Chapter 175: Commotion
Zhu Yuhua’s eyes were full of expectation, her face even more anxious, as if afraid that a single hesitation from her would cause her to miss out.
She didn’t know why she had such a strong intuition telling her that this might be her last and greatest opportunity to have a baby.
“Doctor Su, please…”
“You go out and wait, I’ll prescribe medicine for you. Once it’s ready, I’ll call you back in.”
“Okay, okay, okay! I’ll go out and wait right now! Thank you, thank you, Doctor Su!”
A huge surprise crashed down with her agreement, exciting Zhu Yuhua to tears of joy. She hurriedly wiped her eyes, turned around and left the room, smoothly closing the room door behind her.
Luo Shuangshuang, who was sweeping fallen leaves in the yard, heard the sound of the door and puzzledly lifted her head and turned to look.
She saw Zhu Yuhua squatting at the door silently crying, her shoulders shaking frequently. After hesitating a bit, she still gripped the bamboo broom in her hand and stepped forward to ask.
“Elder Sister Zhu, are you okay?”
“I’m fine, I’m fine. I… I’m just happy, really happy.”
Okay then.
Luo Shuangshuang nodded half-believingly. Fine, let’s say she was happy.
“Young Comrade, can you help me with something?”
“What?”
“Help me write a statement. Um, I don’t know many characters…”
“Sure, what do you want to write? I’ll go get paper and pen.”
……
Outside, Zhu Yuhua was asking Luo Shuangshuang to help write a disclaimer and confidentiality statement, while Su Ning inside the pharmacy was still frowning in thought.
Since she wasn’t planning to directly give the jadeite from the bottom of the spring, grinding it into powder like with Jade Visage Paste and mixing it into the medicine was the best and safest way.
She wasn’t really deceiving Zhu Yuhua; there really was a secret recipe for conceiving in the Su Family pharmacopoeia.
In ancient times, the greatest reliance for women in the backyard was offspring, so how could the passed-down prescriptions not include this.
However, according to the prescription’s records, this wasn’t some guaranteed conception formula but mainly for conditioning a woman’s body and nourishing the uterus.
Since it was for conditioning the body, it was naturally harmless. Using this should be no problem.
She nodded inwardly, made her decision, and Su Ning began to prepare.
First, she entered the Peach Blossom Spring Space with her consciousness, picked all the needed herbs in the medicine garden, then fished out a piece of greenish jadeite from the bottom of the spring.
After so many times, she had gradually gotten used to it. No matter what, when the finished product mutated, it couldn’t be rolled into pills but became a sticky, jelly-like form, so she no longer stubbornly persisted.
She took a short porcelain bottle with a wide mouth from the counter behind her, used bamboo tweezers to pack the medicine into it, then closed the lid.
She glanced at the few various porcelain bottles remaining on the counter, noted in her mind to go to the city sometime to order another batch, then her consciousness returned to the outside.
She raised her hand to check her watch; this prescription was simple and hadn’t taken much time.
She took the porcelain bottle out from the Space Herbal Hut and held it in her hand. Just as she was about to call out to Zhu Yuhua waiting outside, she heard noisy arguing voices from the yard.
What was going on?
“How can you have ears but not understand people?”
Luo Shuangshuang and Zhu Yuhua stood one on each side, like two guardian deities blocking the pharmacy door.
Directly facing them were several young men and women who looked like educated youth.
One of them was Su Ning’s ‘old acquaintance’, Yuan Qing, whom she had dealt with once before.
Since returning from the hospital, because of her arm injury, she had a legitimate excuse to slack off. It was also because of this that Yuan Qing hadn’t come to cause more trouble.
However, the grudge between the two had already formed. When she learned that Su Ning had actually given up her cadre job at a city factory and run back to the countryside to be a Barefoot Doctor.
She was both jealous and resentful. Which of them educated youth wasn’t racking their brains desperately to return to the city? Getting a return-to-city quota for job placement was worth one’s life.
Su Ning, on the other hand… Not to mention the others at her Educated Youth Point knowing about this—who wouldn’t have ideas about it?
Yuan Qing’s personality was straightforward and her mouth foul, without so many twists and turns, but she didn’t think herself a real fool. She knew exactly what these people who came with her were scheming!
They usually didn’t care for her, but today they all turned into affectionate and friendly comrades?
Mutual help and common progress?
Nonsense!
She disdainfully curled her lip. Yuan Qing, with her arm in a sling, ignored their argument and calmly acted like an outsider.
“Hey, what’s the matter with you two? We said we’re looking for Su Ning for something urgent! Can’t you see there’s a patient here?”
