Zhang Yang’s hospital records were quickly copied. Clutching the copies, Zhang Yang profusely thanked the (Director) before leaving the Children's Hospital.

This set of records was a complete accident; Zhang Yang hadn't expected to find his own records instead of his mother’s.

“Detoxification too?”

In the car, looking at some of the medications listed in the records, Zhang Yang’s brow furrowed once more.

The records omitted the reason for his hospitalization or his diagnosis, but they did list several drugs he had been given. Zhang Yang was familiar with these medications; they all possessed properties for neutralizing toxins.

There were also some rare serums, suggesting he might have been bitten by a snake.

“Was I bitten by a snake as a child?”

Zhang Yang felt profoundly puzzled. He carefully examined his body but could find no scar or mark of a snakebite. In his memory, nothing of the sort had ever happened.

If the hospitalization record hadn’t truly documented it, Zhang Yang would have sworn the record belonged to someone else entirely.

“Zhang Yang, think carefully. Maybe you can recall something!”

Mi Xue offered a word of comfort from beside him. She wasn't overthinking it; it was normal for small children to be hospitalized for illnesses.

“Ringing, ringing!”

Zhang Yang shook his head, about to reply, when the phone in his pocket rang again.

He pulled out his mobile and paused briefly. It was Gu Fang calling.

Gu Fang and Long Feng had gone to the City General Hospital—the largest facility and the best hospital in Antian City. Serious illnesses, or those that other hospitals couldn't cure, were usually transferred there.

Such a major hospital was naturally incomparable to the Fourth People’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital.

Their archives were far more extensive. Gu Fang and Long Feng were only visiting this one hospital that afternoon, so they should be reviewing files right now.

After calming his racing heart slightly, Zhang Yang pressed the answer button.

“Zhang Yang, we found it! We found it! Auntie was hospitalized at the City General Hospital—for a full fortnight!”

As soon as the connection was made, Gu Fang shouted from the other end, and Zhang Yang froze where he stood.

Found. It was really found. He had a premonition when he saw Gu Fang’s call, and now the premonition had become reality.

His mother had truly been admitted to the City General Hospital. If they had inpatient records there, it was highly possible they could uncover the cause of her illness, and with the cause, they could deduce why she passed away.

“Wait for me!”

Zhang Yang spoke briefly into the phone, then immediately hung up and sped toward the City General Hospital.

He had a map in the car. Antian wasn’t that large, and Zhang Yang had some memory of the routes. In no time, he arrived at the City General Hospital.

Antian City First People’s Hospital was indeed much larger than the previous two institutions they had visited. Zhang Yang rushed toward the administrative building, where Long Feng and Gu Fang were already waiting downstairs.

“Zhang Yang, look. This one—from ten years ago. Auntie was brought in after someone delivered her here. I found her attending physician from that year; he’s still working and remembers something about that incident. He said Auntie arrived unconscious; she had been poisoned, but they couldn't determine what kind of poison it was!”

As soon as Gu Fang saw Zhang Yang, he stepped forward and spoke softly. Before Zhang Yang arrived, Gu Fang had already managed to handle many arrangements.

“Poisoned?”

Zhang Yang stopped walking, surprise flickering in his eyes.

It was poisoning after all. The medicines his mother had been taking for detoxification must have been genuine, but she hadn’t managed to overcome the toxin, eventually falling into a coma and being hospitalized.

“Yes. Doctor Liu is here too; I’ll take you to see him!”

Gu Fang nodded immediately. Doctor Liu was the attending physician for Zhang Yang’s mother back then.

Doctor Liu was in an office next to the archives room. He was around sixty years old and currently a Chief Physician at the hospital. Ten years ago, he was already quite renowned at this facility.

Doctor Liu’s attitude toward Zhang Yang was relatively good. He answered every question Zhang Yang posed that he could recall.

His cooperative demeanor was largely due to Gu Fang’s influence.

When Gu Fang first arrived at the hospital, he had approached the Director directly, but his request to examine the archives had been denied—even money wouldn't persuade them.

Unable to handle such a minor issue, Gu Fang immediately made a call, feeling slighted. He didn't call just anyone; he called his uncle, Qiao Guanhai. Gu Fang was accompanying Zhang Yang on this errand and helping him, and the Qiao family owed Zhang Yang a significant favor.

Qiao Guanhai didn't hesitate. He pulled strings and contacted the Secretary of Antian.

Qiao Guanhai’s rank was higher than the Secretary of Antian, and he belonged to a prominent lineage. After making a few polite inquiries, the Secretary of Antian immediately slapped his chest, guaranteeing it was a trivial matter.

Subsequently, the Secretary of Antian called the hospital directly. With the Secretary himself intervening, the Director naturally dared not refuse any further requests.

It was only then that the Director realized the young man seeking the archives possessed considerable hidden power.

Everything that followed was much simpler. The hospital cooperated fully. The Director even assigned several staff members to help Gu Fang search for the records. The City General Hospital’s documentation vastly exceeded that of the Fourth Hospital and the Children’s Hospital; without their assistance, Gu Fang couldn't have located the inpatient file so quickly.

When Gu Fang then requested to see the attending physician, the Director readily agreed without a second thought.

