He endured his hunger and arrived at the hospital. It was noon, the time when people ate, and there weren't many people selling blood. There were only three or four people queuing outside the window.

After he joined the queue, it was soon his turn to have his blood drawn.

However, the nurse in charge of registration recognized him and flipped through the file, only to find that he had just had 800 milliliters of blood drawn the day before.

So he stopped him.

"Comrade, you just smoked yesterday, and so much of it. For the sake of your health, we can't let you smoke again today."

Hu Qinghai only wants money now and doesn't care about anything else.

"It's alright, comrade, go ahead and smoke. It's my own body, I'm in charge. I don't care about my health, I can just go back and rest for a few more days."

The nurse shook her head speechlessly. She knew that most of the villagers lacked medical and health knowledge, so she patiently explained to him:

“Comrade, although it’s your own body, I still can’t take blood from you. If you take blood from you again, you’ll lose too much blood, and I’m afraid you won’t be able to handle it and won’t be able to leave the hospital today. I can’t do this knowing it’s dangerous. Listen to me, leave.”

Hu Qinghai thought the nurse was a blockhead.

"Don't worry, I'll take responsibility for any health problems I have, and no one will blame you."

"That won't work either. If you faint in the hospital or something more serious happens, wouldn't I be responsible? Comrade, you should go back. If you want to sell your blood, you'll have to wait at least six months."

"Six months?" He couldn't even wait half a day.

He tried to reason with the nurse, but she just wouldn't agree.

"I won't give you a chance to draw one, no matter what."

Hu Qinghai clenched his fist in annoyance, but he couldn't do anything to the nurse.

If he can't sell his blood, he can't earn money, he can't get back the money he lost, and he can't redeem the jade pendant.

Perhaps due to the excessive blood he sold yesterday, coupled with prolonged hunger, he fainted not far from the blood donation area after only a few steps.

"Comrade! Comrade!"

The nurse who had just seen him fainted quickly went over, did a quick check to determine the cause, and then found two colleagues to help him into the ward.

Hu Qinghai clearly fainted due to low blood sugar. The simplest way to treat him is to give him sugar water or administer glucose intravenously.

The amount of medicines in the hospital is regulated, and nurses have no right to take them without permission. Hu Qinghai can only rest on the bench.

The colleague was worried. "He had 800 milliliters of blood drawn yesterday, and he looks really hungry. How long will it take for him to wake up if he just lies there like this? What if something else happens?"

Another colleague said, "Why don't we see if he knows anyone in this hospital? We can ask one of them to help him call his family over."

The nurse nodded. "Let me see which village he's from?"

She quickly searched through the blood test record book. When people register for blood tests, their home address is also recorded. She quickly found Hu Qinghai's brigade from yesterday's blood test record.

"It's from Mopantun Brigade."

“Mopantun Brigade,” one of the colleagues said. “The young comrade who is hospitalized upstairs seems to be from Mopantun Brigade as well. They are from the same village. Let’s have his family come and take a look.”

"Okay, let's go look for it."

The nurse quickly went up to the second floor and found Lin Zhiheng's ward.

"You're all from Mopantun Brigade, right? Comrade Hu Qinghai from your brigade collapsed down there. We couldn't find his family, so when we learned you were from the same brigade, we had no choice but to come to you."

Lin Qingyan said, "I'll go down and take a look."

"Okay." The nurse walked with him and explained Hu Qinghai's situation. "Is this man's family short of money? He came to donate blood yesterday and came again today. I didn't agree to let him donate blood again. He fainted after only a few steps when he left. It's probably because of low blood sugar and his weakness after donating blood."

Lin Qingyan had some understanding of the Hu family's circumstances.

Because Hu's mother was chronically ill and needed medication, the Hu family's financial situation was not ideal.

But Hu Qinghai doesn't seem to be a family man; perhaps he's desperately selling his blood for other reasons.

They arrived at the blood-drawing area and saw Hu Qinghai lying on a bench, still unconscious.

Lin Qingyan said to the nurse, "Give him a syringe of glucose, I'll pay for it."

The nurse quickly did as instructed, prepared a vial of glucose, and injected it into Hu Qinghai's vein.

It takes time for glucose to be absorbed, and Lin Qingyan did not leave during this time, waiting for Hu Qinghai to wake up.

About twenty minutes later, Hu Qinghai finally made a move.

"Jade pendant, phoenix jade pendant. What can I use to redeem you? Jade pendant, phoenix jade pendant, I have nothing left, I can't even sell my blood, what can I use to redeem you?"

Before he even opened his eyes, he vaguely repeated these words three or four times.

He was probably not fully conscious and his speech was slurred, but because he repeated himself so many times, Lin Qingyan listened carefully and finally understood what he was saying.

He kept talking about a phoenix jade pendant.

When Lin Qingyan heard him mention the word "jade pendant" yesterday, she wasn't very curious, since there are plenty of jade pendants in the world.

Now, hearing him mention that it was a phoenix jade pendant, she couldn't help but think of the dragon jade pendant in her own space.

Phoenix! Dragon!

Dragon and Phoenix!

Her eyes suddenly lit up. A dragon and a phoenix. Since ancient times, dragons and phoenixes have been a pair. Could these two jade pendants be a pair?

She quickly asked Hu Qinghai again, "Is that phoenix jade pendant you mentioned made of white jade?"

Hu Qinghai was still in a somewhat unclear state of mind. When he heard Lin Qingyan's question, he instinctively nodded and said, "Yes, yes, it is made of white mutton fat jade."

"White mutton fat jade?"

Lin Qingyan's heart skipped a beat again. If what Hu Qinghai said was true, and the Phoenix Jade Pendant and her Flying Dragon Jade Pendant were made of the same material, then the possibility that the two jade pendants were a pair was even greater.

Her dragon jade pendant was brought from the modern world when she traveled through time. If they were originally a pair, then what about this phoenix jade pendant?