Chapter 272 Living Signboard
Xia Lili turned around and saw two men and one woman rushing over.
The leader was a lady in her sixties. Although there were fine lines at the corners of her eyes, her well-maintained face and jeweled attire still made her look noble.
Following closely behind was an older man, whose well-tailored suit made him look particularly tall and straight.
The last one was a young man in his early thirties, whose features bore some resemblance to the two preceding ones, and they were obviously relatives.
The three of them looked panicked, their eyes constantly scanning towards the operating room.
These three people were exactly the ones Xia Lili had seen in the hallucination, Shen Molin’s son, daughter, and grandson.
Li Qihan flipped through the information on his phone, then lowered his voice and introduced Xia Lili, "The person who came is Mr. Shen's eldest son, Shen Zhuangming. He is 70 years old and the chairman of a technology company."
"The woman is Mr. Shen's second daughter, Shen Lihua, 65 years old, and a partner in the nursing home."
"The young man is Mr. Shen's eldest grandson, Shen Mingxuan, who owns five companies."
Xia Lili was astonished after hearing Li Qihan's introduction. Mr. Shen's descendants also had extraordinary identities and were all successful in their careers.
Since the person sent to the hospital for emergency treatment was the meritorious scientist Shen Molin, all the hospital's senior management were present.
There was a solemn atmosphere in the corridor.
Shen Zhuangming, the eldest son of the Shen family, grabbed Dean Chen's sleeve and said in a choked voice, "Dean Chen, how is my father doing now?"
His red eyes were full of pleading.
Dean Chen glanced at the Shen family members with an embarrassed look, and said carefully: "This... depends on the rescue situation. It's really hard to say now..."
Before he could finish his words, Shen Zhuangming suddenly fell to his knees with a plop, clutching the dean's hand and trembling. "Please, please save my father! I kowtow to you!"
As he spoke, he was about to lean over.
Shen Lihua and Shen Mingxuan beside them also knelt down one after another. The three of them cried together, and their foreheads hit the cold tiles of the hospital.
This touching scene of filial piety brought tears to the eyes of many onlookers.
"Please get up! This can't happen!" Dean Chen hurriedly supported him, looking troubled. "We will do our best, but this kind of thing really depends on God's will..."
Xia Lili stood not far away, watching this heart-wrenching scene, feeling mixed emotions.
The grief-stricken looks of the Shen family are moving, but when I think of the relieved smile of Mr. Shen in the surveillance video, I feel that there is an unspeakable contradiction hidden in this separation of life and death.
Xia Lili turned to look at Li Qihan and found that he was just staring at his phone indifferently.
She noticed that Li Qihan's expression became increasingly cold as he browsed the contents on his phone.
Xia Lili couldn't help but move closer to him and asked, "Captain Li, what's wrong?"
"Take a look at this." Li Qihan shared several business news videos with Xia Lili.
The title of the first business news video is, "Mr. Shen, a great scientist, successfully launched his new pulse therapy device project today."
Xia Lili was stunned. Isn’t Mr. Shen an expert in water conservancy?
This pulse therapy device sounds like the name of a health product.
Moreover, pulse and treatment should be related to physical medicine.
She clicked on the video and saw Shen Molin sitting in a wheelchair, his eyes dull and lifeless, like a body with his soul taken away.
There was a Band-Aid on the back of his hand from the IV drip, and the layers of gauze on his neck were particularly eye-catching, obviously the medical catheter had just been removed.
In the video, the eldest son, Chen Zhuangming, pushed his wheelchair and shook hands and greeted celebrities from all walks of life with a cheerful face.
Whenever someone approached, he would lean over and speak loudly in Mr. Shen's ear, deliberately acting like a filial son.
Shen Molin, who was in a wheelchair, had a blank expression on his face, like a puppet at the mercy of others. He would only lift his chin up when the camera was aimed at him.
All these celebrities were very respectful to Shen Molin in the wheelchair.
Some bowed and addressed him respectfully as "Teacher Shen", some eagerly called him "Professor Shen", and some even flatteredly called him "Director Shen".
The look in their eyes when they looked at Shen Zhuangming clearly showed that they were taking advantage of the old man.
The subsequent commercial videos are exactly the same.
Shen Zhuangming pushed his seriously ill father to attend various meetings and signing ceremonies.
Under the spotlight, he always pushed his wheelchair forward half a step, making his dying father the best "living signboard".
And all those partners came for Shen Molin's past prestige and connections.
Xia Lili noticed that whenever Shen Molin looked tired in front of the camera, Shen Zhuangming would pinch his shoulder subtly.
The image of the old man straightening his back reflexively made her stomach churn.
In the video, Shen Molin's eyes are dazed and his mind is blurred most of the time.
But there was one scene that was particularly eye-catching - the old man suddenly opened his eyes wide, and that clear look was exactly the same as what Xia Lili saw in the park.
His skinny hands suddenly became bulging with veins, and he slapped the armrests of the wheelchair desperately. His cracked lips trembled as if he wanted to say something.
But this body hollowed out by illness had long lost the ability to move, and even the simplest resistance seemed so powerless.
Chen Zhuangming quickly restrained his father's trembling hands, a polite apology on his face: "Sorry everyone, my father's illness has relapsed."
His casual words crushed the old man's last bit of dignity.
The guests present all showed sympathy: "We understand Mr. Shen's situation."
"Dementia is really hard on you as children."
"Mr. Shen's filial piety in taking care of the old man is truly touching..."
The camera turned to Shen Molin who was pushed into the corner, and a turbid tear slid down his wrinkled cheek.
Chen Zhuangming took out his handkerchief at the right time and gently wiped away his father's tears.
This action was accurately captured by the media cameras, and the news headline read: "Filial son Chen Zhuangming takes good care of his sick father, and the heartwarming scene is moving."
After watching this video, Xia Lili was very angry. The Shen Molin who was struggling and resisting in the video was the one who was awake, but Shen Zhuangming distorted it into "having a disease". I wonder how humiliated and uncomfortable Mr. Shen must have felt at this time when he was awake.
Li Qihan forwarded a tweet from the official account of "Jinghua International Spa Center" to Xia Lili.
The article contained a promotional video featuring Shen Molin’s second daughter, Shen Lihua.
In the picture, Mr. Shen is lying in a spacious and bright VIP ward, with a carefully designed garden landscape outside the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows.
Shen Lihua, wearing a white lab coat, spoke to the camera, "This is our latest German ECMO life support system, specifically for patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary failure."
She expertly operated the instrument panel. "Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation technology can temporarily replace the patient's heart and lung functions, buying time for organ repair."
"Although the cost of a single day's treatment is as high as 50,000 yuan, it can effectively prolong the survival of terminally ill patients."
The camera deliberately gave a close-up of Shen Molin lying on the hospital bed - the old man was full of tubes, his eyes were closed, and his chest rose and fell mechanically with the rhythm of the instruments.
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