Chapter 516: 516: Lu Xinglan is moved (first update)
Chen Xiangtai had just sent Lu Xinglan away and was drawing blood from a patient when the alarm suddenly rang.
She hurriedly withdrew the needle from the patient’s arm.
A novice nurse who had never participated in a fire drill panicked, “What’s happening?”
“It’s the fire alarm,” Liu Piaopia, the head nurse, assessed imdiately. “Hurry, move the patients!”
In such a situation, except for patients who couldn’t survive without machines, all other patients needed to be safely evacuated.
The alarm urged everyone, and amidst the panic, dical staff professionally and orderly arranged for patient evacuation. Within ten minutes, the evacuation was complete.
In the cold winter, Liu Piaopia was sweating profusely. After arranging her departnt’s patients, she finally relaxed and gathered her nurses to count heads.
One was missing.
Liu Piaopia shouted, “Xiangtai.”
She called out again, “Chen Xiangtai!”
“I’m here!” Chen Xiangtai erged, supporting a patient who had just had their stomach pumped, squeezing through the family mbers.
Liu Piaopia helped her move the patient to a gurney, then finally had a mont to ask, “Are you okay?”
Chen Xiangtai shook her head. “Is there a fire sowhere?”
“The underground parking lot.”
Chen Xiangtai looked puzzled.
Liu Piaopia explained, “The parking lot has a storage area, right? Yesterday, that trouble-making family mber disguised as a staff mber brought in two cans of gasoline. Luckily, the security booth caught it early enough to sound the alarm for both dical staff and patients to evacuate first.” The parking lot was built on the ergency building’s subfloor, and the escape area was behind the inpatient departnt, about two hundred ters apart. Liu Piaopia stood on tiptoe, looking out, “I don’t know how it is over there. If it really caught fire, with so many cars, it might even cause an explosion.”
Chen Xiangtai was very anxious. “What about the people in the parking lot? Did they all co up?”
“I don’t know,” Liu Piaopia noticed her craning her neck to look around and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Mr. Lu just went to the parking lot.”
She hadn’t seen Lu Xinglan anywhere, so she climbed onto the stone by the fountain pool, stretching her neck and looking around. Her looking this way and that resembled a erkat that had lost its mother.
Liu Piaopia could only comfort her, “Don’t worry, he’ll co out when he hears the alarm.”
Chen Xiangtai was still very worried.
She shouted, “Mr. Lu!”
In the crowd, several “Mr. Lu” turned around, but none was the one she was looking for.
She jumped down from the stone and walked into the crowd, “Lu Xinglan.”
“Lu Xinglan.”
This was the first ti Chen Xiangtai had shouted Lu Xinglan’s na.
“Lu Xinglan!”
“Lu Xinglan!”
The crowd was noisy and bustling; no one responded to her.
Outside the crowd, the security had drawn a cordon. Chen Xiangtai’s eyes were fixed on that spot.
Liu Piaopia imdiately saw her intention and grabbed her, “Where are you going?”
The normally timid and honest girl was now daring, “I need to go and check.”
Liu Piaopia thought soone must have pushed her earlier, “Why would you go there?”
“I’m afraid he’s fallen asleep and didn’t hear it.” She reached out to pry Liu Piaopia’s fingers, “And his back isn’t good; he can’t run.”
Liu Piaopia grabbed her with both hands, “He has a driver, doesn’t he?”
What if Old Tan couldn’t wake him and ran off by himself… Could she ignore the life and death of soone who had shown her kindness? She couldn’t, she was determined, “No, I need to go and see.”
Clearly, her mind was squeezed.
Liu Piaopia was stern, “You don’t care about your own life? You must not go!”
She was also fierce, “Head nurse, stop pulling !”
Liu Piaopia tried to pull her.
Chen Xiangtai got angry, “If you keep pulling , I won’t associate with you anymore!”
“…”
This silly girl!
Liu Piaopia was speechless and didn’t let go, “Go be with whover you want!” Go be with your Mr. Lu!
Chen Xiangtai’s head hung down, wearing an expression that read “Fine, fine, I can’t deal with you,” and she sighed, looked up, and called out, “Director.”
Liu Piaopia imdiately turned around.
Chen Xiangtai took the opportunity to slip away.
This clever trickster, where did her usual foolishness go? Liu Piaopia was furious, stomping her foot and bellowing, “Chen Xiangtai, get back here!”
But she didn’t listen and ran away swiftly.
Liu Piaopia cursed her, calling her a fool.
The fool kept running and shouting, “Lu Xinglan!”
“Lu Xinglan!”
“Lu Xinglan!”
“…”
She called out all the way, but no one responded. She thought to herself that Mr. Lu must be sleeping downstairs. Old Tan has no conscience, Old Tan is a pig head! She cursed in her mind.
She had almost reached the security barrier, and just ahead was the Ergency Building. She tugged at her hair in frustration, then charged toward the entrance of the parking lot.
“Lu Xing—”
She had just dashed out when soone grabbed her from behind.
“What are you calling for?”
It was about to snow, and the wind was strong. The noisy clamor was blown far behind, and yet his voice thundered in her ears.
Oh, so his voice was also very pleasant.
Chen Xiangtai turned around, her eyes red, nearly in tears, “I thought you didn’t co up.”
Lu Xinglan looked at her, silent for a long while.
His hypersomnia wasn’t typical; the doctor had developed a special dication that could temporarily stimulate his nerves and make him hyperactive. This strange girl had also turned his emotions peculiar—a feeling he couldn’t quite describe, but similar to how he felt when he took his dication.
Seeing him silent, Chen Xiangtai asked, “Did you co up here by yourself?”
He was sowhat distracted, “Mm.”
Old Tan didn’t actually carry him up. Old Tan, that pig head!
“Does your back hurt?”
He didn’t respond but reached out to straighten her crooked nurse’s cap.
Not only hyper, he was also feverish.
He continued to stare at her.
Thinking he found it hard to speak, Chen Xiangtai grabbed his hand and placed it on her shoulder, “I’ll support you.”
His fever symptoms intensified, and he felt uncomfortable and unnaturally bent down, his hand loosened then tightened, but not pulling away, resting on her shoulder, “…Mm.”
Chen Xiangtai, at 1.6 ters tall, had a slender fra and was quite petite, “Mr. Lu.”
Lu Xinglan humd in response.
“I feel that we are closer now.” She tilted her head, looking at him with hopeful eyes, “Can you give your WeChat?”
“Mm.”
At that mont, he was very much like how he was when he just woke up—good-natured, like a squishy rice dumpling, soft wherever she pressed.
Unable to resist, Chen Xiangtai pushed her luck further, “Then can you say one more thing to ?”
“What is it?”
She mimicked the tone of the nobleman outside the slide from that year, “Behave, co here.”
“…” Lu Xinglan pressed down his curled up lips, “I can’t.”
So foolish, what if she gets bullied outside?
That thought suddenly crossed his mind.
Chen Xiangtai: “Oh.”
Her head lowered, she grinned: Even if you don’t say it, I know it’s you, my nobleman~
Where did Old Tan go?
Old Tan hadn’t run off first; when Mr. Lu said he felt sleepy, the diligent Old Tan went to fetch a sleeping stretcher for him, but when he returned, he couldn’t find Mr. Lu anymore.
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