After Captain Wei opened the door, Mu Huaixi met Huo Zhiwu, Ying Mingcheng's partner.
Huo Zhiwu was tall and strong, standing at the door like a doorpost. However, he was whiter than the average young lady, like a doorpost with putty scraped off.
Mu Huaixi was stunned when she saw him. She had seen this man in her dream!
Perhaps it was because her gaze was too direct, Huo Zhiwu turned to her after greeting Captain Wei. To Mu Huaixi's surprise, Huo Zhiwu actually knew her.
"This is Ying Mingcheng's wife, right? Sister-in-law, I heard you're a doctor at the health center. I'll have to trouble you to take care of my wife from now on!"
"Oh!" Captain Wei slapped his forehead and looked at Mu Huaixi, "Xiao Mu, I forgot to tell you that Huo Zhiwu's lover is a nurse. She will be arranged to work in the health center when she comes next month."
"Oh, okay," Mu Huaixi agreed, but what appeared in his mind was the little nurse in the field hospital in his dream, crying breathlessly while holding a tattered military uniform.
In her dream, Huo Zhiwu's ending was not good. He was hit by a stray bullet while protecting his companions, and his body was left in the forest forever by the forest fire.
Mu Huaixi lowered her eyes. She had seen too many separations and deaths in that dream and had always avoided thinking about it, but in fact those moments were deeply engraved in her mind, and they all came to her mind the moment she saw Huo Zhiwu.
Mu Huaixi hurriedly said goodbye to the two people, and only realized when walking on the road that there were really new people coming to the health center!
"That's great!" Wang Xiaohua almost jumped for joy after hearing the news. "Our clinic is so short of staff! Finally, someone is here to help!"
It is almost late spring, and spring plowing in the mountains has gradually ended. More people come to see the doctor, and the health center has to prepare Sanfu plasters and moxibustion sticks, so it is busy every day.
Li Fengjuan walked in, holding a dustpan full of prepared moxa sticks, and asked in confusion, "Didn't that lover of someone earlier also claim to be a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner? Why didn't he come to our clinic?"
Mu Huaixi then remembered that Cao Aijun's wife was also a Chinese medicine practitioner and had said she would come to the health center, but there had been no news.
She was just about to ask Jiang Wenyuan what was going on, but an emergency patient came in and the entire clinic became busy, so she forgot to ask.
As luck would have it, several emergencies came in one after another that day. They were all caused by poisonous insect bites. The wounds on the arms and calves were red and swollen. Doctor Jiang and Xiaohua were responsible for cutting open the affected areas to release the poisonous blood, while Mu Huaixi and Fengjuan were responsible for preparing the detoxifying ointment, and they were busy until late at night.
"Ouch," Wang Xiaohua stretched, flipped through the calendar and sighed, "It turns out it's almost the Poison Month. No wonder the Five Poisons are rampant."
"Poisonous Moon?" Mu Huaixi was stunned. He walked over and looked at the calendar on the wall, only to find that the Dragon Boat Festival was almost here.
"How come it's so fast?" She felt like she had just gone up the mountain to see the peach blossoms, but when she looked down, she found that she and her colleagues had changed into short sleeves. The change of seasons was silent and made her suddenly remember the agreement with Ying Mingcheng. He said he would come back soon, but there was no news for two months.
As soon as Mu Huaixi felt sad, Wang Xiaohua patted her on the shoulder and dispelled the worry.
"Doctor Mu, you have a day off tomorrow. Why don't you come to Fengjuan's house for dinner? Fengjuan's mother made cold cakes and your favorite wild vegetables."
The days in the mountains seemed to lag behind those outside the mountains. Mu Huaixi finally realized that they had seen peach blossoms in full bloom when they went to the county town before, and it took a while after they came back to the mountains to see buds on the peach branches.
The temperature in the mountains is lower than outside the mountains. I have only changed into short sleeves in the past few days. The night wind is chilly, and the big bed on the second floor of the small building is also chilly.
Mu Huaixi suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and reached to the side out of habit, but only touched the cold, smooth sheets.
"Oh," she sighed in her heart, and pulled the pillowcase on the other side of the bed to cover her eyes in anger, but it couldn't block the silver moonlight seeping in from the gap in the curtains.
She lay in bed for a while, but became more and more awake. The rustling sounds outside the window made her even more awake. She could only sigh and go downstairs to drink some water.
“Ouch~~”
The howling of wolves from afar made her stop and stand at the stairs, not daring to move. Although she knew that the howling of wolves was far away from her, she was still unconsciously alert in the dark.
“Bang, bang!”
Something was knocking on the first-floor window. The sudden dull sound startled Mu Huaixi and she almost jumped up, but the increasingly rapid sound accelerated her heartbeat, continuing to knock on her atrium.
Mu Huaixi let out a sigh, held her slightly protruding belly, picked up the pliers placed at the stairs, and tiptoed to the light cord.
She would not be curious about what was outside the window. No matter what it was, as long as the light was turned on, it would definitely be driven away!
Mu Huaixi quickened his pace and pulled the rope before the darkness behind him caught him. The imagined light did not come immediately. The blackened light bulb clicked several times and finally lit up with a dim light.
"......" Mu Huaixi never expected that the light in the living room would break at this time. She frowned, turned her head quickly, and took a breath.
She was standing on the west side of the dining table at this time, and could just see half of the window on the other side of the kang bed. The silvery moonlight flowed in like water, and the shadows of two pairs of eyes were dimly reflected.
"Could it be that a wolf really has come down the mountain?" Mu Huaixi's heart was pounding. Since the beginning of spring, there have been many more small animals on the mountain. A few days ago, the young seedling fields on the Maidiping side were eaten by wild boars. Sister Yu also reported that there might be wild beasts, snakes and insects on the mountain.
After Mu Huaixi heard about this, she made some anthelmintic and distributed it to people she knew. Ying Mingcheng also arranged for someone to build a fence around her yard. Logically, no wild animals should be able to break in and hide under her window.
"It seems that the only one who would do this is Dahei?" Mu Huaixi gradually calmed down. When he thought about it, among the two pairs of eyes reflected on the window, one of them did look like Dahei.
She found the flashlight in the dim light, and the bright beam of light swept across the window frame, right onto Dahei's cunning and dazed face.
"Dahei, why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night?" Mu Huaixi smiled bitterly and approached the window. Before he could relax, he was startled by the bloody little thing in his mouth.
When Dahei saw her, his eyes lit up. He arched his head and put what he was holding in his mouth on the windowsill. He then knocked on the glass window rapidly with his horn, urging her to come out.
"You're treating me like a forest first aid station," Mu Huaixi complained helplessly, but the little thing lying limply on the windowsill seemed to hear her voice and opened its wet eyes...
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