The place where Dr. Wang Wu invited Yu Zhiming to have dinner was in his office of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
As Dr. Wang walked into the office, Yu Zhiming couldn't help but twitch his nose.
The strong aroma of food and the faint smell of Chinese medicine.
Are you treating him to a medicinal meal?
Yu Zhiming glanced at the coffee table in the reception area filled with casseroles and earthen pots.
Immediately afterwards, his eyes turned to the young beauty standing next to the sofa, wearing a tight turtleneck sweater, a skirt, and short boots.
"Doctor Yu, this is my daughter Wang Shuisu."
Yu Zhiming nodded slightly and smiled at the beautiful woman, then Wang Wu continued to introduce, "Stachyon is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine."
"I threw several Chinese medicines suitable for girls' names into the box. As a result, her mother found Stachys."
This naming method is quite... unique.
Yu Zhiming commented in his heart, and sat on both sides of the coffee table with Dr. Wang.
He looked at the dishes on the coffee table.
Yu Zhiming could recognize the main ingredients of the dishes: stewed pig's feet, stewed ribs, stewed mutton, and a steamed fish, which was quite hearty.
Very much in line with his carnivore preferences.
However, most of them are stews.
Wang Wu picked up the kuaizi and said: "Doctor Yu, please taste it first, and then we can discuss cooperation!"
Yu Zhiming was not polite, picked up Kuaizi and tasted several dishes on the coffee table one by one.
Each dish has a faint medicinal aroma, but the medicinal aroma does not overpower the taste or cover up the aroma of the main ingredients.
Overall, it’s quite delicious.
However, this was delicious because it was medicinal food, which made Yu Zhiming involuntarily lower his evaluation standards.
If he had a banquet with such a taste in Luweiju or Yiyuan Restaurant, Yu Zhiming would definitely not patronize it again.
"Doctor Yu, please taste this pigeon soup!"
Yu Zhiming took a small bowl of pigeon soup with a few small pieces of meat and a clear color from Wang Shuisu's hand.
He thanked him first and took a sip of soup.
“The flavor is fragrant and delicious.”
Yu Zhiming made a comment, then looked at Wang Wu and said softly: "Dr. Wang, I'm not a gourmet, I can only tell you my feelings in general."
He pondered and said: "These medicinal meals are not as good as those made by hotel chefs, but they are better than those made by small restaurants and my family."
"Medicinal diet mainly focuses on efficacy. I think it is quite excellent if it can produce this taste."
Wang Wu laughed very much and said: "We must maintain a certain effect and eat delicious food at the same time."
"Dr. Yu, you may not believe it, but these medicinal diet formulas are the result of ten years of repeated trials and continuous improvements. Every dish is a reflection of my hard work."
Wang Wu took a sip of pigeon soup and recalled, "Dr. Yu, my mother gave birth to me prematurely."
"I was born with an insufficiency syndrome. I have been thin and thin since I was a child. I have constant ailments and often drink traditional Chinese medicine."
"In order to get rid of the bitter medicinal soup that was difficult to swallow, when I was in middle school, I read the medical books at home and thought about preparing delicious and healthy medicinal meals."
"Since then, I have plunged into the field of medicinal diet and conducted research for ten years."
Wang Wu said with some pride: "That Wangji medicated diet is the result of my many years of research."
"However, the greatest achievement of research on medicinal diet is that it has reconditioned my body."
These words made Yu Zhiming couldn't help but look at Dr. Wang.
He is only about 1.6 meters tall and skinny. How can he weigh 80 kilograms gross?
Is this a small body like a skinny monkey, or is it a result of eating home-made medicinal food?
Yu Zhiming couldn't help but have deep doubts about the efficacy of his medicinal diet!
Wang Wu naturally saw the doubt on Yu Zhiming's face and smiled casually.
"Dr. Yu, in my early years, more than one medical master checked my pulse and concluded that my life expectancy will not exceed forty."
Wang Wu gestured at Yu Zhiming with a number and said loudly: "I am fifty-seven this year."
"I feel like I can live for at least another twenty years."
Only fifty-seven?
Yu Zhiming couldn't help but take a look at Dr. Wang's wrinkled old man's appearance.
No one would doubt this honor even at the age of sixty-seven.
Yu Zhiming believes that in order for the efficacy of medicated diet to be convincing, it is better for Dr. Wang not to come out and speak out.
He changed the subject and asked: "Dr. Wang, what is your opinion on the cooperative development of this medicinal diet?"
Wang Wu sighed softly and said: "Back then, I was ambitious and wanted to promote herbal medicine and make my business bigger and stronger."
"Unfortunately, I was unlucky and the losses were overwhelming."
He met Yu Zhiming's gaze and said: "Dr. Yu, we will invest in the company with medicinal formulas, accounting for 40% of the shares."
"We don't care about the operation and promotion of the enterprise, etc. We are only responsible for the configuration and production of medicated meals."
"And..."
Wang Wu added: "No matter how the company increases capital and expands its shares in the future, our 40% shares cannot be diluted."
Yu Zhiming said softly.
Then, he picked up the bowl of rice that Wang Shuisu had served for him, and ate it with the meat and vegetables on the coffee table.
Wang Wu waited for a moment, blinked his eyes, and asked: "Doctor Yu, what are your opinions on cooperation?"
