Chapter 3 is a bit expensive

  After a long while, Xu Manli finally reacted and saw that Wu Rui had actually put away the silver needles and was acting as if he had finished treating her. She looked at him in astonishment and asked: "Young doctor, are you done already?"

  "Hmm? It's already been almost a minute, is this still fast? Next time I'll take a bit longer." Wu Rui muttered to himself, seemingly preoccupied. Treating the beauty's minor ailment actually didn't require that much time, but considering he couldn't be too shocking, Wu Rui controlled the time to around one minute.

  But now it seems that it's still a bit astonishing, looking at their reactions is not difficult to see this point. So Wu Rui decided that in the future, if there is no need, try to control the time of acupuncture for a longer period. Even if you don't practice qigong and acupuncture, leaving the silver needle on the patient's body for half an hour is fine, isn't it?

  "...Xu Manli's face turned black upon hearing this, and she couldn't help but scold Wu Rui: "You're also too irresponsible! You actually skimped on the work, I think you're just a quack doctor..."

  "Manli, I think it's fine now." Before she could finish her sentence, Liu Ruoxi interrupted her with a shocked expression. Obviously, Wu Rui's medical skills had surprised her and also made her doubt whether traditional Chinese medicine was really that amazing?

  "What?" Xu Manli couldn't help but exclaim, instantly attracting the attention of the surrounding vendors and passersby, who all looked at her with strange eyes, unable to understand why this beautiful girl was so flustered.

  Xu Manli didn't care about the strange looks from others, and with a surprised expression, she circled around Ruoxi twice. Indeed, she found that Ruoxi's face had become rosy at some point, her eyebrows relaxed, and there was no sign of her previous suffering. Xu Manli widened her beautiful eyes and stuttered: "This... can it really cure? This is... too amazing! It's like a divine doctor!"

  The people around were shocked when they saw the "Miao Shou Ji Shi" behind Wu Rui, and then they suddenly realized that this beautiful girl was actually a doctor. It seemed that this young doctor's medical skills were quite impressive. However, could such a young doctor really have good medical skills? These two girls wouldn't be the legendary "decoys", would they? Otherwise, why would these two beautifully dressed girls come to such a place to see a doctor?

  People's suspicion of Wu Rui is not accidental, but inevitable. This has a direct connection with the nation's skeptical attitude towards traditional Chinese medicine. If Wu Rui were wearing a white coat now, they would surely be sighing in admiration at his youth and exceptional medical skills!

  Only Ruoxi knew that the man in front of her was indeed a divine doctor. Especially during the process of receiving acupuncture, she could feel a warm flow entering her body from the silver needle, and then quickly relieving the pain in her body. This was a powerful Chinese medicine technique that Ruoxi had never seen or heard of before.

  Ruoxi's eyes sparkled with delight, and upon hearing Xumanli's questioning tone, she hastily smiled and said: "That's right, this divine doctor's medical skills are indeed exceptional. It was I, Ruoxi, who was rude earlier. I hope the divine doctor will forgive me."

  "Hey? I said, Yu Ruoxue, what are you apologizing to that young man for? It's not like he has any impressive skills, just some minor tricks." Xu Manli muttered under her breath as she watched her sister apologize. It was unclear whether she was skeptical of Wu Rui's medical abilities or felt that Yu Ruoxue's noble status shouldn't be treated this way.

  Xu Manli's muttering was directly ignored by Wu Rui. After a brief interaction, he roughly understood the woman's temperament, which belonged to the kind of pampered and spoiled one in rumors. On the contrary, Ruoxi's behavior made Wu Rui change his impression of her a bit.

  It's worth noting that since he came out of the mountains, Wu Rui had rarely seen such a polite and elegant woman, giving him a strong sense of a traditional noble lady. The first impression modern society gave Wu Rui was one of "prosperous world in chaos", where everything seemed to be progressing, but human civilization's thoughts were actually regressing. However, Yu Xi's image brought a refreshing comfort to this divine doctor who came from the deep mountains and forests.

  It's now that he heard her apology, Wu Rui just waved his hand and said indifferently: "I'm not a divine doctor, I'm just an ordinary Chinese medicine doctor, besides, ignorance is bliss, this girl doesn't need to worry about it."

  When Wu Rui heard Wen's words, Liu Ruoxue's eyes flashed with a hint of strangeness, but she just smiled modestly and said: "The divine doctor is too humble. Compared to the doctors now, your medical skills are indeed divine. Thank you for treating us today, we won't bother you anymore, how much do we owe for the consultation fee?"

