Chapter 456 - Sick Bed (2/2)
Zhang Heng put away the post-it note. “Let’s go,” he said.
The three slipped out of the office again, and Han Lu still seemed a little excited while they were on the way to the ward, probably intrigued by the way that she knocked the man out. The fatigue on her face had been reduced as well. After a while, they pa.s.sed the nurses’ station. At the moment, the hospital was short-staffed, and all nurses were all busy with their tasks, so there was n.o.body to notice them when they pa.s.sed it. Zhang Heng followed the signs and found w.a.n.g Shuangshuang’s ward. According to the patient management system records, w.a.n.g Shuangshuang was 13 years old this year, and she should be in junior high. Her cla.s.smates were all in school, but the girl could only lie on the hospital bed with her schoolbag lying silently on the bedside table. A woman who seemed to be her mother sat by her bedside.
Zhang Heng looked at Fan Meinan. She was carefully observing them through the window for a long time. She then shook her head. “It can’t be her. Her appearance might change, but the way a mother looks at her daughter can’t be faked.”
“We’ve found the target now. What should we do next?” Han Lu asked.
“Good question. It seems like my sister hasn’t found it yet. We should find a less conspicuous spot and wait for her to show up,” Fan Meinan replied. “Well? Any suggestions?” she turned to ask Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng did not answer in a hurry, only answering after a while. “This is a twin-bedded ward. Who is the patient next to her bed?”
To maintain the patients’ privacy, a curtain acted as a part.i.tion in the middle of the room. Since it was drawn, it was impossible to look at the other bed from the window.
“About this… I’m afraid I’ll have to ask the nurse before we can know,” Fan Meinan said.
“Forget it. I’ll go in and take a look myself,” replied Zhang Heng. He then walked into a ward next to him. A nurse had just pushed the medicine cart in. She quickly bent over, tied a rubber tube around the patient’s wrist before applying some iodophor on the back of the patient’s hand.
While the nurse was concentrating on treating the patient in front of her, Zhang Heng quietly sneaked out a bottle of Levofloxacin, a pair of syringes, and two infusion stickers from the cart. He took the syringe apart by removing the needle, and once that was done, he put it on the back of his hand and stuck an IV infusion sticker on it.
He connected the other end with the Levofloxacin, held it, and pretended to walk into the wrong ward. He walked into w.a.n.g Shuangshuang’s ward without paying attention to the girl and her mother near the door. Zhang Heng lowered his head and drew the curtains open.
To make it seem as if he’d entered the ward by mistake, Zhang Heng put on a stunned expression. He took the opportunity to look at the patient on the bed next to w.a.n.g Shuangshuang. He found an elderly old man who was asleep, and his wife sitting next to him on the visitors’ chair. She was peeling an apple, and when she saw Zhang Heng, she was taken aback.
Zhang Heng apologized to the grandmother, drew the curtains shut, and walked out of the ward.
“How did it go?” asked Fan Meinan. Zhang Heng tore off the infusion sticker from his hand and threw the syringe and levofloxacin into the trash can next to the bathroom.
“I’m not sure, but the patient next to w.a.n.g Shuangshuang doesn’t look right to me. It shouldn’t be bedtime now. Even if the old man is a deep sleeper, he should have woken up during the infusion. I saw his IV infusion bottle. The bottle was new, and the drip just started. The wife, knowing that her husband has fallen asleep, is still peeling the apple. She looks suspicious to me as well..”
But as Zhang Heng walking, he saw a nearby woman in a hospital gown holding a thermos flask secretly watching them not far away. When Zhang Heng looked at her, she instantly threw away the flask in her hand and bolted toward the stairs.