Chapter 43 Qingyun got some on the bedsheets.
The two were delayed in the car for a while, and it was almost 8 p.m. when they got home. Aunt Lian had already reheated the food twice.
Rong Chengzhou comforted Jiang Mingxue for a long time, and her emotions calmed down a lot. However, she had a poor appetite due to her period and didn't eat many dishes.
Rong Chengzhou served her a bowl of red bean and barley porridge and placed it in front of her: "I put brown sugar in it, try to drink some."
Jiang Mingxue nodded: "Okay."
After dinner, Jiang Mingxue went to the bedroom to get her pajamas and then took a shower.
Rong Chengzhou stopped her, holding her wrist in his palm: "Is it okay to take a shower during your period?"
Jiang Mingxue smiled reassuringly at him, "It's alright, I'll take a shower."
Rong Chengzhou pondered for a few seconds before nodding: "Then I'll wait for you outside. Call me if you need anything."
Jiang Mingxue chuckled: "I'm just on my period, not sick, there's no need to be so cautious."
The man disagreed: "Girls' immunity is lowered during their period, so it's better to be cautious."
He insisted on doing so, and Jiang Mingxue had no choice but to go to the bathroom to take a shower herself.
Menstrual cycles vary greatly from person to person. After all, she is a doctor. Considering the thousands of patients she has helped treat who have severe menstrual cramps, irregular cycles, or heavy or light flow, her own regular cycle and minimal menstrual cramps are already very fortunate.
Of course, many patients experience abnormal interruption of menstruation after taking a bath. This is generally due to insufficient blood and qi. Bathing accelerates blood circulation in the body, causing blood and qi to flow to the limbs, brain and other organs, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the ovaries. As a self-protective measure, the body stops menstruating.
She occasionally experiences this. At home, she would usually just wipe herself down and clean herself, but now that she lives with Rong Chengzhou, she can't be as casual as when she's alone, so she took a proper shower.
Rong Chengzhou sat on the sofa in the bedroom waiting for her. He took out his phone and opened the red app he had just downloaded. Yu Feijie had told him that young people were using it now, and many girls would share their experiences on it.
He opened the search bar and typed in "precautions during menstruation". There was only one history record below the search bar - "precautions for wedding photos".
The posts were all pretty much the same. He liked many of them and kept them in mind. Then he got up and went to the kitchen to make a bowl of brown sugar, goji berry, and ginger tea in a health pot. He planned to make it so that Jiang Mingxue could drink it after she finished showering.
Jiang Mingxue sat in the living room, sipping her ginger tea, when she suddenly remembered, "I haven't made your medicine yet."
She usually starts cooking after taking a shower.
"..." Rong Chengzhou's enthusiasm was instantly extinguished.
He pursed his lips, his voice neither cold nor indifferent, revealing no emotion: "Don't fry it yet. You didn't sleep well last night, so get some rest early today."
If he's suffering from holding it in, how can he take care of her during her period?
"Oh, okay."
Jiang Mingxue held the bowl, feeling defeated by Doctor Feng today, and had no energy left to prepare the medicine.
After finishing her ginger tea, she went to her study to make several PowerPoint presentations for her lectures. In the past two years, she has been giving lectures on women's health from time to time and taking on female apprentices. In fact, much of the content could be directly replaced or modified, but she didn't want to be perfunctory and decided to redesign and create new content.
The air conditioning was still on in the study. She was wearing a thin nightgown, so Rong Chengzhou brought her a cup of hot water and draped a light blanket over her.
I stood next to her for a while and didn't leave.
"What's wrong? Is there something you didn't do well?" Jiang Mingxue pulled the blanket tighter around her and turned to ask him.
Rong Chengzhou shook his head: "No, I can't understand your content, but the layout and aesthetics are beautiful. I'd like to learn from it."
Jiang Mingxue felt much better after being praised: "Do you have to make PPTs in the army too?"
Rong Chengzhou nodded: "We'll have training plan presentations every week, and sometimes we'll also have to report on combat plans and work deployments."
When Jiang Mingxue learned about his specific job duties for the first time, she was somewhat surprised: "It sounds like a corporate management model. I didn't expect that you would have to report on your work in the military. PPT is indeed the same all over the country. No one can escape it."
