Jin Lao Ba smiled and said, "There's nothing to say. Anyway, I don't have high hopes. We're just doing our best and leaving the rest to fate. As juniors, it's enough if we try our best."
"That's right, I've investigated the manager of our restaurant. The waiter involved has confessed. That kid encroached on your private room to make space for his brother-in-law. This matter is too outrageous, and I cannot tolerate it. I fired him and the several participating waiters that very day!"
"Thank you, Brother Jin."
"I'm ashamed to say it, but this is what I should have done!"
The car drove south for over an hour, entering the southern suburbs of Jiangshan City. This was the Nanshan Scenic Area of Jiangshan City, with numerous mountains and several lakes. The climate was pleasant, making it very suitable for living. The car drove along a tree-lined road and soon entered a vast estate. The estate covered a large area, and the buildings within were built luxuriously.
Throughout the journey, through conversations with Jin Lao Ba, Ling Tian learned that the patient he was going to see today was named Li Huiying. This Li Huiying was 78 years old and a prominent figure in Jiangzhou. His Huiying Real Estate Group was the largest real estate developer in Jiangzhou, and its scale ranked among the top ten in the country. The Li family's assets were in the hundreds of billions, and Old Li himself could make the ground shake in Jiangzhou with a stomp of his foot.
It was worth mentioning that Huiying Real Estate Group was not a listed company. They had plenty of money and did not need to go public to raise funds. It remained a family business to this day. Ling Tian knew very well how important the health of such a person was to the enterprise and the family. After all, the Wang family had just experienced a similar situation not long ago. Just a few months after the old man fell seriously ill, the Wang family was in chaos and was almost swallowed by the Bai family. It was likely that the Li family was facing a similar predicament. Fortunately, they were not a listed company, making it much more difficult for outsiders to intervene.
When they got out of the car, a man was already waiting to greet them at the entrance. This man appeared to be in his early fifties. This person was named Li Qiuyang. Nominally, he was the chairman of Huiying Real Estate Group, but in reality, he was just a puppet. The Li family patriarch was the one who truly called the shots in this enterprise. The Li family had three children: the eldest son was this Li Qiuyang, the second was a daughter named Li Qiuyue, and the third son was named Li Qiuxing.
Upon first seeing Ling Tian, Li Qiuyang was taken aback because he found the young man to be incredibly young, almost impossibly so. However, he quickly regained his composure, as Jin Lao Ba had also told him that Ling Tian was a very capable doctor. Whether he could cure the patient was a matter of trying anything, even with a one-in-a-million chance.
Li Qiuyang's face was filled with worry, and his eyes were sunken. Ling Tian could tell that this man was deeply concerned about his father's condition. It seemed he had stayed up late the previous night, likely caring for the elderly patient until very late. He appeared to be a filial son.
As they entered the Li family's grand mansion, Ling Tian gained a deeper appreciation for the extraordinary nature of the residence. This was truly a mansion of the wealthy, decorated luxuriously. All the furniture was made of solid wood, and many decorative items were even pure gold. Even the paintings hanging in the corridors were antiques or had been auctioned from Western auctions. To put it bluntly, if any of the household staff had sticky fingers, they could probably become millionaires by selling just a couple of items.
Continuing further inside to a rear courtyard, there was a two-story villa, which surprised Ling Tian again. This two-story villa, though small, was fully equipped. Inside the villa, the most advanced X-ray machines, MRI equipment, colonoscopy and gastroscopy machines, and radiotherapy equipment were all available. Many of these medical devices were even more comprehensive than those in the largest hospital in Jiangshan City. The doctors and nurses here included many foreigners with blonde hair and blue eyes. Upon inquiry, Ling Tian learned that these foreigners were experts hired by the Li family at high salaries from abroad. Those foreign doctors each earned an annual salary of up to a million US dollars.
Inside the villa, there was a spacious ward with excellent lighting. The winter sunlight streamed through multiple layers of glass, illuminating the room. Ling Tian saw an elderly man lying on the hospital bed, his hair white, and a faint expression of pain on his face. Just as he was about to open the door and enter, a voice called out.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
Ling Tian turned his head and saw that the speaker was a woman in her early forties, very well-maintained, looking like she was in her thirties. Beside her was a man of similar age. This woman who stopped Ling Tian was the patriarch's second daughter, Li Qiuyue, and the man beside her was her husband, Liu Cheng. Li Qiuyue served as the financial director of Huiying Real Estate Group, while her husband, Liu Cheng, was the general manager of the group.
Upon seeing Ling Tian, Li Qiuyang quickly explained, "Sister, brother-in-law, it's like this. Little Jin introduced a renowned doctor, a very skilled one. I asked him to come and see Dad."
"Miracle doctor? Who?" Li Qiuyue asked suspiciously. She saw Jin Lao Ba; their families were old acquaintances. However, besides Li Lao Ba, there was only the young man in front of her. And this young man, judging by his age, was likely not even twenty years old.
Li Lao Ba quickly stepped forward. "Sister Qiuyue, this is the miracle doctor I invited, Doctor Ling Tian. Although Doctor Ling Tian is young, he is indeed a doctor with extremely, extremely high medical skills."
Li Qiuyue scrutinized Ling Tian intently, and her expression suddenly turned grim, her gaze becoming somewhat stern. "I say, elder brother, Brother Ba, have you two gone senile? I don't object to you finding a renowned doctor to treat Dad, but who have you found? This young man, are you sure he's a doctor? Has he even graduated from high school?"
At this moment, Liu Cheng also chimed in to support her. "Qiuyue is right. The medical profession requires time for accumulation. Without sufficient time for accumulation, how can there be so much clinical experience? Have you two been deceived?"
Li Qiuyang heard this and suddenly realized that something felt off earlier. Now, hearing his sister and brother-in-law say this, he felt they had a point. Liu Cheng looked at Ling Tian. "I say, kid, which medical school did you graduate from? How many years have you been graduated? How many years of clinical practice? Also, do you have a medical practice license?"
Ling Tian shook his head. "I haven't attended medical school, and I don't have a medical practice license!"
Li Qiuyue became agitated upon hearing this. "See? See? What did I say? Elder brother, you are playing with people's lives! How can you let a child without a medical practice license see the patriarch? What were you thinking?"