Chapter 9: Conversation with Dong Xing's Assistant
"Why go to the hospital?" Su Mo was puzzled.
"Dong Xing is performing surgery here, so he can't be alone. He must have an assistant." Han Yun explained.
Su Mo didn't ask any more questions, and drove to the First People's Hospital of Beidu as Han Yun said. After arriving at the hospital, Han Yun asked Su Mo to wait in the car, and he went directly to the hospital to find the personnel department and asked whether there were any doctors or nurses who had resigned or voluntarily applied to be transferred from their original positions in the past half month.
If Dong Xing got into trouble, it meant that what he did outside had been exposed. Even if he did it to save people, it was against the hospital's regulations. The police would definitely investigate this matter, so Dong Xing's assistant would definitely cut ties with the hospital before the matter was traced back to him. If the murder case was also related to this assistant, he might have already escaped.
The colleague in charge of personnel transfers in the hospital checked on the computer and found that the result was as Han Yun expected. On the second day after Dong Xing's body was found, a nurse named Wang Mengxian from the surgery department submitted her resignation letter.
Wang Mengxian is both a nurse and an assistant to the surgeon. She is Dong Xing's assistant and student in the hospital. She has been supervised by Dong Xing since she started her internship at the hospital.
Han Yun obtained Wang Mengxian's home address and contact number from the Personnel Department.
After leaving the hospital and returning to the car, Han Yun handed the address to Su Mo and said, "If my guess is correct, this person is Dong Xing's assistant during the surgery. Let's go find her."
After looking at the address, Su Mo searched for it in the navigation system and drove away from the hospital. On the way, Su Mo asked thoughtfully, "Are you sure we can start the investigation without informing the serious case team?"
"Of course I have to say hello, but it's not the right time yet." Han Yun took out his phone to check the time, then stretched his body. "Li Tieyun, the leader of the Serious Case Unit, is experienced in handling cases and very conceited. If I go over and try to participate in this case, I will definitely be turned away. The title of 'case consultant' doesn't work for him."
"I know Li Tieyun. Beidu Legal News wanted to interview him many times before, but he turned them down." Su Mo suddenly realized and said, " So you went to the crime scene first and then looked for Wang Mengxian. Was it to find clues and negotiate with Li Tieyun?"
"It's not a negotiation, but I have to have something in my hand so that Li Tieyun can't refuse my participation in the case investigation." Han Yun spread his hands.
Su Mo didn't say anything and continued to drive seriously. After arriving at Wang Mengxian's residential area, the two of them registered at the gate and walked in, and went directly upstairs according to the address.
Arriving at Wang Mengxian's door, Su Mo knocked on the door, then returned to Han Yun and waited. Five seconds later, the door opened. Han Yun looked at the woman in the room, then took off his mask and asked, "Excuse me, is this Wang Mengxian?"
"I am." Wang Mengxian also looked at the two people outside the house, and then said, "Who are you?"
"Hello, I 'm Su Mo, a reporter from Beidu Legal News." Su Mo spoke first, and after he finished speaking, he took out his ID and handed it to Wang Mengxian to take a look, and then said, "The person next to you is the case consultant of the police station, his name is Han Yun."
It was obvious that Wang Mengxian didn't know Han Yun. After looking at Su Mo's ID, she said thoughtfully, "What does a case consultant do?"
"This is a bit difficult to explain, but we are definitely not bad people." Su Mo took back the documents and put them back in his bag, saying, "We came here this time to learn about your master Dong Xing."
Wang Mengxian hesitated for a moment, then opened the door and let the two people in. After they walked into the toilet and sat down on the sofa, Wang Mengxian spoke first, "I knew the police would come to my house, but I didn't expect it would be you."
From Wang Mengxian's words, it can be analyzed that the police have not come to Wang Mengxian to understand the situation, and have not found this clue. Since Wang Mengxian knew that the police would come to find her and did not choose to run away, it proves that Dong Xing's death has nothing to do with her. Han Yun thought about this, took a deep breath and asked: "You knew that what you did outside with Dong Xing would be exposed, so you chose to resign."
"This matter has seriously violated the hospital's regulations. Even if I don't resign voluntarily, the hospital will definitely fire me when they know about this, so I just submitted my resignation application." Wang Mengxian lowered his head and said truthfully: "Although we did a good thing."
"Did Dong Xing contact you before the accident?" Han Yun looked around the living room and finally his eyes fell on Wang Mengxian again and asked.
Wang Mengxian shook his head and replied, "Every time there is an operation to be performed, Master will notify me in advance so that I can prepare. Before his accident, I had never received such a notification."
"Are you the only assistant of Dong Xing?" Su Mo asked from the side.
"It's not a glorious thing for me to be alone, so of course the fewer people who know about it the better. I have been working under my master since I was an intern, so he trusts me very much and knows that I can keep this secret." Wang Mengxian paused and continued, "But before my master got into trouble, he seemed to be very worried and turned down several surgeries arranged by the hospital. You know, if a surgeon can't concentrate, there is a high chance that something will go wrong during the operation . He must stay focused and not be distracted."
"Do you know what distracted him?" Han Yun discovered a scar on Wang Mengxian's wrist, which looked like the result of someone committing suicide by cutting an artery with a knife.
"From the time I followed Master, to the time I worked as his assistant in the operating room, I never saw him like this, so I asked him about it, but Master didn't say anything." Wang Mengxian looked up at Han Yun and said, "I guess what can make Master worried is definitely not a small matter."
"Were you involved in every operation that Dong Xing performed privately?" Han Yun asked.
"I have participated in the past two years. Before that, Master had an assistant. I don't know who it was, and he never told me." Wang Mengxian frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Master just told me that the previous assistant was afraid that the matter would be exposed and affect his professional title, so he stopped working with Master. But I think there must be another reason. As for what the reason is, I don't know, but I can confirm that Master's previous assistant was not a member of our hospital."
"Why are you so sure?" Han Yun asked further.
"I know all the surgeons in our hospital. The most important thing is that when my master came to me, he said that he didn't want to find an assistant in his own hospital, but he had no other candidate except me. I judged from this point that the previous assistant was from another hospital." Wang Mengxian replied.
