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Qiao Hao finally took the time to go home, he wanted to cook something for Shi Dongdong.

This is not an easy task for him, only a little idea in his heart supports him, and that idea is when Shi Dongdong eats what he makes, he will smile at him from the bottom of his heart .

He felt that the picture must be very pleasant.

Qiao Hao specially collected some recipes for strengthening the body, and carefully selected a loach eel soup that can increase the vitality of white blood cells and replenish vitality according to traditional Chinese medicine.Because he knew that chemotherapy drugs had a great impact on the white blood cells in the human body, and Shi Dongdong's complexion was not very good, so he thought that this soup should be useful to Shi Dongdong.

After choosing the recipe and purchasing the ingredients, Qiao Hao began to thank his mother and sister from the bottom of his heart, because they often visit, and his kitchen has all the cooking tools.When he was worried about how to open the intestines of those slippery loach eels, the kitchen knife Qiao Min brought back from Germany finally had a chance to be unsealed; The purple casserole that he brought appeared in his sight very eye-catchingly.

In this way, Qiao Hao worked in the kitchen for a whole morning, and finally at noon, he smelled the unique fragrance of loach soup.

For this fragrance, Qiao Hao worked hard.Because the ingredients themselves have a strong fishy smell, he specially found a recipe to remove the fishy smell from the Internet. He rubbed the mucus off the skin of loach and rice field eel little by little with salt, and then scalded them quickly with boiling water, and then added various Physically remove the fishy smell of spices... Just rubbing with salt, his big hands that don't look very delicate almost peeled off a layer of skin, and when he boiled the water, he poured it directly on his fingers.

Just as Qiao Hao was rejoicing over the rich fragrance he had earned through hard work, his doorbell rang.

"Sorry, I'm here uninvited again!"

Outside the door, Qiao Min wore a tan floor-length dress, her long hair was tied back unruly, she kicked off her shoes and threw away her bag, and sat straight on the sofa in the living room.

Qiao Hao glanced at her, but didn't have time to pay attention to her, because he was going to check the heat of the stew.

"Hey, what's the smell in your house? It's so heavy..." Qiao Min's voice came from the living room.

Qiao Hao scooped up a little bit of soup with a spoon, put it to his mouth and tasted it, but he was still not sure about the saltiness.

He wanted to add some salt, but he was afraid that Shi Dongdong's taste would be bland, so he was hesitating when he saw Qiao Min, who was still in the living room before, had rushed to the kitchen and leaned over to him to peek into the pot.

"What did you cook? Did you mess around like this, stewing loach and rice field eel in one pot?" Qiao Min stared at Qiao Hao with rounded eyes in disbelief.

Qiao Hao pushed her away, and firmly protected the casserole with his body, "This is not for you to eat, you care so much!"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he remembered the back view of Qiao Min who sadly left him last time, and finally his tone softened again, "... next time I will treat you to something better."

"Yo, you found out with your conscience?" Qiao Min smiled, tilted his head and looked at Qiao Hao playfully, "Then which girl did you cook this pot for?"

"For, for the patients in Corey... this is an experimental decoction." Qiao Hao concluded, not knowing why he made up such a nonsense lie.

"Aren't you a western doctor? How did you climb the wall?" Qiao Min pouted.

"Is it true that Chinese and Western medicine must be contradictory? What's wrong with combining them?" Qiao Hao had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue.

"Okay, I know you have always been dedicated to your work, not to mention such a special soup, I won't compete with your research subjects. Alas, if all doctors in China are like you, the relationship between doctors and patients may not be so tense." Qiao Min sighed With a sigh of relief, he floated to the living room again.

Qiao Hao saw that it was not early, he didn't want to delay the delivery of Shi Dongdong's meal, and he didn't care about Qiao Min, so he hurriedly poured the soup into the thermos bucket.

"Are you very busy recently? My mother came here twice and no one is here. She urged me to come and see you." Qiao Min sat back on the sofa in the living room and turned on the TV.

Qiao Hao's house is small, and when Qiao Min came, there was a lot of movement.

"Sister, I'm in a hurry today, you can use this room as you please, I'll treat you to dinner next time!" Qiao Hao rushed to the door to put on his shoes with the thermos in his arms.

"Are you so busy? You'll leave as soon as I come?" Qiao Min poked his head out of the sofa.

Qiao Hao forced a smile at her, took the thermos and was about to close the door.

"Hey, wait a minute, our group has a performance on the weekend, the standard is quite high, why don't you come and see it?"

"Your performance..." Qiao Hao was about to say that he wasn't interested, but then he remembered that Shi Dongdong's first course of treatment should be over at the weekend. At that time, he might want to leave the hospital for a walk to watch a concert or something, so he hurriedly changed his words, "...Are there any seats left?"

