passenger

Qiao Hao stayed with Shi Dongdong all night in the ward, watching him fall asleep, and watching his sleeping face.

At dawn, a nurse came in and transferred Shi Dongdong back to his own ward. Qiao Hao looked at the sky and found that it was almost time for him to go to work.

He casually ate two steamed buns in the hospital cafeteria, and bought a 150ml bottle of LiHealth in the convenience store under the inpatient building. After eating everything, he felt much more energetic.

The hospital is very quiet in the early morning, and you can even hear crisp bird calls from the garden path leading from the inpatient building to the outpatient building.Qiao Hao looked up at the sky, the early summer sun was already a little dazzling.

When passing by the small gazebo, Qiao Hao saw someone laying on the stone bench there with his clothes folded.

Such a situation is not uncommon for the gazebo. Many family members of the patients would choose to sit down in the gazebo or even take a nap, either waiting all night or suffering from anxiety. However, when Qiao Hao approached, he found that Lying there was an old woman with graying hair.

That old woman was none other than Shi Dongdong's bald mother in the ward.

Qiao Hao couldn't help frowning, and walked into the gazebo, trying to wake up the old man.Before, she had been seeing a doctor in the respiratory department because of a cough, how could she sleep in the open air in such a cold morning?

"Auntie, wake up, don't sleep here." Qiao Hao patted the old woman's shoulder.

The woman immediately opened her eyes and sat up abruptly.

"Slow down..." Qiao Hao was afraid that she would get dizzy if she got up too fast.

The woman's eyes hadn't been fully opened yet, but the words in her mouth had already come out, "I'm sorry, I'll just, just take a nap here, and I'll go right away!"

"Auntie, I didn't come to chase you away, but you catch cold easily when you sleep here. Do you remember who I am?" Qiao Hao didn't want to scare her, so he lowered his voice and moved closer.

"You are..." The woman narrowed her eyes, coughed twice, and finally said, "Ah, you are Xiaogang's...friend of the child in the next bed?"

"Yes, Auntie. My name is Qiao Hao. I'm a doctor here. You still remember me." Qiao Hao smiled, knowing that she didn't recognize that he had treated her before.

"Don't tell Xiaogang that I sleep here." After recognizing the person in front of her, the woman quickly showed embarrassment, "I rented a small house outside the hospital before, but the rent was too expensive , Seeing that the weather was getting hot, I quit. Anyway, I often have to accompany Xiaogang to the bed, and when I don’t accompany the bed, I just make do with it... Don’t tell him, or he will scold me again. "

After hearing this, Qiao Hao couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.He could only nod his head and said, "Auntie, is your cough better?"

"It's okay, that's it..." The woman was halfway through the answer when she suddenly realized something and asked suspiciously, "How do you know I'm coughing?"

"You were coughing just now." Qiao Hao replied with a smile, "If the cough is severe, I'd better take an X-ray to check it out, prescribe some medicine and take it, and it will heal quickly, so that I will have more strength to take care of the patient."

"Hey, good, good..." The woman nodded repeatedly.

Seeing that it was getting late, Qiao Hao finally told the woman to keep warm before leaving the gazebo.

For the woman, he was a little bit sorry, but he couldn't express more. In the hospital, he encountered many similar things.It's just that now, the object is someone so close to him, which makes him feel more compassionate.

In the outpatient clinic this morning, Qiao Hao saw more than sixty patients.

This speed is considered to be at the lower-middle level in their department, and the swift doctor of the department can see more than 80 in half a day.

However, even so, by the end of noon, Qiao Hao already felt exhausted.

However, when he returned to the inpatient building to go to dinner, someone stopped him.

"Doctor Qiao, can you take the time to talk to me." Shi Chongshan stood behind him and said to him in a humble tone.

Qiao Hao was taken aback. He didn't expect that the dignified person in his impression would take the initiative to come to him with such a gesture, so he could only nod his head.

The place where Shi Chongshan talked with him was the conference room of the Respiratory Department. In the empty room, it seemed that Shi Chongshan had just walked into his own office.

Qiao Hao was surprised but still tried his best to look calm, because he didn't want to be too cramped in front of Shi Dongdong's father and make him look down on him.After all, he was beaten to the ground in front of him.

