According to Zhu Yufen, more than a decade ago, she had just come to Tianjin to work and had to go to the hospital for surgery for acute appendicitis. During her hospitalization, she met a doctor named Chen Zheng, and the two soon fell in love. At that time, Zhu Yufen was just a migrant worker. She had no education and no money. She had a rural hukou and a bad job. She had almost all the unreliable elements in society at that time. Chen Zheng was a native of Tianjin and a college graduate. This alone made him stand out from the crowd. At that time, the number of college graduates in society was as high as that of the big bears. The number of cats is roughly the same. In the eyes of ordinary people, this is definitely an unequal relationship. Zhu Yufen herself did not have any hope for this relationship. She was just in love with the purpose of making money day by day. But what she did not expect was that Chen Zheng, who was in the prime of his life, actually proposed to her on his own initiative. Chen Zheng's parents actually agreed to the marriage very happily. When the news reached her hometown, Zhu Yufen, who was not well-known and had little fame, immediately became the object of jealousy of her peers. According to the old people, this was the blessing she had cultivated in her previous life.
However, everything is like this. If something goes too smoothly, there will definitely be unexpected tragedies. This is the case with Zhu Yufen's marriage. After getting married, a domestic star died . Zhu Yufen, who was flattered, wanted to repay Chen Zheng. After discovering that Chen Zheng seemed to have an unusual love for children, she wanted to have a child for Chen Zheng, but she couldn't get pregnant anyway. At first, Zhu Yufen was frightened for a while because she was afraid that her husband would abandon her because of this. However, Chen Zheng himself didn't seem to care much. Later, Zhu Yufen went to the hospital privately for a check-up and found that everything was normal without any symptoms of infertility. After learning that everything was normal, Zhu Yufen made a bold decision: taking the opportunity to go to the south to purchase goods, she secretly went to Hong Kong for artificial insemination.
"I borrowed the money from my family… At that time, there was no such thing in China, only in Hong Kong…" Zhu Yufen said, "My family was also afraid of getting divorced because of not having children, and being laughed at if the news got out, so they scraped together tens of thousands of yuan to give me…"
At that time, Zhu Yufen had already opened her own clothing store, but because she loved Chen Zheng so much, she gave almost all the money she earned to Chen Zheng except for the working capital of the clothing store. She could only secretly ask her family to raise money to go to Hong Kong for artificial insemination. Soon after, Zhu Yufen became pregnant. She wanted to give Chen Zheng a surprise, but after learning the news of Zhu Yufen's pregnancy, Chen Zheng divorced her without saying a word.
"I was so stupid at that time…" Zhu Yufen sneered, "If everything was normal for me, he must be the one with infertility! I was too naive to think of this: he is a doctor, it is impossible for him not to know that he has that disease! The reason why he was willing to marry me at that time must be that he knew I had this disease a long time ago! But I didn't realize this. I just wanted to give him a surprise. He was infertile, but I was pregnant…!"
"Did he misunderstand you?" Zhang Yichen was stunned.
"I guess so…" Zhu Yufen said, "In order to save money, I didn't go to a regular hospital, but was introduced to a small hospital. I paid the money and received the goods without any receipts. I told him that I had never done anything to let him down, but he still couldn't forgive me…"
"So that's how it is…" Zhang Guoyi nodded in understanding, thinking that it was no wonder that this woman gave birth to such an idiot son. It turned out that she bought a discounted product from a black den. It seems that you can't just go for cheap things in everything…
"If you want to find the child's biological father, then go find him…" Zhu Yufen snorted coldly and continued smoking.
"Have you told your son about this?" Zhang Yichen asked.
"I told him… but I didn't tell him about the divorce, nor did I mention the name Chen Zheng!" After a silence of about thirty seconds, Zhu Yufen sighed, "Less than a month later, he was diagnosed with the disease…"
"Then…" Zhang Yicheng also fell into deep thought, "Then… it shouldn't be because you want to find your father…"
"Why?" Zhang Guoyi was a little curious.
"Unless the sperm from that black den in Hong Kong was donated by Uncle Ou when he was young…" Zhang Yicheng pulled Zhang Guoyi aside, "otherwise, there must be other reasons why Zhu Huanyu is pestering his family…"
"Impossible! Ou Jinyang was promoted to a department-level cadre more than ten years ago… He sneaked into Hong Kong to donate sperm?… This is absolutely impossible…" Zhang Guoyi directly ruled out the possibility that Ou Jinyang had sneaked into Hong Kong to donate sperm more than ten years ago…
"I forgot to tell you, I didn't want to look for Chen Zheng anymore, but in order to treat Huanyu's illness, I had no choice but to ask him for help. He is Huanyu's attending physician!" Zhu Yufen stared at the uncle and nephew who were whispering, holding a cigarette in her mouth. "He liked Huanyu very much, and Huanyu liked him too. He stayed by Huanyu's side for a month before he died…"
"Hey…" Zhang Guoyi was stunned. "Comrade Zhu, since they get along so well, why can't you… make peace?"
