Chapter 122. Case 17: Two old men

Since the promulgation of the 2008 version of the traffic regulations, I have actually felt very afraid of meeting elderly people while driving, because since that year, in a person-car accident, even if you are a dead car, but if there are people in the car, the driver will be held accountable accordingly. I was so unhappy with this overlord clause that I even had a discussion with my dad about it. So since I met Hu Zongren, and I knew that he hadn't bought a car for the time being, and I usually drove when we went out to handle cases, so I secretly made up my mind that if one day we unfortunately ran into someone in the car due to various circumstances, then I would definitely pull out the key and hand it to Hu Zongren, and kindly told him that from now on, this car is yours.

Mr. Leng's words not only made Hu Zongren, but also Zhao Jing and I feel a little surprised. Because from the moment we walked into the ward, we always felt that the man and woman in the ward and the old lady on the hospital bed must be a mother-son-mother-daughter relationship, and when Mr. Leng handed over his handbag to the woman, I began to think that the two of them might be husband and wife. So Hu Zongren asked Mr. Leng, that's not your mother, so what are you doing here? Do you know this old lady?

Mr. Leng shook his head in frustration and said, this matter is a long story, in short, it is because of his bad luck, and it is also because he has done something wrong. Mr. Leng told us that the old lady in the bed and the woman were mother and daughter, and he didn't know them before that. Hu Zongren asked, don't you know what you are doing by the bedside of other people's hospitals, do you want to learn from Lei Feng to send warmth? Mr. Leng said that it was because two weeks ago, when he was driving through an intersection, because he was on the phone and it was a green light, he suddenly did not control the speed of the car and hit someone, and the one who was hit was the old lady.

Mr. Leng said that I said that this incident was unlucky because the old lady was obviously crossing the road at a red light with a vegetable basket, and he himself was wrong because he really shouldn't have been dual-minded, talking on the phone while driving. But fortunately, the old lady's injuries were not serious, but her leg seemed to have been broken at that time, and it was daytime, and it was impossible for her to leave people and run away, so together with the surrounding people, she helped the old lady into the car and quickly sent her to the hospital. After saying that, he pointed in the direction of the ward and said, this is it.

Mr. Leng went on to say that he didn't have much cash on him at that time, but after settling the old lady first, he planned to go out to get the money, and after paying all the medical expenses in advance, the old lady was quickly treated, and Mr. Leng also took the initiative to ask the phone number of the old lady's family, so he called her daughter. Mr. Leng said that the woman in the room was the old lady's youngest daughter, and I couldn't contact the eldest daughter, and the relationship between them didn't seem to be very close.

Mr. Leng sighed and said that he had made a mistake and deserved to be punished, and he did not think about escaping responsibility, and when he was waiting for his family to come, he also asked the doctor many times, and the doctor also said that it was only a fracture, and the bones of the elderly were relatively brittle, and they were prone to fractures, and the disease was not serious. The doctor's words reassured Mr. Leng a lot, thinking that after all, there was no big mistake, and the rest was nothing more than to reach a certain compensation agreement with his family.

Mr. Leng told us that he runs a sizable auto repair shop in the main city, and that he can afford it. It's just that when the old lady's daughter arrived, the situation changed, and her daughter began to sprinkle in the hospital corridor without saying a word, deliberately exaggerating her mother's injuries in front of other patients. Mr. Leng said with a wry smile, and in fact, when discussing the compensation, her daughter Lion opened her mouth and asked for a price that I couldn't accept at all, not only was the price too high, but she also asked me to support her mother until my legs and feet were completely restored to the way they were before they were hit.

Hu Zongren scolded, this seems to be too much. Mr. Leng shook his head and said, what else can I do, she said that if I don't agree, I will go to court to sue me, this kind of person-car accident, after all, is caused by my own lack of careful observation of the environment as a driver, and the court will also rule like this, in the end it will delay time, I still lose the lawsuit, and the problem of compensation is not easy to solve, besides, once this goes to court, the rest of the things are really not easy to say, her daughter gave me a dismount as soon as she arrived at the hospital, who knows that even after the court ruling, Will this woman spill again?

