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"Sir, could you explain specifically, I don't understand," Xiao Ai asked very directly.
"If we examine this problem in detail, it would take a long time to explain, simply put, your mother cannot absorb the energy from some foods, and forcing herself to eat them only burdens her body, taking up space in her stomach, thus preventing her from absorbing even things she originally could absorb."
The youth paused, then continued, "Afterward, you all thought she was weak and needed nourishment, so you gave her more supplements to eat, but supplements were exactly what she couldn't absorb, thus your mother naturally became weaker and weaker, actually she was starved to this state by you all."
"..." Everyone fell silent, what did this mean, eating supplements but actually being starved.
"Sir, what does this mean?" Xiao Ai didn't understand, while Xiao Ai's mother's eyes seemed to remember something, and at the same time her eyes showed traces of spirit, completely different from how she looked at the youth before.
"Still don't understand, fine, let me put it even more simply, your mother has a strange constitution, can't eat supplements, can't eat delicacies, can only eat simple meals, naturally born with a poor person's stomach, understand now," the youth changed his explanation.
"..."
Was there such a condition, such a strange illness?
"He doesn't seem to be wrong, I was born into a poor family since childhood, never had any good life, the foods I liked were all those relatively cheap ordinary things, only after being with your father did I start living well. But at the beginning I still preferred eating simple things, my body was weak but not too bad, later after having you I started eating supplements, then got worse and worse, then became like this..." that lady began recalling.
Her condition didn't happen overnight, but gradually changed over these ten-plus years, becoming weaker day by day, until now looking completely skin and bones, if she hadn't been able to absorb a little food in between, she might have starved to death long ago.
No matter how wealthy, there were always times when they eat ordinary things, also she wasn't completely unable to absorb those foods, just the proportion was very very small, but very very small was still something.
If she wasn't in this New Moon's first family Ke family, her situation wouldn't be so complicated, only such a family would endlessly supply supplements and delicacies every day, making ordinary food as rare as treasures, rarely seen.
Just as the youth said, what caused her to be like this, besides herself, were also these people from Ke family, this environment.
"Sir, please quickly save my mother, what medicinal materials should be prepared, what should be done?" Xiao Ai seeing this situation understood the youth in front seemed to be right, her hope began rising again.
"What medicinal materials, what to do, didn't I already say this just now?" the youth looked at Xiao Ai and replied.
"..." Xiao Ai couldn't quite understand, wasn't what was said just now about treatment methods, was there mention of what medicinal materials to use.
"Don't understand, I just said your mother has a special constitution, she can't eat supplements or good foods, what you need to do is simply return to the foods she used to eat, it's that simple," the youth replied.
"..." Everyone fell silent, this somehow felt unreal, like a joke, this was completely doing nothing at all.
Xiao Ai was somewhat hesitant, was it really this simple.
"Sir, is this really all that's needed, no treatment required?"
"Treatment comes in many forms, changing eating habits, changing lifestyle habits, these are all forms of treatment, sometimes more effective than taking medicine and harder to do, because these are things people can't change immediately. However, your mother doesn't have this trouble, she originally liked eating those things," the youth slowly replied.
The youth's words left people with deep thoughts, they seemed to have never thought there was such treatment, in their concept treating illness meant taking medicine, they never thought treating illness didn't necessarily require medicine.
This time made them realize this point, some people began understanding that sometimes what they habitually thought was true actually wasn't necessarily so.
"Alright, there's nothing more for me here, I don't need to do anything next, so I'll take my leave first. Oh right, I have a medicine here that can slightly assist treatment, but can only take one pill per day, do you need to purchase any?" the youth stood up to leave when he suddenly asked.
"Yes, I'll buy," Xiao Ai didn't even think, directly saying.
"Great Strength Pills are ten taels of silver each, how many do you want?"
"..."
Xiao Ai's eyebrows twitched at this time, if she didn't respect the other party, she would have started cursing, how could there be such a person, thinking of every way to sell his Great Strength Pills, not even missing this opportunity.