Doctor Liu retained a vivid memory of Zhang Yang’s mother’s hospitalization; her case was exceedingly rare, which is why he remembered it so clearly.

He recalled that Zhang Yang’s mother arrived at the emergency room late one evening, already comatose. Examination revealed a large quantity of an unknown toxin in her system, placing her life in grave danger.

He also remembered advising the family to transfer the patient to the Provincial Hospital or even Beijing, as the family members present at the time worked in Beijing.

The family member he referred to was Zhang Keqin.

Zhang Keqin had agreed to the transfer to Beijing, but the patient awoke the next day and refused. She remained in the hospital receiving conservative treatment until another relative arrived, at which point she was discharged.

Discharged, not transferred—Doctor Liu remembered this very clearly. He had objected at the time, but the patient insisted, leaving him powerless.

The later relative was the patient’s brother—Zhang Yang’s maternal uncle.

Zhang Yang was surprised by this uncle who had seemingly materialized out of nowhere. He had no memory of an uncle from his childhood. If he hadn't come to investigate the hospitalization records, he wouldn't even know he had one.

After Zhang Yang finished asking his questions, Doctor Liu excused himself. As the hospital’s most famous doctor, he couldn't wait around indefinitely.

After thanking Doctor Liu and seeing him off, Zhang Yang returned and sat down heavily by himself.

The inpatient records were found, and the cause of his mother’s death was uncovered, but this discovery only left Zhang Yang more perplexed.

It was basically confirmed that his mother died from poisoning. According to Doctor Liu, the toxin was very strange; their hospital couldn't identify or neutralize it, which is why they suggested transferring her to a major Beijing hospital.

However, during treatment, they noticed his mother possessed a certain resistance to the toxin, and she was taking medication herself. Without her drugs, she likely wouldn't have lasted as long as she did.

Zhang Yang could somewhat understand this. The herbs his mother used could form an excellent detoxification formula—a formula recorded in the Zhang family documents, though not a secret prescription.

That type of medicine was no less effective than Western medical detoxification methods.

Poisoned, not transferred to Beijing, hospitalized in Antian, and ultimately dying in Antian—this was the sequence of events for Zhang Yang’s mother during that period.

Zhang Yang could only speculate this far. Why she was poisoned, and why she refused to go to Beijing, remained unknown to him. Perhaps only Zhang Keqin could answer these questions.

The thought of Zhang Keqin immediately brought an unpleasant feeling back to Zhang Yang, along with even more unresolved questions.

His mother died from poison, so why couldn't he be told? The fact that Zhang Keqin had always kept the cause of his mother’s death from him was a major source of his resentment.

In the deepest recesses of Zhang Yang’s subconscious, he harbored the belief that Zhang Keqin had caused his mother’s death.

“Wait, fifteen days of hospitalization—where was I?”

Suddenly, another question surfaced in Zhang Yang’s mind. His mother was hospitalized for half a month, and he lived with her then. Where was he during that time?

Zhang Yang rushed back out to find Doctor Liu and specifically inquired about this matter.

Doctor Liu’s answer left Zhang Yang stunned once more.

During those fifteen days, Zhang Yang was nowhere to be seen. Doctor Liu was absolutely certain about this; if he had met Zhang Yang back then, he would certainly have remembered.

No him, only his mother hospitalized alone—this deepened Zhang Yang's confusion.

He took out his own hospitalization record again and compared the dates. He discovered that his own admission occurred about a month before his mother’s.

A month earlier, taking medication for detoxification... His mother died of poisoning. Connecting these facts, Zhang Yang began to wonder if the poison he suffered was the same as his mother’s?

But if so, why was he fine while his mother died?

Thinking about these issues made Zhang Yang’s head ache. He had expected that coming here to find the cause of his mother’s death would yield all the answers, but he realized things were far from that simple.

The most difficult thing for Zhang Yang to bear was that this entire period of his memory was blank. No matter how hard he searched or tried to recall, he couldn't remember a thing.

It was as if he hadn't existed during that time.

“Zhang Yang, Auntie might have had her own reasons for not wanting to go to Beijing back then. Please take care of yourself,” Gu Fang murmured softly, sitting beside him.

He only knew Zhang Yang was investigating the cause of his mother’s death. Now that the cause was found, he assumed Zhang Yang was merely grieving, which accounted for his demeanor.

“I’m fine, thank you both.”

Zhang Yang looked up, giving them a grateful glance before shaking his head.

He had found what he was looking for, but the result wasn't what he had hoped for. However, it wasn’t entirely without gain; a key figure had now emerged.

This key figure was the uncle Zhang Yang never knew existed. Aside from Zhang Keqin, he should be someone who knew everything.

If he couldn’t question Zhang Keqin, seeking out this uncle was the only way to understand the entire situation.

Zhang Yang’s uncle had appeared only once at the hospital—on the day Zhang Yang’s mother was discharged. According to Doctor Liu’s recollection, Zhang Keqin had opposed her discharge, constantly recommending treatment in Beijing, but in the end, the uncle was the one who signed her out.

Because of this, the hospital retained a signature from Zhang Yang’s uncle; his name was on record.

Chapter 100 bonus update, Chapter Fifty-Three. More to come. Next chapter update around three o'clock.