remnants

In Xinhua Town, Funing County, in the Office of the Director of the Cardiology Department of the People's Hospital, the hands of the clock on the wall just passed twelve o'clock.

It was already the early morning of October [-]th.

Nie Qing and Ma Weiyuan sat facing each other, and the two of them had maintained this steady state of silence for a while.

Although Ma Weiyuan hadn't opened his mouth yet, Nie Qing believed that he would definitely speak after the words had reached this point.For now, he just needs a little time.

The sound of the rain outside the window gradually became less noisy, and the rain finally showed a tendency to weaken.

"By the way..." Ma Weiyuan suddenly broke the silence at this moment, looked up at Nie Qing, and said with some embarrassment: "I checked the friend you sent today, and all the indicators are within the normal range. The operation should have been successful."

A somewhat harsh opening line, but still usable.

Nie Qing nodded slightly, "It's good that he's fine. The person who will operate on him tomorrow will also come over to help take care of him. I hope he can recover as soon as possible."

"You are talking about Su Yongdeng's son..." Ma Weiyuan paused, "He seems to be well educated, not very similar to his father..."

"Why do you say that?" Nie Qing showed just the right interest.

Ma Weiyuan glanced at him, then lowered his head and shook his head gently, "Comrade policeman, do you know sunspots? They are some darker areas on the surface of the sun. A medium-sized sunspot may be as big as an earth." , but we generally have a hard time seeing them. Why? Because the sun is so bright, it is bright enough to cover all the dark spots on your body, so that people can't find them. Even if you do find them, you can't get close, otherwise you will kill yourself... ..."

Nie Qing heard that this was about to get to the point, so she didn't interrupt and continued to listen silently.

Sure enough, Ma Weiyuan took a deep breath first, then exhaled slowly, and continued: "Su Yongdeng...is such a person. He is excellent, dazzling, and sought after by everyone, but few people know the dark side of him... Only by experiencing it personally will you know what a terrifying man he is..."

terrible.

Hearing Ma Weiyuan use such words, Nie Qing couldn't help but sink, but at the same time, she felt that the background of the case suddenly became clear.

Once Su Yongdeng's original perfect character design is overturned, many things will make sense.

"Comrade police, didn't you ask me why you refused to tell the truth?" Ma Weiyuan shook his head with a wry smile, "How dare I say it... When I wanted to tell the truth seven years ago, my wife and son My life was almost threatened, and I was dispatched from the No.1 civilian hospital to this remote suburb... To be honest, I can't afford to mess with those people."

"Those people?" Nie Qing was taken aback when he heard this, and then asked, "What happened seven years ago?"

Ma Weiyuan's face showed an expression of guilt mixed with resentment and pain, "Seven years ago..." He looked carefully at Nie Qing as he spoke, then sighed as if he was extremely tired, and hung down. head, "As you guessed before... Seven years ago, there was indeed an operation that went wrong, which was performed by Su Yongdeng... However, the mistake at that time was actually not a big one, as long as the operation was performed immediately after the discovery , the patient should be fine. However, if we just leave it alone..."

"Will the patient's life be in danger?" Nie Qing stared at him and asked.

Ma Weiyuan nodded with a heavy expression, "The longer the time drags on, the greater the danger, and it may even lead to the death of the patient..."

"What was the mistake?"

"Su Yongdeng accidentally left a piece of gauze in the patient's chest when suturing at the end of the operation...forgot to take it out." Ma Weiyuan suddenly put his hands on his head and leaned on the table, his voice suppressed He growled in a low voice: "I checked it out! I have already checked it out! But—but Su Yongdeng doesn't allow me to tell this matter...he doesn't allow failures in his records...I want to expose, But they showed me photos of my wife and son, and they told me that if I dared to reveal a word, my family would be in danger... What can I do? Tell me what else can I do??"

Nie Qing was stopped by him.

In fact, if the person involved was not Su Yongdeng, perhaps he would not have felt such a strong sense of powerlessness.

But no matter how unwilling Nie Qing was to accept it, he had to respond to Ma Weiyuan's words.

So, after a moment of silence, Nie Qing asked, "Why didn't you call the police?"

