Chapter 1985: 1915 Tacit Understanding Is Pretending Not to Know (Alliance Leader Handsome Guy's Smelly Feet Bonus Chapter 1)

Inside the electric kettle were three ordinary-looking fruits, with only a bottom of water left; the rest were probably in Aunt Chen's thermos.

Zheng Ren took the hot water kettle and carefully smelled it.

"Doctor, is this it?"

"Hmm." Zheng Ren nodded, "Probably 500ml of water boiled with three mandrake fruits."

"Uh..." that auntie was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly.

This young doctor is truly amazing, even knowing the divine doctor's saying that 500ml of water boiled with one fruit.

"This is being too impatient." Zheng Ren said, "If it's just one fruit, there might be discomfort, but not acute poisoning."

"Many people do this; I once heard of a patient who also followed a folk remedy someone mentioned." Su Yun said, "Her liver cancer was under control, but she couldn't rest easy. Hearing that eating wolfsbane cured someone, she also started eating it."

Wolfsbane generally grows in Siberia and our country's northeastern, northwestern, and other northern regions.

It is highly toxic, even growing extensively on weathered grasslands, causing cattle and sheep to die in batches after eating it.

In earlier years it flooded and caused disaster, but now it has been initially brought under control.

"Others said to eat half a piece per day, but that auntie, anxious, ate two pieces a day; after a week, her whole body turned yellow." Su Yun felt somewhat regretful.

"Is it because immunity was wiped out, causing the tumor to explode in growth?" Zheng Ren asked.

"Yes, it erupted. Originally the liver lesion wasn't much, but it developed bile duct cancer, completely blocking the bile duct."

Zheng Ren did not continue asking.

Under these circumstances, what will happen is easy to imagine.

The patient Su Yun mentioned is indeed regrettable, but today Aunt Chen is lucky. Mandrake's toxicity is severe; symptoms appear within 0.5 to 2 hours after oral ingestion.

If it weren't for me being here, using the system panel to identify it and directly rule out other diseases, this person would likely be in danger.

The main differential diagnosis for mandrake poisoning is cerebral infarction and similar diseases; few people would think of mandrake.

By the time a final diagnosis is made, the treatment window has long been delayed.

Now sending her to the Emergency Department of City First Hospital, with neostigmine, fluid replacement, and diuresis she will recover quickly. Otherwise, even if she survives, she would need dialysis for a period before possibly gradually recovering.

Chu Yanran helped the auntie tidy up; after finishing, the three returned home.

Xie Yiren, Chang Yue, and Chu Yan zhi were still in the room constantly changing into new clothes; their heehee haha laughter made life seem beautiful and relaxed.

"Su Yun, aren't you going home?"

"I'll talk about it tonight; I told my mom a sentence." Su Yun said helplessly, "She's afraid I'll say she bought financial products, so she hid out."

Zheng Ren chuckled; a son who hadn't come back in a long time returns, yet the mother has to hide out. This kind of thing is actually quite interesting.

"Yanran, hurry them up; we still need to go to the director's house." Su Yun grew a bit impatient.

Seeing Chu Yanran enter the room, Su Yun asked, "Boss, do you know what tacit understanding is?"

"Tacit understanding?" Zheng Ren's first thought was the coordination during surgery.

"It's when I don't speak, and you also know what to do next." Zheng Ren directly replied.

"Not at all." Su Yun said disdainfully, "Look inside, we have a lot of tacit understanding with each other."

"Uh..."

Zheng Ren felt that at this moment he and Su Yun had not a shred of tacit understanding, and had no idea what this guy was saying.

"Tacit understanding isn't when you don't speak and the other knows; it's when you don't speak and the other pretends not to know." Su Yun began to spout disdainfully, "I'm telling you, as long as you don't urge them, they can change out every piece of clothing in a wardrobe, compare them with each other, then take photos and such."

Zheng Ren had no research into girls' private lives; whatever Su Yun said was taken as truth, without questioning facts, just accepting it as true.

Seeing Zheng Ren's wooden expression, sitting on the sofa as if about to zone out again, Su Yun smiled and said, "Boss, when are you going to start trying treatment for your social anxiety?"

"I don't have social anxiety; it's just that when there are many people I get a bit irritable and can never fit in." Zheng Ren also said helplessly.

"This is one manifestation of social anxiety." Su Yun laughed, "Let's treat it; I'll find you a better psychologist? The kind that can do hypnosis, not a quack."

"I am the best psychologist." Zheng Ren said expressionlessly.

"Don't talk nonsense; although you find it boring, proper social interaction is still needed, give it a try." Su Yun urged.

"I've tried." Zheng Ren said helplessly, "If it's social anxiety, I feel that each time I try eating and chatting with many people, when I return home I feel the condition getting worse."

"Is this what happens when social anxiety patients bravely try socializing and then find their condition worsened?" Su Yun said, laughing loudly, "Boss, congratulations!"

Zheng Ren just couldn't be bothered to deal with him.

As for what to congratulate, Zheng Ren wasn't curious at all. Surely it was just to spray himself; being curious would only let Su Yun succeed.

Seeing Zheng Ren honestly not say a word, Su Yun also found it boring. He shouted loudly, "When will you guys finish!"

"Ten minutes!" Chang Yue replied.

"Done." Su Yun shrugged, "Said ten minutes, but at least half an hour is needed."

"Just wait, why rush?" Zheng Ren sat on the sofa, his eyes already slightly closed.

Whether it's ten minutes or half an hour makes no difference to Zheng Ren. After all, he's going to the system library to read books; how long to wait doesn't essentially matter.

Even two or three hours would be fine.

Su Yun picked up his phone, both hands flying across the screen, the black hair on his forehead fluttering, looking extremely pleased.

Zheng Ren also couldn't be bothered to ask what he was doing, directly entering the system library to search for more case reports of mandrake poisoning.

Many cases present with hemiplegia and aphasia as the onset; even if sent to the hospital, they would be thought to be strokes.

Some places even diagnose it as cerebral infarction, giving thrombolysis of blood vessels and CTA angiography in the emergency department.

But after the angiography, they would find no problems with the cerebral blood vessels.

Back and forth, diagnosis and treatment get delayed. Hospitals with strong overall capability can detect something amiss within 24 hours and start looking for other answers.

If a hospital's overall capability is weak, it might never be able to diagnose mandrake poisoning in the end.

Regarding treatment, the only controversial point is whether to perform gastric lavage. Because mandrake is absorbed quickly through the stomach, many doctors think gastric lavage is unnecessary.

As for Aunt Chen, Zheng Ren felt gastric lavage would be better. She was lucky to have encountered him; the toxin in the water she drank probably hadn't been fully absorbed yet.

At this point, gastric lavage plus follow-up treatment will have her recovering quickly.