Chapter 80 Kidney Disease

  After Gu's dad and Wang uncle went out to talk, Gu Xiang played with his dad's computer.

  There's nothing fun on the computer either, although there is internet, but at that time the TV dramas were still those old clichés in Gu Xiang's memory.

  There were also some forms and documents on the desktop, all of which were not encrypted. Gu Xiang flipped through them casually and saw several contracts. Although they didn't make much sense to her, they looked quite formal.

  Later she simply opened a small game website and played games like dress-up, archery, and other similar games on it.

  An hour has passed without realizing it.

  Every time Dad comes back from outside, he sees his daughter sitting in front of the computer, staring intently with unblinking eyes.

  He walked over and took a look, it turned out they were playing games.

  "Yaya, you're going to be a freshman soon, you can't be addicted to games anymore." He finally managed to squeeze out this sentence after holding back for half a day.

  Gu Xiang said helplessly, "What's wrong with that? I'm just playing around. Besides, who gets addicted to games like this? Everyone else is playing online games with me, the kind where you kill monsters and level up."

  "Gu's father went 'oh' and pulled out a point card from the drawer, asking her: "Is this the kind of game you're talking about?"

  Gu Xiang took a look and found that her dad had taken out a "Dream Journey to the West" game card, which was currently very popular. As far as she knew, many of her classmates were playing it now.

  Gu Xiang said, "Dad Gu said: 'This is your Uncle Wang's son who was left in my office last time. Isn't summer vacation just over? The final exam results are also out, and Uncle Wang asked him to go to a cram school, but he didn't go, and instead stayed at home playing games, not sleeping or eating. He's worried Uncle Wang so much that he hasn't had a good night's sleep for several days.'"

  Gu Xiang had some impression of Wang Shu's son, who was also a chubby little boy when he was young. He used to like pulling her braids, but after Wang Shu got divorced, his son suddenly became gloomy.

  "What's going on? Were you guys just talking about this?"

  "Your uncle Wang said that recently he would be going out for a while, sending his son to a base in another city to cure his internet addiction. He will also accompany him and said they would be gone for a month."

  Gu Xiang suddenly thought of some news she had read before and asked her dad, "It won't be one of those military-style closed training bases, will it? I've heard that kind of place is chaotic. It's like brainwashing, and there are even rumors of using electric shocks for training."

  "Where did you hear this? You think it's an electric chair for labor reform prisoners? This electricity can't kill people."

  Gu Xiang explained: "Really, as long as the voltage is adjusted properly, it won't electrocute people, but it will cause a painful sensation. Using this method to train people's conditioned reflexes, so that later on, whenever they think about going online, their body will remember the pain from back then."

  Gu Xiang said with great certainty, fearing that his dad wouldn't believe him, so he opened Baidu and very skillfully searched for some reports on electric shock training to show him.

  Gu's father looked more and more frightened, clutched his briefcase tightly and said: "Yaya, you play here for a while. I'll go talk to your Uncle Wang about something. He just left, should still be able to catch up."

  After her father left, Gu Xiang continued to prop up her chin and play computer.

  Before long, someone came knocking on the door. Gu Xiang said "come in", and a female employee in her twenties entered.

  She had never met Gu Xiang either, and the two of them exchanged a rather awkward glance.

  "Go ask my dad? He just went to catch up with Uncle Wang about something and will be back soon."

  The female employee smiled and said: "Okay, I'll put the report on the table. When Director Gu comes back, let him take a look."

  Gu Xiang responded with an "en" sound, took the thing from her hand and flipped through it casually.

  This female employee was a new finance staff in the factory, quite young. Seeing Gu Xiang, such a little girl sitting seriously on a leather chair, she found it somewhat amusing.

  Gu Xiang finished and said: "This reimbursement is not on the account, right? Although the date is correct, I saw the news two days ago that the neighboring city's road reconstruction, this restaurant is in the reconstruction area, it doesn't make sense to go on a business trip and deliberately detour to stay there. Moreover, this receipt is handwritten, now many regular places are not like this. Like this star-rated hotel that reported, how could they still use such a receipt?"

  The financial situation is embarrassing. This voucher was given to her by the person below, she checked the date and amount, and then handed it over for approval. Who knows whether the road reconstruction will be done or not.

  "Then I'll take it down and check again."

  Gu Xiang said: "No need, anyway it's not a big deal. Living in an ordinary place and living in a star-rated place is just a difference of a few hundred yuan, as long as you have a number in your heart."

