Chapter 17

“Lu Zhanye, put me down!”

Lu Zhanye kicked the bathroom door open.

Everyone in the emergency room corridor was stunned by the scene before them.

Including soldiers from all three battalions.

Lu Zhanye was seen carrying Shen Nanxing, who was wrapped tightly, out of the bathroom.

“Pah…”

The duty registration sheet was left on the table at the nurses’ station.

“Doctor Shen needs an emergency!”

“Third Battalion, everyone’s here. Physical examinations completed. Everyone, please go back with the platoon leader.”

Just as everyone’s eyes widened and they had no time to close their mouths, Lu Zhanye had already carried Shen Nanxing out of the hospital building.

Then he stuffed her into the jeep and drove out of the hospital.

Time goes back three hours.

Today is the physical examination day for all officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion.

Lu Zhanye brought everyone to the physical examination area of the hospital early.

After settling everyone down, he went to the emergency department to look for Shen Nanxing.

He became very anxious after not seeing him for a few hours.

Where on earth did this little woman go?

Maybe he took advantage of the break after lunch to visit his younger brother Shen Xiaoman.

These two days I have been busy decorating the new house allocated in the military compound.

He hasn’t seen Shen Xiaoman for two days.

This brother that Shen Nanxing is so worried about has grown taller and is recovering better.

However, before he reached the door of the ward, he heard a familiar female voice.

“Old Wang, that Shen Nanxing is so ungrateful!”

It was Xu Manli’s voice, with hatred in her coquettishness.

“Ever since she and Lu Zhanye filed for marriage, she’s been so arrogant all day long, she doesn’t even take you seriously!”

“Humph, you’re just a barefoot doctor, but you really take yourself too seriously.”

“But, can what you said really work?

That little bitch is very cunning. She was the one who caused the last car accident, and she must have stolen that document.

If it falls into Lu Zhanye’s hands, it will be troublesome.”

“idiot!”

Director Wang’s leather shoe heel rolled over the cigarette butt he had thrown on the ground.

“Li Shufen’s husband is still locked up in the cowshed. How dare she disobey us?

All you have to do is rush in on time with the security guys, and the camera will take care of the rest.

Even if Lu Zhanye is as strong as a rock, he can’t stand the accusation of his family’s misconduct.”

Lu Zhanye’s nerves suddenly tensed up.

He has seen too many such dirty tricks.

Three years ago, on the battlefield, Old Chen from the Logistics Department was framed for “collaborating with the enemy” and was eventually hanged from a beam in a warehouse.

At this moment, the first person he thought of was Shen Nanxing’s younger brother Shen Xiaoman.

A twelve-year-old child being treated in Intensive Care Ward 302.

If Shen Nanxing was really framed, the child’s streptomycin would probably be gone forever.

He turned around and suddenly found Li Shufen hiding in the corner and peeping.

Li Shufen also discovered Lu Zhanye and she trembled.

Lu Zhanye stepped forward and snatched the note from Li Shufen’s hand.

It turned out to be a list of tonics that Shen Nanxing asked her to take to the pharmacy in the morning.

“Captain Lu…”

Li Shufen stammered and tried to explain.

“They said if I didn’t do as they said, they would send my husband to a place farther away for rehabilitation. They also wanted to stop Shen…Shen Xiaoman’s medication.”

“They dare? I have enough bullets in my gun to reward them with one each. Do you want to try?”

Lu Zhanye raised his hand, and Li ShufenOn the ground.

“Captain Lu, I’m afraid my man won’t be able to come back.”

“Think about it clearly for me. If you do something, your family will be ruined in this life.

If you want to give your spouse a chance to start a new life, it depends on whether you can seize the opportunity.”

Li Shufen seemed to understand what Lu Zhanye said, “Captain Lu, from now on, I will listen to you. Please help my family…”

“Take good care of Shen Xiaoman. When he recovers and is discharged from the hospital, your man should go home.”

After saying that, Lu Zhanye walked towards the hospital bathroom…

Leaving behind was a frightened Li Shufen, who ran towards Ward 302 without stopping for a moment…

Shen Nanxing, Shen Nanxing, you stupid woman.

All I have in my mind all day is Shen Xiaoman, imported anti-inflammatory drugs, and are you going to kill me with a needle?

