The Pentium Era - South to North

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Chen's cell phone rang. It was Tan Shuzhen, and Zhang Chen picked up the phone.

"Where are you, Zhang Chen?" Tan Shuzhen asked right away.

"Office." Zhang Chen said.

"'Half an acre'?"

Zhang Chen is right.

"Wait there, I'll be right over." After Tan Shuzhen finished speaking, she hung up the phone.

Zhang Chen looked at the phone in his hand and shook his head. He felt a little confused. These two people, first Liu Ligan and then Tan Shuzhen, were so nervous today. What were they doing in such a blasphemous manner?

Ten minutes later, Tan Shuzhen came in from outside with a very ugly face. Zhang Chen looked at her and asked:

"What's wrong?"

"Do you know what happened to the pole?" Tan Shuzhen said, "He made an appointment with Dr. Zhan for surgery in the afternoon, but he didn't go. Dr. Zhan called me and scolded me."

Zhang Chen was startled and asked quickly: "Operation? Pole? What kind of operation is he going to do? Why don't I know?"

"I don't know either." Tan Shuzhen said, "Dr. Zhan from Zhejiang No. 1 Hospital called me and asked me why I didn't have surgery in the afternoon. I ran over and asked before I found out."

"The results of the physical examination came out this morning. Dr. Zhan called Zhanzi and asked him to come over. He..."

"Wait, wait, what physical examination, Tan Shuzhen? Why did you think of going for a physical examination?" Zhang Chen interrupted him.

"China Merchants Bank service, free physical examination for American Express Centurion black card customers." Tan Shuzhen said, "The examination results came out and there was a nodule in Zhanzi's lungs. Dr. Zhan called Zhanzi and asked him to come over. The two people had already said that in the morning Well, Dr. Zhan even jumped in for him and performed surgery on him in the afternoon, but he let him go."

When Zhang Chen heard this, he took a long breath and said with a smile:

"What's all the fuss about? What did I think? It's just a nodule. What's the big deal about nodules? Everyone has nodules, either here or there. A machine has been used for decades and still doesn't allow for a little rust? This Nodules are rust spots in the human body.”

"What's the big deal?" Tan Shuzhen stared at Zhang Chen with wide eyes, "Lung nodules? Or are you a big smoker like you? Zhang Chen, have you forgotten Lao Meng?"

When Tan Shuzhen said this, Zhang Chen also became nervous. Really, for people like them who have been smoking for decades, the nodules in the lungs should not be underestimated. Nodular lesions in the lungs The problem is lung cancer. The nodules of old smokers are very likely to become diseased.

Zhang Chen has been with Meng Ping in the hospital for so long, and he has a little understanding of lung cancer. He knows that lung cancer is usually in the advanced stage by the time it is discovered, and the precursor of lung cancer is lung nodules.

"You call him, but he doesn't answer when I call him. He must know that Dr. Zhan will call me." Tan Shuzhen said.

"What do you mean after you get through, scold him?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Of course I want him to come back right away. I have agreed with Dr. Zhan that we will have surgery tomorrow morning," Tan Shuzhen said.

Zhang Chen picked up his mobile phone and thought of the scene when Liu Ligan came in. Now he could match the words he said. At this time, he thought about what he told him about Zhang Xiangbei and Xiangnan. It felt like he was sort of explaining the aftermath. It wasn't the old man who was anxious, but him. He felt that he would be alive soon and wanted to see an ending.

Zhang Chen picked up the phone and put it down again. When Tan Shuzhen saw it, she became anxious and shouted: "Hit it, Zhang Chen, please hit it quickly!"

"He doesn't answer your call. Do you think he doesn't know that you are with me now? If I call him, he will answer the call?" Zhang Chen asked.

Tan Shuzhen was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Chen said: "This coward is frightened. Even if he is not afraid of anything at ordinary times, he is not afraid of anything. He is not afraid of anything. If something happens, he will be frightened."

"Oh, what's the use of talking nonsense now." Tan Shuzhen said anxiously, "Are you going to call? If not, give me your cell phone and I'll try to call him using your phone."

