Chapter 11 Meet He Jing for the First Time
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Seeing that woman sheltering Xiyan carefully and warily like an adult eagle that protected its baby, Lin Hao couldn't help but smile.
Thus, the inside anger that came from nowhere disappeared all at once.
"Aunt He, it's you!"
When Xiyan saw that woman clearly, her disappointment caused by the knocked-over strawberry cake also faded away.
It seemed that this little girl knew this woman, so Lin Hao completely let the guard down.
"Hello, I'm Lin Hao, Xiyan's father."
Seeing that woman still staring at him warily and sheltering Xiyan, Lin Hao couldn't help smiling and stood up to make a self-introduction.
Glancing at his right hand that reached out, the woman apparently wore a surprised look.
"Xiyan's... father?"
"Aunt He, this is my father. He's so handsome, isn't he?"
Standing behind He Jing, Xiyan popped her head out and covered her mouth to giggle after pointing at Lin Hao in the opposite.
Hearing Xiyan's explanation, He Jing hid her hostile look towards Lin Hao and offered her apology by holding his hands.
"Sorry, I'm an intern nurse in the First People's Hospital. I didn't know that you are her father..."
"Haha, it's fine. But you seem to care much about Xiyan."
"Yes. I don't know why but I always feel that we're closely attached to each other."
He Jing smiled and smoothed away a wisp of hair, then tucked it behind her ear, revealing her perfectly proportioned oval face. She looked quite comely.
Right after she finished, He Jing continued, leaving no time for Lin Hao to respond, "But Mr. Lin, you're not aware of Xiyan's health condition? How can you buy her a cake?"
"I've cured her. She's carved for a strawberry cake for a long time, so I surely have to give what she wants today."
At the sight of Lin Hao's calm look, He Jing couldn't help frowning and exclaiming,
"What? You cured her? Impossible. Even doctors in Dengta, which have the most advanced medical technology, are unable to fully eradicate phenylketonuria, let alone Country T!"
"I'm not joking. These are the diagnosis report and discharge permit that President He and Director Zhang have signed. I see no reason to lie to you about my daughter's condition."
While speaking, Lin Hao took out two pieces of paper and handed them over to He Jing.
Although the look on her pretty face completely showed that she didn't believe Lin Hao's story, her good manner still drove her to reach out to take over them.
She opened it to have a look and became astonished immediately.
One was Lin Xiyan's diagnosis report while the other was her discharge permit.
And as a nurse working in the hospital for long, she recognized the two autographs at once!
"So... so you didn't lie?"
Looking down at the two reports in her hands and up at Lin Hao, He Jing asked, "Are you a doctor?"
"I've learned medicine for some years but I have no license."
Lin Hao puckered his face in a smile and gave Xiyan a sealed package of a knife and a fork that he just unwrapped, "Actually, you were wrong by saying that Dengta had the most advanced medical technology. It is, of course, Country T that has the longest medical history."
"And as far as I know, many TCM masters in Country T just live as ordinary people. Phenylketonuria indeed has troubled doctors in the western medicine world for years."
"In Country T, however, I believe I'm not the only one who can cure such an ailment."
He Jing blinked in an adorable way and stared at Lin Hao in a trance, "Phenylketonuria is an... ailment?"
To be honest, He Jing was stunned by Lin Hao's confidence.
But Lin Hao wasn't talking big. Despite that he was not sure how many other TCM doctors in Country T that wouldn't see phenylketonuria as a serious disease, at least he was the one.
And then He Jing and Lin Hao who just met chatted more about medical problems.
As for Xiyan, she finished three strawberry cakes in a row. Nobody knew why she was so obsessed with the strawberry one among so many flavors in the cake shop.
If Lin Hao didn't stop her in time, she might eat three more, given her huge appetite...
At first, He Jing assumed that Lin Hao merely knew a bit about the folk prescription, so he started to brag after curing Xiyan by luck.
But after several minutes' talk, she found Lin Hao was so accomplished in the medical field that she couldn't even believe that was true.
He had sharp insights into many problems of not only the TCM field but also the western medicine one that He Jing was skilled at.
The easy-to-understand conversion on tricky problems between He Jing and the man she just met made her curiosity about him grow.
At last, when He Jing said goodbye to Lin Hao and Xiyan, she even asked him to exchange numbers.
She had to do so, because in the past several minutes, Lin Hao had easily made clear those numerous difficult problems that had bothered He Jing for so long.
Lin Hao was rather tempting for He Jing, just like a treasure...
Lin Hao didn't look back until he saw He Jing walking out with the last piece of bread and he found his little girl was covered with cream on her face. So he whipped out a piece of tissue lovingly and cleaned her face carefully.
"Xiyan, how do you know Aunt He?"
She licked the cream on the corner of her mouth with her tongue and rolled her eyes playfully, "Aunt He was responsible for taking care of me when I was in hospital."
"Later, I moved into ICU but she still came to tell me stories every day when she got off work. I love her stories!"
Seeing a smile little XIyan put on unwittingly while speaking, Lin Hao felt thankful.
He was grateful that He Jing could give enough care to Xiyan on behalf of him and Lan at the time when Xiyan was the most vulnerable.
It was what parents should do to tell their little girl stories and cheer her up.
But Lan didn't finish this simple task perfectly, while Lin Hao himself even did a worse job.
At that thought, Lin Hao vowed to himself that he would make Xiyan be basked in his love every minute from now on!
In the meanwhile, he reminded a familiar figure and a sweet smile.
"Lan, where are you? It has been three years... I've lost you for three years. Are you still blaming me?"
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