His predecessor failed

Chapter 123: Zhu Lao's Surgery

"Don't look at it anymore. It's impossible for her to be ours. Zhuzhu's boyfriend is so outstanding. Qiming doesn't have such luck!"

The old lady sighed, "That's right, Qiming is just too cold. Let alone Zhuzhu, it would be good if he could get in touch with other girls. Look, apart from medical knowledge, he has no communication with people at all. What's wrong? When can I see Qiming get married? I'm still waiting to take care of his children!"

"You! Worry more about your own health. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Qiming is a man with a plan in mind. Don't worry about him. Besides, there is more than one grandson. If Qiming doesn't want to have one, there are still the second and third sons' grandchildren. You can always have a great-grandson."

The old lady stopped talking about her grandson and started talking about the ginseng that Su Zhuzhu brought.

"Old Chen, speaking of which, I was shocked when Zhuzhu handed me those two ginsengs just now. They must be several decades old. It is not easy to find ginsengs of this quality these days. This gift is really precious. And so is this girl. She just wrapped them up casually with paper and held them in her hands. It made me feel sad."

Dean Chen looked at his old lady with a smile. This old woman, haha!

The old lady cooked her specialty tonight, blood duck, which is a famous dish in Zhangzhou, her hometown. The ducks are local and not big, about two or three pounds. The meat is generally lean and tastes the best. The duck blood must be retained when the duck is killed. The killed duck is chopped into small pieces. Fresh ducks do not need to be blanched. Put them directly into the pot and fry them until the water is dry. Then take them out, heat the oil in the pot again, add more scallions, ginger and garlic to stir-fry, then add the dried duck meat and stir-fry until the surface is browned, then add cooking wine, dried chili peppers and soy sauce and continue to fry. If conditions permit, add some white wine to enhance the flavor and remove the fishy smell, then add boiling water to simmer.

If it were Su Zhuzhu, she would definitely stew it with a bottle of beer, but unfortunately, supplies were scarce in that era, and adding some white wine was a luxury.

After the duck meat is braised, add the green and red pepper segments, then pour the duck blood on the duck meat, sprinkle with pepper powder and salt and stir-fry evenly. When it is cooked, sprinkle with garlic sprouts or chopped green onions and it is ready to serve.

This is a great dish to go with rice!

Su Zhuzhu used to like this dish very much, but unfortunately she rarely had the opportunity to cook it. Today she can enjoy it to her heart's content.

In addition to the blood duck, Aunt Chen also made meatball loofah soup, pan-fried small crucian carp, tiger skin peppers and stir-fried pumpkin seedlings, all of which are delicious seasonal dishes and enough for four people.

Su Zhuzhu was not polite at all. She said her favorite dishes were the blood duck, small crucian carp, and pumpkin seedlings.

The spicy blood duck goes well with rice, and the aftertaste is long. She can eat two bowls of rice with this dish. There is also the crucian carp in this season, with its belly full of fish roe, fried until both sides are golden brown, sprinkled with chili powder and garlic sprouts, and drizzled with a little boiling water. It is so fresh. Su Zhuzhu plans to ask Ping An to catch more crucian carp after returning to the Youth Educatorate Institute. She also wants to drink crucian carp soup! The pumpkin seedlings are even more tender. Aunt Chen planted them by the wall downstairs. Every household here will plant two loofah vines, pumpkin vines or lentils in the open space downstairs, which can achieve self-sufficiency. Isn’t this eating the pumpkin seedlings fried with fresh chili segments?

Seeing the girl eating happily, the Chen family was very happy. This showed that Zhuzhu did not regard herself as an outsider. Aunt Chen kept telling Su Zhuzhu to be careful with fish bones. Crucian carp was small and had many bones. She was afraid that they would get stuck in her throat. Chen Qiming saw that Su Zhuzhu finished a bowl of rice quickly, and even got up and added another bowl for her. Su Zhuzhu felt a little embarrassed this time.

But this embarrassment didn't last long, after all, I really couldn't stop using my chopsticks.

The meal at home was so satisfying that when Chen Qiming sent Su Zhuzhu back to the hospital dormitory, he insisted on taking her for a long walk to help digest the food.

Chen Qiming was also very happy because he could have more time to ask Su Zhuzhu for medical knowledge. He found that whenever he asked Su Zhuzhu for advice, she would never be impatient and would explain in great detail, as if she was afraid that he might not understand. Unlike some teachers who liked to hide things, Su Zhuzhu would teach him everything she knew. As long as you could understand and master it, she would be willing to teach you more. Many of the knowledge points were even unheard of by him. The theories were bold and novel, but they suddenly broadened people's horizons, as if opening the door to a new world.

