Time flies like an arrow, and in the blink of an eye it was 1966. Zhu Fanfan was already twelve years old. A lot of things had happened in these few years.
When Zhu Fanfan was ten years old, the hospital director forced her to take pulses every day and constantly gave her guidance. She had taken pulses all over the hospital and went to various other hospitals for treatment. As a result, many hospitals knew that there was a little miracle doctor who could take pulses with unparalleled accuracy and whose prescriptions were fast-acting.
But just when Zhu Fanfan was busy and overwhelmed, the dean fell ill and was bedridden. In three days, he became nothing but skin and bones. He even called Zhu Fanfan over, took her hand, and asked her to take his pulse. He told her to remember this pulse, which was the death pulse. He said that if you had this pulse, you were not far from death. He asked Zhu Fanfan to describe the feeling in detail. After Zhu Fanfan accurately described the pulse, the dean passed away with a smile on his face.
The successor was Ma Yushu, the one Zhu Jiabao had been jealous of and considered his rival in love. Originally, he and Liu Yumin were both contenders, but Liu Yumin's focus was on Zhu Fanfan, so she withdrew directly. The important responsibility of the dean fell on him, after all, he was personally trained by the dean and his abilities and medical skills were not bad.
Most importantly, the dean personally recommended him, simply because he also doted on Zhu Fanfan and was Zhu Fanfan's senior in terms of status, and he was able to uphold all the preferential treatment the dean gave to Fanfan.
In the same year, Mu Zhibo also passed away. Because Liu Yumin specially treated his body and Zhu Fanfan would occasionally feed him pills, his health improved and his heart condition was under control.
But he just couldn't give up his work. Because the country couldn't produce such precise parts, he had to buy them from abroad in large quantities. The parts he bought were expensive and of poor quality, and many of them were unusable. He knew that overseas companies were deliberately ripping them off, but there was nothing he could do. The industrial conditions weren't good enough, so even if he was being ripped off, he still had to continue buying from abroad. Once he recovered, he could start working and wanted to improve the precision of the parts.
Just when progress was being made, his body was so exhausted that his heart condition relapsed. Even the elixirs were no longer effective. Knowing that his time was up, he kept staring at the blueprints and making continuous improvements. Just when he was about to achieve a major breakthrough, his condition worsened and he could no longer walk. He insisted on being supported while conducting his research and died at the desk that the hospital had specially made for him. The data he collected also helped the country's industrial technology advance another step.
Especially since Grandpa Ji passed away recently, he called his son over before he died. His son was very indifferent and seemed not to know him well. In front of everyone, Grandpa Ji gave all his savings to his son, but left everything else to Zhu Fanfan.
His son, Zhou Weimin, said he didn't want Grandpa Ji's things; he just wanted to see if Grandpa Ji was dead or alive.
Zhu Fanfan felt she had gone too far with her words, but she patiently asked him about it. It turned out that Grandpa Ji's ex-wife felt that he had neglected her, so she remarried when she was young, taking her child with her. The child even took the surname of the man she remarried. Grandpa Ji respected the child's choice, after all, he was his own son, and he had the right to know some things.
With Zhu Fanfan's mediation, the two were finally willing to have a proper chat and eventually reconciled. Grandpa Ji passed away the next day, without taking his regrets to the grave. This incident was a big blow to Zhu Fanfan, to the point that she was listless for several days, not wanting to see or talk to anyone.
People always experience death. Zhu Fanfan thought of the people she was close to who had passed away one by one and began to feel lost. Xi Yan saw this and knew that Fanfan was sad again. Fanfan was just too sentimental: "Do you want me to practice with you again?"
Ever since he fought with Fanfan, using fire-based abilities while Fanfan used mental abilities, the two fought to a draw. However, fire-based abilities do cause real damage, so he accidentally burned down the house. After being scolded by Grandpa Zhu with a dark face, he became the Zhu family's free long-term worker, doing all the chores.
However, when Fanfan was in a bad mood, she would spar with him, and her mood would improve afterward. Therefore, the group specially installed a room to isolate him from supernatural abilities, and their sparring turned into bare-handed practice. Naturally, he could not beat Fanfan, but over the years he had been trained to be able to fight her for a while.
Even after the fight, Zhu Fanfan was still depressed. Xi Yan had improved very quickly, but he was still far behind her grandfather. She finally understood what her grandfather meant when he said that the older a person is, the higher their internal strength becomes. Her grandfather was so old, yet he still managed to compete with the young king of soldiers. Naturally, her grandfather won. She guessed that the king of soldiers was afraid to use his full strength for fear of hurting his superior and deliberately held back.
Zhu Fanfan still felt that alchemy could pique her interest, so the two of them had no choice but to practice alchemy. As soon as they started practicing alchemy, Zhu Fanfan's temperament would change, as if she were facing something sacred.
She was already very familiar with refining pills, so after refining them as usual and letting the cauldron cool down, Zhu Fanfan felt that she was too amazing. She had actually refined a high-level pill.
To determine if it was stable, the two refined the pills several times, all of which were high-grade pills. Following Elder Dan, someone else successfully refined a high-grade pill once again. With this news, Xi Yan returned to the Dragon Group.
After receiving the praise, Zhu Jiabao felt that his granddaughter had made him proud. He asked Zhu Fanfan what gift she wanted. Zhu Fanfan thought for a moment and said she wanted to go to Shanghai to visit her maternal grandparents. Zhu Jiabao was overjoyed and immediately granted her request, using his connections to buy Fanfan a sleeper berth.
Over the years, Zhu Fanfan has spent two months in Shanghai every year. Missing her grandparents is one thing, but wanting to see the excitement is another.
Shanghai was bustling with activity too, because after she told Uncle Qi about Yuan Datou's special nature when she was five years old, Yuan Datou was entrusted with important responsibilities, and he had intelligence on various cases, making him even busier than the bureau chief.
However, despite his outward complaints about the delay in his retirement, he still happily completed the tasks assigned to him. Now, although his retirement has been extended, he has secured a place in the Public Security Bureau and is respected by others.
Most importantly, it was a chance to see the Xue family make a fool of themselves. Xue Fu was forced to leave the family because he lost money and was ill for too long. Fu Jing also broke up with him afterward, simply because she learned about Widow Xin's affair. However, she still made do for the sake of the child, and Xue Fu and his mother were very obedient to her at home.
Because Widow Xin had no money to repay the debt, the Ding family elders made a scene at the factory. She was forced to give them half of her monthly wages to pay it back slowly. As for the house, it was a bare-bones house where she and her son lived, and they only had to pay rent.
Even if Widow Xin had objections, it was useless. The Ding family deducted the money directly from her wages. The factory also disapproved of Widow Xin's actions. If she didn't agree to this solution, they would fire her directly. The factory didn't want people with moral flaws.
Widow Xin had no choice but to agree, but raising two children alone was extremely difficult. She wanted to ask Xue Fu for help, but Xue Fu was in dire straits himself and naturally could not provide any support.
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