Chapter 34034 Strange Pulse & Wait and See
Jin Yue sighed inwardly, it is true that every family has sufferings that outsiders are unaware of.
"People outside only see us truck drivers traveling all over the world and envy our high salaries, but they don't know that we risk our lives to get what we want." Liu Huifang felt deeply moved when she recalled her old days as a driver.
"Your eldest brother and I didn't think much of it before. As long as we had food and drink, it was fine. Now that we are going to be parents, we know that money is nothing. Health and being able to accompany children for a long time are the most important things."
My senior brother had a miserable life. He lost his mother in childhood and his father in youth. His family was extremely poor and he could never find a wife. Fortunately, he was studious and willing to endure hardships, so he was noticed by a truck driver, who took him under his wing and taught him for a few years. During those years as an apprentice, he suffered all kinds of hardships. Finally, he became a master when he was almost 30 years old and had enough money to marry a wife.
After many years of marriage, he never got to enjoy a warm bed for a few days. He was away from home all year round and was not around when his child was born. Later, the child grew up, went to school, graduated, and started dating, but he was not involved in anything. He always felt regretful and guilty, thinking that everything would be fine after he retired. But now, when he is only a few years away from retirement and his life is becoming more and more promising, something like this suddenly happens.
"The guy I dated last year wanted us to have our own house, but his family only had a big room in a compound, and I didn't want that."
"Of course, in addition to the house, he also needs a bicycle and a sewing machine. He has been so worried about it this year that his hair has turned white."
"I, your senior brother, always thought that if he could hold on for another six months and earn enough money to buy a house and a sewing machine, he would be able to close his eyes in peace. But he had no idea that without him, what kind of home would it be? If the children knew that he was still working despite having colon cancer, how could they live in that house?"
Liu Huifang paused, "My senior brother didn't say it explicitly, but I know what he is planning."
Jin Yue was stunned, "What do you mean?"
"He probably hopes that something will happen to him at work, so that his company can give more compensation to his family." Liu Huifang's eyes turned red. "He will die anyway. If he dies at home or in the hospital, his company will at most give him some funeral expenses. But if he dies at work, the nature of the matter will be different. Why, why is he just like that..."
So, this is why he was unwilling to go to a big hospital for examination and unwilling to tell the truth when he took sick leave.
Jin Yue opened his mouth, not knowing how to comment on his "plan".
"We don't know if it's colon cancer yet. My sister-in-law advised him not to diagnose himself rashly, so as not to scare himself."
Having said that, Jin Yue was somewhat inclined in his heart. After all, senior brother Liu Huifang had a family history of colorectal cancer. His father was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at about the same age. In addition, he had unhealthy lifestyle habits. He sat in the driver's seat of a truck every day, slept in the open air, had irregular meals, loved spicy food, drank little water, and constipation was commonplace... He had almost all the high-risk factors for colorectal cancer.
"Yes, I also advised him that, but he didn't want to go and didn't dare to go. I think it would be better to let him come to see you. Whether he is good or not is up to fate. As a senior brother and sister, I have done my best."
Seeing that she couldn't persuade him, Jin Yue could only agree for the time being. In fact, she still wanted him to get a thorough check-up, to confirm or rule out the possibility first, so that she would have peace of mind.
The eldest brother and his wife ate a few leek dumplings and said they had something to do at home, so they went back first. They agreed to go back and do some ideological work on the senior brother, and if it worked, they would bring him over the next day.
Unfortunately, Shu Jinyue didn't wait for them to come the whole next day. He guessed that the uncle was still unwilling to face reality, or unwilling to spend the little money left in the family on him.
Because of this, Shu Jinyue was depressed the whole day. In fact, there are more such cases in rural areas, but she hasn't encountered one for many years since she became a ghost. Now she has to face death head-on, and the shock is still as great as the first time.
Xu Duan really delivered the milk for lunch again, but he had something else to do at work, so he turned around and left without saying a few words.
For three consecutive days, he delivered milk on time. Shu Jinyue reminded him that he should talk to the milk factory and change the delivery address to her home so that he wouldn't have to deliver it. Anyway, his quota will be used when the time comes, and Jin Yue will give him every penny of the money and tickets.
