"Is there something wrong?" Seeing that Ruby was hesitant to make a move, Patrick's originally closed eyes opened and looked at her suspiciously.
Ruby returned to her senses, collected the thoughts in her mind, twirled the silver needle in her hand, found the right place to place the needle, and quickly placed it.
The whole procedure lasted for two hours and after the needles were applied, Ruby was covered in sweat.
Ruby looked at the plum blossom birthmark for a long time before pulling the quilt to cover him up and taking the mobile phone out to make a call.
"Ruby, why do you have time to call Grandma?" On the other end of the phone, Grandma's old voice came through, with a very obvious joy within her tone.
"Grandma, the plum blossom birthmark on my body," As Ruby had just started to ask about the birthmark, she was interrupted by her grandmother.
"Oh, the plum blossom birthmark, that is the heritage of our family, as long as it is the bloodline of the Grant family, there will be on their bodies. You have it on your body, your mother also has it on her body, what's wrong?" Grandma was in good spirits when she talked about the old days, and only after a pause did she add, "When our family reaches this generation, there is only your grandfather's line left. Your grandfather and I have only one child, and your mother only has one child, so when you have a child, it will have plum blossom birthmark too."
"Is it? Is there something special about this plum blossom birthmark? Only the bloodline of the Grant family has it?" Ruby had not heard her grandmother mention these things in the past.
Since Nellie and Grandpa passed away, Grandma would rarely talk about these things.
"That's a sign of the Grant family’s bloodline, only a strong bloodline will result in the plum blossom birthmark. Why are you suddenly asking about it? Is there something wrong with the plum blossom birthmark on your body?" Grandma explained before she became a little worried.
"It's nothing, Grandma, I was just asking casually. I seem to have seen other people with plum blossom birthmarks." Ruby said perfunctorily.
"That's impossible, it's not possible, there won't be anyone else with this birthmark on them." Her grandmother rejected Ruby very firmly.
Ruby did not explain too much, and after a few words of concern for the old lady's health, she hung up the phone.
When she entered again, Patrick was awake and his face looked much better than before.
Seeing Ruby enter, he smiled at her and sat up from the bed, "I feel much better in spirit than before, thank you."
"It's just a trade of equals, you give me what I need and I'll cure you." Ruby put the phone away and replied. Originally she wanted to ask him about the birthmark, but she didn't for feeing it was impropriate.
"When is the next treatment time?" When Patrick saw Ruby said this, he didn't say anything else.
"Come back here after a week. I will give you a prescription, take three meals a day according to the prescription, and I will adjust the prescription after a week according to your health condition. Remember what I reminded you before, don't eat indiscriminately." Ruby said, walked over and took a pen and paper to write down the prescription and handed it to Patrick.
Patrick picked it up. Ruby's writing was pale, strong and wantonly scribbled, nothing like her well-behaved appearance.
He put the prescription away before nodding, "Okay, go to the private restaurant in the west of the city, I know."
After explaining what should be explained, Ruby sent Patrick out.
**
District 7, Levi's face was gloomy, Chester lowered his head, his face full of guilt: "I'm sorry Lev, it's me who didn't protect my men, they ......"
The injuries of these men were very serious to the core, and even with the excellent medical equipment here in District 7, they still could not be saved.
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