Chapter 239 (1/2)
Chapter 239: The Causes of the Matter
Translator: GravityTales Editor: GravityTales
Qinghe County was the most remote county in Star City. Its economic development was also the most backward with a population of hundreds of thousands of people and nearly a hundred kilometers from Star City.
A Land Rover SUV was traversing on the bumpy roads with dim street lights, driving fast toward the county’s hospital.
12 o’clock, midnight.
The SUV went to county’s hospital’s entrance. The two lazy security guards at the entrance were shocked, even modestly saluting.
“Mom, we’ve arrived.”
Tang Xiu was weary as he called out to the drowsy Su Lingyun with a low voice.
Su Lingyun sobered up. She looked at the scene under the dim light outside and was surprised, “We arrived so quick?”
Tang Xiu said, “Qinghe County isn’t far from Star City, and I had driven for more than two hours. If the road was good, perhaps it wouldn’t take one and half an hours. Mom, call the neighbor—Second Aunt to ask which ward grandma is in.”
Su Lingyun was as though waking up from a dream. She took out her mobile phone, dialed a number and spoke with the other side for a while. Her expression turned very ugly as she looked at Tang Xiu and said, “Your grandma, she… she’s still waiting for the doctor in the ward for surgery! It seems that her leg is broken.”
“What?”
Tang Xiu looked at Su Lingyun with disbelief. It was already three to four hours that his grandma got injured, and it takes only half an hour from the village to the county. Why hadn’t she had the surgery until now?
Tang Xiu’s expression was grim. He said with a heavy tone, “Mom, let’s go in now.”
Su Lingyun nodded heavily. She opened the door and got off the car, hurriedly running toward the treatment building. A few minutes later, the mother and son then arrived in front of the operating room’s door on the fourth floor of the treatment building. In the corridor outside the operating room’s door, he saw his grandmother lying on a wheeled stretcher, along with her neighbor Second Aunt and her son, Su Ben.
“Sis Lingyun, you finally came. Auntie, she’s heavily injured but now there’s no queue for the surgery!” Upon seeing Su Lingyun, Chen Huiying was pleasantly surprised and greeted immediately her.
Su Lingyun quickly asked, “Huiying, what happened? Are there a lot of people having surgery today?”
Forcing out a smile, Chen Huiying said, “I dare say that except for the few doctors in this operating room, there’s no patient undergoing surgery. They’re just intentionally delaying. There’s a total of six people wounded from our village. The others have been taken away by their families, saying that we must change hospitals. But Little Ben had just called them and found that the other hospitals are also deliberately delaying. So they sent them to Star City under desperation.
“Why? Isn’t it the hospital’s duty to help the dying and heal the wounded? Is it because it’s too late…”
Chen Huiying interrupted her, wryly smiling, “Someone brought trouble to our village. He’s also the one who injured the villagers, at the same time also injuring two others more. I heard he’s from a rich and powerful family. No matter if it’s the Public Security Bureau or the Health Bureau, they’re their people. So they must be the ones pulling the strings.”
Tang Xiu interrupted, “Second Aunt, what’s the reason for the conflict?”
Looking at Tang Xiu, Chen Huiying squeezed out a smile, saying, “The government wants to levy our village’s land, saying that they will build an industrial park. It was a good thing initially, but… but it turns out that each household and family’s land, it’s only priced 20 thousand yuan per Mu. Tang Xiu, you’re educated and can think clearly. You tell me, would 20 thousand yuan be enough for anything nowadays? We’re just ordinary people relying on farming to eat. With that amount of money, once we’ve spent them, we can only drink and eat the wind later!”
Tang Xiu took a deep breath with anger suffusing in his eyes.
He knew his aunt was right. People in rural areas depended on their lands. If they didn’t have their lands, how would they live in the future?
20 thousand yuan?
Houses in Qinghe County were already priced two to three thousand per square foot. Would 20 thousand yuan even be sufficient to buy a house? It wouldn’t be enough! Furthermore, the price for the expropriated land and indemnity was definitely a dozen times or even a hundred times more than 20 thousand yuan.
Looking at his grandmother on the stretcher with a tight frown, his murderous intent raised upon seeing her pained expression.
Taking a deep breath and repressing the hatred inside of him, he lifted the thin quilt covering his grandmother. Gently holding and placing her on the chair, he then looked at Su Ben, saying, “Brother Ben, help me hold grandma. I’ll examine her injury.”
Chen Huiying anxiously said, “Tang Xiu, don’t do unnecessary things. Your grandma not only has a broken leg, that bunch of bastards also kicked her a few times. We don’t know whether her bones are dislocated.”
Tang Xiu looked at her and shook his head. As Su Ben propped up his grandmother, he gently ripped her trouser leg. After it was torn up to the leg bend, the swelling looked to have subsided, and it was obvious that the bone was fractured, causing Tang Xiu turn a bit distressed.
“Ah, it’s… you, Xiu’er!”
Zhang Shi woke up in pain. When she saw that the one squatting in front of her was her grandson, Tang Xiu, a smile was squeezed out on her wrinkled face. As she spoke, she also stroked Tang Xiu’s head with her skinny palm.