Seeing this scene, Li Baikang felt as though he had been struck by lightning. He stood completely frozen, his face turning even paler.
Lu Yi actually knew the head of the Security Department, and the commissioner was even treating him with such courtesy?
Deputy Commissioner Gao Qiang also felt his heart skip a beat.
Five minutes ago, when Commissioner Wei called him, he assumed someone had pulled strings to reach the commissioner, who was then asking him to handle an issue on Qingyun Street under his jurisdiction.
He never imagined the commissioner would show up in person!
And be so courteous!
Fortunately, the moment he received the call, he had hurried over without stopping.
Just then, another vehicle appeared—a black Maybach approaching with a low, rumbling engine.
The car stopped, and Zhang Liang was the first to step out. He cast a cold glance around, his pupils contracting slightly when he saw the people scattered all over the ground, before pulling open the rear door. Qin Yi stepped out, her expression icy.
Seeing this, Lin Chuqing inside the sports car finally let out a sigh of relief, turned off her phone recording, and got out of the car as well.
Chairwoman Qin is here too!
Li Baikang’s heart shook violently. This was a truly heavyweight figure in Qingshan County, rumored to have connections reaching all the way to the heavens.
"Are you alright?"
Lin Chuqing quickly hurried over to Lu Yi's side and asked with concern.
Qin Yi also looked at Lu Yi with worry.
"I'm fine," Lu Yi said with a smile. "Just stretched my body a bit late at night."
Seeing that Lu Yi was unhurt, Qin Yi let out a slight sigh of relief. She cast an icy glance at the people lying on the ground and around the area, then said to Wei Bin, "Commissioner Wei, Lu Yi is my lifesaver! Look at how a gang of criminals surrounded and attacked him in the middle of the night—how do you plan to handle this?"
She defined them as criminals right away!
Li Baikang’s legs nearly went weak. In the eyes of ordinary people, he was a big shot, but he knew very well that to people of true influence, he was nothing more than an ordinary person making some dirty money!
He anxiously looked toward Deputy Commissioner Gao for a lifeline.
A lifesaver?
Wei Bin’s gaze sharpened, and he immediately shouted coldly, "Gao Qiang!"
Gao Qiang trembled all over, immediately snapped to attention, and said loudly, "I will have these people arrested immediately, interrogate them through the night, and deal with them severely! I will definitely give Chairwoman Qin and this brother here a satisfactory explanation!"
"If you can't handle this properly, then don't bother working! It seems necessary to launch another major crackdown—it looks like the protective umbrella wasn't cleared out thoroughly enough last time!" Wei Bin said pointedly.
He was furious. He had spent a whole year cleaning up public security, yet tonight, at this critical moment, an incident like this happened right under his nose, even offending Qin Yi's people.
Cold sweat poured down Gao Qiang’s face. Li Baikang had given him plenty of bribes; if anyone counted as a protective umbrella, he certainly did.
"Rest assured, it will be dealt with severely! Every single illegal activity will be investigated and punished to the fullest extent of the law!" Gao Qiang said solemnly.
Li Baikang felt as though he had been struck by lightning, his face turning ashen. With his biggest backer saying such things, he knew he was doomed.
He had already made enough money—why had he let greed cloud his judgment?
If not for greed, tonight's incident would never have happened!
At that moment, Li Baikang suddenly thought of the person who had sent him a message that morning, his eyes filled with vicious malice: Zhou Wenxuan, you bastard, you've ruined me!
"Zhou Wenxuan!"
Li Baikang suddenly shouted like a madman, "Zhou Wenxuan from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of the People's Hospital! It was his idea this morning that I should come to you and have you sell my drugs!"
Zhou Wenxuan?
Hearing that name, Lu Yi and Lin Chuqing frowned at the same time.
"Thanks for letting your dogs bite each other." Lu Yi sighed, offering his sincere gratitude.
Commissioner Wei glanced at Lu Yi, then turned to Qin Yi. "Chairwoman Qin, how do you find this outcome?"
Qin Yi didn't speak; she looked at Lu Yi.
