I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 398 - 166: Small for Now—Maybe It’ll Grow After Having Kids
Not long after, the dishes arrived.
"Where’s Old Huang, did he fall into the toilet?"
Ye Haishen is the kind who speaks without any filter, saying whatever comes to mind. He’s notoriously big-mouthed, but fortunately, he doesn’t leak secrets that need to be kept, otherwise, he would have been beaten to death long ago.
"You only dare to say this in front of us. If you have the guts, say it to Old Huang later," Zhou Jiande said with a smile.
Ye Haishen rolled his eyes, "I haven’t lived enough yet. When I have, I’ll definitely tell Old Huang."
"But you never know, Old Huang is much older than me. He might go before I do. Wouldn’t that leave me with no hope in this lifetime?" Ye Haishen fretted.
"Not necessarily, maybe you’ll go before he does," Zhou Jiande chimed in.
"Old Zhou, you’re just cursing me. If I actually go, I’ll take you with me so there’s company on the road to the afterlife. I won’t be lonely," Ye Haishen retorted.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Jiande wasn’t angry. Instead, he laughed heartily, "Great, I’d love that. Anyway, we’re around the same age. Even if you make it to eighty-something, it’s not too bad for me. I can go at that age."
Ye Haishen couldn’t help but roll his eyes, "Forget it, I won’t talk to you. Every time you leave me speechless, you’re a conversation ender."
Zhou Jiande laughed heartily.
"Forget it, let’s not wait for Old Huang, let’s eat first."
Ye Haishen looked at Lu Xuan, "Lu, try this. This is the signature dish, crab bone sauce, from Yong’s Famous Food."
"Are we really not waiting for Old Huang?"
"No, why wait for him?"
"It’s been so long, maybe he really did fall into the toilet."
"Nonsense, it’s all toilets now, why don’t you try falling in?"
Upon hearing that it was Zhou Jiande speaking, Ye Haishen couldn’t be bothered to reply. He simply used the serving chopsticks to pick up a piece for Lu Xuan and let him try it.
Afterward, he didn’t forget to tease Zhou Jiande, "Old Zhou, it’s not like I haven’t told you, you said you’re going to acknowledge a teacher, yet you don’t pick up dishes for your teacher at all? No filial piety whatsoever. I guess you don’t respect your teacher at all."
This time, Ye Haishen caught Zhou Jiande off guard, leaving him annoyed.
Ye Haishen felt triumphant after his little victory.
Originally, Lu Xuan wasn’t planning to eat, but since Ye Haishen had already put the crab bone sauce in his bowl, he had no choice but to dig in without being polite.
The crab chosen for the crab bone sauce was quite plump. The crab meat was in chunks and when picked up and placed in the mouth, it was incredibly fresh and sweet. The juice enveloping the crab meat made it succulent and juicy.
"How is it?" Ye Haishen asked.
"It truly deserves to be the signature dish." Lu Xuan gave a thumbs up.
Ye Haishen said, "Then eat more. The rest of us old-timers have had it many times already."
"Alright, then I’ll have some more."
Lu Xuan didn’t hold back.
Their conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a stranger, a middle-aged man.
"Are these Elder Zhang, Elder Ye, and Elder Zhou?"
Zhang Jingcai and his companions were quite famous in Yong City’s traditional Chinese medicine circle, and many knew them, so they didn’t think much of it.
"And you are?" Ye Haishen frowned.
Wu Beiming smiled and introduced himself, "I am Wu Beiming, a friend of Elder Huang. I just ran into Elder Huang in the restroom. He mentioned you all were at this table, so I came over to say hello."
"You’re Old Huang’s friend?" Ye Haishen eyed the business-suited Wu Beiming with some suspicion.
Wu Beiming, of course, could hear the doubt in Ye Haishen’s tone, and he explained with a smile, "I knew Elder Huang back when he was the head of the City First Hospital. But at that time, I was not yet thirty. Now, one or two decades have passed. I never expected to meet Elder Huang here, and I just had a chat with him over at the restroom."
"No wonder Old Huang hasn’t come back for so long," Ye Haishen said, no longer suspicious.
Seeing that they believed him, Wu Beiming then turned his attention to Lu Xuan, "And this one is...?"
"Lu," Ye Haishen introduced.
"Is he a junior of Elder Ye?" Wu Beiming guessed. Seeing Lu Xuan’s age in his twenties and hearing Ye Haishen referring to him as Lu, he instinctively thought Lu Xuan was a junior from Ye Haishen’s family and didn’t think much of it.
Today, his main aim was to make a connection with these distinguished gentlemen, so he could strike up a conversation if they met in the future. Otherwise, in another place, who would bother with someone like Wu Beiming?
Besides, these people were not the type to have worldly desires, no matter how wealthy he was, he likely could not impress these three.
"If my family had such an outstanding junior as Lu, I’d climb out of the coffin to applaud even after I was dead."
These words left Wu Beiming momentarily unsure of what to say, so he could only awkwardly smile, "I thought he was a junior from Elder Ye’s family."
"Since you’re an old friend of Old Huang’s, let me introduce you."
"Thank you, Elder Ye."
Ye Haishen smiled as he began to introduce, "This is Lu Xuan, like us, he’s a practicing doctor at the United South Chinese Medicine Association."
Wu Beiming: "..."
Wu Beiming displayed an expression as if he had just heard a joke.
He hadn’t stayed in Yong City for just one or two years, and had some understanding of the United South Chinese Medicine Association. This place is akin to a holy site in the hearts of Yong City’s traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Every doctor who practices here is undeniably the crème de la crème.
At this moment, Ye Haishen was telling him that this young man in his twenties was a practicing doctor at the United South Chinese Medicine Association. How could he dare to believe it?
He even suspected Ye Haishen was joking with him.
Ye Haishen seemed to notice the disbelief in the other’s expression but didn’t bother to explain anything. After all, they were not acquaintances, and there was nothing to explain. If there was any need for explanation, it would be Huang Beishan’s business.
