Chapter Seventy-Three A Glimmer of Life

  The black van had barely come to a stop when Xia Tian jumped out of the car and sprinted towards the hospital. Within tens of seconds, he saw Ye Mengying looking anxious and Ye Shaohuang with a serious expression.

  "Summer, you've come, quick..." Ye Mengying hadn't finished speaking when Summer had already entered the sickroom.

  The ward was packed with people again today, just like yesterday. Apart from Ye's family, there were also two doctors.

  "How dare you come?" Seeing Xia Tian, Ye Zhiyi had a resentful look on his face.

  But in the summer, she didn't have the mood to care about him, and with a flick of her hand, she pushed away all the people standing in front of him, flashed to the bedside, and placed two fingers on the old man's wrist to start taking his pulse.

  The old man's skin was even drier, and it was hard to feel any vitality from him. This made Xia Tian puzzled. He had great confidence in his medical skills. According to his diagnosis and treatment yesterday, the old man should have been able to live for another half a year, and it was impossible for him to become like this overnight.

  "How dare you! Someone, come and throw this quack doctor out for me!" On the other side, Ye Zhiyi was furious.

  "Who dares to move?" Ye Shaohuang shouted, and several men who were about to make a move immediately returned to their normal state.

  "Alright, you two siblings. One of you brought a quack doctor yesterday who nearly killed the old man, and the other one is afraid that the old man won't die, insisting on letting this quack doctor exhaust him to death before being satisfied?!" Ye Zhiyi's face was filled with anger, "I've already called the police, they'll be here soon!"

  "Second Uncle, who knows who the police will arrest when the time comes!" Ye Shaohuang coldly snorted, "Now just be quiet for me!"

  "Hey!" Ye Zhiyi was furious, "Do you still know that I'm your second uncle? Is this how you talk to your second uncle?"

  "I call you Second Uncle only because your surname is Ye!" Ye Shaohuang sneered, he wouldn't put this Second Uncle in his eyes.

  Summer's expression became a bit heavy, the old man's condition was far worse than he had expected, in just one night, the old man had truly reached the end of his rope.

  Ye Zhiyi and Ye Shaohuang's quarrel did not have any effect on Xia Tian, who already had a silver needle in his hand and suddenly stabbed it at the old man.

  The icy fire energy was transmitted into the old man's body through the silver needle, gathering the last bit of vitality from the old man. It took a full three minutes before Xia Tian withdrew the silver needle and slowly let out a breath. If he had been half an hour late, the old man would probably have already died.

  "What about Grandpa in the summer?" Ye Mengying asked anxiously.

  "He won't die for now." Xia Tian said with a bit of embarrassment, "But he also won't wake up for now."

  "When can Grandpa wake up?" Ye Mengying asked.

  "I don't know either." Xia Tian said helplessly, "I also can't wake him up for now."

  "How could this be?" Ye Mengying found it hard to accept. "Didn't you say yesterday that Grandfather could live for half a year?"

  "Yesterday was yesterday, now is now, the situation has changed." Xia Tian swept a glance at others in the ward and then asked: "Beautiful sister, did anyone treat your grandfather's illness last night?"

  "Last night?" Ye Mengying was taken aback. "I don't think so, but I probably left around 12 o'clock. As for what happened afterwards, I'm not clear."

  "In the summer, how can you ask that?" Ye Shaoxiong keenly sensed that there was a problem. "Was someone messing with Grandpa last night?"

  "In the summer, he took out his mobile phone, glanced at the time, and said calmly: "It's three o'clock now. About eleven and a half hours ago, that is, around 3:30 last night, someone gave your grandfather an injection. If I hadn't come, your grandfather would have died in another half hour."

  "How ridiculous! You're not even good at medicine, you killed the old man, and now you're blaming a non-existent third person!" Ye Zhiyi sneered coldly, "Xia Tian, you'd better be prepared to go to jail!"

  "Second Uncle, as far as I know, the one who was accompanying Grandfather at the hospital last night was you, right?" Ye Shao Xiong looked coldly at Ye Zhi Yi, "Grandfather had an accident, and the first person to receive the news was also you. I'm really curious, were you just happening to be at the hospital at 3:30 last night?"

  "What a joke! I left at 2 o'clock last night, and only the hospital nurse was taking care of Old Master!" Ye Zhiyi's face was full of anger. "You two siblings found a mediocre doctor, now that something has gone wrong, you want to shift the responsibility onto us? You're really good at making excuses!"

  "Exactly!"

  "It's obviously their problem."

  "Why haven't the police arrived yet? It will be clear after the police investigation."

  The others in the Ye family chimed in, all their accusations directed at Ye Mengying and Ye Shaohuang.

  Just then, two men walked in: "Excuse me, is Mr. Ye Zhiyi here?"

  "It's me!" Ye Zhiyi hastily went forward to greet him.

  "Mr. Ye, I am Li Ping, a criminal police officer from the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and this is my colleague Fu Zhun. May I ask if you reported that someone was practicing medicine illegally here and caused a death?" This person was none other than Li Ping, an old acquaintance of Xia Tian's.

