Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation Chapter 99 – Chapter 99: Chapter 99: The New Formula

Chapter 99: Chapter 99: The New Formula
 

Saturday morning at 7 a.m., Jiang Ning took Xue Yuantong to the hospital.

Aunt Gu had no problem staying in the ward alone at night, and she was going to be discharged in a couple of days.

At eight o'clock, during the ward rounds, the attending doctor came to the ward and checked Aunt Gu's condition:

“Do your fingers still feel numb?”

“A bit,” said Aunt Gu.

“The recovery will be gradual. Thankfully, the damage to the radial nerve isn't severe, otherwise you wouldn't even be able to perform simple grasping movements.”

“Doctor, when will the surgery to remove the steel plate be?” Aunt Gu asked. Having a steel plate in her arm, she would need another surgery to remove it after the bone healed, which was quite an ordeal.

“I don't recommend removing it. The material of the steel plate you have can stay in the bone for life.”

“You have a midshaft fracture of the humerus, which is most likely to damage the radial nerve because after the steel plate surgery, the radial nerve has already shifted. A year or two later, when removing the plate, the nerve is very likely to have adhered to the plate, and any carelessness could lead to accidental nerve damage.”

The doctor talked about some precautions, then said,

“The wound has healed very well. You can be discharged tomorrow morning.”

Hearing this, Aunt Gu and Xue Yuantong were delighted. Staying in the hospital was indeed very troublesome: the space was cramped, it was crowded, noisy, and overall inconvenient.

The attending doctor asked, “Have you bought the brace?”

Jiang Ning answered, “We got someone to get it for us.”

The attending doctor was momentarily taken aback: “One bought from outside might not fit properly and could affect the recovery.”

Jiang Ning replied, “We have a relative with some connections; the one he got should be fine.”

“Okay, let's have a look at the brace when it arrives. If it really doesn't work, we'll put you in a cast,” the attending doctor said without further comment.

After the doctor left, the old man in bed 37 started chattering again:

“Wait and see, when your brace arrives, he'll find an excuse. If I were you, I'd just get a cast. I guarantee I wouldn't buy theirs.”

A while later, the old man's attending doctor came over, and he hurriedly greeted him:

“Doctor, you're here!”

“You're being discharged the day after tomorrow, but your spine needs protection after that. You should get some supportive gear.”

The old man was dumbfounded; he hadn't expected that he would need supportive gear.

“I'll have someone come over this afternoon; you can talk to the staff about it.”

After witnessing the departure of the doctor, the old man's face went through a series of changes.

In the afternoon, a courier called and Jiang Ning went to the hospital entrance to pick up the brace. When he brought it back to the ward and unpacked it, the brace looked like an arm guard that could protect the arm, prevent injuries, and also allow for the adjustment of angles for exercise.

Jiang Ning cast a Magic Formation to clean the surface dust and odor off of it.

The lady across the bed said, “It's exactly like what that guy with the broken bone bought before. How much did you pay for it?”

Jiang Ning gave Aunt Gu a look, and then he said,

“Two thousand yuan, two hundred cheaper than theirs.”

He didn't say it was bought for two hundred; these kinds of things shouldn't be openly discussed. It's fine if he got a bargain.

If it came out, it might touch on others' interests, especially since Aunt Gu was still staying at the hospital.

Moreover, other patients might ask him to help buy one for them, and later, if there were any issues with wearing it, they might blame him for recommending something useless.

It was like recommending mobile phones to acquaintances. If you recommend a phone and it had issues when they used it, it could end up being your fault for recommending a bad phone.

As a result, whenever someone asked Jiang Ning to recommend a phone, he generally just advised buying an iPhone. If they encountered problems with other brands, they would think it was the phone's fault, but if it was an iPhone, they would blame themselves.

“Two thousand, huh? That's about the same as the hospital's price.”

People in the ward didn't ask much more. Being two hundred cheaper wasn't a big deal.

After chatting for a bit more, the man in the duckbill hat from yesterday came in, strutting as he said,

“Bed 36, have you decided yet?”

“Hm? Did you already buy one?” He looked incredulously at the brace on Aunt Gu's arm.

Jiang Ning stepped forward to dismiss him, “My uncle is a doctor at An City Second Affiliated Hospital. We got it from him.”

Hearing that there was a connection with the hospital, the man in the duckbill hat sulked but didn't press further. They could use the monopoly to sell at high prices, but they wouldn't dare to force a sell.

Jiang Ning remained silent; this was expected. Nowadays, it was rare to encounter utterly lawless situations.

“You're bed 37, right?” the man in the duckbill hat looked at the old man.

“It's me.”

“The doctor should have told you, you need a back brace. Our company's back braces are all priced at two thousand five hundred yuan. If you want to buy one, I can measure you right now.” The man in the duckbill hat took out a tape measure.

