Chapter 100 Shell Gift

The officer sitting next to Yan Li'an saw the undisguised admiration in his eyes. He looked at Su Jinhui and suddenly smiled gossipyly.

After the meeting, everyone else left, only Yan Li'an was still waiting for Su Jinhui in the conference room.

As Su Jinhui walked up to Yan Li'an, she heard him say, "Congratulations, Comrade Su. You have earned the leader's praise, and this time you have achieved military merit."

"Tong Zhi Yan, you performed quite well. If you hadn't been injured, I wouldn't have been able to save you, and I wouldn't have been able to get the credit this time."

The two of them bickered with each other every day.

"Okay, I'm not kidding you anymore. Tell me, you got praised by your boss this time. What kind of reward do you want?"

Su Jinhui raised her eyebrows and looked at him with a smile, "What other reward do you want to give me?"

Yan Li'an pretended to be deep and said to her mysteriously, "Well, I'll keep this a secret for now, but if you don't have anything special you want, I'll prepare it myself."

"Okay, I'd like to see what gift you have for me."

After returning to the military hospital, Su Jinhui devoted herself to researching new combat hemostatic agents.

In fact, after experiencing Yan Li'an's injury, she realized that the demand for medicine in this era far exceeded her imagination. Moreover, due to the limitations of medicine and technology, the hemostatic drugs here were not very effective.

That's why she wanted to use her abilities to develop an effective battlefield hemostatic agent.

“This won’t work…that won’t work either!”

After struggling for a long time, Su Jinhui looked at a pile of waste in front of her. In fact, these hemostatic agents were quite effective, but they were far from meeting Su Jinhui's requirements. After all, they were used on the battlefield, so she certainly hoped that the effect of this hemostatic agent could be better.

"What went wrong? All my theories were correct, so why is the bleeding-stopping effect so mediocre after the experiment?"

She opened the medical book and looked up all the herbs that could stop bleeding.

Finally, Su Jinhui discovered a special medicinal herb that grew on the island, but there was very little geographical information about this medicinal herb. She only knew that it was on a nearby island, and she didn't know exactly where it was.

"Hemostatic grass?"

"It's a simple name to pronounce. It's often found in coastal islands. It has an amazing hemostatic effect. The drug itself has some toxins that can paralyze nerves for a period of time. Therefore, it not only has a hemostatic effect, but also acts as an anesthetic."

This is the information recorded in the books.

It seems that if she wants to develop a new type of hemostatic agent, she will have to use this hemostatic grass. However, in such a large space, she doesn't even have a seed. She can only find the hemostatic grass first, and then put it in the space for cultivation, so that she can have a constant supply of it for direct use.

After the sun set, Su Jinhui returned home from the hospital.

As soon as she entered the door, she smelled the fragrance of food and knew that Yan Li'an had returned home earlier than her.

"Why did you get off work so early today? Don't you have anything to do at the military district?"

"It's no big deal if I cook you a meal since you've done a great job. Normally, you'd prepare the meal first. Today, I got off work early, so I'll take care of these little things."

"Come sit down and wash your hands before eating."

Su Jinhui leaned against the door, looking at him with a half-smile, "Didn't you say there would be a gift for me? Where's the gift? I took a look around the room, and there's no sign of the inner room outside. Could it be that you forgot about this?"

Yan Li'an smiled mysteriously at her as he brought the last dish outside. "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who goes back on my word. If I say I'll give you a gift, I will. Eat your meal first."

She knew that Yan Li'an was a man who kept his promises, so she didn't ask too many questions. She just washed her hands and sat down to eat.

During the meal, Yan Li'an also added some of her favorite dishes to her bowl, but during the meal, Su Jinhui kept looking around, trying to see where the gift was placed.

Yan Li'an saw her wandering eyes and laughed in his heart, is this gift so important?

After Su Jinhui finished her meal, he got up and went into the room to take out the gift.

When Su Jinhui saw all the gifts in his hands, she was very surprised. "The gift you are talking about is this jar of shells?"

Yan Li'an was holding a transparent glass jar in his hand, which was filled with shells of various colors.

It looked pretty good, but Su Jinhui was definitely a little amused.

"What's wrong, don't you like it?"

"The last time you came to the abandoned lighthouse, you told me you'd lived in the countryside on the mainland and had never seen the ocean. And you said you wanted to go look for shells near the beach. I thought you liked that, so this morning after my early shift, I went to collect some shells for you. I personally picked up every single one of these, washed them, and put them in this jar."

Su Jinhui burst out laughing. She took the jar and looked at the colorful shells inside. She was very moved.

At first, she had only said it perfunctorily, but Yan Li'an still remembered it. "You know I like shells, so you cut these things just for me?"

Yan Li'an responded, but he was actually very nervous, worried that Su Jinhui would not like these things.

Supplies were already scarce on the island, and apart from food, he really couldn't think of anything to give her.

The last time he went to the small town on the shore, he had already bought a lot of things for Su Jinhui. She had no shortage of clothes or anything like that. After thinking about it, he found some beautiful shells for Su Jinhui.

"If you don't like them, you can throw them away. They're just worthless things, and you can find them everywhere on the beach."

"I like it. Who said I don't like it?"

She put the shell aside and said, "When the time comes, I'll drill a hole in the shell, string them together, and make a wind chime to hang at the door. When the wind blows, it will make a tinkling sound. Isn't that wonderful?"

"Besides, why would I throw it away? You worked so hard to pick these things up, and then you have to wash them clean. It takes a lot of time, right?"

Yan Li'an felt a little better when he saw that she didn't seem to be pretending, but he was still worried that Su Jinhui was considering her feelings and was therefore reluctantly accepting the gift.

"You don't have to force yourself. I know these shells are very common, so..."

"So I have to cherish them even more. Because they are so common, other people never take them to heart. But I am different. I will make all kinds of ornaments out of these shells and hang them around my home. This is the best gift I have ever received."

"You like it?"

Su Jinhui nodded proudly, "I like it, and since you picked it up, I like it even more."

Yan Li'an looked a little uncomfortable, his ears turned red, and he lowered his head and ate a mouthful of food to hide his inner feelings.

"By the way, there's something I want to ask you!"

"I read in a medical book that there's a herb called Hemostatic Grass that grows on a nearby island, but the area is so wide that I don't know exactly which island it's on. I need this herb to research a new type of hemostatic agent. Can you help me with that?"