Chen Dayong gave a thumbs up and said, "Brother, you are at a higher level. If it were me, I would have wanted to wear gloves all the time to protect my hands."
Zhu Haiping ate his meal in the cafeteria while picking up the food from Chen Dayong's bowl and nodded. "I also think we should protect our hands. After all, it's hard to find another Zheng Ge in our county hospital!"
Li Zheng interrupted them with a smile, "Okay, I'm not a rare species, I don't need special protection!"
At night, after taking a walk, Li Zheng and Lin Xiaomei did not go back to the emergency room to sleep, but went straight to sleep in the dormitory. They felt more at ease with Chen Dayong in the emergency room.
…
late at night.
In the cemetery outside the county town, the cold moonlight is scattered on the tombstones in the cemetery, and from time to time there are birds cooing in the trees.
In the duty room at the entrance of the cemetery, the tomb keeper Lao Zhou curled up on a bamboo bed with a distorted face, his hands tightly grasping the faded quilt, and terrifying growls constantly coming from his throat.
"Don't pull me... Don't pull me... You little brats... Get out of here!"
After shouting a few times, Lao Zhou's forehead was covered with sweat and his body was soaked with sweat.
"It hurts...it hurts so much! Ghosts...evil ghosts, don't come and catch me!" Lao Zhou moved his body slightly. He felt like he was being tortured, as if countless hands were tearing his muscles.
His daughter Xiulan came to the bedside, carrying a bowl of grayish-black water. Tears welled up in her eyes. She looked at Old Zhou with heartache and whispered, "Dad, this is the evil-removing soup prescribed by Zhang Banxian from the county. Drink it quickly, it's very effective!"
Old Zhou suddenly turned over and sat up, knocking over the medicine bowl with a slap, and porcelain pieces scattered all over the floor.
"This is all the water that the third Taoist priest boiled. It's useless...useless! I've guarded the mausoleum my whole life. I know there's an evil spirit inside, transformed into a wild boar. I shouldn't have killed that wild boar, let alone eaten it. Now it's trying to kill me!"
His son Zhou Dashan was squatting on the steps at the door, smoking a cheap cigarette, with ashes all over the floor.
"We've been to the hospital three times, and the blood and urine tests came back fine. It must be that wild boar, an unclean creature transformed! Dad, let's go to the temple and worship the Buddha to drive that thing away!" Zhou Dashan got up and returned to the house.
Zhou Xiulan glared at Zhou Dashan fiercely and said, "Didn't we pray the day before yesterday? It's no use. That ghost is too powerful!"
"This doesn't work, and that doesn't work. What should I do?" Zhou Dashan was so angry that he squatted on the ground again.
"Ghost! Ghost... Don't come over here, don't come over here!" Old Zhou's legs suddenly started kicking straight up, and his eyes were so swollen that he couldn't open them.
Zhou Xiulan touched Old Zhou's forehead and said, "Oh, he has a high fever! What should I do?"
Zhou Dashan quickly stood up and shouted, "What can we do? Go to the hospital to reduce the fever!"
After saying that, he carried Lao Zhou on his back and ran out of the house.
…
Finally, Chen Dayong was on duty and Li Zheng could sleep in the dormitory alone.
In the middle of the night, the dormitory manager, Uncle Ding, quietly came to the door of Li Zheng's house.
“Knock, knock, knock… knock, knock…”
There was a rhythmic knock on the door, and Li Zheng woke up instantly.
"Who?" Li Zheng shouted vigilantly.
"I, your uncle."
Li Zheng recognized that it was the dormitory supervisor, Deng Bo, and it must be an emergency.
When he opened the door, Ding Bo, wearing a military coat, was standing at the door. He said unhappily, "It's the middle of the night, and the emergency department called again. They said there's a very strange patient and asked you to come over."
Li Zheng nodded and said, "Thank you, Uncle Ding, I'll go right away."
Ding Bo turned around and yawned, "It's really... it's the middle of the night and I can't even get a good night's sleep!"
Li Zheng quickly put on his clothes, locked the door, and rushed to the emergency room.
When I arrived at the treatment room, I saw an old man lying on the treatment bed. His legs were shaking and he looked very painful.
Chen Dayong was examining the patient, while Zhu Haiping was asking about the patient's medical history.
"What's going on?" Li Zheng came to the bedside and saw at a glance that the old man had a high fever, his cheeks were red and he was sweating profusely.
Zhu Haiping turned to Li Zheng and said, "According to the family's description, the patient suddenly developed severe abdominal pain and diarrhea two weeks ago. He went to the clinic for injections and infusions, which should be antibiotics, and his condition improved. Three days ago, he suddenly developed fever, chills, fatigue, and severe pain in both legs. The injections and medication at the clinic didn't help..."
"Doctor, you just need to relieve my father's pain and reduce his fever. He is possessed by the evil spirit in the cemetery. We need to go to the temple to ask a more powerful wizard to drive away the evil spirit!" Zhou Dashan said with a dissatisfied look on his face. He has been here for so long, but he doesn't need any medicine and just asks questions.
"Now that you're in the hospital, don't think about those supernatural things. Your father must be sick. If we find the cause, he can be cured!" Li Zheng said.
"Hmph, we went to the clinic and had blood and urine tests done, but they couldn't find anything wrong. They said it was a ghost. If you don't believe me, look at my dad's eyes!" Zhou Dashan pointed at Lao Zhou dissatisfiedly.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" Li Zheng looked at Lao Zhou.
Chen Dayong stopped examining the patient, handed the flashlight to Li Zheng, and said, "Brother, your eyes look a little weird."
Li Zheng took the flashlight and saw Lao Zhou's face. He found that he had a weird smile on his face and was looking at him. Li Zheng was shocked.
Li Zheng certainly didn't believe in ghosts and gods. He pried open Lao Zhou's eyelids, shone a light on him, and was shocked.
Lao Zhou's eyes were bloodshot and the whites of his eyeballs were almost invisible!
Zhu Haiping looked at the room with his hair standing on end. The temperature in the emergency room seemed to have dropped by several degrees.
"How scary!" Zhu Haiping's teeth were chattering.
The weird smile and blood-red eyes, this scene is really scary.
Zhou Xiulan was so scared that she covered her eyes with her hands.
Zhou Dashan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, and urged, "Doctor, what exactly is wrong with him? Even if you can't find out, give him painkillers and fever reducers right away. Don't waste time! We still have to go to the temple."
Lao Zhou's intravenous access has been established.
Li Zheng said to the nurse: "Give him 0.5 grams of Anesthesia by intramuscular injection, and 500 milliliters of saline solution by intravenous drip..."
The nurse quickly processed Li Zheng's verbal medical instructions.
With the use of medication, Mr. Zhou's condition gradually improved and his family members were no longer so anxious.
Li Zheng carefully inquired about Mr. Zhou's medical history. He was previously in good health and had no underlying diseases. This illness was obviously not a common physical illness, but was probably caused by external factors.
"He usually guards the tombs in the cemetery. Does he usually prepare his own food?" Li Zheng asked.
Zhou Xiulan nodded and said, "My father always buys his own meat, and he has a small plot of land in the cemetery where he grows his own vegetables."
Li Zheng frowned. These things should not cause him to suddenly fall ill.
"Did he eat any special food two weeks ago?" Li Zheng asked again.
Zhou Dashan quickly said, "Half a month ago, a wild boar suddenly appeared in the cemetery. My father killed the boar with a hoe and ate the meat."
Hearing this, Li Zheng's eyes lit up.
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