Chapter 23

When Yu Huai went out, Chi Xu was already eating at the table.

She walked over with a sullen face and asked, “What’s going on with the contract? Did you change it while I was away?”

Chi Xu was slowly cutting the steak on the plate, not even raising his eyelids to glance at her. “I’m not that boring, it’s you who didn’t look carefully.”

Yu Huai clenched his hands tightly and stood there staring at him.

Aunt He didn’t know what was going on. She walked over and pinched her arm, blinking her eyes as if to signal her.

Look at this kid, even if something happens, he can’t be angry with Mr. Chi. Mr. Chi is the boss and the owner of this house.

Yu Huai swallowed his anger and stood aside to serve people until they finished their meal.

It was late at night and everything was quiet all around, with only the street lights emitting a dim light.

The door was opened gently, and a dark shadow rushed out, went out of the gate, crossed the path, and soon arrived at the parking lot in the backyard.

Yu Huai stood in front of several cars that looked like seven fairies, with an evil smile on his face.

A shiny knife appeared in his hand.

She, Yu Huai, is not a soft persimmon who will let Chi Xu bully her. If he dares to plot against her like this, he must be prepared to bear the consequences.

Yu Huai stepped into the group of these ‘little princesses’ with a sinister smile on his face.

After making breakfast, Yu Huai rode his bike to the vegetable market. Chi Xu was picky and could tell that the stir-fried bok choy was always tender. The ones she bought yesterday that were not fresh were picked out and thrown away by Aunt He.

As I came out of the vegetable market and entered the backyard, I heard the voices of several people talking in the yard.

Old Li and Old Wang stood on one side and looked at the five cars in the garage that had several long horizontal lines scratched on their front ends.

Aunt He was there too. She reached out and touched the scratched front of the car. “Who is so wicked as to stay up late at night and come to someone’s yard to scratch the car? Look at what they’ve done to the car. How much will it cost to repair it? Can we find the person who did it?”

Old Li exhaled a puff of smoke and shook his head. “This is going to cost a lot of money, and it’s going to take some time to find someone, but we can still file a case at the Public Security Bureau.”

“It’s just that President Chi doesn’t intend to pursue the matter.”

Yu Huai originally wanted to scratch all the cars in Chi Xu’s garage, but the noise made by scratching the cars was quite loud, and Yu Huai was afraid of waking up Chi Xu and Aunt He, so he stopped for a while after scratching one car. By the time he had scratched the first to fifth car, Yu Huai was tired of scratching and simply went back to the house.

Aunt He was still indignant. “Why didn’t Mr. Chi come down to take a look? I put a lot of thought into buying these cars.”

Yu Huai walked in quietly with a guilty conscience. It wasn’t obvious at night, but when he looked at it during the day, the various scratches on the front of the car were extremely obvious, as if a bucket of manure had been poured over its head.

Aunt He turned around and saw Yu Huai and called out, “Xiao Yu, you’re back. Did you hear any noise last night? Mr. Chi’s car was scratched by someone last night. I don’t know who did it.”

Yu Huai stopped immediately and shook his head in confusion, “No, I usually sleep very soundly at night and didn’t hear any sound.”

Aunt He saw the bicycle in Yu Huai’s hand and seemed to be particularly familiar, “Xiao Yu, your bicycle…”

“Oh, this bike was given to me by my friend to ride to buy groceries.”

Aunt He always felt that she had seen this bicycle somewhere before. The more she looked at it, the more familiar it looked.

When Yu Huai was carrying the vegetables into the house, she happened to meet Chi Xu coming down from upstairs. She pretended not to see him and quickly walked towards the kitchen.

“Did you sleep well last night?”

Chi Xu stopped and adjusted his tie with his hand. When he tilted his head to look at her, the shallow scar on his face became more obvious.

Her heart skipped a beat. Did he know? Did he know she scratched his car last night?

He doesn’t look angry.

“fine…..”

