Chapter 372: [(372)] Welcoming the little patient Chapter 372: [(372)] Welcoming the little patient “Whose is it?” Wu Lixuan asked as she took the umbrella from the seat closest to the car window.
“Took it from Senior Cao’s car,” Huang Zhilei said, thinking that if it hadn’t been for the large crowd tonight that made them wary of drawing too much attention, Cao Yong would have wanted to drive the young junior sister home himself.
The weather tonight was indeed stuffy, it felt like rain was coming.
“Does Senior Cao still have an umbrella?” Xie Wanying asked Senior Brother Huang as she poked her head out.
“Don’t worry, he has plenty of umbrellas,” Huang Zhilei told her, patting the car door to let the driver know they could depart.
So the umbrella remained in the car, and the taxi drove away.
Seeing their chance, Luo Yanfen spoke up, “Early in the morning, I heard that Teacher Cao from Neurosurgery is very gentlemanly. It’s a pity I didn’t get a chance to rotate in Neurosurgery.”
What Wu Lixuan was thinking about was how those two people tonight probably still wanted to pry the secrets of her childhood friend from her, some gentleman!
Senior Cao was a gentle person. Xie Wanying looked at the big black umbrella, recalling the scene of Senior Cao driving to pick her up that day, holding the umbrella over her.
It started to rain when they arrived back at the dormitory. She opened the big black umbrella briefly before folding it up and placing it on the dormitory balcony. Later, she realized something wasn’t right: she hadn’t returned the handkerchief to its owner, and now she had borrowed his umbrella too?
She had to remember to return it. Xie Wanying reminded herself by knocking on her head.
The two senior sisters didn’t return to the dormitory that night, so Wu Lixuan stayed over. The next day, they got up early together to have breakfast, and then a couple of days later she prepared to go back to her hometown, saying to Xie Wanying, “Next time I come, I’ll bring you tea leaves; it might be next month. If any of your seniors want some, I’ll mail it to them with the best discount.”
Xie Wanying guessed that Senior Kang would probably want some, because Kang Mingzhu kept praising the tea for tasting good and smelling fragrant the night before.
She walked with her childhood friend to the school gate where their paths diverged, and then Xie Wanying proceeded alone towards the hospital entrance.
Today, she had an appointment to meet with Yazhi and her father.
“Doctor Sister.” Held by her father at the hospital entrance, little Yazhi’s eyes lit up upon seeing Xie Wanying, waving her small hand as if she wasn’t a stranger at all.
Xie Wanying took the child in her arms and said to Father Yazhi, “You go handle the admission procedures, I’ll take her up to the ward first.”
“Thank you so much, Dr. Xie!” Father Yazhi was extremely grateful as he hurriedly went to complete his daughter’s admission procedures with the form she had provided.
First carrying the child to the sixth-floor ward, Xie Wanying discussed with several nurses how to arrange an extra bed.
“You called earlier, and the head nurse helped arrange it. There’s a bed freed up in the treatment room for her to stay temporarily. Your team should have a free bed by Monday,” the nurse secured a bed for her.
“Please trouble sister to draw some blood for a test, she specifically didn’t eat breakfast to come here this morning,” Xie Wanying entrusted the on-duty nurse.
“No problem.” Taking up the treatment tray, the on-duty nurse walked with them and said, “My colleague has been admitted, the one that previously consulted you.”
“How is sister doing?” Xie Wanying inquired.
“She would like you to come see her, there are some things she wants to ask.”
“In General Surgery Department One there are many senior professors with rich clinical experience, they understand this disease better than I do,” Xie Wanying said.
“She just wants some reassurance; after all, you were the one who diagnosed her condition. Currently, the doctors over there don’t have a definitive answer, they can’t tell her whether her condition is benign or malignant. Maybe you could go and talk to her.”
Thus, taking advantage of the fact that she didn’t have to attend a shift meeting on Saturday, after ensuring the child was well arranged and the patient’s family had completed the procedures, Xie Wanying accepted Senior Sister’s request and went to General Surgery Department One.