Ruan Ning knew that he wanted to talk about business as soon as she heard it. She raised her eyebrows slightly: “Oh? Do you want to introduce me to someone?”
The old man said quickly: “What do you mean by introduction? Didn’t you lend me the boat?”
He stressed the word ‘lend’.
“If your friend has any problem at night, you can come to 1701 to find us. All you need is some food.”
Ruan Ning remembered it in her mind: “The seventeenth floor, right? Is that the family you live with? How did you two know each other?”
The old man said: “There are only two people in their family, an old woman and a son in his thirties. The son is doing some research in a research institute and can’t even do anything all day. The old woman is 65 years old this year and is a senior expert at our provincial hospital.”
“Because both of them were busy with work, they didn’t have any food stored. I got to know her by hanging around this building every day.”
“If she really had nothing to eat, she wouldn’t have let me live in just for some instant noodles.”
Ruan Ning asked: “Will she be willing to see a patient? After all, the risk is so great now.”
“Why would you care about the risk if you’re starving to death?” The old man curled his lips and said: “I’m old enough and still going out to hang out all day!”
Ruan Ning was amused by his tone and deliberately bargained: “Then, I’ll find you if I need anything. But there’s one thing. It costs gold to rent you a boat, so don’t ask for too much food.”
The old man’s eyes widened as if to say ‘You’re talking nonsense!’. He said, “This is a doctor! She’s a senior doctor, too. You normally can’t even get an appointment with a specialist!”
“Anyway, you guys think about it. If anything goes wrong, you can come downstairs to find us. If you don’t want to give us food, you can let us use the boat three more times.”
Ruan Ning simply nodded: “Okay, we have a deal.”
After watching the old man go downstairs, Ruan Ning knocked on the house next door and told Cheng Jikuan about the matter through the door.
Both of them hoped not to use a doctor.
Unexpectedly, that night, Cheng Jili had a high fever of 39 degrees.
39 degrees for an adult was not a joke. The whole person could be feverish to the point of being confused or even unconscious.
Cheng Jikuan hurriedly woke up Ruan Ning and asked her to guard the safety door as he had to go downstairs.
Ruan Ning was nervous. The two of them were not mentioned in the original book. Would Cheng Jili get sick?
About ten minutes later, Cheng Jikuan led an old woman upstairs.
Ruan Ning quickly opened the safety door for the two people.
Cheng Jikuan reminded her to step back one meter and then walked in with the old woman. He said to Ruan Ning in a tired voice: “Thank you, and please help me close the safety door.”
Ruan Ning hummed and looked at the old expert. She looked like she was in her fifties, very thin, and had a smart and capable temperament.
She was also carrying a large backpack on her back, which seemed to be quite heavy. It was unknown whether she was carrying medicine or clothes.
The three of them did not talk much, and Cheng Jikuan led the old woman into his house.
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