Chapter 829: Using Large Flames to Turn Soup into Stew
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
*Wee woo… Wee woo…*
The sound of the ambulance was like an alarm bell, and it had awakened the Emergency Medical Center from its slumber at midnight.
Lu Wenbin opened his eyes wide and walked out soullessly from the treatment room.
“If I have the same s.h.i.+ft with Su Mengxue again, I’ll cut my own hand and braise it.” Lu Wenbin was so tired that when he spoke, it was clear that his mind had decided to abandon him.
Zuo Cidian, who woke up early for work, was not surprised by this at all, and he pursed his lips. “I thought you don’t believe in that sort of stuff. Are you superst.i.tious? Do you feel superst.i.tious now?”
“Of course not.” Lu Wenbin shook his head firmly. “If you work with Su Mengxue for night s.h.i.+ft, you will be insanely busy. This is a fact that is more real than cooking mangoes in a hotpot. It can’t be superst.i.tion.”
“I know, right? This has long since been proven true. Whoever shares a s.h.i.+ft with Su Mengxue will be busy for the entire night. I’ll admit defeat if anyone can even rest for an hour.” Zuo Cidian clicked his tongue. “These are sayings pa.s.sed down from our previous colleagues, we should believe them.”
If this happened in the past, Lu Wenbin would have thrown out a sarcastic quip. However, after he went through that scary night, Lu Wenbin had decided to believe in Zuo Cidian.
Lu Wenbin was still terrified when he recalled yesterday’s night s.h.i.+ft. But when his words reached the tip of his tongue, he sighed heavily. “I perform four surgeries in a night.”
Zuo Cidian stared at Lu Wenbin sympathetically. Four surgeries was not scary, but everyone in the Emergency Department knew that the resident doctors on night s.h.i.+ft would not possibly just perform surgeries for an entire night. That was only applicable to doctors at an administrative level. And if the resident doctors and bosses found something they did not want to do, the resident doctors would still end up having to do it.
“You’ll be fine after you get through it.” Zuo Cidian patted his shoulder, smiled, and said, “Go and grab breakfast. There are chefs and pâtissies sent over by Miss Tian. Ling Ran just finished his ward round.”
“Oh,” Lu Wenbin replied, and his expression was finally livelier while he said, “Then, I’ll go over first. Bed 4 needs to be transferred to the Cardiology Department. Please take a look into that.”
“They haven’t come over to pick up the patient yet?”
“Four of their patients died yesterday night, and they’re very busy. They’ll only send someone over to pick up the patient once working hours start.”
Zuo Cidian nodded and smiled in anguish. “Four is truly an unlucky number.”
“It is.” Lu Wenbin stopped spewing nonsense. He carried his items and went to the Operating Area. In the Emergency Department, the only place that a doctor could eat peacefully would be the small cafeteria in the Operating Area.
The small cafeteria was really small. There were only a total of six tables, and they were arranged closely to one another. Those tables were mainly for the bosses’ use. During the peak hours in the Emergency Department, the four operating theaters would be occupied by seven to eight chief physicians and a.s.sociate chief physicians, along with the anesthetists and nurses, there would be thirty people who will work together in the operating theater. So, it would not be strange if all six tables were fully occupied once they were done with work.
Of course, most of the time, the cafeteria would not be occupied with that many people. Before being upgraded into an Emergency Medical Center, the usage rate of the operating theaters in the Emergency Department was not even up to 30%.
But now, most of the operating theaters were used by Ling Ran’s treatment group. However, in the foreseeable future, as the Emergency Medical Center became more famous, it will slowly begin to bear the responsibility of a center. The Operating Area would only get busier.
Lu Wenbin looked exhausted while he went away. Sometimes, he will even need to lean against the wall.
He only got through last night entirely through the support from Red Bull and coffee. Now, the effects were gone, and he was totally exhausted. He went to the small kitchen and wanted to get something warm to eat.
“What do you want to eat?” someone asked politely from the small kitchen.
Since the cafeteria was very small, the small kitchen was even smaller, and it was even an open kitchen to boot. Usually, it was a place for doctors and nurses to heat up their meals and pork trotters. Lu Wenbin could not recognize this voice, and he could not help but to look up.
“I’m a chef from Yunli Medical Company… Ah, and also a pharmaceutical sales representative.” The man standing in the small kitchen smiled faintly.
Pharmaceutical sales representatives will not just visit doctors during their consultation hours, they can also be found in the wards of the Operating Area or the operating theaters. The superficial reason for this was because they needed to help test the instruments and devices in the hospital or introduce some of the consumables, but the actual reason was because they were cheap labor.