"Do you accept the terms of cooperation I proposed? Or do you not accept them?"
Yu Zhiming took a sip of pigeon soup, swallowed the food in his mouth, and then replied: "Dr. Wang, except for investing some money in business, I don't care about anything else."
"My Qing Ning will discuss the terms of cooperation with you in detail."
Wang Wu laughed and said, "Actually, I left Shuisu and her mother to be responsible for the medicinal diet."
"For the specific terms of cooperation, let my Shui Su and your girlfriend Gu Qingning sit down and discuss it together."
Yu Zhiming hummed, then urged: "Doctor Wang, let's eat quickly."
"The food will not taste good when it is cold..."
Twenty minutes later, Yu Zhiming thanked the Wang family's father and daughter for their hospitality, and said goodbye with satisfaction.
Wang Wu sent Yu Zhiming out of the office. When he came back, he saw an empty casserole, empty earthenware pot, and empty plates on the coffee table.
"This guy is so good at eating that I'm not even full."
Wang Wu touched his belly, suddenly thought of something, and looked at his daughter who was starting to clear the coffee table.
"Shui Su, you made so many meat dishes on purpose. It seems you came prepared. Did you know that guy beforehand?"
Wang Shuisu said in a waxy voice: "Isn't it necessary to know the preferences of the partner beforehand?"
"It's no secret that Dr. Yu has a big appetite. When we invite people to dinner, we can't leave them hungry, right?"
Wang Wu nodded and warned: "Shui Su, please remember one thing. Although that boy has great abilities and good looks, he is not a good match."
Wang Shuisu stopped what he was doing, raised his head and asked: "Dad, if you are not a good match, why are you still holding on to the little princess of the Gu family?"
Wang Wu snorted and said, "What do you know?"
"The Gu family has a hospital and a pharmaceutical company. For them, Yu Zhiming is a cash cow, so naturally they have to win over him."
"The little princess of the Gu family is the victim of the marriage alliance, so she can't help but disagree."
Wang Shuisu retorted: "When the little princess of the Gu family mentioned Dr. Yu, the happy expression on her face didn't look like she was pretending."
Wang Wu snorted: "It must be pretending."
"Shui Su, Mr. Yu can achieve such great medical achievements not only because of his talent, but also because of his love and diligence."
"This kind of person, I know best, is a workaholic. Family and women will not occupy much place in his heart."
"Being his wife will not bring you much happiness."
Wang Shuisu, who lowered his head and continued to clear the coffee table, looked away and said, "I know that someone asked Dr. Yu if he had a girlfriend for the first time when he met him."
Wang Wu: "..."
At nearly two o'clock in the afternoon, a middle-aged man named Xia Fan, who said he was Dr. You's friend, found Yu Zhiming.
Yu Zhiming heard the man's voice, which was slightly hoarse, and took him directly to the examination room.
After a little inspection, he discovered the problem.
Xia Fan's left vocal cord is slightly stiff when abducting and adducting. Compared with the soft and natural right vocal cord, there is an unsynchronized lag in movement.
Yu Zhiming further explored and found no other problems such as nodules, hyperplasia, inflammation, etc. in this man's vocal cords.
His preliminary judgment was that this person had vocal cord paralysis, and currently it was unilateral incomplete paralysis with less obvious symptoms.
However, this vocal cord paralysis is only a symptom, and the cause of vocal cord paralysis is more complicated.
Common causes mainly include tumor or space-occupying lesions that invade, compress or stretch the vagus nerve and recurrent laryngeal nerve, as well as iatrogenic injury, viral infection, cerebrovascular disease, some congenital diseases, etc.
Since Xia Fan did not have any symptoms of headache, dizziness, fever, and only a hoarse voice, Yu Zhiming focused on detecting abnormalities in his throat.
After all, physical discomfort symptoms caused by tumors, viral infections, cerebrovascular diseases, congenital diseases, etc., and the possibility of a single symptom such as vocal cord paralysis is extremely low.
This single symptom is the most likely direct cause.
In terms of anatomical structure, the normal movement of the vocal cords is innervated by the recurrent laryngeal nerve, a branch of the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve and recurrent laryngeal nerve have a long journey in the body, so there is a greater chance of their damage causing vocal cord paralysis.
When the surrounding tissue of the vagus nerve and recurrent laryngeal nerve becomes diseased, invades, compresses or pulls these nerves, it will cause vocal cord movement disorders.
Yu Zhiming's extended exploration of the surrounding area really made some discoveries.
He used long-handled foreign body forceps to pull out a slender object about one centimeter long from the left side of Xia Fan's throat.
After cleaning it, Yu Zhiming judged that it was toothbrush bristles.
"Dr. Xia, such a toothbrush bristles are inserted into your throat muscles so deeply."
"Don't you feel it yourself?"
Xia Fan shook his head and suddenly realized: "Doctor Yu, I understand."
"More than a month ago, my tonsils were inflamed repeatedly and my throat was very painful. It must have happened during that time..."
At nearly seven o'clock in the evening, Yu Zhiming, who had had dinner in the hospital cafeteria, came to the office of the director of the Department of Orthopedics to participate in Dr. Xiang's treatment consultation.
Entering the office, Yu Zhiming saw two acquaintances.
Dr. Weng Yang from the Plastic Surgery Department, and Dr. Cai Yongxian from the Trauma Surgery Department...
