Healing Doctor

Chapter 711 It's all about money

Back at 912, seeing Shen Lang return safely and Ji Xiang carrying a brick and keeping watch, Zhou Congwen patted Ji Xiang on the shoulder as a sign of praise.

"There's something strange about this." Shen Lang stopped gossiping, but the fire in his eyes shone even brighter.

"Wait here, don't leave my sight." Professor Zhou took the brick from Ji Xiang and looked at Shen Lang with a smile.

Helpless, Shen Lang plopped down on the director's desk in a huff.

Professor Zhou wasn't angry; he was writing something on his computer.

The brick beside him was particularly conspicuous and didn't fit in at all with the rest of the office.

"Director, what do you think should be done about Old Wang sucking people's lifespan?" Ji Xiang felt the atmosphere in the office was a bit strange, so he broke the silence.

"You really think someone would suck up someone's lifespan?" Shen Lang said irritably.

It's as if Ji Xiang is the real culprit.

"Brother Lang, you're the one who told me."

"That's gossip, gossip! Do you even know what gossip is? It's all just nonsense, just something to make people laugh." Shen Lang glared at Ji Xiang, as if everything was Ji Xiang's fault.

Bagua...

Ji Xiang looked at Shen Lang, truly wondering what kind of bizarre thought process he had.

Are all the people around Professor Zhou so eccentric?

"Ignore him, Xiao Ji," Zhou Congwen said softly. "No matter what he says, he always tries to veer towards supernatural phenomena, even though he doesn't actually believe it himself."

"That……"

"He writes novels, right? And readers are willing to read them. Readers are the boss, right, Shen Lang?"

"Congwen, there's something wrong with this." Shen Lang didn't respond, but instead began his logical analysis.

"You'd better sit still." Zhou Congwen patted the brick next to him.

Ji Xiang felt that the strongest fighter among the three was not himself, nor Shen Lang who was as strong as an ox, but Professor Zhou Congwen, who seemed quiet and gentle.

Shen Lang looked at Professor Zhou like a mouse looking at a cat.

No matter how curious he was, he had to keep it to himself if Professor Zhou didn't agree.

The office fell silent again. Ji Xiang didn't want to break the awkward silence, so he just looked at Professor Zhou quietly.

After a long time, Professor Zhou's phone rang.

After answering the phone, he kept responding with "uh-huh" before finally saying, "Thank you, Director Feng. Let's have dinner together sometime."

After hanging up the phone, Professor Zhou placed his hands in front of him, twirling his fingers, and looked at Ji Xiang with a smile.

"Xiao Ji, guess what happened?"

"I don't know," Ji Xiang replied honestly.

"One of Wang Chengfa's two grandsons wanted to put him in the ICU to die, while the other wanted to cover it up and collect more years of retirement pension, so a dispute arose," Shen Lang said.

Professor Zhou looked at Shen Lang with great interest. "Continue."

"I saw the two brothers fighting at home that day, and then the lights were turned off. I didn't think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, it must have been Wang Quan who accidentally killed Wang Liang."

"The next day, Wang Quan came to complete the hospital admission procedures. He said Wang Liang was away on a business trip. I felt something was wrong at the time, but it was their family matter, so I didn't ask any further questions."

Ji Xiang's gaze towards Shen Lang changed. This guy looked like a gossip-loving man, but he didn't expect that Shen Lang knew everything.

Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, the fact that Shen Lang can speak these words in an orderly manner shows that he is a talented person.

I've experienced these things myself, but I can't explain them in any way.

"After completing the discharge procedures, everything was actually normal at that point, but after receiving a call from an old patient, I realized that something was wrong."

"If Wang Chengfa were really at home, he wouldn't be afraid of being seen. To put him out for everyone to see is definitely suspicious. It's highly likely that Wang Chengfa is dead, but Wang Quan is keeping his death a secret."

"!!!" Ji Xiang was speechless. Shen Lang's thought process was truly bizarre.

"Shen Lang, you've really changed a lot in just a few days," Professor Zhou said with a smile.

"Sigh, I held up an umbrella to block the view. Wang Chengfa had his head down, his face was pale and a little damp. I guess he was put in the freezer at home by Wang Quan after he died."

"..."

Ji Xiang initially thought it was unlikely, but upon closer examination, he realized that Shen Lang's logic was flawless.

only……

Is it really possible to preserve my grandfather's body in a freezer just for the sake of retirement pay?

"Take it out and show it to everyone, then go back and throw it in the freezer. It's completely foolproof, enough to hide it for years. I haven't studied forensic medicine, I don't know what a freezer is..."

"Low temperature can delay the appearance of livor mortis, but the temperature in the freezer isn't low enough; it can only guarantee 1-2 months at most. Wang Quan's treatment here is problematic; it would be better to soak it in water, which would slow it down even more," Professor Zhou said.

"Congwen, stop talking nonsense. If it's soaked in water and frozen, you can't get it out at all," Shen Lang said.

"Hahaha." Professor Zhou laughed.

"Brother Lang, what happened next?" Ji Xiang asked.

"There was no 'later' after all. All that happened was Wang Quan pushing Wang Cheng around to show everyone. The man was dead, and his body was desecrated. It's outrageous."

"It's nothing, quite normal. Things like this happen frequently when people are vying for retirement pensions," Professor Zhou said calmly. "But what do you think about the two brothers getting into a fight and Wang Quan accidentally killing Wang Liang?"

Yuanfang, what do you think?

This sentence echoed in Ji Xiang's ears.

"Accident? Fifty or fifty. I don't think it was entirely accidental; perhaps it was intentional," Shen Lang said. "If they had done it together, their retirement pensions would have been split between them. If one of them is gone, Wang Quan would have gotten all of his retirement pension. Blinded by greed, Wang Quan didn't think that murder was illegal."

"Just for that little bit of retirement pension?" Ji Xiang asked in surprise.

"That little bit?" Shen Lang now found Ji Xiang particularly displeasing. He glanced at him and said disdainfully, "Twenty thousand a month, without having to do anything. There are definitely plenty of people who can do that kind of thing."

Ji Xiang didn't understand this passage, but he remembered the student with kidney stones.

Maybe so, Brother Lang is right.

"Did you find it, Congwen?"

"Found it. The location where the body was hidden has been found; it belongs to Wang Liang. As for Wang Chengfa, it seems he was taken out of the freezer and sent to the funeral home."

"Tell me, if you put him in the ICU, he can at least keep breathing for another six months."

"It's also a way to save money for the national medical insurance system." Professor Zhou's words were tinged with a hint of sarcasm, which Ji Xiang didn't understand.

However, once the secret was out, Ji Xiang roughly understood the ins and outs.

"In the past, many people kept their deaths secret so they could collect their retirement pensions. So they couldn't die in the hospital. Wang Quan's point of view is not wrong. If he hadn't beaten Wang Liang to death, he would have only been scolded at most." Professor Zhou said with little interest.

So that's how it is; Ji Xiang finally understood everything.

There are so many twists and turns in this.

The light flickered.

Ji Xiang suddenly reached out, "I still need to have surgery!"

But Professor Zhou and Shen Lang seemed not to hear him. In the blink of an eye, Ji Xiang returned to the system operating room.

(End of this chapter)