Chapter 70: Received a Medal of Honor
Gu Weidong was quite efficient. He got the medicine that day and helped Ye Qing deliver it overnight.
The day after the strategic materials and evidence were taken away from Changbai Mountain, more than a dozen media outlets in Xia Country published the same report on their headlines:
"The Reappearance of the Dongning Fortress Reveals the Numerous Crimes of the Kwantung Army During the Invasion"
This report caused a national uproar, especially the striking black-and-white photo that accompanied the news, showing dozens of skeletons piled up in a dark underground laboratory, many of which were even the remains of children.
Even without reading the news, just looking at the photo makes people extremely angry.
Within a few days, this report spread all over the country.
As long as the newspaper could reach an area, whether it was a county town or a rural town, whether it was a plain or a mountainous area, the people were scrambling to spread the report.
Soon, the fact that a large amount of hard evidence was unearthed from the fortress, showing that the Japanese Expeditionary Force invaded Xia and committed brutal and inhumane crimes, became almost a household name.
For a time, the people of the country were plunged into deep mourning, for the poor people who had unfortunately died in the war and were finally able to see the light of day again in the fortress, and for the countless revolutionary martyrs who gave their lives for the liberation of the motherland in those eight years.
Many students and workers in the town even began to spontaneously organize study tours to pay tribute to the martyrs at various cemeteries and memorial halls.
At the same time, the trade unions in various schools also changed their previous habits of engaging in internal strife and holding criticism meetings among their own people. They began to unite against the enemy and hold anti-fascist and anti-imperialist marches and speeches every day.
This news report helped the patriotic and party-respecting Xia people to rediscover their original aspirations. The people were more united than ever before, and the atmosphere in many towns and cities changed dramatically without anyone noticing.
Of course, Kaoshantun also saw this news report. It was not until this time that the villagers of Kaoshantun realized that the boxes taken away by the heavy trucks that day were actually filled with war supplies and remains of the victims turned out from the Kwantung Army fortress.
The villagers who heard the news were shocked, especially the men and women who had participated in the militia war of resistance. Those who are still alive are now over 40 or 50 years old and have basically become grandparents.
"No wonder the Japanese invaders repeatedly raided our villages near the mountains, forcing the villagers to hide here and there and live in air-raid shelters, fighting guerrilla warfare and underground warfare with the Japanese invaders!"
In the evening, the villagers sat around in the field, listening to the old Party secretary reading the report on the podium. The more they listened, the more they began to think something was wrong.
Gu Zhenxing, who usually doesn't talk much, took a deep puff of the dry cigarette in his hand.
"We were puzzled back then. In this corner of our country, where every household was so poor, why did the Japanese come here once and not only kill us but also come back several times? What did they see in our place that was worth them coming here to burn, kill and rob in such a big way, and even wanted to dig up our place three feet deep and find all of us to kill."
"It turns out that they are not eyeing our villages, but the Changbai Mountain behind us. They want to secretly build a fortress and a base behind us, but they are afraid of being discovered by us, so they have to plunder all the villages nearby and kill everyone, so that the secret will not be leaked!"
Gu Zhenxing's words made many people in the village clench their fists unconsciously.
Although it has been 20 or 30 years since these events, the cruelty of those years is still vivid in the minds of the old people who have experienced them. Sometimes they have nightmares at night and dream that the Japanese invaders have entered the village again. They will be so scared that they wake up immediately and subconsciously reach for the hunting rifle hanging on the wall.
Although the country is now peaceful and prosperous, many people still feel uneasy after seeing that report and the black-and-white photo in the newspaper.
This pain is deeply engraved in the soul and bones of every Xia citizen, and every time they think of it, they feel a piercing pain.
Because Gu Weidong was the first to discover the base behind the mountain, after the old branch secretary finished reading the report to the villagers in the village, he suddenly changed the subject and called Gu Weidong to go to the stage to speak a few words to the villagers in the village.
Gu Weidong was sitting downstairs, preparing to discuss with Ye Qing about the herbal bath and acupuncture he would receive. He had never expected that the old branch secretary would actually cue him. He was a little confused for a moment, stood up in a daze, and then walked up to the podium in a daze.
Men, women, old and young in the village all looked up at him, and many young people clapped, cheered, and whistled.