  The smile on his face almost froze as he walked away.

  Gu Xiang had seen their team leader come up with all sorts of ways to expense things before, and this kind of thing was actually pretty common everywhere.

  As long as it's not too excessive, generally it's a case of turning a blind eye, but looking at that finance person just now, the kind who has no idea is not good. I don't know if she's another "top talent" found by her dad.

  Dad didn't come back until lunchtime, saying he had reminded Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang also said that if something happened to the child, he wouldn't just throw him in and ignore him. He wanted to try going with him to see if it was possible, and if what Gu Xiang said really happened, he would immediately take his son back.

  In fact, internet addiction is something that only people who are lacking in reality will have. Have you ever seen someone from a happy and fulfilling family, with a smooth sailing life, get addicted to the internet?

  A disease of the heart can be cured by a medicine that reaches the heart.

  This kind of crash training is definitely not effective, and parents are also desperate.

  After Gu's dad came back and saw the things brought by the finance department, he asked her: "Has the finance department just been here?"

  Gu Xiang said: "Yes, I just checked your account book. That one doesn't add up."

  Gu's father merely flipped through it and responded with a simple "en", looking like he didn't find this kind of thing unusual at all.

  It's almost eleven o'clock, so Father Gu said he would take Gu Xiang out for dinner.

  When the two of them walked out together, it was unclear whether she had just rushed in and out too quickly, but Mr. Gu felt a slight pain in his waist.

  "Gu Xiang looked at his dad pressing his right waist and not speaking, his face looking quite bad, 'Dad, what's wrong?'"

  Dad said: "Maybe it's because I ran in and out just now, a bit short of breath. It's okay, it's been like this lately. Dad is getting old after all."

  Gu Xiangke didn't have the humor to joke with her dad, but instead seriously suggested: "Have you been in pain all this time? Let's go to the hospital and take a look."

  "What's the point of doing that, I'm just fed up."

  "Go and get a registration slip, it won't cost much."

  Of course, Father Gu didn't care about the money either. He had thought it wasn't a big deal before, and he was busy with work himself. Now that his daughter was by his side making suggestions, Father Gu's heart warmed up, and he felt relieved all over, immediately saying: "Alright, we'll go to the hospital after dinner."

  Two people had lunch at a small restaurant. Three small stir-fries and one soup, the total bill was less than 100 yuan.

  Mr. Gu has always been thin and doesn't eat much. In the past, Gu Xiang could eat a lot, but now he can't either, his stomach has shrunk, looking at the leftovers on the table is also heart-wrenching, so I said let's pack it up and take it back to eat tonight.

  "Pack what? It's hot outside and it'll go bad by tonight. It's not even worth much money."

  Gu Xiang said: "It's not about the money, nowadays even elementary school students know that wasting is shameful." However, thinking about what her dad said was also right, in the afternoon two people still had to go to the hospital and then to the bookstore. The takeout placed in the car would probably go bad, so she didn't insist anymore.

  It was almost noon and there were not many people in the hospital.

  Gu Xiang accompanied his father to Pune and got a number because it wasn't an expert number, so they didn't have to wait for long.

  The old doctor asked a few questions and then pressed on Gu's father's body before saying that it might be a problem with his kidneys.

  This is a bit awkward, Gu Xiang tactfully said he wanted to go buy some drinks and took the opportunity to slip away.

  Gu Xiang wandered outside the hospital, where the scorching sun was like a fire, and just looking at it made her feel hot.

  She bought a can of ice cream and sat in the hospital lobby drinking it for a while.

  Later, she guessed her father should be out and took the elevator up again.

  Mr. Gu happened to come down and met the two of them face to face.

  Gu Xiang was about to ask how it went, but felt a bit embarrassed, and Gu Dad's face didn't look particularly good either. She just asked vaguely: "How is it, Dad? Did the doctor say everything is fine?"

  Dad smiled and said, "It's nothing, just need to do a few checks. Dad has an acquaintance at another hospital, go there in two days." Then changed the subject and said, "Let's go, go to the book city to buy books."

  Gu Xiang didn't say anything else and followed her dad to buy books.

  On the way, Gu Xiang felt that her dad was a bit abnormal. He used to love teasing her and talking to her, but now he was driving without making a sound.

  But according to her memory, her father's body had never been seriously ill.

  Is it because of kidney problems, men are more concerned about it?

  But she had a younger brother in junior high school, so it should be fine after checking...