"You've been eating, haven't you? Did you eat hot pot in the last couple of days?" Xie Wanying quickly and sharply caught the patient's evasive face.
"Yes." The patient, with a defiant twist of his lips, said, "What does my illness have to do with eating hot pot?"
"Did you eat breakfast?"
"I had milk and buns before going to work in the morning." The young man stressed that he took good care of his health.
"Did you drink beer with the hot pot?"
"Isn't it common to have beer with hot pot? That's how everyone eats it." The young man said this with growing irritation.
What was this? He rarely smoked or drank, a good man indeed, and now he was being criticized and educated by a doctor just because he occasionally enjoyed some hot pot and a few beers with friends?
The young man's anger at the moment was like that of a top student suddenly caught by teachers and parents exhibiting less than admirable lifestyle habits, his protest almost meant to intimidate the doctor.