South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

After taking a sip of warm and slightly hot water, Yuan Mu suddenly felt better, as if all his cells had come alive again.

"Uncle Yuan, wait a minute, I'll call a doctor for you." With that, Ma Yan ran out of the ward and soon came hurriedly with a few doctors.

"Comrade Yuan Mu, how do you feel now?" a doctor asked.

"I feel fine, but my chest hurts a little." Yuan Mu shook his head.

"That's okay. You were shot in the chest. It's normal to feel some pain during the recovery period." The doctor nodded, then checked Yuan Mu from head to toe. Finally, he made sure that there was no problem and left with peace of mind.

"Yan Zi, why are you here?" After the doctor left, Yuan Mu looked at Ma Yan and said.

"You were shot and fainted, so you were sent to the hospital. We all knew about it later. It happened that I had nothing to do, my father had to go to work, and my mother had to take care of Ma Jian, so I came to take care of you. There were other people who came to take over at night." Ma Yan replied.

Yuan Mu nodded, then observed the situation in the ward. This was not an ordinary ward.

"Swallow, where am I now?"

"This is a military hospital. The ward you are staying in is a high-class ward. It is said that only generals and high-ranking officials are qualified to stay here."

"Then how did I get to live here?"

"I don't know about that, but the doctors and nurses here are very concerned about your condition. They come to see you almost every half an hour to see if you are awake."

Yuan Mu became even more confused. It was true that he was injured, but there was no need to take it so seriously, right?

It was soon time to get off work, and a lot of people came to the ward at once, all of them were people from the compound, including Lao Ma, Wang Xin, Wang Yongge, Uncle Cai, Aunt Cai, Cai Xiaonian, Uncle Lu, Aunt Lu, Niu Dali, Yao Yuling, Brother Wu, Sister-in-law Wu, and so on.

Everyone brought food and asked Yuan Mu about his well-being.

"Hey Xiao Mu, what were you thinking at that time? How dare you block the guy with a gun?" Brother Wu stood nearby with an incredible look on his face.

"Hey! What else can I think? I didn't think much about it at the time. Maybe it was out of a sense of mission. I didn't think too much and just blocked it." Yuan Mu smiled and shook his head.

"This is too dangerous. The doctor said that the bullet grazed your heart. If it had been a little off-center..." Mrs. Wu shook her head, but was interrupted by Old Brother Wu before she could finish.

"Tsk! Say something nice, I'm fine now!"

"Brother Mu, we missed this big scene. We were on another train at that time. Because of this incident, our train stopped directly in Chunlin. I heard that you directly killed two fugitives?" Wang Xin's eyes were full of stars.

"Oh, yes." Yuan Mu nodded.

"Oh, if only I were there, maybe I could have made some contribution or something." Wang Xin said regretfully.

"That's enough! What kind of merit do you want to achieve? Being well is better than anything else. Xiao Mu has become like this this time. Do you think it's easy to achieve merit?" Wang Yongge scolded immediately.

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At night, in Yuan Mu's ward, he was leaning against the pillow on the bed and smoking. The nurse didn't allow him to smoke but Yuan Mu smoked anyway. The main point was that he was disobedient.

Originally, the people in the compound wanted to leave someone behind to take care of Yuan Mu, but Yuan Mu politely declined. He was not disabled anymore, and except for a little pain in his chest, he had no other problems.

This time it was indeed dangerous, but the benefits were also not small. After this incident, I should at least get a second-class merit, right?

He killed two fugitives personally and saved a life, even though he was seriously injured. This contribution is obvious to all, but I don't know if he can be promoted to a full-time section chief as an exception?

However, what Yuan Mu is most worried about now is not this matter, but the college entrance examination. Seeing that the college entrance examination is approaching and he is injured, he doesn’t know if he will still be able to take the exam?

No matter what, he must take part in this exam, and then he can just leave the hospital and take the exam.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. Yuan Mu quickly put out the cigarette in his hand. As for the smell of cigarettes, that was not something he could control. When the nurse asked him about it, he would just say he didn't smoke. Who would know where the smell of cigarettes came from?

"Come in!"

The door opened and a man in his sixties appeared at the door. This man was Zhou Zhennan.

"Wait for me outside!" Mr. Zhou said to the guard behind him.

"Yes!"

"Young comrade, do you still recognize me?" Mr. Zhou walked in with a smile, holding a gift in his hand.

"It's you. Of course I remember you." Yuan Mu said with a smile.

At this time, Old Zhou sniffed and then smiled.

"Did you smoke just now?"

"Hi! I haven't smoked for several days. I'm craving for cigarettes again. I feel itchy if I don't smoke." Yuan Mu smiled but did not deny it.

"Come on, have a cigarette from mine!" Mr. Zhou sat directly on the chair next to Yuan Mu, then took out a box of cigarettes from his shirt pocket.

Yuan Mu had never seen this brand before and didn't know what kind of cigarette it was. He took the cigarette, smelled it, then lit it and took a puff. It tasted pretty good.

"Yeah, it's good. Where did you buy it?"

"These are all given to you by others. I gave them to you because you like to smoke them." As he said that, Mr. Zhou placed a whole box of cigarettes on Yuan Mu's bedside table.

"Okay, I won't be polite with you." Yuan Mu said with a smile.

"By the way, I haven't introduced myself to you yet. My last name is Zhou, Zhou Zhennan." Old Zhou smiled, but he was always looking into Yuan Mu's eyes.

When Yuan Mu heard the name, he felt confused for a moment. It seemed that there was no such person in his memory.

Zhou Zhennan looked at Yuan Mu's reaction and nodded with satisfaction. He had previously suspected that Yuan Mu stepped forward to block the bullet for him because he knew his identity, but now it seems that it is most likely not the case, and the other party probably does not know him.

In fact, he would be grateful even if someone knew him and took the bullet for him, but he was even more moved by the fact that someone he didn't even know took the bullet for him, which showed that Yuan Mu was a sincere person.

"If you don't mind, just call me Uncle Zhou." Old Zhou said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll call you Uncle Zhou." Yuan Mu said with a smile.

In fact, Yuan Mu can now vaguely sense that Zhou Zhennan's identity seems to be unusual, and the young man following him seems to be a guard. Could it be that Zhou Zhennan is a senior military officer or general?

"Xiao Yuan, can I call you that?"

"Of course." Yuan Mu nodded with a smile.

"Xiao Yuan, you risked your life to block the bullet, weren't you afraid of death?" Zhou Zhennan asked his question.

In fact, Zhou Zhennan doesn’t believe that there are people in this world who are not afraid of death, including himself. They just have faith in their hearts and are willing to die.