Chapter 5: Why Do Flowers Blossom So Red
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“Miss Su, what’s the matter with you?” the middle-aged man was startled and hurried to examine her.
He found that her face looked as pale as paper, and her breathing was off and on, as if she were dying soon.
Senior Long put on a somber expression. He went to Su Ming-yue to feel her pulse, then the color drained from his face immediately: “She was poisoned. Her life is in great danger now!”
Su Ming-yue was very weak anyway, along with poisoning symptoms, the power of her life was rapidly fading away.
“Where did you buy those things on earth? How do you dare to poison our miss!” the middle-aged man bellowed, grabbing Liu Jiang-wei by the collar.
“It’s impossible. This restaurant is not a street vendor, and we always go there for seafood.” Liu Jiang-wei explained.
“Fuck you, dare you eat it now in front of me!” the middle-aged man grabbed the seafood and threw it on Liu Jiang-wei.
“I will. I can’t believe it. Could such a big restaurant poison people?”
Liu Jiang-wei couldn’t bear the charge of poisoning, so he had to test it to prove himself innocent.
Moreover, the seafood restaurant enjoys a very good reputation around this area. Many patients and doctors have been to the restaurant, but nothing had gone wrong before.
As expected, Liu Jiang-wei finished the food and sucked his fingers with great relish. He even let forth a loud belch, but there was nothing abnormal at all. Now the middle-aged man was stunned.
At this time, the tap-tap of high heels came from the gate. Then a beautiful figure appeared.
“What happened?” Jiang Ruo-qing frowned. She was informed of the noise in the ward from a nurse, so she hurried here.
“Directress,” Senior Long said in a low voice: please come and have a look at the girl. She was poisoned after she had had the cray.”
Jiang Ruo-qing came over and examined Su Ming-yue. Her frosty face became even colder. The poison the girl took had already spread all over her body, and now she was dying. Perhaps it was too late for her to receive a gastric lavage.
“Is she allergic to seafood?” Jiang Ruo-qing asked anxiously.
“Impossible!” the middle-aged man shouted out loud: “My miss likes eating cray best, but she has never had a seafood allergy before. Moreover, the initial reaction of seafood allergy is skin rash, even I, know this!”
“Calm down please…” Jiang Ruo-qing comforted him, then she turned to Senior Long: “Is there any cure now?”
“She was poisoned by some uncertain poison all of a sudden, and she was born with a weak constitution, what’s more, the poison has now spread into her blood, maybe it’s…” Senior Long sighed: “too late!”
Jiang Ruo-qing’s face was as cold as frost in winter: “Was she poisoned before eating the seafood or after eating this?”
“Exactly she was poisoned after eating this.” Senior Long glanced at Liu Jiang-wei and wondered: “but when others ate this, there was nothing wrong with them.”
Hearing this, all the people felt very peculiar.
If the seafood was really poisonous and Liu Jiang-wei also ate it, he should also have an attack at this time.
Liu Jiang-wei cried out for grievance: “I was really wronged, my directress. I just bought something to feed Miss Su out of kindness. Who on earth knew such a thing would happen?”
“Humph, if you followed what the security guard said, would this happen?” Now the middle-aged man even wished that he could kill him.
If they should have known to follow Lin Qi’s suggestion, Miss Su wouldn’t be in danger.
“The security guard?” Jiang Ruo-qing thought for a moment, feeling that this accident was not that simple as she had thought. And she glared at Liu Jiang-wei: “What was all that about?”
“Well…” Liu Jiang-wei faltered. Looking at the weak Su Ming-yue, who was already half-dead, he had long been too nervous to think over.
And when he saw Jiang Ruo-qing was furious, his legs trembled and he finally told her everything in detail.
After hearing this, Jiang Ruo-qing pulled a longface and said with rage: “Whatever you do, find Lin Qi and take him here at once!”
