71: There really is a ghost

Just as Liu Yan was about to discuss dental health further with Qin Jiang, a couple arrived at the clinic with an elder and a Little Girl.

Qin Jiang's eyes lit up; he immediately recognized a big business opportunity.

This was a family of five coming to see a doctor together.

“Doctor, please help us. We’ve been feeling very unwell these past few days, but we don’t know what’s wrong.”

The woman speaking had a pale, visibly weak complexion.

The others around her were similar, either sallow-faced or hunched over, struggling to walk.

Qin Jiang's first impression was indeed that the entire family was ill.

Qin Jiang used his Observation Technique and found that the woman’s illness was the most severe, so he had her sit down first.

“What’s your name?”

“Lü Fang.”

“What are your specific symptoms?”

“Recently, my stomach always feels very bloated. Even when I haven't eaten, it’s like a balloon, distended and won’t go down, just like a balloon.”

Qin Jiang looked at Lü Fang’s stomach and saw that it was indeed as she described.

Lü Fang was actually a woman with delicate features, even considered somewhat pretty.

But at this moment, her face was haggard, unnaturally pale, and her lips were a bit purple.

However, Qin Jiang did not rush to a conclusion.

The greatest taboo in Chinese medicine is making hasty judgments. Even if you perceive something, you must ask the patient again, listen to them describe their symptoms and feelings firsthand, and then determine what exactly is going on.

“Besides the bloating, are there any other problems?”

“Sometimes I feel like vomiting, and I can't even eat.”

Lü Fang quietly asked at this point.

“Doctor, do you think I might be pregnant?”

Qin Jiang glanced at her.

“Haven’t you given birth to a Little Girl before? Can’t you tell if you’re pregnant yourself?”

Lü Fang said somewhat awkwardly:

“I just feel like this is similar to how I felt when I was pregnant before—I couldn't eat and I liked to vomit.”

“And my stomach, I really can’t be sure if it is or isn’t.”

“Why don’t you take my pulse?”

As Lü Fang placed her hand on the pulse pillow, Qin Jiang casually asked:

“So, do you hope to be pregnant or not pregnant?”

Lü Fang thought for a moment and then said, “I don’t want to be pregnant. The work pressure is too great now. One child is enough to wear me out; if there’s another, our whole family won’t be able to handle it.”

“Then congratulations, your wish has come true. You’re not pregnant.”

Hearing Qin Jiang say this, Lü Fang breathed a sigh of relief.

“Then what exactly is my illness?”

Qin Jiang didn’t rush to answer, but instead countered, “Your complexion doesn’t look good. Haven’t you been sleeping well lately?”

Lü Fang nodded repeatedly.

“Doctor, you truly have keen insight.”

“Actually, I’ve encountered a very terrifying strange incident recently that has kept me awake all night.”

Qin Jiang comforted Lü Fang: “It’s alright, tell me about it.”

Lü Fang looked surprised.

“Doctor, do you also understand metaphysics?”

Qin Jiang smiled slightly.

“There’s no such thing as metaphysics in this world. The end of metaphysics is science.”

Lü Fang, however, shook her head and said very firmly:

“There is metaphysics, there really is!”

Lü Fang nervously glanced around, then pulled out a palm-sized Maitreya Buddha statue from her pocket, placed it on the table, and clasped her hands together to bow.

After doing all this, Lü Fang finally spoke:

“Doctor, I feel like I’ve been haunted by a ghost recently.”

Qin Jiang raised an eyebrow, intrigued.

He had already noticed when taking her pulse that Lü Fang’s liver was not well, and neither was her gallbladder.

As the saying goes, liver and gallbladder are interconnected; these two organs are mutually internal and external.

They prosper together and suffer together.

People with excessive liver fire have a bad temper and want to curse in the morning.

Because their liver qi is stagnant, they can only relieve it by cursing.

People with liver yin deficiency are timid, act cautiously in everything they do, and watching a horror movie could even scare them to death.

Lü Fang’s liver had already suffered severe damage, so her gallbladder must also have issues.

Being timid makes one prone to seeing ghosts.

Qin Jiang inquired: “Can you tell me in detail what kind of ghost you encountered?”

Lü Fang stared at Qin Jiang, saying with some terror: “Recently, I keep hearing someone sharpening a knife at home, and when I get up at night to go to the bathroom, I’ve seen a figure more than once, standing in the kitchen!”

“Doctor, I suspect I’m being targeted by a ghost. Everyone says I have a mental illness, but I don’t, I really don’t!”

Lü Fang became more and more agitated as she spoke, and Qin Jiang quickly tried to calm her.

Netizens in the live stream, seeing this scene, also expressed their opinions.

“As soon as this woman walked in, I noticed her unsteady steps. There must be something wrong, and it turns out she ran into a ghost.”

“Don’t talk nonsense, there are no ghosts in this world.”

“Why not? I saw one when I was a Little Girl. I passed by a mass grave late at night, and it scared me senseless.”

“Buddy, you’re really a tough person, daring to go to a mass grave late at night.”

Netizens were also interested in the topic of ghosts and monsters, perking up their ears, wanting to hear what kind of ghost Lü Fang had encountered.

Qin Jiang first calmed Lü Fang's emotions, looking at her with sincere eyes and saying:

“Miss Lü, calm down. I am a doctor, and I believe what you say. You don’t have a mental illness.”

“But to figure out what’s really going on, you need to tell me in more detail.”

“Besides hearing the sound of sharpening knives and seeing that figure, have you encountered anything else unusual?”

After a long silence, Lü Fang said to Qin Jiang:

“I suspect that ghost wants to chop off my head.”

Qin Jiang frowned, realizing that Lü Fang’s mental state did seem abnormal.

Because a normal person’s logical thinking follows a question-and-answer pattern.

After someone asks a question, one’s first thought is definitely to answer the question.

Similarly, after asking a question oneself, the first thought is definitely to get the other person’s answer.

But at this moment, Lü Fang ignored Qin Jiang’s question and started talking to herself again.

Qin Jiang knew he couldn’t let her continue talking aimlessly, or she might not say anything useful until morning.

So Qin Jiang guided her again, asking:

“Miss Lü, you said that ghost wants to chop off your head. What led you to that conclusion?”

Lü Fang became nervous again.

She said to Qin Jiang:

“The ghost told me in my dream that it wanted to chop off my head.”

“And it also said my hair was too long and would block the knife, so it wanted to shave my head.”

“And in reality, that ghost really did it. Every day when I wake up, there are large clumps of hair on my pillow. If you don’t believe me, Doctor, look.”

Lü Fang took off her fluffy hat.

Only then did Qin Jiang realize that Lü Fang had been wearing a wig the whole time.

After taking off the wig, she instantly became completely bald!