"Hmph, I do think…" Zhu Yufen exhaled a puff of cigarette, no different from a female gangster boss, "He's already remarried, what does he have to do with me…"
The hospital where Chen Zheng worked was a tertiary hospital*, and its scale was considered one of the largest in Tianjin. Zhang Yicheng saw Chen Zheng's name on the bulletin board in the lobby of the outpatient building. It seemed that Chen Zheng had done quite well over the years and had become a signature expert in the hospital. In the inpatient department of the oncology department, the uncle and nephew saw Chen Zheng, who was checking the ward with an intern.
"Doctor Chen, I'm from the Municipal Education Bureau!" Zhang Guoyi handed over a business card with a smile, "Can I have a word with you?"
"Oh! Mr. Zhang…" Chen Zheng took the business card and shook hands with Zhang Guoyi symbolically, "What can I do for you?"
"It's like this, not long ago there was a kid named Zhu Huanyu, I heard he was your patient…" To be honest, Zhang Guoyi is also very handsome. After living for so many years, there are really few people who can call him "Teacher Zhang" from the bottom of their hearts.
"You guys…" Chen Zheng's face immediately became unnatural when he heard the three words Zhu Huanyu. He then muttered a few words to the intern behind him, and brought Zhang Guoyi and his nephew to the outpatient duty room. "This child has been gone for several months. Why are you asking him?"
"Doctor Chen, if you are a doctor, you must have heard some legends about ghosts and gods when you were in college, right?" Zhang Yichen did not mention Zhu Huanyu's matter, but started from the side.
"What does this have to do with Zhu Huanyu?" Chen Zheng was confused.
"What if I tell you that at least 50% of those legends are true?" Zhang Yichen smiled mysteriously.
"Teacher Zhang, if there is nothing else, I'll leave first. There are a few patients over there…" Chen Zheng smiled and was about to leave the room.
"Doctor Chen!" Zhang Yicheng grabbed Chen Zheng's arm, "We came all the way to see you, it's not a joke!" Zhang Yicheng used the most concise language to recount the experience of Ou Jinyang's family and his visit to Zhu Yufen, "'Why haven't you come yet?' This is the only sentence Zhu Huanyu said after he turned into a ghost. Aunt Zhu also had such a dream! If you have any impression, I hope you can tell us some clues!"
"Why haven't you come yet?" Chen Zheng's face suddenly trembled, and his hand that was already grasping the door handle withdrew as if he had been electrocuted, "This… this…"
"What's wrong?" Zhang Yichen asked hurriedly.
"This is… Huanyu's last words before he died!" Chen Zheng's expression was almost distorted, "This… let's talk about it somewhere else!" After that, Chen Zheng pulled Zhang Guoyi out of the inpatient department and went straight to his office.
"Huanyu is a good kid…" After closing the door, Chen Zheng sat down on the chair, "His heart is as pure as the sea! Just like his mother!" As soon as this sentence came out, Zhang Guoyi and Zhang Yicheng got goose bumps at the same time. They didn't expect that Chen Zheng also had a poet complex. Not to mention Zhu Huanyu, at least his mother Zhu Yufen, the woman with disheveled hair and smoking rings, didn't seem as pure as he said…
According to Chen Zheng, he and Zhu Yufen had not been in contact for many years. Later, Zhu Yufen suddenly found him and hoped to save her son. Although the two divorced because of the child, many years have passed and the anger should have subsided. Moreover, no matter how big a mistake his mother made, the child was innocent. So Chen Zheng promised Zhu Yufen that he would do his best to treat Zhu Huanyu's illness.
As far as Zhu Huanyu's condition is concerned, the best treatment is a bone marrow transplant. Due to his special status as the director of the department, once a suitable bone marrow match is found, Zhu Huanyu will definitely be the first to get it. But unfortunately, Zhu Huanyu's bone marrow is too different. Not only does it not match all the relatives of Zhu Yufen's family, even the stock in the bone marrow bank is not compatible. Helplessly, Chen Zheng can only watch Zhu Huanyu's condition deteriorate day by day. Although he has used the best drugs and the most advanced equipment, everything is in vain without suitable bone marrow.
