As the foreign doctor finished his speech, two staff members dressed in Chinese clothes carried the specimen out, while the Jardine Matheson staff member who was presiding over the meeting stood up and called out:
"Now, I would like to introduce Master Huang Feihong from Baozhilin in Foshan, Guangdong."
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Chapter 29 Medical Conference (Part 2)
"Where did Boyang go? Honestly."
The staff were speaking English, which Huang Feihong obviously couldn't understand. But when he saw the host suddenly stand up and say a lot of things, and the foreigners next to him started clapping, he guessed that someone else was going to speak, so he clapped along with them.
"Why is there another one?" Liang Kuan clapped twice listlessly, turned his head to look at the foreigners behind him, and muttered to himself, "It doesn't seem like it's someone in the back. Looks like it's another foreigner going up to talk."
At this moment, the foreign doctor sitting behind Huang Feihong obviously knew that the man sitting in front of him was Huang Feihong, because the only doctor in the room dressed as a Chinese was the one in front of him. Another doctor was helping on the stage. He patted Huang Feihong on the shoulder and gestured towards the stage.
Huang Feihong then realized that he was the next one to speak. He tapped Liang Kuan on the head with his bamboo fan and said, "Kuan, it's our turn. The foreign devil you mentioned earlier is me, your master."
"Ah, it's our turn? Then Master, you should go up quickly."
"Let's go together, what's there to be afraid of?"
"That's not a good idea, Master."
Like forcing a duck onto a shelf, Wong Fei-hung swept Leung Foon up with one hand and lifted him up as well.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
Once on the stage, Wong Fei-hung, holding a fan and clenching his fist, repeatedly bowed to the foreign doctor sitting in the seat, while Leung Foon unfolded the human meridian chart that Wong Fei-hung had prepared and placed it on a special display table.
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic states: "The meridians are the means by which people are born, the cause of disease, the means by which people are treated, and the origin of disease. All of these are collateral vessels."
"Ladies and gentlemen, today I, Huang, will talk to you about acupuncture in China."
Huang Feihong begins by quoting a famous line from the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, which means that people get sick because of imbalances in the meridians, and that treating illness requires regulating these meridians.
Unfortunately, most of the foreigners obviously didn't understand Chinese. Before they could even exchange two sentences, one of the foreign doctors said in English:
"Mr. Huang, excuse me for interrupting, I don't understand."
Seeing that a foreigner had interrupted Huang Feihong's speech, Liang Kuan secretly gave him a wink, and the novel continued:
"Master, do they mean you're speaking too loudly? Speak up a bit."
Huang Feihong didn't realize that the problem with these foreigners was that they couldn't understand Chinese. In fact, this was an oversight by the organizers, who hadn't prepared a translator for this medical conference.
Seeing that Liang Kuan was prompting him, he raised his voice a little and continued:
"In the human body, there are 365 acupoints on the head alone."
The foreign doctor then asked again in English, "Dr. Huang, what do the lines on your graph represent?"
Huang Feihong looked at the foreigner who had stood up to ask the question with a puzzled expression and said, "Do you want me to speak any louder?"
At this moment, Sun Yat-sen, who had finished assisting the first lecturer and was about to leave, noticed Huang Feihong's embarrassment, took out his pocket watch, looked at it, and then said:
“Master Huang, that’s not what the foreign doctor meant. Let me translate for you.”
After saying that, he relayed what Huang Feihong had said to the foreigners in English and gestured for Huang Feihong to continue.
Huang Feihong walked up to Sun Yat-sen, nodded to express his gratitude, and clasped his hands in a fist salute, saying, "Brother, have I not yet had the pleasure of asking your question?"
Sun Wen also clasped his hands in a fist and bow, and said politely, "My surname is Sun, and my given name is Wenzi. Friends usually call me Yixian, so Master Huang can just call me Yixian."
“Mr. Yixian, then I’ll trouble you.” Huang Feihong clasped his hands in a fist salute again and continued, “The five elements of the human body—heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—are all governed by the meridians.”
"Acupuncture can control acupoints in the human body and control human behavior by stimulating acupoints."
"For example, with senses like perception and hearing, simply applying acupuncture to the corresponding acupoints can temporarily cause a person to lose those senses and hearing."
"..."
Wong Fei-hung spoke a sentence, and Sun Yat-sen translated it. As Wong Fei-hung continued to explain the contents of acupuncture, the foreign doctors were all astonished by what Wong Fei-hung said about acupuncture, and they all said:
"This is not scientific."
"How is that possible?"
"This Chinese person is so ignorant."
The more radical foreign doctor interrupted Huang Feihong, saying, "Master Huang, I don't quite understand what the human meridians are. Is it the chart you brought? But in our Western medicine, that chart represents the nervous system."
Li Boyang had just arrived at the Catholic church from the priest's room when he witnessed this scene. Li Boyang, who had intended to immediately end the medical conference, saw Huang Feihong speaking eloquently to the foreigners and suddenly couldn't bear to interrupt.
Huang Feihong's greatest wish in life was to teach martial arts, strengthen the country and the race, impart medicine, help the people, and make Chinese people no longer inferior to foreigners. This was his moment to finally stand tall and proud. Although he knew that danger might be approaching, how could he bear to interrupt Huang Feihong?
After a moment's thought, Li Boyang decided to wait for Huang Feihong. Even if something unexpected happened, he and Huang Feihong were capable of escaping unscathed. As for the foreign doctor in the church, he could only silently say to himself, "I, Li Boyang, will avenge you."
"Please allow me to demonstrate to you what neurology is."
Just as Li Boyang decided to wait and see, the foreign doctor who had interrupted Huang Feihong, regardless of whether Huang Feihong had an answer or not, stood up from his seat, walked to the podium, and led Liang Kuan to sit down in a chair next to the podium, saying:
"The nervous system controls bodily behavior, and this is what is known in neurology as a reflex response."
After saying this, the foreign doctor took out a small hammer and tapped Liang Kuan's knee, causing his knee to reflexively kick out. He then looked smugly at Huang Feihong, waiting for him to respond.
Regarding this foreigner's behavior, Li Boyang could only say, "If you don't act recklessly, you won't die."