The doctor Uncle Zhong introduced had the surna Xiao.
Le Tong sat down, and while taking her pulse, he asked her so questions.
Questions like whether she had been sleeping well lately, if her appetite was normal, and so on.
Le Tong answered truthfully one by one and inford the doctor that starting two or three days ago, she had severe pain under her right rib.
After taking her pulse, Doctor Xiao asked her to stick out her tongue for a look, then had her lie flat on the hospital bed and pressed a few tis on her stomach and ribs.
"Miss Le, you are likely suffering from liver qi stagnation due to overwork. I’ll prescribe so herbal dicine for you. Boil it once a day and take it in the morning and afternoon."
Doctor Xiao’s words made Le Tong breathe a long sigh of relief.
But she still dared not be too optimistic. While Uncle Zhong was out, she briefly ntioned her mother’s dical history. Doctor Xiao listened patiently and seriously told her,
"Miss Le, your mother’s illness may have a hereditary possibility, but you don’t show such symptoms at present, so you can relax for now. However, you still need to be careful and not overwork yourself."
When Le Tong walked out of Doctor Xiao’s clinic, she was holding a big bag of herbal dicine, but she visibly felt much more refreshed than when she arrived.
"Doctor Xiao’s dical skills are indeed superb. The dicine hasn’t even been taken yet, but it’s already working."
Uncle Zhong, seeing that Le Tong had recovered much of her energy, smiled more.
Le Tong cheerfully echoed Uncle Zhong, highly praising Doctor Xiao’s dical skills. However, she didn’t ntion a word about her prior worries and ntal burdens.
On Monday, besides bringing breakfast for three people to the company, Le Tong also brought a cup of black herbal dicine in a thermos.
Ji Rui returned later than usual today. Le Tong placed his breakfast and coffee on his desk. After her breakfast, she took out the cup of black, bitter herbal dicine, took a deep breath, preparing to gulp down the bitter dicine in one go.
"What are you drinking?"
She had just taken a small sip when Ji Rui’s voice suddenly ca from beside her.
Le Tong choked a bit, her mouth was bitter and astringent, she looked up at Ji Rui with a bitter face and frowning.
"Good morning, President, I’m drinking herbal dicine."
Ji Rui glanced at her coldly, "Herbal dicine?"
Le Tong couldn’t stand the strange taste in her mouth anymore. Forgetting about etiquette, she puckered her lips and exhaled a few breaths, finding the bitterness hard to bear. She picked up the cup and drank a few large gulps of water before stopping to answer Ji Rui’s question.
"Yes, herbal dicine."
"Where did it co from?"
Le Tong looked at him in confusion, why was President Ji so idle, concerned about trivial matters like "what dicine are you taking, and where did it co from"?
Didn’t he customarily refrain from discussing personal matters in the company? Was he going to break this rule personally now?
"I went to see a doctor, and the doctor prescribed it!"
Le Tong answered rather innocently, feeling vaguely that Ji Rui seed angry, but she didn’t know why, nor did she find it necessary to know.
Ji Rui seed very dissatisfied with her answer, glared at her, then took large steps into his office, closing the door with a "bang".
Le Tong looked at the tightly closed door in bewildernt, feeling that she had sohow upset President Ji again, but could only shrug helplessly, turn back to her chair, and see the steaming cup of herbal dicine on the desk, making her frown again.
Finally, Le Tong held her nose to finish that cup of dicine. Not long after, the phone on her desk rang.
"Co in!" President Ji said coolly, hanging up the phone with a "snap".
Le Tong gulped down the remaining water in her cup and walked into the president’s office with large strides.
Ji Rui was engrossed in so docunts, and on his desk, there was a new pot of green cactus.
"President, what’s the matter?"
Ji Rui pointed coldly at the cactus pot and said, "Rember to water it every day from now on."
Le Tong found President Ji increasingly inscrutable. In her impression, it was normal for him to call her in and throw a pile of docunts at her.
This situation, however, calling her in just for a pot of cactus and giving her such earnest instructions, was truly abnormal.
It seed this cactus had an extraordinary significance for him.
Could it be a gift from a girlfriend? Le Tong entertained a little daydream!
"Okay!"
Even though Le Tong had just finished a bitter herbal drink, she felt much more at ease because the doctor had only diagnosed her with liver qi stagnation. Thus, her complexion today looked rosier than in the past few days, and her spirits had also improved a lot.
Ji Rui looked at Le Tong, feeling inexplicably irritable and depressed.
A few days ago, seeing her pale and haggard look, he was unhappy! Today, seeing her radiant and full of energy, he seed even more unhappy!
"Why didn’t you go to that doctor I told you about?"
Originally, Ji Rui hadn’t planned to ask about such a trivial matter.
Yesterday, when Doctor Fu told him that Le Tong hadn’t sought him out, he thought maybe Le Tong had sothing urgent delaying her.
Returning this morning, he unexpectedly caught her drinking dicine, supposedly prescribed by a doctor. aning, she did see a doctor, just not the one he recomnded.
Who is Doctor Fu? Many people make appointnts months in advance and still may not be able to see Doctor Fu. Yet she foolishly opted not to see a famous doctor, instead going to see so unknown small-ti doctor, truly dimwitted beyond cure.
Le Tong seed to see a small fla rising on Ji Rui’s head, which was coming at her.
"President, thank you for your kindness. Actually, I had already made an appointnt with a doctor a few days ago."
Le Tong didn’t understand why Ji Rui was angry. He might want to help her, but helping others also depends on whether the person wants to be helped, doesn’t it?!
Ji Rui, the dignified president of Ji Family, can have whatever he desires! Call a famous doctor today, call a famous chef tomorrow; he can effortlessly give her many things beyond her reach.
He gives so easily, with just a flick of the finger, but how can she repay?
What she has, besides work capability, what else is there?
The answer is self-evident!
She couldn’t be blad for overthinking; truly, President Ji’s behavior has recently beco increasingly peculiar. From his words and actions to his gaze, everything!
Initially, she thought he was teasing or testing her.
But things took a wildly incredible turn, overturning all her previous thoughts.
The only thing left was that President Ji seed to be quite interested in her?!
Of course, she wasn’t foolish enough to think this interest was affection.
Rather, it was simply the most primitive interest of a man in a woman.
Just like all animals, it’s the most instinctive and primordial interest of a male in a female.
Simply, just, interest!
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