The Sweetness of the Seventies
Chapter 616 - 585: Praying for Blessings, Great Love_1

Chapter 616: Chapter 585: Praying for Blessings, Great Love_1

After returning, Old Man Qi was very curious about what had happened to Wang Shuilian that she was unwilling to mention.

"Tell me, I want to know too," Old Man Qi said. He had been listening to their conversation and was most curious about this.

"When you were not at home, Wang Shuilian worked at the county hospital, and after her brother finished his training, he worked there with their father too. However, her brother wasn’t very skilled, misdiagnosed a patient, and prescribed the wrong medication. But with their father there, there was no serious consequence. Yet, after Doctor Wang passed away, there was no one to cover for him, and he misdiagnosed again, leading to someone’s death. As a result, Wang Shuilian’s brother asked her to take the blame, which she refused. Then, driven to despair by their mother threatening suicide, she had to agree. Consequently, Wang Shuilian was forced to take responsibility. Although she wasn’t sentenced, she couldn’t keep her job in the county and was dismissed," Third Grandma Qi said, "What the mother did was too much."

"Indeed, how could she let her daughter take the blame for her son! Both her children were her own flesh and blood," Old Man Qi said indignantly, "What happened afterward?"

"After that, Wang Shuilian could only work as an itinerant doctor in the countryside, gathering herbs in the mountains. She got injured, and was then saved by the man who is now her husband," Third Grandma Qi recounted. "Wang Shuilian herself is quite talented. Her medical skills spread quickly, and since we’re far from the county, anyone with a headache or fever would seek her out. Like her father, she would attend to those in need any time they came. Doctors with such compassion are rare indeed!"

"That’s very good, very good!" Old Man Qi nodded in agreement.

All that Third Grandma Qi and Old Man Qi discussed reached Huo Yingjie’s ears.

Huo Yingjie’s impression of Wang Shuilian improved upon her arrival.

Although this woman had her own interests at heart, the fact that she practiced medicine with such compassion was truly rare.

In light of this, Huo Yingjie decided to give Wang Shuilian a unique medical manual, containing prescriptions that had since disappeared, hoping she could use it to better treat and heal people.

It was partly to thank Wang Shuilian, and also to pray for blessings for his two children.

Of course, Huo Yingjie didn’t give it to Wang Shuilian directly. Instead, he implanted a spell in her mind. When Wang Shuilian rested and dreamed at night, her father would tell her in the dream that under the bed in the old Wang Family house, three feet down, there was a box containing a medical book. This was her compensation and she need not tell the Wang Family.

Wang Shuilian awoke suddenly from her dream in the middle of the night and couldn’t fall back asleep for a long time.

The very next morning, without even eating breakfast and regardless of the muddy roads, she walked twenty miles to Wangjia Village.

Her mother and brother lived together in the county, leaving the old Wang Family house uninhabited.

Wang Shuping would often come to clean and had the keys. She hurried to unlock the door, bolted it, and went straight to her father’s old room. She crawled under the bed and began to dig with a small shovel she’d brought.

Three feet underground.

Wang Shuilian spent the whole morning digging and just as she was about to give up, her shovel hit a wooden box.

Wang Shuilian’s eyes lit up, believing the dream to be true.

Her father in heaven was blessing her and passing on the Wang Family’s ancestral medical knowledge to her.

Wang Shuilian, ignoring her hunger, dug even faster.

The small box was the size of two palms and had no lock, only a rusty metal clasp.

Wang Shuilian was extremely excited; it was exactly like in her dream, her dad hadn’t lied to her.

Thinking of her father when he was alive, about his love and affection for her, Wang Shuilian felt extremely moved, and the resentment she held because of the injustices her mother and brother had suffered, diminished a bit.

"Dad, rest assured, I will certainly carry forward our Wang Family’s medical practice," Wang Shuilian said, "As for my brother, he has always been lazy and slow to understand. I will follow your instructions and not tell him the origin of this book."

Wang Shuilian knew what her brother was capable of; if he got his hands on this prescription, she estimated he would cause trouble again.

Before, as his sister, she had covered for her brother. But what about the future?

It was better to let him be a humble doctor in the county hospital, without significant achievements, but at least he wouldn’t cause serious trouble.

Wang Shuilian’s tears flowed down her face. She wiped her tears, packed the book away, then refilled the dirt, making it look just as it had before, and pretended to clean the house and yard as usual.

It wasn’t until late at noon that Wang Shuilian left with the medical book.

After Wang Shuilian returned home, she secretly made a copy and placed the original back in the little box, hiding it under her bed in the dirt. She planned to pass it on to her two children who were studying medicine. However, not now, as the book, which seemed simple at a glance, could only be fully understood with a wealth of medical experience.

With more than twenty years of experience in medicine, Wang Shuilian had only grasped half of it; the other half required her continued effort to understand and study.

From that day on, apart from necessary visits, Wang Shuilian stayed at home to study the medical book.

Her two children were also diligently reviewing, preparing for their upcoming exams.

Wang Shuilian’s husband was a very honest and straightforward man. Knowing his wife and children were all working hard, he took on all the household chores to make things easier for the family.

At the same time, through studying the medical book, Wang Shuilian learned not just the contents of the book, but also about the great love between people.

Her previous narrow-minded thoughts and concepts were swept away, never again to let personal emotions cloud her judgment.

This was also the spell Huo Yingjie left in this medical book.

Only by understanding this selfless benevolence of a healer could one grasp the mysteries of the entire book.

He Tiantian had woken up and was eating tasteless confinement food.

The two little ones were asleep, their tiny fists clenched tight, eyes closed, and their little mouths moving from time to time.

The children looked very much alike, but the observant Wang Shuping had used pink swaddling for the girl and blue for the boy, so they wouldn’t get mixed up. This way, He Tiantian wouldn’t accidentally overfeed one while the other went hungry during breastfeeding.

Huo Yingjie came in from outside, his face beaming with the joy of a new father.

"What’s making you so happy?" He Tiantian asked with a smile. Since she woke up, she had noticed Huo Yingjie in a state of excitement.

"I’m a father now, and the father of two children at that. Of course, I’m happy," Huo Yingjie said, "Tomorrow, I will send a telegram to my parents and grandparents to share this great news."

He Tiantian smiled and said, "Now, with so much to do inside and outside the house, you can’t just bask in happiness and neglect the work! There are some dirty diapers over there; hurry up and wash them. We can’t have my mother washing them all day long."

"Yes, ma’am!" Huo Yingjie responded cheerfully. What was washing diapers for his children!