It was a dark and windy night. Chi Shen was holding a watering can and watering the chrysanthemums on his terrace.
It was already late at night, and even the lights in the city center could not illuminate his terrace. Fortunately, his night vision was good, so he did not miss a pot of flowers while watering.
He came to water the flowers late at night, definitely not because he had a change of heart and wanted to help Bai Wan and the red-clothed female ghost share the watering task. In fact, he was only responsible for buying these flowers and never took care of them. These flowers have been alive and well for so long and have not died yet. It is all thanks to Bai Wan. The red-clothed female ghost was just helping Bai Wan.
Chi Shen has seen Bai Wan watching flower-growing videos on the second-hand tablet computer he gave her more than once. He even discovered that Bai Wan followed many flower-growing bloggers and was a loyal fan of them. She would comment to show her support and ask questions. Bai Wan even learned how to type using this second-hand tablet!
Chi Shen will be watering the flowers here tonight, all because he saw the hospital garden today and felt that his terrace was too monotonous. He had to add something here, what...
It’s winter now, how about adding a plum blossom?
So he watered the pond halfway, put down the watering can, picked up his phone, lay on the recliner, and started to see how the plum blossoms were selling.
As soon as he lay down, Ji Xingchen brought a blanket to him. Chi Shen covered himself with his own small blanket and happily browsed Taobao.
Soon, Bai Wan saw that he gave up after watering half of the flowers, so she came out and took the watering can and started watering the other half.
As Chi Shen was looking at his phone, his eyes fell on Bai Wan. Mainly because Bai Wan was wearing a red dress, which was too conspicuous in the dark night.
The lights from other buildings shone sporadically, making the gold ornaments on Bai Wan's body even more dazzling and eye-catching. Chi Shen was also dazzled twice, so he looked up.
He held his cell phone in one hand, half sat up, and supported his chin with the other hand, thinking about something.
In his opinion, Bai Wan has already kept up with the world. She would go online to look up flower-growing guides and communicate with people by typing. He even occasionally saw Bai Wan typing faster than him. She could also send emojis and emoticons. If you look at her online, you'll see she's a completely modern person.
But in fact, Bai Wan was still wearing an ancient red wedding dress and even a veil, hiding her beautiful face.
After watering the flowers, Bai Wan took the watering can to the bathroom, cleaned it, and put it away.
"Do you think our sister should go out for a walk?" Chi Shen pulled Ji Xingchen's hand, "So that she can change into something prettier. It's not that this one isn't pretty, but a little girl can't have only one set of clothes, right?"
Ji Xingchen looked at him, his eyes fixed on Chi Shen holding his hand for a second, and then said: "Let nature take its course, she will go out when she wants to."
"She doesn't look like she wants to go out," Chi Shen said. He reached out and took out the brown silk thread and tied a bow on a chrysanthemum. "As a brother, when your sister doesn't want to go out and just wants to stay at home to escape reality, you should take the initiative to take your sister out."
After listening to this, Ji Xingchen did not refute and only said: "Let's travel together?"
Chi Shen touched his chin and said, "We need to find someone to pay for the trip. Traveling is expensive, especially with so many of us. Accommodation costs a lot of money. It would be best to find a free hotel."
Chi Shen was already fantasizing about traveling when his cell phone suddenly rang. Chi Shen took a look and saw it was a call from Zhong Yi.
Without picking up the phone, Chi Shen knew what Zhong Yi wanted to say, so he picked up the phone and spoke before Zhong Yi: "Are you here to thank me? No need to thank me, I want to go to the place where your grandfather had the accident."
Zhong Yi on the other end of the phone: "Thanks... um... hm?"
Ji Xingchen showed a subtle expression on the side. He pushed his glasses and reminded Chi Shen: "Follow the procedure."
Chi Shen could only sigh: "Just say what you want to say."
Zhong Yi was silent for two seconds and then said, "I came to thank you. Grandpa has checked his heart and found that there is indeed a problem. Parasites were found in his heart. In fact, we all know that they are not parasites, but they must be removed. I will prepare for heart surgery tomorrow."
Chi Shen said dryly: "Is that so? That's really unexpected."
"You...you..." Zhong Yi seemed to want to say something, but considering that Chi Shen was indeed his grandfather's savior, he organized his words for a long time before saying, "Thank you."
As a ghost who loves to eat melons, Ghost Face rushed over as soon as Chi Shen answered the phone. He was listening and expressing his thoughts: "I think he was thinking that you knew it a long time ago, but he didn't dare to ask. Boss, what did you do to make them so afraid of you?"
