The complex feeling in Tao Ran's heart was indescribable. He looked at Si Shao with suspicion, wondering if she was doing it on purpose. But even after drinking the whole bucket of soup, he didn't see anything.
When Si Shao saw that Tao Ran had finished drinking, she was very happy and said, "If you liked it so much, I'll make it for you again tomorrow."
Tao Ran was startled, then politely said, "It's delicious, but I have a strong palate, so could you add a little more salt tomorrow?"
Si Sha responded, "Too much salt is not good for you. You just had two bottles of saline IV today, so you should eat less salt at this moment."
Tao Ran couldn't argue any further, so he lay on the bed, lifted up a corner of the blanket, and patted the bed, saying, "Come sleep with me."
Si Shao blushed and then saw the sparkling eyes of the patient next door, so she decisively refused, "I'm going home."
"Woo..." Tao Ran pouted and started to act pitifully...
Si Shao looked away and said sternly, "Your pitiful act won't work, I'm leaving."
Tao Ran grabbed her hand and said, "Aren't you afraid of me being cold at night?"
"Then just turn on the air conditioner." Si Shao thought for a moment and said, "I'll come by early tomorrow morning."
After Si Shao left, Tao Ran was lying in bed. The neighbor patient said out of boredom: "Brother, you're not supposed to chase girls like this."
Tao Ran said, "Of course I know it's not good, but I don't have any other way."
Although the patient was enthusiastic, he didn't have any good suggestions. If he were so good at these things, he wouldn't still be single and hospitalized without anyone to accompany him.
The two old men suffered from insomnia at night. Although Tao Ran forced himself to drink fish soup and eat fish, now nothing left in his stomach after a few trips to the toilet. The patient heard Tao Ran's stomach growling from a distance, so he opened the cupboard next to the hospital bed and took out two packets of spicy strips. He offered, "Do you want some?"
Tao Ran looked at them and his mouth unconsciously secreted an unknown liquid, but he politely declined and said: "No, it's unhealthy."
"Oh." The patient didn't insist and opened a packet to start eating.
The unique aroma of the spicy strips reached Tao Ran's nose, arousing his craving, and making his stomach growl even more severely. Tao Ran reached out to touch his forehead, it was no longer feverish. He endured for a while, but couldn't resist in the end, "Just give me a packet."
The fellow patient handed him a pack and said, "If you want to eat, just eat. Why do you think so much? Kids eat so much every day and still grow up healthy and strong."
Tao Ran ate the spicy strips and said, "What's wrong with you? Why doesn't anyone come see you? Are you so miserable that you don't have any relatives or friends?"
The patient stiffened for a moment and said, "It's been a day and you can't even tell what kind of illness I have?"
Tao Ran recalled carefully and found that the patient had been lying in bed and seemed to be unable to move around, but his legs were not in casts. Tao Ran guessed: "Did you injure your muscles and ligaments?"
The patient said, "You can say that."
Tao Ran said: "What kind of illness is it? It's not terminal, right?"
"Can I stay with you if it's terminal?" The patient suddenly had a strange expression and said, "I had surgery on the sphincter muscle area."
Tao Ran began to ponder, "Which muscle is the sphincter?"
At this time, Xiao Mei came out excitedly and said: "Host, at this time your dear Xiao Mei can't help but recommend a book to you, sphincter muscle war with corpus cavernosum!"
"......" Tao Ran thought instantly and blurted out, "You have a rectal prolapse?!"
"...... You're the one who has rectal prolapse!" The patient said angrily, "I had a hemorrhoid removed!"
"Oh ......"
Tao Ran was embarrassed, "Then how did they put us in the same ward? Shouldn't you be in the colorectal department?"
The patient said, "The colorectal department was overcrowded, so they put me in another department."
That's true, I've heard that colorectal medicine is a popular department these days.
At this point, the atmosphere was a bit awkward, and Tao Ran wanted to say something to ease the atmosphere. He said, "Have you been staying here for a long time? You don't seem to be in any pain."
"It hurts, but I can't show it in front of others," After talking to Tao Ran for a while, the patient finally expressed the pain in his heart. "I haven't dared to go to the bathroom these two days."
Tao Ran: "Ah? Isn't it uncomfortable?"
"It's uncomfortable," the patient said, "But I feel that if I use it, I might die in the bathroom."
Tao Ran felt a chill hearing those words, unable to imagine how uncomfortable it must be. He said, "But how long can you hold it in?"
As it turned out, he couldn't hold it in for long. Early in the morning, when the dawn broke, Tao Ran was awakened by the sound from the next bed, and when he opened his eyes, he saw his sick friend lying on the bed clutching his stomach. Tao Ran was startled and thought his friend had an appendicitis attack, he said, "Don't worry, I'll call someone."
