Great Doctor Without Borders

Chapter 1378: Justice
Xu Chunliang nodded: "It's not just for him. You are my big brother and Xuedong is my apprentice. I can't stay out of this for both emotional and logical reasons."

Fu Guomin said: "Thank you for your concern, but you are not the person involved after all, you can't understand my pain."

Xu Chunliang said: "I can understand. No one would swallow this insult."

Fu Guomin said: "I am still very pleased to hear you say this."

Xu Chunliang said: "Brother Fu, I came to see you not to speak for anyone, but just to clarify a few things."

"You said."

"Would you mind telling me what kind of result you want?"

Fu Guomin said: "I will make all those who hurt me pay the price they deserve."

Xu Chunliang said, "Excuse me for being blunt, but even if you don't make any compromises, the medical staff involved in this incident will at most be demoted, and you can only get compensation within the prescribed range if you go through the formal legal procedures."

Fu Guomin said: "Chunliang, you are still on their side after all. You are pleading for them."

Xu Chunliang wanted to explain that he was not pleading for anyone, but wanted to persuade him to deal with the problem rationally.

Fu Guomin stopped him: "Listen to me. I am not fighting for personal gain. I know exactly what I want to do. I will not target a few medical staff. I am targeting Changxing Hospital. Everyone knows that it was Changxing Hospital that caused my family's tragedy. I don't want to get any huge compensation from Changxing, but I can make Changxing Hospital pay a heavy loss. The manager of Changxing Hospital at that time was Gu Houyi, who should bear the main responsibility. I want to bring him and those directly involved to ruin."

Xu Chunliang felt Fu Guomin's heartfelt hatred at close range, and he had nothing to say about it. Fu Guomin had indeed suffered too much harm in this incident.

Fu Guomin said: "I know why you are pleading for Gu Houyi. Gu Houyi is now the director of Changshan Hospital, and you are the major shareholder of Changshan Hospital. The relationship between you has always been good."

Xu Chunliang nodded.

Fu Guomin said: "You are worried that my revenge on him will affect your own interests."

Xu Chunliang said, "Brother Fu, I didn't consider my own interests. Any rational person knows that Changshan Hospital has nothing to do with this matter. I won't hide it from you. Before coming here, I met Director Gu. He felt deeply guilty about what happened that year, and he is willing to apologize to you in person."

Fu Guomin sneered, "Is an apology enough? Can an apology make up for the 17 years of family affection that our family has lost? Can an apology make my son's lost kidney grow back? I want him to apologize publicly, I want him to be ruined!"

Xu Chunliang sighed inwardly, thinking that killing is not the right path. If Fu Guomin insisted on doing this, the good reputation that Gu Houyi had accumulated for most of his life would be ruined. What's more troublesome is that he would be condemned by thousands of people, which would be too much of a blow to Gu Houyi who was over 60 years old.

Xu Chunliang asked cautiously: "Brother Fu, have you ever thought about what you can gain from this?"

Fu Guomin said: "I want justice."

Xu Chunliang said, "Brother Fu, Director Gu is currently in charge of the Mulan Group's investment in a new hospital project. Upon learning of this, the Mulan Group is willing to give Gu Houyi a compensation of 5 million."

Fu Guomin's eyes turned cold as he looked at Xu Chunliang.

Xu Chunliang said, "Brother Fu, they don't mean anything else. They just want you to withdraw your request for Director Gu to apologize publicly. Director Gu also promised to apologize to you and your family in person."

Fu Guomin said, "Five million is indeed not a small amount, but compared to the pain my family has suffered, compared to the childhood and kidney my son has lost, it is really insignificant. Xu Chunliang, I tell you clearly, let alone five million, even if it is fifty million or five hundred million, it will not change my mind. I must have an explanation, and I will definitely bring disgrace to Gu Houyi and his gang."

Xu Chunliang felt a chill in his heart. He didn't understand why Fu Guomin targeted Gu Houyi. Five million was already a lot of money. Even if a lawsuit was filed, the final compensation amount of Changxing Hospital would not exceed this amount. They gave five million just to hope that Fu Guomin would show mercy to Gu Houyi. There was no point in him pursuing a retired dean.

The waiter started serving the food, but Xu Chunliang no longer had any interest in eating.

Fu Guomin said to him bluntly: "Don't come to me in the future. My affairs have nothing to do with you. Family is my bottom line. I won't give face to anyone."

Xu Chunliang still made one last effort: "Brother Fu, have you ever thought about what the consequences will be if the impact of this incident expands? Have you ever thought about Xuedong's feelings?"

Fu Guomin looked across at Xu Chunliang through the steam rising from the casserole: "You've never had a child, so you don't know what blood ties are. No emotion can override blood ties. I admit that I have feelings for Xuedong. After all, I raised him for seventeen years. But when I found out that Xiaopeng is my biological son, all my feelings shifted to him. I owe him, not Xuedong. He is someone else's son!"

