Chapter 72: Still so energetic even though he fell asleep in hospital
In the military hospital, the seriously injured and unconscious Captain Liu was quickly pushed into the operating room.
Gu Zhao, a relatively lightly injured patient, was also sent to the bed and pushed into the operating room to treat his wounds.
Ye Tan followed all the way until they arrived at the surgical operating room. Ye Tan was blocked outside. Watching Gu Zhao being pushed in, he even had time to make a reassuring gesture to her. Lu Yan wanted to laugh but couldn't.
The time spent waiting outside felt like a year, but in fact, less than an hour had passed. Chen Chi, whose wound had been treated, was pushed out and found himself lying in bed with his upper body naked, sleeping.
When they arrived at the ward, the doctor who came with them gave Ye Tan some instructions: "Captain Gu's wound isn't big, but it's quite deep, and the bleeding is quite severe. We've used anesthetic to suture it. He should be awake soon, and the wound will be painful, so give him some painkillers."
"Also, keep his movements as minimal as possible for the next few days to avoid affecting the wound's healing. Our nurses will change the dressings regularly, and the family should prepare plenty of blood-replenishing foods. Don't worry too much, though. Captain Gu is in good health, and the blood loss will be replenished in a few days. It won't affect his life in the future."
Ye Tan listened to the instructions carefully and asked the doctor if there were any dietary restrictions. After the doctor finished speaking, she sent him out the door. After the nurse hung up the infusion bottle and left, she turned around and closed the door, locking it.
Gu Zhao is the only patient in this ward for now, and no one else will come in.
After closing the door, she saw that Gu Zhao was still asleep, so she went into the bathroom and found that there was nothing inside. She couldn't even wipe Gu Zhao.
"Xiao Tan."
Gu Zhao, who had opened his eyes at some point, called her hoarsely.
Ye Tan hurried over to the bedside to check his complexion and the IV bottle. Seeing nothing wrong, he asked, "You're awake now. How do you feel? Are you in any pain?"
"Not bad." Gu Zhao pointed to the side, "Don't be busy, sit down and talk to me."
Ye Tan ignored him and said, "The doctor said you need to take medicine when you wake up. I'll go get some water."
Ye Tan hurried out and soon came back with a thermos, poured a glass of water, and took out the medicine prescribed by the doctor.
Gu Zhao remembered that Ye Tan held him down with one hand and said disapprovingly: "The doctor said you can't move now."
Gu Zhao obediently lay down and didn't move.
Ye Tan sat down beside the pillow, supported his upper body with one hand to give him strength, and carefully fed the medicine into his mouth.
Ye Tan: "Would you like some more water?"
Gu Zhao nodded, and she continued to feed him a glass of water before she was satisfied.
Ye Tan put down the cup and let him lie down, while asking: "You are so thirsty, you didn't drink any water on the way back? How did they take care of you?"
Gu Zhao listened to Ye Tan's slightly complaining words, and a gentle smile appeared on his face: "I was in a hurry to get on the road and didn't pay attention to it."
"Have you eaten? Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat." Ye Tan said as he was about to stand up.
Gu Zhao took her hand and held it in his palm: "No hurry, I don't really feel like eating right now."
He looked pitifully into Ye Tan's eyes: "I haven't seen you for several days, and I miss you so much, don't you miss me?"
Ye Tan was silent for a while.
Gu Zhao: "Did you miss me?"
Ye Tan pursed his lips: "What's the use of thinking about it? I can't see anyone."
Gu Zhao smiled, tilted his head and kissed the back of Ye Tan's hand: "Now you see it, you should look at it more, make up for the time you missed in the past few days, and see if your man is still handsome."
Ye Tan couldn't help but frown when he heard it. Gu Zhao sighed and said, "You finally smiled. You look better when you smile."
Ye Tan knew that he was teasing her on purpose, and said coquettishly, "You are right in front of me, what's so good about you? And your beard is so messy, it's so ugly."
Gu Zhao moved his body, as if he couldn't stand not being handsome in his wife's eyes: "Then help me shave it and pull up my pants casually. The waist of the hospital gown is too big."
