They spent a lot of money, but with no effect, they decided to leave the hospital.
Huang Jiucheng had been tornted for such a long ti, his spirit had nearly collapsed, he attempted suicide once, but was discovered and saved. He only had his elderly mother and daughter at ho. His mother had to go out to earn money for his treatnt, and he couldn’t be left alone, so his daughter Huang Zichun had to apply for leave of absence from school to stay by his side and watch over him constantly.
Afraid that once she left him, he would attempt suicide again. Huang Jiucheng once had his monts of glory, but now he was reduced to such a state, one could say it was his own doing. The reason he chose to commit suicide was because he didn’t want to burden his mother and daughter, so in this aspect, he still retained so conscience.
Endless laughter is the real symptom of the heart; the heart belongs to the fire in the five elents, fire gives birth to earth, therefore earth is the child of fire. Hence the real symptom of the Heart Sutra should choose the Shenn point.
Shenn: Shen, opposed to ghost, also aning spirit; n, doorway for entry and exit. This point belongs to the Hand Taiyin Heart Sutra, Shenn aning the exchange of qi and blood from the Heart Sutra’s internal ridian to the external ridian.
Due to the Shenn point having gaps in the earth section that communicate with the Heart Sutra’s internal ridians, the qi and blood substances are the external transmission of qi from the Heart Sutra’s internal ridians. Its qi nature is consistent with the original nature of the Heart Sutra’s qi and blood, representing human spirit, as an export point for the substance.
The Shenn point belongs to earth, where qi and blood material gather and continually disperse heat and evaporate after concentration, possessing a fixed nature associated with earth, hence it belongs to earth.
Xu Chunliang took out his portable needle bag, selecting the radial indentation at the ulnar side of the wrist crease, using the Shenn point for acupuncture, essentially draining Qi from its child.
Using the draining thod to treat Huang Jiucheng’s heart excess symptom.
"Nanjing" according to "Lingshu•Benshu" proposed the mother-child supplent-and-drain thod: taking the five transports of Yin channel Jing-Well, Ying-Spring, Shu-Stream, Jin-River and He-Sea as wood, fire, earth, tal, and water attributes; for Yang channels as tal, water, wood, fire, and earth attributes, using the sequence of five elents generation to match five organs’ five elents, the giver as mother and the given as child, forming the thodology for supplenting mother and draining child.
"Nanjing•Qishuannand" put forward requirents for supplentation and drainage: all Jings as wood, Yings as fire. Fire, as wood’s child, should prick Jing and drain at Ying. Hence it is stated that the supplent cannot be a drain, nor can the drain be a supplent, as exemplified here.
Xu Chunliang took out two fine needles, sequentially inserting them into Huang Jiucheng’s left and right Shenn points, using the draining thod to drain the earth attributes and qi and blood material, improving his heart excess symptoms.
Although Huang Zichun was not very old, the hardships she experienced were far greater than other children her age. She knew that Xu Chunliang was applying acupuncture to her father, and her initial vigilance and hostility towards Xu Chunliang gradually faded.
Yet she did not trust doctors. Since her father was released from prison, accompanying him for dical treatnts, they had visited nurous hospitals. Her grandmother spent all her ager savings, but her father’s condition worsened rather than improved. When they were denied dication due to unpaid fees, the cold and indifferent faces of dical staff remained in her mory. She held little good impression of hospitals and doctors.
Hua Zhuyue saw Xu Chunliang apply acupuncture and thought Huang Jiucheng’s condition had hope. Back in Dongzhou Seven Star, when DJ was bitten by the Black Widow and poisoned, it was Xu Chunliang who saved her, even saving a dying person, let alone a patient.
Actually for Xu Chunliang, detoxification was easier than curing diseases, poisoning and detoxification were his true skills, curing diseases was just a sideline, yet the tis had changed, the current era seed to require more healing.
"Haha... Heh..." Huang Jiucheng’s laughter abruptly stopped.
He opened his mouth wide, and the muscles of his face finally had a mont of relief, feeling slight pain in the jaw joints, suddenly stopping as if two sharp cones pierced his ear canals, all resulting from changes in joint position, quickly subsiding with ti.
Xu Chunliang said aningfully: "You’ve never laughed for so long in your life, right?"
Huang Jiucheng stared at Xu Chunliang in shock, how long had he laughed? Over three months, for most of the day each day, even when stopping, he would imdiately cry, Huang Jiucheng had long been wishing for the relief of death.
Although it was only a brief interruption, he felt how blessed it was to be soone with neither joy nor sadness; thinking of this brought a sudden feeling of bleakness, tears quickly filled his face.
Huang Zichun saw her father had stopped his bizarre laughter, her initial hope dashed as her father began crying again, her heart sank once more.
Xu Chunliang said: "Zangzao syndro, if you hadn’t t , you’d either laugh to death or cry to death."
Huang Jiucheng said through tears: "Save ..." he understood that today he had t an expert.
Xu Chunliang selected the indentation at the ulnar side of the elbow crease, using acupuncture on the Shaohai point, Shaohai being the He-Sea point of Hand Shaoyin Heart Sutra.
The sea gathers all rivers, deep and boundless.
In the human body, Shaoyin is the innermost of the six channels. Also, the ailnts cured by this point are extrely complex, involving multiple channels, hence it is called Shaohai.
