Chapter 105: He Was Beyond Help Now
The truly divine physician can restore flesh to dead bone and bring the dead back to life with a single silver needle.
“Is it really that exaggerated?” Xie Yaxuan widened her lovely eyes, still doubtful. “More impressive than Grandpa?”
“Your grandfather’s skill before Mr. Ye’s master is nothing more than child’s play.” Xie Huaiyan shook his head and said, “Go on, and remember to speak carefully to Mr. Ye. If you drive him away, I’ll hold you personally responsible.”
“Fine, I know,” she huffed.
Xie Yaxuan picked up the car keys beside her and went straight out the door.
Ye Fei had no idea what had happened upstairs. When he heard a horn outside the villa, he quickly got up, put on his shoes, and headed out.
At the entrance was a pitch-black Maybach. The girl he had met before was standing by the car door. When she saw Ye Fei come out, she opened one of the rear doors and said with a smile, “Great doctor, hurry up. We’ve been waiting for you forever.”
Ye Fei walked over, glanced at Xie Yaxuan, who was wearing a fresh little dress, and clicked his tongue with a hand on his chin. “Something’s off.”
“Off?” Xie Yaxuan blinked. “What’s off?”
“You weren’t this well-endowed last time I saw you.” Ye Fei let his gaze drift to her chest and grinned. “Could it be because you’re wearing a white coat?”
“You! Pervert!” Xie Yaxuan hurriedly covered her chest, forgetting her grandfather’s instructions in an instant. She said angrily, “Stop looking around! Get in the car, now! Quit dawdling!”
“Hahaha...” Ye Fei laughed twice, then got into the Maybach.
One had to admit, the interior of this luxury car, worth well over a million, was truly eye-catching.
Not only did it have suicide doors, but the seating space and the seven-color ambient lighting inside were even more comfortable than the chair in the security chief’s office.
“This car is pretty nice. Your grandfather’s?” Ye Fei asked curiously.
“Yeah,” Xie Yaxuan said as she started the engine. “But my dad bought it for Grandpa. He said the car was too flashy and he preferred driving that old wrecked Crown at home, so I just ended up using this one myself.”
“What’s your name?” Ye Fei asked curiously.
“Xie Yaxuan.”
“Xie Yaxuan?”
“Right. Xiu Xiu is my childhood name.”
Ye Fei nodded and smiled. “A good name.”
“I don’t like it, though. It sounds like the name of some obedient little girl.” Xie Yaxuan snorted. “I don’t want to be some obedient girl, spending all day in Grandpa’s pharmacy, not even having a shred of freedom.”
“Your grandfather wants you to inherit his legacy,” Ye Fei said with a smile. “Why not use this chance to learn medicine properly from him? In the future, the title of Divine Doctor Xie will be passed on to you.”
“How do you know Grandpa said exactly that to me?” Xie Yaxuan said in surprise. “He tells me this every day until my ears are practically calloused. If I dare talk back, I get scolded. It drives me crazy!”
Ye Fei smiled.
This little girl was interesting.
She was probably not very old.
Since childhood, Ye Fei had been a mature person. Without father or mother, he had never experienced a happy childhood. This girl named Xie Yaxuan, on the other hand, was clearly a flower raised in a greenhouse, untouched by the ugliness of the world.
No wonder Old Master Xie insisted on keeping her by his side.
About half an hour later, Xie Yaxuan parked the car at the First People’s Hospital of Jiangnan Province.
Xie Huaiyan, dressed in a white Zhongshan suit, had somehow already been waiting at the entrance. When he saw Ye Fei arrive, he walked up with a face full of smiles and said respectfully, “Mr. Ye, you’re here.”
“No need to be so polite, Old Xie.” Ye Fei waved a hand. “I’m your junior in a sense, so some courtesy is still necessary. Besides, you have quite a reputation in Binhai City, so there’s no need to be so deferential to a junior like me.”
“Mr. Ye speaks with reason.” Xie Huaiyan nodded with a smile and gestured. “Please.”
The three of them entered the hospital together.
Along the way, Ye Fei noticed a faint trace of worry in Xie Huaiyan’s brow and asked curiously, “Old Xie, you may as well use this time to tell me about the patient. That way I can think of a plan in advance. Since even you couldn’t cure him, it must be some difficult illness, right?”
Xie Huaiyan thought for a few seconds, then nodded. “Yes. The patient is a highly renowned antiques expert in Jiangnan Province. Mr. Ye, you may simply call him Old Master Zhou.”
“A few days ago, it happened to be Old Master Zhou’s seventieth birthday. He somehow obtained a birthday gift, said to be an antique newly excavated from some tomb. After seeing it, the old man liked it immensely and carried it with him wherever he went. But who would have thought that, only a few days later, he was hospitalized because he could not breathe properly.”
“The hospital examined him and found that his lungs had suffered severe damage for some unknown reason.”
“And it was the irreversible kind of damage.”
“Lung damage?” Ye Fei frowned. “The hospital couldn’t determine the cause?”
“No.” Old Xie shook his head. “Logically speaking, with modern medical equipment, a scan should have revealed the cause. But the strange thing is that no matter what method is used, nothing can be detected.”
“The day before yesterday, I came to take a look and used the diagnostic methods my master taught me, but I still couldn’t make sense of it.”
“The reason I was so anxious to invite Mr. Ye here overnight is that Old Master Zhou’s condition has reached the point of no return. His lungs are almost completely failing. If he cannot be treated today, I’m afraid he will not make it.”
“I hope Mr. Ye can show mercy and help my old friend.”
Ye Fei narrowed his eyes. “Let’s go take a look.”
The strange illness Xie Huaiyan described had never been mentioned by his master, and Ye Fei had no knowledge of it.
So he had no real certainty about how to treat it.
Whether in traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, one had to first examine the illness before knowing its cause.
Although, for the current Ye Fei, as long as it was not an especially rare condition, a bit of spiritual energy would usually solve it, he had never heard of the ailment Old Master Xie had described.
At that moment, in the ICU ward, an elderly man with snow-white hair and many dark spots on his face was lying on the hospital bed, completely motionless. Every part of his body had become stiff.
Beside the bed, a rather elderly attending physician reached out, lifted Zhou Hanlin’s eyelids, then glanced at the ECG by the bedside. Seeing that it had become a flat line, he could only sigh helplessly and say to the family standing there, “He’s gone. Further resuscitation would be meaningless. Let him go in peace.”