"Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Doctor Xu Xiaoya at the village clinic took out a stethoscope and put it to her ears, asking Wang Xiaoqiang sitting beside her.
"Here, my chest..."
Wang Xiaoqiang pointed at his own chest.
Xu Xiaoya placed the stethoscope on the area of Wang Xiaoqiang's chest he was pointing to, listened for a while, and slightly frowned, "There's nothing wrong, everything seems normal..."
"Oh... no good, it's moved down, it's here now..." Wang Xiaoqiang's face reddened with embarrassment, but to make clear what exactly was causing trouble inside him, he still pointed honestly at his stomach.
"Pfft..." Seeing Wang Xiaoqiang's embarrassed yet serious expression, Xu Xiaoya couldn't help but let out a laugh and said, "What on earth is it... You aren't just pretending to deceive me, are you..."
Xu Xiaoya's words were not a joke. Ever since she graduated from the medical school and started practicing in Sanmiao Village, this city girl often faced harassment from the village lads. However, people here were simple and even harassment was very subtle, such as pretending to be sick to get treatment from Xu Xiaoya, just for the sake of seeing her more and talking to her.
And Wang Xiaoqiang's behavior at this moment truly seemed like the act of someone feigning illness, but since Xu Xiaoya was more educated, she kept her composure and did not show any repulsion. Moreover, she cooperated very well and placed the stethoscope again,
After listening carefully, Xu Xiaoya lifted her beautiful eyes and fixed them on Wang Xiaoqiang, "Really, there's nothing, I think you're being a bit paranoid..."
"Doctor Xu, I'm really not lying to you, my here..." Wang Xiaoqiang argued fervently, when suddenly he felt that thing sliding towards his lower abdomen, warming it up, which made him even more embarrassed. Wang Xiaoqiang had also attended junior high school and was aware of the great harm of concealing illness from doctors. Furthermore, having discovered an unidentified moving object inside his body, despite feeling embarrassed, he still pointed seriously at his lower abdomen and earnestly said to Xu Xiaoya, "Doctor Xu, now it, it has moved here..."
Seeing Wang Xiaoqiang pointing at his lower abdomen, a blush swept over Xu Xiaoya's beautiful, fair face. Had it been any other village lad, she might have kicked him out, this wasn't seeking medical help; it was clearly harassment!
But Wang Xiaoqiang was different. Though they hadn't interacted for long, Xu Xiaoya knew that Wang Xiaoqiang was a decent young man. He had completed junior high with excellent grades and even got into a key high school in the county town. Only a major setback suddenly impoverished his family. To ease the burden on his elderly parents, he gave up further education and returned to the village to lease farmland. This earned Wang Xiaoqiang Xu Xiaoya's great respect and admiration.
How could such a hardworking young man possibly harass her?
Thinking this, Xu Xiaoya exhaled softly and still very seriously placed the stethoscope on Wang Xiaoqiang's lower abdomen, which meant she had to lean down slightly.
Just then, Xu Xiaoya's smooth, white fingers inadvertently touched Wang Xiaoqiang
"Ah..." Little Xu Xiaoya, who was studying medicine, wasn't as conservative as most girls. Just like when she touched Wang Xiaoqiang earlier, even though her heartbeat quickened, she managed to regain her composure. But now she couldn't help it. Wang Xiaoqiang's actions made her exclaim in embarrassment and anger, and her handsome face flushed red in an instant. The hand holding the stethoscope jerked back as if it had touched an electric wire.
Wang Xiaoqiang's reaction was even more pronounced. His face also turned beet red in an instant, his breathing became ragged, and in an attempt to hide his awkwardness, he suddenly stood up from the chair and then actually ran out of the clinic.
Under the weight of his shame, Wang Xiaoqiang ran all the way to the fields and sat down on the ridge, gasping for air.
That's when he suddenly realized that the "object" that had been in his lower abdomen had now moved to his right leg. As he ran, the old leg injury that had recently healed began to ache faintly. And now, that mysterious "object" was precisely at the location of his leg wound, emitting a stream of air that was cool, as if a plaster was applied to the old injury. Soon the painful area began to feel gradually less painful,
and after a while, the injured spot began to warm up. It was no longer painful at all and was actually quite soothing and warm.
Hm?...
Wang Xiaoqiang stared at the old injury on his right leg, dumbfounded for a moment. What was going on?
This mysterious object also had such a wonderful use?
Could it be that I've acquired a superpower?
Wang Xiaoqiang, during his middle school years, enjoyed reading online novels. Even though he had dropped out of school, he still loved to read novels on his mobile phone during his free time because he had no other interests. Every time he read about novel protagonists gaining superpowers and amassing wealth and power, Wang Xiaoqiang would be filled with envy. However, he knew that was the stuff of fantasy and not real, just something to daydream about,
but now, when the superpower manifested in his own body, he was both excited and somewhat nervous. After all, novels are novels, and reality is reality; they are two different things.
While Wang Xiaoqiang was feeling apprehensive, the mysterious "object" inside of him had already moved from his right leg to his chest area, to be precise, to his heart, which is where the "object" had been ever since it entered his body.
In fact, this unknown "object" entered Wang Xiaoqiang's body last evening.
At that time, after hoeing in the fields all day, he went to bathe in the Shibalih River outside the village. His body fully submerged in the water, head the only part exposed, he was scrubbing himself when he felt an object, like a loach, slip into his body through his chest. At that moment, Wang Xiaoqiang thought it was some terrifying creature and scrambled onto the shore in a panic, touching his chest with his hands. But the skin on his chest was intact, showing no signs of injury, and it didn't hurt or itch; it just felt like an object the size of an egg was lodged in his heart.
Wang Xiaoqiang spent the night restless and sleepless. The next morning, he sneaked off alone to the village health clinic, and it wasn't until Little Xu Xiaoya was examining him that he realized the "object" inside him could move freely in his body. And now he had discovered that the object could also heal wounds.
To understand this mysterious object inside him, Wang Xiaoqiang again visited the Shibalih River, at the same spot where he bathed the evening before. It was the middle of summer. The Shibalih River was long and deep, abundant with water and fish, and in fact, the river was bountiful with fish and sufficient water all year round, and the crops by the river grew well. According to the old people in the village, the reason the Shibalih River kept a constant flow of water throughout the year was due to a massive spring at the riverbed. The place where Wang Xiaoqiang bathed was near that huge spring.