625 Slippery (1/2)

Qi Yuquan opened his eyes at five in the morning. The moment he took in a deep breath, he was in so much pain that he hissed.

”Damn it.” Qi Yuquan had not cursed for three or four years. This was especially true after his seventieth birthday. He listened to the Fengshui master's advice and stopped arguing and debating with other people. He also stopped getting angry at other people. He believed that his attitude toward life could affect his health, and he aimed to live until he was eighty-eight.

However, he was really in a lot of pain, and it felt horrible to be in the ICU.

”Young Peng.” Qi Yuquan's lips trembled a few times.

”Dad.” Qi Liangpeng charged into the ward from the small living room outside.

The wards in the VIP patient building of Yun Hua Hospital were considered comfortable. The patients got to sleep in a double bed, and the living room was not too small. The living room even looked like a proper living room. It had a couch, a coffee table, and a television cabinet.

Qi Liangpeng simply placed a temporary bed in the living room and slept there.

”Young Peng.” Qi Yiquan called out again.

”Dad, I'm here.” Qi Liangpeng leaned forward and said. He also pressed the call bell while he was at it. He then asked his cousin, who was standing beside him, to go and get the doctor.

”This is painful. This is too f*cking painful.” Even though Qi Yiquan had a rough childhood, he had lived comfortably for many years. Right now, he was in so much pain that he wanted to cry.

”The doctor will be here soon. I'll ask him to inject some painkillers.” The sight of his father suffering made Qi Liangpeng wanted to cry too. His father was a strong person. Qi Yuquan once rolled down three flights of stairs in his mansion but insisted not to go to the hospital. He cured himself by eating mutton every day, and his bruises ended up becoming red. At that time, he did not even complain about the pain.

Qi Yuquan hummed in acknowledgment and said, ”I don't want to go to the ICU anymore.”

Qi Liangpeng immediately agreed. ”The surgery is over. You don't need to go to the ICU anymore.”

Qi Yuquan shook his head and said in a muffled voice, ”I don't want to be resuscitated anymore.”

Qi Liangpeng sort of understood what his father meant. Qi Yuquan would rather not undergo any more life-saving treatments if it meant that he had to enter the ICU again.

However, Qi Liangpeng was unwilling to entertain this thought. He would never agree to it either.

Qi Yuquan did not have the energy to insist on it, and he fell back into a deep slumber.

The doctor soon arrived. After checking on Qi Yuquan for a while, he prescribed some painkillers and left.

Qi Yuquan was feeling much better by the time he woke up in the afternoon. His family members did not dare to waste time, and they immediately asked Xu Wen to come over.

As doctors were very busy people, the fact that Xu Wen headed to Yun Hua Hospital and stayed here for a couple of days was a very rare sight among doctors. However, Xu Wen was an extremely shameless doctor, and he believed that faith can move mountains. He did not mind spending a little time in another hospital and persuade an excellent doctor to become his teacher. This was because if he was successful, that excellent doctor would need to spend plenty of time providing guidance to him.

Hence, Xu Wen had been loitering in the emergency room of Yun Hua Hospital for a few days. Even though he did not get to carry out any other procedure, he was as happy as a child with a bag of candy.

Of course, his main job was to check on Qi Yuquan's recovery progress. So, he would never say no to the Qi family members. The moment he arrived at Qi Yuquan's ward, he started reading Qi Yuquan's scans and reports. He looked a lot more carefully about it compared to the doctors from Yun Hua Hospital.

”There's nothing much to be concerned about. Didn't Doctor Ling say the same when he came over? The patient is recovering pretty well. Now that he had undergone preventive chemotherapy, he should be pretty much fine. After he gets a little healthier, he can get discharged.” Xu Wen was too lazy to come out with something new to say. He basically just paraphrased Ling Ran's words and translated them from Mandarin to Mandarin.

However, the members of the Qi family were listening very earnestly to him.

Hence, Xu Wen explained things in a slightly more detailed manner. He then changed the topic and said, ”It was fortunate that you guys hired Doctor Ling to operate on the patient. Other doctors wouldn't have been able to pull this off.”

Qi Liangpeng nodded with a smile and said, ”The doctors from Eastern Science Hospital said the same. I heard that Doctor Ling is very good at hepatectomy.”

Xu Wen chuckled and said, ”Meng Shan, that doctor who specializes in sports medicine, was probably the one who told you guys this, right? I don't think he had expected Doctor Ling to be this good at hepatectomy.”

Qi Liangpeng who had been a mine owner for many years immediately realized that Xu Wen was implying something. He flashed such an honest smile that made him look like a miner who lived a simple life. ”I'm feeling confused now. How good exactly is Doctor Ling at hepatectomy?”

Even though Xu Wen was a man of few words, he wanted to flatter Ling Ran so that Ling Ran would take him as a student. He started reciting the script he rehearsed, ”Your father's health condition is extremely terrible. If he were to undergo normal hepatectomy, he definitely wouldn't have survived the surgery. If a patient like this were to seek me out for treatment, I definitely would have said no.”

Xu Wen's eyes brightened up as he spoke. ”Doctor Ling specifically invented a new surgical method for your father. If nothing goes wrong after this, Mister Qi would definitely continue to live for a good few years.”

Qi Yuquan who was lying on the hospital bed started laughing when he heard Qi Liangpeng and Xu Wen's conversation. ”I'm seventy-three now, and soon I'll be eighty-four.”

There was an old saying that if old people did not die at seventy-three years old, they would live to be eighty-four.

Qi Liangpeng, though, caught the meaning behind Xu Wen's words.

He glanced at his relatives and said slowly, ”So, I gather from what you said that the people from Eastern Science Hospital shouldn't have referred us to Yun Hua Hospital?”

”But they unintentionally saved the patient's life.”

”You mean…”