Sang Zhi didn't mention what Ye Jingchi had promised; she simply handed the lunchbox to Li Ying and left.
The door to the ward opened, and Tang Qiao helped Grandma Ye, with Ye Zhonghong following behind.
Li Ying nodded slightly in acknowledgment.
"No, Li Ying, didn't you say you didn't want to go back to the Ye family? What are you doing here?" Ye Zhonghong questioned unhappily.
No sooner had he finished speaking than Ye Jingchi's cold voice came from the ward: "Ye Zhonghong, apologize!"
Ye Zhonghong was stunned for a moment, but ultimately she was still afraid of Ye Jingchi, and reluctantly said, "I'm sorry!"
"When did the Ye family become so unruly? How dare you be so arrogant and domineering!" Ye Jingchi's reprimanding voice rang out. Ye Zhonghong trembled, gripping Tang Qiao's wrist tightly, her eyes pleading.
Tang Qiao glared at Ye Zhonghong. Now that the Ye family has declined, the eldest son has sacrificed himself, the second son was executed for what he did, and only the third son is left. It's not like we have to listen to the third son in everything.
"You're being unreasonable! Li Ying is your sister-in-law, so you should be more polite!"
Ye Zhonghong was unconvinced and snorted.
"If you can't learn to respect people, then leave the Ye family! Or, I'll leave the Ye family!"
Ye Jingchi was serious this time. Tang Qiao got anxious and kicked Ye Zhonghong's shin hard. Ye Zhonghong cried out in pain and knelt down with a thud, pouting aggrievedly, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law!"
Li Ying glanced at Ye Zhonghong expressionlessly, said nothing, and stepped into the ward.
Before Ye Zhonghong could say anything more, Tang Qiao pinched her and dragged her away.
If she continues talking, even Ye Jingchi might abandon the Ye family.
Li Ying entered the ward, and Ye Jingchi lay there with a pale face, his eyes fixed on Li Ying's face, observing her expression.
Li Ying opened the lunchbox, ladled out a bowl of soup in a delicate little bowl, and handed it to Ye Jingchi.
"This is something Miss Sangzhi brought for you."
Ye Jingchi hummed in agreement, took the bowl, and sipped the water slowly, occasionally glancing furtively at Li Ying.
Li Ying sat on the edge of the bed, turning her head to look at Ye Jingchi.
Remembering what Commander Yan had said, she carefully observed Ye Jingchi.
He was indeed very different from the Ye Jingchi I had met before.
Nowadays, Ye Jingchi is eccentric, irritable, and has a bad temper. He also doesn't care much about the Ye family.
Could it be that he really isn't Ye Jingchi?
But how could there be two people who are exactly the same?
Unless they are twins!
Ye Jingchi took a sip of porridge, put it down, and looked at Li Ying: "After I climbed ashore from the sea, your image was the only thing that came to mind. I know that we agreed to get married before, and you are my wife."
Li Ying met his unfathomable eyes and followed his words: "Well, I eloped with Lu Xingzhou and lived in the Lu family before. Last year, during the flood relief efforts in Donghu, I went to deliver medicine and ran into you when you were still the battalion commander. Afterwards, you and Commander Yan went to the Lu family to find me. At that time, I had just broken up with Lu Xingzhou and went with you to Tongcheng to treat Grandma Ye. In order not to marry your sister-in-law, you chose to have a marriage of convenience with me."
Li Ying briefly recounted the story of the two of them.
Ye Jingchi fell into deep thought. After Li Ying finished speaking, he reached out to touch Li Ying's protruding belly, but his hand remained suspended in mid-air.
"Is the child in your belly mine?"
“No,” Li Ying replied decisively.
Ye Jingchi's eyes were deep as he stared at Li Ying's resolute attitude, and the corners of his lips twitched slightly.
"Alright."
Li Ying stood up: "Since Commander Ye is alright, I'll take my leave now."
Ye Jingchi remained silent.
Li Ying left the ward and saw Chunxue cleaning in the corridor.
She actually came to the hospital to work as a caregiver?!
Upon seeing Li Ying, Chunxue smiled shyly, her voice still soft.
"The Ye family is not as good as it used to be. It's very difficult to support the family with only the third son. So I came out to find a job. I'm not very educated, so this is the only job I can do."
Li Ying didn't discriminate against any profession and nodded approvingly: "There's nothing shameful about doing things based on your own abilities."
Li Ying didn't want to talk to Chunxue much; she always gave off a very fake feeling.
After leaving the hospital, Li Ying took a bus to the west of the city. After getting off the bus, she slowly searched and found a Western medicine store.
This Western medicine store was owned by the Chi family. In the past, this Western medicine store was acquired by foreigners. Chi En's grandfather decisively gave up the operation of the pharmacy and opened another Western medicine store here to deliver medicine to the soldiers on the front line.
The Chi family has now been passed down for three generations.
Li Ying entered the pharmacy, and the shelves were filled with Western medicines; there wasn't a single Chinese medicine.
This is also why Chi En dislikes traditional Chinese medicine; he believes that traditional Chinese medicine cannot cure diseases at all, and only Western medicine can cure all diseases.
Just then, a blonde, blue-eyed girl entered the pharmacy and told the clerk what medicine she wanted.
The shop assistant was clearly not fluent in foreign languages; he stammered for a long time and still didn't know what medicine the other person wanted.
Li Ying stepped forward and said to the shop assistant, "Her child has a fever, please get her some children's fever reducer."
The shop assistant looked at Li Ying suspiciously.
Li Ying then spoke with the woman for a while.
"Yes, my son is four years old and just had a high fever. I don't want to give him an IV drip; I'd like to give him some medicine instead." Seeing that Li Ying could understand her, the woman explained the situation.
"How high is the fever?" Li Ying asked again about the specific time, judging that the child had probably caught a cold from the wind.
Wind-heat cold and wind-cold cold are different. Although the symptoms may sound similar, if the symptoms are not the correct diagnosis, you will need to take more medicine.
"Thirty-nine degrees..."
Li Ying asked the shop assistant for some fever-reducing medicine.
"Who gave you permission to prescribe medicine haphazardly here!"
With a shout, Chi En strode into the pharmacy, his eyes darkening when he saw Li Ying.
"Comrade Li Ying, you studied traditional Chinese medicine, so don't use your TCM methods to judge the effects of Western medicine."
Chi En asked the shop assistant to give the lady a fever reducer.
The woman naturally obeyed Chi En's words, took the medicine box, paid, and left.
“Madam,” Li Ying called out to the woman, “if your child’s fever doesn’t go down after taking the medicine, you should go to the hospital right away!”
The woman thanked her and left.
Chi En's expression grew even colder: "Are you here to challenge us?"
"Comrade Chi En, I'm just telling you objectively that prescribing medicine isn't done like that. Have you only learned self-righteousness from studying Western medicine?"
Chi En's face darkened further: "You barefoot doctor, how dare you act so arrogantly in front of me? I'm a returned student from studying abroad, I've been educated overseas."
Li Ying chuckled: "So, this is your pride!"
"Don't think I don't know. Traditional Chinese medicine is based on Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and the internal organs and meridians. A cold is just a cold. Why do we have to differentiate between wind-heat and wind-cold? It's such a hassle!"
Chi En has always looked down on the backwardness of traditional Chinese medicine.
Li Ying chuckled: "What about Western medicine?"
"Western medicine, based on modern science of anatomy and physiology, classifies colds into viral colds and inflammatory types," Chi En said arrogantly.
Li Ying laughed again: "Then without a blood test, is there no way to distinguish whether it's a virus or inflammation?"
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