Teaching

Since he had agreed to teach Er Biao how to set bones, Su Ziyang was generous and revealed all the techniques for dislocation reduction and bone manipulation.

Su Ziyang used his fingers to dislocate the rooster's joints, and the rooster crowed incessantly.

Watching the rooster struggle, Er Biao said tremblingly, "Brother, isn't this a bit cruel?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Your mentality is appalling. How do you usually handle medical disputes?"

The rooster flapped its wings in pain, and Su Ziyang slammed it down in front of Er Biao.

"You! We agreed not to bring up the past! Fine, come on!"

Er Biao, provoked by Su Ziyang, squatted down, grabbed the rooster's leg, and began to put the rooster back in its place, following the basic principle Su Ziyang had taught. "To unite, first separate; to separate, then unite."

After fiddling around for a while, until the rooster's voice was hoarse, Er Biao finally managed to put the chicken leg back on the rooster.

Seeing the rooster stand up, Er Biao wiped the sweat from his forehead and plopped down on the ground. "Oh my god, I'm exhausted!"

"You're a bit slow. Practice it again. Use that leg."

As Su Ziyang spoke, he casually grabbed the rooster, and with a forceful pull of his fingers, the rooster's left leg dislocated again, causing it to squawk in pain.

"Brother, to be honest, after seeing you fight with someone last time, and then seeing you deal with this rooster, I'm genuinely afraid of you. Isn't compassion a virtue in medicine? You've gone too far!"

Er Biao didn't act immediately; he sat on the ground and chatted with Su Ziyang.

"Without a vajra (thunderbolt), don't aspire to a bodhisattva's heart. A healer must have a bodhisattva's heart, but even more so, a vajra's methods. Otherwise, what's the use of just worrying about others? You have to solve their problems."

"Just like you just mentioned compassion, loving-kindness and compassion are actually different. Loving-kindness is love and blessing. Compassion is relieving suffering! It's not enough to just have loving-kindness that worries about and cares for others; you must have the ability to relieve suffering!"

Er Biao, engrossed in Su Ziyang's explanation, unconsciously lit another cigarette. Su Ziyang, after finishing his sentence, looked at Er Biao Er Biao snatched the cigarette from his mouth. "Didn't I tell you, don't smoke. It's giving me a headache. Hurry up and practice, I still need to give you a psychology lesson! Hurry up!"

"Just like my high school homeroom teacher, keep practicing!"

When Er Biao saw that he wouldn't even be allowed to smoke, he sat up from the ground, stroked the rooster's leg, poked at it for a while, and then finally put the leg back on.

Practice makes perfect.

Er Biao caught it much faster this time than before. After being roused by all that, the rooster was no longer majestic, and its comb was drooping a bit.

"Okay, let's try this leg of lamb."

Lamb legs are much harder to prepare than rooster legs, especially since it's an inanimate object; although the joints are still there, it's not the same as a living thing.

Su Ziyang grasped it with both hands, twisted it gently, and the joints came off easily.

Er Biao watched as the lamb leg dislocated and slumped down. The way Er Biao looked at Su Ziyang was exactly the same way Su Ziyang had looked at Old Master Bian back then.

"Brother, I have a question for you. Tell me the truth, could you easily dislocate this guy's arms and legs?"

Er Biao picked at the lamb leg that was only held together by ligaments, muttering to himself as if afraid of being overheard.

"How about I let you try it?"

Su Ziyang grinned mischievously and pretended to grab Er Biao's arm, scaring Er Biao into quickly dodging to the side. He then shouted, "Don't touch me! I might try to extort you!"

"Then get to practicing, Brother Biao. If you can't keep up when they come again, you might as well quit."

While the two chatted, Su Ziyang taught Er Biao step by step.

The morning training session was very effective.

Er Biao is now at least able to successfully reposition the dislocated joint.

Seeing that Er Biao had basically mastered the skills, Su Ziyang prepared to return to the city, since he still had to go to work and make house calls the next day.

Er Biao escorted Su Ziyang to the bus station, and after Su Ziyang boarded the bus, he even clasped his hands in a fist salute to Su Ziyang.

Su Ziyang also clasped his hands in a fist salute to Er Biao and waved his hand.

By the time we got back to the city, it was almost dark.

Su Ziyang had asked Yang Tianzheng for leave before leaving, so he didn't need to worry about being punished for skipping training.

Su Ziyang Dada n't even reached home yet when his phone rang. It was Daoist Master Xiao Yang.

"Hey, Su Ziyang. What's wrong with you? You asked me to pick a date. I saw your post on WeChat Moments today, isn't that that person who caused trouble at the hospital? What's going on? You know that person? Did you bring that troublemaker yourself? What do you mean by this? What's happening here?!"

Upon answering the phone, Daoist Master Xiao Yang bombarded Su Ziyang with a barrage of questions.

"Master, it's a misunderstanding!"

Su Ziyang could only utter five words.

"Tell me, if you can't give me a straight answer today, I'll have my master fire you. You're driving me crazy!"

Daoist Master Xiao Yang's voice was loud, Su Ziyang sighed helplessly, "I just walked to the small square next to the Daoist temple. Come here. I'll explain to you. It's really not what you think."

The phone call ended, and less than five minutes later, Daoist Master Xiao Yang appeared before Su Ziyang like a gust of wind. "Speak, speak quickly."

