428 Polite (1/2)

Ling Ran slept until four in the morning. He was woken up by his alarm clock.

When he got out of bed and walked out of the on-call room, he could hear a lot of snores echoing in the corridor.

The doors of most of the on-call rooms were open. Only some of them had a portiere. Through the doors without portieres, doctors could be seen sleeping with their work clothes on. Some of them were barefooted, and some even covered their faces with their socks.

Yu Yuan was sleeping in the lower bunk of a bunk bed, which was located beside the door inside the first-string on-call room at the turn of the corner. The bottom half of her body was curled up underneath a blanket, while the entirety of the top half of her body was on top of the pillow. Her black hair looked a little golden underneath the light, and she looked like a Labrador who was wearing clothes and sleeping on its owner's bed.

Ling Ran entered the on-call room and kicked the lower bunk Yu Yuan was sleeping in. He then tapped the top bunk of the bunk bed opposite Yu Yuan's and said in a hushed tone, ”It's time to make ward rounds.”

Lu Wenbin, who was sleeping in the top bunk rolled over and said, ”I'm not buying any pig hooves today.”

Ling Ran rolled his eyes and repeated, ”It's time to make ward rounds.”

”I don't want this dream. Can I switch to another dream?” Lu Wenbin muttered in a determined manner.

Ling Ran kicked Yu Yuan's bed again and raised his voice a little. ”We need to make ward rounds now.”

”No, I'm not a hoarder. I don't suffer from compulsive hoarding… Without a search warrant, you guys are not allowed to look at my collection. Not even in your wildest dreams!” Yu Yuan wiped her mouth and gulped.

Ling Ran found that extremely disgusting. He turned and walked out the room before calling their phones instead.

Two minutes later, both Lu Wenbin and Yu Yuan showed up at the end of the corridor.

Yu Yuan had even washed her face and put on lipstick.

”Let's make ward rounds,” Ling Ran said.

”Now?” Yu Yuan looked at the time and said in resignation, ”Doctor Ling, even though all the patients and their family members like you a lot, you will probably get scolded for making ward rounds at this hour of the day.”

Ling Ran said calmly, ”We'll first apologize to them and make some small talk in a respectful manner.”

”Hmm… This sounds like it would work.” Yu Yuan looked skeptically at Ling Ran. ”You were probably not the one who thought of this.”

”Department Director Huo texted me.” Ling Ran waved his phone.

”Did a patient and his family members finally file a complaint against us?” Yu Yuan muttered to herself.

”What?” Ling Ran was shocked.

”Hu-huh? What?” Yu Yuan panicked a little. She felt like she had just said something wrong.

Ling Ran put his phone into his pocket and said, ”There was a period of time when Department Director Huo was pretty busy and made ward rounds at two or three in the morning. This is why he is experienced in this.”

Yu Yuan looked like she just had an epiphany. ”I see.”

”I see!” Lu Wenbin, too, quickly nodded. He then asked, ”How about Old Zuo?”

”Zuo Cidian is extremely tired. We'll let him sleep for a bit more.” After Ling Ran said this, he headed toward the ward area.

Yu Yuan and Lu Wenbin looked at each other and quickly followed Ling Ran.

Lu Wenbin said in a hushed tone, ”Why does Old Zuo get to sleep more?”

”It's probably because Old Zuo is so old that his age is equivalent to both of ours added together?” Yu Yuan's voice was similarly low.

Lu Wenbin shook his head and joked in a hushed tone, ”It might be because Old Zuo might get a heart attack soon, and Doctor Ling noticed it. Doctor Ling might have even carried out a physical examination on him…”

”This is also possible.” Yu Yuan slowly voiced her agreement.

The ward area of the Emergency Medical Center was full of patients and their family members.

Unlike the ICU, where the patients' family members had to be separated from the hospital bed, in the ordinary ward area of the Emergency Medical Center, the patients' family members were always crowded around the patients. Whenever the rooms were filled with patients, and hence a lot of patients' family members, the temperature in the rooms would become higher by a few degrees Fahrenheit.

At this time, it was impossible to rely on the central air conditioning system to regulate the temperature, as the system had been working at maximum capacity to begin with.

”I'm sorry, but we're here to check on you. How are you doing?” Yu Yuan woke the patient up in a soft voice and immediately flashed a smile, ”Please raise your arms so that I can listen to your heart sounds.

The patient, who was woken up at four in the morning, was totally dumbfounded. He looked at Yu Yuan and the others like they were night thieves.