Chapter 1: The Office's Unspoken Rules...

  Yang Zongbao found that the knocking sound outside the door had stopped at some point. The entire autopsy room was packed with people, led by a bespectacled man who looked very capable, and Xiang Shaohua was being held up by two men behind him.

  The man wearing glasses found out that Yang Zongbao had seen him and gestured with his hand to one side.

  Yang Zongbao followed his finger and saw a phone.

  Yang Zongbao walked over and picked it up.

  "Your actions have already violated the law, now open the door immediately, we can let it go." A man's calm voice came from the other end of the phone.

  Yang Zongbao looked at the bespectacled man in front of him, made an unexpected move, didn't say a word, flipped him off and hung up the phone without saying another word.

  "I'm telling you, young man, you're too arrogant." The old man kept his head down and continued working, but that didn't mean he wasn't aware of the dynamics in the entire dissection room.

  "Look at that person with disapproval." Yang Zongbao leaned over to the old man's side, watching as the old man opened up the corpse's chest cavity a few times.

  The body was still somewhat preserved, but it couldn't withstand the passage of so many days and had begun to rot. The smell wasn't very good. But this rotten vegetable-like odor didn't seem to affect the two people. Mr. Yu himself didn't mind because he had experienced such things before, but he hadn't expected Yang Zongbao to be so tolerant either, and he couldn't help but look at him with newfound respect.

  "We must hurry up, I'm afraid they will cut off our electricity." said the old man.

  "It's okay, I took a picture with my phone." Yang Zongbao held up his phone and aimed it at the old man's palm.

  "What about your broken phone? My old man wouldn't even look at it. Can you still complete this high-tech task?" The old man didn't even glance at him.

  "It's not mine, I just got off the bus and handed it to your grandson." Yang Zongbao said this without any self-awareness, as if it was a normal thing, making Old Master Yu feel suffocated in his heart. His hands also became much heavier.

  "Be careful, or your heart will be crushed." Yang Zongbao muttered around the old man.

  "What about Yang Fa?" asked the man next to the bespectacled man.

  "What's going on? It seems like it's Old Master Yu in there." The man with the eyes asked seriously, looking at everything displayed on the screen outside.

  "It's nothing big, just an autopsy. The results are already out, the person inside broke regulations and even laws. Yang Fa, you have to stop it quickly."

  "What's the hurry? I didn't know about this autopsy... Could it be..." Yang Fa looked at Zhang Shu Gen, the man beside him, with a puzzled expression. This man was all too familiar, usually making some extra money on the side, and he would turn a blind eye. The water in the pool can't be too clear, or else it's not good for raising fish. But that had its limits, he didn't know why this time he had offended Old Master Yu from inside. Zhang Shu Gen might not recognize him, but all the old-timers who had worked here for some years knew Old Master Yu. In the past, he was the top forensic doctor here. Originally, someone who studied traditional Chinese medicine shouldn't have been qualified to be a forensic doctor... But Old Master Yu had spanned across two fields. He understood the human body better than Western doctors who studied forensic science..."

  "Nothing, I really didn't do anything. They're just making a big deal out of nothing, looking for trouble. I'm going to go tell the security guard to chase them away." Zhang Shugen was still defending himself. But the beads of sweat on his forehead betrayed him, and the implication was too strong.

  "No need, nothing will happen after a few hours." Yang Fa stopped Zhang Shugen who was about to call security, staring intently at the screen.

  The two people inside seemed to know exactly where the problem was and went straight for the heart. The heart was soon exposed in its entirety under the old man's hands. The old man carefully cut open the wall of the heart...

  Yang Fa's pupils suddenly contracted, and he glared at Zhang Shugeng fiercely. Just now, Xiang Shaohua had handed him an autopsy report. The cause of death on it was overdose of anesthesia leading to death. But just now, what he saw on the screen was a change in the internal structure of the heart, which was not mentioned in the report. If it were an ordinary person who discovered this point, it would be understandable, but if it were Old Yu...

  Thinking of this, Yang Fa picked up the phone again and dialed in.

  Yu Laozhang was putting the heart back into the chest cavity after proving the real cause of death: "I said that Provincial Hospital is really dark."

  Yang Zongbao didn't say a word, he just stared at the patient's eyes that remained open, unsure of what he was thinking.

  The deceased's eyes had long lost their pre-mortem luster, covered with a white membrane. However, from the moment of death, they had never closed. This is what "dying with one's eyes open" means, I suppose.

  "Don't think about it anymore, thinking too much will lead to mental obstacles." The old man saw that Yang Zongbao's eyes were not right, and hurriedly covered the deceased's eyes: "Wake up, sometimes you have to face such situations."

  Yang Zongbao finally let out a sigh and said, "Originally I thought saving lives and treating injuries was a doctor's duty, but I didn't expect that quack doctors can indeed be murderous. In the past, I firmly believed that hospital procedures and regulations were all for ensuring patient safety and hospital operations. But I forgot, these are all carried out by people."

  "What did you want to say?" Old Master Yu felt that Yang Zongbao seemed to have something to say.

  "My point is that if the person performing it can be strictly trained, then the incidence of such accidental deaths can be minimized..."

  "We'll talk about this later," said the old man as he walked over to answer the phone.

  "Old Master Yu." Yang Fa said.

  "What's wrong, Dr. Yang?" The old man pretended to be confused.

  "I think on this matter, we can exchange opinions, don't make a big fuss."

