Chapter 126 Donate a kidney?
Lu Yan was rushed to the hospital late at night and was eventually diagnosed with coccyx perforation, requiring immediate surgery. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was injected with an anesthetic and became dizzy and unconscious.
Tang Rufeng initially thought that Lu Yan had some serious illness, but he was relieved when he learned that it was just a minor operation. He quickly ran downstairs to pay the fee and complete the hospitalization procedures, and waited outside the operating room. Fortunately, it was only a minimally invasive operation, and Lu Yan was wheeled out in less than an hour.
His kidney was not lost, but his tailbone was removed.
The next morning, Lu Yan woke up from anesthesia. The first thing he saw was the snow-white ceiling of the ward. The strong smell of medicine in the air was a bit pungent. He didn't know what he remembered. His face changed. He immediately reached out to touch his lower back, but accidentally pulled the wound and groaned in pain: "Um..."
Tang Rufeng didn't sleep all night. He just dozed off by the bed at dawn. He heard Lu Yan's muffled groan and subconsciously opened his eyes to check the situation. He found that Lu Yan was awake. He quickly stood up and asked, "How are you? Are you okay?"
Something happened, of course something happened.
Lu Yan's face turned pale, and he asked weakly, "Why did I end up in the hospital?"
Is his kidney okay? Tang Rufeng must not tell him that it was removed.
Tang Rufeng rarely saw Lu Yan's expression change, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange. He looked at Lu Yan deeply and explained, "You passed out yesterday due to the pain of appendicitis. I sent you to the hospital for surgery. The doctor said you only need to stay in the hospital for two days and you will be fine."
"It turns out to be appendicitis..."
Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, covered his abdomen, frowned, and said, "Hiss, why does it hurt so much?"
He had never had any surgery since he was a child. Now that the anesthetic had worn off, the wound was extremely painful. He had never endured such agony before.
Tang Rufeng used a cotton swab to wet his chapped lips and whispered, "You had surgery, so of course it hurts, but the doctor said this type of surgery will heal quickly and you'll be fine in a few days."
Lu Yan did not tell anyone about his hospitalization for surgery, especially the Lu family. To him, his relatives are no longer his relatives, but a presence more terrifying than a flood or a beast. Fortunately, with Tang Rufeng running around to take care of him, Lu Yan is not unable to take care of himself.
On the day before he was discharged from the hospital, Lu Yan took a simple shower in the bathroom, avoiding the wounds. Only then did he feel that he was alive again. He changed into a set of clean clothes, covered his abdomen and leaned against the door frame to watch Tang Rufeng pack his luggage. He felt that his movements were particularly skilled. Then he thought that Tang's mother had been hospitalized many times, and Tang Rufeng probably had some experience in taking care of her.
Lu Yan realized later that Tang Rufeng seemed to have not been attending classes for the past few days. He took care of him in the hospital during the day and typed on an old laptop at night. When he was sleepy, he would just take a nap in a chair. He had not slept for several nights. Lu Yan said that he was unwilling to add an extra bed for him to stay with him.
Lu Yan looked at Tang Rufeng's busy figure, and couldn't help being absent-minded. Finally, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you going to class today?"
Tang Rufeng was originally bending down to pack his clothes. Hearing this, he lowered his head to check the time and said, "I'll take you home before class."
He seemed to have long been accustomed to such high-intensity busyness. Even through his flesh and blood, Lu Yan could see the nerves in Tang Rufeng's mind were stretched to the extreme, as if they would break with a buzzing sound if they were gently touched, and the rebound force would hurt both him and himself.
Lu Yan walked over and quietly pulled the person into his arms from behind. His collar carried a faint scent of shower gel, which dispelled the smell of disinfectant that had been lingering in the tip of the nose. His voice was lazy, making people's ears itch, and he slowly uttered a sentence: "Actually... you don't have to work hard."
Tang Rufeng paused: "What do you mean?"
Lu Yan frowned and tried to explain, but didn't want to explain it too obviously: "You don't have to work so hard, I can support you in the future."
Tang Rufeng almost laughed at his words, and asked calmly, "Didn't Master Lu tell me not to sell myself out? Didn't he tell me not to keep a mistress?"
Lu Yan's eyes wandered: "People's ideas change."
Tang Rufeng could hear the hidden meaning in Lu Yan's words. He lowered his eyes and zipped up his luggage, as if he was asking Lu Yan, or as if he was asking himself: "I have nothing to begin with. If I don't even work hard, am I a little too poor?"
