Chapter 62: Comrade, You Forgot to Pay

The young man’s face turned pale, and he opened his mouth as if to vomit, struggling to suppress the nausea.

The girl in the red skirt quickly supported him, “Brother!”

Xia Li was surprised at the scene and had no choice but to join the owner of the clay pot soup stall nearby to help him.

The young man barely managed to hold himself up, slumping against the edge of the road, his face even more ashen than before, beads of cold sweat forming on his forehead.

“Brother? Is your stomach hurting again? Let’s go back to the hospital; you can rest for a bit at Dad’s office,” the girl hurriedly tried to help him up, but the young man slightly lowered his head and shook it.

Xia Li had noticed earlier that his complexion was off, pale with a hint of dark yellow, and his lips were dry and ashen.

In his hand was a bag of medicine with a line of characters written in a chaotic style.

Patients usually couldn’t recognize the doctor’s handwriting, but as a medical student, she certainly could.

This should be a prescription for treating the spleen and stomach, and if she guessed correctly, it likely contained astragalus, yam, cardamom, malt, and white atractylodes, among others.

The young man frowned and took a moment to rest, painfully swallowing before quickly opening his eyes, “I’m fine, thank you.”

“Wanran, let’s go back.”

The girl in the red skirt looked worried, the previous coldness in her expression completely gone.

She anxiously asked, “Brother, shouldn’t we go to Dad’s office first to brew the medicine? You can drink it before we leave. You’ve already taken leave; it won’t matter if we take a little longer. It’s been a while since you’ve taken the medicine, and it hasn’t worked; you must not have brewed it properly.”

The young man hesitated for a moment but nodded, preparing to head back to the hospital.

Xia Li watched them take a few steps and suddenly spoke calmly, “Drinking that medicine will only make it worse.”

The siblings turned back at the same time.

The girl in the red skirt half-furrowed her brows and looked over coldly, “What did you say?”

Xia Li didn’t think it was her place to meddle.

But first, they had bought her goji berries, and regardless of the red skirt girl’s attitude, the young man was quite polite.

Moreover, her inherent nature, passed down from her grandfather, was to heal and help others as a medical student. This young man had a serious stomach issue, and she hadn’t guessed wrong about the prescription; the doctor who prescribed it had fallen into habitual thinking and misdiagnosed him. Continuing to take this medicine would lead to severe consequences.

Furthermore,

“Comrade, you forgot to pay.”

The young man’s pale face froze in surprise, and he looked at her with embarrassment in his eyes, hurriedly reaching for his money.

He was supposed to pay earlier but had forgotten in the rush, which was quite awkward.

The girl in the red skirt also showed an expression of exasperation; they weren’t trying to avoid payment! It was just a momentary lapse.

Moreover, she hadn’t misheard the country bumpkin behind her, who had just shoved the money over for her brother in a few quick motions, coldly questioning, “What nonsense were you just saying?”

Xia Li collected the money at a leisurely pace, her porcelain-like face maintaining its usual expression.

She didn’t respond to her but looked directly at the young man.

“Comrade, I think you have a chronic issue with coldness in your stomach, right?”

“But if you continue to take this medicine, it will only get worse. In the future, acid reflux will become more frequent, and within a month, it will hinder your daily life.”

The young man looked surprised, weakly coughing twice while still holding his stomach, suppressing his discomfort, and asked in a soft, slightly hoarse voice, “Comrade, do you understand traditional Chinese medicine?”

The girl in the red skirt looked at Xia Li with astonishment, as if she had heard a joke, and after a while, she snorted coldly, “I didn’t expect that there are still people trying to swindle others in such a new way? You’ve even come to us?”

This village girl didn’t know how she had heard about her brother’s chronic condition and was deliberately loitering in front of the hospital, but how dare she speak such nonsense in front of her?

Her cousin’s stomach issues had always been treated by their uncle.

Her father was a renowned medical expert; how could he possibly prescribe the wrong medicine?

This village girl deliberately spoke such words at the hospital entrance—was she sent by someone to tarnish her father’s reputation?