After seven years in the army, he rose to the position of battalion commander. It can be said that Gu Weidong is the most promising young man in the village. Many members of the village would use Gu Weidong as a positive example when educating their children to make progress.
Therefore, when Gu Weidong returned to the village this time and discovered such a great secret in the back mountain, many of his peers and younger children in the village were particularly admiring and enthusiastic about him. They all wanted to hear Gu Weidong say something different from the old things that the old people in the village usually muttered.
Gu Weidong just felt that Alexander, standing on the stage, facing so many expectant eyes, was stuck for a moment and didn't know what to say.
He subconsciously searched for that special figure among the crowd below the stage.
Then he saw Ye Qing with his arms folded across his chest, looking at him with a smile.
I don't know why, but when I saw Ye Qing's smile, Gu Weidong suddenly remembered the first day he returned to Kaoshantun, when Ye Qing was on the beach of Yazi River, using the fish he caught to lure the children in the village to recite math formulas.
At this moment, it was as if a switch was turned on for Gu Weidong, and he knew what he should say.
"As the old saying goes, the past cannot be retrieved, but the future can still be waited for."
"What does this sentence mean? It means that we can no longer get back the past, but the future world is worth looking forward to."
"In the past, we were defeated step by step because our national strength was too weak. If our technology developed rapidly and our military strength was strong, who among the fascists would dare to bully us?"
"Leader comrade said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. In this world, weak countries have no diplomacy. Only the strong can have the right to speak."
"If we don't want the tragedy of history to repeat itself, we need not only to remember this dark moment, but also to keep moving forward in the struggle."
Immediately, an old man sighed and said, "It sounds good to say this, but it is not easy to make the country stronger. We have all been through that time. Look at us now. It has been more than 20 years since the founding of the country, but we still don't have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear. We are still crossing the river by feeling the stones..."
Gu Weidong smiled and said:
"The road to a strong nation is certainly not easy, but as long as the youth are strong, the country will be prosperous in no time. So we still have to place our hopes for the revitalization of China on the young generation, especially children."
As he spoke, Gu Weidong pointed at the group of naive children aged seven or eight.
"Instead of wasting time on those painful memories, it is better to focus on these children. Only by cultivating them into talents can the rise of our country be just around the corner!"
The villagers subconsciously followed Gu Weidong's line of sight and looked towards the children.
The children had never seen the Japanese, so how could they know how terrible the nightmare that Kaoshan Village experienced twenty or thirty years ago was?
So while the old branch secretary was reading the news draft, they were having a great time chasing chickens and dogs in the sun-drying field, and had no idea what the solemn atmosphere of grief in the field and the grief of the elderly people really meant.
When Gu Weidong pointed at them, the children raised their heads and looked over in confusion, while the adults shook their heads secretly, wondering if it was reliable to rely on such a group of children to realize the dream of a strong country.
As if to respond to the doubts of these adults, Gu Weidong suddenly called out names on the stage:
"Zhao Tiedaner!"
"arrive!"
"Wu Daniu!"
"arrive!"
“…”
After calling out the names of five or six little kids in a row and identifying the few kids who had been watching Ye Qing fishing on the beach that day, Gu Weidong smiled and said loudly:
"You guys should recite the formulas that Ye Zhiqing taught you last time!"
The children were stunned for a moment. After staring at each other for a while, one of them asked slyly:
"If we can recite it, will you give us some maltose? Every time the educated youth sister conducts a random check, she will reward us with maltose!"
Gu Weidong choked immediately.
Ye Qing, who was originally watching the show leisurely below, knew what Gu Weidong was going to do when she saw him suddenly mention her and call those naughty kids to gather on stage.
Seeing several children choking to death as soon as they opened their mouths, she was so happy that she was laughing so hard.
However, in order to help Gu Weidong out, Ye Qing kindly took out a few candies from his bag and handed them to Gu Weibei who was standing beside him, motioning him to go on stage and give them to his brother.
With the candies, the children immediately became excited. They all rushed to raise their hands to show off. No one wanted to be outdone, fearing that they would be outdone by their friends. They couldn't wait to recite:
"1919 is good friends, 2828 is hand in hand..."
The children's tender voices gradually rang out, and the villagers present could hear them clearly.
After reciting, Gu Weidong randomly checked the characters of several children. They were all the characters that Ye Qing had taught them before. Without exception, although these children could not explain the specific meaning of those characters for the time being, they could read all the Chinese characters that Ye Qing had taught them.
