Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 1451 The dust has settled, and he commits suicide out of guilt.
"What's the situation over there now? She said she was going to take revenge on us," Fang Yan whispered to Director Liao outside the ward.

Director Liao looked around, and Fang Yan understood that he was looking for a place where no one else could hear him.

Fang Yan then pointed to an empty ward on the side.

Director Liao understood immediately and followed Fang Yan inside.

After entering a room, Director Liao said:
“When I arrived, this person was very emotionally unstable. She launched into a tirade against me, saying a lot of things, basically expressing her regret for bringing her husband back.”

"She said that if you hadn't insisted on not having them accompany her, things wouldn't have turned out this way. She said it completely ruined her family! She also said she shouldn't have come for treatment! Before, Wei Jiaju was crazy, but at least she was obedient! Now, she's sober and wants a divorce. What kind of cure is that?!"

Director Liao shook his head and sighed, "Listen to this logic! When people are sick, they complain they're crazy; when they're cured, they complain they're lucid. Either way, it's someone else's fault!"

He smacked his lips and made a "tsk..." sound.

He was speechless. This woman hadn't realized her own mistake and was still looking for reasons in others. From her words, he could also sense how strong her desire for control was.

She actually missed the days when her husband went insane, because back then he was still under her control and obedient.

The sense of control is the most important thing for them.

Losing control of their target is something they simply cannot accept.

Then Director Liao continued:
"Hey, don't take it too seriously. This kind of person is very stubborn. They will never think it's their own problem and will blame others instead."

Fang Yan smiled and said:
"I didn't take it to heart, I just felt scared for Mr. Wei. I can't imagine what kind of life he lived back then. He seemed glamorous on the surface, but it wasn't a life fit for a human being. Alright, please continue..."

Director Liao said:
"Then they started accusing Wai Ka Kui."

"She said she's been a slave to the Wei family for over a decade! Without her father's help, what is Wei Jiaju? Now that she's got wings, she thinks she can just throw everyone away?"

"Then she said that someone must have instigated her! They specialize in doing despicable things like breaking up families! She wanted me to stand up for her."

"Finally, she couldn't hold back any longer and demanded that I remove you from your post and investigate you today."

"How dare you, a doctor, stop a family member from taking a patient home and even instigate a patient to divorce! Keeping such a morally bankrupt scourge around is a disgrace to Peking Union Medical College Hospital!"

Director Liao rolled his eyes as he said this:
"According to her logic, shouldn't doctors who advise patients to stay away from bad environments all go to jail?"

Fang Yan smiled; this person was interesting.

It has already entered the stage of biting randomly.

Then Director Liao continued:
"I was really having a headache seeing her like this, so I tried to reason with her, explaining that we doctors only cured Wei Jiaju's madness. Now that he's sober and wants a divorce, that's his own choice. Her reasoning that she's blaming the doctors for being too good is just not convincing anywhere!"

"But she wouldn't listen. She insisted that I deal with you, saying you were a fraud and that you used your Nobel Prize nomination to intimidate her team."

“I told her clearly: ‘Fang Yan is the backbone of our Overseas Chinese Affairs Office’s medical work! How many overseas Chinese businessmen has he cured? How much international medical cooperation has he facilitated? You can’t shake his position by just saying a few random words!’ A Nobel Prize nomination is an achievement that has been definitively recognized by the international medical community! Calling him a fraudster, are you trying to say that Nobel laureates are blind, or that all the world’s medical authorities are blind?”

“I also told her that overseas Chinese businesspeople returning to China for medical treatment are entitled to preferential treatment from the country, but the premise is that they must abide by medical regulations! If they insist on causing trouble, it will affect the medical reputation of all overseas Chinese, and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office will never sit idly by!”

“But this person wasn’t afraid and gave me a bunch of nonsense, accusing me of ‘protecting a corrupt doctor’; when I brought up policies, she cried and complained that ‘the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office doesn’t help overseas Chinese!’ By the end, my blood pressure had gone up.”

Fang Yan said to Director Liao:
"Don't be angry. When people live to be this old, many things have become habits, and they won't change themselves so easily."

Director Liao nodded and said:
"I knew right away that this person wasn't someone who could reason with people."

"I still have to say what I should say back then: we still have to draw a red line for her. We should be polite first, then take action. If she dares to cross the line later, we won't hold back."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yan inexplicably recalled some extraordinary individuals he had seen online in his previous life who dared to challenge the law.

And it wasn't just one or two, it was a whole group.

They have their own set of logic, and they only listen to what they want to hear when others say it.

Next, Fang Yan told Director Liao about what happened after Mr. Wei's elder brother and sister-in-law came. Although they had no contact with Mr. Wei, Fang Yan still wanted to make things clear so that Director Liao would know their attitude.

