Chapter 89
In the company's underground parking garage, Sun Pengfei sprinted towards his car, tearing off the badge hanging on his chest. The air in the garage wasn't exactly fresh, but the sensation of it rushing past his ears made him feel invigorated again. At that moment, Sun Pengfei transformed into a frontline soldier. Although he knew he couldn't control the overall situation, he was still swiftly and effectively executing what he believed to be the right thing to do.
While waiting for Chengshi at Exit C of Changping subway station, Sun Pengfei called Su Ningna again. By this time, she had calmed down, but she was still rambling on and on. She told Sun Pengfei that Xie Yiling had just personally gone to the property management office to file a complaint, and now this energetic Ms. Xie was mobilizing the owners in the owners' group to change the property manager...
Sun Pengfei didn't have the energy to listen to Su Ningna's nonsense, so he hung up on her under the pretext of a phone call and then contacted the emergency center of the central hospital again, only to be told that there was no new progress.
The early autumn afternoon sun bathed the small street next to the subway station. Sun Pengfei got out of his car and strolled along the deserted street, smoking a cigarette. But as he walked, he suddenly heard himself muttering to himself, "Hurry up, hurry up!"
On this quiet little road, where there were no cars or pedestrians, apart from Sun Pengfei's whispers, there was no other sound. Not even the leaves on the roadside leaves rustled in the wind.
However, this unusual quiet is also like another moment on the battlefield: the main force always rushes over in a flurry, and then quietly waits for an opportunity.
At this moment, Sun Pengfei felt like a cheetah maintaining absolute vigilance.
After an unknown amount of time, Sun Pengfei suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet tremble. A short while later, a bewildered Cheng Shi appeared at Exit C of the subway station, nearly tripping over the last step. However, after stumbling, Cheng Shi saw Sun Pengfei and his car, which was parked against the subway exit with its engine running, and lunged towards him.
Sun Pengfei saw that Cheng Shi's eyes were wild and his tie was flying wildly.
"Xiao Cheng, hurry up, get in the car!" Before Cheng was even settled in the car, Sun Pengfei turned the wheel and drove off.
"She...she hasn't...now..."
"No new developments, I just hung up the phone."
The journey from the subway station to the hospital wasn't far; Sun Pengfei had checked the navigation map in the office earlier—it was only a 5-minute drive. But for some reason, as soon as their car turned onto the main road in front of the subway station, they found the entire road jammed with large trucks, completely blocking the already narrow two-lane road. Just as Sun Pengfei tried to back off the main road, another large truck pulled up behind them, blocking his car in the middle of the truck queue. So Sun Pengfei and Cheng Shi had no choice but to slowly move forward with the flow of traffic.
Sun Pengfei and Cheng Shi remained completely silent amidst the traffic jam. Sun Pengfei wasn't sure what effect speaking up would have; moreover, Cheng Shi's gaze and the way he trembled, curled up in the passenger seat, terrified Sun Pengfei, leaving him speechless even if he wanted to.
So Sun Pengfei thought to himself that he might soon lose the right to speak again, because when he drove his car into the bright white courtyard of the central hospital, he also sent himself into a state of complete despair.
After getting off the bus, Sun Pengfei and Cheng Shi quickly made their way through the crowded area, following the signs straight to the emergency center. They rushed to the triage desk and stammered for directions to the operating room. Then, like sprinters, they dashed to the operating room floor one after the other.
At this moment, Sun Pengfei finally lost the composure he had shown in dealing with the sudden event and became agitated. A vague voice inside him was telling him, "Don't believe everything you see. Nothing actually happened. Don't believe it."
"Who? What's their name?" At the information desk on the operating floor, with its doors tightly closed and a red light hanging above them, an elderly nurse who looked quite old stopped the two panting men. "You mean the one who was brought in for emergency treatment this afternoon? The one who was pregnant, took cephalosporin, and drank alcohol? She's still inside, not finished yet."
The older nurse glanced back at the red light at the entrance, then blocked Chengshi from rushing in once more. This time, Sun Pengfei also grabbed Chengshi's arm and pulled him back.
"Can't we go in? This is her husband."
"Of course not, how can you not have such basic common sense?" The old nurse waved her hand. "You two go sit over there for a while, there are still empty seats there, right? If there's a problem, the doctor will naturally come out to find you."
About fifteen minutes later, a thin man in green surgical scrubs walked out of the dark door, which was still lit by a red light.
"Which one of you is Huang Ruoyu's family member? Are Huang Ruoyu's family members here?"
Sun Pengfei grabbed Chengshi's arm and led him to the doctor. After confirming Chengshi's identity, the doctor led him to another side by himself.
Sun Pengfei tactfully kept a distance from the two men, silently thinking: "Little Fish is lucky; she won't die. Besides, how could anyone die on such a beautiful day? If she were about to die, why would that cleaning lady in the distance be happily humming a tune while mopping the floor? If Huang Ruoyu were about to die, why would there be cheerful Mid-Autumn Festival posters on the hospital walls? Of course not!" Sun Pengfei believed that a hospital was a place where babies were born and patients were cured. Although it was also a place where you would wait and feel anxious for a short time, it would surely be a place where your suffering would soon end and you could go home happily.
To verify his idea, Sun Pengfei retreated into the noisy crowd and sat on a long waiting bench with the other patients' families who were as sad as Cheng Shi. He took out his phone and started watching videos without any regard for the atmosphere. Moreover, he indulged his desires and deliberately watched videos that were borderline inappropriate. As a morally conscious middle-class person, Sun Pengfei rarely watched such vulgar videos.
But after watching the video for a short while, Sun Pengfei stood up again, walked a few steps in the corridor, then turned back and walked a few more steps. The urge to urinate made his bladder hurt, and he really needed to go to the toilet. However, he couldn't figure out how long it would take, how long the doctor would talk to Cheng Shi, or whether he should help him... So he hesitated for a moment.
However, just as Sun Pengfei was hesitating, the thin doctor returned to the operating room, leaving Cheng Shi standing there dumbfounded.
Sun Pengfei took a few steps forward and stood next to Cheng Shi. Cheng Shi was pressing his temples with both hands and said, "My God, Lao Sun, I didn't understand most of what he said. He said the baby was already out when the ambulance arrived. What does that mean? Then he said she was hemorrhaging heavily. Yes, heavily hemorrhaging. He said she had started bleeding heavily before the ambulance arrived, and that she was taking cephalosporin and alcohol, and had difficulty breathing, and her heart rate was... well, over 200. They're helping her stop the bleeding now, and doing desensitization, and... what else? The doctor also told me a lot of other things I didn't understand, a lot of drug names and medical terms that I can't even remember. He also made me sign a few forms, and I don't even know what they are. And the doctor said she's still unconscious!"
"Have a seat for a while, Xiao Cheng."
"That's what the doctor told me too, but what the hell is the point of me sitting down?"
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