Winter Solstice

Chapter 2

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Five minutes later, Lu Yan arrived at the department.

There was only one light on in the aisle, and the light was dim. She lowered her head to change her shoes, took out the access card of the locker room, and pushed in the door.

After changing her hat, she walked inward along the wide corridor. Everywhere was empty, only the two operating rooms at the end of the corridor were lit.

She stepped on the switch of the sensor door, and the door of the fifth operating room opened.

Two general surgeons were sewing skins on the stage, while the circuit nurse and the instrument nurse were counting in low voices.

Hearing the movement of Lu Yan coming in, several people raised their heads and nodded to her when they saw it was her.

Lu Yan glanced at the pile of equipment and came to the conclusion: It seems that the emergency treatment for intestinal obstruction was just done.

She approached her colleague Huang Wei.

"Come on." The operation is coming to an end. In order to help the patient wake up, Huang Wei is "washing the lungs" of the patient.

Seeing Lu Yan, before he could speak any further, he was startled, "Why is his face so ugly."

Lu Yan smiled reluctantly: "It's okay, I was in a hurry on the way here."

Huang Wei stared at Lu Yan strangely, with concern in his eyes.

He and Lu Yan are "senior brothers and sisters". In addition to being eight-year students of S Medical University, both of them are also under the tutelage of Yu Bo, the director of the department.

Since he was about to retire, after Lu Yan, his tutor Yu Bo never recruited eight-year students. After all, Lu Yan was his youngest junior sister.

For this reason, at work, he took care of Lu Yan secretly and overtly. If he hadn't been too busy tonight, he wouldn't have called her temporarily.

"Is it all right?"

"It's really okay." Lu Yan smiled and changed the subject, "By the way, Senior Brother Huang, what's the surgery next door?"

"There is an emergency laparoscope in the gynecology department, but we are still talking, and the patient has not entered the operating room."

While talking, the breathing curve on the anesthesia machine showed that the patient had already breathed spontaneously. Huang Wei ignored Lu Yan, stared at the screen with all his attention, and began to induce resuscitation seriously.

Lu Yan immediately said obediently, "Senior brother, you are busy, I will go to the operating room next door to prepare."

The itinerant nurse Liu Yajuan heard this and looked up at Lu Yan: "Doctor Lu, don't worry, the gynecology department called and said that the patient is still hesitating whether to undergo conservative treatment or surgery, and it will take an hour to deliver it. Besides, our deputy shift call hasn't gotten through yet—"

Can't get through on the phone of the deputy shift? Lu Yan slowed down, a little surprised.

Whether it is a doctor or a nurse, as long as he is on the second shift that day, he must be on call 24 hours a day. If he cannot be contacted, he will be held accountable afterwards.

Since calling her to work, I have never heard of a situation where the phone number of the deputy shift cannot be reached.

She saw that Liu Yajuan's face was embarrassed, and she didn't ask any further questions, just nodded: "Then I'll go to the lounge to have a drink first."

When leaving the operating room, an assistant nurse in her early twenties happened to come in and said as she walked, "Mr. Liu, Mr. Wang's mobile phone still can't get through, and no one answers the landline at home."

"Still can't get through?" Liu Yajuan made a decisive decision, "Then call the second officer quickly."

Lu Yan frowned. There was only one nurse surnamed Wang in the operating room, Wang Qianqian, who was petite and beautiful. Due to her introverted personality, she didn't like to talk much.

In her impression, Wang Qianqian was a little timid, very serious and responsible at work, not like the kind of person who would neglect his duties.

After a while, the assistant nurse went back and returned: "Mr. Liu, Mr. Zhou's phone can be connected. She said she will be here soon."

Liu Yajuan seemed to be relieved: "That's good."

He lowered his voice and complained, "This little Wang, what's going on tonight?"

After the long morning shift, every pore on Lu Yan's body showed the word "tired". Last night, in addition to the gynecological laparoscope, there were several emergency rooms in succession. She and her brother each brought a training doctor and each person was in charge of an operating room. They came down all night without closing their eyes at all.

Corey has a rule that if she is called to work temporarily in the middle of the night like her, she can make up the next day.

So after changing her clothes in the locker room, she said hello to her colleagues and went home from get off work.

