"I surely know even less about this person than Second Brother does," Xia Sanghuan said nonchalantly.
Hearing her words, Leng Chuanjin fell silent and didn't press further.
...
"Those three foreign professors want to meet you again to discuss the content of your two papers," Professor He said, walking over with a cup of coffee in his hand.
It was lunch break. The girl was sorting out the gifts sent by her suitors recently while flipping through her master's notes. Fortunately, most of the gifts were consumables; otherwise, her bedroom would probably be overflowing.
She turned her head. "When?"
"You can decide the time, but the sooner the better," Professor He said, checking his phone. "They'll be going back to their home countries soon."
"Okay," the girl said, standing up and taking off her white coat. "Let's set it for this afternoon." She made the decision without hesitation.
After Professor He informed the three foreign professors, they took a car to the hospital. They went to the conference room where they first met and started discussing the topics in the girl's papers. It was obvious that they were very interested in traditional Chinese medicine, and she was also happy to answer their questions.
Before leaving, the professor who had shared his views on Xia Sanghuan's papers on the internet recently complained to the girl.
"I clearly posted that thread, but it disappeared ten minutes later," he said, looking very disappointed, as if the good thing he was eager to share had vanished into thin air.
The girl smiled and comforted him. "It's just a website error."
Actually, she knew the real reason. Someone had deliberately deleted the thread. It seemed that some people within Philnos weren't completely ignorant of her; they just chose to play dumb for their own interests and selfish motives. No wonder the school principal had immediately purged the staff in various departments and even targeted the students after he came back. Thanks to those people, none of the students in the school knew that she was the author of those two papers, which suited her just fine. She couldn't even imagine what would happen if the news about the papers got out, considering the current situation caused by just showing the offers from various universities.
Just as she and Professor He were about to see the three professors out of the main gate, a young - looking male doctor walked over. He looked at the girl uncertainly, then quickly stepped forward and asked eagerly, "Excuse me, are you Miss Xia Sanghuan?"
Hearing her name called, the girl turned around. "Yes, I am. What's up?"
A look of hesitation flashed across the doctor's face. After much deliberation, he finally spoke. "Could you please come to the outpatient department with me? A patient under the care of Deputy Dean Xiao suddenly had an attack, but he's not here. We're at a loss and can only count on you..."
"Why me?" the girl asked, raising her eyebrows in confusion.
"Aren't you Deputy Dean Xiao's apprentice? You must have learned a lot from him. We're just interns he took along casually and have no idea how to handle this."
Hearing his words, she remembered this fact. Seeing his anxious look, although she was only nominally Deputy Dean Xiao's apprentice, at this critical moment related to a life, the girl didn't hesitate and agreed immediately. She simply bid farewell to the three professors, then nodded to the male doctor. "Take me to the clinic."
Fortunately, the patient was in this building. They took the elevator and arrived soon. Xia Sanghuan pushed open the door and saw the patient lying on the temporary hospital bed, foaming at the mouth. With a solemn expression, she stepped forward and grabbed his wrist. The patient was an elderly man with his eyes tightly closed and his face turning purple. She quickly tried to stretch out his curled - up body and shouted back to the young doctors standing there watching. "What are you standing there for? Come and help!"
For a moment, the doctors felt as if they were seeing Deputy Dean Xiao scolding them. How could this young girl have such a strong aura? Although they were muttering in their hearts, they didn't dare to be negligent and quickly stepped forward to assist her in treating the patient.
"He's having difficulty breathing. Go and get the respirator," she said after taking his pulse. Then she put on the stethoscope and started checking the patient's heartbeat. As her expression became more and more solemn, a doctor beside her asked cautiously, "Doctor Xia, how's the situation?"
Combining the result of the pulse - taking, the situation wasn't very optimistic. But...
"It can be treated," she simply said. Although this illness was rare, she...
"Should we start preparing for the operation now?" the doctor asked again.
"Prepare for what operation?" the girl frowned in dissatisfaction. In the eyes of these Western - medicine doctors, was there anything else besides cutting open the patient's body? "Go and prepare isoniazid and rifampicin, and ask that doctor in charge of the respirator why he's not here yet!" she shouted sternly while bending down to shout a few words in the patient's ear. The patient didn't respond. He probably had tinnitus.
"If you were a few seconds later, the patient would have suffocated," the girl said coldly, showing no mercy to these young doctors, even though she was seven or eight years younger than them. It wasn't that she was being overly aggressive, but these doctors really lacked experience and it was good enough that they didn't cause more trouble. She couldn't understand why Deputy Dean Xiao would allow his interns to be so inexperienced and lazy.
Until the doctor in charge of getting the respirator whispered, "So what if she's Deputy Dean Xiao's apprentice? There's no need to be so arrogant." Although he had lowered his voice, his words were still clearly audible in the silent clinic.
"Is this your attitude towards the patient?" Xia Sanghuan said coldly.
"What do you mean by attitude towards the patient? This is my attitude towards you..."
"Get out," she said mercilessly before he could finish. Seeing his face instantly turn red with anger, she turned around without caring and took the medicine handed over by another doctor.
"What, didn't you hear clearly?" she turned back and looked at the man who was still standing there motionless. "I told you to get out. You'll only disturb the patient and your colleagues here." Her eyes were cold and fierce, making the doctor's scalp tingle. He gritted his teeth and walked out of the clinic with a look of humiliation.
"What are you all looking at? The patient is waiting for you," the girl said, putting on a brand - new white coat she casually grabbed from the hanger. After all, the bacteria on ordinary clothes might contaminate the medicine or the patient's diseased organs.
"Doctor Xia, Deputy Dean Xiao told us before that the patient's problem lies in the respiratory tract."