The ailnts treated include both external and internal excess and deficiency, cold and heat, all seven emotions and thoughts, including madness, drooling, neck stiffness, arm pain, toothache, dizziness, headache, reversed qi, scrofula, etc., symbolizing the sea accommodating a hundred rivers.
Shortly after Xu Chunliang perford acupuncture, Huang Jiucheng ceased crying. He now felt neither the urge to laugh nor cry, as if finally finishing a marathon.
Three months! A full three months, he finally stopped, neither crying nor making a fuss, feeling utterly exhausted, past tired yet unable to stop laughing or crying before, he now could finally stop, and he was so tired he fell asleep.
Huang Zichun saw her father lying motionless, and couldn’t help but feel panic rising in her heart, worried that the doctor had killed her father. This child now had absolutely no trust in doctors.
She was about to ask when she heard her father’s sweet snoring, only then realizing he was asleep, her heart filled with joy.
Hua Zhuyue said: "He can’t sleep here, it’s too cold outside."
Huang Zichun wanted to help his father up, but he couldn’t bear to disturb his father’s sweet dream. His father hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for over three months.
Xu Chunliang asked, "Where is his room?"
Huang Zichun pointed inside.
Xu Chunliang picked up Huang Jiucheng, whose body was emaciated like skin and bones due to excessive depletion. He weighed about the sa as a child, and Xu Chunliang, already strong, picked him up effortlessly.
The three of them moved Huang Jiucheng into the room together. The wolfhound, hiding at the door, saw Xu Chunliang approach and got so scared it tucked its tail and fled to a corner of the yard.
Huang Zichun found it strange. In the past, Dawei had always been fierce, barking incessantly at strangers. He didn’t know what was going on today that made the dog so afraid of this brother.
Xu Chunliang laid Huang Jiucheng on the bed, and Huang Zichun helped cover his father with a blanket.
Hua Zhuyue, seeing such a small child being so sensible, felt a deep affection for her. The misdeeds of Huang Si Po and her son should not fall upon this child. Nonetheless, they could not forget their purpose in coming here.
They had already spent a considerable amount of ti getting here, and Xu Chunliang’s treatnt of Huang Jiucheng had delayed them further. Now, there were less than three hours left until the kidnappers’ ultimatum.
Hua Zhuyue said, "Zichun, I am a friend of your grandmother’s. I have an urgent matter to see her about. Do you have any way to reach her?"
Huang Zichun shook his head.
Hua Zhuyue said, "It’s truly important. If you know your grandmother’s whereabouts, you must tell . We an no harm, as you saw earlier; it was this brother who treated your dad’s illness."
Huang Zichun bit her lip and said, "Grandma said she wouldn’t co back..." Tears welled up in her eyes, and her gaze was filled with helplessness.
Hua Zhuyue sighed inwardly, wondering what this child had gone through. Before leaving, Huang Si Po probably told her she wouldn’t return. Could Huang Si Po really be so heartless as to abandon her own son and underage granddaughter?
Xu Chunliang said, "Why don’t I try waking him up?" The situation was urgent, and they could only hope to find so clues from Huang Jiucheng.
Huang Zichun said, "Don’t wake my dad. He hasn’t slept for a long ti and doesn’t know anything."
Hua Zhuyue handed her a tissue, and Huang Zichun wiped her tears, saying, "Let’s talk outside."
They followed her outside, and Huang Zichun closed the door. She sniffled and said, "My grandmother has a terminal illness. She doesn’t say it, but I know. I sneaked a look at her dical records..." At this point, her tears flowed freely.
Hua Zhuyue and Xu Chunliang exchanged glances, neither of them expecting the situation to turn out this way.
Though unable to confirm if Huang Zichun was telling the truth, Huang Si Po’s actions indeed appeared desperate, likely hoping to pull off this one heist to leave so money for her children and grandchildren.
Huang Zichun looked hopefully at Xu Chunliang and said, "Brother, can you cure my dad’s illness?"
Xu Chunliang nodded.
Huang Zichun said, "If you can cure my dad’s illness, you can also cure my grandma’s illness."
Xu Chunliang said, "Zichun, did your grandmother leave you so money before she left?"
Huang Zichun froze for a mont, wondering how this big brother knew.
Xu Chunliang could see that this child was smart beyond her years, and ti did not allow for persuasion. Xu Chunliang said, "I won’t hide it from you, take a look at this." He showed Huang Zichun the video recording of Huang Si Po taking away Tong Nianzu.
Huang Zichun imdiately recognized her grandmother and bit her lip tightly, not understanding why her grandmother would take that little brother away.
Xu Chunliang said, "The little brother you saw is my nephew. Your grandmother took him away, and he’s in a very dangerous situation right now."
Huang Zichun said, "Are you saying my grandma took that little brother?"
Xu Chunliang said, "Your grandmother is not related to this little brother. They’ve never t before." He was already being very tactful.
Huang Zichun said, "My grandmother is not a human trafficker. She’s not. She loves children the most..." Tears welled up again. Hua Zhuyue squatted down to wipe her tears, saying, "Zichun, we’re not saying your grandmother is a trafficker. But for your dad’s illness, she might have acted impulsively and done sothing wrong. Shouldn’t we help her correct it?"
Huang Zichun sobbed, "I know. You’re here to catch my... grandmother..."
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