389 Treat You to Lunch (1/2)
”Doctor Ling, you must let me treat you to lunch.” The associate hospital director looked extremely apologetic.
After the associate hospital director watched a few of the surgeries performed by Ling Ran, he strongly believed that even if Ling Ran were to charge a few thousand RMB for one freelance surgery, it would not even be considered expensive. It could even be considered an extremely charitable price. Ling Ran's market price was probably low because he was not renowned or experienced enough.
The Third People's Hospital of Yun Hua City was paying Ling Ran 500 RMB a day. The associate hospital director was too embarrassed to even calculate how much they must be ripping Ling Ran off. Hence, he had to be a proper host.
Ling Ran did not think much. He looked at the associate hospital director and said, ”I feel like eating in Shao family's restaurant.”
”Anything you want. Even if you wanted to eat dragon meat today, I'll make sure that your wish is fulfilled.” Even though the associate hospital director was using a hyperbole, he meant what he said.
Even though they were only allowed to pay freelance surgeons 500 RMB a day, they would get reimbursed even if they were to treat those freelance surgeons to lobsters.
”Let's go to Shao family's restaurant, then,” Ling Ran said.
”Alright. We'll go there. Do wait for a moment. I'll ask the hospital to send a car over.” As the associate hospital director spoke, he whipped out his phone and made a call.
At the same time, Zuo Cidian gave Yu Yuan a call and asked her to come over for lunch too.
After a moment, the associate hospital director put down his phone. He forced a smile as he looked at Ling Ran and Zuo Cidian. He raised a finger and said, ”Just a minute. The hospital's cars are all being used. I'll search somewhere else.”
Nowadays, they only had a limited number of official cars. Even though the hospital sent a car to fetch Ling Ran over in the morning as a sign of respect, they did not designate a car to fetch Ling Ran for lunch.
Ling Ran did not feel like waiting. He whipped out his phone and said, ”I'll just call a car using DiDi.”
The associate hospital director immediately said, ”Please don't. Why don't I drive you guys there?”
”It's easier to use DiDi because we don't need to park.” Ling Ran started tapping at his phone.
The associate hospital director said awkwardly, ”Or I can call a Shenzhou[1]…”
”Don't worry about it, the car is already here. Let's go downstairs.” Ling Ran put his phone inside his pocket and took the lead to walk out of the door.
The associate hospital director had no choice but to follow suit. He smiled in embarrassment at Zuo Cidian and said, ”Look at this mess. It's really my fault for not making a satisfactory arrangement. Do explain things to Doctor Ling on my behalf later.”
”Don't worry about this. Doctor Ling doesn't care about things like this.” Zuo Cidian walked quietly beside the associate hospital director. Even though Zuo Cidian was very willing to be at his leader's service in regards of various miscellaneous tasks, he never interfered when it came to calling cabs and ordering food.
”If Doctor Ling doesn't care, it's his business, but if we don't make satisfactory arrangements, it means that we did not do our jobs well. Can you tell Doctor Ling that I'll just go and look for a car now? It'll just take a few minutes.”
”There's no need for that.”
”No, DiDi's cars are not so great in terms of quality, after all. When Doctor Ling comes back, he has to carry out more surgeries. So, if he gets to sit comfortably, it'll be beneficial to the succeeding surgeries and the patients. Do listen to me on this—”
”No, there's really no need. Doctor Ling always rests very well on the DiDi cars he hails,” Zuo Cidian answered the associate hospital director very earnestly.
The associate director hospital flashed a wan smile. ”Doctor Ling is still young now. At my age, even if I want to hail one of those DiDi cars, it'll be a trouble for me to get myself into the car-huh?”
In front of the hospital building, Ling Ran could obviously be seen entering a Rolls-Royce.
What especially captured to associate hospital director's attention was that Ling Ran was holding his phone to check the number plate of the Rolls-Royce before entering the car. He looked very cautious and serious.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
”I gave this Rolls-Royce Phantom one hundred and one out of one hundred marks before.” Zuo Cidian glanced at the sky blue Rolls-Royce and seemed to recognize it.
The associate hospital director look baffled. ”What do you mean?”