Chapter 915: [915] Senior apprentice brother is calling Chapter 915: [915] Senior apprentice brother is calling “Soy milk and bread are fine for me,” Xie Wanying thanked Senior Sister Xie. After all, she wasn’t very particular about food as long as it filled her up.

“I’ll go get you some milk.” Having performed excellently tonight, Kang Mingzhu decided to give her a nutritional boost and patted her on the shoulder repeatedly.

After splitting from the rest, Xie Wanying and Qiu Ruiyun escorted the post-operative child to the surgical ward.

Doctor Zhou was on duty tonight and, after several hours of surgery, was very tired. He yawned discreetly and walked up behind Xie Wanying, saying, “I’ve arranged with the nurses for you to sleep in their duty room. Since our department doesn’t have any female doctors, we don’t have a separate duty room for women.”

“Thank you, Doctor Zhou,” Xie Wanying expressed her gratitude.

“Dr. Qiu can sleep in the male doctors’ duty room.” Doctor Zhou looked at Qiu Ruiyun with hopeful little eyes, wishing for more interaction with a colleague from Capital Hospital in the duty room.

But Qiu Ruiyun was too focused to notice anything else. He squatted down to carefully check the child’s drainage tube while asking Xie Wanying about the child’s bleeding during the surgery.

“The total blood loss was about one thousand two hundred milliliters, and there were instances of arrhythmia during the procedure,” Xie Wanying didn’t deny the perilous nature of tonight’s surgery. Frankly, if it hadn’t been for someone like Boss Nie overseeing the operation, attempting such a surgery would have been akin to courting death.

Hearing her words, Qiu Ruiyun looked stern, watching the ECG monitor closely and then said to her, “You go and get some rest. Even if we do blood tests in the morning, I doubt we’ll be able to complete all the diagnostic tests we want to run on her. We’ll just have to wait for her condition to stabilize tonight and transfer her first thing in the morning.”

“Yes,” Xie Wanying kept a vigilant watch over the patient’s condition in her heart.

After all, the technical capacity of grassroots medical institutions like this county hospital was very limited.

At the door of the ward, Wengui’s little head was peeking around. His sister had just had surgery, and a professor had come out to inform him about her condition, noting the success of the procedure but the need for post-operative attention.

With the doctor sister present, Wengui tiptoed into the ward, careful not to wake his sister. Sneaking glances at her, he quietly asked the doctor sister, “Sister, how’s my little sister doing?”

“Don’t worry, there’s a doctor watching over her tonight. Doctor Nie should have told you that she’ll be transferred to a bigger hospital tomorrow. There’s no need to be afraid,” Xie Wanying assured him.

“My mother–” Wengui had sought out the doctor sister precisely because of this concern, worried that his mother and sister would have to stay at different hospitals. Mother Wengui’s injuries weren’t severe and didn’t require transfer to the bigger hospital.

“Let me give you my phone number. Call me if you need anything.” Xie Wanying wrote down her number on a piece of paper for him.

Wengui received her phone number carefully, folded it respectfully, and tucked it into his pocket before stepping out to consult with the village officials. His grandmother had told him to turn to the village leader in times of need.

“Xie Wanying.” Qiu Ruiyun came over with a phone in hand and handed it to her, “Go outside to take the call; it’s from Teacher Tao.”

It was Senior Tao calling. Xie Wanying took the phone and walked outside to a quiet corner to hear Senior Tao’s instructions.

Easy-going Senior Tao, she wondered how he would assess tonight’s events.

“Yingying,” came Tao Zhijie’s warm voice from the other end, “It’s very late now. Almost two o’clock.”

Only then did Xie Wanying suddenly realize it was that late.

“How does it feel to have operated with Professor Nie?”

“It’s okay.”

Tao Zhijie blinked on the other end: He had just made a casual inquiry, and his single-minded junior sister had blurted out her response.

“Does that mean you did well?”

Senior Tao’s tone was a bit strange as if he were praising her.

Xie Wanying cautiously replied, “It was all under Teacher Nie’s guidance; I hesitated a bit at times.”

“It’s normal for the first time.”

“Yes, Teacher Nie also said it was normal and told me not to be afraid.”

Had Nie Jiamin really said that to her? On the other end, Tao Zhijie held the phone, his head lowered as if deep in thought, the smile gone from his eyes, but Xie Wanying on this side couldn’t see that.