What Doctor Hu described about the recommendation admission process differed from what Xie Wanying had previously heard from Aunt Min, but it was indeed the truth.

Aunt Min had not participated in the recommendation admission affairs initially, so it was natural for her not to be aware of the specific details of the process and to have some discrepancies.

According to the real information that Doctor Hu investigated, the recommender is only responsible for recommending names, while the local health school is responsible for accepting students. If the health school does not accept the students recommended by the recommender, it doesn’t matter how many times the recommender recommends them; the school can find excuses to refuse. This is also why Director Zhang told Aunt Min that this issue couldn’t be resolved alone and that ultimately, people within the health system must be consulted to understand the situation.

Before holding anyone accountable, one must have a clear understanding of the situation.

The former county clinic head, who once supported her mother, cannot be called a betrayer of her mother, but there may have been a forced concession.

If the recommender and the health school’s preferences don’t align, the final decision rests with the school. The problem lies with the person responsible for recruitment at the health school. The local health school her mother wanted to attend at that time was merely a local health school, vastly inferior to formal university institutions. However, back then, due to the characteristics of that era, even a small local health school could hold the power to change people’s destinies through education. During that time, those who managed to attend the health school truly acquired the stepping stone to ascend the social ladder.

For example, Xie Wanying knew her second cousin, Zhou Ruomei, was one of them. She went down to the countryside with her mother and was later recommended to study as a midwife at the health school. After obtaining the midwife certificate and entering the hospital for work, she seized the opportunity during those years when there was a shortage of doctors in various clinical specialties and could change her career to become a doctor. She then took the doctor’s license exam, studied further, and eventually became a sought-after obstetrician-gynecologist in the local hospital. Money, power, followed.

Her mother, on the other hand, had the passion and talent for studying, but lacking this stepping stone, was cruelly eliminated in the end.

One can imagine how important social fairness is to ordinary people. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Back then, the person responsible for the student admission list at that health school was named Liu Sugu," Doctor Hu conveyed the information he managed to gather.

Liu Sugu is no longer at the health school.

It is said that years ago, her corruption and bribery were exposed, and she was fired from the health school. No one knows where she went afterward, with some saying she fled abroad. The dismissal of the person involved in black-box operations indicates that her mother was not the only one who suffered due to the malpractice. Unfortunately, with her being dealt with, Liu Sugu’s whereabouts remain a mystery, and the person who took her mother’s place has become an ultimate enigma.

"Your mother was unaware and did not file a complaint; Liu Sugu was dismissed early, so it’s too late now to find her for answers. It was her forgery, and only she knows who replaced your mother’s spot to study at the health school. Without being able to find Liu Sugu, the only way is to look for clues in the student list admitted by the health school that year. I asked roughly, and back then, the health school did not recruit only a few; they admitted nearly a hundred students in that batch. Without solid evidence, it’s difficult to identify who out of these hundred took your mother’s place. Unless Liu Sugu herself can testify."

After Doctor Hu’s remarks, Xie Wanying suddenly had a flash of insight and asked, "Teacher Hu, can you help me check if there’s anyone named Zhou Ruomei in the student list?"