"Hey, that young man with long arms and legs in front of you!" Outside the old community, an old lady stood at the intersection with a few bags of fruits and vegetables and shouted.
The hurried pedestrians did not look back, but the old lady spoke again, "The tall and handsome young man... is not you two ugly guys, he is the one in black clothes."
The two young men who were smiling and wanted to go back to help left with dark faces. Xu Huo turned around and smiled slightly, "Old man, just call me."
The old lady's eyes shone brightly, "Yes, it's you. He's so good-looking and has a good face. He looks like a good guy at first glance. Can you give me a hand and help me carry my things?"
Xu Huo walked over and picked up the things, holding her arm with one hand, "Where does the old man live?"
"The Hongxing Community in front." The old lady held his hand and smiled with wrinkles on her face. "The cart for buying groceries was stolen by some little bastard who lacked great virtue. My old arms were so tired.
I almost broke my waist when I went out to buy groceries."
"There are not many kind-hearted young men like you nowadays. If my grandson is still alive, he will definitely grow to be as tall as you and be as good as you."
"Anyway, there are still a majority of good-hearted people." Xu Huo smiled and said, "I think someone wanted to help you just now."
But the old lady held his hand tightly and said, "I don't care about their bad looks, I care about you. How old is this young man? Is he married? If my granddaughter is still alive, I will introduce it to you. She looks so good.
She is so beautiful. She was a beauty when she was ten years old, and many neighbors wanted to marry her!"
Xu Huo helped her into the community and walked towards the third building under her instruction.
"Young man, I haven't seen you around here. You don't live here, but are you here to visit relatives?" The old lady looked at him lovingly.
"I'm looking for someone. I heard that there is an old professor living in Hongxing Community. Have you heard of him? He is a very famous psychiatrist." Xu Huo asked.
"No!" The old lady threw his hand away, her expression switching back and forth between disgust and smile, then she lowered her back and said, "Oh, I can't walk anymore, I can't climb up to the sixth floor!"
Xu Huo glanced at the elevator that was under maintenance and said, "How about I carry you up?"
"Can you carry it?" The old lady waved her hand, "It's not that I don't know that you young people nowadays can't carry your shoulders or lift them. When outsiders come in, they not only don't help, but also take advantage of it, and they don't like it.
Useless stuff."
She said and gave Xu Huo five yuan, "Go and buy me a bottle of drink outside the community. I want the energy drink that you young people love to drink."
Xu Huo put down his things and walked a short distance away when he heard the old lady calling someone on the phone in a low voice. He smiled slightly and went to the supermarket to buy a drink. When he came back, he happened to meet a little old man on crutches walking beside him.
Walked by.
She reached out and patted his shoulder, "Dean Lin."
"You, you, you got the wrong person. Dean Lin lives in Building Six..." The little old man bent down and stared at the ground to leave.
Xu Huo grabbed his shoulder and said, "I have something to do with you, don't worry."
"You stinky loan shark, get out of here!" The old lady threw the vegetables over and said to the old man: "Old man, run away. I'm too old to believe what they dare to do to me!"
Xu Huo avoided the things, fearing that she would fall, so he pulled her up. However, the old lady sat on the ground and yelled: "Help, loan sharks are bullying the old man!"
Some passers-by not far away seemed not surprised to see this scene, and some had already taken out their phones.
"I'm not a loan shark." Xu Huo said, "Dean Lin, I was treated in your hospital twenty years ago."
The little old man then straightened up and looked at him. After looking at him for a long time, he said, "I remember you. Your name is...Xu...Xu...Xu Huo! You are a very smart boy!"
"It's been twenty years, do you still remember my appearance?" Xu Huo was quite surprised.
"The kids who were admitted to that hospital back then were all very smart. It's hard to forget." The little old man pulled his wife up and patted the dust on her body. "It's okay. This is my old one."
patient."
The old lady smiled again and took Xu Huo's hand. "You are so handsome, young man. If my granddaughter is still alive, she will definitely let you be my grandson-in-law. Are you hungry? I'll cook you two dishes. Come on."
Let’s eat at my house.”
"He came specially to see us, and he definitely wants to eat. You go upstairs to steam the rice first, and we will go up right away." Professor Lin said with a smile.
The old lady left happily.
Professor Lin turned around and said to Xu Huo: "Don't be surprised. My son and daughter-in-law died early, and she became like this after a pair of grandchildren died, but the situation is not bad."
Xu Huo picked up his things and followed him upstairs. He looked at the dirty corridor and asked, "Why do you live here?"
Professor Lin looked back at him and said, "You don't know, I have stopped being the dean a long time ago."
"I have never worked in any hospital since I resigned from the Seventeenth Hospital more than ten years ago. After working in the hospital for so many years, I have seen through the warmth and coldness of people, life and death, and I don't want to work anymore..."
"I heard that you were fired by the original hospital before you took up the job at the Seventeenth Hospital because of repeated alcohol abuse." Xu Huo stared at him expressionlessly.
Professor Lin's face was full of embarrassment, and he scratched his thinning hair, "Really? Oh, I can't even remember it now that I'm old."
"Because of your criminal record, no hospital was willing to hire you. I want to know who asked you to be the director of the Seventeenth Hospital." Xu Huo said.
"I don't know about that. I only heard that his surname is Zhu and he is a businessman. The people who came to me to sign contracts and pay wages were all his secretaries. I have never met him in person," Professor Lin said.
While talking, the two of them had arrived at the sixth floor. The old lady was waiting at the door. She took the things from Xu Huo's hand and asked him to sit down and drink tea. She went to the kitchen to cook.
Although I had a feeling that life might not be good for the old couple, I never expected that they would be so poor. They could almost be said to be living in poverty. They didn’t even have a proper dining table. They just put a few plastic stools next to the coffee table.
"Please sit down, please sit down." Professor Lin wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead and asked: "Are you here this time to find the person who funded the establishment of the Seventeenth Hospital? Why don't you go to the hospital and ask the current hospital?
The chief should know."
"The Seventeenth Hospital has disappeared." Xu Huo said: "Not only the hospital building, but also no relevant records have been left."
"I checked the records of patients who were transferred to the Seventeenth Hospital. During the years when the hospital existed, there were patient interactions with other hospitals and institutions. Normally, there should be records left in these places, but now I can't find them.
I have also seen the patient files transferred in and out, but the part about the hospital is blank."
This chapter has been completed!