How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH53

Chapter 53

Early the next morning, after finishing his cultivation, Ye Yumeng prepared to leave the dorm.

“Wugang, I won’t be back for the next few days, so guard the house well, okay?” He patted the robot dog on the head, took the case notebook out of its storage compartment, and stuffed it into his backpack.

“Once I get used to staying in the inpatient department, I’ll bring you over too.”

“Woof woof!”

Whether Wugang understood or not, it wagged its tail happily and watched him leave.

But just as Ye Yumeng reached the door, his smartbrain vibrated.

Chen Limin.

Ye Yumeng quickly answered the call.

“Uncle Chen.”

“Have you eaten breakfast yet, Little Ye?”

“I was just about to go.”

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Chen Limin quickly got to the point.

He had already successfully persuaded Lei Qi. As long as Ye Yumeng had the time to come to the activity room, everything else was no problem.

Ye Yumeng had not expected him to be so efficient. In less than a day, he had already gotten it sorted out. It really seemed he was in quite a hurry.

“It’s possible that two doctors will come to observe. That won’t be a problem, right?” Chen Limin asked again.

With Huai Yebai’s endorsement and Zhang Zhuyu’s data report in hand, some of the doctors had agreed to try it, while others had chosen to wait and see.

Chen Limin did not mind that. Any reduction in burden was welcome, and once the results came out later, naturally more people would be willing to join.

Speaking of that, he asked a little awkwardly, “Only six patients have signed up so far. That should be fine, right?”

Ye Yumeng naturally agreed.

“Which six are they?”

“Hanxiong, Hu Naonao, Little Moon, Jiang Yuyuan…”

As Ye Yumeng listened to the names, he realized he could not quite match them to faces, so he figured he would just have to identify them once he got there.

“Alright, I’ll come by at noon.”

“Thanks for the trouble.”

So the two ended the call. Ye Yumeng left the dorm, but while passing the dorm supervisor’s office, he was stopped again.

“Another package for me?”

Ye Yumeng signed for it and opened it, only to find a disc-shaped device inside, with the words [Latest Model Personal Mobility Device] printed on the brochure.

A mobility device?

Ye Yumeng immediately remembered the thing.

Back when he had first arrived at the Royal Sanatorium, the doctor who removed his cast had once recommended that he get one, but because he had been too poor, he saw the deposit and gave up.

Was this another gift from Lu Qi?

Ye Yumeng noticed a card inside the package, with the words:

[A gift. Get proper rest.]

Just one simple sentence, but Ye Yumeng understood what he meant and could not help smiling.

Lu Qi had already replied to him last night.

There was no problem with the Yan family’s contract. He could sign it directly.

As for Director Lei wanting priority purchasing rights to the calming sachets and authorization to experiment on them, the former did not matter much. The latter was what required serious thought—

There was a possible risk of them being cracked and reproduced.

After listening to Lu Qi’s analysis, Ye Yumeng decided to authorize Lei Qi after all.

If Lei Qi could truly crack and reproduce them, then the first thing Ye Yumeng would think about would not be the risk, but taking Lei Qi on as a disciple.

To have that kind of talent at his age—it would be too much of a waste not to teach him something!

They had talked quite a bit last night, but Ye Yumeng had not expected that Lu Qi, without saying a word, had sent him yet another gift.

Ye Yumeng looked over the mobility device in his hands.

He had already received more and more gifts from Lu Qi… so why was he still unwilling to meet him?

Was it because his identity was too special?

Ye Yumeng felt that Lu Qi might have some connection to the Yaojin imperial family. If that were true… could it be tied up with some royal secret?

Ye Yumeng shook his head. In any case, what he cared about was Lu Qi as a person, not his status.

When Lu Qi was willing to say it, he would naturally tell him.

Ye Yumeng set the mobility device on the floor and studied it according to the instructions, then stepped onto the disc and turned it on.

He rose smoothly about ten centimeters off the ground—not very high, but enough to make safety less of a concern.

Ye Yumeng tried controlling the device: accelerating, stopping, rising, descending… He picked it up quickly, and it did not take long before he had completely figured out how to use it.

So convenient!

Ye Yumeng could not help marveling. Interstellar technology really was incredible. Even ordinary people could “ride an artifact through the air.”

This was probably the charm of technology.

Unlike the cultivation world, which had all kinds of miraculous powers but also a threshold that ordinary mortals could spend their whole lives unable to cross.

Once he had finished, Ye Yumeng thanked the dorm supervisor who had helped him learn how to use the mobility device, then flew all the way to the cafeteria for breakfast.

When he reached the entrance, he executed a rather handsome abrupt stop, hopped off the device, and packed it away.

