"Dr. Ouyang? Is there anyone with the surname Ouyang in our military region?" Luo Cancan scratched her cheek.

Yu Li said, "It's from the Jincheng Military Region. Two years ago, Regiment Commander Ye was seriously injured in a joint operation in the four southwestern provinces. When he was sent to Jincheng for treatment, it was Dr. Ouyang who treated him. On their territory, my teacher and I could only assist him."

"But he is indeed a skilled doctor and is proficient in traditional Chinese medicine. When he took my pulse, he said that my pulse was strong and that I was likely to get pregnant."

"That's great!" Luo Cancan clapped excitedly, then patted her shoulder and promised, "Sister, I will definitely find a chance to get Shen Fenghe away and create an opportunity for you to be alone with Commander Ye."

"Get her far away, preferably so far that you can't find her again." Yu Li gave her a knowing look.

Luo Cancan patted her chest and guaranteed, "I might not be able to do it in the military region, but this is a remote mountain area; it's easy for someone to get lost here."

Ouch... why does the back of my neck feel so cold?

Shen Fenghe rubbed the back of her neck and turned to ask Ye Zhengting, "Are you going back with Wang Lei and the others?"

Ye Zhengting shook his head, "The guidance work afterward is also very important, so I want to stay."

Shen Fenghe understood. Clearing the mud after a mudslide was a huge challenge, let alone post-disaster reconstruction. "Then I'll stay too."

This time, Ye Zhengting did not refuse, and a smile quietly appeared on his lips.

"Is the clean water source far away? It seems like Zhu Jing and the others have been gone for a long time."

Looking at the setting sun, Ye Zhengting frowned.

Shen Fenghe nodded, "It is quite far, but they should be on their way back by now."

--riverside--

"Oh dear! The water here isn't clean either; there's a lot of mud, sand, and rocks."

The second attempt to fetch water was not successful. In just one day, the once clear river became so turbid due to the influx of a large amount of silt and rocks. Zhu Jing and her group had no choice but to search further along the riverbank.

By the time they finally found relatively clean water, it was already dark.

"Ouch!"

Zhu Jing didn't see the road clearly and stepped into a crevice, twisting her ankle on the spot.

"Piggy, what's wrong?"

Hearing her cry of pain, Lu Xiaohua, who was leading the way, rushed over. "Did you sprain your ankle? Or is it broken?"

"Are you that quack doctor Yu Li? It's just a crack in the rock, how could it be a fracture? It's impossible, it's just a sprain, but it hurts a lot." Zhu Jing's forehead was already covered in a fine sweat.

"Come on! I'll carry you."

Without saying a word, Lu Xiaohua handed her the flashlight and squatted down in front of her.

Zhu Jing didn't hesitate and climbed onto his back, holding a flashlight in each hand, one to illuminate the road ahead and the other to illuminate the path beneath her feet.

After Lu Xiaohua lifted her up, he even weighed her in his arms and joked with a smile, "Like Pigsy carrying his wife."

Zhu Jing chuckled, "You're so dark-skinned, you're more like Sha Wujing (Sandy)."

"That's Sha Wujing carrying the pig's wife," Lu Xiaohua immediately corrected herself.

"Whoa!"

"Vice President Lu is carrying his wife on his back!"

He had a loud voice, and as soon as he finished speaking, it caused a commotion among the people around him.

Zhu Jing felt a little embarrassed and punched his shoulder with her fist.

Lu Xiaohua then asked, "Piggy, your brother's already married, what about you?"

"I'm still young! There's no rush," Zhu Jing said.

"You're not more than two years younger than your sister-in-law, are you? Your sister-in-law is already married," Lu Xiaohua added.

Zhu Jing disagreed, "Two years is a full two years, okay?"

"Okay, then I'll wait for you for two years," Lu Xiaohua said solemnly.

Zhu Jing remained silent.

