Chapter 243: 242: Cannot Call the Police
Chapter 243: Chapter 242: Cannot Call the Police
Gu Qingning caught up to Yu Zhiming and saw that his expression wasn’t furious, but rather quite peaceful.
“Zhiming, were you just using that as an excuse to make a scene?”
“You could say that. But I really was angry, too!”
Yu Zhiming didn’t hide anything from Gu Qingning, admitting, “Since I’d already decided to stay in the country, there was no need to waste any more words on them. It’s better to make my stance clear early on to put the leadership at ease.”
Gu Qingning giggled. “Zhiming, I never would have guessed. You’re actually quite shrewd when it comes to navigating social situations.”
Yu Zhiming shot her a sideways glance. “I understand how it all works. I just can’t be bothered to deal with it most of the time.”
After a pause, he added slowly, “I’ve long heard that discrimination is severe abroad, and that Asians are at the bottom of the discrimination hierarchy.”
“Today, I guess I’ve seen a glimpse of it.”
“Everyone knows they’re here to recruit, but they still act all high and mighty, like they’ll only give you a piece of candy if you perform well and earn their approval.”
“Who needs that?”
“I’m not going to give them the chance to feel superior.”
Gu Qingning suppressed a laugh and agreed, “Exactly. We can’t let them get away with it.”
“They’re the ones begging you, it’s not like we’re crying and screaming to go train with them.”
She then chuckled and said, “It’s just a bit of a shame we won’t get to hear their recruitment offer.”
Yu Zhiming chuckled lightly. “Judging by that Black doctor’s attitude, the offer couldn’t have been that great.”
“Perhaps they think a young doctor like me sees their institutions as a medical holy land, and that all they have to do is beckon, and I’ll come running over like a pug, wagging my tail.”
As they spoke, the two of them walked out of the office building.
“Zhiming, where are we going? Home?”
Yu Zhiming glanced at the sky.
It was just past four in the afternoon. Although the sun was still high, it wasn’t as scorching, and the temperature was much more pleasant.
“We’re still on vacation. Let’s go for a walk.”
“Okay, okay!” Gu Qingning beamed, as overjoyed as a teenage girl.
The two of them didn’t drive. They left the hospital on foot and strolled slowly down the busiest street.
Perhaps because it was a holiday, there were two or three times as many pedestrians on the street as usual.
The shops on both sides of the road had also launched various sales and promotions.
One clothing and shoe store, in particular, was having a “Lease Ending, Final Three Days, Clearance Blowout Sale.”
In Yu Zhiming’s memory, that store had been having a “clearance sale” since his very first day at Huashan Hospital.
But today, the store had rolled out a new gimmick: having models try on clothes for customers.
He saw five beautiful, well-built young women in tight shorts and navel-baring bustiers standing on a platform that was about seven or eight meters long and one meter high.
Every so often, they would take clothes from a customer, deftly put them on, walk a few steps like a model, strike a few poses, and then take the clothes off and hand them back.
Yu Zhiming stood outside the shop, stopping to watch for a moment.
Gu Qingning huffed, “Zhiming, are you looking at the clothes, or the people wearing them?”
“The people!”
Yu Zhiming answered frankly, pointing to the girl on the platform in the red bustier and shorts.
“See that? On her lower back, above her left buttock, there’s a light-colored patch about the size of a small fingernail.”
“It doesn’t look like it was caused by an injury.”
“It could be an outbreak of vitiligo.”
Hearing him say this, Gu Qingning didn’t know whether to be happy or annoyed.
’I thought he was finally starting to wise up and be a little lecherous, but it turns out he just made a new medical discovery.’
Then, Yu Zhiming pointed again, this time to the girl on the platform in the pink shorts and bustier.
“Qingning, take a look at that girl.”
Gu Qingning looked at the girl in pink. Not only was her face lovely, but her chest was at least an E-cup. She was just a little fleshy, a bit on the chubby side.
Gu Qingning also noticed that the girl in pink was the one getting the most clothes handed to her by customers.
Her tone turned sour as she asked, “Your type?”
Yu Zhiming said with a perfectly straight face, “She’s so-so. But she’s had a breast augmentation, and the results aren’t very good. Thumbs down.”
Hearing this, Gu Qingning immediately focused her gaze on the pink-clad girl’s chest.
“They’re all covered up, and you can still tell she’s had surgery?”
Yu Zhiming said smugly, “I am a seasoned and knowledgeable medical professional. Of course I could tell at a glance.”
“And notice, hers are the biggest, but out of all the girls, the amplitude of their jiggle is the smallest.”
“That says a lot, doesn’t it?”
With this hint, Gu Qingning watched for another moment, then nodded and whispered, “You’re right. They do bounce the least.”
Suddenly, she realized something.
“Yu Zhiming, are you just using ’medical observation’ as a pretext to openly gawk at beautiful women?”
“No, I’m not!”
Yu Zhiming defended himself, “To me, no matter how beautiful the face or figure, it’s all just a pink skeleton.”
Gu Qingning snorted softly, grabbed Yu Zhiming’s hand, and started pulling him forward.
“I don’t care if you’re telling the truth or not, you’re not allowed to look anymore.”
