As they spoke, Kang Jiamei, accustomed to her overbearing ways, fiercely kicked over the medical waste bin in front of her.
"Ah—"
Xu Jingyin clearly hadn't expected the patient to turn hostile so suddenly and shrieked in fright.
But Chen Xiao, far from being intimidated, slapped Kang Jiamei hard across the face and said coldly:
"I said I'm not selling, and I'm not selling! Restore the trash can immediately! Otherwise, even if your backer is the King of Heaven, I'll have you lying in a hospital bed just like your son and your elder brother!"
"You... you dare to hit me..."
Kang Jiamei clutched her burning, throbbing fat face, her baseless fury instantly surging to her head. She lunged forward as if to tear at Chen Xiao, but upon hearing Chen Xiao's latter words, she immediately looked as if she had seen a ghost, her expression one of extreme horror, and her words abruptly ceased.
Beside them, Lin Zhenyi, in his wheelchair, couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief:
"My... my uncle was also beaten into the hospital by you?"
As Lin Zhenyi's words fell, Kang Jiamei suddenly shook her head repeatedly as if trying to comfort herself, saying:
"No! Impossible! Absolutely impossible! My elder brother personally told me when he was rushed to the First Affiliated Hospital of the Provincial Medical University last night that he was in a serious car accident! You, a mere doctor, wouldn't even have a chance to interact with such a big figure, so how could you have injured him? You must have accidentally learned that he was seriously injured and hospitalized, and now you're trying to scare me!"
Lin Wenxue being admitted to the hospital was not something to be proud of, and he had indeed been beaten into submission by Chen Xiao, so naturally, he was too ashamed to admit it publicly.
"You think I'm trying to scare you?"
Chen Xiao suddenly felt a bit concerned about Kang Jiamei's intelligence. After a moment's thought, he decided to unleash an even bigger trump card:
"Then you must think that your husband ending up in the police station because of me is also me scaring you?"
"Pfft—"
Lin Zhenyi couldn't hold back and burst out laughing, looking at Chen Xiao as if he were an idiot:
"Classmate Chen Xiao, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. How could my father possibly end up in the police station because of you? Didn't my mother make it clear enough? We have no shortage of connections in high places!"
Kang Jiamei was gradually losing her patience. She directly took out her phone and dialed Lin Chenggang's number, arrogantly shouting:
"You surnamed Chen, since you're ungrateful, I'll have my husband come out personally to confiscate your Jinkui Shunqi San, and then send you to the police on charges of illegally selling unbranded medicine to patients during work hours."
As she spoke, she had already dialed Lin Chenggang's private mobile number, but there was no answer. Her heart suddenly sank. Without a second thought, she quickly dialed Lin Chenggang's office landline, but still, there was no answer. Her heart pounded even harder, and she nervously called Li Guigui.
This time, the call was finally connected. She couldn't hold back her exasperation and cursed:
"Where is Lin Chenggang? Hurry up and tell him to get his backside over to examination room number eight at the outpatient department to see me!"
On the other end of the line, Li Guigui was currently cursing and tending to his injuries. He was suddenly agitated by Kang Jiamei's call, but he didn't show it at all. Instead, he put on a heartbreaking tone and wailed:
"Sister-in-law, Brother Gang has been framed and sent to the police station. You must avenge him..."
"Wh... what?"
Kang Jiamei felt her scalp tingle and her heart pound. She no longer cared about propriety and quickly hung up the phone to call Kang Wuxue for help, saying nervously:
"Second Brother, why did my husband inexplicably end up in the police station? He... he must have been framed. You have to get him out..."
However, before Kang Jiamei could finish speaking, Kang Wuxue on the phone interrupted her with an exceptionally righteous and stern tone:
"Hmph! He, as a leader of the Central Hospital, acted recklessly and repeatedly refused to reform. This time, he abused his power, first by allowing the security guards on duty to let over a dozen thugs break into the hospital and commit violence, and then by hiring street hooligans to impersonate security guards and disrupt hospital order. He was caught red-handed, and the evidence is conclusive. How is he being framed? If you truly want to help him, you should quietly await the police's judgment. If you dare to act as outrageously as usual at this time, he might end up serving a long prison sentence!"
With that, the call was directly hung up.
"This..."
Kang Jiamei was struck by lightning and completely dumbfounded. When she looked at Chen Xiao again, her arrogance and overbearing demeanor from head to toe were instantly replaced by horror. Without a second thought, she "plop" and knelt down, pleading in panic:
"Dr. Chen... Dr. Chen, although I don't know what my husband did to you, but... but he definitely knows he was wrong. Please be magnanimous and spare him? As long as you're willing to settle this privately, the police probably won't pursue it further, sob... sob..."
Lin Zhenyi clearly hadn't expected his father to actually end up in the police station because of Chen Xiao. His mind went blank for a moment. It wasn't until he heard Kang Jiamei's crying that he finally managed to regain some ability to think. He quickly flipped out of his wheelchair and knelt down, saying tearfully:
"Classmate Chen Xiao, please take pity on me and my mother, and let my father go?"
