He felt a little heartbroken in private, but he didn't expect that even greater pain was yet to come.
He was originally stationed with the rest of the group thirty miles outside Sanmu Pass, but he was suddenly called away that day. The man asked him to go alone to the village deep in Bijiang.
"Is the life of the man you are talking about in danger?" he remembered asking.
“Not yet.”
"Mr. Qu is not talented, he can only treat dying people."
Humph, he's a very proud man, isn't he? How could he be ordered around like a quack? Besides, Bijiang is so dangerous.
"Although her life is not in danger, she is your friend."
His ears twitched.
Friends? How could he have any friends in Lingxi? Humph, trying to trick him? No way!
The next second, the man's voice suddenly became closer.
"Qu Mo, if you agree now, it will be a meritorious deed. If you don't, it will only be considered as meritorious service while guilty. You all have to go, do you understand?"
The man's words passed by his ears lightly, but he felt as if a female ghost had blown on his neck.
"Hao Bai?"
The woman's somewhat dissatisfied voice brought his thoughts back to reality, but thinking of what had happened before, he really couldn't put on a good face.
"What?!"
"You just left your words halfway. Why?"
Because I was threatened!
His lips trembled, and his teeth gnashed fiercely. Hao Bai's unpowdered face looked a little pale. After a long pause, he said, "I was out practicing medicine and happened to pass by."
Xiao Nanhui still had some doubts: "But didn't you send a letter to my house before, saying that you were going to Quecheng this month..."
"What do you care about me?! I can come here if I want to! I can go wherever I want!"
Hao Bai roared angrily, but because his clothes were disheveled, he lacked momentum and looked like a sullen young wife.
Xiao Nanhui was also startled by this moody doctor. He thought it was because the climate and soil of Bijiang were different from those in Lingdong that made the man in front of him feel a little dissatisfied. He blinked and said, "I don't mean anything else. Why are you so excited?"
The room was silent for a while. Wu Xiaoliu walked slowly between the two people and went straight to the window. He lifted the simple curtain made of tattered linen and looked at them expressionlessly: "If you think it's not exciting enough, you can make it louder."
Xiao Nanhui smiled awkwardly.
She was a little carried away. This was Bijiang, and the houses were drafty on all sides, so naturally there was no sound insulation.
Thinking of this, she pushed her wheelchair to the bedside, lifted up her feet that were wrapped like dumpling, and put them in front of Hao Bai.
"When will my leg heal?"
Hao Bai tied the last belt on his clothes and jumped out of bed, not intending to look back at the two "white dumplings" with bows.
"Three months."
"Three months?!" Xiao Nanhui almost jumped up from the wheelchair.
She has to wait in a wheelchair for three months and do some bullshit work behind enemy lines!
"Three months is considered a fast recovery. Although only one ankle is broken, the tendons and veins in both legs are almost completely destroyed. There is no one else in the world who can reconnect your tendons as well as I can."
There would be no other person who would be willing to insert two bone-hidden needles into her body.
Two! One for each foot. Just thinking about it makes him feel painful.
"quack."
Hao Bai was completely furious. He was about to leave in anger, but the moment he swung his sleeves, the woman grabbed him.
"Where are you going?"
Hao Bai said nothing and struggled desperately. However, after struggling for a long time, his sleeve did not move at all.
"If you really want to leave, I won't stop you. But can you really leave?"
"...Don't try to scare me."
She gave him a cold look and said calmly, "Medical technology is backward in Bijiang. If anyone in the village gets sick or injured, they can only rely on the witch doctor's treatment. It's not uncommon for a simple cold to kill someone. Let alone a doctor, even if someone collecting herbs strays here, it's not uncommon for them to get a broken leg and be left in the village."
Hao Bai refused to give up: "Don't they call you the village chief? If you ask them, will they dare not release us?"
Xiao Nanhui sighed softly, "I haven't even warmed up to my seat as village chief yet, and I'm afraid I can't protect you right now. You know, if the trap is revealed and a real fight breaks out, I'll just be sitting here making gestures."
Hao Bai's eyes were dull and he sat down on the ground.
He thought he had completed his mission and that his days in this impoverished and desolate place would be over, but who would have thought...
"So, let's not look down on each other. We still have a long way to go."
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