But he said that no one in Liuye Hutong delivered goods because no one had ordered them and it was inconvenient for the workers to make a special trip. Jin Yue had no choice but to give up and go out to fetch milk every noon.
But the benefits of this are also very obvious. She has one more person to talk to, and when he is not busy one day, she will pour out all her troubles, from small things like meeting a stray dog or two tabby cats on the way to work to big things like the matter of her senior brother Liu Huifang.
He usually listens quietly, and then gives some objective and pertinent suggestions after she finishes speaking.
"You like puppies so much, why not get one?"
But - "My house doesn't even have enough room for people, how can I have another dog?"
"Then get a cat. It doesn't take up space, it's clean and easy to clean."
But——"There are already several cats in the compound. If we raise too many cats, they will fight in the spring and no one will be able to sleep."
Every time she denied it, he nodded, yes, that makes sense.
"You're a fence-sitter. You agree with whatever I say."
Xu Duan smiled helplessly. The veins on the back of his hand placed on the handlebar were obvious, and there was an indescribable kind of beauty, the kind of beauty that was very sensual.
The more I think about it, no wonder some people are obsessed with their hands when it comes to mobile phones, some of their hands are really good-looking!
She looked at her hands. If you didn't look closely, they seemed fine, but there were too many calluses and the skin was not delicate enough. During the three years in the countryside, she did too much farm work that she had never done before. The marks were engraved on her hands and could not be erased.
"Tomorrow is Sunday. Is there any place you want to go? I borrowed a car from a friend." Xu Duan looked at the clouds in the sky and asked casually.
"Okay, I want to go see those two chestnut trees and walnuts. I can't ride a bike, and my second brother won't take me there because he thinks I'm just a third wheel."
Xu Duan seemed a little surprised, "You can't ride a bicycle?"
The more she blushed, the more she had to save face!
Xu Duan didn't say anything, but Jin Yue saw his chest rising and falling, it was obvious that he was trying to hold back laughter!
"I studied really hard for a long time, but my balance is so bad that the bike tilts as soon as I get on it. There's nothing I can do about it."
"I'll teach you."
"No matter who teaches me, my second brother, my father, my sister, and my mother have all taught me, but I just can't control the car steadily."
Xu Duan stopped talking, as if he was frightened by this stubborn and unintelligent student. He then said that he would pick her up tomorrow morning.
For some reason, Jin Yue didn't want to go with her family this time. The two elders had their own old partners and friends, and her second brother and sister also had their own partners. Only she seemed to have nothing, and Xu Duan was the "secret weapon" that allowed her to not be inferior to them.
The next morning, my second brother and sister got up early, washed their hair, applied lotion, and changed their clothes. They were going out on a date. Jin Yue thought a little sourly: Humph, I have a date too!
It doesn’t matter if they are not lovers, as long as she has dates.
At about half past nine, the brother and sister went out one after another. Jin Yue arrived at the entrance of the alley at five minutes before ten. He thought he could wait for Xu Duan for five minutes, which showed that she was sincere.
But when I walked over, I saw him leaning against the car door smoking.
Jin Yue was stunned, "You can smoke?"
Xu Duan quickly put out the cigarette and threw it into a nearby trash can. "I used to smoke, but I haven't smoked for a while."
"Oh, it's okay." Considering that she was riding in your car, she accepted the secondhand smoke. She still understood the principle that the guest should follow the host's wishes.
"I have two friends who want to go too. Do you mind?"
"I don't mind. It's more lively when there are more people." Shu Jinyue remembered asking him to ask Yao Qingqing if she was going yesterday, "Qingqing isn't going?"
"Well, her puppy is sick and she wants to take it to the vet."
Jin Yue was also a little worried, "Is Doubao okay?"
"It's called Doubao?" The man held the steering wheel and glanced at her slightly sideways.
"Well, she said that seeing the puppy reminded her of the sweet bean curd her mother made when she was a child."
