Chapter 97
The surgery was very difficult in some ways, and the atmosphere in the operating room was very tense. Everyone moved very carefully and cautiously, and they were under a lot of pressure.
Midway through the procedure, the hematology team suddenly rushed in. Seeing the surgery already in progress, he felt a wave of dizziness. He opened his mouth to say something, but Xiaowei, who was standing nearby, saw him and quickly pulled him aside.
As a junior assistant in the operating room, she didn't have much to do, especially since Sister Hao intentionally left her aside. She was probably the most idle person in the entire operating room.
"What are you going to do?" Xiaowei asked, frowning. "The surgery is at a critical moment now."
The hematologist, sweating profusely, held a test report in his hand and anxiously whispered to Xiaowei, "We can't do it! This surgery can't be done this way!"
He glanced at Dr. Luo and Sister Hao, who were racing against time to operate on the patient on the operating table, and said with a grim expression, "The patient's blood test results are in. He is HIV antibody positive. He is an AIDS patient!"
When the hematologists saw the test results, their scalps practically tingled with fear, especially considering that Dr. Luo and his team were currently performing surgery. They felt their scalps go numb, as if their blood had frozen.
They didn't dare delay any longer and had him rush over with the test report, praying that the surgery hadn't started yet.
However, what he saw before him shattered his illusions—the surgery had not only begun, but it seemed to have reached a point where it could not be stopped. What should he do now?
When Xiaowei heard what her hematology colleague said, she didn't feel scared; instead, she felt a sense of relief.
"What the little turtle said was indeed true..." she thought, and a huge sense of relief welled up in her heart.
However, her reaction was seen as too calm by her hematology colleagues.
My colleague asked incredulously, "Why don't you have any reaction at all? This patient is an HIV patient! You could all get infected with HIV if you're not careful! Even if you take post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) afterwards, it's not 100% preventative."
My colleague was both excited and worried.
Xiaowei snapped out of her daze and, seeing the situation, quickly said, "It's not that I didn't react, it's just that we already knew the patient was HIV-positive."
The colleague calmed down and said, "You knew all along? Did the patient inform you beforehand?"
Xiao Wei shook her head: "No... we just guessed."
You guessed it?
"Um……"
Xiaowei's colleague stared at her in utter disbelief, completely unable to believe what she had just heard—had she guessed it? Had she guessed it?!
He had considered countless reasons, but he never imagined that the final answer he would receive would be "I guessed it." Doesn't that sound a bit too frivolous? Was Xiaowei really not just saying this to tease him?
Xiaowei didn't have time to explain Xu Gui's situation at this point, so she could only use those three words to gloss over it for the time being. She said, "Actually, Sister Hao specifically asked the family about this before the surgery, but the family denied it..."
A colleague glanced at Dr. Luo and his team who were in the middle of surgery and asked in a low voice, "Since you all know about this, why are you still performing the surgery?"
Xiaowei looked at him and asked in return, "Otherwise what? At a time like this, are you just going to abandon the patient and ignore them?"
My colleague calmed down.
Xiao Wei said, "If you were standing here on the operating table like us back then, I think you would have made the same choice as Dr. Luo and the others."
Since you've put on the doctor's uniform, you have to be responsible for the white coat you're wearing. No one can desert their post... Thinking of this, my colleague couldn't help but take a deep breath.
Xiaowei whispered, "You don't need to worry too much about us. We've already done our best to protect ourselves. Everyone will take care of themselves! But you, you should just go out now."
Her colleague glanced at her and nodded.
Xiaowei watched the other person leave, took a deep breath, and returned to the operating table. This time, she didn't bother them again. The red light in the operating room stayed on until it suddenly went out more than three hours later.
After the surgery was completed, Xiaowei told Sister Hao and the others about her colleagues from the hematology department coming over.
The blood test results from the hematology department have come back, and it can now be confirmed that the patient is an HIV patient.
Upon hearing this news, everyone in the operating room couldn't help but feel somewhat fortunate. They were glad that they had listened to Sister Hao's advice, taken proper precautions, and remained very careful throughout the entire surgery, striving not to come into contact with any danger.
"Sister Hao, who told you the patient had AIDS? Now you should tell us, right?" her colleagues couldn't help but ask. "We really owe her a lot, otherwise we would have been in danger!"
The patient's family has consistently denied that the patient has an infectious disease, so when asked how she knew about it, Sister Hao replied, "...someone secretly told me."
But Sister Hao never revealed who this person was, nor was she willing to tell them.
Of course, Sister Hao wasn't deliberately keeping them in suspense; it was just that the situation at the time wasn't a good opportunity to explain. She couldn't very well tell everyone that a fortune teller had told her, could she? She was afraid they would think she was crazy.
Therefore, that was the only reason she could think of at the time.
