Chapter 134: 134: Those Things About Treating Infertility
He had been silent, so Zhou Xufang spoke on his behalf, “Infertility.”
Ji Feifan nearly sprayed out the milk he was drinking and held his breath, his face turning red, “Infertility, huh.”
Zhou Xufang was calm and collected, “Yeah, infertility.”
Jiang Zhi’s face was red to his ears, “…”
The topic of infertility, if discussed in depth, would definitely not be suitable for children. Jiang Zhi couldn’t sit still, “Xufang, co with for a mont.”
“Oh.”
...
Zhou Xufang followed Jiang Zhi out.
He asked her to sit on the waiting chair outside the consultation room, “You wait for here.”
Oh, he’s feeling shy.
Zhou Xufang complied with his wish, “Alright.”
“Then I’m going in.”
“Mhm.”
Jiang Zhi went in, and in less than ten seconds, he ca out again, his face full of worry.
“What’s wrong?”
He asked, “Did you bring headphones?”
Zhou Xufang nodded and took out her Bluetooth headphones from her bag.
Jiang Zhi put the headphones on her and played a song, “Don’t eavesdrop.”
Zhou Xufang nodded, her gaze sincere, “Oh.”
Only then did Jiang Zhi enter, making sure to close the door behind him.
Ji Feifan clicked his tongue a few tis, really not seeing it coming that this guy turned out to be quite pure-hearted and asked, “Did Bingxue get you to stop taking that dicine?”
Jiang Zhi pulled up a chair and sat down, “Stopped.”
“How long ago?”
“Almost a month.”
Ji Feifan asked a few more personal male-related questions, and Jiang Zhi answered awkwardly.
Ji Feifan threw away the milk carton, “Hand over your hand.”
Jiang Zhi extended his hand.
After taking his pulse, Ji Feifan’s expression revealed that the situation was not good, “You’ve taken too many ssy dicines, and your body is in bad shape.”
Jiang Zhi frowned, “Can’t it be treated?”
“It depends on your fate,” Ji Feifan said as he wrote a prescription, “Start by trying this dicine for a while.”
In little more than ten minutes, Jiang Zhi ca out.
Zhou Xufang was sitting properly on the waiting chair, looking obedient.
Jiang Zhi walked over and took off her headphones, “Did you eavesdrop?”
She shook her head and said, “No.”
“The dicine isn’t ready yet, please wait a bit longer.”
“Alright.”
Jiang Zhi sat down next to her and took her hand into his, “I have to go to the suburbs to shoot a scene this afternoon, you’re coming with .”
Her response ca quickly, “I’m not coming.”
“…”
He poked the center of her palm a couple of tis in frustration.
Zhou Xufang felt her hand tickle from his poking, so she withdrew her hand, not letting him hold it. She explained, “I have an errand to run this afternoon.”
“What kind of errand? Is it dangerous?”
“It’s not dangerous.” Zhou Xufang thought for a mont and decided to tell Jiang Zhi about the errand, “A rich woman is keeping a male escort, but that escort isn’t staying put and has used the woman’s money to keep a group of escorts. So she asked to replace his lubricant with glue.”
Jiang Zhi, “…”
The rich woman was also a werewolf.
There was sothing Zhou Xufang didn’t quite understand, “But why switch the lubricant?” Wasn’t it to get back at the unfaithful duck?
Zhou Xufang didn’t yet know what a lubricant was used for.
Of course, Jiang Zhi wouldn’t explain it to her, skillfully changing the subject, “Xufang, how many tis a day did Doctor Ji tell you to take the dicine?”
“Once, boil three bowls of water down to one.”
Just as expected, Jiang Zhi poked her face, “You were eavesdropping.”
Zhou Xufang, “…”
Jiang Zhi was so cunning.
He lifted her head she’d bowed out of a guilty conscience, leaned in close, eye to eye, he was smiling, with ill intent, “That curious, huh?”
Zhou Xufang, very curious but pretending not to be, “…”
Her ears had already turned red.
Jiang Zhi found it amusing, bringing his lips close to her ear and gently blowing, “Then do you want to explain it to you in detail?”
She admitted defeat, “No…”
She’s just a paper tiger.
Jiang Zhi laughed.
After leaving the clinic, Jiang Zhi first dropped Zhou Xufang off at her ho, then drove to the set.