Hearing this, Ye Tan stood up, opened the quilt, patted his leg and said, "Then lift your waist, slowly." Gu Zhao cooperated with Ye Tan and slowly lifted his waist and legs. Because the wound was on his waist and abdomen, Ye Tan lifted his trousers only to his hips.
Ye Tan also discovered a problem: "Where are your underwear?"
"The nurse cut it off and threw it away," Gu Zhao said. "It's all muddy and watery, so it can't be used anymore."
Ye Tan looked at him strangely: "Then weren't you seen naked by the doctors and nurses in there just now?"
Gu Zhao: “…”
"So now you're not clean."
Gu Zhao was stunned by Ye Tan's words.
Ye Tan looked at his serious expression that was as if he was doubting his life, and after a while he chuckled: "I was just kidding, but you took it seriously."
Gu Zhao let out the breath he had been holding and smiled bitterly: "Just scare me, be careful my wound will burst open."
Ye Tan couldn't even laugh when he heard that. He quickly lifted the quilt to check Gu Zhao's wound. After carefully examining it for a long time and finding no signs of bleeding, he breathed a sigh of relief. He patted his chest and said, "It's good that you didn't collapse. You should rest and stop talking."
Ye Tan covered him with a quilt to cover his body and pulled the quilt directly under his neck.
She looked out the window and saw the night was getting darker, so she said to Gu Zhao again, "It's already midnight, you should go to sleep first. Rest well so that your wound can heal faster."
Gu Zhao also felt his eyes getting sore at this moment. It must be because the medicine he just took contained sleeping pills. In addition, he had been running around all the time and had not been able to get a good rest. Once the sleepiness came, he couldn't help it.
Ye Tan touched his face and said softly, "Your eyes are red from staying up all night. Don't force yourself to go to bed. You will recover quickly if you have a good rest."
Gu Zhao blinked and nodded, pointing to the empty bed next to him and said, "Then you lie down and rest too."
Ye Tan looked at the infusion bottles that still had quite a lot of fluids left and said, "I'll watch over the infusion bottles for you. You go to sleep first. I'll sleep after the infusion is finished."
Gu Zhao opened his squinting eyes and said, "I'll watch it myself. You go to sleep first."
Ye Tan patted his arm and said dissatisfiedly: "Why are you still trying to be brave at this time? Close your eyes and go to sleep."
After being scolded by his wife, Gu Zhao didn't dare to say anything else and immediately closed his eyes. As soon as he closed his eyes, sleepiness came over him like a tidal wave. Within a few seconds, he fell into a deep sleep.
Ye Tan waited for a while, reached out and pushed his shoulder. Seeing that he didn't respond, she knew that he was really asleep, so she reached out and gently tidied his messy hair.
It's only been a few days, but he looks a lot thinner. He must not have eaten or slept well during these days outside, and he still had to work hard.
He didn't show it clearly when he said this before, but now that he was quiet, his heartache began to overflow a little bit. Finally, Ye Tan lowered his head and gave him a gentle kiss on the face.
During the time when Gu Zhao was slow to return, Ye Tan was very worried, but more of a fear. She was afraid that she would never see this man's gentle smile again, nor feel his warm embrace and strong possession.
Once she thought about not having him, she didn't know how to live the rest of her life.
Habit is a terrible thing. She doesn't know when Gu Zhao became a part of her life and she can't live without him.
He didn't know how long he stared at this tired and haggard face. Only when he noticed a knock on the door did Ye Tan come back to his senses. He stood up and saw through the observation window that the person coming was Chen Xudong.
Ye Tan opened the door: "Captain Chen, why are you here?"
Chen Xudong first came in to take a look at Gu Zhao, and found that he was asleep, so he didn't go any further. He lowered his voice and handed the daily necessities in his hand to Ye Tan: "Xiao Ya and I went back and thought that you didn't have time to go home to prepare things, so we brought some from home for you to use first."
Ye Tan looked down and saw two washbasins, an enamel pot, and two clean towels in the net bag in his hand.
Ye Tan laughed: "You guys really helped me a lot. I was just worried that I didn't have anything to wipe his face with."