  "Yes, Officer Li, it was me who reported the case." Ye Zhiyi hastily replied, then pointed at Xia Tian with a furious face, "Officer Li, this man is practicing medicine illegally and has caused my father to be in a coma. The doctor said he may die at any moment. I demand that you arrest this quack immediately and punish him severely!"

  Following Ye Zhiyi's direction, Li Ping saw Xia Tian and suddenly felt a mix of emotions, this guy really knows how to stir up trouble. He had just seen him last night, and now he was seeing him again. Luckily the captain wasn't here, or else the captain would have been furious.

  "Mr. Ye, is there a bit of misunderstanding?" Li Ping naturally wouldn't really go and catch someone immediately, he just asked very carefully, although he was the captain of the criminal police team, he also couldn't afford to offend Ye Zhiyi.

  "Officer Li, Xia Tian was invited by me to treat my grandfather's illness. My grandfather is now like this, and it has nothing to do with Xia Tian. You can go back." Ye Mengying stepped forward to explain.

  "What's it got to do with him?" Ye Zhiyi let out a cold snort, "It was only after he cured the illness that Old Master became like this!"

  "Second Uncle, before Grandfather fell ill in the summer, he was already bedridden. Now that Grandfather is also bedridden, no matter what you want to say, Summer doesn't have any responsibility for it, does she?" Ye Mengying said calmly.

  "Alright, I won't pursue the matter of him treating Grandfather poorly. The fact remains that he's practicing medicine illegally, right?" Ye Zhiyi sneered, "Does he have a medical license?"

  "In the summer, do you have a medical license?" Li Ping couldn't help but ask.

  "No." Xia Tian replied succinctly, he didn't even have an ID card, let alone that thing.

  "Alright then, come with me to our bureau." Li Ping gave Xia Tian a signal.

  "Alright, anyway I'm temporarily staying here doesn't make any sense." Xia Tian nodded.

  "Officer Li, he really is the one I invited!" Ye Mengying saw that Xia Tian was about to be taken away and couldn't help but feel a bit anxious.

  "Miss Ye, it is a fact that Xia Tian didn't have a medical license in the summer, although no serious consequences were caused, but still needs to be investigated." Li Ping said politely.

  Ye Mengying wanted to say something else, but Ye Shaohuang suddenly understood and quickly pulled Ye Mengying: "Little sister, let Xia Tian go with Officer Li."

  Seeing Big Brother say that, Ye Mengying felt a bit sorry for Xia Tian, but didn't say anything else. In this way, under the triumphant and complacent expressions of Ye Zhiyi and others, Xia Tian followed Li Ping out of the ward.

  As soon as they walked out of Sheng Xin Hospital, Li Ping said to Xia Tian, "Xia Tian, are you going back or somewhere else? I'll give you a ride."

  "But isn't it supposed to be the police station?"

  "What are you doing at the police station?" Li Ping smiled, "If illegal medical practice doesn't result in consequences, it's not considered a crime. Maybe the Health Bureau can fine you some money, but it has nothing to do with us criminal police. I'm taking you out just to help you get out of this situation."

  "Really? Then thank you, Brother Li!" Xia Tian understood and said, "But don't bother seeing me off, I have a car waiting for me!"

  "That's it, I'll go back and report to Director Huang first." Li Ping also didn't insist, "You just cured Director Huang's son, if he knew it was you, he definitely wouldn't have sent me over. He might believe others are quacks, but he definitely won't think you're a quack."

  Li Ping and Fu Zhun left quickly, and Xia Tian walked towards the van that was parked not far away, Hei San was still waiting for him here.

  "Tian Ge, are you going back?" Hei San asked respectfully. Seeing Xia Tian and Li Ping's familiar appearance, Hei San began to admire Lao San's vision even more. This Tian Ge really had a good relationship with the police.

  "Summer." Ye Shaohuang's voice came over, he seemed to know that Summer wouldn't be taken away, so he followed out.

  "Wait a minute, I have something to say." Xia Tian walked over to Ye Shao Xiong as he still had some things to hand over.

  "Yè Dàgē, tell the beautiful sister not to let anyone get close to your grandfather. If that person gets another chance to make a move, then your grandfather will really be done for!" Xiàtiān said.

  "In the summer, you tell me in detail, what's going on?" Ye Shaohuang's face was solemn.

  "In the summer, he began to explain: 'Actually, your grandfather was not ill, but just too old, his spirit and energy were almost exhausted, it's almost like the oil in a lamp is running out. So, it's inevitable that he would die soon. However, there are still some scattered spiritual energies in his body, which I can gather together using acupuncture, allowing your grandfather to live for another half year. But after that, he will truly be exhausted.'"

  After a pause, Xia Tian added: "Originally, he should have been able to live for half a year, but last night someone injected him with a needle. This one needle drove all the spiritual energy out of his body. If I had come half an hour later, all the spiritual energy in his body would have dissipated. Now, I can only barely retain the last bit of residual spiritual energy and let your grandfather maintain a thread of life, but to make him wake up again is very difficult."

  "In the summer, you know who did it?" A flash of anger passed through Ye Shaoxiong's eyes. These bastards, for money, really can do anything!

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