The filming in the afternoon didn’t go very smoothly, probably because Zhou Xufang wasn’t there, he just couldn’t get into it and wrapped up early to return to the Qingshan Mansion. It hadn’t even been half a day since he had visited the clinic, and Ji Feifan, the big mouth, had already told Xue Bingxue.
Xue Bingxue, that white lotus, directly ntioned him in the group chat.
I am a little ice and snow: “My teacher said you went to see about infertility and sterility @My Girlfriend Fang Bao”
That bastard, he did it on purpose.
My Girlfriend Fang Bao: “Xue Bingxue, retract it!”
I am a little ice and snow: “Oh.”
He retracted the ssage above.
Qiao Nanchu: “Already saw it.”
The handsost man in the capital: “I saw it too, and even took a screenshot.”
The handsost man in the capital: [Screenshot]
These damn scoundrels!
Jiang Zhi wanted to twist their dog heads off.
My Girlfriend Fang Bao: “Wait till you get back, then we’ll settle the score @I am a little ice and snow”
I am a little ice and snow: “I didn’t do it on purpose.”
The handsost man in the capital: “I’ve wanted to ask you a question for a long ti.”
The handsost man in the capital: “Do you raise it?”
Jiang Zhi didn’t reply.
Xue Bao Yi was getting ahead of herself.
The handsost man in the capital: “If you won’t answer, I’m going to ask Zhou Xufang @My Girlfriend Fang Bao”
My Girlfriend Fang Bao: “Go ahead if you want to die.”
Qiao Nanchu: “I have a friend with the sa problem. Do you want the ho redy or not?”
My Girlfriend Fang Bao: “Enough is enough, don’t provoke , or else, you’re silenced.”
Qiao Nanchu: “I’m shutting up.”
Xue Bingxue also kept quiet, but Xue Bao Yi, loving the drama and not fearing trouble, began spamming ads crazily.
The handsost man in the capital: “For infertility treatnt, head to the Imperial City ** Hospital.”
The handsost man in the capital: “** Infertility and Sterility Hospital, may good ‘fortune’ accompany you.”
The handsost man in the capital: “** Hospital, where the miracle of life is witnessed.”
The handsost man in the capital: “The last hope for infertility patients — National Infertility and Sterility Base *＊ Hospital.”
My Girlfriend Fang Bao has left the group chat.
The handsost man in the capital: “Hahahahahahahahahaha…”
Irritated, Jiang Zhi tossed his phone onto the table, his face full of displeasure.
Not knowing who else had annoyed Fangbao, to avoid being a victim of collateral damage, Ah Wan spoke several degrees gentler, “Boss, the Luo Family has delivered the Lingzhi,” he dutifully asked for instructions, “Should it be sent to the old mansion, or…?”
“Keep it here.”
Ah Wan understood, “Then I’ll have Ms. Song from my family prepare it for you.”
Jiang Zhi humd in agreent, with a reminder, “Zhou Xufang can’t eat eggs.”
Understood.
The Lingzhi was for his darling girlfriend.
Ah Wan couldn’t help but be curious: Are there people who can’t eat eggs? What happens if they eat them? Will they break out in a rash?
Jiang Zhi lay on the couch for a while, then got up and took a bag of fried herbs from the fridge, poured a bowl of hot water, and soaked the vacuum-sealed herbs to warm them up.
Ah Wan drew closer, “What is this dicine? Did the Old Madam send it?”
Jiang Zhi gave a cold eviction order, “Why are you still here?”
Ah Wan scratched his head, “Oh, leaving now.”
After three to five minutes, the dicine was warm. Jiang Zhi bit a hole in the bag, drank a couple of swallows, and, holding the dicine bag in his mouth, went to find his phone to call Zhou Xufang.
She picked up very quickly.
“Xu Fang.”
“Mhm.”
Her voice sounded very obedient.
“Have you finished the task?”
“I have finished it.” Zhou Xufang asked, “What are you doing?”
Jiang Zhi swallowed two mouthfuls of herbal dicine, “Drinking dicine.”
“Is it bitter?”
Is it bitter?
It probably was bitter; after all, he had been a dicine jar for so many years and couldn’t rember how much dicine he had drunk—becoming numb to it. But when she asked with such concern, he wanted to act a little, to be coaxed by her, and so he said, “Extrely bitter.”