Chen Xudong glanced at Gu Zhao again and asked, "What did the doctor say about Gu Zhao's injury?"
Ye Tan: "The wound is a bit deep. The doctor sutured it. It looks like there is no serious danger at the moment."
Chen Xudong nodded. "That's good. Let him rest more and eat well, and he'll recover. By the way, Xiaoya asked me to tell you that she'll make black chicken and red date soup at home tomorrow, and asked you to bring it to Gu Zhao on your way home."
Ye Tan knew that Zhao Xiaoya prepared the nourishing soup for her because she knew she couldn't cook. She felt warm and touched. "Okay, I'll go get it. Please thank her for me when I get back. She's pregnant and still has to worry about me. It's really..."
Chen Xudong: "Gu Zhao and I are comrades-in-arms, and you and Xiaoya are good sisters. It's awkward to say these things."
"If there's nothing else, I'll be back. If there's anything urgent, just ask the nurse here to call me and I'll be right there."
Ye Tan: "Okay."
Ye Tan sent Chen Xudong to the corridor, and Chen Xudong told her to go back and take care of Gu Zhao and not to send him off.
Ye Tan stood in the corridor and watched him walk around the corner and disappear.
When he returned to the ward, he found that there was only a little water left in the infusion bottle. Ye Tan quickly pressed the bedside call button, and soon the nurse came over and replaced the bottle of water.
Ye Tan saw the words "glucose" written on it and asked the nurse, "How many bottles of infusion are left?"
After hanging up the IV bottle, the nurse checked the needle on the back of Gu Zhao's hand to see if there was any leakage. When she heard Ye Tan's question, she smiled and replied, "This is the last bottle. The previous one was for anti-inflammatory, and this one is for nutritional supplements. After the two bottles, you'll be fine tonight. You should pay more attention to the patient at night and don't let him scratch or put pressure on the wound."
Ye Tan: "Thank you."
After the young nurse left, Ye Tan closed the door, took a basin and a towel to the bathroom to get some water. She found the water was a little cold and not suitable for wiping her body, so she added hot water.
Ye Tan put the basin on the stool, wet the towel, wiped Gu Zhao's face and hands first, then lifted the quilt to wipe his body, and pulled down the pants that she had pulled up before.
Remembering that Gu Zhao had said before that the underwear was covered in mud and water and he didn't know how many bacteria there were, in order to prevent the wound from getting infected and for health reasons, Ye Tan wiped the key parts several times with different water, and was only satisfied when he saw that they were clean.
But... Ye Tan glanced at him with the corner of his eye and saw that he was so energetic even when he was asleep.
After finally wiping her whole body clean, she was sweating all over. Gu Zhao still hadn't woken up. It seemed that she was really tired to the limit.
Ye Tan took a breath, went to the bathroom to get some water and wash her face, then came out and continued to stare at the infusion bottle. After a while, she blinked her eyes and felt a little sore.
I looked at the time and realized it was already twelve o'clock. No wonder my eyes were sore.
After waiting for another ten minutes, the water in the infusion bottle was empty. The nurse came over and pulled out the needle, and asked Ye Tan to pay more attention to the patient's temperature changes in the second half of the night and notify her if he had a fever.
Ye Tan pressed the back of Gu Zhao's hand to stop the bleeding, and let go of his hand after the bleeding solidified. He put Gu Zhao's hand into the quilt and touched his forehead to check the temperature, which was still normal.
Because she had to monitor his body temperature, Ye Tan slept restlessly in the second half of the night. She was worried about something, so she would wake up every now and then, check on Gu Zhao, touch his forehead, and then go back to lie down and take a nap after finding that he was fine. After a while, she would wake up again to check...
Waking up and falling asleep over and over again is actually more tiring than not sleeping at all. After a few times, Ye Tan felt a throbbing pain in his temples.
She knew that this was a symptom of poor rest. Fortunately, Gu Zhao did not have a fever. At five o'clock in the morning, Ye Tan felt relieved and slept a little more deeply.
