Shi Wan looked at Qin Qiaolian, blinked awkwardly, and said, "Oh, he just received a phone call and had to go back to the city because of something urgent. He didn't have time to tell you and asked me to apologize. He'll come over next time he has time."
"Oh... It's almost lunchtime. If we don't eat before we leave, we'll go back hungry. Are we really going to rush like this?" Qin Qiaolian felt sorry for Sikong Jingyu traveling on an empty stomach.
"Hmm..." Shi Wan responded simply.
"If I had known, I should have packed some local specialties for him in the car beforehand, so he could have taken them with him now."
Seeing that Qin Qiaolian couldn't stop talking about Sikong Jingyu, Shi Wan changed the subject, "Mom, I'm hungry."
Seeing this, Qin Qiaolian didn't press the matter further and said with a smile, "Then let's go home, and Mom will make you something to eat."
"good."
On their way home, Shi Wan and her daughter encountered a group of burly men in uniforms escorting a disheveled girl as they passed by and headed toward an ambulance.
Just as they were passing each other, a pitiful female voice rang out:
"Sister Shi Wan, please save me!"
Hearing someone call her name, Shi Wan stopped and turned her head, her gaze falling on the girl.
The girl struggled against her restrained arms, her movements were wide and her long hair was thrown back, revealing her face.
Shi Wan's neighbor, Lü Yi-chan, often came to play with her when she was little.
At this moment, Lu Yichan's face turned bright red from resisting.
"Sister Shi Wan, save me!" Lü Yixuan cried out again.
"Take them away quickly!" shouted one of the burly men in uniform.
Two uniformed men immediately grabbed Lü Yi and shoved her into the ambulance.
Lu Yixuan stared wide-eyed in terror, struggling desperately; something seemed amiss.
Shi Wan frowned, walked towards Lü Yiqin, and stopped several burly men in uniform: "Wait a minute, who are you? Where are you taking her?"
One of the burly men said, "Stay away from her. She has a mental illness. Don't let her hurt you. We need to take her for treatment."
Lu Yilang's eyes shone with hope: "Sister Shiwan, please help me, I'm not mentally ill!"
The burly man retorted to Lü Yiqin's words with a sharp look in his eyes: "Mental patients all say they are not mentally ill!"
After saying that, he looked at Shi Wan with an unfriendly gaze, "Miss, let me give you a piece of advice: you'd better not meddle in other people's business. She's sick, and she might hurt you later."
Shi Wan frowned. She had a strange feeling that these words didn't sound like concern for Shi Wan's injury, but rather like... a threat to Shi Wan?
“I’m a doctor too. Why don’t you let her go and let me take a look at her first?” Shi Wan said.
“No.” The burly man in uniform refused without hesitation. “We must take her back to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible.”
Shi Wan pursed her red lips, her eyes filled with stubbornness. "Since you won't let me see her, you should at least tell me what symptoms she has. I grew up with her, and I'm very worried about her. I've never heard of any hereditary disease in her family before, nor have I ever noticed any mental problems in her. You want to take her to a mental hospital for treatment. May I ask, have her parents agreed to her going to a mental hospital? Has any authoritative mental health assessment institution determined that she has a mental illness? Has she ever self-harmed? Or has she ever harmed others in public?"
The burly man in uniform stared at Shi Wan, sizing her up. He could tell that Shi Wan really knew her stuff and might actually be a doctor. After a long while, he said vaguely, "We don't know. We're just following orders."
"On orders? On whose orders? Is it unclear, or is there no such thing? If Lü Yixuan hasn't done anything to harm others, then she can take her medication on her own first, without being forced to go to a mental hospital for treatment," Shi Wan said, her eyes filled with determination.
The uniformed men exchanged glances. The leader pondered for a moment before speaking: "What you said makes some sense. You say you're a doctor, so are you a specialist in mental illness? If so, please show us your relevant credentials so we can be convinced. If not, then I can only take her away for now. She hasn't harmed anyone yet, but the doctors at the mental hospital have diagnosed her with a mental illness. Who can guarantee she won't harm others in the future?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Wan frowned.
At this moment, the doctors and nurses from the ambulance also got off. "She has indeed been diagnosed with mental illness. She was treated at our hospital for two months and was only recently discharged. Now her condition has worsened, and we have to take her back to the mental hospital for treatment again."
When Shi Wan heard these words, she was stunned. She stared at Lü Yilang in disbelief. In her memory, Lü Yilang was sunny, lively, upright and kind.
Lu Yixuan was very agitated, her eyes filled with resentment, and she shouted frantically, "No, I'm not mentally ill, I'm perfectly healthy, they're lying, Sister Shiwan, please save me! If I go in there, I might never get out! They're man-eating demons!"
Hearing Lu Yixuan's unyielding resistance, Shi Wan's heart clenched. Seeing Shi Wan's hesitation, the doctor said again, "We are in a hurry to get back. If you are not in a hurry, don't interfere with our mission."
Shi Wan was indeed not knowledgeable about mental illness. She really wanted to help Lü Yixuan, but she was powerless to do so. Biting her lip, Shi Wan said, "Even if she really has a mental illness, she is still a patient. You shouldn't treat her like a prisoner. Patients also have their own personality and dignity."
“You’re right, it was our mistake. We’ll be more careful in the future,” one of the burly men said, loosening his grip on Lü Yixuan and instead helping her into the car.
Upon hearing Shi Wan's words, Lü Yilang opened her mouth as if to speak, but ultimately lowered her head in despair, tears welling in her eyes: "Sister Shi Wan, I really don't have a mental illness..."
The ambulance started up and gradually drove away.
Shi Wan stood there, watching the ambulance drive further and further away, feeling a mix of emotions she couldn't quite describe.
"Let's go home. Didn't you just say you were hungry?" Qin Qiaolian approached, grabbed Shi Wan's wrist, and pulled her hurriedly towards home.
Looking back at the ambulance that was getting further and further away, Qin Qiaolian's eyes dimmed with fear. Shi Wan had been an upright and kind girl since she was a child, and she was really afraid that Shi Wan would desperately try to stop the ambulance.
The next day.
Not long after Shi Wan started her shift, people began entering the health center one after another, making quite a commotion. When Shi Wan went out to take a look, she saw that it was some medical equipment, and three or five burly men were carrying the equipment into the health center.
When asked, the person in charge beamed with delight, saying, "Yesterday, Mr. Sikong purchased a batch of medical equipment worth 20 million yuan from our company and asked us to deliver it today."
It's... Sikong Jingyu again?
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