Mrs. Tang kept smiling as she watched them talk, her eyes falling on Shen Ning's face from time to time, making no secret of her interest in her.
But the way she looked at people was very gentle, and it didn't arouse Shen Ning's disgust at all.
After listening to the old lady's words, the smile on Madam Tang's face deepened.
She picked up the tea cup in front of her and took a sip without answering the old lady's words.
This noncommittal attitude made the old lady unhappy.
"Xiao Tang, what do you mean? You don't believe what I say, do you?"
The old lady slammed the teacup in her hand on the table, and the smile on her face disappeared.
Mrs. Tang was calm and smiled slightly: "Don't get me wrong, Madam. I heard that Miss Shen has such superb medical skills that she cured your illness with a cup of tea without even prescribing any medicine. This is Isn’t this a disease that even the expert team can’t cure?”
The old lady said solemnly: "That's it. I've told you this twenty times, and you still don't want to believe it?"
Mrs. Tang smiled and said: "It's not that I don't want to believe it, it's just that it's hard to believe. You have been ill for several months. Experts at home and abroad have examined your illness, but none of them cured you. Instead, you Your condition is getting worse day by day. So many experts can't cure it, but this little girl cured you without even using any medicine. If you tell me this, how many people can believe it?"
Her tone was soft and gentle, and although she meant to object, it was not offensive.
The old lady was not really angry, she was just unconvinced.
"Then you mean that my illness was cured by myself?" She continued to stare at Mrs. Tang with a straight face.
Mrs. Tang smiled and suddenly asked: "Old madam, do you know what is the treatment of tail disease?"
The old lady said angrily: "I have only heard of treating pre-diseases, but never heard of treating tail-diseases!"
Mrs. Tang was not angry, and explained with a smile: "Treating tail disease is just a term, which means that after the patient becomes ill, even if he does not use medicine, his body will slowly recover later. So I think Miss Shen's medical skills are certainly good." It’s quite high, but I’m also very lucky.”
The implication is that Shen Ning relied on luck to recover from the old lady's illness.
The old lady was not happy to hear it and glared at her: "You said Xiao Ning cured my disease by luck?"
"There is a saying in Chinese medicine. I don't know whether the old lady has heard of it. It is said that when arsenic comes in, one can live, and when licorice comes in, one can kill. This is an allusion. It means that luck in Chinese medicine is sometimes more important than medical skills, so even Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners all believe that whether a disease can be cured depends on luck. "
Mrs. Tang put down the tea cup in her hand, leaned back comfortably, and looked at Shen Ning with a smile.
The old lady obviously hadn't heard any allusions before, so she snorted: "Arsenic keeps people alive, and licorice kills people. Please speak more clearly. Don't be so cloudy. My old lady can't understand."
She didn't understand, but Shen Ning did.
She knew the allusion.
There is indeed a saying circulating in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. This is a true story.
She once read this record in a medical book: There was an incident where a doctor liked to drink. Once when he was drunk, he gave medicine to a patient, but he mistakenly gave arsenic to the patient.
As a result, after he sobered up, the doctor was frightened and thought he had committed murder. Unexpectedly, by accident, the arsenic cured the patient's strange disease.
From then on, his reputation became famous and there was an endless stream of people seeking medical advice.