Chapter 141 Medical Clinic

At noon, the sisters prepared a sumptuous New Year's feast.

This year, we steamed large buns filled with cabbage, tofu, and vermicelli; large steamed buns made with a mixture of sweet potato, sorghum, and wheat flour; stir-fried potato and pork slices; a stew of cabbage, tofu, vermicelli, and pork; cold cabbage salad; cold shredded radish salad; cold aspic salad; and radish and pork dumplings. All the dishes were served in enamel basins, and the portions were very generous. Although there wasn't much variety, and we ate the most ordinary dishes, it was a rare and luxurious meal for the sisters.

"Normally we have to eat sparingly, but today let's eat our fill! What are you waiting for? Eat up!"

After waking up, Malt felt thirsty and asked, "Could you give me a bowl of water first?"

Cuihua was taken aback. She wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything more and poured her a bowl of water.

The thermos at home wasn't keeping things warm very well, so this was the ginger water left for the two of them. Although it tasted spicy, Maiya gulped it down completely. Then, when she put the empty bowl on the table and was about to pour some more, Cuihua finally couldn't resist anymore.

"Let's eat first?" Her voice choked with emotion, her eyes red, and the other sisters also looked distressed.

Maiya was puzzled, but after they gestured, she understood why their expressions were so strange.

"I didn't drink water because I wasn't full. I was really thirsty. I drink a lot of water, at least five fingers' worth a water bottle a day, no matter the time of day. I have to drink water as soon as I feel a little thirsty, otherwise I can't do anything."

She was a soul transmigrated, not a fetus, so it's certain that this body isn't from the beast world.

It's possible that she subconsciously wants to stay hydrated, which is why she's so dependent on water.

Or is this also related to her bringing the storage space from the Beast World over?

Her space wasn't large, because in the beast world she was just a mermaid beast with low abilities.

The lower the level, the smaller the storage space.

It's impossible to describe exactly how big it is, but it's not inexhaustible. If you ate to your heart's content, it would have been empty long ago.

It was filled with the treasures she had stored in the sea over the years, as well as emergency food she kept when she was too lazy to move.

After arriving in this strange world, knowing she might never be able to return, she became extremely frugal with the seafood, avoiding it whenever possible.

Four years of adaptation had already made her accustomed to living a hard life.

Undeniably, the meal in front of her was the best she had eaten in the past four years.

For this reason, she felt that coming back with Cuihua might be a good choice.

Considering the difficulty in communicating with malt, everyone tried to avoid talking while eating.

After quietly finishing their first reunion dinner of the new year, Cui Mei gave Cui Hua and Cui Hong (Maiya) a thorough medical check-up.

"You caught a chill. It's so cold, and you jumped into such icy river water. If you don't take good care of yourselves, you'll have problems. The worst thing is uterine cold. Don't go out this afternoon. Use hot water bottles to warm your stomachs. I'll also pack some medicine for you. You have runny noses now, but you'll cough when it flares up."

Only Cuihua knew about Cuimei's background, and she was quite happy when she learned that Lao Wu was a doctor.

But Cuihua and the others didn't know that she had a medical space, so when Cuimei made an excuse to go out and buy medicine for them, no one suspected anything.

In those days, there were many private doctors, in villages and towns. Whoever was good at treating patients would spread the word far and wide, so no one would doubt anything even though it was the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Cui Mei's origins can be revealed, but the fact that she carries a spatial dimension is a bit too mysterious, so it's best not to tell her if possible.

The closest one is Doctor Meng from Xihe Village, as everyone knows. Cui Mei also mentioned him. In fact, as soon as she left the village, she found a place to hide in her own space to organize the medicine. She needed to see how much she had in stock so that she could prescribe the right medicine when saving people in the future.

The so-called medical space is actually her family's private clinic.

Her family has been doctors for three generations; her grandparents, parents, and children all studied traditional Chinese medicine, while she studied Western medicine.

Although she is a Western medicine surgeon, she also knows traditional Chinese medicine. Having been exposed to it since childhood, she is quite proficient in acupuncture and massage.

Her medical space included consultation rooms, infusion rooms, pharmacy warehouses, traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy rooms, and later an emergency room for emergency treatment.

They purchased some advanced medical equipment that can handle simple surgical treatments.

For example, minor surgeries such as burns, leg injuries, and external injuries can be handled at the clinic. Generally, people don't come to them for major surgeries.

This is a business that my grandparents and parents found after they retired. My grandparents spend all their time here, and my parents are occasionally rehired to perform surgeries at the hospital. She doesn't go there very often.

The main issue is that she works in a hospital in a first-tier city, while they live in a third-tier city in their hometown.

Who would have thought that after she transmigrated, her family's clinic would follow her? Is it because she is the only heir?

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Little Jiu was unaware that her fourth sister had also been found. At this moment, she was leisurely swinging her legs on the small recliner that her brother Yue had made for her, listening to the radio, basking in the warm sun, and happily eating the melon seeds that her brother had peeled for her!

Zhou Yue spent the New Year with them this year, and because they were worried he would do something foolish, his eldest and second eldest brothers went to sleep with him.

A few boys, having nothing better to do, actually got some old wood and, saying it was for practice, made her a recliner. This recliner could easily last her until she was ten or so years old. The key thing is that after it was finished, they even used sandpaper to polish the surface of the wood until there wasn't a single splinter.

To be honest, she felt quite useless. It was one thing to live a good life right after transmigrating, but the key issue was that everyone around her was a nice person who treated her like a parasite, making her feel very unfulfilled.

Its only purpose is to replenish the family's food supplies from time to time, but it's such a shame that so many vegetables and fruits are not available to enjoy!

Oh right, she also has another function: to break down the seasonings in the space and mix them into the five-spice powder that Grandma grinds at the market. The salt is fine salt; the salt you buy these days is coarse salt with large granules. Fortunately, the space also has coarse salt for pickling vegetables, and it's even the kind that comes in a two-pound package.

Compared to the quality of today, this is much better. Not only is the color bright, but it's also not bitter. Salt from this era always tastes weird no matter how you eat it.

Condiments are a category of grains and oils, so they also sell this product, such as dried mushrooms, wood ear fungus, kelp, and vermicelli, which are also considered dried goods. These can be found in almost any grain and oil store.

She couldn't help with other aspects of the family, but she did her best to ensure they had enough to eat and drink.

If seasonal fruits come in, she'll rummage through her online space, picking and choosing the less desirable ones and secretly moving them out to eat first without attracting attention. She won't dare to openly display the high-quality ones, but will secretly bring them back in when things get better.