Rebirth after the college entrance examination

Chapter 221 Female Bodyguard

After passing the village, we passed through a peach orchard.

In winter, the fruit trees are covered with snow, like peach trees covered with pear blossoms.

The newly renovated courtyard has a brand new look, with gray bricks, white walls, and a fence, giving it a distinct Hui-style aesthetic.

The delivery van had arrived outside the yard, where a middle-aged man wearing sunglasses and with an unkempt appearance was leaning against the van, smoking a pipe.

As soon as Xia An got out of the car, she smelled a rich fragrance.

Old Luo said, "It tastes like tobacco."

The middle-aged man in sunglasses stubbed out his cigarette, nodded to Xia An and Old Man Luo as a greeting, then opened the car door, took out a snakeskin woven bag, and slung it over his shoulder.

Xia An glanced into the car and saw a complete set of deer antlers. Supporting the antlers was an ivory tusk, and under the ivory was a gray rhinoceros horn. On the ground was a tiger skin.

If they're all genuine, this whole truckload of stuff is enough to warrant five minutes of shooting.

No wonder it took this person four days to drive all the way from Songjiang Province; they couldn't take the highway.

Xia An unlocked the door with her key. The floor tiles had been repaved, the walls repainted, and the windows replaced. The house had also been furnished with a refrigerator, freezer, stove, and exhaust fan…

It's easy to see that Lin Jiajia intends to stay here with her grandmother.

The man in sunglasses put down his things, let Old Man Luo check them, and then left without stopping.

Xia An stood at the kitchen door, watching Old Man Luo take out medicinal herbs one small bag at a time.

"They're all pre-sorted?"

"Of course it's divided."

Empty the snakeskin bag, and at the bottom is a flat wooden box about the size of a printed book.

"Ginseng?" Xia An asked.

"Come and see."

Old Luo placed the wooden box on the stove and gently pushed it open.

From the base of the palm-sized body, countless tiny roots extend.

Xia An didn't know much about this stuff and asked curiously, "How old is it? It doesn't look very big."

Old Luo glared at him, said nothing, and lifted the velvet cloth lining the box to reveal the signature on the bottom.

[Stored in the Imperial Pharmacy]

Xia An gasped: "From the Qing Palace?"

Old Luo sat in his chair and sighed, “Look here,” pointing to a part of the ginseng root that was obviously missing from the lower left corner, “This part originally had six roots, which I broke off two years ago when I was making medicine for her.”

Ginseng can only be broken off, not cut with scissors. If it touches metal, its spiritual energy will be lost.

Xia An knew exactly who she was referring to and asked in surprise, "This was originally yours?"

Old Luo said, "A few high-ranking officials still have them. This is the only one that is still in the market. It was passed down in my family. I sold it after she passed away."

Xia An asked curiously, "How can something like this be stuck in your hands?"

It's likely that it will be snapped up as soon as it shows its face.

Old Luo shook his head and said, "The person who bought it has no intention of selling it."

Xia An asked, "So you bought it back at such a low price?"

Yes, he guessed it. A wild ginseng that's hundreds of years old, let alone 480,000, even if you add a zero to that, it'd be gone in a second.

Therefore, the extra sack of things can be considered a free gift, or conversely, the ginseng is a free gift.

Old Luo said, "He owes me a favor."

Xia An paused for a moment and said, "I also owe you a favor."

Old Luo smiled and said, "The old lady doesn't need that many. Three whiskers are enough. You can keep the rest."

Xia An didn't refuse. This was an incredible bargain, and a life-saving opportunity. If she didn't take it, she would suffer the consequences.

But he was curious: what happened to the money the old man had left over from selling that thing? How come he was still living such a meager life?
"Is it okay if I just soak some water in it and drink it?" Xia An asked childishly.

Old Luo looked at him in surprise, as if he were an idiot.

"It's going to cause a blood vessel to burst."

"Then I won't take a bath."

