"Well, you don't need to be too nervous. It's not a particularly big problem, but it still needs to be treated and can't be ignored."
Su Ruyi gave some instructions.
She was afraid that telling the truth would put pressure on Chef Wang, but she was also afraid that if she spoke too softly, Chef Wang wouldn't take it seriously. She carefully considered her words for a long time.
"Is this for treating excessive oil fume inhalation, or can it also treat excessive smoking?" Chef Wang asked again.
Although Su Ruyi found his question a bit strange, she didn't think much of it: "Clearing the lungs can cure it. Don't you smoke less now?"
"I smoke too, mainly because I smoked a lot when I was younger!" Chef Wang scratched his head sheepishly, then examined the brocade box. "This box looks really nice!"
These brocade boxes were found by Su Qiushi in a compartment of the Huichuntang medicine cabinet; they were used to store pills.
This is the first time Su Ruyi has used it.
This item is clearly very well made, and it's not made with modern materials.
But it's brand new.
Su Ruyi regretted taking it out a little—what if Chef Wang knew his stuff? She wouldn't be able to explain where the box came from!
She never imagined that things would really spiral out of control...
That evening, Qi Yuan, a bigwig from Beijing, finally arrived in Harbin after a three-day, two-night train journey.
He came in secret, and he was received only by Cheng Weiguo, Zhang Bin, and... Chef Wang.
Of course, Chef Wang was called there as a cook.
Qi Yuan and Chef Wang were old acquaintances.
Qi Yuan's ancestral home is Sanhe County, and he has a close relationship with Chef Wang's family. Chef Wang is able to thrive in the black market of Heilongjiang Province because the big boss behind him is Qi Yuan.
Correspondingly, he provided Qi Yuan with information on the movements of everyone in Heilongjiang Province, serving as Qi Yuan's eyes and ears in the province.
However, the two of them pretended not to know each other in public.
That evening, Chef Wang used all his skills to prepare seven dishes and a soup, all of which were hometown dishes that Qi Yuan had been longing for.
Qi Yuan enjoyed the meal very much and immediately asked someone to call the cook out to thank him.
The two pretended to be strangers and fooled both Cheng Weiguo and Zhang Bin.
Qi Yuan stayed at the highest-standard cadre guesthouse in Harbin.
After the meal, he specifically asked that the leftovers be packed up and that Chef Wang deliver them back to the guesthouse for him.
Once inside the room and the door was closed, the two looked at each other and burst into laughter.
"How is your father?" Qi Yuan asked.
"It's been over a year since he passed away." Chef Wang wasn't particularly saddened.
His culinary skills came from his father, but his father was an abusive man, and his mother's illnesses were all the result of his father's years of abuse.
My father has been paralyzed on one side for more than three years, and my mother has been taking care of him day and night.
But in the end, what he got in return was his father deliberately urinating on the bed every ten minutes to provoke his mother's bottom line.
In the dead of winter, my mother would wash quilts and sheets, and her hands would swell up like radishes all day long.
After my father passed away, my mother also suffered greatly.
If Su Ruyi hadn't intervened in time, he believed his mother wouldn't be alive today.
"Sigh, it's good that you're gone. You're free now," Qi Yuan sighed. "Let's not talk about sad things anymore! Come, come, see what good things I brought you!"
As he spoke, he took a small box out of his bag.
Chef Wang took the box, opened it, and his eyes immediately lit up: "This is blood rhinoceros horn?"
"Yeah!" Qi Yuan said proudly, "I know you have black rhinoceros and white rhinoceros, but this blood rhinoceros is one in a million!"
Blood rhinoceros horn is generally considered a top-grade rare medicinal material, but Chef Wang's family has a secret recipe that uses it as a seasoning to make delicious dishes.
Several of the Wang family's ancestral dishes require this one seasoning as the finishing touch; just a pinch the size of a fingernail is enough to prepare an entire banquet.
He hasn't cooked those dishes for almost ten years since his abusive father used up that piece of rhinoceros horn.
Chef Wang was filled with excitement.
He looked at Qi Yuan: "Are you feeling any better?"
"I'm not going to get better!" Qi Yuan laughed self-deprecatingly. "I know my body. I can only last a few more years, but not many! Now I often have to sleep sitting up at night because I can't breathe! It's all because I smoked too much when I was young!"
Upon hearing this, Chef Wang realized that Qi Yuan's illness was much more serious than his own.
As if possessed, he took out the brocade box Su Ruyi had given him: "This is medicine a friend gave me, it's very effective. Let me tell you how to use it..."
Qi Yuan's eyes lit up the moment he saw the brocade box—because his family had an identical brocade box, but it had been passed down from his elders more than three hundred years ago!
Inside, they keep the Qi family's heirloom!
With just one glance, Qi Yuan was completely convinced of the complexity and strangeness of the medicine's preparation method!
With trembling hands, he took the brocade box, opened it, and found that the top layer contained seven pills the size of fingernails, and the bottom layer was a strange, transparent solid substance that had been divided into seven pieces.
Chef Wang explained that the transparent substance was the medicinal guide and carefully explained how to take it.
Qi Yuan solemnly placed the brocade box into a hidden compartment in his briefcase.
"You must start eating it three days later, and eat it for seven consecutive days!" Chef Wang instructed anxiously.
Qi Yuan waved the note in his hand: "Even the best memory is no match for a bad pen! Don't worry!"
As he spoke, he put the note into his breast pocket and carefully buttoned it up.
...
The next morning, Xia Tianyu, who was far away in Dingjiatun, finally received her quota to return to the city.
She found Ding Youliang and knelt down immediately: "Captain, I need to go back to the city. I need the forms today. I can't wait any longer!"
"Why?" Ding Youliang asked in surprise as he pulled her up.
"I'm pregnant!" Xia Tianyu lied, "but the doctor in Sanhe County said that this pregnancy is very likely to be dangerous!"
She thought about it for a long time before coming up with this idea. She felt that saying this would make her a hot potato, and that Ding Youliang would be eager to throw her out.
But she never imagined that there were still some people in this world who had something called conscience.
Upon hearing this, Ding Youliang immediately dragged her to the village clinic and said to Su Ruyi, "Dr. Su, this educated youth says she's pregnant, and that the pregnancy is unstable. She's in a hurry to return to the city, and I'm worried something might happen to her on the train. Could you take a look at her?"
Su Ruyi glanced at Xia Tianyu in surprise, then rolled up her sleeves: "Put your hands up here."
Summer Rain reluctantly placed her hand on the pulse pillow.
Su Ru looked at her bloodied and mangled wrist, placed a piece of gauze under it, and then put her fingers on it.
Three seconds later, she raised an eyebrow: "The pregnancy is stable, you can take the train."
Now it was Xia Tianyu's turn to widen her eyes: "What did you say?!"
“I said, you are indeed pregnant, but the pregnancy is very stable, and there is no problem taking the train!” Su Ruyi said loudly.
Summer rain opens its mouth wide, and it takes forever to close it.
She was completely dumbfounded.
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