Chapter 2 Good is Rewarded with Good

In the hospital

About half an hour later, the attending doctor walked out of the emergency room.

A small crowd immediately gathered around him.

The girl in white also pushed forward. Several bodyguards in suits were around her.

Lu Yiqian had arrived at the hospital, too.

"Who is his family?" The doctor shouted to the crowd.

"Doctor, I'm the patient's father. How's my son?" Seeing the doctor coming out, Lu Yiqian quickly stepped forward and asked anxiously.

"You're the patient's father?" The doctor squinted at Lu Yiqian strangely.

"Yes, yes, I'm his father, doctor. How's my son?"

"Did you know that your son has a congenital heart disease?"

"Yes, I knew..."

"Then why haven't you let him have an operation yet?" The attending doctor asked before Lu Yiqian finished speaking.

"I..."

"Well, I don't want to waste time on you. I have some unfortunate news. Your son had a rare congenital aortic malformation sinus aneurysm and suffered severe necrosis of the aortic heart valve due to wear and tear to his body. Because he didn't get timely and effective treatment, now his heart is severely atrophied. What's worse, being hit caused internal bleeding. He is in serious heart failure, so..." After a pause, the attending doctor continued, "This is the critical illness notice. Please sign on it. Basically, you can prepare for your son's..."

Hearing what the doctor said, Lu Yiqian suddenly felt dizzy and numb. He almost passed out.

"Unless..." the doctor added.

"Unless?"

Lu Yiqian was stunned by the doctor's words. It was the beauty who asked quickly.

"Unless we give him a new heart. However, time is limited and there won't be a suitable donor for a while. What's more, even if there is a suitable donor, we are not able to do this kind of operation in our hospital."

"Where is the nearest hospital in which the heart transplant could be done?"

All of a sudden, a commanding old man with gray hair came to the doctor and asked in a loud voice. He was in a Tang suit and accompanied by two bodyguards in black.

"Xindu. The nearest hospital is the General Hospital of Xindu First Military Region. It is also the best hospital in our province."

The doctor said firmly.

"Xu, let San rush to the General Hospital of Xindu First Military Region to arrange everything for the operation." The old man immediately assigned tasks to his bodyguards, "Ding, you go with this doctor, send all the personal information of the young man to San, and let him try every means to find the suitable donor."

The two bodyguards immediately did as the old man had asked.

"You are the father of that brave young man, aren't you?"

"Yes, I am! My name is Lu Yiqian. He is my son, Lu Yao. May I have your name?"

When Lu Yiqian had recovered from his fright, he saw a vigorous and commanding old man arranging the operation in an orderly way. He suddenly got his hopes up.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Lu. My name is Huang Bingtian. This is my granddaughter Huang Ruoyun. I appreciate that your son saved my granddaughter's life." The old man stretched out his hands to hold Lu Yiqian's hand and pointed to the beauty beside him.

"Grandfather, nice of you to turn up."

Huang Ruoyun couldn't help crying outright when she saw her grandfather.

"Grandfather, you must save him. If it weren't for me, he would be all right now."

"Don't worry. I promise you that he will be all right. And I can express my thanks to the brave young man face to face."

Huang Bingtian kindly stroked his granddaughter's head and said.

"Thank you, Mr. Huang, but we..."

"Well, Mr. Lu, I know what you're going to say. I heard what the doctor said just now. Your son saved my granddaughter after all. I will repay him for his kindness. Don't worry. I promise you that he will be cured of illness and come back to you vigorously."

Huang Bingtian looked as though he had known what Lu Yiqian was thinking.

"As for the money, you don't have to worry about it, either. We will pay all his medical expenses." Huang Bingtian added.

While they were talking, the two bodyguards came back.

One bodyguard leaned over and whispered something in Huang Bingtian's ear.

"OK, now let the doctor help us transfer Lu Yao to the General Hospital of Xindu First Military Region." Huang Bingtian said to Lu Yiqian politely, "Mr. Lu, it is all arranged. Please go to Xindu with us."

"Thank you very much, Mr. Huang. Lu Yao is so fortunate that he has you to help him."

Lu Yiqian and Huang Bingtian walked to the ward, talking to each other.

...

Although Lu Yiqian didn't know Huang Bingtian's work, he inferred from what he saw that Huang Bingtian was not an ordinary person.

On the way to Xindu, each time they drove past the checkpoint, the policemen who had been waiting there would open up a green channel for them.

They even drove in the congested downtown district of Xindu unimpededly.

Soon they arrived at the General Hospital of Xindu First Military Region.

As soon as the driver drove the car into the hospital, a large group of officers in military uniform and doctors and nurses in white coats gathered around the car.