"He's a pharmaceutical sales rep. As far as I know, giving kickbacks to doctors is an act of accepting bribes. It can be thoroughly investigated, including the doctors who took the money," Lu Yi suggested to Wei Bin. "You should be able to confiscate quite a bit of money in fines."
Is he starting to direct our Security Department's work now?
Commissioner Wei frowned, glanced sideways at Lu Yi, and asked, "Earlier, Chairwoman Qin said this young brother is your lifesaver?"
"Doctor Lu cured my child's illness," Qin Yi didn't hide it. Many high-ranking officials in the city knew about her child's condition.
"Oh? So he's a miraculous doctor!"
The look in Wei Bin's eyes toward Lu Yi instantly turned indifferent and dismissive.
If it was just this simple relationship, it wasn't enough to make him hold Lu Yi in high regard.
He really disliked someone who spoke with hidden barbs.
"I wonder if you can cure a smoking addiction? I've been a heavy smoker for decades, and my doctor recently told me to stop smoking."
Wei Bin pulled out a pack of cigarettes, took one out along with a lighter, and spoke with a mocking tone.
"I can cure it," Lu Yi said.
(Chapter 20: Pushing Qi and Circulating Blood for the Beauty)
Hm?
The hand holding the newly lit lighter suddenly froze in mid-air.
Wei Bin bit down on his cigarette, turned his head, and stared at Lu Yi in disbelief. Did he hear that right?
He could cure a smoking addiction?
He had just been mocking the guy on purpose—everyone knew how hard it was to quit smoking, yet the other person actually claimed he could cure it.
Lin Chuqing, Qin Yi, and Zhang Liang turned and looked at Lu Yi in astonishment.
"You can cure that?" Wei Bin took the cigarette out of his mouth and asked uncertainly.
"I can cure it, and it's very easy to cure," Lu Yi said, his tone as casual as if he were talking about eating when hungry.
"Very easy to cure? How do you cure it?"
Wei Bin instantly grew interested.
Lin Chuqing beside him was also intrigued, her bright eyes fixed on Lu Yi with a mixture of shock and suspicion.
In psychology, breaking a smoking addiction is a major challenge.
Because treating a smoking addiction in psychology requires psychological desensitization to completely eradicate it, and the process of desensitization is extremely painful—many people don't even make it through that hurdle.
Can traditional Chinese medicine really cure a smoking addiction?
"Just a few herbs will do."
Lu Yi looked at the diagonal crease on Wei Bin's left earlobe and frowned, saying, "However, your real problem isn't smoking; it's your heart."
Wei Bin trembled all over and looked at Lu Yi in shock, asking, "How do you know I have a heart problem?"
Three days ago, he felt discomfort in his chest and secretly went to the People's Hospital for a check-up, where he was diagnosed with coronary heart disease and thrombosis!
Except for him and the doctor, absolutely no one else knew about this—not even his wife!
"I'm a miraculous doctor," Lu Yi said with a smile.
Wei Bin felt a bit awkward on the spot, especially since he had just mocked him like that.
Seeing this, Qin Yi timely smiled and changed the subject. "It's chilly in the evening breeze. Why don't you all come over to my place and sit for a while? I happen to be inviting Doctor Lu to treat me tonight, and you can let Doctor Lu help check and adjust your condition as well."
"Then I'll have to trouble Chairwoman Qin and Doctor Lu," Wei Bin said immediately, his face blooming with smiles—smiles that were clearly much more sincere than before.
He couldn't afford not to be sincere; his doctor had urged him to get a stent implanted immediately, otherwise his life would be in danger.
Even so, he had hesitated for three days and still hadn't made up his mind.
The reason was simple: once he got a stent, it would be telling everyone that his body was failing and that he could no longer shoulder heavy responsibilities!
This was a critical period for him to take the next step up; he absolutely could not let his health cause the organization to weed him out!
Absolutely not!
"Investigate Li Baikang's kickbacks to doctors thoroughly!"
After giving Gao Qiang this icy command, the group quickly headed to the lakeside villa across the water.
Lu Yi ate a bowl of noodles freshly made by the housekeeper, then re-examined the little boy who was already fast asleep. Finding that he was improving, Qin Yi finally let out a long breath of relief.