Rong Chengzhou chuckled and stood beside her while she worked for a while.
Jiang Mingxue would ask him from time to time if the color scheme was not harmonious, or if the layout of that page was not full enough. Rong Chengzhou would earnestly give her suggestions and help her complete several pages.
It was almost eleven o'clock in the blink of an eye. Jiang Mingxue closed the app, rubbed her lower back, and felt a little sore from sitting for too long.
Rong Chengzhou poured her another cup of hot water: "Drink the water and go to sleep."
Jiang Mingxue nodded: "I'll go brush my teeth and then go to sleep."
Although I didn't eat much for dinner, he unknowingly made me drink a bowl of red bean and barley porridge, a bowl of brown sugar, goji berry and ginger tea, and several cups of hot water, leaving my stomach feeling full.
After brushing her teeth and getting into bed, Rong Chengzhou held her with one arm and used the other to massage her lower back and rub her stomach.
Jiang Mingxue felt his meticulous care throughout the night and couldn't help but tease him: "Rong Chengzhou, have you really never been in a relationship before?"
The man paused slightly, then moved to a different spot and continued pressing: "What's causing this illusion?"
Jiang Mingxue deliberately said, "You've taken such good care of me."
Rong Chengzhou remained silent, temporarily withdrawing his hand. He picked up his phone from the bedside table and showed her the recent likes on the red app, his tone somewhat serious:
"That's how it's taught online."
It took Jiang Mingxue a minute to scroll down to the bottom of the post, leaving her both amused and exasperated.
She turned off her phone, hugged him back, as if soothing a large golden retriever: "Okay, I was just kidding, of course I know you wouldn't lie to me."
Rong Chengzhou's expression softened a bit. He put the phone back in the darkness and continued to massage her lower back.
In the quiet bedroom, the only sound was the rustling of the fabric as he moved it.
Jiang Mingxue closed her eyes, nestled lazily in his arms, enjoying the luxurious service, and fell asleep without realizing it.
The next morning, when I got up, I found a red stain on the bed.
It was a small print, but it still looked off on the pristine white sheets.
In the past two years, sanitary napkin manufacturers have been cutting corners, and even though she sleeps soundly, she still easily leaks from the side.
Last night I was so caught up in my sadness that I forgot to put an extra blanket on the bed.
Jiang Mingxue sighed, went to the bathroom to change her pants first, and then lifted the bed sheet to wash them together.
Seeing that she hadn't left the bedroom for a long time, Rong Chengzhou assumed she had overslept and came in from the living room to wake her up.
I only saw her washing clothes and sheets in front of the sink when I heard the sound of running water in the bathroom.
Upon catching a glimpse of the faint red in the flowing water, I quickly understood what was going on.
He approached her and took the bed sheet from her hand: "You go wash up and eat first, I'll do it."
Jiang Mingxue blushed slightly, but held on tightly, saying, "It's okay, I can wash it myself."
These are all very personal clothes, and she did them herself because she was embarrassed to let Aunt Lian wash them.
Rong Chengzhou refused, took the bed sheet, and held her hand, washing it under the tap.
"You have to go to work later, don't be late."
Jiang Mingxue couldn't persuade him otherwise, and before leaving, she glanced down at the bed sheets and pajama bottoms in the washbasin.
Fortunately, she had just washed her underwear separately.
Rong Chengzhou stood in front of the washbasin, his profile showing a clear jawline. He lowered his eyes and carefully rubbed away the menstrual blood from the sheets and pants.
The black shirt was rolled up several times to the forearm, and the buttons on the cuffs shimmered in the warm light. The veins on the man's lean and muscular arms bulged slightly when he exerted force. The same hands that had piloted the country's newest and most advanced fighter jets were now washing her extremely private clothes.
Jiang Mingxue stood at the bathroom door, staring blankly for a while.
Rong Chengzhou, holding the half-washed sheets with soap still on his hands, turned to look at her: "If you don't go wash up soon, you'll be late for work."
Jiang Mingxue reluctantly looked away: "Oh, I'm going."
