Chapter 428: Chapter 209: Immediate Results, Renovation Settled_3

Patients come over periodically for treatment, which to some extent also boosts the clinic’s popularity.

He then proceeded to attend to the next patient.

After more than an hour, Doctor Xu finally returned. Seeing him all sweaty, it was unclear what he had been doing.

Learning that Li Jingsheng had already dealt with six patients, averaging about twelve to thirteen minutes per patient, Doctor Xu nodded in satisfaction.

The two, master and apprentice, began to see patients separately and started working simultaneously.

The line of patients began to shorten quickly.

The patients were very happy to see two doctors treating them simultaneously.

For them, being able to receive treatment a bit earlier was the happiest thing.

...

It was close to five o’clock when Li Jingsheng’s phone rang.

It was Manager Hu personally calling.

"Dr. Li, are you busy right now?"

"No problem, go ahead and tell me what’s up."

Li Jingsheng knew that Manager Hu only called personally when something very important came up.

Usually, he would have Qiu Shaofeng relay the message.

"Here’s the thing, the headquarters agent has woken up."

Upon hearing this good news, Li Jingsheng felt very happy.

"The agent from headquarters has a very good impression of you and said that being able to survive this time was due to you giving her a bottle of rapid heart-saving pills. She also said your medical skills are exceptional and regrets not heeding your advice."

It seemed that the mysterious woman was indeed a special agent sent by headquarters for a covert investigation.

"Please pass along to her that it’s good she woke up. Tell her to accept treatment with peace of mind—life is more important than making money."

The compassion of a healer always filled Li Jingsheng’s heart.

"I will, I will. I’ll certainly relay your good advice. Her condition upon waking is relatively good. I know your clinic’s new premises are in urgent need of renovation, so I took the opportunity to chat with her about this matter. She understood that you rented two buildings and signed a ten-year lease, and immediately expressed that there’s no problem for your clinic to get free renovation. But you know as well, your new clinic is really quite large."

Two whole buildings, with a small garden—the area was almost comparable to a small hospital.

Even bigger than those ’parasitic hospitals’ which rent an entire floor as their venue.

A parasitic hospital rents an entire floor within a large hospital to conduct joint treatments with that hospital.

It’s usually complementary business.

For instance, if that hospital specializes in orthopedics, focusing on bone treatment, the parasitic hospital can conduct internal medicine.

Li Jingsheng’s lips curled into a slight smile.

Wasn’t Best Medicine complaining about his clinic being too small before? Now he’s got a bigger one.

"Both the headquarters agent and I want to wholeheartedly help you secure the opportunity for full exemption, but you know, that’s certainly unrealistic. After our discussion, we reached a relatively feasible conclusion that should enable us to secure around two hundred thousand for your renovation budget. Best Medicine will send someone to help you with the design. The remaining part, you’ll have to figure out on your own."

Though Manager Hu wanted to help Li Jingsheng as much as possible, he also had to consider the company’s interests since he’s on Best Medicine’s payroll.

Otherwise, the head office would start questioning him.

"Two hundred thousand is already great, I’m quite satisfied. It’s just that the timeline is a bit tight; when do you think the designer can arrive?"

Li Jingsheng’s remaining renovation time wasn’t ample.

A simple renovation would give him enough time.

But to make it properly presentable, approximately ten days would be really tight.

Many large store renovations take more than a month to complete.

"They should arrive by tomorrow morning. Also, the renovation funds will require you to advance them yourself, keep the invoices, and it’ll eventually be reimbursed to the tune of around two hundred thousand. It will likely be converted into goods payment credited into the account you have with our company."

Manager Hu gave him some detailed instructions.

It wasn’t direct cash reimbursement but offsetting against product purchases—there really isn’t a commercial company that would engage in loss-making deals.

The strategy was evident.

Yet even so, it was still greatly beneficial for Li Jingsheng.

Accumulating goods worth two hundred thousand meant he had to pay two hundred thousand in real money.

Now with the goods credit, Best Medicine likely had to bear about seventy percent of the actual cost.

Seventy percent of two hundred thousand is 140,000.

That’s already quite substantial.

After ending the call with Manager Hu, Li Jingsheng felt reassured.

This was like consuming a peace-inducing pill.

With Best Medicine providing a two hundred thousand reimbursement for decoration costs, the clinic could be more stylishly furnished.

However, he certainly wouldn’t invest a million into the renovation. That would be almost insane.

The place was rented, after all. Some decent decoration would do. What’s truly attracting customers and patients isn’t the clinic’s grandeur, but the excellent medical skills, warm and considerate service, and high-quality medicine at reasonable prices.

It’s estimated that the total renovation cost should be around 270,000 to 280,000, meaning he’d only have to cover seven to eight thousand himself.

That’s still quite good.

After all, the entire second floor has nothing to do with drug sales and would certainly be used for inpatient care in the future.

For now, he planned to place the operating room on the first floor.

Given the ample space, having the outpatient clinic on the first floor and the operating room there as well would be more convenient.

Especially for patients with mobility challenges.

Carrying them up and down would be extremely inconvenient.

His small clinic didn’t have high-end facilities like elevators.

As they grew and expanded, building a laminar flow operating room on the second floor later would also be possible.

One cannot become successful in a single gulp; it could only be achieved step by step.

...

He was busy in the clinic until around 5:40, when he finished handling all the patients.

Closing shop, he hurried over to the hospital cafeteria for dinner.

Standing at the entrance, he looked around but didn’t spot Ou Qinglan.

The little girl had clearly texted him, saying she was waiting for him at the cafeteria entrance to have dinner together.

Where was she?

She wasn’t whisked away by some male doctor, was she?

Currently, there shouldn’t be any young orthopedic surgeon competing with him for a girlfriend.

"Are you here yet? I’m inside queuing, I grabbed you a portion of your favorite braised pork. I was afraid if I waited, I wouldn’t get any later."

She sent him a voice message on WeChat.

Li Jingsheng was immediately moved to the core.

When a girl truly loves a guy, she will think everywhere for him, selflessly.

"I’m here, I’m coming over now."

Li Jingsheng quickly swiped his card and entered the staff cafeteria.