Chapter 183 - 175: The 15th, A Good Day
Chapter 183: Chapter 175: The 15th, A Good Day
Seeing that Meng Nan was willing to speak, Gu Xi was delighted and hurried to his side. "Brother Meng, I heard from the kitchen staff that you haven’t been eating well these past two days, so I personally cooked a couple of my specialties for you." She instructed the maid behind her to place the food box on the table, while she herself leaned in closer to Meng Nan. "Brother Meng, look how much weight you’ve lost in your face since you got injured."
Meng Nan nodded. "Thank you for your concern, Miss Gu. Please, leave the food. You should go back for now. I’ll eat when I’m hungry later; I want to rest now."
Gu Xi had wanted to stay and watch him eat, but since Meng Nan had dismissed her, she couldn’t exactly refuse to leave. Reluctantly, she led her maid away.
The Jin guard glanced at the three dishes and a soup on the table, then at the egg wrap in his hand. He chuckled and said, "Young Master, since it would be rude to refuse Miss Gu’s kind offer, how about you let me have this egg wrap?"
"In your dreams!" Meng Nan shot up to snatch it away, but he moved too abruptly. He tripped on the hem of his own robe and fell disastrously to the floor. Even more disastrously, Bai Zhi hadn’t taken off her shoes when she’d come in, and some unknown, dark, gooey substance had fallen from their soles. Now, it was smeared all over the tip of Meng Nan’s nose. He took a deep sniff... it seemed to carry the ’delicate fragrance’ of cow dung...
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Meanwhile, ever since returning to Huangtuo Village from the government office, Bai Zhi had shut herself in her room, endlessly sketching and scribbling on pieces of paper.
’To her, Meng Nan’s injury wasn’t actually that severe. It just required a simple tendon suture. After the stitches were removed, with the right physical therapy, he could very well make a full recovery. Even if it wasn’t a complete recovery, he could at least regain eighty percent of his former ability.’
’It was a minor operation, but the problem was, in a place like this, she had none of the necessary tools. She couldn’t suture Meng Nan’s tendon.’
’She sketched out designs for the tools she required, but she had no confidence that anyone in this world could actually create what she needed.’
’As the saying goes, even a great hero can be stymied by the lack of a single penny.’
’And here she was, brought to a standstill by a single suture needle and a length of suture thread, wasn’t she?’
’The suture needle was the easy part, but what about the suture thread? You couldn’t just use any old string. The slightest carelessness could lead to a secondary infection, and that would be a much bigger, more difficult problem to handle.’
’If only she could have brought her emergency kit from the hospital. It was fully equipped. Performing this minor surgery would have been no problem at all.’
She wrestled with the problem late into the night but still couldn’t figure out a solution for the suture thread.
A late-summer night breeze rustled the small curtain in her wooden cabin. A perfectly round, bright moon hung above the treetops at the eastern edge of the village.
’So it’s the fifteenth today!’
’The fifteenth... What a memorable day. She remembered the day she’d entered the sleep pod to begin her soul travel—it was the fifteenth, a day just like this, with a bright moon hanging high in the sky.’
’She didn’t know what on earth had happened back in the 23rd century, or why she had suddenly appeared in this world for no reason. It all happened too fast—so fast that she’d been completely unprepared.’
’Thankfully, she had gradually grown accustomed to life here. She now had loved ones who truly cared about her, she had friends, and she had hope for the future.’
As if in a trance, she felt herself suddenly plunge into an abyss. Her body sank deeper and deeper, as if she were falling into a bottomless black hole.
THUD. She felt herself land—or rather, fall onto a soft bed.
When she opened her eyes, a blinding white light forced her to shut them again.