Chapter 566: [(566)] The truth has arrived Chapter 566: [(566)] The truth has arrived “It’s ,” facing a group of doctors whose anger had been provoked, Section Chief Wang felt the situation turning dire. He couldn’t remain seated, so he stood up to explain, “Let me clarify the situation. Officer Hu and her are quite familiar; they’re said to be friends. She didn’t go to our city bureau to be jailed or to be harmed. She’s there to identify a criminal, but she doesn’t need to face the criminal directly. She can recognize the person through a monitor screen.”
It seemed his words cooled the doctors down a bit. But then someone else came in.
“She was taken away in a police car,” Tao Zhijie said as he entered the office.
The imagery of this statement instantly reignited the fire over the heads of the group.
“She hasn’t done anything wrong, why did you have to take her away in a police car!”
“Police cars are not only for transporting criminals, but also for protecting witnesses,” Section Chief Wang countered.
“The others who saw it don’t know the full story. How do you expect people not to misunderstand her?” the group of doctors challenged.
“Yes, yes, yes, if anyone starts rumors about her later, we policemen will actively help her clarify, alright?” Section Chief Wang said, growing increasingly parched and weary, having said all he could.
“Everyone calm down,” Director Yang stood in the middle, trying to ease the situation, “Let’s first hear Section Chief Wang explain the ins and outs of the whole matter.”
Those who had arrived had heard bits and pieces of what Hu Zhenfan and Xie Wanying had said.
There were only two doubts remaining in the affair: first, whose envelope Xie Wanying had seen drop. This might require asking Xie Wanying herself, or for that person to come forward.
Upon hearing that his student stubbornly wanted to protect the other party, Tan Kelin deeply admired Student Xie’s uncompromising stance.
“She won’t speak?” Zhijie asked him.
“Right, she said that it’s not right for someone’s private matters to be exposed because of this accident. Everyone has a right to privacy,” Tan Kelin stated. It had to be acknowledged that Xie Wanying was right in this consideration.
The room fell silent for a moment, realizing just how difficult it must be for a girl to maintain such staunch principles.
“Creak,” the office door opened a crack.
Director Yang adjusted his glasses to get a better look at the person peeking through the door: “Doctor Zhang?”
Zhang Tinghai was concerned about Xie Wanying and had come running over?
All eyes, filled with surprise, turned back to Zhang Tinghai’s face, yet rumors had long circulated that he strongly disliked Xie Wanying.
Zhang Tinghai, addressing their questions, admitted, “The envelope was mine.”
A chorus of astonished voices ensued.
Everyone believed it: Xie Wanying had not lied, she really wasn’t friends with that person, and there was no way she would cover for a criminal.
“I had no idea she kept silent for this reason,” conflict flashed across Zhang Tinghai’s face.
“Speak clearly, Doctor Zhang,” Director Yang approached him to inquire, “What exactly was in that envelope? People said you looked very nervous when you dropped the envelope.”
Apparently, the hospital leadership had heard about the incident and, lacking evidence, did not investigate further. The hospital could not simply suspect an employee either.
“The envelope contained a subpoena from the local court for my father, which I collected for him. He had become a guarantor for a friend years ago, and that ungrateful friend fled, leaving all the debts to him. My father was greatly distressed by this, and now I am the one managing his debts. I’m not affected, really; my main concern is that if he finds out, he might think he’s burdening me, his son, and contemplate suicide,” Zhang Tinghai explained.
Everyone’s faces showed the same complexity that Zhang Tinghai’s did: who could have thought that while she stood firm on her principles, she was in effect staking her life to guarantee another’s, inadvertently protecting the life of another person.