護花近衛 - 第659章 病危通知 - 翰墨軒

But whoever had summoned these people, it no longer mattered. Gu Pengzhan had to find a way to deal with them, or else, if they went back and wrote whatever came into their heads, it would do the school incalculable harm.

"I am Gu Pengzhan, chairman of the Gu Group. Might I ask where you learned this news?" Gu Pengzhan had no choice but to step forward and face the reporters.

"Oh? Chairman Chu is here too? Excellent, then we can interview Chairman Chu directly!" Crippled Wolf rolled his eyes and turned his spearhead on Gu Pengzhan; if Gu Pengzhan said a single wrong word, he could seize on it and make a scene. "We hear that a school under your group has suffered such a vile mass incident. As the group's chairman, how do you regard it? Was it a lapse in management, or someone derelict in duty, or would you say some of the teachers are already suspected of criminal conduct?"

Crippled Wolf was notorious for his venomous tongue; every question he asked was razor-sharp and merciless.

"My friend, I don't know how you came to learn of this so-called vile mass incident." Gu Pengzhan smiled faintly and said mildly, "But the doctors have yet to give any results. Even I and all the students' parents do not know the cause of the comas. How is it that you do?"

"Never mind how we know; naturally someone provided a lead!" Crippled Wolf said. "And even if you knew the cause, I doubt you would tell us, would you? It's these parents who are being kept in the dark. You school leaders — when have you ever cared whether other people's children live or die?"

"That's not right," said the middle-aged woman from before, who had little guile and simply spoke the plain truth. A difficult sort she might be, but she was not a bad person. "Chairman Chu's daughter is one of the students in a coma this time. How can you say he doesn't care?"

Crippled Wolf was taken aback. He had not expected that Gu Pengzhan's daughter was among the victims too! That made his earlier words somewhat contradictory. How could Gu Pengzhan not care? He cared a great deal indeed.

But Crippled Wolf was quick on his feet. A thought struck him, and he asked, "Look here — even Chairman Chu's own daughter has come to harm in his own school. Imagine how chaotic the school's management must be! Would you still dare send your own children here to study?"

"Ah!" The middle-aged woman was slightly stunned. But on reflection, there was indeed some sense in it. If even the school chairman's daughter had ended up like this, then how much more danger was her own child, the child of an ordinary commoner, in?

The other parents, hearing Crippled Wolf's words, grew doubtful as well. Yes — if the school could not even guarantee the safety of its chairman's daughter, how could it guarantee the safety of the other students?

"Everyone, please be calm!" Gu Pengzhan waved a hand. "Did I not say this before? The true cause of the students' comas — I do not know it, the school doctor does not know it. Everything must wait for the results of the examinations by the Second Hospital's doctors. If it truly is the school's fault, the school will not shirk responsibility! To speak of such things now is a little premature!"

Gu Pengzhan's words did calm the parents for the time being. Yes — their children were still inside the emergency room, the cause still unclear. To fly into a rage now would be premature.

Crippled Wolf had not expected Gu Pengzhan to defuse things so easily, and he frowned at once. But he had taken twenty thousand yuan from Li Cihua to ruin Gu Pengzhan's school, and he could not simply give up. Nor could he go back and write at random, for then Gu Pengzhan would surely sue their newspaper for libel. But if he could stir up the parents' fury, then it would not be libel, because what he wrote would wholly represent the parents' own sentiments, and if Gu Pengzhan wanted to be angry, he could only go after those parents!