That morning, Xiao Lou turned on his computer and searched through the "Alumni Directory" section of the Medical School's forum. This section was specifically for students from different classes to contact each other after graduation. Xiao Lou quickly found the class information of Cheng Shaofeng and his senior, Lin Rongrong.
Cheng Shaofeng and Lin Rongrong both belonged to the Department of Clinical Medicine. The year Cheng Shaofeng enrolled, Zhao Sen and Lin Rongrong were both juniors, two years ahead of Cheng Shaofeng. Coincidentally, there was a male doctor named Li Ran in the Department of General Surgery who was Lin Rongrong's classmate during her university years. So, during her lunch break, Xiao Lou grabbed a cup of coffee and went to chat with this colleague to get some information out of him.
Xiao Lou first inquired about the conditions of several patients under his care, and then shifted the topic to Lin Rongrong: "By the way, Dr. Li, you graduated from medical school, right? Do you know Lin Rongrong from Clinical Class 1?"
Li Ran laughed and said, " Lin Rongrong? Of course I know him. He was in our class, and we even shared a dorm room in college."
Xiao Lou saw Dr. Li every day on her way to work, never expecting that such an important clue was actually right next to her. Xiao Lou pulled up a chair, sat down, and casually asked while sipping her coffee, "Where did your roommate go after graduation? It seems like he's not in our hospital anymore?"
"He didn't become a doctor." Li Ran looked at Xiao Lou with a puzzled expression. "Why are you suddenly bringing him up?"
"Oh, a friend of mine, we were good buddies in college, he asked me yesterday if I could help him find out anything about him." Xiao Lou casually made up an excuse.
"I see... Actually, I don't know where he went after graduation either." Li Ran smiled apologetically.
"Oh? Don't you guys keep in touch with your college roommates?" Xiao Lou asked.
"It's a long story," Li Ran coughed lightly and said, " Although Lin Rongrong and I are roommates, we're not very close. When I first went to the dorm in my freshman year, I saw my roommate's name posted on the door and wondered why the name Lin Rongrong sounded like a girl's. Later, he came into the dorm carrying a suitcase, and it turned out he was a very handsome and fair-skinned boy. He had a cold personality, and we didn't dare to talk to him much."
Was he not popular in college?
"He was rather withdrawn, always going to the library to study alone and never chatting with his classmates. We liked to play games together back then, but he never joined in. However, his grades were really good; he received scholarships every year." Li Ran sighed and shook her head, "Alas, what a pity. Back in Medical School, we all thought he would be the most promising among our classmates, but he got into graduate school and didn't go to study."
"You passed the exam but didn't go? Did something happen?"
"Something happened to his family. I heard he never had a father and was raised by his mother alone. He had been accepted into our hospital's graduate program the year he graduated, but on the day of his graduate school interview, his mother passed away from uremia. He missed the interview and his best opportunity." Li Ran spoke of this with a look of regret on her face, clearly feeling sorry for her roommate.
"Uremia?" Xiao Lou was slightly taken aback. This is a difficult syndrome to manage in the late stages of chronic kidney disease, requiring hemodialysis, which is not only expensive but also quite strenuous for patients. The only way to completely improve the symptoms of uremia is through a kidney transplant.
A hypothesis gradually emerged in Xiao Lou's mind, and he continued to ask, "Is Lin Rongrong's family not well-off? Don't they have the money to pay for his mother's kidney transplant?"
"Yes. His family lives in a remote rural area. His mother doesn't have a stable income and can only survive on welfare. During his university years, he applied for scholarships every year and worked part-time to support himself. He was probably too busy, so he rarely hung out with us." Li Ran leaned back in her chair, her face full of helplessness. "His family is so poor. Let alone the money for his kidney transplant, he saved up every penny his mother needed for dialysis. I once saw him eating instant noodles in his dorm for a whole week. He was so thin when he was in school, he looked malnourished, and it broke my heart to see him like that."
"After his mother passed away, didn't he retake the postgraduate entrance exam? With his grades, he could have passed it even if he studied for another year, right?"
"This incident probably hit him hard. He even posted on his WeChat Moments, saying, 'What's the use of studying medicine? I can't even save my own family.' Perhaps he was disheartened, because he didn't take the postgraduate entrance exam or become a doctor." Dr. Zhao paused, then said, "Anyway, it's been so many years since graduation, and he never attends our class reunions or contacts us. I don't know where he works."
"By the way, which subject did he take for his postgraduate entrance exam?" Xiao Lou asked carefully.
" Professor Lin from the Cardiovascular Surgery Department was competing with Zhao Sen, who was in the same year. He had higher grades in theoretical courses than Zhao Sen, and Professor Lin reportedly liked him quite a bit. Unfortunately, he didn't attend the interview, so Professor Lin ultimately accepted Zhao Sen as his student." Li Ran paused, then smiled and said, "That's our hospital …" You should know Zhao Sen from the Cardiovascular Surgery Department, right?
