Chapter 5 Section five

At half past two in the afternoon, Luo Yang arrived at the Second People's Hospital of Shacheng on time. He first went to the single ward of Mrs. Lu in the internal medicine department.The ward was unusually quiet. There was a small electric stove in the corner, and there were pots, pans, chopsticks and other things beside it; the thick porcelain bowl on the bedside table contained stewed vegetables mixed with tofu, potatoes and sliced ​​meat; Flies fluttered around with their fat wings vibrating, looking carefree; the smell of disinfectant alcohol and the sour smell of leftovers permeated the air.

The female nurse was taking the temperature of the old lady. She looked up at Luo Yang who came in, and asked, "Are you a relative of the old lady?" Before he could answer, the nurse said, "This time the old lady is really She was ill. She had been notified a long time ago, but no one came. It may be that she went out in the morning to catch a cold, and the driver who brought her said that she had suffered a fright. She started to have a fever shortly after returning to the ward. Just now After the drip, I fell asleep." After taking the temperature, the nurse seemed to have forgotten Luo Yang's existence. She didn't even lift her eyelids, and walked out of the ward with a twist of a white porcelain plate containing a thermometer, a sphygmomanometer and alcohol cotton balls.

Luo Yang looked around the ward, and then again.The fly landed on a piece of fatty meat in a china bowl.There is a broken gap on the edge of the porcelain bowl.He quietly exited the ward, and then sat on a long white wooden chair in the doctor's duty room and began to wait for a long time, waiting for someone to provide him with the real situation about Mrs. Lu. The doctor's duty room is small, except for the long wooden chair, there is a single bed, a desk and a coat rack.The three drawers of the desk were locked, a water dispenser and a few glasses were placed on the desk, and a few white coats hung on the coat rack.Opposite him was a glass wall, and separated from the glass wall was the operating room of the treatment room.A thick dark green gold velvet cloth curtain was hung on the glass wall. The curtain was drawn at the moment, and the narrow duty room became a transparent box with no shelter.

A thick smell of disinfectant floated in from the crack of the door and got into Luo Yang's nasal cavity, making him feel breathless.Through the transparent glass wall, he was at a loss looking at the unobstructed operation room opposite.On the operating table are some medical equipment, injections and bottles containing various liquids.Three female nurses were leaning against the console and chatting, a female doctor was sitting in front of a computer in the corner and typing skillfully on the keyboard, and a male doctor was lying on his desk reading a book.The people in the operation room would occasionally look up at the duty room with searching eyes.Luo Yang seems to have become a caged monkey and put it on display in front of the public.He was embarrassed and looked at his watch from time to time, wondering if he should wait unnecessarily.

When he first came, it was the female doctor who was typing on the computer who took him to the duty room.He asked the female doctor about the old lady Lu, and she only said about the old lady's condition: "She is not seriously ill. We gave her a comprehensive examination during the hospitalization. But she still complained of low back pain and leg pain, and asked to be checked once a week. One Tricky old woman!" "Since she is not sick, why didn't she be discharged from the hospital?" Luo Yang asked. "The situation is a bit complicated. Manager Lu, the old lady's son, greeted the dean when he sent her here. He wanted to cure the old lady thoroughly until she thought she was fine. How can elderly people not suffer from dizziness and headaches? In addition, she is the mother-in-law of Director Li of our hospital's surgery department, so we had no choice but to let her live here, and she settled her family here."

"The hospital allows her to cook in the ward?" "What is this! It turned out that there was a little nanny living here to serve her. She changed three nanny within a year. She said they were country children, they had no winks, they didn't know how to work, they were lazy, so they all drove them away. Actually She is a member of the empress's family. It's good now, no one cares about her. " "Who will pay for her hospitalization?" "Of course it's Manager Lu. He comes to the hospital once a month to settle the bill. As long as it's convenient for them, the hospital wants to make money. I wish she could stay longer."

"Old lady Lu said that her son didn't support her, so what's going on?" "Nothing. Let her see a doctor when she is sick, pay her hospitalization expenses, and hire a nanny for her. These days, it's a good idea to burn incense with such children. As for other things, you can wait for the old lady's special nurse to come back. Please make it clear. After Mrs. Lu kicked out the nanny, her son-in-law, Director Li of the Department of Surgery arranged for her a special care in the hospital. She took care of the old lady for nearly half a year and knew more about the situation."