"Do you want two?" Qiao Min was extremely vigilant.

"Then save two for me!" Qiao Hao looked at his watch, threw a few words and ran downstairs.

He didn't hear what Qiao Min said again, it was almost twelve o'clock, and he hadn't talked to Shi Dongdong about making soup, so I'm afraid it's too late now and Shi Dongdong will finish his lunch.

When Shi Dongdong saw Qiao Hao appearing at the door of the ward, his mood immediately improved a lot.

When he saw Qiao Hao put a large thermos bucket on the bedside table and help him serve the soup carefully, he was so happy that he even forgot about the infusion on his arm.

"Fortunately, you haven't eaten yet. This is the first time I've stewed this soup. I'm inexperienced, and it took me some time." Qiao Hao tried hard to adjust his breathing, not wanting to let his heavy breath pant in front of Shi Dongdong.

"Doctor Qiao, did you cook the soup yourself?" Aunt Yu stared at the soup in Qiao Hao's hand.

Qiao Hao was a little embarrassed, nodded and smiled.

"What kind of soup? It's so fragrant..." Shi Dongdong stretched out a hand to take the soup bowl, but Aunt Yu stopped him, knocked down the dining table on the hospital bed in front of him, and put the soup on it.

"Loach and eel soup, try it, it's good for Shengbai." Qiao Hao finally freed his hands, pulled a chair and sat down beside Shi Dongdong's bed with peace of mind.

Shi Dongdong glanced at the contents in the bowl, and he raised his face and smiled gratefully at Qiao Hao.

At that moment, Qiao Hao was so satisfied that he couldn't describe it in words. On the edge of the bed where Shi Dongdong couldn't see, his index finger, which had been scalded before, bent unconsciously, and now it didn't feel hot at all.

Shi Dongdong began to pour the soup into his mouth spoon by spoon. Although he could only use one hand because of the infusion, he didn't hesitate at all, as if enjoying the deliciousness in his mouth.

"Does it taste good?" Qiao Hao asked a little nervously, but judging from Shi Dongdong's expression, he felt that the taste should not be that bad.

"It's delicious, loach meat is very slippery." Shi Dongdong answered him with his face up, his lips looked much more bloody because of drinking the hot soup.

"Young man, what kind of soup is this called?" The old lady on the bed next to the door came over to inquire.

"Oh, loach and rice field eel soup, made with loach and rice field eel. Auntie, you can also make it for uncle. This is helpful for chemotherapy patients and replenishes vitality." Qiao Hao replied enthusiastically.

The bald man on the next bed sneered, fell down on the bed and continued to play games on the external speaker.Accustomed to his consistent performance, everyone ignored him.

The old lady asked Qiao Hao for the detailed cooking method, walked up to her husband's bed, leaned into his ear and said, "Their fish soup is good, not fishy, ​​I'll go back and make it for you tomorrow."

After a while, Shi Dongdong finished a bowl of soup, and he handed the empty bowl to Qiao Hao, signaling him to have another bowl.

"You are like this, I feel so accomplished." Qiao Hao hurriedly took the bowl, and started to fish in the insulated tube again.

Aunt Yu on the side also had a smile on her face, she was so happy that she couldn't speak when she saw Shi Dongdong's satisfaction with the delicious food.

"Then you should bring me more soup in the future. I heard from the doctor that I still have a few good courses of chemotherapy." Shi Dongdong sat on the bed and waited for the soup in Qiao Hao's hand, his gaze remained on Qiao Hao's side face all the time .

"Aren't you going to have surgery?" Qiao Hao asked.

"They said that we need to observe it first. If the chemotherapy can control it, maybe we won't have surgery." This time, Aunt Yu replied on behalf of Shi Dongdong.

Qiao Hao nodded, thinking that one day he would go to the doctor in charge of Shi Dongdong to inquire about his treatment plan.

"Chemotherapy is very hard, nutrition must keep up." Qiao Hao said to Aunt Yu, he really didn't want to see the scene of Shi Dongdong eating instant noodles before.

"I think chemotherapy is the same thing. I can still eat like this, and you see, my hair hasn't fallen out much." Shi Dongdong said, freeing his hand to grab his own hair.It's just that when he opened his palm again, it wasn't as empty as he expected, but there were several strands of hair left between his fingers and palm.

The person with palms outstretched frowned slightly, paused for a moment, and then sighed, "It turns out that I couldn't be spared..."

"It's okay, hair can still grow back after falling out, and it is said that it will be thicker, and some people can grow natural curls." Qiao Hao hurriedly comforted him, and gently covered the hair on the back of his head with his right hand.

"If you have surgery, you have to shave, right?" Shi Dongdong asked.

