"When you go, do your best, don’t embarrass our village..."
"Eat well and drink well, take care of your body. Your boss isn’t stingy, if there’s food, eat more, don’t wear yourself out!"
"Brother Hongqi, good luck!"
Watching the elderly and the young from the village all follow him to the village entrance, each speaking whether he listened or not, Yang Hongqi carried his bag and tried to keep a smile: "Then I’m really leaving!"
"Go, go, go, get on the car quickly, go!" His dad waved his hand. "Don’t be so wishy-washy!"
"When work isn’t busy, go out and see the world. If you et a girl you both like, bring her back, huh?!?" This was Yang Hongqi’s mom repeating the sa advice throughout New Year.
"Hmm!" Yang Hongqi nodded to his parents, then to the villagers, and climbed onto the tractor—a special ride to take him to the bus stop.
A few steps away was the newly built elentary school at the village entrance. The young man driving the tractor shouted: "Brother Hongqi, if you had left a few days later, it would’ve been better. Let tell you, the two teachers who ca to the town this ti are really good-looking. They heard you funded the construction of the new school and admire you so much..."
Yang Hongqi smiled and kept silent, considering his mom’s words in his heart. Should he find a wife?
But he quickly made up his mind, to wait until the research was successful before saying anything. It wouldn’t take long anyway. The boss said it had to be kept secret, and he feared if he found a wife, he might inadvertently say sothing at ho. If he ran into a big-mouthed woman, it would be troubleso.
This ti Yan Fei gave him a holiday until the fifteenth of the Lantern Festival. mbers of Liu JinXue’s family all went to Sancha River for the New Year. The experint had already reached a certain stage, and actually having one person watching over it was enough. But Yang Hongqi felt it was ti for him to learn and couldn’t afford to delay.
...
While his thoughts were flying on the tractor, Yan Fei was also driving with his wife speeding onto the highway to the Capital.
Yan Fei was very pleased. Originally, The Fifth Young Master Guo said he was going, too. Unfortunately, after the New Year, his family thought he had perford well before and prepared to give him sothing to do for practice. This shattered his ’sleep star dream’ completely, so he had to give up this trip to Arica.
Going out alone with his wife, Yan Fei had already started planning so unspeakable things.
Xu Xiaoyan didn’t notice the sowhat ambiguous smile on his face and asked worriedly beside him: "We don’t understand the hospital matter! If the county gives us the health clinic, what do you plan to do afterward?"
Yan Fei snapped out of his wild thoughts and casually said: "I still know the old dean, he’s a decent person. Let him be in charge, find a few capable doctors, and get so good equipnt, everything would be complete. As for those ineffective fake doctors and nurses, we’ll find them sothing to do on the farm. If there’s really nothing they can do, then I don’t plan to keep parasites."
"You’re going to offend a lot of people." Xu Xiaoyan muttered.
"If I don’t offend them, who knows how many villagers they’ll cheat." Yan Fei got angry when he ntioned it. "It’s just a small lousy health clinic, and there are barely any good doctors. I don’t even know where so many people drawing salaries ca from. Keeping them is just conning the villagers."
"That’s true enough, then I won’t worry about it. Anyway, I support whatever you do." Xu Xiaoyan nodded. "It’ll take a while to get there, shall I drive for a bit?"
"No need..."
...
This whole hospital conversation was still about that lousy health clinic in the town. Calling it lousy wasn’t an exaggeration, it used to feel lousy, and now it’s getting worse.
Yesterday, Yan Fei’s uncle Lin Xiuqing, who is also Lin Haihu’s dad, suddenly had a pain in his lower back. When he went to see Doctor Old He, he said it might be kidney stones, suggesting they go to the clinic for an ultrasound.
Once in the clinic, magical things began to happen.
Lin Xiuqing lay down on the small bed next to the machine. The young doctor conducting the ultrasound skillfully applied gel on him, then scanned his stomach with the probe and said: "You need to drink more water, it’s not clear enough."
Without saying a word, Lin Xiuqing got up and started gulping down from a large tea mug.
Gulping down two large mugs, he endured the pain and waited for nearly an hour before lying down again.
The young doctor reapplied the gel, yes, the sticky transparent stuff that felt like mucus, then started scanning again, sweping for a long ti: "Um, you’ll have to wait a bit longer, still not enough urine."
Lin Xiuqing continued enduring the pain while holding it in.
Only those who’ve had stones know how deadly painful these things can be. Lin Xiuqing was usually tough and durable, never making a sound when he got bruises or bumps from work, but from the start of the pain till now, his clothes were already soaked in cold sweat, and his face was ghostly pale.
But since the doctor asked him to wait, he had no choice but to keep waiting.
Until he really couldn’t take it, he couldn’t help but suggest to the doctor: "I really can’t hold it anymore, why don’t you check again?"
The young doctor nodded: "Alright, it’s almost ti, get up here!"
And then...
When Lin Xiuqing was woken up from his dazed nap, he didn’t know how much ti had passed—he never had stone pain before, so he didn’t know kidney stone pain was deadly. But if you drank more water and held in enough urine, sotis, if you were lucky, it just wouldn’t hurt.
Lin Xiuqing had held in urine waiting until the pain subsided. As soon as his body relaxed, plus the fact that he stayed up late last night, he even dozed off while lying there.
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