Returning to the living room once more, Lu Yi looked at Qin Yi and Wei Bin and asked, "Which of you is going first?"
Wei Bin immediately deferred, "Chairwoman Qin should go first. I'm just here to tag along with Doctor Lu—I wouldn't steal someone else's turn!"
Qin Yi nodded and said, "Then I'll go first."
She then looked at Lu Yi, "Whatever medicinal herbs you need are all here. Today, I specifically had Tongrentang pharmacy prepare two full sets of all their herbs."
Being rich must be nice!
Lu Yi sighed with emotion, waved his hand, and said, "We don't need medicinal herbs. Your body has an extreme coldness that is hard to completely clear out with herbs in a short time. So, shall we try a different method?"
"What method?" Qin Yi asked, puzzled.
The others also looked at Lu Yi with confusion.
"Pushing qi and circulating blood," Lu Yi said. He knew very well that it was Lin Chuqing who had called Qin Yi tonight; if not for relying on Qin Yi's connections, he definitely wouldn't have been able to walk away unscathed so easily after beating those people up.
To show his gratitude, he decided to use true qi.
"Take off your coat."
Take off my coat?
Qin Yi was momentarily stunned, but she complied, standing up to remove her coat, leaving her in just a thin white shirt that instantly and thoroughly revealed her proud figure.
"Don't sit down. Just relax and stand normally," Lu Yi said.
Qin Yi followed instructions, standing in the center of the living room and relaxing her body.
With a gleam in his eyes, Lu Yi walked around behind Qin Yi.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, he placed his left hand on her shoulder, infused his right hand with true qi, and gently laid it against her fair, slender neck.
A strong masculine aura rushed over her, and the warmth of a man's palm penetrated her shirt against her skin, sending an instant wave of tingling numbness through Qin Yi's entire body.
For six years, this was the first time a man had touched her body.
A blush involuntarily flew across Qin Yi's cheeks. She bit her lip slightly, her body gradually growing warm, and her ears turning red.
Lu Yi cast a puzzled glance at Qin Yi's unusual reaction, then calmed his mind, his right hand slowly sliding down Qin Yi's somewhat tense back.
Pushing qi and circulating blood!
This was completely different from ordinary muscle-relaxation massages found on the market.
This belonged to true traditional Chinese medical massage!
To achieve the therapeutic goal of pushing qi and circulating blood, the entire process required that the hands never leave the body and never pause; if the hand left or stopped, the flow of qi and blood would be broken.
As Lu Yi's hand slid slowly downward,
Qin Yi felt waves of warmth continuously emanating from Lu Yi's hand.
An unprecedented sense of gentle warmth diffused throughout her body, as if ice and snow-covered ground had met the spring sun.
The snow slowly melted into mountain springs, and lush grass and flowers began to grow on the frozen earth...
From head to toe, once, then a second time, a third time...
Lu Yi's gaze grew increasingly focused, and the speed of pushing qi and circulating blood grew faster and faster.
Qin Yi felt her body growing hotter and hotter, as if she were enveloped by the sun, and her entire face turned flushed red.
Lin Chuqing, Wei Bin, and Zhang Liang, standing off to the side, all noticed this situation, and astonishment couldn't help but flow into their eyes.
All the way until the seventh time.
Lu Yi let go of his hands, then picked up Qin Yi's wrist to take her pulse.
"All done."
Lu Yi let go of Qin Yi's wrist and let out a slow breath.
In just this short while, he had consumed a third of the true qi he had accumulated over the past two days. There was no helping it—guiding a person's qi and blood required a massive amount of true qi.
Qin Yi anxiously checked her body: the abnormal sensations throughout her frame were gone, and the milk that usually should have started secreting around this hour was no longer causing any damp feeling in her chest. She was truly cured!
"Thank you!"
A happy smile bloomed on Qin Yi's face as she spoke with heartfelt sincerity.
"You're welcome."
Lu Yi waved his hand. A wisp of grayish-black pathogenic qi dissipated from Qin Yi's body into the air, followed instantly by the emergence of a hair-thin strand of true qi that surged back into Lu Yi's body.
The true qi he had just consumed was partially replenished.
