Chapter 28 She had seen this face before! He was...Xu Jiakai?! ...
I'm glad to know that Shen Xingjian actually still wants to rehabilitate, otherwise he wouldn't have secretly bought a resistance band to practice with.
Given the current condition of his legs, rehabilitation might not allow him to stand completely, but it will at least allow him to feel his legs again. Perhaps one day, he will be able to stand briefly with the help of crutches, or even take a few steps.
She had looked up information and found that there was already new technology internationally that could restore lower limb function through spinal nerve regeneration. It was just that this technology had not yet been widely promoted. But as long as she lived long enough, who could say that day wouldn't come?
During the lunch break that day, a colleague came over and caught a glimpse of Gao Xing's rehabilitation video on his phone. He jokingly said, "Are you still studying? Are you planning to run away?"
The colleague who was talking was also a temporary worker like Gao Xing. He came to the nursing home for transition. Normally, everyone was not too shy to talk about these things. They all assumed that this job was temporary and they would definitely leave after they passed the exam.
Gaoxing turned off the video, smiled, and didn't respond.
"Oh, now I regret it. I should have studied rehabilitation medicine earlier. It pays well, has minimal fuss, and there's no medical disputes. It's a nice title, and it's much better than our current job of cleaning people's shit and urine!" My colleague leaned over the table, holding his chin. "I must have killed people and set fires in my previous life, so I'm suffering as a nursing student in this life!"
In today's job market, almost every major claims to be a pitfall. Gao Xing can't say she likes or dislikes her major; she considers it just a way to make a living, nothing special.
"Hey? Was nursing your first choice?" a colleague started chatting with her.
"Yeah." She nodded.
"Why did you all choose the first choice? Am I the only one who was transferred there?" A colleague sighed in frustration. "When I was a kid, I wanted to be a gourmet. I could eat and drink and make money at the same time. How cool!"
"What about you? Have you always wanted to be a nurse since you were a kid?"
Gao Xing thought about it and shook his head.
She had no dreams since she was a child. If she had to say she had one, it was probably to escape to a place where there was equality and no prejudice.
As they were chatting, the alarm at the nurses' station suddenly sounded. Gao Xing and his colleagues hurried out to check and found that the ward with the lights on and the alarm on was the VIP ward that Gao Xing was in charge of.
The lights and alarms at the nursing home's nurses' station had specific meanings. A flashing red light and rapid alarms signaled an emergency. Gao Xing didn't dare delay and asked a colleague to report to the head nurse. She immediately ran to the VIP ward.
After rushing to the ward, the bedside monitor showed that the patient's heart rate was decreasing and the blood oxygen concentration had dropped to 80. Gao Xing took immediate action and pressed the emergency call button on the bedside.
Soon, the head nurse arrived with a doctor and gave the patient first aid at the bedside.
"Xiao Gao, contact the family immediately!" the head nurse ordered her.
Gao Xing quickly called Shi Yunran and asked her if she could come over immediately.
Shi Yunran hadn't explicitly mentioned the film and television rights to "Feng Yue," but shortly after Jinian informed her of the publishing plans, Shi Yunran called her, urging her to pay more attention to her father in the hospital and to inform her of any further developments. Keeping an eye on the patient's health is a nurse's responsibility, and Gao Xing would have dutifully fulfilled it even without Shi Yunran's explicit instructions.
On the other end of the phone, Shi Yunran heard that his father was critically ill and asked Gao Xing to convey that the hospital must do its best to save him, no matter what the cost.
Gao Xing could tell her voice was trembling, but she remained calm as she explained. She said she was in Singapore and it would take at least six hours to get here, so Gao Xing was asked to help her.
After reporting Shi Yunran's request to the head nurse, Shi Yunran's father was taken into the operating room. Gao Xing was not yet qualified to enter the operating room, so he had to go back to the nurses' station and wait.
