Immediately after, Old Qiao burst into the room furiously, parting the crowd and pointing at Qin Fanghuai as he berated him.

"Uncle, I..."

Qin Fanghuai, who had been sitting in the room in a daze, suddenly saw Old Qiao charge in, his face tensed up, and he quickly stood up.

"You shut your mouth, this is a hospital, there's no 'Uncle' here!" Before Qin Fanghuai could finish speaking, Old Qiao angrily cut him off.

Unable to contain his anger, Old Qiao pointed towards the patients outside the door, and shouted at him again, "Qin Fanghuai, I'm telling you, if you have any personal issues, go home and vent it out. If you bring these emotions into work and cause irreversible consequences for the patients and the hospital, you'll be responsible!"

"I..."

Qin Fanghuai was immediately rendered speechless by Old Qiao's scolding, his expression extremely uncomfortable. He tried several times to speak but didn't know what to say.

"What 'I'? Qin Fanghuai, isn't it just that you lost all your money and your wife ran off with someone else? Tell me, whose fault is all this?"

Seeing Qin Fanghuai's dejected look, Old Qiao became even more furious. In front of all the patients, he pointed at his nephew and berated him again:

"If you hadn't gone to the casino, hadn't gambled, how could you have lost money? How could you have ended up with such dire consequences of being deserted by your wife and children? This is self-inflicted, don't blame anyone else!"

"Uncle, I know all this is my own doing, but... I can't accept it!"

Qin Fanghuai was even more embarrassed by Old Qiao's tirade, he lowered his head in silence for quite a while before he said through gritted teeth, "If it wasn't for the casino cheating me, I wouldn't have lost so much money, and Xiao Xia wouldn't have left me! I'm filled with hate, I can't accept it!"

"You..." Seeing his nephew so stubbornly delusional, Old Qiao was so angry he was about to hit him.

But as his hand was lifted halfway, looking again at Qin Fanghuai's despairing demeanor, Old Qiao just couldn't bring himself to do it and had to let out a bitter sigh, lowering his hand:

"Forget it, whether you accept it or not, the money is lost, it's lost. Gambling is harmful, and you shouldn't try to recover your losses. I still have some savings, a few million. If it's not enough, you can take them to pay back the borrowed money and redeem your house. As for Xiao Xia... sigh!"

At the mention of Qin Fanghuai's wife, Xiao Xia, Old Qiao also seemed to have touched a soft spot in his heart and could only sigh deeply, turning his head away and remaining silent.

"No, Uncle, I absolutely won't let it rest like this. The casino owner is a bastard; he made Xiao Xia's family suffer so much and forced me into bankruptcy, leaving me deserted by my wife and children. I won't let it go just like this."

However, Qin Fanghuai appeared to have fallen into paranoia. Not only did he not heed Old Qiao's advice, but his emotions also grew more agitated as he shouted, "I'm going to report to the police! Yes, report to the police! Have them shut down that harmful casino!"

Slap!

At Qin Fanghuai's increasingly frantic behavior, Old Qiao had been restraining himself. But when he heard Qin Fanghuai mention going to the police, Old Qiao's face suddenly changed, and the hand he had just lowered swiftly raised and delivered a heavy slap across Qin Fanghuai's face!

Ah!

The slap not only left Qin Fanghuai stunned on the spot but also the surrounding patients, including Ling Zhenfei outside, were taken aback.

Logically, reporting a harmful casino is every law-abiding citizen's duty. So why did Old Qiao react so violently when Qin Fanghuai spoke of going to the police to shut it down?

For a moment, the onlooking patients, after a period of exchanging glances, couldn't help but start whispering to one another...

"I'm sorry, everyone, I have something to take care of today and can't diagnose you personally. But don't worry, please go to the outpatient hall. I've already arranged for another doctor to see you!"

Old Qiao's face turned extremely ugly after he slapped Qin Fanghuai.

Seeing that the patients outside were buzzing with discussion, Old Qiao, concerned about the bad impression, turned around and addressed everyone, then arranged for the nurses to lead them to their respective outpatient departments.

Though the patients were reluctant, since it was Old Qiao's arrangement, they could say no more and had to follow the nurses to the departments they needed to consult with.

Ling Zhenfei had been sitting on the bench nearby, and it was only after the patients had dispersed that Old Qiao noticed him and asked with a touch of surprise, "Xiao Ling, when did you get here?"

"Hehe, I've been here for quite a while," Ling Zhenfei slowly stood up and said with a smile to Old Qiao.

"Uh..." Seeing Ling Zhenfei's fixed gaze on him, Old Qiao couldn't help but feel somewhat embarrassed.

But soon, as if he remembered something, Old Qiao squeezed out a small smile and said to Ling Zhenfei, "I see now, Xiao Ling, you're here to talk business with me about the ornamental fish cooperation, right? You see… today is not a good time, I just happen to be dealing with some matters. I think, how about another day..."

"Old Qiao, I've just arrived and you're planning to turn me away? Doesn't that seem a bit unreasonable?"

Before Old Qiao could finish speaking, Ling Zhenfei chuckled, casually strolled in with his hands behind his back.

After entering the room, he seemed not to notice the embarrassed and uncomfortable Old Qiao and Qin Fanghuai facing him at all. Instead, he brazenly sat down on a chair and even arrogantly propped up his legs.

"This..."

Old Qiao had planned on taking the opportunity of being alone to properly lecture his disobedient nephew, Qin Fanghuai. But seeing Ling Zhenfei acting so familiar, as if he didn't consider himself an outsider at all, he was somewhat at a loss for words.

"No problem, Old Qiao, go ahead and talk, just pretend I don't exist," Ling Zhenfei said, offering an embarrassed Old Qiao and Qin Fanghuai a slight smile, then took out his phone and started playing a game.

"This, this..."

At the sight of Ling Zhenfei acting this way, Old Qiao really didn't know what to say.

Old Qiao knew Ling Zhenfei was no ordinary person, and although he was currently discussing a private family matter with his nephew, if Ling Zhenfei wanted to listen, there was no way he could actually use a stick to chase him out, right?

Having no choice, Old Qiao decided to do as Ling Zhenfei wished, treat him as if he were thin air, and resumed scolding Qin Fanghuai.

"Sigh, you fool, you've already made one mistake; I will absolutely not let you continue to make mistake after mistake!"

Old Qiao gazed into Qin Fanghuai's eyes with a look full of frustration and admonished in a deep, frowning voice, "Just think about it, who is the boss behind that casino? That's someone from Binyang City's underworld that you don't want to mess with, Golden Teeth!"

Hmm?

Hearing Old Qiao suddenly mention the name Golden Teeth, Ling Zhenfei's brows furrowed tightly; his expression also instantly turned serious.

Golden Teeth! Indeed, a remarkable figure!

As for the name Golden Teeth, Ling Zhenfei was naturally familiar with it. The wealthy brat, Le Wu Ya, whom he had taught a lesson last time, should be Golden Teeth's nephew, right?

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