  When Wu Rui heard the beautiful woman's praise, he was a bit proud, but when he heard the doctor's question, his face immediately turned serious and after thinking for a moment, he said: "You guys should be rich people too, the diagnosis fee is 1,000 yuan!"

  "What? Just a few injections and you want 1,000 yuan? Are you trying to rip us off?" Wu Rui's words made Xu Manli, who had just calmed down, shout again. Her face was dark and seemed very unforgiving. It's not surprising that she's angry, let alone the fact that Wu Rui only needed a few simple injections, even if it were more complicated, treating a pain shouldn't cost that much, should it?

  "Ah!" The old man in front, Chen, who was buying a disc, also shuddered when he heard this, and the A-disc in his hand even fell to the ground. He stared at Wu Rui with a stunned expression, but in his heart, he thought: Although these two girls look like they're from rich families and can be ripped off a bit, you're ripping them off too badly! One thousand yuan is what he would make by selling half a month's worth of pirated discs.

  Liu Ruoxi furrowed her good-looking eyebrows, but she wasn't concerned about the thousand yuan. Instead, she picked up on Wu Rui's underlying meaning and blinked her phoenix eyes as she asked aloud: "Doctor, are you saying that you're charging me a thousand yuan just because I'm rich? That kind of tiered pricing isn't very good, is it? So if I were poor, how much would you charge for the consultation fee?"

  "Hmm... Hehe." Wu Rui silently scolded himself for being too loose-lipped, how did he end up saying that? But since things had come to this point, he wasn't afraid of clarifying the matter either. So he straightforwardly said: "There's nothing good or bad about it, you rich people have big families and businesses, so this little medical fee doesn't hurt at all. But poor people are different, even if they know they're sick, they don't dare to go get treated because they don't have the money. I charging them less is reasonable. Of course, most importantly, my treatment this time is absolutely worth a thousand yuan, and it's not like I'm cheating you."

  "You...this is absurd, I think you're just making excuses to charge randomly! Don't think that just because your medical skills are excellent, you can do whatever you want. Be careful or I'll report you!" Xu Manli was taken aback for a moment, although she thought Wu Rui's words made sense, but she didn't want her sister to be the one being taken advantage of. Of course, it wasn't that she was stingy about the 1,000 yuan, it's just that she felt uncomfortable in her heart.

  Mr. Chen, who was standing in front of him, also secretly wiped the sweat from his palms. He was very clear that Wu Rui was practicing medicine without a license. If he were to be reported, he would really have to bear the consequences. At that time, not only would he be fined, but he might even end up in jail for a few days, and at the very least, he would have to undergo reeducation for a period of time.

  As a half-friend, he naturally didn't want to see Wu Rui suffer the consequences of imprisonment, so he desperately made hand gestures and eye contact with Wu Rui, wanting him to quickly withdraw and turn the situation around. Seeing this, Wu Rui was quite moved in his heart. Although this old man buying pirated discs and yellow discs wasn't very moral, as a person he wasn't bad. But Wu Rui didn't change his decision because of this, he just gave Old Man Chen a reassuring glance.

  In fact, he didn't intentionally want to make things difficult for Ruo Xi. This was just an unwritten rule of the Wu Rui School and even the Chinese medical community, which wouldn't change no matter who the other person was or what their status was. This is also why ancient doctors were deeply loved by the people but not tolerated by those in power.

  Wu Rui accepted the inheritance of Shennong, not only the inheritance of Shennong's medical skills but also the inheritance of Shennong's ideas. Naturally, he wouldn't be foolish enough to violate the rules just because she was a beauty. Let alone that she was just a rich girl, even if she were an official, it wouldn't change anything, and might even make him raise his price higher. As far as Wu Rui knew, all officials nowadays were so wealthy they were dripping with oil, who else would he fleece?

  Liu Ruoxi, however, was more meticulous and discovered that Wu Rui was not a person who coveted wealth. At the same time, she also felt that Wu Rui's words were genuine, because after this treatment, not only was her menstrual cramp cured, but her body also felt much more comfortable, at least mentally. As the saying goes, "A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy health", let alone just a thousand yuan.

  However, just as she was about to pay Wu Rui, a line of cars suddenly pulled over to the side of the road and stopped. Several tall men in black clothes got out, including a handsome young man who rushed over to ask, "Ruoxi, are you okay?"