Published at 26th of March 2019 12:09 am

Chapter 22

Yin Jie and Yu Hua brought the breakfast.

“When we came, we happened to see Vice President Lin standing downstairs. He lets us bring up the porridge …… seems like the housekeeper cooked and sent it over here.” Yu Hua spoke while opening the Thermos.

Yin Jie poked her nose everywhere in the hospital room.

When she found out that I am alright, she was quickly set free from her guilt and looked excitedly around the room.

“Wow, Xi Guang, you are staying in a single room ah. Vice President Lin is very generous.”

Yu Hua was a lot more caring than her, sitting next to the hospital bed and looking at me eating porridge. While doing that, she was also worrying about the medical expenses: “It seems like our medical insurance will not reimburse this kind of single room, right?”

“Aiya, what are you worried about? Vice President Lin had already paid all the bills yesterday.” Yin Jie looked indifferent, “If it were not for the shouting and screaming of his woman friend, Xi Guang will not be frightened until fell down from upstairs. But Xi Guang, you must not blame Vice President Lin ah.”

Yu Hua asked out of curiosity: “How do you know she is his woman friend, not girlfriend?”

Yin Jie said disapprovingly: “You did not see that Vice President Lin looked so stern, so scary yesterday? Actually after Xi Guang fell down, I reckon that woman was scared witless. If she is his girlfriend, Vice President Lin will comfort her but in the end he did nothing. I heard that she seems to be his former classmate.”

Yin Jie walked to the front of my bed and said very seriously: “Xi Guang, in the future, don’t say Vice President Lin does not treat you well. When he sent you to the hospital yesterday, he handled everything by himself. It can be said that he proved himself to be a former doctor, very amazing. Before the ambulance came, he gave first aid to you, really awesome ah. Later, he lectured an intern in the hospital who is a little careless. He even told that person to change job earlier. Don’t be a doctor anymore, so as not to harm others as well as oneself. Aiya, I’ve never seen him so fierce, I was petrified.”

I also heard.

“Oh yeah, you also puked on people.”

……

This time I was immediately stunned.

My mind seemed to have a little recollection. It seemed that once when he woke me up, did I throw up on him right away?

“He even supported you with his hand to let you throw up on him. Otherwise you would have fallen down. Oh, by the way, I don’t know if his hand is injured because he held you with one hand only………Xi Guang ah, at that time when Vice President Lin rushed over, he sank to his knees …… ”

After having my breakfast, I sent Yin Jie and Ye Hua back to work since I was alright. Although there were some scratches on my legs and I have a little difficulty walking, it was no big deal. It was really not necessary for them to skip work to keep me company.

I thought of Lin Yu Sen.

Although if it were not for his friend’s blood-curdling screech, I would not have fallen down. However he has been taking care of me afterwards, even if his attitude…… not that friendly and so strange. Anyway should I still thank him?

I hesitated for a while, then searched for his mobile phone number.

For work purpose, I have always had his phone number but I have never contacted him. I struggled for a long time over the content of my text message before I sent a brief one over to him.

“Thank you for yesterday.”

There was no reply for a long time.

I thought for a moment, maybe he did not know whose number is this. I was going to send another text message to explain, but his very polite reply had already arrived: “You’re welcome”.

After returning politeness for politeness, I put down the phone. Seeing that it was not eight o’clock yet, I felt at ease to catch up on my sleep.

When I woke up from my nap, the phone next to my pillow was blinking incessantly. There was an unread message, so I opened it and unexpectedly it was from Lin Yu Sen.

“How are you now?”

I looked at the time, which was sent more than half an hour ago, so I quickly replied him: “I feel okay.”

He replied the text message promptly. “I will go and take a look soon.”

Huh?

I gripped the phone and felt at a loss for quite a while but have not decided how to reply yet. Then I heard a knocking sound on the door, following which Lin Yu Sen pushed open the door.

I looked foolishly at him.

“I happened to be downstairs.” He said that while standing in the doorway.

“Oh.”

He paused for a while before walking in. I wanted to sit up, but he stopped me, “Lie down la, you’d better stay in bed to rest more.”

“I feel all right.” I had better sit up a bit, while holding the quilt, “Well, I’m sorry. I heard Yin Jie said I puked on you yesterday.”

“Being a doctor, I am already used to it.”

He had already changed his clothes, returning to his usual clean and neat self once again. I still found it quite difficult to imagine what he looked like when he always got puked on by the patient …… I also thought of his hand, “Then your hand. Yin Jie said your hand seems injured …… ”

“It’s nothing.” He answered briefly.