Lu Zhanye searched all the way west for Shen Nanxing.

First, he got to the bathroom first, kicked out a stupid male patient, and made sure that Shen Nanxing was not inside, then he felt relieved.

The jeep sped along the bumpy dirt road.

Shen Nanxing was curled up in the passenger seat wrapped in Lu Zhanye’s military uniform, with water droplets still on the ends of her hair.

She didn’t understand why Lu Zhanye was always haunting her and pressing her everywhere.

I don’t understand why he always likes to use his brother’s life-saving anti-inflammatory medicine to threaten her.

I don’t understand why Lu Zhanye was so angry just now.

Now that this has happened, how can she still have the dignity to stay in the emergency room or the hospital?

After all, it was just a matter of killing her, and she didn’t want to continue to be entangled with Lu Zhanye like this.

When the hospital gate shrank into a small dot behind the car, Shen Nanxing suddenly spoke:

“Stop the car. Captain Lu, please stop the car for me.”

She tore off her military uniform and threw it to the back seat, then was about to jump down, but was pulled back by Lu Zhanye.

“Shen Nanxing, are you crazy?”

Lu Zhanye was filled with anger she had never heard before.

“Put me down!”

Shen Nanxing shook off his hand, her eyes red.

“I don’t want to be a contractual couple with you. I want to break the contract…”

“What, say that again?”

“You’re using streptomycin to threaten me. What’s the difference between you and those people like Li Dazhuang?”

Before he could finish his words, the jeep slammed to a halt at the edge of a poplar forest, sending clouds of dust flying into the windows.

“You think I would?”

Shen Nanxing watched Lu Zhanye bend down and cover his waist.

He must have aggravated his back injury when he was carrying me just now.

Lu Zhanye took out a crumpled cigarette box from the storage box.

His hands were shaking as he took out a cigarette, but when he was about to light it, Shen Nanxing snatched it away.

“You’re still smoking when your wound is infected?”

She blurted out, and felt annoyed at her unconscious concern.

“Shen Nanxing, do you know what you just said?”

Lu Zhanye turned sideways and looked at Shen Nanxing beside him.

There was a hint of sadness in his eyes.

This sadness reminded her of the moment when Lu Zhanye pointed his gun at her on the execution ground.

That look is exactly the same as it is now.

“Yes, I know.”

“You, know what?”

Lu Zhanye smiled bitterly…

“I want to break the contract. We haven’t even gotten married yet. We’re not husband and wife at all. I don’t want to get married…”

Suddenly, a burst of birds’ calls was heard in the poplar forest, startling Shen Nanxing so much that he trembled all over.

Lu Zhanye took the opportunity to grab her wrist.

“Director Wang is behind today’s incident. He wants to use his old tricks again and drag you and me into this mess.”

Now, Shen Nanxing finally understood why there was always someone sneaking around outside the duty room window these days.

“You think I’m willing to blackmail you with streptomycin?”

Lu Zhanye suddenly ripped open the collar of his military uniform, revealing a hideous old scar below his collarbone.

“The merits I’ve accumulated over the years could be exchanged for three boxes of streptomycin. But I’m more afraid…”

He paused and said self-deprecatingly:

“I’m even more afraid that one day you’ll be accused of a crime you don’t even have the chance to defend yourself.”

Shen Nanxing thought of the crumpled list of imported medicines in the drawer of the duty room.

It turned out that every time Lu Zhanye delivered medicine, he exchanged it with his own quota.

No wonder his back injury never heals.

No wonder the ending of the story in the original book is so different from the current Lu Zhanye.

It turns out that the original novel’s ending, where the forensic room was soaked in tea, was not what I imagined.

Lu Zhanye was rewriting the ending of the story in the most clumsy way.

“So you took me away from the hospital on purpose? So that everyone could see what you did to me…”

Shen Nanxing didn’t say those two words.

“So no one dares to touch me easily?”

Lu Zhanye didn’t answer.

He just took out his cigarette case again and took out another cigarette.

This time Shen Nanxing didn’t stop him and watched him light a cigarette…

“There are some things I can’t let happen.”

“Lu Zhanye,” she called his name softly.

“In the original novel, you finally…”

Before he finished speaking, Lu Zhanye suddenly leaned over.

“I don’t care about the original story, I just know… now, you are mine.”