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

No wonder he's described as a workaholic in the original story.

"Ahem, Comrade Li, your condition is life-threatening at any moment. I've only temporarily stabilized your condition, and you still need to go to the hospital for further treatment. How about this, I'll accompany you to the clinic first, and then Comrade Zhang can take us back. It won't take much time anyway."

Su Wanqing gave a brief explanation of the condition of myocardial infarction.

Upon hearing that the illness was so serious, Secretary Li hesitated for a moment before nodding, "Then take me to the clinic to ask the doctor first."

Although he loved his work, he was even more afraid of dying. But could this educated youth be exaggerating his illness to gain his gratitude? If the doctor said there was nothing seriously wrong, then the educated youth's motives for coming to the countryside would be highly questionable.

"Then I'll trouble you to watch the luggage here."

Zhou Yanshen piled seven or eight bags at his feet. "You just go, we'll wait for you here." If he didn't have so much luggage, he definitely would have gone with him.

He couldn't bear to leave his wife alone.

Although Zhou's mother was dissatisfied, she stopped making a fuss when she heard that the oxcart would take them to the rural area in a while. She found a shady tree and started rummaging through her bag for food.

Upon arriving at the health center, Su Wanqing first identified herself, explained the situation to the doctor using professional terminology, and suggested the necessary examinations. Then, she and Old Man Zhang drove the oxcart to pick up Zhou Yanshen.

The doctor immediately understood the seriousness of the situation and organized a more detailed examination.

In the ward, after treatment, Party Secretary Li had fully recovered. "Comrade, is my illness nothing serious? When can I go back? I still have a lot of things to do there. Our regiment is suffering from a severe drought, and we still need to dig irrigation ditches to rush the harvest!"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged male doctor's eyes widened:

"You're not in any serious trouble?! Look at your cardiac enzyme levels, they're many times higher than normal! And look at your electrocardiogram! You've been on the verge of death several times over!"

"If it weren't for that woman who brought you here, who knew what she was doing and immediately gave you those acupuncture needles to relieve the vasospasm, given your condition, even if you had been rushed here right away, the bumpy ride might have killed you!"

Secretary Li was stunned by what he was told. He only knew that he was feeling very uncomfortable at the time, but he did not expect it to be so dangerous!

"I...I need to be hospitalized?" he asked hesitantly.

"Hospitalization? It's more than just hospitalization!" The doctor's tone left no room for argument. "With your condition, you'll need at least two weeks of observation and treatment in the hospital! You'll also need absolute bed rest! You can never finish your work, but you only have one life! You won't be so lucky next time."

Party Secretary Li fell completely silent, leaning against the hospital bed. It turned out that the educated youth who had come to the countryside had truly saved his life...

However, he misunderstood that the other person's motives were impure...

"I deserve to die!" Secretary Li's deep sense of guilt reached its peak.

Just then, the ward door opened.

"Master, I heard from Old Zhang that you fainted and your life is in danger? I came right away..." Liu Shuqing's legs almost went weak. If Secretary Li was gone, his path to promotion would be over!

Party Secretary Li immediately waved his hand, "Shuqing, I'm fine now. Go back to the village right away and settle the new educated youth and their family in. Move them from the mud house they were given to the new house. And that Comrade Xiao Su... don't we still have a vacancy for a 'medic' in our unit?"

He did this not only to repay the debt of saving his life.

A doctor with such excellent medical skills must find a way to win people over.

Liu Shuqing listened to the Party Secretary's arrangements in disbelief. Was this family of educated youth the Party Secretary's own daughter?

Wait, is he my savior? I immediately rode my bicycle to make arrangements.

Sparks were flying from the wheels; this Su Wanqing was practically Liu Shuqing's second mother!

……

the other side.

Su Wanqing's expression was strange.

The space in her mind kept making notification sounds, and when she entered it, she saw a line of text.

[You saved someone who was about to die; this person will now benefit the people. You have gained +100 Merit Points. (A necessary attribute for upgrading your space)]

Congratulations, you have gained 1 more chances to obtain Golden Spirit Power.

So saving people can earn you merit? So upgrading your space requires more than just gold and silver?

This Rubik's Cube space is really interesting.

The oxcart creaked and groaned as it finally arrived at the 65th Regiment's educated youth settlement. Several rows of low, mud-brick houses were scattered across the yellow earth, looking particularly desolate.

Aunt Wang went to find her daughter. She had come once for her daughter's wedding, so she knew the way.

Zhou's mother threw down her suitcase with a clatter, pointed at a row of dilapidated mud houses, and said in a shrill voice, "You're telling us to live in these run-down houses? Is this a place fit for human habitation?!"

This mud house didn't even have windows; it was all dust and dirt.

Su Wanqing stared in disbelief at the house, which was even more dilapidated than the one featured in the TV show "Where Are We Going, Dad?".

It was afternoon, and all the educated youth had just returned from work. Upon hearing Zhou's mother's words, they couldn't help but cast various unfriendly glances at her.

The team leader in charge of managing the educated youth, Tian Dahua, a dark-skinned, sturdy woman, came up to us carrying a tattered notebook, her face expressionless.

"Newcomers? Su Wanqing, Zhou Yanshen, Ding Guixiang's family, and Zhang Yan, right?"

She glanced at the list, then at Zhou's mother's out-of-place demeanor, and said in a stiff tone, "Look, this is the housing allocation. Your family will live in that empty mud house over there." She pointed to the most dilapidated one in the corner.

"Zhang Yan, you move to this room." He then pointed to the mud house next door that already housed three people.

The three female educated youths' faces darkened, and they sighed and went back to their rooms to pack their things and move to a different spot.

Zhou Yanshen went in with his back bent and came out with a frown.

"Comrade, it's a bit inconvenient for the three of us to live together... What do you think...?"

It wasn't that he only wanted to sleep on the same bed with Comrade Su Wanqing; it was just inconvenient for them to do *that* kind of thing, since he wasn't quite able to anymore...

Instead, he felt that if his mother and Su Wanqing slept on the same kang (a heated brick bed), they would probably fight in the middle of the night.

Most importantly, the house has cracks, making it unsafe!

Tian Dahua snorted, "The rooms in the educated youth settlement are all four-person kang beds. It's already good that the three of you are living together. Otherwise, I'll move you to the men's dormitory and the other two to the women's dormitory. You can choose!"