North America’s toughest police: starting with the Los Angeles Patrol

Chinatown in Los Angeles is the third largest Chinatown in the United States after New York and San Francisco. It retains many Chinese-style buildings, such as Chinese archways and ancient Chinese buildings.

However, as more and more Chinese come to the United States and Los Angeles, Chinatown has become increasingly declining and has been gradually abandoned by the Chinese.

Because the lives of Chinese people are no longer limited to Chinatown, such as San Gabriel Valley and Irvine in Orange County, large-scale Chinese communities have been formed, which are far larger than Chinatown.

However, in Chinatown, you can still find many of the most authentic and authentic Chinese things, such as Chinese food and traditional Chinese medicine.

Compared to coming from Beverly Hills, Locke is closer from the Cortina community because Chinatown is just below Elysian Park.

Arriving at Chinatown, Locke parked the car outside and walked in from the archway with Li Bo, and instantly seemed to walk into another world.

The entrance is a statue of a sitting figure, and there are some ancient Chinese buildings on both sides of the street, but they look very dilapidated and have traces of time.

Moreover, the ground was very dirty, and there were many things on the street. The environment was extremely bad, and it was out of tune with Los Angeles outside.

Unlike the San Gabriel Valley, there was no white or black person here, all of them were Asians.

Yes, not only Chinese, Locke also heard Korean and Vietnamese.

Locke saw the dilapidated environment of Chinatown and subconsciously frowned. He suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Li Bo did not let Marian, Jet, Hannah and others come here together. There was nothing to visit here.

Li Bo looked a little disappointed and said, “When I was studying abroad, Chinatown was not like this. At that time, Chinatown was very prosperous…”

As he walked in, Li Bo introduced the food in Chinatown, saying that there were many authentic Chinese food in Chinatown, such as Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Shanghai cuisine, Fujian cuisine, and Shandong cuisine.

Li Bo took Locke into an alley and came to the door of a medical clinic. The plaque was already mottled and the paint was peeling, but the three large characters of Huichuntang could be vaguely seen.

As soon as Locke entered the alley, he smelled the scent of herbs. He was a little surprised. It turned out that Chinese medicine not only has acupuncture but also medicine!

As soon as Locke entered the door, he saw rows of cabinets. The smell of medicine in the air became stronger. Soon he found the source. There was a charcoal stove in the corner, and herbs were stewed in a clay pot on the stove.

“What do you want? Do you have an appointment?”

Next to the medicine cabinet, an old Chinese lady was pushing a strange tool to chase the medicine. She spoke with a very strange accent, but it was understandable.

Li Bo replied: “I have an appointment with Mr. Sun…”

The old lady looked at him again and said, “Then go up!”

Walking up the narrow stairs to the second floor, Locke immediately saw an old man in a white Tang suit with white hair and beard practicing a slow martial arts. Presumably, this is Mr. Sun who he was going to meet today.

Three words flashed through his mind immediately, Tai Chi!

Li Bo motioned Locke to wait a moment, so the two stood at the stairs, and Locke took the opportunity to look at everything in the room.

The space on the second floor is much brighter than the first floor, and there are antique shelves everywhere. He has only seen this style in the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”.

Well, he went to see this movie because there are two Chinese Kung Fu superstars in it, Jet Lee and John Tang.

Li Bo whispered to Locke: “Old Sun is from a Chinese medicine family in Taiwan. He used to be from the mainland. He went to Taiwan during the Liberation War and later came to the United States. His children have all grown up in the United States, and he is the only one left in Chinatown. I have known him for almost ten years. That time I dislocated my joint. Western medicine said I needed surgery, so I had to try Chinese medicine. As a result, I got better immediately. I have been coming here intermittently over the years…”

Old Sun did not keep the two waiting for long. He finished his work quickly and asked Li Bo: “Mr. Li, I haven’t seen you for a long time. I didn’t ask you on the phone. What made you feel uncomfortable this time?”

Li Bo shook his head and said: “It’s not me, it’s my son. His name is Locke…”

Old Sun looked at Locke with a sharp look and exclaimed: “I didn’t expect your son to be so big, This guy is so handsome. Can he speak Chinese? ”

Locke nodded and said, “Yes…”

Old Sun smiled at Li Bo and said, “Oh, you speak standard Chinese! Not bad, not bad. Nowadays, fewer and fewer people who grew up in the United States, especially those of mixed blood, can speak Chinese. Come, sit here…”

As he spoke, he led the father and son to the examination table on the side.

