Chapter 643: Chapter 494: The Border Collie Cares for the Child and Brings Her Milk!
"Why do I feel a bit of bitterness when Dr. Chen mentions the equipment is outdated?!"
"No matter how skilled the doctors at the university hospital are, it’s still just a university hospital. You can’t compare its equipment to that of a proper hospital, let alone a top-tier one!"
"But there’s no choice. With the situation of these fragile students at Hai City University, they can’t do without the campus doctor."
"Not to mention the fragile students, even the children of the faculty and staff are a handful. Either they jump off buildings, eat rat poison, or drink latex paint. After watching this show, I even feel like Dr. Chen is almost more important than the president."
"The president has been out of the scene for a long time. We don’t even know if he’s out of the ICU yet."
"The person most eager for the president to be discharged is not Dr. Chen, but Secretary Lu. Since the president’s incident, the work originally belonging to the president has been taken over by Secretary Lu, and it seems like he’s overwhelmed."
"The university hospital at Hai City University is already well-equipped. If only they had a few more sterile operating rooms."
"???"
"The idea of equipping them with sterile operating rooms is already quite advanced. But several??? How many cases do you expect from these fragile students in a day???
"Just raising my hand timidly to add, it wasn’t the fragile students who drank latex paint. They shouldn’t be blamed for this!"
"..."
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"I understand, if there’s any problem later on, I’ll take the child directly to the hospital."
The old professor cradled his still-vomiting child, feeling incredibly distressed.
Noticing that the child’s current issue wasn’t major, Chen Mu curiously looked at the old professor, who was still worrying over the child. "Speaking of which, some time ago, after a child poured rat poison into the food, didn’t the school already notify everyone to keep such items out of the kids’ reach as much as possible?"
"So how come your child could get access to these things?"
"And even drink latex paint?"
Failing to distinguish between milk and latex paint and drinking it without asking an adult is certainly a mistake on the child’s part.
But setting aside this issue, the child is a victim here.
Parents do have a supervisory responsibility toward their children.
To Chen Mu, such incidents absolutely shouldn’t occur.
Facing Chen Mu’s intense gaze, the old professor looked a bit uncomfortable.
Sighing, he said, "To be honest, it’s partly our fault. We originally put the latex paint on top of the fridge and locked the kitchen door before going to sleep, thinking nothing would happen..."
"But unexpectedly..."
Chen Mu was slightly puzzled. "Even if a child could open the kitchen door, they still wouldn’t be able to reach something on top of the fridge, right? Isn’t the fridge normally quite tall?"
"Or could it be..."
Chen Mu furrowed his brow, seriously contemplating, "Could it be that your child moved a stool to reach it?"
The professor’s gaze began to waver.
Such a simple question.
Yet Chen Mu, somewhat surprisingly, noticed a trace of guilt on the professor’s face.
This only made Chen Mu’s curiosity grow even more.
With a thoughtful look, he focused on the professor beside him.
After struggling to find the right words for a while, the professor finally began to speak, a bit guiltily, "After the incident, we tried to figure out what happened. My daughter checked the living room footage, and here’s what unfolded..."
"My granddaughter managed to drink the latex paint ’milk’ through a joint operation."
Chen Mu: "Huh?"
Could it be...
Did someone in the family actually hand the latex paint to the child?
It couldn’t be, right.
Even if a child can’t distinguish latex paint, they wouldn’t realize its severity.
Adults should be able to tell.
If an adult knowingly gave the latex paint to the child, the professor’s family would likely have alerted the authorities by now.
Because that would no longer be accidental ingestion but potentially premeditated harm.
Facing Chen Mu’s puzzled gaze, the professor continued to smile wryly, saying, "We have pets at home, and my granddaughter has a good relationship with them. According to the surveillance footage, my granddaughter initially saw the latex paint on the fridge behind the glass kitchen door and mistook it for milk, so she really wanted to drink it."
"But she couldn’t reach it herself, so she wandered back and forth, visiting our bedroom several times."
"Probably because we were napping and didn’t want to disturb us, she went in and out a few times but didn’t wake us."
Listening to the professor’s explanation, Chen Mu gently patted the little girl’s head, smiling, "She must be a very considerate child at home."
The little girl, still trying to expel sourness, brightened when she heard Chen Mu’s praise.
She secretly straightened her back.
Accepting the compliment!
Seeing the girl’s slightly proud demeanor, Chen Mu smiled subtly.
Thinking to himself.
Children are indeed easy to cheer up.
His gaze.
Once again landed on the old professor, "If she didn’t seek an adult’s help, then how did she find assistance?"
The old professor appeared embarrassed to speak, "We have a Border Collie at home."
Chen Mu: "..."
He seems to, understand now???
The old professor: "Though we locked the kitchen door, for our Border Collie, it wasn’t challenging at all."