Xu Duan didn't say anything. Jin Yue guessed that he also thought of the three members of the Yao family. His uncle and aunt had watched him grow up, and Yao Feiyang was his childhood friend, but now they are all gone from him. No one could empathize with his sadness.
The car soon arrived at the west of the city. In addition to the well-known Xishan Park, it was also the garrison of a certain military unit. As soon as they arrived, a man and a woman came out of the military compound, opened the car door and got in elegantly.
"Old Xu, you didn't even plan to say you were going up the mountain today if I hadn't asked you, right? That's really not nice of you."
The woman next to him had short hair. She tugged at his sleeve and winked at the front. Then he saw that there was a thin and small girl sitting on the passenger seat. She had fair skin, big eyes with upturned corners, and a small face... He seemed to have seen her somewhere before.
Jiang Weijun blinked, "This is..."
"Su Jinyue."
"Hello, my name is Shu Jinyue." Jinyue turned around and smiled at them, revealing a row of neat white teeth and two shallow dimples.
Jiang Weijun blinked his eyes, "No, this, Old Xu, what are you saying..."
"Hmm, stop talking. Hello, Xiaoshu, right? My name is Sun Aihong, and this is my husband Jiang Weijun."
"Then I will call you Sister Aihong." Jin Yue knew that anyone who could speak to Xu Duan so casually must be a very good friend of his, so she also showed her greatest kindness.
Xu Duan has been so good to her, she can't let Xu Duan lose face.
Jiang Weijun finally recovered and said, "Old Xu, Xiao Shu is you..."
"Friend." Xu Duan didn't even glance at him, looking straight ahead.
Jiang Weijun swallowed his saliva, always feeling that these two words were not credible. Who is Lao Xu? In all these years, he has never heard anyone say that he has a friend of the opposite sex, let alone bring him out to meet his brothers... But if you say that they are a couple, it doesn't seem like it.
First of all, they are not close enough. He and his daughter Sun Aihong are always arm in arm and holding hands, but the two people in the front row don't seem to have any romantic feelings in their language, body language or expressions.
Secondly, the girl was too young and looked like a high school student. He believed that his friend would not be so morally corrupt.
But if you ask me, he trusted the girl very much throughout the whole process and ordered her around skillfully. One moment he asked her to help him unscrew the lid of the kettle so he could drink some water, and the next moment he asked her if she wanted to go to the toilet as they would pass by a toilet ahead.
This kind of familiarity and consideration can only be developed through long-term interaction.
Jiang Weijun looked around with his big eyes, and Sun Aihong was annoyed by him, so she secretly pinched his thigh.
"Old Xu, what can the four of us do in the mountains?"
Xu Duan parked the car, got out, and while talking to him, he walked around to the other side to help Shu Jinyue open the door. It's embarrassing to say that Jin Yue had been in a car, but never in the passenger seat. How would she know about seat belts? She struggled for a long time to unfasten them, so he bent down, stretched out his arm, and helped her unfasten them.
They were very close, so close that she could see a faint shadow under his long eyelashes. Shu Jinyue never expected that an old man in his thirties could have such long eyelashes!
Maybe it's because he is too serious at ordinary times and no one dares to stare at his eyelashes.
Jin Yue could even smell the scent of soap on him, mixed with a hint of mint and tobacco... His toothpaste should be mint-flavored, unlike hers, which was full of various industrial flavors. "Haven't you sat enough?" Xu Duan asked her with a smile.
Jin Yue blushed, and quickly jumped out of the car, deliberately jumping twice, trying to cover up his mistake: "Sleep, fell asleep."
Xu Duan smiled, picked up two large army green bags, let Shu Jinyue and Sun Aihong walk in front, and he and Jiang Weijun followed behind.
Jiang Weijun was holding back his thoughts the whole time. "Hey, Old Xu, what's going on?"
"She's the daughter of an old friend. Don't let your imagination run wild." Xu Duan slowed down his pace and said in a voice that the girl in front couldn't hear, "Do you remember Su Limin?"
Jiang Weijun certainly remembered that Xu Duan had asked him to find Su Liming's whereabouts. Unfortunately, after liberation, he moved away from his previous residence and had no formal job or fixed formal unit. He searched for a long time but couldn't find him.
