Zeng Pingdan asked, "Xiao Qin, what are you doing..."
"Auntie, don't move. I can cure your illness. No medicine needed, just acupuncture!" Qin Yi explained.
Zeng Pingdan looked at the silver needles in Qin Yi's hand with a complicated expression.
Clearly, she didn't completely trust Qin Yi.
However, after a moment, she seemed to understand something and didn't say anything, allowing Qin Yi to perform acupuncture on her!
After all, she had been suffering from this illness for a long time. She had taken a lot of medicine and spent I don't know how much money, but she never got better.
Since Qin Yi said he had a way, she might as well let him try! It wasn't like she had anything to lose if Qin Yi's acupuncture didn't work.
Then, without any hesitation, Qin Yi asked Zeng Pingdan to lie still and inserted several silver needles into her arms and head.
At first, Zeng Pingdan felt incredibly sharp pain as the needles were inserted. But after a while, as Qin Yi twisted the needles with both hands, slowly rotating them, the sharp pain gradually disappeared.
Not only that, Zeng Pingdan also felt a sudden sense of lightness and comfort in her body.
It felt as if a heavy mountain had been pressing down on her, and now the mountain was gone.
Han Xin, standing beside them, clearly saw that as Qin Yi twisted the needles on Zeng Pingdan's head, wisps of white steam were rising from her head…
This rising white steam was none other than the excess vital energy and heat that Qin Yi was releasing from her body.
Qin Yi twisted the needles for a while and then withdrew his hands.
However, he didn't immediately remove the needles, letting them remain in Zeng Pingdan's body.
Feeling unprecedentedly relaxed, Zeng Pingdan lay on the recliner and, without realizing it, fell asleep.
Qin Yi and Han Xin saw this and quietly stayed beside her without disturbing her.
After about half an hour, the white steam from Zeng Pingdan's head had stopped. Qin Yi saw that the vital energy and heat within her had been released sufficiently and prepared to remove the needles.
But unexpectedly, before he could reach out and touch the needles, Liao Dazhi and a young man, not yet twenty, probably eighteen or nineteen, entered the room.
Upon entering, the young man saw the silver needles stuck in Zeng Pingdan's arms and head, and he was startled.
He rushed forward and shouted at Qin Yi, "What are you doing???"
"Grandma, Grandma, are you okay..."
He then anxiously asked Zeng Pingdan.
Liao Dazhi, who was carrying a large bag of things, was also startled by the scene.
The things in his hand dropped to the ground, and he rushed over, calling out to Zeng Pingdan with worry and urgency.
Hearing the young man's address to Zeng Pingdan, Qin Yi knew this must be Liao Fanshuang's son, Liao Fan.
So, Qin Yi quickly explained, "Don't worry, I'm giving Auntie acupuncture treatment. She's fine!"
Liao Fan heard this, turned around, and glared at Qin Yi fiercely, "Who are you! Are you a doctor to be treating my grandma?"
Liao Dazhi also said, with a mix of anxiety and helplessness, "Xiao Qin, what... what are you doing!!!"
It was clear that he either didn't believe Qin Yi's words or didn't believe Qin Yi had the ability to treat Zeng Pingdan.
Just then, Zeng Pingdan was awakened by their voices and opened her eyes.
"What are you arguing about?"
"Fanfan, you're back..."
In an instant, Liao Fan and Liao Dazhi's gazes turned back to Zeng Pingdan.
Liao Fan crouched beside the recliner, asking with concern, "Grandma, are you alright???"
Liao Dazhi looked at the needles in her body and also asked, "Old woman, how are you? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
Zeng Pingdan didn't answer immediately. She was silent for two seconds, as if sensing something.
Then, a bright spark flashed in her eyes, and she replied, "I'm fine. I feel so comfortable all over. I've never felt this comfortable before..."
She sat up directly from the recliner, looked at Qin Yi, and said excitedly, "Xiao Qin, this acupuncture of yours is really effective! I feel like I'm all better!"
"!!!"
"???"
Liao Dazhi and Liao Fan were stunned, completely shocked.
Qin Yi waved his right hand, and his palm acted like a magnet, drawing the silver needles from Zeng Pingdan's body into his palm.
He smiled slightly and said to Zeng Pingdan, "Auntie, although I released the excess vital energy and heat from your body just now through acupuncture and removed the root of your illness, you have been sick for too long, which has made your body very weak. You will need to recuperate for a while longer to fully recover!"
"Okay, thank you, Xiao Qin!" Zeng Pingdan said gratefully and joyfully.
Liao Dazhi and Liao Fan listened to this scene, speechless.
Especially when they clearly saw Zeng Pingdan's complexion and spirits improve, a drastic change compared to before, Liao Fan's mouth hung open in an O shape.
Zeng Pingdan had been very weak and haggard before, and she hadn't been so energetic in a long time.
A moment later, Liao Dazhi regained some composure and exclaimed in surprise, "Old woman, are you really better???"
"Mmm," Zeng Pingdan nodded and said, "It's all thanks to Xiao Qin..."
Because Qin Yi had cured Zeng Pingdan, Liao Dazhi and Liao Fan's attitude towards Qin Yi became unprecedentedly warm and grateful.
If Liao Dazhi had initially hosted Qin Yi and Han Xin merely as friends of Liao Fanshuang, then now, Liao Dazhi considered Qin Yi a benefactor of their family!
Zeng Pingdan had suffered from illness for years, and despite taking so much medicine, she hadn't improved. Now that Qin Yi had cured her as soon as he arrived, how could they not be grateful!
Afterward, Liao Dazhi happily went to the kitchen to cook with the groceries he had bought.
Zeng Pingdan also got up from the recliner and insisted on going to the kitchen to help prepare the meal.
When the meal was ready, Liao Dazhi moved a table outside to the open ground and invited Qin Yi and Han Xin to eat.
Qin Yi and Han Xin didn't stand on ceremony and sat down to eat with them.
During the meal, Zeng Pingdan thanked Qin Yi again and then told Liao Dazhi to return the medicine they had bought that afternoon to the town.
Upon hearing this, Liao Dazhi's previously happy expression vanished as if he had thought of something.
"Dr. Jin's medicine is really not cheap. I went back to town with him to get medicine last time, and just three doses cost four thousand, over a thousand per dose..."
Liao Dazhi sighed and said, "The bills we owe Dr. Jin are already nearly twenty to thirty thousand!"
Hearing this, Zeng Pingdan and Liao Fan's previously good moods completely disappeared, and their emotions became low.
Currently, in their family, Liao Dazhi was old and could only farm and do bamboo work to earn some money.
Zeng Pingdan's illness had made it difficult for her to walk normally, let alone work.
The only source of income in the family was from Liao Fan, who worked in a shop in town and earned a few thousand yuan a month.
Since Zeng Pingdan fell ill, the cost of her medical treatment and medicine had almost entirely relied on Liao Fan's salary.