Senior Long was very unhappy: “Directress Jiang, he is just a security guard, is it really that worthy?”
“Do what I ask you do. If you can’t get Lin Qi back, neither of you should come back to work tomorrow!” Jiang Ruo-qing rebuked coldly. The coldness in her made them feel falling into the icehouse.
Whoever didn’t know Directress Jiang’s prestige at Jinhai Hospital?
Senior Long’s heart thumped and his face turned pale.
No matter who he was, she was never relented to him, provided that he exasperated her.
Now Su Ming-yu was dying, and Liu Jiang-wei could not get away with that. In a daze, he rushed out of the door.
Packing up briefly in the dormitory, Lin Qi held his internship report tightly in his hand. He still needed a stamp of Jinhai Hospital on it. But he was afraid he had no hope to get it now.
“Let it go at that. I’ better go back to school first, and explain all of this to my headteacher and ask him whether I can transfer to another hospital for my internship…”
After making up his mind, Lin Qi went downstairs and stepped out of his dormitory.
If he couldn’t get a stamp of a hospital on his internship report, he might not graduate from the college, not to mention the job search in the future. His career prospects would be gloomy.
But just he went out of the gate, he heard a rush of footsteps behind.
Liu Jiang-wei and Senior Long ran in front of him, out of breath.
Liu Jiang-wei reached out his hand to stop Lin Qi and bellowed out: “Lin Qi, go back with me at once to check Miss Su carefully and see what happened to her.”
He was very unhappy and impatient, raising his chin high, as if he were talking to a dog.
Lin Qi simmered with rage, pushed his hand away and said: “Now I am not a staff of Jinhai Hospital, it’s none of my business.”
With a trace of annoyance in his eyes, Senior Long said coldly: “It’s the order of Directress Jiang that you must go back at once, otherwise, it’s impossible for you to get your internship report stamped. Do you want it?”
“I don’t need it.You’d better look out for someone smarter.” Lin Qi didn’t care about his threat and went on stepping forwards.
Liu Jiang-wei wouldn’t let it go: “Lin Qi, don’t refuse a toast only to drink a forfiet. Now we let you go back and this is to give you face. As long as you perform well, I’ll do you a favour by interceding with Directress Jiang to let you become a full member in the hospital.”
“I repeat once more, I won’t damn well come back!” Lin Qi felt extremely disgusted towards the two who were like two flies buzzing in his ears.
“Fucking you stop!” Liu Jiang-wei was ashamed into anger, grabbing Lin Qi by the clothes: “Today, I will let you know why flowers blossom so red!”
Then, Liu threw a punch at Lin Qi.
Lin Qi laughed angrily. Was this their medical ethics? Besides being shameless to the utmost, they even went that far to solve problems by fists?
Seeing Liu Jiang-wei swinging his fist towards him, Lin Qi didn’t dodge. Instead, he grabbed Liu’s wrist and pressed right on one of his acupoints.
Liu Jiang-wei couldn’t move but froze in place, as if he were hit at certain acupoints.
“Fuck your grandfather, damn you!” Liu Jiang-wei struggled desperately and cried out, “You dare to revolt, let me off at once!”.
Lin Qi’s expression changed abruptly. He slapped Liu in the face. A sharp snap was heard, and five bright red fingerprints appeared on Liu Jiang-wei’s face. Half of his face turned numb.
Lin Qi was brought up by his grandfather, what he hated most was that someone would show no respect to his grandfather.
“You dare to slap me? Fucking your grandfather. Dare you try again?”
“Bang!”
“Fuck…”
“Bang!”
“…”
“Bang!”
Several slaps on his face made Liu Jiang-wei almost go faint. Now Lin Qi was not a member of the staff in the hospital, what if he hit Liu?
“Stop please, I was wrong, I’m really sorry.” Liu Jiang-wei begged.
Lin Qi roared with cold look in his eyes: “Tell me now, why do flowers blossom so red?”