Pharmaceutical sales representatives were more useful than the interns who just graduated from the medical college. After all, the doctors will still feel a sense of burden when they exploited students. However, no one would care about the lives of pharmaceutical sales representatives because they were just consumables.
But Lu Wenbin had never seen a pharmaceutical sales representative like this before.
However, Lu Wenbin’s adaptability was very strong. In just a few seconds, he showed a foolish smile as if he had his questions answered. “Yunli, huh?”
The chef nodded and asked, “There are rice noodles and noodles. Which one do you prefer?”
“Rice noodles, I guess…”
“Do you want eggs? Fried eggs or boiled eggs?”
“Fried eggs.”
“Okay. Please wait a minute. Is there anything you can’t eat or are allergic to?”
“No.”
Lu Wenbin shook his head. After a few seconds, he turned around and saw that Tian Qi was sitting at the table at the center and was eating quietly.
When he looked carefully, Ling Ran, who sat in front of Tian Qi, was also eating quietly.
“Miss Tian is also one of the pharmaceutical sales representatives from Yunli Medical Company.” The chef grinned while he explained.
Lu Wenbin was impressed. “Pharmaceutical sales representatives truly have all sorts of talented people hidden among them.”
“There are bite-sized fried lard, steak, small lamb chops, and fried fish. Which side dish would you want?” The chef did not continue the topic of conversation and asked with a boisterous voice.
“You have steak and lamb chop as well?” Lu Wenbin frowned and asked, “That’s too greasy. Who will eat that sort of stuff so early in the morning?”
“The steak is top quality Zebu meat selected from Brazil. It was brought from Brazil to Yun Hua and slaughtered. The lamb chop is fried in the style of the French. The meat texture is tender, and the smell of mutton is completely gone.”
Lu Wenbin remained silent for a few seconds. “I want it all.”
The chef was used to it. “Okay.”
“Get me another pork trotter. Pork trotters are a must in this cafeteria.” Lu Wenbin’s mind seemed to be working again, and he stated something born from his own persistence.
The chef also said persistently, “Pork trotters do not match well with rice noodles.”
“Don’t you say that.” Lu Wenbin raised his head and looked calm. “Yesterday, I cut someone up.”
The chef trembled. “Why?”
Lu Wenbin’s gaze was distant. “One idiot went to his father’s grave to honor him—Sorry, I meant that someone went to his father’s grave to honor him. He went with another idiot—Sorry, I mean that he went with another person and decided to use the old hunting gun his father hid in the cellar forty years ago. And there was an in-bore premature detonation.”
The chef was stunned and thought for a while before he said, “Luckily the other idiot… No, I mean, the other person is fine.”
“Oh, the other one got one of his eyes blinded and was sent to the Ophthalmology Department.” Lu Wenbin raised his head again and said, “Remember to add pork trotters into the rice noodles.”
“Okay.” The chef gave a smile.
A while later, Lu Wenbin carried his bowl and sat at the corner. He was not stupid enough to rush over to Ling Ran’s table to greet him.
That bowl of rice noodles made Lu Wenbin sweat.
When he looked up again, he saw Huo Congjun come in through the door.
Lu Wenbin immediately lowered his head and kept pretending to eat. He looked as if he was acting in a sketch.
“Ling Ran.” Huo Congjun sounded very happy.
“Department Director Huo,” Ling Ran replied.
“Department Director Huo!” Tian Qi sounded very sweet and gave up some s.p.a.ce. “Did you stay up late? Want to grab some soup?”
“No need. I’ll just talk for a while and leave.” Huo Congjun immediately sat in front of Ling Ran and said, “Let me introduce you to a surgeon going through in-service training.”
A surgeon going through in-service training was a doctor sent over from a low-ranking hospital to a high-ranking hospital. Since this kind of doctor was more mature, they were considered as favored cheap labor in all departments.
But since Ling Ran did not have any sort of preference for any doctor, he just nodded. “Sure.”
“Hmm… This man is an attending physician from the county hospital of Qiu County. He probably wants to learn something before he’s promoted to an a.s.sistant lecturer. He’s rather good at handling matters, so you can use him for two months.” Huo Congjun chuckled and said, “He mainly wants to learn about abdominoscopy. Just teach him according to the situation.”
Lu Wenbin frowned as he heard that. Ling Ran’s treatment group had free reign over any new venture it had in mind. If a mature doctor suddenly came over to learn from Ling Ran, he would be like soup being boiled into stew, over a large flame!
He was a great threat.