Zhan Aiping spent several days preparing the materials and submitted them to the county health bureau. Half a month later, the county health bureau sent an inspection team to their Yanxin Health Center to conduct a corresponding inspection on her.
The leader was Director Zhou, Zhou Hai, the deputy director of the county people's hospital Xue Zhengdong, and three other comrades. The five of them came to Yanxin Health Center in a special car.
Yanxin Health Center has undergone tremendous changes over the past year. It is no longer the same as when Zhan Aiping first arrived. The hospital's main entrance has been renovated and changed. Four stone pillars and a white iron gate have been built at the entrance, dividing it into three gates: the main gate in the middle and two small gates on the sides. The gates are iron grid-like doors. Because it is a new gate, the white paint on the iron gate has not peeled off yet, and it looks particularly new and beautiful.
Zhou Hai nodded: "This is much more impressive."
Compared with the shabby little gate before, the hospital gate in front of us undoubtedly looks formal and grand, with a bit of the style of a county hospital. Now the county hospital needs to develop, and the township hospitals also need to develop. Last year, Yanxin Health Center achieved outstanding results and was the best developed among several township hospitals. The county also intends to focus on the development of Yanxin Health Center. It is hoped that Yanxin Health Center can play an exemplary leading role among several township hospitals.
There are green trees on both sides of the main entrance. The hospital has done a good job in landscaping. There are two large flower beds in front of the pharmacy, with lush green plants and a few red flowers. There are flower beds and trees in front of all the buildings, some high and some low. Although there is no special shape, it is refreshing to look at.
A row of bungalows in the hospital have been renovated and repainted. The roofs are made of grey bricks and tiles, and the walls are white. The walls are not entirely white, but are divided into two layers. The top is painted white, and the bottom of the windows is a uniform blue-green. The windows are green wooden lattices, and there are many propaganda posters hanging on the white walls.
The view is extremely comfortable. Behind the roof are several tall electric poles, above them is the blue sky and white clouds, and on the inpatient building in the distance, there is a bright red cross.
Zhou Hai discussed with a few people and he nodded continuously. A young comrade behind him took a camera and took several photos.
"Now go meet Dean Hao and that Doctor Zhan."
When Dean Hao and his people came, Zhan Aiping was giving acupuncture treatment to an asthma patient. Zhou Hai and others watched for a while, looked through her previous case books, and praised her highly.
“Dr. Zhan has a very high cure rate.”
Dean Hao smiled and said, "The patients all praised her highly. Our doctor Zhan is a versatile person who knows both Western and Chinese medicine."
Zhou Hai said: "That's perfect. We should combine Chinese and Western medicine for joint diagnosis and treatment."
"Hello, Comrade Zhan."
"Hello, leaders."
Zhan Aiping went to the office to talk to them alone. Qin Lanfang helped her take care of the two children today. She and Zhou Hai and others sat down in the office. Zhou Hai took out her information and asked her some questions while looking at it.
Zhan Aiping answered all the questions in an orderly manner.
"Comrade Zhan, you are an excellent comrade and an outstanding medical talent that we urgently need." Zhou Hai looked at Zhan Aiping and was still surprised. Such a young female doctor, beautiful, spoke neither humbly nor arrogantly, was clear and organized, and was both talented and virtuous. She was proficient in all kinds of Chinese and Western medicine knowledge.
"I heard that you used to be a teacher at Shanghai Medical School. Can you give us a lesson on the spot?"
Zhan Aiping was stunned for a moment: "Class?"
Zhou Hai nodded: "Yes, let's take a medical skills class."
Zhou Hai asked Comrade Xu beside him to take out a white printed booklet and handed it to Zhan Aiping, "Take this book, flip through it, pick a section, and teach us a lesson on the spot."
Zhan Aiping flipped through the booklet. This was a simple general training course for the medical school. She picked a section on surgical nursing, weaved the language directly in her mind, and taught a class on surgical nursing in front of several people.
After she finished, Zhou Hai and the others applauded. Zhou Hai smiled and said, "I thought you were going to give us a lesson on Chinese medicine and acupuncture."
"Comrade Zhan, your lectures are very interesting. You are not only a good doctor, but also a good teacher. I think your lectures are easy to understand and very suitable for teaching students. You have also won the Outstanding Lecturer Award before..."
After talking for a long time, Zhou Hai said, "The county health school is also short of teachers. Can you go to the county to give lectures for a few days every month? Our county has established a county health school before and conducts regular training. If you can go to give lectures, it would be a great thing. I think you are very suitable."
The county health school recruits high school graduates to study, and the training period for these students is three years. At the same time, the county health school also conducts skills training for the barefoot doctors in the commune and the doctors and nurses in the township health centers from time to time for a period of about one to three months.
Now we urgently need to increase the number of medical staff in counties and towns, but there is a lack of talent. Medical care cannot be taken carelessly. If mistakes are made, lives may be lost. There are not many good doctors in the county, and even fewer good doctors who can teach. It is a great thing to know that there is such a talent as Zhan Aiping and to invite her to a medical school for training.