"Father, you are here. We've gone through all the admission procedures. Director Lan and all the cardiac surgeons from the hospitals nearby are waiting for you in the conference room."

The officer who walked in front of others bowed to Huang Bingtian and said.

He wore a shoulder strap with two bars and four stars. Obviously, he was a senior colonel!

Huang Bingtian nodded and motioned for Lu Yiqian to follow him to the expert building of the hospital.

The senior colonel had also asked the doctors and nurses to send Lu Yao to the operating room and prepare for the operation.

Huang Bingtian and Lu Yiqian took the elevator to a large conference room on the ninth floor of the expert building.

When they pushed the door open, they found that there were more than 40 experts in the room, including some old experts in their 70s and 80s with gray hairs.

"Commander Huang, please take a seat!"

A doctor, who was about 50 years old and wore gold-rimmed glasses, saw them and quickly asked them to sit in the honor-guest seats.

Though this doctor didn't know Lu Yiqian who was plainly dressed, he greeted Lu Yiqian warmly. This doctor thought since Lu Yiqian came with Commander Huang, he couldn’t be an ordinary person.

"Thanks, Director Lan!" Huang Bingtian nodded to the doctor with gold-rimmed glasses and waved as a sign for people to sit down quietly.

"This is Mr. Lu Yiqian, the father of the patient. Director Lan, would you please brief us about the operation?"

Huang Bingtian also introduced Lu Yiqian to people in the room.

"Commander Huang, Mr. Lu, I believe that General Huang has briefed you on what to expect. But I have something to tell you. Just before you came in, Mr. Tian, deputy head of the hospital, called me and told me that Mr. Lu Yao was in a critical condition. He had a congenital heart defect and should have had an operation long ago. Somehow, he has missed his best treatment opportunity. His heart went into overdrive. Due to the external force, blood was oozing from his heart..."

"Well, Director Lan, you don't need to tell me all these things. I just want to know whether you can save Lu Yao or not. How will you save him? What is the biggest difficulty now? You can discuss the details yourselves later!"

Huang Bingtian interrupted Director Lan's report.

"Commander Huang, theoretically, Lu Yao can be cured in our hospital based on our medical technology. But the biggest problem is that there is no suitable donor!"

Hearing that, people in the room all sighed heavily.

"No suitable donor? I remember that many soldiers of our army have decided to donate their bodies for medical research after their death. How come there is no suitable donor?"

Hearing what Director Lan said, Huang Bingtian stared at him and asked.

"Commander Huang, well, there is something that I haven't told you. Lu Yao’s blood type is Rh-negative. This blood type is also known as panda blood because it is rare. Therefore, there are special requirements for donors. Normal heart donors won't satisfy the requirements!"

"What?"

Huang Bingtian and Lu Yiqian asked together.

Lu Yiqian's face was wet with tears.

Huang Bingtian's face clouded.

There was a sudden hush.

"Director Lan, do you still remember that the heart of Chi Ying, the leader of Eagle Special Forces, has been sealed in the No.1 cabinet of our hospital's secret organ bank since seven years ago? If my memory serves me correctly, Chi Ying was Rh-negative too." An old man with silver hair, who sat next to Huang Bingtian, clapped his forehead and said.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!"

Several of the oldest experts echoed the old man's views.

"Is it true Director Lan?"

"It's true, but..."

"But? Better save one life than build a seven-storeyed pagoda. What are you waiting for?"

Seeing that Director Lan was still hesitant, Huang Bingtian raised his voice.

"Well, I'll level with you." Director Lan finally made up his mind to tell the truth, "Commander Huang, Chi Ying was indeed the suitable donor. I've thought about him before, but there is something that you don't know. Chi Ying showed his superhuman abilities when he was alive. After he died, the Ministry of State Security asked relevant departments for permission to let 11 top cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, including myself, find out if there was anything peculiar about his heart. However, our abilities are limited. Many years have passed and we didn't make any progress. So the matter was dropped. But this does not mean that the Ministry of State Security has given up!"

Hearing what he said, Lu Yiqian became desperate again!

They finally knew the whole story.

"Excuse me for a second!"

When the others were at their wits' end, Huang Bingtian got up and walked out of the door.

About ten minutes later, Huang Bingtian pushed the door open again.

All eyes were on him as he walked into the conference room.

Ring!

People were interrupted by the telephone bell.

"Yes, yes, I see. I know what I should do!"

As Huang Bingtian entered the conference room, Director Lan's mobile phone rang.

"Ding, go and arrange for the operation."

"Li, ask someone to take Chi Ying's body out of the No.1 cabinet in the secret organ bank and take it to the conference room..."

People all went into action as Director Lan assigned tasks to them.

In less than half a minute, only Huang Bingtian and Lu Yiqian were still in the conference room.