Chapter 327: Chapter 324: This Is What a Man Is
Although a bit surprised by her appearance,, once he considered Elder Qin’s influence in the background.
It all seemed not as hard to understand.
Qin Miaoke also dragged her little suitcase over to Zhang Hao’s side.
"Mr. Zhang, we can definitely eradicate the disease in that place this time, right?"
Zhang Hao coughed unnaturally and smiled at Qin Miaoke.
The leadership at the hospital had intentionally selected Zhang Hao to be the team leader,
but being a leader meant being able to control the overall situation, something Zhang Hao deeply felt he was not cut out for.
So, he entrusted this key responsibility to the surgical director.
After completing the pre-departure mobilization, the group finally boarded the bus heading for the airport.
The driver drove steadily, hardly making any sudden stops, and they arrived at the airport twenty minutes earlier than expected.
This gave them time to visit the restroom and take a brief rest.
Hours passed in a blur, and once the plane landed and they disembarked, the sight of the dilapidated airport was before them.
Zhang Hao did not have much expectation for the life ahead in the coming days.
"Wait a moment, our team will split into groups of three and take cars to the county."
Following the team leader’s arrangement, it went without saying that Qin Miaoke would be with Zhang Hao.
This combination was also taken for granted by Zhang Hao.
Besides the medical team from Tong’an Hospital, there were teams from other hospitals as well.
A rough count suggested that more than twenty people had come,
practically mobilizing all the experts from the major hospitals.
Once they got on the bus, Qin Miaoke couldn’t help but murmur, "It’s a pity that Lin Wan didn’t come."
Zhang Hao was also puzzled. Lin Wan’s skills were not lacking and should have been considered by the hospital leaders.
Unless she herself did not want to come, in which case she couldn’t be forced.
The roads in the small city were not as smooth as imagined, patchy and bumpy the whole way.
Upon reaching the county, they switched to private cars!
These cars were old models, and some looked like they were about to fall apart.
Qin Miaoke quickly claimed a better one, urging Zhang Hao to hurry over.
Such things, naturally, Zhang Hao could not initiate, but Qin Miaoke could.
Once in the car, Qin Miaoke began to take credit.
"Mr. Zhang, isn’t it great to have me around?"
At that moment, Zhang Hao could hardly say she wasn’t a boon and nodded in agreement:
"Good, good, good. Take this chance to close your eyes and rest for a bit."
But how could Qin Miaoke sleep at that moment? She was as energized as if injected with chicken blood.
"I rarely come to such a place. I must look carefully. I can’t help but to look."
Seeing her so animated, Zhang Hao felt helpless and let her be.
After the car started and moved along a smooth stretch of road.
The asphalt suddenly vanished, and the car began to sway and bump along.
Even if Zhang Hao wanted to close his eyes in the car, it was impossible.
He could only let his body rise and fall with the jolts of the car,
though the driver seemed used to such roads and did not show a hint of worry.
After more than an hour of jostling, the car finally came to a stop.
The ones in bad shape got out and found somewhere to double over and vomit.
Zhang Hao was in relatively good condition, but Qin Miaoke was staggering, about to hit a wall.
It was only by Zhang Hao’s timely intervention that she avoided a mishap.
Even though it was night, lamps were lit at the entrance of the village, one notably large yellow bulb.
It was the last light source apart from the car headlights.
Greeting them at the village entrance were the village cadres, who had been looking forward to their arrival.
Seeing the medical team, tears of joy were on their faces.
"We’ve finally waited for you to come. The doctors and nurses from the county have been falling ill these past few days, if you hadn’t come, our villages would have been in danger."
After the team captain’s inquiry, initially there was one person who contracted a strange illness, his whole body ached.
He was sent to the county hospital for examination, but no results came out of it.
However, the village was remote, and he had no money to seek treatment in a big city.
So, he just dragged on, and the people taking care of him began to experience full-body aches as well.
Then, it gradually began to spread.
The symptoms were contagious, yet the cause remained unknown.
This was getting a bit tricky.
"Zhang Hao, you practice traditional Chinese medicine, what do you think?"
"Illness enters through the mouth."
The medical team had no time to rest as they entered the village overnight.
They immediately began examinations and treatment.
Busy until dawn and nearing noon, they finally had to rest under the strong insistence of the village chief.
As for where the medical team rested, they stayed in the homes of villagers who had not yet fallen ill.
Zhang Hao and Qin Miaoke were like conjoined twins, always together wherever they went.
The place where they stayed naturally was in the same courtyard.
Having been busy for half the night and all morning, Zhang Hao was all sweaty; he got himself a basin of water and went to the bathhouse constructed by the villagers to wipe himself off.
No sooner had he taken off his clothes than he felt a gaze staring at him.
Zhang Hao, with his upper body bare, came out and saw Qin Miaoke standing outside.
"Haven’t you ever seen a man bathe before?"
Qin Miaoke shook her head, "I really haven’t. And you bathe with your pants on?"
Zhang Hao frowned, realizing he had no way of dealing with Qin Miaoke.
"Go back to your room, or you’ll regret it in a bit."
Qin Miaoke, who had picked up the knack of whistling from somewhere, whistled at Zhang Hao, raising her eyebrows suggestively. The flirtatious whistle almost made Zhang Hao grab a stick to chase after her.
"Lucky you’re quick on your feet. If you peek again, I’ll just..."
What he would do, Zhang Hao didn’t really have words for; he had to hurry up and take a bath.
However, just as Zhang Hao returned to the bathhouse, he still felt a gaze upon him.
"Qin Miaoke, if you’re peeking again, I’m really going to strip down," Zhang Hao said.
When there was no response from outside, he thought she was embarrassed.
Zhang Hao quickly stripped off his pants, underwear and all.
The basin of water barely sufficed for a quick rinse, but thankfully there was a pipe on the wall—even though it was cold water, it was better than not washing at all.
Outside the bathhouse, a girl with braided pigtails peered through the cracks in the bricks, gazing intently inside.
So this is what a man’s body looks like?
The girl was so engrossed in her observation that she didn’t even hear her father calling her.
"You silly girl, what are you looking at? Come over here quickly!"
The girl looked to be about eighteen or nineteen, her eyes exuding an innocent bewilderment.
But what she had just seen was enough to make her cheeks flush to the tips of her ears.
"Dad, stop it, be careful others hear you. I won’t look anymore," she said.
Although the girl said she wouldn’t look, there was an itch in her heart.
She had grown up in this village; none of the boys in the village were good-looking.
Zhang Hao finished his bath, put on clean and fresh clothes, and stepped out of the washroom.
He was just about to ask the house owner where to wash the clothes.
That’s when the girl rushed over, "I’ll wash them for you. I can wash them very clean."
Zhang Hao, new to the place, felt he couldn’t let a villager help him wash his clothes.
But no matter what he said, he couldn’t refuse the girl’s good intentions, so he reluctantly let her help wash them clean.
Seeing this, Qin Miaoke felt a twinge of jealousy, but she didn’t know how to hand-wash clothes herself.
She had no way to show off in front of Zhang Hao.
