Gourmet: Midnight Vending

Chapter 94: The Doctor Hallucinating from Hunger


So, why did the patient upstairs who was screaming insult Boss Xiao Chen?

Dunzi and LuLu simultaneously turned their heads and looked at the food cart.

Chen Mo pondered for a moment; he didn't know anyone in this hospital. Could it be Du Qiming?

"Don't look at me, I don't know anything."

LuLu and Dunzi turned their heads back in confusion, stuffing the chicken block into their mouths with growing curiosity.

Moreover, LuLu realized that the cry just now was so tragic that it was heard clearly in the livestream. Initially, there were only over four hundred viewers, but now it had become more than five hundred.

This implies that even viewers outside the livestream couldn't resist their curiosity and came in.

"Is this scripted? I'm new here, can anyone explain what's going on?"

"Why did the hospital ward shout in the middle of the night? Why does the patient have a vendetta against the street vendor boss? Come on, streamer, decrypt it quickly!"

"I'm dying of curiosity, what's going on? Why is Boss Chen Mo getting insulted even when he's setting up a stall in the hospital?"

"Is there any justice, any law, anyone to control this? Setting up a stall for no reason and getting insulted; I don't know what Boss Chen Mo did but if it were me, I couldn't stand it!"

LuLu's curiosity was at its peak, but the braised chicken was too tempting, so never mind everything else, just eat first!

Slurp, slurp.

Chen Mo was woken up by the noise, feeling hungry again. The two buns he had just eaten didn't cut it, mainly because the braised chicken had conquered several customers since its debut, yet he hadn't tasted a bite.

So he decided to make another portion for himself!

Chop the chicken into pieces, blanch it, season it, and start cooking.

...

For such a big hospital, Du Qiming's surgery was just a minor procedure. It took only half an hour before he returned to the ward, where three caregivers helped him from the trolley onto the bed, lying on his stomach.

Unable to lie down, he could only lie face down.

"Doctor, is my buddy alright?" Liu Chengming asked with concern.

"After the cut, he'll be fine, but I've never seen such a person before."

Liu Chengming puzzled, "What kind of person?"

"I've seen people pass out during surgery, seen crying and laughing, but never seen someone cursing during surgery. By the way, do you know who Chen Mo is?"

Liu Chengming: ...

Honestly, you can't entirely blame Boss Xiao Chen. After all, it was Xiao Du who couldn't keep his mouth shut. Originally, Liu Chengming suggested they share a Mapo Tofu.

But Du Qiming polished it off while Liu Chengming was dealing with the night nurse and went to the bathroom.

That was fine, but when Liu Chengming asked him to compensate for his meal, the guy bought a set meal for himself instead.

Thinking about this, Liu Chengming suddenly tightened, "Doctor, I mean, hypothetically. If I eat some chili today, of course not too spicy, do you think..."

"Did you eat chili?"

Liu Chengming shrank his neck back, "Didn't eat!"

"Oh." The doctor sorted out his aftercare, "You're about to recover, actually eating a bit wouldn't matter, just don't go to the bathroom, you understand what I mean?"

Liu Chengming seemed to understand but wasn't sure.

Watching the doctor leave the ward, he turned to look sympathetically at Du Qiming, "Bro, I'm telling you, this has nothing to do with Boss Xiao Chen, why insult him?"

Du Qiming, still feeling the effect of anesthesia, replied with a faint pain, "If he hadn't set up a stall in the hospital, would I have eaten the Mapo Tofu! If I hadn't eaten so much, would I have suddenly gone to the bathroom!"

Liu Chengming felt there was some logic, but no logic at all. Out of sympathy for a fellow sufferer, he didn't argue with Du Qiming and turned over to sleep.

After leaving the ward, Chang Jianjun walked to the nurse's station, "Nurse Liu, do you have any snacks? Like bread or something."

Liu Xia stood up with a start, "Huh? I brought some bread today, but already ate it by early night."

Chang Jianjun nodded. It was already 2 a.m., and there wasn't anything to eat outside. He wasn't planning to go home; otherwise, he'd wake his wife and kids, get only a few hours of sleep, and have to come back to work.

Usually, with such urgent surgeries at night, he chooses to sleep in the office for the night.

"Why, Dr. Chang, didn't you have enough to eat last night?"

Chang Jianjun chuckled, "After a tiring day, I went home and fell asleep without eating. Didn't expect an emergency in the middle of the night, and our cafeteria is really... Even if they don't cook at night, they should at least offer some instant food."

Liu Xia nodded vigorously, "Exactly, exactly. For those of us on night duty, it's even harder. At night, we don't know what to eat in the cafeteria, and working a whole night, we can only eat some snacks. My stomach is about to develop problems."

Chang Jianjun didn't want to dwell on this topic.

Everyone in the hospital knows the cafeteria is run by the dean's own brother. In past employee representative meetings, some brought up cafeteria issues, and within three months after the meeting, that doctor inexplicably resigned.

Everyone knew, surely the dean had squeezed him out.

Some things just can't be talked about.

"By the way." Chang Jianjun changed the subject; he wasn't sleepy after finishing the surgery, "Do you know what's up with patient 301? I remember it wasn't that serious when I observed yesterday."

Liu Xia lowered her voice, "When I was checking at night, I smelled food from their room. Maybe they couldn't resist eating at night."

"Jeez." Chang Jianjun chuckled helplessly.

He had seen many such patients, refusing to follow dietary restrictions, insisted on smoking when told not to, not taking anything seriously, only to regret it at the end.

That's human nature.

However, Chang Jianjun quickly caught the issue, "Two grown men, cooked food themselves? Didn't the on-duty doctor check the appliances?"

This is another ridiculous rule of Huimin Hospital, prohibiting all staff and patients from privately using high-power appliances, under the guise of preventing fires, but everyone knows it's to force people to use the cafeteria.

"They checked, and there were no appliances in their room."

"Then what?" Chang Jianjun grew increasingly puzzled.

Liu Xia suddenly felt something was amiss, "That's right, delivery can't come in, the cafeteria isn't open, there are no appliances in the room, then what?"

The two stared at each other wide-eyed, simply couldn't figure it out, what is it?

"Forget it." Chang Jianjun waved his hand, "You go busy yourself, I'll go rest."

Liu Xia nodded, "Alright then, goodnight, Dr. Chang."

When Chang Jianjun reached the first-floor lobby, he took out a cigarette, holding a lighter, he looked up at the surveillance cameras all around.

Forget it, he turned towards the back door.

Recently, the hospital is doing some image management, strictly prohibiting on-site staff from smoking in public, with fines for violations, and there's even someone specifically monitoring the screens to catch smokers.

Chang Jianjun passed the elevator entrance and opened the back door. As he took a step outside, he paused for a moment, then stepped back and closed the door.

"Have I really hallucinated from hunger?"

It must be I'm using the wrong way to open it.

Why else would there be several tables in the back of the inpatient department at this hour, with people sitting and dining, at two in the morning?

Is it reasonable?

Not reasonable at all.

Chang Jianjun pressed the door handle, deciding to walk through it again.

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