"Since the past is the past, let it be. It’s very difficult to trace back. Truth be told, it wasn’t easy to get an education back then. Sun Rongfang’s elentary school education, if she really got into any schooling, it would at most have been a night class or so kind of training course. It’s of little significance to investigate further."
"You can’t say that, Director Zhang. If Sun Rongfang had managed to enter a vocational training class back then, even a slight diploma was exceedingly valuable in those days. If she could take more exams and attend better schools with her efforts, her personal life path would not have just stopped at being sneered at for having only an elentary school education. Her daughter’s achievents don’t an she can be resigned to being taken advantage of. I know she’s soone who works hard at both learning and life, so it’s very saddening that her fate was unlucky." Aunt Min was deeply saddened, feeling for her friend’s ill-tid life, caught in a harsh era and her struggle without familial support wasted.
Director Zhang shared in the sorrow and fell silent for a while.
No matter what, they had to start from reality. Aunt Min suspected the idea of a swap at Capital Hospital was nonexistent, and Director Zhang said, "You shouldn’t associate that person being in the Capital. That person couldn’t make it to the Capital, let alone work there. Sun Rongfang was in the South back then; they applied to Southern health schools, intending to stay in the South after graduation. The Capital isn’t a place just anyone can co to. With such low qualifications, they couldn’t even outscore Sun Rongfang on exams; how could they co to the Capital? They’re probably getting by in so small local hospital."
Just like her initial reasoning, this wasn’t sothing she could broadly speculate about due to her mother’s unfortunate experiences, Xie Wanying thought.
After confirming with Director Zhang over the phone, Aunt Min hung up, her brows tightly furrowed, unable to understand.
"Aunt Min, can you tell how you collapsed in the corridor?" Xie Wanying asked as the doctor.
It was important to discern if Aunt had other diseases causing the heart attack, so they could take preventive asures in the future.
Aunt Min explained the situation that day, "I was scared."
"Scared?"
"Yes, soone was standing by the stairwell door, seemingly eavesdropping on my conversation with Director Zhang. When I turned my head and noticed her, her eyes gave such a fright, my whole heart panicked, and then I felt dizzy and collapsed." Aunt Min recalled what she went through that day, shivering involuntarily, genuinely finding that pair of staring eyes a bit terrifying.
"Do you recognize that person, Aunt Min?" Xie Wanying saw that Aunt seed to know who that person was.
"I rember, that person should be Doctor Hu," Aunt Min said, her mory completely intact.
With Aunt Min’s testimony, it was confird that Dr. Hu was indeed standing by the stairwell door and should have seen Aunt Min’s condition. Oddly enough, afterward, Dr. Hu adamantly denied seeing any patient.
Was Dr. Hu lying? Why did Dr. Hu insist on claiming not to have seen the patient?
"Yes, later I thought, could it be related to your mother’s case, so she covered it up?" Aunt Min said, addressing the point everyone previously suspected, but regrettably, after hearing Director Zhang over the phone, this possibility was ruled out.
It seed Dr. Hu had no connection to the events involving Sun Rongfang back then. Dr. Hu was in the North, while Sun Rongfang’s situation occurred in the South, distances vast and wide.
"Is Dr. Hu from the South?" Aunt Min guessed again.
"No, she is a native of the Capital." Xie Wanying had heard this from Dr. Guan, confirming it without a doubt.
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