"No," His sick friend said in between the labored breaths. "I just want to go to the restroom."
Tao Ran felt complicated, "Then go ahead, die early and be reborn early."
"You're right." The patient finally couldn't hold it anymore and got out of bed with some paper.
Tao Ran looked at his expression, it was the same as if he was going to the execution ground.
He couldn't sleep either, tossing and turning in bed. His sickness had already gotten better, and he would probably be able to go back to school today. But Tao Ran still wanted to stay a few more days, because he would get a little chance to see Si Shao after returning to school. He was in a dilemma, wondering if he turned on the air conditioner and lifted the quilt, could he become sick again?
He tossed and turned for a long time before he suddenly remembered that his roommate still hadn't come back. He thought of the sick friend saying yesterday that he was going to die in the bathroom, and he felt a chill in his heart, wondering if the people who died in the toilet would turn into toilet ghosts?
He got out of bed and went to the toilet. It was normal to care about him as a fellow patient.
Tao Ran entered the bathroom, the bathroom was quiet, he didn't know which cubicle the fellow patient was in, nor the fellow patient's name, so he said, "Wardmate? Fellow patient from 606? Are you still alive?"
"Yes..." A weak voice came out, "But I'm not well anymore..."
Tao Ran followed the voice and said, "You've been away for so long, I thought you had died in the toilet and become the new toilet ghost."
"Get out! I can't die in the bathroom even if I crawl, there's no future for a male bathroom ghost." Then the door opened, the fellow patient had put on his pants, and he stretched his hand to Tao Ran, "Help me, I can't move."
Tao Ran helped him back. He painfully said, "I need to wash my hands."
"Oh."
Finally, after all the trouble, the patient returned to his bed and leaned over to pour himself a cup of hot water to drink.
Tao Ran said, "You're like this now, and you still ate spicy sticks last night."
"Life only has a little bit of joy. Can't you let me keep that?"
Tao Ran: "Forget it, It’s not me who’s in pain."
Shi Sha said she would come early, and she really did come early along with a nurse. The nurse said he could not eat until his blood had been taken and his temperature measured, so Shi Sha put the thermos down.
Tao Ran had his blood drawn, and was a bit tense while thinking about temperature. If he had no fever, then it would be time for him to part ways with Si Shao.
The nurse left after drawing the blood. Tao Ran held the thermometer and said: "What delicious food did you bring me today?"
Si Shao smiled, "Still fish soup."
Tao Ran: "Oh ......"
"But I added more salt, you should like it, Mr. Strong Palate."
Tao Ran thought, I don’t have a strong palate, it's obviously because you didn't put salt in it. He could only struggle with it by himself, and knew that the nurse would come in to check the thermometer soon, so he said, "I'm so bored here, why don't you help me buy a few magazines."
"Sure." Si Shao was oblivious, "What magazines do you like to read?"
Tao Ran: "Just...novels, story-telling and stuff."
"Yeah, wait a moment." Si Shao turned and went out.
Tao Ran immediately took out the thermometer and quickly inserted it into the cup of the patient next door.
Patient: "......"
Tao Ran said with a smile, "Sorry, sorry, I'll pour you another cup later."
The patient was unclear and said, "It’s okay, I don't mind helping you, but this cup of water was just poured out of the insulated water bottle. If not 90 then it should be at least 80 degrees. Do you really want to create a medical miracle of someone surviving a fever of 80 degrees?"
Tao Ran: "......"
So Tao Ran had to quickly take out the thermometer, shake the mercury down, and stick the thermometer on the outside of the cup until it rose to 38 degrees.
The nurse looked at the thermometer and said, "Why are you still having a fever? You wait for me to go to the doctor."
The patient silently handed over the cup and said, "Put it on your forehead and cover it."
"Thanks......"
Si Shao returned when the doctor was feeling Tao Ran's forehead, and then asked strangely: "Why hasn’t the fever gone down even after the drip?"
Tao Ran said weakly: "Maybe it's because I'm weak. I've been physically weak since I was a child. (Cough, cough, cough) ...and I also have bronchitis..."
Si Shao said, "What can we do now?"
The doctor intuitively felt something was wrong and said: "Wait for your test results to come out and then we'll see."
Si Shao said: "Yesterday you seemed to be much better, why are you like this again today?"
Tao Ran said: "Maybe because I slept alone and got cold last night."
Si Shao doubted, "Is it?"
Tao Ran: "What else could it be?"
"But..." Si Shao hesitated, glanced at his fellow sick friend and thought that it was okay to just sleep with Tao Ran for one night, but this was not a single ward and she was not used to sleeping in the same room with a stranger. Si Shao thought about whether she could move Tao Ran to a single ward, so that he would also feel more comfortable.