Chi Shen smiled and looked at Gui Lian, who immediately chose to shut up, hiding his mouth and hiding under the flower pot.
Zhong Yi wanted to say a lot of words of thanks, but he was blocked by Chi Shen at the very beginning and he couldn't say anything. Besides, he was not particularly good at communicating with people, so he hung up the phone awkwardly.
Ghost Face complained under the flowerpot: "I feel bad for him."
Chi Shen lay on the recliner and continued to look at the plum blossoms happily: "If he is not uncomfortable, I am the only one who is uncomfortable."
He had just found out the price of plum blossoms when the phone rang again. This time it was Zhong Yi.
Chi Shen picked up the phone with a headache. Zhong Yi apologized on the other end: "Sorry to bother you. I forgot to ask you what you want as a thank you gift. Before, Bai Ximing wanted the classics and secrets of my family. My father had already discussed it with the elders, but he didn't expect to be deceived. My father said that if you are interested, we can give it to you. This is the biggest thank you gift we can give."
"What should I do with that?" Chi Shen said on the other end of the phone. It was late at night, and he had almost seen enough plum blossoms. He was sleepy. He lazily thought that it would be better to just give him the money. However, he still said, "If you really want to express your gratitude, then buy me a plum blossom."
"Buy... plum blossoms?" Zhong Yi's voice was unusually surprised, and it sounded as if he thought he had heard it wrong.
"Yes, I want to buy plum blossoms." Chi Shen turned on the speakerphone and started looking through the plum blossom records he had searched for on his phone. "The plum blossom trees on the Internet are too unreliable. Many people say they are fake. There are many varieties, and I can't even tell if they are fragrant or not. The only reliable stores have seedlings, and a seedling costs more than a hundred yuan. I'm thinking, I have to get a plum blossom tree that's more than two meters tall, so wouldn't that cost thousands of yuan?"
"Ah?" Zhong Yi was stunned on the other end. Why did he suddenly start talking about plum blossoms?
"So, I need a plum tree that's over two meters tall... forget it, over one and a half meters tall, and it's fragrant, either red or white." Chi Shen said.
"Okay," Zhong Yi's voice was already full of dreaminess. He seemed to not understand why this person didn't even want the Zhong family's classics, but wanted a plum blossom. After a while, he confirmed again, "Do you really only want a plum blossom?"
"I just need one plum blossom." Chi Shen said, "My garden is just missing one plum blossom. I don't need anything else. They are all unnecessary."
"well."
Zhong Yi hung up the phone. For a long time, he still felt like he was living in a dream and was stunned for a while.
Seeing the inquiring eyes from the elders of the Zhong family, Zhong Yi raised his head with a strange expression: "Is there anyone who doesn't know what the Zhong family classics mean?"
Zhong Jingsong saw his son's confusion. He recalled Chi Shen's appearance and shook his head: "What seems important to us may not be so important to others."
Upon hearing this, Zhong Yi looked up at his father, then nodded thoughtfully and conveyed Chi Shen's thoughts to his father.
Now, not only Zhong Yi, but everyone else looked puzzled. Zhong Yi's aunt even asked cautiously, "Does he not care whether he will be thanked or not?"
Chi Shen really didn't care whether he would be thanked or not, because in his opinion, helping Zhong Yi was actually repaying Zhong Yi's favor, that is, Zhong Yi sent him to school, and he was repaying Zhong Yi by leaving him there, so they were actually even.
As for the Zhong family feeling that they have not cleared the matter, that is another matter.
The next day was the weekend. Chi Shen got up early, walked around his terrace, and rethought the plan of the terrace. Then he walked to the pot of chrysanthemums that he had tied with a thin string.
Bai Wan was also looking at the pot of chrysanthemums.
After a night, the edges of the chrysanthemum leaves turned burnt yellow, and the whole plant showed signs of lack of water and began to wither.
Chi Shen untied the thin thread, but the chrysanthemum did not return to its previous appearance. However, Bai Wan took the pot of chrysanthemums to the best sunny spot on the terrace, apparently wanting to save it.
Putting away the thin line, Chi Shen yawned: "I have to go to the hospital."
The first to pop out was Ghostface: "Great! Let's go out!"
Chi Shen smiled and picked him up and put him in his hat: "Let's go, I'll take you to experience the holiday life of the third year of high school."
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In the hospital.
Mr. Zhong's operation is in progress.
Several elders of the Zhong family were sitting outside the operating room, looking at it with worry and anxiety.
In addition to the few people who had been taken care of in the ward before, some younger and older generations also rushed to the port city, waiting for the results of the operation.
Old Master Zhong is now the backbone of the Zhong family. If he were to pass away without any clear reason, the Zhong family would be in chaos for at least one or two years.
