Chapter 919: [(919)] Fall into a pit, a gain in your wit

Hospitals have the most security incidents. Therefore, the local police station is situated close to the hospital.

Those who are inexplicably assaulted all feel aggrieved, all seething with rage. The security guards remember a female nurse from a few days ago who cried her eyes out after a patient’s family member pulled her hair because she couldn’t find a vein. She was too scared to come to work the next day, claiming she was psychologically scarred.

Xie Wanying was very calm, she didn’t shed a tear, she didn’t utter a word in anger. By comparison, Kang Mingzhu was much more hot-headed.

Anger and tears were just emotional venting, Xie Wanying knew they were of no use. Every profession has its risks. When she worked as a pathologist in the laboratory, her biggest professional risk was having inconsistent results and being complained about by patients. Even though the blame never ultimately fell on her upon investigation, she always felt wronged. Over time, she learned how to prevent such situations. For instance, it was essential to triple-check the standards of the clinical specimens they received and to communicate more with the clinical department; maintaining good relations with them was crucial.

This incident was a lesson learned. The family’s goal wasn’t to get their child treated, but to shift the blame onto the doctors. She would remember from now on to promptly throw the blame right back at such families.

“Is this gentian violet so dark in color?” When Kang Mingzhu dipped a cotton swab into the medicine to disinfect the swollen area on Xie Wanying’s face, she suddenly realized that her skin was staining severely from the gentian violet and immediately stopped, “I’ll go get some alcohol.”

Xie Wanying didn’t have a mirror to see what was happening, but she trusted that Senior Kang wouldn’t do her any harm.

Thump, thump, thump, Kang Mingzhu ran to get the alcohol and wiped off the gentian violet she had applied a few times. It seemed that Xie Wanying’s skin was particularly sensitive to gentian violet, as the heavily stained purple spot near her mouth would not come off with alcohol, leaving a light purple residue. It would probably need to wait for the skin to naturally renew itself and shed the discoloration.

“It’s okay, it’s okay,” Xie Wanying comforted the anxious Senior Kang.

Running out of solutions, Kang Mingzhu made a phone call to a colleague staying at the hostel, because the county hospital’s emergency room didn’t have iodine.

Seeing Senior Kang on the phone, Xie Wanying remembered she had to go to the laboratory to pick up the results; she wondered why Qiu Ruiyun hadn’t called her to hurry her, so she called back to the ward.

“Doctor Zhou said the results are back, I thought you had urged them. Haven’t you been to the lab?” Qiu Ruiyun said when she picked up Xie Wanying’s call.

“Something came up, so–” Xie Wanying hesitated to mention that she had been hit.

Kang Mingzhu had finished her call with her colleague, and everyone at the hostel was in an uproar.

The first to arrive were Yao Jie and Doctor Kim, who hurried over with iodine in hand.

Unexpectedly, the second to arrive was Zhu Huicang, who was even more raucous than the two, pushing up his glasses and scolding furiously, “Did they catch the person? We need to hit back. It’s not enough to just scold them, we need a conviction, compensation for medical expenses.”

The colleagues wondered what had set him off, had he been beaten worse than Xie Wanying?

Zhu Huicang only thought: If old classmate Cao Yong found out that the girl he liked had been beaten, he would be furious. What’s worse, since he had come along, it seemed he might have a difficult time explaining to Cao Yong.

Upon turning around, Yao Jie and the others noticed that another person, Chang Jiawei, had an even more suspicious expression, raising their curiosity.

Staring at Xie Wanying’s face for a long while, Chang Jiawei finally blurted out, “Such a beautiful face, how did it end up like this?”