After Xie Zhuo left, Xu Yan was about to take out the contents of the package and check them again when she heard voices outside.

She paused, then tied the package and placed it aside.

Just then, a man stood at the courtyard gate and called out, "Little Xu, where are the brigade leader and the others?"

Xu Yan stood up, took a few steps outside, and replied, "The team leader and the others have gone to work in the fields."

"What about Brother Xie?" the man continued. "Wasn't Brother Xie injured? Did he go with him too?"

Only then did Xu Yan remember that he was the person the captain had sent to find Doctor Qian, whose name was Li Li. "Xie Zhuo didn't go; he went home."

"Ah...this..." Li Li scratched his head, glanced at Doctor Qian who was still jogging towards him, and didn't know what to do.

"Where is he? Wasn't he supposed to be unable to get up? Where did they take him?"

Qian Yong had been dragged here by Li Li. He stood at the entrance of the educated youth settlement, bent over and panting heavily, beads of sweat dripping from his forehead onto the ground. "Hurry up, show me the person first! If this kid can't even stand up, he must be seriously injured!"

Xu Yan: "..."

I don't know whether to call it a misleading rumor or to marvel at a medical miracle.

The person you thought was seriously injured has already walked home at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour.

"How about... I take you to his house to take a look?" Li Li was very guilty because he wanted to hurry back to continue watching the excitement, so he exaggerated the facts a little in front of Qian Yong.

They said Xie Zhuo was surrounded and beaten by six or seven educated youths. When they arrived, Xie Zhuo was already lying on the ground unable to move, so the brigade leader told him to come and find him quickly.

On the way, Qian Yong had some doubts. These three Xie brothers had been cunning and quick-witted since they were young. It was true that he had beaten others so badly that they couldn't stand up before, but it was strange that someone had beaten him so badly that he couldn't get up.

"Forget it, forget it," Qian Yong said, shaking off Li Li's hand, his eyes bulging with anger. "I knew that kid wouldn't be easily taken advantage of. He could walk home, so what serious problem could he have?"

Li Li scratched his head.

“Since you’ve come all this way, I’ll take another look at Xiao Xu, the educated youth,” Qian Yong said to Xu Yan. “You were in a rush by the river earlier, so I’ll see what kind of treatment you need in a little while.”

Hearing him say that, Xu Yan quickly led the person to the kitchen.

There's no air conditioning this season, and it's a single-story house with thin walls. After a whole day of being exposed to the sun, the kitchen isn't much cooler, but at least it provides some shade.

"Thank you, Dr. Qian," Xu Yan said, helping Qian Yong sit on the long bench. She wanted to pour him a glass of water, but then realized that in her time, there were no disposable paper cups, and the educated youth settlement didn't have any extra cups to pour water for others.

"Come, sit down, don't bother," Qian Yong seemed to have seen through her intention and pointed directly to the stool next to him.

Xu Yan sat back down, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

“Although everyone’s conditions are not very good now and we can only eat until we are half full, it is rare to see someone as hungry as you. If you don’t take care of your stomach and intestines, you will suffer in the future,” Doctor Qian said, taking out a pulse pillow from his small box and placing it on the table.

Xu Yan nodded.

That's right. The book says that the original owner died because she was starving for a long time, which caused her stomach to ulcerate and develop a tumor. Medical conditions were not good in that era, so she died on the eve of Han Xiaoyu and his wife's wedding.

Based on the timeline, it will be about a year from now.

I don't know what the situation is now. Neither the village nor the small county town has high-end and sophisticated medical equipment. If I want to get a check-up, I have to go to a big city.

It seems I can only ask the brigade leader for leave to go home during the Chinese New Year.

As Xu Yan pondered, he pressed his hand on his stomach and felt the distinct ribs.

Xu Yan: "..."

"Put your left hand up."

Xu Yan was still lost in thought when she heard Qian Yong tapping the table, so she quickly placed her left hand on the pulse pillow.

Although she was taller than many women, she had a small frame. The arm she was resting on the table was white and thin, and you could clearly see the dark blue veins without even looking closely.

What a terrible thing!

Qian Yong was afraid that if he wasn't careful, he might press too hard and break the girl's arm.

“Your liver is burning, your stomach is already eroded, and some other organs are also having problems,” Qian Yong frowned. “On the one hand, you’ve been starving for a long time, and on the other hand, it’s also related to what you eat. I heard you often pull grass from the ground and eat it?”

Xu Yan: "..."

No, it wasn't her, it was the original owner of this body.

“The grass in the field is a mixed bag, and some of it is poisonous and inedible,” Qian Yong said, his brows furrowed so deeply they could trap a fly. “And some of the grass, while harmless at the time, contains aristolochic acid, which is harmful to the kidneys, and excessive consumption can be very harmful to the body.”

“Dr. Qian, Little Xu, the educated youth, didn’t eat it on purpose,” Li Li suddenly interjected, “he was just hungry.”

Qian Yong: "..."

How could he not know that Xu Yan was hungry?

But if they keep eating like this, they'll either starve to death or be tormented to death by other illnesses.

"I understand, thank you Dr. Qian. I won't eat it again in the future." Xu Yan didn't want to bring up what had just happened again, but even if she didn't say it, the news would spread by tomorrow at the latest, so she still gave a brief account of what had happened.

Li Li ran off to find someone as soon as the excitement started, so he was shocked to hear Xu Yan's words and his mouth dropped open.

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