When he came out of the train station early in the morning, Shen Mucheng's complexion was not very good. He didn't sleep well last night, not only because the bed was too narrow, but also because the people on the lower bunk were snoring too loudly, like thunder.
The same Luo Shaoheng didn't sleep well either. He was a light sleeper, and it was impossible to sleep in this environment, so he could only close his eyes and rest his mind.
After breakfast, they found a place to stay. Although they were anxious to find someone, both of them needed to rest first due to the situation last night.
When Shen Mucheng came out of the shower, he saw Luo Shaoheng sitting by the window with his head down and playing with his mobile phone, with a smile on his lips, as if he saw something interesting. He walked over and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Chat with Shen Yun." Luo Shaoheng said while typing, put the phone aside after sending the message, pulled Shen Mucheng to sit next to him, and took the towel to help him dry his hair.
Shen Mucheng lowered his head to ask him to help, and reached out to take his mobile phone to look at it: "Why are you talking so happily?"
"Look for yourself." Luo Shaoheng said while brushing his hair, "Shen Yun said that he was on the top of Yunfu Mountain and was blown into bacon by the wind."
Shen Mucheng flipped through the chat records, and saw a photo of Shen Yun in front.
The photo is Shen Yun's selfie, standing on the top of Yunfu Mountain, the wind blows his hair into a mess, his facial expression is even more messy, and he looks like he is about to go to the sky.
Seeing from the chat records that the two had a happy chat and even sent a photo, Shen Mucheng's face darkened. He turned off the photo, continued to scroll up, and found that not long after Luo Shaoheng went to City B, they had already added friends.
Hehe, this assistant is fine. Shen Mucheng sneered inwardly.
At this time, Shen Yun slipped on Yunfu Mountain and almost fell, but fortunately, Chen Zhan next to him gave him a hand.
Shen Mucheng put the phone aside, and asked casually, "You guys are quite familiar."
"It's okay, let's chat once in a while." Luo Shaoheng said, put the towel aside, brushed Shen Mucheng's hair and said, "Are you even jealous of this?"
"No." Shen Mucheng said firmly.
"Still said no." Luo Shaoheng put his arms around his neck from behind, rested his chin on his shoulder, and pointed to the mirror in front of the two of them, "Look, your face is completely black."
Shen Mucheng saw his stinky expression from the mirror, and snorted lightly: "When did you become friends?"
"Just when I went to your place before." Luo Shaoheng said. At that time, he had just passed by, and he was not familiar with City B, and Shen Mucheng was relatively busy, so he went directly to Shen Yun for some trivial matters, and Shen Yun added him as a WeChat friend for convenience.
As for the photo, he just saw Shen Yun saying in the circle of friends that he had climbed all the mountains in the past few days, so he commented on him below, and then Shen Yun sent him a photo.
Well, it really turned into dried bacon.
Shen Mucheng didn't say anything after listening, but secretly decided to go back and apply for a WeChat account. Even Shen Yun has Luo Shaoheng's friends, so he doesn't count as a big deal.
"Are you still jealous?" Seeing that he was silent, Luo Shaoheng let go of his arm, walked around in front of him, leaned on the table and smiled, "Why are you so mean? You said it's nothing."
"Stingy?" Shen Mucheng looked up at him, stretched out his hand to hold his hand, pulled it into his arms with all his strength, wrapped his arms around his waist and said, "Who is stingy?"
Luo Shaoheng adjusted his sitting posture and sat on his lap, stretched out his hand and touched his face teasingly, and said, "You."
Shen Mucheng put his arms around his waist with force, pressed him close to himself, lowered his head and approached him, the difference between their lips was only one centimeter: "Say it again."
His breath warmly fanned the tip of Luo Shaoheng's nose, itching, Luo Shaoheng moved his nose, moved closer, rubbed his lips against his, and said in a low voice, "Kiss."
Shen Mucheng held his lips tightly, kissed him lightly, and slowly inserted his tongue into his mouth.
After the kiss was over, Luo Shaoheng leaned on his shoulder and panted, Shen Mucheng kissed his ear and said, "Go to sleep."
"You hug me." Luo Shaoheng said with a smile, "You kissed me so badly that I couldn't walk."
Shen Mucheng was a little helpless with his provocative skills all the time, patted his butt punitively, and carried him back to the bed.
In the afternoon, the two of them took their valuables and left only some clothes in the hotel before going out.
Xu Dezhou lives in Yongkang Village, which is a little far from the county. They chartered a minivan on the street to find someone.
The road to the village is not easy. Not far from the toll station in the county seat, the whole journey is a dirt road. It took more than an hour for the dilapidated van to stop and stop on the road before entering the village.
Luo Shaoheng has traveled to many places over the years, and has also been to remote mountain villages. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with these muddy roads. On the contrary, Shen Mucheng has refreshed his experience of going to the countryside.
