The Shao family's restaurant was located at the end of Yun Hua's famous food street.
The proper food street ran from east to west. Every night, it would be crowded, and the street would be wide enough for three cars to pass side by side. Therefore, the two streets at the end of the street, which ran from north to south, were gradually filled with restaurants.
The Shao family's restaurant was located to the north in the west. It was located in a good location, and it was considered a mid-range restaurant. It had a large glass and an open kitchen, and its main focus was on barbecue and braised tripe and other night snacks.
Doctor Zhou led Ling Ran into the restaurant with great familiarity. He shouted as soon as he entered, "Boss Shao, you have a guest."
"Ah, Old Zhou, you're here again. I knew it when I heard you shout like that." The kitchen was located against the wall of the restaurant. Boss Shao wiped his hands with his apron and walked out. He smiled and said, "I haven't been here for a while."
"I've been very busy recently," Doctor Zhou said with a smile.
Ling Ran glanced at Doctor Zhou.
Doctor Zhou was not ashamed. He introduced Ling Ran and said, "This is our new colleague, Doctor Ling."
Boss Shao had noticed Ling Ran a long time ago. He politely handed Ling Ran a business card and said with a smile, "I'm Shao Jian. Since you're Doctor Zhou's friend, I'll give you a thirty percent discount when you come to the Shao family's restaurant in the future."
"Don't listen to him. All doctors from Yun Hua Hospital will give us a thirty percent discount." Doctor Zhou deliberately exposed Boss Shao.
Boss Shao chuckled. "All doctors who come, I'll give them thirty percent discount now."
Ling Ran took the business card, but he looked around in puzzlement. He had never heard of a restaurant that specifically received or gave preferential treatment to doctors. Young doctors were so busy that they usually did not have time to eat out. Even senior doctors had pharmaceutical sales representatives treating them, so why would they come to such a small restaurant?
After some small talk, Boss Shao arranged for Doctor Zhou and Ling Ran to sit by the window. They could see the street outside, and it was quite spacious.
Doctor Zhou ordered and poured himself a cup of tea. He sat down and explained to Ling Ran, "Boss Shao is our patient."
"What illness?"
"There are all kinds of illnesses. He has been to many departments." Doctor Zhou casually counted with his fingers and said, "When Yun Hua Hospital first started to treat congenital heart diseases, he was born with a ventricular septal defect, which is the most standard congenital heart disease. When he was in elementary school, he fell outside the mat during a high jump and broke his ankle. Coincidentally, the Orthopedics Department of Yun Hua Hospital started to promote internal fixation of steel plates, and he was one of the first to use it. After that, he got into a fight with someone and a kidney was removed. It might have been the first kidney removal surgery performed by our nephrology department since it became independent. "
Doctor Zhou continued to speak with great familiarity, "There's no need to talk about the Endocrinology Department. He's a regular customer. When the Department of Rheumatology and Pain was first established, he had rheumatoid arthritis. A few years ago, when we bought a laparoscope, he had appendicitis. Later, when the cardiology department decided to do interventional radiology, he had arteriosclerosis and had a stent installed. When we bought a CT machine, he had liver cysts and gallstones. In the first week after the MRI was done, we found a tumor. Fortunately, it was benign … "
Ling Ran was stunned and said, "How can a person get so many diseases?"
"We did a big ward round for him. More than ten departments and two hundred people studied for an entire afternoon, but we couldn't come up with a conclusion. Most of his illnesses were bad luck. I just want to say that when people are unlucky, even cold water gets stuck in the gaps between their teeth. We can't take everything on ourselves. "
Ling Ran chuckled a few times.
Doctor Zhou continued, "Old Shao is a model patient in Yun Hua Hospital. Although he has more illnesses than you have seen, his mentality is very good. When he's sick, he'll go to the hospital, and when he's discharged, he'll open his shop again. When he's sick, he'll be hospitalized and have surgery. When he's discharged, he'll do business if he can, and when the Health Bureau closes the shop, he'll slowly … "
"Here's the tripe." Boss Shao brought a stainless steel cylinder over. Twenty to thirty bamboo sticks were inserted into the homemade thin peanut butter, and two thin curled tripes could be vaguely seen.
Ling Ran could not help but stare at Boss Shao a few times. The latter smiled, not surprised, and asked Doctor Zhou, "Are you telling a story?"
"I just started," Doctor Zhou said.
"Don't listen to Old Zhou's nonsense. I'm just unlucky, and I run into trouble easily. My body is fine." Boss Shao laughed heartily and said, "Eat slowly." Then, he returned to the kitchen.
Ling Ran suddenly understood why Boss Shao gave a discount to his doctor customers. When it came to returning customers, doctors were more likely to come. If an ordinary person heard of Boss Shao's story, they would not dare to eat.
"Try it. The tripe is delicious. It's their family's exclusive secret recipe." Doctor Zhou grabbed two tripes without hesitation.
Ling Ran hesitated for two seconds before he picked one up as well.
It was indeed delicious.
The tripe itself was very chewy, but it had no taste. After it was dipped in the peanut butter base sauce, the freshness was instantly brought out.
"A bucket of sauce for each table. You can just add the tripe after you finish eating." Doctor Zhou then added, "The rest of the sauce will be thrown away. Old Shao is very good at this."
"Oh," Ling Ran replied. He did not really want to chat.
In fact, he was never the chatting type.
Doctor Zhou tried to find something to talk about. "Why did you come to the resuscitation room today? Are there no more patients with flexor tendon ruptures?"
"I wanted to try barehanded bleeding control again," Ling Ran said honestly.
Doctor Zhou nodded in understanding. "Skills need to be practiced. If you don't, you'll get rusty. But I didn't see you use it today. "
"There's no suitable one."
"That's true. Don't think that there are patients all the time. You seem to see some diseases every day, but when you want to look for them, you won't be able to see any. " Doctor Zhou chuckled and said, "It's okay. The Shao family's restaurant is a very good place. When I couldn't find any medical cases in the past, I would come here. Sometimes, I met a random doctor who had the medical cases I wanted."
"Is it because there are many doctors here?"
"It's possible. Besides, don't I have Boss Shao to back me up? "Doctor Zhou joked, and Boss Shao, who happened to come over with the barbecue, shook his head.
"Old Zhou, if you make fun of my restaurant again, I won't give you a discount," Boss Shao said. "Red willow barbecue. If it's not enough, I'll order more."
"It's indeed easy to encounter medical cases in your restaurant. Do you remember the last time the obstetrics and gynecology department came? They said that it's been a long time since they last encountered a transverse baby. There was a pregnant woman whose water broke on the street, and she had to perform a C-section on the spot …"
"That was a special case …"
"And last time …"
While Doctor Zhou was having a good time talking, they suddenly heard people shouting outside the window.
The few of them looked out and saw a few people running madly with knives in their hands. There were even people chasing after them.
A police officer on duty at the intersection swung his baton. He pointed at the crowd and shouted something.
At the same time, a man with a knife who could not stop in time crashed into the police officer's arms. When he turned around and ran, they could already see red blood on the police officer's chest and abdomen.
Ling Ran, Doctor Zhou, and the others looked at each other.
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