"Yes, I know him," Xiao Lou said. "I heard from my friend that Lin Rongrong and Cheng Shaofeng are quite close. Do you know Cheng Shaofeng?"
"I know, they met at the welcome party. Lin Rongrong plays the guitar really well, supposedly self-taught, and she's incredibly talented. That year, our class really didn't have any performances for the welcome party, and our homeroom teacher knew he could play the guitar, so she forced him to do one. Coincidentally, Cheng Shaofeng also liked playing the guitar, and after meeting backstage, they gradually became close." Li Ran scratched the back of his head and said, " Cheng Shaofeng was like a little fanboy, always calling me'senior,' and he often came to our dorm to get study materials. Lin Rongrong was very generous, lending him all her notes."
"Brother. Their relationship is much closer than ours is."
" Cheng Shaofeng called him... senior?"
"Yeah, Lin Rongrong is two years ahead of Cheng Shaofeng, so it's only right that she calls him senior."
—It seems Zhao Sen wasn't lying about this. Cheng Shaofeng and Lin Rongrong are indeed very close, as their classmates all know.
After listening, Xiao Lou was finally able to sort out the cause and effect.
Cheng Shaofeng and Lin Rongrong had a good relationship during university. Lin Rongrong was a great help to Cheng Shaofeng and should be a senior he respected very much. Calling him "senior" during university was out of politeness, and calling him " Brother Rong " after graduation is also reasonable.
Lin Rongrong's mother died of uremia. After years of studying medicine, he was unable to save his only relative and, disheartened, gave up on postgraduate studies. Given his impoverished upbringing, he might develop a twisted mentality and turn to crime, using his medical knowledge to make exorbitant profits.
He pursued graduate studies in Cardiovascular Surgery and even worked as an operating room assistant during his internship, clearly demonstrating his strong interest in heart surgery. He was self-taught in guitar, proving himself to be quite intelligent. Although he didn't become a doctor, his academic performance was excellent, his foundation solid, and with several years of self-study and practice on cadavers, he might have mastered procedures like heart and kidney removal. However, due to his lack of clinical experience, oversights were inevitable during surgery, leading to serious postoperative complications and deaths in some patients…
Xiao Lou thought about it more and more and felt that his speculation was very reasonable, so he immediately told Yu Hanjiang about this information.
At the same time, Xiao Lou also raised his doubts: "There is one thing that cannot be explained at present. Lin Rongrong comes from a poor family and probably doesn't have many powerful or influential relatives. With his own abilities, it would be difficult for him to build a large-scale organ transplant organization. I am more inclined to believe that he is a doctor in charge of surgery in this organization, rather than the head of the organization."
Yu Hanjiang had already arranged for his colleagues to investigate the household registration information, work history, bank statements and social relationships of all suspects.
After hearing Xiao Lou's analysis, he agreed, saying, " Lin Rongrong is indeed highly suspicious. My investigation shows that after graduating, he didn't become a doctor but went to work for a pharmaceutical company, doing research in the research department. The company he worked for was called 'Huaxin Pharmaceutical,' and its business license has already been revoked by the drug regulatory authority. The company's boss... guess who?"
"Could it be Rong Cheng?" Xiao Lou gently stroked his chin and analyzed, " Rong Cheng, the pharmaceutical company owner who was sentenced for selling counterfeit and substandard drugs that caused many people to be hospitalized, his company's business license must have been revoked, right?"
"That's right," Yu Hanjiang said. " Lin Rongrong is indeed an employee of this Boss Rong."
"They actually have this kind of connection... So where did Lin Rongrong go after Rong Cheng was arrested and imprisoned?"
"Her whereabouts are unknown, which is what I suspect most." Yu Hanjiang paused for a moment, picked up a document in his hand, turned to the last page, and said in a low voice, "There is also good news: Song Xiaoqing's identity has been confirmed."
" That woman who bought the house from He Rong? Could she also be connected to these people?"
"Yes, she's a wealthy woman who used to be in the medical device business. Her brother is the biggest real estate developer in the city; the Jinxiu Villa project in Qingshui Town was developed by her brother's company. She and Rong Cheng were in a relationship. When Rong Cheng was arrested, the police suspected her, but there was no evidence. The source and destination of her company's medical devices, and all the accounts, were very clean. After Rong Cheng went to prison, she broke up with him and hasn't visited him in prison in the past few years. On the surface, the two have completely cut off contact." Yu Hanjiang picked up his pen, highlighting key points on the documents as he spoke, "After investigating, I discovered that these people are actually intricately connected."
Who is the prime suspect?
Yu Hanjiang shared all the clues they had found so far in the group chat, and his teammates were getting more and more frustrated.
Xiao Lou carefully reviewed the information about these people and typed out his analysis: " Lin Rongrong is very likely the doctor who performed the surgery at the shady clinic. I don't think he's the Brother Rong that Cheng Shaofeng mentioned. When Liu Qiao was on her way to the airport with Cheng Shaofeng, Cheng Shaofeng called Brother Rong and said he would arrive in half an hour. It sounded like this Brother Rong was a very influential person; Cheng Shaofeng even had to report to him about his escape. Moreover, Brother Rong even arranged for a driver to run over Cheng Shaofeng to silence him... Lin Rongrong doesn't have that kind of ability, does he? Could he be Boss Rong from the pharmaceutical company?"
