Extra 4

After Zhou Fangxi was discharged from the hospital, the whole family was filled with joy.

Zhou Fangxi held Zhao Xiangwan's hand and said with a smile, "My Xiangwan is popular and well-liked wherever she goes. It's thanks to you that grandma is in the hospital this time."

Ji Jinmao couldn't hide his inner joy: "Our group now dares to open a hospital? That's great." What businessman doesn't love money? The country is implementing medical system reform, and the medical industry is experiencing an earthquake. Ji's Group can accurately follow the trend of the times and enter the medical market. It can be said that it is far-sighted and has vision!

Zhao Xiangwan explained: "We only invested a small amount of money. We are not involved in the management of the Shiming Eye Hospital. It is not like a group opening a hospital."

Ji Jinmao grinned and smiled even more happily: "As long as there is investment, it will be good if there is investment. After a while, I will ask Xiaomei to study it, and we will fund a private hospital. It will also be decorated colorfully, and the nurses will wear pink. Make the bed sheets and quilt covers colorful so that I won’t have to worry about being hospitalized, right?”

After being hospitalized once, Zhou Fangxi no longer resisted going to the hospital. When she heard her son's words, she nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, go ahead and get the prescription."

Zhao Xiangwan reminded: "It is OK to open a private hospital, but medical skills and medical ethics cannot be compromised."

Ji Jinmao patted his chest and agreed: "Of course. This is a hospital we opened for ourselves. We must hire the best doctors and provide the best services. No matter how much money we make, we can't make money that goes against our conscience."

Money makes things easier.

With the implementation of the national housing system reform, the real estate industry that Ji's Group entered has been developing rapidly, making a lot of money and making considerable profits. Opening a private hospital requires a large initial investment, high technical and management requirements, and great difficulty, but... it's easy to do if you have money.

A year later, Ji's Private Hospital quietly opened in Xing City.

Although Zhao Xiangwan is a criminal investigation expert in the provincial government and cannot engage in business, as Ji Jinmao's daughter-in-law, the Ji family's management tacitly recognizes her as the real head of the Ji family.

After all, it is Ji's industry. Zhao Xiangwan is not confident about the management of the hospital, so he will quietly conduct an inspection every quarter, listen to the opinions of all parties, and decide whether doctors, nurses, and management should stay or be promoted or demoted.

She was serious in her attitude and clear in her rewards and punishments, and everyone in the hospital was convinced by her.

Hospitals make money, but they make it in an open way.

The hospital fully respects medical workers and guarantees preferential treatment to doctors and nurses through institutional means. At the same time, it strictly prohibits accepting red envelopes, violating consciences, neglecting patients, and colluding with salesmen of medical equipment and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The atmosphere of the hospital is clean and honest.

The hospital is one of the best in the industry in terms of service attitude, medical level, and equipment and facilities. Therefore, although the charges are not cheap, it has quickly gained a foothold in Star City.

At the end of 2003, Zhao Xiangwan came to the hospital again.

During the routine inspection, Zhao Xiangwan met an acquaintance in the ward: Xie Xianyun.

Sheng Chenghao was brutally murdered by his adopted son. After his wife Xie Xianyun found out, she teamed up with her son Sheng Zaizhong to push the blame on their youngest son Sheng Zaitian.

Zhao Xiangwan was deeply impressed by this case.

In 1970, Xie Xianyun was still in the Huagu Opera Troupe in the county. She sang the female role and fell in love with Jing Xiao, who sang the chou role. The two entered the troupe as apprentices at the age of twelve. They ate, practiced, and trained their voices together. They were childhood sweethearts and had a good relationship. However, because Jing Xiao's family was poor, Xie Xianyun's family did not agree, so the two could only date secretly.

Later, the two young people fell in love with each other, and Jing Xiao had a relationship with her, but was caught. Xie Xianyun lied that she was raped, and Jing Xiao took all the blame on himself. He was severely beaten for hooliganism and was shot to death. Xie Xianyun returned to the countryside.

Xie Xianyun was heartbroken by the death of her lover, and married Sheng Chenghao under the arrangement of her parents while pregnant with her child. However, because she could not forget her first love, this led to the subsequent family tragedy.

The truth of this case was later uncovered under the trial of Zhao Xiangwan. Sheng Zaizhong was sentenced to death, and Sheng Zaitian was acquitted and released.

Xie Xianyun thought that she had her little son to accompany her and provide her with support in her old age, but she didn't expect that Sheng Zaitian was heartbroken. After selling the company, he left the villa to his mother and went abroad to study, and there was no news from him since then.

Xie Xianyun thought that even though she had sent her eldest son to prison with her own hands, she had at least saved his life. However, she did not expect that in the end, she would be deserted by her family and friends and become lonely and miserable.

Lying on the hospital bed, Xie Xianyun had sunken cheeks and was thin as a stick. Her pale face looked even more sickly against the swan-yellow quilt.

Zhao Xiangwan turned and looked at the doctor.