Zhou Xufang said ‘what to do’ a couple of tis before suggesting, “Then eat so cotton candy.”
“I don’t want candy.” Jiang Zhi threw the empty dicine bag into the trash bin, deliberately pressing his tone to be soft and floppy, “I want to kiss you.”
Jiang Zhi was very good at acting coy.
Exceptionally good.
When he talked like this, Zhou Xufang couldn’t help but comply with everything and be especially tender-hearted towards him, “Then I’ll co over to your place now.”
Jiang Zhi, pleased, genuinely didn’t want to hassle her, “It’s too late, I’ll co to pick you up in the morning.”
“Okay.”
Jiang Zhi was just about to sweet-talk her a bit more when she said, “A friend is looking for ; I’ll call you back later.”
“Which friend?”
“My partner.” She added, “It’s a girl.”
Assuming it had sothing to do with her errand running work, Jiang Zhi didn’t ask further, “I’ll wait for your call.”
“Okay.”
Zhou Xufang hung up and sat down in front of the computer.
SpongeBob crawled away on the screen, followed by two lines of text popping up: “I’ve given the hair to Tang Xiang already; she hasn’t sent it for verification imdiately. I’ve installed a wiretap on her phone. I’ll let you know when there are results.”
“Okay.”
“The materials for the new task have been sent to you. The employer is anonymous, offering a five million commission to transfer a packet of high-quality imitation diamonds.” Shuangjiang asked, “Do you accept?”
High-quality imitation diamonds, that’s a cri.
Zhou Xufang thought for a while, “Accept.”
Shuangjiang, “Sa old rules?”
“Mhm, old rules.”
Generally speaking, if it involved illegal transactions, they would send a tip to the police after the mission was completed. What happened afterwards didn’t concern them too much; they couldn’t interfere too much, otherwise, they would ruin their own reputation.
Shuangjiang sent over the task details: “The goods are in a storage locker on the third floor of Jingbai City; deliver to the end of Jingming Road 28 by nine o’clock tomorrow night.”
This ti’s employer was anonymous, with only a surna that might or might not be real.
Surna Zhang.
The next day, at eight o’clock in the morning, Jiang Zhi ca to pick up Zhou Xufang for morning tea.
As soon as the two got in the car, Jiang Zhi leaned on her shoulder and closed his eyes to rest. His complexion didn’t look very well.
Zhou Xufang lowered her shoulder to make it more comfortable for him, “What’s wrong? Are you not feeling well?”
He rubbed against her shoulder a few tis before opening his eyes, looking sleepy, “Tired.”
Zhou Xufang tidied up the hair that he had rubbed ssy on his forehead and saw Jiang Zhi’s eyes were red and moist, “Did you stay up late last night?”
He shook his head, his voice nasal, “Had a dream.”
“Dreamt about what?” She asked casually.
He looked up, his misty peach blossom eyes held a dim glow of colors, “You.”
Oh.
He had dreamt about her.
Zhou Xufang secretly smiled.
With his head leaning on her shoulder, and just as he was lifting it, his lips landed right on her face. He pecked her twice, enticing in such a gentle manner, “Won’t you ask what you did in my dream?”
Zhou Xufang did ask, “What did I do?”
With him, she was like a rabbit, jumping into any pit he’d dig.
He leaned in close to her ear and whispered sothing.
Zhou Xufang thought of that goodnight emoticon.
She covered his mouth, and with the guilty conscience of a thief, she glanced at Ah Wan in the driver’s seat, her face blushing red, annoyed at him, “Stop talking.”
“Hmph, Jiang Zhi has no sha!”
Jiang Zhi stopped teasing her, looking extrely sleepy. “The dicine from Ji Feifan must have worked last night, but who knows what he put in it.” He lay down, resting his head on her legs, “Let nap a bit more, wake when we get there.”
“Mhm.”
Zhou Xufang sat still, allowing Jiang Zhi to sleep.
Not long after he had laid down, his phone rang. He couldn’t be bothered to answer, so Zhou Xufang reached into his coat pocket and took out the phone.
With his head on her legs, he shifted slightly but didn’t open his eyes. “Who is it?”
Zhou Xufang glanced at the caller ID. “It’s Mr. Qiao.”
