Luo Yang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take your pulse later."
After the meal, the four beauties cleared the tableware and tidied up together before heading to the living room upstairs.
Luo Yang was already sitting there, having savored a cup of fragrant tea.
Last night, he had promised to give Fang Lin a bottle of beauty stream water. Knowing she'd be too shy to remind him, he waited for her to come up and then handed her a small bottle of the beauty stream water, explaining how to use it.
Overjoyed, Fang Lin was eager to see the results, so she said goodbye to everyone and hurried back to the dormitory to try out the beauty stream water.
Just as Luo Yang was about to take Qin Piao's pulse, Tang Guihua called to urge him to come to her house, and he said he would go right away.
After hanging up, Luo Yang first inquired about Qin Piao's symptoms of tinnitus, to which she replied, "There's often ringing in my ears, sometimes like the sound of cicadas."
After taking her pulse, Luo Yang said, "You have cold-induced tinnitus."
He then used Silver Needle to unblock her key meridians at points like the ear gate, yifeng, hanging bell, kidney shu, and taixi. He also wrote a prescription for her, which read: 10 grams of peach seed, 6 grams of safflower, 0.3 grams of musk, 5 slices of ginger, 2 white parts of green onion, 5 red dates, 6 grams of Szechuan lovage root, and 10 grams of Red Peony Root, to be decocted in three bowls of water down to one bowl.
"Sister Piao, don't worry, it'll be better in about a week or so. Let's go over to Sister Guihua's house now," Luo Yang stood up.
Wherever he went, he would surely take Hong Jiaxin along.
Having taken her, it would be inappropriate not to take An Yuying.
Thus, the group of four went downstairs, out of the door, and headed towards Tang Guihua's house.
At noon, if it weren't for the fact that he still had to deal with Tang Dexing's issue, Luo Yang would have gone to the county town to treat Xu Huimin to a meal and discuss the details of setting up a public account.
Yesterday, he had promised to give Chen Jie's cousin Pang Yifang a White Gold Dragon, and he was supposed to go to the county town in the afternoon as well.
Before he arrived at Tang Guihua's house, his cellphone rang with the tone: "only you, can take me to the Journey to the West..."
The call was from Chen Jie, who said over the phone, "Niu Zai, I've found you a location to set up a martial arts school. Are you free to come take a look this afternoon?"
Luo Yang replied, "Okay, I'll be in the county town this afternoon anyway. I'll call you when I get there."
He was also waiting for a call from Xia Yun to meet with her friend and those guys who might have set up a card game to scam people, and incidentally to check if those people were connected to Tang Dexing's misfortune.
The Tang Family was anxiously waiting for Luo Yang. Seeing him arrive, they were all excited, their life and death hanging on his actions.
After exchanging pleasantries, Luo Yang got straight to the point, "Brother Xing, tell me briefly about your situation."
Tang Dexing, in his twenties, looked extremely haggard and much older than his years, his face filled with confusion. He had opened a tea shop in the county town, living there most of the time and only occasionally returning home.
"It was friends who invited me to play. In the first few days, I won over a thousand yuan each day, and my friends persuaded me to play bigger. Thinking my luck was in, I went along with it. Then I started losing, got red-eyed, and couldn't stop," Tang Dexing recalled.
Luo Yang realized upon hearing this that Tang Dexing had fallen for someone else's scheme.
"I'll do my best to help you seek justice," said Luo Yang calmly.
"Niu Zai, I'd like to talk to you alone for a moment, okay?" Tang Guihua's pretty face was very anxious.
This matter was related to the rise and fall of her family, so she had to be extremely concerned about it.
Luo Yang nodded, and she led him into her bedroom. She closed the door, and her tears, no longer controllable, began to drop. Her brother's issue was nearly breaking her down.
The high-interest loans of several hundred thousand yuan were more than her family could bear.
If they didn't pay back, Tang Dexing would be killed.
Seeing the village beauty crying so pitifully, Luo Yang stepped closer and spoke softly to comfort her.
Through her sobs, Tang Guihua whispered, "Niu Zai, Sister Guihua is really scared."
The unease on her face confirmed the truth of her words.
He consoled her, "Sister Guihua, don't cry. I'll help you."
They were from the same village; he couldn't just stand by and watch.
"Niu Zai, this is no trivial matter. You must really help Sister Guihua. If you don't help me, then I have no way to go on living," she whispered in his ear, biting it gently.
Luo Yang was just a young man, and she feared he was simply appeasing her with empty words, which would have been utterly disappointing.
The resolution of this issue would directly affect the Tang Family's life in the future.
If they had to pay back several hundred thousand yuan of high-interest loans, the whole family would still not be able to clear the debt even if they became slaves. It was truly terrifying.
"My dear Sister Guihua, I said I would help you sort out this trouble. I will not go back on my word," Luo Yang helped her wipe away the tears at the corner of her eyes.
"Niu Zai, what do you plan to do?" she asked with concern.
He stroked her hair while pondering.
After a moment of contemplation, he said, "I will find evidence and then demand that they return every penny they won from Brother Xing."
Gently speaking, Tang Guihua said, "Niu Zai, Sister Guihua is entrusting her hope in you for the rest of my life. You must help Sister Guihua. Do you care for Sister Guihua?"
Seeing the worry on her pretty face diminish, Luo Yang replied, "You're my Sister Guihua, and your problems are my problems. If your brother is my little uncle, how could I not help?"
Upon hearing this, she blushed and smiled, moving her lips as if to say something, but she didn't speak.
These words from Luo Yang were half-jest, half-serious.