Chapter 174: 143 Doctor Lu Doesn’t Seem So Cold Anymore (1st Update)_1 Chapter 174: 143 Doctor Lu Doesn’t Seem So Cold Anymore (1st Update)_1 The news of little girls feigning illness to confess to Lu Han in his office soon spread throughout the entire hospital.

There were male doctors who had been single since college and were quite emotional about it, “Ah, why don’t we get a piece of such good fortune.”

“What do you think? Doctor Lu is a doctor, and so are you, Doctor Lu. Doctor Lu has thick hair, and your hair?”

“…”

Talking is fine, but personal attacks like that are uncalled for.

It’s commonly known that medical students will go bald from studying so hard. Besides, he wasn’t the only young doctor with hair loss.

And it’s not just doctors; when the time comes, other people will lose their hair too.

Of course, it must be said that there are also the favored ones who excel at everything they learn and don’t have to pay the price of going bald for their achievements, like the others.

Look at Doctor Lu, a department head at such a young age, and the key point is that he’s handsome and popular with the girls.

The hospital’s most eligible bachelor, and a continuous line of girls ready to follow in his footsteps.

They have a hard time just trying to find a match in the dating market, but Doctor Lu sits in his office and has plenty of girls eagerly confessing to him.

That’s life—some people you just can’t compare yourself to.

Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable.

Ah——

“What kind of girl do you think Doctor Lu actually likes?” A few enthusiastic and outgoing male doctors gathered, also very much into gossiping.

“Natural untamed beauty, like a lotus flower rising from clear water.”

In the hospital staff cafeteria, Bai Dingxian appeared with Lu Han, just in time to overhear colleagues gossiping about Lu Han. Bai Dingxian then used a line of poetry to answer everyone’s curious question.

Lu Han’s girlfriend had turned down his lunch invitation, so he had no choice but to casually have a meal in the hospital cafeteria with Bai Dingxian.

After all, Bai Dingkai would be thick-skinned enough to stay at his place in the evening, and then try to mooch off him, so saving a bit at noon wasn’t a bad idea.

Even when Bai Dingxian heard Lu Han reluctantly join him in the hospital cafeteria for lunch in order to save money, Bai Dingxian couldn’t help but sneer, “No way, does Lu Han need to save money?”

“Of course, saving money is how you get married.”

Bai Dingxian: “…”

I mean, could you set some limits on what you say and be a bit more decent as a person? Don’t be like someone who doesn’t know hunger and pain, wounding others with your double-edged sword, that’s really unfriendly.

“What?” People in medical fields are rarely literary types, and sometimes their thought processes are just too straightforward.

“What what? Weren’t you guys just asking what kind of girl our Doctor Lu really likes?”

“Yes, but why are you, Doctor Bai, showing off your knowledge of poetry and prose?”

Lu Han: “Pfft…”

Show off, that’s a good way to put it.

Bai Dingxian really wanted to kick that bastard as far away as possible.

Can’t you speak properly? What does ‘show off’ even mean?

“I’m not showing off a damn thing,” Bai Dingxian spat out, letting slip the local Hua City dialect in his irritation.

Looking back to when they first arrived, spoke with a Beijing accent, and appeared very sophisticated, they stood out awkwardly from the locals.

Luckily, they were all young, and the world of medicine is simple—either studying, taking exams, or dealing with patients. Busy with their daily work, they didn’t have as many tricks up their sleeves as other professions.

Especially the front-line doctors who deal with patients every day, working hard to earn money to support their families.

“Old Bai, you’ve gotten pretty good at our Hua City dialect. What, have you got yourself a girlfriend from Hua City? You think you can handle Hua City girls?”

“Whether I can handle it or not, what the hell does it have to do with you? No wonder Hua City men have serious bronchitis, being so gossipy. Really, not a bit manly.”

“Come on, Lu Han, let’s not bother with these jerks,” he said in the end, trying to get Lu Han to join him.

“…”

Lu Han frowned slightly; a big man shouldn’t be cursing with every other word.

With Lu Han there, no one dared to gossip about him to his face.

Bai Dingxian ordered a spicy chicken set meal for lunch, while Lu Han went for a pork with preserved vegetables set, both adding a bowl of egg custard soup to their meals.

Each with their own set meal, they picked an empty table to sit down at when some bold and shameless fellow approached them, “The pig’s feet today are not bad. Old Bai, it’s on you, right? I heard you got a hefty bonus last month.”