Considering the relationship between the two families, it makes sense that Old Xu takes care of and trusts Su Jinyue. She is the daughter of his benefactor and is equivalent to his junior.
"But why does this niece Jin Yue look familiar to me?" He touched his chin, feeling that he must have seen her somewhere.
Xu Duan naturally wouldn't say that he had seen her with the boy from the Qin family last time, but he was now certain that they were probably not dating. That boy was interested in Jin Yue, but Jin Yue was not interested. He breathed a sigh of relief and thought, what's the point of dating a kid?
She is still young, and when she grows up there will be plenty of outstanding young men for her to choose from.
"Did you hear about Aunt Hu's illness not long ago?"
"Um."
"I heard that several groups of people invited famous doctors, all wanting to be the first, but guess what happened? They were cured by a little girl!" He held a dogtail grass in his mouth, "Yang Zhengkang got a good deal, but now there's something interesting to watch."
"Hey, Lao Xu, are you listening?"
"Yeah." Of course Xu Duan was listening. He even knew much more than him. When he heard about this incident as soon as he got off the plane, he knew it was Jin Yue who did it, so he rushed to Liuye Hutong without changing clothes or taking a shower.
He was definitely going to deliver the things that day, but knowing that she was involved in these things, he went there as soon as possible.
With her medical skills, it is impossible for her to keep a low profile. Staying in the shallows is not a long-term solution. All he can do is hope that she can avoid some troubles while fully displaying her medical skills.
When they encountered difficult slopes and bumps, Sun Aihong would take the initiative to help Shu Jinyue. She is quite tall among lesbians, with long and strong limbs, wheat-colored skin and short hair. In the words of the mobile phone, she is a very aggressive sister.
Jin Yue was extremely envious, "Sister Aihong, you are really tall, more than 1.7 meters, right?"
"One meter seventy-three."
Jin Yue was secretly amazed. He was as tall as his second brother.
"You have such great physique, are you working in the army?"
Sun Aihong smiled heartily, "Jiang Weijun, Xu Duan, and I were comrades-in-arms. We did not retire after we got married and are still in the army."
As for what kind of job she did, she didn't elaborate, and Jin Yue didn't ask foolishly, but this didn't stop Jin Yue from liking to chat with her. He asked her many interesting questions about her military career.
Soon, the four of them climbed to the Shu family's "base camp". The two men said they wanted to take a walk in the woods. Sun Aihong originally wanted to go too, but seeing that Jin Yue was a little girl, she was worried and stayed to accompany her.
The two took out the things they brought and laid them out one by one. "Wow, I didn't realize that Old Xu was so thoughtful. He prepared so many foods. He even bought these sweet snacks which he dislikes the most."
"And this, jujube flower cake. When he was a kid, he always disliked it because it was too sweet. Now he actually brought such a big bag. It's enough to feed a donkey."
Shu Jinyue was sweating profusely: Ah, I might be the donkey.
Sun Aihong is a quick-witted person with no taboos when it comes to her words. "Don't think that Old Xu is always smiling now. This is because he has been beaten by society. He used to have a stern face and didn't like to talk to people. My Jiang Weijun grew up with him and knows his background well."
Sun Aihong was the one talking the whole time, and Shu Jinyue was listening. After waiting for about an hour, Xu Duan and Jiang Weijun actually came back with a bunch of things. A bunch!
There are four gray rabbits and a few cleaned fish...fish? !
"There is a reservoir over this mountain with some wild fish in it. Old Xu's hands are faster than the fish."
Xu Duan approached and asked Jin Yue: "Can I eat fish?"
Shu Jinyue swallowed her saliva and nodded. She could eat. She could eat three kilograms!
So the two men quickly rubbed the fish with the salt they brought, one made a fire, and the other skewered the fish with branches and roasted them over a low fire.
The more Jin wanted to help, she felt embarrassed waiting to eat the ready-made food. Sun Aihong stopped her and said, "No, they are better cooks than us. Just wait."
Jin Yue thought about it and realized that if she went, she would only be doing more harm than good.
