Chapter 170: New Hope

Seeing the doctor's reaction, Lin Zhao's eyes brightened, and she walked into the ward with hurried steps.

Li Song sat stiffly by the bed, a long-lost sense of relaxation spreading from his injured foot, making him feel a bit dazed.

He, he is healed?!

Could it be... a dream?! He subconsciously raised his hand and pinched his thigh meat fiercely, the stinging pain feeling exceptionally real.

Li Song's lost-soul appearance actually stunned Lin Zhao.

She couldn't help but speak: "... How do you feel?"

But she was muttering in her heart: Why are the doctors all like lost souls, and this one is sitting stupidly without saying a word? Did it succeed or not? It's killing me!

Lin Zhao's voice instantly awakened the dreamer, and Li Song gave a violent start, suddenly coming back to his senses.

He stood up abruptly, as if to confirm something, and took a tentative first step with his foot.

What came from under his foot was no longer soreness, nor the familiar numbness and weakness, but a long-lost, clear sense of support!

The heart hanging in his throat trembled violently.

He couldn't help but quicken his pace...

There was no more obstruction or sluggishness in the injured area, and a smooth and steady force rose from the soles of his feet!

Li Song's steps went from tentative to smooth, each step stepping exceptionally firmly and powerfully!

At the door, Yuan Xiang, who was anxiously looking out, captured the young man striding in the ward at a glance, her eyes instantly rounded, her mouth slightly open.

"Li, Comrade Li?" Her voice trembled due to extreme shock. "Your, your leg... is healed?!"

This, this, this... how long has it been?!

Clearly this morning, he was still limping when he walked fast, and it had only been two or three hours! He could actually stride like this?!!

Li Song smiled, a smile Yuan Xiang had never seen before—spirited and confident!

His eyes were burning bright, his mouth split open, revealing a mouthful of neat, white teeth.

This young man who didn't talk much was currently being burned by great joy in his chest!

He rushed toward Yuan Xiang in one step, stopped in front of her, the corners of his eyes slightly red, and said excitedly and incoherently over and over again: "Healed! Completely healed! Comrade Yuan Xiang! My leg... is healed!!"

That voice was as loud as a bell, shaking her eardrums, and also pierced through the small ward, straight into the corridor.

Being able to straighten one's waist and stride, who would be willing to be a cripple for a lifetime?!

Li Song's chest heaved violently with excitement, wishing he could look up to the sky and roar.

Only those who had experienced the pain of limping knew how refreshing and how damn comfortable it was to be able to walk steadily like a normal person!

Yuan Xiang was also impacted by this huge joy, and it took a long time to find her voice. "Too great, congratulations!"

This side was cheering, and others in the ward were also ignited by this almost miraculous reality!

Someone couldn't hold back their excitement and shouted on the spot.

Someone hugged that weak arm and wept with joy.

Others who had been inconvenienced for many years stumbled out of the ward, ran downstairs, cupped their hands around their mouths, and shouted toward the sky: "I can run—! My leg, damn it, can run again, ah ah ah ah!!"

Looking at these excited faces, Lin Zhao felt her eye sockets heat up.

She gripped Gu Chenghuai's hand tightly and said repeatedly: "Useful! The medicine is really useful! Third Brother doesn't need to transfer, he can stay in the military!"

Gu Chenghuai's heart also set off waves, and the agitated emotions lingered for a long time.

His eyes suddenly deepened, and his mind had already turned a hundred times in an instant.

... This medicine's weight was too heavy, such a great merit was enough to rehabilitate the Meng family.

Several names that were not light flashed in his mind.

His thin lips were tightly pursed, and he had already begun to quickly screen the... most efficient and certain relationship in his heart.

The opportunity must be seized!

Lin Zhao's heart was surging, and she pulled her husband's sleeve and urged anxiously: "Gu Chenghuai, hurry, let's go back to the Dongfeng Brigade, I want to tell Third Brother this good news, let him use the medicine as soon as possible!"

"Then... not going to the supply and marketing cooperative?" Gu Chenghuai raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at her anxious appearance, a hint of a smile in his eyes.

Lin Zhao was choked by the question: "Uh..."

The excitement hadn't faded, but her reason slowly returned.

She paused. "Still go."

Since they were already here.

After greeting Yuan Xiang, the couple went to the supply and marketing cooperative again.

The supply and marketing cooperative was quite free right now, with few customers.

The sales clerks in front of the counter were all clicking their abacuses to organize goods, and those with good relationships talked from time to time.

Only Li Fen had her heart flying to the county hospital early.

She was concerned about her younger brother Li Song, her knitting needles hooking the sweater with one stroke and another, her mind not on her work, the needle tip poking her fingertips, so she simply put the work aside, her two eyebrows twisted tightly, and she didn't stop sighing.

Lin Zhao walked to her counter quietly, hands behind her back, deliberately dragging her tone: "Ahem..."

Gu Chan was the first to see her sister-in-law: "Zhaozhao? Why did you come out today?"

"Came out to handle some business." Answering her eldest sister-in-law's words, Lin Zhao looked at Li Fen and said with a smile: "Sister Fen, Comrade Gu and I just came from the county hospital and heard a great piece of good news, Sister Fen wants..."