After distributing maltose to the children, Gu Weidong waved at them and said, "Go play."
The children immediately scattered.
Gu Weidong just raised his head and looked at the neighbors in the village:
"I know that over the years, many people in the village couldn't understand or even laughed at our family's efforts to send our children to high school.
"I also know that there is a lot of commotion outside. Many schools have boycotted classes. Students are unwilling to sit in class and attend classes. They even call teachers "stinky old nine."
“So many neighbors in the village don’t even enroll their children in primary school, and just let them play around in the village.”
"But folks, the guilty party is some people who have leftist ideas. How can that be considered knowledge?"
"Have you ever thought about this? If everyone doesn't learn knowledge, what will we use to make guns and bullets, and what will we use to design airplanes and cannons?"
"The enemy is constantly making progress. They are constantly investing money and people to develop technology, constantly improving and developing new military weapons. If we don't learn knowledge and don't let our children learn knowledge, we will inevitably be left far behind."
"What should we do if imperialism makes a comeback? Should we just surrender?"
"Aren't the lessons of the eight-year war of resistance enough to alert us? If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is an iron rule!"
These words were so enlightening that many villagers present were stunned.
"Look at our children. Those formulas and Chinese characters were taught to them by Comrade Ye Qing more than ten days ago. After such a long time, the children still remember them. What does this show?"
"This shows that these children are smart and have great potential to learn knowledge. If we delay their schooling, it will affect them for the rest of their lives!"
"I know that if I talk too much about the truth, you may not agree with me, so I won't go too far. I'll just give you an example. Look at Ye Qing, the educated youth in our village. Her situation is obvious to everyone, right?"
"A 16-year-old girl left her hometown to come to this barren place to join the production team. If she didn't have that much knowledge and skills, would we be able to build a health station in our village?"
"She has been here for less than a month, and she has already sent several people to poach us. I don't know how many people have offered tempting allowances. Captain Wu should know this best."
"Why do those outside units who come to poach people only target Ye Zhiqing instead of others? Isn't it because he is knowledgeable and capable?"
"I just want to ask, who doesn't want a child like Ye Qing who can bring honor to their family? I guess eight out of ten families in our village have this idea, and the remaining two families want to trick her into becoming their daughter-in-law, right?"
This question made everyone burst into laughter.
"So folks, don't be afraid of knowledge, and we can't instill in our children the idea that studying is useless. The current situation in the country will not last long, because science is the country's first productive force. To develop and grow, knowledge will always be the first priority."
After Gu Weidong finished speaking, he saluted and prepared to leave the podium.
A villager below immediately shouted:
"Dongzi, what you said is definitely correct. We don't expect them to become real scientists. Even if they can just lay a foundation, like your Gu Weinan did, learning a skill to make a living from Ye Zhiqing, that's fine."
"But now those schools outside don't teach children knowledge seriously at all. There are street fights every day. If we send our children out, they will learn bad things from those people. What can we do in this situation?"
This statement was immediately recognized by many people, and everyone rushed to express their own views.
Maybe it's because Ye Qing has taken in two apprentices recently and has set clear academic requirements for apprentices, so the people in the village are no longer as stubborn and averse to sending their children to school as before.
But the overall environment outside was rather bad. Even though the villagers in the village knew that Ye Qing had set an academic threshold for accepting disciples, they really couldn't find a proper solution and could only worry in their hearts.
Gu Weidong couldn't help but look at Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary over there:
"If we really want to solve this problem, it's not difficult. We may lack other things in our village, but we have people who can teach the children basic knowledge."
"There are dozens of educated youth living in our village. Most of them are not good at working, but the knowledge in their heads is more valuable than farming! If we don't take this opportunity to tap the value of these people, what are we waiting for?"
These words immediately reminded the villagers, and everyone looked at Wu Yongbing and the old party secretary. Even the educated youth below raised their heads collectively.
If the educated youth were to be teachers and teach the villagers knowledge, they would definitely be happy with it. They wouldn't even mention the welfare benefits. As long as they could be exempted from some of their working hours, that would be enough!
It's really too damn hard to collect food. It's like treating people like animals!
The old branch secretary had not expected that Gu Weidong would be so naughty. He just asked this kid to come to the podium and say a few words, but this kid set a trap for him.
