Xue Ling took a nap for an hour, washed her face after waking up, drank half a glass of water, and hurried out.
She drove straight to Boss Liao's company.
The company is in the urban area, and the entrance is very deserted. There is only one bicycle parked, and there is no one downstairs.
Xue Ling frowned secretly and couldn't help shouting: "Is anyone here? Boss Liao! Boss Liao!"
After a while, a thick male voice came from upstairs: "Who is it?"
I saw a thin, middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, holding a cigarette in his hand, taking a heavy puff and looking at Xue Ling with squinted eyes.
"Girl, who are you looking for?"
Xue Ling smiled: "Hello, I'm looking for Boss Liao. Is he here?"
"He's not here." The man's face was dark and he said, "I'm his cousin, and I'm helping him right now. Do you have anything to do with him? Is it important?"
"I'm his business partner." Xue Ling said: "There was a little situation at the construction site today. I called his phone but no one answered. I heard secretary Xiao Chen said that his lover was sick, so I came over to take a look.
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"Partner?" The man frowned and asked, "He doesn't even do any projects anymore. What's the partner there? The big one by the river?"
"Yes." Xue Ling nodded.
The man stared at Xue Ling in surprise, then became polite.
"So you are Boss Xue? Please sit down, please sit down!"
Xue Ling stopped and explained: "I won't sit down anymore. I'm here to talk to Boss Liao about engineering matters. Can you tell me his whereabouts? I want to talk to him in person. I've been waiting for a while.
When having a baby at home, he originally said that he would pay more attention to the construction site, but I heard that he didn’t go there very often.”
"Sigh..." The man threw the cigarette butt on the floor and stomped on it, "My sister-in-law is ill, a little serious. Zong Nan stays in the hospital every day and is in very bad spirits. Suddenly something big happened at home.
...How can he still be in the mood to make money!"
Xue Ling frowned and asked, "Which hospital is my sister-in-law in now? How is her condition?"
"The man has been unconscious." The man sighed: "I don't know what to do. It's been almost half a month. Now I'm at the Central Hospital."
Xue Ling said: "Then I'll go over and see my sister-in-law. If Boss Liao is there, then I'll have a chat with him."
"Okay, you go ahead." The man explained: "It's in the intensive care unit of the Central Hospital, on the second floor."
Xue Ling thanked him, walked out in a hurry, started the car and left quickly.
The Central Hospital is in an old area, but there are cars going fast and there are no people on the street. Xue Ling drove much faster than usual and arrived in five or six minutes.
She had been here several times and found the intensive care unit with ease.
From a distance, I saw Boss Liao wrapped in a dark gray cotton-padded jacket and hat, sitting crookedly on a bench outside. His eyes were dull, his face was pale, and he had lost a lot of weight.
If it weren't for Xue Ling's good eyesight, I might not have recognized him.
In the past, he was elegant and generous, with a pleasant smile, and a little bit of the richness of a middle-aged man. Now, he is in a miserable state, and his face is frighteningly pale, as if he is seriously ill.
"Boss Liao?" Xue Ling asked tentatively.
Boss Liao swayed in confusion and looked at her intently. It took him a while to realize what he was doing.
"...Xiao Xue?"
His energy was very low, and he wanted to stand up - but he had been sitting still for a long time, and suddenly he couldn't get up. After shaking his body for a while, he fell back down.
Xue Ling frowned and sighed, and quickly sat over.
"Boss Liao, what's the matter with you? I went to your company to look for you earlier, and your cousin told me you were here. Are you okay?"
He put on a smile, but unexpectedly tears flashed down his face. He looked in the direction of the ward and swallowed harder.
"My wife...is ill and has been in a coma for more than ten days."
Xue Ling asked anxiously: "Can I ask my sister-in-law what her illness is? Is it serious?"
"The doctor said there might be something wrong with the brain." Boss Liao's eyes were red and he swallowed more: "When she came home from get off work, she said she was dizzy, then she went to bed, and then... she never came back. wake up."
He stood up and Xue Ling quickly supported him.
Boss Liao moved his steps, approached the glass window of the ward, and whispered: "You can't just go in, you can only stay outside every day. The doctor said a few days ago that you can only go to the provincial capital to seek treatment at a hospital. We can't delay it any longer."
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Xue Ling squinted and looked around, and saw a white man lying alone on the hospital bed, wearing an oxygen mask. It was very unreal. He was covered with a thick quilt, and an intravenous drip seemed to be hanging on the side.
"If the doctor says so, then listen to the doctor quickly!"
The hospital equipment in Rongcheng is not as good as that in the provincial capital, and the professional level of the medical staff is also inferior. Since there is nothing we can do here, we can only quickly go to the provincial capital to find a big hospital.
Boss Liao smiled bitterly and explained that there is no equipment truck here, and it is very risky to send it there on the road. It is very likely that something will happen to the patient on the road.
"The doctor contacted the big hospital in the provincial capital, but there is a shortage of equipment trucks there, and he doesn't know the situation of the patients here, so he can't approve it yet. The doctors here can't determine what's going on...
...how to save..."
Xue Ling became anxious when he heard this and asked: "What kind of big hospital should I go to? Is it a brain department?"
"Yeah." Boss Liao explained: "You can only go to large hospitals in provincial capitals, the ones with specialized brain departments."
Xue Ling thought for a while and said: "One of my cousins is a big doctor in the provincial capital, and so is his wife. They both work in big hospitals. You take me to the doctor to ask about the situation, and I will ask them for help.
"
As far as she knows, Uncle Zhilan and Auntie are both very famous doctors. They both work in large hospitals and should know the relevant operations.
Saving people is like putting out fires. They may be able to help. Regardless of whether it works or not, you must try your best.
"Really?!" Boss Liao's eyes lit up and he dragged her towards the doctor's office.
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A few minutes later, Xue Ling took out the phone book and ran to the public phone.
She called Xue Zhilan's home number, but no one answered the call. She thought they all worked in the hospital, so she had to ask for their office phone number.
Not long ago, her mother told her that Uncle Zhilan applied for early retirement, but was rejected by the hospital's leaders, who asked him to work as long as possible and at least provide the young people on hand who could take over his duties for a few more years.
Uncle Zhilan had no choice but to agree to work for one more year, while my aunt still had to work for a few more months until she reached the statutory retirement age next summer.
Therefore, they are unable to return to the Imperial Capital for the Chinese New Year this year and plan to wait until next summer to go north again.
She called Xue Heng's office, and the guy quickly answered the call.
"There are still some last numbers that need to be paired. I have to catch up and take them to my uncle tomorrow."
"I want to ask for the office numbers of my uncle and aunt." Xue Ling said briefly, "I have a friend here who needs to be transferred to the provincial capital urgently, and I want to ask them if they can help."
"Okay!" Xue Heng quickly reported two numbers upon hearing this, "Hurry up and call my mother first. Her brain department is the best in the provincial capital!"
"Oh! Thank you!" Xue Ling hung up the phone and immediately dialed her aunt's number.
The nurse answered the call and asked Xue Ling to wait.
But she waited for more than three minutes before her aunt came to answer the phone.
After listening to Xue Ling's story, Xue Heng's mother quickly said: "Then transfer the patient to the hospital quickly. If a patient like this is delayed for one more day, there will be less hope. I will quickly find a critical care vehicle to pick him up.
"
"Auntie, can you hurry up as much as possible?" Xue Ling asked anxiously.
"I immediately went to find the director to get one! Then I asked my assistant to go with the car. There will be a professional doctor on the road to take care of him, and he can also take over the work with the hospital over there."