Chapter 13
Ji Liao originally wanted to go and see the new house after the transfer, but unfortunately Wen Qiu summoned him, so he had to go.
Although it is a private hospital, the outpatient department is still crowded.
Ji Liao found a place to park his scooter and followed the signs to the inpatient department.
As the elevator door opened, he and Zhang Nan looked at each other.
"You're finally here."
Zhang Nan moved aside and Ji Liao went in.
Others followed suit and piled into the elevator.
"What's the hurry?" Ji Liao asked in a low voice next to Zhang Nan.
Zhang Nan shook his head.
The elevator rose floor by floor and people kept getting out.
When they reached the top floor, Ji Liao and Zhang Nan were the only ones left in the elevator.
Zhang Nan refused to explain, and Ji Liao stopped asking. He didn't move when the door opened.
He didn't know where the original owner's grandmother was, so he had to wait for Zhang Nan to lead the way.
Zhang Nan really extended his hand and said, "Go ahead, President Wen is waiting for you."
“…”
Seeing that Zhang Nan didn't move a step, Ji Liao had to leave the elevator by himself.
There are only a few private rooms on this floor, each with a dedicated nurse.
The hall was very quiet and spacious. Ji Liao was worried about being exposed, but he saw Wen Qiu at a glance.
Wen Qiu was still wearing the same suit he wore this morning and was standing next to a doctor in a white coat.
As soon as Ji Liao appeared, Wen Qiu looked over.
Wen Qiu signaled Ji Liao with his eyes.
Ji Liao trotted over.
The doctor seemed to know the original owner. He handed over a document and said familiarly, "Sign it."
Ji Liao saw that both Qiu and the doctor looked normal and no one explained the situation to him, so he simply looked through the documents himself.
There are only two pieces of paper in total, which are "Disclaimers" requiring patients' families to abide by hospital rules when visiting patients, otherwise they will bear the consequences themselves.
Ji Liao:?
Visiting patients?
He was confused when Wen Qiu next to him finally spoke:
"You haven't seen your grandma in a long time, right?"
Ji Liao: ...
I was careless.
Since entering the book, he has been so overwhelmed by the constant income that he has completely forgotten the original owner's grandmother.
After all, the book said that the original owner's grandmother was well taken care of by the villain. Both the medical staff and the equipment used were of the highest level, so Ji Liao didn't think about what his grandmother needed him to do, so he ignored it.
Will Wen Qiu think he is ungrateful for this?
Ji Liao quickly signed his name, handed the disclaimer back to the doctor, smiled, and said, "Thank you, doctor."
Then he replied to Wen Qiu: "I will come here often in the future, Mr. Wen."
Ji's workplace survival rule - when you don't know how to argue, get away with it by being ambiguous.
Wen Qiu really didn't ask any further questions.
After putting on the sterile suit prepared for family members, Ji Liao followed the nurse into the ward area.
Ji Liao had only been to the general ward of the inpatient department of a tertiary hospital before. It was full of people and completely different from here.
This ward area has a lot of space once you enter the door.
It's just that there's no one there, so it seems empty.
After entering another door, Ji Liao arrived at the real ward of the original owner's grandmother.
"Hello, Mr. Ji." The nurse in charge of supervision came forward.
Ji Liao smiled politely: "Is my grandma okay?"
The nurse paused for two seconds and said, "Everything is normal."
Ji Liao didn't hear the hidden meaning and nodded, "I'll go take a look."
After saying that, he reached out to open the door.
The nurse hurriedly stopped him: "Sorry, Mr. Ji, you can't go in!"
Ji Liao:?
Under Ji Liao's puzzled gaze, the nurse pressed a button.
The foggy "wall" suddenly turned into transparent and flawless glass.
Wow.
Ji Liao marveled at the high technology in his heart.
Walking up and through the glass, Ji Liao saw the real grandmother of the original owner for the first time.
The huge ward was filled with various instruments.
In the middle, a bed supported the patient.
Maybe grandma was too thin, the white medical quilt almost buried her.
What attracted more attention than the people were the tubes extending from under the quilt.
Those tubes were thick and thin, with unknown liquid flowing inside.
Ji Liao's heart was pounding. He tried to calm himself down and then shifted his gaze to his grandmother's face buried in the pillow.
No one can stay plump after being bedridden for a long time.
The old man was not sleeping as imagined.
Due to muscle loss, the old man's cheeks and eye sockets are deeply sunken, and his entire face looks like a skeleton wrapped in human skin.
The old man's face was not the dark yellow or pale color of an ordinary patient, but a lifeless gray.
If the detector next to him had not shown a normal heartbeat curve, Ji Liao would have suspected that the old man was no longer alive.
A surge of resentment surged in my chest.
Ji Liao felt short of breath.
The nurse pointed to a speaker-like device on the wall next to her and said, "Mr. Ji, you can talk to the patient here."
Ji Liao struggled to control his breathing, staring at the old man and not getting close to the loudspeaker.
He simply asked softly, "Can she hear me?"
There was another silence.
"She can't hear."
Ji Liao muttered to himself and answered his own questions.
The nurse immediately retorted: "There is no evidence that the patient can't hear."
Ji Liao pulled the corner of his mouth and said self-deprecatingly: "It's better if I can't hear it."
It turns out that this is what the book means by "relying on equipment to maintain life."
People no longer have consciousness and can no longer even be called human beings.
It's just using advanced technology to maintain breathing and heartbeat.
Ji Liao understood the original owner's reluctance to see her grandmother pass away. After all, her grandmother was her only relative, and if she were gone, she would lose the meaning of life.
But what is the meaning of grandma’s life?
Is she in pain?
When Ji Liao was a child, his parents divorced and he was left to be taken care of by his grandparents.
Unfortunately, my grandparents were not in good health. My grandmother passed away early, and my grandfather suffered a sudden cerebral infarction and was paralyzed in bed.
Ji Liao was sent to boarding school because he had no one to take care of him.
However, when school is on vacation and he has nowhere to go, he will still go back to his grandfather's house to help take care of him.
During that time, my grandfather was mainly taken care of by my uncle's family.
My grandfather's condition is quite serious. He can't move his whole body and even speaks slurredly.
My uncle's family didn't take good care of my grandfather, and every time Ji Liao went there, there was an unpleasant smell in my grandfather's room.
Then Ji Liao helped his grandfather wash clothes, change bedding, feed him, wash his face, wipe his body, etc.
From the few words from his uncle and others, Ji Liao learned that his grandfather's pension was very high, so he had to save his grandfather.
But taking care of the elderly is too tiring.
Ji Liao was young at that time. Apart from working hard, he could only secretly call out to his grandfather over and over again.
"Grandpa, Grandpa..."
He thought that as long as his grandfather woke up, he would be well again.
Until one afternoon during the summer vacation, when no one was at home, he helped his grandfather sit with the fan on his side while he lay on the side doing his homework.
The old fan brought a hot and humid wind and a vague murmur.
"Let me die."
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