According to the address on the phone, the two asked people all the way to find Xu Dezhou's home. It is a small building with one and a half floors. Judging from the gray exterior color of the house, Xu Dezhou's life is not very good.
Luo Shaoheng knocked on the door, but no one answered, he knocked twice, still no one was there, but the old woman next door who was basking in the sun at the door asked what was the matter.
"Hi old man, we want to find Mr. Xu Dezhou, do you know where he is?" Luo Shaoheng asked her politely.
"If you're not at home, you should be hoeing on the slope." The old woman said and pointed in a direction, "Go straight there, and you will see an intersection next to a new three-story house. Look there."
Luo Shaoheng wrote down the route, thanked the old woman, and went to find someone with Shen Mucheng.
Following the directions given by the old woman, they came to the hillside. There is a lot of farmland on the slope, and several young and strong men are plowing the fields with oxen.
The two went up to find someone to ask Xu Dezhou, and the other party pointed to the other side. They followed the road and saw Xu Dezhou there.
Luo Shaoheng had already seen the current photo of Xu Dezhou, but he was still a little surprised when he saw him. He remembered that the other party was only in his early fifties, but he looked as old and thin as a sixty-year-old.
Thinking of the situation mentioned in the information, his heart sank, and he walked over with Shen Mucheng.
Xu Dezhou was hoeing the ground. He saw someone coming, but he had never seen someone before. He thought he was just asking for directions and didn't pay much attention. But when he heard the other party call him Doctor Xu, his hand holding the hoe stiffened. Living.
Doctor Xu, no one has called him this name for many years, because the reason why he and his wife settled in City A back then, the people in the village did not know that he had been a doctor.
Luo Shaoheng noticed his movements and knew that he was looking for the right person this time: "Doctor Xu, ten years have passed, I wonder if you still remember me?"
ten years.
This word has been pressed in Xu Dezhou's heart. Almost as soon as Luo Shaoheng said it, he guessed why he came.
Suppressing the speculation in his heart, Xu Dezhou shifted his eyes to Luo Shaoheng's face, his eyes went from strangeness at first to doubt, then to surprise, and finally to shock, as if there was a hint of it.
The two looked at each other for a moment. Compared with Luo Shaoheng's calmness, Xu Dezhou looked away in a panic, lowered his head and continued to hoe the ground: "... I don't know you, and I'm not a doctor. You recognize the wrong person, please don't disturb my work." .”
His reaction was within Luo Shaoheng's expectations. He stopped Shen Mucheng who was about to speak next to him. Luo Shaoheng still had a smile on his face, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
He looked at Xu Dezhou and said slowly: "It's okay if you don't remember me. Ten years ago, on July 29th, in the Municipal Hospital of City A, Dr. Xu gave a death certificate to a person who was sent to the hospital due to a car accident. Shen Mucheng, I wonder if you still remember this incident?"
The guess in his heart was confirmed. Xu Dezhou tightened his hand holding the hoe. The hoe was stuck in the ground, and he couldn't pull it any further. A feeling of "it's finally here" floated in his heart.
Both Luo Shaoheng and Luo Shaoheng could see his reaction clearly. Luo Shaoheng walked in front of him, put away the smile on his face, and looked at him sharply: "Shen Mucheng was sent to the city hospital with severe burns all over his body due to a car accident. After the rescue failed, he was declared dead, and I was the one who went to the hospital to collect his body, so do you remember Doctor Xu?"
Hearing his words, Xu Dezhou became short of breath, and he clenched the hand holding the hoe tightly. The veins protruded on the back of his skinny hand, which proved that he was trying to suppress it.
How can you not remember? Even though Luo Shaoheng has changed a bit after ten years, but the facial features of a person have already been fixed after adulthood, so after the initial strangeness, Xu Dezhou quickly recognized that the man in front of him was the one who was notified to come to the hospital to identify the body. .
As for why he remembered it so deeply, it was the only time he cheated in his career as a doctor.
He still remembered that the person in front of him was just a student at the time, he remembered the panic when he heard the news and rushed to the hospital, he remembered his kneeling in the mortuary and weeping in extreme grief, and he remembered his face of despair and helplessness.
It was so deep, the boy knelt in front of the corpse, his back bent because of crying, giving people a feeling that he could hardly stand up anymore.
He was standing outside the door at that time, looking at his thin and trembling back through the glass opening, he had the illusion that this young man was all harmed by his paper appraisal.
Although he felt guilty, he had no choice.
Shen Mucheng stood next to Luo Shaoheng, held his hand, and said to Xu Dezhou: "We have no malicious intentions, but just want to know what happened back then. I hope you will tell us the truth."
His words brought Xu Dezhou back to his senses from the memories. He took a few deep breaths, suppressed the self-blame and regret in his heart all these years, looked at Shen Mucheng, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Who are you?" ?”
