Chapter 601: Forbidden to Enter
Qian Duoduo looked envious: "Brother Xu, how do you know such a perfect beauty? The ones I know are all crude and vulgar, they can’t compare to your girlfriend at all."
"Our mindsets are different, so we like different people. Would you have appreciated a beauty like Nurse Ding before?"
Qian Duoduo smiled bitterly: "I never noticed before."
"Get some rest now, it’s already one in the morning. We’ll go to the hospital together tomorrow morning."
"Can we go now to treat my dad’s illness?"
Xu Xiangbei smiled bitterly: "I know you want to cure your dad’s illness immediately, but I’m not a machine, I need to rest too. Treating your dad will consume a lot of my inner strength, and if I don’t replenish it, not only will I fail to treat your dad, but I may also go insane."
After the afternoon’s battle with Chen Wanhao, Xu Xiangbei, though victorious, had exhausted his inner strength. He had further used his powers at night to punish the Benz owner, and now he could no longer treat Qian Duoduo’s dad.
After returning to his bedroom, Xu Xiangbei first swallowed a Taiqing Pill, then sat cross-legged to meditate and circulate his energy.
While meditating, Xu Xiangbei was startled to find that his Dantian was almost empty, having consumed a great deal of inner strength throughout the day.
With the help of the Taiqing Pill, a wisp of pure inner strength slowly rose from the abdomen, traveled along the Ren and Du Meridians, passed through the Twelve Chakras, flowed through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, and gently coursed through the channels.
It wasn’t until dawn broke that Xu Xiangbei managed to refill his parched Dantian with inner strength.
Though he didn’t feel it much, meditating all night to fill his Dantian left him invigorated and full of energy.
When Xu Xiangbei got up, Ding Keke had already cleaned the courtyard and bought breakfast for him, which was his favorite soy milk and fritters.
As she tied her ponytail, she smiled and asked, "You’ve been in Earth Sea for a year, has your taste changed?"
Xu Xiangbei stuffed a fritter into his mouth, chewing slowly, gazing mischievously at Ding Keke, and his way of eating was rather uninhibited, causing Ding Keke to blush a bit.
Intentionally twisting Ding Keke’s words to create ambiguity, Xu Xiangbei teased with a wicked smile, "Little cutie, are you asking if my taste in women has changed?"
Actually, as soon as she finished speaking, Ding Keke anticipated Xu Xiangbei would twist her words, and her blush deepened, she chided lightly: "Be serious, I meant breakfast."
"Hehe, whether breakfast or women, my taste hasn’t changed."
Unable to tolerate Xu Xiangbei’s playfulness, Ding Keke turned away, stifling her laughter: "I really can’t stand you, you’re getting more annoying, go wake up your friend for breakfast."
Glancing at the tightly closed door of Qian Duoduo’s room, Xu Xiangbei laughed: "That guy has been wandering for days, probably hasn’t slept well, let’s not wake him up, we’ll eat first."
While eating breakfast, Qian Duoduo woke up, looking much more spirited and with a bit more smile on his face: "Good morning Brother Xu, good morning Nurse Ding."
"Come and have breakfast, the soy milk is still warm. After eating, we’ll head to Renmin Hospital together."
Ding Keke was putting on makeup in front of the mirror, calling out to the men: "Gentlemen, please speed up, I swapped my night shift with someone yesterday, now it’s my morning shift, I don’t want to be late."
Xu Xiangbei smiled and said: "With me driving, how could you be late? Don’t worry, I guarantee you’ll arrive at the hospital early."
Xu Xiangbei drove a silver Porsche, taking Ding Keke and Qian Duoduo to the First Renmin Hospital.
Ding Keke’s workplace was in the surgical building; as soon as they reached the hospital entrance, she jumped out of the car and hurriedly ran to the surgical building, while Xu Xiangbei went to find a parking spot.
After parking, Xu Xiangbei asked Qian Duoduo: "Which ward is your dad in?"
"He’s still in the ICU."
It had been a long time since Xu Xiangbei had been to Jiangcheng Renmin Hospital, but he remembered the ICU was right under the surgical building.
At the ICU, two burly men in suits stood outside the door, along with a petite, well-dressed woman, who was Qian Yaoguang’s stepmother Lu Qing.
Though middle-aged, Lu Qing still had charm, with white and tender skin, retaining the attractiveness she had in her younger days.
Lu Qing wore a pink chiffon dress, revealing slender and fair legs like a girl’s, and she even wore a pair of transparent crystal high heels.
Her feet were as delicate as a young girl’s, with toes as tender as onions and nails painted with a fiery red polish.
Upon seeing Qian Yaoguang, Lu Qing’s face turned cold and she said icily: "Qian Yaoguang, you still have the face to come see your dad."
Qian Yaoguang ignored his stepmother Lu Qing, looking through the ICU glass at his dad, lying motionless on the bed with an oxygen tube, and couldn’t help but feel a look of heartache.
A young doctor with glasses came over, about to open the door to enter the ICU, and Qian Yaoguang hurriedly stopped the doctor, asking pitifully: "Doctor, how is my dad? When will he wake up?"
The young doctor pushed up his glasses, shook his head, and said helplessly: "The situation is not optimistic, we don’t know when he will wake up."
Xu Xiangbei walked over with a smile and presented his consultant ID: "I’m Traditional Medicine Consultant Xu Xiangbei, let me go in and take a look at Qian Wantong."
Seeing that Xu Xiangbei was also a doctor, the young doctor smiled and nodded, agreeing to let Xu Xiangbei go in.
Just as Xu Xiangbei was about to enter, the two burly men at the door blocked him.
Lu Qing said coldly to the young doctor: "How can you let people in so easily? Director Wang said not to let outsiders in."
The young doctor quickly apologized to Lu Qing: "I’m sorry, he’s also a doctor; it’s his duty to see the patient, so I let him in."
Lu Qing said coldly: "No, we only trust Director Wang, we don’t trust other doctors."
Xu Xiangbei frowned, realizing this was tricky; Lu Qing was too aggressive.
He calmly explained with a smile to Lu Qing: "I’m a Traditional Medicine Consultant and also a friend of Qian Yaoguang, I want to treat Mr. Qian using Traditional Medicine methods, which will only be beneficial and not harmful."
Lu Qing’s eyes were sharp as she stared at Xu Xiangbei, snorting through her nose: "You saying that makes me even less willing to let you in. You’re a traditional medicine doctor; who knows what method you’ll use to treat him? If you mess it up and harm my husband, we won’t know."
Xu Xiangbei was exasperated: "I’m a friend of Qian Yaoguang’s, he invited me, how could I harm his dad?"
Lu Qing’s words came out like a machine gun, rapid-fire: "Being a friend of Qian Yaoguang’s is even more dangerous; Qian Wantong was angered into this state by his son. Who knows if you two have conspired to harm my husband!"
Qian Yaoguang angrily shouted: "He’s my dad, how could I harm him?"
Lu Qing’s laugh was sharp and harsh: "He’s like this because of you. Letting you see him is already very generous; if you dare act recklessly, I will apply for a restraining order."
