Dean Li smiled slightly, “Indeed, the miracle doctor has kept a low profile. I am friends with her and know that she is generous, so I contacted her to help.” Dean Li was speaking the truth. However, he knew that after Su Mian heard that it was the Chinese Teacher’s daughter who was ill, she was even less likely to have refused.
“That’s good. It seems like there’s hope for Rui Rui.” The Chinese Teacher grabbed her husband’s hand and cried with joy.
“I wonder how old the miracle doctor is. I was in the countryside up north a while ago and had also heard of a miracle doctor who had cured many difficult diseases. Could this be that person?” Xu Gang, the Chinese Teacher’s husband, worked in the county government. He had gone to a town on the north side for a business trip and had indeed heard that there was a miracle doctor.
Dean Li chuckled happily, knowing that the person Xu Gang was talking about was Su Mian, “The miracle doctor is not very old, younger than 20 years, but you can rest assured, she has great medical skills.”
Su Mian brough Rui Rui into the examination room. Xiao Rui Rui was only seven years old and looked like the Chinese Teacher, Wu Yu Mei. Her face was slightly abnormally pale and she seemed exhausted. Perhaps she had been inspected too many times. Rui Rui was not afraid and when the nurse took her blood, she just stretched out her little arm obediently, then closed her eyes and waited.
After drawing the blood and pressing the site of the injection with a cotton swab, she raised her face and asked Su Mian, “Sister, am I going to die?”
Su Mian was taken aback, wondering how Rui Rui was able to tell that she was a girl, and even more shocked that Rui Rui knew that she was young.
“I don’t want to die so early, my mum and dad will definitely die from sadness, and so will my brother and all my grandparents. Sister, please save me.” Rui Rui said this in one breath with tears on the lashes of her big eyes.
Su Mian saw her tears falling and hugged her, “Rui Rui, it’s okay, Sister will make you better.” Although Rui Rui was young, she understood what adults thought. Her parents had taken her to see doctors everywhere and she also felt that she was terminally ill.
“Sister, can I really get better again? But I’m really tired. I try hard in front of mum and dad because I don’t want them to worry. But I know that I must have some serious sickness and can’t run after my older brother anymore.” Rui Rui spoke as her tears fell like a broken string of beads.
Su Mian really did not dare to think. Rui Rui was still so young and had suffered so much. Su Mian patted her little head, “Rui Rui will be as healthy as her brother in the future. Believe in Sister, Sister will heal you.”
“Really? Sister.” Rui Rui blinked, a longing to live in her eyes.
Su Mian nodded. This was the first time she felt a sense of mission and responsibility as a doctor.
Rui Rui underwent a check-up all morning and the test results would not be available until three days later. The Chinese Teacher and Xu Gang thanked them for their kindness and left.
“Is it complex?” Dean Li asked after the Chinese Teacher left.
“It is likely to be leukemia.” Su Mian had just scanned Rui Rui’s entire body with her X-ray eyesight and had not found any problems with her other organs. It was likely to be a blood issue.
“Leukemia?” It was the first time Dean Li had even heard of it.
It was no wonder as leukemia had been named by people in the later periods as the hematopoietic malignant tumour. It was only discovered and named in 1847 and was mentioned just a dozen times in the 1970s to the 1980s. It was not until the end of the 1980s that people began to pay attention to this disease.
Su Mian briefly summarized the etiology and pathology of leukemia to Dean Li.
“Then can it be cured?” Dean Li was frightened. He had never heard of this disease before, “Rui Rui is only seven, how could she have gotten this disease?”