“Answer it for .”
He continued with his nap.
Zhou Xufang turned her head, covered the phone’s receiver with her hand, and answered quietly, “Hello.”
A girl’s voice…
Qiao Nanchu: “Is that my sister-in-law?”
“Yes,” Zhou Xufang’s voice was as soft as a whisper. “Jiang Zhi is asleep.”
If Jiang Zhi had answered the call, Qiao Nanchu would certainly have teased him about the fleeting pleasures of a spring night, but Jiang Zhi’s girl here was young, shy, and bashful, not soone you could joke with.
He cut straight to the point: “Nothing much, just tell Jiang Zhi that Han Feng has committed suicide in jail.”
Zhou Xufang just listened, not asking further: “Alright.”
Such a well-behaved young lady, she didn’t seem like a professional errand runner at all.
Qiao Nanchu hung up the phone.
“Captain Qiao.”
It was a colleague from the Criminal Intelligence Departnt, Lu Ning.
Qiao Nanchu walked over. “Did we get the address?”
Lu Ning shook her head. “Just this.” She pressed enter, and the computer screen filled up with SpongeBob.
“This SpongeBob,” said another person, who leaned in close to the computer, his eyes nearly diving into the screen. It was Li Xiaodong from the intelligence departnt, severely shortsighted yet always reluctant to wear glasses. He stroked his chin and looked again, “Why does it look familiar?”
Lu Ning pulled up another page. “Do these two look alike?”
“Indeed, they look like the sa person’s style.” Li Xiaodong compared the two screens of SpongeBob. “Who is this?”
“The partner of professional errand runner Z, Shuangjiang,” Lu Ning said. “The last ti we tracked her address, we also found a screen full of SpongeBob.”
Shuangjiang.
That na was familiar to all of them; a notorious hacker in the underworld who would visit the police station’s data ‘from ti to ti.’ She ca and went without a trace, and the intelligence departnt had been chasing her for years without catching a glimpse of her shadow.
“These two couldn’t be the sa person, could they?” Li Xiaodong asked, then shook his head, “That shouldn’t be right, one is the informant for a gold shop robbery and murder case, and the other is an errant runner known for doing evil. One good, one bad, they just don’t match up.”
“Not entirely evil.”
Li Xiaodong turned around. “Huh?”
What did the captain an?
This person who treated the police data like a library to co and go as they pleased, who viewed the city surveillance as if it were a TV to change channels on at will, who played with the entire intelligence departnt as if it were a kindergarten, wasn’t entirely evil?
Qiao Nanchu offered no explanation, tapped on Lu Ning’s desk, “Go into the criminal investigation system and do a check. Compile all the cases that have featured this pattern.”
“Okay.”
Li Xiaodong rolled back to his seat on his chair; an anonymous email had just popped up on his computer. He clicked to read it, and his expression suddenly changed: “Captain Qiao, 0893 sent a confidential ssage.”
0893 was a code na, an undercover code na.
Apart from handling the collection, processing, and storage of criminal case information, the intelligence departnt also managed the information exchange for all the secret operations of the police departnt, which ford a vast intelligence network, including the Anti-Smuggling Bureau and the Drug Enforcent Team.
0893,
was from the Drug Enforcent Team. Qiao Nanchu asked, “What’s the movent?”
Li Xiaodong conveyed the contents of the email: “Tonight at nine, the end of Jingming Road number twenty-eight for a delivery.”
“Notify the Drug Enforcent Team.”
Li Xiaodong imdiately dialed the internal line.
Outside the office, the new intern Xiao Hui knocked on the door, “Captain Qiao, there’s soone looking for you.”
“Who?”
Xiao Hui grinned slyly, “It’s a beautiful girl.”
Qiao Nanchu was clearly unexcited, finishing up his work before slowly leaving the office with a cigarette between his lips.
Once he left, the office burst into jokes.
“It’s not just any girl who’d co looking for Captain Qiao at the station.”
Captain Qiao was a handso man, and many girls had co to the station to show their interest, but his temperant was such that he was blunt and unsympathetic, never mixing personal matters with work. He was distant both from won and social courtesies, and after several rejections, the girls stopped coming to embarrass themselves.
Li Xiaodong chuckled, “Even the old cactus is going to bloom.”
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