The elder man: “Can it be cheaper?”

Perhaps Jiang Ning had bought a brace from somewhere else, which made the man in the duckbill hat somewhat cautious; he wasn't too arrogant:

“The most I can knock off is two hundred. A flat rate of two thousand three hundred yuan. I'm giving you this price because you seem like a good guy.”

“Even cheaper, please.”

“Really, I can't do that. It's clearly stipulated by the company. I earn a small commission, and any cheaper, I'd be working this job for nothing.”

After some haggling, the elder man agreed and paid a deposit.

After measuring for the brace, the man in the duckbill hat handed him a slip and told him to keep it safe.

Once the man in the duckbill hat had left, the elder man said:

“Ah, that's hospitals for you. Spending money for peace of mind.”

…

On Saturday morning, Aunt Gu was discharged from the hospital.

Jiang Ning called a taxi, and they both headed home.

With her arm in a sling, Aunt Gu stood in front of the bungalow and felt as if she was stepping into another world.

Xue Yuantong unlocked the door and helped her inside.

While Aunt Gu had been in the hospital, the owner of the restaurant came by once. He bought several boxes of milk and fruits and also settled Aunt Gu's wages. Before leaving, he gave her a red envelope with one thousand yuan, expressing sincerely that their small restaurant was short-staffed and urgently needed to fill the position.

Aunt Gu understood what the owner meant. Her job was gone.

A hundred days for a bone to heal, she would need at least two months of rest at home before going back to work, so it was no surprise she had been let go.

So for the time being, Aunt Gu stayed at home, recuperating.

Jiang Ning estimated that with the medicinal effect of the Spirit Bamboo Liquid, it would take less than half a month for her to be mostly recovered.

This illness had cost the Xue family a significant amount of money. Now, with no income, the days ahead were likely to be tough.

Jiang Ning, on the other hand, did have money. Shao Shuangshuang had used a baldness group to easily sell a hundred bottles of Evergreen Liquid. Just the wealthy bosses in the group had taken up half of the stock.

After selling out, Shao Shuangshuang transferred 200,000 yuan to him and kept the rest for the development fund of the Evergreen Liquid.

The development of the Evergreen Liquid was rapid. During the cosmetic qualification certification period, Shao Shuangshuang nearly exhausted all her connections. Plus, with some extra money to expedite the process, she finally managed to secure it the day before yesterday.

Next up was the official sales launch.

Shao Shuangshuang urged Jiang Ning to hurry up with the Evergreen Liquid. Many wealthy bald users had praised it non-stop. Shao Shuangshuang had never imagined there were so many rich people. The green liquid, priced at ten thousand yuan a bottle, was bought without as much as a blink.

Jiang Ning went to the kitchen, activated the Magic Formation, and used the Spiritual Power to guide the medicinal herbs into the Array, which then began extracting the essence from the herbs on its own.

He injected a stream of Spiritual Power, enough to sustain the Spirit Array for an hour.

Jiang Ning pulled Xue Yuantong out of the house. After spending a week in the hospital, Xue Yuantong appeared to have visibly lost a couple of pounds.

Arriving at the market, Jiang Ning bought some beef, ribs, and selected a few vegetables. When Xue Yuantong offered to pay, Jiang Ning didn't let him.

Back home, Jiang Ning found that his iPhone 5S was out of power. Cellphones these days had generally small battery capacities and slow charging speeds.

It wasn't until the following year that the OPPO manufacturer rolled out the slogan “Charge for five minutes, talk for two hours”, that charging began to gain attention from all the big manufacturers.

However, the iPhone's perennially frustrating ‘five blessings and one security' charger persisted for several years.

Jiang Ning pondered if he could charge his phone using the Divine Thunder Body Refining Technique he was cultivating, which could induce an electric current at any time.

He believed that by adjusting the power of the electric current around his body to match the phone's battery charging standards, then outputting a steady current, he should be able to charge the phone.

Since Xue Yuantong didn't get the chance to pay earlier, he was a bit downcast. Jiang Ning said:

“Help me prove a formula later, will you?”

“Sure thing!” Xue Yuantong's mood brightened, happy to be useful.

So, Jiang Ning spent the afternoon confirming a formula, which he named the ‘Yuan Er Formula.'

He handed the draft paper to Xue Yuantong: “Solve it using the table of formulas I gave you.”

And so, the ‘Yuan Er Formula' was officially established.

Inside the house, Jiang Ning sat on the chair, holding the iPhone 5S. Imitating the concept he had in mind, he stimulated electric power in his palm, directing the current toward the charging port.

The phone buzzed to life, its screen lit up, indicating it was charging.

Jiang Ning was very satisfied. Now he no longer had to worry about his phone running out of power.

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