Of course, she wasn’t just walking around.
Whenever she passed a supply cooperative or a state-owned store, if something caught her eye, she bought it—whether it was big or small.
If it could be used in daily life, she bought it.
She had money and tickets!
She had to stockpile!
She had already been stockpiling all along the journey, never missing any stop where she got off the train.
Naturally, Fengcheng couldn’t be skipped either.
Stockpile, stockpile, stockpile.
This was her hamster nature!
Just after storing the items away and turning the corner, she saw someone rush out of the hospital nearby with red eyes and a messy beard.
He looked somewhat familiar.
The little girl tentatively called out:
“Brother Jiang?”
The figure that had already rushed several meters away suddenly stopped and turned back in disbelief.
“Little sister?”
Ah, it really was Jiang Tao.
Only his current image wasn’t very good.
“Brother Jiang, what happened to you?”
For Jiang Tao, who usually loved laughing, talking, and maintaining his image, to look like this, something must have happened.
Perhaps because he felt like he had seen family, his grievance surged up all at once.
“Sister, I… I can’t buy medicine either…”
She should ask directly.
“Someone is sick, right?”
But why had he come so far just to buy medicine?
Jiang Tao calmed himself slightly.
“I came here on a business trip to buy parts for the factory. Then the leader called and asked me to look for anti-inflammatory medicine. They’ve asked all over the hospitals in the provincial capital, but there’s none at all. The hospital said that if there’s still no medicine, the leg will have to be amputated…”
“Someone very important?”
“Mm. He’s an older brother to me and the leader. He retired from the army in the same batch as me.
Back home, he injured his leg while saving someone. He stayed in the hospital there for half a month, but it didn’t heal. The wound even became inflamed, so his family sent him to the provincial hospital.
But the provincial hospital had no medicine either. His family had no other choice, so they called the number I left back then.
It just so happened I was out on a business trip, and I’d been away for several days already. My coworker answered the call. I had told them before that if there was an emergency, they should contact the leader. I only found out after calling the leader.
The leader has already searched all the hospitals back home and asked everyone he could, but there’s really none.”
As the eight-foot-tall man spoke, tears came out.
“What medicine do you need? Amoxicillin? Roxithromycin? Or something else? Oral medicine or injection?”
“Amoxicillin. Injectable.”
After asking for three days, even if he didn’t know at first, he could already recite it now.
“It’ll take several days to get back from here.”
Her meaning was clear.
It was too far. Distant water couldn’t quench present thirst. Would there still be time?
“The hospital said one week at most. If there’s no medicine, the leg can’t be saved. The leader has searched for three days, and I’ve also searched for three or four days.”
Looking at the man’s reddened eyes, the little girl thought for a moment.
“Did you drive here?”
“Mm.”
“Then when are we leaving?”
It seemed this person was important to both of them.
She should go back and take a look.
If something else was needed, it would be more convenient if she were there.
Was lingzhi or ginseng good for external injuries?
The little girl didn’t have many friends she acknowledged, so she valued every single one of them.
“Sister, what do you mean?”
No way.
Did the little sister even have this?
“I’ll go get it, then go back and tell my grandmother. We can leave in a while?”
“Ah, good!”
Jiang Tao, this foolish man.
The little girl went back and told the old woman that there was an emergency and she needed to return immediately.
She specifically instructed that after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Yuan Hongxiang should take a bus over and have Yuan Hongwei meet him.
Before the old woman even had time to feel sad, the little girl had already arranged everything.
She secretly tucked some money and tickets under the pillow, carried her empty basket, and said goodbye to the old woman.
The two of them—oh, plus the driver—three people had already traveled for half a day, yet Jiang Tao still hadn’t fully recovered.
He repeatedly confirmed things with her.
Looking at this fool, the little girl felt helpless.
Couldn’t he see that even the driver was secretly laughing at him?
The two men took turns driving, stopping only the people but never the vehicle.
After three days and four nights, they finally returned to the provincial capital early on the fourth morning.
They had called before setting off.