Boss Rong ran a pharmaceutical company that sold counterfeit drugs and made a lot of dirty money. Although his property was confiscated after he went to prison, who knows if he had already transferred his assets abroad? Moreover, Yu Hanjiang found out that his last appearance was on an international flight. Did he really go abroad, or was he using going abroad as a cover to secretly plan something?
Perhaps he had already established this underground organ trafficking organization when he was selling counterfeit drugs?
With so many suspects whose names contain the character "rong", who is Brother Rong, who is a member of the organization, and who is a distractor?
To help his teammates understand, Yu Hanjiang summarized the current clues—
" Zhu Qingrong had her medical license revoked for manslaughter; Lin Rongrong was disheartened with studying medicine after her mother's death; both of them could potentially become psychologically twisted and go to extremes, turning into executioners in the dark operating room."
" Rong Cheng, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, is wealthy and has a criminal record for selling counterfeit drugs; He Rong, with a large amount of money of unknown origin, plus his uncle being Shao Qingge's father's assistant, owns an entertainment club and knows many powerful people; both of them have the capital and strength to establish a huge underground organ trafficking organization."
"There is also Nie Rong, who was sentenced to prison for embezzling public funds. Although he is not a major suspect, he cannot be completely ruled out."
Long Sen, his head aching, pressed his temples and said, "I feel like everyone is a suspect, but everyone is just a little bit off?"
Qu Wanyue said, "I also think that with this series of cases uncovered, several suspects have been brought up, and they are all related to each other. Could it be that we have only touched the periphery of the organization and have not yet reached the real core?"
Yu Hanjiang raised a question: "Do you all think that if Cheng Shaofeng calls someone ' Brother Rong,' that person's name must contain the character 'Rong'?"
Everyone was slightly taken aback when they saw this sentence.
Out of habit, Cheng Shaofeng calls him " Brother Rong," and the other person is either called "XX Rong" or has the surname Rong...
But what if " Brother Rong " is just a code name?
Yu Hanjiang said, "We need to continue investigating these people. I'm heading to Qingshui Town now. @Xiao Ye @Lao Mo, you'll come with me to Uncle Zhong's 60th birthday celebration tomorrow."
Xiao Lou said through the Telepathic Connection channel, "I'll go with you." He had a feeling that something bad would happen tomorrow, and this ominous premonition made Xiao Lou unable to feel at ease about Yu Hanjiang's operation.
Yu Hanjiang said, "You haven't had a proper rest these past few days. Xiao Ye and Lao Mo are both here, so you don't need to go so far. Just stay at the hospital and wait for my news."
Xiao Lou insisted, "I'll take a day off tomorrow and go with you."
Knowing that Xiao Lou was worried about him, Yu Hanjiang couldn't refuse and could only say, "Okay, then I 'll pick you up from the hospital around 6 p.m. tonight."
...
At 6 p.m., Xiao Lou asked for leave, went back to the duty room to change his clothes, and went to the place he had agreed to meet with Yu Hanjiang.
The two had dinner together, and Yu Hanjiang drove Xiao Lou off. To avoid making too much of a commotion, he didn't use a police car this time, but his own private sedan. The car quickly entered the highway, and Xiao Lou sat in the passenger seat, tilting his head as if deep in thought.
Yu Hanjiang looked at his profile and asked in a low voice, "What are you thinking about so seriously?"
Xiao Lou frowned, deep in thought: "I have a feeling that we've missed some important clues."
Yu Hanjiang said, "I've investigated everything that needs to be investigated. What else is missing?"
Xiao Lou thought carefully for a moment, then his eyes lit up. He turned to look at him and said, "That's right, Liu Renyuan's kidney! At first in Morgue, we discovered that Liu Renyuan's kidney had disappeared. Later, we suspected that his kidney had been given to CEO Shao, right? But it turned out that the genes were wrong. CEO Shao's kidney came from deliveryman Wang Wei. Liu Renyuan's kidney was transplanted to a woman named Luo Yuwei. Have you looked into her?"
Yu Hanjiang was silent for a moment before saying in a low voice, "Of course I won't miss any of the information you told me. However, the results of the investigation are disappointing—this Luo Yuwei died at home at the end of last year."
"Dead?" Xiao Lou's eyes widened slightly. "Was he murdered? Or did he die of illness?"
"She died of illness," Yu Hanjiang said. "According to the autopsy results, she died from a rejection reaction after a kidney transplant. Her family had already immigrated, so this lead has gone cold."
Xiao Lou frowned.
What else is being overlooked by them?
Teacher Qu said, "Pulling out a radish brings out mud," but perhaps all of this is just "mud." Where exactly is the radish's true "root"?