In just a moment, Gao Fei's mouth had become severely swollen. His purplish lips resembled two sausages, accompanied by severe symptoms of oxygen deprivation, difficulty breathing, dizziness, and a pale complexion.
Mentioning Chen Xiao, he gritted his teeth and nodded fiercely, displaying a ferocious demeanor that suggested he wouldn't rest until Chen Xiao was crippled and incapacitated.
"You! Serves you right!"
Meng Baobao was immediately plagued by a headache and said with great helplessness:
"According to my preliminary examination, the glass teacup lodged in your mouth is sealed tightly against your oral cavity. Its deepest point has even reached your throat. To remove it, surgery is the only option, or laser fragmentation. However, surgery will inevitably leave permanent scars on your lips or even your face. Laser fragmentation carries significant risks, as no one can guarantee the extent of damage to your oral cavity after the teacup is shattered by the laser..."
Gao Fei's eyes widened to their fullest, his expression filled with undisguised terror. He frantically typed a string of text on his phone and handed it to Meng Baobao:
"Is there no better way?"
Meng Baobao sighed and shook her head:
"There would have been a better way, which is to ask Doctor Chen for help. With his heaven-defying medical skills, he might be able to remove the teacup from your mouth effortlessly and without injury. But the crux of the problem is that you provoked him first, so would he help you out of the goodness of his heart?"
"..."
Gao Fei's eyeballs bulged even wider, and he nearly fainted on the spot. In a frenzy, he typed furiously on his phone:
"Auntie, don't scare me. If you just say a word, would he dare not listen?"
"Moreover, my father is the deputy director of the marketing department at Jingzhi Design, and my mother has been a senior nutritionist serving Master Song Kaichao for over a decade!"
"What's wrong with me provoking that guy surnamed Chen? He's just a bastard. As long as my parents show up, he'll have to wag his tail like a lapdog and grovel! Fawning over us!"
"Call him now and tell him to hurry back and help me, or when my parents arrive, he'll be in for a world of trouble!"
"Hurry! Hurry up!"
Given Meng Baobao's temperament, she certainly wouldn't indulge Gao Fei. Seeing the string of outrageously unreasonable text messages he sent, her expression grew colder. Without hesitation, she blocked Gao Fei's number and then stood up abruptly, slamming her hand on the examination table in front of her, roaring furiously:
"You blind fool! When did I become someone who, like your parents, can't distinguish right from wrong and bullies others with their connections? For your mother's sake, don't blame me for not warning you. Doctor Chen is absolutely not someone you can afford to provoke. If you don't want to die too miserably, stay far away from him! Get out! Get out!"
As she spoke, she stood up, ready to physically escort him out.
Coincidentally, at this very moment, Gao Fei's mother, Meng Lanlan, rushed in.
Although Meng Lanlan was over fifty, with age spots and wrinkles that thick makeup couldn't conceal, her attire was extremely inappropriate for her age. She was provocatively dressed, heavily made up, and exuded an overpowering perfume. With a cigarette dangling from her lips, she appeared like a common hen standing in an alley compared to Meng Baobao, who was in a white coat.
"Wuuu—"
Gao Fei immediately clung to her like a drowning man grabbing a life raft. With a mournful cry from his throat and nostrils, he buried his head into Meng Lanlan's revealing chest, sobbing and wiping his tears, as if he were not a grown man in his thirties but a young child in kindergarten.
Meng Lanlan, both heartbroken and furious, bared her teeth and demanded of Meng Baobao:
"Who did this to my son?"
Gao Fei, fearing Meng Baobao would side with Chen Xiao, quickly typed on his phone:
"Doctor Chen Xiao, the attending physician in examination room number one next door!"
"How dare a mere doctor bully my Meng Lanlan's precious son? He's asking for death!"
Meng Lanlan became even more enraged, cursing loudly and making a move to drag Gao Fei towards examination room number eight, without even glancing at Meng Baobao.
Meng Baobao was both annoyed and amused, wishing she could call security to throw them out. However, since it concerned Chen Xiao, no matter how indifferent she was to anyone or anything other than treating patients, she couldn't stand aside. She quickly frowned and intervened:
"Sister, I understand how you feel, but if you'll forgive me for saying so, you should know better than I do what kind of person your son is. If he hadn't provoked Doctor Chen first, would he have ended up like this..."
Meng Lanlan retorted indignantly:
"Meng Baobao, stop spouting platitudes at me! Even if my son committed murder and arson, whoever dares to harm him, I'll kill them!"
Meng Baobao almost vomited from disgust:
"On what grounds?"
Meng Lanlan's face was full of arrogance:
"On the grounds that my husband is the deputy director of Jingzhi Design, and I have been a senior nutritionist taking care of Master Song Kaichao for over a decade!"
