1010 I Hired Someone (1/2)

”Doctor Ye, let me help you get it.” Yu Yuan proactively scurried in front of Ye Sigong. After carefully looking at the items around him, she helped to take up a bone cleaver that was in a casing and put it on her shoulder.

Ye Sigong turned his head around to have a look, and he had a shock. He thought, 'If I used a camera and took a photo without anything else in the picture to serve as a comparison, other people would think that you're holding a zhanmadao and going to a battlefield.'

”There's no need to, Doctor Yu,” Ye Sigong politely said to Yu Yuan. He just joined Ling Ran's treatment group. Naturally, he would need to be careful and conscientious so as to not offend anyone.

Yu Yuan glanced at Si Yegong in displeasure and said, ”Are you complaining that I carry too little?”

In truth, honestly speaking, and from the bottom of his heart and all his rationale, Ye Sigong did actually think that she was carrying too little.

Using a bone cleaver to chop a hare normally could not be said to be easy. But when that bone cleaver was placed on Yu Yuan's shoulder, Ye Sigong was really afraid that if she were careless, the casing would fall apart, and it would chop off the only chief resident in the team on the spot.

”It's not about carrying less or more. I'm just embarrassed to let you carry it. I can carry it myself. It's not particularly heavy, and I'm used to it. Your hands are delicate and meant for holding pens, you shouldn't be doing this work.” Ye Sigong wore an honest, innocent look. Although he was trained in a county hospital, he did not fall behind in learning the skill he needed to spew bullsh*t and kiss another person's a**.

Yu Yuan grunted and said, ”I was being considerate because you have to suffer a lot since you have to cook for an entire day and also perform surgeries.”

Ye Sigong quickly said, ”I'm just doing my job.”

”Homecook dishes are pretty nice. Last time, when we go out as freelance surgeons, we would be busy going back and forth between places, and we would just deal with our meals in random restaurants. Now, many hospitals and doctors come to find Doctor Ling. Usually, we'll need to be out for two days, and if no one cooks for us anytime soon, we'll die from all the salt from Lu Wenbin's dishes.” Yu Yuan was smiling.

”I'm happy as long as you enjoy it,” Ye Sigong humbly replied.

”We like it. I especially like that beef stir-fry.” Yu Yuan sighed in her mind. 'We finally got to chat about the main topic.'

”If you like it, that's great. Then I'll make another beef stir-fry today.” Ye Sigong had somehow started to understand what was going on, but he was secretly rejoicing. As a newcomer in-service training doctor, not being able to mix into the Ling Treatment Group was Ye Sigong's greatest worry. If that were the case, even if he had Zuo Cidian's support, he reckoned that he would not be able to continue staying for a long time.

Things were pretty good like this. Although he had to spend a lot of time in the kitchen, it was fine, because all in-service training doctors had to do non-medical related stuff all the time.

”Your candied apple fritters are actually not bad too,” Yu Yuan added.

Ye Sigong nodded continuously. ”These are all simple dishes, no problem.”

”By the way, there's this one dish that I really like when I was young. It's called braised aubergines, but many people can't cook them well…”

”I'll go and learn it from my teacher.” Ye Sigong obediently smiled. ”My teacher works at Tai Fung Lau Peking Restaurant, and their skills are handed down throughout the generations in his family. It has been in my county for almost a hundred years.”

”That's incredible. That'd be great.” Yu Yuan nodded in satisfaction and put down the zhanmadao from her shoulder before passing it over to Ye Sigong. She laughed and said, ”Then, you have to learn it well. How did you know him?”

Ye Sigong laughed and said, ”He had a stomach ulcer and underwent surgery at Yun Hua Hospital. Then he went to our county to change the dressing and receive an IV transfusion. That's how we met. At that time, I was still a resident doctor.”

”Oh… that master chef had a stomach ulcer because he ate too much?”

”It's mainly because he didn't have a fixed schedule for his meals. It'd be too easy for him to overeat or drink…” Ye Sigong recalled and said. ”It's also mainly because a few customers ordered dishes that were not delicious, and some of them ordered dishes that were too delicious…”

”Being a master chef is not easy,” Yu Yuan emotionlessly offered a word of praise.

..…

Like a storm sweeping through everything in its wake, Ling Ran's team went from Yun Hua Hospital to Liukai County Hospital. Then, they went to Yiyuan County Hospital and moved on to the First People's Hospital of Wuxin City...

There were very few hospitals that could provide a full day's worth of patients to the Ling Treatment Group.

There was a big difference between a treatment's group efficiency in performing surgeries and its working capabilities versus a simple freelance surgeon.

Ling Ran was different from a normal freelance surgeon. He did not particularly care about money, partly because he was one of the high contenders for freelance surgery in the market, and the other reason was that he was one of the few who were willing to bring their treatment group along.

Normal freelance surgeons would only take surgeries for money. Practicing their surgeries could only be considered their second reason behind performing freelance surgeries. After all, being a doctor was so tiring that every rest day was like a blessing. If it were not for the huge sum of income, very few people would be willing to rush around performing surgeries. It would be better to roast some meat at home and smell its aroma.