Chapter 3 A Way Out of Desperation

• Jiangnan First People's Hospital.
• Yue Bufan hurriedly rushed over.
• His mother, Chen Yihong, was already in a critical condition. After inquiring, he found out that she had been transferred to the intensive care unit and owed a large sum of hospital fees.
• Without paying off the fees, even if there was a suitable kidney source, the hospital would not perform the surgery.
• But now, things were different. Yue Bufan had inherited the medical skills of the Yue family and could save his mother without a kidney transplant.
• Yue Bufan hurriedly arrived at the door of the intensive care unit with his younger sister.
• Inside the ward, Chen Yihong lay quietly on the hospital bed, as if she were asleep.
• Various medical devices were attached to her body, and her body was swollen due to the stimulation of medication.
• Yue Wanyu, his sister, shed tears of distress. "Mom has suffered so much during this period."
• "A while ago, she even thought about ending her own life, but fortunately, I stopped her."
• "Mom also told me that she didn't want to burden us, didn't want to be a liability to us."
• "Brother, I no longer have a grandfather or a father. I don't want to lose you, and I don't want to be without a mother!"
• Yue Bufan's heart ached.
• He hated himself!
• Why did he realize it so late?!
• Yue Bufan embraced his sister and gently patted her back. "Wanyu, don't be afraid. Brother is here."
• "From now on, no one will dare to bully you. Brother will protect you and mom, and make sure you all have a good life."
• "Mmm..."
• Yue Wanyu's eyes immediately turned red, and her voice became hoarse as she nodded.
• She took out a few crumpled banknotes from her pocket and handed them to Yue Bufan. "Brother, this is the money I earned by helping classmates with their homework at school."
• "The doctor said that if we can't raise enough money for medical expenses, they won't perform the surgery on mom."
• "Brother, mom is undergoing dialysis every day and can't even eat. She won't last long. What should we do?!"
• Although Yue Bufan was shocked, he wasn't scared.
• With his current medical skills, he was already capable of curing his mother's kidney failure.
• Yue Bufan gently touched Yue Wanyu's head, his face filled with tenderness. "Don't worry, I have a way to save mom. Let's go in."
• The siblings entered the intensive care unit.
• Chen Yihong had already been tortured by the illness and looked terrible!
• Yue Bufan moved aside the medical devices and took out a pair of silver needles from his pocket.
• He had just bought them while getting medicine for his sister.
• The Yue family actually had a medical background.
• Yue Bufan remembered that his grandfather was a wandering doctor, and his father was also a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.
• When Yue Bufan was young, he loved playing with his father's silver needles, using them to prick caterpillars and the like.
• But for some reason, neither his grandfather nor his father ever actively taught him traditional Chinese medicine. Could there be some secret that they didn't want to reveal?
• But now, Yue Bufan had inherited the medical skills of the Yue family from ancient medical books. Holding the silver needles, he felt as if he had reunited with a long-lost friend. The familiarity in his heart was self-evident.
• Yue Bufan took a deep breath, looked at his mother on the hospital bed, and then at his sister. "Wanyu, come help me support mom!"
• Yue Wanyu bit her lip and looked at Yue Bufan. "Brother, what are you going to do?"
• "I'm going to treat mom."
• Yue Bufan's tone was resolute, with an undeniable determination.
• He looked at his sister and nodded seriously. "Trust me."
• Feeling her brother's determined gaze, Yue Wanyu hesitated for a moment, then nodded and walked over to assist Yue Bufan.
• Yue Wanyu helped their mother sit up from the bed, and Yue Bufan took out the silver needles, quickly inserting them into the kidney shu points, taixi points, yongquan points, and huiyin points on their mother's body.
• These were all crucial acupoints connected to the kidneys.
• Then, Yue Bufan proceeded to needle more than twenty other relevant acupoints.
• Yue Wanyu didn't understand medicine, but she could tell that her brother's needling technique was precise and powerful, with just the right amount of force. It was highly impressive and definitely not just empty talk.
• She was both amazed and puzzled. When did her brother learn medicine? Their grandfather and father never taught him when he was young, right?
• When Yue Bufan inserted the last needle, their mother's previously furrowed brow relaxed.
• Her complexion gradually regained its healthy color, and Yue Wanyu could even hear her mother's steady breathing.
• Both siblings had smiles of relief on their faces.
• After their mother's symptoms stabilized, Yue Bufan finally felt at ease.
• Kidney failure was not an ordinary illness. Needling alone wouldn't be enough; herbal medicine would also be needed for a complete recovery.
• But treating the illness with a few hundred yuan worth of herbal medicine was much better than a two hundred thousand yuan surgery.
• Yue Bufan removed the silver needles from his mother's body and was about to go out to handle her discharge procedures.
• As he passed by the adjacent intensive care unit, Yue Bufan noticed a girl with various medical devices attached to her body suddenly convulsing on the hospital bed.
• Yue Bufan immediately furrowed his brows.
• He wasn't someone who liked to meddle in other people's affairs, but he couldn't forget the two unforgettable sentences his grandfather told him when he inherited the Yue family's medical skills:
• After inheriting this legacy, you must use it to help others and save lives.
• "Physician with a compassionate heart." Yue Bufan now had this ability and absolutely couldn't just watch a patient die before his eyes.
• Yue Bufan pushed open the door and quickly approached the girl's bed, taking her pulse and examining her condition.
• The girl was about the same age as Yue Wanyu. Unfortunately, she had also suffered from kidney failure at such a young age, just like Yue Bufan's mother.
• But the girl's condition was even more severe, with liver failure as well.
• The failure of two major organs was already life-threatening, and now Yue Bufan discovered that the girl was also experiencing internal bleeding for some unknown reason.
• If not treated promptly, she would likely face a dead end.
• "Wanyu, come over and help me support her!"
• Yue Bufan had no choice but to intervene and treat this girl.
• Yue Wanyu nodded. After witnessing her mother's illness, she had gained a whole new understanding of her brother and now had complete faith in him.
• Yue Wanyu walked over and followed Yue Bufan's instructions to press on several acupoints of the girl.
• Yue Bufan took out a few silver needles from his needle bag and quickly inserted them into several acupoints on the girl's body.
• In an instant, the girl stopped convulsing, her breathing became stable, and her heart rate on the electrocardiogram gradually returned to normal.
• "Phew, it's done."
• "Now, let the doctors take care of the rest!"
• Yue Bufan breathed a sigh of relief. The girl's symptoms had returned to normal, and all that was left was to perform a kidney transplant.
• "Bang!"
• Just then, the door of the intensive care unit was pushed open.
• A group of people rushed in from outside.
• The one leading them was a man in his thirties wearing a white coat, Dr. Zhao Tianming from the Nephrology Department.
• Seeing Yue Bufan inexplicably standing in front of the patient's bed with a suspicious expression on his face, Dr. Zhao Tianming angrily rebuked, "Who are you? What do you want?"
• Following behind Dr. Zhao Tianming was an elegant woman in her forties.
• The woman rushed over and pushed Yue Wanyu aside when she saw two strangers standing by her daughter's bed. She looked at her daughter in astonishment. "My daughter, my daughter, what happened to you? Why is your clothes so disheveled?!"