Ding Qiunan was taken aback by his actions: "What are you doing?"
"What else can I do? Of course, I need to thank you properly."
"Ah, put me down, I remember what I was going to say," Ding Qiunan said, struggling in his arms.
"Let's talk about this later, honey. I can't listen to what you have to say right now."
He slammed the bathroom door shut with his foot.
The next morning, Li Chu returned to his clinic after finishing his rounds in the nephrology department.
Last night, Ding Qiunan didn't finish her sentence, and this morning she seemed to have forgotten about it and didn't mention it again.
It's definitely not something important; let's talk about it when she remembers.
Li Chu flipped through the patient data reported by his classmate at the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, mentally comparing it with the pulse diagnosis he had just made on the patients.
A knocking sound came from the door.
"Please come in," Li Chu said, looking up at the door.
The door was pushed open, and standing in the doorway was Uncle Liu, the director of that special department.
"Uncle Liu, what brings you here? Please come in." Li Chu came out from behind his desk and greeted him warmly.
"Xiao Chu, I'm here today to ask you something, it's not a formal conversation." Uncle Liu walked in with a smile and sat down behind another desk.
There was another person standing at the door, but that person didn't come in. He just glanced at Li Chu and then closed the door behind him.
Li Chu also saw the person outside. He glanced at him casually and felt that the face looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before. However, he didn't think about it too much. He saw so many people every day, who would know where he had seen them before?
Li Chu poured Uncle Liu a glass of water and placed it in front of him. Then he sat back down behind his desk and said, "Uncle Liu, feel free to ask me anything."
"Xiao Chu, do you know the steel mill's former owner, now shareholder Chairman Lou?"
"Yes, I know him. His son-in-law took him to buy medicine from me before, and his daughter and Qiu Nan have a pretty good relationship." Li Chu found it a bit strange. Why were Uncle Liu and the others targeting Chairman Lou again?
Li Chu knew very well what the department his parents worked in did. They wouldn't keep an eye on someone for a trivial matter. Could it be that Chairman Lou's transfer of assets had been discovered?
"Did you know that he had someone check your information before?"
"Investigate me? Why is he investigating me?" Li Chu stared wide-eyed at Uncle Liu, now even more puzzled.
"Because of your parents' connections, your file isn't accessible to just anyone. When the staff noticed someone was looking into you, they reported it, and we invited Chairman Lou over to ask him about it."
Please? Li Chu chuckled inwardly, guessing that Chairman Lou must be quite frightened.
"He said he didn't say why he was investigating me."
"According to him, he wanted to buy one of your prescriptions, but you were unwilling to sell it to him, so he wanted to check your information to see if there was another way to buy it."
"Hey, Xiao Chu, what prescription has piqued his interest so much?" Uncle Liu asked with a rather gossipy air.
"Cough cough," Li Chu didn't know how to answer.
"Yes, it's...it's a medicine for men, it works better."
"Oh, that explains why he's so interested." Uncle Liu wasn't particularly interested in the medicine; he was getting on in years and no longer had much of a need for it.
After thinking for a moment, Li Chu decided to tell the whole truth: "Uncle Liu, actually, he probably didn't investigate me for this reason."
Upon hearing Li Chu's words, Uncle Liu's expression immediately turned serious: "Is there another reason? What is it?"
"Uncle Liu, everything I'm about to say is just my guess. It's something I made up during a private chat between us. I won't admit it once we leave this room. You can't record me or anything like that."
Li Chu decided to lay everything out in the open, lest a whole group of people come to him to verify it later.
"You brat, I'm your uncle. I told you when I came in that this isn't a formal conversation, and I didn't bring any recording equipment. What, do you want to search me?" Uncle Liu said, standing up and patting himself on the back.
"Uncle Liu, it's not that I don't trust you, but I think it's better for both of us to explain things clearly. I know your job responsibilities very well."
"Alright, stop with the nonsense and just tell me. I'll just pretend you didn't say anything."
Since Uncle Liu had already said that, Li Chu believed he wouldn't deliberately try to trick him. He organized his thoughts and recounted the whole story in detail.
Today, only he and Uncle Liu were in the office. Given their personal relationship, Li Chu wasn't worried about anything.
After a long pause, Li Chu picked up his cup and gulped down several mouthfuls of water.
Uncle Liu looked at Li Chu with a strange expression and asked, "You figured that out from the newspaper?"
"Yeah, and back in Nanniwan, weren't there plenty of purges? It's easy to tell, isn't it?" Li Chu said nonchalantly.
Uncle Liu then realized that this young man, despite his young age, might have been exposed to more of these kinds of things than he had.
"Xiao Chu, who else have you told this to?"
"Uncle Liu, I may be young, but I'm not stupid. I've never said this to anyone, not even Chairman Lou."
I simply had him read the newspaper; I have no idea what conclusions he drew afterward, or whether they matched my own.
"Phew," Uncle Liu let out a heavy sigh. "No wonder Chairman Lou has been acting so strangely lately."
"What did he do? Transfer assets?" Li Chu really dared to say anything.
"We haven't noticed that yet. He's been constantly contacting his old business friends lately, discussing something. We're still observing what they're planning to do."
"He now has two options: either do as I say or secretly move. But now that you guys, Uncle Liu, have already got your eyes on him, there's only one option left."
Uncle Liu chuckled and shook his head: "If we hadn't discovered your investigation and he hadn't secretly moved things, we might not have even noticed him."
"Let's not talk about him anymore. Xiao Chu, tell your uncle the truth: were all the things you said earlier your own deductions, or did you hear them from someone else? Like your Uncle Wang?"
"Uncle Liu, please don't make wild guesses. Uncle Wang and I have never discussed this kind of thing. I really deduced those things myself, and I believe that I am neither the first nor the last to figure it out."
"You're really wasting your life as a doctor," Uncle Liu remarked with a sigh.
"Uncle Liu, please don't even think about it. If Uncle Wang finds out, he'll definitely come to your house with a gun and ambush you."
"Hehe, you know what, I really can't afford to offend Minister Wang," Uncle Liu said with a smile.
Chapter 196 Strange
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