Early the next morning, before Zheng Jianguo had checked in and entered the locker room, Plini, who had two panda-eyed eyes, floated out of nowhere, looked at him speechlessly and complained: "You have to ask for leave again-"

I took a day off at the beginning of the month, and I took another half day yesterday before the middle of the month, and I have to ask for two hours in the afternoon today, Zheng Jianguo also knows that he has been taking a lot of leave recently, but these things are unavoidable: "I don't want to, but my parents are coming from China this afternoon, and the flight at 3:50 is just two hours off to pick them up." ”

"Oh, your parents, from the Republic?"

Pliny lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose, but he didn't know whether to complain or complain, and then said, "Since they knew that I was admitted to medical school, my parents probably didn't remember that there was a son like me—"

"We have different traditional concepts and cultures, just like most states in the United States prohibit corporal punishment of children.

And some states, like the cowboy state, can spank disobedient kids after a sheriff is called, and I bet you never got beaten as a kid.

But in my family, it's normal for children to be beaten by fat, sometimes by their parents, sometimes by their older siblings.

Sometimes outsiders, if you have the opportunity to live there for a while, you will find that hitting children is a normal phenomenon in the republic. ”

Hearing this talk about his experience of being kicked out of the house by his parents at the age of 18, Zheng Jianguo, who was not the first time he heard it, tilted his head and said.

Sure enough, I saw that the brown eyes in the eyes of the two pandas showed sympathy, but Zheng Jianguo knew that this thing came to ask for leave, so there must be something else: "Are you going to ask for leave?"

"Well, Zheng, you're smart. ”

Pliny's pale face flashed with nervousness, and he turned his head to look around and quickly said, "That, the night after tomorrow is my girlfriend's birthday, and I'm going to leave work early to invite her to dinner."

Can you help me with the four-hour shift? from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., when I'm supposed to send her home. ”

"The day after tomorrow - okay, no problem. ”

Seeing that the other party had explained like a cannonball, Zheng Jianguo heard for the first time that he still had a girlfriend, so he couldn't help but agree with a smile, and said again: "You have done a good job of secrecy, but I haven't heard you say it before." ”

"Thank you!"

Then he patted Zheng Jianguo's shoulder, and Plini's face flushed with excitement: "Someone else introduced me, thank you, Zheng, you have helped me a lot." ”

But before Plini's voice fell, Bertha's figure trotted into the corridor, and rushed to the side of the punch card machine with a perfect line, picking up his time card and quickly inserting it into the punch card: "Click." ”

"Well, it's dangerous~"

Looking at the 7:59 character on the timecard, Bertha put it down and lifted her blonde hair, tied it with a ribbon biting her red lip, pulled up the two round and pompous ones, glanced at him, and walked towards the women's locker room next to her: "Zheng, you haven't changed your clothes yet?"

"Oh, it's almost there. ”

Qi Qi and Pliny retracted their gaze, Zheng Jianguo turned around and entered the dressing room, opened the cabinet and quickly changed his clothes, but at this moment, Bertha's voice came from outside the door: "Zheng, are you inside?

"Oh, I'm still in there—"

Neatly stuffed the short-sleeved shirt, tie and shoes into the cabinet, Zheng Jianguo picked up the white coat next to him and put it on the body wearing a two-tendon vest, buttoned it out of the locker room door, and didn't want to wear an open white coat next to Bertha, Jacqueline looked at herself with a worried front: "Zheng-Doctor, I am willing to let you check my body fluids and blood." ”

"Oh-"

Glancing at Bertha, who was full of scrutiny, Zheng Jianguo buttoned it and said, "Have you discussed it with your family?"

"No, my brother doesn't agree, but I know you really care about me, after all, I've never seen a doctor willing to pay for a patient-"

Jacqueline shook her head, after thinking about it all night last night, she was still reminded of Zheng Jianguo's sentence of being responsible for the expenses, and remembered the reason for cooperating with Valerie at that time.

Not long after graduating, Jacqueline has been in the hospital for so long, although the expenses can be reimbursed by medical insurance, but her 4-year college tuition is still not settled, so her attitude is a little different: "It's taking advantage of you." ”

"Oh, what are you two discussing?"

