Chapter 75: “A Country Woman, Better at Surgery Than the Hospital Director? How Is That Possible!”

Especially since Sheng Zexi was a soldier, with such keen insight, observation, and judgment.

She knew that sooner or later, Sheng Zexi would find out.

But she wasn’t going to tell him herself.

Even though she knew Sheng Zexi loved her, after everything she’d been through in her previous life, Gu Jianing still couldn’t bring herself to trust him completely—not enough to reveal her secret, especially the fact that she’d been reborn.

Maybe, only when Sheng Zexi noticed something was off and came to ask her, would she consider telling him.

Sheng Zexi gazed at Gu Jianing for a long time before finally looking away. He took her hand in his and said, “Alright, I believe you.”

Gu Jianing smiled, secretly letting out a sigh of relief.

The next morning, Sister Yu and Cui Bin, who had taken leave from work, arrived. With them were their two sons, both tall teenagers of 14 and 13, who were in middle school.

The boys attended a nearby school, and since it was Saturday, and their mother had told them today was the day their father would have surgery on his leg, of course they had to come.

Gu Jianing locked the door, slung her homemade toolbox over her shoulder, and followed them to the military hospital.

Since it was a surgery—not just acupuncture—it was best to use a proper operating room.

And in the military compound, only the military hospital had one.

After Gu Jianing made her request, Cui Bin pulled some strings and managed to borrow the operating room for two hours.

He’d gotten the operating room, but since Gu Jianing had said she didn’t want anyone else to know, Cui Bin hadn’t told anyone the real reason for borrowing it.

As Gu Jianing followed the Cui family to the military hospital, they ran into quite a few people along the way.

Most of them had never seen Gu Jianing before, and were surprised to see such a beautiful woman in the military family compound.

After hearing the recent rumors, they all started guessing that this pretty girl must be Captain Sheng’s wife—the one everyone had been talking about.

Soon, they arrived at the hospital. Gu Jianing put on a white coat and mask in the operating room, and went in with the prepared Cui Bin. The door slowly closed behind them.

“Huh, who’s that?”

“Is someone having surgery?”

Not far away, just as the operating room door was closing, Peng Wenjing happened to walk by and caught a glimpse.

The doctor was wearing a mask, but her eyes were strikingly beautiful. Still, Peng Wenjing was sure she’d never seen this doctor before.

Besides, weren’t there no scheduled surgeries in the operating room today?

With suspicion in her heart, Peng Wenjing went to ask the person in charge of the operating room. She learned that the hospital didn’t need the OR today, but a Captain Cui Bin had borrowed it for two hours.

Cui Bin?

The name sounded familiar to Peng Wenjing.

Thanks to her good memory, she quickly recalled who he was.

Cui Bin, a captain, had injured his leg on a mission years ago, hit by shrapnel. But because the shrapnel was close to a major artery, surgery with current medical technology would be very risky, so they’d chosen conservative treatment.

He’d been treated conservatively for years, but at his last checkup, the results weren’t good.

If he didn’t have surgery soon, no amount of conservative treatment would help—his leg would be ruined, and he wouldn’t be able to stay in the army. He’d have to retire.

“So why did Captain Cui borrow the operating room? Could it be that he found someone to operate on him?”

Thinking of the woman in the white coat who went in with them, the more Peng Wenjing thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

“Nurse Peng, you guessed it!” Suddenly, a voice sounded behind her.

Peng Wenjing turned around and saw it was an old lady—she remembered this was Mrs. Li, whose son was also a captain.

Mrs. Li was notorious for loving to gossip about other people’s business.

From the way Mrs. Li was talking, could it be…

“Mrs. Li, do you know who’s doing the surgery for Captain Cui?” Peng Wenjing asked.

“Of course I know. My family lives right next door to the Cuis.” Both families were neighbors in the same apartment block, and the walls were thin. Though Mrs. Li was old, her hearing was excellent, and she loved to eavesdrop.

As Mrs. Li hesitated, Peng Wenjing took a few candies from her pocket and slipped them into the old lady’s hand.

“Mrs. Li, if you know, please tell me.”

Mrs. Li immediately pocketed the candies and started talking. “You know Captain Sheng Zexi’s wife, the one everyone’s been talking about in the compound lately?”

Of course Peng Wenjing knew.

When that woman first came with Brother Sheng, everyone in the compound said she was ugly, her face covered in pockmarks, too ashamed to go out, and that she’d schemed to marry Brother Sheng.

But recently, the rumors had changed.

Now they said she wasn’t ugly at all, but a great beauty—so beautiful that even the performers in the art troupe couldn’t compare.

This time, many people had seen her with their own eyes, so it couldn’t be fake.

They even said Captain Sheng married her because she was so beautiful, like a fairy, and that even a hero couldn’t resist a beauty.

Peng Wenjing was furious when she heard those rumors.

She wanted to rush to the compound herself to see what that woman really looked like!

A country woman—she absolutely didn’t believe she was some kind of fairy, and Brother Sheng wasn’t that shallow.

But what did this have to do with that country woman?

Soon, Mrs. Li cleared up her confusion.

“I heard that Captain Sheng’s wife knows medicine, and this time, she borrowed the operating room to operate on Cui Bin’s leg!”

“What?!”

Peng Wenjing couldn’t stay calm after hearing that.

“Mrs. Li, are you serious?”

“Of course, I heard it with my own ears.”

“This is ridiculous! Captain Cui’s leg couldn’t even be operated on by our hospital director—the one known as the best surgeon. And now he’s trusting some country woman to do it? Is he tired of living?”

“A country woman, better at surgery than the hospital director? How is that possible!”

A country woman, probably illiterate, how could she possibly know medicine, let alone perform surgery? That Captain Cui must have been fooled!

But they were already in the operating room. Peng Wenjing could just imagine—when they came out, Captain Cui might not even be alive."