The hospital room fell silent.

He looked at me and all of a sudden asked: “Nie Xi Guang, if I forget everything before this, how about you? The way I treated you before, shall also be forgotten?”

This was …… asking for a reconciliation?

I did a quick calculation in my heart. Previously, he called me to work all kind of overtime but I seemed to use my mental strength (?) to make him have a car accident …… Later his friend caused me to fall down from a building but I puked on him …… seem like they all evened out?

After I calculated carefully twice, I generously said: “I’ve never bear grudges.”

He looked at me deeply, and nodded: “That’s good.”

But ……

“Why did you all of a sudden ……” Want to reconcile?

“I’m afraid of you …… My greatest fear is people who are sick crying.” He abruptly turned a corner.

I was staring blankly at him and thinking was he trying to say he is afraid that I would cry? Even though he stopped …… I recalled the way I looked when I bawled yesterday. My face immediately felt burning hot and regretted that I asked him this question.

Fortunately, at this time a group of people in white coats pushed open the door and entered the room.

Time’s up for ward rounds.

The first to go in was a young doctor in his early thirties. The moment, he entered the room, he gave a big smile.

“Aiya, Dr. Lin, why are you still here? You did not sleep for the whole of last night, yet your physical strength is still so abundant today. You truly deserve to be known as the number one beast in our medical school during that time.”

“Come, come, come, let me introduce to everyone.” He spoke to a group of doctors behind him, “My junior schoolmate in university as well as when I studied aboard, Dr. Lin Yu Sen.”

“I heard of Dr. Lin! I searched for your published paper on brain stem tumor in baidu before.” A female doctor behind him, surprisingly held out her hand to greet Lin Yu Sen, “What a pity that when I went to your hospital for training last time, I heard you had already left the job. May I know where is Dr. Lin working now?”

Lin Yu Sen also held out his hand, but he appeared particularly reserved, in opposition to people’s enthusiasm, “I’ve stopped practicing medicine.”

The female doctor was stunned: “This, how can this be true?”

Lin Yu Sen said briefly: “To each his own.”

“OK, OK! We’ll talk about this later.” The young doctor interrupted them and turned his attention to me: “Are you the girlfriend of our Dr. Lin? How are you today? Do you feel any discomfort?”

“My colleague.” Before I have a chance to react, Lin Yu Sen had already said faintly.

“Oh, ha ha ha, I’ve made a mistake. Let’s get acquainted with each other, Nie Xi Guang, right? My surname is Fang and is your attending physician.” Dr. Fang asked me a few questions, flipped through my medical record and X-ray films, “Pretty good ah, you are very lucky, no problem …… ”

“There was vomiting and temporary loss of consciousness before. Although there is no problem with the X-ray, it is still better to stay in the hospital for further observation and review of the CT 48 hours later.” The speaker was Lin Yu Sen. He took the X-ray from Dr. Fang, took a quick look and said.

“Oh, that would be best.” The doctor in charge looked at me and smilingly said, “After all, you fell from such a high place, so as a safety measure, you had better stay in the hospital for a few days for observation.”

I nodded, and asked this a little unreliable looking doctor: “In that case, how many days do I need to stay?”

“About two weeks.”

The doctor in charge effortlessly said, then turned to ask Lin Yu Sen: “How?”

Lin Yu Sen did not change his expression when he gave back the X-ray to him: “You’re the doctor in charge.”

“Oh, is it? Then ……”

“Don’t waste valuable resources.”

“Don’t worry, this hospital room is often empty.”

Dr. Fang wrote a few lines on my medical record, then looked up and winked at me.

…… Why did I feel strange?

The doctors came and went away like the wind. The hospital room was quiet once again. I cast a puzzled look at Lin Yu Sen. He nodded and said straightway: “I’ll come again another day.”

Then hand inserted in the pocket, he also went away.

Leaving me to think deeply, why when I obviously can leap and frisk about soon, but still must stay in the hospital for two weeks?

I thought when Lin Yu Sen said he will come again another day, it was merely uttered out of politeness. Thus when I saw him the next morning, I was really very surprised. Probably my astonishment was too obvious because he looked unnatural for an instant.

However he regained his composure very fast, “Your doctor in charge is my old schoolmate. They have a surgery which is in my area of specialty. Hence they invited me to discuss about the surgical plan …… I come over to see you in passing.”

“Oh …… like this, then you don’t need to go to work?”

“I worked overtime until three o’clock yesterday.”

“Uh?”

“Then I applied for annual leave.”

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