Chapter 483: Changing the Medicine

Lu Shixu's Adam's apple couldn't help but roll.

“I want some water!”

"Oh, okay. Wait a moment!"

Qi Xu quickly brought over a cup of warm water, scooped it up with a spoon himself, and prepared to feed him.

"No, I can do it myself!"

Lu Shixu took the bowl and was about to stand up when he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder blade.

"Ah! It hurts!"

Qi Xu hurried to help him, but because he was too panicked, all the water in the cup spilled on his chest.

"Sorry, sorry!"

In order to prevent the water from flowing down and contaminating his wound, Qi Xu directly tore open his hospital gown and wiped it for him.

The man's muscular chest was completely exposed, which made her face flush.

"Fortunately, no wounds were touched!"

Then she explained the patient's condition.

"Mr. Lu, you were shot in the shoulder. The wound is very deep. Our chief physician has removed the bullet and performed emergency surgery."

"It's now the third day after surgery, and he still has several more emergency surgeries to undergo."

"So, I will be responsible for your wound care and dressing changes from now on."

Lu Shixu looked up and met a pair of clear and innocent starry eyes, as crystal clear as amber in the deep sea.

"How old are you?"

Her voice was soft and tender, and her figure was petite, not at all like an experienced and expert doctor.

"I'm 22 years old and an intern at University A Medical School!"

When he heard the word "intern", Lu Shixu's face suddenly darkened.

He was a colonel in the Red Eagle Corps. He fought desperately to defend the motherland's territory and finally survived. But he actually let an intern be responsible for his treatment?

What a great honor!

"Are all the doctors in your hospital dead? Why are you sent here to treat me?"

Lu Shixu's fierce rebuke was colder than the wind on a snowy day.

Qi Xu was so scared that he was trembling.

"Sir, please don't look down on me. In fact, my professional level and practical skills are the best among our graduating class."

"I was assigned to the border internship because my family was poor. Other students were unwilling to come."

"Yesterday, the enemy blew up a mountain range on the border, causing a landslide. Twenty-one people died and 67 were seriously injured at the foot of the mountain."

"Medical resources are already scarce in the border area. The dean and chief physician are all busy saving lives. I'm the only one who can't perform surgery because I haven't received my diploma yet. So I've been specially sent here to take care of you!"

A few days ago, he led more than a hundred elites to destroy a secret biological and chemical weapons base of more than 50,000 enemy troops.

Unexpectedly, the other party was so angry that they blew up the mountains in revenge.

"Since the medical staff is short of manpower, please go and take care of other patients first. I don't need you here!"

Qi Xu's originally confident heart was hit hard by the fact that he was rejected by the patient for the first time in his medical practice.

"Mr. Lu, do you think I'm too young?"

"Actually, I just look young, but I'm an adult."

"At school, we practiced stitching wounded animals, and I was the best at it. I always ranked first in every exam."

"My mentor also praised me for being meticulous, focused, and bold, and said I'm a good candidate for a lead surgeon!"

Qi Xu kept bragging about himself in order to make the patients accept him.

Listening to her boasting and showing off, Lu Shixu couldn't help but want to laugh, and clenched his fists slightly to hide the upturned corners of his mouth.

He didn't dislike her, but after hearing about the shortage of medical manpower, he wanted her to treat more urgent patients.

But think about it, she is an intern who just graduated from college. She may have never come into contact with real patients. What can she do?

Don’t get scared to tears when you see those patients covered in blood.

"You really want to take care of me?"

Mr. Lu, who is usually serious, actually made a joke for the first time.

Perhaps it was because life in the military camp was too hard, and he rarely saw a woman for three to five years. So when he suddenly interacted with women, his tone of voice became gentle.

There was a hint of teasing in his words.

But the female doctor was even more dull than him and explained in a very serious manner.

"It's not that I want to take care of you, it's that I have to. This is an important task our director has specifically assigned to me."

"In fact, I would rather go to the front line to treat the injured, contribute my own strength, and learn more medical knowledge through practice."

Now that’s good, it’s not that Mr. Lu dislikes the doctor.

But the doctor disliked him.

"Hey, little doctor? What do you mean? Am I not a patient?"

"You are! That's why I came here specially to apply medicine for you!"

Qi Xu lifted up his shirt and gently wiped the wound on his left shoulder with alcohol.

"hiss!"

The moment the gauze was torn off, Lu Shixu gasped in pain.

"I know, it hurts. Just bear with it, I'll be gentle!"

Her movements were really light, like a feather brushing across my cheek, making me feel numb and tingling, but I didn't feel any pain.

The wound was deep, and disinfecting the critical part would definitely be painful. Qi Xu tried to distract him by talking to him.

"Mr. Lu, you've been having nightmares these past two days, calling out for a girl named Jiaojiao!"

"Is she your girlfriend?"

The word "jiaojiao" was a taboo in Lu Shixu's life. He pushed Qi Xu's hand away, not letting her touch him again.

"roll!"

Qi Xu was startled, picked up the fallen cotton yarn and tweezers, and changed into a new set of sterile tools.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu. I spoke out of turn! Please don't be angry, let me continue to apply the medicine for you."

"I told you to get out, can't you hear me?"

For many years, Lu Shixu has been very resistant to contact with women.

In his heart, he already had a fiancée, so he had to keep himself chaste and remain a virgin until the day he found Jiaojiao.

But he had just broken his rules and let a female doctor touch his hands, chest, and waist, and she even dared to mention Jiaojiao.

So Lu Shixu was angry, angry at the doctor and also angry at himself.

"I will leave! But you are my patient, I have to be responsible for you."

"Mr. Lu, you can embarrass me, but please don't embarrass your own wound."

It was the first time that Qi Xu was scolded so harshly. A faint mist filled her amber eyes.

The tears, which seemed to be about to fall, hung stubbornly in the corners of her eyes, making her look particularly distressed.

"Don't cry!"

"Are you going to use your tears to apply medicine to me?"

Lu Shixu was most afraid of women's tears. The tears in the female doctor's eyes looked very much like those of the little girl when she was a child.

"oh!"

Seeing that the other party gave in, Qi Xu immediately wiped away her tears and applied medicine to him skillfully.

After finishing, she breathed a sigh of relief as if she had experienced a life-and-death catastrophe.

Forced a smile.

"Mr. Lu, your wound has been treated. Please rest well. If you need any help, please ring the bell to call the nurse. You can also contact me. I'm intern Qi Xu."

As Qi Xu turned around, the nurses pushed another patient in.

"Doctor Qi, this is the deputy captain of the fire department. He was injured by rocks from a second landslide during a rescue operation last night. The chief of the aorta has already stitched him up, and the broken bones have been reconnected."

"The director asked you to take care of other minor wounds."

Then, the head nurse explained to Lu Shixu.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lu. There are really no wards left. Can Deputy Captain Long put him in your ward?"

"Sure!" Although Lu Shixu was a high-ranking official, he did not have that much authority.

Not to mention adding a seat, if necessary, he would not hesitate to give up his bed.