This winter rain has been falling for three consecutive days, the temperature has dropped sharply, the air is cold and humid, the trees on the street are empty, and there is a bleak scene as far as the eye can see.
The weather was bad, and Lu Shang's condition began to worsen. After taking medicine for a few days, it didn't seem to improve. Li Sui often came back to urge him to take medicine, but it didn't work. There have been too many things in the company recently. The troubles at the port have just been resolved and the end has not yet ended. Liu Xingtian clenched them tightly, and could not let go for a moment. Li Sui was dragged to the point where he sometimes ran back to the company after Lu Shang fell asleep. work overtime.
As evening approached, Lu Shang was bored at home and didn't want Li Sui to run back and forth, so Xiao Zhao drove him to Li Sui's new office building.
Li Sui was discussing the details of port transportation with others. When Lu Shang came in, his face showed nothing, but the joy in his eyes could not be hidden: "Why are you here, have you had dinner?"
"Come and visit." Lu Shang didn't wear a formal suit today, he put on a thick down jacket. Seeing that they were discussing things, he found a seat in the corner where no one was sitting.
Li Sui asked his assistant to go down to buy a meal, and stopped him when he was about to go out. He ran to get an umbrella by himself: "Forget it, I'll go by myself, you don't know what he wants to eat."
Many people here have only heard of Lu Shang by name but never seen him. The CEO of the group company, who has always been reclusive, suddenly appeared here, and they were inevitably a little excited, and surreptitiously glanced at him from the corner of his eye. Lu Shang noticed, raised his head and smiled lightly: "I put a few boxes of small snacks in the trunk, you can share them."
Several young girls looked very happy and went away cheering. The office was soon empty. Sima Yan poured a cup of hot tea in the tea room and handed it to Lu Shang: "Mr. Lu, drink water."
Lu Shang thanked him and asked, "Is everything going well here? Do you need my help?"
"I don't need it for the time being. My family used to do logistics before, and many resources were available. My dad also helped us find a lot of relationships."
Lu Shang nodded: "Remember to come to me when you need it."
"You have already helped us a lot," Sima Yan said. "You helped us settle all the troubles in the port not long ago."
Lu Shang smiled lightly, but didn't deny it, he just said, "It's the first time you start a business, I still hope that you will go as smoothly as possible."
Sima Yan nodded clearly: "I mean why do I always feel that someone is helping us behind our backs, Li Sui said he felt the same way, but he always thought it was my father."
Lu Shang lowered his head and rubbed the rim of the teacup, and said, "If I'm not around in the future, you can help him more."
When Sima Yan heard this, a strange feeling flashed in his heart, but he didn't think much, nodded and said, "Definitely."
Li Sui came up with the packaged food, saw a few boxes of chocolate and beef jerky on the table, glanced at the package, and couldn't help but ask, "Who is so generous?"
A little girl next to me joked: "Guess what?"
Li Sui's eyes fell on Lu Shang, who was sitting by the side reading the report. He said that he didn't need to guess. He walked over and put the food in front of him: "Eat."
Lu Shang looked up from the report and pushed his glasses: "Your tax payable is too large, you can ask the accountant to find a way to adjust it."
"I understand," Li Sui didn't see him worrying about this, and smiled as he handed over the chopsticks, "It's better to be steady at the beginning, but I'll find a way."
Lu Shang actually had no appetite, so he picked a few green vegetables to eat, and paused with his chopsticks: "You made it?"
Li Sui looked at him with a smile: "Is it delicious? The seasoning is different from the brand at home. After I said good things for a long time, the boss let me in the kitchen."
Lu Shang nodded, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his bangs, and there was some rain on it: "Pay attention to rest, don't make yourself sick."
"I should have told you this," Li Sui took his hand and held it, "Just be fine, you are my battery."
After they finished their meal slowly, Li Sui stood up and saw that everyone in the office had run out, either going to the tea room or the conference room, it was like taking refuge.
"What's wrong?" Lu Shang asked him.
Li Sui turned around and smiled: "I have to work overtime. I have to make a plan today. Just wait for me for a while, and we will go back together at night."