The moment they entered the provincial capital, they saw Lin Guanghui waiting by the roadside.
Judging by his appearance, he had been waiting for quite some time.
Lin Guanghui got into the vehicle, and they headed straight to the provincial hospital.
After the medicine was used, the little girl had Lin Guanghui secretly feed the patient two slices of lingzhi.
Two days later, after the examination, the doctor announced that he was out of danger. With proper recovery, he would be fine, and it wouldn’t affect anything in the future.
The little girl found time to visit Yuan Hongwei and explain Yuan Hongxiang’s situation to him.
Then she brought home the red checkered shirt her brother bought for her.
This time, the little girl was truly exhausted.
Especially in the vehicle, she couldn’t eat or sleep well, and her body really couldn’t endure it.
She slept hard for two full days before finally recovering.
After properly cleaning the house, sweeping the snow from the courtyard, and bringing some food to visit her educated youth companions and the neighbor old lady, she returned with the remaining two quotas and went to the village chief’s house.
One quota had been given to Yuan Hongwei.
One to Wang Chuan.
One to Yuan Hongxiang.
The remaining two would be left for Village Chief Uncle to arrange.
The group had spent New Year’s Day in the vehicle.
It was now early January.
This year, the Lunar New Year would be in mid-February, meaning there was still about one month before New Year.
The village wasn’t working now.
When villagers had nothing to do, they went out to collect firewood, but they didn’t go deep, only staying in the outer mountains.
The little girl was also thinking about going up the mountain again.
Everything else was secondary.
Wild boars.
Delicious wild boar meat.
The little girl still liked it very much.
Besides, what if they came down and ruined the crops?
She could count this as eliminating harm for the people!
When she arrived at the village chief’s house, Lin Guanghui was also home, along with several villagers.
They were discussing whether to go up the mountain once more before New Year.
The little girl heard this and thought it was perfect.
She wouldn’t need to go secretly.
Since there were many people around, she didn’t wait.
She stuffed the things into Lin Guanghui’s hands and slipped out while no one was paying attention.
Lin Guanghui casually placed the items into the cabinet, stood up, and followed her out.
“You want to go up the mountain.”
His tone was certain.
“Mm-hm.”
The little girl didn’t deny it.
“I want to catch a few more wild boars.”
She sounded so excited.
Lin Guanghui secretly laughed.
When others encountered wild boars, their first thought was running for their lives.
But this little girl?
She wanted meat.
But thinking about her great strength, mm, she really did have the ability.
Perhaps one truly shouldn’t speak of things too much.
The two had just reached the foot of the mountain when they saw several people stumbling down from the mountain.
They were villagers who had gone to collect firewood.
They were shouting:
“Wild boars are coming down the mountain! Wild boars are coming!”
The two people who had just talked about wild boars: …
Was this so miraculous?
Speak of something and it appears?
They directly went forward to meet them.
They absolutely couldn’t let the wild boars enter the village and cause destruction.
This year, life had only just improved a little.
At this season, wild boars descending the mountain would only make things worse.
The little girl didn’t care about posture or angle at all.
She met one wild boar head-on and punched it.
The wild boar collapsed with a boom, its head caving in directly.
As she withdrew her fist, the little girl frowned.
She didn’t like this bloody feeling.
Sigh.
In a short while, the whole group of wild boars—two large and six small, likely one family—were lying neatly together.
How nice.
Lin Guanghui put away the dagger.
After using it last time, he hadn’t returned it to the little girl and had kept carrying it with him, treating it as his own possession.
See?
It came in useful.
The little girl didn’t notice.
The village chief, having received the message at the foot of the mountain, had already brought villagers over.
When they arrived and looked around—
Oh.
The battle was already over.
Fine.
Time to clean up.
Some carried the wild boars.
Several villagers stayed behind to clean the bloodstains.
Living at the mountain foot, they had experience with these things.
That evening, they ate meat.
The little girl ate beautifully.
The next day, she collected another batch of wild boar meat, making her heart even happier.