The atrium of the Centurial Beach Sanatorium was the busiest place in the entire hospital.
The tertiary health care recipients who often stayed for half a month before leaving usually lived in the small buildings around the atrium. They had strong athletic abilities and large lung capacity. Their average age was low, probably less than seventy years old. When they basked in the sun in the afternoon, the place would often be as noisy as a KFC.
Today, the atrium was even busier.
Elderly people in wheelchairs could be seen everywhere. There were so many wheelchairs that when the elderly sat on the chairs in the atrium, their family members had to park their wheelchairs outside the atrium. Otherwise, the atrium would become a parking lot instead of a leisure place.
The mahjong number boxes in the morning were soon not enough. The staff member went to get another box and took some time to say to Ling Ran, "Doctor Ling, there are already more than a hundred people in the queue. Do you want to stop queuing? Or should we reduce the time for everyone? "
Stop queuing?
Reduce the time for massages?
Ling Ran stared at the staff member opposite him as if he was looking at an enemy and asked, "Why?"
"Why … why?" The staff member was stunned by the question. After a while, he said, "If you continue queuing, you won't be able to finish massages. If you start queuing now, the people will definitely be unhappy. Won't that turn a good thing into a bad thing?"
Ling Ran snorted in his heart and thought, 'The eighty-six bottles of Energy Serum that I've painstakingly accumulated were prepared for occasions like this!'
He thought that it should not be a problem to massage the people in the sanatorium three times without sleeping for three days and eating only the minimum amount of food. Moreover, he would only need to use two bottles of Energy Serum.
It would be very worthwhile to use this opportunity to exchange for one more skill.
"Just tell them to queue up without worry. I won't have a problem even if I have to work until three in the morning. If it's necessary, I can even work until dawn," Ling Ran replied calmly. He did not waste even a second in his hands.
He was prepared to do it for three days in a row, but he could not say it now. It would be too shocking.
The staff member was dumbfounded when he heard that. "You want to massage all night?"
"I can't even finish it all night?" There was obvious excitement in Ling Ran's tone. He did not know the exact number of people in the sanatorium and the extent of their cervical spondylosis. But if he could not finish it all night, then three days would be just enough for him to do two rounds, which would maximize his efficiency.
The staff chuckled and said, "Are you going to chase an 85-year-old man out of bed at three in the morning and let you massage him?"
Ling Ran was reminded and came to a realization. "Three o 'clock is too early."
"Of course not."
"But the elderly are light sleepers. Some get up at four or five in the morning."
"He slept at 8 o 'clock!" The staff member looked at Ling Ran's face and could not bring himself to get angry. He said directly, "No matter what, the massage can only be carried out by dinner time at the latest, and it can't be any later. After the old people eat, they still need to exercise a little more before they can sleep. "
From eight o 'clock at night to four or five o' clock in the morning, he would have wasted at least eight to nine hours. How could Ling Ran tolerate that?
He quickly thought of an idea and said, "Your staff and the residents' families can be arranged after 8 o 'clock."
In the sanatorium where the average age was seventy or eighty, many of the family members of the residents were in their fifties or sixties. Even the younger grandchildren might not necessarily have intact cervical vertebrae.
In general, cervical spondylosis was a very common occurrence in modern cities. If the curvature of the cervical vertebrae was used as a standard, the number of employees in major companies who suffered from work-related injuries would exceed the number of healthy people.
Moreover, even if there was no cervical spondylosis, with Master Level's massage skills, they could still feel comfortable for an hour or two.
Even if a mosquito was small, it was still meat. Ling Ran had never been picky about food.
The staff member was persuaded by Ling Ran and asked, "Don't you need money?"
If he did not need money, he was also willing to give the elderly a massage.
Ling Ran nodded and said, "I don't need money."
He had so much money that he could not finish spending it.
If he took out all the surgery fees of more than one hundred thousand RMB, he would not even have enough money in his pockets. If he used it to buy alcohol-based hand sanitizer, he would not have to worry about giving a class of whales a massage.
The staff member smiled again. "Thank you, then. By the way, I'll fill in a volunteer certificate for you after you're done. Take it. It's not very useful, it's just to prove it. "
Ling Ran nodded indifferently.
