Chapter 27 Someone Jumps Off the Building
Dr. Lu blinked and moved his mouth, not knowing how to respond for a moment.
It seemed that no one shared his joy with him, and he was stuck there, unable to move forward, as if he hadn’t paid his annual salary for a month. Just when he had made all the preparations, he was at the door…
It was thrown away, no one was satisfied.
However, he adjusted his mindset very quickly. The forensic doctor in front of him, Zhou, was only in his twenties and a newcomer who had just worked for a few months. The fact that he had such an idea showed that he was a very honest person, and there was nothing wrong with that.
Xu Dayuan wanted to interrupt, but Dr. Lu, with a smile on his face, took out an envelope from his briefcase and pushed it directly in front of Zhou Ning.
"The reprint fee is higher. I told you the amount as soon as I knew it. This is the fee from the Journal of Forensic Medicine. I originally paid 800 yuan for the page charge, but I didn't expect that after it was returned, they gave me an extra 8,000 yuan."
Zhou Ning felt a little embarrassed. If it was just him and Dr. Lu, he would just take it. But this... Xu Dayuan and Master were here, so if he took it...
"It's not appropriate to give it all to me. After all, this experiment was done by Dr. Lu. Let's each take half."
Dr. Lu waved his hands and smiled as awkwardly as possible.
"I am so happy that you can give me the second signature position. Okay, I won't stay for long. I still have to reply to the email when I go back. Xiao Zhou, if you have any ideas, you can contact me in time."
Xu Dayuan wanted to see him off, but he didn't let him go downstairs and pointed at the car downstairs.
"No one needs to send me here. The institute sent a car to take me here. I will report to the institute later when I go back. If there are related research topics, the institute will set up a special laboratory and even expand this discipline. Of course, this is all later, and we will continue to work hard in the future."
Standing in front of the door of the second floor, Zhou Ning still felt it was unreal until he said goodbye to Dr. Lu, but the feeling of the banknotes in his hand was really good.
Xu Dayuan seemed to have something to do and left without stopping for long.
Forensic Doctor Liu pulled Zhou Ning by his sleeve and dragged him back to the room. He looked at the dazed Zhou Ning and poked his head with his finger, looking very disappointed in him.
"You are usually very smart, what happened to you today? Why do you only want the manuscript fee? We are in the County Criminal Police Team's Forensic Medicine Office, and Dr. Lu is at Qindao University. If we want to meet colleagues in the city, we can easily find them. Why are they looking for you?
It's because your topic and research direction overlap with his. They just want the reputation! They only care about the manuscript fee. Why don't you move to the money hole?"
Zhou Ning held the envelope with a bigger and bigger smile on his face. He didn't care about Forensic Doctor Liu's nagging. He knew that his master was doing it for his own good.
"Master, don't worry. I won't do that again. I will work hard and prepare a paper for Dr. Lu if I come across a good topic."
Liu Yongxin then breathed a sigh of relief and patted Zhou Ning on the shoulder.
"Young people should have higher requirements for themselves. Unlike me, you will retire in three or four months and go home to hug your grandchildren. Okay, think about it carefully. I will go to the hospital to get the medicine. If anyone needs it, please call me."
Zhou Ning nodded, and after Liu Yongxin left, he put the envelope in the drawer.
I didn't expect that a casual remark I made to Xu Dayuan at that time would have such a follow-up. Glancing at the book "Bone Age Identification - Chinese Teenagers Skeletal X-ray Gallery" on the monitor, Zhou Ning opened the book.
I finished reading Grave Robbers' Chronicles a long time ago, and recently I'm following Keigo Higashino's new book. Although the suspense part is thrilling, it hardly touches on the forensic aspect.
Suddenly, an idea came to Zhou Ning's mind. If he wrote a book on forensic investigation, he would naturally be more professional than these authors, so would the royalties also be more generous?
Thinking of this, Zhou Ning couldn't sit still anymore. When he was busy at work, he was extremely busy, but when he was free, he had nothing to do for a long time.
In my spare time, besides learning painting with Teacher Xia, I just sleep at home. Of course, the torture of being tortured by the system while sleeping can be ignored.
Thinking of this, Zhou Ning opened a blank document on his computer and was stunned for a long time before a sentence flashed through his mind.
"Speak for the rights of the living and for the words of the dead."
In an instant, the faces of Su Manli, Sun Wenxuan, Li Delin, Zhu Meifeng, Wang Chengjuan and others appeared in front of Zhou Ning. Some were crying, some were yelling, and some were constantly recounting their grievances.
Zhou Ning's chest seemed to be blocked by something. His fingers kept sliding on the keyboard, and lines of text began to jump up. After an unknown amount of time, a feeling of hunger interrupted his thoughts.
Zhou Ning then realized that he had actually written nearly ten thousand words. He glanced at the time and saw that it was almost half past five, so he quickly saved the document.
No wonder I was hungry. I didn't even have lunch and just kept typing for several hours. However, the stuffy feeling in my chest was relieved a little. It seemed that this method was good. At least it prevented him from being affected by the case.