Lu Yan paused when he heard this, and looked at Tang Rufeng deeply, not knowing what he was thinking. He silently hugged the other's waist, roughly measured it with his fingertips, and finally said softly: "You have lost weight."
Lu Yan said, "I don't like people who are too thin. Go out to dinner with me tonight, have a good sleep after dinner, and go to school tomorrow. That's it."
Tang Rufeng suddenly turned his head to look at him, his dark jade eyes showing a bit of seriousness: "Are you feeling sorry for me?"
“…”
Lu Yan said nothing. Taking advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders in the ward, he pushed Tang Rufeng against the bed and kissed him slowly and tenderly until he could no longer breathe. Then he said half-seriously, "It doesn't matter whether I feel sorry for you or not. The most important thing is that you learn to feel sorry for yourself."
Lu Yan has always regarded this as a golden saying. If he didn't know how to feel sorry for himself, he would have been dragged out by his family to donate a kidney to Lu Bing.
During the few days they were alone in the hospital, their feelings seemed to have changed, but also seemed to have not changed, just like countless undercurrents surging beneath the calm sea, and the ups and downs were hidden in their hearts.
Lu Wanshan has been very busy recently with Lu Bing's condition. Compared with hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, the best treatment option given by doctors now is kidney transplantation. However, kidney sources are not something that can be solved by spending money. Not to mention the long waiting time, the survival period of kidneys from brain-dead donors is only about fifteen years.
After all, living kidney transplantation is still safer, so the only way is to rely on the relatives around him. Unfortunately, Lu Yan just ran away, didn't answer the phone, didn't reply to text messages, and even Yang Qin couldn't contact him.
"I have raised this beast for twenty years in vain!"
Lu Wanshan was sitting in the car, getting very angry every time he thought about it. At this moment, the driver in front suddenly pointed to the side of the road and said, "Chairman, look, does that person look like the Second Young Master?"
Lu Wanshan was startled when he heard this. He frowned and lowered the window to look. As expected, he found Lu Yanzheng and a strange young man standing at the entrance of the hospital waiting for the car. He quickly said, "Drive over."
Yu Ji added hastily, "Come down with me!"
When Lu Yan went to the hospital, he took an ambulance. Now he can only hail a taxi on the roadside to go home. However, he didn't get a taxi. Suddenly, a black commercial vehicle stopped on the roadside. The door opened, revealing Lu Wanshan's face full of anger.
Lu Yan: “???”
Oh my god, how come I meet such a wicked father even when I live in a hospital?
Lu Yan had just finished the operation and couldn't run away anyway. He put his arm around Tang Rufeng's shoulder and stood firm. He said in a neutral tone, "Dad, what a coincidence."
Lu Wanshan and his driver walked up to Lu Yan. Thinking of how he had been missing for a while, he got angry. "Where have you been having fun during this time? You didn't answer my calls or reply to my messages. Your brother is still in the hospital, and you still want to go missing. Do you think this house isn't chaotic enough?"
Tang Rufeng had never expected that this middle-aged man was actually Lu Yan's father. Not only did the first sentence he said when they met had nothing to do with Lu Yan's illness, but he accused him of being a playboy. Tang Rufeng subconsciously wanted to explain, but Lu Yan secretly pulled him back and signaled him not to speak.
"My phone is broken and I haven't had time to fix it. Please contact me later if you have anything else. I have something urgent to deal with."
Lu Yan refused to ask about Lu Bing's condition. Yu Qi and Tang Rufeng were about to leave. Seeing this, Lu Wanshan stopped him and said with an unpleasant expression, "Your brother has renal failure and is now lying in the hospital waiting for a kidney transplant."
"Kidney failure?!"
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, pretending to be surprised: "How could this happen, Lu Bing actually has renal failure?! Dad, have you done a matching test? It just so happens that you have two kidneys, and you can't use them at this age anyway, why don't you donate one to Lu Bing."
Lu Yan took the lead and took other people's paths, leaving them with no way to go.
Lu Wanshan choked when he heard this: "You!"
He had no intention of donating his kidney at all, and even a matching procedure was not done in the hospital. He relied entirely on Lu Yan.
"What nonsense are you talking about! We'll talk about Lu Bing's condition later. Come home with me first!"
Go home? I'm afraid I won't be able to get out once I get home.