“Envious of my bonus? Sure, why not. Go tell Old Ke, let’s switch places. You go work in my emergency department, and I’ll go to your internal medicine.”

“I guess I’ll pass, I’m quite happy with my position in internal medicine.”

“Master He, the braised pig’s trotters, pack the whole pot and deliver them to us,” Lu Han suddenly put down his chopsticks and went to the window to pack up the remaining braised pig’s trotters.

After swiping his card, Lu Han brought them over to his colleagues in internal medicine, “Eat slowly, if you can’t finish, everyone find a bag to take it home.”

The employee canteen’s braised pig’s trotters are sold as one whole trotter cut in half, even with an employee discount it’s still eight yuan each.

That pot probably had close to a hundred in it.

A hundred would be eight hundred yuan, right?

Doctor Lu didn’t even blink and just packed it all up for them to eat?

Not letting them eat on the spot and allowing them to take it home if they can’t finish, isn’t that just too generous?

“Lu Han, have you lost your mind, don’t you see this kid is just trying to trick you?”

“It’s okay, Tang Su had an infusion in their department, so I owe their department a favor.”

“But the hard work was done by the nurses in internal medicine, what does that have to do with those guys? Look at them, all those meat-starved fellows who aren’t even from internal medicine are there, it’s basically finders keepers.”

“Didn’t you just say you need to save up to get married? What now, not in a rush anymore?”

“…”

Lu Han couldn’t be bothered to argue with him any longer.

He certainly remembered the internal medicine nurses who looked after Tang Su when he was feverish while he was working, so he needed to finish eating quickly. After eating, he planned to personally buy afternoon tea and pastries for those hardworking nurses.

What men and women like varies.

Women at any stage had dieting on their lips, including his female patients, and even his dear mom and sister. Therefore, something as greasy as pig’s trotter was probably not to the liking of those who were dieting.

In the end, Bai Dingxian couldn’t resist the temptation of the braised pig’s trotters and seeing that Lu Han was ignoring him, got up to join the fight over the trotters with those rascals.

The doctors from the emergency department worked like dogs every day, not afraid of such greasy delicacies.

As for internal medicine, aside from the flu season, they were mostly twiddling their thumbs getting moldy with boredom.

No rascal would dare to keep complaining in front of emergency department doctors.

After all, with the frequency at which the emergency department was busy, if they ever humbly claimed to be second, no other department would dare to claim first.

The male doctors gossiping about Lu Han showed a thorough understanding of the saying that ‘one who takes another’s food is short of words.’ After eating the pig’s trotters that Lu Han paid for, they felt embarrassed to gossip about the spades flower incident in Lu Han’s clinic anymore.

A spades flower referred to an unsuccessful romantic pursuit.

A successful romantic pursuit is called a hearts flower.

The female doctors, seeing the greasy pig’s trotters, didn’t want to eat them, thinking about how Lu Han was inviting them to eat because of the day internal medicine took care of Tang Su.

Since they were all from internal medicine, Doctor Lu couldn’t possibly treat them differently, right?

“Doctor Lu, what about us?” the female doctors asked in unison.

“Afternoon tea, delivered at 2:30 p.m.”

“Wow, thank you, Doctor Lu.”

“You’re welcome.”

Lu Han quickly finished his lunch and left Bai Dingxian behind to discuss the delicious pig’s trotters with the others while he went as he promised to order their afternoon tea.

When Bai Dingxian realized Lu Han was gone, he asked the female doctors leisurely eating the grains on their plates, “Where’s Doctor Lu?”

“He went to order our afternoon tea,” one female doctor replied.

“Huh, so proactive,” Bai Dingxian said, a bit annoyed. He hadn’t even said which milk tea he wanted, and the guy had run off without waiting for him.

It wouldn’t be that there’s no share of the afternoon tea for him today, would it?

There were so many people in their emergency department, after all, they were the ones who contributed the most.

Hmph—

“By the way, Doctor Bai, Doctor Lu hasn’t been as cold lately, is there something good happening?” With Lu Han gone, the female doctors started to dig for information from Bai Dingxian.

Of course, they were digging for Lu Han’s gossip.

After all, Bai Dingxian’s gossip wasn’t of much interest to them.

“Whoa, sharp eyes there, Xiaomi, come on, tell your brother Bai in detail, how did you figure out that something good is happening with Doctor Lu?”

“…”