Chapter 9: I Also Have a Golden Finger!
Yu Hui had just finished flaunting his authority, but then unexpectedly Wu Dahai picked up his big knife, stood up, and said in a cold tone: “There are over a hundred corpses here—if you want to stay behind to feed the wolves, I won’t stop you. Keep moving!”
“Commander Wu, I still have an arrow in my leg—it hurts…”
“Shut up! Don’t you old hag ever forget your status? You’re nothing but a criminal—where do all these demands come from? If you don’t want to go, then stay. I’ll report to the Emperor that you want to become a fugitive!”
Before the old matriarch could finish her protest, Wu Dahai’s icy shout startled her into complete silence. She shuddered and clamped her mouth shut, not daring to say another word.
Eventually, after the guards swept aside the corpses to clear a path, they pushed the carriage onward.
They raced along the road for forty or fifty li until they finally stopped at the edge of a village.
Inside the carriage, Yu Zhengqing had even removed an arrow from his mother’s leg—though the process was filled with the old lady’s agonized wailing that echoed all along.
When the group rested again, the three of them from the Yu family clearly noticed they were being treated differently.
“Thanks to Second Madam’s help, I barely managed to scrape by with my life. I may have no right to do much, but I can unlock the shackles on your feet—this will make your movements much easier.”
The three of them were overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly: “Commander Wu, thank you so much. Rest assured, we’ll fully cooperate and won’t cause you any trouble.”
As soon as Yu Luo finished speaking, just a few meters away by the campfire, Yu Yingying muttered resentfully: “Flattery!”
Yu Luo glared at her with a piercing, knife-like look!
Yu Yingying snorted coldly, then pulled out some pastries and dried meat that their maternal relatives had prepared, and began devouring them in large bites. Clearly, she intended to show off in front of Yu Luo, but Yu Luo merely withdrew her gaze with a look of ridicule.
“These are baked buns—and a roast chicken I bought from a town we passed by today. You three, take them and eat.”
Yu Yingying’s eyes nearly bulged when she saw the oil-paper-wrapped roast chicken that Wu Dahai handed to Yu Luo!
In an instant, she felt that the pastries and dried meat in her own hands suddenly lost all their appeal.
Before Yu Luo could react, Ye Jiamai snatched the roast chicken away from Wu Dahai, intending to return it to him: “What—what is this? Commander Wu, we appreciate your goodwill, but this… this is far too precious!”
Yu Luo swallowed hard; she truly wanted to snatch it back. Her mother, too—what time is it? Why are they still pretending to be polite? What if he really takes it back?
The system had collected many items, including meat and such—though they were just some smoked and cured meats—but she couldn’t just casually pull them out!
Seeing the three of them clearly wanting to eat yet too timid to accept, Wu Dahai simply stuffed the food into their arms.
With Wu Dahai’s leniency and that sumptuous dinner, the Yu family slept soundly all night.
Only Ye Jiamai, however, was suddenly awakened from her sleep. Half-awake, she found herself in an operating room. Everything here felt dreamlike, yet incredibly real.
Tentatively, she walked toward the side door of the operating room. When she pushed it open, the cold touch of stainless steel on her fingertips made her body freeze!
If one were dreaming, how could they feel anything? How could one feel the chill of a stainless steel door?
Stunned, Ye Jiamai reached out and pinched her own thigh! That pinch made her summon every ounce of strength—and the pain in her thigh surged, wracking her nerves so much that she furrowed her brow and gritted her teeth.
“Is this not a dream? It actually hurts?! Then where am I?”
While Ye Jiamai stood there, utterly puzzled, a mechanical voice rang out in the operating room.
[Congratulations, Ye Jiamai—you have been granted an operating room and a pharmacy.]
“Ah?! Are you my system? The same system as my daughter Xiao Luo? Does that mean I have one too?”
[Reply: No, I’m just Yu Luo’s system. Yu Luo just successfully completed a system mission, so this reward was given to her. And this operating room and pharmacy are much better suited for you—thus, the system has implanted them into your consciousness. Please make good use of this reward. I wish you a safe journey to the wild lands.]
With that, Yu Luo’s system voice completely vanished from the operating room.
Ye Jiamai looked around in astonishment and, filled with excitement, pushed open the stainless steel door. Inside the vast room, countless medicines were neatly arranged on shelves—far more abundant than in the pharmacy of a public hospital from her previous life.
Ye Jiamai felt her blood begin to boil with excitement; it was as if she had returned to her beloved post. Even facing the hardships ahead on the road of exile, she no longer felt any fear.
It was as if an invisible force was fortifying her inner strength!
Half-awake, she opened her eyes and reached out—but the place where her mother should have been was empty. “Father, where is Mother?”
Shaken by Yu Luo’s frantic shaking, Yu Haojie opened his eyes. Hearing Yu Luo’s words, he looked around, and suddenly his drowsiness vanished!
Hearing the surprised voices of father and daughter outside, Ye Jiamai, in one moment, stepped out of the hospital: “I’m here, so don’t shout.”
Fortunately, in her spare time, she had occasionally read transmigration novels. Now that there was no system reminder, she at least knew how to use the operating room.
Seeing Ye Jiamai appear seemingly out of nowhere, the father and daughter were shocked, their mouths agape! Then they quickly realized that others were not far off, and they hastily covered their mouths again!
At that moment, an excited Ye Jiamai, with not a trace of sleepiness, was eager—nearly unable to contain herself—to immediately show off her golden finger to her father and daughter! “I also have a golden finger now. I was inexplicably brought in. Xiao Luo, it was your system that told me! It was the reward from the system mission you accepted—your system has given this reward to me. Oh my god, do you know what my golden finger is?”
Fortunately, she still had some sense and deliberately lowered her voice. Even though she was so excited that she could barely control herself, her voice was as soft as a whisper. The Yu family, who had long looked down on her, were fortunately at least seven or eight meters away; this tiny voice was unlikely to alert them.
Seeing the joy in Ye Jiamai’s eyes, Yu Luo’s father and daughter joined in the celebration with laughter: “Golden finger? Mother, you have one too? That’s wonderful—seems like my system is pretty reliable, actually giving you a golden finger. So, what exactly is it?”
At this moment of excitement, having to deliberately lower their voices made all three feel incredibly stifled.
Ye Jiamai bit her lip and her eyes shone brightly: “It’s a medical facility—it’s a hospital! No, it’s a fully equipped operating room with every tool imaginable. Oh, and there’s also a huge pharmacy. If I take a medicine off the shelf, after five seconds it automatically replenishes. Do you know what that feels like? That sense of endless replenishment made me feel like I was about to strike it rich! Even if we end up in the wild lands, with my medical skills, I’ll have no trouble making a living—and I’ll take care of you all!”
