Chapter 55: President Lu, Can You Take Care of a Patient?
Shen Chi did not hear what Lu Chenzhou said at all. He hated going to the hospital.
When he was little and got sick, the orphanage staff would send him to the hospital. Other children had parents or grandparents to dote on them. Only he was always alone.
Alone while getting an IV. Alone while eating. Alone while sleeping.
He remembered one time, a little patient’s family member pitied him and gave him the apple in their hand. But just as he accepted it, the other person’s child began crying and making a scene.
The little boy’s shrill voice questioned again and again: Why did you give him the apple? That’s my apple. He doesn’t have a mom or dad. He must be a bad child. I’m different. I have a mom and dad!
In the end, the family member looked at Shen Chi awkwardly.
Little Shen Chi had long since learned to read people’s expressions. In the end, he returned the apple.
But after the little boy took the apple back, he threw it into the trash can as if throwing away something dirty.
He said: I won’t eat an apple touched by a bad child. If I eat it, I’ll become a bad child too.
In a daze, Shen Chi seemed to return to that hospital.
Back then, he had been inferior, timid, and did not dare talk back even after being scolded. After more than ten years, he finally gathered his courage.
“I’m not… a bad child…”
…
Ji Yanzhi was not familiar with the surrounding area, and cars could not drive into where Shen Chi lived. He ran back and forth, taking several wrong turns. By the time he finally found the right place, his shirt was almost soaked through.
“President Lu, I’m here!”
He panted while holding onto the doorframe, only then noticing that even the door was deformed.
“No, Secretary Shen lives in a place like this?” After his shock, Ji Yanzhi looked at Lu Chenzhou hesitantly. “President Lu, is the salary you give him very low?”
Lu Chenzhou looked at him as if he wanted to kill him. “He refused the downtown apartment.”
It was not that he was unwilling to give. It was that the other person did not care for it!
This time, it was Ji Yanzhi’s turn to be surprised.
While taking Shen Chi’s temperature, he sighed. “Secretary Shen really is different.”
If a pie fell from the sky and hit someone else, their first reaction would be to pocket it. Shen Chi was different. He kicked the pie away.
For once, he felt a little sympathy for Lu Chenzhou.
Offer money, and the other person did not want it.
Offer a house, and the other person wanted it even less.
How miserable. Though for some reason, he felt a little gleeful.
“Thirty-nine degrees. His temperature is very high. I suggest sending him to the hospital. The equipment here is too simple.” Ji Yanzhi phrased it tactfully. This place was more than simple; it was old and shabby. He was honestly amazed that a fussy young master like Lu Chenzhou, who had so many demands, was actually willing to step into this place.
How could Lu Chenzhou not want to send him to the hospital? But Shen Chi’s reaction told him that if he really sent him there, Shen Chi would be unhappy.
“Treat him first. If the fever doesn’t go down within four hours, I’ll send him to the hospital.”
Ji Yanzhi had no objection. He only said, “With such a high fever, ordinary fever medicine is useless now. My suggestion is an IV drip. Is that okay?”
Lu Chenzhou said, “Fine.”
He took Shen Chi’s hand over. Secretary Shen’s wrist was slender, and his porcelain-white skin made him look even more fragile, as if it could be broken with just a light squeeze.
Yet this thin, frail person had a temper as stubborn as a donkey!
Ji Yanzhi quickly took out a bottle of medicine. He swiftly disinfected the back of Shen Chi’s hand and began inserting the needle. Then he heard Lu Chenzhou ask an unbelievable question.
Lu Chenzhou said, “Will it hurt?”
Ji Yanzhi’s hand nearly trembled.
Big brother, have you been possessed by some messy domineering CEO?
When the little wife is sick, is the next step to behead him, the imperial physician, if the needle hurts?
“Guess?”
Lu Chenzhou looked at him expressionlessly, and Ji Yanzhi raised a smile.
“President Lu, if you’re afraid he’ll hurt, then don’t make a sound and disturb me.”
Lu Chenzhou’s pheromones had rarely been stable during this period, so Ji Yanzhi had become bolder.
“Fevers can come and go. He’ll sweat, so remember to change him into clean clothes in time.” Ji Yanzhi knew his position and did not dare stay in the same bedroom with them, so he said, “I’ll wait in the living room outside. Call me if anything happens.”
The weather was gradually getting hot. Shen Chi had a thin blanket over him. Originally, with the electric fan blowing, this little thin blanket felt very comfortable. But now, because of the high fever, Shen Chi felt cold one moment and hot the next.
When he was cold, he obediently curled into the blanket, leaving only his pretty head exposed.
But when he was hot, it was different.
Shen Chi had a little temper too. After someone covered him with the blanket for the third time, he opened those misty eyes, like an angry little puppy.
“What are you doing?”
The sick Secretary Shen had a faint dampness on his forehead, and the roots of his hair were wet too. His porcelain-white skin, along with the fine sweat seeping out, looked like milk.
Lu Chenzhou’s Adam’s apple rolled. He admitted that he was a beast.
“You’re sick.” After saying that, he added, “Be good.”
As soon as those words came out, Shen Chi kicked the blanket away with his foot. After kicking it off, he could not be bothered to waste words and simply turned over.
There was still an IV in the back of his hand. Seeing this, Lu Chenzhou’s heart jumped. “Ancestor, you’re still on an IV.”
Secretary Shen turned a deaf ear to everything outside the window. No matter how Lu Chenzhou nagged, he closed his eyes and slept. He was just a little willful, using his feet to trap the blanket and refusing to let the other man cover him.
Lu Chenzhou had never coaxed anyone in his life. While his head hurt, he also did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Why was he like a child?
Perhaps it was because of the medicine, but the high fever finally subsided. However, Shen Chi’s body was covered in sweat.
Ji Yanzhi came over and removed the needle, then said, “For now, one bottle is enough. He’ll need another bottle this afternoon. Now, should I stay, or should I leave first?”
Lu Chenzhou said, “Leave. I’ll call you if anything happens.”
Ji Yanzhi was very self-aware. Without the slightest objection, he picked up his medical kit and quickly left.
Over the course of the day, Lu Chenzhou changed Shen Chi’s clothes twice. Just as he was preparing to change them for the third time, he suddenly realized Secretary Shen did not have any other clothes.
He knew Shen Chi was poor, but it was only at this moment that he truly understood just how poor he was.
In the end, he called the butler and asked him to bring clothes over.
The butler asked, “President Lu, should I send clothes in Mr. Shen’s size, or your clothes?”
Lu Chenzhou did not think much at first. But after the butler mentioned it, his gaze suddenly shifted.
“Send mine.”
The butler understood immediately.
After Lu Chenzhou hung up, he stared straight at Secretary Shen before him. The clothes on him were soaked through from sweat and had already been taken off. Now, inside the soft quilt…
Lu Chenzhou’s throat tightened. He could not keep thinking.
He took a deep breath and decided to go to the balcony first to get some air. He was afraid that if he stayed here any longer, something would go wrong.
What he did not know was that inside the quilt, the moment he left, Shen Chi abruptly opened his eyes.
Unlike his previous misty gaze, after two IV bottles, Shen Chi had recovered a little.
As for when he had regained consciousness, of course it was when Lu Chenzhou was changing his clothes for the third time. With such a big commotion, he was neither unconscious nor dead. How could he keep sleeping?
But waking up at a time like this was worse than not waking up at all!
