Unable to find the medicine, Shen Shuyue decided to go to the nearby clinic to get some.
But the moment she reached the door, she gave up on the idea.
She was already in terrible pain just walking a few meters around the house.
If she had to walk all the way to the clinic, it would probably hurt even more.
Shen Shuyue slowly made her way back to the sofa and sat down.
She had no idea how much time had passed when Qiu Chengyue finally returned.
The moment he entered the room and saw Shen Shuyue asleep against the sofa, he immediately noticed the injury on her ankle.
Looking at the ankle that was swollen like a steamed bun, Qiu Chengyue pressed his lips into a tight line.
He had barely walked over to Shen Shuyue when she opened her eyes.
“Where’s the medicine? Where did you put it?”
She had searched everywhere and still couldn’t find it. She was genuinely furious.
Her foot hurt terribly, and she couldn’t even walk.
She was utterly exasperated when Qiu Chengyue finally returned after such a long wait.
“Did you hurt it last night?”
Qiu Chengyue didn’t answer her question. Instead, he asked another one.
Shen Shuyue frowned. “What does it have to do with you? Where did you put the medicine?”
“I’ll take you to the clinic.”
Her injury was this serious. Would simply applying medicine really make it better that quickly?
Shen Shuyue stretched out her hand.
“Help me.”
How was she supposed to get there without someone supporting her?
Qiu Chengyue paused.
Then he bent down and scooped her up into his arms.
Shen Shuyue: “……”
Her eyes immediately widened.
They were filled with disbelief.
Qiu Chengyue was carrying her?
A princess carry?
But only a moment later, Shen Shuyue wrapped her arms around Qiu Chengyue’s neck.
Qiu Chengyue: “……”
He lowered his head and glanced at the woman in his arms. The corners of his lips lifted slightly.
Once they left the house, Qiu Chengyue carried Shen Shuyue straight toward the clinic.
Along the way, Captain Zhang, Political Commissar Zhou, and the women from the family compound all saw Qiu Chengyue carrying Shen Shuyue, and the whole place practically exploded.
Weren’t these two supposed to have a terrible relationship?
Why was Qiu Chengyue carrying Shen Shuyue out?
What were they up to?
Everyone else only noticed Qiu Chengyue carrying Shen Shuyue. No one paid any attention to her swollen ankle.
……
It took five or six minutes to walk from the family compound to the clinic.
Qiu Chengyue had originally wanted to drive Shen Shuyue there, but then he thought about how inconvenient it would be for her to get in and out of the car.
So he simply carried her there.
When they arrived at the clinic, there weren’t many people inside.
Qiu Chengyue carried Shen Shuyue straight into the doctor’s office.
“Doctor, please take a look at her foot.”
The doctor had been getting ready to leave for the day, but when he saw Qiu Chengyue carrying Shen Shuyue in, he couldn’t very well leave anymore.
He put on his gloves and examined the injury on Shen Shuyue’s foot.
“Comrade, how did you injure your foot?”
It was swollen this badly. She had probably injured the bone.
Shen Shuyue hesitated for a moment before answering.
“I went to the bathroom, slipped, and stepped into the little hole in the ceramic basin.”
“It hurts quite a lot.”
Doctor: “……”
Qiu Chengyue: “……”
Of course it hurt!
Her foot was swollen like that.
If her foot had gone into that little hole in the bathroom basin, there was even a possibility that she had fractured a bone.
“Let me examine it.”
“With an injury this serious, I’m afraid you’ve damaged the bone.”
Qiu Chengyue stood to the side, looking at Shen Shuyue’s injured foot with an extremely complicated expression.
The reason Shen Shuyue had injured her foot a second time was directly related to the injury she had suffered the previous night.
He had hurt her last night.
Yet she still hadn’t told her parents.
The doctor carefully examined Shen Shuyue’s foot.
The examination showed that there were slight cracks in the bone around her ankle.
Shen Shuyue: “……”
Qiu Chengyue: “……”
There were slight cracks in the bone?
Was it really that serious?
Shen Shuyue was surprised.
She had thought she’d merely twisted her ankle.