Qiao Hao nodded helplessly, thinking that Shi Dongdong was very concerned about this matter.

No, but the other party straightened up immediately, "Why don't you wait until the chemotherapy is over and go straight to shave, why don't you accompany me to the barber shop?"

Qiao Hao looked at the way Shi Dongdong's eyes were shining at this moment, and the throbbing feeling in his heart from time to time struck again.However, this is just an inevitable reaction during the treatment process, leaving the hair is for the recovery of the body, Qiao Hao comforted himself.Of course, he also bumped fists with Shi Dongdong as a promise.

For the second bowl of loach soup, Shi Dongdong didn't eat as neatly as the first bowl. In the end, he looked at Qiao Hao with a guilty conscience, "I seem to be a bit full..."

Qiao Hao shook his head tolerantly, and got up to collect the bowl.There was a lot of soup in that bowl, but the loach and rice field eel hardly moved.

Aunt Yu refused to let Qiao Hao do anything, and forced him to clean up by herself, so Qiao Hao had to let her.

It was almost time for work in the afternoon, and although Qiao Hao didn't want to leave, he had to leave after all.

Before saying goodbye, he suddenly remembered Qiao Min's weekend concert, so he asked Shi Dongdong, "Does this treatment end before the weekend?"

"Well, there are still two days." Shi Dongdong took a deep breath, as if it was a day of liberation.

"How about going to a concert with you then?"

"Aren't you going to work?"

"Can't you go to work every day?"

"Hehe, I'm sorry, I need you to spend again." Shi Dongdong lowered his head, pretending to be polite.

"It's free!" Qiao Hao mentioned the thermos bucket that Aunt Yu had packed away, glared at Shi Dongdong, and walked towards the door of the ward without saying goodbye.

In the corridor, Qiao Hao gradually relaxed while holding the thermos. There was still loach soup left in the thermos. When Qiao Hao walked around, he could feel the frequency of the soup shaking in it.Although Shi Dongdong didn't finish eating, he still felt satisfied, and the expression on that person's face when he drank the soup was exactly as he imagined.

At this time, someone caught up with him from behind, it was none other than Aunt Yu.

"Doctor Joe..."

Aunt Yu's expression was hesitant, which made Qiao Hao uneasy, "What's wrong, Aunt Yu?"

"Dr. Qiao, you should come and see Dongdong more in the future. Usually, he is bored in the hospital alone. I watched him grow up. I know his character. He doesn't have many friends, but It can be seen that you can chat very well." The woman has deep crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, but her eyes are sincere and sincere.

"Aunt Yu, I will, don't worry." Qiao Hao promised her with a smile, "Also, just call me Qiao Hao from now on."

"Well, Qiao Hao." Aunt Yu called out kindly.

Qiao Hao replied with a smile, and wanted to say goodbye to her, but found that she didn't intend to stop.

Qiao Hao originally thought it was just a courtesy of the elderly, and he should be sent a little further away when sending him off, but Aunt Yu never thought that Aunt Yu would send him all the way to the elevator.When the elevator was about to arrive, the woman finally spoke again, "Qiao...Hao, you are Dongdong's middle school classmate, are you from junior high school?"

"Well, junior high school." Qiao Hao was wondering why Aunt Yu asked such a question, but when he saw the other party's expression, he suddenly understood something.

"Dongdong had a very good male classmate at that time... Is it you?"

Aunt Yu asked very cautiously, but Qiao Hao still understood what she meant.So, he nodded.

Aunt Yu seemed to be relieved, her expression relaxed a lot, but then she sighed again, "At that time, I only knew that his father beat him very hard because of this, and he also transferred to another school because of this. ..."

"I understand." Qiao Hao's voice was very low. There was no one else in the elevator room at noon. He and Aunt Yu just stood opposite each other, and his thoughts flew back to a long time ago.

"...If you know about this, you are still willing to accompany Dongdong and take care of Dongdong. Thank you very much. Although I don't understand your young people's thoughts, I think the most important thing is to make Dongdong happy. .He is really suffering from this illness. You don’t know. You brought the soup today, so he drinks so well. In fact, he hasn’t eaten much in the past few days.”

Qiao Hao's heart sank, he didn't know whether he should be disappointed or thankful after hearing Aunt Yu's words.

"Aunt Yu, I will come to accompany him often. My hospital is here, and I... really want to come and accompany him more often." He could only say to Aunt Yu.

Hearing what Qiao Hao said, Aunt Yu was very relieved, and finally left after thanking her again and again.

Qiao Hao stood alone in front of the elevator for a long time, the elevator door opened and closed in front of him, and he did not know how many floors he had descended.

Only then did he realize that the respiratory department is two floors below here, and he didn't need to take the elevator at all.