Chapter 31 Section 6

After hanging up the phone, Guo Xiaofen was stunned for a while.The horse next to him complained with a smile: "You are really too, why don't you give me any news about Si Miao..." At this moment, they are sitting in Lei Kangmei's office.Originally, the old man was not going to see a doctor today, but several related households entrusted him to see a doctor, and he didn't want to take up the time of registered patients to see a doctor, so he arranged for these related households to see a doctor today.He went to the consultation room of the outpatient building and left Guo Xiaofen here to drink tea, and soon Ma Xiaozhong rushed over.

"You can't blame me." Guo Xiaofen said aggrievedly, "I promised Director Xu to keep it a secret." "Promise me! Now the whole world knows that Si Miao is a murder suspect, we have to think of a way to get her out!" Ma said with a murderous smile. Guo Xiaofen glared at him, "Have you watched "Prison Break" too much? There is Ning over there, do I need you!" The two were arguing, and Lei Kangmei came back with a gloomy face. The three patients who came today were not suffering from serious illnesses, so they were prescribed some medicine and let them go, "I could have come back earlier, who Wang Hui, the director of the public relations department of Zhijianyi Company, came to see me."

"What is she looking for from you?" Guo Xiaofen asked. "First ask me if I read the news at noon, and I said I did, and she said that Jianyi Company was finally innocent, and that the police officer surnamed Liu did everything, and then asked me to make a price. Jianyi Company wanted to undertake this year's China Health popular science forum." Guo Xiaofen asked: "Why did they host this forum?" "The China Health Science Popularization Forum is an annual event held around the scientific education of health science popularization. Generally speaking, the organizers are well-known pharmaceutical companies and top-tier hospitals in the health field. Of course, there are also excellent health care product companies, but Jianyi The company has always been excluded from the sponsor due to its bad record." Lei Kangmei said, "I will be the chairman of the upcoming forum, and the theme I have determined is 'Eliminate False Publicity and Advocate Scientific Education'. If If it is undertaken by Jianyi Company, they have great rights as the funder, and they will definitely change the theme. Besides, now that things in the lakeside building have turned around, they definitely want to use this forum to completely cleanse themselves..."

"Then how did you reply to them?" Guo Xiaofen asked. Lei Kangmei sneered and said: "I told her, as long as your company doesn't have false advertisements exposed by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau for three consecutive years, I will definitely support you as the sponsor, otherwise, don't even think about it!" After a moment of silence, he asked again: "Little Guo, is the police officer surnamed Liu who was mentioned in the news at noon familiar to you? When you watched TV at noon today, your face was pale." "She is my very good friend, she is also an excellent police officer, and she is also an infatuated girl." Guo Xiaofen roughly told Lei Kangmei about Liu Simiao's story.The old man paced in the office while listening. When the story was finished, he stood by the window, looking at the blue and high autumn sky, and remained silent for a long time.

"Professor Lei." Guo Xiaofen asked, "What are you thinking?" "I was thinking... I remembered a girl who was so infatuated with me once. Thirty years have passed, and I don't know how she is..." Lei Kangmei sighed, "It's still the educated youth who jumped in line After a while, Li Jialiang and I were assigned to Hulingzi Township, and there was a girl named Wuyunqige in the village, who fell in love with Li Jialiang, but then... oh!" "Fox Lingzi Township?" Guo Xiaofen almost jumped up, "The Hu Lingzi Township where the accident happened?!"

"En!" Lei Kangmei nodded, "That's really a good girl, she is ingenious, not to mention washing, cooking, carrying water and dung, she can also spin camel hair with a ox bone spindle, and deliver lambs. The bone soup she cooked is so delicious, I can’t forget it until now... In the hearts of the young people in our commune, she is simply the most beautiful nasturtium. But in her eyes and heart, there is only one Li Jialiang. He patched his sheepskin robes, and made tea with yogurt and tofu for him to drink when it was hot. That year, there was a heavy snowstorm, and the snow flakes were as big as tiles, and it hurt his face when he hit it. The shed collapsed, and the horse ran away. Jialiang went to amputate the horse. But he never came back. Others said he was dead, only Wuyunqige found him by the river on a horse, carried him into a small mud hut, untied his clothes, hugged him in his arms, and warmed him with his body temperature. He kept warm until we got to them... as I said that, I saw her smiling face again, as if she was walking and singing right in front of my eyes..."