The doctor prescribed some medicine for Shen Shuyue.
Not long afterward, Jiang Xinmei came over carrying the medicine.
When she saw Qiu Chengyue standing beside Shen Shuyue, she paused, and her expression became slightly stiff.
“Chengyue, you two……”
Jiang Xinmei’s eyes were focused entirely on Qiu Chengyue. She hadn’t even noticed Shen Shuyue standing beside him, much less the injury on Shen Shuyue’s foot.
At that moment, the doctor said, “Medical orderly Jiang, Comrade Shen Shuyue has injured her foot. I’ll leave the job of applying and changing her medicine to you.”
Only then did Jiang Xinmei notice the injury on Shen Shuyue’s foot.
“Okay.”
Jiang Xinmei glanced at Shen Shuyue and said coldly, “Come with me to the ward. Given your condition, you’ll need to stay here for observation.”
“You’ll need injections and oral medicine, as well as external medication.”
When Shen Shuyue prepared to stand, Qiu Chengyue picked her up again.
Jiang Xinmei: “……”
She stared at Qiu Chengyue and Shen Shuyue, her grip on the tray of medicine suddenly tightening.
Even her fingers turned pale.
“Which ward?” Qiu Chengyue asked.
Jiang Xinmei’s eyes stung, and bitterness filled her heart.
“Room Three, Bed Six.”
Qiu Chengyue carried Shen Shuyue past Jiang Xinmei and strode toward Room Three.
There were two beds in the ward.
He found Bed Six and carefully lowered Shen Shuyue onto it.
Seeing how gently Qiu Chengyue placed Shen Shuyue on the bed, Jiang Xinmei’s heart grew even more bitter.
“She hasn’t had lunch. Can she still get an injection and take medicine?” Qiu Chengyue asked.
Shen Shuyue leaned against the headboard and glanced at Jiang Xinmei’s face.
Suddenly, her mood improved.
This woman was jealous.
Nice.
It seemed that Qiu Chengyue and Jiang Xinmei weren’t as close as she had thought. They certainly weren’t at the point where they were inseparable.
Jiang Xinmei bit her lip slightly before speaking.
“She still needs to eat first.”
“We can apply the external medicine now. After she finishes eating, she can take the medicine and get the injection.”
Qiu Chengyue looked at Shen Shuyue.
“What do you want to eat?”
“If we make something fresh, it’ll take a while. Can you eat the food from the cafeteria?”
Hearing this, Jiang Xinmei was already feeling terribly uncomfortable.
Qiu Chengyue had actually asked Shen Shuyue whether she could eat the cafeteria food?
Was Shen Shuyue really that precious?
Couldn’t she eat the food from the cafeteria?
Did she have to eat food from some fancy restaurant?
“Go see if they have sea prawns. If they don’t, the cafeteria has porridge. Bring me some of that.”
Jiang Xinmei couldn’t help laughing when she heard this, though it was a cold, mocking laugh.
“Sea prawns? I’m afraid they don’t have any.”
“The cafeteria isn’t your private kitchen. It’s not like they’ll have whatever you want just because you ask for it.”
Qiu Chengyue said, “They should have some. There were sea prawns among the supplies you donated to the troops yesterday, and there were quite a lot of them. I heard the cafeteria is serving sea prawns today.”
“I’ll go to the cafeteria and bring some back for you.”
Shen Shuyue blinked.
“My parents only sent one box of seafood, didn’t they?”
“Not just one box. There were more in the other trucks. There were several hundred kilograms in total. They must have gotten the numbers wrong.”
Shen Shuyue: “……”
Jiang Xinmei: “……”
“The supplies from the eight trucks yesterday… You donated them to the troops?”
Shen Shuyue smiled.
“That’s right. My parents sent them to me. I couldn’t finish everything, so I donated it to the troops.”
“If nothing unexpected happened, the food you’re eating today was donated by me.”
The clinic was affiliated with the military, so with that much food and supplies, the clinic should have received a share as well.
Jiang Xinmei: “……”
No wonder the lunch had been so good.
There had been chicken and duck.
She never would have imagined that it had all been sent by Shen Shuyue.