But she started dreaming again. She dreamed that Gu Zhao had a fever and his face was red. Ye Tan was suddenly awakened. She sat up and went to look at Gu Zhao. She found that he had woken up at some point and was looking at her with his head tilted.
Ye Tan carefully examined his face and found that it was not red at all, so he asked him: "When did you wake up? Why didn't you call me?"
Gu Zhao said after a while: "I just woke up too. When did you go to bed last night?"
Ye Tan: "I'll go to sleep after you finish the IV." Still a little worried, Ye Tan reached out and touched Gu Zhao's forehead. Feeling the temperature, she was startled, "Do you have a fever?"
"Is there anything?" Gu Zhao touched it himself and didn't feel anything: "I feel okay."
Ye Tan was speechless for a moment: "Of course you can't feel the difference." What can you feel with your palms burning hot?
Ye Tan rang the bell to call the nurse.
The little nurse was not the same one from yesterday. She checked Gu Zhao's temperature and took out a thermometer to take his temperature.
"Wait five minutes and I'll come back and take a look."
The young nurse left again. Ye Tan stared at the time. When five minutes were up, he took out the thermometer and looked at the temperature through the window. It was 38.8 degrees.
When the nurse came over and took a look, she said, "The temperature isn't very high. You can wipe his neck and armpits with a towel. I'll go find the doctor and see if he should get some antipyretics."
The young nurse gave her instructions and left.
Ye Tan went to get some water to wipe Gu Zhao's face and hands, as well as the major arteries on his body.
Gu Zhao cooperated by raising his hands and looking up. After he finished wiping, he asked Ye Tan to stop working and sit down to rest. He would wait for the doctor to come and prescribe some antipyretic medicine for him.
Ye Tan ignored him and poured him some water to drink, which would also help to cool him down.
Gu Zhao looked at Ye Tan who was busy. The faint dark circles under her eyes were particularly eye-catching on her fair skin. He felt uncomfortable watching her. "Did you not sleep well last night?"
Before Ye Tan could answer him, the doctor came in from outside. After checking Gu Zhao's condition, he prescribed some medicine, but the medicine had to be taken after meals.
Ye Tan poured another glass of water and placed it on the table, then said to Gu Zhao, "You should take a rest first. Drink more water. I'll go back home to get you some clothes and breakfast. Don't get out of bed and run around, okay?"
Gu Zhao listened to her words as if she was instructing a child, and couldn't help laughing: "I'm not a child, I don't have anything to do and I can't go out and wander around."
Ye Tan: "It's good that you know. Just recover peacefully and I won't bother with you about this injury."
Gu Zhao was surprised: "Really?" How could he not see that Ye Tan was angry at him for hurting her this time, but he just kept it in his heart and didn't say it.
Ye Tan nodded: "Of course."
"Do you want to go to the bathroom now?" Ye Tan asked before leaving.
Gu Zhao: "Go." He consciously stretched out his hand and let Ye Tan help him.
Ye Tan went over and helped him slowly get out of bed and move to the bathroom. Then she was going to leave and let him take care of it himself.
Gu Zhao: "Aren't you afraid that I might fall down accidentally when you go out?"
Ye Tan stopped closing the door and glanced at his steady legs: "Are your legs injured too?"
Gu Zhao paused, touched his nose and said, "That's not the case."
"Then just untie your hands honestly and don't act weird." He looked at her and didn't know what he was thinking. She was not honest even when she was hurt.
The bathroom door closed with a bang. Gu Zhao sighed. He just wanted to be intimate with his wife, so what? He hadn't seen her in a few days.
Ye Tan stood outside the door, waiting for the noise inside to stop, and then waited for a while before opening the door and walking in.
Gu Zhao was pulling up his pants and saw her grinning: "Xiao Tan, don't forget to bring me two pairs of underwear when you go back later. It's uncomfortable to leave the car in neutral."
"knew."
After sending Gu Zhaosong back to bed and telling him to stay still, Ye Tan hurried home.
He first went back to get two sets of clothes, shoes and socks that Gu Zhao wore daily, and then went to the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks for eating. After everything was cleaned up, Ye Tan began to clean himself up.