Lu Yan sneered, not even bothering to lift his eyelids: "I'm not a doctor. What's the point of me going home when Lu Bing is sick? He might be even more upset if he sees me. I will go home when I want to. You don't have to let the driver hold me back, otherwise it will be embarrassing if we get into a fight on the street."
This is the good thing about a society ruled by law. Lu Wanshan didn't even dare to take action on the street and could only watch Lu Yan and Tang Rufeng leave.
Because he was worried that Lu Wanshan would find out where he came from, Lu Yan simply returned to the short-term rental house near the school. Tang Rufeng didn't say a word the whole time, and only asked when they got home, "Was that guy your father?"
Lu Yan took a can of Coke from the refrigerator. When he opened the pull ring, there was a crisp "pop" sound. The red can made his fingertips look slender and white. "I guess so. I have a half-brother. He was diagnosed with renal failure two days ago. They probably want me to be a match for him and donate a kidney."
Before the Coke reached his mouth, Tang Rufeng took it away and replaced it with a cup of warm water: "Are you two on good terms?"
Lu Yan smiled and asked, "What do you think?"
Tang Rufeng understood immediately. He had never thought that Lu Yan, who seemed to be well-off, had such a complicated family environment. "Your father seems to love your brother very much?"
Lu Yan said meaningfully: "He loves anyone who can bring him benefits."
Although Tang Rufeng thought Lu Yan would not donate his kidney, he was still worried that he would do something stupid. He pushed Lu Yan against the table, and his fingertips touched his lower back through his clothes. Finally, he slowly tightened his grip and gave a low voice, with a hidden warning: "If you donate, you will be the one who will be hurt. Think carefully about the consequences."
The human body does not grow two kidneys for no reason. If they exist, they must be useful. If Lu Yan really donated his kidney, he would not be able to do heavy work for the remaining decades, and his health and life span would be greatly affected. In addition, Lu Bing's kidney failure could not be completely cured, and it would only drag down both of them.
It’s not that you can’t donate, but you have to think clearly about whether you can bear the consequences, and... whether it’s worth it.
“…”
For the next few days, Lu Yan and Tang Rufeng stayed in this medium-sized rental house. He knew he couldn't hide for long, but he valued each day of peace and quiet.
Tang Rufeng seemed to be in a better mood, and the gloom in his eyes gradually faded. He was extremely busy every day, but this busyness was not like the fatigue and numbness that made him breathless under the pressure of suffering in the past, but full of fulfillment. He could finally concentrate on school affairs and take time to visit his mother. When he got home, he could see Lu Yan lying on the sofa with a smile waiting for him to come back, and he had to eat the dark dinner that he made himself, which even dogs would not eat.
“Isn’t it delicious?”
Lu Yan was very proud of himself, as if he had no idea how bad his cooking skills were. This was partly because he couldn't taste the food with a filter, but a big part of the reason was that the person sitting across from him always managed to eat his meal neatly with a blank expression on his face, and after a while, he was inevitably fooled.
Tang Rufeng held the bowl and hummed, lying without blushing or beating his heart: "It's OK."
It’s better than the rotten rice we had at home before.
Hearing this, Lu Yan couldn't help but feel even more proud. He sat on the chair with his legs crossed, peeled a melon seed and threw it into his mouth: "Tsk, I don't want to do it for the next few days. Let's order takeout. Washing dishes is so troublesome. From now on, you will be responsible for making money to support the family, and I will be responsible for being beautiful."
Tang Rufeng corrected him: "I haven't started making money yet."
Lu Yan threw the melon seed shells on the table, planning ahead for the rest of his life: "Then I'll make money later."
When Tang Rufeng heard what he said, he suddenly remembered something. He put down his chopsticks, stood up, found his backpack, and took out a small black exquisite box. He returned to the dining table, hesitated for a moment, and then pushed the box to Lu Yan's hand and said concisely: "For you."
Lu Yan became interested: "What?"
Tang Rufeng lowered his head to eat: "You will know for yourself when you see it."
Lu Yan picked up the box and felt it was heavy. When he opened it, he found that it contained a men's casual watch. Although it was not as good as Lu Yan's usual consumption level, the average price of this brand in the market was more than 6,000 yuan, which was definitely a luxury for Tang Rufeng.
Lu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, took it in his hand and examined it for a moment before asking, "Did you buy it?"