"Call the police?" Ma Weiyuan looked at him with an expression of seeing a joke, his eyes became subtle.

"Officer Nie, I am willing to tell you these things because you are young and have a sense of justice... But I really can't trust the rest of you in the police force."

As Ma Weiyuan said, he put his arms back on the table, clasped his hands, leaned forward to stare at Nie Qing, and said in a low voice, "You thought that you had the ability and means to threaten the lives of my family back then, and you didn't worry about me calling the police?" Yes, who could it be?"

"..."

Nie Qing only felt that the blood in his body cooled down instantly.

He stared at Ma Weiyuan without blinking, and asked word by word in a deep voice: "Do you have evidence?"

"Evidence? Hehe... What more evidence do I need? My family and I are living witnesses!" Ma Weiyuan slapped the table dumbfounded, his eyes turned red, "Do you know that when I promised Su Yongdeng that I would After keeping the secret for him, my wife came back with my son. As soon as we met, she asked me if I was in any danger? Why did two policemen take them to a hotel room and claim to protect They?? Officer Nie! Think about it for yourself, isn’t this enough to explain the problem?!”

"How is this possible!" Nie Qing stood up all of a sudden, "Which policeman dares to violate the law so blatantly?! What if someone in the society pretends to be it? Has your wife seen their ID? Has it? Remember information such as ID number and name?"

Ma Weiyuan shook his head, "No, she didn't remember anything... She was too innocent, and when she saw a person in uniform, she followed him obediently, and didn't suspect anything..."

"Then how can you be sure that your wife and children must have been taken away by the police?" Nie Qing sat down again and looked at him, "In this case, you should report the incident to the Public Security Bureau when it happened, and report it to the police. You and your family were coerced and reported to the police truthfully, so maybe the problem will be solved? Why did you bother to keep the secret for Su Yongdeng for so long?"

"It's easy for you to say..." Ma Weiyuan looked up at the ceiling as if laughing at himself, and laughed twice, "But we don't have the guts."

Nie Qing: "Why?"

"Officer Nie, do you really not understand? I was just a little physician at the time, and my wife was also a kindergarten teacher. Both of us came from ordinary working-class families with no power or background. Working in Pingcheng is just to seek a stable life, how can we provoke people like Su Yongdeng?"

"Regardless of power and background, anyone who breaks the law should be punished. Su Yongdeng is no exception." Nie Qing clenched his fists, staring at Ma Weiyuan and said: "You never thought about it, because your silence at that time, It is likely to kill a person!"

"Is the life of other people or my family's life more important?!" Ma Weiyuan was also anxious, and shouted at Nie Qing, "How can I be sure if those people are policemen? What if they are?! What do I take? Fighting with them, fighting with them?? Safeguarding my life wisely was my only choice at that time!!"

Nie Qing: "That's not your only choice, it's just the easiest choice for you! But don't you think that choice is too selfish?"

"Is it wrong to be selfish? What's wrong with wanting to protect your family?!" Ma Weiyuan suddenly laughed angrily, spread his hands and said, "Yes, that's right, I understand what you mean, I also want to stick to my own Medical ethics does not treat every patient hastily, and I don’t want to ignore the death of a patient who knows that there is a problem with the operation... But I can’t take the risk of my wife and son’s life. On this point, I don’t regret it until today .”

When Ma Weiyuan said that his breath had calmed down again, he suddenly looked at Nie Qing and asked, "Officer Nie, if it were you, would you rather put your most important person in danger than save other irrelevant people? ?”

Nie Qing couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and the image of Yu Sheng when he walked out of his house with a pale face quickly appeared in his mind, and his heart sank instantly, as if he was weightless.

"It seems that Police Officer Nie is thinking of someone. If that's the case, you should understand how I feel." Ma Weiyuan looked at Nie Qing carefully and said.

Nie Qing shook his head slightly, not wanting to dwell on this issue any longer, so he said: "Forget it, it's useless to worry about it now. Tell me first, if the gauze stays in the body, won't the patient feel something strange? ?”

"Of course there will be feelings, and you should feel intermittent discomfort and pain..." Ma Weiyuan paused, "However, this level of discomfort and pain should be commonplace for patients with heart disease...so It is very likely that they will not pay attention to it, and they think it is a normal phenomenon after the operation..."

