CHAPTER 597: CHAPTER 586: THE DIVINE DOCTOR FATHER OF THE WEALTHY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

Ye Qiuxin was undistracted, and only after giving the patient their acupuncture did he have time to tease the curious child, "Are you scared? Do you want grandpa to give you a couple of needles?"

Looking at the slender needles, Xiao Hao was not afraid at all, but actually stretched out his tender arm. Seeing Ye Qiu didn’t move, he even nudged his arm forward a bit more.

"Doctor Ye is just teasing you, kid. You’re quite brave," a patient next to him said with a face full of amusement, "Doctor Ye, is this child a relative of yours? He must be mixed-race; he looks really good."

"He’s a friend’s child from Ye Chan’s family." Ye Qiu said as he took out two pieces of pastry from a drawer and placed them in the child’s palm.

Gu Hao obediently ate the pastries while watching Ye Qiu treat patients, and a young doctor next to him smiled and brought over a small stool for him to sit right next to Ye Qiu.

Gu Mingmei finally found an opportunity to start a conversation: "Thank you so much, I’m Xiao Hao’s aunt, my name is Gu Mingmei."

"Hello, my name is Ji Yuan." The young doctor extended his hand, smiling very brightly, causing Gu Mingmei’s heart to skip a beat.

"Ye Chan told me you are a surgeon at the central hospital, how come you are here learning Traditional Chinese Medicine with Uncle Ye?"

"Western medicine isn’t all-powerful. Ever since I met Mr. Ye, I realized just how powerful our country’s traditional medicine is. Learning an additional skill will be beneficial for treating patients in the future. I really had to fight for the opportunity to come here today!" Ji Yuan said with a face full of admiration.

"Uncle Ye is that incredible? Doctors from your hospital are all eager to learn?"

"Of course, our hospital director said that if Mr. Ye liked staying in the small clinic, with his skills in traditional medicine, his fame would have spread throughout the extensive regions of Jiangnan long ago."

Gu Mingmei knew that Ye Chan’s dad was formidable, but she didn’t realize even western doctors from big hospitals held him in such high regard. But Uncle Ye indeed deserved it, her own long-standing insomnia, which hadn’t been cured by numerous senior doctors, was simply cured by Uncle Ye. It seems she needs to talk to her elder brother and suggest he also comes for a visit.

Today, Ye Qiu’s fame has spread, and the number of patients who come seeking him continues to grow. However, to prevent Ye Chan from worrying and to give himself a break, he treated a fixed number of patients each day, and appointments had to be made in advance. After seeing five patients today, Ye Qiu stopped his work.

"Chanchan, calculate the bill for me. Xiao Ji, come here, I’ll teach you how to recognize medicinal herbs."

"Ah!"

Upon hearing that, Gu Hao also ran clattering to the back. When he realized he was too short to see the herbs, he boldly tugged at Ye Qiu’s long robe.

"What, you want to learn too?" Ye Qiu smiled and lifted him up.

Xiao Hao didn’t speak but nodded his head heavily.

"Watch on your own, if you get bored you can go out and find your aunt and Auntie Ye Chan," Ye Qiu said and stopped paying him any mind; after all, he was just a five-year-old child.

But Gu Hao watched very attentively, never speaking and showing no intention of leaving.

"Mr. Ye, now you’ve gained another little fan," Ji Yuan jested after learning today’s content.

Xiao Hao pursed his lips, but his eyes sparkled while looking at Ye Qiu, filled with heavy determination.

"This child," Ye Qiu gently tousled his hair and softly said, "If you like, come over with your aunt to play often."

"Mm!" Gu Hao finally uttered his first word of the day.

Ye Qiu looked at him tenderly, wondering how this child’s parents were raising him—he was such a lovely and cute child, yet brought up like this.

When Gu Mingmei left, she took with her two weeks’ worth of medicine from Ye Qiu, half for herself and the other half she was selling to her elder brother. When her dad returned from out of town, she planned to bring him personally to Uncle Ye’s clinic for a visit.

"What is this?" Gu Mingting looked at the dark herbal medicine.

"Chinese medicine, for treating insomnia." Saying this, Gu Mingmei downed the medicine in one gulp.

After finishing, she smacked her lips, Uncle Ye really is a genius, not only is this medicine miraculously effective, but it’s also not hard to drink.

Seeing that Gu Mingting hadn’t drunk his, Gu Mingmei persuaded, "Bro, just try it, I’ve been drinking it for a week now, and my sleep has really improved a lot."

"You weren’t tricked, were there sleeping pills in it?"

"No, I had it checked, the Chinese herbs in it are all safe and harmless, you don’t know how amazing Uncle Ye is, those patients just need a few acupuncture needles from him, and they immediately get better."

"Is it as miraculous as you say?" Gu Mingting snorted with laughter, but still drank the bowl of Chinese medicine in the end.

"Grandpa Ye is really amazing." Gu Hao, who had been quiet all along, suddenly said this rather loudly.

Gu Mingting and Gu Mingmei looked at him in surprise, and Gu Hao looked back at them then bowed his head and stopped talking.

"What’s with him?" Although he didn’t like the child much, seeing him finally showing some childlike energy, Gu Mingting was somewhat moved.

Gu Mingmei, propping her chin, watched Gu Hao, "Speaking of which, it’s strange, Xiao Hao doesn’t get close to anyone, but he really liked my friend and her dad at first sight, and today he even sat beside Uncle Ye watching him diagnose and identify herbs for half a day, Xiao Hao is so serious, maybe he will want to be a doctor in the future!"

"He can learn whatever he wants." Gu Mingting said this and then went back to looking at his documents.

"Bro... can you care a bit more about Xiao Hao?" Gu Mingmei looked at Gu Hao, who was bowing his head immersed in his own world, feeling waves of heartache.

Gu Mingting closed his contract intending to go upstairs, "Since he likes it, you can take him over to your friend’s whenever you have time, and if Xiao Hao really wants to learn, use my card to buy them something."

Gu Mingmei could only nod in agreement, then she ruffled Xiao Hao’s hair, "Don’t blame dad, Xiao Hao, he just has too much work, only by working hard can he make money to support us!"

Gu Hao played with his toy, remaining silent.

"Xinyi, why haven’t I seen you go out these past few days?" At Donghu Villa, Gao Juan looked at her daughter confusedly, "Brother Ming Shen just returned to the country and isn’t familiar with the surroundings, why don’t you take him out for a stroll, don’t be shy, okay?"

"Understood." Li Xinyi answered obediently but felt somewhat irritable inside.

She couldn’t understand what was happening, why did it always feel like Brother Ming Shen was avoiding her?

Hesitating, she picked up the phone and eventually dialed the number.

"Hello." A magnetic, pleasant voice came through, stabilizing Li Xinyi’s heart.

"Brother Ming Shen, it’s me." She said somewhat nervously, "Are you busy right now?"

Gu Mingshen looked at a huge stack of documents on his desk, rubbed his brow and finally softened a bit, "I just finished a meeting, are you free tonight? Brother Ming Shen will treat you to dinner."

"I’m free." Li Xinyi said joyfully.

"Then I’ll come and pick you up from your house after work."

"Okay."