flstandardbreds Chapter 176: Meng Hui in Canada
Chapter 176: Meng Hui in Canada
The dean's face was extremely pale, and even if he tried hard to force a smile, he couldn't muster even a hint of it.
"Ji... Professor Ji... What are you... kidding..."
"Oh, yes, you reminded me. I am not talented and I don't have any special abilities. I am just a national professor. If I want to find the media to make a big fuss about finding my mother..."
Ji Ran walked up to the two women and looked calmly at the dean who was shaking uncontrollably. She curled her lips in disdain and continued,
“I wonder if something will be uncovered…something that someone has gone to great lengths to hide?
Are you right, Dean?"
After he finished speaking, the dean's legs went weak and he sat down on the sofa cushion beside him, which frightened Director Ye so much that he cried out:
"Mom! Are you okay?!"
The dean looked as if he had been drained of all his energy, his eyes fixed on the ground, not daring to raise his head even a bit.
"Director Ye," Ji Ran turned around and returned to the seat where he had just sat, and spoke calmly,
"The dean wants to talk to me alone, please step aside."
Director Ye was stunned. She turned to look at Ji Ran, only to see her calmly picking up the teacup and blowing on it. She was once again shocked by the powerful aura emanating from this young girl, and she dared not question it at all...
Then she turned around and looked at her mother-in-law. She seemed to have lost all color, as if the sky had fallen. She did not respond or refute.
So Director Ye had no choice but to lean over and say, "Mom, I'll go out first."
The dean didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Director Ye didn't ask any more questions and walked out the door tactfully.
As the door closed, the dean finally spoke, but his voice was weak.
"Professor Ji...how did you know?"
Ji Ran lowered his eyes and played with the cup lid in his hand.
"Is this important?"
"I..." The dean was speechless.
"You want to know if there are any other people who know, right?" Ji Ran slowly raised his eyes and looked into those guilty and desperate eyes.
"If you are sure that no one else knows, then kill me and silence me?"
"How is that possible!" This time the dean retorted harshly.
Ji Ran studied the other person's eyes, as if calculating how sincere he was.
"But... if you think so, how dare you come here alone to confront me? Aren't you afraid that I will find someone to imprison you?" The dean raised his question and rubbed his arms unconsciously, as if he suddenly felt a little cold.
Ji Ran did not answer, but casually glanced at the empty sofa opposite and smiled: "Let's get back to the topic, Dean."
The dean was stunned for a moment, lowered his head as if thinking, and seemed to be struggling inside, but in the end he sighed as if resigned to his fate:
"The previous dean was my teacher. It was when I was printing documents for him that I accidentally discovered that he had colluded with the funeral home to resell corpses..." The dean's voice became weaker and weaker.
Inside the dean's office twenty years ago.
"Teacher! How can you be so confused? You are committing a crime!" Zhong Xiaoqin, who is in her fifties, was wearing a white coat and standing in front of the desk. She stared in disbelief at the white-haired old man in front of her who was supporting his forehead with his hands helplessly.
"I don't want to... I don't want to!" The old man's tone was full of despair: "You know my granddaughter's disease requires her heart, but I am really incompetent! I can't watch my granddaughter die! They said that they can help me solve the source of my granddaughter's heart, but I must agree to cooperate with them on this matter..."
"But..." Zhong Xiaoqin clenched her fists tightly, but could no longer utter words of blame.
She knew how much the teacher loved her only granddaughter. She had watched the child grow up, and she couldn't bear to see the child leave like this. She was not yet an adult, and her life had not officially begun yet...
"Xiaoqin... I have no way..." The old dean placed his hands weakly on the table, "I am incompetent... I really can't find any other way... Apart from this, what else can I do for the children?"
Zhong Xiaoqin sighed, "Teacher, go and turn yourself in. The truth will come out sooner or later..."
The old dean slowly raised his head, his temples were gray, and his eyes were vicissitudes. "It's not that I don't want to turn myself in. I don't have much time to live anyway. It's my own fault that I didn't have a good end. But it will have a huge impact on our hospital. I can't let the reputation of the hospital be ruined by me alone, and I don't want to...
I don’t want my granddaughter to know that her incompetent grandfather did such a dirty thing…”
Zhong Xiaoqin bit her lips tightly, struggling internally like a tsunami.
"Xiaoqin...if you can't accept it, just go and report me. This matter...after all, it is the teacher who disappointed you." The old dean said and lowered his head again.
……
Back to the present moment, Ji Ran slowly put down the teacup, "So, you didn't report it."
Dean Zhong lowered his eyes guiltily and sighed, "It's not that I haven't thought about it, but I really can't bear it. My teacher has taught me for more than 20 years. How can I bear to let him end up with a ruined reputation and spend the last days in prison."
Ji Ran looked straight at Dean Zhong, but his calm gaze made the other party feel the pressure of a sharp blade.
Dean Zhong raised his head uneasily, "Professor Ji, I'm really sorry, your mother might..."
"Where is Meng Hui?" Ji Ran asked coldly.
Dean Zhong was stunned, and asked in confusion: "Are you...still going to look for Meng Hui?"
"Yes." Ji Ran answered, his voice was cold and childish, but it was hard to tell any emotion in it and it was hard to understand.
Dean Zhong tried to explain: "This matter actually has nothing to do with Meng Hui. The time when your mother had the accident just happened to coincide with the time when my teacher..."
"I said, I want to find Meng Hui." Ji Ran interrupted calmly, "Did you hear that clearly?"
Dean Zhong was stunned again, but she sensed the determination in the girl's seemingly indifferent eyes and understood that she had a clear goal. "Meng Hui immigrated to Canada the year she performed surgery on your mother."
"Canada?" Ji Ran frowned.
Dean Zhong nodded and said, "Our hospital had cooperation with Canadian medical institutions back then, and Meng Hui chose to go to Canada at that time."
"Don't you find it strange?" Ji Ran suddenly asked.
Dean Zhong was startled and a little confused: "Strange...what?"
"The person who was originally competing with you for the top position, not only gave up halfway, but also suddenly went abroad to develop." Ji Ran narrowed his eyes, with a hint of danger and sarcasm.
Hearing this, Dean Zhong fell into deep thought, "Yes..."
"Where in Canada?" Ji Ran didn't have the patience to wait for her to sort out her logic, so he asked directly.
"In the small town of DC in Vancouver, when I visited the project again, the contact person there told me that Meng Hui took the initiative to apply to be sent to Emma Monastery as a hospital doctor." Dean Zhong answered honestly and no longer concealed it.