The staff member actively ran to make arrangements.
This included the family members and staff members who were already in front of the queue. They were also persuaded to arrange for the massage after eight o 'clock in the evening.
It was a small sanatorium to begin with, and the massage was done according to the system. There would not be much difference if it was done earlier or later. Moreover, the staff member's explanation was very reasonable, and he could be said to have done his best.
When a few family members poured tea for the elderly, they also made tea for Ling Ran and gave him some snacks.
Ling Ran only smiled and thanked them, but he continued to carry out his policy of enduring hunger.
The system's mission completion rate also soared all the way up.
It could increase by about 1,000 RMB almost every hour, which meant that every three minutes of massage could relieve the pain of others for an average of fifty hours, which was about two days.
From the looks of it, the accumulation of ten thousand hours could be achieved in a day.
However, from Ling Ran's perspective, the system's assessment was obviously on the strict side. It was very likely that it expected the pain to start, so it did not count as relieving the pain.
While Ling Ran was doing the massage, he was also constantly thinking about how to extend the effect as much as possible.
"Excuse me, excuse me, Professor Wang. Can you cut the queue for our old Red Army soldier?" The sanatorium's nurse pushed the wheelchair to Ling Ran.
The person leaning against the wheelchair was the ninety-two-year-old Red Army soldier, Liu Sishan.
The sixty-eight-year-old young Professor Wang smiled and gave way to him.
Liu Sishan's original name was Liu Sishan. Because his hometown was surrounded by mountains, his elders gave him this name. After he arrived at the army, he changed his name and used it until now.
Ninety-two-year-old was also considered old in the sanatorium.
There were relatively few people who could persist until the age of eighty-three or eighty-four.
Liu Sishan's legs were inconvenient a few years ago, and he relied on infusions all year round to survive. Naturally, he had more and more problems. He came out with the sanatorium's nurse to bask in the sun rather than to massage him.
Ling Ran shook his hand. After a little adjustment and preparation, he gently placed his hand on Liu Sishan's neck.
There were not many osteophyte hyperplasia, but the situation of cervical nodules was more complicated.
For a ninety-two-year-old, the condition of the cervical vertebrae was considered good. However, in terms of massage techniques, there was a certain risk in adjusting the cervical vertebrae of a ninety-two-year-old man.
Was it necessary to take such a risk?
Ling Ran did not immediately do it. Instead, he quietly thought about it.
The old man mumbled something. The nurse leaned over and listened to both sides. She said, "Doctor Ling, what the old man means is that there's no need to massage him if he can't. His neck is not particularly uncomfortable."
"Not particularly uncomfortable?" Ling Ran thought for a while and immediately understood. That was because the cervical vertebrae pressed on the nerves. After a long time, it was completely pressed and dislocated, but it was not too painful and uncomfortable. Patients with disc herniation were very prominent in this aspect. In the beginning, it was extremely painful, but after the disc was completely protruded, it was not so painful anymore.
Without thinking too much, Ling Ran believed that the old man Liu Sishan could not be completely repositioned.
Instead of completely repositioning, it was better to reduce the pain of the cervical vertebrae in its current position.
Ling Ran thought about it clearly. He exerted a little force with his fingers to first relax the old man's muscles. Then, he used the massage technique to directly pull the ligaments.
The old man who was sitting in the wheelchair soon closed his eyes in comfort.
Ling Ran's movements were extremely light. He did not use the pulling technique or the rotating technique. He only used the kneading technique to loosen the muscles of the old man's neck and restore the balance of his strength.
"Phew …"
The old man was sleepy to begin with. After Ling Ran kneaded for two minutes, he actually fell asleep.
Ling Ran silently watched as the system's mission completion rate quickly increased to the point where it was equivalent to relieving the pain of the cervical vertebrae for as long as half a month …
Ling Ran gently let go of his hand. At this moment, the old man suddenly opened his eyes and roared, "Kill!"
Ling Ran was shocked. The old people around him also fell silent. But soon, everyone began to talk as if there was no one else around them.
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