The standing disc instantly shrank to about palm size. It was a little heavy, but small enough to fit into his bag.

Because he had personally selected the grain yesterday, Ye Yumeng finally got to eat spiritual rice porridge again today.

And among the breakfast offerings, there were several dishes made from spiritual plants as well. Ye Yumeng happily piled them onto his tray.

But after entering the cafeteria today, he kept getting the feeling that someone was watching him—

Not He Jun and the others protecting him. Though they were hiding well, Ye Yumeng could already tell which ones were shadowing him today.

These were different people.

Still, Ye Yumeng did not panic. With He Jun and the others protecting him in secret, he calmly carried his tray to a seat and sat down.

Sure enough, halfway through the meal, the cafeteria’s procurement supervisor Jin Ting came over and sat directly opposite him.

Ye Yumeng looked at him in confusion.

“How is today’s food? Does it suit your taste?” Yesterday the procurement officer had been very stiff and hard-edged, but today his expression carried a trace of flattery.

“It’s pretty good,” Ye Yumeng nodded, then asked frankly, “Did you need something?”

According to what they had settled yesterday, he only needed to handle the selection of grains. The rest of the fruits, vegetables, and meats were left to them—

Of course, after finishing breakfast, Ye Yumeng had already planned to go over to the back kitchen and take a look, to see whether he could find a few more spiritual fruits.

“What I said yesterday was wrong. I shouldn’t have doubted your ability just because you come from the Xihe Federation… now everyone in the procurement department is completely convinced.” Jin Ting said with a fawning smile.

Ye Yumeng nodded. “Mm. We’re all colleagues. As long as it doesn’t happen again in the future, that’s enough.”

Jin Ting nodded repeatedly, then hesitated before asking, “This may be a bit presumptuous, but… how exactly are you able to tell at a glance which ingredients are…”

He lowered his voice. “Produced by plant king specimens?”

Seeing the clarity in Ye Yumeng’s eyes, as though he did not think this ability of his was anything especially precious, Jin Ting could not help feeling regretful.

“Plant king produce is extremely difficult to identify,” he explained.

Otherwise, there would not be situations where plant king ingredients got sold as ordinary high-grade ingredients.

Ye Yumeng asked in confusion, “But before, when I was eating work meals in the ward, I came across them many times.”

When he had been injured those two days, he had managed to eat spiritual plants at every meal!

Jin Ting’s expression grew complicated.

“That was probably just your luck. As far as I know, aside from a few high-ranking patients who can specifically request plant king ingredients, all the meal boxes are allocated according to standard criteria.”

The probability of plant king produce appearing in work meals was the same as in the cafeteria—just that it was lower in the regular section and a bit higher in the premium cuisine section.

“Even when they’re specifically requested, each meal only contains one type, and the price is especially high.”

Ye Yumeng grew thoughtful.

So the reason he had been able to eat spiritual plants at every meal during those two days after his injury was because the little rabbit’s family had arranged it? They had really been that attentive…

“Can you really identify them at a glance?” Jin Ting pressed again.

Although he had secretly sent samples for testing yesterday while Meng Pinghua was not paying attention, the results would still take some time.

Ye Yumeng became a little more alert and answered vaguely, “Sometimes I can, maybe, but it’s not completely accurate.”

“That is still an extremely impressive gift!” Jin Ting’s eyes burned with excitement, but that quickly shifted into regret.

“With a gift like that, you could absolutely become a top-tier procurement expert. Why would you choose to be a doctor instead? Is it because nobody in the Xihe Federation ever taught you?”

Ye Yumeng felt that this scene was oddly familiar. He quickly remembered—

Hadn’t Shi Yichun said exactly the same sort of thing to him not long ago? At the time, he had looked at him with that same expression, wanting to take him as a student.

Ye Yumeng could not help giving an awkward smile. “That’s not it…”

“If you ever want to go down the procurement path in the future, you can come to me. I can introduce you to opportunities.”

Jin Ting lowered his voice. “Our line of work might not look like much, but the pay is really not low.”

“Alright, alright.” Ye Yumeng did not reject the kindness.

In the end, Jin Ting asked ingratiatingly, “If there’s a need in the future, could I ask for your help?”

“What kind of need?”

“For example, some patients will specifically request plant king ingredients. When that happens, could I ask you to take a look for us?”

This sort of thing counted as private meal ordering, which the cafeteria could take on, and the profits were rich. It was just that because plant king ingredient supply was so limited, they could only land a few such orders a year.

The moment Jin Ting realized Ye Yumeng had this ability, he immediately became interested.

