Chapter 562: [562] It turns out not to be the thief Chapter 562: [562] It turns out not to be the thief Hu Zhenfan pondered for a moment and then said to Xie Wanying, “The thief you think of had a thirty-centimeter-long knife hidden on him. When our police station colleagues arrived at the scene after receiving the emergency call from your hospital, they almost got stabbed by his knife while opening the door. Therefore, this case is obviously no longer a simple theft. It has been transferred to the municipal bureau’s criminal investigation team.”
“Do you mean he came to our hospital not to steal but to murder?” Xie Wanying was completely stunned after hearing this. “But I don’t know him at all.”
“After days and nights of interrogation by my colleagues, we learned that he was definitely stalking you, and he had been doing so for several days. You might not have noticed because you were busy with work. That night, when he saw you come out, he knew it was an opportunity to act.”
“I don’t know him. Why would he want to kill me?”
“Didn’t you notice someone dropping an envelope before?”
That person could not possibly be Zhang Tinghai, she knew it by his breathing. What was going on? Xie Wanying became even more puzzled.
“He suspected that you were protecting corrupt medical staff, so he wanted to kill you.”
“I’m protecting corrupt personnel? The problem is that the envelope wasn’t a red packet!” Xie Wanying emphasized while thinking to herself how a rumors can indeed be terrifying. Luckily, she hadn’t mentioned that it was Doctor Zhang at the time. Otherwise, Doctor Zhang would now be unable to clear his name from the rumors.
“You say it wasn’t, but he believed it was. We also asked him where he got the evidence to think so. He had no evidence, yet he certainly had a motive. After our repeated questioning, we found out that his father had originally wanted to be admitted to Guoxie for surgery and had waited a long time without being able to get a bed, and eventually had to undergo surgery at another hospital. The surgery didn’t go well, and his father was on his deathbed. He heard that the reason Guoxie’s doctors didn’t arrange for his father to be admitted was because they’d only arrange a bed for a red packet. He thus believed that it was the people at Guoxie taking red packets who caused his father’s death.”
“If that’s the case, shouldn’t he have gone to question the doctor who treated his father for an explanation? Why come after me?” Xie Wanying wondered.
“He sent an anonymous letter of accusation to your hospital’s dean.” The policewoman interrupted to add information. “The evidence in the letter was fabricated. Your hospital investigated, but because he wrote nonsense, nothing came of it. Just when it coincidentally emerged that you appeared to be protecting corrupt personnel, he became anxious and wanted to use a knife–”
“To threaten me, to make me reveal who was taking bribes?” Xie Wanying finally understood what was going on and felt helpless. “The problem is, nobody took bribes. If he hadn’t used a knife to threaten me and had simply asked me directly, I might have been able to help him ask the doctor why he didn’t arrange for his father to be admitted initially. But there are many patients in Guoxie, and it’s very normal that his father couldn’t get a bed due to the ward being full. What illness did his father have?”
This matter involved the privacy of another department and other medical staff. Hu Zhenfan and the two officers remained silent temporarily.
Xie Wanying understood and didn’t ask any further.
“Now you need to come with me to the municipal bureau to identify whether it was him that night,” Hu Zhenfan told her the purpose of his visit that day.
“But I didn’t get a chance to see what he looked like that night,” Xie Wanying said.
“Can you recognize his voice?”
After deciding to follow the police to deal with the matter, Xie Wanying called her second senior sister.
Unexpectedly, He Xiangyu suddenly pushed open the fire door and said to them, “I’ll go with her!”
“Have you been hiding there listening?” Hu Zhenfan turned and frowned at her in displeasure.