Chapter 960 Did my family violate the heavenly law?
Just when I was about to tell her the news that Xiao Shiqiu had just told me, the red light on the operating room door went out, and then the door opened!
A doctor wearing a green surgical gown and a mask came out.
My mother and I rushed over almost at the same time, our hearts in our throats.
"Director Chen, how is my husband?" my mother asked anxiously.
The doctor took off his mask, revealing a tired look: "The operation was quite successful. His life has been saved for now. He will be admitted to the ICU for monitoring soon."
Before we could even breathe a sigh of relief, the doctor's next words plunged us into an icy abyss:
"However, Lao Xia's condition is very grim. He has intracranial hemorrhage, lung contusion, spleen rupture, and suffered several cardiac arrests during surgery...
Although he was temporarily rescued, it is hard to say whether he can survive the next 24-48 hours of critical period.
And... there is also a L2 vertebral fracture. I am not sure how it will recover.
Xiaolin, you should probably be prepared for the worst."
"Thank you, Director Chen, for your hard work."
"Thank you, Uncle Chen." I followed my mother and thanked Dr. Chen.
Dr. Chen nodded at us, patted my mother's shoulder sympathetically, and left.
My mother's face turned pale and she sat on the bench against the wall without saying a word.
"Mom, Uncle Chen means that my dad will be fine, right?" I carefully confirmed with my mother.
"Yes, your dad will be fine..." My mother said this with obvious lack of confidence.
Soon, my dad was pushed out.
His body was full of tubes, and he had an oxygen mask on his face. His complexion was as pale as a dead person. Only the faint rising and falling curve on the monitor next to him proved that he was still alive.
After coming out, he was quickly taken to the ICU.
Through the thick glass of the ICU, I looked at the lifeless man surrounded by various instruments, and my nose felt sore.
I swore in my heart that as long as he could survive, I would never again resent him for the illegitimate child.
The hatred is real, but the fear and sadness of losing him at this moment are also real.
In the face of life and death, those things really don’t matter anymore.
Once a patient is admitted to the ICU, family members no longer need to stay by the patient's side, and visits are only allowed during specified times of the day.
"Mengmeng, you go home first. Your cousins are still at home. I haven't gotten off work yet. Go later." My mother has calmed down now and has become the person I am familiar with again.
"Okay, Mom, we'll go first." Xiao Shiqiu answered quickly, putting his arm around my shoulders.
My mother was startled by his calling her "Mom", as if she was not used to it. But then a faint smile appeared on her face, she waved at us, and went back to the department.
When we left the hospital building, Xiao Yang had already driven the car transferred from the branch in T City and stopped at the gate to wait for us.
"Mr. Xiao, Madam, where are we going now?" Xiao Yang opened the car door and asked calmly.
Xiao Shiqiu's eyes fell on me, "Go home, or..." He didn't finish his words, but I knew he wanted to ask whether I should go to the police station.
Thinking of what he said before, I almost didn't hesitate, "Go to the traffic police brigade."
If it was really a murder of my father, I urgently need to know why, and whether it was targeted only at him or my entire family.
"Okay." Xiao Shiqiu didn't nod, but naturally stretched out his hand to block the car frame for me and helped me sit in the back seat.
The car was very quiet and we didn't speak. Xiao Shiqiu took out his cell phone and sent a message.
Soon he received a reply, "We've contacted them, and the driver has been handed over to the criminal police team. Let's go directly to the criminal police team."
"Okay." Xiao Yang turned at the road ahead and drove towards the city criminal police team.
When we arrived at the criminal police team, it was already dark, but the police station lobby was still brightly lit. When we went in, we met Captain Feng coming out.
Captain Feng was visibly stunned when he saw me. "Ms. Xia? This time the victim is yours..."
I pulled the corner of my mouth awkwardly: "Captain Feng, this time... it's my dad." In a short period of time, first my mother was stabbed by Deng Sisi, and then my father was seriously injured in a car accident.
I even feel like my family has violated the laws of heaven.
Captain Feng had a complicated expression on his face, and the look he gave me was hard to describe, but I guess he had seen a lot of unlucky people, so he politely asked me to go to the inquiry room to talk.
The young policeman I met last time greeted me familiarly, walked up to me and whispered, "Miss Xia, why don't you go to Dabei Temple to burn some incense and get a peace amulet? My grandma said it's very effective..." Before he could finish his words, Captain Feng glared back at him.
I felt even more embarrassed: "...Uh, okay, thank you."
Captain Feng sighed and led us to a small conference room. "Take a seat. I'll briefly explain the situation." He opened the folder on his desk, his tone returning to a professional and calm tone.
"From the dashcam footage extracted from your father's car, he was driving normally in the middle lane of the highway and his speed remained within the speed limit.
The driver of the accident was a medium-sized van that was originally driving in the adjacent slow lane and was driving in front of your father's vehicle. It then suddenly slowed down, and your father overtook it before the accident occurred.
Captain Feng pulled up the video on his computer and said, "Look, here's the key point: About half a minute before the accident, the truck first turned slightly to the right, as if trying to get into the emergency lane, but then suddenly turned left and almost rushed straight towards your father's car at an accelerated speed!
The action was very abrupt, and the goal was clear: to squeeze your father's lane space and force him towards the central guardrail!"
He switched to a photo of the scene, which showed twisted and deformed guardrails and scattered car debris.
"The collision was very violent. The truck driver later insisted that he was driving fatigued, sleepy and couldn't see clearly, so he swerved the steering wheel."
Captain Feng paused, his eyes sharpening: "But, here's the doubt. According to the toll booth records and the driver's own preliminary confession, it only took him about half an hour to get from Xianghe to the location of the accident.
Of course, he argued that he didn't get enough rest last night, so let's just assume he was telling the truth.
However, if it is an unconscious deviation caused by fatigue, the steering wheel deviation will usually be slow and gradual.
But judging from the surveillance footage taken at the scene, the truck's lane change was sudden, violent, and clearly directional.
It was clearly going for your father's car, and it was more like active control rather than loss of control.
Moreover, the on-site investigation report showed that there were no obvious brake marks on the truck before the collision!
If you are really driving while fatigued, your instinctive reaction when you notice danger should be to brake suddenly.
But he didn't! Instead, it seemed like he stepped on the accelerator two seconds after the collision, which was inconsistent with the driver's instinctive reaction in an accident.
So we suspect he did it on purpose, but we don’t know what the motive was.”
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