“Exactly, this health clinic isn’t yours. Why can’t we enter just because you say so!”
“Two elder sisters, we’re really worried about our companion’s injury. An arm fracture isn’t a small matter; if delayed, it could be a lifelong issue for Yuan Zhiqing!”
“Who are you calling elder sister? Are you blind?”
Luo Shuangshuang instantly bristled, hands on hips, pointing at the male educated youth wearing a white shirt and slicked-back hair with pomade, and unleashed a torrent of scolding.
Her angry little face was flushed red, paired with her big, watery blinking eyes, adding even more brilliance to her already outstanding beautiful features.
The people opposite had their breathing hitch, a faint dark glint flashing in their eyes.
Su Ning, opening the door and catching that subtle glance, had her pretty face darken instantly, cold light flashing in her eyes.
She stepped forward, pulled Luo Shuangshuang behind her, and for the first time used an extremely icy tone directed straight at him, “If you don’t want your eyes, I can help dig them out and donate them to those in need.”
“Su Ning…”
“I’m not familiar with you. Please address me as Comrade Su.”
The few confronting Luo Shuangshuang exchanged glances. Wasn’t it said that Su Ning was nice to everyone, always smiling amiably without ever pulling a long face?
Just… this?
Zhang Yi secretly clenched his fist tightly, casually flicked his hair in a pose, flashed a mouthful of white teeth, and smiled, “Comrade Su, I’m Zhang Yi. Yuan Zhiqing from our Educated Youth Point has an arm…”
“Are you her partner?”
“Ah, no, not at all, how could I be, I…”
“I remember you’re not the Team Leader of the Educated Youth Point either.”
“Heh, Comrade Su has a good memory. I indeed…”
“Then what’s it to you?”
Interrupted one after another, Zhang Yi’s smile was really starting to falter, especially her last sentence with that obvious ‘who the hell are you’ look in her eyes, making his face cycle from green to red, red to white, white to black!
“Pfft~”
Yuan Qing couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing. As long as it wasn’t aimed at her, it actually sounded pretty satisfying!
“You can still laugh, so your arm probably isn’t seriously wrong. If it is, please go to the hospital. I only handle minor ailments here.”
“Countryside… Comrade Su, I’m just here to buy some anti-inflammatory medicine.”
“Oh, with all this frantic noise, I thought you were on your deathbed.”
She had just thought it was satisfying when not aimed at her, but then it turned on her. Yuan Qing, face stiff and unable to smile: ……
Who the hell said this person was easy to get along with?
Blind and deaf?
Having experienced that mouth, knowing she couldn’t outscold or outfight her and could only drive herself mad, Yuan Qing felt extremely stifled but very sensibly chose to shut up.
After she got the medicine and paid, the educated youth with unpleasant expressions scattered in an instant.
“Hahaha~”
Luo Shuangshuang, who had been covering her mouth and holding back for so long, finally laughed heartily. Thinking of that slick guy’s expression just now made her want to roll on the ground laughing.
How had she never noticed that Ning Bao Gai could say the sweetest words and also spew the fiercest poison.
“Alright, don’t laugh yourself out of breath.”
Su Ning irritably straightened the guy doubled over laughing on her, then smiled again at the somewhat dazed Zhu Yuhua.
“Elder Sister Zhu, the medicine is ready. Come in with me first; I’ll tell you the precautions for using it.”
“Okay, okay, good, Doctor Su.”
Zhu Yuhua snapped back to her senses and subconsciously pinched the callus on her fingertip: Goodness, so the seemingly soft and sweet Doctor Su…
Was this formidable!
But… being formidable was good; she could keep them in check!
Following her into the pharmacy, Zhu Yuhua immediately put away stray thoughts and handed her the two guarantees written by Comrade Xiao Luo outside.
Su Ning glanced at her somewhat surprisedly, took them casually, and smiled after seeing what was written on them.
She didn’t say that just this without the brigade’s stamp, witnesses, and guarantors wouldn’t be of much use, simply folding the two pieces of paper and putting them in the drawer under the cabinet.
Then she took out the freshly prepared medicine bottle, “This medicine isn’t for eating, and you absolutely must not eat it, Elder Sister Zhu. Remember that.”
“Ah?”
“Once each morning and evening, each time take an amount the size of a fingernail and apply it around the navel. Use your fingertip to spread it evenly.”
The ointment in the bottle was like pork skin jelly, even stickier. Zhu Yuhua carefully closed the lid, repeated her words carefully once, and only after confirming no issues, held the medicine bottle with both hands clasped together and kept bowing in thanks.
