Shen Banxia was also completely baffled, but now, apart from Zhou Mingqian, no one else knew anything about Zhou Mingjiao.
When the little field mouse returned from its trip, Shen Banxia told it about it.
The ever-unreliable little field mouse sighed deeply, "Alas, this day has finally come, and my mission is complete."
"What does this mean?" Shen Banxia asked, puzzled.
"I can't go into the details, but just know that your child will no longer be at risk of disappearing. Now I'm leaving too," the little field mouse said with a sigh.
"Leave?" Shen Banxia didn't understand.
"Yes, my mission in this little world is complete, and it's time for me to return to my own world. I was very happy here, and I will remember you all in the future." Parting is always sad.
"Can you stay?" After so many years together, Shen Banxia had grown accustomed to its presence.
The little field mouse shook its head. "Perhaps we'll have a chance to meet again. Well, my departure is inevitable. Don't be sad, because that will make me sad too. I've prepared a gift for you. Remember to drip your blood to bind it to me after I leave."
Shen Banxia looked at it with reluctance.
The next morning, Shen Banxia habitually looked at the little field mouse's nest, but the familiar little figure was no longer there.
Looking at the jade pendant left in the nest, Shen Banxia remembered what the little field mouse had told her. She pricked her finger with a needle and dripped some onto the pendant. There was no dazzling light, but she felt a connection with the pendant in her mind. With a thought, Shen Banxia saw the contents of the pendant. Most of them were grains, as well as medicinal herbs. Even Asarum and Ghost Grass were among them, arranged in a grid pattern.
The top left corner contains food and ingredients, the bottom left corner contains planted ghost grass and asarum, the top right corner contains a spring, and the bottom right corner contains a piece of red soil, the purpose of which is unknown.
Shen Banxia tentatively took out a stalk of Asarum and thought of placing it on the table. Sure enough, a fresh Asarum with mud on it appeared on the table.
How can I describe that feeling? It's like letting your heart do as you please.
However, because of the little field mouse's departure, Shen Banxia couldn't be happy at the moment.
But life must go on.
But people can be really restless sometimes. Can you believe it? Sun Wei, who had a conflict with Zhou Mingjiao, actually came over, claiming he wanted to ask her for advice.
Shen Banxia was speechless. Did he think no one knew what he was up to?
Ever since Zhou Rui was cured, everything, good and bad, has come to happen.
"Dr. Shen, I admire you very much and would like to discuss depression with you. The medicine you developed is now extremely effective, and even foreign countries have to import it. You have really made traditional Chinese medicine proud. Now, no one says that traditional Chinese medicine is useless anymore. Do you think there is anything I can do to help with your next research?"
Seeing that he had completely forgotten about the competition, Shen Banxia couldn't help but wonder if this was related to the little field mouse's mission.
Why were neither I nor Zhou Mingqian lost this memory?
Could it be because of the baby?
Shen Banxia was unaware of all this, but as she watched the person in front of her still rambling on, she thought, "Sorry, I don't need any more manpower."
"What? Dr. Shen, I think I forgot to introduce myself. My master is Dr. Sun, who also has his own insights into traditional Chinese medicine, which will be helpful to your research."
Seeing this person shamelessly claiming that his master was himself, Shen Banxia didn't want to say anything more to him.
"I already have a plan, so there's no need to add any more people."
Seeing that Chen Banxia was unyielding, Sun Wei got angry and turned away.
Shen Banxia was enjoying a rare moment of peace, but it was soon broken.
Looking at Zhang Chunhong who had come looking for her, Shen Banxia was puzzled. They weren't familiar with each other, were they? Moreover, if she remembered correctly, this person had been interested in Zhou Mingqian. Naturally, wouldn't she be in Zhang Chunhong's way?
"Why are you here?"
Zhang Chunhong immediately asked, "Shen Banxia, do you... do you know Zhou Mingjiao?"
"What Zhou Mingjiao?" His face remained calm, but his heart was filled with astonishment.
"You don't know? How could you not know? Zhou Mingjiao, your husband's sister, was switched at birth. She hates you, and you hate her too. How can you not remember her?" Zhang Chunhong's face was full of madness.
She finally convinced her parents to let her come to Kyoto, and followed the address Zhou Mingjiao had given her all the way here, only to find that Shen Banxia didn't know.
If it weren't for the money Zhou Mingjiao gave her still being in her possession, she would really doubt that everything she had experienced was real.
But the money clearly told her that Zhou Mingjiao did exist, but for some reason, the people of Zhoujiazhuang couldn't remember her.
The more she thought about it, the stranger the matter seemed. Hoping for the best, she went to find Chen Banxia, but things didn't go as planned.
"Shen Banxia, do you really not know?" Zhang Chunhong looked at her expectantly.
"I don't know who you're talking about. My husband's sister is named Su Yin."
"Don't you find it strange? Why is your husband's sister named Su Yin? That's because they were switched when they were very young," Zhang Chunhong said, scrutinizing every expression on Shen Banxia's face.
To her disappointment, Shen Banxia's face showed no sign of lying.
After seeing Zhang Chunhong off, Shen Banxia found Zhou Mingqian and asked, "Tell me, what exactly happened in between? Judging from the current situation, I, you, and Zhang Chunhong all remember Zhou Mingjiao, but no one else has any memory of her."
"It's a good thing, I suppose. According to what you said, she seems to have a special ability to bewitch people. This time, we were lucky enough to exchange merit points for medicine, but if she continues to exist, who knows what might happen. Neither you nor I want to have our hands tainted by such a scoundrel."
In fact, do Shen Banxia or Zhou Mingqian have the ability to make Zhou Mingjiao disappear quietly? Of course they do. The reason they let her run rampant is simply because they have always had a bottom line: respect for life and punishment by law.
They all know that some things are just a matter of a single thought, and if they let themselves go, they don't know what they might do in the end.
Some might call them saints, but what makes us human is having principles, isn't it? This isn't the kind of chivalrous, vengeful spirit we see in the martial arts world.
Now that Zhou Mingjiao has disappeared and the little field mouse has left, the new year is about to arrive. This time, they have decided that the whole family will return to Zhoujiazhuang, including Zhou Mingqian's biological father, Zhou Rui.
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