“Don’t worry, every order would come with a share for you, counted as procurement wages.”

Ye Yumeng was not short on money anymore, so this was not particularly tempting to him. Still, he did not reject it outright.

“If I have time, I can take a look.”

“Good, good, then I won’t disturb your meal. Take your time.”

Jin Ting exchanged contact information with Ye Yumeng, then left with a broad smile on his face.

Ye Yumeng was in quite a good mood. He packed up some food to bring back to the Core Inpatient Department, but when he got up, he heard that familiar bird call again.

“Chirp chirp chirp!”

The little mountain tit flapped over and started chirping endlessly in front of him, its clear voice ringing through the whole cafeteria.

“So Noisy’s here.”

Smiling, Ye Yumeng held out his hand, and the little fluffball happily landed in his palm. Its tiny beak affectionately rubbed against the base of his hand, and the noisy cries suddenly quieted.

Though this was already the third time they had seen it, Du Zhenghang and Caregiver Wang still found the scene astonishing.

They had arrived a step too late, and only now came up to Ye Yumeng.

“Caregiver Ye… no, Doctor Ye!” Du Zhenghang saw the white coat Ye Yumeng was wearing and quickly corrected himself.

“What a coincidence!”

Of course, in truth it was not a coincidence at all. He had specifically brought the little mountain tit here at this hour to stage an “accidental” meeting.

He had truly not expected that this Caregiver Ye had actually been promoted to doctor.

He had heard Ye Yumeng came from the Xihe Federation and had only joined a month ago. That promotion speed was truly fast.

So it was not because the Du family’s status was too low—it was because Ye Yumeng was no longer a caregiver, and it was impossible to apply for exclusive accompaniment from a doctor!

At least Du Zhenghang had managed to recover a little face in front of Caregiver Wang.

Still, the problem of his family’s child wanting to see Doctor Ye every day remained unresolved, so he had thought of coming to the cafeteria to “run into” him.

Unfortunately, they had still come a bit late today. Doctor Ye had already finished breakfast and was about to leave.

Ye Yumeng, of course, had no idea.

Looking at the “cotton candy” nestled in his palm, he could not resist reaching out a finger and gently stroking the little bird’s white, fluffy feathers.

“Chirp chirp~”

The little mountain tit cried happily, half-closing its eyes and pecking at Ye Yumeng’s finger.

Its movements were very light, and Ye Yumeng did not feel any pain at all.

The bird was really both obedient and adorable right now. When it was not constantly chirping noisily, its voice was actually very crisp and pleasant.

Ye Yumeng smiled. Knowing exactly what it wanted, he cast the Minor Rejuvenation Technique.

Feeling the change, the little mountain tit’s bean-like eyes widened sharply, then it let out a deeply satisfied sigh and closed them, its originally round little body gradually flattening down.

If not for the slight movement of its feathers with each breath, it really would have looked exactly like a soft little piece of cotton candy, enough to melt anyone’s heart.

When the Minor Rejuvenation Technique ended, Ye Yumeng carefully handed it back to Du Zhenghang.

Then Du Zhenghang quickly explained why he had come.

He hoped Ye Yumeng could take over the treatment of his little mountain tit.

“Although I don’t know why, whenever Noisy is by your side, he becomes much calmer. For him, that’s something extremely rare.”

“He looks lively and full of energy, but he’s actually sick.”

As Du Zhenghang explained, Ye Yumeng finally learned that the little mountain tit had a kind of spiritual illness, the symptom of which was a constant release of energy, as though it had no end.

Patients with this illness would be like the little mountain tit—almost never able to stop moving, until their life burned out and their organs gave out under the overload.

The little mountain tit had already been at the Royal Sanatorium for quite a while. Although things had improved somewhat, the progress was slow, and there was still no visible hope of a cure.

So naturally, the little bird’s unusual behavior—being able to settle down only when with Ye Yumeng—had caught Du Zhenghang’s attention.

“I hope you can save my Noisy. He’s only twelve this year…”

When he got to that point, Du Zhenghang’s eyes had already turned red.

Ye Yumeng was a little surprised.

The little mountain tit was actually twelve already? Then again, adult birds of that species were very small to begin with, just like the silver mouse Zhang Zhuyu.

“I haven’t studied this kind of condition, so I can’t guarantee I can cure it. And I’d also need to discuss it with the attending physician…”

Ye Yumeng did not agree immediately. He was the little rabbit’s attending doctor and could not spread his focus too thinly.

Still…

He took out a calming sachet from his backpack and tied it around the little mountain tit’s neck. “This should be of some use to Noisy. Keep it on him close to the body, and don’t let it get wet.”

