Chapter 7 Mad Dog Hotel
The new male assistant has become a hot topic at Anxin Hospital.
His appearance was exceptionally outstanding, a perfect blend of liveliness and elegance. He was a man of few words, but gentlemanly and friendly towards women. He would never refuse any request from female doctors or assistants, whether it was carrying water, mopping floors, or simply asking them to do something.
On the contrary, Lulu's attitude towards men is somewhat unusual.
"Hey you," the door to the examination room was pushed open, and Dr. Qin leaned out and called out, "Bring me a hood, I need to draw some blood!"
He called out to the front desk, where only Tian Miaoying and Lulu were on duty.
Dr. Qin's gaze was fixed on Lulu; he was calling her over.
Although each assistant has a corresponding supervising doctor, the actual work is not so rigid.
Usually, whichever doctor is free will help take care of the child; whichever assistant is free will also help out with the busy doctor.
Dr. Qin's clinic only has cats undergoing spaying/neutering checkups; this kind of easy work is perfect for beginners to practice on.
He specifically came out to call the newcomers over to learn, but Lulu only glanced at him briefly before looking back, showing no intention of paying attention.
Tian Miaoying thought he was a bit dull, so she took a hood from under the counter and gave it to him, reminding him, "Go ahead, I'll take care of things here."
Lulu said, "I'm not going."
Tian Miaoying was taken aback: "Huh?"
"Hey, where's the headgear? Come here!" As he spoke, Dr. Qin pushed open the door again and urged him once more.
"Coming!" Tian Miaoying didn't bother to ask what that sentence meant and rushed off to help with the blood draw.
Two minutes after Tian Miaoying left, a guest arrived at the front desk.
An elderly woman with a poodle walked straight up to Lulu and said, "Please call Dr. Lu for me. I have an appointment."
Lulu paused, her gaze sweeping over the registration computer at the front desk.
These past two days, Huang Zhenyi has been teaching him about the Anxin Hospital system.
In fact, Lulu had seen this system many times before and didn't need anyone to teach him; it's just that he couldn't read before.
"Okay." He gave the old woman a friendly smile and used the mouse to access the system to check the appointment.
The old woman was amazed by the young man's smile, and the poodle beside her suddenly barked sharply.
It barked incessantly at Lulu behind the platform, one bark after another.
"Donuts! Sit down!" the old woman tugged at the rope. "Quiet!"
The VIP did not stop; instead, he became even more agitated, tilting his head back and roaring at Lulu.
"Oh dear, what's wrong with you!" The old woman picked it up helplessly. "Don't call me, baby. You're usually very well-behaved. Quiet, quiet! We're good little dogs."
Held in its owner's arms, the puppy barked even more wildly, baring its teeth and its eyes bloodshot, scaring the cats in the shop into crouching and running away.
"I'm so sorry," the old woman quickly apologized, "It's not usually like this."
Lulu smiled and shook her head. "It's alright, ma'am, give it to me."
He reached out, scooped the VIP out of the old woman's arms with one hand, and took the dog leash from her hand with the other.
The puppy opened its mouth as if to bark, but as soon as it opened its mouth, its feet left the ground, and the leash around its neck suddenly tightened, pulling it completely over.
It lay on its side on the table, a long, slender hand pressing against its chest and ribs.
"Woof!" It continued to bark defiantly, and the hand pressing down on it suddenly exerted force, causing it to feel a sharp pain in its ribs.
The ferocious barking immediately turned into a painful whimper. The poodle whimpered, raising its eyes to meet the young man's cold, dark gaze.
He looked down at it from his superior position, his upper lip slightly parted, revealing half of his canine tooth.
"Waaaaah..."
The VIP's ears immediately drooped back, and it pleaded pitifully.
"Oh..." The old woman looked at the scene in surprise, a little stunned and a little heartbroken. After the puppy stopped barking, she immediately rescued it from Lulu's hands.
She hugged it tightly, patted its back gently, and comforted it like a baby, "See? When you're naughty, the doctor will scold you. Okay, okay, we won't scold you, my sweet baby, Grandma feels sorry for you."
Lulu frowned, her hand still gripping the dog leash tightly, disapproving of the old woman's doting.
This is a dog that doesn't know any rules; it needs to be taught a lesson.
But after realizing that the other person was a female human, and that he was an employee and the other person was a customer, he abruptly loosened his grip and returned the dog leash.
Lulu finished registering, pressed the communicator at the front desk, and called out, "...Dr. Lu, the owner of the donut is here."
When Lu Qi came out, he saw that only Lulu was at the front desk.
There were no customers at the moment, and she didn't see any other assistants. After greeting the old woman, she hesitated for a moment and then said to Lulu, "We need to trim Donut's nails and express his anal glands. Can you come and help?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the young man's eyes suddenly lit up.
With just a slight change, that face suddenly shone with a vibrant radiance, like porcelain being glazed.
He nodded repeatedly, following behind Lu Qi: "Okay, I'm very willing."
Lu Qi had never mentored Lulu before; this was her first time. His learning attitude was very positive, and as a senior and mentor, she developed a good impression of him.
The old woman followed Lu Qi into the consultation room and placed the VIP on the examination table.
Looking at the puppy, Lu Qi smiled and stroked the poodle's fluffy little face. "It's been a long time, baby. How have you been lately?"
The VIP, who usually affectionately licked Luqi's chin, was silent, unusually quiet, with its head down and its tail tucked between its hind legs.
Lu Qi was a little puzzled. "Why are you so quiet today?"
"I don't know," the old woman said, puzzled. "He was just calling out to this young man from the front."
Lu Qi looked up at the young man standing beside her. The young man smiled at her, his smile carrying a hint of pride and self-satisfaction.
