Chapter 35

She needed Huo Mingda’s help so much, as this was her only chance to turn things around.

The rain was dripping against the window lattice.

Xu Xiangling bit her lip and lowered her head…

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The next day.

The rain was still falling non-stop.

“It’s good that it’s raining. It’s raining heavily when the corn is growing cobs. This year will definitely be a good year!”

Old Man Xie stood at the door of the main hall, tapping his pipe, looking at the rain outside with a face full of longing.

Gu Nanzhi: “…”

A good year?

A good year with natural disasters and man-made disasters? That’s really…it can’t be better!

She was almost going bald with worry!

However, the smoke from the kitchen was curling up, and through the rain light, the scene of a misty and rainy countryside really had a sense of peace and tranquility, but soon…this mood was broken!

Because the Xie family’s breakfast had just been prepared, and Gu Nanzhi hadn’t yet instructed Xie Jianbang to go to the backyard to deliver the meal, Wang Wanning came limping in the rain!

“Oh no! Xiangling went to town yesterday and didn’t come back all night. She hasn’t been seen since!”

Wang Wanning was so anxious that she almost cried, “It’s all my fault. It’s all my fault that I was angry with her. I didn’t go to her room yesterday. I didn’t know she didn’t come back until now. If something happens to her, I… woo woo…”

She also woke up early in the morning and heard Zhao Jie say that she didn’t know Xu Xiangling didn’t come back. Hearing this news, she was immediately worried!

It rained all night last night, and the village is far from the town. What if Xiangling…

Wang Wanning didn’t dare to imagine it at all. She regretted and blamed herself to death!

Gu Nanzhi heard: “???”

Xu Xiangling didn’t come home at night?

This…

Xu Xiangling rented a house in the backyard of the Xie family. If she had any mishap, the Xie family would also suffer. Although the Xie family has been busy these two days, it is understandable that they didn’t notice that Xu Xiangling didn’t come back all night, but…

the Xie family is kind-hearted!

This time, without even bothering to eat, Xie Jianbang put on his raincoat and went to the old village chief’s house. When something like this happened, he had to report it to the village as soon as possible. Not long after, the old village chief came to his house with several cadres. After asking Wang Wanning about the situation, a group of people immediately went out in the rain to look for someone!

Seeing this, Gu Nanzhi: “!!!”

After a moment of hesitation, she left Xie Ruyun and Xie Ruhua at home to look after the children, and after instructing them to take care of Xie Yuanbao’s emotions, she also went into the rain.

If possible, she didn’t want to leave Xie Yuanbao. The children suffered the most when Xie Jianbang and Du Guirong divorced!

Xie Yuanbao is now in the separation period, and his emotions are very unstable. If he is not careful, he will leave a shadow for the rest of his life. Gu Nanzhi doesn’t want to leave such a hidden danger for the child, but…on such a rainy day, with such an impulse…

she is afraid that if she misses it, she may not have the urge to find the sweeping monk again!

Xiejia Village is not close to the town. The road, which is usually flat, is muddy because of the rain. Gu Nanzhi walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Soon her shoes and trouser legs were soaked, but she didn’t care about anything else…

On the road, she caught up with the old village chief and Xie Jianbang and others who were calling Xu Xiangling’s name. Gu Nanzhi didn’t listen to them and went back to the town. When she arrived at the town, she took the errand to find someone at the town hospital and went straight to the town hospital!

After going to the hospital and asking many people, it was confirmed that Xu Xiangling had indeed come yesterday morning, but she had never come to the hospital since then. Gu Nanzhi took a deep breath and went to the Chinese medicine pharmacy.

The familiar pharmacy, the smell of medicine blowing in the face.

When Gu Nanzhi was shaking off the raindrops on her raincoat at the door, the old doctor glanced at her through the gap in his reading glasses, and smiled when he recognized her, “Oh, I was wondering who came to get medicine in the rain, it turned out to be you, little girl! What’s the matter? Little girl, have you figured it out?”

Gu Nanzhi heard: “…”

The corners of his mouth twitched. Knowing that he was talking about going to college, he didn’t respond to him and sat down on the chair opposite the old doctor. “I’m looking for you for something serious. Can you get some medicine?”

The old doctor heard: “???”

He looked at Gu Nanzhi with a frown and said in a deep voice, “The medicine you took last time ran out so quickly? I heard from the pharmacy next door that you took away a lot of medicine last time, and you took away all the prescription quotas for the villages around your home!”

“The medicine is not used up, but I want to stock up more for backup!”

Gu Nanzhi said after pondering.

“Stocking medicine? Ha! I think you are drinking poison!”

The old doctor laughed when he heard it. While picking the herbs in front of him, he said, “To tell you the truth, without me, this small town can’t distribute so many medicines. Little girl, do you know what barefoot doctors in other remote areas are equipped with?”

“With a syringe, a few pills, and a small medicine box, they can go from street to street and benefit the neighbors!”

“In this situation, if you want to stock up medicine, you might as well find a rope to hang yourself!”

Gu Nanzhi: “…”

She didn’t hear what the old doctor said later, she only heard the first sentence!

Even the prescription of medicine in this town is influenced by this sweeping monk. This sweeping monk…

he is really a sweeping monk!

That’s it!

“I want medicine! Medicine for preventing and treating epidemics! Anti-dysentery, antipyretic…”

Gu Nanzhi stood up, supported her hands on the counter, looked at the old doctor with a sharp gaze and said, “The more the better!” The two looked at

each other.

The old doctor: “…”

He frowned and looked at Gu Nanzhi for a long time, then he stammered, “Reason?”

“No reason!”

The old doctor: “???”

Are you teasing him?

“If you must ask for the reason, then I can only say that it was raining last night and I had a dream. I dreamed that in the near future, the villages around the mountains would suffer from rain disasters and epidemics…”

The old doctor: “!!”

He looked at Gu Nanzhi with a helpless smile and said, “Okay, the more you talk, the more you get out of control!”

“I’m telling the truth!”

Gu Nanzhi was anxious.

“Even if what you said is true, there is no extra medicine in the hospital!”

Seeing her anxious look, the old doctor sighed helplessly and said, “The medicine here is all approved by me after I carefully calculated the expenses of the entire town and used a lot of connections. If I let you take more, there will inevitably be others who cannot get timely treatment due to lack of medicine!”

“Little girl, it’s not that I don’t want to help you, but are you… willing to see that happen?”

Gu Nanzhi heard: “…”

She hoarded medicine to save people!

If her hoarding of medicine hinders others from getting treatment, wouldn’t it be meaningless and counterproductive?

“Is there no other way?”

Gu Nanzhi’s eyes were slightly red. Many villagers near Xiejia Village had come to her for medical treatment…

Most of them were honest, simple and kind, just like Ruhua and Tuanzi, they were all living people, with vibrant lives!

She really couldn’t watch them struggle and die in pain, she couldn’t do it, so…

she came!

She would rather risk exposing herself and come here, but…the result gave her a blow!

The old doctor: “…”

He looked at Gu Nanzhi deeply for a long time, and seeing her lower her head and cry silently, he finally couldn’t bear it, and said slowly, “Here, there is really no extra medicine for you, but…”