Perspective Medical Genius Young Master

Chapter 958: Chapter 950 A Worried Expression

"As a doctor, I’ve always been instilled with this belief: we only care about saving lives. To us, all people are the same, just unhealthy bodies with no distinction between good and bad, superior or inferior. Some doctors even save their enemies, so why would I not have the right to treat you?" Xiao Yifei retorted.

"Well said, then take a look at this!" The old man stretched out his leg as he spoke. Xiao Yifei, instead of being repulsed by the old man’s dirty pants, did just as he said—he saw only a sick body, ignoring everything else.

Xiao Yifei examined it carefully and said, "This ailment will improve as long as you take care of it over time, but you’ve been wearing too little clothing. After he finished speaking, Xiao Yifei realized how difficult it would be to take care of oneself in this place. Given the current situation, even having a meal was a problem, let alone taking care of other things.

Xiao Yifei used the acupoint massage technique he learned from his grandfather to carefully massage the old man’s leg. Half an hour passed, and after the massage, Xiao Yifei asked the old man to get up and move around a bit. Sure enough, the old man felt much more strength in his leg and it no longer hurt as much.

So he said to Xiao Yifei, "I didn’t expect you to be this skilled. Why did you come here? Maybe I know some useful clues."

"Did you happen to see someone dressed in black entering this place some days ago? He’s my friend. I’m worried about him being here alone, so I followed him in," Xiao Yifei said, unsure if the person before him could be trusted, but he decided to give it a shot since it was the first person he met here.

Seeing that I had treated him, he probably wouldn’t harm me, Xiao Yifei thought to himself.

"Today, you’re the only person I’ve seen. Do I look very old to you? Can you guess how old I am now?" the old man suddenly asked.

"Seventy?" Xiao Yifei cautiously ventured, thinking he was guessing on the younger side. The old man seemed like an eighty-year-old in all respects.

"I feel like I’m very old, but I’m actually only sixty," the old man said with some melancholy.

"Sixty?" Xiao Yifei couldn’t contain his surprise and repeated it, realizing that this old man must have suffered a lot in prison, aging him considerably. He remembered Director Qian seemed to be almost seventy. noveldrama

But looking at Director Qian, you might think he’s only in his fifties due to being a doctor who takes great care of his health and enjoys a relatively comfortable life, making him appear younger than peers his age.

Looking at the old man before him, how could he only be sixty? People’s destinies are indeed different!

"You find it unbelievable too, don’t you? In fact, the environment has a huge impact on people. When I first came here, my body quickly thinned out within a month. It was more effective than any weight loss method I tried outside. Then one day, I noticed the skin on my hand started to wrinkle, looking like it belonged to a seventy or eighty-year-old man," the old man said.

"You don’t know how harsh the conditions are here. Sometimes I feel like the lives of beggars outside are better than ours."

"Is that thing your meal?" Xiao Yifei pointed to the object placed in the corner and asked.

"Yes, our prison is quite peculiar, and there’s no guard to bring us meals. Usually, supplies are air-dropped by helicopter, so what we get are mostly instant noodles, compressed biscuits, and the like. Occasionally, we get some meat and vegetables, but for someone like me who struggles to move, I can’t compete for the meat and vegetables."

"But instant noodles and biscuits are not in shortage because we’re all sick of them. Yet if I don’t eat them, I’d starve here, so I just eat a little casually every day to maintain this body," the old man said.

Xiao Yifei never realized that life in prison could be so harsh, lacking the most basic necessities, and felt some pity for the sixty-year-old man before him.

"I actually think this is karma. Maybe I lived too comfortably in the first half of my life, enjoyed too many things, and so in the second half, I’m here to atone. I believe in the end, the heavens are fair."

"In fact, everyone has a limited amount of things they can own. Only after coming here did I realize that living a plain and simple life isn’t so bad," the old man said.

Listening to the old man’s words, Xiao Yifei thought that the old man must have quite a story, and judging by what he said, he seemed to have been someone quite formidable outside. It’s just unclear what he did to end up this way in his later years.

But Xiao Yifei didn’t ask why, for one, it would be impolite, and two, he wasn’t in the mood to hear an old man’s tales. He only wanted to glean some useful information from the old man, but after talking for so long, the old man hadn’t told him anything.

Xiao Yifei smiled at the old man and said, "I need to set off to find my friend now. If fate allows, we’ll meet again." Xiao Yifei felt that his words had a sense of an ancient chivalrous hero, like those often depicted in TV dramas where martial arts masters bid farewell to each other.

"In such a hurry to leave? I actually think you’re a decent person and wanted to tell you some secrets, but since you’re leaving, go ahead. If fate allows, we’ll meet again," the old man said.

Hearing this, Xiao Yifei turned back and asked, "What secrets? If it’s about this prison, I’m quite interested."

"I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed. The secret I mentioned is related to your profession," the old man said mysteriously.

Upon hearing it was related to medicine, Xiao Yifei immediately thought of the Green-eyed Silver-tailed Needle he had been searching for. Could this secret truly be related to that? So he lowered himself, squatting slightly, then asked the old man, "If it’s related to something medical, that’s exactly what I want to know." Xiao Yifei’s eyes were filled with excitement.

"I know the whereabouts of the Green-eyed Silver-tailed Needle." After saying these words, the old man stopped talking and kept staring at Xiao Yifei to see his reaction. As expected, upon hearing something related to medicine, Xiao Yifei’s face showed an uncontrollable excitement.

Now, that expression could no longer be described as just excitement. Although it was only for a brief two or three seconds, the old man was certain that Xiao Yifei knew something about the Green-eyed Silver-tailed Needle.

After calming down a bit, Xiao Yifei realized his reaction might have been exaggerated and returned to a more composed appearance. But internally, he kept saying, "Finally, a clue." Judging by the old man’s reaction, it seemed quite a few people were searching for the Green-eyed Silver-tailed Needle.