Zhu Qiang saw Lin Jie take a fresh pig's head out of the car and quickly ran over to take it, asking curiously, "Dr. Lin, are you thinking about changing your taste for lunch?"

"My cousin's family makes great braised pig's head, their old broth has been around for more than a decade."

Lin Jie laughed, "I specially ordered this from the market to practice my skills."

"But don't waste the meat, later you can take the raw meat peeled off to your cousin's house and trade it for some cooked stuff. We'll add it to everyone's meal at lunch!"

"Got it, my dad buys some of my cousin's pig's head meat every day to go with his drinks, you'll love it for sure!" Zhu Qiang said happily!

Lin Jie was preparing for the cranial surgery for Lin Miao and An Weize. Due to limited conditions, there were no cranial cases at hand, and no corpses available for practice, so they could only use an animal's brain to practice.

Relatively speaking, pig brains are the easiest to get.

People often say, you're dumb as a pig, but in fact, that's a serious insult to pigs.

Aside from humans, just in terms of IQ ranking, pigs' IQ is second only to dolphins and much higher than dogs. In IQ tests, they easily outsmart chimpanzees, just that chimpanzees are more flexible in physical movements, closer to humans.

In terms of brain structure, pigs' brains also have many similarities with human brains.

Lin Jie asked Zhu Qiang to put the pig's head in the operating room and went to the second-floor ward to check on Xiaoqi's situation himself.

In the ward, Xiaoqi had already eaten breakfast and was lying on the bed chatting lazily with a middle-aged uncle. When she saw Lin Jie coming in, a smile immediately spread across her face as she said, "Dr. Lin, you're here!"

"This is my dad, Sun Dafu. He's been out on the ship, just returned last night!"

Currently, Xiaoqi, with her plain face, looked pale but still very charming. Lin Jie felt that she was more attractive in her current state than after makeup, with an air of vulnerability.

Sun Dafu quickly stepped forward, gripping Lin Jie's hand tightly, and said gratefully, "My wife is pregnant, Xiaoqi was on the verge of death, and it's all thanks to you, really, thank you!"

Lin Jie felt the words were a bit ambiguous, chuckled, and began to check Xiaoqi's post-op condition!

After looking at her wound and the monitoring data from the instruments and asking some questions, Lin Jie adjusted some medication doses and said, "Overall, your recovery looks good. Starting today, you can get out of bed to do some light activities. Walking a bit can accelerate your wound healing!"

Xiaoqi nodded, pulled up her hospital gown to look at the bandaged chest wound, and said gloomily, "I'll have a scary scar like yours, but the position isn't great, can't show it off to scare people!"

Lin Jie was speechless, this odd girl's thought process was just different from others!

Sun Dafu also put on a stern face and scolded, "Look at you, not like a girl at all! Always hanging out with boys, either drinking or racing and fighting!"

"Now your mom is older and pregnant, once you're healed, stay home more and help with housework, take care of your mom!"

Xiaoqi grunted discontentedly, turned her face away, but didn't verbally rebut directly.

Lin Jie left the ward and went straight to the operating room, changed into disposable sterile work clothes, and began the pig meat peeling work on the pig's head on the workbench!

His main purpose was to practice the feel and find the sense of performing a cranial surgery.

After Zhu Qiang took away the pig's head meat, Lin Jie methodically extracted the pig brain from the pig skull completely, and then carefully dissected the pig brain, meticulously separating each functional area of the pig brain...

"So gross, I won't eat tofu pudding anymore!"

Lin Jie glanced sideways at Xiaoqi, who came in uninvited pushing an IV pole, and said plainly, "This isn't the place for your stroll, go wander in the hallway."

Xiaoqi pleaded, "Dad's gone, no one to accompany me, I'm so bored, talk with me, please!"

"If you're bored, you can surf the internet, watch TV, or call Dahei, the Monkey, or other people over. I'm busy now, don't have time to chat!"

"Then I'll just stand here and watch, won't disturb you, okay?"

Lin Jie ignored her and continued doing his own work.

Half an hour later, seeing Xiaoqi still standing there quietly, seemingly very interested in watching him dissecting the pig brain, Lin Jie said, "You're not suited for standing for long now, you should go back and rest on the bed."

"I'm not tired yet!"

Xiaoqi whispered, "Sister Shanshan told me that yesterday my situation was particularly critical. Even in a big hospital, there was a big chance I couldn't be saved, let alone here!"

"She said, she had given up hope on me, didn't expect you to miraculously pull me back from the brink of death. Lin Jie, I owe you my life!"

Lin Jie said casually, "Sister Shanshan exaggerated it too much, she was scaring you."

"At that time, considering our roles, I was the doctor, you were the patient, saving you was my duty and job, and I also receive a salary for it, so you don't owe me anything!"

Xiaoqi insisted, "Regardless, you saved me, without you, I would've died for sure, you are my savior!"

Seeing Lin Jie didn't respond and continued to ignore her, Xiaoqi self-consciously muttered, "You must be wondering why I'm called Xiaoqi, right? I'm my dad's only daughter, not seventh among cousins or siblings!"

"Want to know why?"

Xiaoqi answered her own question, "Since you're so curious, let me tell you! I was born on July 7th, at 7:07 AM. Dad said I have a connection with the number seven, so he named me Sun Xiaoqi!"

"It's not a girl's name at all, dad was just lazy, annoyed I'm a girl, and gave me such a casual name!"

Xiaoqi sulked with a face about to cry, "I wanted to change my name when I grew up, but Dad wouldn't let me, I'm so frustrated."

"Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi!" At this point, Zhang Daya's voice came from outside the operating room.

"Seems I really should be going back, it was nice chatting with you. Bye-bye!"

After saying this, Xiaoqi pushed the IV pole and slowly moved out of the operating room!

Lin Jie continued dissecting the pig's brain for another five hours.

In the afternoon, he received a call from An Kexin.

"Today, my dad experienced stabbing head pain and dizziness, almost fell. I want to arrange a personal nurse, but my dad won't allow it, fearing Kemeng might notice something's wrong."

"Lin Jie, the operating room is ready. Can we do the surgery earlier?"

Lin Jie estimated his physical condition. The results of his intense training during this period were quite good, and he figured he could maintain his energy throughout the surgery by taking some side-effect reduced stimulants if necessary.

Thinking of this, he said, "I have no problem with it, but one thing, my sister's surgery won't be moved up! If you trust my skills, and Mr. An agrees, the surgery can be earlier, I have no objections!"

There was a brief silence on the other end of the line!

"I'll discuss it with my dad then! Lin Jie, when will you come to inspect the operating room?"

Lin Jie thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow evening, I'll come over after work!"

PS.

Please collect! Please recommend! Please comment! Please support, dear readers!

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.