The hospital's stock of Western medicine was insufficient, but Fengyi was located near the mountains, and the mountains were full of medicinal herbs. Bai Yan wrote down a few simple hemostatic prescriptions and drew the herbs in a book. If they could buy them, they would buy them at Chinese medicine shops in the city. If they couldn't buy them, they could go up the mountain to pick them.

While the petri dishes were fermenting, Bai Yan would bring a few students to treat the injured at the hospital during her spare time.

She was quick to treat patients, and her prescriptions were effective on the same day they were used. Within a few days, she earned the reputation of a little miracle doctor.

Bai Yan's fame grew, and the family members in the compound became increasingly friendly towards their neighbor, Yuan Shi.

Mrs. Yuan did not suspect anything when her daughter suddenly learned medicine and started working at the hospital.

She and her husband had only one daughter. Although their daughter never attended a modern school, her husband would always teach her whenever he had free time.

There are still many foreign language books that her husband gave to their daughter at home, and she herself loves to read.

Scholars are always impressive.

"Madam, what is your name?" Xiaoqin asked. "My father is Dr. Zheng at the hospital, and I work as a nurse there. We are both Dr. Bai's colleagues."

"Is your husband a doctor? You have such an amazing daughter, she's two years younger than me! She's incredible!"

Seeing that Xiaoqin was not very old, Madam Yuan was not nervous. "My real name is Yuan Qiuniang. My daughter has loved reading since she was a child. She only had this opportunity because of the General's cultivation."

After having several meals with the Yuan family and getting to know the people in the residential compound, Xiaoqin decided to return to the hospital to continue working.

The two chatted for a while and learned that Yuan's husband had died young and that she only had this one daughter. Xiaoqin sighed and said, "I heard that Dr. Bai is very busy now. Are you just staying at home all day by yourself?"

"It's alright, I'll make her a few more clothes." She's a working girl; if she's not dressed well or cleanly, people will laugh at her.

"How many clothes can that make?" Xiaoqin raised her rice bowl, eating with relish. "If you ask me, Madam, it would be wonderful if you opened your own shop with your skills."

She pouted again, "I've eaten your cooking for several days in a row. I feel terrible eating the communal meals at the hospital again—ugh!" Xiaoqin's eyes lit up, "Madam, you're delivering lunch to Dr. Bai every day anyway, so how about I set up a meal table for you?"

Yuan was indeed bored being home alone: ​​"What do you mean?"

Seeing that she was interested, Xiaoqin explained in detail, eventually reaching the point of pricing: "I think this meal is worth two silver dollars!"

Xiaoqin comes from a well-off family, and she felt that spending this much on a meal was too little. In addition, Yuan's cooking skills were really good, so she insisted on inviting him.

Madam Yuan was somewhat tempted: "My daughter will be back tonight, and I'll discuss it with her."

After Bai Yan finished her work that night, Madam Yuan placed a bowl of lung-soothing pear soup next to her desk and told Bai Yan about what had happened during the day. "Yan'er, do you think Mom should agree?"

Bai Yan looked up at Yuan Shi with a curious expression.

Madam Yuan immediately became somewhat timid. "Mother is a widow; it's not appropriate for her to show her face in public."

“But now you’re the only one earning money in the family. If I go, it will bring some extra income to the family,” Yuan said, twirling her handkerchief in her hand. “If you agree that I should go, I will go. If you don’t agree, I won’t go.”

From the time of Fancheng until now, the Yuan family has always been like a dodder vine, weakly relying on her.

Bai Yan has been busy with laboratory matters lately, but she didn't expect that the Yuan family, having escaped their cage, has already been able to extend their branches and then flourish.

She's only thirty-two, a very young age.

"Mom, of course I agree if you want to do it." Bai Yan smiled: "Mom, I'm happy that you have your own things to do."

Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With Xiaoqin's help, Yuan's "little restaurant" was finally opened. Her cooking skills were quite good, and the number of customers only increased afterward...

...

A month has passed in the blink of an eye. The martial law in Fengyi City has not been lifted and remains the same as before the war. Meanwhile, Bai Yan's laboratory has successfully extracted the first batch of penicillin.

Under lockdown, the available instruments were not very accurate, and given the large quantity required, Bai Yan couldn't possibly do it alone. The students were novices, and their quality varied greatly, resulting in the first batch having low purity on average.

However, even with one percent of the reduced cell fluid infused into the white powder, the clinical results were still very good, and it was quickly sent to the front lines.

At this time, both the front lines and the rear had just experienced a major battle, and the trenches of the Fengyi Army were full of wounded and dead soldiers.

"That bastard Zhong Rentao!" The usually mild-mannered Lieutenant Cui, clutching his injured arm, cursed loudly, "He deliberately tricked us!"

A batch of medicine and guns that Xu Shengtian had previously purchased were being transported from Xicheng to Fengyi, but they got stuck in a warehouse in Xicheng.

They couldn't understand why Zhong Rentao dared to provoke them at this critical juncture.

Now I don't understand. Zhong Rentao wants to kill their commander so that he can secure his position as the warlord governor of the north!

"That damn beast!" the adjutant exclaimed. "Back then, Mr. Bai saved him even less than he saved a dog!"

Xu Shengtian frowned, his face cold. "If he tries to trick me and kill me, then I guess I'm just not good enough." Xu Shengtian gave a cold laugh: "If I'm not dead, he definitely is."

"General, we're out of medicine..." The nurse walked into the tent, and after saying only one sentence, she collapsed and sat on the ground crying.

Facing an entire company of wounded soldiers without any life-saving medicine, no one could possibly survive.

Xu Shengtian pinched the bridge of his nose: "Penicillin..."

Without medicine, these wounded soldiers simply cannot survive. Even if he survives and kills Zhong Rentao, his men will never return.

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