Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Medicine
The news that Xu Hui was sent back quickly spread throughout the mental hospital.
Wang Miaoyu had made a mistake earlier and had been fined by He Li. She came to He Li anxiously, "Dean, my dad really needs someone to take care of him. Xu Hui is always the most rambunctious. If she comes back, will it be inconvenient for me to ask for leave?"
He Li was studying a batch of new drugs that had just arrived at the hospital. He looked up and said, "Xu Hui did set the fire, after all. Even if she didn't kill anyone, she's still a suspect. There are detectives watching her. What are you worried about?"
"But the two detectives who stayed behind are so careless," Wang Miaoyu said, her heart aching at the thought of their condition. "I just saw them secretly playing cards. Xu Hui is so smart! What if she has a spare key hidden away and escapes?"
He Li said thoughtfully, "Are they playing cards?"
"Yeah, even worse than me," Wang Miaoyu complained. "That Inspector Wu didn't even come to collect their money!"
He Li was helpless. "You're just worried about your salary. Don't worry, you've worked in the hospital for so many years. Your father is seriously ill. How could I just stand by and watch him? If you really need money, I can lend it to you first. But since you left your post without permission and caused Xu Hui to sneak out of the intensive care unit, you must deduct his salary."
Wang Miaoyu said ashamedly: "Thank you, Dean, I know I was wrong."
After seeing Wang Miaoyu off, He Li picked up the phone and dialed a number.
The mental hospital was especially quiet after dark.
All the patients were sent to the ward. When the lights were turned off and the bell rang, they went to bed. This was the rule of the mental hospital.
In the mental hospital, their behavior is indeed much more normal, and the medication is effective.
However, under the cover of night, things were not so peaceful.
A dark shadow circled along the wall and stopped outside the intensive care unit ward.
The black shadow moved a stone that was fifty centimeters wide and thirty centimeters long, dug a hole, and pressed the thing under the stone.
Then, the black shadow walked towards the intensive care unit.
The black shadow came to the iron fence, took out the key, opened the door and walked in.
The black shadow walked straight to Xu Hui's ward and skillfully took out the key to unlock it.
The two detectives had gone off to play cards again and wouldn't be back for a while.
The ward was quiet. Xu Hui lay on the bed, his chest rising and falling gently.
The black shadow took out a syringe, walked up to Xu Hui and grabbed her hand.
Just as the needle tip was about to pierce Xu Hui's arm, the light in the ward suddenly came on.
The corridor, which was quiet just now, suddenly had many more people. At the door of the ward, Wu Yuanqing looked at the black shadow without saying a word.
The light focused on the dark shadow, and outside the window, a detective was also shining a flashlight on him.
The dazzling gaze made it impossible for him to open his eyes. His wrist was suddenly strangled, and a powerful force pressed on his shoulder. A breeze passed by his ears. When he came to his senses, he was pressed on the hospital bed.
The detectives rushed in and only reacted slowly after he was handcuffed.
Wu Yuanqing looked at him coldly, "Zhu Que, what do you want to do?"
Zhu, who claimed to be on leave at home, was squatting beside the bed with an injection in his hand.
Sang Baiyu snatched the injection first, smelled it and said, "It's anesthesia. He wants to give Xu Hui anesthesia directly and then take her away."
Wu Yuanqing said, "It seems that your guesses are correct. Before setting the fire, the Ricardo family entertained a guest, and that guest was Zhu Que."
Sang Baiyu said: "It is the tradition of the Longxinggang people that men come out to receive guests and women will not stay in the living room. I think Zhu Que must be a terrible guest for Dara and Dara's mother, but they can't convince Ricardo, so Dara's mother chose to hide Dara. Uncle, Dara is not abused by his mother, his mother wants to protect him, right?"
Zhu Que's expression was unclear.
He Li rushed over and asked, "What are you doing..."
Zhu shouted, "Dean!"
He Li's face darkened. "Didn't you ask for leave?"
Zhu Que said: "Dean, you can't just stand by and watch someone die!"
Wu Yuanqing looked at He Li and said, "So this matter is related to the dean."