"Until one day, the head nurse gave me a test report about Huanyu. I knew that this child didn't have much time left. Even with a matching bone marrow, he couldn't be saved…" Chen Zheng sighed, "At that time, I concluded that he had at most a month to live, so I went to accompany him every day, chat with him, and give him some gifts. Later, I asked him if he had any wishes, and I would help him realize them. As a result, he told me… he wanted to find a wife…"
"Him? Looking for a wife…" Zhang Yicheng was stunned, thinking that this kid was too forward-thinking… When I was in the second grade of junior high school, my biggest wish was to buy a pager, but this kid actually wanted a wife…
"Hmm…" Chen Zheng said, "He said I was the best person in the world to him, so he asked me if I could help him find a wife…"
"Did you promise him?" Zhang Yichen had a strange look on his face, thinking to himself, as someone who has received a formal higher education, you wouldn't condone your child's premature love, right?
"He asked me this, and it reminded me of someone…" Chen Zheng said, "I didn't agree to it at first, because I couldn't lie to a dying child. I had to confirm the possibility of this before I agreed to it…"
According to Chen Zheng's recollection, about five years ago, when he had not yet been promoted to director, he met a man named Guo Mingzhong through a medical representative. This man originally drove a car for a crematorium. Later, by chance, he introduced two deceased people to form a "yin relationship" and received a bribe of 2,000 yuan. At that time, the average salary of ordinary people was only one or two hundred yuan, so Guo Mingzhong simply quit his job as a driver and took up the job of "yin relationship introducer" full-time.
To be honest, the demand for "yinqin" among city dwellers is not very great, and most of the demand is in rural areas, and they have no regrets about spending a lot of money on such things. For Guo Mingzhong, buyers are not a problem, the biggest problem lies in the "source of supply", especially for oncologists like Chen Zheng, whom Guo Mingzhong knows many times, and the commission he offers is very tempting. In an era when a pound of eggs could be bought for fifty cents, Guo Mingzhong offered a high price of "three thousand for introducing one household, five hundred for failing".
"He came to the hospital to look for me, but I felt that life has dignity and we cannot trade the lives of patients…" Chen Zheng said, "So I didn't agree to his request…"
"So, you want to ask him to help Zhu Huanyu find a wife?" Zhang Yichen had already guessed what was going on.
"Yes!" Chen Zheng said, "I promised Huanyu, but given Huanyu's condition at the time, I can only wait until he passes away before getting married, because I can't tell him about his illness. I can only say that when you recover, your uncle will definitely help you find a beautiful wife!"
"I think Zhu Huanyu's wish to find a wife is related to his mother telling him about his life story…" Zhang Guoyi pouted and said seriously, "From the perspective of educational psychology, it should be like this…"
"Later, Guo Mingzhong sent me a photo and asked me to ask the family members if they were satisfied. He said the girl in the photo was from Cangzhou, Hebei, and was sixteen years old. She was not dead yet, but she would die in a day or two. After hearing what he said, I showed the photo to Huanyu and said this was the wife that my uncle had found for me. Huanyu was very happy…"
"Photos?" Zhang Yicheng was stunned. "Do you still have them now?"
"Yes!" Chen Zheng opened the drawer, took out a photo from a magazine and handed it to Zhang Yicheng. "When Huanyu was dying, she kept holding my hand and asked me why she hadn't come yet? Why hadn't she come yet? So when you said that, I immediately remembered this incident…"
"Wow…" Holding the photo handed over by Chen Zheng, Zhang Yicheng couldn't believe his eyes. Judging from the environment, this photo should have been taken secretly by Guo Mingzhong's "insider" doctor in the intensive care unit. Although the girl in the photo had a swollen face and was plugged into an oxygen tube, her eyebrows and facial features were exactly like Ou Yingying. No wonder Zhu Huanyu would stick to Ou Yingying so persistently. It turned out that the crux of the problem was this… "Uncle, look at this girl…"
"Similar…so similar…" After taking the photo, Zhang Guoyi nodded continuously.
"Uncle, although Uncle Ou and Zhu Yufen are innocent, could he have gone to Cangzhou, Hebei to sow seeds?" Zhang Yicheng put his mouth close to Zhang Guoyi's ear, "Otherwise, how could they look so similar?"
"You little bastard, why don't you think about serious things…?" Zhang Guoyi was also helpless. "The imitation show on TV now, many people look so much like those Hong Kong and Taiwan stars. Could it be that the fathers of those stars have also come to the mainland to conceive?"
"What's this child's name? What happened to her later?" Zhang Yichen pointed at the girl in the photo.
“I don’t know…” Chen Zheng shook his head. “Regarding this matter, Guo Mingzhong asked me for 50,000 yuan, and later on it was reduced to 35,000 yuan. How could he tell me the name of the child before I got the money?… Later, when Huanyu was dying, I called Guo Mingzhong and asked him how things were going and whether he had informed the girl’s family. He told me that everything was going well and asked me to contact him after Huanyu passed away. But after Huanyu really passed away, I couldn’t contact this person no matter what. I thought the girl was discharged from the hospital or the family didn’t agree, so I didn’t contact them again. I don’t know what happened to the girl later…”
"So the matter is over?" Zhang Yichen frowned.
