Chapter 19 This face looks familiar

Meanwhile, Zhang Qingsong arrived at Du Ruoxia's uncle's house under the cover of night.

Du Daming's wife, Wang Xia, had her eyes light up when she saw the fifty yuan.

"Zhang Zhiqing, what do you mean by this?"

Zhang Qingsong: "You know Du Ruoxia, right? Your niece."

"It seems there was such a person." Wang Xia recalled that Du Dayong had written to say that his daughter was going back to Yuxi Village to work as an educated youth in the countryside, and asked them to take good care of her.

Wang Xia thought that they hadn't been in contact for a long time, and Du Dayong's family hadn't returned for more than ten years. She wasn't about to do anything that would bring her no benefit.

So even though Du Ruoxia has been in Yuxi Village for over a month, Wang Xia's family hasn't met with her or had any contact with her.

"I'm here today to introduce a potential partner to your niece. It's an arranged marriage, and since her parents live far away, you, as her uncle and aunt, can make the decision."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xia withdrew her hand, which had been itching to do so. "How can I make decisions for them? She's not my daughter, and we don't usually have any contact. This won't do."

Seeing this, Zhang Qingsong increased his stakes, taking out another fifty yuan and saying, "You don't need to do anything, just sign the marriage certificate, and this hundred yuan is yours."

Wang Xia thought to herself that her son's in-laws had asked for an 80 yuan dowry for his wedding, and the remaining 20 yuan was just enough for the banquet. This 100 yuan was a real lifesaver.

Driven by greed, Wang Xia signed the document.

As night fell, Du Ruoxia was a little hungry, but there wasn't much food at home. Fortunately, she had been idle for the past month and had planted a sweet potato field behind the house, so it would be nice to dig up some sweet potatoes to eat now.

While passing through the middle, Du Ruoxia tripped over something with her right foot and fell straight to the ground.

Her face was covered in dust, but she paid no attention to it, only shouting and backing away.

"ah!"

"Who is it? I'm just here to dig sweet potatoes!"

The knuckles of the toes were clearly visible, and the touch on her calf was icy cold. She was certain it was a hand, and that a dead person must have crawled out of the grave!

At that moment, she had no time to think about whether the dead could move; the pitch-black night had already made her tremble with fear.

He held Du Ruoxia's hand tightly, but there was no movement for a while. Du Ruoxia's panicked and confused emotions subsided a bit, and she tentatively opened her eyes.

It was completely dark, and there was nothing to see. When she looked down, all she could see was darkness.

She tried to pull her foot out, but found that she still couldn't get it out.

She hurriedly reached into her pocket and took out the flashlight.

It really is one person's hand!

"This, Blood Hand!" Du Ruoxia took a deep breath and raised the knife in her hand.

Respect for the deceased!

Thinking of this, she put the knife down again.

When it comes to drawing blood, she's seen it all. In her previous life, she was a surgical genius!

"My God, you can't scare me like that!"

"Amitabha!"

After muttering a few words, Du Ruoxia squatted down to pry the hand open, but the hand moved!

"Holy crap, you've come back to life!" Du Ruoxia exclaimed.

"Help, help...me..."

Du Ruoxia finally understood the meaning behind the man's words; he wanted her to save him.

She picked up her flashlight and shone it on the man, only to find that his face was covered in dust and his eyes were closed. There was nothing wrong with him at all, but why did his face look so familiar?

She crouched down to check on the person. He was having difficulty breathing, his pupils were dilated, and there was saliva coming from the corner of his mouth. He seemed to have been poisoned!

"Poisoning? In the middle of nowhere, could it be snake venom?" Du Ruoxia was speechless.

She lifted the man's hand to examine it, but found no wounds, and then turned the man's body over.

"Good heavens, you're really bold! You managed to crush such a big snake!"

Du Ruoxia had to admire the man; the blood on his hands was from the snake, clearly indicating that he had subdued the snake with his bare hands.

"There are no visible snake bite marks, which means the venom is on the body." Du Ruoxia's heart sank. The snake venom needed to be sucked out as soon as possible to detoxify!

She rolled up her sleeves and approached the man, preparing to take off his clothes. Her hands were just on the man's arms when she was completely unprepared.

"ah!"

She fell!

That's right, the man acted instinctively while unconscious!

"Ha, you want to die? Fine! I'm leaving now!" Du Ruoxia said, patting the dust off her clothes.

She lifted her foot to leave, but the man's hand gripped her foot tightly. Du Ruoxia rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Why don't you just let go!"

The man remained motionless, his eyes tightly closed, clearly indicating that he had lost consciousness.

"Wow, even when he's unconscious, his will to survive is so strong. He's really not an ordinary person!" Du Ruoxia had to give the man a thumbs up.

She dutifully removed the man's shirt, pants, and socks, and after examining him, her expression darkened.

The location of the poisoning is very subtle, in places that cannot be seen.

"Brother, it's not that I want to take advantage of you, you asked me to save you yourself."

"Oh, I'm sorry for the offense!"

After Du Ruoxia finished speaking, she closed her eyes and took off the last piece of clothing from the man. After taking a deep breath, she opened one eye, but couldn't see clearly, so she opened the other eye.

The area illuminated by the flashlight was completely white, without a single wound!

"Huh? Not the buttocks?" Du Ruoxia looked at the person's back and was quite puzzled.

She frowned, looked around again to check, and finally mustered the courage to turn the person over.

Under the flashlight's beam, the location of the snake bite was finally visible.

Du Ruoxia took a deep breath, "Does this position even have to be won like this?!"

She stared at that spot for a long time, unable to calm down, struggling with a difficult choice in her mind: to save or not to save.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to risk it all, I'm a doctor anyway!" she cried out to the sky, tears welling up in her eyes.

She grabbed a piece of clothing, threw it over to extinguish the flashlight, and then lay down.

A while later, several mouthfuls of black blood were spit out on the ground.

She only stopped when she smelled blood.

"My chastity!" Du Ruoxia's face burned.

She dressed the man as quickly as possible, not noticing when she undressed him that he was wearing a military uniform and his face was covered in mud, but she could tell that he was about the same age as her.

"Will there be military exercises here too?" Du Ruoxia asked, surprised.

Du Ruoxia didn't care about anything else. In the dark, she was afraid that things might get complicated if she waited too long, so she got up and headed home.

After walking for a while, Du Ruoxia's heart began to feel uneasy.

“Snakes roam this valley at night. If they get eaten, wouldn’t my efforts to save them have been in vain?” Du Ruoxia frowned deeply.

Her pace slowed down, and finally she stopped altogether.

"Du Ruoxia, wake up! You can't even support yourself, yet you want to take care of a stranger!" She kept giving herself a pep talk.

But the sense of responsibility in her heart kept reminding her that as a doctor she couldn't stand by and watch someone die, so in the end she could only stomp her feet and walk into the bushes.

"What a nuisance!" Du Ruoxia complained.