I remember when I was in college, my psychology teacher once said that a good forensic doctor must learn to relieve his emotions on his own. After all, the more cases one comes into contact with, the more negative emotions accumulate. If they are not relieved for a long time, it will have an impact on one's psychology.
Zhou Ning stood up and stretched his arms and legs. Suddenly, his cell phone rang.
Zhou Ning picked up the phone and saw the three words "Teacher Xia" flashing on it. He was confused. Today is Friday, and he didn't have an appointment with Teacher Xia for class?
With doubts, he quickly answered the phone.
"Hello, Mr. Xia?"
Xia Momo on the other end of the phone said in a crying voice and very quickly:
" Zhou Ning, come quickly. One of my students is about to jump off the building. He has already climbed onto the rooftop of the Cultural Palace."
Zhou Ning was stunned. He knew that Xia Momo was already panicking . If he told her that he was a forensic doctor and that she should call 110 directly, Xia Momo would become even more panicked.
"Don't worry, I'll contact my colleagues now and ask the teachers and students around to stop provoking him. We'll be there in ten minutes... no, five minutes!"
Xia Momo hummed twice.
"Yeah, come on."
Then the phone was hung up and Zhou Ning called Xu Dayuan's cell phone, and the other party answered the call as soon as he spoke.
"What's wrong, Xiao Medical Examiner Zhou? Why didn't you leave early on Friday?"
"Xu Da, there's a kid trying to jump off a building at the Cultural Palace. My friend is his teacher. She just called me. She must have been so anxious that she didn't call 110. Can you send someone to check on him?"
The sound of a chair being moved came from the receiver.
"Go downstairs and let Zhao Xinli take you to the scene. I'm calling the command center now. We're already in the bureau and may arrive before you."
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Ning grabbed his down jacket and rushed out of the office.
When I went downstairs, I saw Zhao Xinli answering the phone. He opened the car door, and Zhou Ning sat directly in the passenger seat, with Liu Yong sitting in the back seat.
Zhao Xinli hung up the phone, shifted gears and rushed out.
"What's going on? The boss said someone jumped off a building. Isn't this our responsibility?"
Zhou Ning briefly explained the whole situation, and Liu Yong poked his head over from behind.
"Is this Teacher Xia pretty?"
Zhao Xinli spat.
"You are in heat, don't talk nonsense. Didn't you see that Xiao Daozhou is so anxious that he is furious? Oh, by the way, give the fire brigade a call. If the boss can contact them, that's great. If not, we can help them contact them. Let's see if they have any rescue air cushions or something like that."
Liu Yong quickly made a phone call, and Zhou Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although Zhao Xinli looked silly at ordinary times, he was not panicked when encountering problems and was very calm.
At this time, the car had turned in front of the Cultural Palace. Zhou Ning jumped down before the car stopped. Xu Dayuan was already standing downstairs with a number of people. He held a loud speaker in his hand and kept shouting at the teenager, trying to do ideological work.
There were quite a few people watching, all looking above their heads and pointing.
Zhou Ning looked up and saw a boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old sitting on the edge of the glazed bracket set on the top of the Cultural Palace. He had no expression on his face and was holding a notebook in his hand. He kept tearing off pieces of paper, tearing them into pieces and throwing them away.
Xia Momo was stopped outside the cordon. When she saw Zhou Ning, she grabbed Zhou Ning's hand directly, her face full of panic.
"Zhou Ning, you need to think of a solution quickly. This student is called Zhang Guolin, he is a repeater, his family is very rich, his father has a mistress, his mother was kicked out of the house, many police officers have come, they have been trying to persuade him, but Zhang Guolin seems to be completely oblivious, he is even more agitated, it looks like he is going to jump at any moment."
Zhou Ning patted Xia Momo's back. Her hands were cold and trembling. It was obvious that she was scared out of her wits. The sound of fire sirens came, and Zhou Ning turned around and found that the people from the fire brigade had arrived. They stopped far away and started to move the life-saving air cushion.
He had seen a lot on the news. It takes a long time to inflate this thing. If the persuasion over there can't delay the time, everything will be too late. If he jumps from a height of five stories, he will either die or be injured and his life will be ruined.
"Don't worry, I'll find a way."
As he spoke, Zhou Ning began to observe the front of the Cultural Palace. There were quite a few electric bikes and motorcycles parked there, most of which had been moved away, leaving only a brand new BMW F650GS motorcycle parked there. Pointing at the car, Zhou Ning asked.
"Whose car is that?"
Xia Momo glanced at it.
"Zhang Guolin's."
When Zhou Ning heard this, he quickly walked to Xu Dayuan's side, grabbed the loud speaker, raised it and shouted loudly to the surroundings:
"Whose motorcycle is this? Move it away quickly. Don't you see the fire truck coming? Do you want to confiscate the motorcycle?"
Xu Dayuan was startled and quickly grabbed the loudspeaker and glared at Zhou Ning, as if he thought Zhou Ning was acting recklessly and looked like he was going to eat Zhou Ning. Zhou Ning shuddered and retreated behind the cordon.
But before he could finish his words of blame, Zhang Guolin, who was standing upstairs, had already climbed up, retreated to the roof, and shouted anxiously:
"It's my car, please don't seize it, police officer. I'll get out and move it right away!"
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