Ye Yumeng gave a few instructions on how to use it.

Though he had some doubts about the sachet’s crude workmanship, Du Zhenghang seriously memorized everything and decided to give it a try.

“I’ll be going to the activity room at noon,” Ye Yumeng said. “If you have time, you can come over.”

“Yes, yes, absolutely!”

Du Zhenghang nodded frantically.

“Then I’ll be off first.” Ye Yumeng waved goodbye.

Du Zhenghang did not try to stop him, only stood where he was and watched Ye Yumeng walk away.

Ah, this Doctor Ye really was as beautiful as he was kind-hearted! It would have been wonderful if he could have been Noisy’s attending doctor…

By the time Ye Yumeng reached the cafeteria entrance, he found the outside crowded with people and unexpectedly lively.

He squeezed into the crowd and looked around curiously.

At the center of attention stood several elderly men with graying hair, surrounded by guards and several younger doctors as they slowly walked inside.

Could these old men be those few grandmasters of medicine?

After all this time, he was finally seeing the real people!

Ye Yumeng studied them and felt they really did have a somewhat immortal, transcendent bearing. Their golden merit light ranged from bright to faint, with the lead elder having the strongest shine.

But… seeing one of them with merit light so faint it had nearly vanished, Ye Yumeng could not help thinking that no matter where you went, there would always be people coasting along.

Just as they were about to pass each other, the leading elder suddenly stopped, as if looking through the crowd directly at him.

There was something a little indescribably strange in that gaze…

But his intuition sensed no malice, so Ye Yumeng simply returned a puzzled expression. Soon someone stepped between them, and he could no longer see him.

Maybe he hadn’t been looking at him after all?

Ye Yumeng shrugged, made his way out of the crowd and out of the cafeteria, only to once again “coincidentally” run into He Jun.

“Doctor Ye, what a coincidence.”

Ye Yumeng smiled and nodded. “It really is.”

He Jun knew that Doctor Ye possessed extremely strong reconnaissance ability. If the war had not already ended, then if Doctor Ye went to the battlefield, not only could he treat and save people, he could probably also become a top-tier scout.

So Doctor Ye had definitely already noticed him. Since he had not called him out on it, He Jun shamelessly decided to pretend he did not know.

He followed behind Ye Yumeng and watched him head over to the back kitchen to choose fruit.

For some reason, even though Doctor Ye only picked four or five pieces of fruit, the cafeteria staff all looked pained enough to cry.

So stingy!

Looking at the way they seemed to want to step forward and say something—were they actually planning to take the fruit back? He Jun frowned slightly and, without showing it, stepped in front of Ye Yumeng protectively.

In the end, the cafeteria workers still did not dare say anything.

Fortunately, Doctor Ye did not seem to notice any of it. Still cheerful, he scanned his card, registered the fruits, and walked away carrying them.

He Jun let out a breath of relief, shot the cafeteria staff a warning look, and then strode quickly after Ye Yumeng.

The weather was bright and clear, the sunlight just right.

Ye Yumeng did not immediately return to the Core Inpatient Department. Instead, he used the mobility device to fly over to the tree-lined path, preparing to do a round of the health exercise on the open ground.

The original owner’s physical foundation was quite poor, and he needed the exercise to improve his constitution.

Besides, it was the perfect chance to digest and absorb the spiritual plants he had eaten at breakfast.

He Jun stood to the side and watched him practice. That carefree, graceful, fluid feeling was even more direct and more powerful than on video.

He had tried following the routine himself during breaks, but he could not come even remotely close to moving like Doctor Ye.

Little by little, more and more passersby were drawn by the sight of Ye Yumeng practicing.

It was morning, and the various lawns around the sanatorium were already filled with figures out and about—humans, small animals, large animals, and… plants.

When Ye Yumeng finished the routine and opened his eyes, he saw a caregiver pushing a special patient trolley over.

And lying on that trolley was a visibly sickly little plant, its roots immersed in a container of solution, with various wires attached to it for unknown purposes.

The moment Ye Yumeng remembered that this plant was actually a person, he found it rather uncanny.

He could not help staring a little longer, until the caregiver pushed the trolley to a stop not far in front of him. Presumably they had been attracted by the way he had looked while practicing.

Ye Yumeng lifted his gaze slightly and met the caregiver’s eyes.

The man’s expression had been ordinary enough at first, but after truly seeing Ye Yumeng, he quickly showed a surprised look.

Clearly, he had only at that moment recognized him.

Ye Yumeng smiled slightly and greeted him first. “Caregiver Chen, good morning. Are you out getting some sun?”

