She Didn't Even Know What a Silver Needle Was

Of course, Wei Xingzhou hadn't come to see Bo Yanchen just to visit Ji Chuxing. Neither of the grown men avoided talking in front of her, and they discussed business right at the dinner table.

Wei Xingzhou brought up the underground casinos in South City. Bo Yanchen turned and found the girl listening with great interest, her eyes shining.

She practically had the words "Take me, take me" written all over her face.

Thinking of how obsessed the girl was with money, Bo Yanchen felt a headache coming on. "Xingbao, forget it. Don't listen."

Ji Chuxing opened her mouth, looking perfectly obedient, as if she wanted to say something. Bo Yanchen immediately said, "Don't even think about it."

Ji Chuxing turned away and lowered her head to eat her tofu pudding with brown sugar syrup. Even the little tuft of hair on her head drooped, unable to stand up anymore.

After dinner, the city lights were just coming on.

Wei Xingzhou insisted on squeezing into Bo Yanchen's car. With the girl there, Bo Yanchen resisted the urge to throw him out.

As they passed a large traditional Chinese medicine clinic, Ji Chuxing asked them to stop.

Bo Yanchen remembered the milk tea and said to Wei Xingzhou, "Go buy two cups of milk tea."

After a pause, he added, "Warm, with less sugar."

Ji Chuxing was a little speechless. "I'm going to the pharmacy to buy a few things."

Bo Yanchen frowned. "Are you sick?"

As he spoke, the man's warm palm was already on Ji Chuxing's forehead. Ji Chuxing didn't resist and simply explained, "No. I'm going to buy a few things to play with. Don't follow me."

Bo Yanchen chuckled. "Go on."

He didn't insist on going with her. Girls her age had little secrets of their own.

Wei Xingzhou looked at the two in the back seat, speechless, as if the atmosphere in the car was too cloying for him. He got out and followed Ji Chuxing to the pharmacy.

It was a large traditional Chinese medicine clinic in South City. Though it was a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, it was very well known, and many people struggled to get an appointment. It was called West China Hall.

Ji Chuxing took a crumpled piece of paper out of her schoolbag and handed it to an attendant at the pharmacy. "I'd like to buy what's on this list, please."

The attendant took the list and glanced at it. "Please wait a moment. There's a fruit and drinks area over there where you can rest."

So Ji Chuxing sat down, crunching away at some desserts while looking around the pharmacy.

It was a traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy, and quite a few people were still there buying medicine and seeking consultations at this hour.

Watching her nearly finish all their desserts, Wei Xingzhou somewhat regretted coming along. He had thought Ji Chuxing wanted to buy something fun, so why did it look as though she had come to eat their snacks?

He felt like a parent who had taken a little troublemaker out, and it was a bit embarrassing.

He was about to go outside for a cigarette when he suddenly heard a scream in the pharmacy.

"Someone's fainted!"

Someone shouted, and the people nearby instinctively looked over to see several people gathered around a spot.

Someone had collapsed on the floor.

A few doctors nearby immediately ran over, and the elderly traditional Chinese medicine doctor on duty at the pharmacy hurried over as well.

Ji Chuxing looked through a gap in the crowd and saw an old woman in her seventies, with graying hair and a dark-colored qipao. She lay on the floor, her face pale.

She seemed to have come alone.

The elderly doctor immediately checked her pulse and eyes, then told someone to bring silver needles so he could give the old woman acupuncture.

Just as a silver needle was about to enter an acupoint, the girl's clear voice rang out. "Wait!"

Everyone looked over. Seeing that Ji Chuxing was a girl who wasn't even an adult yet, the elderly doctor grew angry. "What is it? Can't you see we're trying to save someone?"

"Your needling technique is wrong," Ji Chuxing said coolly.

The elderly doctor was displeased at once. "Little girl, you're so young you don't even know what a silver needle is, and you dare say my needling technique is wrong? Don't get in the way while I save her."

There were still quite a few people in the pharmacy, and they were displeased by what they saw.

"Exactly. She's such a pretty girl, so why is she getting in the way like this?"

"If even the elderly doctor doesn't know, how could she?"

"Little girl, you're so young. Don't get in the doctor's way while he's saving her."

"How can you be so thickheaded? Honestly, get going!"