The phrase "seeking justice" that Xu Bin mentioned left Lin Jie a bit perplexed.

It took a few days until Tian Zhiyuan from Jingcheng University Medical School came to Binhai City for a medical consultation and invited Lin Jie to dinner before this doubt was clarified.

"This news has been kept under wraps tightly. Since I've been following this matter closely and Qiao Hongzhen lost his temper yesterday, scolding his assistants, some things were exposed, and I managed to piece together an outline."

Tian Zhiyuan said softly, "I found an opportunity to check on the postoperative condition of that young patient once."

"He was expressionless and showed no emotional responses to external stimuli. Therefore, I concluded that his emotional control center was damaged."

"Eh, sir..."

Tian Xiangyu, who was accompanying them, exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that the so-called foreign neurosurgery expert used the surgical plan we discarded, damaging the patient's emotional control center and cognitive development, keeping the patient in an extremely calm state with low intelligence levels..."

Lin Jie said regretfully, "It should be a surgical plan similar to that."

Tian Zhiyuan chuckled and said, "I said so, that Ralph Borg is not well-known. How could his surgical plan surpass the genius idea of Expert Lin?"

He lowered his voice a bit and said, "It seems that the child's father has some evidence and plans to sue the health regulatory department and courts in the Capital City."

"Qiao Hongzhen got wind of this news in advance and communicated with the child's parents. It is said that he paid them a compensation of eight figures to hush the matter up."

This made Lin Jie sigh.

The justice Xu Bin was seeking was nothing more than exchanging his child's health for a large sum of actual compensation.

Tian Zhiyuan analyzed, "My guess is that Qiao Hongzhen made false promises to grab this patient, deceiving the child's parents into agreeing to this surgery."

"This kind of behavior is enough to revoke his medical license. Qiao Hongzhen must have been caught with solid evidence, which forced him to spend a fortune to suppress the matter."

Tian Xiangyu, a bit schadenfreude, said, "Uncle, once you return to the Capital City, make sure to find an opportunity to tell Qiao Hongzhen."

"When the teacher's project finds a suitable patient for verification, he can enjoy watching that bastard's empty plotting face."

Tian Zhiyuan snorted and advised, "Xiangyu, in the field of medical skills, self-improvement is the way to go. These small tricks ultimately harm others without benefiting oneself. Qiao Hongzhen's experience this time is a good example."

"Moreover, medical disputes are endless nowadays. You must follow the hospital's rules and regulations and act meticulously."

"Also, do not make promises to patients or their families beyond your abilities. Sometimes, a medical dispute can cost you everything, and you might not even be able to continue as a doctor."

Tian Xiangyu obediently said, "I understand, Uncle. I won't joke about my career."

Tian Zhiyuan nodded with satisfaction and then smiled at Lin Jie, "Xiangyu's impressive progress astonishes me and truly shows the effectiveness of having a great mentor guiding the way."

"In the past, when Xiangyu discussed medical issues with me, I mostly examined and guided him. But recently, when we discuss cases over the phone, I am often inspired to some extent."

"His significant progress makes me look at him with new eyes. Expert Lin, thank you!"

Lin Jie smiled faintly and said, "Professor Tian, you're too kind. It's primarily due to Tian Xiangyu's hard work and diligence. I merely used a cramming teaching method."

Tian Zhiyuan nodded and said, "They are all adults now. Cramming is the best teaching method for them. You pointed out from a high-level perspective what they need to learn and what deficiencies they need to improve."

"If they don't make efforts to absorb and learn, then they deserve a lifetime of mediocrity."

During the casual conversation, Tian Zhiyuan also mentioned another matter.

A commercial tycoon in the Capital, whose main business is fast-moving consumer goods, issued a high-reward challenge.

"The Ma Family in the Capital has several well-known brands of beverages and instant noodles, with annual sales in the hundreds of billions."

"The Ma Family has an eight-year-old boy who has been frail and sickly since childhood, spending about one-third of each year in the hospital."

Tian Zhiyuan took a sip of water and said, "It's said that the Ma Family's matriarch is anxious this time and insists on nurturing the grandson's health. She wants the illness treated at its root so that he doesn't have to go in and out of the hospital all the time."

"Under these circumstances, the Ma Family issued a challenge, saying that whoever can nurse the child's health back or identify and eliminate the root cause of the illness will receive a reward of millions or even tens of millions."

"Expert Lin, would you like to give it a try?"

Lin Jie gently shook his head and humbly said, "There are so many perplexing diseases in the world, and I don't have the confidence to cure them all. Besides, I'm quite busy at the moment and don't have time to go to the Capital City."

