Chapter 5 A Life That Quietly Changed
After listening to the phone, Zheng Riqiang no longer had the intention to work, asked the supervisor for leave, and went back.
Originally, Zheng Riqiang couldn't imagine that he was a genuine medical graduate student, but in the end he still became a takeaway brother, so he felt very magical.
I didn't expect this to happen.
At this time, some media said that there were 7 million food delivery boys in China, of which 1% of them had reached graduate school, and about 70,000 graduate students were delivering food according to this calculation.
Of course, later the media refuted the rumors, saying that there were far fewer graduate students who delivered food.
But, taking a step back, it's 0.1%, 0.01% for graduate students, which is also a terrifying number.
He had no choice but to call Gao Ming. He can only find Gao Ming, who is Zheng Riqiang's introducer and Zheng Riqiang's boss.
He said to Gao Ming: The old man I saved is dead.
Gao Ming hurriedly asked: You killed you?
Zheng Riqiang hurriedly said: It's none of my business. I told Gao Ming about today's events once.
After Gao Ming heard what he said, he was silent over there for a while, and asked: That old man died at that time? Or did the hospital fail to rescue him and died?
Zheng Riqiang said: He died on the spot.
Gao Ming asked again: You really haven't touched him?
Zheng Riqiang said categorically: No!
Gao Ming seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: Great, fortunately, you didn't contact him at that time.
Zheng Riqiang said: Everyone is dead, and you still say it's too good?
Gao Ming may be climbing the stairs, panting and saying: Of course. To be realistic, it was his family who killed the old man.
Zheng Riqiang said: How do you say it?
Gao Ming said: With such a family member, who would dare to save people? Who is not afraid of slander? Aren't you gone too?
Zheng Riqiang said: That's the same. They said I would not be saved when I saw death.
Gao Ming said: Talk nonsense! You are a fast food delivery person, what obligation do you have to save people? If you were saving someone and they died, you wouldn't be able to tell, maybe people would say that you killed them.
Don't you read newspapers? The family of the deceased sued the rescuer, saying that when he pressed on the heart, he broke several ribs of the patient!
Don't panic, wait for me to come back. Relax, it's fine.
Zheng Riqiang said with a crying voice: Come back soon, everyone is worried to death.
This kind of "flying disaster" is indeed a bit at a loss for Zheng Riqiang, a bit of a stupid person.
Although he has good grades, he is very lacking in self-care ability, which is a bit strange.
As an amateur astronomer, every clear night, he would bring a high-powered telescope to the balcony, yard, community open space and suburbs, look up at the starry sky, and chant words.
He was completely immersed in a world of contemplation and meditation, which worried the head teacher and his parents.
His greatest wish was to become an astronaut. At the age of 16, in 2013, he stumbled upon the book by Robert Zublin, an aerospace engineer, founder and president of the Martian Society, and president of Vanguard Space.
The contents of the book made his blood boil.
In the book, Zubrin writes: For our generation and for millions of generations to come, Mars will be our new world. He used the main space in this book to explain that it would take about 200~30 billion US dollars to go to Mars.
In 1990, he proposed to send astronauts directly to Mars with their homes, and then they began to live on Mars within reach.
Therefore, Zheng Riqiang dreams of going to Mars, if he doesn't go to Mars, the moon, anywhere.
In the college entrance examination, he scored more than 630, which is considered a top student. He is also preparing to report his favorite "astronomy".
But astronomy is more than cold? It's bone-chilling! His parents stopped him from reporting this unpopularity in the way of "one crying, two troubles, and three hangings", and it was also to save Zheng Riqiang, who had gone mad.
Zheng Riqiang was very embarrassed, and his classmates said, you have a good heart and patience, you should go to study medicine.
Now, he still has deep feelings about the phrase "persuading people to study medicine, and the sky thunders".
However, at that time, he listened to the persuasion and applied for a "clinical medicine" in two medical schools, and studied for seven years with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. Although it is two books, the score is higher than some 985.
As a result, the parents were satisfied, and the school was okay.
He majored in clinical medicine at university, and studied reproductive medicine, with a research direction in the mechanism and program of spermatogenic disorders.
But Zheng Riqiang felt that the subject was boring, so he was a little unprofessional, and he still loved astronomy.
Due to his profession, he is keen on Chinese medicine and uses acupuncture more.
Of course, Zheng Riqiang's astronomy is also very good, and he is the director of the provincial "Folk Astronomy Lovers Association". So people also say that he is an astronomer who has been delayed by medicine.
