Su Wanyin ignored the fat woman’s mocking sarcasm and quietly continued checking the old grandmother’s pulse.
The fashionable woman looked at her youthful face and couldn’t help saying,
“Maybe you should wait for the train staff to come take a look.”
“There’s no need. I already know why Grandma fainted.”
After a brief moment of thought, Su Wanyin calmly raised her eyes to meet the woman’s doubtful gaze.
Before the woman could respond, however, the fat woman across from them burst into loud laughter and sneered mockingly,
“You little brat, what could you possibly know? What, are you saying you know medicine too?”
“Just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean nobody else does. If you can’t help, then shut your mouth. You’re this old already and still don’t understand that?”
Su Wanyin coldly glanced at her. If she weren’t worried about the old woman in her arms, she would already have hit her.
The fat woman hadn’t expected to be lectured by a child. Her face turned red and green with humiliation. Looking around at the surrounding passengers, she deliberately added,
“You little bitch, treating kindness like dirt, huh? If something happens to that old woman later, don’t blame us!”
At once, the nearby passengers—who had only been skeptical before and were even considering helping—immediately withdrew their thoughts. Several older people also began trying to persuade her.
“Yeah, yeah, the lady’s right. You should wait for the train staff.”
“Little girl, this isn’t child’s play. This is a human life!”
…
Su Wanyin glanced at the people speaking and recognized them as the same people who had hidden far away earlier, afraid of being held responsible instead of helping.
Knowing how cold people could be, she merely warned them coldly,
“If you’re scared, then quietly watch. Don’t interfere with me.”
The older passengers had their thoughts exposed and looked both embarrassed and irritated. Finally, one of them snorted,
“Fine, but if something goes wrong, don’t drag us into it.”
After saying that, they all returned to their seats, choosing to remain indifferent spectators.
Only the seemingly cold and fashionable woman remained standing beside Su Wanyin, hesitantly asking,
“Do you really know what’s wrong with her?”
“Grandma has food poisoning.”
Su Wanyin gave her diagnosis firmly. Then she removed the black cloth bag the old woman had been clutching tightly in her arms, opened a corner of it, and pointed at the sweet potato slices, eggs, and dried persimmons inside.
“Sweet potatoes, eggs, and dried persimmons eaten together can trigger excessive stomach acid production. It can even cause vomiting, stomach pain, and diarrhea. In severe cases, it can make someone go into shock and faint.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she unsurprisingly heard a sneer from across the aisle, followed by murmurs from the surrounding passengers.
“Oh please, we’ve eaten those three things together our whole lives and nothing’s ever happened to us. If you’re going to make things up, at least invent some illness we’ve never heard of!”
After the fat woman spoke, several nearby passengers nodded in agreement.
“If you’ve eaten them without problems, then go ahead and eat more in the future.”
Su Wanyin chuckled lightly, too lazy to explain things to such an ignorant woman.
Then she pulled out a small acupuncture kit from her canvas bag and revealed several silver needles gleaming under the light.
Under everyone’s astonished gaze, she swiftly inserted the needles into the old woman’s Chengqi, Sibai, Juliao, and Dicang acupoints.
Her movements were precise and sharp.
But to outsiders, it looked as though she were randomly stabbing needles into the elderly woman’s fragile head like a hedgehog.
Not a single person believed that such a young-looking girl truly knew medicine.
The fat woman’s jaw nearly dropped. After a long pause, she finally reacted and cried out with fake concern,
“Heavens! Stop immediately! You’re going to kill this old woman!”
Others also called out from a distance,
“Little girl, stop! She’s already so old—how can her body handle you messing around like this?”
Su Wanyin remained unmoved and continued applying the needles, every motion sharp and accurate.
Her calm, composed profile reflected in the distant man’s dark pupils.
Outside the train window, scattered sunlight fell across the girl’s delicate side profile, wrapping her whole figure in a soft golden glow.
Beneath those fox-like eyes, the tiny brown beauty mark shifted subtly with her focused gaze.
“Commander, are we really just going to let her keep doing this? What if something happens?”
Huo Wei asked anxiously.
“Nothing will happen.”
Fu Shimo’s sharp eagle-like eyes remained fixed on the girl’s skilled and practiced movements. After only a few moments, he could already tell she genuinely knew acupuncture—and was exceptionally good at it.
Hearing the certainty in his commander’s voice, Huo Wei finally relaxed a little, though he still watched nervously.
After finishing the acupuncture, Su Wanyin helped the old grandmother sit upright and then firmly slapped several times against her back.
“Urgh—”
With the force of the blows, the old woman suddenly retched violently.
While supporting her, Su Wanyin quietly adjusted the direction of her body.
Then—
“Pwah!”
Like a fountain, the old woman vomited a large pile of multicolored filth directly toward the opposite side.
“Ahhh—!”
The sound of retching mixed with a woman’s horrified scream instantly echoed through the carriage.
When the middle-aged train attendant arrived and saw the scene, his eyes widened in shock and he instinctively took a large step backward.
“Comrade, hurry and throw this girl off the train! She’s pretending to treat people and nearly killed the old woman!”
“And she even deliberately puked all over my legs!”
The fat woman, seeing the attendant, immediately acted as if she’d found a savior. She rushed over, nearly collapsing as she pointed at the vomit on her pant legs before accusing Su Wanyin.
The attendant caught the sour stench coming from her and instinctively backed away another step in disgust before holding his breath and looking where she pointed.
“What happened here?”
Su Wanyin supported the gradually awakening old woman and politely explained,
“This grandmother was pushed over by that rude and uncivilized auntie. I’ve just managed to wake her up.”
Hearing that, the fat woman immediately exploded like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
“Who are you calling rude?! That old lady fell because of you! And what gives you the right to say you saved her? You made her vomit like this—she might even die halfway through the trip for all we know!”
As soon as those words left her mouth, the train attendant’s expression turned serious. He immediately walked over to Su Wanyin and looked nervously at the pale and weak old woman in her arms, who seemed as though she could stop breathing at any moment.
“Grandma, how are you feeling? Should we send you to the clinic?”
The old woman weakly opened her eyes and shook her head. Her voice was frail, but her words were clear.
“No need. I feel much more comfortable now, it’s just…”
“Just what?”
The attendant’s heart tightened. The passengers secretly listening behind him also became tense, afraid of being implicated.
“Don’t rush, Grandma. Tell us slowly if anything feels uncomfortable.”
Su Wanyin gently patted the old woman’s back and spoke softly.
Seeing the warmth and gentleness in the girl’s eyes, the old woman suddenly looked embarrassed as she continued,
“I’m just a little hungry.”
Instantly, everyone froze in shock before collectively letting out sighs of relief.
“Grandma, it’s normal to feel hungry after vomiting. But right now, you should only eat something easy to digest.”
After softly comforting her, Su Wanyin looked up at the train attendant.
“Excuse me, is there any porridge on the train?”
The attendant nodded and was just about to answer when the old woman’s expression suddenly changed and she abruptly sat upright.