Scene 214. Baifan Hospital
It was already evening when I arrived at Baifan Hospital. Reiner asked at the front desk and learned that the injuries from the accident yesterday were all gathered in Building 6.
Walking into Building 6, Reiner saw tired people. In the corridor, the uninjured people were sitting on benches to take care of their family and friends. In the ward, the burned people were lying on the bed, and the doctors and nurses were checking them.
"Thanks to Mrs. Hedwig yesterday, she first discovered the fire and ran all over the building to inform everyone, otherwise we would probably have to die in the apartment."
In the corridor, people exchanged their feelings after the disaster with lingering fear. After experiencing life and death, these people had some different things in their eyes.
"It's a pity that Mother-in-law Hedwig..."
A woman looked gloomy and shook her head.
"Don't talk nonsense, she is still receiving treatment. She has survived so much suffering for so many years. This time she will definitely be fine."
The man beside her said reproachfully, causing the woman to lower her head and stop talking.
"If it weren't for the help of Grandma Hedwig, we might have died in some dark alley. She has done so many good things, why is it always her who is injured!"
A burly man said angrily, clenched his fist and smashed it hard towards the wall.
"If those drug-taking bastards are asked to catch them, they will definitely peel them!"
"I don't know what the doctor said."
An old man said, subconsciously taking out the dry tobacco in his arms, but when he thought that this was the hospital, he put it back.
At this time, the door of a ward was opened, and a doctor walked out with two nurses. The people in the corridor immediately surrounded him and asked in a verbal manner.
"How is Hedwig's mother-in-law?" "Is she okay?" "Can you cure her?" "We can make up the money, please save Hedwig's mother-in-law!"
The doctor was a little surprised. It took him a while to calm the crowd down, and then said.
"The patient's condition is not very good. She inhaled too much smoke. These toxic smoke penetrated into the blood through the lungs, causing great trauma to her internal organs. To be honest, you need to be mentally prepared."
A sigh suddenly came out of the crowd, and people were dissatisfied with different opinions and fell into the noise again.
Reiner walked through the crowd and came to the attending doctor.
"Hello, I'm on the paper review board. I want to find a lady named Oldman, who should be one of the residents of Beren Apartment."
He showed his identity certificate and asked the attending doctor in a low voice. Although he could ask the others present, Reiner felt that the doctor should be the one with the most comprehensive grasp of the situation on the scene, so he came to inquire.
Hearing Reiner's inquiry, the attending doctor's eyes widened slightly. He hesitated for a moment before pointing to the ward he had just walked out.
"If it is a resident of Beren Apartment, then there is only one person with the surname Oldman, and Mrs. Hedwig Oldman in this room."
Reiner was stunned for a moment, then walked into the ward.
This is a single ward, and on the bed in the center of the room, there is a gray-haired old man lying.
When he walked to the bed, Reiner recognized that it was the old lady on the commercial street that day.
In an instant, many things were intertwined in Reiner's mind, and he immediately figured out many things.
Sirius Oldman died a few years ago, while his mother, Hedwig, was determined to make her children's papers re-evaluate and fulfill her long-cherished wish of her deceased son.
Yesterday, Mother-in-law Hedwig should have brought her paper to Reiner for review, but she was delayed by some things and finally found a fire, so she failed to make a trip.
"Siris?"
Grandma Hedwig's consciousness was in a hazy state. She vaguely saw a figure walking towards her and asked subconsciously.
Reiner was stunned.
He didn't know how to deal with the old man. From what he saw, Hedwig's mother-in-law had suffered many serious burns. According to the doctor, the harmful gases produced by the combustion had affected her blood and internal organs. Originally, these could be treated with some expensive means, but Hedwig's body was too weak and could not withstand such surgery at all.
Reiner took the chair next to Hedwig's hospital bed and gently held the other person's hand.
The calloused hand was a little cold, but with a certain force, he held Reiner's hand back.
"Siris, listen to me, I received assistance from a kind-hearted person who told me the address of a review committee member who could help you re-read the paper."
Grandma Hedwig said, a little joy in her weak voice.
"Cyris, Mom believes in you, you are right."
She said, gently patting an iron box placed at the head of the bed with her other hand.
"The fire yesterday was too serious. I couldn't put it out alone, so I could only notify others and let them run away. After I informed me, I remembered that your paper was still in the house. I went back to get it. The house was so hot, and there were fires everywhere, but don't worry, mom protected your paper well... Cough cough cough cough..."
Grandma Hedwig was interrupted by a cough, and her short body was trembling, making people unable to bear to look at her.
"Oh, our home was burned, but it doesn't matter. When your paper is published, we can live in a better house. You have always despised the house for messy. Then, you can call Lesa over. I haven't seen her yet. I'll make your favorite pork pie for you..."
She kept saying, like a mother had seen a child she hadn't seen for a long time.
Maybe Hedwig's mother-in-law knew that she was not facing Siris, but maybe she was willing to be deceived like this, because at least in the hallucination, she could still see her son.
"Siris, the doctor said I'll stay in the hospital for a few more days, so you can send the paper to yourself."
Grandma Hedwig picked up the iron box with her trembling hands, opened it, and carefully took out a stack of parchment from it.
The title is "Study on Integrated Equations About Curve Motion", and the author is Sirius Oldman.
"Look, this is your paper. I can't understand those complicated ones, but I know your name, what a beautiful word, Sirius."
He took the paper from his mother-in-law Hedwig and Reiner found that a small piece of paper fell from the paper.
He bent down and picked up the piece of paper.
It was torn from a corner of the notebook, a piece of yellowed paper.
There is a sentence written on it in a somewhat crooked but extremely clear handwriting.
Chapter completed!