"Don't want them, actually my Great Strength Pills are really very effective, I believe they won't cause resistance in your mother, even if there's resistance it's just this small amount, won't affect anything."
"..." In the end, you yourself aren't certain of the medicinal effects.
"Fine, I'll buy ten," Xiao Ai frowned, she decided to buy some, this was to repay the youth's grace in treating the illness, not because she really wanted them.
At this time, she like everyone else still thought this youth's Great Strength Pills were the same as those sold by street vendors, until later by chance she took one of these Great Strength Pills, only then did she discover she was wrong, very wrong.
When she wanted these Great Strength Pills at that time, he had long since disappeared, very difficult to have another chance to obtain such Great Strength Pills.
"Thank you for your patronage, also let me remind you, don't think about becoming fat in one bite, take it slowly," the youth was in a very good mood after selling ten Great Strength Pills, even giving a few parting words.
Was this youth's treatment method really effective?
Although this answer wouldn't surface quickly, it probably wouldn't take too long either, after Lady Ke began returning to her previous diet, her body started slowly recovering, she became more spirited.
Xiao Ai's father, who originally had a trying attitude, immediately ran to the night market to thank the youth, he originally felt the youth was just being perfunctory, but since this time was just changing diet and wouldn't make Lady Ke suffer, he let Lady Ke try it.
Unexpectedly, this treatment that seemed very absurd actually worked.
What was this called, healing without medicine.
A doctor who could heal patients without using medicine, this was truly brilliant.
After this, perhaps some people still doubted the youth's medical skills, thinking the previous case was just coincidence, but with some people trying with an experimental attitude, the youth cured people time after time, at that time no one doubted the youth's medical skills anymore.
Afterward, people lined up every day in front of the youth's stall, if not for the youth's high fees, this queue would be even longer, however after seeing this situation the youth still kept the same banner, same fee standards, without any changes.
This surprised many people while also earning their admiration, generally in such situations anyone would start asking exorbitant prices, fame always came with profit, which was why the phrase "fame and fortune" went together.
But even so, the youth earned quite a bit of silver during this period, and he gained a title - Little Doctor.
Speaking of this title Little Doctor, it wasn't because everyone called him this due to his young age, but because at that time Xiao Ai and others didn't know his name, later Xiao Ai's parents used Little Doctor to address him, and others hearing about this youth from them naturally used this title too.
The youth didn't object to this, didn't mind, which was equivalent to acknowledging it, so this title stuck.
The youth actually liked this title, compared to Divine Doctor he preferred this, Divine Doctor represented a realm while Little Doctor just represented the profession.
Of course, the youth knew more than just medical skills, but generally in such situations others came seeking medical treatment, naturally leaving him no time to do other things, at the same time everyone forgot he knew other things, not many people sought him for physiognomy or feng shui.
His Great Strength Pills also didn't sell much, the nobility looked down on such street items, while common people couldn't afford them, ten taels, they spent one tael just seeing a doctor, and the youth would give prescriptions or specify treatment methods after diagnosis, they wouldn't need these Great Strength Pills.
Only some bored people bought some with various purposes.
The youth's rapid popularity in New Moon capital made this the second biggest topic of conversation after meals, of course this definitely wouldn't surpass the biggest topic, so some felt the youth was unfortunate, if not for this timing, without that first big event, his fame would be several levels higher.
This first big event was currently the most important matter, the focus of the entire continent, which was the Dragon Gate Tournament.
New Moon's Dragon Gate Tournament began half a month ago, now seemingly entering the final stages, news came out one after another, who was eliminated, who performed brilliantly, ranking changes and so on.
If someone carefully analyzed, actually there was still a slight connection between the first and second big events, which was when the first big event Dragon Gate Tournament began, the protagonist of the second big event, the youth, happened to start appearing.
Perhaps this was just coincidence, but if someone paid attention, they wouldn't think this was coincidence, would feel the youth was related to the Dragon Gate Tournament, at least related to people in the Dragon Gate Tournament.
(End of Chapter)