Chapter Eleven: Unyielding Resolve

  As he walked out of the hospital, Wang Lin's face looked somewhat gloomy. The victim's condition had become very serious, with five fractures all over his body and a small amount of blood clots in his skull. If not treated promptly, the victim might lose his life. If it weren't for Wang Lin sending over the 20,000 yuan in time, whether the victim could make it through tonight was another matter altogether.

  But even with the 20,000 yuan, it is still unknown whether the victim can stand up again and be like before. The fracture is easy to say, just take good care of it for a few more days and it will basically be solved. Even if you can't live as actively as before, there won't be any problem with self-care activities. What worries people most is still the hematoma in the victim's brain. According to the doctor's explanation, the hematoma in the patient's brain is rapidly increasing. If the hematoma in the brain is not cleared in time, it may compress some nerves in the brain.

  At that time, even if she was lucky enough to keep her life, it's possible that she would become a vegetable. Car accidents are more ferocious than tigers. Wang Lin, who had seen many car accidents before, still felt terrified after hearing the doctor's words. At the same time, in order to avoid arousing suspicion from the patient's family members, Wang Lin did not go to disturb them when he went to the hospital again.

  All I know from the doctor is that the patient is 25 years old, a local resident, named Li Mingmin, unmarried, currently working as an English teacher and part-time class director at a high school in the High-tech Zone. At two o'clock, she should have been present in the classroom, even if there were no classes, she should have stayed in school. From the doctor's vague account, I understand that this young teacher was involved in a car accident while sending a student back home from school.

  The student was feeling unwell and needed to go home, but his parents were too busy to come to school to pick him up. The young but responsible teacher decided to take him home herself. After all, he was her own student, and if something unexpected happened during normal class hours, even if no one held her accountable, she would still have a knot in her heart.

  But good people will be rewarded, the parent of that student learned about the teacher's car accident on his way back to school in the evening and hurriedly brought some money to the hospital to pay for some medical expenses first. The teacher was only doing this to send his own child home, as parents, if they were unmoved by this, it would be too insensitive.

  Most of the people in the high-tech zone are farmers, and even if the student's parents prepaid some medical expenses, it was only a few thousand yuan. In addition, the hospital also had lobbying from the school, and finally decided to perform initial surgery on the patient. At the same time, the hospital also urged the patient's family to pay the medical expenses as soon as possible. After all, the hospital is for profit, with such large daily expenses, the hospital cannot only spend without income.

  The 200,000 yuan that Wang Lin sent over in the evening barely solved the patient's urgent need. However, within these short tens of minutes at the hospital, Wang Lin also received another shocking piece of news: the victim's father, Li Zhonghua, was a veteran who had participated in the Vietnam War and retired due to injury.

  Li Zhonghua joined the army in 1972 and was assigned to a field army unit. In 1973, he followed his troops into Vietnam for war. In September of that year, Li was injured again in battle, with his left leg blown off. Due to the difficult conditions at the time, Li had no choice but to undergo amputation to save his life. At that time, amputations were also one of the most common surgeries performed. The 153rd Hospital of the PLA was a gathering place for these wounded soldiers.

  The Longhai Railway even has a section that is directly set up at the back door of the 153 Hospital, and the wounded can receive timely treatment as soon as they get off the train. And Li Zhonghua returned to his hometown at this time. Fortunately, soldiers who retired due to injuries were still scarce at that time, and beautiful girls were vying to marry these national heroes. So after Li Zhonghua recovered from his injury, he married a girl from the neighboring village.

  Li Mingmin has an older brother, and the little boy Wang Lin met on Jinling Road is his eldest daughter. Li Mingmin's brother didn't have much education, he dropped out of school early to work in the fields at home, barely scraping by. The family's savings were mostly spent on Li Mingmin's education, she graduated from Zhongzhou Demonstration School two years ago and became a teacher at a local middle school. This family that had been through so much hardship finally saw their first spring, but unexpectedly returned to nature in the last winter.

  For a time, the family's life became even more difficult. Li Mingmin's sister-in-law and father stayed in the hospital to take care of Li Mingmin, while his older brother and niece and nephew stood in three places looking for witnesses. At first, Wang Lin came here to send money, which raised the doctor's suspicion. No one would come to give a car accident patient money without reason, unless you are not the perpetrator, or perhaps there is another inside story.

  However, Wang Lin handed over the 20,000 yuan to the hospital on behalf of the Moonlight Foundation and personally hid in a secluded place, watching as the doctor handed the receipt to the victim's father before leaving the hospital.