"What on earth is that?" Someone outside the operating room asked worriedly.
Someone said: "That thing looks so disgusting, it must not be a parasite. Why didn't we find it before, but we can find it now?"
They had seen the picture of the old man's heart before. The parasite looked like a small loach, but its tail was forked into two parts, and its head looked like a human face.
"Could it be that he didn't grow up before, so he couldn't film the movie?" someone else said.
Some people have already started praying: "I hope grandpa will be alright."
However, some people questioned: "This is definitely not an ordinary thing, will it work?"
"We have someone in the operating room, don't worry," someone said, "He has passed both the medical license and the Tianshi certificate exams, so there should be no problem."
"You said the same thing when the old man went to the resort hotel. You all said there was no problem, but isn't there a problem now?"
Zhong Jingsong's voice whispered in the corridor: "Don't quarrel."
Now everything outside the operating room fell silent, and no one said anything else.
In the operating room, under the bright surgical light, the surgeon was cutting open Mr. Zhong's chest with a serious face.
Judging from the results of the X-ray, the parasite was attached to the outer wall of the old man's heart. The operation was not particularly dangerous. We just had to open the chest cavity and take the parasite out.
This was a parasite they had never seen before, but as a doctor, they would not give up a life because of the unknown.
After opening the chest, they first felt a chill. The old man's chest was like an ice cellar. This should have been the warmest place in the whole body, but at this moment it was extremely cold.
This unexpected situation stunned all the doctors, but the current situation did not allow them to stay. They had to remove the parasites in order to save the old man.
The surgeon immediately looked for the parasite in the heart. He felt as if his hand was holding ice cubes in an ice storage. He glanced at the old man's physical characteristics on the instrument and found that there was nothing wrong with the old man. The heart seemed to have been dead for a long time, but the man was alive.
The doctor broke out in a cold sweat, and then someone held his elbow and said calmly, "The parasite is gone."
The surgeon then calmed himself down and remembered what the relevant leader had told him before the operation, telling him not to panic under any circumstances. He forced himself to calm down.
"No parasites were found," the doctor said quickly, "It must have moved when the cavity was opened. Keep looking."
The operation time passed by minute by minute, and soon the doctor did not find the parasite that should have existed in the chest cavity. Instead, he felt a pain in his finger, as if he was bitten by something. In order to prevent a wound on his hand and infect the operating environment, he quickly withdrew his hand, but found no wound on his hand. At this moment, he looked confused, but the doctor opposite him had a very solemn expression.
"It's difficult... but give it a try." He heard the doctor mutter.
The doctor put his hand into the old man's chest, and soon cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Chi Shen took a look outside the operating room. All the people from the Zhong family were at the door. Their attention was all on the operating room, and no one noticed him.
But this is also what he wanted. If a group of people rushed up to him and asked him how he found out that Mr. Zhong had a heart problem, he would not be able to explain it clearly no matter how long he tried. It was just right that no one had discovered him now.
He stood outside the operating room for a while and then left.
At the same time, in the operating room, the doctor who put his hand into the old man's chest suddenly said, "Found it."
At this time, the surgeon also saw the so-called parasite, but the parasite had rotted into several pieces, like a black blood clot attached to the heart. He quickly took out the parasite and then sutured the chest cavity.
The operation lasted almost six hours, and the Zhong family waited outside for six hours.
"The operation was successful." The door of the operating room opened, and the silent Zhong family heard the words they wanted to hear most.
At this moment, intermittent crying sounds were heard outside the operating room. Mr. Zhong had been lying in bed for almost a month, and many people had almost given up. They did not expect to hear good news.
Then, another doctor came out and nodded to them: "We have the specimen. I believe no one recognizes it. I will take a photo and share it. When the old man wakes up, we may know more."
He paused for a second, then continued, "I hope that hotel isn't full of this kind of stuff."
Zhong Jingsong was relatively calm. Seeing that his father was fine, his eyes only reddened for a moment. He then calmly asked, "Did the operation go smoothly? Did anything unexpected happen when removing the parasite?"
The doctor glanced at Zhong Jingsong, stretched out his hand to him and took off his gloves. There was an obvious circle of bite marks on his index finger. The bite marks were very fine, as if he had been bitten by a creature with needle-like teeth.
"I could clearly feel it trying to get into my body through my fingers," the doctor said, sounding a little confused, "but it only took one bite, then gave up and was taken out by my fingers."
"I suspect someone was helping, but I know everyone in the operating room this time. They are all ordinary people. They couldn't even see the parasite until I took it out."
“That’s weird.”
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