The surgery lasted six hours, and Zheng Guo was wheeled out of the operating room.
"Doctor, how is our son?" The Zheng family members quickly surrounded him and asked.
The lead neurosurgeon removed his mask and said, "The surgery was very successful; the cerebral hemorrhage has been stopped, but it's hard to say how well the patient will recover."
"Family members, please step aside. We're taking the patient to the intensive care unit now," said the nurse pushing the hospital bed.
The Zheng family members quickly made way for them and then followed the nurse pushing the hospital bed.
Li Zhenzhen took off her mask, looked at Xinmei and her aunt's backs and sighed. Her aunt's best recovery would result in hemiplegia, and the worst would result in total paralysis.
Whether you're caring for a patient with hemiplegia or total paralysis, it's incredibly agonizing.
Because of this surgery, Li Zhenzhen didn't get home until almost 9 o'clock.
Grandpa Li and Grandma Yu were still awake, waiting for her.
"Zhenzhen, why are you so late getting off work today?" Grandma Yu asked, frowning.
Li Zhenzhen twisted her sore neck and sat on the sofa, saying, "I supervised a surgery in the operating room this afternoon, and it was almost over."
"What kind of surgery took so long?" Old Master Li asked.
Li Zhenzhen said, "A patient with a brain hemorrhage and multiple facial fractures underwent surgery. Grandpa and Grandma, do you know who this patient is?"
"Who?" Grandma Yu asked curiously.
If Zhenzhen asked this question, it proves that this person must be someone they know.
Li Zhenzhen said, "Dà Gu Gōng Zhēng Kǒu Dà Guāng Dà Guāng!"
"What happened to him?" Old Mrs. Yu exclaimed in surprise, "Was he hit by a car?"
Li Zhenzhen shook her head, "You can't imagine how outrageous it is. He was having an affair with the wife of the director of their education bureau, and her son, the blind date that my aunt introduced to me, caught them when he got home and beat him up."
Grandpa Li and Grandma Yu closed their eyes as they listened; this was indeed quite outrageous.
They couldn't stand listening to Zheng Guo do something like that.
"I told you long ago that Zheng Guo is not a very honest person, but Li Yunshu wouldn't listen. Back then, I introduced her to a promising young company commander, but she thought he was a boorish and vulgar man and refused to date him, insisting on getting together with Zheng Guo. Now he's a division commander, and what about Zheng Guo?"
Not only did he become a low-level clerk, but he also did such disgusting and shameful things.
"Sigh." Old Mrs. Yu sighed, "This was all her own choice. Now that she's gone through this, she has to bear it all by herself."
"Was the surgery successful?" Old Master Li asked.
Li Zhenzhen nodded, "It's a success, but even in the best-case scenario, it could result in hemiplegia."
Upon hearing this, Grandma Yu closed her eyes and shook her head, feeling quite distressed.
"Alright, it's getting late. You and your grandpa should go upstairs to sleep first. Xiao Wang left some food for you. Eat it and go to sleep early too."
“Mm.” Li Zhenzhen nodded.
The elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Li, helped each other upstairs.
Three days later, Li Yunshu heard about this from Gu Zhenyuan, who came to the store to eat dumplings after getting off work.
"Zheng Guo looks like a very refined and polite person, how could he do such a thing?" Li Yunshu said with a look of disgust after Gu Zhenyuan finished speaking.
Not to mention his affair, the person he's having an affair with is his boss's wife, who is also older than him.
Could he possibly have a mother complex?
Li Yunshu is such a proud person, and now her man has done something like this, making it known to everyone. She must be furious.
Gu Zhenyuan said, "This person is only superficially polite, but in reality, he's a hypocrite."
"What about Hou Yongchang? Has he been arrested?" Li Yunshu asked curiously.
Gu Zhenyuan: "He ran away that very day. He wouldn't say where Wenhou and the others went, no matter how we interrogated him, he said he didn't know. I guess he ran to another place. China is so big, it's difficult to catch someone if they don't know where they've gone."
Therefore, the investigators in charge of the case even went to the leaders of the Ministry of Education to persuade Hou and his family, but to no avail; the man simply said he didn't know.
It is said that his son felt ashamed that his mother had done such a thing, and he was too embarrassed to stay in Beijing any longer, so he took his luggage and went to the train station that very day.
He went to see him off, but he left after dropping him off at the station. As for where his son went to buy the ticket, he didn't know.
"So we're just going to leave it at that?" Li Yunshu asked.
Gu Zhenyuan shook his head and said, "Of course it won't end like this. The police in charge of this case will continue to follow up on it. Once the person is found, they will definitely be arrested again."
There weren't many people in the shop on the snowy day, so Gu Zhenyuan and Li Yunshu ate and chatted for quite a while.
At seven o'clock, Gu Zhenyuan left. He sat in his car, started the engine, and drove away. But he saw a person wearing a gray cotton-padded coat and pushing a bicycle under the streetlights across the street from the dumpling shop, staring at the dumpling shop.
Having done so much criminal investigation work, his intuition told him that this person was suspicious. He got out of the car to ask him questions, but the person got on his bicycle and left.
Gu Zhen started the car, reversed, turned around, and caught up with the bicycle.
But after walking a short distance, the bicycle entered a small alley.
Gu Zhen stared into the deep alley. Was he overthinking things?
Zheng Guo woke up on the fifth day after his surgery. His mouth and eyes were severely crooked. He could only move his eyes and mouth; he could not move any other part of his body.
I can't even speak anymore, all I can do is 'ah ah ah'.
Whether he can recover is uncertain. The doctor only told the family to be prepared, but the situation is not particularly good.
Li Yunshu hated Zheng Guo for making her lose face so badly. She felt disgusted just looking at his crooked mouth, slanted eyes, and drooling appearance, so naturally she didn't want to stay in the hospital to take care of him.
She also deeply regretted not agreeing to divorce Zheng Guo when he asked her to.
She left right then and there, and she couldn't bear to face the state of Zheng like that.
Zheng's mother also fell ill because of Zheng Guo's matter, and Zheng Guofang took care of her at home.
Since Zheng was an old man, he naturally wouldn't know how to take care of a patient, so his daughter, Zheng Xinmei, took a long leave of absence to stay at the hospital and take care of him.
Every day, he fed Zheng Guo and cleaned his body, and took care of his excrement and urine.
Although Hou and He were suspended from their posts for allegedly harboring criminals, they haven't come to the hospital since they learned that Zheng Guo was not dead. Apart from being questioned by the police, they have been searching for Hu Menglian everywhere.
But he searched everywhere she might have gone, and couldn't find her.
After finishing lunch in the cafeteria, Li Zhenzhen headed towards the doctors' office in the inpatient department. Just as she reached the first floor, she encountered Zheng Xinmei, who was carrying a basin of freshly washed clothes.
"Sister Xinmei".
Zheng Xinmei turned around, carrying the basin, and called out, "Zhenzhen."
Li Zhenzhen glanced at her hands, which were red from washing clothes, and frowned, saying, "Why are you washing clothes by hand? Why didn't you ask your aunt to take them home and wash them in the washing machine?"
She remembered that her aunt's house had a washing machine.
The washing machine can spin-dry the water, and it dries even faster when placed on the radiator in a heated room.
Zheng Xinmei lowered her eyes and said, "These clothes are stained with Dad's excrement and urine, and Mom thinks they're dirty."
But she couldn't leave the clothes and pants that her dad had dirtied unwashed, so she had no choice but to hand wash them in the hospital's laundry room with cold water.
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