Yu Shui was helped to join the queue by Li Yinhe. Looking at the long queue in front of them, the two of them fell silent.
Yu Shui looked at Li Yinhe with embarrassment, "I'm so sorry, it's all because of me that I've hurt you..."
When Li Yinhe first heard the doctor say that he got the disease from eating black market canned meat, he resented Yu Shui. However, when he saw Yu Shui's guilty expression, his anger suddenly dissipated.
“If it weren’t for you, I might have gone to the black market too. You just told us about the place; you didn’t force us to buy anything or eat anything.”
Li Yinhe gave a bitter smile. "If I hadn't been so unable to control my eating, I wouldn't have gotten this disease. Instead of blaming you, I should blame myself."
Upon hearing Li Yinhe's words, Yu Shui felt even more embarrassed, "I really didn't expect it to turn out like this."
"Alright, what's the use of regretting it now that it's already happened? Let's hurry up and see how to get treatment." After saying that, Li Yinhe ignored Yu Shui and made a phone call to her family.
When Li Yinhe's parents heard that she was in the hospital, they panicked. After hearing the whole story, they were so frightened that their legs went weak.
Upon seeing this, Yu Shui quickly called her family and, after informing them, also shared the situation of the two of them in the company group chat.
As a result, those who had bought meat on the black market panicked.
After waiting for nearly two hours, it was finally Yu Shui and Li Yinhe's turn to have a CT scan. By the time they received the results, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.
The two returned to the infectious disease clinic, and the doctor gave a diagnosis after looking at the scans.
"Cysticercosis mainly affects the subcutaneous tissue. In addition to the subcutaneous tissue, Li Yinhe also has a lot of it in her brain. She should take medication first, and then have a follow-up visit after finishing the medication. If the medication cannot cure it, Li Yinhe will have to undergo brain surgery."
"Doctor, I eat more than him, how could his condition be more serious than mine?" Yu Shui asked Li Yinhe in disbelief. He would rather have neurocysticercosis himself, as that would make him feel better.
"This is related to individual constitution and luck."
Yu Shui felt so guilty that she didn't dare to look at Li Yinhe, but Li Yinhe remained calm and said, "Let's go get the medicine."
As soon as the two stepped out of the consultation room, they saw several colleagues from work who had bought meat on the black market, as well as Yu Shui and Li Yinhe's family members. "How is it? Is it serious?"
The two briefly explained the diagnosis results, and everyone turned pale upon hearing them. As they chatted together, they saw a emaciated patient leaning against the wall and vomiting.
The crowd was disgusted and kept their distance from the patient, but some of them had sharp eyes and accidentally saw the patient vomit a long white worm.
And so, a few more people joined the wall to vomit...
The commotion alerted the cleaning lady, whose face darkened upon seeing the situation. As she came over with her tools to clean up, she grumbled, "How many worms is this already? I'm so afraid of worms, but this hospital has made me immune! I don't know how some people can be so capable; everyone else passes worms, but he can vomit them up! Tsk tsk tsk!"
Everyone standing by could only shout, "Auntie is awesome!"
After the aunt left, Yu Shui and Li Yinhe went to the pharmacy to get their medicine, while the others went directly to the infectious disease clinic. But when they finished buying their medicine, they found everyone waiting for them at the entrance.
Why are you all here?
"The doctor is about to go off duty; they told us to come back tomorrow!"
"Oh, well, it is indeed getting late."
So everyone went home, spent a restless night, and went to the hospital early the next day to queue up.
After seeing the doctor, Yu Shui and Li Yinhe felt relieved. They didn't ask for leave the next day and went to Hucheng County with everyone as usual. However, given their condition, no one dared to let them do heavy work.
With no other option, Zhu Shiliang found Yu Shui and Li Yinhe a job burning grass. All they had to do was stand by the pit and burn the white chrysanthemums that everyone had brought over.
When Cui Xian brought over a large bunch of white chrysanthemums, Yu Shui hurriedly asked, "Those others have all taken leave to get checked. What about you? Did you get checked yesterday to see if you have cysticercosis?"
Cui Xian threw the white chrysanthemum in his hand into the pit, and looked at Yu Shui apologetically, saying, "I just have the most common tapeworm disease. I'll take some medicine to expel the worms and I'll be fine. As for the canned meat I bought, it was all eaten by the cat at home. My family and I didn't touch it!"
Yu Shui breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that it didn't eat, it's good that it didn't eat. But why did your cat eat it?"
Choi Hyun then said, “My family is very careful about what they eat. When they saw that the product I brought back was a counterfeit or substandard product, they didn’t dare to eat it. But they couldn’t bear to throw it away, so they fed it to my cat. I didn’t dare to tell you this because I was afraid you would feel uncomfortable about it.”
"Thank goodness you didn't eat it. I would have felt so guilty if you had. But you should take the cat for a check-up. It might need deworming. I heard from the vet that it can be cross-infected."
Choi Hyun nodded. "My family took Xiaomi to the vet today."
At noon, while Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were eating, Bi Qiaoan kept scratching her neck.
"What's wrong?"
"It feels so itchy here, can you take a look and see if I've been bitten by a mosquito?"
Shen Yanming brushed aside Bi Qiaoan's long hair and, sure enough, there were several red bumps on her neck. "She must have been bitten by some small insects. Wait a minute, I'll put some medicine on it for you."
Bi Qiaoan nodded, waiting for Shen Yanming to take out the ointment from his bag, and then take out a cotton swab to apply the cool ointment to Bi Qiaoan's skin.
"Um, can I put some on too?" Shi Leyong asked Shen Yanming.
Shen Yanming nodded and handed the ointment and cotton swab box to Shi Leyong, saying, "Qiao An and I still have some; please keep these for everyone else!"
After thanking Shen Yanming with a smile, Shi Leyong took off his coat and called Chen Qing over to help him apply the medicine.
Shen Yanming glanced at them and frowned. "Why are there so many bumps? Were they all from being bitten in the last couple of days?"
"Of course! I was so itchy last night that I couldn't sleep. I suggested I go out and buy some floral water and medicated oil, but guess what? They were out of stock! Where did you buy yours? I'll buy some when I get back today."
"We bought some last year, Xia Ran suggested it."
Shi Leyong glanced at the production date of the ointment in his hand; it was indeed from last year. "You guys are really lucky!"
Shen Yanming patted Shi Leyong on the shoulder with a smile, "Listen and observe more in the future. Good ideas often come out in our office, so you should listen to what we need to hear."
Shi Leyong nodded, "Understood!"
Shen Yanming ignored Shi Leyong and returned to Bi Qiaoan's side to continue eating. As a result, before he finished his meal, he saw that more than half of his colleagues had gone to Shi Leyong to borrow ointment.
"Is this...starting so early?" Shen Yanming murmured upon seeing this.
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