Chapter 25 : Hospital Examination
Chapter 25: Hospital Examination
“What do you think I would do with you?”
Shen Qingzhou took the last drag from the cigarette in his hand, then flicked the cigarette butt into the brazier.
“I have nothing to give you. You… just give me a quick end.” Li Yunsheng said with a resolute expression.
Shen Qingzhou, however, smiled. “Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to you. I’ll even send you to be reincarnated.”
Li Yunsheng looked at him suspiciously upon hearing this, clearly not believing Shen Qingzhou.
In his view, the man before him was a shameless, bottomless demon-like figure—a heretical sorcerer, a degenerate…
Shen Qingzhou did not bother explaining. He directly pulled out a sheet of yellow paper beside him and lit it.
Pinching it between his fingers, he circled it around the brazier several times.
His left hand formed a seal as he chanted scriptures. The smoke produced by the burning yellow paper first swirled above the brazier, then, as if it had found its target, rushed straight toward Li Yunsheng.
Li Yunsheng actually did not want to be reincarnated; otherwise, he would not have lingered in the human world all this time.
But now that he had fallen into Shen Qingzhou’s hands, reincarnation was likely his best possible ending, which was why he had not objected.
At this moment, seeing the strange smoke approaching, he wanted to dodge, but found that his soul body could not move at all—it was completely beyond his control.
The smoke coiled around his soul body like a rope, yet did not tighten, as if it were guiding the path ahead for him.
“Watch your step. Follow this path forward,” Shen Qingzhou’s voice sounded by his ear.
Li Yunsheng lowered his head and saw a path made of smoke and dust beneath his feet. It twisted and extended into the void, leading to an unknown destination.
When Li Yunsheng looked up again, he found everything around him had been magnified countless times, bringing an overwhelming sense of oppression.
No—more accurately, he had shrunk.
“Hurry up.”
Shen Qingzhou’s voice sounded again by his ear.
The volume of the voice was clearly the same as before, yet now it rang like a great bell, reverberating endlessly in his ears, making him dizzy and staggering.
He did not dare hesitate in the slightest. He hurriedly ran forward along the smoky path. As he ran, he felt his body growing lighter and lighter, until he was lifted by the drifting smoke path and carried into the air.
Then he completely disappeared from the room.
At the very moment Li Yunsheng vanished, countless “ink dots” surfaced along Shen Qingzhou’s spine, rapidly moving along his vertebrae before disappearing.
Shen Qingzhou guiding Li Yunsheng was naturally not out of kindness, but for another purpose.
Now that his goal had been achieved, he picked up the clothes on the ground, bare-chested, and went out of the room to take a shower.
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“Old Lu, your daughter-in-law said you took the child out? Where did you take him? His health isn’t good—don’t take him running around.”
The call was from Lu Guohua’s wife, Ruan Qiongfang. It seemed that the daughter-in-law, worried about the child, had gone to the grandmother.
Because the matter itself sounded unbelievable, and involved supernatural elements, Lu Guohua had told no one before taking the child out.
He had only told his daughter-in-law that he was taking the child to see an old friend.
After all, Lu Guohua was a university professor with a wide network, so taking the child to see a medical professor was not impossible. The daughter-in-law did not think much of it and agreed.
But she was still uneasy. After sending several messages without reply and finding his phone turned off, she contacted the grandmother.
“I know. I’ll bring him back soon.”
“Is Zhaozhao alright? Nothing happened, right?”
“He’s fine. He’s doing very well,” Lu Guohua said.
Lu Zhaozhao, who was in Lu Guohua’s arms, heard his grandmother’s voice and immediately leaned toward the phone and called out.
His voice was full of vigor and cheer, which made Ruan Qiongfang finally let out a sigh of relief. She had truly been worried that something might have happened while her husband took the child out—otherwise, their son and daughter-in-law would blame them endlessly.
“Number 76, Ji Bochang, please proceed to Examination Room 4…”
At that moment, the hospital broadcast called out a number.
