Ning Yuan did not return to school that night, but stayed at the hotel instead.
Madam Ning borrowed the hotel kitchen and prepared four dishes and a soup.
"You've never eaten Mommy's cooking since you were little, so try Mommy's cooking."
After learning from Granny Xia and the others about the hardships Ning Yuan had endured since childhood, Madam Ning the Second had always wanted to cook for her herself.
Ning Yuan felt a warm glow in her heart as she looked at the simple home-cooked dishes.
Ning Bingyu loosened his tie, looked at the table full of dishes, and raised an eyebrow: "Mommy, I have to rush back to Hong Kong tomorrow. You made four dishes, and none of them are good. It doesn't have to be for just one fork..."
Ning Yuan and Madam Ning the Second were both looking at him.
Ning Bingyu: "Cough... There's not even a plate of char siu!"
There were no dishes like perilla-wrapped beef, stir-fried bamboo shoots, pickled fish, stir-fried river shrimp with chives, or ginkgo duck soup. There wasn't even any poached chicken. You could tell at a glance that this was the taste of a barbecued pork girl.
Ning Yuan looked up at Madam Ning with her big eyes and said, "Mommy, it's my fault. How about I go and get some char siu for my older brother?"
He just wanted to insult her, didn't he?
Madam Ning, in a fit of annoyance, grabbed her chopsticks and smacked Ning Bingyu's head several times: "Have you not eaten enough of Mommy's food? You're even taking this from your little sister?"
She had already talked with Grandma Xia about what her youngest daughter liked to eat. Back when she lived in Jintou Lane in Ningnan, she also knew how to cook hometown dishes.
It's just a pity there were no pickled bamboo shoots.
Ning Bingyu rubbed his forehead and frowned: "Mommy, I'm a grown man, not a child. Don't always treat me like a child and hit me."
The smug look on that girl's face really annoyed him.
Because of Char Siu Girl's emotional outburst, Mommy's scales completely tipped in Char Siu Girl's favor!
Ning Yuan chuckled and happily picked up some food to eat, experiencing the fearlessness of being favored!
Do you think this cunning and domineering CEO would dare to make things difficult for her? She has more than one person backing her up, both publicly and privately!
Ning Bingyu gave her a cold glare, calling her a childish and foolish char siu girl!
"You good-for-nothing, why are you glaring at your little sister? She's thinking of giving you an extra plate of char siu!" Madam Ning happened to see this and unceremoniously tapped him on the head with her chopsticks!
Ning Bingyu was knocked again and couldn't help but raise his voice: "Mommy, you..."
"What do you mean 'you'? If you don't want to eat, go back to Hong Kong tomorrow and find some char siu to eat. You've got plenty to eat!" Madam Ning scolded unhappily.
Is it easy for her to cook such a big meal?
But then a girl with char siu (barbecued pork) winked at him smugly, as if to say, "Hey, see? I have someone backing me up!"
The veins on Ning Bingyu's forehead were bulging—he really couldn't stand staying in this house for another day!
Here in the hotel, mothers and daughters are loving and filial, siblings are deeply affectionate; over there, in the hospital, on a cold, lifeless hospital bed…
Tang Zhenzhen was put on a ventilator due to decreased blood oxygen levels and signs of respiratory failure.
Every day, medication is dripped into her veins, but it only maintains her vital signs.
At midnight, the light bulbs in the hospital corridor flickered, and a nurse pushed a trolley to Tang Zhenzhen's ward.
The person guarding the door got up and checked her medicine cart. Finding nothing wrong, they let her push the cart inside.
She closed the door behind her, glanced at the pale Tang Zhenzhen on the hospital bed, hesitated for a moment, but still took a syringe out of the trolley.
The nurse slowly walked to Tang Zhenzhen's side with the syringe, and with trembling hands, she inserted the needle of the syringe into the soft stopper of the glass IV bottle, just as she usually did when giving injections and administering medication.
Just as she was about to grit her teeth and push the medicine inside into the glass bottle.
Suddenly the door was pushed open, and a hard object struck the back of her hand.
The nurse was startled at first, then a sharp pain in the back of her hand made her scream out in agony: "Ah—!!"
The glass syringe in her hand suddenly fell to the ground and shattered.
The next moment, someone rushed in and twisted her to the floor: "Don't move!"
The nurse panicked: "What are you doing? Who are you? How dare you hit people in a military hospital!"
Old Xu walked in, looked at the nurse who was being twisted and pinned to the ground, and sneered: "You dared to commit murder in the military hospital, what is there that we wouldn't dare to arrest?"
The nurse, her face pale, gritted her teeth and said, "I'm a nurse, I'm here to administer medication to the patient, what nonsense are you spouting!"
As she spoke, she added, "If you don't believe me, go check at the nurses' station!"
Old Xu picked up a registration clipboard and threw it in front of her: "Yes, you are indeed a nurse, but today is not your day at work."
The nurse's face turned even paler, and she remained silent.
Old Xu put on latex gloves, then took tweezers and picked up all the glass syringes she had smashed on the ground, placing them into a specimen aluminum tray.
"As for medication, at this point, the attending physician did not arrange for anyone to administer any medication to the patient!"
He shook the aluminum specimen tray in his hand: "We're all very curious about what kind of 'good medicine' is in this syringe. There's enough sample left in the syringe for testing!"