"I don't want to break my promise, but I have no choice. I only know Guo Mingzhong among people in this field…" Chen Zheng seemed a little embarrassed. "I am trying my best to find one now… but there has never been a death case of an unmarried woman in the department. If there is one, I will definitely talk to the patient's family about it…"
"This is not a matter of breaking a promise…" Zhang Yicheng said, "We've been to Zhu Huanyu's school, and the teacher said that this kid has a strange personality and rarely speaks his mind to others. Since he's willing to talk to you, it means he trusts you too much, and the photo you gave him is already deeply rooted in his mind, so…"
"So what?" Chen Zheng's expression seemed a little unnatural.
"It has to be her!" Zhang Yichen sighed, "Even if you find another girl to marry this boy, it will be useless. It has to be her…"
"Young man, what exactly do you do? A Feng Shui master?" Looking at the well-spoken boy in front of him, Chen Zheng suddenly became curious.
"It's hard to explain to you right now…" Zhang Yicheng smiled, "But I hope you don't think too much about me and think I'm one of those people who are cheating under the guise of being a half-immortal…"
"Yicheng, I suddenly realized something…" Zhang Guoyi was a little impatient, "What if this girl is not dead? Do we have to kill her with a knife and carry her back?"
"It will be easy if she is not dead…" Zhang Yicheng said, "As long as we can get something from her, her head, her nails, even her clothes, it will be fine! Now the key issue is to find this person…" After that, Zhang Yicheng handed the photo to Zhang Guoyi, "Uncle, you should be connected to the education network of other provinces and cities, right? Check her background…"
"Please stop it…" Zhang Guoyi was about to collapse, "It's just a sick photo, and even the Public Security Bureau can't check it. How can you let me check it?"
"What should we do?" Zhang Yicheng was stunned. "We can't bother Uncle Liu with this kind of thing, right?"
"It's no use bothering him…" Zhang Guoyi curled his lips…
"I have a way…!" The uncle and nephew were arguing, and Chen Zheng suddenly interrupted, "I will find a way to find Guo Mingzhong…!"
"Didn't you say you couldn't get in touch with me?" Zhang Yichen was stunned.
"Yes…" Chen Zheng nodded, "But the medical representative who introduced him to me called me yesterday. They are relatives, so they should be able to find him…"
He looked for someone right away. Chen Zheng took out the phone book and searched for someone. Then he picked up the phone on the table and started dialing. "Hello, is this Xiao Su? Yes, it's me. I need your help with something. I need to find Guo Mingzhong, the person you introduced to me before. But I can't get through to the number he left me. Can you help me contact him… Oh… OK, I'll wait for your news… By the way, how long will it take? Oh… OK…" Chen Zheng nodded at Zhang Yicheng while talking on the phone, implying that there was a play. Less than three minutes after he hung up the phone, the phone number of "Xiao Su"… The call came back. Picking up the receiver, Chen Zheng's brows immediately frowned, "What… ? Well, give me the address, I'll find a pen later, um… OK, go ahead…" Chen Zheng began to take notes with a pen while on the phone, and soon he wrote down two long lists of addresses, "The medical representative couldn't be contacted either. He said his cell phone was turned off and no one answered the phone at home. This is his home address and his father's home address. There's no telephone at his father's house, but his parents should be there…" After hanging up the phone, Chen Zheng handed the note to Zhang Guoyi.
"Cangzhou?" Zhang Guoyi was also stunned when he saw the note.
"Guo Mingzhong is from Cangzhou…" Chen Zheng said.
"Uncle, tomorrow is Saturday, we don't have classes!" Upon hearing that they were going out of town, Zhang Yichen immediately broke into a sly smile.
"Well… I've already done the thirty-six bows, so I don't care about this one…" Zhang Guoyi sighed and put the note in his pocket.
"Uncle Chen, thank you! We will withdraw first! You go about your business…" Zhang Yichen stood up, shook hands with Chen Zheng, and was about to go out while pulling Zhang Guoyi.
"Wait…" Chen Zheng quickly stood up from his chair, "Are you going to look for him tomorrow?"
"Yeah…" Zhang Yichen nodded.
"I have a surgery tomorrow morning, which will probably be until 11am. Can you wait for me?"
"Okay!" Zhang Yicheng was also very happy when he heard that Chen Zheng wanted to go with him. After all, if he had an acquaintance going, it would be easier to explain even if he met Guo Mingzhong. Moreover, if Guo Mingzhong asked for money, there would be someone to pay the bill…
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*Grade 3A hospital: a third-class Grade A hospital. my country's current "Regulations on Hospital Grading Management" divides hospitals into three levels, each of which is further divided into two grades, Grade A and Grade B. Grade 3A hospitals are the ones with the highest technical level and the most complete department settings.