Chapter 618: Good Deeds Get Good Rewards

"Go to the hospital for what?" Lu Gang raised his hand to brush that lock of hair upward, saying with disdain, "How high are hospital expenses? You damn well couldn't afford a full physical exam even after delivering food for a month."

The food delivery guy's rabbit ears wobbled slightly, looking a bit dazed.

These words were indeed what he had been thinking in his heart, but hearing them from the other person's mouth, he felt something was off.

"Lu Zhuren, are you alright?" Zhao Zhe asked hurriedly.

"Me? Of course I'm alright." Lu Gang hammered his chest with his fist, making a thumping sound, and then, to the food delivery guy's surprised gaze, lifted his leg and did a vertical split.

After trying both legs, Lu Gang said triumphantly, "Hurry off to work; if you're late, they'll give you a bad review."

"Eh, eh, eh." The food delivery guy, having escaped death, seemed to still be dreaming; he bowed to Lu Gang repeatedly.

When he finally turned to leave, the food delivery guy cautiously looked back at Lu Gang, bowed once more, and then rode off on his electric scooter, disappearing in a flash as if fleeing.

"Lu Zhuren, this of yours..." Zhao Zhe didn't know how to describe it.

"It's nothing to get bumped, am I short on that bit of physical exam money?" Lu Gang curled his lip, saying with disdain, "Look at that ignorant look on your face."

"I'm saying, your body is quite soft... no, it's quite flexible. The old saying goes, 'tendons stretched an inch, life extended ten years'; Lu Zhuren, you're looking to live to over a hundred, aren't you?"

"You have no idea how idle the Medical Affairs Department is. I work if I want to, and stay idle if I don't. When there's nothing to do, I just exercise; living a few more years is better than anything else. Let me tell you, Zhao Zhe, your body might not actually be as sturdy as mine."

Seeing Lu Gang showing off to him with a face full of pride, Zhao Zhe first expressed his heartfelt admiration.

As long as it didn't involve Ji Xiang, Zhao Zhe was willing to be a straight man for Lu Gang's jokes, going along with what he said to make Lu Gang happy.

"Lu Zhuren, your heart is quite kind. I saw the little delivery guy's face turn white with fear, deathly pale." Zhao Zhe complimented Lu Gang while taking his phone out of his pocket.

"Pah, what do you know," Lu Gang said. "A few years back, my nephew had bad luck; he opened the biggest internet cafe in the whole city."

"When was that?"

"2001."

"Awesome!"

Zhao Zhe had come from that era and knew how popular internet cafes were back then.

"He had a sharp mind; he set it up so the machines would be upgraded once a year. He'd throw the retired machines to the electronics university. While running the internet cafe, he was preparing to become a second-generation teacher for computer repair and programming."

"Impressive," Zhao Zhe praised him sincerely this time.

"Impressive is useless. Small wealth comes from frugality, great wealth comes from fate. Just as the stall was set up and revenue was stable, and it was clearly going to succeed, the Blue Speed incident happened in the Imperial Capital, and internet cafes nationwide were rectified."

"..." Zhao Zhe was speechless.

This fate was so bumpy.

"My nephew had no choice. When such a big thunderbolt hits your head, it's not a failure of strategy," Lu Gang said. "He originally wanted to tough it out for a while, but the investors wouldn't have it and kept demanding to withdraw their capital. In the end, he lost over a million, and I even paid back a portion of it."

"After the internet cafe went under, he figured he could make a living by opening a computer repair stall," Lu Gang continued. "But before the red cloth on the sign could even be unveiled, a level 6 gale hit. Many signs on the Commercial Street were blown off, but his sign happened to fall and knock down an old lady."

"..." Zhao Zhe stared at Lu Gang with wide eyes, thinking that Lu Zhuren's luck wasn't great, but his nephew's luck seemed even worse.

For this matter, on the small side, a few tens of thousands could settle it; on the large side, it would take over a hundred thousand or several hundred thousand.

After all, Zhao Zhe had seen countless similar cases in his life.

"What happened later, Lu Zhuren?" Zhao Zhe asked.

"My nephew was scared out of his wits and asked me to take charge. You know, for this kind of thing, calling in favors doesn't help much. There's little room to maneuver, so it's best if the injury isn't serious, then get the injured party's understanding and pay up quickly."

"The old lady had been hit on the head and was covered in blood. We sent her to the hospital for a CT scan, which showed nothing. After suturing and a tetanus shot, she was kept for observation. Soon, the family members arrived. I was observing them from the side and felt their family was a bit different."

"Oh? How were they different?" Zhao Zhe asked, following Lu Gang's lead.

"Are you listening to me?" Lu Gang said. "On the third day, the follow-up CT scan still showed nothing, and I knew this matter wouldn't be big. No brain hemorrhage, no other trauma; I estimated that paying ten thousand or so would be about right. But my nephew was drowning in debt at the time, and ten thousand was a burden for him."

"In '02 or '03, ten thousand was a lot," Zhao Zhe said.

"I went to negotiate with the family. The old lady was very magnanimous; she just waved her hand and said it was the wind's fault and had nothing to do with the kid. I was a bit dazed, but you know, back then, people's hearts were still simple. So after the old lady was discharged and went home, I took my nephew to buy some nutritional supplements to visit them."

"It must have been a turn for the better, or a change in fortune. After that incident, my nephew's luck got much better. Even now, he still visits the old lady during the holidays."

"Tsk tsk," Zhao Zhe sighed with emotion.

"In life, one should be forgiving when possible. Why would I make things difficult for a delivery guy? Besides, I'm fine," Lu Gang said. "Eh? Where were we just now?"

"Your nephew's change in fortune."

"Not that. Ever since that incident in Jinling, moral standards have been sliding for decades... Pah, why talk about that? I was asking where the variety show is at." Lu Gang asked.

"The animation is currently explaining intussusception, focusing mainly on pediatric intussusception, and detailing how to perform an air enema," Zhao Zhe said.

"I hope the air enema can be preserved; let's hope it doesn't get ruined," Lu Gang sighed.

These words were out of the blue, but Zhao Zhe understood what Lu Gang meant.

Any procedure has risks; it's not a hundred percent success rate. But if it happened to oneself, it's hard to say what the reaction would be if it failed.

Air enemas aren't widely practiced because many hospitals had this treatment in the early years.

But with the arrival of the 1.0 era of doctor-patient disputes, once an accident occurs, the practice of air enemas is ordered to stop. So in some cities, you can't even find a single hospital that performs air enemas.

You either go to the Provincial Hospital for Women and Children, or... you just have to rely on luck or stay local for a Surgical Operation.

The key is that there are few pediatric surgeons, and not many people can or dare to perform the surgery.

This leads to many tragedies; they are like snowflakes in a great era.

Zhao Zhe sighed; he couldn't control this, and there was no way to control it. Better to just watch the show.

Director Zou had already taken the Patient for emergency surgery. Zhao Zhe couldn't see himself in the program, and he was quite satisfied with that.

He didn't want to be in the limelight; he just wanted to lie low honestly. Besides, being able to lie low is fine, but sometimes you can't, just like the communication problem Ji Xiang had in the program.

(End of chapter)