The conditions in the hospital were limited and she had no time to get herself ready, so she went to the kitchen to boil some hot water, wiped her body and washed her hair, changed into clean clothes, and took a bottle of skin care products from the dressing table.
Seeing that it was already half past seven, Ye Tan locked the door and turned to go to Zhao Xiaoya's house.
Zhao Xiaoya had already prepared black chicken and red dates. When she saw Ye Tan coming, she gave them to her directly. She also prepared a lunch box of food and two large steamed buns of rice.
Seeing how well prepared she was, Ye Tan was deeply moved: "Xiaoya, you are so kind. What would I do without you?"
Zhao Xiaoya smiled and said, "Okay, okay. If you feel touched, I'll make some more clothes for your nephews and nieces. Now hurry to the hospital. The food will get cold if you're late."
Ye Tan assured: "Don't worry about this. I have already made two at home. I will show them to you later. Then I will leave first."
Zhao Xiaoya waved her hand: "Go quickly."
Ye Tan rode a bicycle back to the hospital. Because she was carrying soup, she rode slowly. It was almost eight o'clock when she arrived at the hospital. Doctors started to come to work one after another, and there were a lot more people in the hospital corridor.
Ye Tan walked to the door of the ward and found it was open. There were several people standing inside, talking to Gu Zhao.
She didn't rush in, but knocked on the door. After the person inside turned around, she smiled and greeted him, "Commissar Zhou."
The people who came were Commander Zhou and the political commissar. Ye Tan had seen both of them before. As for the other people, Ye Tan had some acquaintances and some he had not seen before.
But no matter what the situation, it never goes wrong to smile.
When Commander Zhou saw Ye Tan coming back with a lot of bags in her hands, he stepped aside to let her in.
Gu Zhao held out his hand for Ye Tan to come over: "This is my beloved Ye Tan," and then said to Ye Tan: "These are Captain Xie of the Second Regiment, Captain Li of the Third Regiment, and Chief of Staff Ge."
As soon as Gu Zhao finished speaking, several greetings were heard in the room. Ye Tan had been called sister-in-law most of the time since she came to the island, and now she was called sister-in-law several times in a row. It seemed that among the same level, Gu Zhao was the youngest.
After the greetings were finished, the political commissar saw the lunch box and knew that Gu Zhao had not eaten yet. He said to the few people beside him, "We have finished talking. Let's not delay Xiao Gu's meal. Let's go."
Commander Zhou: "Then let's go check on Captain Liu. I wonder if he's awake yet?"
A few people walked out while talking, and Ye Tan followed them out to see them off.
Commander Zhou: "Xiao Ye, don't send me off. Go back and make sure Gu Zhao eats well so he can be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible."
Ye Tan responded, returned to the room, opened the lunch box, and served a bowl of soup to Gu Zhao. Zhao Xiaoya had specially stewed it. The black chicken was nourishing, and the red dates were blood-replenishing. It was just right for Gu Zhao to eat now.
Ye Tan held the bowl and the spoon to feed Gu Zhao, and then asked him how it tasted.
Gu Zhao said without thinking: "It's delicious. Did you make it in the cafeteria?" There is also a patient window in the cafeteria here. As long as you tell them in advance, they can make it according to your requirements. Gu Zhao has eaten it before and it tastes pretty good.
Ye Tan fed him another sip before saying, "It wasn't made in the cafeteria, it was made by Xiaoya."
Gu Zhao then realized what was going on: "Then let's go to the cafeteria's sick window and ask her to do it. She's pregnant, so let's not bother her."
Ye Tan thought so too. She planned to go to the cafeteria to get lunch at noon, but it was the first time she heard of the patient window that Gu Zhao mentioned.
"Does it taste good?" Ye Tan asked.
However, Gu Zhao smiled and reassured her, "You can order food at the patient window here and have it prepared freshly. The taste is okay, but it's a bit expensive. However, we won't be able to eat it for a few days." Gu Zhao estimated that he would be able to be discharged from the hospital after staying for three days.