Zhang Chen rolled his eyes at Tan Shuzhen. He picked up the phone, but instead of dialing Liu Ligan, he dialed his assistant. Zhang Chen said to his assistant:

"Did you book a hotel in Suzhou or Wujiang for Mr. Liu tonight? In Suzhou? Send me the hotel address."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Chen stood up and said to Tan Shuzhen, "Let's go."

Tan Shuzhen asked blankly: "Where to go?"

"Go to Suzhou and kidnap him back. Aren't you going to have an operation tomorrow morning?" Zhang Chen asked, "Why, with the pole in such a condition, can you rest assured that he will drive back by himself?"

Tan Shuzhen suddenly realized what she was saying. She said a series of "oh oh", stood up, and the two of them walked out.

By the time they arrived at the Suzhou Park Hyatt Hotel, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening and it was completely dark. They arrived at the door of Liu Ligan's room. Zhang Chen rang the doorbell. There was silence inside the door. Zhang Chen lowered his head. Look at the crack in the carpet under the door. It's also dark. There are no lights in the room, but the doorbell says "Do Not Disturb."

"Are you going to have dinner?" Tan Shuzhen raised her wrist to look at her watch and asked.

Zhang Chen pointed at the "Do Not Disturb" light, which meant that the key card was still in the room. Tan Shuzhen stretched out her hand and continued to press it. After a while, a subtle sound came from the door, and the sound came from far and near. Then the door opened.

Everyone inside and outside the door was stunned for a moment. The moment the door opened, Zhang Chen and Tan Shuzhen saw Liu Ligan's eyes were red. When Liu Ligan saw it was them, he asked, "Why are you here?" He immediately turned his face away, reached out to turn on the light in the room, and said:

"I'm going to the bathroom."

The person then got into the bathroom and closed the door.

Zhang Chen and Tan Shuzhen looked at each other. Tan Shuzhen opened and closed her mouth and said silently, "Are you really scared?"

Zhang Chen nodded.

The two of them couldn't help but chuckle. It seemed that Zhang Chen was right. This guy was actually frightened. The moment they rang the doorbell, he must have been lying on his back on the bed with his eyes open. Random thoughts in the dark.

The two of them walked in and sat down on the sofa. The sound of water running came from the bathroom. After a while, Liu Ligan came out. His eyes were no longer red, but his face was still a little solemn. He looked at them. Still the same sentence:

"Why are you here?"

Tan Shuzhen scolded: "You didn't answer the phone when I called you. You said, I found nodules in your lungs. Why didn't you tell me?"

"What's there to say? The worst case scenario is death." Liu Ligan murmured.

"Do you want to die so much?" Tan Shuzhen asked, staring at Liu Ligan, who turned his face away.

Tan Shuzhen said: "You let Dr. Zhan go, so what's going on?"

Liu Ligan lowered his head and remained silent. Tan Shuzhen sighed and said, "I have made an appointment for you to do it tomorrow morning."

"No." Liu Ligan said immediately.

"Why don't you go?" Tan Shuzhen asked, and Liu Ligan became silent again.

Zhang Chen said on the side: "Isn't it just a nodule operation? What's there to be afraid of? Go to the hospital for an operation, lie down for a few days, and then you can be discharged. For such a small operation, just go to a beauty salon with a girl and have a surgery." Almost like a double eyelid."

"It makes you seem to know a lot." Liu Ligan muttered.

"Of course I fucking know better than you." Zhang Chen scolded, "I have been with Meng Ping in Shanghai for so long, and I have participated in several expert consultations. Not to mention nodules, even lung cancer, it's nothing special now. , direct surgical resection in the early stage, and targeted treatment in the late stage. Do you know what targeting is?”

Liu Ligan looked at Zhang Chen and was speechless. After a while, he said, "It's nothing special. Then why did Lao Meng leave?"