Tang Rufeng was still as quiet as ever, lowering his eyes and picking up a piece of food with chopsticks: "I just happened to give out a scholarship a few days ago, and I saw it in the mall and thought it suited you, so I bought it."
This was probably the most expensive thing he had ever bought in his life. He had paid for it without hesitation, but now he hesitated, worried that Lu Yan would not like it.
When Lu Yan heard that Tang Rufeng bought it with his scholarship, a hint of surprise flashed through his eyes. He put on the watch in front of him. The black leather strap made his bony hand look particularly good. He smiled and said, "You have good taste. I like it."
Tang Rufeng was relieved to see that Lu Yan liked it. He knew that he didn't like to wash dishes, so he took the initiative to clean up the dishes and go to the kitchen to wash them after dinner. However, when he was halfway through, a warm body suddenly pressed against him.
Tang Rufeng's hands trembled, and he almost dropped the bowl. His eyelashes trembled in panic for a moment: "What are you doing?"
Lu Yan was a reckless man. He hugged Tang Rufeng's waist, kissed and bit her ear, and his hands were not idle. He directly pulled her pants to her knees and said in a low voice, "You wash your dishes, it won't affect me."
It doesn't affect anything.
Tang Rufeng staggered after being knocked by him and said angrily, "This is the kitchen!"
Lu Yan lowered his eyes lazily and seemed to smile: "I know it's the kitchen, but I haven't tried it, so I want to give it a try."
In the past few days, they have tried every place in the house, including the bedroom, dining table, sofa, floor-to-ceiling windows, and bathroom, but have not tried the kitchen.
Of course... no matter how much I say, they are all excuses. I just suddenly felt like doing it, there's no reason.
Suddenly I wanted to kiss the person in front of me, make him cry, make him laugh, and then hug him tightly in a narrow space, until we melt into each other's bones and blood.
All the clothes on my body were taken off, and only the watch remained on my wrist. It was cold and prickly at first, but later it became contaminated by body temperature and I couldn't tell it apart.
At night, they lay on the bed and hugged each other very tightly. Tang Rufeng rarely got so clingy. He lay naked in Lu Yan's arms, his fingertips tightened, as if the man in front of him had occupied his entire youth. His voice was unusually hoarse: "Lu Yan..."
Lu Yan: "Well, what's wrong?"
Then he heard Tang Rufeng ask a very silly question: "Do you think we will always be together in the future?"
Lu Yan couldn't help but smile: "Do you want to?"
He felt that he had no advantages, but Tang Rufeng nodded lightly and said simply, "I want to."
“…”
Lu Yan paused, and slid his fingertips down the other person's back, indescribably intimate: "If you want, then let's stay together forever."
He couldn't bear to reject the person in front of him. His heart felt like it was stuffed with a ball of cotton, soft and swollen.
Tang Rufeng curled his lips slightly when he heard this. His eyes, which were as calm as dead water, were slightly red. Under the light of the bedside lamp, they sparkled like tiny stars. "We have an agreement. You are not allowed to regret it."
Lu Yan smiled and stretched out his hand: "Do I have to make a promise with you?"
Tang Rufeng didn't make a pinky promise with him, and shook his head calmly: "I don't believe this, I only believe in myself."
Whether you can obtain everything in the world depends on yourself.
After Tang's mother had the surgery, Tang Rufeng sent her to a nursing home, hired a nurse to take care of her, and visited her every now and then. One day, the nursing home suddenly called and said that Tang's mother accidentally fell down the stairs. Tang Rufeng immediately asked for leave from school and hurried over. Lu Yan wanted to go with him but was rejected.
"It shouldn't be a big problem. I'll go check out the situation first. I'll call you if there's anything urgent."
Lu Yan thought that his relationship with Tang Rufeng was also quite awkward. He didn't know how to explain it to Tang's mother when they met again, so he had to agree: "Okay, then you go first, call me if you have anything."
After Tang Rufeng left, the house became empty.
Lu Yan saw the mess on the table and wanted to clean it up. However, when he was halfway through cleaning, there was a hurried doorbell ring outside. He got up and walked over, thinking that Tang Rufeng had forgotten to take something. But when he opened the door, he saw Duan Jiyang's familiar face. His features were still handsome, but for some reason he looked particularly gloomy.
There is no doubt that it was because of Lu Bing's illness.
Lu Yan glanced around and found that the other party was followed by several well-trained bodyguards and drivers. He came to a conclusion in just three seconds -
Can't beat.
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