A fresh and tender aroma wafted in the air. When the first fish was grilled, Xu Duan handed it to Shu Jinyue, the second to Sun Aihong, and the third to Jiang Weijun. He ate it last and asked them if they had enough salt.
"That's enough. It would be nice if there were some chili peppers or something."
Shu Jinyue thought it was fresh enough. The fish skin was roasted to a golden, crispy texture, while the fish meat inside was still white and tender. It tasted especially soft, and the fish meat was still very tender. It had a fresh and sweet taste that could not be found on the stock market.
She thought it was so delicious!
So when Xu Duan handed her the second one, she ate it.
"Don't eat too much, it will cause indigestion." Xu Duan whispered, pointing at the wild rabbits, "Take them back and see how your family wants to deal with them."
Jin Yue was extremely grateful, this was real meat. His second brother had come several times and didn't even see the shadow of a rabbit, but they caught so many in just one hour. The gap between real people and humans was indeed greater than the gap between that thing and humans!
In fact, with his and Jiang Weijun's abilities, catching ten would not be a problem, but there was no need to exhaust all the resources.
"Do you want more chestnuts and walnuts?" He lowered his voice, "Don't worry, they will only eat a few at most. They won't reveal your secret base to others."
Shu Jinyue's face turned red again, "Okay then, go pick some, pick more, and wait for my mom to fry them, and I'll give them to you to eat."
Xu Duan smiled and relaxed completely.
In the sunlight, Jin Yue could see the fine lines at the corners of his mouth and a layer of light fuzz at his temples.
"If you didn't get to eat the snacks, take them back and let your family try them."
With two strong vanguards by his side, Jin Yue really didn't have to do anything. They climbed trees, picked fruits, cracked shells and packed them in bags. They did it all in one go. In less than two hours, they filled the trunk.
"Okay, let's just pick these today. If you want more, let your brother pick them himself. Don't follow him into the mountains."
Jin Yue nodded, "Thank you, thank you Comrade Jiang and Sister Aihong."
"Well, kids just love to say thank you. Don't thank us over and over again, and don't treat us as elders or friends, okay?" Jiang Weijun said with a smile.
"What's the difference between elders and no elders? We are just friends, right, Old Xu?"
Xu Duan felt better and nodded slightly.
Because there were too many things and Xu Duan was afraid that the neighbors in the compound would see them, he sent her home first, and then delivered the things to Shu's house after eleven o'clock in the evening, after everyone had gone to bed.
Looking at the small house filled with chestnuts and walnuts, the Shu family couldn't sleep. They were excited and happy, but at the same time, they felt that Xu Duan was too good to their family.
What is the most precious thing these days? Of course, food!
"Xiao Xu has been so kind to our family. No matter how great the favor was, it has been repaid." Zhao Wanqiu sighed, "If it was something else, it would be fine, but these were things he worked hard to get... Just now I saw that Xiao Xu's fingernails were all blue and black. It was not easy to peel these chestnuts."
The more I think of those green-dyed hands, the sweet feeling in my heart comes back.
She didn't know why, but since she met Xu Duan, everything seemed to go smoothly. She got a job, stayed in the city, had more friends, wore leather shoes, and ate milk chocolate and honey snacks, wild boar meat, chestnuts, walnuts and grilled fish... all of them.
She had never dared to imagine that her life could be so, so... well, she couldn't think of a suitable adjective. She just felt that all the good things were waiting for her, and as long as she looked back, those good things would be within her reach.
She thought that Uncle Xu was probably a wishing machine, and she had obtained everything she had wished for.
***
Because there were too many things, Teacher Shu asked Jin Yue for his opinion and then notified Shu Wenyan to come back and take some back to eat. He heard that walnuts are good for the brain, so they are just right for Liu Huifang.
However, Shu Wenyan did not come alone. He was followed by Liu Huifang and a middle-aged man in his fifties.
"Jin Yue, this is my senior brother I told you about, Zhao Dayong, you can just call him Brother Zhao." Normally, when you meet someone of this age outside, you should call him uncle, but as Liu Huifang said, it's okay to call him brother.
