73 Ecuadorian Rose
Chen Yuang walked out of Huajin Hospital confidently.
His chest was filled with happiness, and he couldn't wait to see Ni Yue early in the evening and bring her the good news.
He has more than one piece of good news.
The first good news is that the damn hot red pepper is finally back to the United States!
Early this morning, he dropped her off at Pudong International Airport, a hug temporarily pausing the cold war between mother and son. However, he had no plans to move back to Huashan Apartment, as the lease there was about to expire. He also had no desire to move back to his parents' villa in the western suburbs, or any of his family's other properties in the city. He wanted to use this opportunity to completely break away from his family and become self-reliant. He'd been looking for apartments these past few days and finally found an old Shikumen house nearby that offered a good value.
He planned to invite Ni Yue to move in with him in his cozy one-bedroom apartment once he settled down.
When he thought about the sweet world of two people that was about to begin, the corners of his mouth unconsciously pulled up his cheeks.
The second good news is that he is finally going to make a comeback and restart his career!
He had just sent Little Lajiao away that morning when he received a WeChat message from Aunt Cai, asking him to return to the hospital that afternoon to report on his work. So, an hour ago, he nervously walked into Aunt Cai's office.
Unexpectedly, a hospital leader was also there. After a round of criticism and admonishment, with one leader playing the bad cop and the other the good cop, he received a notice to return to work the following Monday. Furthermore, they were transferring him to the busiest and most tiring ICU as a "punishment."
Upon hearing the news, Chen Yuang was so excited that he almost jumped up from his chair. He knew very well that this blessing of "punishment" was obtained by Aunt Cai who had overcome all difficulties to help him.
"Don't thank me, this is all the result of your own hard work. To be honest, I'm really reluctant to see you go! I won't be able to protect you anymore. Take care of yourself when you go there, and be more careful in everything you do."
Before parting, Tsai Mingliang gave instructions with red eyes.
…
Double happiness comes at the same time, making people want to sing loudly.
"Today is a good day..." Chen Yuang was a little too proud of himself. He hummed a song and skipped out of the gate of Huajin Hospital.
Suddenly, a van came rushing over from a distance, driving so fast that it seemed like it was performing a show of speed and passion.
It looks familiar, like the one my good friend Xu Zhiqian often drives.
Before he could get a good look, the van suddenly braked and stopped right in front of him. There was a loud "hiss" and sparks flew on the ground.
Even the eardrums vibrate.
The next second, the car door opened, and as expected, Xu Zhiqian jumped out of the car, looking panicked.
Chen Yuang was surprised to see the person getting off the car right after him, with a tearful face - "Ni Yue?!"
He was stunned and rushed over immediately, "What's going on?!"
"Chen Yuang!" Recognizing the man in front of him, Ni Yue threw himself into his arms without saying a word. The grievance and fear suppressed in his chest burst out along with tears and snot.
Xu Zhiqian explained the situation in a few words.
As a medical worker, Chen Yuang naturally understood how serious occupational exposure was and hurriedly took them to the emergency room.
…
The emergency doctor was an elderly woman. She put on her glasses and carefully examined the photos of the ulcers they provided. "Based on the source of infection, this patient's syphilis must have progressed to the middle or late stages, and the risk of infection is quite high."
Seeing the young people's faces pale with fear, she quickly added, "However, the probability of infection from body fluid splashing into the eyes is lower than from a needle puncture entering the bloodstream, about 5 in 10,000. If we block it within 24 hours, the probability is basically reduced to zero."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The doctor quickly wrote out a few documents and told Ni Yue, "Go get your blood work done first. I've expedited it. Once the results come out, we'll take a look at them together. If everything looks good, I'll arrange for a benzathine penicillin injection. I've also written out the skin test and intramuscular injection instructions. You can pay them later."
"Intramuscular injection?" Ni Yue didn't understand.
"It's a butt injection!" Chen Yuang reminded her with a red face behind her.
"Oh!" She frowned. Once upon a time, she also imagined that Chen Yuang gave her an injection in the buttocks, but it was definitely not the current situation.
"Well, you need to get the injection on both buttocks. A skin test will be done before the injection to see if you have any allergic reaction. The nurse will help you then. It's okay, don't be afraid!" the doctor comforted.
Ni Yue sighed, afraid that this was the only way!
Several people stood up and left the clinic.
"Hey, wait!" The doctor suddenly called me again.
Ni Yue had a bad feeling, "What?"
Behind thick lenses, her elderly eyes gleamed with wisdom, but her words were chilling: "Are you sure the patient doesn't have any other infectious diseases? I mean, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, etc."
The three men and one woman were stunned when they heard this.
Ni Yue felt dizzy. That's right! In fact, no one knew what other illness that person had!