When he graduated, he thought that he had spent a lot of money on his own graduate school, so he was desperate to find money, so he went to a private hospital that was said to be very well paid.
I didn't expect it to end like that!
Gao Ming arrived at Zheng Riqiang's house very late, and as soon as Gao Ming entered the door, he gave Zheng Riqiang a piece of paper and said: This is what I wrote on my mobile phone while waiting for dinner, you see, I will be in the evening newspaper another day.
Zheng Riqiang looked at it, and it read:
Looking for witnesses: At about 12:37 noon on March 5, an elderly man was hit by a person riding an electric car at No. 108 Cheong Shing Street in the city, before Hutchison fast food, and lay on the ground for about 17 minutes.
Witnesses are invited to provide relevant clues, and they are grateful for 300-2000 yuan. Zheng Riqiang thought about it and said: Is this okay?
Gao Ming analyzed with him: They will definitely say that you are a doctor and have first aid experience.
The death of the old man is also, you are a doctor, if you take action at that time, the old man may not die.
Zheng Riqiang said: That's it, I'm still a little guilty, maybe if I help, then the old man won't die, do I belong to seeing death and not saving it?
Gao Ming said: You remember clearly, you are not a doctor, but a courier brother. Even if you are a doctor, it is not at work, it is not illegal, it is only morally condemned.
However, once you are falsely accused, you may be bankrupt and life is worse than death!
Sure enough, the family of the deceased old man officially went to court to sue Zheng Riqiang, entrusting the well-known "Mingwei Law Firm" to act as a sole agent, requiring him to:
Compensation for hospitalization expenses of 43,000 yuan;
Compensation for funeral expenses, rescue expenses, mental losses, etc., totaling RMB 1,361,363.
In other words, they demanded that Zheng Riqiang's total compensation be about 1.4 million.
The complaint said: The old man was hit by Zheng Riqiang, and the old man's death was also because he didn't save him when he saw death.
Although the law has "whoever asserts the claim shall bear the burden of proof", the court asked the family of the deceased to find evidence.
Zheng Riqiang denied hitting people, and Gao Ming also changed his strategy, looking for eyewitnesses, and went to the traffic police and the headquarters of the fast food delivery company to retrieve the relevant videos.
In the courtroom, Gao Ming said: At 12:1, we saw the picture of the uncle appearing, and at 12:31, my client rescued the uncle, and multiple witnesses confirmed that the uncle had been lying on the ground for more than ten minutes, that is, the uncle was hit at about 12:14.
According to the video and our information, my client, for 10 minutes around 12:14, was 6 kilometers away from the scene of the crime.
In particular, at 12:14, my client was delivering food at the "China World Trade Hotel" 6.5 kilometers away from the scene of the crime, and when he came out, he also saw that a woman was still beating up a young girl and shouting "slut, slut".
With video as proof, how could he possibly knock down the old man?
Since my client did not bump into the old man, there is no obligation to help, and there is nothing that he will not save when he dies.
Now, the social climate has caused the elderly to fall, and outsiders dare not help them, for fear of being falsely accused, which is a living example.
I ask, "What is your conscience, the accusers?" What is your social orientation?
The family of the deceased hurriedly said that this was not their original intention, and that the lawyer had asked them to sue.
Gao Ming said: We cannot tolerate this kind of thing happening, and we are ready to countersue, demanding that the family of the deceased compensate 2,308 yuan for the cost of evidence collection, lost work, etc., and 0.99 yuan for mental losses.
Gao Ming won a round of fierce applause.
However, Niu Xiaoshi, the lawyer of the deceased's family, believes that even if the old man was not hit by Zheng Riqiang, according to the reasoning, the person who hit the person should also know Zheng Riqiang, otherwise he would not run to save the old man for no reason, and he was unwilling to say the person who hit the person, which means that he is also responsible!
He also said: Ask yourself, if the old man does not slander people (whether intentionally or unintentionally), he will not faint, and my client will dare to come to the rescue.
But in that situation, who would dare to act bravely?
The two sides are facing each other.
That night, Zheng Riqiang finished his day's work and stood under the sky, looking at the starry night sky, and the distant planet beckoned to him.
Bathed in the night breeze, from doctor to recruitment, and then to the takeaway brother, I didn't expect it to be so unsmooth! He suddenly felt very tired and tired, and he wanted to escape from this world.
He didn't know that at this moment, a letter that was about to completely change his life had quietly arrived.