After exiting the east gate of the hospital, she had to pass through that alley as usual. When she reached the entrance of the alley, Lu Yan's footsteps unknowingly slowed down.

At 8:30 in the morning, it was the busiest time of the day. There were people walking around in the alley from time to time, and there was a lot of noise. Most of the pedestrians were nearby residents, especially the old employees who were retired from the hospital. When I saw Lu Yan, I knew her. Don't forget to say hello: "Xiao Lu is on the night shift again."

She smiled and replied, "Well, I just got off work."

When I was talking, I suddenly remembered which book I had read: Fear is time-sensitive, and something that feels extremely terrifying at some moments may not be worth fearing at all under the bright sky.

She was standing at the entrance of the alley at the moment, and she had a similar experience - the chills that seemed to be poured over her head by ice water last night no longer existed, and there was only a sense of disappointment.

In fact, she also knows that, let alone the same clothes and hairpins, what if the gait and movements are similar? In the end it can only be attributed to coincidence.

After all, when the accident happened, she personally accompanied her aunt to the hospital to recognize the body.

Thinking of this, she felt a dull pain in her chest and hurriedly walked home.

When she got home, she breathed a sigh of relief.

For her, this small home is the warmest place in the world. The moment she goes home, she will immediately feel a fresh air, and no matter how tired she is, it will melt away in an instant.

Put down the bag, the first thing is to take a shower.

From the bathroom, go to the kitchen to cook noodles.

This house is less than 70 square meters. It is a second-hand house. She bought it from a retired old professor in the hospital a few months ago. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. body money".

Her father had been romantic all her life, and there were countless women. When she was six years old, because of her parents' emotional breakdown, she followed her mother out of the two-story building with clear windows.

Fortunately, although the father's emotional account was in a mess, he never treated them badly economically. Over the years, he never defaulted on alimony, and even the cost of Lu Yan's schooling abroad was not ambiguous.

In the middle of the year, I heard that Lu Yan had stayed in the First Affiliated Hospital, the best hospital in the city. Lu's father was happy, and the next morning he made a sum of money in Lu Yan's account.

At that time, Lu Yan was full of ambition and only felt that the road in front of her was unobstructed, and that she could take care of her mother's life with her own strength, and she did not want to accept this "gift".

He was about to decline, but was stopped by his mother.

"Take it." Mother glanced at her with a tired voice, "I followed his surname Lu to you, why can't I accept the money."

Lu Yan looked at her mother. I don't know when, the bright face of my mother when she was young has quietly crept into wrinkles.

It is always very sad that a beauty is late, not to mention this beauty is her mother.

And she also knew that her father just bought a "mansion" in the most expensive real estate in the city center some time ago, just to prepare for his third marriage. In contrast, this "close money" to send their mother and daughter may be nothing at all.

In the mother's words, except for a sense of anger, there is no plan for the future.

So she finally overcame the psychological obstacle, accepted it easily, and even returned a phone call to her father with a smile to thank her.

The mother continued to live in Dongcheng because she had not yet retired, and she moved here after a simple renovation of the house for the convenience of work.

After eating and drinking, she turned off her phone and fell on the bed. When climbing the bed, the posture is no different from that of a puppy. She was so tired that she didn't even want to move her toes, and her thirst for sleep reached an unprecedented height.

I slept into the evening, still feeling unfulfilled.

After waking up, she turned on her mobile phone, and immediately got into countless text messages, which rang non-stop, reminding her which calls she missed during the shutdown.

She felt nervous, thinking that the hospital was looking for something urgent, and after checking the inbox, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Except for two unfamiliar numbers, the rest of the calls were all from Tang Jie.

Tang Jie was her high school classmate and a best friend for many years.

Hey, didn't this guy travel to Sri Lanka? When did you come back

She dialed it suspiciously.

At this moment, the phone "ding-" rang, and a WeChat message came in.

[Big beauty, what are you busy with? Tonight's alumni reunion can't come, all the classmates are here, and you are missing. 】

Lu Yan took a closer look and saw that the other party's avatar was a young girl with a beautiful face, and her name was Ding Jing.

She hurriedly put down the water glass, strange, didn't she block this person long ago, why is it still in the contact list.