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The nursing home full of memories in Bai Yutang's heart has long been changed beyond recognition.The nostalgic French architecture has become another style, almost like a high-end club, and most of the formerly green courtyard with hazelnut and chestnut trees has been turned into a parking lot.Bai Yutang walked around, trying to find the place where he met Qi Musha, but he couldn't find it anywhere, it was nothing more than a person or a thing.

It turned out that the nursing home was privately owned, so it was not too surprising that it was acquired.It’s just that I don’t know whether it is the meaning of vertical and horizontal, or whether the hospital’s management policy has changed, or whether it is no longer focusing on a single business model, or a combination of both. Judging from the name of the hospital-this is a comprehensive hospital.It was only because of conflicts with Zongheng's business philosophy and funding issues that a crisis arose.

Bai Yutang reported his name to the front desk of the hospital, expressing that he wanted to see the director. "Mr. Bai, please, the dean specially took care of me to receive you in the morning." Before the front desk lady in a white robe could answer, a woman in a black suit was full of the shrewd temperament of a professional secretary in every gesture. Come over and welcome Bai Yutang over.

Bai Yutang nodded. Before coming here, he spent the whole night learning about the current operating conditions of the hospital, and made a phone call in the name of a company under Sunken to discuss the intention of cooperation and mergers with the hospital. Active contact is very interesting.The dean also agreed to meet and talk about the issues Bai Yutang wanted to know in detail. Bai Yutang also learned from the other party that the original investment willingness was indeed operated by Zongheng, but the dean had passed away long ago. The caller was his son-in-law, the second generation dean.

Bai Yutang stepped into the dean's room, and was greeted by a fat middle-aged man, who shook hands with him, Bai Yutang smiled and said, "Excuse me." When he turned his eyes, he saw a man in the room There was a woman standing beside the reception sofa, who looked about the same age as the man. "How can it be considered disturbing, you are a distinguished guest of our hospital!" The dean smiled sincerely and enthusiastically, pointing to the woman and introducing, "This is my wife, Mr. Bai wants to ask about the situation before and after the hospital's reconstruction and who is my husband's?" , I think I may not be able to answer in detail by myself, so I asked my wife to come over, I don’t know if there will be any hindrance.”

"Of course it doesn't matter, but I still ask Madam to agree to go out and forget all about today's conversation, is that okay?" Bai Yutang glanced at the woman and smiled.

"Yes, yes, of course." The dean seemed to want to grab Bai Yutang, the big benefactor, and hurriedly agreed for his wife, secretly tugged on his wife's sleeve, and kept winking at her. "What are you doing in a daze, don't hesitate about such a trivial matter?!"

The dean's wife didn't look like a woman with many eyes, she opened her mouth slightly and nodded under her husband's urging. "Ok, I see."

"Mr. Bai, please sit down." The dean stretched out his hand to invite Bai Yutang to sit down on the sofa, while he sat beside his wife, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the coffee table, lit it with a lighter, took a puff and exhaled a cigarette. lock up. "I didn't expect that Mr. Bai would be interested in things that happened so many years ago."

The secretary brought a cup of hospitality tea at the right time, Bai Yutang smiled back and sat on the extremely soft sofa, raised the corners of his lips and said, "I went to school near here when I was young, and I haven't come here for a long time."

"Excuse me, what do you want to know about today?" The dean's wife looked at Bai Yutang in puzzlement and asked.She probably felt that if her husband were to receive Bai Yutang, the conversation would not continue. "Actually, I want to ask you to take a look at this photo." Bai Yutang found a photo on his phone, and put the screen in front of the two of them.

The dean pointed at the photo with his fat finger. "This is a building that still existed when my father-in-law was still in good health! It's so nostalgic."

Bai Yutang sipped his tea, and crossed his legs at his knees leisurely. "I overheard that this house was proposed to be demolished temporarily. I don't know why it was demolished? Is it the idea of ​​the other company or the wishes of the hospital?"

"This is also a last resort. The original building has an ancient charm and a foreign style. Many people were reluctant to rebuild it. But it is really dilapidated and has to be rebuilt." Bai Yutang felt that the dean was showing off his deep tone It seemed to be perfunctory, "If you don't tell the truth, Dean, I'm afraid it will be difficult to promote our cooperation."

The dean's expression immediately became flustered, "Don't get me wrong, as long as I know something, I'll tell you everything I know." He wanted to stand up excitedly and hold Bai Yutang's hand to show his sincerity.When I stretched out my hand, I felt abrupt, and rubbed my palm awkwardly, not knowing where to put my hand properly. "My father-in-law is still alive, but he is suffering from cancer. He probably knew that he was going to die soon, so he said to me: 'I will leave the hospital to you.' The operation of a private nursing home requires outside investment. After I took over the nursing home, I also thought about the need for a major renovation. It happened that Zongheng Pharmaceutical Company proposed investment, requiring us not only to rebuild the building as a whole, but also to renovate the internal structure. My wife and father-in-law Discuss, if nothing changes, the business may not be sustainable. As operators, we can only accept the status quo.”

