With the red birthmark that had been removed, Su Ruyi walked towards her own courtyard.

She was completely unaware that Zhong Misu had already chased after her at breakneck speed.

His leg was no longer lame.

His footsteps were silent.

"cousin!"

Zhong Misu looked at Su Ruyi's retreating figure and called out in a trembling voice.

Su Ruyi stopped and turned around. What she saw was no longer the elegant and refined figure of Xiao Yao, but the rough appearance of her cousin Zhong Su.

Furthermore, his body was showing signs of decay, and it was even emitting a putrid odor.

She said meaningfully, "Cousin Zhong Su, you're probably leaving soon, aren't you?"

Zhong Misu nodded, her heart aching: "I'm leaving, and I've come to say goodbye."

Su Ruyi was shaken. She and Zhong Misu both understood what "leaving" meant.

She took away Zhong Misu's red birthmark, which was the link between him and this world, and with any past life related to Su Ruyi.

Now that this bond has been lost, he will soon disappear, not only his body will decay but his soul will also completely dissipate.

If he waits in the void like he did in his previous five lives, until Su Ruyi completes her tribulations, then he can also return to her original world with her.

But now, he has no chance.

Zhong Misu was completely calm at this moment, and bowed deeply to Su Ruyi: "Cousin, in this life, I am really... sorry."

At this moment, he is sincerely apologizing for the harm he caused in the past.

Su Ruyi nodded, turned and left.

Zhong Misu stood still, one hand reaching directly into her own chest.

When he came out again, his hands were loosely clenched into fists.

Golden light peeked out from between the fingers.

Zhong Misu threw the object in her palm at Su Ruyi with all her might.

A golden sphere of light, formed from almost all of his merits, was instantly struck into the palm of Su Ruyi's left hand.

Su Ruyi was completely unaware.

"Barely enough to withstand one fatal blow... I... I still... don't do enough good deeds in my daily life..." Zhong Misu laughed self-deprecatingly, watching Su Ruyi walk away, and finally turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

At this moment, even if the villagers walked right past him, they wouldn't be able to see him anymore.

He did not belong to this world; he stole Xiao Yao's opportunity, and for this, he suffered the backlash of having his soul scattered.

At this moment, the only person in the world who still cares about Zhong Misu's life or death is Hu Zhenbo.

Zhong Misu saw Hu Zhenbo rushing towards her, heading straight for the brigade headquarters.

With a thought, he used the last strand of merit in his chest, as thin as a hair, to exchange for a dozen or so ten-yuan bills. In the instant they passed each other, he put them into Hu Zhenbo's chest pocket—that amount was the care fee he had not yet settled.

Hu Zhenbo only felt himself being hit by an invisible force, but he was in a hurry to find the captain to report the case. He looked back and saw that no one was there, so he did not stop. As for the fact that he found extra money in his pocket, that was something that happened that evening.

After Zhong Misu finished doing all this, his last connection with this world completely vanished.

He slowly walked away into the distance.

It decays as it goes.

Soon, his body and soul completely vanished.

Su Ruyi returned to her space and solemnly placed the mole wrapped in red cloth into the official leather box at the corner of the bed.

Close the box lid, then open it again.

The red cloth and the mole inside it both disappeared without a trace.

Xiao Yao, he took the red mole!

"Xiao Yao... are you alright?" Su Ruyi called out softly.

There has still been no response.

She thought for a moment and then put the dirty clothes back into the box.

I tried again, but the box wouldn't open.

Xiao Yao, he took the clothes!

Su Ruyi slumped down beside the box, only then realizing that she had been in tears for some time.

"Ruyi, what happened?" Su Qiushi appeared at the door.

"It's alright, Grandpa." Su Ruyi quickly wiped away her tears and smiled. "Are you getting out of bed?"

Looking at Su Qiushi dressed as an old farmer, Su Ruyi felt inexplicably at ease.

The tension that had been building since my rebirth finally eased for a moment.

She is not alone in this world.

She has Xiao Yao, and she also has her grandfather.

Fourth Brother and Fifth Brother are both still alive and well.

In the small courtyard lived Jin Xingqiu, who was always meticulous in everything. In the educated youth compound, there were two friends, Li Wang and Shu Lan, as well as two older brothers, Shen Ji.

Her friends include chivalrous individuals like Chef Wang, as well as two upright generals.

She is not truly alone.

“The crops are a bit overripe.” Su Qiushi put on a straw hat. “Ruyi, I feel like something’s not right. Not only are the crops overripe, but the food in the kitchen is cold! And the bathwater is getting shallow!”

Since Su Qiushi moved into Huichuntang, Su Ruyi has bought double the amount of all living supplies. The old man's large bath tub was custom-made from Sanhe County and is even bigger than her own.

Ever since she scooped a tub of water from her own bathtub, the water in the old man's bathtub has been automatically refreshed.

The old man is very clean and takes two baths a day.

The changes in the water level in the bathtub naturally did not escape his notice.

"There was a slight tremor, but I assure you, this will not happen again." Su Ruyi did not elaborate further.

Su Qiushi was a perceptive person and didn't pry. Instead, he shook his head and said, "The dishes are all cold. Why don't we take them out and heat them up for them at the graduation dinner tomorrow? Grandpa will make you some new ones, okay?"

Su Ruyi then realized that the TCM training course she had organized was ending tomorrow!

This training course relied almost entirely on Su Qiushi and Jin Xingqiu for instruction. Of course, the teaching materials were internal lesson plans from the Huichuntang Study, personally compiled by Su Ruyi, one of which was equivalent to ten books.

Just yesterday, all 49 of them passed the exam and received barefoot doctor certificates issued by the Sanhe County Health Bureau.

The nine students with the worst grades were assigned to serve as village doctors in their respective villages.

Su Ruyi had already spoken with Cheng Weiguo about the remaining 40 people. She planned to take them all to the Fangchi Retirement Home for intensive off-the-job training, and then distribute them to traditional Chinese medicine hospitals throughout Heilongjiang Province.

This is also part of Cheng Weiguo's plan.

The training course concluded at noon the next day in the threshing ground.

The dinner following the ceremony was exceptionally lavish.

Su Ruyi brought out all the delicious dishes that had gone cold during the "shocks" in the space.

The people who heated the food, including Shulan, claimed it was from the state-run restaurant in Sanhe County.

Everyone was so amazed by the variety of ingredients that they completely overlooked the fact that these dishes were not Chef Wang's style at all.