Chapter 52: Explosive Update 1
Young Master Yu was in a very bad state.
"Miss Ruan, can't the conditions for accepting disciples be a little more relaxed? I'm only twenty-two years old, only twelve years older than ten years old."
Ruan Qi: “…”
Are you relaxing a little?
This is 100 million points!
It’s all a big round, brother!
The little girl was speechless and didn't know where to start complaining.
Yu Jinxiu also knew that his request was a bit excessive.
He coughed and said guiltily, "How about... Miss Ruan, can you help me think of a solution? I really want to learn Chinese medicine. I'm even going to change my Weibo account 'Dr. Yu' to 'Chinese Medicine Doctor Yu' so I can share some basic Chinese medicine knowledge with everyone. Miss Ruan, please, just take me in!"
Nie Heng, who came in to get something, happened to hear the last sentence and was so scared that he almost did the splits.
He looked at Ruan Qi and Yu Jin Xiu in horror: "Senior Sister, what are you talking about?! Who wants to take who in?! Does Master Xi know?!"
Is the eldest son of the Yu family crazy to be so blatant as to cuckold Mr. Xi?!
Ruan Qi looked at his imaginative junior brother and couldn't help rolling his eyes.
"Little Dog, get your imagination back on track. Mr. Yu is begging me to take him on as my disciple!"
"Ah..." Nie Heng patted his chest in fear, "Fortunately, fortunately, no blood will be shed. But Senior Sister, Young Master Yu is already this old, he doesn't meet the standards of our sect to accept him as an inner disciple."
"I can be a concubine's disciple!" Yu Jinxiu immediately said enthusiastically, "I don't want any official status! I don't need to be included in the master's roster! As long as I can learn Chinese medicine and be a small assistant, I'm fine with it!"
"This... is not impossible." Nie Heng looked at Ruan Qi, "Senior Sister, what do you think?"
“Hmm…”
Ruan Qi touched his chin and nodded slowly under Yu Jinxiu's expectant gaze.
"There's no such thing as illegitimate disciples in our sect, so I can't accept you as my apprentice. But since you want to learn so much, then be my assistant. When you're free, you can come to Daxiandian to learn Chinese medicine from Nie Heng, and I'll teach you regularly. But I have two requests."
Yu Jinxiu: "You say!"
"First, don't give up halfway." Ruan Qi raised a finger. "I'll test you every month to assess your learning progress. If you fail twice, you're not allowed to study anymore."
"No problem! I'm best at memorizing for exams!" The top student Yu Jinxiu agreed, patting his chest.
Ruan Qi nodded in satisfaction and continued, "Second, you must do your job well. You must make the cooperation with the hospital clear and explicit for me. You are not allowed to let your obsession with studying affect your work progress. Of course, I won't make you too tired either, and the workload I assign will be within your physical tolerance. If you can do this, I will make you my assistant."
“I can do it!”
Yu Jinxiu answered decisively without even thinking.
"My father taught me from a young age that I must have a sense of responsibility, so Miss Ruan, don't worry, I will definitely complete the task you assigned to me successfully!"
Ruan Qi still had great faith in the character of Yu Jinxiu's father, Yu Yurong. The history professor was truly responsible, the kind who had been in the news several times.
"In that case, after you quit your job at the hospital, you should start your job as soon as possible. I'm short of staff here, so please hurry up."
Yu Jinxiu patted his chest and agreed.
The two discussed their future work plans for a few more sentences, and then the twenty-minute acupuncture time was up.
Ruan Qi pulled out the silver needle, took the prepared small pill, and left the Daxian store with Yu Jinxiu.
"Ruan Xiao... No, that's not right! I should call you Teacher Ruan." Yu Jinxiu's handsome face flushed with joy. "I'll go through the resignation procedures when I get back. But the handover at the hospital will take a week. Is it okay for me to start next week?"
Ruan Qi: "Sure. You can do it yourself. Just let me know before you start."
"Oh, there's one more thing!" Yu Jinxiu slapped his forehead. "Look at my brain, I almost forgot. Teacher Ruan, do you have time these days? I have a friend's relative whose younger brother is blind. Can you help take a look?"
"Can't you see?" Ruan Qi handed the medicine box to Mo Lan, who was sitting in the car, and asked casually, "Is it congenital or acquired? Have you been to the hospital?"
Yu Jinxiu: "I've seen it. The doctor said it was caused by psychological factors. He has been blind for ten years."
Ten years of blindness caused by psychological factors is really a long time.
Ruan Qi looked up in surprise, "Did your friend's brother suffer a major psychological trauma?"
"Yes." Yu Jinxiu nodded and sighed, "I heard from my friend that his little cousin was kidnapped ten years ago and was finally rescued."
Ruan Qi's expression changed slightly, and her hand that was about to close the car door suddenly stopped.
Yu Jinxiu didn't notice her change and continued, "The child was autistic for several months after returning, and after recovering, he lost his sight. He's seen many psychiatrists and ophthalmologists over the years, but all the tests showed the same thing: excessive mental stress, leading to functional blindness. The psychiatrist said that he might have seen something horrific after being abducted by human traffickers, and his subconscious self-defense led to his blindness. Teacher Ruan, can you treat this condition?"