Now, however, she had no more reservations, so she directly told everyone about Xu Gui. The reaction of everyone upon hearing this was similar to what Sister Hao had imagined: disbelief and suspicion.
If it weren't for the fact that the patient really is HIV-positive, everyone's first reaction would definitely be that Sister Hao is joking, but now...
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.
*
Xu Gui wasn't too aware of the commotion at the hospital; she'd actually been quite busy these past few days.
After returning to City A, people came to see her every day. The person who came to see her on the first day was someone who surprised her quite a bit—it was Mao Dayong, Mao Taiping's grandson. It was he who asked Xu Gui to help him figure out where his grandfather had hidden the inheritance.
This is why it was only then that the fact that Mao Taiping donated a large sum of assets to the state free of charge came to light.
Because of this incident, the Mao family didn't like Xu Gui very much, so Xu Gui never expected that Mao Dayong would come looking for him one day.
"I've come to see you because I need your help with something..." Mao Dayong said, looking a little embarrassed—he seemed much more mature now than when we first met.
Xu Gui: ?
"What is it?" she asked.
Mao Dayong told her to wait, then walked to the trunk of the car, opened it, and bent down to take something out of the trunk.
From Xu Gui's perspective, it's impossible to see what's in the trunk; all you can see is Mao Dayong struggling and exerting himself, suggesting that the contents of the trunk are quite heavy.
Finally, after Mao Dayong had completely moved the thing out, Xu Gui could see clearly what this so-called "heavy object" that Mao Dayong had put in the trunk was.
"...Isn't this your family's old tortoise?" She looked at Mao Dayong in surprise. "Why did you move it here?"
Mao Dayong put the tortoise down—this tortoise had lived for several hundred years and was quite heavy; it had tired him to carry it.
Hearing Xu Gui's words, he wiped the sweat from his face, looked up and said, "This is the favor I want you to do. I'll give you this turtle. Can you take it and raise it?"
Xu Gui: "...Why?"
Mao Dayong pursed his lips and said, "My dad plans to sell it. I'm afraid it won't live well after it's sold. It's so lazy, what if other people don't like it and beat or scold it?"
After saying that, he looked up at Xu Gui and said, "Miss Xu, you're different. You can even communicate with the giant tortoise. You'll definitely like it very much and treat it very well! So, I want to entrust it to you!"
Xu Gui glanced at the large tortoise that was lying lazily on the ground, too lazy to move, and asked Mao Dayong, "...Don't you hate it?"
Mao Dayong said awkwardly, "I don't particularly dislike it. After all, it's my grandfather's heirloom, and it's something that watched me grow up."
Hearing this, Mao Dayong couldn't help but feel a little strange—being watched over and raised by a tortoise didn't sound like a nice thing.
Mao Dayong sighed again. He squatted down, reached out and touched the giant tortoise's shell, and said with some disappointment, "My grandfather has passed away. I can't just sell his tortoise too, can I?"
And to put it bluntly, this turtle is his elder.
"I remember when I was little, my grandpa would put me on the back of a big turtle and let it carry me..." But the big turtle was really too lazy. It wouldn't move at all while carrying me. In the end, my grandpa scolded it and got so angry that he jumped into their big pond with me on its back.
Mao Dayong couldn't help but laugh when he thought of his grandfather's expression back then, but after laughing, he felt a little lost. After all, his grandfather had passed away, and now even the big turtle he raised was going to be sold by his father.
“So, I’m going to give it to you,” he said.
Xu Gui: "Oh, then I should thank you for trusting me so much." He entrusted all of his grandfather's belongings to me.
Upon hearing this, Mao Dayong, seemingly oblivious to the sarcasm in Xu Gui's tone, replied, "You're welcome. Just treat the big turtle well!"
Xu Gui: "..." You really don't hold back.
She walked over and squatted down next to the big tortoise, reaching out to touch its shell, and said, "It's not that I don't want to help, but this guy is so big, and where I live now, there's no pond where it can live."
“It’s okay,” Mao Dayong said. “Just because your place isn’t big now doesn’t mean it won’t be big in the future. When you have money and buy a big house, you can just move the big tortoise to a bigger place.”
Xu Gui looked at him strangely and said, "You seem to have a lot of faith in me."
Mao Dayong said, "I watched your live stream. You make so much money, you'll be able to afford a big house soon... Sigh, I'm different. I've never been good at anything since I was a child. My biggest wish is to live off my parents. Luckily, my grandfather left me a house, otherwise I would definitely be in a worse situation now."
Why did he work so hard to find his grandfather's inheritance in the first place? Wasn't it just so he could live off his parents without worry? Unfortunately, his dream was shattered in the end.
"Miss Xu, then I'll entrust the big tortoise to you!" He looked at Xu Gui expectantly.