"Pfft—"
Meng Baobao couldn't hold back and burst out laughing, saying with utter contempt:
"Meng Lanlan, you really know how to pat yourself on the back! You're just a mere nanny, why talk about it so grandly? But since you claim to be a senior nutritionist who has taken care of Song Kaichao for over a decade, you should know that Song Kaichao was critically ill not long ago, right? You might not believe it, but the doctor who saved Song Kaichao from the brink of death was precisely the doctor who put the glass teacup into your son's mouth, Doctor Chen!"
"..."
Meng Lanlan and Gao Fei exchanged glances and were dumbfounded.
Although Meng Lanlan boasted to everyone about being a senior nutritionist who had taken care of Song Kaichao for over a decade, she was actually just a nanny responsible for cleaning. While she occasionally came into contact with the Song family, she clearly didn't have the qualifications to be in close proximity to Song Kaichao. If not for overhearing occasional private conversations among those who were qualified to attend to Song Kaichao's daily needs, she wouldn't even have known that Song Kaichao had almost died recently.
After a long pause, Meng Lanlan still couldn't help but shake her head in disbelief:
"How could the savior of Master Song... Master Song possibly be a doctor at the Central Hospital? No! This is impossible! As far as I know, even those renowned divine doctors from abroad were helpless with his illness!"
"Believe it or not!"
Meng Baobao said coldly:
"You're in medicine too, so you should be able to see that the glass teacup in your son's mouth is very tricky. Removing it without injury is almost impossible. Instead of continuing to provoke Doctor Chen blindly like your son, you'd be better off arranging a transfer to another hospital. Medicine is full of unknowns; perhaps another hospital can save him!"
"This... this... this this this..."
Reminded by Meng Baobao, Meng Lanlan finally realized the gravity of the situation and gradually became flustered and terrified. But then, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said without hesitation:
"If that Chen Xiao is indeed Master Song's savior, he should also have the ability to remove the glass teacup from my son's mouth without injury, right?"
Although it was still some time before the outpatient department opened and the registration desk was unmanned, this did not affect Meng Lanlan's ability to book an appointment via her phone. As she spoke, she eagerly took out her phone and made some operations.
Seeing this, Meng Baobao's face darkened further and she said:
"Meng Lanlan, from my understanding of Doctor Chen, since your son was put in this state by him, it's highly unlikely he'll agree to treat him. So I advise you not to humiliate yourself. Not only might it delay your son's rescue, but it could also..."
"Could what?"
Meng Lanlan interrupted Meng Baobao with a defiant look:
"As long as he can remove the glass teacup from my son's mouth, I will forgive him and let bygones be bygones. Would he refuse such a great favor?"
Saying this, Meng Lanlan, disregarding everything, pulled Gao Fei and headed straight for the empty examination room number eight.
Gao Fei was uneasy and fidgety, quickly typing on his phone:
"Mom, since Chen Xiao is Song Kaichao's savior, we should just try to appease and flatter him. What if he really refuses to help me like Auntie said?"
Meng Lanlan looked around and then lowered her voice:
"Shh! Not long ago, while cleaning Song Kaichao's bedroom, I accidentally overheard him talking to Song Xiangyu. He seems to deeply resent the divine doctor who saved his life and is even preparing to deal with him. This is because that divine doctor has set his sights on Song Yan and Song Nuan. Since your aunt said that Chen Xiao is that lecherous divine doctor, do you think we still need to appease and flatter him?"
Gao Fei's eyes immediately lit up, his expression betraying his excitement, his fingers trembling as he typed on the phone screen:
"He even dares to covet Song Yan and Song Nuan. This guy surnamed Chen is not only a toad lusting after swan meat, but he's also tired of living! No wonder Hong La Jiao was so polite to him at Zhe Gu Tian before, almost groveling. Turns out she thought he was a potential son-in-law for the Song family. How naive!"
Meng Lanlan sneered with disdain:
"The threshold of the Song family, the richest family, is very high! Even if the two Song sisters were truly blind enough to have some good feelings for that guy named Chen Xiao, Song Kaichao would never agree!"
As they were chatting animatedly, Chen Xiao, in his white coat, sauntered in.
Gao Fei had clearly developed a psychological complex. One moment he was arrogant, but the next, upon seeing Chen Xiao, he was so scared that he immediately hid in Meng Lanlan's arms, his expression filled with undisguised terror, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
Meng Lanlan shielded Gao Fei and asked guardedly:
"Are you Chen Xiao, the one who hurt my son?"
Seeing that the two were not here with good intentions, Chen Xiao's expression instantly turned cold. Without politeness, he held out his work ID:
"Can't you read?"
"You..."
Meng Lanlan was choked speechless. After a moment's pause, she said aggressively:
"I am Gao Fei's mother, Meng Lanlan, and the senior nutritionist for Master Song Kaichao of the Song family, the wealthiest family!"
Chen Xiao remained expressionless:
"So what?"
"You..."
Meng Lanlan was choked again, her tone becoming even more imperious:
"I order you to immediately remove the glass teacup from my son's mouth without injury, or Master Song will have you buried without a grave at his command!"