Chapter 106 Selfish Motive (1/2)
”My cousin is the person in charge of that airline whose airplane had crashed,” Wen said with a strange expression on her face as if she did not like to mention her cousin, ”Oh, it's Water Airline. Since their flight had such an incident, he would, of course, be very anxious; otherwise, he would not have sent them to our hospital. Besides, he is my grandfather's grandson, no wonder why he could persuade the two elderly to help him just by a phone call.
That explained everything. Hao Ning had thought that it was weird: even if Wen ran into an intractable medical problem, it should be the hospital to consult and seek help from related experts from other hospitals. However, only Wen's grandfather came to the ward that day and judging from his tone at that time, he was more like an advisor rather than an expert to resolve medical issues. It was clear now that inviting Wen's grandfather to the hospital was a personal behavior of Wen's cousin but not the hospital. But why would her cousin do that?
”Water Airline?” Just as Hao Ning was thinking, Long Fei who was following him sudden-ly spoke, ”There is a person in charge with the surname of Chen who is extremely su-perstitious, especially stingy, does not treat illness even when he is sick. Instead, he prefers to go to masters. Do you know him?”
”Err …” Wen looked at Long Fei strangely and smiled, ”Although I do not know who the person you are talking about is, but from your description, there is a great chance that he is my cousin. How do you know that?”
”Hey!” Long Fei laughed and said, ”This man had constantly sent his secretary to wor-ship in my Dragon God Temple. Every time she made a wish for her boss, someone big in Water Airline with the surname of Chen. The wishes he made were extremely huge, but the money he gave was very little, his wishes simply could not be fulfilled, so I did not even pay attention to it. But he believed in it, or else he would not have sent his sec-retary to my temple — Ouch, it hurts!”
Long Fei was talking excitedly when he was suddenly pinched by Hao Ning and immedi-ately turned his head to see what had happened. Looking at Liu Shuai's livid face and Wen's puzzled expression, he carefully thought for a moment and realized he had got into trouble.
”Your Dragon Temple?” Wen stopped and turned her head to look at Long Fei carefully. Then she turned back and asked Liu Shuai: ”Your colleague is quite superstitious. He is even running a temple as a side business. Why wouldn't he do something else? Run-ning a temple...”
What kind of nonsense was this! Liu Shuai forced a smile on his face while scolding Long Fei in his heart. As a doctor, Wen was naturally opposed to this magic-miracle thing, and from Wen's past performance, she should be a good doctor that took her work seriously, so she obviously did not like doing other things besides work. Now she would think that Liu Shuai's own employee had used his free time to run a place related to feudal superstition and have a not-very-good impression on Liu Shuai. Thinking about it, Liu Shuai immediately turned to Hao Ning for help.
”Ah, that…” Hao Ning laughed bitterly in his heart and said hurriedly: ”The parents of our colleague really believed in this. When Long Fei went to university, they found him a part-time job of cleaning a temple to support his study. He had no choice but to spend his vacation in the temple. However, he didn't like it, he still believed in science. So, when he graduated, he found a job in an Internet company.”
”Oh, so that's the case,” Wen obviously did not notice the logic problem behind Hao Ning's nonsense. Liu Shuai wiped his sweat and gave Hao Ning a big thumbs-up. But soon Wen frowned and asked, ”But why have I never heard that temples hire part-time workers...”
”Ah, Long Fei,” Hao Ning hurriedly changed the topic, ”Back then, when you were doing a part-time job in the temple, what did your master say about that Chen?”
”Oh, right, my master mentioned that,” No matter how dumb Long Fei was, he now un-derstood what the issue was and immediately changed his tone, referring to his non-existent ”master”. ”In the year when SARS was prevailing, every airline had a strict steri-lizing procedure, and staffs were equipped with various types of masks and other equipment. Guess what did the Water Airline do? In addition to equipping its employees with disinfection equipment, it also gave each employee a talisman with a string of incan-tations written on it, asking its staff members to read the incantations every time when they boarded flights. It believed that doing so would protect its employees from getting sick. Would someone get infected, it had to be because he or she wasn't sincere in chanting!”
”Ah? Hahaha,” hearing Long Fei's words, Wen laughed so hard that she bent over. After laughing for a while, she stood up with a smile still on her face, but it was already a bit ironic as she said, ”Getting sick was because of being not sincere. Hmph, yes, it must be him, it must be my cousin! No one else could have done it...”
”Hehe, ” Long Fei saw that Wen no longer had any doubts, so he ignored the slight change in expression on Wen's face, scratched his head and laughed, then he contin-ued to speak, ”But it's quite efficient too. After the people from Water Airline recited the incantations, no one really got SARS. Maybe the incantations really worked. However, I didn't know that kind of mana...”
”It was absolutely not because that the incantations worked,” Wen looked at Long Fei with a severe expression, ”it was just a matter of probability. I would rather believe that the staffs of Water Airline were paying more attention to hygiene.”