Ye Tan looked a little downcast, and whispered, "Other people's families cook for them, but I have to pay someone to do it for me. People will laugh at you when they mention it later."
Gu Zhao looked at her lost expression and said nonchalantly, "Let them talk if they want. I don't care, and you shouldn't take it to heart. It's not worth being unhappy about this. Let's just live happily."
Gu Zhao teased her after he finished speaking: "Hurry up and smile for your husband, otherwise this soup will taste tasteless."
Ye Tan pulled the corners of his lips to give him a smile, and simply stuffed the bowl of soup in his hand into his hand: "If it doesn't taste good to feed you, then just take the bowl and drink it yourself."
Gu Zhao sighed and took the bowl unwillingly: "I'm a patient, you let me drink the soup by myself."
Ye Tan glared at him and said, "Your hand is not lame, but you can't hold the bowl." After saying that, he ignored his pitiful look, turned around, took out the food from the lunch box and arranged it, put most of the rice into Gu Zhao's bowl, and only kept half a bowl for himself.
Gu Zhao frowned when he saw it: "Why is there only so little left?"
Ye Tan picked up the bowl and said, "I don't have much of an appetite in the morning, you know. This is enough. Eat more and you will be full and recover well."
Gu Zhao chuckled: "You're still talking about rhymes. Okay, if it's not enough, tell me." The couple ate breakfast facing each other. Half an hour after the meal, Ye Tan asked Gu Zhao to take medicine.
Next was the infusion time. Gu Zhao was in much better spirits today. Although he still had a low fever, he was in the mood to chat. He asked about everything that had happened to Ye Tan in the past few days and had no intention of stopping.
Ye Tan could only shut him up manually: "Okay, stop talking, it's time for you to rest." She blocked his lips with her fingers and didn't let go until she finished speaking, letting him close his eyes and rest even if he couldn't sleep.
Gu Zhao... He had never experienced the days of sleeping after eating, and he was not used to it. However, under his wife's forced request, he closed his eyes to rest, and fell asleep while closing his eyes.
Sleep is a kind of self-repair of the human body. The more you sleep, the better your recovery will be.
He was given an IV drip of anti-inflammatory drugs today, and the infusion was very fast. When the needle was removed, Gu Zhao woke up for a while, but fell asleep again after being comforted by Ye Tan.
With nothing to do, Ye Tan went to the bed next door and took a nap.
At noon, he went directly to the patient window and ordered two dishes and a blood-replenishing medicinal meal. After eating, Ye Tan asked Gu Zhao to sit in the sunny window to photosynthesize for a while.
Ye Tan was accompanying him and fell asleep immediately.
In the end, I don’t know how I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was lying in bed, but the patient Gu Zhao was nowhere to be seen.
Where did the people go?
Ye Tan got out of bed, went to the bathroom and knocked on the door, but found that no one was inside. He then looked outside in the corridor, but still didn't see anyone.
She gritted her teeth. This man was so disobedient. He ran around without being watched and said he was not a child. Children would know to tell adults when they go out, but he just disappeared.
Ye Tan went to the nurse's station to ask if anyone had seen where Captain Gu had gone.
Several young nurses were whispering about something, their eyebrows dancing with excitement. When they heard Ye Tan's question, they rolled their eyes, pointed upstairs, and told Ye Tan: "I just saw Captain Gu go upstairs to the pediatric department."
Pediatrics?
What was Gu Zhao doing in the pediatric department? He was injured and climbing the stairs.
Ye Tan thanked the nurse, turned around and climbed the stairs to the third floor.
Outside a pediatric ward on the third floor, Gu Zhao was talking to Rong Sheng, who had a worried look on his face.
Gu Zhao didn't know if he was feeling a little uncomfortable. He stood against the wall and patted Rongsheng's shoulder. "Don't think too much. Cure the child's illness first. If you don't have enough money, let me know."
Rong Sheng sighed deeply and forced a smile. "It's not time yet. You don't have to worry about me. You should go back and recuperate. If you come here injured, my sister-in-law will definitely blame me."
Ye Tan heard this from a distance and came over: "Why do I hear someone saying bad things about me?"
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