17 Anxious Old Batu (1/2)

Since Politician Kang didn't want to drink, Batu also didn't drink very much. Back on the way to the hospital, Batu asked Zhang Fan, ”Do you know how to drive?” Batu had thought over it for quite a while before he asked.

Kang Hua didn't want to go to the hospital, nor did she want anyone to know that she had health problems. The hotel she lived at was approximately three kilometers away from the hospital. Winters in Kuake City saw darkness arriving extremely early in the evening, so the taxi drivers in the city would have long since stopped working already by the time that Zhang Fan normally got off from work. It would be quite unrealistic to have Zhang Fan walk the entire distance. While Batu would have been more than happy to drive Zhang Fan on a daily basis so that he could also often show up in front of Politician Kang, he knew that would make Politician Kang unhappy as it would be too obvious he was trying to get into her good graces.

”I don't know how to drive. Superintendent Batu, are you going to give me a car?” Zhang Fan felt that all men would love cars, unless they were too poor to afford one.

”Of course not, little brat. I originally wanted to loan you a car that you could drive, but you don't know how to drive. In that case, sign up for driving school tomorrow. Learn how to drive as quickly as you can, and I'll loan you a car once you learn how. I can't exactly be your personal driver every day.”

”Even at the quickest, it would take me at least one month to graduate from driving school and obtain my driver's license, wouldn't it? Besides, isn't tuition quite expensive?” One of Zhang Fan's college roommates had previously signed up for driving school. Zhang Fan heard from his roommate that driving school tuition would cost several thousand yuan.

”I can have Old Zhou teach you how to drive. Don't worry about driving without a license, it'll be fine as long as you know how to drive1. I think that three days should be enough for you to learn?” Old Zhou was one of the ambulance drivers at Kuake City Hospital.

”Wouldn't it take at least a week for me to learn?” Zhang Fan was rather nervous because he had never sat behind the steering wheel of a car before.

”It's really simple. You'll learn it right away. I didn't even need to learn, as I figured it out by myself.” Since things had gone so well today, Batu was becoming a bit prideful as he began to brag.

Over the past few days, Li Hui had been quite anxious. Zhang Fan hadn't been back to the hospital dormitory for a while, so he went back for a visit. He discovered that Li Hui seemed to be quite dejected, so Zhang Fan commented, ”Bro, you need to restrain yourself. You're emptying out your body at such a young age? You'll be filled with tears a few years down the road.” He then tossed Li Hui a cigarette, and then lay down to rest for a while on his old bed. Zhang Fan's old bed now belonged to the fatty Li Liang.

”Sigh, I've lost face, I've lost an incredible amount of face. I don't have any face to see my parents anymore!” Li Hui really wanted to tell someone about his troubles.

”Haha, then tell me what's going on so that I can have a good laugh.” Zhang Fan found Li Hui's troubles funny.

”No way! Go to hell.”

”Oh, aren't you quite something? I'll go ask Wang Sha later, then,” Zhang Fan teased Li Hui.

”Stop, I'll tell you! She's been really angry at me for the past several days!”

”What exactly happened?”

Li Hui took a long drag on his cigarette before speaking. ”I almost made a mistake that any man would make. However, I didn't even f*cking get the chance to make that mistake when I was discovered.”

Zhang Fan became amused by this. ”So you were two-timing your girlfriend? Haha, you deserve it!”

”Are you going to listen or not! If you keep spreading salt on my wound, I'm not going to tell you anymore.”

”I'm listening, please continue. I won't say anything else.”

”There's a nurse that works together with me. She comes to chat with me every day. Three days ago, I was working the night shift together with her. So, we sat down together and started chatting in a doctor's office. I don't know how, but we started hugging each other. And before I got to do anything, Wang Sha pushed open the door to the office and started looking at me. I was so scared! Even now, Wang Sha is still ignoring me.”

”Don't you still have that nurse to comfort you then?”

”Don't even mention it. After Wang Sha left the office without saying anything, the nurse told me that she only viewed me as a friend, yet I tried to touch her without her consent. Damn it all, I was so angry that I was seeing red.”

”Hahaha, this is hilarious!” Zhang Fan rested for a while, and ignored the dejected Li Hui. Some time later, Zhang Fan went to find Old Zhou to begin learning how to drive a car.

Over the next few days, Zhang Fan practiced driving during lunch break, and had to go visit Kang Hua after work each day to give her rehabilitative massages. He was quite busy. One day after he finished his lunchtime driving practice, he saw that every single person in surgical department #2 had gathered together, except for Tu Xun. Even Director Nuar, who hadn't shown up to work for a long while, was present today. ”What's going on, is today the day that we're supposed to receive our salary?” Zhang Fan joked.