After motioning Locke to sit down, Old Sun asked, “I heard your father say that you need acupuncture. Are you uncomfortable somewhere? Tell me the symptoms. Maybe you don’t need acupuncture…”

Locke turned his head and glanced at Li Bo. His father didn’t explain it clearly.
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He hurriedly said, “II saw a video of Chinese acupuncture on the Internet and thought it was amazing, so I wanted to see it with my own eyes…”

Mr. Sun was stunned and looked at Li Bo. Li Bo apologized: “I’m sorry, I didn’t explain it clearly on the phone. Mr. Sun, how about you give me acupuncture…”

“Why do you do acupuncture?”

Mr. Sun was speechless and laughed: “It’s okay, there are not many patients now anyway, it’s rare to have young people interested in this! ”

He stood up and took out a needle bag from the counter behind him. After opening it, there was a long row of needles of various sizes, some very large and thick, some as thin as hair, and many of them were in different shapes.

Locke recognized the needles used by Spike at a glance, but Spike had improved it by removing the thicker part of the needle head and retaining only the thin part of the needle tail.

Seeing that Locke was really interested, Mr. Sun took out a needle and handed it to Locke, “Although acupuncture has been popular in the West for many years, many white people still think it is magical and shout “Amazing” and “magic” all the time. According to our Chinese medicine theory, acupuncture promotes the circulation of qi and dredges the meridians. In modern science, it is conductive and magnetic…”

Locke looked at the needle in his hand and confirmed that this was the flying needle that Spike had not improved. After looking at it, he could restock it and directly purchase this kind of needle.

He asked: “I saw in the video that some doctors slowly inserted the needle into the body, while some doctors did not touch the human body and inserted the needle into the flesh like shooting a dart…”

Old Sun smiled complacently, picked up a needle, lit the alcohol lamp beside him, and the needle tip quickly passed through the flame, and then wiped it with alcohol cotton, “Put your hand over here…”

Locke guessed what he was going to do, and his eyes shrank. This needle is not disposable. Isn’t it too hasty to rely on high temperature and alcohol disinfection!

But in order to learn the flying needle technique, there is no way. He can’t ask his father to be an experimental subject!

Locke stretched his hand in front of Old Sun, and Old Sun stabbed his hand down. The light needle actually pierced into Locke’s hand steadily, which was really magical.

Locke was about to ask how this was done, when the system panel suddenly changed. The flying needle learning card disappeared, and a skill was added to the skills, flying needle (L1 proficient).

Many techniques and skills of flying needles appeared in his mind instantly. This is no longer a simple acupuncture flying needle technique.

Spike improved the flying needle technique, turning the flying needle that can only be thrown at a short distance into a long-range attack weapon that can fly four or five meters. It must be said that this guy is really a genius.

Seeing Locke distracted, Old Sun smiled and said, “The flying needle technique is simple to say, and it emphasizes fast, accurate, and stable, but if you really want to become a master, you must practice for five years, uh…”

Locke pulled out the needle from his arm, and learned the flying needle technique just now from Old Sun, and pierced his arm through the air, once, twice, three times…

He nodded and said, “It’s really a bit difficult!”

Old Sun was distracted for a while, looked up and asked Li Bo, “What does he do? Is he studying medicine?”

Li Bo was a little numb to Locke, and replied, “He is now a LAPD…”

Old Sun stared at Locke with burning eyes, “If you are really interested in acupuncture, I can teach you! ”

Locke hesitated. His goal had been achieved. Why would he learn acupuncture?

At this time, the old Chinese lady downstairs came up with a bowl of steaming medicine, “Mr. Sun, your medicine is ready!”

Li Bo asked with concern: “Mr. Sun, are you feeling uncomfortable?”

When Mr. Sun saw that Locke did not answer, his expression dimmed. It was a pity for this talent, but he smiled with relief.

He took the medicine bowl and smiled: “It’s an old problem. As soon as autumn comes, my lungs feel uncomfortable…”

Locke stared at the Chinese medicine in Mr. Sun’s hand, and suddenly a light flashed in his mind. Although he inherited Spike’s African medicine formula, when the medicine came out in the future, he could not promote it as an ancient medicine from Africa.

Africa is poor and backward, and the mortality rate is still so high. This kind of propaganda is not convincing at all.

The black bowl of Chinese medicine in front of him gave him inspiration. He could say that his medicine formula was from China. With 5,000 years of Chinese medicine inheritance, the origin of the formula was perfectly solved.

Locke nodded and said: “Okay, I want to learn Chinese medicine from you!”