Bertha, who originally wanted to leave, quickly retracted her steps, and then a pair of eyes swept over the expressions of the two, of course she didn't know that it was such a frivolous question that changed her future life fate.

Zheng Jianguo swept Bertha, who was exuding mature feminine charm from head to toe, and then put his hand in his trouser pocket to look at Jacqueline next to him and said: "She is the third patient I know of who has unknown symptoms, and all three of them have symptoms of low immunity for a period of time, which is manifested as asthma, chest tightness, and swollen lymph nodes like a cold.

However, considering that the rash was accompanied by a rash all over the body surface, this situation was different from all the diseases we knew, so I suggested adding virological analysis of body fluids and blood to her medical order, which was rejected by her brother yesterday—"

"But now she agrees again~"

Raising a thin willow eyebrow, Bertha smiled at Zheng Jianguo as she spoke, but quickly turned her head to look at Jacqueline next to her, and said suspiciously: "You're 18 years old now, right?"

"Well, I'm 18 years and 8 days old. ”

Jacqueline nodded vigilantly over Bertha and said, Zheng Jianguo blinked and continued to speak: "Why don't you sign a doctor's order to prove it, Dr. Bertha, I will be busy for three days and four days from this afternoon, can you help me follow up on her test results——"

"Of course that's fine, because from now on, I'll be on a 36-hour shift, and then I'll take a 12-hour break and then go to a 24-hour shift, so I'll only be off duty for 12 hours in the next 3 days-"

Bertha tilted her head, revealing her slender neck and smiling, but after her eyes swept over Zheng Jianguo's slim white coat, her gaze fell on his not broad shoulders, and she said with a question mark: "Is that little vest you wear unique to your family?"

"Well, you're pretty observant—"

Zheng Jianguo silently glanced at the mature cheeks that still had innocence, he didn't expect Bertha to ask such a private question, but before his words fell, he saw her smile and said: "Yesterday, the air conditioner was broken, and the doctors and nurses at work were soaked in their backs, only your sweat did not soak the back of your white coat, and Bernard said that you also wore an underwear - the kind that is similar to that of a lady." ”

"This guy—"

Subconsciously showed a wry smile, Zheng Jianguo didn't expect him to be talked about to this depth, so he said to Jacqueline next to him: "Since you agreed, then come with me, I'll take you to the service desk to prescribe a test of body fluids and blood——"

"Let me take her, after all, everyone now knows that your girlfriend is Serena—"

Interrupting Zheng Jianguo's words, Bertha said and gave him a look, and then looked at Jacqueline next to him, and the former quickly woke up to the test item he was going to open, but it was very inappropriate to take Jacqueline with him, so he quickly took out his wallet from his pocket, took out three Franklins, and handed them to Bertha and said, "Then trouble you, by the way, help me pay the test fee for her." ”

"No problem~"

Bertha took the money and held it in her hand, then smiled at Jacqueline and said, "Let's go, kid, you're lucky to meet Dr. Zheng." ”

"If it weren't for you, I would have been lucky—"

For Bertha who inadvertently sabotaged her plan, Jacqueline didn't expect her to come out, so after looking at Zheng Jianguo next to her with a faint resentment on her face, she followed Bertha to the service desk.

"When a male doctor treats a female patient, he almost forgets that female medical staff are present. ”

This thought flashed through his mind, and Zheng Jianguo, who was vigilant in his heart, felt that Bertha was not only beautiful, but also that his mind was not very slow.

Looking at the figures of the two of them stopping in front of the service desk, Zheng Jianguo just didn't know if she was willing to help follow up on the research after the discovery of the HIV virus, otherwise she could only give the glory of this co-discoverer to Celia, who was at MIT.

But Zheng Jianguo has already prepared the name for Celia to discover the little blue pill-

When Zheng Jianguo wanted to find out about the HIV virus, Jacqueline was not worried about her symptoms, which is not to say that she neglected to pay attention to the HIV virus because of the tuition fee.

The main reason is that her brother Barry had a rash three years ago, so considering that there has not been much problem with Barry in the past three years, even if there is a problem in Jacqueline's cognition, it will not be a big problem.

What virus can stay dormant in the human body for three years?

