Chapter 75: Family’s Clinic
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
*Swish*
*Swish swish*
The sky just turned bright. The sound of soone sweeping the courtyard could be heard.
Ling Ran turned over and woke up. He thought, ‘Did dad sleep on the sofa last night? He woke up so early.’
He washed his face and rinsed his mouth on the first floor before he changed his clothes and went downstairs. He saw that the pavent had been swept until it was squeaky clean. Even the drain next to the pavent had been washed with water. Not far away, there was a slim figure at the junction who was giving it his all while sweeping the floor…
A slim figure?
Ling Ran spent a great deal of effort to recall Ling Jiezhou gradually getting fatter as he aged. He was puzzled. Could it be that soone in the neighborhood went mad?
“Doctor Ling, hello.”
Huang Maoshi, who was cleaning, heard the sound of the door unlocking, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If Ling Ran still had not co out, his waist would soon break.
In the face of Ling Ran’s puzzled look, Huang Maoshi smiled and said, “I bought so deep-fried dough sticks, soymilk, and tofu pudding. I don’t know if you like them or not but I also brought so other snacks. They’re just in the basket by the door, I’ll take them in.”
Huang Maoshi picked up the broom and ran over. He picked up a bamboo basket from the bluestone slab next to the gate of Lower Groove Clinic. Breakfast was neatly prepared in the bamboo basket. From the appearance of the outer packaging, Huang Maoshi should have purchased this at the end of the street, and the amount was enough for five or six people.
Ling Ran was stunned. He looked at Huang Maoshi with a considerable amount of surprise. Although he often received gifts, such a scrumptious and huge gift was relatively rare. In general, if girls were to send food, they would send branded food, imported food, so traditional delicacy, or homade food. Gifting soone deep-fried dough sticks purchased from the giftee’s own alley… Boys… Boys really did not know how to give gifts.
“I represent the company in thanking you for your support.” Huang Maoshi recalled the contents of his sales course. He carefully said, “I’m here today to help you do so errands.”
“Hello.” Ling Ran looked uncertainly at the man.
He rembered that Huang Maoshi, the pharmaceutical sales representative of Changxi dical Company, seed a bit off in the head and that he only knew how to grin like an idiot.
Huang Maoshi kept his smile and said, “Doctor Ling, you recently purchased a lot of consumables from our company. Although they were all purchased under Departnt Director Huo’s na, we still know which of the products he purchased belong to you. Hence, we still give you our thanks. My arrival here is nothing special today. We would just like to express our appreciation for your…”
Huang Maoshi had gradually adapted to the work of a pharmaceutical sales representative. He especially learned the skills of how to give a deep laugh in front of female clients and a superficial laugh in front of male clients.
Even though he no longer enjoyed the glorious life of being on the runway, Huang Maoshi thought that being a pharmaceutical sales representative was more suitable for him. He did not want to work in a field that relied on youthful looks and would rather maintain so of his personal dignity.
Huang Maoshi looked at the confused Ling Ran. He then chuckled and said, “Your courtyard is really tidy and clean.”
“Oh, please co in, you can sit in the middle.” Ling Ran finally understood what he was trying to say and politely led him to the stone table in the middle of the courtyard.
Huang Maoshi put the broom beside the door and carried the big basket inside. He exchanged a few pleasantries as he put the food on the table. By the ti Ling Jiezhou and Tao Ping arrived downstairs, Huang Maoshi was already completely familiar with the Ling Family’s kitchen. He not only boiled the milk, he also fried so eggs.
Tao Ping could not help but hesitate as she looked at the food on the table and watched Huang Maoshi busy himself in the kitchen. She said stiffly, “Young Ran, the ones who used to co to our house to help with the cooking were usually beautiful girls. In fact, the girl who ca last ti even prepared a whole fish. She’s not bad, just a little self-centered…”
Ling Jiezhou imdiately heard the distress in Tao Ping’s voice. He could not help but laugh. “My dear wife, what are you thinking? This person here is a pharmaceutical sales representative. He ca to our house to give gifts because Ling Ran is a doctor. You’re overthinking this.”