But Zhao Dayong is actually less than 50 years old. Due to years of exposure to the sun in the driving seat, half of his face, neck and ears are black and red, and he has a lot of spots. In addition, his clothes are obviously not well-fitting, so he looks quite old.
Zhao Dayong was a thin, quiet guy. He forced a smile and said, "Thank you, Doctor Shu."
Jin Yue asked everyone to go out, leaving only Liu Huifang and the two of them in the room. She didn't rush to take the patient's pulse, but asked about his medical history first.
It was similar to what Liu Huifang said. Whether it was genetic history or lifestyle and eating habits, they all met the high-risk factors for colorectal cancer. "How much weight has Brother Zhao lost recently?"
"I've lost nearly 20 pounds since last year."
Jin Yue's heart thumped, which was consistent with cachexia.
But she was afraid that her emotions would give the patient a bad feeling, so she forced herself not to show it and just looked at him calmly and thought.
Zhao Dayong's face and upper body are indeed very thin, but his lower abdomen is a little protruding. If he were to live fifty years later, he would be considered a normal body shape. But nowadays there is no such thing as a beer belly. Every household has a simple diet and will not only have a fat belly.
"How often do you usually have bowel movements?"
"I've been sitting in the car for a long time, so I don't feel like going to the bathroom. Sometimes I want to go but I'm on the way, which is inconvenient... Gradually, I go to the bathroom once every seven or eight days, and sometimes once every eleven or twelve days." Zhao Dayong started to talk more, not as embarrassed as when he first came in. "My stool is like a sheep dung ball, very dry."
The frequency and characteristics of this bowel movement are really "dangerous".
"How's your appetite lately?"
"I can't eat much. I usually eat more than a pound, but now I can only eat two ounces. Sometimes I can't even finish two ounces."
Jin Yue nodded to show that he understood, and then began to take his pulse.
The air was very quiet, so quiet that one could hear the sound of breathing. Liu Huifang and Zhao Dayong stared at Jin Yue carefully, not missing any expression on her face.
Time passed by minute by minute. Jin Yue, who usually only needed three minutes to take a pulse, took more than six minutes today. Liu Huifang even slowed down her breathing, and a thought popped into her mind - could it be that senior brother's condition was more serious than they thought? !
Shu Jinyue was also worried. Zhao Dayong's pulse was too strange. At first she thought it would be the deep, thready, weak pulse of cachexia. After all, he had been ill for quite a long time and had lost a lot of weight, so the pulse should be like this. But when she really felt it with her hand, she wondered if she had made a mistake.
His pulse can be described in one word - big.
With Shu Jinyue's pulse diagnosis skills, he could tell the position, length, speed, rhythm and many other contents of a normal pulse. His fingertips could also feel the flow of qi and blood underneath. But Zhao Dayong's pulse... Jinyue's fingers were like pressing on a very large and hollow rubber tube. He could lift, press and feel the pulse, but he could not feel the flow of qi and blood.
It seems that there is no water flowing in this leather tube.
This kind of pulse is definitely a weak pulse, but I am not sure which type of weak pulse it is.
If I have to say it in a proper way, it would be "the pulse is large but weak" -
She recalled a sentence from her textbook: "When qi is deficient, it cannot be restrained and expands outwards; when blood is deficient, qi has nowhere to attach to and floats outwards. The pulse channels become loose, so the pulse is large and weak. [1]"
So, is Zhao Dayong's qi and blood being extremely deficient?
But his voice was still strong, his eyelids were not pale, and he did not show obvious signs of anemia. His fingernails were still shiny, and he did not look like he was extremely deficient in energy and blood.
"What's wrong, Jin Yue?" Liu Huifang's heart was pounding with nervousness.
"Brother Zhao, think carefully, is there anything wrong with your body in the past two years?"
Zhao Dayong thought for a while, "It's almost what I just said. Because I'm sitting in the car all the time, eating and sleeping in the car, I often have backaches. Doesn't this count?"
Jin Yue was about to say no, but suddenly remembered something, "How does it hurt? Brother Zhao, tell me in detail."