"When Lao Meng was discovered, it was already at an advanced stage, and the cancer cells had fully spread. We couldn't even wait for the genetic test, so we had to do a blind test." Zhang Chen said, "You are still a nodule, and even the cancer is still there. No, if cancer were a frog, you would just be a tadpole now. Your tail has not even grown yet. You can’t even swim. You are so sick.

"Go to the hospital and get an operation to remove the tadpole, and you'll be fine as if everything is fine."

Zhang Chen cursed, but Liu Ligan's expression improved. Tan Shuzhen sighed and said:

"You haven't had dinner yet? We haven't eaten either. Let's go and eat first."

"Forget it, if the food in Suzhou is delicious or sweet, let's go back directly. Why not go to the Jiaxing service area to eat Jinyun sesame cakes and Shaoxing stinky tofu." Zhang Chen said, and Tan Shuzhen agreed.

Tan Shuzhen patted Liu Ligan and said to him, "Let's go."

Liu Ligan stood up, packed his luggage, and the three of them went to the front desk to check out the room. They walked outside to the parking lot. Tan Shuzhen and Zhang Chen said:

"You go and drive the pole car, and I'll follow you."

Zhang Chen said yes, he knew that Tan Shuzhen wanted him to educate Liu Ligan on the road, otherwise this guy might sneak out in the middle of the night in order to avoid going to the hospital.

The two got in the car, Zhang Chen drove, and Liu Ligan sat in the passenger seat. He didn't speak for a while. Zhang Chen glanced at Liu Ligan and saw him sitting there in a daze. Zhang Chen ignored him because there was still a long way to go anyway. , for three hours, he was waiting for Liu Ligan to speak first.

The car turned from Dushu Lake Avenue onto the expressway, received the card and passed the toll station. Liu Ligan finally couldn't hold it in any longer and asked:

"Zhang Chen, you just said that the nodules really don't matter?"

"of course."

"But, that Dr. Zhan this morning, damn..."

"Of course doctors are like this. A fish bone stuck in the throat is life-threatening according to them. Don't be so damn easy to lie." Zhang Chen scolded.

Liu Ligan said "Oh", and after a while, he asked again:

"Zhang Chen, what you said earlier is that even if you have lung cancer, you can still receive targeted treatment. Is that true?"

"Of course it's true. You're a medically illiterate. If you don't believe me, you can use Baidu on your phone right now." Zhang Chen said.

Liu Ligan said: "I checked Baidu, and Baidu said that lung nodules are still very serious."

"Damn it, what you see on Baidu are just some quack doctors talking nonsense. At the end of the article, are they promoting honeysuckle and Pestifera, or are they recommending some hospitals?" Zhang Chen asked.

Liu Ligan suddenly jumped for joy and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, it's really all the same."

Zhang Chen turned to look at him and asked, "Are you fucking afraid of death?"

Liu Ligan was silent again. After a long time, he sighed and said:

"What you said is indeed true. I am really afraid of death now. When I was naked, I thought death was nothing. Tell me, Zhang Chen, did we still have a lot of behaviors at that time? Now it seems like Looking for death? What was I afraid of at that time? Now that I have a family and Nannan, I seem to have suddenly become less courageous."

Zhang Chen didn't say anything, just nodded. He felt that Liu Ligan was right. Not only him, but he also felt that he was becoming less and less courageous, and he was becoming more and more prone to worrying about gains and losses.

"Zhang Chen, do you know how I felt when Dr. Zhan told me this morning that there was a nodule in my lungs?" Liu Ligan asked.

Zhang Chen shook his head: "I don't know, just tell me."

"My heart skipped a beat, and I felt that it was finally here. In the past few years, I often think of Lao Meng. No matter how I think about it, I wonder why Lao Meng has passed away, but I am still alive and well. I shouldn't be luckier than Lao Meng. , I was the one who caused Lao Meng's death. I should be the one who died of lung cancer.

"So, when Dr. Zhan told me that the nodule might become cancerous, I was not surprised at all. I just felt that it was finally my turn."

This is Liu Ligan's heartache and the reason why he is so scared. He feels that Lao Meng's ending is like his own fate.

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