After all, it was the patient she was responsible for, and Gao Xing was very anxious at the moment. When her colleagues were comforting her, Zhang Wei hurriedly ran towards her in the corridor, holding on to the wall.
He was covered in mud, had a hole in his knee, and scrapes on his arms.
"Zhang Wei? What's wrong with you?" Gao Xing walked over and looked at the scars on his body, thinking that he had been beaten again.
Zhang Wei was riding his bike too fast and accidentally fell. When he saw Gao Xing, his haggard eyes beneath his dark skin suddenly turned red. He knelt down with a plop and kowtowed to her:
"Please! I beg you! Can you please save my wife and child? I'll kowtow to you! I'll do anything you ask me to do! I beg you!"
Gao Xing was startled, not understanding what he was doing, and quickly squatted down to help him up, but he refused to get up, kowtowing and begging.
Although she was puzzled, she still tried to comfort him: "Zhang Wei, calm down first. How about I treat your wound first?"
"I'm fine!" He raised his hand and wiped away his tears. "My wife's name is Fang Zhijuan, and my daughter's name is Zhang Yusi. You must be able to save them, right?"
Gao Xing really couldn't understand what he was saying. Didn't the head nurse say that his wife and children died a long time ago?
"Zhang Wei, please get up first. You're affecting the work of my other colleagues."
But Zhang Wei couldn't listen to any of this. He tightly grasped Gao Xing's wrist, tears streaming down his face. He looked at her as if she were a lifeline: "I know... you are the Madam, right?"
He was so happy that the blood was roaring in his eardrums and his expression became uncontrollably stiff.
"I…I don't know what you're talking about."
Zhang Wei once had a dream in which he went to see Mr. Shen and saw a woman at Mr. Shen's house. At first, he didn't think much of it, thinking he was just too tired, hence the messy dream. If Mr. Shen had a wife, he wouldn't have died in such an unclear manner.
Until that day, when Gao Xing rescued him near the bus stop, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. The more he thought about it these days, the more he felt something was wrong. When he woke up from that recurring dream this morning, he finally grasped the key.
Thinking back carefully, he didn't know Gao Xing, but she called out his name accurately when they first met! If this was a dream! Then all this was too much of a coincidence!
He didn't know what magic Gao Xing had that could keep him from aging for ten years, but if there really was a miracle in this world, he wanted to save his wife and daughter. He wanted them to live, even if it meant sacrificing his own life!
"Madam! I beg you! I really beg you! Please save them!"
Zhang Wei's tears welled up, his sincerity moving. It wasn't that Gao Xing didn't want to help him, but she simply didn't have the ability. The time-space folding was limited to Villa No. 1. Zhang Wei's daughter died of a heart attack, and his wife, overwhelmed by the devastation, jumped from the building. None of this was something she could have prevented.
"Zhang Wei, you are too tired." Gao Xing avoided his question and tried to get him to get up.
Seeing that she still refused to let go, Zhang Wei slumped to the ground as if his bones had been pulled out. He lowered his head and suddenly said, "If Madam is willing to help me, I can tell you who killed Mr. Shen back then."
Zhang Wei's words were like thunder from the sky, crashing into Gao Xing's head with a thud, setting his eardrums buzzing. The air around him seemed to be sucked out, and even his breath was stuck in his throat.
"You...what did you say?"
At this point, Zhang Wei no longer had any need to hide it, and he confessed that he had been to the villa on the day Shen Xingjian died ten years ago.
Zhang Wei's knuckles were clenched white, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out from his chest: "That day... I went to borrow money."
"Mr. Shen is kind-hearted. When he heard that my daughter was born with a congenital deficiency, he lent her 50,000 yuan without saying a word." He forced a smile that was uglier than crying. "But the hospital is a bottomless pit... In less than a week, the bill came again."
"I didn't have a job at the time, and all my family savings were spent on my children. It was too late to sell the house, so I really had no choice but to ask Mr. Shen to borrow some more..."
