Chapter 16 Zhao Di Opens Her Eyes

Not long after Wu Peng left, Zhao Di, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened her eyes slowly.

The police station immediately received the news. Zhang Lin rushed over to understand the situation. After examining Zhao Di, the doctor told Zhang Lin, "Now the patient's eyelids can open, and the eyeballs move aimlessly. She can't speak, can't understand language, and sometimes even if her eyes can focus, she can't recognize things. At this stage, she has lost the ability to eat independently, can't express hunger or fullness, but occasionally swallows. Currently, her intelligence, thoughts, will, and purposeful activities such as emotions have all been lost. Even if her limbs sometimes have flexural avoidance reactions to painful stimuli, she still cannot move or change position on her own. She can only lie in bed and must be cared for and looked after."

Zhang Lin looked at Zhao Di, who was lying on the bed with her eyes open and a numb expression on her face, and frowned, "Is there any possibility that she can recover to normal?"

The doctor pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "In clinical practice, the vast majority of vegetative people cannot recover. This must be made clear. Some patients may achieve a relatively awakened state through arousal surgery, but this technique is very difficult and has many surgical contraindications."

"So, she won't wake up."

The doctor hesitated for a few seconds: "What I just said is the general probability, but the human body is a very delicate instrument, and it cannot be ruled out that unexpected situations will occur. However, in real clinical practice, this proportion is very, very small. At least our hospital has not seen it before. Many patients can only maintain the status quo without getting worse, which is a relatively good state. What we can do now is to prevent the occurrence of complications, reduce some adverse conditions, and maintain the normal state of life as much as possible."

Zhang Lin knew that the doctor wouldn't give him a definitive answer, but these words were no different from a definitive answer.

Zhao Di has lost her cognitive and activity abilities at this time, but her brainstem still has function and can still digest and absorb. There are currently no special drugs for treatment, so doctors are mostly treating her conservatively, only maintaining her body. But she can't go home and has to stay in the hospital all the time. Plus, no one in the Lin Yang family is willing to take care of her every day, so she needs to hire a caregiver to watch her all the time. These costs add up every moment and every day, which is a big burden for Lin Yang, whose earning ability is average.

Lin Yang was distraught because of the money. His parents cursed at home every day, cursing Jia Wenjun for being vicious, cursing Zhao Di for not dying outside, and cursing the hospital for not having a kind heart and still thinking about collecting money from the victim.

Lin Yang was so annoyed that he went out for a drink on the side of the road. Suddenly, he saw a social emotional program being broadcast on the TV screen. The host was calling on everyone to donate to that poor family. It was as if he thought of something, and he laughed all of a sudden.

The news that Zhao Di, who had disappeared on the Seashell, had "come back to life" and had returned to the city hospital for treatment spread like wildfire.

The first batch of reporters who heard the news had already arrived at the hospital.

Zhao Di's husband, Lin Yang, accepted the interview. Facing the camera, he looked like a devoted man guarding his vegetative wife, taking care of her, and waiting for her to wake up.

After the media's hype, the uninformed citizens scolded Jia Wenjun, who had caused Zhao Di to become a vegetable.

Jia Wenjun in the detention center didn't know what was happening outside, but her parents had to endure the pointing fingers and malicious insults from strangers, so that the old couple didn't dare to go out unless necessary. But even so, they couldn't stop those with "a sense of justice" from throwing garbage at their door and sticking white paper with the words "murderer" written on it.

Jia's father was almost angered into the hospital. Before, when he learned that Zhao Di was not dead, the old couple were so excited, thinking that their daughter finally had hope of clearing her name. But they didn't expect that Zhao Di had finally woken up, but she couldn't say anything at all, and couldn't testify for her daughter.

What made them even more angry was that Lin Yang's family came to their door several times and asked them to pay a huge sum of money, saying that as long as they gave the money and were responsible for Zhao Di's expenses in the hospital, the matter of Jia Wenjun harming Zhao Di would be settled privately.

Jia's father believed that his daughter had nothing to do with this matter, so it was impossible for him to give them money. Moreover, Wu Peng had already given them a preventive shot earlier, saying that intentional homicide was a public prosecution case, and criminal responsibility could not be settled privately. If Zhao Di really couldn't wake up and they had to bear this blame, they would only pay for medical expenses and other expenses after the court ruled. He couldn't let the Lin Yang family ask for compensation like a lion opening its mouth now.

The Lin Yang family contacted the media because they saw that they couldn't get money from Jia Wenjun's parents, wanting to use public opinion to put pressure on the Jia family and the court.

At this time, the police station, based on the clues provided by Old Li, started investigating again based on the principle of not wronging good people and not letting go of bad people.

Wu Peng came back from Teacher Lin's house with the agreement he had signed with her. With this, the old man would be fine.

Most of the time, problems that can be solved with money are not problems. What money can't solve is the real problem.

Before returning to the community, he deliberately drove to the fruit shop near the animal hospital to buy fruit. He knew that Baima Shan's office was on the second floor of the pet hospital. Usually, Baima Shan's office would be lit at this time, but as of today, his office had not been lit for three consecutive days.

He walked into the pet hospital and asked the staff about dog food problems, and casually asked, "Is your director here?"

A female employee said, "The director is sick and hasn't been here for the past few days."

"Really? What's wrong?"

Wu Peng looked good, and young girls liked to talk to him. Moreover, he had come to see Director Bai before, and these people knew they were acquainted, so they told him, "A bad cold, it hasn't gotten better. He's afraid of infecting us, so he didn't come."

Wu Peng thought for a while and chatted for a while before leaving.

Back in the community, he first went to Jia Wenjun's house. There were still traces of graffiti on the door and walls of Jia's house. If you smelled it carefully, there was still a faint stench.

Since the community strengthened security, there were fewer people who came to "act chivalrously", but one would still pop up from time to time, so that Jia Wenjun's parents had to put up signs at the door: There are cameras, disturbances will be investigated.

Wu Peng knocked on the door and went in, telling the old couple about the current situation of the police's reinvestigation and some of the conditions after he went to ask Zhao Di's attending doctor.

After listening to Wu Peng, Jia's father was silent for a long time. It seemed that the possibility of Zhao Di's recovery was already very slim. Although he had known that this was likely to be the case, the old couple still couldn't hide the disappointment on their faces when they heard it from Wu Peng.

Jia's father had mostly black hair before, but since his daughter's accident, he now had a full head of white hair.

Seeing his hands trembling a little, Wu Peng didn't know how to comfort them, so he could only get up to help the two old people make a simple dinner before leaving.

When he went out, he specially looked at the door of Baima Shan's house across the street.

When he was chatting with Jia Wenjun's parents just now, he also asked about Baima Shan. Because people had been making trouble outside the door these days, Jia's father and mother paid close attention to the movements outside. As soon as they heard any movement, they would look at the peephole. They said that they had seen Baima Shan going in and out several times these days, and he didn't look like he was sick.

After what happened to his own old man, Wu Peng became more and more suspicious of Baima Shan. He couldn't find Baima Shan's handle before, but now that Zhao Di is back, if Baima Shan is that person, he doesn't believe that he can hold back.