Free Web NovelChapter 867: Chapter 333: The Internet Explodes—The Boy with the Red Label, Slippery Pulse!
At the same time, there was also a system scan.
You could say it was double insurance.
[Detected that the Host is currently viewing a red-label patient, system Precise Scan is in progress...]
Yeah.
Right now Zhang Lingchuan wasn’t using the normal scan, but had turned on the system’s Precise Scan.
Mainly because it was a red label.
And he still had some Precise Scans left.
So he might as well give this kid a proper scan.
And while he was examining the boy...
The few kids had already run off.
The gang of brothers ran to a small bungalow.
They saw a hunched, eighty-something granny picking up firewood.
"Big Belly Yun is gonna be taken by the Veterinarian to be boiled!"
"Big Belly Yun was called over by the Veterinarian!!"
...
"What Big Belly Yun! Call him Brother Yun! You all need to be polite!!"
The granny’s expression turned a bit angry when she heard them talk like that.
"Granny Wu, Brother Yun is being seen by a Veterinarian right now! You’d better go take a look! There’s still a pot of water boiling at Grandpa Jiri’s place! They might really throw him in there to boil, who knows!"
So this was Ah Shuo and Ah Yun’s home.
This eighty-year-old, slightly hunched granny was wearing a thick winter hat and a set of shabby, bulky, dark-patterned old people’s clothes.
There were still some kinder, more polite kids in the group.
They started explaining to her.
"Huh? What do you mean they’re gonna throw him in a pot to boil! Weren’t you going to Grandpa Jiri’s place to see the calf!"
When this granny heard that her grandson was going to be boiled by someone...
She was stunned and found it unbelievable.
"Woof— woof woof—"
There was a big black dog at home.
No one knew if it understood human language or what, but it started barking along.
"The calf at Grandpa Jiri’s place has already been saved. That Veterinarian called Brother Yun over alone. They say he’s treating his illness! As for how he’s treating it, we don’t know. Anyway, that Veterinarian treats people in a super weird way! He might really throw someone in the pot to cook."
The little kid chirped on and on.
In their eyes...
That Veterinarian was like a witch doctor on TV.
Especially magical.
Throw a frozen stiff calf into a pot, and it actually came back to life.
"So there’s such a thing... Isn’t Ah Yun’s belly just food retention? He’s already taken a lot of medicine... Of course we’re grateful if the Veterinarian helps take a look, but, but it’s probably not suitable for him to treat, right... Besides..."
The granny felt around in her pocket.
There were only two tiny notes inside.
In fact, she had been trying to find doctors for her grandson, having him take Chinese herbal medicine.
It had already cost a lot of money.
Now she really had no money left on her.
As for why they didn’t go to a big hospital for tests...
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to.
They didn’t understand it, and they didn’t have the means.
The child was pitiful. His father was gone when he was young, and after his mother remarried, she never bothered with him again.
Talking about this still broke the granny’s heart a little.
There was an old phone at home that his mom had left behind. It had something called QQ installed on it.
During the New Year he’d asked the village kids who studied outside to help him register a QQ.
Then he added his mom’s QQ through other people in the village.
His mom didn’t know it was him.
She accepted the friend request.
Then he used QQ to call his mother.
She didn’t pick up.
He told her who he was.
In the end she replied with one sentence: "You’re grown up now. I’ve had a younger son over here, I have to take care of this side. Don’t call me again in the future."
After that, she never replied again.
The granny couldn’t read.
By having others read it to her, she saw that on Ah Yun’s QQ, he’d sent his mother several messages.
Asking, Mom, what are you doing?
Mom, have you been well lately?
Mom, do you not want me anymore?
But I’m also your son... and so on.
There were also two very cute confused and crying emojis.
It made her heart ache so much, she wiped away tears on the spot.
She was old and powerless, and her son had died early. All she could do was tell the boy to study hard and rely on himself in the future to live the life he wanted.
But because of that big belly, he was mocked by others and didn’t even want to go to school.
