Chapter 18

Sheng Tunan drove the car to the clinic as fast as he could.

As soon as they got out of the car, Sheng Tunan took Zhan Xinyue’s hand and ran towards the outpatient department. He was so tall that if you didn’t pay attention, you wouldn’t even see that there was someone behind him.

“Doctor, save her!” Sheng Tunan shouted anxiously and loudly.

The nurse thought the patient was somewhere else and hurriedly brought out a stretcher, asking, “Where’s the patient?”

Sheng Tunan pulled Zhan Xinyue out from behind, “Here, she’s allergic to saliva. Hurry up.”

By now, Zhan Xinyue’s face was already quite swollen, and it was red, which made her look quite scary.

“Follow me.” The nurse quickly took her to the emergency room, quickly cleaned her face with saline solution. As soon as she finished cleaning, the doctor rushed over.

“Allergic to saliva?” The middle-aged female doctor had a round face and short hair. She walked briskly to Zhan Xinyue and carefully examined her face.

“Are you uncomfortable anywhere else besides your face?”

“No,” Zhan Xinyue felt a little better after the saliva was washed off her face, she replied, “It was itchy at first, then I felt a little pain, but it’s better now, it’s still a little itchy.”

Compared to the nausea and vomiting she had experienced in her previous life, this was nothing.

The female doctor nodded, touched Zhan Xinyue’s forehead to make sure she didn’t have a fever, then took out a stethoscope and placed it on Zhan Xinyue’s left chest. She counted Zhan Xinyue’s heartbeat while watching the watch on her wrist.

After a minute, the doctor put away the stethoscope and said, “Your heartbeat is normal. I’ll prescribe some desensitizing medicine. You can take it at home. Be careful not to come into contact with saliva. Currently, all allergies caused by allergens can only be relieved, there is no medicine that can cure them.”

The doctor wrote a prescription quickly, wrote it down, and handed it to Sheng Tunan, “Go get the medicine for your loved one. Don’t kiss her in the future. This time it wasn’t serious, it doesn’t mean it’ll be fine next time.”

The female doctor was an experienced person. She didn’t need them to say anything, she could tell from Sheng Tunan’s anxious and concerned gaze that this man cared deeply for the patient. They didn’t look alike, they definitely weren’t siblings, so they could only be lovers.

Sheng Tunan was so happy when he heard the words “your loved one” that he forgot to object. He thanked the doctor and went to get the medicine with a cheerful step.

Zhan Xinyue didn’t correct him either. She had agreed to marry him, even if she wasn’t Sheng Tunan’s loved one now, she would be in the future.

“Comrade, you must never try any so-called desensitization treatment.” The female doctor kindly reminded her.

“Actually, there are quite a lot of people who are allergic. But most people are allergic to food, the most common being eggs and peanuts. Eggs are fine, not many people are willing to eat them, but peanuts are found in every household, and they can be used as a substitute for staple food. Last year, there was a little girl, she was allergic to peanuts. She would get a rash if she ate them. She was sent here once, I prescribed her some medicine and told her not to eat them anymore.”

The female doctor sighed, her expression sorrowful as she continued, “Later, her parents heard somewhere that allergies are caused by not eating enough, and that eating more would cure them. Plus, there wasn’t enough food at home, most of it was given to the laborers who could earn work points, and then there were her brother and younger brother. The little girl’s mother would feed her peanuts, and as a result, she ate too much at once, her allergy was severe, her heart rate accelerated, she couldn’t breathe, and she eventually died of sudden death.”

Zhan Xinyue knew about desensitization treatment, but she could only eat a little bit each time, and maybe it would slowly get better later. In her previous life, the doctor had also suggested that she try it, but the thought of coming into contact with other people’s saliva made her feel disgusted, so she gave up.

“En. I know.” Zhan Xinyue nodded, thanking the doctor for her kindness.

“Doctor, I got the medicine.” At this time, Sheng Tunan came in with the medicine, standing by the window, his tall figure blocking the sunlight of the summer morning from Zhan Xinyue.

“Take it three times a day, after meals. It’ll be fine after two days.” The doctor finished speaking, as if afraid that Zhan Xinyue would forget, she picked up her pen and wrote it on the box again.

“Thank you.”

The two of them thanked her and left with the medicine. As soon as they got in the car, Sheng Tunan took out his military canteen, went to the hospital to get some warm water, and made Zhan Xinyue take the medicine before driving.

“This medicine is really effective. It’s not itchy anymore after taking it for a while.” Zhan Xinyue touched her face and asked, “Is my face still swollen?”

Sheng Tunan parked the car in front of the state-owned restaurant, turned his head and looked carefully, “It’s not swollen anymore, but it’s still a little bit.”

After thinking for a moment, he continued, “You should eat more meat in the future. I think you’d look even better if you were a little fatter.”

In this era, most people didn’t eat enough, and men took pride in being able to fatten up their women. Of course, Sheng Tunan was simply worried about Zhan Xinyue’s health. Zhan Xinyue was 1.63 meters tall now, and her weight was probably only about 80 kilograms. It would be healthier for her to be a little fatter, ideally around 100 kilograms.

Zhan Xinyue waved her hand, she did look too thin, she nodded and said okay.

The two got out of the car, ready to buy rice noodles for Grandma and pack them to take home.

As soon as they entered the state-owned restaurant, they heard Zhang Lihua yelling loudly, “Xiaoching, they’re back again. You have to give Xiao Sheng a good talking to. He’s disrespectful to me, he doesn’t respect my son-in-law, the regiment leader. Humph, you have to teach him a lesson. And the woman with Xiao Sheng is no good, she’s not polite at all, she ran off without saying hello. You have to tell Xiao Sheng to stay away from her, she doesn’t look like someone who can settle down.”

Previously, Zhang Lihua had introduced her niece to Sheng Tunan, but he had refused, and she had been unhappy ever since. Today, she used the excuse that Sheng Tunan didn’t buy her breakfast to say that he was disrespectful.

Dongfang Xiaoching was a few years younger than the regiment leader. She was very much loved by the regiment leader after marrying him, and she hardly did any work. She had a relative from her husband’s hometown who helped her with housework. Over the years, she had become accustomed to a life of luxury and comfort. When she returned to her mother’s house, she slept until noon and had just gotten up to go to the state-owned restaurant for breakfast when she ran into Zhang Lihua, who hadn’t left yet.

Dongfang Xiaoching was slurping down her rice noodles and didn’t answer her mother right away. Instead, Li Yucheng, who was sitting in Zhang Lihua’s arms, hummed and said, “Don’t say bad things about Uncle Sheng and Sister. I like Sister.”

Dongfang Xiaoching looked up in surprise. Her son never said he liked anyone in the compound. She couldn’t even eat her rice noodles anymore. She turned her head and looked at the sister her son liked, wondering what kind of magic she possessed.

“Pah,” the moment she saw Zhan Xinyue, Dongfang Xiaoching was so startled that she couldn’t even hold her chopsticks steady. She was so flustered that her hands trembled, and she dropped them on the table.