Chapter 2158: Chapter 2015: What Did You Do? (Part 3)
"Huh? Doctor Zhang? Professor He?"
He Wenbai went straight to Wang Xingye and said, "Iâm sorry, Mr. Wang, I canât treat your fatherâs illness."
"What? How could that be?" Wang Xingye was dumbfounded and asked He Wenbai.
"How can you not treat it? Arenât you all medical experts from the province and from Beijing?" Zhang Shuyun asked in confusion.
"Yeah, Professor He, our whole family has been waiting here for you!" Wang Xingjia said.
"Professor He, since youâre already here, how come you suddenly say you canât treat him? You didnât say that on the phone!" Li Xin said.
"Professor He, how come all of a sudden youâre saying you canât treat him?" Wang Rui also asked.
Facing the expectant gazes of the whole family, He Wenbai didnât waver in the slightest. He said coldly, "Because you donât respect my mentor."
"Your mentor?"
Everyone looked at one another, not knowing who He Wenbai was talking about.
"That Acupuncture Doctor surnamed Song you just drove away is my mentor," He Wenbai said.
"Professor He, you must be mistaken. That guy is so young, and heâs a Traditional Chinese Medicine expert. Youâre a Western Medicine expert. How could he possibly be your mentor?" Wang Xingye asked Song Xiaodong.
"Why canât a Traditional Chinese Medicine expert be the mentor of a Western Medicine expert? Why canât a young person be the mentor of someone older?" He Wenbai asked.
"Professor He, donât joke like that. Youâre already at the pinnacle of our Minghe medical community. Who would still dare to call themselves your mentor?" Wang Xingjia said to He Wenbai.
"Flattering me is useless. Youâve already rejected my mentor, so I wonât treat you either. Goodbye."
With that, He Wenbai left with Zhang Zanyang in tow.
"Hey? Professor He?"
Wang Xuezhongâs wife, Yu Xiulin, hurriedly chased after him, grabbed He Wenbaiâs hand, and pleaded bitterly, "Professor He, you canât just stand by and watch someone die. I canât live without my old man. If anything happens to him, I wonât go on either. Professor He, please save my old man!"
As she spoke, Yu Xiulin burst into tears.
But there was not a trace of sympathy on He Wenbaiâs face. He said to Yu Xiulin, "If you really cared about your old manâs life, when someone first introduced my mentor here, you should have treated him properly and received him as a distinguished guest. My mentor might have been able to save your old manâs life."
Chapter 2017: Let Me Count for You
"But instead, just because my mentor is young and an Acupuncture Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, you drove him away. My mentor is still benevolent and righteousâhe even left you a bottle of life-saving medicine. If it were me, I wouldâve just left, and your old man probably wouldâve died right when the attack started!"
After hearing this, utter despair appeared on Yu Xiulinâs face.
He Wenbai shook off Yu Xiulinâs hands and left with Zhang Zan.
Yu Xiulin returned to the door of the intensive care unit.
"That young man Director Zhao found is Professor Heâs teacher? Something like that could happen?" Yu Xiulin said in a daze.
"Professor Heâs got quite the temperââYou donât respect my mentor, so I wonât treat youâ? Iâd like to see which Physician in Minghe dares not treat my dad. Look how arrogant he is!" the eldest son, Wang Xingye, said angrily.
"Heâs a Physician, watch your tone," Zhang Shuyun said.
"Exactly. If you had spoken properly back then, this whole mess wouldnât have happened," the second son, Wang Xingjia, said.
"Look at that Physician Director Zhao brought inâdoes he look like an expert? Heâs so young. Would you really feel at ease letting him treat you?" the second daughterâinâlaw, Li Xin, said.
"Enough, stop arguing. What do we do now? Big Brother, you decide," the youngest daughter, Wang Rui, said to the eldest son, Wang Xingye.
"What else can we do? Go and invite Professor He back," the eldest son, Wang Xingye, said.
"How are we supposed to invite him? Didnât you see his attitude just now?" the eldest daughterâinâlaw, Zhang Shuyun, said.
"What attitude? Isnât it just about money? Our familyâs got plenty. Give him some money and heâll come running to treat Dad, happy as a clam," the second son, Wang Xingjia, said.
"Heâs a medical professor and has worked for so many years. Do you really think he still cares about money?" the second daughterâinâlaw, Li Xin, said.
"Who doesnât love money?" the youngest daughter, Wang Rui, said.
"From the look of him, Professor He seems upright. He doesnât look like someone greedy for money," the sonâinâlaw, Wang Rong, said.
"Yeah, people who focus on pure academia and donât seek fame or fortune are the hardest to deal with," the eldest son, Zhang Shuyun, said.
"No matter what, we have to at least try. If that doesnât work, weâll go talk to their director. I donât believe he wonât listen to his own director," the eldest son, Wang Xingye, said.
"We donât necessarily have to go find Professor He. He said it himself: that young doctor surnamed Song is his teacher and might have even better medical skill than Professor He. We can just go straight to him," Yu Xiulin said.
"Forget it. Heâs too young; one look and you know heâs not reliable," the eldest daughterâinâlaw, Zhang Shuyun, said.
"What do you mean not reliable? You all saw it just nowâyour dad was about to stop breathing, and I took out that bottle Doctor Song gave me. I opened the cap and held it under his nose, a puff of smoke came out, and then your dad coughed, and his ECG immediately went back to normal. It was so miraculous. I think this Doctor Song really does have some skill," Yu Xiulin said.
"Donât be so superstitious. A puff of smoke can make a heart attack go back to normal? If there were such a powerful drug, that Doctor Song wouldâve been rich and famous long ago. Why would he still be working as a doctor?" the eldest daughterâinâlaw, Zhang Shuyun, said.
"And Professor Heâs words could be fake?" Yu Xiulin said.