The Enemy's Heir - Chapter 7
Half an hour later, in a private obstetrics and gynecology hospital in City A.
Tang Ke was yawning while preparing the ultrasound equipment, his eyes were almost closed, “What are you doing so late at night?”
Tang Ke was a college classmate of Jiang Xu and Shen Fangyu. When they were divided into different departments, he switched to imaging, and later changed jobs from the hospital to a private hospital, saying that it would be easier. He and Jiang Xu have always had a close relationship. Although he was called up in the middle of the night, he just complained a few words.
“I may have a terminal illness.”
Tang Ke was a little confused: “Ah?”
Jiang Xu handed the phone to him, and the page stayed on the previous examination list.
“Fuck, such a high hcg value, your girlfriend?” Tang Ke said in surprise: “I didn’t hear you say you were in love, you’re so quick, you already have a child.”
Jiang Xu was silent for a moment, then said to Tang Ke: “Mine.”
“Of course I know the child is yours, I mean-”
“The test results,” Jiang Xu interrupted Tang Ke, expressionless: “It’s mine.”
Tang Ke suddenly woke up, grabbed Jiang Xu’s arm in disbelief, “What did you say?” His tone was much higher, “Wow, such a high value, this… this…” He kept saying “this” for a long time but couldn’t “this” make sense, and finally could only stare at Jiang Xu lying on the examination bed with an indifferent face in amazement.
Tang Ke reached out to take the B-ultrasound test solution, and whispered: “It can’t be cancer.”
Jiang Xu took the test solution directly from his hand, unbuckled his belt, lifted the hem of his shirt, and looked at Tang Ke after applying it quickly.
The latter was holding an ultrasound probe and staring at Jiang Xu, with a look of shock on his face. He forgot how to move. Jiang Xu impatiently took the sterilized probe and put it on his lower abdomen.
Although he was not a professional imaging doctor, he was very skilled in basic abdominal B-ultrasound. Tang Ke also knew that he could do it, so he did not interfere with him. His mind was still full of the abnormal test indicators. He was worried that Jiang Xu would not live long, and he did not even dare to look at the screen of the detector. After
a long time of ideological preparation, he covered his eyes with his hands, leaving a slit, and carefully glanced at the screen of the detector.
However, as he looked at it, he was suddenly dumbfounded.
“Fuck.”
“Shut up.”
Jiang Xu tightened his jaw and moved his eyes away from the black and white screen expressionlessly. After a long time, he stiffly lowered his head slightly and looked at his still flat abdomen.
Because he had not been exposed to the sun much, his waist and abdomen were very white.
Because of regular exercise, he has always had abdominal muscles, but he doesn’t know if it’s his illusion, he actually feels that the lines of his abdominal muscles seem to have a faint tendency to disappear.
The B-ultrasound examination fluid still remains on his lower abdomen, sticky, slippery, and cold, stimulating Jiang Xu’s senses and brain.
Jiang Xu’s extremely stable surgical hands, which have been trained from years of surgery, are now trembling imperceptibly, revealing his uneasy heart.
It’s as if something has fallen to the ground in his heart, no, it’s all the tall buildings in his heart, the time perspective he has lived for so many years, and all the experience accumulated from all the books he has memorized, all collapsed into ruins at the same time.
It’s not a tumor, nor is it cancer.
The gestational sac, fetal heart, and fetal bud, the echoes are complete, not one is missing, it’s simply a textbook-level “early pregnancy” imaging test result.
Jiang Xu was originally only mildly myopic, but now, he thinks he might be blind.
“Jiang Xu…” Tang Ke’s jaw almost dropped. He held the toilet paper and stammered, “You, you give me an explanation.”
Jiang Xu took a few pieces of toilet paper to wipe the residual test fluid, then put down his clothes and sat up while buckling his belt, “I want you to give me an explanation.”
Tang Ke’s research direction is reproductive medicine and developmental biology.
He stretched out his hand to Tang Ke, “Paper and pen.”
Tang Ke quickly took out a pen and a sticky note from his pocket and handed it to him. Jiang Xu’s handwriting was very sloppy, and he quickly wrote a string of tests, “I have surgery in the next two days. I will come for the test on Sunday morning. Please help me arrange these tests. It would be best if I can finish them in one morning. I can pay you more.”
“Hey, I said, no…” Tang Ke looked at the instrument and then at Jiang Xu, “You still have the heart to go to work when you are like this?”
Jiang Xu glanced at him.
“I understand. If Shen Fangyu doesn’t take a break, then you don’t. It’s been so many years since graduation. Why are you two still so stubborn?” As their classmate and Jiang Xu’s roommate, Tang Ke knew the grudges between the two very well.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to shake hands and make peace?” Tang Ke said, “I still remember the third place in our class, a pretty girl, but she was beaten so badly by you two that she ended up just staying in third place and never competed for first place again.”
He had no idea how to face the results of the ultrasound machine, so he could only change the subject frantically to avoid the embarrassment of having nothing to say. “At that time, she even joked that it would be great if you and Shen Fangyu were in a relationship, so that the time you two spent on the exam could be spent on your love, and she might even get first place.”
“Ha, ha ha.” After he said that, he deliberately laughed twice, but there was still no expression on Jiang Xu’s face. He was very worried that Jiang Xu had become stupid.
“Brother Xu, you have to be strong,” Tang Ke held his arm, and decided to stimulate him with the things that this man cares about the most. “If you go crazy, Shen Fangyu will be lucky. Think about it, the obstetrics and gynecology department of Jihua Hospital will be his world in the future. Can you tolerate him being domineering in your territory every day?”
Hearing Shen Fangyu’s name, Jiang Xu’s eyelids finally twitched, and he had a slight reaction.
“Thank God.” Just when Tang Ke was thankful that Jiang Xu had not been stimulated to dementia, the latter suddenly blurted out two words: “Idiot.”
Tang Ke: “?”
“I’m not talking about you.” Jiang Xu handed the sticky note and pen back to Tang Ke, “You’ve worked hard today. I’ll treat you to dinner after the examination on Sunday.”
He put on his coat and added in a trance, “Don’t ask anything before the final full set of examination results come out.”