The more he interacted with Su Zhuzhu, the more shocked he was, so this time even if his grandfather drove him to develop somewhere else, he would not go. He decided to calm down and learn from Su Zhuzhu. This was more advanced than what he had learned in any school before. He had a hunch that following Su Zhuzhu, he would definitely shock the entire medical community.

After returning to the hospital dormitory building, Su Zhuzhu urged Chen Qiming to go back and rest. After all, Chen Qiming had to participate in the operation tomorrow and he had to rest well. This building was a girls' dormitory and it would not be appropriate for Chen Qiming to go up there at night.

After sending him downstairs, Chen Qiming felt relieved, said goodbye and went home.

To the girls peeking at this scene from upstairs, it looked like the two were dating, and after the date the man was sending the woman home!

So as soon as Su Zhuzhu went upstairs, she met four or five extremely enthusiastic faces, some familiar and some not so familiar, but they all seemed to be medical staff living here.

What made her laugh and cry was that these girls pulled her aside and asked her if she was dating Dr. Chen, the grandson of Dean Chen.

Su Zhuzhu originally thought that one of these girls had a crush on Chen Qiming and came here to ask about him, but as she listened she realized that these girls came to show their concern for her.

According to these girls, Chen Qiming is usually cold. It's okay to be cold, but once anyone is caught by him, he will be cruel and ruthless. Not only do the young girls in the hospital stay away from him, even married people hardly talk to him. It's too creepy!

Everyone couldn't understand why Dr. Su was so confused, so they saw Dr. Chen. He must be very strong mentally. They all told Su Zhuzhu about some of Dr. Chen's daily life.

Su Zhuzhu went into the dormitory first, took out a bag of White Rabbit candy and shared it with everyone, then explained to everyone that she and Dr. Chen were not in a relationship, but she went to Dr. Chen's house for dinner tonight at his invitation, and Dr. Chen came to pick her up because it was her first time there. She already had a boyfriend, who was in the army.

"Wow! Doctor Su, you are dating Doctor Chen, so why is Doctor Chen so polite to you? He even smiled. He never smiled at us before. Maybe Doctor Chen has a crush on you."

Su Zhuzhu thought for a moment and replied, "Maybe it's because Dr. Chen has been asking me questions?"

Everyone gave Su Zhuzhu a thumbs up.

But this is not Su Zhuzhu's bragging. The news has spread throughout the hospital. Although Su Zhuzhu is just a health worker in the village, her medical skills are amazing. This time, Dean Chen specially invited her to perform the operation on that important person.

Now, the topic turned to Su Zhuzhu's surgery tomorrow. Su Zhuzhu was also happy to chat with everyone. She rarely had such experiences in her previous life, so she told everyone what she could say.

After talking about the surgery, we started talking about Su Zhuzhu's clothes. Everyone has wanted to ask this for a long time, and now that we have finally caught the person, we have to take a closer look.

In this way, Su Zhuzhu chatted with everyone until almost nine o'clock before being let go. Fortunately, she slept a lot in the afternoon, so it was okay to rest later.

I returned to the dormitory and locked the door. Luckily I lived alone. I closed the curtains, turned off the lights, and entered the space. I took a quick shower but didn't dare to stay too long. I came out quickly and took some time to rest. I haven't performed any high-intensity surgery for a while, so tomorrow might not be easy.

The next day, Su Zhuzhu got up early at six o'clock. The surgery was scheduled for ten o'clock. There were quite a lot of preparations to be made before the surgery. Not only inside the operating room, but also outside the operating room, everything needed to be verified by the surgeon one by one.

After washing up, Su Zhuzhu followed the young nurse on the morning shift next door to the cafeteria, where she got half a bowl of porridge, a boiled egg, a steamed bun, a flower roll, and a small dish of pickled mustard tuber. Hmm, it tasted so good. The pickled mustard tuber that went well with the rice was produced by their brigade's chili sauce processing factory. It seemed that the brigade leader and his team had expanded their business well, and now the hospital cafeteria was supplying it.

The buns and steamed buns are not very big. For Su Zhuzhu, who has a small appetite, this breakfast portion is just right. She won’t be too full, but she won’t be hungry either, which will not affect her surgery.

The meeting time was agreed to be 7:30 in the morning. Su Zhuzhu saw that it was still early, so she went to the ward first to check the patient's physical condition.

"Mr. Zhu, it's time to have breakfast! It smells so good, it's millet and pumpkin porridge."