Lu Shang naturally had no objection, but it was getting dark and his eyes were not very convenient. Li Sui took him to the sofa in his office and settled it, and went out to convene the staff to continue the meeting.
I was full of food and drink, and was tortured by a dog. A few young people did not dare to delay the loving time of the two leaders. They simply came up with the most efficient working state in history. The work that usually takes three hours is just one hour. There you go.
"Everyone has worked hard. Come here first today." Li Sui didn't say much, leaving his assistant to sort out the minutes of the meeting, and let the others go home after get off work first.
He pushed open the office door, Lu Shangzheng was leaning on the sofa and closed his eyes, and when he got closer, he realized that he was asleep, breathing lightly, Li Sui couldn't bear to wake him, so he took off his coat and put it on him.
Someone came in outside the door and dared to speak, Li Sui turned around and made a "shush" gesture.
It was the assistant who came in. Seeing the picture in front of him, he swallowed what he wanted to say, and only took out his mobile phone and pointed. Li Sui reacted, covered his clothes, and got up to go out.
He took the phone from his assistant, and Liang Zirui's excited voice came from the other end: "I, I found Leon!"
Li Sui's heart tightened: "Where?"
"It's a long story," Liang Zirui's voice was obviously not good, and his voice was intermittent, "I plan to take him back to China, but now I have encountered a little obstacle."
"What happened?"
"We seem to be being followed, and I don't know who it is," Liang Zirui said without going into details, "Ask Lu Shang if he can do anything, but I can't get through to his phone."
Li Sui looked back at Lu Shang, who was sleeping in the house, thought for a while, and said, "He is resting. Where are you, I will arrange someone to pick you up."
"Alright, I'll send you the exact coordinates by email in five minutes," Liang Zirui said. "Leon has already promised to help me diagnose Lu Shang, so please prepare yourself."
Li Sui paused, hesitated for a while, and said, "I'll get to know him first and then tell him."
Leon was willing to help. Of course, this was something he could not ask for, but because of this, Li Sui had to be more cautious. If Leon has a solution, everyone will be happy, but if he can't do anything, then Lu Shang will only be hurt in vain. With Lushang's current physical condition, he can no longer afford the additional emotional risk.
In the shopping mall, Xu Weilan and the others always praised Li Sui for his thorough work, but no one knew that most of his thoughts were driven by Lu Shang's illness. If anyone also has a lover who is dealing with the god of death every day, one sentence or one action may lead to his defeat. In such a growth environment, everyone is thoughtful.
Lu Shang obviously went out the door and was weak and never woke up. Li Sui was afraid that he would catch a cold if he stayed in the office, so he carried the person on his back and walked to the parking lot.
The movement was so loud that Lu Shang was woken up and kept laughing on his back: "Like what it looks like, let me down."
"I do not."
"Wings hard?"
"The wings aren't hard." Li Sui said something with his head turned to his ears, and both of them smiled.
"I can't satisfy you now." Lu Shang smiled, his face pale.
Li Sui touched his forehead: "So, you have to get well soon."
It was late at night when the two of them returned home. Before going to bed, Li Sui said to Lu Shang, "I've been a little busy recently. If it's too late, you go to bed first and don't wait for me."
Lu Shang didn't ask him what he was busy with, but said, "It's been windy these two days, so wear thicker clothes when you go out."
"Yeah." Li Sui replied, he rarely lied to Lu Shang, so his expression was unnatural.
Lu Shang couldn't see this, thought he was being careless, and said with a smile, "I haven't recovered from my cold, so don't get infected by me."
"Contagion is contagious," Li Sui hugged him apologetically, "If someone else wears a couple's outfit, we can get a couple's disease, that's great."
When I woke up the next day, there was a cold wind blowing outside, making people shiver. Liang Zirui's plane arrived after dark. Li Sui got off work and packed up and went directly to Regal Hospital.
At first, when he heard Liang Zirui say that he was being followed, he first wondered if someone had discovered that they were looking for a way to treat Lu Shang, and wanted to obstruct it. In recent years, Lu Shang's illness has never been handed over to others, and for this reason, he has been on guard.
Going upstairs to open the door, standing in front of Li Sui was a tall, energetic man who didn't look like the old smoker Liang Zirui said.