There may be quite a few viruses that have this incubation period, such as the most famous rabies virus, whose condition rabies is derived from one of the oldest languages in the world, Sanskrit, Rabbahs, which means "berserk".

The earliest record of rabies can even be traced back to 2300 BC, but its vaccine was developed more than 100 years ago, and Jacqueline confirmed that she had not been bitten by a dog and the symptoms were different, so she had little knowledge of the virus in her heart.

It wasn't until the evening three days later, when Jacqueline was lying on the hospital bed looking at the rash that left only a few traces on her body, and preparing to be discharged from the hospital for the imminent recovery, Zheng Jianguo knocked on her ward door with Bertha: "Hi, Jacqueline, how do you feel?"

"I'm feeling pretty good—"

Facing Zheng Jianguo's gaze, Jacqueline said and showed her white arms, pointed to the rash that had faded on it, and said with a relaxed expression: "The rash is about to disappear, and I plan to be discharged from the hospital the day after tomorrow, have you come out with the results of that examination?"

"We found something in your body fluids and blood, but we can't confirm what they are-"

Zheng Jianguo looked at Jacqueline with a somewhat solemn face and said, the latter looked stunned and his face was full of disbelief: "You can't confirm what it is, what does this mean?"

"It's that your blood didn't find micron-sized bacteria in routine virological analysis, but after I asked for a 200,000-fold electron microscope that can detect nanometers, I detected a microscope that was about 120 nanometers in size—

Considering that the smallest bacteria are also micron-scale, then according to this classification, only a single virus can be so small, well, I feel that this is a virus, but there is no way to confirm it, and it needs to be followed up and continued research. ”

Scratching his chin, Zheng Jianguo said and glanced at Bertha next to him, who couldn't help but nodded quickly and said: "The results under the microscope alone are not enough to prove that it is in your blood, because the researchers in the laboratory in the hospital are very unreliable, and such a small thing may just be polluted, so we found a laboratory and wanted to take some more of your blood for culture——"

"Then I won't bother you anymore, after all, you have to be discharged from the hospital now. ”

Zheng Jianguo subconsciously picked up Bertha's words and said, but he didn't want Jacqueline to look at her directly: "Doctor Bertha, can you avoid it?"

"Huh?

Bertha looked at Zheng Jianguo and asked, Jacqueline nodded and said, "Yes, I know that your hospital does not allow male doctors and female patients to be alone in the same room, so you can just go to the door and watch me and Dr. Zheng, if you go out, I will promise to cooperate with you to take blood and culture that virus-"

"Oh, well. ”

Bertha looked at Zheng Jianguo again, then put her hand in her pocket and gave him a look, then turned around and walked out of the door of the ward, paying attention to the two of them from the glass, but she didn't expect that as Jacqueline said something, she saw Zheng Jianguo's face instantly stunned.

However, Jacqueline didn't stop sitting on the hospital bed, constantly saying something to Zheng Jianguo, but the latter only said something by chance, and saw that his face was instantly full of stunned again.

The next moment, Zheng Jianguo beckoned in the room, Bertha quickly pushed open the door and entered the ward after withdrawing his hand, seeing that the two of them were silent, and said, "Are you done talking?"

"After talking, Jakui [Bayi Chinese Network] Lin will cooperate with us to take blood, and promise to keep it secret from other doctors——"

Zheng Jianguo frowned and said, Bertha's face was suddenly full of joy, Rao is heart was pressed with a faint heaviness, but he was also shaken by her smile, but thinking of the next cooperation between the two, he cheered up and said: "Bertha, I hope you haven't forgotten the cell culture course in the medical school." ”

"Don't worry about this, even if I learn it again, I will definitely cultivate it. ”

Bertha quickly took out four blood extractors from her pocket, and said them when Jacqueline's fingertips and toes were taken separately, but Zheng Jianguo didn't answer her words, but changed his words: "After you finish taking it, wait for me outside the door first, for a minute." ”

"Oh, okay. ”

Glancing at Jacqueline again, Bertha quickly wrapped her with a sterilized cotton ball after quickly taking blood, and then walked out of the ward with a small bottle filled with blood, but he didn't want Zheng Jianguo to put something in his inner pocket and leave the ward almost ten seconds after she closed the door, and said as if relieved: "Okay, let's go to the laboratory of the digestive center——"