Her feelings for Lu Xiaohua were complicated, a mixture of sibling affection and budding romantic feelings, but not yet to the point of reciprocating his feelings.

What would it feel like to love someone so much that you want to marry them?

Go back and ask your sister-in-law.

"Vice President Lu and the others are back!"

"You're finally back! If you hadn't come back, we would have come looking for you."

Around 8 o'clock, the people at the camp finally saw Lu Xiaohua and the others return. While feeling relieved, they also noticed Zhu Jing's swollen right ankle.

"How did Xiao Zhu injure his foot?"

"Quickly, call a military medic over here!"

Hearing the commotion outside, Shen Fenghe hurriedly stepped out of the tent.

"Jingjing, what happened to your foot?"

"It's nothing, I just twisted my ankle."

The initial pain had subsided, and Zhu Jing didn't want to make a fuss. There were many people in the camp who were more seriously injured than her, so upon seeing Shen Fenghe, she said to those around her, "Don't call a doctor. It's getting late. Let her rest. My sister-in-law is taking care of her!"

"I'll get you a wet towel to apply a cold compress." Shen Fenghe patted her hand and let Lu Xiaohua help her sit down.

"What cold compress? Don't you know anything? You can only use a hot compress if you sprain your ankle!" Yu Li's voice suddenly rang out.

She and Luo Cancan walked over hand in hand, and the latter quickly chimed in, "Hot compresses can promote blood circulation and relieve pain, while cold compresses will only have the opposite effect."

"Shen Fenghe, don't pretend to know what you don't. You'll ruin Zhu Jing's leg!"

"You're the one who's pretending to know what you don't!" Zhu Jingxuan retorted immediately.

"Zhu Jing, we're doing this for your own good. If we ruin your foot, how will you dance in the future?" Yu Li said hypocritically.

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaohua hesitated for a moment, then bent down and whispered to Zhu Jing, "Even if you dislike Yu Li, at least she's a proper doctor!"

"That's right! Unlike some people, who are all talk and no action." Luo Cancan took the opportunity to make a sarcastic remark.

Yu Li glanced sideways at Shen Fenghe, who was silent with her eyes downcast, and said with a smirk, "She probably doesn't even have half a bucket of water."

Zhu Jing's face immediately darkened. She turned and glared at Lu Xiaohua, then said loudly, "I'll listen to my sister-in-law, give me a cold compress!"

After saying that, he glanced at Yu Li and Luo Cancan and said sarcastically, "Some people think they can treat others like fools just because they have studied medicine for a few years. They treat patients haphazardly and call a deer a horse."

Yu Li was suddenly speechless, and reluctantly cracked her teeth.

Seeing that she had fallen silent, Luo Cancan naturally didn't dare to argue with Zhu Jing anymore.

With the noise finally gone, Shen Fenghe quickly found a clean cloth, wet it with cold water, and gently covered Zhu Jing's right ankle. She said calmly, "It's okay to use hot or cold compresses after spraining your ankle, but there's a specific order. Usually, you should use cold compresses within 48 hours to help constrict blood vessels and reduce swelling and pain."

"If the swelling does not worsen after 48 hours, you can switch to applying heat to promote the absorption of bruising and tissue repair."

Her voice wasn't loud; she mainly wanted to speak to Zhu Jing, but Ye Zhengting, who was standing at the tent entrance leaning on his cane, remembered it.

"So that's the correct order for applying cold and hot compresses."

"See? I wasn't bragging. Xiaohe really knows a lot about medicine. I was going to recommend her to the clinic after Sister Lin left, but Luo Cancan snatched her away halfway."

When Xiao Xiuxiang, who was on her way to fetch water, passed by Ye Zhengting's tent, she whispered to one of the military wives who was with her, still holding a grudge about that incident.

Ye Zhengting frowned, suddenly realizing something from her few words. When he looked at Shen Fenghe, who was carefully applying a cold compress to Zhu Jing, his gaze deepened...

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