He Li smiled awkwardly, "I'm sorry, it's our employees who have caused you trouble. It's my fault for not supervising properly."
Wu Yuanqing said, "Zhu Que, I am arresting you for intentional homicide. If you have any objections, you can apply for a lawyer."
He signaled Ruan Feng and Nata to take Zhu Que away.
Zhu struggled and said, "I just came to see Xu Hui. You don't have any evidence, you can't do this!"
He Li pursed his lips slightly and looked at Zhu Que without saying a word.
Zhu Que's eyes swept over He Li, and the sound of his struggle gradually subsided.
Sang Baiyu frowned and pulled Wu Yuanqing, "Uncle, go and take a look first..."
*
In the familiar interrogation room, Zhu sat there without saying a word.
Wu Yuanqing said, "Dara was indeed abused, but whether it was his family or the people in the mental hospital who abused him is still debatable. Your testimony is completely contradictory to that of Dara's neighbors. I asked Xu Hui, and she gave me some crucial information."
Zhu turned his head away.
Wu Yuanqing said, "Xu Hui and Dara have always been good friends. When Dara first arrived at the mental hospital, his mother often visited him, and he never said anything bad about her. But six months later, his tone changed, and he began to talk about his family's abuse. I've researched it, and you were the one who took care of him during those months. You deliberately misled him, making him, already unconscious, believe that his family had been abusing him. You told Dara, Dara told Xu Hui, and Xu Hui firmly believed it."
"Dara's condition is said to have improved, but he's no longer violently attacking others. During the past few months in the mental hospital, his condition has only gotten worse. Dara's mother insisted on taking him away, and the director initially refused. But Dara was someone else's child after all, so the director had no choice but to release him."
"For some reason, you instilled your revenge plan into Dara. I don't think Dara took it to heart, but Xu Hui remembered it. She regarded Dara as her best friend and she wanted him to live a good life. In her opinion, if Dara wanted to become a good person, he had to leave his family."
"You deliberately left Xu Hui's key to her because you knew she could walk around freely. And since Wang Miaoyu started working the night shift, she's been sneaking away all the time, so you can take advantage of that. You were already at Dara's house before Xu Hui set the fire. Ricardo wasn't wary of you, but Dara's mother was very wary of you."
"You tricked them into drinking alcohol laced with pesticides, rendering them defenseless. As for the two women, you could easily have subdued them, even without the alcohol. Otherwise, even if Xu Hui had set the fire, the family wouldn't have been able to burn them all to death if they were awake. It seems Dara's mother is afraid of you, so she must die. You killed at least four of these five people, so you can't get away with it."
Zhu said calmly: "I was listening to the radio at home that night. I can repeat what was said on the radio."
Wu Yuanqing said, "It seems you were afraid they would make noise, so you turned on the radio at home to cover it up."
Zhu Que: "If you insist on accusing me of something, I can't do anything about it."
Ruan Feng took out the pesticide bottle that was covered in dirt and said, "We saw you bury it next to the hospital wall with our own eyes. Are you still trying to make excuses?"
Wu Yuanqing said, "You may not know this, but an autopsy can reveal the cause of death. You can't cover it up. We've found the store where you bought the pesticide, and the owner still remembers you. Also, Xu Hui saw you at the fire scene. How do you explain this?"
Zhu was slightly stunned.
He is not well educated and doesn't know how to do an autopsy.
In his opinion, if a person is burned to charcoal, he is burned to death.
Zhu was a little flustered. "Can you believe what Xu Hui said? She set the fire. She is trying to exonerate herself. I was at home that day. No one testified for me. You can't slander me."
Ruan Feng smiled and said, "Actually, she didn't see you at the fire scene, but on the way from the mental hospital to Dara's house. She saw you through a reflective glass door, but she didn't take it seriously and never mentioned it."
"We took your photo to meet with nearby merchants. A rice noodle shop closed late and saw you there. Zhu Que, you're lying," Wu Yuanqing said sternly. "Lying will only make your punishment more severe. Do you understand?!"