Unless it's some rare drug that's not available in China.
When the nurse saw him pick up the syringe, her face instantly fell, and she lost all courage to argue.
...
Four hours later
Hospital administration office.
A tall figure stood with his hands in his pockets, coldly watching the dark night outside the window.
There was a knock on the office door, and then Lao Xu came in: "The test results are in. It's a common drug in China, but the concentration is extremely high. If it's injected into Tang Zhenzhen's bloodstream, it will cause her arrhythmia or even cardiac arrest."
Rong Zhaonan narrowed his eyes: "Is this a drug from outside China that we anticipated?"
Old Xu shook his head: "No."
Rong Zhaonan asked thoughtfully, "What was the outcome of the interrogation of that nurse?"
Old Xu said, "She confessed that she was in dire need of money because of a family emergency, so she was bribed two days ago. The promise was that if Tang Zhenzhen received this injection, the family's troubles and lack of money would be resolved."
He paused, then frowned: "But she didn't know the person who came looking for her; they met while she was buying groceries."
A dark light flashed in Rong Zhaonan's narrow, cold eyes as he reached into the cigarette case on the table and pulled out a cigarette: "What do you think, Lao Xu?"
Old Xu hesitated for a moment: "This matter is getting stranger and stranger. It started as a woman drugging Wei Heng, trying to force him to marry her by using her reputation. But it has now involved foreign drugs, and now someone actually wants to kill Tang Zhenzhen!"
At first, it seemed to be nothing more than a matter between a man and a woman; Rong himself had been drugged.
However, this involves special foreign drugs and Wei Heng's identity, which is a serious matter involving foreign affairs and could potentially involve espionage.
That's why a thorough investigation is needed, and medical interventions are being administered to Tang Zhenzhen in the hope that she will wake up.
If the captain hadn't been prepared, Tang Zhenzhen would probably be dead tonight.
"How did the captain know someone would target Tang Zhenzhen? Someone actually managed to bribe a nurse at the military hospital. Could it really be a spy?" Old Xu couldn't help but ask.
After all, the Tang family did produce a spy named Tang Jun back then!
Rong Zhaonan exhaled smoke, blurring his cold and refined face: "I'm not sure, it's just a habit to have someone keep an eye on Tang Zhenzhen's hospital room."
He paused for a moment: "As for whether it's espionage or something else, it's too early to make a judgment."
Old Xu is right, things are getting stranger and stranger.
Wei Heng and Tang Zhenzhen did have a real relationship. Unless Tang Zhenzhen approached Wei Heng to steal military intelligence, she wouldn't have gone to such lengths.
But after Tang Zhenzhen was admitted to the hospital, he had someone thoroughly investigate Tang Zhenzhen's interpersonal relationships, and even the Tang family's interpersonal relationships, but found nothing unusual.
In fact...
If there were any abnormalities, they should have been discovered when the Tang Jun case broke out last year.
After all, the Tang Jun case led to the entire Tang family, from branches to the main branch, being thoroughly investigated by special units.
It was like combing my hair with a fine-toothed comb to find lice; I combed it several times.
This resulted in several members of the Tang family who originally held considerable power in educational and economic institutions being relegated to the second tier.
“Only cases involving espionage could lead to murder to cover it up, but Tang Zhenzhen’s relationship doesn’t show any signs of espionage. The whole thing is very strange.” Old Xu’s brows furrowed.
Since his captain and his wife reconciled, he hasn't smoked for a long time.
It's clear that even the team leader found this case challenging.
Rong Zhaonan exhaled a puff of smoke and said calmly, "I'm thinking about how this person killed someone to silence them. While it was effective, it was a bit too brutal."
“In the espionage cases we handle, if the other party is using special foreign drugs and managed to turn Tang Zhenzhen to the enemy early on, the methods wouldn’t be so simple and crude.”
Old Xu didn't understand: "What the captain means is... that this case has nothing to do with espionage."
With Tang Jun as a precedent, perhaps it's because Tang Zhenzhen was a long-time enemy agent?
Rong Zhaonan chuckled lightly: "Maybe, but my intuition tells me that either Tang Zhenzhen drugging Wei Heng and someone trying to kill Tang Zhenzhen were not done by the same group of people, or there are some undiscovered twists and turns in between."
He paused, stubbed out his cigarette, and suddenly asked, "Have the police arrested Tang Zhenzhen's parents?"
Old Xu nodded: "They were arrested yesterday. The captain said that for safety reasons, they shouldn't be kept in the local police station, so tonight, no, last night they were already sent to the detention center."
Rong Zhaonan frowned, then suddenly got up, grabbed his clothes, and walked out: "It's almost dawn, let's go to the detention center."
For some reason, he suddenly felt uneasy.
He thought for a moment and said, "I'll call the detention center first to confirm the situation of Tang Zhenzhen's parents."
The detention center has a 24-hour telephone line.
Old Xu immediately got up and used the hospital's phone to call the detention center.
After the call connected, he asked only one question before his expression changed: "What?!"
Old Xu immediately hung up the phone and looked at Rong Zhaonan with a heavy expression: "The vehicle that was transporting people to the detention center had an accident tonight. I don't know how it happened, but it crashed on the bridge and rolled into the Huangpu River! Two of our colleagues from the detention center and Tang Zhenzhen's parents all fell into the Huangpu River!"
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