Mr. Zhu felt a little unwell last night and his sleep was average. He was also in average spirits at the moment. He was eating sporadically and couldn't taste anything at all. When this little girl came, it was as if the whole ward was lit up. She stared at the breakfast in his bowl eagerly.

Old Zhu quickly asked the guard to serve a bowl of soup to Su Zhuzhu as well. If the girl liked it, she could eat some with him. He couldn't finish it by himself anyway.

In fact, Su Zhuzhu had just eaten and was not hungry. It was just that when she entered the room, she saw that Mr. Zhu looked a little listless and had no appetite. He had to undergo surgery soon and needed nutrition to recover after the surgery. He couldn't do without food, so she pretended to be a greedy cat to coax the old man.

The guard was worried about Mr. Zhu's inability to eat. Now that Su Zhuzhu had arrived, Mr. Zhu looked much better. He breathed a sigh of relief and quickly served a small bowl to the girl and handed it to Su Zhuzhu.

Su Zhuzhu quickly stood up and took it with both hands. She gave Lai Hongxing a big smile and said happily, "Thank you, Uncle Lai."

Lai Hongxing is another guard of Mr. Zhu, the one with the rank of major, much younger than Jiang Jun, and has only been with Mr. Zhu for three years.

Su Zhuzhu asked the old man to wait for her for a while.

The three people watched Su Zhuzhu put down the bowl in her hand and walked out quickly.

Fortunately, the county hospital was not big, and they soon arrived at the director's office. Su Zhuzhu opened the cabinet without any hesitation, took out a can of side dish and put it in her pocket.

"Hey, girl, you just came in and took something, what are you doing?"

"Uncle Chen, Mr. Zhu doesn't have a good appetite. I'll go and comfort him. This dish is the best to whet his appetite. Last time I saw you put two bottles in your cabinet. Now it's just in time for me to use it."

Su Zhuzhu talked as she walked, and then trotted back to Mr. Zhu's ward.

Then, the two guards saw an old man and a child happily eating millet and pumpkin porridge. From time to time, the little girl would tear some buns for Mr. Zhu and put them in the porridge. Mr. Zhu, who originally had no appetite, was now coaxed into being happy and even competed with the little girl for the side dish. Was it really that delicious?

However, they saw that Mr. Zhu ate a small bowl of porridge and a meat bun, and he looked as if he was still not satisfied.

"Here, at most add half a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun, and you can have some side dishes. Eating too much is not good. You will have surgery soon. When you recover, you can eat whatever you want."

In this way, the most difficult problem of coaxing Mr. Zhu to eat every day in the eyes of the guards was solved so easily by the little girl. And when Mr. Zhu finished eating, he saw that it was obvious that the little girl was just coaxing him, and he had not taken many bites of his bowl of porridge.

Watching Mr. Zhu eat his breakfast, Su Zhuzhu asked him a few more questions, then told him to have a good rest and said that medical staff would come to take Mr. Zhu to the operating room soon, and then left in a hurry.

After nine o'clock, Su Zhuzhu was almost ready for the operation. When she arrived at the door of the operating room, she happened to meet Mr. Zhu entering the operating room. In addition to the two guards, there was also a tall, handsome soldier with extraordinary temperament. Judging from his age, he should be the one mentioned by Uncle Jiang, Mr. Zhu's grandson Zhu Ye in the 624th Unit.

Zhu Ye received a notice last night that his grandfather needed to undergo heart surgery today, and he was asked to rush to the county hospital at nine o'clock today. He should have come to accompany his grandfather last night, but he had too many things to do in the army and could not leave. He stayed up all night and drove here early this morning without having time to rest. Fortunately, he made it in time. The old man seemed to be in good spirits, and his two uncles also said that there was a good chance of success in this operation.

When Su Zhuzhu saw the family members arriving, as the surgeon in charge, she took the initiative to go over and say hello. The old man was in a good mood and was smiling the whole time. He even laughed at Su Zhuzhu for wasting food and running away without even finishing the bowl of millet and pumpkin porridge she had in the morning.

This was embarrassing. Su Zhuzhu seldom wasted food. She forgot to tell her two uncles to save some for her to heat up for lunch, and the old man caught her with the mistake.

Jiang Jun saw that the little girl was embarrassed, so he stood up immediately.

"Zhuzhu, don't listen to the old man's nonsense. I saw that you carefully placed the bowl of porridge on the table and covered it with a plate. I knew you didn't have time to eat it. I saved it for you. When I heat it up at noon, you can have lunch with us."

"Thank you, Uncle Jiang!"

A smile immediately broke out on Su Zhuzhu's face.

This smile made Zhu Ye's eyes dazzled. Such a lovely girl, like a flower!