"Then... is it necessary to block them one by one?" Chen Yuang stretched out his hand to support Ni Yue and asked cautiously.
"You'd better find the patient immediately and find out the details. It would be even better if you can get his identification information. If he was treated at Huajin Hospital in the past, I can check it in the internal system. If not, we'll need to contact another hospital for help. But you have to be quick," she glanced down at her watch. "It's almost shift change time at the hospital, and if they're busy, there might not be anyone to answer the phone!"
Xu Zhiqian stepped forward and said, "We don't have the patient's ID number, and the information his family provided us previously might be true or false. How about this?" He turned to Chen Yuang and said, "Let's split up. You stay here with Ni Yue for the blood test and injection. Xiao Ma and I will return to the patient's home immediately to ask questions in person. His home is nearby, so we'll try to give you an answer within half an hour!"
"Do you want to take your cousin with you?" Ni Yue begged after being stunned for a moment.
She was really afraid that the two men would mess things up if they went.
"Don't worry, we will contact her!" Xu Zhiqian and Xiao Ma Ge agreed and turned to leave.
The results of several blood test indicators came out quickly and were all within the normal range.
Ni Yue and Chen Yuang breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, a skin test before intramuscular injection was done, which required half an hour of observation. The two of them sat on chairs outside the clinic. Ni Yue curled up in Chen Yuang's arms like a kitten, with tears hanging from the corners of her eyes, about to fall.
He felt sad, but pretended to be relaxed and said, "Let me tell you a story!"
"Um?"
"Actually, I've been exposed professionally before."
"oh?"
"That's right! That year, I had just started practicing and was drawing blood from a newly admitted patient. The patient was disobedient and moved around a lot, and I accidentally pricked my finger with the needle. In a hurry to hand over my shift, and with a bit of a sense of luck, I wiped it with alcohol and left. Later, I saw someone in the department group posted a notice saying that the new patient not only had a blood disease, but also HIV, and warned everyone to be careful. I was drinking outside at the time, and I was so scared that I almost peed my pants."
Ni Yue burst out laughing and accidentally squeezed out a tear, which he quickly raised his hand to wipe away.
The tear marks on her hands did not escape Chen Yuang's eyes.
His heart ached, his voice choked, and he coughed twice before continuing, "...I rushed back to the hospital to get blocking medication. I was then observed for a long time, probably several months. During that time, they wouldn't let me into the ward or the pharmacy. They made me sit in front of the computer every day doing administrative work, which eventually led to hemorrhoids."
Ni Yue giggled again.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine," Chen Yuang stroked her shoulder gently. "You're luckier than me. I was all alone back then, feeling very lonely. You're different. You have so many people who care about you, so much positive energy surrounding you. And," he emphasized, "no matter what, I'll be by your side."
Upon hearing this, Ni Yue silently hugged his waist tightly, and tears flowed down her face again.
Before long, Xu Zhiqian called and asked for the patient's ID number, saying that he had been receiving treatment at Huajin Hospital before.
This is such great news!
The two people hurried back to the clinic and, together with the emergency doctor, looked up the computer and saw all the examination reports of the patient before he was discharged a few days ago. Except for syphilis which was positive, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C... all the others were negative!
Thank God!
Smiles as if they had survived a disaster bloomed on the faces of the three people at the same time.
Soon, the skin test was over.
The left and right buttocks were pierced by large, thick needles one after another. The long-lost feeling of fear, the pain of muscle fibers being pierced, the soreness and burning sensation when the liquid was injected... gathered together and turned into two continuous dull pains on the buttocks.
Ni Yue regained the feeling of being a child.
Or, she thought, she was just a child who had not grown up!
As a child, you will cry; as a child, you will make mistakes; as a child, there is still hope...
Thinking about it this way, all the worries seem to be relieved.
In the next two weeks, she will have to receive two injections of benzathine penicillin, and then undergo serum tests every one month, three months, and six months. If the results are normal, it can be clinically determined that the blockade is successful.
Although syphilis is mainly transmitted through sex, blood, and mother-to-child transmission, Ni Yue had just been exposed to it today. For the sake of Sister Paoqiu's health, he decided not to go to Sister Paoqiu's house for the party in the evening.
Not only won't I go tonight, I won't go in the short term.
Chen Yuang raised his hands and feet in agreement.
Wang B, upon learning of her situation, immediately expressed his understanding and advised, "Don't worry too much. Good fortune will come to those who are lucky. Everything will be fine! Go home and have a good rest. We'll see each other again someday!"
After a moment of silence, he added, "Sister Paoqiu asked me to tell you that her heart will always be with you."
Her cousin's occupational exposure was a deafening wake-up call for Zhang Chenling.
