Chapter 517: Anxiety Caused By The Red Packet
“Who are you asking?” Zheng Ren was curious as well. He did not feel embarrassed and asked with a smile.
“Isn’t this a hospital in the Capital?” The patient’s family was a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, “They say that it’s a difficult disease to treat, but we don’t dare to get it done in Sea City… If we delay it, we’ll regret it for the rest of our lives.”
Zheng Ren understood. He smiled and nodded.
“My family contacted Chief Wang of the General Surgery Department in the first-aid department. Chief Wang said that when you were participating in scientific research in the Capital, you helped him solve a big problem,” the patient’s family member said. “Chief Wang said that he didn’t understand this disease. With you around, there’s no need to consult him again. With you around, things should definitely not go wrong.”
Chief Wang? Zheng Ren tried hard to recall, but he could not remember what the General Surgery Department’s Chief Wang looked like.
He only remembered that he happened to meet a patient with PJS at that time. He went on stage and helped him perform the surgery.
A basin of intestinal polyps. That was Zheng Ren’s impression of Chief Wang.
Since that was the case, he would need to prepare for surgery.
Zheng Ren smiled and comforted the old man with a few more words. After that, he received a call. The operation room was ready. Su Yun had also rushed back.
Just as Zheng Ren was about to leave the room, a patient’s family member hurriedly called out to Zheng Ren.
“Chief Zheng, please wait a moment.”
“Yes?” Zheng Ren turned his head.
“This is a small gift from my family. Please accept it.” The patient’s family member stuffed a red packet into Zheng Ren’s white pocket before holding his hand tightly so that he could not reject it.
Zheng Ren felt helpless. He took a glance and saw that there were other patients in the room. Causing a commotion here would not do any of them good.
Zheng Ren smiled and made sure not to make a fuss about it.
Seeing that Zheng Ren had accepted the red packet, the family was relieved.
The patient had already been sent up. Zheng Ren did not have time to deal with the money. He felt the thickness of the red packet. It probably had about 2,000 yuan.
For general surgery, it was already a lot. However, for someone of Zheng Ren’s status… If the family knew about it, then they would know that the money they had given him was far too little.
“Zhong Min, there’s a red packet here. I need to go on stage. I don’t have time to deal with this. Help me make a trip to pay the hospital fees.” Zheng Ren threw the red packet toward Zhong Min.
Zhong Min was stunned for a moment, slightly puzzled.
“Chief Zheng, are you not confident about the surgery?” Zhong Min asked worriedly.
“The surgery? I’ve no issues with it. It’s just removing a section of the intestine and then anastomosing it. It’s very simple,” Zheng Ren said.
“Then…”
“I’m not short on cash. I just don’t like taking money from others since it gives me unnecessary pressure. Hurry up. If you’re late, the family will definitely think that there’s something wrong with the surgery,” Zheng Ren urged as the thought suddenly crossed his mind.
Although Zhong Min did not understand, she did what Zheng Ren instructed her to do.
Su Yun sent the patient away as Zheng Ren slowly went up to change his clothes.
When Zheng Ren changed his clothes and entered the operating theater, Chu Yanzhi had already finished administering the anesthesia. Su Yun had also already begun to disinfect all the necessary tools.
Zheng Ren brushed his hands and went up to the stage. He helped Su Yun finish laying out the sheet and the surgery began.
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After the patient entered the operating theater, the patient’s family members waited anxiously outside the operating theater.
Within a few minutes, Zhong Min arrived at the waiting area of the operating theater.
“Who paid the patient’s hospital deposit?” Zhong Min asked.
“Wait, did I not have enough money?” an elderly man stood up and asked.
“This is the red packet you gave Chief Zheng just now. Chief Zheng asked me to pay the hospital deposit with it.” Zhong Min smiled, “This is the deposit ticket. You have to bring all the deposit tickets with you when you exit the hospital. Otherwise, you won’t be able to go through the discharge procedures. That’s all. I’ll go down first.”
After saying that, Zhong Min handed the deposit ticket to the patient’s family and turned around to leave.
The red packet was not accepted… The family immediately began to panic.
What the hell was going on? This surgeon did not understand their superstitious beliefs at all!
If he knew the surgery could be done successfully, why would he not accept the red packet? Why did he pay the hospital deposit with it before he went on stage?
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
“Chief Zheng looks very young. Is the surgery going to go smoothly?”
“The doctors in the Imperial City all said it would be okay. I think it’ll be fine.”
“Don’t tell me you got the wrong person. Although he looks quite honest and reliable, he’s still too young. I think he only just graduated a few years ago.”
“Yeah, I also feel like I’ve gotten the wrong person. Otherwise, why wouldn’t they accept the red packet?”
The more they talked about it, the more nervous the family became. Finally, one of them said, “I know someone here. He’s the best friend of the General Surgery Department’s Chief. Why don’t we get him to take a look for us?”
“Will that be…alright?”
“It’s okay to take a look. If we can’t then we still have a helper on our side. Dad is old. If he doesn’t get through the surgery, then finding a helper afterward will be too late.”
With that said, it was decided.
After a few twists and turns, he got someone to help him. He had made nearly ten calls before he finally got in touch with Department Chief Sun.
The family member who contacted him had an ugly expression on his face. When he finally got a hold of Department Chief Sun, he did not say anything over the phone and was simply redirected to head to the General Surgery Department itself.
Despite bragging about how close they were, he had needed to call Department Chief Sun so many times when he actually needed help.
He definitely did not have much pride left. He was prepared to give Chief Sun a red packet so that he would not lose any more of his ego.
When Chief Sun heard that Zheng Ren was performing the surgery and the family wanted him to go and take a look, he shook his head like it was a rattle.
What a joke. Was he not done being slapped in the face by Zheng Ren?
Go to the viewing platform? Zheng Ren was still alright. Just as long as he did not provoke him, Zheng Ren would leave him alone. However, his assistant beside him…
Damn it, how could there be such a person in the world.
At the thought of Su Yun, Chief Sun shook his head even more fiercely.
He was not afraid of raising his blood pressure and causing a cerebral hemorrhage from shaking his head so hard.
“Chief Sun, look…” The patient’s family members were also dumbfounded. They had said so much, but they did not expect Chief Sun to not even budge on the matter.
“It’s Chief Zheng so would you even need to take a look at the surgery? You should hurry back. At around this time, the surgery would most probably be wrapped up already.” Director Sun firmly rejected their request.
Care about his ego? He was not very close to the person who had come to him. He refused to be put into such an embarrassing situation. Chief Sun would not do such a thing.
“Chief Sun, our father is old. We’re worried as his children.” The patient’s family member took out a red packet from his pocket. Judging from its thickness, it would probably contain around a thousand yuan.
This red packet had been bought at a small supermarket in the courtyard that they had passed by along the way.
“What are you doing!” Chief Sun glared at him, feeling prideful.
“This is a small token of our family’s goodwill.” The patient’s family knew how these things worked. They did not care about Chief Sun’s pride.
They tried to push it his way but he refused.
In any case, in the end, the two of them were simply passing the packet back and forth. They both pretended they did not know where it came from.
“Fine, I’ll go take a look since I have something I need to settle with Chief Zheng anyway,” Chief Sun said as he stood up proudly and smoothed out his white coat.
“Thank you, Chief Sun.” The patient’s family finally felt relieved. They looked at the time and saw that it was only 35 minutes since the patient had entered the operating room.
Taking into account the time for the anesthetic to take effect, the surgery was most probably about to start.
They still had time.