“It’s not what I think it is?”
“Yeah, this person is like the pharmaceutical sales representative who often cos to our clinic. Rember that one? He often sends infusion bags and helps us with the chores…”
“You’re looking at this with the wrong mindset.”
“Huh?” Ling Jiezhou was stunned for a few seconds. He was suddenly a little fearful.
After Ling Ran ate the deep-fried dough sticks in his hand, he clapped his hands and said, “I’m going to the hospital now.”
“Doctor Ling, Doctor Ling.” Huang Maoshi, who had just brought out so soup from the kitchen, quickly called out to Ling Ran. “You’re thinking about going to the hospital to continue performing surgeries, right?”
“Of course.” Ling nodded.
“I forgot to say tell you just now. Departnt Director Huo told to inform you that because the ward is full, today’s surgery is best delayed until tomorrow. When so patients in the hospital are discharged tomorrow, so beds will be freed, then you can continue to perform surgeries with the M-Tang technique.” Huang Maoshi wiped his hands on the apron, looking like a househusband.
“There are no beds…” It only ca to Ling Ran’s mind that the thirteen patients whom he perford the M-Tang technique on in one breath did not seem to be discharged yet. That would an half of the patients in the Ergency Departnt’s observation room were his own patients.
Then, he rembered that there were five other treatnt groups in the Ergency Departnt. The departnt had to have taken asures to begin adding beds.
“Hospital Director Zhou has agreed to create another operating theater. They’re modifying a room that’s already in the departnt. As soon as they put the bed and other things inside, and connect the ventilation system, everything will be good to go.” Huang Maoshi chuckled and said, “The renovation just started this morning. It’ll be ready in a few days.”
Needless to say, this project was also handed over to the Changxi dical Company.
Ling Ran was not concerned about that. He just instantly felt bored because he could not go to the hospital to perform operations.
Perhaps Ling Jiezhou saw through Ling Ran, perhaps he wanted to avoid having his mindset being altered by his wife, or perhaps it was purely out of stinginess, but Ling Jiezhou called out to Ling Ran, “Don’t go to the hospital, just help out at ho. There are more patients in our family’s clinic now, and there are patients sent by Golden Deer Health Services Pte Ltd who need so suturing. Let make a call and ask Doctor Miao not to co.”
“Who is Doctor Miao?” Ling Ran asked.
“He’s a part-ti doctor who specializes in suturing. He also knows how to perform absorbable sutures.” Ling Jiezhou proudly put up two fingers. He then said, “Only for this much.”
“Two thousand a month?” Ling Ran thought. ‘Even cheaper than Doctor Xiong?’
Ling Jiezhou let out a gloomy sigh and said, “Two hundred a day. How can it be possible for any doctor to be hired for only two thousand? That salary’s too low.”
At this ti, Huang Maoshi ca out with a heated bowl of seaweed and egg soup. He smiled and said, “Our company wanted to hire a driver, and we still had to bargain his rate of 300 RMB per day.”
“You can’t compare this with that,” Ling Jiezhou thanked Huang Maoshi and asked him to sit down before he continued, “The number of jobs available for drivers is a lot, but how many places can doctors work part-ti, right? So, this is what we call market economy. The market determines the price.”
Huang Maoshi naturally did not know how to refute. He just nodded with a smile.
“In short, there’s no need for to give any wages to any doctors today. Ling Ran, you’ll be performing the sutures.” Ling Jiezhou rubbed his hands together and was very happy about it.
“I’m doing one operation for 500 RMB or more now.” Ling Ran calmly poured himself a bowl of soup.
Ling Jiezhou imdiately looked at Huang Maoshi, and the latter nodded slightly.
Ling Jiezhou was only caught by surprise for two seconds. He then laughed out loud and said ruefully, “Oh, when will our clinic be able to perform such surgery? Daddy will give you eight… six hundred for it.”
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