"You didn't find the wrong person, right?" Li Sui said.
Liang Zirui pointed to his face: "If it's fake, he can't fake it if I'm fake."
The two were looking at Lu Shang's surgical images. Li Sui and Leon greeted in English, and the other answered vaguely.
"How did you find him?" Li Sui asked.
Speaking of this, Liang Zirui laughed for a while: "He owed a lot of credit card debt, was restricted from leaving the country, and was stopped at the airport. It happened that I had a friend there, and he knew I was looking for him, so he informed me to go. "
"Who is following you?"
"Don't worry, it has nothing to do with Lushang, they are all looking for Leon to ask for debts."
Li Sui breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Leon, and asked, "Didn't he refuse to help Lu Shang diagnose his illness before?"
"I paid off all his credit cards for him," Liang Zirui spread his hands. "It is said that the institution that provided him with research funds has gone bankrupt. With his credit history and smoking marijuana, I am afraid it will be difficult to apply for new funds in the future. so… "
Li Sui was a little surprised, and hurriedly said, "Money is not a problem."
Liang Zirui nodded: "You remember to charge me the credit card money."
Li Sui turned his head and said to Leon in English, "Professor, please, as long as you can help Lu Shang cure his illness, we will provide all your future research funds."
Leon looked back and said "OK".
Several people studied the data until the middle of the night. After watching all the data and videos, Leon proposed a surgical plan for Lu Shang's condition. There were too many professional medical terms, and Li Sui didn't understand it, so he had to ask Liang Zirui for help.
After listening to it, Dr. Liang compared the films and commented on the plan: "It's bold, but thorough. If this operation is really successful, as long as Lu Shang doesn't continue to die and takes good care of it for the rest of his life, he can enjoy the life of an ordinary person. "
Li Sui's expression moved slightly, and he quickly asked, "Is the danger high?"
"Gao," Dr. Liang gasped, "and it's not an ordinary high, it's almost like juggling on a scalpel."
This is also the hardest point to break, even with the best experts like Leon on the scene. On the operating table, medical skills and experience are the support, but doing surgery is not magic. No matter how good medical skills are, they can only increase the chance of success.
Several people had their own thoughts and fell silent.
Li Sui watched Liang Zirui pacing back and forth in the house and asked, "Is there any other way?"
Liang Zirui stopped and sighed softly: "There are ways to work around other steps, but this aneurysm cannot be avoided no matter what, and its location is too dangerous. In any hospital in the world, doctors would recommend direct heart replacement, so Dr. Leon dared to remove it for him."
Leon expressed another layer of concern: "I am more worried about his heart not beating after the artificial heart-lung machine is removed than the aneurysm."
With that said, Liang Zirui's head hurt even more. Just thinking about how to cut it, he almost forgot that the aneurysm and Lu Shang's heart were almost fused together. Any adverse reactions.
Leon pondered for a while: "Try digitalis."
Liang Zirui frowned slightly: "Besides digoxin, I have never used other digitalis for him."
"Digitalis?"
"A class of controversial cardiotonic drugs, poisonous, but also very effective. It is not impossible to use it, but the dosage of this drug varies greatly among individuals. The therapeutic dose is very close to the poisoning dose. Insufficient dose will affect treatment, and excessive dose will cause poisoning. , it's not easy to control."
Leon just shook his head: "Currently, there is too little clinical experimental data. If his physical condition allows, we can test him for the poisoning threshold first."
"I'll try it for him," Li Sui said suddenly, "try it on me."
Both of them looked at him, Liang Zirui was amused, and was about to tell him to stop making trouble, but Li Sui said seriously: "I and Lu Shang have the same blood type, PRA negative, and all six HLA points can match, I am this one. The closest person in the world to him."
Liang Zirui and Leon looked at each other.
"Let him try it," Leon said.
Liang Zirui hesitated, thought for a long time, and said, "Lu Shanghui killed me."
"Just don't tell him." Li Sui said, seeing that Liang Zirui didn't speak, he asked again, "There's no time, it's not too late, do you have anything to do?"
"You kid is really..." Liang Zirui sighed, "You know how serious Lu Shang's condition is. Even Leon may not be able to cure him. Your efforts are likely to be completely in vain. Even if you know this, you Do you still want to try?"
