A Strange Mother and Son

In one meal, Su Ziyang ate twenty large kidneys, one chicken wing, and drank two glasses of cola, and that was it.

All that was left was to watch the other four people eat and drink heartily...

Twenty kidneys, so greasy and cloying, were too much for Su Ziyang to eat.

That evening, Fairy Li insisted that Su Ziyang take her home, saying that she was drunk.

Su Ziyang stared at the orange juice and cola on the table, lost in thought...

Su Ziyang went to work as usual the next day.

Su Ziyang had just tidied up the notebooks and pens on the table when two people, one tall and one short, came to the door.

The taller one was a boy. Although he was quite tall, his face still showed signs of immaturity; he was still a child.

The shorter one was a middle-aged woman, with a backpack slung across her shoulder, dressed very simply.

"Come in!"

The boy clearly didn't want to come in, but the middle-aged woman pulled him inside.

"Mom, don't pull me! I'm in a real hurry!"

Seeing the mother and son struggling, Su Ziyang quickly got up and went over.

"What's wrong?"

Su Ziyang stepped closer and asked.

"Beep beep beep!"

The boy emitted a series of beeping sounds, then mechanically stated, "Target detected as a doctor, level unknown, dangerous, escape recommended!"

The boy said something, and his strength to break free from his mother increased even more. The woman was half a head shorter than the child and much weaker.

So the woman was pulled off her feet by the boy.

"Doctor Su, Doctor Su, please help me! I was introduced by Daoist Jin. He said you're his disciple. He told us to come find you! Please hold him down, hold him down!"

Seeing Su Ziyang standing there dumbfounded, the woman quickly introduced herself and asked for Su Ziyang help.

"Oh, oh!" When Su Ziyang saw that the woman had mentioned Daoist Jin, he stopped standing there and reached out to tug at the boy.

When the boy saw a man grab him, he tried to shake him off, but found that the man's hand was gripping his arm like a vise.

The boy glared angrily at Su Ziyang and shouted fiercely, "Let me go!"

Startled by the boy's shout, Su Ziyang actually let go of the child's hand again. He didn't know what was wrong with the mother and son, or what the situation was. He was worried that holding the child so tightly might hurt him.

"Beep beep beep!" The boy beeped again. "Deterrence skill successfully used! Threat still exists, escape recommended! Escape recommended!"

The boy took off running outside, and the woman, seeing that Su Ziyang had let go of her son, stamped her feet in frustration.

The boy had already run downstairs. The woman glanced back at Su Ziyang and quickly chased after him.

"..."

Su Ziyang stared blankly at the mother and son who had disappeared.

"What's going on?" Su Ziyang muttered, then sat back down and took out his phone to call Daoist Jin and ask what was going on.

However, after making two consecutive calls, no one answered.

"What have these people been up to...?"

Su Ziyang tossed his phone onto the table, shook his head, and half-reclined in his chair. As he lay there, recalling the scene from last night when Fairy Li Su Ziyang him to stay at her house, Su Ziyang got goosebumps all over.

Around mid-morning, Su Ziyang's phone rang. It was Daoist Jin calling back, "What's wrong, Little Ziyang?"

"Master, two strange people came this morning, a mother and her child. The child was muttering something I couldn't understand, and then they left without me figuring it out. But the woman said you sent them to see me for treatment!"

Su Ziyang recounted everything that had just happened.

"Ah! Ah! Right, right, I forgot about it while I was on the bus. It's like this, I told her to come see you. Her son used to be sick a lot when he was little, he's one of my long-time patients, and he trusts me a lot. This morning she called me saying she wanted to come see me again to have her son checked out, and I told her to come see you! Whatever his illness, you can just treat him directly. It's a piece of cake for you!"

Daoist Jin snapped out of his daze, briefly explained the situation to Su Ziyang, and then hurriedly said, "I have something to do, I'll hang up now!"

"No, Master. The problem is with that mother and son..."

Before Su Ziyang could finish speaking, he heard the dial tone of the phone being hung up.

"Are you that busy???"

Su Ziyang put down his phone, shook his head, and took out "The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion," a book he had been reading recently.

Not long after the phone call ended, the mother and son, one tall and one short, reappeared at the door of Su Ziyang's clinic. The only difference this time was that the boy was followed by a strong man who was over 1.8 meters tall.

The boy, who had been struggling and shouting just over an hour ago, lowered his head and became very obedient in front of this tall man.

"Hey, Doctor Su!" The woman greeted Su Ziyang first after she appeared.

"Hello, hello! Please come in, please come in!"

Su Ziyang knew that this person was indeed introduced by Daoist Jin, and that he was an old acquaintance. His tone of voice was also a little warmer than before.

"Sit down there!"

The muscular man behind the boy pointed to the chair next to Su Ziyang's consultation table. The boy lowered his head and obediently walked to Su Ziyang's side, then sat down in the chair.

"Doctor Su, I'm so sorry, I made you laugh just now!"

The woman explained to Su Ziyang, looking quite embarrassed.

"It's alright, it's alright. My master just called me and said that you and your child are his long-time patients. He's practically watched the child grow up, so you can just tell me whatever you need. I'll do my best to help you. Of course, if I can't, you can talk to him again when he comes back from his trip!"

Su Ziyang spoke very politely.

"Daoist Jin's disciple, of course we believe you can solve the problem!" The woman was even more polite than Su Ziyang.

The two had barely exchanged two words when they heard the little boy sitting in the chair whisper, "Beep beep beep, detected that the other party is a doctor, level unknown, target is dangerous, escape recommended!"

As soon as he said this, the man behind him slapped the boy hard across the neck, making the boy flinch.

"Hey, haha!" Su Ziyang smiled helplessly. "Let's not hit the child, let's talk it out!"

"Ugh, this kid is driving me crazy! Doctor, I'm sorry, I'm his father! I'm just really angry!"

The muscular man smiled somewhat sheepishly.

"Hello!" Su Ziyang nodded to the muscular man, then turned back to look at the boy sitting with his head drooping in his seat.

"What's wrong?" Su Ziyang patted the little boy's shoulder and asked very gently.

Su Ziyang looked intently at the child with a slightly aggrieved expression, but the boy's eyes suddenly changed, and he pulled out a card that children used to play with from his pocket and threw it hard at Su Ziyang.