"Is the patient's family here? The doctor would like to speak with you," the nurse said.
"Dad, I'll go check it out," Manman told her father-in-law and followed the nurse.
At that time, the car Lu Jun was in had already passed through the checkpoint, and from that point on, it was nearly impossible to make phone calls from the outside. Of course, if the network flitted in, maybe one or two calls could get through. Not all mobile phones were confiscated at the checkpoint. Especially those known to belong to people on their way to us, they were rarely taken—mainly for fear of offending someone.
That place itself was a small society with dangers beyond imagination.
Manman remembered a saying her father, Lu Heyan, often repeated: if you can't keep someone in line on your own turf, you have no business mixing there.
Keeping someone in line didn't mean oppression but maintaining control over the situation in your hands at all times.
