Two days later, Zheng Ren went to the ICU to pick up the little stone.
The benefits of exceeding 100% completion of the operation were clearly demonstrated. Xiao Shitou recovered very quickly after the operation, even faster than Zheng Ren expected.
"Brother, I can speak much better." Although Xiao Shitou was put on a ventilator for a few days, his vocal cords were fine after extubation. He spoke very crisply, without the hoarse feeling before.
There is no tumor pressure, and the symptoms seem to be getting better.
"For sure, I am the best surgeon in the world, you have to have confidence." Zheng Ren said with a smile.
"Well, I'll take a good rest. What's the next step?" Xiao Shitou asked.
"We'll wait until you recover. Don't think too much about it first. You are a patient, so you need to recover well and cooperate with my treatment. As for me, I will work hard to figure out the plan, and we will each do our own thing. Work together to strive for the best outcome. Zheng Ren said with a smile.
I didn't tell Xiao Shitou what to do to prevent the child from having random thoughts.
Wen Xiaonuan held Xiao Shitou's hand all the way, a little choked with sobs, but more of a happy smile on his face.
Being able to come out of the ICU alive means that the operation is successful, and Xiaoshi can live at least 2 to 3 months longer.
What else is there to be dissatisfied with
Back in the ward, Zheng Ren and Xiao Shitou said a few words, and then the phone rang.
He took out his phone and suddenly frowned.
"I'm going back first," Zheng Ren said.
"Brother, come see me when you have time." Xiao Shitou was lying on the bed, already a little tired.
Zheng Ren nodded, took his cell phone and walked out.
Su Yun saw that his boss had a strange look on his face, and curiously looked at the caller ID.
"Hello, Master Yan." Zheng Ren walked out of the ward and answered the phone.
"Uh... can you say it again?"
Then Zheng Ren fell into a long silence.
There was a faint voice on the other side of the phone. Su Yun pricked up his ears like a rabbit and couldn't hear clearly what Master Yan was saying to his boss.
"No." Zheng Ren paused for more than ten seconds before saying firmly: "I'm just a doctor. What you said is beyond my perspective. I'm sorry."
"I still have something to do here, let's talk some other time."
After saying that, Zheng Ren hung up the phone without hesitation.
"Boss, what's the matter? You refuse so simply." Su Yun asked curiously.
Zheng Ren said nothing, frowned, and strode out of the special needs ward with his head slightly lowered.
"Master Yan's son is going to get some technology for us recently. If you can offend us lightly, do so lightly, otherwise your wallet will suffer." Su Yun continued.
"It's different." Zheng Ren said, "Master Yan said..."
Su Yun glanced at Zheng Ren with disdain and sneered: "You've learned how to sell it, what on earth did Master Yan say?"
"Master Yan said that one of his junior brothers... wanted me to protect the law."
"What?"
"The protector said he wanted to overcome the tribulation."
"I'll choke you! Boss, you're awesome!"
…
…
Master Yan is sitting in front of an Eight Immortals table. On the table is a piece of yellowed paper with the words "dragon flying and phoenix dancing" written on it.
There are several pages of paper, and the page in front of me says - The reason why heaven and earth can last forever is because they do not generate themselves, so they can live forever. Therefore, the sage follows his body and comes first, and his body exists outside his body.
The handwriting is simple and elegant, but slightly messy.
This is a sentence from the Tao Te Ching. Master Yan looked at it blankly, his mind wandering.
"Master, what are you looking at?" The young man next to Master Yan asked when he saw that he had hung up the phone and refused to speak for a long time.
"Um?"
"What are you thinking about?" The boy's words changed slightly, but he still had the same meaning.
"Your junior uncle said he is about to escape the tribulation. I'm wondering whether to turn on the switch right now. I'm afraid he's encountered an inner demon. I'll think about this secret method again." Master Yan's eyes were vaguely flashing with seven-color light, and he lightly Said lightly.
"It's really a tribulation! I thought you were joking with Boss Zheng." The young man suddenly became excited.
"I don't think it's possible. With my qualifications, I can't even touch the threshold of overcoming the tribulation. Your little uncle... I can't, I can't." Master Yan shook his head repeatedly.
"Why not?"
"He is an ordinary person in his own right. His father and your master were brothers in the same sect. He passed away once... anyway. Your master accepted him into your sect, which is considered to have completed the friendship between brothers."
"When he started, he had no talent. He looked like an ordinary person. He couldn't even learn the most basic fists and kicks." Master Yan sighed, "He didn't seem to think so. He worked harder than everyone else, but in the end he still managed to He can't do it. Let's put it this way, when he was practicing in seclusion, his state was not even as good as yours."
"Originally I wanted him to follow your senior brother's path. He is talented, but after graduating from Cambridge, he had to go back to the mountains to practice whatever he wanted. Alas, this is fate."
The young man clicked his tongue.
"What kind of skills does Uncle Master practice?"
"Here." Master Yan cast his gaze on the paper in front of him and said, "The way of a saint is to follow the body first, and to live outside the body."
“…”
"To put it simply, it's the way of refining." Master Yan said, "You can say that your little uncle has no talent, but he is very fast on the way of refining. But let's say he has talent... Oh, I don't understand. .”
As he said that, Master Yan shook his head and wandered again while looking at the letter.
"Master, how to refine it? What to refine it?"
"Uh... When he was young, he practiced boxing and tempered his body too hard, causing fractures. Nineteen... twenty... That was twenty-one years ago. Ordinary people, without a foundation, there is no way to cure the tiger and wolf medicine in the mountains. It didn’t work, so I carried him to the hospital.”
"Hospital, Master, you also go to the hospital."
"Making the best of the situation and not being biased, don't you even understand this?"
"Hmm, Master, please continue." The young man was curious.
"The doctor performed an operation on your little uncle. After the operation, your little uncle seemed to have realized something. He began to read ancient books and learn the art of refining."
"Five years later, he said that he had achieved some success in refining and had reached the realm of being outside his own body. I did some fortune-telling and didn't see any strange phenomena in him."
"At that time, your junior uncle took me to the hospital for a review. That was the last time he went to the hospital. After checking the X-ray, I found that the nails were still there, but the steel needles connecting the bones were gone."
"No more?!" The young man was surprised.
"Well, it is indeed gone, and the doctor was also surprised. The internal fixation was supposed to be removed, but even the steel needle was gone, so no surgery was performed. At that time, your junior uncle told me that the steel needle was refined by him .”
“…”
The young man was speechless.
"Later I went back to ask the doctor, and the man told me that he didn't know where the steel needle had gone. I came back and looked through ancient books, and there was a technique for refining foreign objects from the inside out." Master Yan said softly, "It's just you Junior uncle’s talent... this is impossible.”
"Master, why don't you ask Master Song to tell your fortune?" The young man's eyes were shining, and he was extremely angry. He could refine everything in the world from the inside out, but would he refine himself first
"Master Song, Master Song." Master Yan hesitated.