Xu Chunliang was speechless. He did not believe Fu Guomin's words. Fu Guomin was obviously controlled by hatred. His rationality was only superficial. Xu Chunliang asked, "Brother Fu, is it possible to resolve this peacefully?"

Fu Guomin shook his head: "No!"

The situation continued to develop in an uncontrollable direction. The provincial TV station has sent a special reporting team to Dongzhou for interviews and reporting, and this time it is cooperating with CCTV's "Focus" program.

Fu Guomin was removed from his post at the Dongzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau because he suffered a setback on CCTV's "Focus" program. He got up from where he fell. It is said that this time Fu Guomin took the initiative to provide materials to the "Focus" program.

Zhao Xiaohui was the first to get the news. She consulted the Taiwan leadership and wanted to get the first-hand news, but was directly rejected by the leadership.

Dongzhou TV has always been cautious about local hot news. This kind of news is extremely popular. Once public opinion is formed, the first thing to be affected is Changxing Hospital, and it may even affect Dongzhou's entire health system and even affect Dongzhou's overall image.

On the night when Xu Chunliang and Fu Guomin met, CCTV's "Focus" program and the provincial TV station's "People's Heart" program simultaneously broadcast the incident of the wrong baby being taken away more than ten years ago.

Almost no one expected the news to be exposed so quickly. According to past experience in dealing with such matters, it usually takes back-and-forth negotiations between the two parties, and this step will only be taken if no agreement is reached.

The news exposure can certainly push the parties involved and Changxing Hospital into the spotlight of public opinion and become the target of public condemnation, but it will also have an impact on the victim's family headed by Fu Guomin. The most direct impact is economic compensation. If the victim's family chooses to make appropriate concessions, they can definitely get more cash compensation. After the news exposure, it is obvious that both parties have no room for maneuver and can only handle it through legal procedures.

With dual reports from the provincial TV station and CCTV, public opinion quickly fermented. This incident made everyone in the Dongzhou health system feel insecure, with Changxing Hospital being the first to be hit. No new patients were admitted to the obstetrics ward of Changxing Hospital that day, and the pregnant women who were already hospitalized strongly demanded to be discharged or transferred to another hospital immediately.

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Zhao Feiyang's phone kept ringing, half of them were from within the hospital reporting on the situation, and the other half were from major media outlets requesting interviews.

Zhao Feiyang was mentally prepared for this and did not reject any calls. Avoidance would not solve the problem. When facing the media who wanted to interview him, he diverted the conflict with a few words. This incident happened seventeen years ago. He was not in Changxing Hospital at the time and he was not clear about the specific situation.

Major media outlets soon found out that the director of Changxing Hospital at the time was Gu Houyi, and their target turned to the old director.

Late at night, Gu Houyi was sitting in his study, his cell phone kept ringing, but he didn't answer any of the calls. He learned about the latest developments of the incident through his tablet. The more he read, the more upset he became. This was an unprecedented storm of public opinion, and for the first time, he felt unable to cope with it.

His wife Xie Mei sat beside him, wiping her tears silently. The young couple had been companions for years, and she was deeply worried about her husband's situation.

She finally couldn't help but said, "Turn off your phone."

Gu Houyi said: "Open it."

Xie Mei stood up and took the tablet away from him: "Killing people is not enough, what do they want to do!"

Gu Houyi said: "I should indeed take responsibility for what happened back then."

Xie Mei said: "It's true that you were the director of Changxing Hospital back then, but there are so many things going on in the hospital, you can't take care of everything. If something happens in the obstetrics and gynecology department, where is the director? Where are the medical staff involved? Does it mean that the director has to apologize and take responsibility for every incident in the hospital?"

Gu Houyi said: "I should apologize."

Xie Mei said: "They want more than just an apology, they want to destroy your reputation, Lao Gu, let's leave Dongzhou and ignore these troubles, let them make a fuss, the Changxing Hospital should be mainly responsible, why are they holding on to you, the retired dean?"

Gu Houyi grabbed his wife's hand and felt her hand trembling and cold: "Xie Mei, it's okay, you don't have to worry about me, I have been through everything."

Xie Mei said: "I have already promised to apologize to him in person, why does he want to push you to the forefront of public opinion? What does he want?"

Gu Houyi said: "He said he wanted justice, but maybe everyone wants different justice."

Wang Jianming, the top leader of Dongzhou, also learned about the news. He heard it from his wife He Wanying. Because the matter was very popular and He Wanying herself paid special attention to such social news, she told Wang Jianming about it.

After Wang Jianming initially understood the public opinion, he immediately contacted the person in charge of publicity in Dongzhou. He said that such a thing was not scary at all, but what was most scary was to let the incident develop and form public opinion that attracted national attention.

(End of this chapter)