Guo Xiaofen noticed that there was a sparkle in the old man's eyes. "At that time, Jialiang was the oldest among us. When he was working, he worked harder than anyone else. He was good at building houses, digging wells and weaving zippers. Everyone else drank and played cards when he was free. He reads books in the corner and doesn't like to talk, but with his mouth he can stand taller than others and think farther. After the 'Cultural Revolution' ended, he returned to Beijing as an actor and acted in several movies, but the audience's response was mediocre. Later He is married, of course the bride is not Wuyunqige. I occasionally drink with him, but I have never heard him mention Wuyunqige, and I am not allowed to mention it... After retirement, he was hired by Jianyi Company as a commercial Actor, he talks about those deceitful words on TV every day, so I came to him and had a big fight with him. I said that people should have a little backbone, and your pension is enough for you. The ideal of youth? But he doesn't listen, he just doesn't listen..."

After a moment of silence, Lei Kangmei sighed, "Oh, look what I'm talking about with you. You were not born when the 'Cultural Revolution' ended. You can't understand." Guo Xiaofen asked again: "Then, before the accident in the Hupan Building, did Li Jialiang look for you?" Lei Kangmei shook his head, thought for a while and said, "You asked me that, but I remembered that the last time he met me was two months ago. I was about to go home after my outpatient visit that day. He came He looked a lot older, his hair was as white as frost, and his eyes were particularly cloudy. He was holding a big cardboard box in his hand. When he opened it, it was a footbath. He said it was Jianyi Company The product is called Jianyi Detoxification Instrument, which can expel the toxins in the body from the soles of the feet by washing the feet... I was very annoyed and said: I saw you advertised this product, why did you promote it to my head?! He said no, so he wanted me to do research on why the green 'toxin' could be washed out after washing my feet. I was also curious when I heard it, so I took it home and tried it according to the instruction manual, and I gave him a call that night. Made a phone call—”

"Washing feet can wash out toxins." Ma smiled and opened his eyes, "Is it true?" "Of course it's fake!" Lei Kangmei said, "According to the instruction manual, after filling the footbath with water, you should first sprinkle the 'toxin-removing powder'. I tested it and found that it is actually ordinary salt. Afterwards, it becomes an electrolyte solution. Then put your feet in and activate the button of the detoxification instrument. At this time, it is actually powered on, and a redox reaction occurs on the two electrodes. The so-called dark green flocculents are just oxyhydroxide. Iron. You just don’t soak your feet, put salt into the water, and then let the instrument run idly, and the ‘toxin’ will also appear after a while.”

Ma Xiaozhong was very surprised, "Huh? How could no one notice that it's so simple?" Lei Kangmei said: "Pseudoscience mostly uses some simple knowledge of physics and chemistry to deceive people. The scientific literacy of the people in our country is generally low, so it is easy for scammers to succeed. If you don't believe me, try it, such as the ones that were prevalent in rural areas in the past. One set, the wizard cut the talisman with a knife, and there was blood on the talisman, saying that it was killing demons and ghosts. In fact, the talisman was dyed with turmeric dye, and the knife was dipped in lye in advance, and a chemical reaction occurred when the two touched— —If you come out with this trick now, there will still be many people who will believe that you are really a great immortal."

