The two lay on the bed like that, with Lin Yuwei listening to Wu Qiaoqiao slowly recount her story. She also learned that Wu's family and Liu Mingfeng were old friends, dating back to the Ming Dynasty.
The two families were brothers who studied under the same master, Li Shizhen. Due to differences in their interests and aptitudes, they studied different things, but there was never any competition between the brothers. The two families always got along very well, and even their children became the other's students.
Both families have always believed in the principle that good deeds are rewarded. They lived in seclusion during prosperous times and entered the world during times of chaos, practicing medicine and helping the needy. In those days, they saved countless lives. Although various reasons led to the loss of some family members, overall, their actions were good. When they entered the market during times of chaos, not all of them would participate in the chaos; instead, they would always leave a mark on the family. Although they lived in seclusion during prosperous times, each generation would send someone to the imperial court or the Imperial Medical Academy, the highest medical authorities, to learn various kinds of knowledge. Whenever they encountered good medical techniques or anything useful, they would pass it on to the family, leaving behind records.
This has always been the case, but later, Western medicine entered our country. Both families had children who felt that Western medicine was also usable. However, some old-fashioned people thought that Western medicine was a strange and esoteric technique. But there was no use in opposing it. For example, the Wu family thought that what the other side said was incorrect. When they saw that it was their own son, they argued about this for a long time. Later, as they got to know each other better, everyone realized that whether it was traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, as long as it could cure diseases, it was good. Moreover, the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine could treat more diseases.
So the two families continued their studies together, enriching themselves. By the time it came to Wu Qiaoqiao and Liu Mingfeng's generation, their families were studying together, learning to read and write together. After starting work, they ended up working at the same hospital, so they decided to buy houses nearby. Frankly, that's one of the downsides of studying medicine – the unpredictable work schedule. They might suddenly get a call in the middle of the night for an emergency patient and have to leave, leaving no one to care for their children. Living together meant that if one side was busy, they could easily send their children to the other.
For Wu Qiaoqiao and Liu Mingfeng, their childhood was tough. While other children watched cartoons and played with flashcards, they learned to read by studying the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and memorizing herbal formulas.
Wu Qiaoqiao and Liu Mingfeng grew up together because of their parents' upbringing. Even when Wu Qiaoqiao was just born, when Liu Mingfeng's parents took him to the hospital to visit his aunt and the baby, everyone jokingly suggested he marry the baby, and he agreed.
From a young age, Liu Mingfeng treated Wu Qiaoqiao like his future wife. Normally, in their situation, when they started to rebel, the people around them would have talked too much and he might have distanced himself from Wu Qiaoqiao. But before that time came, the apocalypse arrived.
For various reasons, their parents were not around when the apocalypse began, and the two relied on each other. Fortunately, after the apocalypse came, they both awakened superpowers. However, at the beginning, their superpowers were not strong. Wu Qiaoqiao awakened strength and healing superpowers in the apocalypse, while Liu Mingfeng awakened mental superpowers. At the beginning of the apocalypse, strength and healing superpowers were slightly stronger than mental superpowers.
At that time, Wu Qiaoqiao was the main force in killing zombies. The two of them struggled to survive in the apocalypse for about two or three months. If they hadn't used their skills, they probably wouldn't have survived for those two or three months. Later, Liu Mingfeng and Wu Qiaoqiao discovered that people always had a contemptuous attitude towards women. After discovering this, Liu Mingfeng started wearing wigs and feminine clothes. Fortunately, Liu Mingfeng was only about ten years old at that time, and his appearance was only considered handsome. When he dressed up as a woman and put on some makeup, people would at most think that he looked a bit androgynous.
Fortunately, the two of them had studied traditional Chinese medicine since childhood. They used their knowledge to search for low-level mutated plants in the apocalypse, extracting various materials from them to make sedatives, anesthetics, medicines for treating injuries, and even poisons.
In addition to these, they also took advantage of people's contempt for women. When they encountered people who were hostile to them, they would use these poisons to kill those people when they were captured and unable to fight back. When they encountered kind people who saw that the two of them were in such a state, a young girl with a little girl would lend a helping hand. When they encountered those who were indifferent, they would just walk past them without caring.
As for why neither set of parents were by their side at the beginning of the apocalypse, it was because at the beginning of the apocalypse, large numbers of people fell ill. At that time, it was thought to be some kind of virus. Some medical talents were specially recruited by the country. Liu Mingfeng and Wu Qiaoqiao's parents, because they had both Chinese and Western degrees, were even recruited into the research institute to conduct what they thought was virus research, hoping to produce a vaccine or something as soon as possible.
Normally, Liu Mingfeng and Wu Qiaoqiao would have simply waited in place for the government to send someone to pick them up. However, they were spotted while waiting at home. Fortunately, although Liu Mingfeng's psychic abilities weren't very strong, he still noticed them early on. With the help of the Reincarnation Pearl, which had awakened when the apocalypse arrived, the two packed up everything they could at home and left to head towards the government-run survival base.
Before reaching the survival base, they had wandered the post-apocalyptic world for seven years. During those seven years, Liu Mingfeng had always dressed as a woman. When they finally arrived at the base and met his parents, Liu Mingfeng's mother almost burst into tears when she saw him, thinking that her son would never be able to find a wife.
Later, after Liu Mingfeng and his partner explained, both families were relieved and realized that the two had confirmed their relationship during this period.
Lin Yuwei sighed upon hearing this. She hadn't expected that Wu Qiaoqiao and the others lived in such an era. Perhaps happiness is always relative. Knowing the kind of life Wu Qiaoqiao and the others led, and even later on when they had to drink nutritional supplements made from mutated plants and animals just to survive, Lin Yuwei felt that although she was always alone in her previous life, she was well taken care of, and even occasionally witnessed the tricks of the concubines in the harem. Those days were truly wonderful.
As for why Lin Yuwei knew the taste of the nutrient solution, it was because she was curious, so Wu Qiaoqiao took out a vial for her to try. After just one bite, Lin Yuwei vomited violently, and it was only then that they discovered she was pregnant. Everyone was in a panic, but fortunately, nothing serious happened.
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