Xu Xinghe quickly packed up and rushed to the work site with Zhao Xiaoyan.
Before she could even steady the hoe in her hand, her gaze couldn't help but sweep towards the male educated youth.
Sure enough, Chen Yifan was nowhere to be seen.
Xu Xinghe breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help feeling nervous.
Has Jiang Linchuan really made his move?
How is Chen Yifan doing now?
Will those medications have any effect on his body?
Will this implicate Jiang Linchuan?
While I was still in a daze, a commotion suddenly came from afar.
Zhang Qiang, accompanied by the old doctor, hurriedly walked towards the male educated youth dormitory, followed by two villagers.
Xu Xinghe's heart jumped into his throat, and he almost dropped the hoe in his hand.
"Li Juan, what are you looking at? I've called you several times!" Zhao Xiaoyan's voice rang in her ears, and she pushed her. "Get back to work! The team leader is looking over here!"
Xu Xinghe then came to her senses and quickly lowered her head to turn over the soil, but she couldn't help but glance in the direction of the male educated youth dormitory out of the corner of her eye.
“I was checking on the male educated youth.” She explained, following Zhao Xiaoyan’s words, “Look, Captain Zhang and the doctor have both gone over there. Could something have happened to the male educated youth?”
"Huh? Something happened?" Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiaoyan forgot her work and stood on tiptoe to look in that direction. "It looks like... Could someone be sick?"
Because she had something on her mind, Xu Xinghe was distracted while working.
After finally getting to the midday break, Zhao Xiaoyan went to ask a male educated youth she knew for information.
A moment later, she ran back, her face showing surprise. "Li Juan, something really happened! It's Chen Yifan! This morning everyone tried to wake him up for work, but they couldn't get him to wake up. He was like he was dead asleep, so Captain Zhang called the doctor!"
Xu Xinghe feigned surprise, "How could this be? How come someone who was perfectly healthy can't be woken up? Did the doctor say anything?"
“The doctor couldn’t explain it either.” Zhao Xiaoyan shook her head. “He said he had never seen this situation before. He checked her pulse but couldn’t find anything wrong.”
"What if he keeps sleeping? How will he eat and drink?" Xu Xinghe frowned, her voice filled with worry. "If a person doesn't eat or drink for a long time, their health will collapse."
Zhao Xiaoyan shrugged. "Who knows? Maybe the doctor can help. Let's not worry about it and go eat first."
How could Xu Xinghe not worry?
When she went to work in the afternoon, her mind was filled with Chen Yifan's situation, fearing that Jiang Linchuan's medication might have gone wrong.
He swung the hoe weakly and listlessly.
Fortunately, Zhang Qiang didn't come to inspect, and the deputy captain was nowhere to be seen, so even though he was slacking off, he wasn't caught.
After work in the evening.
Xu Xinghe then pulled Zhao Xiaoyan along, using the excuse of going to see Chen Yifan, and together they went to the male educated youth dormitory.
Just as I reached the door, I ran into Zhang Guoming, who was coming out to fetch water.
"Zhang Guoming, how is Chen Yifan?" Xu Xinghe asked quickly.
"I don't know." Zhang Guoming sighed. "I woke up for a while, drank some water, ate a couple of bites of food, and then fell asleep again not long after. The doctor couldn't figure it out either; I guess it's some kind of strange illness."
"Then... will you take him to the hospital?"
"I don't know." Zhang Guoming shook his head. "It depends on what Captain Zhang thinks. If he doesn't get better, he might really be sent to the town."
Xu Xinghe felt a little more at ease. She chatted with Zhang Guoming for a couple more minutes before pulling Zhao Xiaoyan back to the dormitory.
That night, she was finally able to sleep a little more peacefully.
The next morning, Xu Xinghe had just woken up when she heard the educated youth talking outside the dormitory.
She quickly dressed and ran out, asking, "What happened? What's wrong?"
"Chen Yifan has been sent to the town!" a female educated youth said. "This morning, Captain Zhang said we couldn't keep waiting, so he had Li Guowei and two villagers take him to the town hospital on a cart!"
Xu Xinghe finally felt relieved.
Jiang Linchuan finally had the opportunity to go to town to hand over the intelligence!
Moreover, once Chen Yifan goes to town, there should be a way to solve this big problem.
...
The town's hospital is small.
Jiang Linchuan and two villagers carried Chen Yifan to the hospital bed.
The doctor came over quickly to examine her, feeling her pulse and looking at her tongue, his brow furrowed tightly.
Jiang Linchuan stood aside and waited until the doctor had finished examining him before whispering to the villagers next to him, "It's not easy to come to the hospital, I want to buy some medicine, you guys keep an eye on him for now."
The villager didn't even look up, just waved his hand and said, "Go on, and come back soon."
Jiang Linchuan nodded, turned around and walked out of the ward, quickly heading towards the hospital exit.
Instead of going to the pharmacy, he took out a map he had prepared in advance, walked around several streets according to the map, and arrived at an inconspicuous grocery store.
This was the meeting place he had noted down while he was in Heilongjiang Province.
He walked into the grocery store and gave a secret signal to the old man behind the counter.
The old man immediately led him into the inner room.
Jiang Linchuan took out the rolls of paper from his pocket and handed them to the old man. "This is the information we got from Zhang Qiang. There's also a young educated youth named Chen Yifan who knows about us. Please find a way to keep him from going back to the forest farm. He'll cause trouble."
The old man took the roll of paper and nodded seriously. "Don't worry, we'll take care of it. Be careful in the forest, and we'll let you know if anything happens."
Jiang Linchuan responded, gave a few more instructions, and then turned and walked out of the grocery store.
He bought two bottles of common cold medicine at a nearby pharmacy, pretended that he had just bought the medicine, and returned to the hospital.
The doctor had finished the examination. "We still can't find the cause, but we've had similar symptoms abroad, called narcolepsy. Anyway, let's have him hospitalized for a few days for observation and see how he develops."
Since there was nothing else they could do to help, they simply left the hospital and headed back to the forest farm.
By the time they arrived, it was already evening.
Jiang Linchuan didn't rest; he went straight to the work area.
Night fell quickly.
Everyone left one after another, preparing to go back for dinner.
Two people walked in from outside the forest farm and went straight to Zhang Qiang. "Captain Zhang, the hospital said that Chen Yifan's illness is very serious. We have already transferred him to a large hospital outside the forest farm. He can't come back to the forest farm for the time being. We'll talk about it after he recovers."
Zhang Qiang frowned, feeling somewhat dissatisfied, but since they had already seen the person off, there was nothing he could do. He could only nod and say, "Understood, thank you for your trouble."
During dinner, Xu Xinghe finally found an opportunity to meet with Jiang Linchuan alone. "How did you convince Zhang Qiang to send Chen Yifan to the hospital? He's so suspicious, he definitely wouldn't agree easily, right?"
Jiang Linchuan smiled and lowered his voice, saying, "I told him that Chen Yifan's illness had no identifiable cause and might be an infectious disease. He cherishes his life so much and has a daughter to take care of. As soon as he heard it might be an infectious disease, he got scared and decided on the spot to send him to town."
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