"Let's forget about these showy things."

In private, Tian Zhiyuan also believed that Lin Jie's abilities were primarily in surgery, and diagnosing illnesses might not be his forte. He treated this matter as a piece of news, mentioning it in passing.

After some consideration, he said, "Expert Lin, this time I came to Binhai and paid a visit to the Hu Family..."

Hearing this, Tian Zhiyuan looked at Lin Jie, seeing him take a sip from his water glass without any particular change in expression on his face.

He sighed and lamented, "His speech is already slurred, he can only sit in a wheelchair and move around the courtyard, basking in the sun, which shows how frail he has become."

Lin Jie softly said, "If his scheming against me had succeeded, I think we probably wouldn't be sitting here eating together now."

Tian Zhiyuan gave an awkward smile and swallowed back the words he wanted to say.

After the lunch gathering ended, Lin Jie went straight home, only to find two guests there, the siblings Zhu Junying and Zhu Yunlan who had visited once before.

Seeing them, Lin Jie asked concernedly, "Is there something wrong with the child's follow-up examination results?"

After recovering to a certain extent from the corrective surgery for the child's heart deformity, the child was transferred back to the Capital City Hospital for easier care.

Now more than a month after surgery, there was an important follow-up cardiology test.

"The child's heart is very healthy, and the experts in the Capital City say that its various indicators are almost no different from those of a normal healthy child's heart."

Zhu Junying said excitedly, "Thank you! Expert Lin, we are really grateful to you!"

"The expert in the Capital City also said he had never seen a case where heart function recovered to such an extent just one month after major surgery, especially in an infant."

Lin Jie nodded gently and asked directly, "Then why are you here this time?"

Zhu Junying glanced at Zhu Yunlan beside him.

Zhu Yunlan's face reddened slightly, and she said somewhat embarrassedly, "Expert Lin, we gave you a bottle of aged wine last time. That... that bottle of wine..."

"I bought it from an unregulated market and was deceived, it's fake wine."

"Oh, fake wine? Are you sure?" Lin Jie asked curiously.

After receiving that bottle, Lin Jie had placed it in his wine cabinet and hadn't had the heart to drink it.

However, on the day, Lin Jie had witnessed the buying process of Zhu Yunlan and could confirm by the aroma when tasting the wine that it wasn't fake.

Zhu Yunlan said angrily, "I'm sure."

"The person who faked the wine was too outrageous, they put an extremely thin membrane bag inside the top half of the bottle, which only contained one glass of real good wine!"

"When I randomly selected a bottle of wine for verification, the first glass poured out was real, good wine, but the rest was just ordinary red wine."

Hearing this, Lin Jie chuckled.

He got up and went to the study, took the bottle of wine out of the temperature-controlled wine cabinet,

brought it to the living room, and observed it closely under bright light. Sure enough, they saw a barely detectable flexible membrane enclosing a mass of red wine swaying at the top of the bottle.

"This technique, this craftsmanship, is quite impressive indeed," Lin Jie said with a smile.

Zhu Yunlan said, somewhat sheepishly, "It's all my fault for being greedy. Expert Lin, I'm really embarrassed about it."

"These are two bottles of authentic red wine we got from the aristocratic family, please accept them with a smile."

Saying this, she placed two bottles packaged in an old wooden box on the coffee table.

"No need to be so formal. A phone call would suffice for this matter, it wasn't your fault, you were victims as well."

Lin Jie shook the bottle in his hand and continued, "Besides, there's still a glass of real good wine here. For me, a glass is enough, a glass is enough."

Zhu Yunlan pursed her lips into a smile, clearly aware of Lin Jie's drinking capacity.

Zhu Junying hesitated for a moment and then said, "Expert Lin, to be honest, besides my sister and I visiting again to express our gratitude and apologize for the wine, we have another favor to ask!"

"Oh, what is it?" Lin Jie asked with a calm tone.

Zhu Junying spoke softly, "I have a friend who used to love playing go-kart racing and speed racing, always quite reckless."

"As the old saying goes, you can't walk by the river without getting wet. He later had a serious accident, which caused his right calf to tear and separate at that time."

"Although he was treated in time, his right calf was successfully replanted, but two or three years have passed, and the recovery of the nerve function in his right calf has not been ideal, with symptoms of pain and numbness, and limited movement."

He hoped expectantly, "Expert Lin, I know you and several experts just completed a project on a similar nerve damage recovery topic. We also have some connections with Wang Jinglan's family."

"Expert Lin, could you help my friend?"

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