This year he was in sixth grade, and he skipped school every few days.
She literally dreamed of curing her grandson’s big belly, so he could be a normal person.
But several doctors had said the food retention had gone on too long and would be hard to resolve.
Very soon the granny set off with the big black dog at home.
No one knew if fate liked to torment the unfortunate on purpose.
This big black dog, which had been at their home since Ah Yun was born, twelve or thirteen years in total, was also in poor condition. Over the past two years it had developed a big lump on its body, basically like its little owner.
Some people even said their whole family was cursed, afflicted with some strange illness.
"Sigh..."
The granny hunched her back and walked toward the Ji Family’s place.
It was only about a two- or three-minute walk from their house, actually pretty close.
But she was old, and walking wasn’t so easy anymore.
The kids zoomed past her in a flash.
And she could only clomp slowly along.
At the scene right now...
Quite a few villagers had come to watch.
Some were even holding their rice bowls.
After all, it was breakfast time.
People just loved to join the crowd.
"Dr. Zhang, is Ah Yun’s belly caused by food retention? Several doctors have come before, and they all said his belly had some food accumulation that had been piling up from childhood till now, making his belly big, like he’s pregnant."
Uncle Adou, wearing a leather jacket, had been watching from the side.
Seeing Zhang Lingchuan feeling the pulse for a full minute or two, he couldn’t help asking.
At the same time, the viewers were all @-ing the med-student big shots.
"Feels like ascites."
"Most likely it’s due to long-term inadequate nutritional intake or excessive consumption, which can cause hypoproteinemia, leading to fluid leaking from blood vessels and accumulating in the interstitial space, forming a small amount of fluid in the abdominal cavity. This generally isn’t a serious disease. Just pay attention to diet, eat more protein-rich foods, avoid being picky, and keep nutrition balanced. It’s not really related to food retention."
"I agree it’s ascites, but if it were just malnutrition I don’t think Dr. Zhang would even be seeing him."
"+1, I suspect it’s due to hepatocyte necrosis and hyperplasia, which obstruct hepatic venous return, raise portal vein pressure, and lead to ascites. Look at how sallow he is, classic jaundice. There’s probably also splenomegaly and other signs inside. If it’s not treated actively, it could later cause hepatic encephalopathy and other serious outcomes."
"Bacterial peritonitis is also possible, right."
The inflammatory response of the peritoneum caused by bacterial infection increases vascular permeability, so fluid leaks out of blood vessels into the abdominal cavity, forming ascites. This is relatively serious and requires active treatment.
This basically felt like a critical case.
In short, everyone was making their guesses.
Malnutrition was just one angle, but this teenager definitely had other issues; otherwise Dr. Zhang wouldn’t have called him over!
"As a longtime fan of Dr. Zhang, I can only calmly say: just wait."
"Yeah, let’s see. Dr. Zhang’s expression looks very subtle."
"I love watching you guys guess. Who’s gonna be right?"
"If none of you are right, that’s gonna be hilarious."
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! It’s definitely one of these plus acute right heart failure! If none of these hit, I’ll streak across campus! I mean it!!"
...
The viewers were arguing heatedly, some even swearing it had to be the conditions above.
Otherwise they’d streak across campus.
"Oh ho? That exciting?"
"Alright, alright! We’ll wait!!"
"Buddy, I think you’re in trouble. Dr. Zhang is famous for slapping faces."
"Rongcheng University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, oh, I’ve noted the school, hehehe... Hello, schoolmate~"
The guy’s words stirred up huge waves.
Some of his schoolmates even let out strange laughs.
On-site, Zhang Lingchuan also withdrew his Hand.
"It’s not food retention. There should be a child in his belly."
Under the gaze of everyone, people were stunned to find that Dr. Zhang actually sighed.
Before they could even digest that, his next sentence made the livestream and the scene explode!!
"What the hell! A slippery pulse!!"
Some viewers even slammed the table and jumped up!
...
