The calligraphy exhibition has ended, Su Yi and Liu Man originally planned to return to the capital with Yu Zhan the next day, but something unexpected happened.
Wu Qu was seriously injured.
Liu Man and the others learned the news at three o'clock in the morning. When the three arrived at the hospital, Wu Qu had already completed the operation and was in the intensive care unit.
The high-spirited man who had just received the exhibition award certificate yesterday morning was lying on the hospital bed, surrounded by various instruments, breathing weakly.
The guard room was full of people, including Ouyang Cen, other leaders of the Calligraphy Association, Zhou Buyi, and the judges who hadn't left the ancient capital, and several policemen were taking notes.
The atmosphere is heavy.
Su Yi asked Ouyang Cen what was going on.
Ouyang Cen said that Wu Qu bought a train ticket to leave the ancient capital last night. The train departed at 1:30 in the morning, and he checked out of the small hotel around 11:00 that night.
The environment of the small hotel is very poor. In order to save money, Wu Qu is reluctant to give up a better hotel. His family is in an ordinary county in the northwest. He worked as a high school teacher. During this period, his wife gave birth to a second child, and life became very difficult.
Wu Qu called an online car-hailing car in advance. Since the location of the hotel was on the back street, the online car-hailing driver called him and told him that the car could not come in and asked him to go to the main street. He took the suitcase and answered the phone while walking towards the main street. Was hit on the head with a stick.
The online car-hailing driver heard the movement and felt that something was wrong. When he walked over to check the situation, he found Wu Qu was covered in blood and fell unconscious on the ground.
And there was no one around.
It has only been four hours since the incident happened, and the police conducted a simple survey of the scene.
The place where Wu Qu was attacked happened to be between the monitoring of the small hotel and the monitoring of the intersection. It was a blind spot. The time of the incident was too late, and there were no witnesses around.
Although Wu Qu is from the Northwest, he seldom comes to the ancient capital. There are no relatives and friends here, let alone the possibility of enemies.
The police preliminarily concluded that Wu Qu had suffered a vicious robbery, because the online car-hailing driver arrived in time, and the assailant ran away before he could search for his finances.
Of course, the police investigation is still in progress. Professional criminal investigators have retrieved all surveillance videos from nearby roads in an attempt to grasp the perpetrator's whereabouts.
They hoped that Wu Qu could see the face of the assailant, and they planned to ask him to describe the situation when he woke up.
After listening to Ouyang Cen's narration, Su Yi couldn't help looking at Liu Man. He remembered that Liu Man had said that she was worried that Su Xuezhen would retaliate against them.
If it wasn't for Wu Qu's uprightness to expose Su Xuezhen and Wang Qinghai's behavior of colluding questions in advance on the spot, Su Xuezhen would never have ended up in such a desperate situation.
Liu Man frowned, she had an intuition that Su Xuezhen did this.
Seeing that several policemen were about to leave, Su Yi immediately stopped them and said,
"Comrade police, Wu Qu has enemies in ancient times!"
"His enemy is called Su Xuezhen!"
Hearing this, the expressions of the calligraphers present became very dignified.
The police attached great importance to this clue and asked Su Yi in detail about the entanglement between Wu Qu and Su Xuezhen.
They believe that Su Xuezhen is indeed suspected of committing a major crime, and after careful analysis, they believe that there is another person who may also be retaliated by Su Xuezhen.
They looked at Chen Jianqiu at the same time,
Chen Jianqiu was taken aback for a moment, and then said fearlessly, "I dare to act, so I am not afraid of Su Xuezhen's revenge."
Ouyang Cen disagreed, "Be careful sailing for ten thousand years, Su Xuezhen knows very well that you reported to me that Su Maolin's "Poyao Fu" had problems."
The attitude of the police is also the same. These people are well-known calligraphers and people of social status. If something happens, it will be their dereliction of duty!
On the one hand, they reported the new situation to the headquarters, and requested additional personnel to investigate Su Xuezhen's recent whereabouts. On the other hand, in order to ensure Chen Jianqiu's safety, they sent someone to escort him back to the hotel.
Chen Jianqiu will leave the ancient capital by plane tomorrow afternoon, the police ask the hotel to strengthen security.
The other calligraphers also left one after another. Only Su Yi, Yu Zhan, Ouyang Cen and Zhou Buyi remained in the hospital.
Wu Qu suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, and his life was not out of danger yet. He didn't even have an acquaintance in the ancient capital who could take care of him. At this point in time, it was difficult for the Calligraphy Association to inform Wu Qu's relatives in his hometown.
The emergency operation and hospitalization were signed by Ouyang Cen.
Seeing Wu Qu suddenly become like this, Liu Man felt very sad.
Zhou Buyi was also uncomfortable. Although he was very dissatisfied with Wu Qu's unreasonable behavior at first, but after getting along with each other in two competitions, he realized that Wu Qu is actually a very simple person, who only wants to realize his calligraphy. No one can bear the dream of a family.
Yu Zhan only chatted with Wu Qu for a few days, and felt that the other party was a more connotative person, and he also felt sorry for Wu Qu when he suffered a sudden accident.
Everyone's mood is very gloomy.
The head nurse of the intensive care unit came to change the dressing, saw five people standing in the corridor, and said to them, "The patient is still in a coma, and he doesn't know when he will wake up. There is no need for all five of you to wait here," she said. Looking at Su Yi and Ouyang Cen, "Especially you two are getting older, it's not okay to stay up all night, why don't you go back and rest first, the three of them young people here are enough."
What the head nurse said made sense, the exhaustion on the faces of the two old men was obvious.
Liu Man said to Yu Zhan, "You send Professor Su and President Ouyang back, and Buqi and I stay here."
Contrary to the direction of the police's suspicions, Liu Man still firmly believes in her own point of view—Su Xuezhen is more likely to report to Suyi. She is worried that Suyi will go back to the hotel alone, and she can rest assured that Yu Zhan is there.
Yu Zhan didn't know anything about Su Xuezhen at first, but he could roughly piece together the image of Su Xuezhen from the conversation they had just had with the police. He also thought that the grievances between Su Xuezhen and Su Yi were deeper.
Considering that Liu Man was still around, and the hospital was a relatively safe public place, he thought Liu Man would be fine, so he took over the task of escorting Su Yi and Ouyang Cen.
Zhou Buyi handed over his car keys to Yu Zhan, and told him to protect Ouyang Cen. After all, it was Ouyang Cen who ordered the disqualification of Su Xuezhen's judges.
Yu Zhan said that he would definitely escort the two elderly people to their place safely.
After he left, Liu Man and Zhou Buyi sat on chairs in the corridor, silently waiting for Wu Qu to wake up. Zhou Buyi said, "Originally everyone was happy to get the award, how could this happen suddenly. Such a severe beating on the head is obviously to kill the other party! If Su Xuezhen really did it, then he It’s too heartless.”