"I've been waiting for you all morning. I know your work is very hard, so I didn't speak until you came back from get off work. I think you can also feel my sincerity." In the empty conference room, Shi Chongshan chose to leave himself. He sat down at the nearest seat and motioned for Qiao Hao to sit down too.

Qiao Hao nodded, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, wondering what this father wanted to talk to him about.

"The unhappiness we had before, of course, was mainly due to me. I have misunderstood you and disrespected you. Here, I apologize to you." Shi Chongshan said, bowed his head to Qiao Hao, and nodded vigorously. one time.

"It's over, just say what you have to say." Qiao Hao backed away slightly, and he felt a little tired talking to someone like Shi Chongshan, because he didn't know what the other party wanted to do.

"Okay, I'm not going around anymore, Dr. Qiao, I want to ask you, what is your feeling for Dongdong?" Shi Chongshan looked at Qiao Hao, and said more clearly, "Is it the sympathy between friends, or the sympathy between friends? More concern?"

Shi Chongshan said the words "more than friends" word by word, as if he was afraid that he would not understand, and there was more compulsion in his eyes.

Qiao Hao became vigilant almost immediately, and didn't dare to answer him easily, for fear that if he said it, he would end up becoming the second Huo Yan.

"Dongdong, he doesn't need other people's sympathy." So, he chose a detour.

Shi Chongshan looked deeply into Qiao Hao's eyes, and nodded again, as if he had already got the answer he wanted.

"If you don't just sympathize with him, then are you willing to take care of him like this all the time?... I know from Aunt Yu and Chen Zhi that you take good care of Dongdong."

"Of course I am willing to take care of him, he is my friend." Qiao Hao still remained vigilant.

"You don't have to answer so politely, I'm here today," Shi Chongshan said, sighed, and then said, "I just came to ask you, if you like my son, although I really don't want to say this word, but If Dongdong is like this, I can’t help it. If you like him and are willing to take care of him, I can arrange you to his department, so that you can spend more time together. I know that although your major is not oncology, but I can ask the best professor in the department to take you, so that you don't have to worry about your future, even in the future..."

"Mr. Shi," Qiao Hao interrupted Shi Chongshan, because he couldn't listen anymore, "Have you always liked to make arrangements for others so wishfully?"

"I didn't make arrangements for you, I just asked you, if you don't like that subject, you can switch back later... I know it's very difficult for you to evaluate titles now, I can help you with this." Shi Chongshan The hand on the table was gradually clenched, and it seemed to be very eager.

Qiao Hao let out a long breath, and finally just shook his head with a smile.When Shi Chongshan kept talking to himself, for a moment, he suddenly understood why Shi Dongdong didn't like his father so much, because he was so self-righteous.

"Did you ask Dongdong when you did this? If I agreed to you today and went directly to the oncology department and stayed by his bedside every day, do you think he would be happy? Happy, did you hire a bodyguard or a nanny for him?" ?Care workers?"

"Is that what you think?" Shi Chongshan finally clenched his hand on the table into a fist and retracted it.

"It doesn't matter what I think, but Uncle, do you think for him from Dongdong's standpoint? Are you just fulfilling your painstaking efforts? Yes, I like Dongdong, not sympathy, not between friends I like it, it’s the kind of liking you don’t bother to say. I would also like to accompany him and spend all my rest time with him. But I think what he wants more now is encouragement and trust , Encourage him to have the confidence to cure the disease, and believe that he can return to the trust of normal people, not the so-called companionship that everyone treats him as a patient, or even disabled people go to the nurses to take care of them." Qiao Hao said in a fit of anger, saying Finally, even stood up.

Shi Chongshan sat in his seat and did not speak for a long time.

Qiao Hao stood and looked at him, and could see the white hair at the root of his head, which contrasted sharply with his dyed black hair.Qiao Hao's heart moved slightly, and he finally said in a less aggressive tone, "Also, even if it's companionship, don't you think family companionship is more important?"

Qiao Hao finally said these words for Shi Dongdong. For a long time, there were not many people who stayed with Shi Dongdong in the ward, except for Aunt Yu and himself, maybe it was Chen Zhi who wandered outside the door occasionally. In the ward, Even with a bald head, his mother will never leave him.

Shi Chongshan was silent for a while, and finally stood up.