"So, what did Li Jialiang say after listening?" Guo Xiaofen asked. Lei Kangmei said: "He listened to me quietly, hung up the phone without saying anything. I called again, but he didn't answer again... Who would have thought that this was a farewell to him, oh well !" Looking at the two knife-like vertical lines between the old man's eyebrows that have not loosened for a long time, Guo Xiaofen knew that he was feeling sad for his old friend's sudden death, so he couldn't bear to speak for a while, letting time flow in this small office.Suddenly, Lei Kangmei sighed deeply and said: "Xiao Guo, Xiao Ma, tell me how much do you know about the Hupanlou case? I couldn’t bear to understand it any longer.” Therefore, Guo Xiaofen gave Lei Kangmei a general account of the case she knew. The old man was shocked, confused, sad, and melancholy, and sighed, "How could this happen? How could he be killed?" ?” Guo Xiaofen said: "Why did Meng Ruhu kill Li Jialiang, the police still don't know the reason, but now what confuses the police even more is how the secret room was created, and the cause of death of Meng Jianyi and other four deceased. Jianyi Company is eager to What has been cleared up is the rumors in the society about the radiation from the Five Elements Yin-Yang Mirror killing those four people." "Radiation killing people is not as simple as imagined." Lei Kangmei said, "A reporter named Hao Wenwen interviewed me on the phone a few days ago, saying that he already knew my attitude towards fake health products, and hoped that I would talk about the Five Elements Yin and Yang Mirror I said to him: I haven't done any experiments, so I can't draw any conclusions." Hearing Hao Wenwen's name, Guo Xiaofen was startled, "This reporter surnamed Hao alluded in the report that the Five Elements Yin and Yang Mirror can kill people...but he has been missing for several days now." Lei Kangmei frowned, "You reporters, in order to attract readers, sometimes dare to say anything. How about this, I will let the doctoral students I bring buy a five-element yin-yang mirror and analyze the ingredients in it After speaking, he picked up the phone and assigned tasks to the students, and then said to Guo and Ma: "It's getting late, let's go." In the elevator, Ma asked with a smile, "Professor Lei, what do you think the five-element yin-yang mirror is?" "I don't know, but as far as I know about Jianyi Company, they always produce things that are neither harmful nor useful to human health. In this way, consumers think it works, often because of psychological effects; It is useless, and there is no need to file a lawsuit because of a personal accident." Lei Kangmei said. "What if the test results prove that the five-element yin-yang mirror is indeed harmless?" Guo Xiaofen asked suddenly. Lei Kangmei glanced at her, "Then if a reporter interviews me, I will say: Experiments prove that the five-element yin-yang mirror will not kill people." The elevator stopped on the first floor, and Ma Xiaozhong went to the parking lot to pick up the car.Guo Xiaofen and Lei Kangmei walked out of the small gate of the hospital and waited for him standing under a big locust tree by the side of the road.This is a small street, and the dim street lights illuminate everything in a trance.Guo Xiaofen hesitated for a moment, but said: "Professor Lei, if I were you, I wouldn't say that." "Huh?" Lei Kangmei was a little confused. "If you tell the reporter that the five-element yin-yang mirror is harmless, you will be helping Jianyi Company a lot!" Guo Xiaofen said, "If I were you, I would just be vague and let the public continue to suspect." Lei Kangmei was silent for a long time, then he suddenly said: "Xiao Guo, I suddenly remembered my old brother." Guo Xiaofen was startled, "Li Jialiang?" "I think of a passage he said. He said that over and over again, the replacer and the replaced are actually the same..." Guo Xiaofen didn't understand, "What... the replacer and the replaced?" "If you look carefully, you will find a very interesting phenomenon: In our country, what can beat superstition? A higher level of superstition. For example, who can replace street fortune-telling? Computer fortune-telling; who can replace twelve Zodiac matching table? Is the constellation compatibility index; Who can replace the secret recipe of the Qing Palace? It is the "health recipe" provided by the "Central Leading Health Doctor"; Who can replace Chicken Blood? It is the nucleic acid oral solution; Divine skill..." Lei Kangmei said, breaking her fingers, "You see, over and over again, the replacer and the replaced are actually the same. How to fight a lie? Tell a bigger lie; when one kind of ignorance comes to an end, another Something stupider takes its place. And so it goes round and round, spiraling up, staying put—" boom! The expression of the old man instantly condensed the pain and heaviness. A minivan with the windows open whizzed past them, and a thick baseball bat protruding from the window retracted like lightning! Lei Kangmei staggered and fell backwards on her back. Guo Xiaofen rushed to his side, and the moment he touched the ground, she hugged his head, and suddenly felt that her hands were covered with sticky things, and then she saw bright red blood flowing from her palm to her wrist... "Help! Help!" She yelled like crazy, and there was no echo in the desolate little street.