"Do you know what it is" — before these words could be spat out...

Li Fen jumped up violently as if she were equipped with a spring, her abdomen hitting the hard wooden counter with a bang, making her frown in pain.

She didn't have the heart to care, grabbing Lin Zhao's hand. "... Zhaozhao, what do you mean...?"

Li Fen stared at her with fiery eyes, her expression expectant. "My brother... is okay?! Right?"

"You said good news, good news is... he is fine, safe and sound, right?"

Lin Zhao nodded solemnly.

Her laughter was clear.

"Comrade Li is very good! Not only is he fine, he can also run and jump like a normal person!"

Getting the confirmation, Li Fen seemed to unload all her strength, her body softening and sitting back on the stool heavily.

She was a strong person and was afraid of being seen crying, so she turned her back, tears gushing out, hitting the cement floor in large drops, blooming into dark marks.

Half a minute passed.

Li Fen wiped her face fiercely, turned around suddenly, her eye circles slightly red, but her eyes were like two lit lamps, the corners of her mouth pressing up and couldn't be suppressed.

"Good! Good! It's good that the person is fine! The stinky boy made me not close my eyes all night, and I was absent-minded when working this morning. If it weren't for your eldest sister-in-law's help, I would have almost made a joke." She complained with her mouth.

Gu Chan comforted her warmly: "Everyone has times when they are anxious."

After finishing her words, she looked at Lin Zhao and Gu Chenghuai one by one, and asked her sister-in-law: "Zhaozhao, what did you two go to the hospital for? Is your body uncomfortable?"

"Everything is fine." Lin Zhao said. "Heard the county hospital was testing drugs today, so went to watch the excitement by the way."

She didn't mention that the medicine was Fourth Brother's merit.

"It's fine if you're not uncomfortable." Gu Chan just thought that her sister-in-law was pregnant again.

She didn't hope for her sister-in-law to give birth again; Chenghuai's family had four cubs, with sons and daughters, enough already! Giving birth again was fine, she and her mother could help take care of them, but, even if they didn't let her sister-in-law touch anything, she was tired too! The suffering of ten months of pregnancy and the ghost gate of production, whoever had experienced it knew!

Gu Chan secretly made up her mind to find an opportunity to point it out to her brother.

At this time, Li Fen turned over a bag of things from under the counter and slapped it in front of Lin Zhao with a bang.

"Zhaozhao, your Dragon Boat Festival gift, issued by the supply and marketing cooperative, you haven't come." The loudness in that voice was completely different from before.

Lin Zhao was slightly surprised and weighed it.

Opened it to see: a pot of oil, about two catties, two pieces of printed soap, a bundle of tightly tied raw zongzi (six), five salted duck eggs.

Such a heavy gift!!

"Such a big deal?!"

Li Fen's eyebrows raised high, her face full of pride that couldn't be hidden.

"That's right! Our supply and marketing cooperative has good efficiency, this welfare treatment, in the whole county, is this!" She proudly gave a thumbs up.

"The surrounding factories and mines don't count, but the supply and marketing cooperative is the only one here! The rare things that the purchasers ran their legs off to pull back, before the shelves were full, the well-informed ones snatched them clean! The efficiency is bubbling, and the festival gifts naturally rise with the tide!"

Lin Zhao separated two zongzi and two salted duck eggs, "plop" placed them on Gu Chan's counter, didn't wait for her to open her mouth to refuse, grabbed Gu Chenghuai's arm. "Going, eldest sister, see you later."

She pulled her husband and slipped away.

"Hey! Zhaozhao! You this..." Gu Chan hugged the things and chased after them in a hurry, wanting to return them.

Just chased to the door, but only saw a bicycle darting far away.

In the back seat, Lin Zhao waved at her eldest sister-in-law.

The crisp voice drifted through the street.

"Eldest sister, a festival gift supplemented by our family, for the two stones to eat."

Gu Chan hugged the heavy heart, her chest burning.

She hugged the heavy heart and returned to the counter.

Seeing Gu Chan didn't return the things, Li Fen and the others weren't surprised at all.

"Hahaha, I guessed you wouldn't return it." Li Fen laughed brightly. "I said, Zhaozhao gave it to you... can you return it? That girl... I haven't dealt with her much, but I can see, the things she wants to do, there isn't one she can't handle!"

After laughing, she comforted Gu Chan again. "You are a family, helping each other is what should be done, don't be too distant. She is willing to give it to you, explaining she is close to you, this eldest sister-in-law."

Li Fen had seen all kinds of people in this supply and marketing cooperative; sisters-in-law not getting along, sisters-in-law arguing were common occurrences, but like them, revealing true closeness...

Tsk tsk, rare! Really rare!

Gu Chan chewed on Li Fen's sentence "close to you, this eldest sister-in-law," the corners of her mouth rising.

Is Zhaozhao close to her?

Really makes people happy!

In the afternoon, the two stones saw the things their mother brought home, guessed they were delicious, and their eyes shone brightly.

"Mother, is it food?" The zongzi were wrapped in zongzi leaves and were very hard, Little Stone couldn't tell it was food, but he recognized the eggs, touched the few salted duck eggs, his expression expectant.