I have no idea what he's so proud of.
The donut was unusually quiet, prompting Lu Qi to ask a few more questions, "Are you usually okay with your meals and bowel movements at home?"
“It’s all good,” the old woman replied, stroking the puppy. “It’s very lively.”
Lu Qi stroked the dog's body and rotated a few joints. "Turn around, baby, let me hear your heartbeat."
Her heart was fine. She took off her stethoscope. "You're a little nervous. You've been here so many times, are you still nervous?"
She offered a few words of comfort and then asked Lulu for help, "Trim your nails first."
Regardless of whether Lulu had cut hair before, Luqi treated him like a novice doing it for the first time and taught him how to do it.
"Cats' and dogs' white nails are easy to trim; for black nails like the one on the donut, where you can't see the quick, we compare the nail and the paw pad to see if they are on the same level, and then trim it a little bit so that the nail doesn't go beyond the paw pad."
She cut off one of the front legs to demonstrate to Lulu, "If it bleeds, wipe it with alcohol, apply some of this hemostatic powder, and press it for a minute."
“Come on,” she stood up and switched places with Lulu, “you cut it.”
Upon hearing that Lulu hadn't cut anything, the old woman immediately said worriedly, "Dr. Lu, why don't you do it? What if it bleeds?"
"No, don't worry, I'll keep an eye on things here," Lu Qi said.
"Oh dear, that's why I'm worried." Who wants their precious child to practice on a newbie?
“Don’t worry,” Lulu said gently to the old woman, holding the nail clippers. “Although I haven’t been working for long, I’ve been in contact with small animals for ten years.”
Hearing this, the old woman assumed he had raised dogs for ten years and relaxed a bit, saying, "Okay, okay, look carefully."
Lulu agreed and grabbed the other leg of the donut.
The VIP visibly trembled, but did not struggle. Instead, he turned his head away, as if abandoning his front leg, avoiding Lulu's eyes.
With a few crisp snips, Lulu quickly finished trimming the nails on all three legs, her movements so fast that Lu Qi was surprised.
Cutting your own dog's hair is different from cutting someone else's. He seemed to have spent a lot of time in the hospital, and he didn't have any of the nervousness of a novice when he started cutting.
Lulu did a good job squeezing the anal glands afterwards, but her expression showed some disgust.
After seeing the donut off, Lu Qi asked, "Did you intern at another hospital before?"
"No." Lulu shook her head.
Lu Qi was surprised. "Was that your first time doing this? You have a strong learning ability." She also knows how to please customers.
The young man pursed his lips and smiled happily after receiving the praise.
The smile made Lu Qi pause, recalling the comments from the dean and female colleagues over the past two days: Xiao Lu's smile is very sweet.
He was truly special; Lu Qi had never felt so at ease in front of a grown man. If given the chance, she could spend more time with him.
Lulu pursed her lips tightly for a while, but when Lu Qi turned around to tidy up the consultation table, she still couldn't control her overflowing happiness.
He opened his mouth slightly and stuck out a little bit of his tongue.
The moment Lulu opened her mouth, the vomeronasal organ on her palate came into contact with the air, and the pungent smell of the poodle's anal glands in the clinic assaulted her, causing Lulu's smile to freeze instantly.
He hurriedly grabbed the disinfectant and sprayed it wildly into the examination room.
Lu Qi glanced at his anxious movements out of the corner of her eye and said, "It's okay, donuts don't carry any infectious diseases, just disinfect the table."
Lulu opened her mouth as if to speak, but her vomeronasal organ touched the air, and she immediately closed her mouth again.
He shook his head with his mouth tightly shut. Spraying disinfectant wasn't enough; he found the source of the stench—he went to change the garbage bags.
Inside the garbage bag were tissues used to wrap anal glands. Lulu frowned, held her breath, and closed the bag tightly.
He squatted down to change the trash bag, and when he turned around, he saw Lu Qi sitting on a stool operating the system.
The stool had no backrest to shield her from view, and her lower back was directly facing Lulu, who was squatting down.
The young man's eyes darkened slightly, and his nose was filled with the stench of other male dogs, but he still couldn't help but open his mouth and quietly get closer to Lu Qi.
Lu Qi's scent wafted through the foul odor of anal glands; he tried to gather her scent, his face and ears flushed with excitement.
Lu Qi, Lu Qi Lu Qi...
He stared at the woman's lower back, his Adam's apple bobbing as he swallowed, the few remaining whites of his eyes slightly reddening.
"What's wrong?" Noticing that he had been squatting down for a long time, Lu Qi looked down and asked.
The young man below the consultation table looked up at her expectantly.
Lu Qi was stunned for a moment. This angle and this furrowed brow reminded her of her Lulu.
Her puppy, her Lulu, always looked at her with the same expression when they wanted something from her.
The young man shook his head, picked up the trash bag, and stood up. "It's nothing."
He became the man Lu Qi hated most, unsure whether he should immediately acknowledge Lu Qi as his confidant.
Perhaps we need to observe Lu Qi's attitude towards "Xiao Lu".
He threw the trash into the large trash can behind the hospital, stood outside the door, looked down, spread his five fingers, and stared at his fingertips.
His nails were transparent white, with the blood vessels clearly visible, making them easy to cut.
He is proud of his excellent nails, which means he is a good dog that is easy to take care of for his veterinarian and owner.
However, it had been a long time since anyone had trimmed his nails.
A note from the author:
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Lu Qi: What's wrong?
Lulu: I want to smell your butt, and I'll let you smell mine too!
A reminder: the male protagonist is a dog, so please see him from a dog's perspective.
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