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Chapter 426: Chapter 300 Quelling and Calm
Night, 3:20 a.m.
Yuzhou Third Renmin Hospital.
Unlike other rooms that were three or six-person wards, this room only had two beds.
The hospital lights were very bright and white, revealing the coarse texture of the white sheets and blankets in stark clarity.
The room was filled with the smell of disinfectant and blood, with the "drip, drip" sound of the machines constantly beeping.
"Who, who did this to my Liu Liu, he’s still just a child!"
A middle-aged woman, dressed in high-end clothes and carrying a designer bag, was wiping her tears.
Her sharp-featured face, covered in makeup, radiated venomous intent with her eyes.
"My Liu Liu is such a good child, who the hell did he offend!"
The bag-carrying woman stood by the bedside, looking concernedly at the young man on the bed, whose eyes were tightly closed as he was receiving an IV and breathing oxygen.
The head doctor had come earlier to explain the young man’s injuries, multiple rib fractures in his chest, broken ribs poking into organs, resulting in a pneumothorax and other symptoms.
The bag-carrying woman continued to curse.
Another middle-aged man, dressed in dark clothes and wearing square glasses, looked very steady.
His face bore an authoritative air, as if he was accustomed to high positions; he frowned.
The kid in the hospital bed had caused trouble not once or twice but many times, and every time it took his effort to sort it out.
Three years ago, he used his connections to change the boy’s age and sent him away for education.
Who would have thought that less than half a month after coming back, he had stirred up trouble again.
As he was still worrying about what to do, who would have thought that he’d now been sent to the hospital.
He held an unlit cigarette, and advised:
"Say a little less."
When the bag-carrying woman heard this, she grew even angrier, her forehead’s veins bulging, and under the hospital light, her face’s powder was almost cracking, showing a ghastly pallor.
"He’s not your son, so you don’t care, right? You think I don’t know about the shoddy things you do behind my back?"
"Huh? You don’t want to live a good life anymore?"
The bag-carrying woman exploded into furious shouting, like a roaring beast.
Her voice carried all the way out to the empty hospital corridor.
Half a minute later, Little Nurse knocked and reminded:
"It’s nightt; please keep your voices down, other patients are resting."
Little Nurse was just giving a routine reminder, but who knew that the bag-carrying woman would suddenly let go, rush to the door, and with a sweep of her hand, slapped Little Nurse across the face.
"Smack!"
"You little bitch, who gave you the right to butt in?"
"If a single hair on my son’s head is hurt, I’ll tear you apart!"
Little Nurse, a vocational school graduate just starting her internship, was only 17 and had never seen such a scene before; she was utterly stunned by the slap.
Another on-duty nurse ran out to check on the situation:
"What happened, what’s going on?"
The bag-carrying woman pointed and cursed at her: "Control your people, it won’t be just a slap next time!"
The slapped Little Nurse, covering her face, was on the verge of tears.
All this time, the middle-aged man in the room remained indifferent.
The more experienced nurse managed, with great difficulty, to calm the bag-carrying woman down.
Having vented her anger, the bag-carrying woman finally returned to the room.
In the nurses’ break room.
The head nurse gently touched Little Nurse’s face, speaking with concern, "I’ll take over the shift later, you go get some rest."
"Mhm," said Little Nurse dispiritedly.
"That family has a very powerful background; the director came personally from home to perform the surgery. Don’t take it to heart, I’ll speak to the head nurse later and take responsibility for that ward myself," the head nurse said.
"Sister, thank you," said Little Nurse.
"No thanks necessary, go to sleep," the head nurse said.
She saw in Little Nurse the image of her younger self.
...
"What are you thinking about here? Hurry up and have someone look into it!"
The bag-carrying woman urged, her son had been beaten like this, she was itching to tear the assailant apart with her own hands to relieve her hatred.
The middle-aged man finally spoke, his authoritative face showing caution, he said:
"The people who brought your son to the hospital are from the Changqing Liquid Group’s security team."
The bag-carrying woman arrogantly said, "Care about some damn Changqing Liquid? I have connections, there’s nothing in Yuzhou City I can’t handle!"
The middle-aged man shot back, "The Changqing Liquid Group, even the highest authority in our unit has to handle it with care."
Anyone with a bit of common sense and judgment should know the potential of the Changqing Liquid Group.
In another year or two, it won’t just be the city, but the provincial level might have to take a very respectful approach.
The bag-carrying woman was not a fool: "It’s only the Changqing Liquid security team, not someone from Changqing Liquid who did it, and even if it was Changqing Liquid’s boss who antagonized my son, I wouldn’t let them get away with it!"
"Don’t forget who helped you climb to where you are now!" the bag-carrying woman warned.
A shadow flickered at the bottom of the middle-aged man’s eyes, but he hid it very well.
The bag-carrying woman’s gaze returned to her son on the bed; the more she looked, the more pitiful she felt he was. Yet she never thought about the people her son had hurt, who might be even more pitiful.
She squeezed out a venomous vow, "Not only the one who hit my son but also the family of the culprit, none of them will get away!"
"I want to see their family destroyed and lives shattered."
As her words fell, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open.
Immediately after, a hearty voice rang out:
"Oh, I heard you want to ruin my family?"
Jiang Ning walked into the room with a light smile and closed the door behind him.
He stood in the room, squinting his eyes.
The bag-carrying woman was lawless. Before, when Little Nurse stood at the door reminding them to keep it down, she dared to slap someone.
Let alone now, the uninvited Jiang Ning who had burst in.
She yelled, "Who are you? Get out!"
The middle-aged man’s gaze also shifted to Jiang Ning, his look full of presence. If it were a newbie just out of school, they would definitely think he was a high-ranking big shot.