Ruan Qi didn't reply.
Yu Jinxiu gave her a strange look. The girl seemed to be distracted. Her peach blossom eyes, which were exposed outside the mask, flickered with thoughts that could not be read.
"Teacher Ruan? What are you thinking about?"
Ruan Qi was brought back to her senses by Yu Jinxiu's voice.
She blinked slowly, removing the obscurity in her eyes, and asked, "Where was your friend's brother kidnapped? On what day ten years ago?"
"I don't know the date. But he was kidnapped in Shanghu City."
Ruan Qi: "Are you sure? Where in Shanghai?"
"I'm not sure about that. I only know that the child's hometown is Shanghai. Later, because he was kidnapped and suffered a great psychological trauma, his family moved to the capital. What's the matter, Teacher Ruan?" Yu Jinxiu looked puzzled. "Why are you so interested in this?"
Ruan Qi took a deep breath and shook his head calmly.
"It's okay, I just feel sorry for the child."
"That's right! The traffickers deserve to be torn into pieces! My friend said his little cousin used to be so lively. But since he was rescued, he's completely changed. He's afraid to go out, afraid to talk to strangers. In the first two years after he became blind, he couldn't even take care of himself. What a sin!"
Yu Jinxiu sighed for a moment, then suddenly thought, "Huh? I suddenly remembered that my little cousin is also nineteen years old now. Teacher Ruan, he's the same age as you, right?"
Ruan Qi's face turned slightly pale under the mask.
"Yes, the same age." She gripped the edge of the car door tightly and whispered to herself, "...How could it be such a coincidence?"
"It's quite a coincidence indeed." Yu Jinxiu nodded. "Then, Mr. Ruan, are you free these days? It doesn't matter if you don't have time. When you finish filming, can you come with me to watch it—"
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Ruan Qi.
"I have time." She put her cold hands into the pockets of her dress. "Can tomorrow be okay?"
Yu Jinxiu nodded quickly, "Sure, sure! Any time is fine! Then, Teacher Ruan, I'll pick you up at the hotel tomorrow morning?"
Ruan Qi: "Okay. See you at the hotel at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning."
…
After saying goodbye to Yu Jinxiu, Ruan Qi got into the car and sat down.
Mo Lan stepped on the accelerator and the car slowly drove away from the Daxian store.
The car was silent.
Ruan Qi, who was sitting in the back row, closed her eyes, her hands in her dress pockets trembling slightly.
When she was in YL country, she had a dream. In the dream, there was a group of abducted children and a scary man named Jiang Chunian.
After returning to China, she asked Wen Ran to search the entire country, but all the men named Jiang Chunian they found did not match the appearance of the man she saw in her dream.
However, although he did not find Jiang Chunian, Wen Ran found out another thing -
Ten years ago on August 20th, a child trafficking case that shocked the whole country occurred in Shanghai, known as the August 20th Incident.
The criminal mastermind in this case is named Jiang.
Could it be that Jiang Chunian and the criminal leader surnamed Jiang are the same person?
Ruan Qi didn't believe it was a coincidence, nor did she think her dream was fake. She asked Wen Ran to continue investigating, but she didn't expect that before she could find out the truth about the August 20th incident, Yu Jinxiu actually brought her a new clue.
My friend’s younger cousin went to Shanghai ten years ago and became a human trafficker. He became blind due to psychological stimulation.
Could this little cousin be the survivor of the August 20th Incident ten years ago?
Can I learn more from him?
Ruan Qi's heart was pounding, and a sense of anticipation and panic arose in her subconscious.
It seems... her heart is very resistant to finding the truth.
Bai Li in the system heard the conversation between Ruan Qi and Yu Jinxiu clearly, and was so anxious that her hair was about to fall out.
what to do?
Could that blind little cousin really be one of the missing children in that incident?
If he were to meet Ruan Qi, would Ruan Qi be stimulated and remember what happened ten years ago?
What if she can't bear those memories and goes crazy?
Bai Li was so anxious that he was getting angry. He wished that his virtual body would solidify and fly out of the system to tie Ruan Qi back home.
But with his current spiritual power, he could do nothing and could only watch Ruan Qi getting closer and closer to the truth.
"Uncle Bai Li." The little girl's voice sounded in the system, "Tell me, if what I speculated before is true, then the little cousin of Yu Jinxiu's friend, could it be that he was one of the children who was abducted with me?"
"..." Bai Li didn't dare to speak or move, and even her breathing was filled with guilt.
Ruan Qi didn't expect him to answer, and continued to talk to herself, "I wonder if Brother Wen Ran has found anything. The August 20th Incident was such a big deal back then, but there's not a single photo of it in China. That's so strange. And that Jiang Chunian, how could there be no information about her..."
"..." Bai Li continued to be afraid to speak or move, for fear of letting something slip out of his guilty conscience.
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The explosive update begins! ~
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