Bai Yutang was obviously still dissatisfied with this answer, he raised his eyebrows and gave the dean a slightly deep and calm probing look, "Do you know why Zongheng chose your nursing home? Did Yue Zhang and Zongheng have a friendship in the past?" ?”

"This..." The dean didn't speak for a while, Bai Yutang just stared at the person for a moment, until the whistle sounded outside the window, the dean said: "Mr. Bai seems to be very interested in the matter of vertical and horizontal ’” He licked his dry lips and took a hard puff on the cigarette with a somewhat hasty movement, seeming rather disturbed.

Bai Yutang clasped his fingers, lowered his eyes slightly, and looked at the clean glass of the tea table bit by bit. "I need to evaluate the return on investment of Zongheng before and after the reconstruction of your hospital. Frankly speaking, our company is also in competition with Zongheng. I don't think I need to say more, and you should understand what I mean."

Although Bai Yutang did not read the notebook that Zhan Zhao left at the old laboratory site, he also learned from subsequent investigations that the reason why Qi Musha lived in the old nursing home was arranged by Zhan Bozhong's father. .It is said that Qi Musha's father was kind to him, so he took care of her when his father died early, but she may have intellectual disabilities, so she asked the director of a well-known nursing home to treat her.The dean agreed and prepared a personal ward for her on the fourth floor of the west ward building, and treated her until she passed away unexpectedly.Qi Musha's household registration is in a remote rural area on the outskirts of the city, her parents are both deceased, and she asked her neighbors where her household registration is located, but no one knows about Qi's family.There is a woman who is said to have lived next door to her house. She only knows that Qi Musha attended an elementary school, but the name of the school is unknown.

As for how Zhan Bozhong's father met Qi Musha, it seems that he found her begging in the busy market by chance, and after learning that she did not have a decent place to live, he decided to take her home to take care of her.But she had many problems in her daily life, so Zhan Bozhong's father decided to let her receive treatment, pay for the treatment and take over the guardian's obligations. Regarding what kind of treatment Zhan Bozhong's father had received from Qi Musha's father Grace, has no way of knowing.However, after years of treatment, no significant effect has been seen, and the cause of Qi Musha's mental retardation is still a mystery.

"Mr. Bai, don't get me wrong. Since my husband has agreed to cooperate with you, he will tell you what you want to know. In fact, you are right. My father has some friendship with Zongheng's former boss." Mrs. Dean He hastily explained for her husband, let out a deep breath, and wandered in the air with blurred vision. "It's just that it's been too long, let alone him, even I have completely forgotten the friendship between Mr. Zhan and his father, and I really don't know how they became close. In my impression, only I died in a nursing home when I was young." A female patient, many policemen came, I seem to have seen that Mr. Zhan also came..."

Bai Yutang was slightly shocked when he heard the dean's wife take the initiative to mention the murder case, "There is still a murder case?"

"Ah! This is probably an accident, right?" The dean put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, rubbed his head and laughed. "My father-in-law didn't mention it much, so it's not convenient for me to ask. But it's been so many years, and I haven't seen any reports about the murder case. It's probably a surprise. Otherwise, why couldn't the case be solved for so many years?"

The dean's wife took over from her husband. "It feels like my father really doesn't like hearing people mention that incident. After the murder case was solved, he didn't explain anything to us." She apologized, "There is just one thing..."

Bai Yutang was startled, "What?"

The dean's wife paused, "If I remember correctly, earlier, my father was stationed in the laboratory of Zongheng Pharmaceutical Company for a period of time. At that time, the company did not have a biomedical base."

laboratory?Bai Yutang suddenly remembered the 29th floor with the special button, the old laboratory that Zhan Zhao had mentioned...so absorbed in thinking about it, he couldn't help but choked, and coughed before he finished his sip of water.

"Ah, is Mr. Bai okay?" The dean looked at Bai Yutang's face with some concern, afraid that he would be slighted in some way.Bai Yutang waved his hand, "Please be more specific about this matter, I've never heard of it."

"My father-in-law's specialty is brain surgery. I don't know why he gave up his job in a municipal hospital. In fact, with the medical skills my father-in-law already possessed at that time, he can treat all kinds of diseases except brain surgery." The dean's tone was both Proud and a little emotional, "It may be that although the profession of a doctor is respected, but in terms of income, my father-in-law can't meet his requirements?" Thoughts on the situation.

"By the way, I also asked my father why he gave up his job in a municipal hospital and changed his job to a laboratory." The dean's wife suddenly thought of something, and clapped her hands nervously on her chest, "He seems to answer, because there is There are a lot of things you can't do in a hospital."

"Can't do it?" Bai Yutang wondered, what can't be done in the hospital but can be done in the laboratory?

