NOVPUBAfter that.
Chen Nan spiritedly pulled up his pants, then said, "I just remembered something. A friend of mine’s grandfather seems to be hospitalized in the neurology department of your hospital."
The reason Chen Nan came to Wang Li was not just to roll in the hay with her, but also to investigate the condition of Nie Xiaoyu’s grandfather.
In his view, even if Nie Xiaoyu’s grandfather had been admitted to the ICU, the daily cost could not amount to ten thousand yuan.
After all.
He was only suffering from cerebellar atrophy, which was somewhat different from those with serious conditions.
He felt that a daily expense of ten thousand yuan was a bit excessive.
However.
What exactly was going on still needed to be investigated.
Wang Li listlessly straightened her clothes, placed a pad in her underwear, and then looked at Chen Nan with a hint of resentment in her tone, "You didn’t come here just because of your friend’s grandfather, did you?"
"How could that be?" Chen Nan would never admit to that, and immediately said, "Well, could you help me look into his medical expenses?"
Wang Li frowned, although she didn’t know why Chen Nan was asking this, but still went to the neurology department personally to investigate the matter of Nie Zhenbin.
Half an hour later, Wang Li returned to the office, her face full of confusion as she looked at Chen Nan, "Nie Zhenbin died four days ago! Why did you still want me to check his medical expenses?"
Boom!
A simple statement.
Sent a shiver down Chen Nan’s spine as he stared at Wang Li in shock, "What did you say? Nie Zhenbin died four days ago?"
"That’s not"
"How could this be?"
Chen Nan was completely dumbfounded. Nie Xiaoyu had withdrawn twenty thousand yuan from her salary that morning for medical expenses, so how could Nie Zhenbin have died four days ago?
Wang Li said, "This matter is absolutely true, the hospital issued a death certificate four days ago, but for some reason, the body has not yet been taken home and is still lying in the hospital morgue." She handed her smartphone to Chen Nan, displaying a death certificate.
The name on it was clearly Nie Xiaoyu’s grandfather, Nie Zhenbin.
Chen Nan’s face turned pale.
Even after seeing Nie Zhenbin’s death certificate, he couldn’t accept that the other party had been dead for four days.
Wang Li continued, "There’s another thing I don’t understand, and neither do my colleagues in neurology."
"Nie Zhenbin’s condition was beyond treatment, yet the family kept him in the hospital for treatment."
"In my opinion, there was no need for that."
"After all, the patient was elderly and suffered from severe brain atrophy; any day he might have passed away."
"We descendants of Yan and Huang always have the obsession with leaves falling back to their roots. I think the best option for him would have been to go home."
"Dying in one’s birthplace is, after all, a perfect full stop to one’s life."
"But in the hospital, there’s still a daily expense of hundreds of yuan."
"Even though cooperative medical care can reimburse sixty percent, there’s still no need!" She was utterly baffled, completely unable to comprehend why the family was acting like this.
At that moment.
Chen Nan finally understood the true nature of the situation, his eyes blazing with anger, "Nie Zhenbin has a granddaughter who works from dawn to dusk, selling snacks street by street, and all the money she makes goes to her aunt, intended for her grandfather’s medical expenses!"
"If I’m not wrong, the money she earns can fully cover the old man’s daily expenses."
"Not only that, there would be some left over."
"And that sum of money, all ended up in her aunt’s hands."
"This is why Nie Zhenbin’s daughter insisted on her own hospital treatment."
"She is not being filial, she hopes to use this seemingly filial act to gain more money for herself!"
His face contorted in fury, and a towering rage rose in his heart.
This time.
He had seen the ugliness of human nature, shocking and chilling to the bone.
At the same time.
He also felt incredibly heartbroken for Nie Xiaoyu.
She was already a person of misfortune, but who could have imagined that her own blood relative, her own aunt, would deceive her in such a way?
Wang Li shivered and quickly said, "That cannot be, that cannot be, how can a human heart be so sinister and malicious? Being an aunt, how can she treat her niece like this?"
Chen Nan clenched his fists tightly, "I also don’t believe that a human heart can be so sinister and malicious, but the fact is just so. Nie Xiaoyu and I are classmates, I am well aware of all her misfortunes."
"She found me today and said her grandfather’s illness was severe and needed twenty thousand yuan."
"Although she did come to the hospital to visit, she wasn’t able to see her grandfather. Consequently, she transferred the money to her aunt."
Wang Li looked at Chen Nan anxiously and couldn’t help but ask, "What are you planning to do now? Are you going to tell your classmate about this directly?"
"If you tell her about this, are you sure she can handle it?" As he spoke, his pupils trembled.
She was not the one directly involved.
But just thinking about it was enough to cause heart-wrenching pain.
The kind of pain that almost suffocates.
Chen Nan shook his head blankly, "I also don’t know what to do now."
The most direct method in this situation is to inform Nie Xiaoyu of the truth, to prevent her from being kept in the dark and from being deceived anymore.
But...
He couldn’t bear to see Nie Xiaoyu suffer from this cruel hurt and blow!
After thinking for a moment, Wang Li softly said, "In my opinion, the best solution to this issue is to have the deceased’s daughter confess to your classmate about Mr. Nie’s death."
"In doing so, the losses could be minimized."
"However..."
"I estimate that the deceased’s daughter will not confess easily, after all to her, your classmate is just an ATM."
"Even if the deceased’s daughter truly confesses about Mr. Nie’s death."
"The money your classmate paid, can’t be retrieved."
"Unless you are willing to tell her the whole truth."
Hearing this, Chen Nan’s eyes brightened, and he already had an idea on how to resolve this matter, he said, "I want to go to the morgue to see the deceased."
"Sure."
Wang Li agreed to Chen Nan’s suggestion. As deputy head of the propaganda department, visiting a deceased in the morgue was no difficulty at all.
However, she did not understand why Chen Nan wanted to see Mr. Nie.
Thus, Chen Nan followed Wang Li to the morgue of the People’s Hospital.
Wang Li found the person in charge of the morgue, stated her identity, and expressed her wish to visit Nie Zhenbin.
The staff, after listening, warmly opened the door of the morgue and led Chen Nan and Wang Li into the dark, damp space, filled with the pungent smell of formalin.
And just at the moment they entered the morgue.
Chen Nan clearly felt a thick gloom hitting his face, like mercury seeping through every pore, madly rushing into his body.
