Chapter 4041: Chapter 4029: One Wave Unsettled, Another Rises

"That’s what I find strange too. If they wanted to scam for money, they could’ve gone to the county hospital and tried to squeeze some out of them as well."

"Do you think maybe the people at the county hospital aren’t as civilized as we are, and threatened them personally, so they didn’t dare do it there?"

"That’s possible, but that guy named Liu Jintao said he knows the county hospital’s director, so that possibility isn’t very big either."

"When they came last time, I had a brief interaction with the family." Li Chuhan spoke while thinking:

"You can actually see that Liu Jintao is the one calling the shots in that family. The two elders just listen to him. The key to this whole matter might be on Liu Jintao."

"When I left, I forgot to ask you—what was the final conclusion of your meeting?"

"The leadership is leaning toward a settlement. If public opinion blows up, it’ll be very hard to control. No one knows which way it will go."

"I’ll try my best to steer it in that direction, but how it ends up, that’s hard to say."

Li Chuhan looked at Lin Yi. "You’ve worked hard on this."

"What’s there to be worked hard about? Eat."

Once they finished discussing business, the two started talking about other things.

After the meal, Li Chuhan went back to the hospital because she had consultations in the afternoon. Lin Yi was a bit uneasy, so he followed her back to the hospital.

But the patients all seemed to be in good condition, and they still treated Li Chuhan with great respect, speaking to her very politely.

Li Chuhan quickly shifted back into work mode.

Lin Yi stood off to the side, smiled and waved to her, then drove away.

...

Inside the Morning News production team.

"Sister Jing, I feel like something’s off." Feng Xinrui said.

"What’s wrong?"

"How come all the news about Huashan Hospital is gone? I swiped through dozens of videos and didn’t see a single one." Feng Xinrui said:

"And I even searched for it on purpose, but there were barely any results. Something’s not right."

At this moment, Yue Sijing was looking at her phone too, and said seriously:

"Someone must be suppressing the heat. Otherwise with something this big, there’s no way it’d be completely silent."

"They can even suppress a topic this hot? Could it be the authorities stepping in?"

"Very likely." Yue Sijing said:

"That’s the best hospital in Zhong Hai, basically the face of Zhong Hai’s medical system. With something this big happening, of course the authorities don’t want it exposed. So suppressing the heat is understandable."

"Looking at it this way, I feel like Principal Lin really was incredibly foresighted, just directly vetoed us and wouldn’t let us shoot." Feng Xinrui said:

"If we had shot it, it’d probably be for nothing. The higher-ups would call us in for a talk and not let it go on air."

"That’s exactly how it would be."

Even though Yue Si’s tone was calm, inside she was surging with emotion.

Before, she only felt that Lin Yi was very capable, like any problem became no problem once it got to him.

But what happened today proved something else.

Lin Yi isn’t just capable—his insight is also very strong. He can, in a short time, anticipate so many things.

It’s like he was born for news.

It’s just a pity...

He’s married...

While the two were talking, Lin Yi came back.

"Principal Lin, the heat around Huashan Hospital has been pushed down. Sister Jing and I were just discussing it—it’s very likely the authorities stepped in and suppressed it." Feng Xinrui said:

"Good thing we didn’t go. Even if we shot it, it would’ve been for nothing."

"Authorities suppressing the heat?"

Lin Yi paused for a moment and suddenly understood what Feng Xinrui meant.

"Right, right, right, it’s the authorities that suppressed the heat. We can’t shoot this."

Dong dong dong——

Just then, the office door was knocked on, and a young man stood at the entrance.

"Hello, is Chief Editor Yue here?"

Hearing someone asking for her, Yue Sijing waved. "I’m over here."

The newcomer looked unfamiliar to everyone, but he was also from the station.

Lin Yi glanced at his staff badge. He was a director from the Big Observation of the Day program, named Zisi Zhengyang, but they rarely interacted, and Lin Yi wasn’t very familiar with that show.

"Chief Editor Yue, I’d like to trouble you with something." Si Zhengyang said:

"I heard your team recorded the Huashan Hospital story this morning. Our people also followed up. I was wondering if there’s a chance we could do a joint report on this."

Lin Yi was about to go back to his office, but when he heard this, he stopped and looked at Si Zhengyang.

So-called "joint reporting" was just a gimmick.

The station had an unwritten rule: the same piece of news couldn’t be aired by two programs at the same time, or it’d become chaotic. Everyone just needed to handle their own assigned show.

But some stories are very fuzzy, with boundaries that aren’t easy to define, so you have to negotiate carefully over who gets to air it.

And for particularly hot topics, everyone wants a piece, so they came up with the label of "joint broadcast." That way everyone can run it without breaking the rules or damaging inter-program relations.

"This story’s heat is already being suppressed by the authorities, so we can’t shoot it."

"Authorities suppressing the heat?" Si Zhengyang clearly froze for a moment, obviously unaware.

"So that means you didn’t go shoot it?"

"Yeah. Shooting it would be pointless, so there’s no need to waste time on this."

"Okay, okay, I see. Thanks, Chief Editor Yue."

"No problem."

After Si Zhengyang left, nobody in the team took the matter seriously.

"Who’s the producer of Big Observation of the Day?" Lin Yi asked.

"It’s Ma Liansheng, an old hand at the station. He’s always been the director of the New Year’s Eve gala, and now he’s taken over a new program." Yue Sijing said:

"But it’s a bit strange. He’s an old hand, so his information channels should be better than ours. If the higher-ups already intend to push the heat down, he shouldn’t still be going out to shoot it."

Lin Yi frowned slightly.

This bastard smelled the blood and came running.

"Could it be that the heat on this is still so big, and the higher-ups haven’t clearly stated that it must be suppressed, so they’re going over to shoot it for traffic?" Yang Wantong said.

Although she hadn’t been working long, she still offered her own view.

"That’s the only real possibility. There are still a lot of self-media accounts following the story. If it really had no traffic, they wouldn’t shoot it. But if Big Observation of the Day takes the lead on this, it could easily pull the traffic back up. Then the authorities’ efforts would be wasted." Yue Sijing said.

"But I think we might be a bit outmatched here." Yang Wantong said:

"The authorities can only suppress the local Zhong Hai outlets. They’ve got no way to control media from other provinces and cities. This wave of traffic might still surge again."

"Well, whether it surges or not has nothing to do with us anymore. We’re not shooting it anyway."

Listening to the conversation, Lin Yi didn’t comment. He quietly went back to his own office.

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