Chi Xu chuckled, then picked up the briefcase on the table and went out.

Everything was peaceful and smooth for a long time afterwards. It should be said that Chi Xu was too busy to go home. There were only her and Aunt He in the whole garden. Aunt He was old, and she was either sleeping, watching TV or listening to the radio, or tinkering with snacks and new dishes in the kitchen, and then letting Yu Huai try them.

Even if Aunt He cooks strawberry beef, it is delicious. Yu Huai eats so much that his belly is full every day. It would be great if Mr. Chi didn’t exist in this family.

After a few days of eating well, drinking well and sleeping well, Yu Huai’s face became noticeably whiter and rounder.

Aunt He looked at it with a smile, “It’s good that it’s round. It looks very blessed. I think you, Xiaoyu, have big earlobes, so you are definitely blessed. I guess all the blessings are in the future.”

Yu Huai, keep going! May all the blessings come to her!

Chi Xu didn’t know what big job had come up, and he was busy for half a month without seeing anyone.

After Yu Huai had eaten and drunk his fill, he went for a stroll on the street with the money in his hand.

Although there were not as many streets on both sides of the street as in later generations, they were still popping up like bamboo shoots after a rain, especially restaurants.

Finally she found a Chinese medicine store. She walked in and smelled the familiar aroma of herbs. The smell seemed to bring her back to the time when she was immersed in piles of Chinese herbal medicine every day. At that time, she was familiar with the herbs, smelled them over and over again, memorized their effects over and over again, and was familiar with their names over and over again.

This pharmacy is not small. In addition to the Chinese medicine area and the Western medicine area, there is also a consultation area in the inner hall. Yu Huai walked around and looked at the layout inside, silently preparing for his future small pharmacy.

After looking around, Yu Huai went to the examination table and asked about acupuncture.

The shop assistant took out the acupuncture needles from below when he heard this. In the 1980s, there were three kinds of acupuncture needles on the market: stainless steel needles, gold needles, and silver needles. Among these three, stainless steel needles were the most common and could also meet the needs of various acupuncture techniques.

But looking at the box of gold needles, Yu Huai couldn’t let it go. The gold needles were soft in texture, with round and smooth tips, and the stimulation to the acupoints was relatively gentle. However, no doctor would be willing to use gold needles for acupuncture. Most gold needles were collected.

The afternoon sun shines through the wooden lattice windows, casting tiny spots of light on the patinated counter, and the air is filled with the spicy aroma of angelica and mugwort.

Yu Huai was just about to take out the box of 0.30×40mm gold needles when he was suddenly attracted by the sound of an argument coming from the opposite corner.

“I’ve been taking this medicine for three days, and my night sweats have gotten worse!”

The woman in the gray cloth shirt clutched the prescription, her knuckles turning white from exerting so much force, and she looked fierce and ferocious.

Another shop assistant blushed, pushed his crooked round-framed glasses on his nose, and said stutteringly, “This is Yupingfeng Powder, made with Astragalus, Atractylodes, and Saposhnikovia divaricata, as prescribed by Doctor Zhang. It can’t be wrong.”

Yu Huai’s thumb is unconsciousHe touched the edge of the acupuncture needle box, picked up the gold needle and acupuncture needle together and went to pay.

When he turned around, he saw faint blue blood vessels on the woman’s neck – a typical sign of yin deficiency and night sweats.

It is completely different from the symptoms of “spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency” mentioned by the young man.

Yu Huai didn’t want to get involved. If he said it in someone else’s pharmacy, wouldn’t that just ruin the place for them?

After taking two steps forward, the instructor’s instructions echoed in my ears over and over again.

——Life is above everything else. It is the mission engraved in the bones of doctors. If you choose this path, you must know what you are facing.

As the boy began to pack the warm tonic into brown paper bags, a thin hand pressed down on the brown paper bag.

“Wait a minute.” Yu Huai’s voice was as clear as a spring, and it made people feel particularly refreshed when it flowed into their ears.