Me! A high-ranking official!

"Hey!" Zhao Jianguo hurriedly grabbed his coat and followed, lowering his voice to advise, "Couldn't you have asked the Municipal Party Committee Office for leave for this meeting? If you force yourself to go like this, and then collapse in the meeting, that would be a real mess!"

Zhou Qingyan had just stepped into the corridor when she suddenly stopped, turned around, and stared at Zhao Jianguo with a wary and defensive expression. She lowered her voice and sternly warned, "Zhao Jianguo! Listen to me carefully, this is the city, not your remote mountain village! There are people everywhere! From now on, don't follow me anymore, and don't let anyone see us together, understand?!"

Zhao Jianguo was stunned by her inexplicable outburst of anger. He stood there, helplessly watching her stubborn and thin figure disappear quickly into the elevator. He was extremely frustrated. What kind of mess was this? He had kindly stayed up all night for her health, and not only did she not appreciate it, she even treated him like a thief.

"Fine! Do whatever you want! I don't care anymore!"

He cursed under his breath in annoyance, turned around and went back to the ward. He packed his things and went to the nurses' station to complete the discharge procedures under Lin Jiaojiao's name.

After completing the formalities, he walked out of the First Municipal Hospital and called Lin Jiaojiao to tell her that he had been discharged. He then sincerely apologized to her again for what happened last night and told her to focus on the renovation of the outpatient department.

After hanging up the phone, he stood at the hospital entrance, stretched lazily in the rising sun, and felt utterly exhausted after a day and night of turmoil, which had left him not only on edge but also experiencing great sorrow and despair.

He walked to the roadside and hailed a taxi, intending to go directly to the bus station to take a bus back to Linshui County. The village was now quite large, the environmental protection bank had just started operating, and the 500,000 yuan for road repairs was still unresolved. A bunch of messes were waiting for him to deal with. Since Zhou Qingyan didn't want him to handle it, he was too lazy to bother with such a cold shoulder.

"Driver, to the city bus station." He got on the bus and gave the address.

The car was moving slowly through the morning rush hour traffic. It was about to turn into the street where the bus station was located. He sat in the back seat, but Zhou Qingyan's pale, swollen face and hoarse, torn voice kept replaying in his mind.

"Such a severe anaphylactic shock, even if she is rescued, will result in extremely damaged cardiopulmonary function, leaving her body as fragile as paper. If she were to faint at the event, there wouldn't be anyone around who knows her situation..."

Zhao Jianguo was still worried, so he sighed and patted the back of the driver's seat: "Driver, please turn around. We're not going to the bus station anymore. We're going to the municipal party committee compound."

The car stopped at the intersection diagonally opposite the municipal party committee compound. After getting out of the car, looking at the imposing and majestic municipal party committee gate, he hesitated for a moment, but still took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Zhou Qingyan: "I'm right outside the municipal party committee gate. Call me anytime if you need anything, otherwise don't worry about me."

After sending the message, not expecting a reply, he walked to the roadside, found a relatively shady curb, and sat down, watching the hurried civil servants and passing vehicles around him.

It's the height of summer now. Around 8 a.m., the sun is already blazing, making the asphalt road surface feel a bit soft. This city-wide economic work coordination meeting is personally chaired by the municipal party secretary, and all the secretaries and county heads of the counties and districts below, as well as the leaders of the municipal party committee and government departments, must attend. A meeting of this scale would definitely take more than half a day to finish.

His mouth was dry from the sun, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He glanced around and noticed a budget hotel across the street, with what appeared to be an air-conditioned lounge area in the lobby.

He stood up, just about to cross the street to escape the heat, when his phone suddenly vibrated in his pocket.

He picked it up and saw that it was a call from Lin Jiaojiao.

Zhao Jianguo answered the phone: "Hey, Jiaojiao, is everything settled at the outpatient clinic?"

On the other end of the phone, Lin Jiaojiao's voice was low and tinged with doubt: "Jianguo, I've already found a construction team to come and do emergency repairs at the clinic, but... there's something I found a bit strange just now, and I think it's better if I tell you about it."

Zhao Jianguo raised an eyebrow and asked curiously, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Lin Jiaojiao hesitated for a moment before saying, "I was supervising the workers in the shop when a man in plain clothes, who looked like a scoundrel, suddenly ran over to me and asked what happened here last night. I didn't think much of it at the time, so I just told him the story we had agreed on, that I came to pick something up last night and accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake in my nervousness, and the car went out of control and crashed in here."

"I thought this excuse was perfect. He would just say that everyone was alright and leave. I didn't even know him. But he didn't leave at all. He just stood there and kept talking to me. He kept trying to get information out of me, asking if there was anyone else in the car at the time, and if I saw any strange people going in or out of the clinic."

Lin Jiaojiao said with lingering fear, "I immediately became wary and felt that this person was not right, so I put on a stern face and said that I was busy with emergency repairs and didn't have time to chat, and I forced him to leave."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jianguo felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and his heart skipped a beat!

A flash of lightning struck his mind, and he suddenly remembered that absurd night he and Zhou Qingyan had spent at the hotel in the county. Afterwards, Zhou Qingyan calmly analyzed that someone had secretly drugged her, intending to take advantage of her and ruin her reputation!

Now, less than ten hours have passed since their incident at the outpatient clinic last night, and such a secret matter has already attracted people who come knocking on the door like dogs smelling blood to inquire about it!

What does this mean? This is definitely not a coincidence! It means that someone has been secretly watching Zhou Qingyan's every move!

If the other side finds out that Zhou Qingyan went to the OB-GYN clinic in the middle of the night last night and almost died on the operating table, and then discovers that she is pregnant, then Zhou Qingyan's political career will be completely over!

His inner alarm bells went off, and he immediately asked urgently, "Jiaojiao! Are the security cameras and main unit in your clinic still working properly?"

Lin Jiaojiao quickly said, "Don't worry about that. Last night, when my car crashed in, it just so happened that it smashed the surveillance host under the front desk to pieces. I had someone from the computer store come and take a look this morning. They said the hard drive had suffered severe physical damage and was completely unusable. It can't be repaired, so we can only buy a new one to replace it."

Hearing this, his tense nerves relaxed a little: "It's good that it's bad! I was afraid these people with ulterior motives would use the surveillance footage to cause trouble!"