Now everyone in the village is waiting for his reply, and the old Party secretary suddenly feels overwhelmed. After all, running a school is not something he can solve just by talking. There are so many people and matters involved.
Perhaps seeing the old branch secretary's dilemma, Ye Qing suddenly suggested:
"In fact, there is no need to set up a special school. We don't have the conditions for that in our village. Let's just do it in the simplest way possible."
"It just so happens that I have just reached a cooperation agreement with the county hospital and the farm next door. After the health station is opened, we will have the county hospital provide us with medical resources, and the army farm next door will provide us with a clinical teaching venue."
"In exchange, they will send a group of young people to the health station to serve as my apprentices for targeted training."
"So we may need to build a separate classroom at the health station so that I can train the trainees."
"After this classroom is built, it won't just be used by me. I think the children and even the villagers will be able to use it whenever they need it."
"The village can set up a special class to eliminate illiteracy, select a few educated youth with solid basic knowledge to be in charge, divide them into groups, and have them attend classes in the classroom at fixed times."
"When the time comes, no matter if they are children or adults, as long as they are interested in literacy, they can sign up. This way, even if the children don't go to school, they can still get basic education, which is much better than walking the cat and playing with the dog all day."
If this suggestion had been made by other educated youth, the cadres of the production team might not have listened to it. However, when Ye Qing proposed it, Wu Yongbing and the old branch secretary began to hesitate. After looking at each other, they did not rush to refuse. Instead, they were silent for a while and said that they needed to hold a meeting to discuss with other cadres before giving a reply.
This is just a proposal. It may not be implemented in a short time. Moreover, the health stations have not been built yet, so everyone knows that there is no time to rush.
The matter of the Kwantung Army Fortress came to an end, and the next thing was to give Gu Weidong a medicinal bath and acupuncture.
Although Ye Qing's abilities have been upgraded, the hidden diseases in Gu Weidong's body can only be forced out through acupuncture after a medicinal bath, so this treatment method is indispensable.
Fortunately, Ye Qing had already revealed the secret of her wood-type supernatural power in front of Gu Weidong, so she no longer had to hide it during the treatment process. She could increase the output of her supernatural power and greatly shorten the treatment period.
"I was afraid that you would be aware of the existence of my supernatural powers. My original plan was to slowly force out the evil energy in your body bit by bit, and then slowly treat it."
"But now that you know everything about me, I won't bother hiding it. I'll increase the dosage to see what your tolerance limit is and try to shorten the course of treatment to the shortest possible. Do you agree?"
Ye Qing spoke directly to Gu Weidong.
Gu Weidong nodded. After all, Ye Qing was a doctor and would definitely not harm him, so it was of course Ye Qing's turn to decide how to treat him.
Early the next morning, Ye Qing took the prepared medicine bag to the next door alone. Aunt Gu had already prepared the water. She threw the medicine bag into the pot, and flames rose in the stove. Soon, a strong smell of Chinese medicine filled the kitchen.
Because Grandpa Miao came to the Gu family to recuperate, Gu Weidong and Gu Weibei were now squeezed into the same room, so Gu Weibei got up very early, and when he saw that the medicine was ready, he hurried to help carry it into the room.
After everything was ready, Gu Weidong followed Ye Qing's request and sat directly in the bathtub filled with black Chinese medicine.
Seeing that his brother was ready, Gu Weibei shouted outside, and Ye Qing then pushed the door and walked in from outside, just in time to meet Gu Weidong, who had his head and shoulders exposed in the bathtub inside the room.
To be honest, when they first met in Sheshan, when Gu Weidong was lying on the ground covered in blood and knife and gunshot wounds, Ye Qing found that this guy was handsome and sturdy.
But at that time Ye Qing only had a initial impression and didn't take it too seriously. He was more worried that his secret would be exposed and would endanger his safety.
Later, she met Gu Weidong again in Kaoshantun. With her identities changed and her understanding of Gu Weidong gradually increased, her feelings towards Gu Weidong changed from initial wariness to trust.
Until now, she has regarded this person as the only person in the world to whom she can freely confide her past and is not afraid to let the other person know the secret of her supernatural powers.
Although it sounds strange to say this, the relationship between the two of them has indeed made great progress during this period of time, from strangers directly skipping those strange stages to becoming the most familiar and trustworthy comrades.