Su Ziyang truthfully told Daoist Master Xiao Yang what had happened, how he had harmed Er Biao, how Er Biao Er Biao begged him, how they had met, and so on.

"Really? What a coincidence!"

After listening to Su Ziyang's patient explanation, Daoist Master Xiao Yang's anger subsided considerably, but he still harbored some doubts.

I'll call him!

Su Ziyang took out his phone and dialed Er Biao's number directly.

"Brother Biao, tell this Daoist priest next to me how you were bribed by Fu Xinyu. I had someone pick a date for you, and now it's been discovered!"

Su Ziyang put the phone on speakerphone so that Daoist Master Xiao Yang listen.

"Haha, this isn't nonsense. Look at my WeChat, I'll send you the screenshot. Daoist Master, I'm also forced by circumstances. I'm friends with Teacher Su Ziyang now, please don't misunderstand. Let's have a meal together sometime, get together! I'll find Fu Xinyu's chat history for you!"

Er Biao laughed and quickly explained, then sent the chat history to Su Ziyang.

Daoist Master Xiao Yang took a look and found that it was indeed as Su Ziyang had said, which made him believe Su Ziyang.

The farce has come to an end.

"Su Ziyang, you're pretty wicked, aren't you? But you're alright, not bad!"

It was unclear whether Daoist Master Xiao Yang was praising or scolding Su Ziyang Su Ziyang.

These words left Su Ziyang both amused and exasperated.

"By the way, if I'm not mistaken, Fu Xinyu probably won't be coming to work. Let's put this behind us!"

"Why?" Daoist Master Xiao Yang asked in great surprise.

"He came to me that day and told me he was wrong, that he was wrong, and that he wouldn't bother me anymore, that's all."

Hearing Su Ziyang's words, Daoist Master Xiao Yang chuckled, "You're just talking nonsense! You scared me half to death. I thought you hired that person yourself. Alright, I'm leaving!"

"Am I such a bad person? I'm a good person." Su Ziyang shook his head as he walked back.

Back home, I routinely send WeChat to my mentor, Mr. Mengfei. Mr. Mengfei, but I still can't get in touch with him.

Seeing that his master didn't reply, Su Ziyang could only do his daily homework, copying scriptures and meditating.

The next morning, Su Ziyang got up for his morning exercise and then went to work.

When Su Ziyang passed by Fu Xinyu's clinic, he found that the door was indeed closed.

Once in his clinic, Su Ziyang pulled out Bian Clan Bonesetting Book and began studying it, trying to recall if there were any oversights in what he had told Er Biao the day before.

This is called mutual learning between teachers and students.

The saying goes, "Therefore, one learns and then realizes one's deficiencies; one teaches and then realizes one's difficulties. Knowing one's deficiencies allows one to reflect on oneself; knowing one's difficulties allows one to improve oneself. Hence the saying, 'Teaching and learning complement each other.'"

Looking at the parts that he hadn't quite grasped before, and thinking about the questions Er Biao had asked him yesterday that he had never thought of before, Su Ziyang suddenly felt that he had made progress.

After putting the book back down, Su Ziyang closed his eyes and mentally simulated the scene of bone setting.

Since inheriting the Bian Clan Bonesetting, Su Ziyang hasn't had many opportunities to use it. Therefore Su Ziyang often reviews the knowledge through imagination.

Now that I've taught Er Biao a part of the bone-setting technique, it's not like this exquisite skill has been buried.

Su Ziyang lowered his head and remained silent when a young man entered through the door, interrupting Su Ziyang thoughts. "Doctor, hello!"

"Hello. Please have a seat!"

After the young man sat down, he said, "Doctor, I heard that you offer acupuncture in this clinic. I'm not afraid of pain, but I'm afraid of bitterness and don't want to take Chinese medicine. Could you give me a needle?"

People have all kinds of tempers, and many of the people Su Ziyang had met before were afraid of needles but not of taking medicine.

Today I encountered the exact opposite: not afraid of needles, but afraid of taking herbal medicine.

"Haha, you're not afraid of needles, but you're afraid of taking medicine?"

Su Ziyang smiled and chatted with the young man.

"Oh dear, don't even mention it. This medicine just keeps swirling in my mouth, it won't go down my throat. Haha, I live in the same building Auntie Yu, and I heard her say your injection is great."

It turned out that the patient was referred by Auntie Yu Xiushui.

"Alright. Let me take your pulse first."

Su Ziyang wanted to take the young man's pulse first, but the young man refused.

"No need, doctor. Let me tell you, I can eat, drink, and sleep well, and I'm perfectly healthy. I'm in great shape!"

This guy was quite the chatterbox; he talked to Su Ziyang while gesturing, making Su Ziyang laugh.

"Why come for acupuncture when you're not sick? Are you just asking for trouble?"

Su Ziyang found this person interesting and made a sarcastic remark.

"Why would I go looking for trouble? I'm fine elsewhere, but my butt's the problem! Hehe, nine out of ten men have hemorrhoids! Having hemorrhoids is so uncomfortable!"

The young man chuckled, looking a little embarrassed.

"Hemorrhoids, are they internal, external, or mixed?"

Su Ziyang asked a rather technical question.

"How would I know? I don't understand this stuff at all. You'd have to be a doctor to diagnose it. It's just that my anus is a bit swollen, and it's really uncomfortable."

The young man grinned, clearly not understanding much about his condition.