Shen Mucheng also looked at him, and said in a flat tone: "I am the person in your appraisal, Shen Mucheng."
Xu Dezhou's hoe fell to the ground, and he stared at Shen Mucheng with wide eyes in shock: "You...it's you..."
Seeing that he no longer denied it, Shen Mucheng nodded: "Yes."
"Doctor Xu, we don't have any other requirements, but we just want to know the truth about what happened back then." Luo Shaoheng paused, and then said, "If my investigation is not wrong, is your daughter studying in a county high school now, and her name is Xu Qiaoqiao."
Xu Dezhou suddenly raised his head when he heard the words, stared at Luo Shaoheng and raised his voice suddenly: "What do you want to do?!"
"I have no other intentions." Luo Shaoheng still smiled gently, "I just want to know what happened back then. If you are willing, in return, I can arrange the best doctor for your daughter to perform the best heart surgery."
After he finished speaking, he was not in a hurry to answer, but just looked at Xu Dezhou quietly, watching his old face showing guilt and distress when he mentioned his daughter, which made him sigh.
He remembered that when he saw Xu Dezhou in the hospital, he was just forty years old, and now he is only ten years old, but he seemed to be twenty years older. He used to be an excellent department director in the hospital, but now he is just a The father who was overworked by his daughter's illness and was overwhelmed by life.
Even if he had resentment for what he had done, Luo Shaoheng couldn't say anything serious now, looking at his hunched appearance.
After a long time, Governor Xu De let out a long sigh, and said weakly, "You can ask whatever you want."
Luo Shaoheng and Shen Mucheng looked at each other, and Luo Shaoheng asked aloud: "I want to know if Shen Mucheng himself was sent to your hospital when he had an accident in the suburbs?"
"Yes." Xu Dezhou said that there was indeed a person named Shen Mucheng who was sent to the hospital back then, but he was not in charge of treatment at that time.
"Who is that?" Luo Shaoheng did not expect that Shen Mucheng would actually be sent to the city hospital.
"I can't tell you that." Xu Dezhou shook his head.
Luo Shaoheng didn't force him either: "Since you didn't pick up the injured, why did you issue the death notice?"
"Why else?" Xu Dezhou smiled wryly.
Why? It's just a scapegoat from above. Back then, he had reached the level of director, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen. In front of power, he, an ordinary person, had no room to resist at all.
His reaction made Luo Shaoheng and the others understand, Shen Mucheng frowned and asked him to explain the situation at that time in detail.
The matter was actually not complicated. At that time, Shen Mucheng was admitted to the hospital due to injury, and another doctor took over the treatment. Xu Dezhou took over the treatment from the person in the truck that collided with Shen Mucheng. The truck driver died at the scene, but The other person in the car also has signs of life.
After his surgery, someone took him to the hospital leader's office in order to issue that fake identification.
He remembered that he had an excited dispute with the leader, but in the end he had to compromise under pressure, agreed to issue the appraisal, applied for resignation afterwards, and left City A with his daughter.
"You mean that Shen Mucheng was still in your hospital at that time?!" Luo Shaoheng asked in shock, with disbelief in his eyes.
"Yes, it's upstairs in the intensive care unit." Xu Dezhou said to him with a guilty expression, "I'm very sorry that I concealed this from you back then."
Luo Shaoheng turned a deaf ear to his apology, looking dazed. He knelt in the hospital back then, almost unable to control himself and followed Shen Mucheng, but now someone told him that Shen Mu was upstairs in the ward at that time, and he was not dead.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing, with a hint of sarcasm.
After living for so many years, he has never been sorry to anyone, but he was forced to be separated from the one he loves deeply for ten years. Because of this incident, he suffered from severe depression and lived in a nursing home for four years. He wanted to kill himself several times. If he hadn't survived with a single breath, then he would never have the chance to see Shen Mucheng again in his life.
Shen Mucheng stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around his shoulders, comforting him in a low voice: "It's okay, didn't I come back well?"
Luo Shaoheng looked up at him, reached out and shook his hand on his shoulder, the slightly cool body temperature dissipated the haze in his heart, and he replied in a low voice: "I know."
Shen Mucheng patted him on the shoulder, raised his head and asked Xu Dezhou: "You mean what happened back then was the hospital's intention?"
"No." Xu Dezhou shook his head. Back then, he went back to find the leader of the hospital because of this matter, but he didn't expect to meet the leader talking with someone, and he heard something from the conversation.
"Do you know who the other party is?" Shen Mucheng asked in a deep voice.
"I don't know the exact identity, but judging from the dean's attitude, I'm sure the background is not small... By the way!" Xu Dezhou suddenly remembered, "It seems that the surname is Jiang."
"What did you say?!" Shen Mucheng was taken aback, thinking he had heard it wrong, "What's his last name?"
Xu Dezhou said: "I remember that the dean called him Mr. Jiang at that time."
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