  After getting back in the car, Wang Lin couldn't be happy no matter what. He had personally heard the doctor tell him about the patient's condition. As one of the people responsible for the accident, even if Wang Lin took out the 20,000 yuan, what could he do? He couldn't restore the teacher's youth, and he couldn't make up for the pain her family was suffering.

  "Never mind, don't be too upset, you're not the direct person responsible for the accident. You've already done your best by taking out these 20,000 yuan." On the way back, Long Yu Hui also roughly understood the truth of the matter. Apart from feeling some regret for that female teacher, he could only try to comfort Wang Lin with kind words.

  "What can two hundred thousand yuan do? The doctor just said that if we want to cure the girl as much as possible, it will cost at least tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. The two hundred thousand yuan we gave is simply a drop in the bucket." Wang Lin clenched his right fist and slammed it on the air conditioning vent in front of the passenger seat, making Long Yu Hui's heart ache.

  But at this time, Long Yu Hui couldn't care about the car he had just bought. In front of his good brother, what's a car? Even if Wang Lin wanted to smash his newly bought car, as long as he could vent his anger, Long Yu Hui would agree. It's not like riding a bike for two more years is a big deal, Long Yu Hui can still handle it.

  "But you've already done everything you can do, and we both know our current situation - we don't have much money on hand. Being able to take out 20,000 yuan is already very difficult. That thing that happened at your place the other day probably turned your family upside down too. Now I'm also planning to go solo, and we really don't have any extra money to help her."

  "No way, I have to help even if I'm not capable of it. No matter what, I must find the perpetrator and make them receive their due punishment!" Although Long Yu Hui was speaking the truth, Wang Lin's ambition had long been worn down by reality. At this moment, he suddenly felt a surge of hot blood in his heart. He couldn't just stand by and watch the perpetrator get away scot-free. Even if he didn't have the ability to do anything, he wanted to make things difficult for them.

  Twenty thousand yuan is far from enough to make Wang Lin feel at ease, only by bringing the perpetrator to justice can he give the female teacher a proper account.

  "Are you crazy? How did you find them? They can even openly retrieve and destroy surveillance footage, who do you think you are? The mayor? Or the provincial governor? You're just an ordinary civil servant in the district government, not even a deputy director of a department. What makes you think you can make people surrender? I think you're really crazy, and it's not light. To be so bold as to retrieve surveillance footage and have the traffic police brigade cover it up, there must be at least a vice-ministerial level figure behind them. What do you have to fight with?" Wang Lin said, making Long Yuhui somewhat anxious, who couldn't care about his own image anymore and hastily argued back.

  He didn't want to see his own brother do something stupid, although Long Yu Hui also wanted the perpetrator to be brought to justice, but the premise of bringing him to justice was to save himself. According to Wang Lin's current situation, he might not even have found out who the perpetrator was before being taken down by someone else.

  Long Yu Hui is a person who is usually very casual and careless, relying on his family's wealth, he basically doesn't take others seriously. The only exception is when he's with Wang Lin, they get along pretty well. Although judging from the current situation, Wang Lin's family may not be as wealthy as Long Yu Hui's, it can't be denied that among all his friends, the only one who can make Long Yu Hui open up his heart is Wang Lin.

  "What can the deputy do? Even if I, Wang Lin, have to risk my life, I will bring him down. This is a society ruled by law, and I don't believe anyone can be above the law." Wang Lin said with some anger.

  "Haha, a society ruled by law? The rule of law is for people like us who have no money and no power. For those who are truly wealthy and powerful, the law is nothing but a joke. Don't be so naive, okay? You've done all you can, I don't want to lose you as a friend too! Long Yu Hui sneered, he had already seen through this society clearly. Without money or power, you'll be trampled on for your whole life."

  "I can write a letter to the Discipline Inspection Commission, requesting them to come and investigate. I can also directly write a letter to the mayor, asking him to clearly examine this matter, as long as it's an effective method, I will use it, no matter what the cost." Wang Lin's eyes were completely red, revealing a seemingly bloodthirsty feeling.

  "You rascal, can't you wake up? Ask the discipline inspection committee to come and investigate? Do you think the discipline inspection committee is an accident department? Every day, they have nothing to do but investigate traffic accidents? You don't even know who is behind others, who are you reporting? The secretary of the discipline inspection committee has a million things to deal with every day, will he have time to focus on this small matter alone? You really think you're the governor." Long Yu Hui said somewhat impatiently.

  "Perhaps I can be of some help."