The doctor explained softly, "This patient was admitted to the hospital for angina pectoris. She has been in our hospital for a month and no family members have come to visit her. We hired a nurse for her. Her physical recovery is not very good. She has been suffering from insomnia for a long time, and her mind is a little dazed. She often talks in her sleep and has a weak desire to live."

Zhao Xiangwan asked: "What are you mumbling about?"

The nurse said, "It's some incomprehensible lines from a play. Don't blame me for being drunk tonight, we'll meet again in dreams someday. The days are long and the nights are long, and my sorrows are even longer, thinking of my darling makes me burst into tears."

Zhao Xiangwan nodded without saying anything.

Why is he drunk today? He is obviously missing his old lover Jing Xiao.

Thinking of my son, I burst into tears. I don't know if it's because I feel guilty about my eldest son's death, or because I feel sad about my youngest son's heartbreak.

Xie Xianyun, who had been resting her eyes, slowly opened them and her gaze met Zhao Xiangwan's. Suddenly, her eyes lit up. She struggled and stretched out her hand, her skinny palm like a chicken claw: "Zhao, Officer Zhao, are you here to see me?"

【Finally someone came to see me. 】

[My son no longer cares about me, but I didn’t expect the police still remember me.]

Zhao Xiangwan broke her fantasy: "No, I was just passing by."

Xie Xianyun suddenly burst into tears: "They, they didn't come to see me. Xiaozhong said that I would get my comeuppance in the future, and he was right! Although I am alive, I might as well be dead."

Maybe it was because she was older and her tear secretion was less; maybe it was because she was used to being alone for so many years and her tears had long since dried up. Although Xie Xianyun had a crying voice, only a few tears flowed out.

Calculating the time, Xie Xianyun is only 53 years old this year, but she looks like an old woman in her 70s or 80s.

Suddenly seeing an acquaintance, although Zhao Xiangwan claimed that he was just passing by, Xie Xianyun started crying as if she had seen a relative: "Xiaozhong hated me, hated me for killing his biological father, hated me for not taking the blame for him, and cursed me! He said that I should live, with guilt and regret, to live out my shameless and selfish life alone. He was right, although I am alive, I might as well be dead!"

In fact, ten years have passed, but Xie Xianyun still remembers what Zhao Xiangwan said to her: "Officer Zhao, you said it, right? You said that it is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm. When Jing Xiao and I were in love, we were only 20 years old. Suddenly, something happened and I wanted to protect myself. Was that wrong? Jing Xiao took the initiative to take the blame and didn't blame me, right? Later... everything that happened later, I was just timid, I didn't dare to say anything, I didn't dare to resist, but at least I raised them both, and I also fulfilled my responsibilities as a mother to Xiao Tian, ​​right? Why... why do you blame me? Why doesn't Xiao Tian care about me anymore?"

Thinking back to the past, Zhao Xiangwan spoke for Sheng Zaitian the words that he had kept hidden in his heart back then.

"Ms. Xie, it is true that you raised Sheng Zaitian. But he turned himself in for you and was willing to take the blame for you. This is his love for you and his return for your raising. The good and the bad are offset, he doesn't owe you anything."

Xie Xianyun was speechless and didn't know what to say for a long time.

The pain in her chest kept coming, Xie Xianyun's face turned paler and paler, and her breathing became more and more rapid.

Do you regret it?

He was selfish all his life, seeking profit and avoiding harm.

How come in the end you find yourself with empty hands, with nothing to hold?

Xie Xianyun clearly remembers that on the day Xiaotian was released, Zhao Xiangwan said to her: "You may have forgotten that in addition to profit, this world also has courtesy, righteousness, integrity, filial piety, loyalty and trustworthiness, right?"

Propriety, righteousness, integrity, filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty and trustworthiness.

Are these eight words more important than the word "profit"?

If she had been polite and not had an affair with Jing Xiao before marriage;

If she had any sense of justice, she would have admitted after the incident that she was in love with Jing Xiao and would not have let Jing Xiao bear the charges of hooliganism and rape alone.

As long as he follows any point of "propriety and righteousness", Jing Xiao will not die.

Even if their parents do not agree, as long as the two of them persevere, they can succeed hand in hand and live a happy life.

Jing Xiao loved her deeply, even before being executed, he still smiled and mouthed to her: I love you. The two of them together will surely be able to love each other till old age.

Xiaozhong looks very similar to Jingxiao. He is handsome and has two playful little fangs when he smiles. It doesn't matter if he is not as talented in studying as Xiaotian. Jingxiao taught him how to practice martial arts and how to warm up his voice. It is wonderful for the family of three to sing together and have a lot of fun.

If she understood the meaning of shame, she would not marry Sheng Chenghao while pregnant with her first love's child.

Sheng Chenghao was a shy and amiable nerd. He was grateful to Xie Xianyun's father because he saved him during the flood relief work. When he was tricked into getting drunk and sleeping in the same bed with Xie Xianyun, he married her without hesitation.

