Fortunately, Leng Chuanjin found an excuse for Xia Sanghuan in time.
He simply tidied up the bowls and chopsticks and placed them far away from the two of them. Then he got up and went to the bathroom to wash his hands.
While he was away, she quickly patted her somewhat flushed face, trying to calm herself down.
By the time the man walked out of the bathroom, she had regained her usual calm.
"Shall we start now?"
He sat back on the chair.
Fortunately, because of Leng Jingzhan, there were always two chairs in his room. Otherwise, Xia Sanghuan might not have a place to sit now.
It was out of the question to let the young girl sit on his bed.
"Yeah."
"Please stretch out your forearm."
"Either side will do."
He rolled up his sleeve as told, revealing a strong forearm.
He stretched out his arm, thinking that the girl would be like the other traditional Chinese medicine practitioners he had seen before, asking him to rest his wrist on a cushion.
Instead, she directly reached out and started feeling his pulse without any hesitation.
The man's body temperature was a bit higher than the girl's. When her slightly cool fingertips touched his skin, he couldn't help but tremble.
She quickly withdrew her hand and looked at him nervously.
"Second brother, did I touch somewhere I shouldn't have?"
"Or does it hurt somewhere?"
Looking at her serious little face, he coughed awkwardly.
"It's okay."
"Just start."
After getting a negative answer, she didn't hesitate any longer and started feeling his pulse seriously.
He originally thought that he had just not rested well recently, which caused some problems with his body.
But he didn't expect that as the girl spent more time feeling his pulse, her expression became more and more solemn.
After about five minutes, she finally raised her hand.
She pushed the bowl of medicine she had brought in front of him, indicating for him to drink it.
While taking out paper and a pen and writing something on it, she frowned and asked him.
"Have you eaten anything you shouldn't have recently?"
"I've eaten normally recently."
"Why do you ask?"
He recalled for a moment and then replied.
After hearing his words, her frown deepened.
Not hearing the girl's reply, he simply drank the medicine first.
He picked up the bowl. After smelling the bitter taste of the traditional Chinese medicine, he frowned slightly.
But he quickly regained his usual calm expression and drank the medicine in one gulp.
However, his micro - expression didn't escape her eyes.
After he finished drinking the medicine, a piece of candy was lying quietly on the table.
It was the same as the one he had given her in the hospital last time.
He pushed the bowl aside and paused for a moment when he reached for the candy.
He looked up at the girl. Seeing that she was still writing seriously on the paper, he then took the candy with confidence.
Out of the corner of her eye, seeing him obediently peel the candy and put it into his mouth, for some reason, she felt inexplicably happy.
But now was not the time to care about such things.
"There's a kind of toxin in your body."
"This toxin will put pressure on your nerves and heart."
"So the reason for your insomnia recently is definitely not just excessive stress."
She wrote out a prescription for him with a solemn expression and handed it to the man in front of her.
After hearing her words, he also put away his initial casualness.
The girl's handwriting was flamboyant, quite like that of the doctors in the hospital.
Fortunately, her words were not that hard to recognize. He could barely make out the names of a few medicines.
Tian Shu Capsules, Shugan Jieyu Capsules and a series of other medicines he had never come into contact with before.
There was even a bottle of Vitamin B.
"These are all traditional Chinese medicine. They won't have any side - effects on the body, but they are very effective."
"If possible, take them according to the amount I wrote on the paper tonight."
While organizing the silver needles, she said to him.
"Is this enough?"
He looked at the paper doubtfully.
"Of course not."
She glanced at him.
"This toxin has been accumulating in your body for a long time."
"If just taking some medicine were enough, the ones I prescribed for you before would have already cleared the toxin."
"Now, is it convenient for you to lie on the bed?"
While lowering her head to organize the silver needles, she asked.
The man got up as told, walked to the bed and lay down.
To make it convenient for Xia Sanghuan to operate, he lay very straight.
So when the girl turned her head and saw him lying on the bed like a corpse, she almost burst out laughing. But fortunately, she held it back.
She carried the tray over and adjusted the position of his head.
Then she wiped the area with alcohol and, according to the positions of the acupoints in her memory, inserted the needles one by one.
While carefully inserting the needles, she gently asked.
"Does it hurt?"
"No."
The man replied.
His warm breath blew on her wrist, making her hand tremble.
Fortunately, there was no silver needle in her hand at this time, or else she might have inserted the needle in the wrong position.
She inserted eight needles on his forehead and the top of his head, and then two needles at the base of his thumb.
Finally, after hesitating for a long time, she spoke.
"Second brother, could you..."
"Undo your shirt?"
After hearing her words, the man lying on the bed was also stunned for a moment.
"I need to insert needles into a few acupoints on your chest..."
She added in a low voice, not knowing why she was feeling so guilty.
Leng Chuanjin hesitated for a moment and raised his hand to undo the buttons of his shirt.
However, as soon as his hand moved, a sharp pain came from the needle holes, making him involuntarily suck in a breath of cold air.
He wasn't actually someone who couldn't bear pain, but this pain came so suddenly that he couldn't help it for a moment.
Seeing his reaction and fearing that he might move the needles out of position by moving around, the girl quickly told him to put his hand back.
What should she do next?
Could she insert the needles through his clothes?
She shook her head, getting rid of this thought.
Not to mention that it was easy to misjudge the positions of the acupoints through a layer of cloth. Moreover, when had there ever been a doctor who performed acupuncture through clothes?
"Second brother."
"Do you mind if I help you take it off?"
As soon as she said this, she instantly regretted it.
It seemed as if she was a female lecher taking advantage of the situation!
And the room fell into an awkward silence.
Just as she was desperately trying to make up for her words in her mind, Leng Chuanjin suddenly spoke indifferently.
"I don't mind."
"Take it off."
This made her even more embarrassed.
To make it easier for her to work, he even turned his head away.
Since the other party had gone this far, if she continued to be coy, it would seem as if she had something on her mind.
Upholding the professional ethics that a doctor should have, she looked straight ahead and reached out her hand towards the man's shirt.