"Yes, sent by your Third Aunt." Gu Chan smiled.

She raised the raw zongzi in her hand. "This is also food, it's zongzi."

Big Stone asked: "Zongzi eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival?"

Glutinous rice was hard to get, the two stones hadn't eaten much zongzi.

"Right. This zongzi is the Dragon Boat Festival welfare of the supply and marketing cooperative, there are only a few in total, your Third Aunt is willing to give them to you, remember her kindness, be filial to her when you grow up, understand?" Gu Chan knew how to repay kindness herself, and also taught her sons this way.

The two stones nodded solemnly.

Little Stone was curious about the taste of zongzi and asked: "Mother, can we eat zongzi today?"

Gu Chan said: "Yes, I'll wash my face and cook them for you."

"No need, I'll cook them myself, Mother go rest." Big Stone felt sorry for his mother's hardship, took the raw zongzi and was about to enter the kitchen.

Just walked to the kitchen door, stopped again, turned his head to look at Gu Chan. "Mother, do you need to peel off the shell on the outside?"

"No need, just cook it like that." Gu Chan said. "Cook for two hours, then simmer for a while, it's delicious like that."

"So long!" Big Stone expressed he learned something.

Then grabbed his younger brother's back neck and went to the kitchen. "You burn the fire..."

When Gu Chan brought the things back, she was seen by Wei Eldest Sister-in-law.

Knowing Wei Xiangdong was not to be trifled with, she didn't dare to go to the door directly, but ran to provoke Wei Old Lady.

Originally wanting to ask for some good things for her son, she didn't expect to be sprayed with dog blood instead.

"Already separated, still eyeing the oil stars on other people's stoves! Be shameless! No matter what the second branch has, that's other people's, if you keep peeking and thinking about it, don't say you are my old Wei family's daughter-in-law when you go out, I'm ashamed..."

The old lady was very clear in her heart.

Even if they separated, the second branch couple never forgot to honor her when they ate something good, unlike the eldest, not to mention meat, even eating an egg she was afraid that she, the mother-in-law, would take advantage.

The old lady was already buried up to her neck, still wanting to be used as a gun by you?

Wei Eldest Sister-in-law's face turned bitter.

Lin Zhao and the Lin family son-in-law arrived at the Lin family of the Dongfeng Brigade.

Lin Shifan was restrained by his parents and couldn't do anything, could only sit like a wooden stake, and there was a "supervisory leader" Xibao staring at him, he was really...

"Little Aunt!" Xibao's eyes were sharp like a radar, the first to see her little aunt.

She jumped up happily like a little bird, and rushed over with a pitter-patter.

Threw herself into Lin Zhao's arms.

"Little Aunt, you're here, I've missed you, why haven't you come for so long?"

Lin Zhao caught the small cannonball and rubbed the little girl's head. "Had business before, didn't I come as soon as I was free."

Half-hugging the clingy Xibao into the courtyard.

Sat down, snatched the fan from Lin Shifan's hand, and fanned fiercely.

Da Dan and Er Dan poured water, got a compliment from Lin Zhao, and the brothers laughed happily.

They were already close to their aunt, and after their aunt got their father a job, they were even closer!

"Third Brother, my husband and I just came back from the county hospital, brought a good piece of news, guess what it is?" Blowing warm wind all the way, Lin Zhao's excitement had long been suppressed, and she looked very calm right now.

Lin Shifan's eyes suddenly condensed.

He subconsciously pursed his thin lips, and when he spoke again, his voice was stained with hoarseness and a hint of undetectable anticipation. "... Xiangxiang's object's leg is healed?!"

"Right!" Lin Zhao said sonorously.

She took out a tube of ointment from her bag. "Here! Third Brother, medicine I specially left for you, try it? If you're not at ease, let's go to Fourth Brother's place tonight and try it in front of him."

Lin Shifan only asked: "... Are there any people testing the drug at the county hospital who didn't get cured... but got worse instead?"

"No." Lin Zhao shook her head, her tone categorical.

Everyone, everyone was cured!!

This was a living miracle!

Lin Shifan didn't say a word, grabbed the ointment and returned to the room.

The scars on his legs were hideous and terrifying, he was afraid of scaring his nephews and nieces, and didn't want to make Zhaozhao shed tears.

Lin Zhao shouted from behind: "Third Brother, apply the ointment to the wound, the ointment will dry into a shell and fall off by itself, don't be itchy and pick at it."

Lin Shifan didn't look back, just waved his hand casually behind him, and then covered the door.

He pulled up his trouser legs, revealing the shocking injury.

Opened the ointment box and applied medicine to the scar.

Cold!

Bone-chilling cold!

In an instant, a burst of spicy pain came from the scar.

That pain was no less than cutting the skin and flesh with a knife.

Even though he was such an iron-willed man, he was sweating profusely, his teeth clattering, and his lips turned white.

Lin Shifan endured without groaning.

This was... new hope.

He could endure.

His legs were burning more and more.

Lin Shifan:... Damn, what a domineering medicine! ===== CHAPTER 171 =====