"Doctor Liang," Li Sui looked at him, his eyes full of persistence, "You know, he is my everything."
Liang Zirui looked at him for a long time, and finally lost: "...Okay, I'll go write the application."
It only took three days for the experiment to be approved. I don't know how Liang Zirui operated it. Li Sui still looked anxious, and ran to the hospital non-stop as soon as he received the notice. Thanks to Lushang, Regal Hospital obtained several experimental pilot qualifications last year, and the equipment is very complete. Leon discussed it with Liang Zirui, and finally decided to conduct it in the morning when his mental state is the best.
"Sign it."
Liang Zirui handed him the informed consent form: "In duplicate, keep one for yourself after signing."
Li Sui glanced around and signed his name: "Is the experiment fast?"
"The digitalis preparation we tested has a very fast action time and is metabolized quickly in the body. If it goes well, it will take eight hours."
Li Sui nodded, raised his head and asked, "What will happen after being poisoned?"
"Heart, digestive system, nervous system, vision, and poisoning are mainly manifested in these four aspects. We will closely monitor your ECG and blood pressure. Once the threshold is measured, the test will be terminated immediately."
Li Sui handed back the two signed consent forms to Liang Zirui.
"You don't keep one?"
"No." Li Sui shook his head.
Liang Zirui knew that he was afraid that he would take it back for Lu Shang to find out, so he had to put it back in the drawer.
In order to ensure Li Sui's safety, Liang Zirui set up the experimental site in the operating room, next to all kinds of drugs, in case he was poisoned, he could be given potassium supplements as soon as possible.
"If you feel unwell, you must remember to say it, and don't bear it." Liang Zirui put electrodes on him, exhorting and exhorting.
Li Sui lowered his head and glanced at his chest. These things have always only appeared on Lu Shang. He reached out and stroked it, and a faint thought flashed in his heart.
Leon walked in with the medicine and started disinfecting the skin. Liang Zirui stopped him and made the final confirmation: "Really don't tell Lu Shang?"
Li Sui shook his head and gave Leon a look: "Let's start."
Li Sui was probably the most calm person in the entire operating room. Liang Zirui had undergone countless surgeries, and he had seen people's lives and deaths countless times. Logically speaking, it should be safe from all poisons, but he watched Leon push the medicine into Li Sui. In his deep veins, a thin layer of sweat dripped from his palms, and he felt a guilty conscience of stealing someone else's treasure home.
If Lu Shang knew that he used Li Sui to test the medicine, the friendship in this life would probably be over.
"How much?"
"0.25 mg."
The drug took effect very quickly. As the potion was pushed in, Li Sui's heart beat faster, and he gradually felt dizzy, with bursts of flowers in front of his eyes.
"Are you okay?" Liang Zirui asked.
Li Sui lost consciousness due to a headache, opened his mouth, but said nothing. In the chaos, he saw a lot of people in a trance, some familiar and some unfamiliar, one after another, like a time train, carrying countless distant faces whizzing past him.
"now what?"
"0.32 mg."
Li Sui was in a cold sweat from the pain, his eyes were loose, his blue veins jumped up, his hands were clenched into fists, his knuckles were clenched white, and his body was stretched straight. This reaction was a little scary, and Liang Zirui called him twice uneasy: "Li Sui? Xiao Li?"
"Pay attention to the record." Leon noticed that Liang Zirui was a little nervous and reminded him aloud.
There was a beeping sound from a machine in his ear, and the rhythm was getting faster and faster. Li Sui was tortured by this life-threatening sound, and his head was almost split. He only felt as if someone was throwing a stone at his brain. He closed his eyes in dizziness, but suddenly heard a voice in his ear - "Mom."
The voice was very familiar, he searched around in his mind, but couldn't remember who it was.
"… who is it?"
"Mother."
Li Sui was stunned, he suddenly opened his eyes, everything he was familiar with receded like the tide, and the world was spinning. He found himself standing in a high courtyard, and a tall and thin woman was looking at him coldly. The eyebrows are actually seven or eight similar to him.
"Mom," he heard himself call.