Lu Yi asked the housekeeper for paper and pen, turned to look at Wei Bin beside him, and asked, "To what extent do you want to cure your smoking addiction?"
Wei Bin was startled. What did that mean?
"Do you want to just clear the thick phlegm from your lungs, or clear out all the phlegm?"
Lu Yi directly wrote down five herbs on the paper: 9 grams of honey locust (zaojia), twelve red dates, 9 grams of bupleurum (chaihu), huangqin, and 15 grams of tuber fleeceflower stem (yujin).
"Of course clear it all out," Wei Bin said as a matter of course.
Lu Yi quickly added another herb right after the red dates: 9 grams of arisaema (tiannansheng).
"You'll gain weight after quitting smoking. Do you want to gain weight, or not gain weight?"
As soon as those words came out, not only Wei Bin was dumbfounded, but the others were stunned as well.
Could you even control whether you gain weight or not?
Lin Chuqing looked at Lu Yi in astonishment.
According to modern psychological research, no matter what kind of addiction it is, using food to divert attention during the quitting process is a very common method, which causes people to gain weight.
In addition, after quitting an addiction, a person's appetite recovers and they eat in large quantities, which is why people who successfully quit drugs or smoking often appear plump again after some time.
This was an extremely normal phenomenon.
Could traditional Chinese medicine control that too?
(Chapter 21: This Prescription Can Really Cure Smoking Addiction!)
"Of course not gain weight," Wei Bin said with an awkward laugh. If he got fat, people would think he was taking bribes!
Lu Yi wrote down yet another herb: 30 grams of gypsum (shigao).
"After drinking this decoction of medicine, you won't want to smoke anymore."
Lu Yi handed the medicinal prescription to Wei Bin. "In addition, tomorrow morning, decades of stale phlegm will be passed out with your bowel movements. If you don't mind the filth, you can smell it—it will have the smell of tobacco."
Smell my own feces?
Wei Bin was taken aback, then looked down at the formula in his hand. Was this formula really that powerful?
This was a prescription for quitting smoking?
Lin Chuqing, Qin Yi, and Zhang Liang all curiously crowded around.
"I have the medicine here, let's just boil it right away," Qin Yi immediately offered as a favor.
Wei Bin hurriedly agreed. Indeed, his own home didn't have the medicines or the equipment to boil herbs. Most importantly, his primary concern—his heart problem—hadn't been resolved yet!
A smoking addiction was just a minor ailment; heart disease was the catastrophic threat to whether he could take the next step up!
After Qin Yi took the prescription and handed it to the housekeeper, Wei Bin looked at Lu Yi with hopeful eyes and asked, "Doctor Lu, how do we solve my heart problem? What medicine do I need to take? Can it be resolved quickly? How long will it take?"
Lu Yi shook his head. "It's hard to dredge it open in a short time relying solely on medicinal potency."
"Then what should we do?"
Wei Bin panicked. Did he really have no choice but to get a stent installed?
Once a stent was put in, forget about taking another step up—he would likely lose even his current position and be forced to step back into a secondary role.
"It's very simple. Just do one movement."
Lu Yi held up a pretty index finger.
One movement?
Wei Bin was stunned.
The others looked at each other in blank dismay. What kind of movement could possibly cure a heart condition?
"In traditional Chinese medicine, the five tones correspond to the five viscera, so emitting the five tones can purge toxins from the five viscera."
Lu Yi stood up and said, "The sound 'He' corresponds to the heart. I will teach you a movement right now, and by coordinating it with this vocalization, you can instantly shake open the blockages in your cardiovascular system."
With that, he led the bewildered Wei Bin over to the wall and asked, "Have you ever seen elderly people in the park bumping against trees?"
Wei Bin nodded perplexedly. He had seen it.
Not only had he seen it, but he had once even been dispatched on police duty because two old men whose combined age was over a hundred fought over a single tree!
And boy, that tree grew really straight!
However, what did that have to do with this?
"The movement is similar to that," Lu Yi said. "But pay attention: don't keep your feet level."
With that, he helped Wei Bin arrange his stance—right foot forward, left foot back—and pressed his hand against the fifth vertebra of his spine.
