"Ah, it hurts, my back, it's so painful!"
The very next second, Ruan Xiangling cried out in agony.
There was a tremor in her voice, she was nearly crying from the pain.
Li Fei immediately felt a sense of foreboding. The jumbled thoughts in his mind vanished instantly as he climbed off her and asked with great concern, "Sister Xiangling, what's wrong?"
"My back hurts so much, it feels like it's broken!"
Ruan Xiangling said with a trembling voice!
"Don't panic, Sister Xiangling. Just lie there and don't move, I'll check on you!"
At her words, Li Fei quickly bent down to check on Ruan Xiangling, and his expression turned ugly when he did.
Ruan Xiangling's back was indeed broken.
"What's wrong, Fei?" Seeing Li Fei's expression, Ruan Xiangling's heart skipped a beat. Her face turned pale as she spoke with a crying tone, "I can't feel my lower body. I'm not crippled from the fall, am I?"
"Not at all!"
Li Fei quickly reassured her, "It's just a common fracture. It's not a big issue, I can set it right for you, but you might need to rest at home for a while."
Ruan Xiangling breathed a sigh of relief and then gave a wry smile, "I suppose this is the silver lining of an unfortunate situation."
"Just wait here, I'm going to the clinic to get some tools."
There was no time to waste for treatment, Li Fei said quickly and dashed off towards the village clinic.
After grabbing the toolbox, he rushed back. As he arrived at Ruan Xiangling's home, he was met by Li Sanfeng and his wife who were out for a walk.
"Fei, why did you come out? Are you done so quickly? You're not... incapable at your age, are you?"
Li Sanfeng said with a start and then with a somewhat strange expression on his face!
Li Fei of course knew what he meant and immediately turned red in the face, but this was not the time to worry about that. He quickly explained the situation with Ruan Xiangling's injury.
"What? That's—simply too unlucky, isn't it?"
Li Sanfeng and his wife turned gloomy upon hearing this and said in distress, "An injury to the bones takes a hundred days to heal. When am I going to be able to hold my grandchild?"
"Hey, now's not the time to talk about this, we need to treat Xiangling's injury right away!"
Li Fei frowned, thinking how unreliable San Feng could be. At a time like this, he was still thinking about that matter. He left them with those words and hurried into the courtyard.
Li Sanfeng and his wife quickly followed suit.
At this time, in the room, Ruan Xiangling was still lying on the ground, motionless.
Li Fei took a white towel out of the toolbox and handed it to Ruan Xiangling, saying:
"Sister Xiangling, setting the bone might hurt a bit. Bite down on this!"
"Okay!"
Ruan Xiangling obediently bit down on the towel and then signaled with her eyes that Li Fei could begin.
Normally, a spinal fracture like this to the back would require treatment at a proper hospital. However, Li Fei had regained the memories of his past life and possessed extraordinary skills. He could use Spiritual Energy to replace hospital equipment to scan the body.
Moreover, this Spiritual Energy seemed to even speed up the healing of bones and flesh in the body.
Using the limited Spiritual Energy inside him, Li Fei enveloped Ruan Xiangling's broken bones, aligned the two pieces, applied medicine, secured them with a wooden splint, and then wrapped it with a bandage.
Normally, the broken bones would take at least a month or two to heal naturally. But to his surprise, in just a brief moment, Li Fei noticed that Ruan Xiangling's broken bones had already nearly fused back together.
Following this pace, it would only take at most three days of rest at home before she could walk on the ground.
"Goodness, this is amazing!"
This discovery immediately stunned Li Fei, but then he thought of the strawberries in his own field, which grew to the size of fist under his Spirit Wood Art within a few minutes. Healing a bone seemed not so miraculous in comparison.
Ruan Xiangling also wore a face of surprise, saying:
"Ah Fei, your medical skills are incredible. Why do I feel like it doesn't hurt as much as before, and I can even move my lower body now?"
The ability to heal bones in an instant was a bit too far-fetched, and Li Fei did not know how to explain it to Ruan Xiangling, so he simply said:
"Cough cough, that's because you weren't hurt badly, Xiangling sister. I might have looked at it wrong just now, you just had a sprain. Rest for a few days and it will be fine."
Just then, Li Sanfeng and his wife came in, full of concern:
"Xiangling, are you okay?"
"Nothing serious, we just looked at it wrong before, it's just a sprain. It'll be fine after a few days of rest!"
Li Fei quickly repeated what he had just said!
"Oh, that's a relief!"
Li Sanfeng breathed a sigh of relief and then, looking at the collapsed wooden bed, could not help but complain, "This damn bed, I'll tear it down later, burn it for firewood. Tomorrow I'll head to town and buy a big bed, to make sure it doesn't get in the way of your business next time."
"Dad, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Ruan Xiangling, being a woman, felt her face flush red with embarrassment at Li Sanfeng's public statement!
Li Fei was also quite taken aback, and quickly changed the subject, "Let's talk about that later, right now we should tidy up a room for Xiangling sister to rest!"
Grandma San Feng immediately spoke up, "Right, right, Xiao Fei, you carry Xiangling to our room first!"
Li Fei immediately carried Ruan Xiangling to the room next door, settled her in, comforted her softly, and promised that once she was healed, they would continue with what they started.
Once everything was settled, he went home to sleep.
The next morning, before dawn, Li Fei got up, hopped onto Tie Zhu's electric tricycle, and set off for the county town with the strawberries.
Xinghua Village was the poorest village in the whole county, infamous for its poverty even in Huangpo County, all because of its poor geographical location.
The village was surrounded by sea on three sides and mountains on one, nearly creating a closed-off environment.
If there were a boat, it would only take twenty minutes to get to the county town or even to the city, but to take the mountain road, it was more than fifty kilometers. The mountain road was rugged, and the conditions poor; driving from the village to the county town would take more than an hour!
"Once I have money in the future, I must build a wharf in the village and buy a speedboat!"
Li Fei secretly vowed in his heart and then rode the electric tricycle, wobbling on his way.
About halfway there, he noticed a silver-gray Mercedes GLE450 stopped on the roadside.
A woman, wearing an OL suit with an elegant silhouette, was bending over, pushing the car with all her might.
Her black skirt, black stockings, and a pair of high heels—this outfit, combined with her current posture—was simply the legendary "Old lady pushing a car!"
Li Fei's gaze was instantly attracted, he swallowed hard and promptly stopped the tricycle.
It was also a coincidence that, just then, probably from exerting too much force, a "poof" sound rang out, and the beauty's pencil skirt ripped apart from the waist.
The next second, before the woman could react, it slid off.
"This—"
Li Fei's eyeballs instantly bulged.