Chapter 70 The Storm is Coming

“Do you still think this is a world from a book?” Faced with Xiaoqi’s eye roll, Qian Xiaolan was puzzled, “Isn’t it a world from a book? But the book I read before…” “That was just to give you a general idea about this avatar, you…” Xiaoqi blurted out, then quickly covered her mouth.

Seeing this, Qian Xiaolan’s heart sank, “You mean, I was deliberately sent to this book?”  Then she thought again, “Didn’t you say you originally wanted to bind with my mother?” Xiaoqi kept her mouth shut.

Qian Xiaolan narrowed her eyes dangerously, “Are you going to tell the truth? If not, we’ll just die together!” Xiaoqi wished she could slap herself. But now she couldn’t keep quiet. She couldn’t tell the truth, so she stammered, “I, I just made you come back earlier. But don’t worry, I really don’t have any ill intentions towards you. You’ll understand the truth when the system recovers to full level.”

Qian Xiaolan wanted to ask more details, but Xiaoqi, scared, directly disappeared. Qian Xiaolan gritted her teeth in anger, but she was helpless. However, if she wasn’t mistaken, Xiaoqi had said “avatar”? “Xiaoqi, answer me, what does avatar mean?” Xiaoqi remained silent.

Qian Xiaolan sneered, “I’ll donate all the supplies in the space to the army and hand over the Trading Mall to the country.” She remembered that she had tried to get her family into the space before, and she had used this to test Xiaoqi. It hadn’t even woken up at the time, but it had shaken the drawer with a bang. She had a feeling that no matter how powerful Xiaoqi was, if she really wanted to do this, Xiaoqi wouldn’t be able to stop her.

Sure enough, Xiaoqi panicked, “No, no, no, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. You were originally a person from this world. Due to special circumstances, a part of your soul went to another world.” “Oh,” Qian Xiaolan responded thoughtfully, then asked, “So I’ve always been a person from this world?” “If not from here, where else could you be?”

Hearing this, Qian Xiaolan was very happy. It turned out that Rong Qian was really her mother, and her father, grandfather, maternal grandfather, and brother were all her real family! Qian Xiaolan smiled and smiled again, then fell into thought.

From the first time they met, Xiaoqi’s attitude towards her wasn’t very good. There was hidden arrogance, impatience, but also helplessness. It was like, well, like she had done something wrong and was forced to compromise. She could occasionally feel Xiaoqi’s resentment. Originally, she thought it was Xiaoqi’s resentment towards Wang Juhua for stealing the original owner’s body, but now she realized it was directed at her. Qian Xiaolan frowned and thought for a while, but she couldn’t figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it. In any case, Xiaoqi’s attitude was bad, but she truly didn’t have any ill intentions towards her.  Well, she would just wait until the truth came out.

Qian Xiaolan had come to terms with it and stopped dwelling on the matter. Ah Tiger had just put another basket of ginseng on the shelves, and also—a tiger! Wow, Qian Xiaolan was stunned. That was too much! She was a little afraid to accept it, but a tiger was a treasure from head to toe, it was hard for a Chinese medicine practitioner not to be tempted. Besides, the tiger was already dead, it would be a waste not to take it. So, she put an equivalent amount of supplies on the shelves for Ah Tiger. She took down the tiger, collected the tiger skin, tiger eyes, tiger teeth, tiger meat, tiger tendons, tiger paws, tiger kidneys, tiger gall, tiger belly, tiger fat, tiger bones, and tiger cane for medicinal use. She also ordered ten large jars of wine from Wenxuan, to be used for soaking tiger bones and other medicines later. After tidying everything up, she left the space, picked up her tools for going to the sea, and went to work. This afternoon was the time to go to the sea, the number of patients would definitely decrease, she might be able to go to the sea.

When Qian Xiaolan arrived at the clinic, Li Xingxing was already waiting at the door. Seeing Qian Xiaolan carrying her tools for going to the sea, she was a little surprised. Qian Xiaolan saw this and smiled, “After the tide recedes, if there are few patients, we can go to the sea and get some food to supplement our meals.” Li Xingxing was immediately excited. She had been here for more than three months, and she would occasionally go to the sea with the wives and aunties from the military dependents’ compound, but because she was from the mountains, she never got much. She thought that after coming to work, she wouldn’t have the chance to go to the sea anymore, but it turned out she could still go.

Qian Xiaolan brought Li Xingxing inside and said to her seriously, “Your task this afternoon is to memorize the location of all the Chinese herbs in the medicine cabinet. If a patient needs help, help them. Don’t accept anything from anyone, you have to ask me first. Our clinic charges the islanders according to this standard: acupuncture without medicine, just take some of their salted fish, dried vegetables, or three or four eggs, medicine is charged separately. We don’t accept any valuable things. For patients from outside the island, the commune hospital has set a standard fee, I’ve posted it on the wall, you can take a look.”

Li Xingxing agreed and began to look at the names of each medicine cabinet. She not only looked at the names of the medicines, but also pulled open each drawer and carefully distinguished the medicines inside. Qian Xiaolan was very satisfied with her seriousness. Only by familiarizing herself with each herb could she avoid mistakes when grabbing medicine. She gave Li Xingxing a book of herb illustrations and let her learn by comparing them.

Soon, patients began to arrive. Qian Xiaolan started seeing patients, but by the time the tide receded, not only did the number of patients not decrease, but it actually increased. Qian Xiaolan frowned, many of the people this afternoon were unfamiliar faces.

She chatted with a few patients, laughing, and learned that they had all come from nearby islands, having heard about her superb medical skills. Qian Xiaolan didn’t say anything more, she treated them with all her heart and soul. But deep down, she still had some doubts. She knew that her medical skills had spread throughout Bailong Island. Bailong Island was where their commune was located, so it wasn’t strange that her medical skills had spread. But the other islands were quite far away, how did they hear about it? She didn’t think her medical skills were that amazing.

Qian Xiaolan felt something was fishy and thought she would talk to Gu Yanqing about it when she got home. But Gu Yanqing didn’t come home for three days in a row, only sending a soldier to the clinic the next day to say that he had gone on a mission. Qian Xiaolan felt helpless. The man she couldn’t get in her previous life belonged to the country in this life. So, even though she was married, she was still the same as in her previous life, with no one to discuss things with.

Qian Xiaolan felt uneasy as more and more strangers appeared on the island, so she went to the dock to find the soldiers on duty. She found that there were now four soldiers instead of one. Seeing this, Qian Xiaolan turned around and went back. It was true, the military camp was here, and those people were much more perceptive than a little doctor like her.

The next morning, Jiang, the postman, came to the island to deliver packages, and he was subjected to three layers of extremely strict inspections. When Qian Xiaolan saw that the package from Jing City had been torn apart, she felt even more uneasy.

【Note, note: This book is not about cultivating immortality! Not cultivating immortality! Not cultivating immortality! This chapter is just to lay the groundwork for the truth that will be revealed later.】