Seeing his serious expression, Xu Gui said, "...Alright, for the sake of the big tortoise." — We're all tortoises, so let's look after each other, even though our Xuan Turtle clan is actually a different kind of creature from ordinary tortoises.
"But if you give me this turtle, won't your father be angry and come after me?" she asked Mao Dayong.
Mao Dayong said, "So, I prepared this..."
He ran to the passenger seat and took out a... contract from his bag?
Xu Gui looked at him with a puzzled expression.
Mao Dayong said seriously, "I've decided to sell you the big turtle for ten yuan. We'll both sign it, so even if my dad causes you trouble, you won't have to be afraid!"
Xu Gui's gaze shifted slightly as she looked at him, and she exclaimed, "You really are very thoughtful."
However, from this perspective, it's clear that he's genuinely considering the well-being of the giant tortoise.
Xu Gui said, "I can sign the contract, and the turtle can stay with me. But I hope you can handle things properly with your father... After all, if your father really comes looking for trouble with me, I will absolutely not get entangled with him. I will simply return the turtle to him."
Upon hearing this, Mao Dayong became somewhat anxious, but before he could speak, Xu Gui said, "In the end, this matter has nothing to do with me, does it?"
Mao Dayong opened his mouth, but in the end, he lowered his head, looking somewhat dejected.
“You’re right, this has nothing to do with you in the first place…” he murmured.
Xu Gui signed the contract with him, paid him ten yuan, and Mao Dayong left. Before leaving, he touched the shell of the big turtle and mumbled something to it.
After he left, Xu Gui looked down and saw a large turtle that had somehow poked its head out of its shell, its eyes fixed on the direction Mao Dayong had left. He bent down and picked it up.
“Okay, from now on that’s my turtle. I have another turtle at home, but it’s not as big as yours…” She carried the big turtle toward her room at the orphanage, muttering to herself as she walked, “Should I give you both names? How about you’re called Big Turtle and it’s called Little Turtle?”
...
In the afternoon, the children at the orphanage heard from somewhere that Xu Gui had brought back a big turtle, and they all gathered around to see it.
Because of limited room space, Xu Gui found a large basin to keep the giant turtle in and placed it in the bathroom. At this moment, the big guy was lazily lying in it, letting the children reach out and poke its shell, looking quite content with its lot.
The dean asked Xu Gui, "What kind of turtle is this?"
Xu Gui then told her about how Mao Dayong had entrusted the giant tortoise to her. At the end, she scratched her head and said, "We have limited resources right now, so we can only make do with it for now. When I have more money in the future, I'll build it a big pond to live in!"
The dean looked at her, hesitant to speak, but in the end he said nothing.
However, just two days later, a pond was built in the backyard of the orphanage next to a big tree. The bottom was hollowed out and water was brought in. Large stones were piled up around the pond so that the water would not splash out.
Considering there were children in the orphanage, the pond wasn't dug very deep, just the right size for Xu Gui to put the big turtle there.
"With this pond, you won't have to keep the turtles in your house anymore, making the whole house flooded," the director said.
Xu Gui looked at her with emotion: "...Dean."
The dean said, "I didn't do this. It was your Uncle Liu who did it. You know your Uncle Liu is very skillful. Digging a small pond is a piece of cake for him."
Xu Gui reached out and hugged her, rubbing his cheek against her shoulder, and said coquettishly, "Dean, thank you and Uncle Liu for digging the pond for me... The big turtle will definitely be very happy to see it."
The director patted her on the back and sighed, "If anyone should be saying thank you, it should be us, Little Turtle. The money you donated to the orphanage has been a huge help to us."
The director used the money donated by Xu Gui to adjust the children's meals, and in just over a month, the children looked much healthier, which made everyone at the orphanage very happy.
And all of this is thanks to Xu Gui.
Xu Gui herself didn't seem to care much about this. She said, "Don't worry, Dean. I will earn lots of money in the future so that everyone can live a good life."
As the dean listened to her words, the vague idea in her mind grew stronger. She reached out and patted Xu Gui's arm again, a thoughtful look flashing in her eyes.
...
The orphanage had a pond, so Xu Gui put the big turtle in it to raise. At the same time, she also put the little turtle in the fish tank—she had asked the little turtle what it wanted, and the little turtle also wanted to live in the big pond, so she put it in there too.
Next time we need to feed them, we'll have to come to the pond.
As a month passed, Kuang Ming suddenly brought someone to see Xu Gui. According to Kuang Ming, this person was named Qin Zhongyi. The name sounded like a tall and strong man, but in reality, he was a man who looked very thin and pale, and even had a gloomy temperament.