Director Liao said to Fang Yan:

"It's alright now. They can't cause any more trouble. I think the time is right, so I'll let them go back tomorrow."

“There are a lot of things waiting for them abroad right now.”

"Don't worry, if they do anything abroad, we will naturally have countermeasures."

Fang Yan nodded after hearing this.

Since Director Liao has said everything he needed to say, then of course we should trust our leader.

……

As Director Liao had predicted, Mr. Wei's wife, elder brother, and sister-in-law left Beijing by plane the following day.

Mr. Wei's open letter has been published in newspapers in many cities. As a prominent business figure, he quickly attracted attention. People are quite enthusiastic about this kind of gossip.

Soon, some newspapers that hadn't received a firsthand copy of the open letter began reprinting it the following day, and some even commented on Mr. Wei's open letter on television. To some extent, some of these commentators were simply eager to see their family make a fool of themselves, fueling the flames.

Whether it was malicious intent or just casual observation, the matter has already generated a lot of buzz.

In no time, everyone knew about it.

Mrs. Wei had no choice but to rush back to deal with these matters. Despite her lively demeanor in Mr. Wei's hospital room, she maintained the persona of a wealthy lady within her own social circle.

This open letter was also a devastating blow to her public image. Now she knows that although there's not much she can do if she goes back, she can't just sit here and wait for things to escalate without doing anything.

Moreover, his family should know what happened by now, and he still needs to explain to his father and his children.

Ideally, she should keep the child with her so that even if they divorce, she can receive sufficient alimony from Mr. Wei.

After the anger subsides, it's time to calmly calculate your gains and losses in this matter.

Trying to handle it yourself will only make things worse.

As for retaliating against Fang Yan, she had considered it, but Director Liao had already made things clear, and she hadn't yet decided whether she should do something that crossed the line out of spite.

After dealing with this matter, time passed by and it was already December.

December 1978, 12.

It is the second day of the eleventh month in the lunar calendar.

The weather is sunny.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Fang Yan had already finished his rounds in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Peking Union Medical College Hospital.

He had a class this morning, and he immediately drove to the school.

As soon as he arrived at the school, he saw a familiar figure: Bai Xiaochun, who had been part of the pilot support program in Lingshi County.

"Brother Fang!" The other person also saw him and immediately greeted him.

"When did you come back?" Fang Yan asked her. Although he already knew that most people were required to return to Beijing in early December, Fang Yan only saw Bai Xiaochun when he returned on the first day of December.

"I came back with Old Zhang last night."

"Old Zhang?" Fang Yan was taken aback.

Bai Xiaochun said:
"It's Director Zhang who helped exonerate Dr. Li Ke. When he heard that I was your classmate and that I was coming back in December, he asked me to come with him."

Fang Yan then remembered Zhang Yi and asked:
"Did you even press his head down?"

Bai Xiaochun smiled and said:
"Haha, no, the massage was done by his secretary. He mentioned you at the time."

Fang Yan waved his hand and said:
"Don't use those formal terms, we're all classmates."

Ever since Fang Yan went to the countryside in a leadership manner, Bai Xiaochun has spoken with particular respect, always starting with "you" or "you are so-and-so".

Fang Yan paused and asked:
"By the way, has the pilot program in Lingshi County been completed?"

Bai Xiaochun nodded and said:
"Yes, based on your latest rectification opinions at the time, we have started to implement reforms in several pilot areas. Afterwards, we went to Taiyuan for unified training, which greatly improved the situation and made it ready for full implementation. So I brought back the collected information to report. I handed all the materials to Dean Zhao Xiwu early this morning."

Fang Yan suddenly realized and said:
"That's good……"

Then he continued to ask:

"Now that Director Zhang is back, is everything settled with Li Ke?"

"You...you mean Wang Zhankui, right?" Bai Xiaochun asked.

Fang Yan nodded, surprised that Bai Xiaochun even knew this.

“I heard it from other people at the county hospital. After Wang Zhankui and that relative from back then found out that Comrade Zhang Yi was investigating them, they both took medicine on their own,” Bai Xiaochun said.

Fang Yan was taken aback:
"died?"

Bai Xiaochun said:
"Yes, I heard it was to protect the people above, but I didn't check the details to see if it was true. I don't know if it's just hearsay, but anyway, Dr. Li's reputation has been restored."

"Someone from the Health Department in Taiyuan even invited him to work at a hospital in the provincial capital."

Fang Yan was startled again, and immediately realized it must be Xiao Hanxi.

Of course, it's not a bad thing for Li Ke to work in Taiyuan. After suffering most of his life, it would be a good outcome for him to work in a better company now.

“However, Dr. Li Ke did not go. He told the people there that when you leave, you should tell him to help build up his hometown,” Bai Xiaochun said.

P.S.: To be continued tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)