Chapter 2433: 2348 Family Chatter

Liang Boshi of the CT Shi sat on the high-speed rail, feeling somewhat troubled and depressed.

As an older medical youth,

When his high school classmates went to university, he was also attending university.

When his high school classmates graduated and started work, he was in his fifth year of college, in the hospital internship stage.

When his high school classmates had stable jobs and started dating, he felt his bachelor's degree could not keep him in Di Du, so he prepared to take the graduate entrance exam.

When his high school classmates entered the hall of marriage, he was pulling all-nighters; each time he read a thick textbook, his hairline would recede by a few hundredths of a centimeter.

When his high school classmates had children and were caught up in regular family squabbles, he realized that even a master's degree was useless; he still needed to pursue a doctorate.

Having come this far, he knew that even if he graduated with a doctorate, he might not be able to stay at 912. Well, not 'might not'—the possibility of staying at 912 was minuscule.

As for his high school classmates, generally speaking, by the old saying their children could already buy soy sauce. What's more, some had already entered the marriage hall for the third time, and Liang Boshi contributed the third wedding gift.

Why study medicine back then? Liang Boshi would occasionally stare blankly at the images on the machine, pondering this question.

Although nothing seems easy, in the adult world there are no two simple words.

But medicine, life science, seems to carry a greater weight. Other jobs may require overtime, at worst emotional instability, and a shouting match with the boss before quitting. Yet medicine… a single phrase 'to heal and save lives' places one on a moral high ground from which there is no descent.

Liang Boshi could avoid thinking about marriage and children, but calls from his hometown came one after another. Whenever New Year arrived, what troubled him most was facing all kinds of marriage pressure.

Work and marriage pressure—these are the two eternal topics his parents bring up when they face him.

He is now especially troubled and torn.

After graduation, should he go abroad for further studies, then stay in Di Du to start his career; or return home, spend over a decade grinding to become a director, marry and have children?

This question has no definite answer; whichever way you choose is not wrong, yet whichever way you choose is also wrong.

It's just that the old lady at home keeps nagging; recently the old master said that every time after she gets angry with him, she feels uncomfortable.

This discomfort grew worse; even once, when Liang Boshi was video-chatting with the old lady, she actually urged him to take good care of the child, and if the wife had no milk, to buy better formula, not to be stingy with money.

At that moment, Liang Boshi did not feel creeped out; instead, his eyes felt sore, and he hastily ended the video call.

But after hanging up, the more he thought about it, the more something felt off.

Could it be that the old lady at home was hallucinating, or had a mental issue, why would she insist he buy formula? He wasn't married and had no children.

But when he contacted her again, the old lady flatly denied having said those things, continuing to nag Liang Boshi to hurry up and find a girlfriend.

Surely something was wrong; Liang Boshi didn't think he was hallucinating, so he secretly called his father to inquire.

The old master said, the old lady seemed to have encountered something unclean; lately she's been acting all mysterious and mumbling.

That's not all; what made Liang Boshi feel alarmed was that the old master actually told him he was preparing to go see a great immortal.

This time Liang Boshi was truly startled; he disregarded the matters at 912, asked Director Chu for leave, and flew straight home.

He took the old lady to the hospital for the relevant checks; head CT and nuclear magnetic resonance were fine, not indicating a brain problem.

Even the most basic blood test results were normal; the body was very healthy.

While staying at home during the old lady's examination process, Liang Boshi discovered that she would have brief mental symptom episodes every few hours.

The main symptom was her belief that she had already married; she would take his hand and ask why the wife hadn't come back, how the child's health was, and whether the child's studies were good.

Liang Boshi wanted to give the old lady an EEG, but at their small county town, no one could read an EEG, and the machine was an outdated model from ten years ago.

He and his father had a big argument; in the end, their faces flushed red from the dispute, and they decided to bring the old lady to Di Du for treatment.

Sitting on the high-speed rail, Liang Boshi sorrowfully gazed at his mother; her hair had turned completely white, like a layer of snow had fallen.

When she was feeling well, she would nag him to hurry up and find a girlfriend, to establish a family and career; but once that 'drive' came over her, she would nag about the wife and children.

Those things seemed very clear, as if they had really happened. Liang Boshi's nose remained sore; even if his mother fell ill, he still hadn't forgotten the deep-seated obsession.

Otherwise, just forget it; the plan to study abroad and then strive to stay in the major tertiary hospitals of Di Du ends here.

Liang Boshi hesitated all the way; gradually, this notion gained the upper hand.

This is a major crossroads in life; Liang Boshi pondered back and forth, ruminating for a long time. All future prospects are hard to bear against the old lady's white hair; after her mental issues arose, what remained unforgotten in his heart was still the matter of his own marriage and having children.

Sigh… even tempered steel, at this moment turns into softness that winds around the finger.

First see to the illness, then after his doctorate graduation return near his hometown, find a larger hospital, and spend the rest of his life like that.

Liang Boshi thought this in his heart, gradually leaving only this single notion.

Returning to 912, he did an EEG, still finding nothing wrong. Aside from prolonged PR and QT intervals, widened QRS, ST segment depression, tall, flat, or inverted T waves, occasional U waves, one could say the body was healthy.

This time he had no recourse; watching his own old lady again take his hand and start nagging about the wife, Liang Boshi thought of Zheng Lao Ban.

He arranged for the old lady to get a coronary CT to rule out coronary heart disease, then took all the lab reports and ran to the Intervention Department.

Zheng Lao Ban sat by the window, a fifth edition of surgery on his lap, talking with Yun Ge'er about something.

"Zheng Lao Ban, Yun Ge'er," Liang Boshi greeted politely.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Su Yun asked casually, legs crossed, phone in hand.

Liang Boshi recounted the medical history, then handed over all the lab slips and image data to Zheng Lao Ban.

Zheng Renxian glanced over the sheet, then took another look at the electrocardiogram, and began reading the films.

"Liangzi, if you just casually find a girl, that'll do." Su Yun chuckled: "Your conditions aren't bad; if you can't afford a house, just rent first. Once you have a child, the old lady will have something to do, and she won't get sick from anxiety."

Liang Boshi felt gloomy; thinking of the white-haired old lady taking his hand and nagging about the child made his heart ache.

"Don't talk nonsense, it shouldn't be an illness caused by anxiety." Zheng Ren said.