Qin Zhongyi works in asset management, also known as financial advisor, specializing in managing the assets of wealthy people. He is a very famous financial advisor, and the clients he has worked with in the past were all worth at least hundreds of millions of yuan. He was paid millions of yuan every month.
In comparison, Xu Gui, the employer with assets of over 800,000, seems rather stingy. However, he and Kuang Ming are good friends, which is why he accepted Xu Gui's job.
“If you’re willing, Qin Zhongyi can help you manage your money in the future…” Kuang Ming said, glancing at the orphanage. “Even if you want to use this money to build your orphanage, you can entrust that to him. He will provide a reasonable financial plan and can also help you contact a renovation team.”
Curious, Xu Gui turned to look at the other person: "Is he that good?"
Kuang Ming chuckled and said, "Don't let Zhongyi's youth fool you, he's a very famous financial advisor. You know the movie star Meng Die, right? She entrusted her assets to Zhongyi to manage!"
He glanced at Xu Gui and said irritably, "Compared to your behavior of having no financial planning whatsoever and transferring all your earnings to the orphanage, I think you should entrust your assets to my professionals to manage."
Speaking of this, we have to mention Kuang Ming's reaction when he found out that Xu Gui had earned so much money but only left him a few tens of thousands.
He really didn't expect that Xu Gui would be so...so willing, so generous.
When Xu Gui said during her live stream that she wanted to earn money for the orphanage, he thought she was just putting on a show, saying things to gain favor with everyone. He never expected that Xu Gui would actually do what she said. She really did what she said back then.
Kuang Ming: ...After getting to know her, I should have known that she was that kind of person, completely consistent inside and out.
In short, he couldn't stand Xu Gui's reckless spending, so he simply found a familiar financial advisor to introduce her to a planner. That way, even if she wanted to use the money for the orphanage, the financial advisor could explain every penny clearly and plan it out in detail, so that she wouldn't be confused and not know where the money went.
Xu Gui took the business card Qin Zhongyi handed her and asked curiously, "If I want to turn our orphanage into the world's number one orphanage, can you help me make a reasonable plan?"
Qin Zhongyi was taken aback, somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected that the employer Kuang Ming had introduced to him this time would have such... such ambition.
Qin Zhongyi didn't know how to describe it.
If you say she's not very ambitious, she wants to turn an orphanage into the world's number one orphanage. But if you say she's very ambitious, the thing she wants to turn into the world's number one is actually an orphanage.
"...Miss Xu, what are you planning to do by building the world's number one orphanage?" Qin Zhongyi couldn't help but ask.
Xu Gui said, "They didn't say anything, but the children in orphanages are usually children who have no father or mother, no relatives, and have been abandoned. As they grow up, they are often looked at strangely or ridiculed for not having parents and being an orphan."
"So, I want to change this situation..."
"I want to make our orphanage the number one orphanage in the world! It will have a first-class amusement park, a first-class restaurant, and all the facilities will be the best in the world! I want children all over the world to envy them for living in the orphanage."
"That way, if they ever encounter someone making fun of them again, they can hold their heads high and proudly tell those people that they live in the world's number one orphanage!"
Xu Gui looked at Kuang Ming and the other man with bright eyes and asked, "What do you think? Isn't my idea great?"
Kuang Ming looked at her with some surprise, his eyes seeming as if he was seeing Xu Gui for the first time.
“I didn’t expect you to think that way…” he said. “But if you can really do that, then the children in your orphanage” will definitely be the happiest children in the world.
Upon hearing this, Xu Gui said smugly, "Right? That's what I thought too!"
Qin Zhongyi pondered, "...In that case, Miss Xu, are you planning to turn your orphanage into a huge theme park?"
Xu Gui was puzzled: "...Huh?" Wasn't it an orphanage? How did it turn into a theme park?
"Isn't that right?" Qin Zhongyi retorted. "You know, the place that children in this world yearn for the most right now is Disneyland... Miss Xu, if you want children all over the world to envy the children in your orphanage, then your orphanage must naturally have a place that other children can envy."
"Amusement parks are the places children dream of the most..."
The world's number one amusement park sounds amazing to children.
After listening, Xu Gui exclaimed: "Wow, this Mr. Qin Zhongyi is really skilled!"
"Then I want to build a world-class amusement park that will attract children all over the world..." Xu Gui's vague idea gradually became clearer under Qin Zhongyi's description.
Imagine, a place that children all over the world long for, if they knew that the children in their orphanage lived there... they would be incredibly envious of the children in their orphanage.
That's right, that's exactly it!
Xu Gui was thinking when he suddenly grabbed Qin Zhongyi's hand and said earnestly and excitedly, "Mr. Qin, please help me! I've decided, I don't want to build the world's number one orphanage anymore, I want to build the world's number one amusement park!"
Qin Zhongyi: "..."
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