Chapter 2097: Chapter 2057: Construction Site Collapse Accident
It was almost lunchtime, and Wang Yulian had already asked the nanny in the kitchen to start making lunch, but at this moment, Zhou Wenting received a phone call.
"Ye Qiu, something’s happened."
Something happened?
What happened?
"There’s been an accident at the construction site, part of it collapsed."
The construction site collapsed?
Actually, with large-scale projects, this kind of thing happens from time to time; it’s just that some cases get exposed and some don’t.
"Anyone dead?"
"They’re still rescuing people over there. Let’s hurry over now."
There was no way they could sit down to lunch now; confirming the number of casualties was the priority.
Wang Yulian still didn’t know what was going on, but Ye Qiu and Zhou Wenting were already in the car. As Ye Qiu pulled away from the villa, he headed straight toward the Jiangbei Development Zone.
Originally, these were engineering crews from the Su Group’s real estate company, and they’d started work under strict standards, but no matter what, there are always lapses.
Just now, for reasons nobody understood yet, a section of scaffolding suddenly collapsed. A few migrant workers who were working there, along with the engineer directing operations below, were all hit by the falling structure.
Those were iron frames; being crushed by that is basically a one-in-ten-thousand chance of survival.
They were rescuing people while calling nearby hospitals, but no one called the police. In matters like this, dealing with it quietly is better.
That’s how it is from top to bottom.
As for compensation, they’d pay whatever needed to be paid later; if things got noisy before it was handled, that would definitely be bad.
Ye Qiu was driving well over the speed limit; he hadn’t expected the site would really have an accident.
That morning, Ye Qiu had already told Zhou Wenting not to rush the project, and now, before lunchtime, this had happened.
Safety hazards like this don’t appear overnight; they’re the result of long-term neglect.
Last year, when that Imperial Cuisine Restaurant was being renovated, that kid had almost gotten into trouble because of the construction too, and it was Ye Qiu who pulled him back from the brink.
Places where someone’s died are never good, no matter how you look at it.
But for many large projects, this kind of thing is almost unavoidable; if you can keep blood off your hands, that’s obviously the best outcome.
Of course, besides Zhou Wenting, who already knew about it, Su Wen of the Su Family had just received a call as well.
There’d been a collapse accident at a construction site.
He was already very experienced with this sort of thing. After all, his real estate company was huge, and accidents like this happened from time to time; there were established procedures for handling them.
After finding out, Su Wen thought for a moment and decided to inform his daughter, Su Luoluo.
Su Luoluo was in class. There was still half an hour before the class ended, so when she saw her father calling, she was a bit surprised.
She raised her hand, walked out of the classroom, and quickly picked up the call. "Hello, Dad, what is it?"
"There’s a problem with Ye Qiu’s lab."
A problem?
"Dad, what kind of problem?"
Su Luoluo hurriedly asked.
"There’s been a collapse at the construction site. We don’t know how many casualties there are yet."
When she heard that the accident was at Ye Qiu’s antiviral drug research lab site, Su Luoluo couldn’t help feeling worried.
"Dad, then I’ll tell Ye Qiu."
In fact, ever since a few days ago, when Ye Qiu told Su Wen to secretly acquire the surrounding plots near the abandoned building, and then completely solved the problem there and turned the place into a Feng Shui treasure, Su Wen already knew this Ye Qiu was anything but ordinary.
Chances were, the Su Family’s development in real estate over the next ten years would rely on this one favor from Ye Qiu, so Su Wen was truly grateful to him.
He’d just underestimated Ye Qiu before; only now was he realizing Ye Qiu was far more capable than he’d imagined.
Ye Qiu was speeding, and when his phone rang, he could only have Zhou Wenting in the passenger seat pick it up.
Zhou Wenting grabbed the phone and saw that it was a call from Su Luoluo.
"Ye Qiu, it’s that eldest miss from the Su Family calling."
"Then you answer it."
"Ye Qiu, something happened at the construction site."
On the other end, Su Luoluo spoke anxiously.
"Miss Su, Ye Qiu already knows; he’s driving right now," Zhou Wenting said.
On the other end, Su Luoluo froze for a second. She’d thought Ye Qiu didn’t know yet and she’d be the first to inform him, but it turned out he was already aware.
Su Luoluo felt a bit awkward, and she didn’t know who this woman answering the phone for Ye Qiu was.
"As long as he knows," Su Luoluo said.
After she hung up, Ye Qiu had no interest in guessing what Su Luoluo was thinking. Right now, all he cared about was that nobody at the construction site died, and that the injured were at least still breathing.
"What’s the casualty situation at the site?" Zhou Wenting called a site supervisor.
"President Zhou, we’ve already carried eight people out. All of them are seriously injured, and they’ve been rushed to the hospital by ambulance."
"No deaths yet, right?"
"Not for the moment."
Hearing that no one had died yet, Zhou Wenting let out a breath of relief.
Even if this would still mean compensation and penalties later.
But as long as there were no deaths, everything would be much easier to handle.
"Is anyone still trapped?"
"There’s one person who’s been crushed badly; we’re still trying to get him out. Looks like nine injured in total."
After finishing the call with the supervisor, Zhou Wenting told Ye Qiu, "Ye Qiu, the injured have already been sent to Jiangbei People’s Hospital nearby for treatment."
If that was the case, Ye Qiu would definitely head to Jiangbei People’s Hospital, because his previous self had grown up in Jiangbei and he was very familiar with the place.
Driving at high speed, it took him less than an hour to reach the entrance of Jiangbei People’s Hospital. He slammed on the brakes and stopped right in front; he didn’t bother looking for a parking space—saving people came first.
He and Zhou Wenting got out of the car and hurried inside.
At this moment, all eight patients were in the emergency room undergoing treatment.
Chances were one or two of them were already on the verge of dying.
A site supervisor who’d accompanied them over was still wearing a white safety helmet. When he saw Zhou Wenting, he rushed up and said, "President Zhou, those migrant worker brothers are all inside being resuscitated."
"I’m afraid two or three of them might not make it," the supervisor had just finished saying when Ye Qiu immediately moved to go check on them.
He knew that with the current level of Medical Skills, they probably wouldn’t be able to save them.
But Ye Qiu was different.
The emergency room doors were still shut, but Ye Qiu didn’t care. He kicked the door open and rushed in, seeing the ER doctors and nurses working frantically to save the patients.
"Who are you?" The attending doctor in the emergency room was stunned.
How could someone just kick the ER door open and barge in?
Was this young man here to kill these migrant workers?