  The old man stared at Yang Fa for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Little Yang, after all these years, you guys still haven't changed. Of course we can discuss it, just reissue the report. The cause of death is cardiac organic change."

  "Good." Yang Fa responded readily.

  "But..." Zhang Shugeng seemed to have something to say.

  "No buts about it, I'm in charge here." Yang Fa cut off Zhang Shugeng's next words and forced them back down.

  "Then let's go." Old Master Yu shook Yang Zongbao's phone and said: "It's all recorded."

  As soon as the door opened, a security guard stood at the entrance, staring fiercely.

  "I forgot to mention that I've already uploaded it to the cloud, so even if you smash my phone now, it's useless." Yang Zongbao followed behind the old man, walking with a carefree attitude.

  "Yang Fa, are we just going to let them off like this?" Zhang Shugeng gritted his teeth in hatred.

  "They're letting you off easy this time. You can't even wipe your own butt, so try not to get into this kind of trouble again. What's your relationship with the surgeon who operated on this patient?" Yang Fa asked.

  "What's the big deal? There's no relationship at all." Zhang Shugen's eyes flickered.

  Yang Fa didn't say anything, he just let out a cold hum: "There's no best."

  "I'll redo the report." Xiang Shao Hua volunteered.

  "Are you trying to get credit at this time? Flattery is not done like that. If it weren't for what happened today, things wouldn't have turned out like this." Zhang Shugeng still resented Xiang Shaohua for letting Yu Lao into the house.

  "Alright, what's the commotion? Xiang Fa, go file a report." Yang Fa interrupted the two men's argument, rubbing his temples. In the middle of the night, being pulled out from under the blankets would leave anyone without energy.

  "Did you really upload it online?"

  After the two walked out of the center, the old man asked intentionally.

  "Of course it's true, did you think I was lying?"

  "I didn't think you were so clever."

  "Thank you."

  "Uh..."

  "Are you back?" Yu Tie Nan saw the two coming out, hastily opened the car door to let them get in, and started the engine: "Just now a lot of people came, I'm not stupid enough to think it wasn't you who made trouble, speak up. What's going on?"

  Yu Tiernan was eager to know what had happened, but the two people sitting in the back didn't say a word. Yu Tiernan saw from the rearview mirror that they were each looking out of their respective windows, lost in thought.

  No way, Yu Tie Nan sighed and stepped on the accelerator.

  Before reaching home, Yang Zongbao received a call. The general meaning is to go to the hospital tomorrow for final negotiations. Yang Zongbao naturally expressed that he would go.

  Hung up the phone, got off the bus. Found a white figure standing at the door. Mei Wenxin's face was purple from the cold, and she kept taking small steps to warm herself up. When she saw Yang Zongbao get off the bus, she hurriedly went forward to support him.

  Yang Zongbao felt the hands grasping his arm, and through the thick cotton-padded jacket, a chill was transmitted, knowing that Mei Wenxin had been standing at the door for more than a moment.

  "Warmly waiting for you at the door for a long time." Zhang Lanfeng said with relish.

  But Yang Zongbao didn't say a word and was directly led inside by Mei Wenxi.

  Zhang Lanfeng did not expect Yang Zongbao to have no reaction at all, and for a moment he didn't know how to react. It wasn't until Mei Wenshen walked by him and gave him a fierce stare that he realized he was being overly sensitive.

  "He is staying here by himself and doesn't know what's wrong with him."

  Entering the house, Mei Wenxin had already warmed up a basin of water inside. After letting Yang Zongbao sit down, she squeezed out a towel and gently wiped his face with it. This task had been repeated for over 10 days in the past. But today, Yang Zongbao took the towel himself.

  Mei Wenxin was taken aback for a moment, her face slightly darkened, but she immediately lifted up her gentle little face again, waiting for Yang Zongbao to finish using the towel before taking it over herself.

  "Don't waste yourself in the future, even if you freeze to death outside, I won't have any guilt."

  "Ah?" Mei Wenxin didn't expect Yang Zongbao to say that, and in an instant her eyes were filled with tears.

  "You can wait until you hear the sound of the car engine and then go out, so you'll be a bit warmer."

  "Huh?"

  Mei Wenxin did not expect that Yang Zongbao would suddenly change the subject, although the next sentence completely explained that the previous words were of concern, but the huge emotional shift still made Mei Wenxin's face slide down two lines of tears.

  "Sorry." Mei Wenxin wiped away her constantly falling tears with the towel in her hand, apologizing repeatedly.

  "It's been a tiring day, let's go rest." Yang Zongbao sighed.

  "I'm... " Mei Wēn xìng was about to say she wasn't tired, but after seeing Yang Zōngbǎo's gaze, her answer immediately changed: "Mm."

  Yang Zongbao was left alone in the room and dialed a phone number.

  "Master..." Zhou Yi said on the other end of the phone.

  "Ah, thank you."

  "Don't see outsiders. You are my master, and it's only right that I should do something for you, but I'm afraid my good days are over." Zhou Yi said with a self-deprecating smile.

  "It's all right, this matter is settled, you just come with me."

  "Where are you going?" Zhou Yi asked in pursuit.

  "What's with all these questions? You should focus on learning English first."

  ……

  Zhou Yi hung up the phone and fell into a daze. He didn't understand where Yang Zongbao was going? This time, he secretly broke into the hospital and saw the autopsy results. When the hospital showed the autopsy results to the patient's family, Zhou Yi took the opportunity to grab them and run away. Of course, in the end, he was still caught and is now being confined at home by his own family.