"What's the name of the old lady's special care?" "Her name is Maizi. She just went to the surgery department and will be back in a while. You can wait for her in the duty room. Director Li of the surgery department is looking for her." After saying this, the female doctor laughed meaningfully.When the female doctor laughed, crow's feet piled up at the corners of her eyes.Those dense wrinkles on her face show the traces of her premature aging, and also portray her aging through the vicissitudes of life.But this superficial sophistication couldn't control her rambling narration at all, and couldn't hide her secret joy when she talked about the nurse named Maizi, as if she was uncovering someone else's abscess. A gleam of light flashed in her triangular eyes - Luo Yang, who was highly myopic, could only see clearly at this time, the female doctor had a pair of triangular eyes.Luo Yang also found that the distance between her eyes was closer than that of ordinary people, and she had two slender eyebrows tattooed above her eyelids, which made the female doctor's face look a bit malicious—even when she smiled When the face is full.

The female doctor’s meaningful smile has not been recovered for a long time. If the nurse who was chatting hadn’t told her after answering the phone that the dean urged her to write a year-end work summary and submit advanced materials for selection, she might not have left the duty room for a while. Sit down in front of the computer.At this time, the female doctor was typing on the computer keyboard, almost forgetting the visitor she brought in.It seems that the summary and presentation materials are very important to her. After waiting for nearly two hours, Luo Yang finally met the girl named Maizi.She is about twenty years old, thin and thin, her complexion is not very good, she seems to have lacked sleep, and her eye circles are a little red and swollen.Luo Yang explained to her why she came here, and she forced a smile: "I'm sorry, I have to see if the old lady is awake first. We can go to the ward to talk."

Luo Yang followed Maizi to Mrs. Lu's ward. Old lady Lu really woke up, leaning against the head of the bed, filling her shriveled mouth with biscuits.When she saw Maizi, she quickly wiped her hands on the quilt and said, "My dear girl, you are back! Help me warm up the food, I'm going to starve to death." "Grandma Lu, should this dish be poured? It's been out for two days, so be careful not to spoil your stomach. I'll buy food for you." "How can it be! I used to suffer from hunger and lived a hard life, so I can't waste food!" "Pour it out, pour it out! If you are reluctant to eat more after throwing it out, don't leave the food behind. Look at you, you are always disobedient, and sneak out alone early in the morning, don't you have a fever now? What can I do if I eat bad stomach!" Maizi said, took the rough porcelain bowl and stepped out of the ward, walking towards the water room at the end of the corridor.

"Good girl!" The old lady laughed, showing her pink gums that had lost all her teeth, with a contented look.She stopped laughing for a while, and it seemed that she saw that there was another person in the ward.She rubbed her eyes covered with gum with the back of her hand, muttered for a while, and said, "Big lawyer? I forgot your last name. You are a good man, a good man! Sit on that stool!" She pointed He pointed to the round wooden stool in front of the hospital bed. Luo Yang sat down and said, "Old man, what do you want from your children?" "I...I want them to come and see me!" Mrs. Lu was a little excited when she mentioned her children. Luo Yang said suspiciously: "You only ask them to come to see you? You can't sue them for not supporting you! I've learned from the doctor that your son paid for your hospital expenses." "I don't care about the fees or not, I just want them to accompany me every day! If they don't come, let the court send them." "Old man, calm down. I will talk to your son and tell him what you mean." "Why, you don't care?" "It's not that I don't care about it. Your problem is not up to the conditions for prosecution. Family harmony and everything is going well. You and your children should communicate well." "No, no, they don't let me talk, and they don't let me go home, because they don't want to control me. What's the use of raising such children!" At this time Maizi came in with a clean bowl.Luo Yang turned to her and said, "Can we talk?" "You've seen it all. What's there to talk about? They think they've done their duty by spending a few bucks to push the old man out. The hospital is not a nursing home! The old man is actually very pitiful." "The society is developing, and the elderly care does not necessarily depend on the family model, such as the nursing home you mentioned just now..." Luo Yang said. Maizi interrupted him: "Old people also need spiritual sustenance. The old lady's request is not too much, she just wants her children to visit her, and she wants to go home for the New Year!" Luo Yang was silent. Maizi cooked a bowl of egg noodles on the electric stove, with green spinach in it.She took care of the old lady to finish the noodles, and then said softly, "Grandma Lu, I won't be able to take care of you in the future. My mother is hospitalized and in surgery. She is in serious condition, and I'm going to accompany her." The old lady shed tears: "It is right to take care of your mother. Go, go, good girl." When Luo Yang left the ward, Maizi was wiping the old lady's face with a hot towel.At this time, he saw a blue jade bracelet on her wrist, and there was an irregular dark pattern about half an inch long on the jade bracelet.He felt dizzy.That jade bracelet looked so familiar, there should have been a pair of it originally, and he still remembered the origin of that dark line very clearly.