Xie Xianyun didn't love him and was always a little cold to him after marriage. Later, Sheng Zai Zhong gave birth prematurely, but Sheng Chenghao didn't suspect anything and took him to play games and study together. Until Sheng Zai Zhong was six years old, the family of three lived in harmony.

But the truth cannot be hidden. Sheng Chenghao discovered the secret and angrily questioned Xie Xianyun: "Why did you lie to me? Why did you plot against me?"

Xie Xianyun didn't know how to respond, she just cried.

The matter was settled only after her father knelt on the ground and begged Sheng Chenghao for forgiveness, and because she was pregnant with Xiaotian at the time.

But, there is no going back to the past.

Sheng Chenghao hated her for deceiving him, and his attitude towards her became worse and worse, and he even started to beat her, and the family atmosphere became worse and worse.

Xie Xianyun did not fulfill any of the following: filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty and trustworthiness.

She was unfaithful to her husband first, and then she cheated on him.

As Sheng Chenghao's career became more successful, his desire for control became stronger. Driven by his inner anger and unwillingness, his domestic violence became more and more rampant.

She did not resist, did not dissuade, and dealt with the situation coldly. She deliberately acted submissive in front of neighbors and friends to win their sympathy and arouse her son's desire to protect her.

However, she forgot that her selfish behavior made Sheng Zaizhong hate his adoptive father and be jealous of his outstanding younger brother. He had no filial piety at all.

When Sheng Zai Zhong was furious and beat Sheng Cheng Hao to death, Xie Xianyun's first thought was not to call the police, but to save her beloved eldest son. She deceived the police and led Sheng Zai Tian to mistakenly believe that she had accidentally killed Sheng Cheng Hao in domestic violence, and deliberately acted pitiful to arouse Sheng Zai Tian's sympathy and let the younger son surrender voluntarily.

Everything she did was completely contrary to the eight words of propriety, righteousness, integrity, filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty and trustworthiness.

So, she got her comeuppance.

After the company was sold, all the brothers who worked at Sheng Chenghao's company were fired by the new employer. They came to her one by one, coaxing her to sell the villa and invest in their new company, but ended up losing everything.

The brothers scolded her for being useless, and they planned to marry a new husband, but they didn't want him, and they instigated their son to kill his father. They each took the money and left, never contacting her again, leaving her alone in the small apartment she had just bought to fend for herself.

Xie Xianyun only has two skills in his life.

The first is to sing opera;

The second is acting.

After leaving the Huagu Opera Troupe, his singing skills gradually deteriorated and he could only hum a few lines in his spare time.

Her acting skills earned her a lot of sympathy, and when she encountered a crisis, there were always people to help her clean up the mess.

However, at the end of the play, when all the people who loved her left, no one would sympathize or pity her anymore because she was pretending to be so pitiful.

Jing Xiao, who loved her, was charged with hooliganism for her and was shot to death.

Her father, who loved her so much, even knelt down and begged his son-in-law for forgiveness for her, and passed away early.

Her beloved little son turned himself in and took the blame for her and left the country.

After exhausting the energy, love and compassion of these relatives, she was left with nothing.

So what if she could act again, pretend to be pitiful again? In front of someone who didn't love her, all this seemed ridiculous.

Her brother scolded her: You are the only one who cries! You cry all day long! When something happens, you just cry. Mom and Dad can't sleep all night just to clean up your mess. You don't want such a good husband, but you force him into a irritable person, and you still have the nerve to cry!

The younger brother scolded her: Xiaozhong killed his father, you should let him turn himself in, maybe he could be convicted of manslaughter and save his life. Xiaotian studied computer science and is a genius boy. His future is limitless. If he inherits Haotian Company, he will definitely develop the company, and we relatives will also benefit from it, right? Now look, you have destroyed everything!

Xie Xianyun used to not understand why she had come to where she is today.

But now, seeing Zhao Xiangwan again, all the past events came to her mind, and Xie Xianyun finally understood everything.

There was a glimmer of light in his cloudy eyes.

She began to cough violently.

A string of pink foam came out from the corner of his mouth.

“Beep—beep—”

The equipment next to the bed made a sound.

Doctors and nurses checked on her nervously.

Through the doctors and nurses, Xie Xianyun looked at Zhao Xiangwan who was standing steadily beside her.

【I know, I am going to die.】

【Xiaozhong said that I would get my comeuppance, and he was right.】

[I deserve all of this now, I don't blame anyone. 】

[Please tell Xiaotian that it was Mommy who made a mistake.]

[Thank you for coming to see me. I'm going to see Jing Xiao, my dad, Sheng Chenghao, and Xiao Zhong. When I get there, I'll say sorry to them.]

Beep——

The electrocardiogram was stretched into a straight line.

Xie Xianyun's life came to an end here.

Do you still remember Sheng Chenghao's wife Xie Xianyun? See Chapters 97-100 for details of the case.