Gu Qingning pulled Yu Zhiming about ten meters forward, then stopped and instructed, “Here. Wait for me!”
After saying that, Gu Qingning turned and ran back to the clearance sale store. Two or three minutes later, she came scurrying back.
“I told the girl in red that she might have vitiligo and that she should go to the hospital to get it checked.”
“Women care about their looks more than anything. If she got white patches all over her face, she’d cry herself to death.”
Then she changed the subject. “Zhiming, you said that even the most beautiful faces and figures are just pink skeletons.”
“If I got sick, or for some other reason, I became hideous, would you still like me?”
Yu Zhiming rolled his eyes. “I don’t answer hypothetical questions. They’re pointless.”
Gu Qingning pouted, then her eyes suddenly lit up. “So, that means you admit you like me.”
“I did not!” Yu Zhiming said, looking confused.
Gu Qingning chuckled mischievously. “I just asked you, if I became ugly, would you *still* like me?”
“You said you don’t answer hypothetical questions.”
“Which means you like me now.”
Yu Zhiming scoffed, “I don’t.”
“You do!”
“I don’t…”
The two of them bickered back and forth like children until Gu Qingning got a milk tea and finally quieted down.
The two wandered aimlessly for over an hour before driving back to their place at Zijin Garden.
Yu Zhiming noticed that Third Sister and Fourth Sister hadn’t returned.
He made a call to check. Third Sister said she was having dinner out with Xiaoxue and probably wouldn’t be back until nine or ten.
Fourth Sister also said she was eating out and was going to see a movie with Zhang Bai afterward.
Yu Zhiming put down the phone, annoyed, and looked at Gu Qingning.
“They’re not coming back. So it’s just the two of us for dinner. Takeout? Or dumplings?”
Gu Qingning’s eyes darted around. “It’s hard to go from lavish to simple. After eating gourmet food at Lake and Mountain Lodge for days, I’m finding it a little hard to accept plain fare.”
“Zhiming, how about I treat you to something good?”
“Where to?” Yu Zhiming asked in return.
Gu Qingning stood up. “I know a restaurant that has amazing food, but it’s over an hour’s drive away.”
Yu Zhiming’s spirits sank when he heard that.
“With the round trip and dinner, that’s four or five hours. I still have to go to the hospital for surgery in the middle of the night.”
Gu Qingning had forgotten about the surgery and now felt dejected.
Just then, her cell phone rang.
It was a call from her cousin, Feng Sisi.
Answering the call, Gu Qingning, much like Yu Zhiming, got straight to the point, “Sisi, what’s wrong?”
“Cousin! Cousin! Are you with Dr. Yu?”
Gu Qingning could hear that her cousin’s voice was filled with tension and anxiety.
She asked urgently, “Sisi, what happened?”
On the other end of the line, Feng Sisi’s voice was already tinged with tears.
“Cousin! Cousin! I screwed up! I screwed up big time! Can you come over? And bring Dr. Yu with you.”
“SOB… SOB…”
Gu Qingning’s voice suddenly turned stern. “Feng Sisi, first, you need to tell me clearly. What exactly happened?”
“SOB… Cousin, just hurry up and come over! Bring Dr. Yu! It’ll be too late if you don’t!”
“SOB…”
Seeing that her cousin was just crying and wouldn’t explain things clearly, Gu Qingning had no choice but to get an address from her first.
When she ended the call, she saw that Yu Zhiming had already grabbed his first-aid kit and was ready to go. A warmth spread through her heart.
“Zhiming, thank you!”
Yu Zhiming said softly, “This must be serious. Let’s go over and see what’s happened.”
Gu Qingning hummed in agreement…
The two drove for over half an hour, getting as quickly as they could to a high-end residential complex called Yaqing Garden, not far from Binhai Foreign Language University.
They entered the complex and, following the address Feng Sisi had given them, went to Apartment 1202 in Building 5.
Following Gu Qingning into the living room, Yu Zhiming saw Feng Sisi and two other girls.
All three wore expressions of panic and unease.
“Dr. Yu, in here.”
Yu Zhiming followed Feng Sisi into the bedroom and saw a girl with a bruised and swollen face lying on the bed.
The girl was motionless, clearly unconscious.
Yu Zhiming couldn’t help but twitch his nose, as he smelled the thick scent of blood.
He went straight over and ripped the thin blanket off the girl, his expression immediately hardening.
The girl was naked. Not only was her body covered in injuries, but even more shocking, her lower body was covered in blood.
“Qingning, 110! 120!”
Yu Zhiming instructed her while pulling on surgical gloves to examine the girl on the bed.
“Cousin, we can’t call the police!”
Feng Sisi grabbed onto Gu Qingning, crying and pleading, “She’s not a good person! She stole my friend’s boyfriend.”
“We just called her over to teach her a lesson…”
Feng Sisi cried, “Cousin, this can only be handled privately. We can pay any amount of money.”
“If we call the police, I’ll be sent to prison.”
“My whole life will be over.”
“Cousin, I’m only twenty years old.”
Gu Qingning looked at Yu Zhiming, her expression conflicted. “Zhiming, how is she?”
“Is her life in danger?”