The dean's wife shook her head, "Father only said that he will not stay in the laboratory forever, and he will devote his heart to the medical cause. But before that, he would rather spend more money than treating patients." Put more energy into research." She seemed to be recalling the scene back then, and her eyes unconsciously shifted to the continuous white clouds in the sky.

Bai Yutang asked her what kind of research she was doing.

"My father studies cranial nerves." The dean's wife replied very readily, pointing to her head, "There are other researchers studying organs, how to find substitutes that can fully match the standards of transplanted organs without causing rejection, It sounds so whimsical... My father told me this inadvertently one night after he was drunk. He is usually very tight-lipped. He is not very clear about other people's research projects, after all, the professional fields are far apart. But he When I mentioned my own field of work, I mentioned that human beings are divided into left and right brains, and a brain disease is also divided into different patients with left and right brains.”

These ordinary people naturally never pay attention.

The dean continued: "There is a way to treat patients with severe epilepsy, which is to use surgery to cut off the corpus callosum that connects the left and right brains. We call such people patients with brain separation. Such people usually lead a life that is no different from ordinary people. Then, after Why does the surgically removed corpus callosum exist? After conducting various experiments on such people, the medical profession believes that there are different consciousnesses between the right brain and the left brain, and my father hopes to use special drugs to test whether it can achieve control of human emotions. and the purpose of the behavior. Unfortunately, he didn't have an experimental site to do this in the first place..."

Later, the dean and his wife chatted in random gossip and changed the subject.Bai Yutang felt that he couldn't ask any more questions, so he got up and said goodbye. After he stepped out of the hospital hall, when he was about to cross a walkway with sycamore trees that were thick and thin at the mouth of a bowl, the dean chased him out and called him after him. "Mr. Bai, there is something that has been lingering in my mind." The dean lowered his voice slightly, "That happened more than ten years ago. At that time, I had inherited this place and worked hard to learn the operation of the nursing home so that I could prepare for the future." Prepare. At that time, there was a boy who looked like a middle school student who didn’t even know a high school student came to see my father-in-law.”

"More than ten years ago...like middle school and high school students?" Bai Yutang frowned.

"He seemed to come twice. Every time he came, I would be kicked out of the dean's office with an excuse. So I asked the front desk for the boy's name. I remember she answered me that the boy's surname was Zhan."

The boy surnamed Zhan...could it be... Bai Yutang didn't answer for a while, he turned his gaze to the side thoughtfully, the dean felt a little embarrassed by this, and said with a shy smile, "Is it because I'm too busy. "

"Oh, it's okay, that's right." There seemed to be a flash of deep surprise in Bai Yutang's eyes, and then it was replaced by a look of disapproval. "You can't help me transfer a case from the case in the nursing home. The patient's name is Qi Musha, the female patient who died more than 20 years ago. I knew her. I have always wanted to know what she was suffering from. Of course, please keep this matter a secret for me.”

Although the dean was puzzled by Bai Yutang's actions, he finally agreed after thinking about it. "But I can't look it up right away. I should be able to look it up before night."

"Okay, I'll trouble you then." Bai Yutang smiled, "I'll have someone contact you for the discussion after that."

The dean watched Bai Yutang leave with great gratitude. Bai Yutang sat down on a bench by the side of the road as he walked. There used to be green plants everywhere around here, but now only the color of concrete can be seen.He took out his mobile phone and wanted to talk to Jiang Ping about what happened just now, but when he was about to make a call, the phone rang, and when he picked it up, the voice of his mother Sang Caiwei came from the other end of the phone: "Yutang, I heard Grandma Su Hong Say, you broke up with Su Hong, what's going on?"

"This...Mom, you just asked me about this on the phone?" Bai Yutang felt helpless after being startled.

"I'm just asking you about this? When I grow up, my wings are stiff, and my daughter-in-law ran away. It doesn't matter to you if your girlfriend is gone, right?" Sang Caiwei threatened her son with a mother's condescending attitude, " Don't think that I can't deal with you when I'm abroad!"

Bai Yutang suddenly had a headache, feeling that he would face the fate of being beaten. "Mom, don't worry about this matter, Su Hong and I broke up peacefully."

"That's it!" Sang Caiwei was startled and calmed down, Bai Yutang couldn't help but let out a deep breath, thinking that this test was over, and he just relaxed.But Sang Caiwei was the mother who gave birth to Bai Yutang after all, she always felt that there were some overtones in her son's words, what is a peaceful breakup?Whether it's early or late, it's time.So the voice raised an octave, "No, you must have something to hide from me. Did you cheat? Is there someone else around? You are going to be an emotional liar, I will not be the first to spare you!"

Bai Yutang froze.His mother knows every detail of the piece of flesh that fell from his body from head to toe?Now if you say anything casually, you can find faults... "Mom, what nonsense are you talking about, don't ruin my reputation."

"Stop talking nonsense, go home and explain to me." Sang Caiwei snorted. "Your mother, I'm back in the country, come back quickly."

Sure enough, her patriarchalism was stronger than his. Bai Yutang glanced at the hung up phone and could only compromise.