Ruan Qiongfang heard it over the phone and immediately became agitated. “You took the child to the hospital? What are you doing at the hospital?”
Seeing he could no longer hide it, Lu Guohua could only tell the truth. “Just doing a check-up. It’s already done—we’re waiting for the report. We’ll be back soon.”
Ruan Qiongfang became furious over the phone. “Why do a check-up for no reason? You’re just tossing the child around. Which hospital are you at? I’m coming right now…”
Hearing her flustered tone, Lu Guohua had no choice but to tell her the hospital’s name.
Soon, Ruan Qiongfang rushed to the hospital—not only her, but also their son and daughter-in-law.
“Zhaozhao.”
Upon seeing her son, the daughter-in-law Huang Jingxian directly “snatched” him from Lu Guohua’s arms.
“Baby, how do you feel? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?” Huang Jingxian anxiously asked her son.
Meanwhile, Lu Weibo immediately began complaining to his father.
“Dad, why did you bring the child to the hospital for no reason?”
Lu Zhaozhao’s condition had long been diagnosed—and not just by one hospital. Every check-up was a challenge for a child like him, because he was too fragile.
“I had him checked,” Lu Guohua said.
“Checked for what? Isn’t he already taking his medicine on time every day?”
Ruan Qiongfang also sounded somewhat dissatisfied, feeling that Lu Guohua was just troubling the child.
However, after examining the child’s condition, Huang Jingxian vaguely sensed something was off—because her son’s state was simply too good.
Due to osteogenesis imperfecta, the child had always been frail and listless since childhood, lacking the vitality other children had, and thus appeared unusually quiet.
But now, in her arms, he kept looking around, full of curiosity about everything—something that would have been absolutely impossible before.
Seeing this, Huang Jingxian’s anger subsided. She said, “Dad was just worried about Zhaozhao. Since he’s fine, let’s go back.”
“Right, let’s hurry back. Zhaozhao hasn’t taken his medicine today, right?”
At the mention of this, Ruan Qiongfang could not help but glare at Lu Guohua again.
“Wait a moment, the report will be out soon.”
“Report? What report? What tests did you do on Zhaozhao?” Lu Weibo pressed.
Huang Jingxian quickly checked her son’s arm to see if blood had been drawn.
“A scan was done, and some blood tests…”
Due to limited conditions and time, Lu Guohua had only conducted these two tests. The scan was to check bone density in the lumbar spine and femoral neck.
The blood test was to examine calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, osteocalcin, and so on, as patients with osteogenesis imperfecta often have abnormal bone metabolism.
These two methods were both ways to detect osteogenesis imperfecta. Of course, the most reliable method would be genetic testing.
But genetic test results would take several weeks, and Lu Guohua could not wait that long.
“Why suddenly test these? It’s not even time for his regular check-up yet, is it?” Ruan Qiongfang asked, puzzled.
Lu Weibo and Huang Jingxian also found it strange.
“I suspect… well, I suspect the doctor might have made a mistake, so I had Zhaozhao rechecked,” Lu Guohua casually made up a reason.
Mainly because Shen Qingzhou’s matter was too unbelievable, and explaining it would be troublesome. Before confirming that Zhaozhao was truly fine, it was better not to say too much.
As soon as he said this, the three of them felt a jolt in their hearts—could it be that something was wrong with Lu Guohua’s mind?
Thinking about it, it was not impossible. Zhaozhao’s illness had long been a burden on Lu Guohua’s heart—he had always dreamed of curing him.
Thinking about it too much might have caused him to develop delusions.
The more they thought about it, the more plausible it seemed, and worry appeared on their faces.
Misfortune never came singly. Zhaozhao was already enough to worry about—if something happened to Lu Guohua as well, this family would truly be in dire straits.
At that moment, the hospital broadcast called out again.
“Number 43, Lu Zhaozhao, please proceed to Window 6 to collect your report.”
Hearing this, Lu Guohua did not bother speaking further and hurried toward Window 6.
Leaving the three standing there, looking at each other.