He still remembered that it was a cloudy day, with the stuffy air of plum rain wrapped in the chirping of insects. He stood in front of the villa door, raising his hand to knock, then lowering it again.
"I know... even if I borrow another 50,000, it won't last long, but I really... I really..." He choked, as if regretting what he had done.
That day, when he was about to knock on the door with all his heart, he suddenly saw someone running out of the villa in a panic...
He quickly hid behind a tree, vaguely feeling that the man looked familiar. However, the fog blurred the lens, so in a hurry, he took out his phone and took a photo of the other person.
After the man left, the rain began to fall from above, soaking him completely. He thought, since I'm asking for help, I can't go in such a sloppy manner, so he turned around and went back.
“I didn’t expect that when I came back the next day, I heard that Mr. Shen had died.”
A cordon was set up around the villa, and people nearby were whispering to each other. Only then did he realize that the person he met yesterday was most likely the murderer!
"Who is that person?" The happy voice was like a taut string.
Zhang Wei raised his head and said word by word: "Xu, Jia, Kai."
Hearing this name, Gao Xing's mind was in a mess, but she did not lose her mind. Instead, she asked, "Based on this, you concluded that Xu Jiakai is the murderer?"
Murder is not a trivial matter. Back then, Xu Jiakai was not the powerful CEO he is today. If he really killed someone, there is no reason why he could escape the police investigation.
Ten years ago was 2015, not 2005. If Shen Xingjian really died of homicide, many traces should have been found.
Zhang Wei said painfully, "I was just suspicious at first, but later I was forced into a corner. My daughter was dying, so I took the photo and went to find him..."
"I told him to pay 800,000 yuan for the photo, or I'd report him to the police. How could he agree to that unless he hadn't committed murder?"
Gao Xing tried hard to organize his thoughts: "You mean, the 800,000 yuan was given to you by Xu Jiakai?"
The head nurse said that Zhang Wei had borrowed 800,000 yuan from his boss. Shen Xingjian was his boss, and so was Xu Jiakai.
Tears silently fell from the corners of Zhang Wei's weathered eyes. He said with despair, "But 800,000 yuan couldn't save my daughter's life..."
All this was too unbelievable and completely beyond Gao Xing's understanding. She couldn't believe what Zhang Wei said was true, but she couldn't find any reason for him to lie. There was no need for him to accuse her of extortion.
"Madam! Please believe me! I swear on my wife and children that if I tell even a lie, I will die a horrible death!" He raised his head to the sky and swore.
Just at this moment, the head nurse came back from the operating room and saw Zhang Wei kneeling on the ground. She hurried over and asked what was going on.
Colleagues around witnessed the whole process and said that this man kowtowed and begged Gao Xing to save his wife and children as soon as he came up. He might have been stimulated and mentally unstable.
The head nurse knew Zhang Wei's family situation, and after hearing this, she thought he was mentally disturbed. Otherwise, why would he suddenly come to ask a little girl to save someone who had been dead for almost ten years? She had thought Zhang Wei had asked her about Gao Xing's happiness as a thank you, but she didn't expect him to come up with such a strange thing!
The head nurse apologized and pulled Gao Xing away, asking her to go home after get off work and she would take care of it here.
Seeing this, Gao Xing did not insist anymore, calmed herself down, and said that if there was any situation with the patient, she could be contacted at any time.
On the way back from the sanatorium, the sky suddenly turned cloudy and it started to rain heavily. Gao Xing didn't have an umbrella with him, so he had to get off the car and run all the way back to the resort.
She patted the raindrops on her body, and when she entered the door, she was about to tell Shen Xingjian what happened today, when she suddenly saw a tall strange man standing in the living room.
The man was wearing a dark shirt and a pair of framed glasses on his nose. His slightly curly hair was cut short, revealing his handsome features. He turned and looked at her.
Gao Xing was stunned for a moment and stood still.
She had seen this face before!
He is...Xu Jiakai? !
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