in2ebook Chapter 280 The Bottom Line of Humanity: Never Test It!
Chapter 280 The Bottom Line of Humanity: Never Test It!
"Okay, I get it!"
Liu Daqiang replied, "Oh, right, there's something else. You should know Luo Yun, right?"
"Luo Yun?"
Zhong Yuemin was taken aback. "I know her. She's my girlfriend's best friend. We're friends, I guess. Brother Liu, why are you suddenly bringing her up?"
"The daughter-in-law of the dean who was robbed is Luo Yun."
Liu Qiang said:
“I saw her when I went to the dean’s house to investigate the case. She looked familiar. Then I realized that I had indeed seen her a few years ago. I came to your house to find you, but your boyfriend and this Luo Yun are no longer here.”
"What's wrong with Luo Yun?"
"No, it's just a coincidence."
After hanging up the phone, he was stunned for a moment. He figured that this case was most likely about the hospital director embezzling money and being blackmailed by the thief. Eventually, for some reason, he couldn't bear it anymore and had to involve the police to deal with the thief. It was possible that the director and his entire family would be in trouble.
So what happened to Luo Yun...?
They've been married for less than a year. I shook my head helplessly.
Three days later, the prophecy came true. The hospital director was indeed problematic. According to Liu Daqiang, the thief who broke into the director's house only stole a few hundred yuan, but he also took an account book. This account book recorded various bribes from equipment manufacturers, as well as payments to subordinate employees. In short, it involved buying and selling official positions and manipulating internal hospital job adjustments and promotions, involving hundreds of thousands of yuan. This was in the 1970s, when the average employee's salary was only twenty or thirty yuan. In later years, that would be tens of millions, even hundreds of millions.
A massive embezzler!
The reason this man called the police was exactly as he had expected. Initially, he was being extorted by the thief and only wanted to pay to avoid further trouble. He had given the thief nearly five thousand yuan, but he was not satisfied and continued to extort money. The dean knew that this couldn't go on; it was a bottomless pit. He was afraid that he would lose all the 'retirement money' he had painstakingly saved over the years. So, he made a tough decision and got the police involved. They arrested the thief and used his connections in the police force to conduct a secret interrogation and close the case. As long as the thief was in his hands, everything would be easy.
The thief was eventually caught and silenced, and he handed over the ledger. Everyone thought the matter was closed, but the thief had a backup plan: he had made a copy of the ledger and had an accomplice outside. The agreement was that if the thief got into trouble, he would hand over the ledger. Once the ledger was made public, not only the dean himself, but also his wife and son were all considered accomplices, and the whole family went to jail.
Luo Yun escaped unscathed. Firstly, she had just gotten married and was unaware of the situation. Secondly, her father pulled a lot of strings to clear his daughter's name. However, the wedding photos on the wall of their new bridal chamber, one of them dressed in a suit and the other looking beautiful and charming, were still very new. Now, everything had changed, and the scene was desolate and tragic.
When I called Xiaobai, I specifically brought this up.
"Yuemin, Luo Yun is really pitiful. She's divorced now and can't even keep her job at the hospital. I went to see her a couple of days ago, and she's lost so much weight, she looks completely different. I almost didn't recognize her. She's also acting strangely, not saying a word for a long time. I'm really worried that she might do something rash."
Zhong Yuemin said:
"Wife, don't say I'm cold-blooded or kicking someone when they're down. Luo Yun's current predicament is entirely of her own making. Think about it, from getting together with Yuan Jun, then getting involved with Li Yuanchao, to fighting for a spot at the military medical university, getting entangled with that Zhang Jing, and then at the university, she immediately started dating the vice-principal's son. After graduation, she was assigned to go back to Beijing, and she immediately dumped him and then married the hospital director's son."
This isn't about dating or feelings; it's about career prospects, money, and connections. If you walk by the river long enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet. You can't always be so lucky. Now look what happened—a huge setback.
But don't worry, knowing Luo Yun as I do, she would never commit suicide. Perhaps, people are just putting on an act for others.
“Yuemin, Luo Yun’s past behavior is indeed unpopular. Just like you said, she went for her future and money, but in the end, she just wanted a better life and a good life. Nobody wants to live a hard and miserable life. That’s human nature. Luo Yun is not a bad person. She just got married and suffered such a disaster. How could she be faking it? I hope she learns from her mistakes and can really repent.”
"hehe!"
Zhong Yuemin smiled,
"Wife, personality is something you're born with. Changing it later only makes minor adjustments; it doesn't change the fundamentals. Like you, when you consider problems or judge a person, you only see things from your own perspective, you have your own moral bottom line. Take Luo Yun's situation, for example. You think she'll change for the better; your bottom line is quite high. But not everyone is like you—naive, innocent, sweet, and honest."
Never test the limits of human nature!