The patriarch of the Hu family, a traditional medical family that had practiced medicine for generations. Though they had no imperial doctors in their ancestry, they were still considered a true traditional medical family with valuable medical books worth two thousand yuan each. Old Doctor Hu is remembered by Lu Qingqing as a kind old man. The Hu family was destroyed and nearly wiped out by Zhang Shan, who was motivated by the value of their medical texts. Their old residence, where Zhang Hongda and his gang ultimately died, became a symbol of karma and justice in Lu Qingqing's eyes.