"This... this... this this this..."
Xu Jingyin watched with her own eyes as Kang Jiamei and Lin Zhenyi, who had been arrogant and overbearing just a few minutes ago, were now kneeling at Chen Xiao's feet, crying and wailing. She also heard that Lin Chenggang had been sent to the police station because of Chen Xiao, and her face turned ashen with fear, her apprehension towards Chen Xiao growing even stronger.
Fearing that she might also suffer if Chen Xiao became angry, she hurriedly took a bottle of fresh milk, which was meant for her younger brother after school, from her old bag under the table and offered it to Chen Xiao. She leaned close to Chen Xiao's ear and whispered cautiously:
"Dr. Chen, don't be angry. Come to my place tonight. I... I'll let you touch me."
"Uh!"
Chen Xiao, who had been quite angry, was suddenly taken aback by Xu Jingyin's whispered words. He immediately "lost his steam." After a moment's thought, he said with a wry smile to Kang Jiamei and Lin Zhenyi:
"Forget about settling this privately. After all, Lin Chenggang's current predicament is not my doing, but his just desserts and his own fault! You two clean up the trash can and get out of here. If you continue to delay me from seeing patients, you'll be responsible for the consequences!"
Kang Jiamei almost spat blood with anger. She wished she could pounce on Chen Xiao and tear him apart, but thinking of her second brother's stern warning on the phone, she could only resort to verbal threats, saying sarcastically:
"Son, the most important things in life are backbone and filial piety. Let's go! We'll find connections to get your father out first, and then we'll deal with this surnamed Chen! I swear, if I don't ruin him and get him thrown into jail..."
But before Kang Jiamei could finish speaking, Lin Zhenyi, seeing the situation was not good, suddenly scrambled to clean up the trash can with his bare hands, saying meekly:
"Dr. Chen, my father truly deserves it. I won't hope for you to settle this privately with him. I only beg you to sell some Jinkui Shunqi San to your little brother. If you agree, let alone just cleaning up trash, you can have this little brother be your ox or horse, pig or dog."
Although he hated Chen Xiao, he hated his own over 300-pound obese body even more. Now that the Jinkui Shunqi San, which could help him get rid of his excess weight, was in the drawer of the consultation desk behind Chen Xiao, how could he possibly miss this opportunity?
After a pause, his hands covered in garbage, he turned and furiously berated Kang Jiamei:
"What's the use of backbone? What's the use of filial piety? If I don't beg Dr. Chen for the miraculous medicine, is there any possibility of this fat on my body falling off?"
"You..."
Kang Jiamei was instantly choked speechless. Her wrinkled, fat face, full of fat, turned purple and green, and her expression became extremely ferocious. She wished she could slap Lin Zhenyi to death.
Chen Xiao watched this with satisfaction. He kicked over the trash can that Lin Zhenyi had cleaned up and said with a cold smile to Kang Jiamei:
"Fat lady, your son has made me a tiny bit happy. Whether he can get the Jinkui Shunqi San next depends on your attitude. Don't let him down!"
"I..."
Kang Jiamei completely lost her temper. She could only suppress her overwhelming anger and reluctantly knelt down to clean up the trash can again, saying:
"Dr. Chen... Dr. Chen, I was wrong, I truly know I was wrong. Please, for my son's sake, who dreams of losing weight, sell him some Jinkui Shunqi San? Just name your price, and I'm willing to sell everything I own."
As she spoke, she didn't care about her dirty hands. She quickly took off all the thick, heavy pure gold jewelry she was wearing on her neck, wrists, and even her feet and offered them to Chen Xiao with both hands. Then, she even turned her expensive handbag inside out, and seven or eight bank cards fell to the ground.
But at this moment, Li Guigui, covered in injuries and with a bruised and swollen face, suddenly limped over, his expression unable to hide his excitement. He looked as if he had already seen Chen Xiao being dealt with by Kang Jiamei, after all, Kang Jiamei's second brother was Vice Director Kang!
So, the moment he burst through the door, Li Guigui unexpectedly saw Kang Jiamei and Lin Zhenyi, mother and son, both kneeling before Chen Xiao and tidying up the trash can. His face instantly turned green. After a moment of stunned silence, he couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief:
"Sis-in-law... Sister-in-law, why... why are you kneeling to Chen Xiao? He... he's the scoundrel who got Brother Gang sent to the police station!"
As he spoke, Li Guigui couldn't help but pinch his own face hard, as he simply couldn't believe that what he was seeing wasn't a nightmare.
The pinch hurt his face, and his legs instantly went weak. His mind was a mess, and he couldn't figure out for the life of him why Kang Jiamei and her son were kneeling to Chen Xiao.
Lin Zhenyi, who was already frustrated and worried that Li Guigui's appearance might further enrage Chen Xiao, thus making his goal of obtaining medicine even more distant, glared fiercely at Li Guigui without a second thought. Kang Jiamei, on the other hand, was completely enraged and shouted hysterically:
"Li Guigui, no one thinks you're mute if you don't speak! Get out, damn it!"