Zhu stared at Wu Yuanqing in a daze, and after a moment he became deflated. There was no energy on his face, and he sat down weakly on the chair.
Ruan Feng asked a few more questions, but he said nothing, as if he didn't hear them.
Wu Yuanqing sighed.
And that ugly girl was right.
I must force her to study criminal investigation in the future. It would be bad if she really entered the market.
For the first time, Wu Yuanqing felt that his words were so sincere and sincere. "Tell the truth now. If you were instructed by someone, you still have a chance."
Zhu's eyes flickered.
Wu Yuanqing caught this moment and said, "You are not married, but you have a younger brother and a younger sister. I have sent people to look for them, and they should be here by now."
Zhu looked up in surprise.
Before returning to the police station, Sang Baiyu asked Wu Yuanqing to find Zhu Que's family.
Wu Yuanqing thought of Sang Baiyu's words and asked, "Is it related to He Li?"
After a long silence, Zhu finally spoke, "Can you guarantee their safety? Can you guarantee they will get the money?"
*
Zhu Que has worked in the hospital for many years as a nurse.
Although he only came to work in the hospital half a year ago, he had already known He Li. He Li's father had been paralyzed for three years and it was Zhu Que who took care of him.
He Li was very kind to the hospital staff and patients, but Zhu did not notice anything unusual when he first arrived at the hospital.
Until one day, Dara's mother found him and asked him what medicine he had fed Dara.
Zhu didn't understand. He always supervised patients to take medicine according to the doctor's instructions, but Dara's mother insisted that he gave Dara the wrong medicine, which caused Dara's temperament to change drastically.
Zhu later observed Dara carefully and found that he was indeed different from before, but his personality had not changed drastically.
He didn't take it seriously, but a week later, He Li called him to his office.
He Li asked him to keep an eye on Dara's family and beat them up as a warning if they dared to go to the police station.
Wu Yuanqing asked, "What did the Dara family do?"
"I didn't understand it at first, but later I figured it out. It was related to the medicine."
"What medicine?"
"Medicine for treating illnesses," Zhu Que said, "that's what Xu Hui is taking."
Wu Yuanqing remembered that Xu Hui did not have to pay any fees to stay in the hospital.
He asked puzzledly, "Is there something wrong with the medicine?"
"The medicine was developed abroad. He Li found some that might be effective. He really wanted to do it for the patients' own good. He wanted to cure them as soon as possible. But this medicine..."
Zhu's voice gradually lowered, "Some drugs have just been developed, and we don't know what side effects they may have..."
Ruan Feng was surprised and asked, "Why use Xu Hui to test the medicine?!"
"He's so kind!" Zhu said, "If he hadn't taken Xu Hui in, Xu Hui might not be alive now. He has a bottom line. He wouldn't use someone like Dara, who still has family, for drug testing. But Dara's condition was quite serious, and the medication hadn't provided any relief, so he had to use some more effective medications. Maybe the drugs were too strong, and Dara became unwell. But as you can see, Dara didn't attack anyone before he died."
Dara's mother thought there was something wrong with the hospital's treatment methods and secretly investigated. She unexpectedly discovered a truck without a license plate.
The truck always arrives late at night to unload several boxes of medicine, and comes once every three months.
These drugs were smuggled in.
When Dara's mother found out about this, she was worried that something might happen to her son and tried to take him away.
But He Li realized that she had discovered something and kept refusing.
Ricardo didn't trust his wife and didn't say much.
"In order to keep Dara in the hospital, He Li changed his medication. I'm not sure what it was. He asked me to tell Dara about his family's bad deeds every day. He didn't believe it at first, but after the medication was changed, he seemed to believe it. I also told Xu Hui about this, and Xu Hui was very angry. Later, Dara was forcibly taken away by his mother. He Li was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he asked me to deal with it."
"Your solution is to kill them?"
"...This is all He Li's idea. If we want to resolve this, then of course we have to silence the witnesses. Otherwise, how can we call it a resolution?"
Wu Yuanqing asked, "Where is Xu Hui? Why bring her into this?"
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