roccoschili Chapter 130 Almost died
Chapter 130 Almost died
Ye Nuan was stunned by these words.
She meant well, so why doesn't this person appreciate it?
The brigade leader said with a stern face, "Blind Wang, don't cause trouble! This is for the good of the whole village. You just tell us to send our goods to the purchasing station. Everyone knows it's because your son works there. There's nothing wrong with sending them there, but why is the price we get for them lower than before?"
Someone in the crowd shouted indignantly, "That's right! Why is it even lower than before? We all work so hard to collect herbs so that our families can have a decent meal and make some clothes. But the price keeps going down, what benefits are we ordinary people getting!"
"Exactly, why should we have to consider your son's feelings? Why doesn't he suggest raising the price for us?"
"They're just taking advantage of our good temper, thinking we're all soft-hearted!"
With everyone chiming in, Ye Nuan quickly figured out the cause and effect of the matter.
The youngest son of this blind man, Wang, got a job at the recycling station last year. He walks with a swagger and looks down on people.
To put it bluntly, they look down on people from the countryside because they think they have urban residency.
Ye Nuan thought about it. For their hospital, the purchasing station was just an extra checkpoint. However, the people at the purchasing station might not know about medicinal herbs. It would be easier to tell if it was grain or vegetables, since they were commonplace and easy to identify.
However, the grading of medicinal herbs is quite different.
Different grades naturally have different prices.
Ye Nuan knew that ordinary people were having a hard time, so she wanted to help them if she could.
Moreover, the hospital uses a large amount of medicinal materials. In particular, Director Su said that since she came, the hospital's Chinese medicine consumption has obviously decreased much faster.
"Captain, let's settle things like this for now. I'll come back tomorrow afternoon."
"Okay, thank you for your help, Dr. Ye."
"You're welcome. We're all serving the people."
Ye Nuan mentioned this to Director Su first, and then Director Su took her to see the dean.
This kind of thing could actually be resolved by going directly to the pharmacy, but Director Su didn't have a good relationship with the leaders there, and he was also worried that Ye Nuan was too inexperienced and her words wouldn't carry much weight, so he came to the hospital director.
The dean thought it was acceptable, but the quantity of medicinal herbs was still insufficient.
"Dean, let's give it a try first. The main thing is that this way our comrades can directly deal with those villagers and see the quality of the medicinal herbs. If it really doesn't work, we can sort them by grade ourselves and then pack them up and bring them back. What do you say?"
The dean still values Ye Nuan highly.
After all, with such a high-profile patient as Zhang Shiqing coming to their hospital, this is definitely a great opportunity to enhance the hospital's reputation.
“Sure. I’ll take care of this. We’ll go directly to the village committee there, so everything, from receipts to money, will be aboveboard and we won’t have to worry about anyone messing around.”
"Thank you, Dean."
Ye Nuan did this casually, without any particular purpose.
But she never expected that this casual act would almost cost her her life.
Ye Nuan got off the bus and was heading home after work when she saw a crowd of people gathered at the entrance of the compound. Some she knew, and some she didn't.
Ye Nuan frowned. Was someone here to cause trouble?
She wasn't planning on watching the commotion; she just wanted to get home and cook.
Just as she was about to enter the compound, an old man came straight at her, brandishing a sickle!
Ye Nuan reacted relatively quickly, but the sickle still managed to slice off the tip of her hair.
"Don't move!"
Right at the entrance of the compound, this is extremely egregious!
Two soldiers rushed over and pinned the old man to the ground, while an old woman beside him cried and shouted, "The soldiers are beating people! The soldiers are killing people!"
Ye Nuan was terrified.
He was the one being attacked, so why was this old woman shouting the opposite?
This is a serious matter; the deputy regimental commander's wife was almost stabbed to death. This is no joke!
Jiang Yongzhou had someone call Gu Hanchuan over. At the same time, Han Jinzhong called the nearby commune. Soon, the commune secretary and several village cadres arrived.
The one who attacked Ye Nuan was that one-eyed blind man, Dragon King.
The one who kept crying and making a fuss was his wife.
Several other people who joined in the disturbance were relatives of the Wang family; they have all been subdued and are currently detained.
Even if Ye Nuan doesn't pursue this matter, Jiang Yongzhou won't let it go easily.
"In broad daylight, right in front of our residential compound, they dared to lay a knife on our family members, almost killing them. How do you grassroots cadres usually conduct ideological work among the villagers?"
The commune secretary never expected that an old man could cause such a big mess.
The captain's face was deathly pale, and his legs were trembling.
"It's all our fault. Dr. Ye specially helped us contact the hospital's purchasing department to directly supply the medicinal herbs in our village so that we could earn more income. Everyone was happy, but this blind man Wang was not happy. He felt that this was not supporting his son's work, so he instigated his relatives to come and cause trouble."
But this was a decision made collectively by the village. Even without Doctor Ye's help, we village officials were already thinking of other ways to get the medicinal herbs sent to higher authorities. Who would have thought that Blind Wang would be so audacious as to come here and cause trouble!
The commune secretary had already heard about the medicinal herb purchase on his way here.
Based on his years of experience as a cadre, he had a gut feeling that there must be something else going on here.
"Rest assured, leaders, we will investigate this matter thoroughly. As for Blind Wang and his relatives, we have no objection to how you deal with them. We will also send people to investigate the purchasing station."
"You? You're just a commune secretary. How can you investigate things in the county seat? Is the purchasing station under your jurisdiction?"
The commune secretary was sweating profusely, and after stammering for a long time, he still didn't say anything.
Zheng Fu shouted from outside the door, "Report!"
"come in."
Zheng Fu was sent by Jiang Yongzhou to the purchasing station to investigate the purchase of medicinal herbs, but he didn't expect to return so quickly.
"Reporting to Political Commissar Jiang, the matter has been investigated and clarified. That purchasing agent surnamed Wang deliberately deducted five cents from every pound of medicinal herbs. It didn't take much effort; just looking at their purchasing station's booklet made it clear. To make sure things weren't unclear, I even invited the comrades from the purchasing station over."
Inside the office, there were several villagers who had come along to persuade him, and upon hearing this, they all became furious, their faces turning red with anger.
"That damned bastard, he actually dared to pull this trick again! He's a complete scoundrel!"
"Well, no wonder our medicinal herbs haven't fetched a good price since he went to the purchasing station. It turns out all the money is going into his own pocket. And Blind Wang still dares to say that bastard is doing it for our own good? This kind of scoundrel should be shot!"