Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

Although he came with the intention of "exposing" Su Wanqing, he was an upright person who would never falsely accuse someone without reason, since Su Wanqing had been saving people all afternoon.

Su Wanqing glanced at Uncle Ding with some surprise, not quite understanding him.

Lin Tingting stomped her foot in grievance: "Uncle! Why are you still taking her side? She was busy this afternoon, and she hasn't even mentioned it to you since she finished work! She even went out to watch the commotion just now! I think she just doesn't care about your matter at all!"

"Apologize." Zhou Yanshen's deep voice came, carrying an unquestionable authority.

He had just gone to the backyard to put out the firewood for smoking the meat and was about to invite his uncle over for dinner when he heard his cousin stirring up trouble again.

"Wasn't this dinner prepared by your cousin's wife? Your cousin's wife is first and foremost herself, with her own affairs and judgments! Only then does she assume her role as a doctor! Regarding your uncle's leg, she naturally has her own arrangements and considerations. Who gives you the right to point fingers and make unwarranted comments?"

Lin Tingting's eyes reddened as her cousin scolded her. She couldn't understand why her cousin seemed to be bewitched, always siding with Su Wanqing! But she didn't dare disobey him, so she could only reluctantly say, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I shouldn't have said that to you just now."

Su Wanqing finally felt relieved and nodded slightly.

"Your cousin has already told you everything else. But I still want to correct you on one point: I wasn't just there to watch the spectacle; I was there to rescue a woman who was cornered and had no hope. Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I told you. When you're in a desperate situation, isolated and helpless, how much you long for someone to lend a hand… Cousin, how could someone who's been pampered since childhood understand that feeling?"

Lin Tingting retorted defiantly, "How could I not understand? Aren't I all alone and helpless right now? You're all on her side! You're all bullying me!"

"Alright! Enough talk! Hurry up and eat! The food's getting cold!" Zhou's mother tapped the rim of her bowl with her chopsticks, interrupting her impatiently.

It's strange, but back in the city she hated eating and could barely eat a small bowl of rice a day. But ever since she went to the countryside, whether it was from the hard work or from Su Wanqing's delicious cooking, she's been eating like a starving ghost, able to eat two big bowls of rice in one meal! She gets hungry if she doesn't eat!

The family finally sat down to eat.

This food is really delicious!

As Uncle Ding ate, he had to admit to himself that life in the countryside seemed much better than when he was all alone in the city eating in the canteen or just grabbing a quick bite. The taste and portion size of the food were only comparable to when there was a cook at home.

Each person ate two large meat buns, drank a big bowl of delicious turtle soup and meat, and ate with stir-fried greens and pickled vegetables, thoroughly enjoying their meal.

After dinner, the whole family relaxed. But Lin Tingting had to wash the dishes with a long face. After washing the dishes, she had to wash everyone's dirty clothes. And that wasn't all; she also had to go to the backyard to feed the chickens and sheep and clean the chicken coop and sheep pens!

It's not that she's being dramatic, but those chickens and sheep really poop a lot! The chicken coop and sheep pens have to be cleaned every day, it's dirty and tiring!

Oh no, she still has to take care of the two red-tailed chickens in the front yard. Each chicken lays one egg a day, but Su Wanqing insists on saving the eggs to hatch chicks and won't let anyone eat any of them!

"What kind of miserable life am I living here? Why did I have to be so foolish as to come to this countryside? What am I after? Is the leisurely life in the city not good enough?" As she washed the greasy dishes, she cried out in her heart countless times, wanting to just quit and go back to the city, but she was unwilling to give up.

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"Uncle, let me take a look at your leg."

After eating and drinking her fill, Zhou's mother lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) to digest her food, so Su Wanqing moved a stool and sat down in front of Uncle Ding.

"Okay. What do you think? How do you need my cooperation?" Uncle Ding sat up straighter, his mind filled with scrutiny and curiosity. He wanted to see if Su Wanqing was truly capable or just putting on an act.

Zhou Yanshen immediately and tacitly took Su Wanqing's medicine box and placed it next to her.

"Just sit here like this," Su Wanqing said, taking out several slender silver needles.

Through his pants, she gently twisted and inserted needles into several acupoints around Uncle Ding's thighs and knees, then carefully pressed and touched the muscles and joints of his legs, feeling their tension, temperature, and subtle reactions.

Uncle Ding was skeptical: "Just looking at his leg like that? What can they possibly see? They don't even want to look at his medical records or the X-rays from back then? They don't even want him to explain in detail how he was injured and how he felt afterwards? Is this niece-in-law just trying to fool him?"

"I'll see how long this show can go on," he thought to himself.

Apart from Zhou Yanshen, the others didn't take it too seriously, thinking it was just a formality. Zhou Yanshen, however, was different. He was focused, believing that since his wife said she could cure it, she must be confident.

However—his expression turned somewhat strange as he watched Su Wanqing's actions.

"Wanqing, no need... take your pants off, or roll them up for a closer look, touch them?" He remembered clearly that when she "inspected" him before, it wasn't like this!

Su Wanqing didn't even look up, focusing on the sensation under her hands: "No need, this is fine."

Zhou Yanshen: "..." So when they first met, she made him take off all his clothes and even touched him... what was that all about?

So he couldn't help but ask, "Why did you make me take all my clothes off before...?"

"Cough cough cough!" Su Wanqing was concentrating on feeling the condition of Uncle Ding's leg muscles when Zhou Yanshen's question, which had a hint of settling scores, almost made her spit out her saliva. Her cheeks flushed slightly; she hadn't expected Zhou Yanshen to remember even this.

"Well...that's because the conditions are different!" She tried to remain calm and explained seriously, "Yes, that's because the conditions are different, and the examination methods are different too."

She couldn't very well say that when she saw him, she was so excited that she just wanted to touch his beautiful muscles, could she?

Uncle Ding was still completely unaware of what was going on, looking at the young couple with bewilderment: "What are you two talking about? What kind of illness requires you to take off all your clothes just to see a doctor?"

"It's nothing!" A fleeting look of embarrassment crossed Zhou Yanshen's face, and he immediately straightened his expression to end the conversation.

Su Wanqing quickly composed herself, suppressing a laugh, and continued her careful examination. After a while, she put away the silver needles.

"Oh, Uncle, the leg isn't a big problem. It's mainly because shrapnel fragments are compressing a branch of the sciatic nerve, along with local soft tissue adhesions. We'll do a debridement surgery to remove the bone fragments and adhesions compressing the nerve, then remove the necrotic tissue, and then do acupuncture once a day to unblock the meridians. At most, you should be able to walk again in two months."

"It can be cured in two months? But the doctors all said that the flesh responsible for walking is necrotic?" Uncle Ding immediately retorted. He had seen so many doctors who all shook their heads. In this rural area, a young girl touched him a few times through his pants and gave him a couple of injections, and she said he could be cured in two months?