Wei Bin's expression suddenly shifted, turning pale in an instant.
An unprecedented, gripping pain wrung his heart, and he hurriedly clutched his chest with his hand.
Lu Yi's expression tightened as he calmly and loudly commanded, "Relax! Take a breath first! Put your strength into your back and slam the spot where my finger is against the wall!"
"When you slam back, loudly voice out 'He' and expel all your breath!"
"Slam!"
Wei Bin couldn't care about anything else now and hurriedly followed Lu Yi's instructions.
Thud!
His broad back collided heavily against the wall with a loud impact.
"He!!"
Once!
Thud!
"He!!"
Twice!
...
After ten times, Wei Bin's complexion turned ruddy, and he then discovered in shock that the angina had completely vanished.
His eyes lit up brightly, and he couldn't help but excitedly continue slamming against the wall on his own.
Thud! Thud!
Once, twice, three times... With every single strike, he could feel a greater sense of relief than before, and the dull chest pressure that had constantly lingered beneath the surface had actually vanished as well.
Five minutes later, Lu Yi reached out to stop the flushing-faced Wei Bin and said, "That's enough. Tomorrow you can go to the hospital for a check-up; the thrombosis should be mostly cleared open."
Just like that, it's cleared open?
Wei Bin was filled with excitement and disbelief.
Qin Yi, Lin Chuqing, and Zhang Liang were also finding it hard to credit.
"As for your coronary heart disease, if you slam against the wall for five to ten minutes every day, you can slowly soften the blockages in your cardiovascular system and hardened blood vessels through metabolism—what Western medicine calls alleviating atherosclerosis," Lu Yi said.
"Thank you so much!"
Wei Bin expressed his gratitude with utmost sincerity. A tiny movement had actually solved his massive problem!
Fortunately, he had met Lu Yi today; otherwise, he would have ended up having to get a stent installed!
At this moment, looking at Lu Yi again, he couldn't find anything displeasing about him—he looked both handsome and pleasing to the eye!
If his daughter wasn't already engaged, marrying her off to him would be an absolute perfect match. A union of talent and beauty, a match made in heaven!
Lu Yi waved his hand. "You're welcome."
The decoction for quitting smoking still needed time to boil, and Wei Bin, whose craving hadn't been fully satisfied yet, couldn't help but start slamming against the wall again—it just felt far too comfortable.
As he bumped against the wall, he couldn't help thinking of the tree those two old men had fought over; perhaps he could go bump against a tree every day.
Soon, the brewed medicine was brought out. Wei Bin took a sip and almost spat it out.
It was both bitter and numbing!
"Drink it continuously for a week, and you'll see results tomorrow morning," Lu Yi said.
Wei Bin gritted his teeth against the numbness and bitterness, gulping it down in one go.
In his heart, he couldn't help marveling once more: originally, tonight was supposed to be him doing a favor for Chairwoman Qin, hoping that Chairwoman Qin—who possessed heaven-shaking connections and could help him take another step up—would lend a hand in return. But who could have imagined that Chairwoman Qin would turn around and hand him a favor of monumental proportions!
It completely relieved him of all his bodily worries!
After finishing the medicine, he expressed his thanks once again.
Once Wei Bin left first, Lu Yi also took his leave, carrying two red envelopes given by Zhang Liang in his pocket.
Lin Chuqing drove him back, as usual.
Only this time, Lin Chuqing didn't dare let him drive, leaving Lu Yi with a lingering sense of regret.
"Your medical skills are exceptionally brilliant. Actually, you don't need to feel anxious or carry any psychological pressure."
With a look of excitement, Lin Chuqing slammed down hard on the accelerator, driving even faster than Lu Yi had yesterday.
While driving, she continued offering psychological counseling to Lu Yi.
Lu Yi skillfully transformed the smile at the corner of his mouth into one of extreme sincerity. "The pressure of staying with a beauty is a bit high."
Lin Chuqing gave a light scoff. "You're dodging the issue again. Dodging issues is extremely unfavorable for improving your mental state."
"I don't feel like I have any mental problems," Lu Yi said.
"You want to revitalize traditional medicine, don't you?"