The doctor tapped his temple.
“This can indeed happen to older people; it’s not that their heart is actually hurting, but rather it’s phantom pain.”
"Phantom Pain?"
Officer Ye was amazed.
"This is a psychological effect; her brain is deceiving itself, making her feel real pain," the doctor explained. "There's nothing we can do in this situation. At most, we can prescribe some sedatives. As for the details, we'll have to get her to the hospital first."
This involves brain and nerve issues, which are much more complex. Given the severity of this elderly woman's condition, the doctor was not optimistic about her future treatment.
It seems this old lady will truly become a heart patient in the future—except that others' heart disease is real, while hers is psychological. While other people's heart disease may have some controllability, this old lady's "heart disease" is completely incurable. She may have attacks from time to time in the future, just like now, experiencing excruciating pain like a thousand arrows piercing her heart, driving her mad, with no way to relieve it except by constantly taking sedatives and sleeping pills.
This is so agonizing...
The doctor shook his head.
I heard that this old woman committed a crime and killed many people.
Haha, that's fine too. Let this pain accompany her for the rest of her life! She deserves it!
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Xiao He walked to the other end of the corridor, crossed the lobby, and was about to take the elevator when he suddenly heard a man shouting at the top of his lungs, "What have I done to wrong her? What have I done to wrong you? Are you deliberately trying to drive me to my death?"
Xiao He tilted his head slightly and, as expected, saw an old man in a wheelchair and a middle-aged man with a haggard face sitting by the window.
The old man was Zhang Li's husband, the poor old man who almost got his money exchanged, and the middle-aged man was naturally their "filial son," Zhou Mingjun.
The old man seemed to have regained some of his senses. He struggled to raise his hand, muttering something incoherently, and reached out to the middle-aged man in front of him. The middle-aged man impatiently slapped the old man's hand away and shouted, "Can't you just stay home all day? If you can't, just die at home! Why do you have to cause so much trouble? And reporting me to the company about gambling, was it your swindler son who did it? You bunch of idiots, why do you always have to tell him? That money would have been better given to me than to that swindler! Damn it!"
The old man's hand was violently swung away, finally hanging limply off the armrest of the wheelchair. The old man slowly lowered his head, but his son in front of him was still complaining incessantly about him and everything in the past. Even after Xiao He noticed that something was wrong, he still hadn't stopped cursing.
"What are you doing? Can't you see the old man is acting strangely?" Xiao He immediately shouted sternly, while yelling towards the hall outside, "Quick, get a doctor! The son has angered the old man to death!"
A few minutes later, Officer Yang and Officer Ye ran over with dark faces.
The doctor had already laid the elderly man flat on the ground and performed first aid. At this moment, he stood up, shook his head at Officer Yang, and indicated that he was powerless to help.
The old man had already stopped breathing completely.
"What's going on?" Officer Yang asked in a deep voice.
Xiao He immediately grabbed Zhou Mingjun, who was trying to run away, and shouted, "It's him! He not only cursed this old man, but he also hit him! He deliberately angered him to death!"
Zhou Mingjun struggled, and after hearing Xiao He's words, he widened his eyes and glared at Xiao He fiercely: "You're talking nonsense!"
Xiao He stared back coldly: "Isn't that right? Then why are you so guilty and trying to run away?"
"I, I didn't!" Zhou Mingjun immediately retorted. "Besides, he's my dad. Even if I made him die of anger, it doesn't matter! He's dead, so what! We can just cremate him!"
Officer Yang's expression immediately turned serious: "Knowing that the other person was in poor health, you still maliciously cursed the elderly person and even slapped them. There is a high probability that this is causally related to the elderly person's death, and it may constitute negligent homicide. This will incur criminal and civil liability. Do you think it will be useful to try to argue here?"
Zhou Mingjun immediately panicked: "I didn't hit him! I just slapped his hand away! How could there be such serious consequences! You're not just lying to me, are you!"
Xiao He smiled.
This guy's shamelessness rivals that of his mother.
"That's not up to you," Officer Yang snapped. "Xiao Ye, take him back for a thorough investigation!"
“Oh right, I just heard him say he gambles. Officer Yang, you should investigate this thoroughly.” Xiao He added in a low voice, “He also said he was a manager at a big company? This gambling addict has no conscience. He might even be embezzling company assets. We need to find out.”
Zhou Mingjun's eyes were bloodshot, he felt like tearing Xiao He's heart apart: "You!!!"
Xiao He shrugged: "What do you mean, 'what do you mean,' go tell your prison food!"
He then gave a statement to Officer Yang, turned around and left, leaving everyone with only a dashing silhouette.
Officer Ye scratched his head, sighing with emotion, "Xiao He... he's such a good person!"
Officer Yang sighed, "It's like one problem after another."
Forget about resting tonight, I'm working overtime!
...
Xiao He returned to the ward.
However, it was already very late, and Xiao Chen and Liu Rulan had already gone to sleep.
Only Guo Xinya's little assistant, who had stayed behind, was still sitting on the stool, keeping watch.
Xiao He's gaze softened considerably. He picked up a mirror, carefully examined his eyes and expression, and only after confirming that he had composed himself did he push the door open again and go back inside.
"I'll do it, you go back first."
He patted the assistant on the shoulder.
The assistant immediately sobered up, shook her head, and whispered, "Sister Xinya said to let me keep an eye on things. Brother Xiao, you just got out of the car accident today, so you must be very tired. You should rest for a while."
Xiao He was actually quite tired.
I used self-suggestion a lot today, and I feel that this thing is indeed a bit mysterious and very energy-consuming.
He was exhausted after a long day of filming on set.
So Xiao He didn't make a fuss, nodded directly, and lay down on the empty hospital bed next to him without even taking off his coat, and fell asleep.
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