Chapter 381 - Shut Up, Idiot (2/2)

Director Zhao for Gastroenterology said, “Did you eat any unsanitary food? It looks like food poisoning.”

The old woman said, “That’s impossible. We don’t often eat out. Our family dinner is always simple and light-flavored. I eat exactly the same thing with him every day. How come nothing’s wrong with me if it were food poisoning?”

“Well…”

For quite a while, Director Zhao was speechless. Then Director Zhang broke the silence and asked, “Is it an allergy? Are you allergic to anything?”

The young man denied, “I worked on the construction site every day, facing concrete and bricks. I don’t think I’m allergic to any of that. Also, only the skin under my waist is black. If I’m really allergic to something, my whole body should turn black instead.

“Besides, didn’t you run the allergens on me yesterday? Nothing seemed to be wrong!”

Director of Andrology, Mr. Zhou said, “Young man, did you ever have any unprotected sex recently? It might be STD.”

They discussed and argued with each other, but nobody seemed to have convinced the others. They seemed to be taking wild guesses. The young man lost patience and yelled in anger, “That’s nonsense! You’re the one who have STD! All of you!”

Director Zhou seemed angry. “We’re helping you out! Watch your language!”

The young man said angrily, “You’re not helping at all! You quack! You’re guessing blindly! I don’t even have a girlfriend, and I’m still a virgin now. Where can I get STD?”

“That…”

Seeing the young man take it out on them, all the experts were dumbfounded. They were trying to cure the young man and leave Qin Haodong with no patients to treat, but it had taken them so long to look for the cause of the disease. That was so humiliating!

Qin Haodong laid down his teacup and stood up. Then he glanced at those people and laughed, “What now? Aren’t you experts? That’s what you called ‘science’? Why can’t you cure them?”

Director Zhang’s facial expression froze for a while, but he didn’t want to give in. “That’s our preliminary diagnosis. We’ll need to run a more detailed examination using precise instruments to confirm the diagnosis. The young man will go back with me later and I’ll try my best to find the cause.”

Soon after he said that, the young man refused him with agitation, “What else do you know besides examination? The examination yesterday already cost me 1000 yuan. Will you get it free for me today? Or will you pay for it?”

Director Zhang persuaded him, “The confirmation takes precise examination. That’s science, you have to trust in it!”

“Your science can go to hell!” The young man said in anger, “I worked my butt off on the construction site every day, and earned only 100 yuan. Now you want to steal it away from me, and still leave me in sickness. You quack!”

Director Zhang felt so angry and grieved being pointed at his nose and called a “quack”, but he didn’t argue because it was true that he failed to find the cause of the disease.

On the contrary, Qin Haodong was so happy to see them being unhappy. He asked, “You call that ‘science’? Aren’t you experts? Why did all of you fail to find the cause? Does it feel good to be called a ‘quack’?”

Dong Kai looked embarrassed and asked, “It’s still too early for you to get so complacent. It’s true we failed to find the cause, but can you?”

Qin Haodong smiled and answered, “Of course! It is not as complicated as you think. You didn’t find the cause because you’re arrogant, and think highly of yourselves. You’re stuck in your science dream and wouldn’t stand in ordinary people’s shoes.”

Upon hearing that the young man could be cured, the old woman asked, “Doctor, can you find the cause for him?”

Qin Haodong said, “I’m not a quack. It’s really easy to solve your son’s problem.”

The old woman couldn’t stop thanking him, “Thank you. Thank you so much for saving my son!”

Dong Kai said immediately, “He’s just bragging. These experts couldn’t find the cause, let alone him.”

“I’ll convince you all,” said Qin Haodong. Then he asked the nurse standing next to him, “Get me some clean water and a bar of soap.”

The nurse was confused. She wondered why the treatment involved clean water and soap. She had never heard that those two things could cure diseases.

Dong Kai sneered, “Are you saying that the patient is dirty? Why do you want a bar of soap? You haven’t diagnosed him yet!”

Qin Haodong threw a glance at him and said, “Did anyone ever tell you that the more one speaks, the more ignorant he is?”

“You…” Dong Kai lashed out and replied, “I don’t think you can cure him. We’ll see.”

Soon, the nurse came in with some water and soap. Qin Haodong asked the young man to sit on a chair, then he took off the young man’s shoes, putting his feet in the water.

Dong Kai couldn’t help jeering at him again, “Tang Feng, isn’t that the TMC method for all disease? A footbath?”

Qin Haodong ignored him. He rolled up the young man’s trousers and splashed some water on his leg. Then Qin Haodong put some soap on it. Just when everybody else was wondering what he was doing. The dark color on the young man’s feet faded fast and showed the yellow skin in them.”

The old woman asked in surprise, “What on earth is going on?”

Qin Haodong stood up, then smiled and explained, “He’s not sick at all!”

Director Zhang yelled, “Nonsense! I have 20 years’ experience. If someone’s skin has that color, he’s definitely sick! There must be something wrong with the water! You’ve put illicit drugs in it!”

Qin Haodong looked at the idiot and jeered, “Shut up, you idiot. You’re qualified to be a dermatologist. How can you not notice that his pants are losing color?”