After she finished washing up and eating, Rong Chengzhou had just finished washing up, put the clothes in the washing machine to spin dry, and hung them on the balcony. He didn't come back to eat breakfast until after he dropped Jiang Mingxue off.
Summer has quietly passed, but the temperature has not dropped. In the last week of August, in addition to pedestrians going to work, there are also junior and senior high school students carrying their schoolbags who have started school early.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Jiang Mingxue, sitting in the passenger seat of the SUV, suddenly realized that half of Rong Chengzhou's vacation time had already passed.
"Rong Chengzhou, will you still be in Haining when you return to your unit?" she asked, turning her head.
The man in the driver's seat, gripping the steering wheel, replied, "The mission in Haining is over. Next time, we'll go to Ancheng, but it will be for a short time. After that, we won't need to be sent out so often."
Jiang Mingxue responded with an "oh," leaned back in her chair, and turned her head to think about something.
Ancheng is also located in North China, not far away, but once Rong Chengzhou returns to his unit, it will be difficult for them to see each other as often as they do now, and it is even very likely that they will not be able to exchange messages for half a month, just like before.
They are often separated, which explains why many people say being a military wife is difficult.
Jiang Mingxue was going to give a lecture to freshmen at Beijing University of Medicine on Monday. She didn't ask for leave, but took a day off in lieu of leave. She would work normally on Saturday and Sunday, and had a two-day weekend this week, with Monday and Tuesday off.
After three or four days of handover, Yan Ze finally handed over all his work to Xiao Liang on Saturday. It was time for him to leave.
There were fewer doctors and apprentices on duty on Saturdays. After Jiang Mingxue finished her work, Yan Ze went to the break room to say goodbye to her and also to tell her about what had happened before.
“I wasn’t lying when I told you before that I was an orphan. My mother met Ning Guohui before she married him, but because her family was powerless, Ning Guohui broke his promise and abandoned her, choosing to marry his current wife. But he couldn’t let go of my mother, and after the marriage, he still had an affair with her, and she got pregnant with me. When I was three years old, my mother was completely disappointed in Ning Guohui, abandoned me and ran away abroad. I heard she found a rich American.”
He confessed his past experiences to her in a calm and indifferent tone, as if he were telling someone else's story: "Although Ning Guohui has always raised me and taught me manners and etiquette, he has never treated me like his own son. He would only come back and take it out on me when he was upset at the Ning family's house, always cursing me for not being born to his wife. When I was in college, I wanted to run away and chose the city farthest from Beicheng, but in the end, I was beaten up and forced by Ning Guohui to change my major to finance in Beicheng."
"The day I met you was not an accident. I had escaped from the Ning family and wanted to jump off a cliff to end my life."
Jiang Mingxue's gaze remained calm: "I know."
She could tell he wanted to commit suicide, but she was afraid of upsetting him, so she pretended that he had made a mistake.
Yan Ze looked up in surprise, then smiled with relief.
He was naive; she has always been so intelligent.
After explaining all this, he looked sincerely into her eyes: "I didn't mean to hide it. I was just afraid that if you knew, you wouldn't want to accept me and would send me back."
Jiang Mingxue: "Now that I know, you still have to go back."
She initially took him in because she thought he was a college student who was down on his luck in life or studies, and she didn't want him to end up on the streets.
"But at least these two years that I stole were the happiest days of my life." Yan Ze smiled faintly, as if she had returned to the clean and pure days when she first arrived at the clinic.
He looked at her hopefully: "Dr. Jiang, can we still be friends?"
Jiang Mingxue smiled and refused decisively: "Sorry, I can't."
The man clenched his fists, and the glimmer of light in his eyes vanished.
"It's getting late, let's go back." Jiang Mingxue gently reminded him, "After you go back, be a good young master of the Ning family. Ning Jialing is innocent just like you, don't hate the wrong person."
"I know." Yan Ze lowered his eyes and stood up dejectedly. "Goodbye, Dr. Jiang."
Jiang Mingxue watched him leave.
Just as he was about to walk out, someone suddenly called out to him:
"Ning Yanze".
He turned to look at her.
Jiang Mingxue smiled and said softly, just like the day she saved him when they first met:
"Live well."
He looked deeply into her eyes and solemnly promised:
"good."
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