They had met before in the infirmary of the Core Inpatient Department. Ye Yumeng recognized that this little plant, it seemed, was the same one he had seen earlier in the activity room.

“Ah, yes.”

Realizing he had not mistaken the person, Chen Yu looked at the white coat on Ye Yumeng’s body and asked, astonished, “You… you got promoted?”

Earlier, from far away, he had seen a young doctor practicing body techniques and thought there was something especially distinctive about the figure, so he had pushed the trolley over without thinking much.

He had never imagined this young doctor would actually turn out to be Ye Yumeng!

One of the six caregivers from the Xihe Federation!

Could it be that Ye Yumeng had put on the wrong uniform? But then again, he had already worked here for a month, so he could not possibly make that kind of low-level mistake. So Chen Yu adjusted his form of address.

Being a doctor at the Royal Sanatorium carried an entirely different weight from being a caregiver like them.

“Yes, yesterday.”

“Congratulations, congratulations!”

Chen Yu felt a little dazed inside.

There had been two newcomer gatherings organized by the caregiver group before, and Ye Yumeng had not shown up either time. Everyone had thought he was aloof and did not fit in.

Who would have thought that while staying silent, he had actually gone and been promoted into a doctor?

Judging by the color of the stitching on the uniform, it should be the junior level, but to them caregivers, that was already a height only fit to be admired from below.

One had to know that in the Royal Sanatorium, there were quite a few caregivers, like Gao Hui and the others, who had not originally specialized in nursing at all.

Many of them had come in with the idea of getting their foot in the door first, then later waiting for a chance to pass examinations and be promoted to doctor.

But the people who actually managed to achieve that goal were vanishingly few.

A promotion speed like Ye Yumeng’s—if publicly announced—would certainly cause a sensation in the caregiver group, and probably in the doctor group as well.

Ye Yumeng did not pay attention to Chen Yu’s thoughts. His gaze rested on the little sapling.

He remembered this little sapling. The surname was Yu, with the given name Chuan.

The plant was clearly still a juvenile. Even for a grass-and-wood clan “spirit,” it should still count as a young one, like the little rabbit.

Ye Yumeng smiled and asked gently, “Chuan Chuan, have you been going to the activity room lately?”

The sickly little sapling’s leaves twitched lightly, as if responding with mental power, but of course Ye Yumeng could not understand it.

“He says no,” Chen Yu answered.

But standing behind Ye Yumeng, He Jun wore a very strange expression.

Yu Chuan—real name Yu Zhenchuan—was a well-known member of Blade Squad, with a considerable reputation in both the military and the Empire.

He was already a little over thirty. Though that placed him in the top three oldest members of Blade Squad, in the Yaojin Empire, where adulthood came at twenty-five, he still absolutely counted as a young talent.

Despite his refined-sounding name, however, his whole clan was collectively nicknamed “epiphyllum / queen of the night,” literally “overlord flowers”—which said everything about their explosive temperament.

At this very moment, he was using mental power to protest furiously, objecting to the nickname Ye Yumeng had just given him.

And yet Ye Yumeng, blissfully unaware, wore such a bright, gentle smile.

He Jun watched the scene and could only think… it felt deeply disjointed. Yu Zhenchuan, nicknamed the Little Tyrant, looked completely like someone raging helplessly to no effect.

Of course, only looked that way.

He Jun could feel the pressure of that mental force, and his face turned slightly pale. Then he looked at Doctor Ye, whose expression remained perfectly normal, and could not help feeling deep admiration.

Chen Yu could serve as Yu Zhenchuan’s caregiver only because his own mental power rank was not low.

But right now even he was starting to feel he could not hold up much longer. Before the Little Tyrant passed out, it would be best to hurry and get him away.

But the queen of the night clearly had no intention of letting it go at that. It struggled to extend a thin little vine, as though trying to hook itself around Ye Yumeng’s finger.

Ye Yumeng was using Aura Sight to observe this little “plant” who was actually a human, but to his eyes, he did not seem any different from an ordinary sick plant.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Yumeng tucked his right hand behind his back, formed a small nurturing hand seal, and concentrated the spell onto his fingertips.

Then he stretched out a finger on his left hand, letting the plant’s little vine curl around it of its own accord.

The Little Tyrant Flower immediately tightened the vine hard around Ye Yumeng’s finger. Though its strength at present was extremely, extremely, extremely slight, it still stubbornly insisted on expressing its anger.

Did this little doctor think he was some kind of “imperial pet”? He had actually used a reduplicated nickname for him!

How infuriating…

Huh?

Yu Zhenchuan suddenly felt a strange, life-filled energy passing from the young doctor’s finger into him.

What was this?

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