Lin Kai walked quickly into the room and saw Tang Huimin sitting irritably on the hospital bed, two nurses in white coats standing left and right in front of the bed, ready to let Tang Huimin out of bed for a meal.
“What’s going on here?” Lin Kai opened his mouth and asked.
“Little Kai, you’re back, I thought you didn’t want me anymore!” As soon as she heard Lin Kai’s voice, Tang Huimin’s spirits immediately lifted and her face showed excitement.
Knowing that Tang Huimin was a patient and could not speak reliably, Lin Kai did not answer her question directly, but asked a nurse lady.
“What’s wrong with her?”
A nurse pointed to the meal placed on the coffee table and replied, “Ms. Tang hasn’t eaten anything all day and insisted that she wouldn’t eat until you returned!”
“Oh, I see,” Lin Kai glanced at Tang Huimin sitting on the bed and said to the two nurses, “Let me say a few words to her, you guys go down!”
The two nurses then exited the room.
Lin Kai walked over to Tang Huimin and asked with concern, “Little aunt, can you heal from your injuries if you don’t eat like this?”
Tang Huimin burst into tears and grabbed Lin Kai’s hand, looking at him with tears in her eyes, and asked.
“Little Kai, do you not want me anymore?”
“No, who said I don’t want you anymore?” Lin Kai wiped the tears on her face with his hand and pointed to Dr. Tang who had entered the room with him and said, “This is Dr. Tang, I just asked him to come to see you, you have to cooperate with him to treat the illness ……”
After entering the room, Dr. Tang had been observing Tang Huimin’s performance and had a general understanding of her condition.
He then walked straight to Tang Huimin’s bed and said to her, “Ms. Tang, Mr. Lin has already briefed me on your condition Lin Kai, is it alright if I take your pulse now?”
Tang Huimin looked at Lin Kai with an enquiring gaze.
Lin Kai admonished, “Young aunt, listen to the doctor and let him see you!”
“Mm!” Tang Huimin answered, and then closed her eyes.
Doctor Tang reached out and rolled Tang Huimin’s eyes open and looked at them, then sat down on that stool in front of the hospital bed and carefully took her pulse.
By observation and pulse, it was similar to what Lin Kai had told him at the Renai Clinic, and Dr Tang guessed the same thing: Tang Huimin had indeed been poisoned by a kind of compulsion and needed to take the antidote as soon as possible; if she took longer, not only would she be delirious, but her life would also be in danger.
What Dr. Tang had to do now was to firstly expel the toxins from Tang Huimin’s body by sticking silver needles into her body, and then, use the antidote he had prepared using his own secret ancestral recipe to make her take it.
He took out the needle box that he carried with him from his pocket, and while disinfecting the silver needles with alcohol sponges, he said to Lin Kai.
“Mr. Lin, you help me undress the patient so that I can stick the needle for her now.”
“How …… do you have to undress?” Even though Lin Kai had seen his sister-in-law’s body, he was still a little embarra*sed in front of an outsider.
“Yes, she has injuries and bandages on her wounds, how can I stick the needles for her if you don’t take off her clothes? If you feel embarra*sed, go and get the nurse ladies and let them help me!” Dr Huang said with a serious face.
Lin Kai was afraid that after he left, Dr. Tang would plot against his sister-in-law, so he said, “This matter, still …… is better for me to do it ……”
Saying that, he whispered in Tang Huimin’s ear and saw Tang Huimin blush and nod shyly before he lifted her quilt and quickly removed the clothes and trousers from her body.
Dr. Tang used the silver needles in his hand to quickly prick several acupuncture points on Tang Huimin’s head, chest, abdomen, crotch, thighs, calves and feet.
Forty-eight needles were stuck in a row.
Afterwards, he quickly released the needles and quickly withdrew them, deep and shallow, stabbing or picking, as if he was performing a magic trick, which was dazzling.
If one wanted to remove the toxins from Tang Huimin’s body, one had to use internal force, and the acupuncture points were different, the depth of the needles lanced was different, and so was the force.
Therefore, sticking needles is a very time-consuming, energetic and physically demanding task.
After ten minutes had pa*sed, large drops of sweat oozed from Dr. Tang’s forehead and then slid down his cheeks, and his whole body looked exhausted.
“Dr. Tang. Let me wipe your sweat for you.” Lin Kai said as he picked up a box of tissues that was placed on the bedside table.
“Okay, thanks!” Dr. Tang nodded, but didn’t stop moving his hands, concentrating on rotating and plucking the silver needles as Lin Kai pulled out a tissue and carefully wiped Dr. Tang’s sweat.
After the needles were inserted, Tang Huimin was lying naked on the bed, as if she was completely unconscious, lying motionless, except that fine beads of sweat were oozing from her body, and blackish blood was oozing from the area where the needles had been inserted, which was probably the toxins that had been excreted.
Half an hour later, Dr. Tang finally pulled out the silver needles stuck in Tang Huimin’s body and put them back into the needle box, but his whole body felt as if he had steamed in a sauna, his whole body was soaked with sweat and he had become weak.
“Doctor Tang, are you all right?” Lin Kai asked eagerly.
“Yes, you can help him get dressed now,” Dr. Tang shook his head, took a packet of white powder out of his pocket and put it into Lin Kai’s hand, gasping for breath, “I have helped her expel some toxins from her body and opened up the acupuncture points on her body, you can now use the antidote I have prepared and let her Take it, and in half a hour, she can wake up and become no different from a normal person ……”
Lin Kai took the packet of powder in Dr. Tang’s hand with suspicion, walked to the water dispenser, put it into a paper cup, then poured in most of the cup of warm boiled water and stirred it well.
Since Lin Kai did not know Dr. Tang well, he was afraid that he might have tampered with this medicine, so Lin Kai took a taste first.
It was colourless and tasteless, and Lin Kai did not feel anything strange before he returned to Tang Huimin’s bed and fed it into her mouth with a spoon, one mouthful at a time.
“Dr. Tang, thank you,” Lin Kai said to Dr. Tang after he had fed her the antidote, seeing that he was a little tired, “Go outside to that living room and rest for a while, I’ll wait here for her to wake up.”
Before Tang Huimin woke up, Lin Kai would not let Dr. Tang leave the military sanatorium, and Dr. Tang was clear about this, so he nodded and dragged his tired body to the parlour and collapsed on a bench sofa against the wall.
After Dr. Tang left the ward, Lin Kai sat down on that stool in front of the hospital bed, reached out to hold Tang Huimin’s luxuriant hand, and said silently in his heart.
“Little aunt, wake up quickly, I have so many more words to pour out to you ……”
Suddenly, Tang Huimin opened her eyes, opened her mouth, and spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, staining the white bed sheet red at once.