"My back pain is an old problem. Others only get pain when it's cloudy or rainy, but mine hurts even when it's sunny. It hurts every day of the year. Even now, as I'm talking, it still hurts."
Jin Yue thought to himself, it is really hard to make money as a truck driver.
"Yes, I remember now. When Senior Brother came to see me last year, he said, 'Your waist hurts so much it's about to break.' It was that kind of pain, right?"
Jin Yue recalled what his master had said. In their time, there were no advanced examination equipment, but Chinese medicine practitioners all had a tacit understanding that 90% of patients with low back pain suffered from kidney deficiency, and the problem was not so serious with the bones.
Even a strong man like Zhao Dayong described his pain as "painful as if I was about to break", which is enough to show how severe and intense his pain was.
He definitely has severe kidney deficiency, but other people's kidney deficiency manifests itself in impotence, premature ejaculation, weak knees, etc., while he only has low back pain, and this symptom happens to overlap with the low back pain caused by his work environment, so it is difficult for him to distinguish whether this is a recent symptom or has always existed.
He would make the same mistakes that Hu Guizhi would make.
After confirming that it was kidney deficiency, Jin Yue thought for a while, "I want to show Brother Zhao the mass on my stomach and the condition of my waist, is that okay?"
Zhao Dayong was a little embarrassed. After all, he was a gay and Yue was just a young girl. He didn't want fame but she did.
"Hey, senior brother, why are you still hesitating? Let her see it quickly. There are only three of us here. If you don't say anything and I don't say anything, are you afraid that someone will go out and gossip about you?" Liu Huifang was more anxious than anyone else.
Zhao Dayong couldn't be shy anymore and lifted up his clothes.
Jin Yue first gave him a simple examination of his waist and found that there was indeed no problem with the lumbar spine and I didn't have any stones.
She found an old sheet and spread it on the kang. "Brother Zhao, lie down on the kang and pull your pants down. Yes, pull your pants down a little bit..."
Zhao Dayong did as he was told with a red face and thick neck, thinking in his heart what a sin.
Jin Yueke didn't have time to think so much. She first observed the bulge in his lower abdomen with her naked eyes. It was indeed below the belly button, even lower, into the pelvis. She touched it gently with her hand. It was soft, and she couldn't feel the clear boundary for the time being, but it should not be a tumor.
She asked just now, and there has never been any blood in Brother Zhao's stool, the stool occult blood test was also negative, and there was no mucus. Because of the special nature of their profession, their company provides truck drivers with a free physical examination every year, and even stool tests are required.
Just imagine, if there really was a tumor so big that it could bulge out the belly, then it would be impossible for the stool to be abnormal.
"Brother Zhao, this is probably not colon cancer. Don't scare yourself."
"What? That's how I feel. My father was like that before. His belly became bulging, he became thinner, and he didn't have a bowel movement for ten days. Later, a check-up revealed that he had colon cancer. He died not long after that." Zhao Dayong had a terrified look on his face. He had been living in fear of death every day during this period.
Sometimes I am afraid that I will die without waking up, and sometimes I worry that I will die on the way out. What if the vehicle loses control? Will unrelated people and cars be injured? Will the unit’s goods be lost, and the family will have to pay compensation... I am afraid of death, but I am even more afraid of leaving a mess for my family after death.
Jin Yue no longer knew what to say to this poor man. In his world, he himself was not important and the most important thing was to leave some money for his family.
He had already made up his mind to die, so naturally he would not believe Jin Yue's words.
"I think I have colon cancer and have been ill for quite a long time. I didn't want to come, but Huifang said you are her sister-in-law, a good person with a kind heart, and won't tell anyone about me. I beg you, if after I die, our unit investigates you, you can say that I came to visit relatives, not to see a doctor, let alone my colon cancer, okay?"
He looked anxious, desperate to hear a response.
Being looked at with such humble eyes, Jin Yue could only nod and agree.
Zhao Dayong breathed a sigh of relief and sat up. "Then I'll go back now. Just pretend I've never been here."
He collected the old sheets he had used and said, "I'll take them back, wash them, and send them back to you."
