qin Haodong replied. "Do we have the ingredients for eight-treasure rice porridge?""Yes, but it's raw and hasn't been soaked. Porridge takes time to prepare.""Never mind, just give me the ingredients!" Qin Haodong insisted.Zhang Dafu silently despised Qin Haodong. It was pretty common knowledge that the ingredients for eight-treasure rice porridge needed to be soaked for no fewer than four hours prior to cooking. He was wasting his ingredients on a complete layman!But Mr. Lin had given orders to let Qin Haodong do what he wanted, so he gathered a small bowl of the ingredients and handed them over. After all, he wouldn’t be the one losing face.Qin Haodong took a look at the bowl and s
Qin Haodong did have something to do — he was going out to get a present for Tang Tang. Lin Momo had agreed to let him be Tang Tang's godfather, and he needed a gift for when his daughter called him “father” for the first time.The market was very big. There were small stalls lining the path for about two kilometers after the entrance, and behind them was a huge medicine wholesale market.In the wholesale market were large-scale wholesalers of medicinal materials which had high quality, so the prices were naturally higher.The stalls outside sold medicinal materials picked from the mountains by nearby medicine farmers. Their prices were lower, on average, but with good and bad materials mixed together, it was easy to get fake medicines.Qin Haodong didn't need to worry about these. As a practitioner, he was very sensitive to Spiritual Qi. He could distinguish the authenticity and the year of the medicinal materials at a glance.
"I can't take that much. I'll just choose a few."Qin Haodong took a bag from the stall. He put the hundred-year-old polygonum multiflorum and other needed medicinal materials into the bag."I’m sorry — I was too ignorant to recognize your ability." The vendor scratched his head with embarrassment."It's nothing."Qin Haodong waved his hand and then went ahead to the wholesale market. He looked at the bag in his hand; it wasn’t too heavy, but still awkward to carry. If only he had a Storage Ring. He once had a ring big enough to accommodate a mountain in the Divine World, but unfortunately, the ring was reduced to dust by Thunder of Nine Heavens.Qin Haodong sighed and walked into the medicinal materials wholesale market with the bag.The shops here were very large, far larger than the retail stalls outside, but the hundred-year-old ginseng was a rare material. He went to more than a dozen shops and did no
A chill rose from the old man's heart, but he wasn’t completely convinced. "Young man, forgive me my presumption, but how could you possibly know that?"What Qin Haodong said was totally true, and he had believed most of it. However, he was very surprised that the young man had not taken his pulse, nor any other form of examination. How could he be so sure of his diagnosis?"I am a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine adopts four methods of diagnosis, namely looking, listening, questioning, and feeling the pulse, and I just used the method of looking.""Grandpa, don't listen to his nonsense," said Wushuang. "There isn't any Chinese medicine doctor that is so young, and even if he is a traditional Chinese doctor, he can't reach the level of "looking" diagnosis. Even the medical master Zhang Tianhe needs to take your pulse when making a diagnosis, let alone a small doctor like him.""Small doctor? What makes you t
The hotel room was the perfect place to refine medicine. Because it was a gift for his daughter, the Lin family home was inconvenient for refining the Marrow-Cleansing Pill. Lin Zhiyuan had given him Villa No. 6 for saving Lin Momo’s life, but he didn’t even know where it was, so the hotel would do.With his divine skills, these low-grade pills were easy for him to refine. All he needed to do was extract the essence of various medicinal herbs and make pills.An hour later, twelve crystal clear Marrow-Cleansing Pills and nine Qi-nourishing Pills were placed on the hotel room’s tea table.It was still early, and there were a few hours before Tang Tang could leave school. After eating a simple meal he ordered from room service, Qin Haodong began to practice his divine skills. He needed to constantly improve if he could ever hope to achieve his previous Qi strength.Although the Spiritual Qi on Earth was poor, the support of Qi-nourish
"Oh my god, what kind of a medicine is this? It's amazing!"Looking at the peerless face in the mirror, Lin Momo opened the bath towel to reveal a stunning body. She took a moment to appreciate it."Mommy, Mommy, I'm coming."The door flew open, and Tang Tang ran in, followed by Qin Haodong.Lin Momo always left her bedroom door unlocked to let Tang Tang come and go. She froze like a sculpture and forgot to wrap her body with the towel.Qin Haodong was also frozen. He hadn’t expected her to be naked."Mommy, why are you naked? You're not shy at all."The little girl said, making a shy face."What..."Lin Momo suddenly realized she was naked in front of Qin Haodong. She screamed and quickly wrapped herself with the towel."You... why didn't you knock the door before coming in?" Lin Momo asked."Oh... I came with Tang Tang. She didn't knock, an
"Of course, I need to know!" Lin Momo said."I told Tang Tang to play with her grandfather first, and I would discuss with her mom when to have a little brother for her!""Er... "Lin Momo couldn’t begin to describe how she felt about that. She had known Qin Haodong for less than two days, and she had been shyer than ever. Her image as an unemotional ice queen was completely destroyed. "How can you talk to a child like that?""If I didn't say that, Tang Tang would not have left. How could I continue to treat you without her leaving?""But you can't lie to a child, can you?" Lin Momo said angrily."Do you mean we should really have a baby brother for Tang Tang?" Qin Haodong laughed."What..." Lin Momo was so embarrassed that she stopped talking and closed her eyes, but her heart was beating violently.Finally, after the massage, Qin Haodong and Lin Momo returned to the living room.
The next day, he arrived early, just as Tang Tang got up.After a full night, Qin Haodong was able to sense the Xuantian Sutra emanating from his daughter. He’d chosen to pass this set of skills to her, because it could run on its own once the cycle of power had formed, which meant Tang Tang’s divine strength would consistently grow, even without practice."Papa, where have you been?" asked Tang Tang.Qin Haodong took a look at Lin Momo next to him. "Papa went to exercise!"The little fellow said, "Papa, finish your meal quickly. You're going to take me to kindergarten today. I want all the children to know that I have a Papa!"After breakfast, Qin Haodong and Lin Momo went out to take Tang Tang to her kindergarten.The kindergarten Tang Tang studied in was called Gold Branch and Jade Leaf, the most exclusive in Jiangnan City. The children who studied there were as noble as the school's name. Every one of