"But if he keeps feeling unwell, the patient should think of going for another test, right? As long as he changes to another hospital, won't he be able to find out?" Nie Qing frowned and asked.

Ma Weiyuan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I thought so too at first, thinking that even if I didn't say anything, there would be doctors from other hospitals who could check it out and do a new operation for him... But after that, I never listened to it." I have heard about the patient, and I have never heard that Su Yongdeng's surgical mistakes were exposed. I don't know what his physical condition is. Looking at it now, if the recent incident is really related to the operation seven years ago, then, That patient is probably already…”

"I'm afraid he is no longer alive." Nie Qing sighed deeply.

Ma Weiyuan nodded silently.

There was a sad look on his face again, and after a while he said, "I'm sorry for him... Although I don't regret it...but I'm still sorry for him..."

Nie Qing looked at him and asked, "What consequences will the gauze residue cause?"

"It will adhere to the tissues and organs in the body... After a long time, it will even fuse with the organs to form something like a tumor, which will bring a great burden to the heart..."

"The people who participated in the operation were very aware of this, right?" Nie Qing asked again.

Ma Weiyuan nodded, "Almost all the people who participated in the operation were on your list. Chief surgeon Su Yongdeng, first assistant Qiu Ruimin, second assistant Yang Zhengdong, equipment nurse He Tian, ​​anesthesiologist Zhou Jun, clinical engineer Wang Libo, and others. There are three itinerant nurses, namely Wei Yuting, Wu Xiaofen, and Zhang Min. Among these people, Wang Libo, Wu Xiaofen, and Zhang Min faced a similar situation to mine. We all tried to expose this incident, but we were all threatened in the end. Therefore I was 'exiled', Wang Libo and Wu Xiaofen both left the medical system, and Zhang Min heard later that it seemed that they married and went out of town, and we never saw each other again."

"According to this, except for the four of you, the remaining five people support Su Yongdeng and are willing to help him conceal it?" Nie Qing put the notebook under the list just now, and wrote on it the words he had just heard. several new names.

"Yeah..." Ma Weiyuan changed his position on the chair, turned sideways to look out of the dark window, and said with great emotion: "They are all Su Yongdeng's 'own people'. After that incident, Su Yongdeng probably gave them There are many benefits to keep silent, and they are all willing to keep the secret for him."

"But where do so many benefits come from? How could Su Yongdeng have such a big hand..." Nie Qing thought of the extremely luxurious villa of the Su family in Linhu Manor.

Ma Weiyuan scratched his hair vigorously, with a sad face, "I don't know, that's why I didn't dare to tell you the truth before... Behind Su Yongdeng, there must be a group of people more terrifying than him. So even if He's dead, and the threat posed to me and my family still exists, and I dare not take it lightly..."

"But you still told me everything?" Nie Qing put the list into his notebook and looked at him.

"Do I have a choice?" Ma Weiyuan smiled wryly at him, "I am indeed afraid of being threatened, but I am even more afraid of being killed... If I die... what should I do with my wife and children?"

Nie Qing couldn't help being silent after hearing this, and finally said firmly after a while: "Don't worry, we will definitely protect you and your family."

"I believe you, Officer Nie, really." Ma Weiyuan lowered his head, "I apologize to you for my previous attitude, and hope you can understand my feelings."

"I can understand." Nie Qing looked at him indifferently, but he was thinking of another person in his heart, "In order to protect the person I want to protect, sometimes I really can't help myself."

"Thank you." Ma Weiyuan sighed after finishing speaking.

But Nie Qing spread out the notebook again at this time, and said, "I have one last question. Do you still remember the name of the patient who underwent this operation seven years ago?"

"I remember." Ma Weiyuan replied quickly, with a little memory-like emotion in his eyes.

"I remember very clearly that the patient was a boy who had just finished the college entrance examination and was a top student. His name was also easy to remember, Lin Nuan."

"Lin Nuan..." Nie Qing silently memorized the name.

As long as you have the name and age, and then look up the information of the deceased, you can definitely find out the family background and social situation of this Lin Nuan before his death.

In this way, the case was finally able to make a breakthrough.