Perhaps it was because of the comradeship that Ye Qing didn't have much idea about Gu Weidong's face. Until the moment before she pushed open the door and entered the room, she still regarded him as an ordinary patient who urgently needed her flying needle treatment.
But the moment he pushed open the door, in the mist of the bathtub, he saw a face with deep features and distinct contours, as well as broad shoulders and back, and well-developed wheat-colored skin. The impact of that scene on Ye Qing was undoubtedly extremely huge.
At this moment, Ye Qing's breath was choked, and only one thought flashed through his mind:
The proportions of this guy's face and body are too good, right? Isn't this the male Bodhisattva she saw on the short video back then?
If it was before she traveled through time, if she saw such a tense video on a short video app, she would probably scream wildly and lick the screen, and then quickly leave a message below, being as rude and outrageous as possible, and directly turning the comment section into a deserted zone.
But now, facing Gu Weidong's serious, solemn, and inviolable face, Ye Qing could only suppress his excitement and joy, and tried his best to restrain his urge to drool. He pretended to be calm as he approached him, and then asked him in a calm tone:
"How's the water temperature? Do you feel uncomfortable or stuffy?"
To be honest, Gu Weidong felt a little uncomfortable, especially when he saw Ye Qing's sparkling eyes staring at him with strange little flames flashing in his eyes from time to time. That look was so presumptuous that his heartbeat frequency unconsciously became a little disordered, and he subconsciously wanted to shrink his shoulders and head into the bucket.
He quickly cleared his throat twice, put aside the awkwardness in his heart, shook his head and said seriously:
"It's OK. I don't feel any discomfort for the time being."
When he first soaked in the medicinal bath, Gu Weidong didn't feel anything at all, as if it was no different from taking a normal hot bath.
However, his calmness did not last for three seconds, because the next second after he answered the question, Ye Qing rudely stabbed him with a silver needle.
The moment the silver needle pierced his body, a piercing pain rushed into his body along the needle, as if thousands of ants were gnawing at him. His face instantly turned red, and the veins on his forehead, neck, and even shoulders and arms bulged in an instant. He gritted his teeth to swallow back the cry of pain.
"Is it painful?"
"Your body is like a shaky building made of randomly piled wood. Although it has barely maintained its balance before, it has long been precarious. As long as one more piece of wood has a problem, the whole building may collapse."
"My needle is to directly pull out the most critical piece of wood in your building, and then reshape the pile of wood, so this process is extremely painful."
"In the next half hour, I will need to inject 749 needles into your body. Each needle will probably be very painful. If you can't bear it halfway, you may faint, so you have to be mentally prepared!"
As he said that, Ye Qing smiled and handed Gu Weidong a clean towel.
"Bite it, or you'll bite your tongue off in pain!"
At this moment, Gu Weidong really felt that this woman was like a devil when she smiled. No wonder so many wild beasts in Changbai Mountain didn't dare to mess with her. Now he felt the same way.
Ye Qing didn't care how Gu Weidong complained about her in his heart at this moment. After seeing this guy bit the towel fiercely in his mouth, she continued with what she was doing.
While inserting the needle, he openly examined the beautiful work created by Nuwa in front of him.
Well, with such a beautiful head and back, and such a perfect shoulder-to-shoulder ratio, it would be a shame not to add a few more stitches!
If her former clinical teacher were here, he would probably call all the students in the department over while she was being treated, and have them all observe the perfect head-to-shoulder width ratio and the textbook-like biceps and triceps, and would not be satisfied until he had marked all the acupuncture points and muscle tissues on the patient's body.
But Ye Qing really wasn't trying to scare Gu Weidong. As the needles pierced into him one by one, Gu Weidong's face became more and more distorted and sinister, and cold sweat broke out all over his body. When he reached the twentieth needle, he could no longer hold back and let out a muffled groan, then fainted.
Ye Qing couldn't help but admire the endurance of the guy in front of him.
With this level of pain, most people can't even endure three injections, let alone the twentieth one.
No wonder someone with no background or foundation could fight his way out of the army by relying on his stubbornness. This guy is really too hardworking and ruthless!
Although Ye Qing thought this guy was very powerful, even if the person fainted, it did not prevent her from continuing to use the silver needles in her hand to fly out. It was agreed that there would be 49 needles, and not a single one could be missing.
