Chapter 315: Chapter 315: Inside and Outside the Red Dust
Director Tao of the county hospital office has been leading a routine life these days, drinking when he feels like it, playing mahjong when he feels like it, and singing karaoke when he feels like it.
In his own opinion, all of this is work-related. As the director of the hospital office and the direct confidant of the hospital director, he has to worry about everything, from the procurement of medical equipment to the procurement of drugs. As for some problems within the hospital system, such as the evaluation of professional titles and the distribution of benefits, these are also his responsibilities. He always says that he always acts impartially, but people still go to him in private to do their work.
So, although his position is unremarkable among the many large and small officials in the entire county, the owner of the county's tobacco and alcohol recycling store knows that the business of Director Tao's family in a month is equivalent to that of two or three powerful section chiefs in several departments of the county.
This is the way it is in small, economically underdeveloped counties. The two departments of health and family planning seem to have no real power, but they are actually very lucrative. On the contrary, in some places, the public security departments, whether they are the criminal police or the traffic police, have very high incomes, but they don't have many civil disputes, even fewer criminal cases, and the cars on the road are either state-run company vehicles or government vehicles. There is nowhere to fleece them.
Director Tao had long since forgotten about that little incident involving Yu Lian. In recent years, it had not been the first time he had encountered an ignorant young person like that. For him, in terms of his position, apart from the salary, there was also material income and sexual benefits. As for possible consequences, what consequences would there be? In the past two years, there had not been just one or two girls who had obeyed him and still ended up not being able to enter the county hospital. Were there any after-effects? Not at all.
He understood the minds of these young girls very well. Having encountered such things, those girls had always swallowed their pain and didn't even dare to tell their families.
So, he never noticed that someone had been following him these days. He got up at 7 o'clock, and that person got up even earlier than him. When he went to work, that person pretended to be a family member of a hospitalized patient and kept a close watch on him. When he had things to do in the evening and didn't go home until the early morning, that person would make sure to see the lights in his house go out before going to bed.
That person, Liu Jianbing, is the owner of a business company in the provincial capital. This is the title on his business card. This is also an industry that emerged only after the reform and opening up. It has always wandered in a gray area. For example, he has actually not even registered the business with the industry and commerce administration. The office is in a rented house. The main business is to help people investigate third parties. In addition, he also takes some orders to investigate the financial situation of creditors.
This is the simplest but lucrative job he has ever had. He just needs to find some evidence to get the small director of the county hospital to lose his job without affecting the innocent. It would be even better if he could ruin his reputation. When the order was placed, the client had already given him 15,000 yuan, and there would be another 15,000 yuan after the job was done.
This money is almost like picking it up. These petty officials in small counties only kowtow before their superiors and hold their tails between their legs. Elsewhere, they flaunt themselves around, and they are even less aware of counter-surveillance than those local bosses who, with a few bad investments, are busy looking for mistresses 2, 3, 4, and 5.
After following him for a week, Liu Jianbing has already collected enough evidence to incriminate the director, as well as the identities of the people he has socialised with during the week. Meanwhile, the director feels no remorse at all. Just this week, for example, he called a new nurse into his office twice during her evening shift to discuss work matters behind closed doors.
Not only that, but not to mention the activities during social engagements, the director also has an affair with the deputy head nurse of the hospital, and it seems that it is not a one-day or two-day relationship. This week, when the deputy head nurse was resting during the day, they spent more than two hours fooling around in the house while her husband was at work.
Staying downstairs in the inconspicuous van, Liu Jianbing clearly used the lens of his camera to capture the scene of Director Tao on the fourth floor, shirtless, with a belly as big as a woman in her eighth month of pregnancy, pulling the curtains of the deputy head nurse's bedroom.
What a piece of shit! Liu Jianbing, who had been a soldier for a few years, couldn't help but curse. If this Tao person had put as much effort into his work as he did into money and sex, the management level of this hospital would at least improve by a few percentage points.
Liu Jianbing was just feeling a sense of nostalgia. He had seen a lot of things over the years, and he had long since lost his cheap sense of justice. He decided to investigate the husband of the deputy head nurse. He felt deep sympathy for the man he had yet to meet, and perhaps the problem could be solved with him. Of course, the employer would have to decide how to go about it.
Feng Yiping and the others had been on Putuo Mountain for two days, and none of them had said they were tired of playing yet.
What they like is not only the sea and the beach, but also the many Zen gardens in the mountains, which naturally give people a sense of tranquillity. Moreover, compared to many temples that can be visited with a card, these temples allow you to visit and worship without burning incense, which is very appealing.
This kind of Zen paradise that is not completely commercialized actually has a power to touch people's hearts.
For example, in normal times, if you hear the sound of a bell once or twice, everyone will find it annoying. However, when morning service is in progress and the bells of so many temples ring together, you can't help but feel a sense of beauty.
Although none of the several people could figure out the Dharma names of the Bodhisattvas, and no one went to the main hall to kneel and worship, it didn't stop them from visiting with a pious heart and listening to the stories and legends.
On the way up and down the mountain, they often encountered some lamas, solemn-faced, with head-lengths the length of their bodies, bowing from the foot of the mountain to the top. Feng Yiping and the others were of course not devout Buddhists, and although they did not understand this behaviour, watching the lamas, regardless of the stares of the surrounding tourists, chanting and prostrating themselves, and then lightly tapping their foreheads on the ground, none of them found it funny.
Of course, Xiao Zhijie always has a unique perspective. For example, now he is pulling Renger over to Feng Yiping on the side of the road and saying, 'Hey, that nun over there, she's actually using two cell phones.'
Feng Yiping looks over and sees a nun with short hair and a yellow monk's robe behind a table in front of a temple. Cell phones were not yet popular at the time, so it was certainly uncommon for someone to use two cell phones. 'I can only tell from her face that she must be a virtuous master.'
This nun had a pale face, how should I put it, it looked as if she was a bit malnourished. Feng Yiping just couldn't figure it out. Some masters had rosy cheeks and looked better than him, a young man. Did they really only eat vegetarian food three times a day?
Zhang Qiuling glanced at her a few times, 'She may be in charge of external relations at this nunnery.'
'No matter what, in such an occasion, it's best to keep quiet about such things!' Huang Jingping softly advised.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, Xiao Zhijie glanced at the introduction again and gave a double-take, 'Provincial ******, this is considered a big shot!'
He was referring to the official administrative status of the abbot of Mount Putuo. There was nothing he could do about it, this guy had always been a fan of officials.
The next part of the trip was usually to go to the beach and ride a quad bike, but Huang Jingping accompanied Feng Yiping back to the hotel. Just now, the hotel manager Xu Bin called him and said that an email had been sent to his mailbox, and he should take a look at it.
In the past two days, Feng Yiping had been busy. He had also specifically enabled domestic long-distance calls in the hotel and had repeatedly discussed the issue of budget hotels with Xu Bin, who had professional hotel experience. Although the plan had not yet been decided, he had already made up his mind that he must do this project.