It's not that I'm too weak, so I can't take too much tonic. Xia An then asked if the young lady could drink it during her period to replenish her blood.

Old Luo gritted his teeth and said, "How about I save up some money and buy it back from you in a couple of years?"

Xia An smiled and said, "I have no wishes in this life, just these few good wives. I hope they are all well and live to be a hundred years old." Old Man Luo looked at him intently.

After a long while, she stretched out her little finger and pressed it against the end of the thinnest ginseng root, revealing just a tiny bit of the root tip. "That's all. Drink it during your period. Any more than that won't do."

A short while later, Zhang Tiancheng arrived by car.

Xia An told him to stay there and wait for instructions, to assist the old man, and then went back to the hospital.

After arriving at the ward, he took out a paper bag from his pocket and asked Lin Jiajia to bring him a thermos.

Lin Jiajia held up the cup and curiously looked into the paper package.

"Nothing."

Shh, keep your voice down, or you'll blow it off and never find it again.

"..."

Xia An soaked the ginseng root in water for Lin Jiajia, and the two raised their cups to the sunlight. Xia An pointed to a single strand of hair bobbing up and down inside and said, "See that? That's it."

"That's it?"

"Be careful when you drink it, don't swallow it all at once, this is a seven-day supply."

Lin Jiajia glared at him, then said in a huff and puff, "I'm not on my period."

"But you're weak."

Xia An said to Grandma Lin, "Don't be envious, Grandma. Your medicine will be ready the day after tomorrow, and the dosage will be much larger than this."

The old lady was delighted.

After chatting for a while, Xia An ran to the neighboring inpatient building.

Seeing a fruit basket in Zhou Zhou's ward, she knew that Le Ning had come and left.

He then made a cup of water for Tang Wan as well.

Like Lin Jiajia, Tang Wan stared wide-eyed into the water like a curious child, and it took her a long time to find that there was indeed something there.

Beside them, Su Yi and Zhou Zhou also had their eyes wide open, wanting to see what the ginseng that the emperor used to eat looked like.

Xia An smiled and said, "Everyone who sees it gets a share." He then took out two paper packets from his pocket.

Besides that, there was more in my pocket.

They are from the parents, the Yuzi family of three, and the Le Ning family of three.

Based on this dosage, he felt he could easily feed several hundred people.

……

At 3:30, Xia An, Su Yi, and Tang Wan sat at the coffee table, chatting and eating chicken feet, while Zhou Zhou, lying on the bed and eating broccoli with an envious look, received a phone call.

After hanging up, he said to Xia An, "My friend has arrived."

Xia An smiled and said to Tang Wan, "Your bodyguard has arrived."

Less than ten minutes later, there was a knock on the ward door.

Xia An thought there would be four people, but only one tall, slender woman came in, dressed in a very unfashionable way.

She was wearing a clean but old pink down jacket that didn't fit her well, black skinny jeans, and a pair of dirty gray sneakers.

The woman's appearance and skin tone immediately revealed that she was from Southeast Asia; she had a coffee-colored complexion, single eyelids, but her eyes were bright and sparkling.

He was carrying two large durians and a bag of foreign snacks.

Zhou Zhou's eyes lit up as soon as he saw the food. He introduced her, saying, "This is my friend, Huang Yingying, a Chinese. Yingying, they are..."

Finally, he asked, "Do you eat durian?"

With a mix of trepidation and shyness, Huang Yingying held up two meteor hammers. "Yes, do you eat durian? I brought it from abroad."

Xia An, Tang Wan, and Su Yi: "..."

Why did you bring this from abroad...?

Huang Yingying seemed very shy, and her unease and panic were evident from the moment she entered the room.

After saying that, without waiting for whether the other person would eat it or not, he immediately took one out of the bag and broke it in half with his bare hands.

Click, and the room is filled with fragrance.

Opening a durian with bare hands!

Xia An, Tang Wan, and Su Yi: "!!!"

(End of this chapter)