Gu Weidong fainted several times, but was awakened again by the severe pain. After the forty-nine needles were inserted, he was numb. This feeling of being worse than death almost drove him crazy.
But after the silver needle was inserted, the rest of the work was relatively easy.
Ye Qing transferred his supernatural powers into Gu Weidong's body bit by bit, wrapped the hidden diseases in this guy's body with spiritual energy, and then slowly forced them out with silver needles.
Perhaps it was because the soothing treatment from the supernatural power after the injection felt so good that Gu Weidong finally came to his senses and even sighed in comfort.
"Awake? After enduring this most difficult first time today, the next injection won't hurt as much as it did today, and it will gradually get less painful, and in the end it will just feel like a mosquito bite."
"And based on your condition, I estimate that your treatment will be over the day after tomorrow. As long as you continue to take medication for about half a year, there will basically be no problem."
Ye Qing explained slowly while using his supernatural powers to help Gu Weidong recover.
Gu Weidong's voice was a little hoarse: "Thank you!"
This hoarse, smoke-like voice, as deep as a cello, simply struck Ye Qing directly in the heart.
Ye Qing had a blank expression on his face, but there was a sullen little man going crazy inside.
It has to be said that Gu Weidong's looks and voice perfectly matched her XP, making her feel itchy and eager to get started.
It's just a pity that in this era, love that is not for the purpose of marriage is considered hooliganism, not to mention that she doesn't even want to be in love, but simply covets this perfect body. It is even more unforgivable to be in love with her heart.
Ye Qing could only keep repeating in her heart: Lust is like a sword hanging over one's head, she needs to stay sober. She is now a beautiful girl of sixteen, not yet an adult, she must not be led astray by this male vixen!
After half an hour of waiting, when the temperature of the medicine in the bathtub had gradually dropped, Ye Qing removed all the silver needles, packed up her things and quickly put oil on her feet, otherwise she was afraid that her nature as an INFP female hooligan would be exposed.
Gu Weidong was not a fool, could he not feel the fiery look in Ye Qing's eyes? However, he was afraid that Ye Qing would be embarrassed, and he would not lose a piece of meat if she looked at him a few times, so he did not expose her on the spot, but let the little girl secretly look at him from behind.
However, when Ye Qing fled in a hurry, Gu Weidong in the house couldn't help but laugh out loud.
It took a while for the heat on Ye Qing's face to subside until she returned home. She couldn't help but secretly spit in her heart, cursing herself for being so useless. She had seen handsome young men with good figures before, so why did she have to mess around like this?
Less than two days after the news of the Kwantung Army Fortress was published in the newspaper, Hang Tingfang came to Kaoshantun again. This time she brought a whole team with her. After arriving at Kaoshantun, she went straight to find Gu Weidong and took out a certificate from the Propaganda Department.
"Comrade Gu, please help lead the way. We need to go into the mountains to take detailed photos of the base site. If necessary, you may be required to appear on camera to explain and reconstruct this underground fortification."
Hang Tingfang was very polite to Gu Weidong.
Gu Weidong was on vacation in the village anyway, and he was bored anyway, so it was no big deal for him to take this team of reporters and photographers into the mountains.
Because it was a mission assigned by their superiors, Hang Tingfang and his team did not stay in the mountain for too long. After taking all the necessary photos, the photography team quickly went down the mountain.
Afterwards, Hang Tingfang led the team to visit several villages nearby, especially interviewing many elderly people, and carefully recorded what the Kwantung Army had done in the villages at the foot of the mountains. If there were any traces of the post-war period in the villages, they would all be photographed for record keeping.
After staying in Qingshan Town for two days, Hang Tingfang led the team away. However, before leaving, she went back to Kaoshantun to visit Ye Qing once more.
Hang Tingfang was deeply impressed by this female educated youth who went to Kaoshantun to work in the countryside. He was especially surprised to hear that Ye Qing was the first to discover a major case that had caused a lot of controversy in the Great Northern Wilderness and had even caused panic in the Ministry of Agriculture.
Hang Tingfang's visit to Ye Qing this time was certainly not just to meet Ye Qing, she was here to do something on behalf of Mr. Yang.
"Mr. Yang asked me to tell you that the case of the spy on the train has been investigated, and they have found several accomplices."
"The foreign guest from Romania who had contracted the disease due to tranexamic acid had another attack less than a week after returning home. However, this time he did not receive timely treatment and died on the spot."