In the past, they based their services on mutual trust with their customers: customers chose them and trusted them, so they naturally gave their customers equal and complete trust - this assumption of trust was beautiful, but it also went against human nature.
Emotions and trust cannot replace rules and order. In order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, they must improve the KYC system.
At the same time, taking this as an opportunity, Zhang Chenling asked Ni Yue to withdraw from the front-line bathing assistance work and focus on the daily management of the company. This was part of the sisters' plan, but neither of them expected that the change would come so quickly.
Now, Ni Yue works from home every day.
Chen Yuang would come to visit and feed the patient almost every day. Although he became much busier after being transferred to the ICU and often had his days and nights reversed, he would always find ways to make time, rain or shine.
Xu Zhiqian, Xiao Ma Ge, Shuang Jie, Qian Xiaohu, and other teammates also often come to visit Ni Yue.
This massive blockade actually brought the teammates closer together.
It was Sunday, and it had been exactly ten days since Ni Yue’s occupational exposure incident.
Chen Yuang was resting. He took a nap during the day and came with Xu Zhiqian in the evening. They brought OVERDOSE yakitori and two dozen craft beers.
"Huh? Where did you buy this beer?" Ni Yue saw the label on the beer bottle, from an unfamiliar brand, and was surprised. "Why didn't you buy Xiaosheng BB?"
Chen Yuang and Xu Zhiqian exchanged glances, and after a long pause, they said, "We just went there to have a quiet chat, but it turned out to be closed!"
"Closed?" Ni Yue was confused. "Closed on Sunday when it's busiest?"
"Well... to be precise, it's closed!" Chen Yuang added.
"Closed? Temporarily suspending business?"
Ni Yue's eyes widened as he questioned, but he heard Xu Zhiqian correct Chen Yuang, "You remembered it wrong. The notice said it was completed!"
"Graduated?!" Ni Yue felt like he was struck by lightning and sat down on the chair. "Why did you graduate?..."
A horrifying thought flashed through her mind, and she didn't even dare to say it out loud. However, the next second, she calmed down and immediately denied herself.
This morning, Sister Paoqiu updated a chapter of "Love and Night on Changle Road" and interacted with readers in the comment section. So, Sister Paoqiu is still here.
"By the way, you mentioned a notice?" Ni Yue stood up from his chair and grabbed Xu Zhiqian, asking, "What notice? Where's the notice?"
"Oh, King B posted a notice at the door of the store, informing everyone..."
Before Xu Zhiqian could finish his words, Ni Yue turned around and ran downstairs.
Chen Yuang followed closely behind.
Regardless of the fact that she was wearing slippers, she ran to the side of the road, hurriedly scooted a shared yellow bike, and rode all the way to "Xiaoshengbb" in one breath. Sure enough, the window that was once bustling with activity was sealed with a row of wooden boards.
There is an A4 paper stuck on the wooden board.
She walked over and saw only a few lines of words written on it:
notify
This shop is permanently closed. I will run to the moon with my love. See you later. B King.
A rose was drawn next to it with a pink pen.
The signature was a week ago.
"They closed down a week ago?!" Ni Yue was shocked and turned to Chen Yuang and said, "We didn't even notice?!"
She did not mean to blame Chen Yuang, or rather, she blamed everyone including Chen Yuang, including herself, because she had just come to the hospital for the second blocking injection a few days ago. It was Xiao Ma Ge who drove her there that day, and the two of them were so busy chatting that they didn't notice that "Xiaosheng bb" had closed.
"I'm sorry," Chen Yuang apologized even though he didn't think he was wrong. "I haven't been drinking much lately, so I haven't been paying much attention to what's going on here."
Ni Yue remained silent for a while. She looked up at the second floor and saw it was pitch black.
He turned around and walked to the back of the building, ran up the stairs in two steps, and saw an A4 paper pasted on the door of B Wang's house, with exactly the same content.
"They're gone," she murmured to herself, "they're really gone..."
"So, when Sister Ball Runner and King B invited us over last time, they actually wanted to say goodbye in private?" Chen Yuang tried to control himself, a look of regret still showing on his face. "Running to the moon? Are they planning to leave this world?"
Chen Yuang had the same idea as Ni Yue just now, but she didn't think so now.
Her fingers gently rubbed the A4 paper, and from time to time they sank into the petals of the pink roses, as if a trace of rose fragrance was lingering on her fingertips. Well, she remembered that this was an Ecuadorian rose.
——Ecuadorian rose?!
A memory buried deep in his soul suddenly awakened. Ni Yue turned around and grabbed Chen Yuang, his voice filled with uncontrollable excitement:
"I know! They went to Ecuador!"
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