Chapter 54: An Emergency
Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
“What?!” Hao Ren froze and felt a surge of blood rush through his head, “What’s the situation?”
“I called an ambulance, but it’s not here yet!” Uncle Wang said anxiously.
“Zhao Jiayi, take my books to the dorm for me!” Hao Ren stood up and rushed out of the classroom.
The teacher watched Hao Ren sweep past him with a blank expression. He was only enraged when Hao Ren was gone. “The students nowadays are so rude! They are so audacious that they think they can leave the classroom in the middle of the class without giving any explanations to the teacher!” he thought.
Hao Ren dashed out of the Academic Building toward the main gate of the school while he spoke on the phone, “Uncle Wang, don’t panic. Did you call the hospital close to the cottage and ask them to pick up my grandma?”
“I can’t find their phone number,” Uncle Wang sounded extremely agitated.
Lamenting silently at the muddle-headedness of Uncle Wang, Hao Ren dashed out of the school’s main gate and tried to grab a taxi.
Since the school was in the suburbs and it was almost 8’o clock at night, there were many taxis in the area.
He stood there for a while before spotting several taxis, but they all had passengers in them.
In the half-minute that he tried to grab a taxi, Hao Ren kept talking to Uncle Wang. However, this half-minute seemed to be longer than a century!
He even thought about jumping into the middle of the street and stopping a random car.
While he was as agitated as an ant on a hot oven, he tried to calm Uncle Wang down over the phone.
In the height of anxiety, he saw a red car driving past him and suddenly remembered the dashing sight of Zhao Hongyu in her red Ferrari.
Zhao Hongyu! Hao Ren thought of a sudden idea.
“Uncle Wang, I’ll hang up now since I need to call for help. Call me when the situation changes,” Hao Ren ended the call and fumbled through his contact list. After finding Zhao Hongyu’s number, he dialed it.
When Hao Ren accompanied Zhao Yanzi up the mountain on that weekend trip, Zhao Hongyu gave him her number in case of an emergency. He hadn’t used it until now.
Usually, he wouldn’t bother Zi’s parents. Since this situation was urgent and his parents were still abroad, the only people Hao Ren could think of now were Zhao Yanzi’s parents.
The phone beeped six times, and no one answered. Hao Ren was so agitated that his palm holding the phone began to sweat.
“Hello?” the phone was suddenly answered, and Zhao Hongyu’s gentle voice came through the phone.
“Auntie! It’s me!” Hao Ren shouted urgently.
“Oh, it’s you, Ren. Why didn’t you come here and tutor Zi today? I was going to call you to ask about it,” Zhao Hongyu said.
“I have class tonight, and I skipped class to tutor Zi last week. I told Zi yesterday.” Hao Ren explained in his mind. Right now, he had no time to explain this to Zhao Hongyu. He said urgently, “It’s my grandma. She…”
For some reason, Hao Ren was so moved after hearing Zhao Hongyu’s voice that he got choked up.
“What happened? Don’t panic. Take it easy,” sensing the agitation in Hao Ren’s voice over the phone, Zhao Hongyu was alarmed.
“My grandma fainted due to high blood pressure, and she needs to be taken to the hospital. However, Uncle Wang, the caretaker of my grandma, doesn’t drive,” Hao Ren exhaled and cleared his head before explaining the situation.
“Give me the address, and I’ll go over now!” Zhao Hongyu said immediately.
“Blue Sea and Golden Sand Resort in the southern suburb of East Ocean City. The number of the cottage is 16. It’s the sixth cottage on the right after you enter the south gate,” Hao Ren said. His heart latched in his throat, and his arm holding the phone shook violently.
“Got it! I’ll be there soon. We will keep in touch!” Zhao Hongyu hung up, and it seemed like she had already run to the garage.
Lowering the phone from his ear, Hao Ren stood at the main gate of the school, not knowing what to do next. The road ahead was dark, and the cars driving past him shined into that darkness.
Buzz… His mobile phone vibrated. Hao Ren immediately answered it and heard Zhao Guang’s deep voice, “Are you at school? I’m on my way and will pick you up at the gate in about ten minutes.”
Hao Ren said “Ok,” and the phone call ended.
He stood on the empty place in front of the main gate, feeling the cold wind penetrate his shirt.
Snap! Snap!
Under the force of the strong night winds, the big banner hanging over the gate danced with a loud snapping sound.
Hao Ren turned his head and looked at the banner with sudden resentment.
Squeal! A black Chevrolet stopped before Hao Ren.
Zhao Guang stuck his face out from the window and said, “Get in the car, and we can wait for the news at home.”
Nodding numbly, Hao Ren got in the car and found that Zhao Yanzi was also there.
She looked at Hao Ren with concern and sympathy; it seemed like she was worried about Hao Ren and came with her dad to pick him up.
Steadily, Zhao Guang started the car and drove toward their home. It was not a long ride from their home to East Ocean University.
Pale-faced, Hao Ren sat in the car and thought for a while before asking Zhao Guang, “How did auntie go there?”
“She drove,” Zhao Guang answered.
Hao Ren was a little disappointed since he had expected Zhao Hongyu to use her superpower and fly there.
As if he had read Hao Ren’s mind, Zhao Guang continued, “Don’t worry. It doesn’t take much longer for your auntie to drive there than to fly. We have a lot of restrictions on flying. If she encounters an Inspector, a lot of time will be wasted on answering questions. Besides, if she flew there, she couldn’t bring your grandma to the hospital.”
“Right,” Hao Ren nodded as he felt grateful for the help of Zhao Yanzi and her family. He just hoped that his grandma was ok.
It took only a dozen minutes to drive from East Ocean University to Zhao Yanzi’s home. Zhao Guang parked the car and brought Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi into the house.
The cozy and familiar setting slightly calmed down Hao Ren’s agitated nerves.
He took out his mobile phone and called home again. Uncle Wang answered the call, and Hao Ren immediately asked about his grandma.
“A woman just arrived and claimed to be your friend. She applied some first aid to your grandma and carried her into a car. She drove away less than a minute ago, and I was so agitated that I forgot to ask her name,” Uncle Wang told him over the phone.
“Well, Uncle Wang, although good at cooking, is not someone you can depend on in an emergency,” Hao Ren lamented about Uncle Wang’s clumsiness in his mind as he comforted him over the phone and hung up.
Uncle Wang panicked when Hao Ren’s grandma got sick. He couldn’t find the hospital’s phone number and didn’t know how to deal with the crisis. He even needed Hao Ren, who was far away at school, to direct him, and he didn’t even ask for the stranger’s name before letting the stranger take Hao Ren’s grandma away…
Hao Ren became more and more agitated when thinking about this. He thought it was quite unsafe to let Uncle Wang continue taking care of his grandma alone, and he berated himself for not being able to help his grandma when she was in danger.
With a frown, he looked up at the clock, thinking that it was quite fast for Zhao Hongyu to get to the cottage at the seaside in just 20 minutes.
Zhao Guang and Zhao Yanzi sat together with Hao Ren in the living room instead of tending to their own businesses.
About another 20 minutes later, the phone in the living room rang abruptly.
Zhao Guang picked up the phone and listened. He turned to Hao Ren and said, “Hongyu has taken your grandma to the Eastern Hospital in the city, and she is being treated. The doctor said she would be fine.”