"Romania has pointed the finger at the United States, saying their people were killed by American agents. Now the two sides are biting each other and the situation is getting very chaotic."
"But this matter has nothing to do with us anyway, so we're happy to just watch the show from the other side of the river, just for fun."
Hang Tingfang smiled and told Ye Qing what happened after the visiting group returned home, and took out a palm-sized gift box from her briefcase and handed it to Ye Qing.
"Mr. Yang asked me to pass this to you. He said that although it is not convenient to publicize your contribution on the train last time, he has always remembered it and went to the Jinling Museum to get this for you. It is a reward for your outstanding contribution!"
Ye Qing was stunned for a moment and opened the box.
A glittering golden medal appeared before his eyes, almost blinding him.
Ye Qing was immediately surprised. He saw that the box contained a medal with a red five-pointed star in the middle and a line of words engraved below:
——Jinling Museum Medal of Honor, 1971.
The medal felt heavy in his hand. Ye Qing looked at Hang Tingfang in shock:
"Is this thing made of pure gold?"
Hang Tingfang raised his eyebrows: "What else? It was Mr. Yang who went to Nanjing several times to persuade the museum to give you a special medal, and this medal has been specially registered in Nanjing. In the future, when you go to Nanjing, you can eat, stay, and play for free with this medal in hand. You can almost walk around there freely."
Ye Qing suddenly felt that this medal was too precious, and he felt as if he was being flattered but unworthy of it.
After all, it was Mr. Yang who mediated and supported her behind the scenes when the news appeared in Jicheng Daily that made it possible for her to get that interview, thus saving her from being questioned by the intelligence department.
I didn't expect that the old comrade was so concerned about her affairs that he even went to Jinling to ask for this for her.
Ye Qing felt indescribably grateful towards this old man. Knowing that Hang Tingfang might have a close relationship with this old man Yang, Ye Qing did not try to find out what their relationship was. He just asked Hang Tingfang to wait for a moment.
When she made ginseng and ganoderma lucidum pills for Han Yabo, she made a few extra pills and kept two packets of pills. She originally planned to send them back to Shencheng to be distributed to Song Chunhua and Chen Youde.
But now that Hang Tingfang was here, Ye Qing knew that she should be able to meet Mr. Yang, or know Mr. Yang's home address, so he took out the two packets of pills and prepared to give the medicine to the old comrade as a thank-you gift.
As for the medicine for Song Chunhua and Chen Youde, she would secretly make a few packets when she had some free time. Anyway, she had ginseng seedlings and ganoderma lucidum seeds at the back of her house, so it wouldn't take much effort to boil a pot of medicine.
"These two packets of medicine are specially brewed according to my own prescription. You can't buy them anywhere else."
"Mr. Yang is old, and he must have a lot of minor health problems. Reporter Hang, please help bring these two packets of pills to the old man. Let him take one or two every morning and evening according to my instructions. I guarantee that he will eat well and sleep well, and he will be healthy and immune to viruses!"
Ye Qing's self-promoting advertising slogan sounded like the tone of those quack doctors who sell fake medicine. After Hang Tingfang took the two packets of pills, he was a little skeptical:
"Is this true? What kind of medicine is so effective?"
Ye Qing smiled and said, "The Ginseng and Ganoderma Lucidum Pills are made of real ingredients. I accidentally found these two herbs when I went into the mountains to collect herbs. The wild herbs in the mountains grow well and have strong medicinal effects. The pills made from them are absolutely genuine."
"However, the shelf life of this pill is limited. It is best to consume it within six months. If it is left for too long, the maltose and flour inside will deteriorate and the efficacy of the medicine will be lost."
After hearing this, Hang Tingfang did not ask any more questions, but she took note of Ye Qing's medicine and would go back to see how effective it was after Old Yang took it. If possible, she would at least ask for a dose of medicine for her own grandfather to try.
After completing the task assigned by Mr. Yang, Hang Tingfang was in a hurry to leave.
However, before leaving, she smiled and predicted to Ye Qing:
"I think we'll see each other again soon!"
Hang Tingfang had a strong premonition that the last report about the heroine in Jicheng Daily would definitely not be the last time Ye Qing would appear in print newspapers, and her assignment to come to Kaoshantun to interview Ye Qing was most likely not the end of the story, but the beginning.
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