In fact, Hu Zongren and I are not afraid of such a woman, because to deal with this kind of person, we only need to do one thing that makes her afraid, and Hu Zongren and I have been doing things that make others afraid all our lives, so I have never been afraid of being ridiculed. Mr. Leng continued, I was also very angry at that time, so I asked my friend to find an acquaintance in this hospital, saying that I would do my best to cure the old lady as soon as possible, and if I talked about these things after I was discharged from the hospital, it would be much more advantageous than now. I nodded, this Mr. Leng is indeed more rational when dealing with this matter, and he takes the overall situation into account.

Mr. Leng sighed and said, but in the next day or two, I had to visit the old lady every day, and I wanted the old lady to explain to her family that the fault of the accident lay with both parties, and strictly speaking, most of it was even the old lady's own fault, which was caused by her own crossing the road at a red light. And the old lady agreed again and again, and even interceded with her daughter for Mr. Leng in person, saying that she was at fault first, and everyone should reconcile if they are cured. But her daughter didn't agree, every time the old man talked about it, her daughter always reprimanded the old lady with a very impatient look and said, tell you not to talk too much, I'm helping you eat old things inside and out.

I exclaimed, that woman really said that, I am relying on this to attract thunder! How could a daughter say such a thing to her mother? Mr. Leng smiled bitterly and said, isn't it, but this family relationship is someone else's after all, and as an outsider, it is inconvenient to say anything even if it is not pleasing to the eye, and he is still in it. So every time the old lady told her daughter, she would be interrupted before she finished speaking, and from that point of view, this woman had made up her mind to ask me to compensate for the high expenses, otherwise she would definitely die on me.

Not to boast, although Hu Zongren and I are not good people, we are still people with a strong sense of justice. After hearing Mr. Leng's words, I wanted to slap that woman a few times. Hu Zongren asked Mr. Leng, it is actually very easy for you to solve these social problems, but you asked us to deal with ghost things, why did you get involved in the matter of you hitting people? Mr. Leng sighed and said that was the second mistake he made, because he and the old lady's daughter could not reach an agreement, so the problem was so deadlocked. On the third day, he went to visit the old lady in the hospital, and stuffed 20,000 yuan under the old lady's pillow, and then left. Mr. Leng explained that there are two reasons why I did this, the first is because my car is new and does not have a license plate, so even if I ran away after hitting someone, it is actually more difficult to find out, but I never did it. The second is because the cost of the fracture surgery is not high, and he has already paid it when he was admitted to the hospital, and the 20,000 yuan as compensation has been regarded as benevolent and righteous, and according to the doctor's advice, he has not treated the elderly badly at all. But because I couldn't communicate with the old lady's daughter, I chose this way and planned not to come again.

Hu Zongren wondered, I think you did the right thing, and I would do the same if I replaced him. Hu Zongren said angry words, but in fact, it was really wrong to do so. Mr. Leng said that after he left the hospital, he thought that at most he was uneasy for a while, but he was indeed helpless, if the woman was not so aggressive, he was also a good person to discuss, if he was weak this time, who knows if he would continue to blackmail himself later. Mr. Leng said that it was that night that I drove home, I had a lot of things on my mind, and I was a little absent-minded, and I almost hit the old man when I was going down the road.

Mr. Leng said that after a few days, he began to feel that the old lady he met crossing the highway on the highway seemed to be the old lady who was hit by himself a few days ago and was lying on the hospital bed.

Mr. Leng told us, so he began to be a little scared, and he wondered if the old lady he had bumped into earlier had died. Otherwise, how could she see a person who is very similar to her in such a remote place, coming to crash her car for several days in a row? Mr. Leng said that he was a businessman, and some believed in these things, and when he thought of this, he began to be afraid.

He told us that there was more than that, that night it seemed to have been hit, but when he got out of the car to check and found that there was nothing, he drove home in a trance, and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he lay on the balcony and smoked, so when he looked down from the balcony, he found the old lady on the highway, sitting on the roof of his car, looking up at him. Mr. Leng said that from this time on, he was sure that he was a ghost.

Hu Zongren glanced at me, his eyes were full of puzzlement, my feeling was the same as him, this old lady was alive, we were greeting and greeting just now, how could there be a ghost like the old woman? Even if it's a bardo body, it won't be one in the body and one outside. So Hu Zongren asked Mr. Leng, then you came to the hospital later to confirm whether this old lady was dead, right?

Mr. Leng nodded and said, Yes, but when he came, he was not only caught by her daughter, but also found that the old lady was alive and well at all, and he was sure that the ghost he saw before was exactly the same as the old lady on the hospital bed, and even the clothes he was wearing were the same as when he bumped into her that day.