Xu Qiu glanced at Shi Lian and said: "The results that were published just a few days ago have not yet been published by the journal, but the editor-in-chief of the journal knows me and sent me an internal copy in advance."

Shi Lian:……

...I was the one who was abrupt!

"Let's go into the mirror and check." Xu Qiu said.

…

Baiyun Province, Jing'an City, and Xinxiang County.

April is the busy planting season in the north, but for the south, it is still early before the busy farming season at the end of May, and it is also the most leisurely time.

Of course, it’s just the leisure time of farm work.

For farmers, days throughout the year are counted by sowing and transplanting rice. As for other days, they go to the city to work or work hard on construction sites. Those with skills seek jobs in garment factories, car repair shops, etc.

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The weather in the countryside at this season is refreshing. Children after school put their schoolbags at home and ran to the rivers and fields to play like crazy.

Xiaojie is also one of them.

There are all left-behind children in the village, and he is a lower-level "left-behind" child.

Xiaojie's parents died while fighting floods a few years ago, leaving only him and his grandparents dependent on each other, and a shiny golden "Home of Heroes" sign.

However, this signboard was taken down a year ago. Xiaojie couldn't stand the cynicism of his peers. The "Heroes' Home" plaque did not bring him any glory. Instead, it made all the children in the village know about his parents.

dead.

"Xiaojie is here!"

"Run, run, let him play here alone!"

Several boys, also in their teens, made faces and tried to run away.

Xiaojie's rushing steps slowed down, and he almost begged: "I won't play, I can just watch you from the side."

After hearing this, several boys stopped.

After a while, a few people got tired of playing and sat on the ridge of the field to chat.

"How about we compete in eating rocks?"

"You can't eat stones. It would be bad if Sun Wukong is born... Speaking of Sun Wukong, I really want to play King Pesticide!"

"Hey, my grandpa has a touch screen phone and he lets me play with it every weekend!"

"Well, my grandparents all have mobile phones that can only make calls. I can only wait until summer vacation for me to ask my mother for a mobile phone to play with. I named it the Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior. Isn't it awesome?"

At this moment, a frog jumped in front of him and plunged into the river in the blink of an eye.

Everyone was upset for a while.

At this moment, the largest child Wang saw a group of pink balls near the river.

He immediately became interested and led others over to seize it, then put it on the ground and stomped it until it exploded.

The child king said: "My mother told me this, what is the lucky snail called? She said that if there are bugs, you must not eat them, otherwise you will die!"

"There are many more nearby, we will trample them all to death!"

April is the season for apple snails to lay eggs, and this pink stuff is clinging to dry places near the water.

Xiaojie, who was standing far away, looked enviously.

He went to the corner alone and picked off a bunch from the stone. Upon closer inspection, the densely packed pink balls were quite beautiful, a bit like a smaller version of pink grapes.

The small group noticed Xiaojie's actions and saw him holding the eggs of the apple snail in his hand. They immediately covered their mouths and shouted: "Throw it away! Throw it away!"

The child king's expression lit up, he came to Xiaojie, put his hands on his hips and said, "Do you want to play with us?"

Xiaojie raised his head with a surprised expression and nodded heavily at the same time.

The kid king pointed at the lucky snail egg in Xiaojie's hand and said: "If you dare to eat this, we will play with you!"

Xiaojie's eyes were filled with unspeakable brilliance, and he said in disbelief: "Really?"

"Really, I won't lie to you."

Xiaojie glanced at the palm of his hand and thought that as long as he ate something that everyone was afraid of, he could prove himself and win their friendship... Thinking of this, Xiaojie raised his hand and threw the pink ball into his mouth.

Crunchy.

It didn't have the crunchy texture that I expected. I bit it with a little force and a lot of mucus came out. I couldn't tell whether it was from inside the egg or secreted from my own mouth. It was a bit salty, a bit astringent, and even a bit astringent.

A little bitter.

Like phlegm...

As soon as this idea came up, Xiaojie felt like vomiting.

But he threw it back forcefully and swallowed the crushed pink ball with force.

After finishing this, he opened his mouth to the child king, stuck out his tongue, and said with a smile: "After eating, can I play with you?"

The child king's eyes were widened and he was a little angry at the same time.

He thought for a while and then said: "It doesn't matter what you eat. I dare to eat it. We will only play with you if you dare to eat the lucky snail."

"I dare to eat it!"

"That's what you said. But the apple snails are poisonous, so I have to cook them for you before you can eat them."

The child king took a lucky snail caught by his younger brother. Several friends set up a simple stove by the river, roasted the snail on the fire, and took it out when it was sizzling and watery.

"It's baked. How do you like it? Do you dare to eat it?" the kid king said proudly.

He couldn't believe that this weirdo dared to steal his limelight!

Xiaojie snatched the snail. He was afraid that the other party would regret it if he ate it slowly, so he directly put the hot snail into the river water to cool down. After it cooled down, he put it into his mouth and sucked it all away.

He opened his mouth to show his empty mouth, his expression was ecstatic, and he shouted: "I can play with you!"

But the kid king kicked over the small stove that was lighting the fire, turned around and ran away. He turned back and stuck out his tongue: "You dare to eat even poisonous things. You are really a freak!"

The other boys followed, laughing at Xiaojie as they ran further and further away.

There was still an expectant smile on Xiaojie's face, and he repeated slowly: "I can play with you now... I can play with you now..."

…

"The results are out?"

At noon the day after Jiang Donger's treatment, Xu Qiu saw the test results sent by the laboratory.

Macroscopic findings: The size of the lung tissue submitted for examination is 15*8*2cm, the circumference of the broken end of the bronchus is 2.5cm, a clinical line mark can be seen 5cm away from the broken end of the bronchus, and a mass is seen, with a diameter of 0.9cm, and the cut surface is solid and grey-brown.

, two suspicious lymph nodes can be palpated at the hilus.

What you see under the microscope is a microscopic picture of a biopsy.

Seeing these pictures, Xu Qiu had a bad feeling.

First of all... no Mycobacterium tuberculosis was found in patient Jiang Donger's lungs.

If Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not found in ordinary examination, it may be because the tuberculosis in the lungs is located deep and is difficult to extract.

But now I've had a bronchoscopy and taken biopsies from various places. Mycobacterium tuberculosis can no longer be found. There is only one possibility -

This is not tuberculosis!

But this may be the worst news.

Tuberculosis is no longer an incurable disease. Being able to identify it as tuberculosis may be a good thing in some cases.

But now, I’m afraid I’m not optimistic anymore…

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Chapter completed!