"People really have changed these days!"
Time passed, and Xiao Yifei heaved a sigh as he picked himself up from the ground. During the time he had fainted, not a single passerby had come forward to help.
"What on earth happened!" Xiao Yifei touched his head, and if it weren't for the fact his wallet was still flat, he would have doubted the existence of that old beggar from just a moment ago. Who knew the old beggar would disappear so suddenly? When Xiao Yifei came to his senses, he found that the cheap-looking mysterious carving the old beggar handed him had vanished from his hands as well.
"Hmm?" Xiao Yifei narrowed his eyes curiously, casting his gaze into the distance. He was a little shortsighted, but now he could see the distant license plate numbers very clearly.
"Forget it, forget it, don't think about it anymore. If the carving is lost, then it's lost. It was just a plastic thing, not valuable anyhow. I'll just get my eyes checked at the hospital," Xiao Yifei pulled out his phone to check the time, realized he was close to his work hours, and thought about the task that Wang Changping had given him. Xiao Yifei felt some distress, "I wonder what kind of strange disease he's devised to trouble me with this time!"
With a somewhat helpless sigh, he hurried toward the hospital.
"Doctor Xiao! You're here! Come with me quickly, Director Wang told me about it; the patient in Room 302 had another episode today! Please come and have a look!"
No sooner had Xiao Yifei stepped into the inpatient department and reached the third floor than Head Nurse Wu Lan, with an exaggerated smile on her face and twisting her slim waist, approached Xiao Yifei, wanting to take him to Room 302.
Xiao Yifei nodded and walked ahead.
Wu Lan, however, slowed her pace and followed behind Xiao Yifei, her smile suddenly vanishing as she cast a cold glance at him.
Ever since Xiao Yifei had discovered her sordid affair with Wang Changping, she had been plagued by a sense of crisis. Although Xiao Yifei, clever as he was, never told anyone about her and Wang Changping's matters, Wu Lan felt that as long as Xiao Yifei was at this hospital, her heart would never be at peace!
"Room 302, this is it!"
Xiao Yifei looked up at the number next to the door, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open to enter.
In the hospital bed of Room 302 lay a delicate figure, a girl around seventeen or eighteen years of age, her pretty face pale with illness. Her weak body curled up on the bed, her large eyes betraying pain.
"Director Wang! You're here!"
Behind Xiao Yifei, Wu Lan's voice suddenly rang out. Unlike her feigned tone when speaking to Xiao Yifei, the way Wu Lan called out to Wang Changping was so coquettish it made one's skin crawl!
Wang Changping squinted his sleazy little eyes and gave Wu Lan a smile, his obese figure squeezing through the door.
"Xiao Xiao! It seems you're not taking a serious attitude toward the patients! Nurse Head Wu and I have been waiting for you here in the inpatient department for a while now, and you just arrived! I'm going to have to criticize you for that!"
Wang Changping held his hands behind his back, his body of fat wobbling as he lectured Xiao Yifei.
Xiao Yifei opened his mouth but said nothing.
Wang Changping slowly moved to the bedside, perfunctorily examining the girl on the bed and making polite inquiries about the little girl's condition.
The girl's mother sat at the head of the bed, her eyes coldly watching Wang Changping. Ever since her daughter had come to Shangjing Hospital, she had only undergone one examination and one treatment. Following that singular treatment, her daughter had been neglected in the ward with no qualified doctor coming to visit. If she hadn't pulled some strings, there probably wouldn't even be someone to check on them today.
"Xiao Yi, today's opportunity was hard for me to secure for you. It is said that Vice President Nangong is coming down to review our work, and he will be visiting ward 302. Perform well and becoming a regular employee won't be just a dream!" Wang Changping pulled Xiao Yifei aside and whispered to him, "I've looked at this girl, and she's easy to diagnose! I'm not asking you to cure her, just determine the cause of her illness. Make a good impression in front of Vice President Nangong, and I guarantee you'll have no problems!"
Xiao Yifei looked at Wang Changping's hypocritical fat face and felt a surge of disgust. "If this girl were easy to treat, would you have passed her to me? I bet you can't even make a basic diagnosis!"
However, Xiao Yifei definitely wouldn't say these words out loud. Now wasn't the time to burn bridges. He shook his head gently and stepped forward to take a preliminary look. As Xiao Yifei concentrated and squinted at the fragile girl on the bed, suddenly, he felt a flash of light in his eyes and a cool stream of Qi flow from his brain toward his eyes. Then, he discovered that the layers covering the girl's body on the bed were disappearing one by one.
"What's going on?" Xiao Yifei suppressed the astonishment in his heart and focused once more to find out the truth.
In Xiao Yifei's eyes, the blanket covering the girl gradually disappeared, revealing her body clothed in a hospital gown.
"No way!" Xiao Yifei's face reddened, and he swallowed nervously, his gaze continuing to shift.
"Damn!"
The sudden sight of the smooth and fair naked body of the girl caught Xiao Yifei off guard. He exclaimed, quickly averting his gaze.
"Don't look without permission, don't look without permission!" Xiao Yifei muttered to himself as he retreated. For Xiao Yi, this was his first glimpse of a girl's bare body, and his mind couldn't help but recall the scene: "The slightly raised twin peaks, the firm and round buttocks, and that..."
"Who would have thought this girl, looking so sick, would actually have such a figure!" Xiao Yifei kept telling himself not to think about it, but the thoughts uncontrollably sprang to his mind.
And Xiao Yifei's peculiar behavior brought a disdainful sneer to Wang Changping's face, who stood behind him, "With that helpless look, just wait to pack up and leave!"
Xiao Yifei reached out to touch his nose, almost unable to hold back, and almost had a nosebleed. "Could I have x-ray vision?" A shock ran through Xiao Yifei's mind, and he focused his attention back on the girl in the bed.
When Xiao Yifei focused his gaze once again on the girl, the material covering her body vanished in tune with the intensity of his concentration, revealing the girl's pure and flawless body to Xiao Yifei's eyes once more. Xiao Yifei inwardly took a deep breath, delighted, "It seems I really do have x-ray capability, but if it can penetrate clothing, I wonder if it can see through her body!" With that thought, he continued his observation. His eyes narrowed, and a cool stream of Qi passed through his brain. Not the beautiful body but the interior of the girl's body came into view.
In Xiao Yifei's eyes, nothing about the girl's internal state could escape his gaze. He meticulously observed her internal condition. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and his eyebrows furrowed.
Seeing Xiao Yifei standing motionless in front of the girl's bed, a sullen smile crept across Wang Changping's lips. "We've used the best equipment in the entire city and still couldn't pinpoint the cause of her illness. I'm curious to see how you're going to determine this girl's diagnosis," Wang Changping said, turning his head to look at the head nurse Wu Lan. They exchanged a glance and smiled, revealing a triumphant conspiracy.
"Her illness originates in her lungs!"
Xiao Yifei pondered for a moment before suddenly speaking. At those words, Wang Changping was taken aback, his face showing surprise. He was about to speak when he was interrupted by a cold voice.
"Words alone are no proof, what's your evidence?"