Chapter 88 (1/2)

With Wang Feng around, it was much more convenient for them at the hospital. His mother was the director of the Department of Internal Medicine, so almost all of the doctors in the Internal Medicine Department knew who he was. He Nuo took a blood test and a urine test, but he wasn’t even willing to use a thermometer. When his front and back was being checked with a stethoscope, the doctor had to reach underneath his clothes to do it because he wasn’t willing to take his clothes off. The doctor even joked about how shy a big boy like him was.

After all the tests came back, the doctor turned stern and reviewed He Nuo’s medical history. He asked He Nuo many questions, and especially inquired about the events that occurred right before and after his first hematuria in detail. He Nuo wasn’t willing to talk about it in front of Shi Yan, so he asked Shi Yan and the rest to wait for him outside. After that, He Nuo told the doctor that the earliest cause was probably the cold weather; he recounted the piercingly cold snow in his memories, his legs that were so badly frozen it went numb and how two of his toe nails had even been frozen off.

Internal 2 and Internal 3 were linked. Shi Yan and Wang Feng stood behind the screen of Internal 2 as they listened to He Nuo’s calm narration of his condition. Wang Feng himself couldn’t stay calm, but when he looked at Shi Yan, a chill suddenly surged through his heart. He quickly pushed him, “Go to my mum’s office and give Ah Song (Qiu Linsong) a call. Prescribe all the medicine for He Nuo later under his family’s name ba, his mum is in charge of the reimbursement of medical fees in the finance department.

Shi Yan left, because he understood his friend’s intentions, and because he would definitely get He Nuo to tell him the truth about his life in the village. Thus, he plodded towards the office. When he returned, He Nuo had gone to the toilet again while Wang Feng was waiting for the doctor to prescribe He Nuo’s medication. He was filling in the patient’s name and unit now. Shi Yan told the doctor about Qiu Linsong’s mother’s name and company, then he wrote the amount to be paid on the prescription and took the medicine.

Wang Feng brought He Nuo to the ward in the inpatient department that his mother was in charge of. Mama Wang had arranged an empty ward for He Nuo. The original outpatient doctor asked him to stay in the hospital for further treatment, but He Nuo refused. If he stayed in the hospital, his parents would be alarmed and his studies would be delayed too. So after Wang Feng discussed it with the doctor, they prescribed him all the medicine for his infusions first, then he would undergo the infusion in his mother’s ward every day from now on. Shi Yan brought the medicine over, then Mama Wang brought it to the nurse’s station to account for it. But He Nuo wasn’t in the ward — he had gone to the toilet again. Shi Yan met the He Nuo who was walking back slowly in the corridor.

When He Nuo saw how everyone was revolving around him as they served him like this, he felt extremely uneasy and perturbed. Shi Yan took off his thick coat and helped him lie down on his side, then took off He Nuo’s shoes for him. When he realised that Shi Yan was taking care of him like this in front of Wang Feng, he wanted to get up in a rush to do all of it by himself. Shi Yan pressed him back down before turning around to say to Wang Feng, “Get a bottle over ba. If he goes out again after he’s taken his clothes off, he’ll catch a cold again.”

Wang Feng had already thought of that just now, but he was afraid that He Nuo would be embarrassed so he didn’t mention it. And now, he went out to get a bottle.

The nurse came over rather quickly and was holding a skin test needle — apparently there would penicillin in the solution1. Shi Yan didn’t bother to look at it just now, but now he was looking at He Nuo’s medical report. There were a bunch of illegible words written on it in a handwriting unique to that of doctors, but he could vaguely discern it: acute urinary tract infection. Shi Yan walked over to Wang Feng and suppressed his voice to ask, “You did the diagnosis?”

“I’m not a doctor.” Wang Feng said awkwardly, but Shi Yan kept staring at him so he had to continue, “The doctor said that the treatment is all the same, we need to stop the bleeding first.”

After the nurse went out, Qiu Linsong actually came in. He looked at He Nuo who had half his sleeve rolled up as he waited for the reaction of the skin test, then looked at He Nuo, “Wasn’t he fine last night? He needs to be on a drip for a fever? How high is his fever?”

“Why are you here?” Wang Feng interrupted.