Yunyi quickly dried her hands and ran out of the office. Just then, Doctor Qiu arrived and asked, "What happened?"
The messenger was somewhat incoherent. "The lumberyard... there’s been an accident! Some educated youth were carrying logs."
Yunyi had heard from Qiao Wenyu and the others that some educated youth from poor families would secretly go to the lumberyard to carry logs and earn money during the winter. They could earn one yuan a day, a tempting prospect for many.
It wasn’t an easy job. Besides the cold, the main problem was that the mountain was covered in snow, making it easy to slip and fall.
If such thick logs fell on someone, the consequences were too frightening to imagine.
In fact, the Agricultural Reclamation Group strictly prohibited educated youth from secretly carrying logs at the lumberyard. If an accident occurred, no one could bear the responsibility, as people indeed lost their lives at the lumberyard every winter.
Either they were hit by falling trees or accidents happened while transporting logs downhill. Everyone knew money from the lumberyard was hard-earned. But in those tough times, with no family being well-off, many desperate people or those in urgent need of money would sneak into the lumberyard to work.
Doctor Qiu, ever responsible, looked at Yunyi and said, "You stay here. I’ll go."
But the messenger collapsed to the ground. "So many people are injured! Doctor Qiu, you won’t be able to handle it alone if you go by yourself."
Yunyi couldn’t help but ask, "Doesn’t the lumberyard have its own clinic?"
The messenger trembled all over. "Doctor Wang from the lumberyard’s clinic went home for a funeral. Only Doctor Gu is there, but she’s eight months pregnant and can’t possibly go up the mountain."
Yunyi and Doctor Qiu exchanged a look. They were in a difficult position. After all, they belonged to the Agricultural Reclamation Group, and the accident was at the lumberyard.
If both of them went, and any of their own patients were delayed, they feared they would face severe consequences.



Upon hearing this, Yunyi’s first thought was: The truck’s side-panel wasn’t secured properly, and the rope just happened to snap at that exact moment... Could this have been deliberate?
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