She knelt before the bed in her usual position, clasped her hands together above her head, and muttered, "Master Medicine Chef, please grant me a bottle of prickly heat powder. If this prickly heat powder is in short supply, you can also grant me a tube of hydrocortisone butyrate cream."
"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Master Medicine Box. Thank you very much."
A moment later, the medicine box appeared.
[The first-aid kit is really helpful, it appeared so quickly this time!]
Yun Duoduo looked around warily, but there was no one there, and Jin Zhuangzhuang was still fast asleep on the bed.
Yun Duoduo moved closer to the medicine box and examined it carefully. From the outside, the medicine box looked the same as the last one.
Her brows furrowed deeply. Over the past few days, she had helped many palace maids and cured many people. Even if the medicine box hadn't undergone a radical transformation or been upgraded to a more powerful one, it should at least have some upgrade in appearance or size to be worthy of her hard work.
【What? There's been no change at all? That shouldn't be the case!】
She counted on her fingers how many people she had helped recently: [Hui'er from the Xin Zhe Ku, Dong'er from the Imperial Household Department, Xiao Fang from the Imperial Kitchen, Sui Sui from the Buddhist Hall...]
She examined everything from rashes and dysentery to allergies and wound healing...
Why isn't there any change? Everyone says that quantitative change leads to qualitative change, so is it because the quantity isn't enough?
Is it because there aren't enough people?
[That's true. She's only looking at ten palace maids so far. If she wants to upgrade the medicine chest, she'll need at least ten!]
As she was looking at it, Yun Duoduo glanced at the lid of the medicine box out of the corner of her eye, and she suddenly felt that the pearls on the lid seemed to have decreased.
Moreover, the quality of this pearl doesn't seem to be as good as before; it appears to have become much duller.
It shouldn't be psychological; the pearls last time were perfectly round and lustrous.
Moreover, the quantity is incorrect.
She remembered that the last time she saw the medicine box, there should have been an even number of pearls on the lid, either eight or twelve. Why were there only seven today?
Because the number of pearls has become odd, and the two sides are no longer asymmetrical, this change is quite obvious.
Yun Duoduo rested her chin on her hand, staring at the medicine box. [Could it be that I've done something bad recently that caused the medicine box to deteriorate?]
Ugh, this is such a headache.
Yun Duoduo was a little depressed as she thoroughly searched the medicine box, but apart from the discovery she had just made, there seemed to be no other significant changes.
Yun Duoduo took out a white box of brand-name prickly heat powder and a tube of ointment from the medicine box.
She looked at the tube of hydrocortisone butyrate cream in her hand, feeling a little depressed. This ointment, if it were in modern times, would only cost fifteen yuan a tube, and with medical insurance, it could probably be bought for just a few yuan.
Now look what's happened! This tube of medicine actually used one of her finest white pearls, which cost more than ten times the price.
What a heartless person!
Sooner or later, she will have to prepare the medicine she needs herself!
Yun Duoduo cursed inwardly, but she was also afraid that if the medicine box could hear what she was thinking, it would stop bringing her medicine in the future, which would be terrible!
Thank you very much, Medicine Chest Master, for the medicine. Please take care on your journey.
Yun Duoduo clasped her hands together, bowed to the medicine box, and said, "Goodbye."
The medicine box disappeared quickly.
Yun Duoduo stopped thinking about anything else and continued looking at the white ointment in her hand. She opened the box, unscrewed the cap, squeezed out the ointment, and applied some to her neck.
[Hydrocortisone butyrate cream, the main ingredient of which is hydrocortisone butyrate.]
The excipients used include liquid paraffin, petrolatum, octadecanol, propylene glycol, glyceryl monostearate, methylphenidate O-20, sodium citrate, tert-butanol (preservative), and purified water.
The faint herbal scent emanating from the ointment made Yun Duoduo feel very at ease.
Yun Duoduo recalled her time in the modern world, before entering the medical research institute, when she worked odd jobs in a pharmacy. Although she was poor during that period, she gained a more realistic understanding of pharmacology, drug properties, and indications.
...
After doing all these things, Yun Duoduo felt much better. She applied some ointment to Jin Zhuangzhuang as well, and then hid the ointment and prickly heat powder under the bed.
Outside the window, the moon and stars were few, and the cool moonlight shone into the bedchamber. At this moment, Yun Duoduo was wide awake.
She closed her eyes, sat cross-legged, and circulated her internal energy.
After practicing for several days, she felt that she was gradually able to control the energy within her body. However, transferring this energy from her body to her palm and then applying external force to objects still seemed to be quite difficult.
She knew that she couldn't remember things about practicing martial arts; she had to take it one step at a time.
...
The next morning, Yun Duoduo was woken up very early by A Xiang.
Cloudy, still half-asleep, looked out the window at the huge, tireless sun and stretched helplessly. "Ugh, another day of school!"
"Duo'er, wake up! The sun's already high in the sky!"
Yun Duoduo followed the sound to the door and saw that Sun Huohuo was up very early, which was unusual for him. "Hey Erhuo, you've really made something of yourself. Why are you up so early?"
"I've never seen you this diligent before, when you used to get up at the crack of dawn!" Yun Duoduo rolled out of bed and went to pick out a dress to wear for today's outing.
"Duo'er, don't talk nonsense. I, Sun Huohuo, am very serious and eager to learn," Sun Huohuo said, patting his chest earnestly.
"Hurry up, I've already got the book boxes for you!"
Yun Duoduo looked at Sun Huohuo, who had two book boxes hanging on his shoulder and was holding one in his arms, making a total of three book boxes.
Erhuo is quite loyal; he carries her and Zhuangzhuang's schoolbags every day.
There's this little trick to it, oh no, little brother, it's so simple.
"Coming, coming, don't rush me."
Although she didn't know what or who was attracting Sun Huohuo in the school, Yun Duoduo knew that something was wrong with him, very wrong.
It seems I need to keep a close eye on Sun Huohuo lately.
Yun Duoduo smelled the gossip and, thinking about the juicy gossip, she was no longer sleepy. She sat down in front of the dressing table and let Granny Liu comb her hair.
Today, she still wore two little pigtails, each adorned with pink tassels, making her look very playful and cute.
...
Upon arriving at the school, Sun Huohuo first looked around the school, and when he saw a figure, a smile spread across his face.
Yun Duoduo looked at him and suddenly smiled, finding it amusing.
[Oh my, that smile really makes him look like a complete goofball!]
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