Shu Jinyue looked at his bamboo-thin spine and suddenly felt compassion: "If I can find someone to secretly do an X-ray for you without revealing any of your real information, so that even if something goes wrong, nothing can be found, would you be willing to do it?"
Brother Zhao paused, his first reaction was to refuse outright, but his instinct for survival urged him on, "How could there be such a good thing in the world?"
People who have been immersed in misery for a long time dare not easily believe that good luck will come.
"Yes, I didn't believe that so many wonderful things would happen to me before, but now they are really happening to me. You will definitely encounter them too, please believe me."
Liu Huifang didn't know what she was thinking about, tears kept flowing, "Yes, Senior Brother, please believe Jin Yue for once. I didn't dare to believe that I could get pregnant before, but since I met Jin Yue, I really got pregnant, and I got two. You said such a beautiful thing, would I dare to think about it before?"
Jin Yue persuaded him again, and even swore on his own reputation that he would never disclose his privacy, before Zhao Dayong reluctantly agreed.
As soon as they left, Jin Yue collapsed on the kang out of exhaustion. The bed sheet that Zhao Dayong had just lain on had been taken away by him. Her fingers gently stroked the mat beneath her. Although Zhao Dayong was initially persuaded, it was too difficult for her to find someone who could examine him and keep the secret given her current network of contacts.
The first people she thought of were Zhu Daqiang and Liu Jinbu, but these two people didn't know anyone, and she guessed that they would have to ask others for help, which could easily lead to mistakes.
Next is Xu Duan. As long as she asks, he should help, but he is an outsider and it would be more troublesome for him to rely on many connections.
At this moment, I really regretted not maintaining my network well. If I had a reliable friend in the medical industry, it would only take a word to find him.
Suddenly, Jin Yue thought of someone.
She immediately got off the kang, went to her room to find her notebook, found a string of phone numbers on it, memorized it, and then ran to the street office compound.
At this time, only the staff on duty was left. When she heard that she wanted to borrow the phone to make a call, she said that she usually treated people for free and had a relationship with Yang Zhengkang behind her. There was no reason for the staff on duty to disagree, so he smiled and asked her to take her time.
While waiting for the call to be connected, Jin Yue became more and more nervous. She was afraid of being rejected. This was the reason why she never liked asking others for help. She always felt that her fate was in the hands of others.
"Hello, I'm Mo Shuyi. Who is this?" A cheerful voice came from the phone, and Jin Yue's mood relaxed immediately.
"Hello, Dr. Mo, I'm Shu Jinyue, do you remember me?"
Mo Shuyi was very surprised and laughed twice, "I am honored that you called me."
Jin Yue said a few polite words and started talking about business. She did not mention Zhao Dayong's specific condition, but only said that there was a patient whose condition she was unsure about and she wanted to find an experienced radiologist to take a look. She also said that it needed to be kept confidential.
"That's not difficult. My friend is in the imaging department of the provincial hospital. If you don't want to leave a medical record, ask him to come after get off work, such as tomorrow. He will be on duty tomorrow. Ask your acquaintance to arrive at the hospital around seven o'clock in the evening. I will be waiting there to pick him up." Mo Shuyi agreed readily and was also very interested in this case.
"I don't understand your Chinese medicine pulse, but you said his pulse is different from what you thought, so let's wait and see."
Jin Yue said that she would accompany Zhao Dayong there tomorrow, and then she would be able to verify her idea.
"Verify? Could it be that you don't believe that he has colon cancer and have other guesses?" Doctor Mo's eyes lit up. He always felt that there were many things about this little girl that made him curious.
Curiosity is a good thing.
However, the things that he had always thought were similar to witch doctors were like a book without words, which made him gradually realize how limited and narrow-minded he was in the past.
"Yes, I have a preliminary guess, but his complexion, mental state, and bowel movements don't match my guess, so I want to verify it... After all, although I can feel the pulse now, I am not yet able to sense the specific changes in the internal organs through the pulse."
Such traditional Chinese medicine practitioners do exist and can roughly infer the size and location of a tumor by taking the pulse, but Shu Jinyue has not reached that level yet.
"Okay, see you tomorrow then. I'll wait and see."
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