He didn't take Qiao Hao's words, but asked him at the end, "Are you confident that Dongdong's illness will recover?"

"I trust him." Qiao Hao said without thinking.

"Okay, okay." Shi Chongshan said two good words in succession, and the lines on his slightly tired face finally softened.He didn't say anything to Qiao Hao anymore, he just patted him on the shoulder like an elder, then turned and left the conference room.

Qiao Hao seemed to be relieved of the weight all over his body suddenly, and sat on the chair beside him. His mind went blank for a while, before he remembered that he was going to have lunch.

When he came out of the conference room, Qiao Hao rubbed his temples subconsciously, maybe he should agree to Shi Chongshan's request, at least then he can really spend more time with Shi Dongdong.So, he decided to go to the ward to see the man after dinner, the man he had watched all night the night before.

However, his decision did not last for a few seconds.

When passing by the hospice ward, Qiao Hao saw Shi Dongdong when he habitually looked in.

Shi Dongdong, who was also wearing a hospital gown, was lying beside An Ning's bed, listening to what he said quietly.As Qiao Hao approached, he realized that An Ning was holding a book and reading.

"An Ning, did you tell a story?" Qiao Hao moved closer to Shi Dongdong, bumped him lightly, and interrupted An Ning again.

Shi Dongdong was not surprised when he saw him, and continued to look at An Ning without turning his head.

An Ning, on the other hand, saw Qiao Hao coming in, and was embarrassed to continue reading in a decent manner before, so she closed the book, "Reading for fun..."

"What book?" Qiao Hao took the book and found that it was a primary school Chinese textbook.

He looked at An Ning with some doubts.

"You don't know, An Ning is going to be an older brother." Only then did Shi Dongdong turn to look at Qiao Hao.His complexion is not good, but being able to come to this ward shows that his body has recovered a lot.

"Brother what?" Qiao Hao glanced at Shi Dongdong, and continued to be puzzled while being satisfied.

"My mother is pregnant." An Ning answered naturally.

Qiao Hao's heart skipped a beat. Are his parents going to give up on him?

"Congratulations..." Qiao Hao still pretended to be relaxed, "So you are practicing telling stories to the future baby?"

An Ning shook her head with a smile, and handed a mini tape recorder beside Qiao Hao, "I want to read and record all the Chinese texts from the six years of elementary school to him, so that he will know that he has an older brother in the future. There's nothing you can do for him..."

"You're just idle!" Before An Ning could finish speaking, Qiao Hao leaned over and tapped An Ning on the head.

An Ning touched her head, lowered her head and stuck out her tongue at Shi Dongdong.

"You are quite free." Shi Dongdong also laughed at him.

"Okay, have you had lunch? Remember to take the medicine half an hour after you eat it, do you know that the medicine can't be stopped?" Qiao Hao pointed at An Ning angrily, took Shi Dongdong up with the other hand and left.

When he left the ward, Qiao Hao realized that he had pulled Shi Dongdong into a hurry. The man was standing behind him, shaking his body twice as if he couldn't stand still.

"Are you all right?" Qiao Hao asked urgently, and stretched out his hand involuntarily to wrap his arms around him.

"You are still so strong after staying up all night, you really deserve to be Dr. Qiao." Shi Dongdong supported his forehead and leaned on Qiao Hao's shoulder.

Qiao Hao was so remorseful that he had no choice but to hug him tightly, "Don't run around until you recover, I'll take you back."

"They said that the chemotherapy would delay me for another day, so I came out and wandered around." Shi Dongdong let Qiao Hao carry him away, his tone still light.

It wasn't until he entered the elevator that he asked again in a low voice, "Is An Ning really hopeless?"

"He will be able to get the experimental medicine soon." Qiao Hao didn't know how to answer Shi Dongdong, and he was powerless about An Ning.

"Compared to being helpless, parents' giving up is more sad..." Shi Dongdong's voice was lower.

"Okay, don't think so much, he will be fine." Qiao Hao smiled at Shi Dongdong, wanting him to know that the matter is not that serious.

Just like that, Qiao Hao returned to his ward with Shi Dongdong in his arms. When the door opened, both of them were stunned.

I saw Huo Yan sitting beside Shi Dongdong's hospital bed with his back to them.

Obviously, he was waiting for Shi Dongdong.