Since the 1960s, Chuncheng Medical College has not recruited any students for five years. It was only last year that it recruited a new batch of workers, peasants and soldiers. It would take until 1974 for this batch of students to graduate.
Not to mention that the quality was also uneven. Zhou Hai once visited a class and found that the students came from complex backgrounds of workers, peasants and soldiers, and some of them couldn't even understand the lessons.
Those who cannot understand will most likely be assigned to counties and townships.
Let’s not talk about these. It is not easy to have a medical student who graduated from a higher education institution in their county. Zhan Aiping’s academic qualifications and her experience from major hospitals in Shanghai are all valuable assets.
"Let me go to the county health school?"
"Yes, I hope you can agree to attend a few training courses a month, and do a good job in the township medical work..."
There are buses that go directly to the county from the camp, and some military wives work in the county town. This is not particularly inconvenient for her. Going to the county to attend classes is also another platform. "Okay, I will do my best to contribute to the medical cause of our county..."
Zhan Aiping read the quotations and said some positive and uplifting words.
After the inspection, Zhan Aiping took a few people to visit Yanxin Health Center and their newly built inpatient building. "The inpatient building is divided into three areas. This is the general internal medicine department, this is the general surgery department, and that is the obstetrics and gynecology department..."
"When it develops in the future, we will also build an outpatient building there."
After walking through the inpatient building, I arrived at the operating room. The operating room was still empty and there were no instruments. I had to wait a few days and the county would send a batch of old instruments over.
Township hospitals pick up junk from county hospitals, and county hospitals pick up junk from municipal hospitals. These used and obsolete medical devices are passed down layer by layer. Of course, not all of them are old devices, new medical devices are also introduced.
After the visit, they had dinner together in the hospital and took a group photo at the gate. Before leaving, Deputy Director Xue of the County People's Hospital said to Zhan Aiping, "Do you want to be transferred to the County People's Hospital?"
Dean Hao, who was standing by, was speechless after hearing this. He thought to himself, how could poaching happen like this? He felt a little anxious, fearing that Zhan Aiping would become restless and want to leave as well.
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "Now our health center needs to develop, so I have to stay here."
She hasn't even finished the current bite of rice, so how can she chew another one? What can she accomplish by wasting time here and there
Vice President Xue said, "Yes, you are still young. You should hone your skills at the grassroots level for a while. I am waiting for you to be transferred to our County People's Hospital. Our County People's Hospital especially needs talents like you."
Zhou Hai smiled and said, "Why not?"
"We were originally worried that your Yanxin Hospital would take too big a step by building both an inpatient building and an operating room at once. Now that Comrade Zhan is here, the county can be more relieved. We hope that your Yanxin Hospital can set a good example for township hospitals and play a good leading role."
“Once you develop well, other township hospitals will send people to visit and learn from you.”
After the inspection team left, it was decided that Zhan Aiping would become the deputy director of Yanxin Health Center, and many people in the health center came to congratulate her.
Qin Yanfang smiled and said, "Everyone said you would become the dean sooner or later. Look, it's only been a year and you've already become our vice dean. That's amazing, amazing!"
"Vice President Zhan!"
Dr. Zhou Zhonghua felt a little uncomfortable when he saw this scene. He had coveted the position of vice president for a long time, but his academic qualifications were not enough to fill the vacancy.
He congratulated twice and went home sighing.
Meng Xiaoyun laughed at him: "I am old now, and I can't compete with young people anymore."
"You don't understand. For us doctors, the 40s and 50s are just the beginning. I just don't have the same education as her, otherwise I would have become a leader a long time ago."
"Blow it."
However, Dr. Zhou was still convinced that Zhan Aiping was the vice president. He might not be destined to be a leader.
Zhao Jing looked at Zhan Aiping and couldn't help but sighed: "Congratulations, Vice President Zhan. I'm such a good doctor, and the first time I came to our hospital, it was the vice president who cured me."
Zhan Aiping said: "People make mistakes, horses stumble, Doctor Zhao, don't take it to heart."
"That's right." Qin Yanfang said with a smile: "Old Zhao, why can't you let go? Aren't you just embarrassing yourself? Aren't you going to become a joke in our hospital? I promise to tell the new doctor every time."
Zhao Jing: "... Can you give me some face?"
Qin Yanfang clicked her tongue twice: "Okay, okay, I'll give you some face."
Doctor Zhao continued, "We can't let our child grow up listening to his father's jokes."
Qin Yanfang's face flushed: "What do you mean by child or not? You're dreaming!"
"You two can chat slowly." Zhan Aiping waved at them and said, "I have to go see my child."
Qin Lanfang was sitting next to the cradle sewing clothes. She was also making tiger-head shoes for her unborn baby. "Congratulations, Doctor Zhan!"
Zhan Aiping smiled slightly: "Your family is also about to have good news. Doctor Zhao is still talking to Yanfang. I think their relationship has been getting better and better recently. Are you going to have a wedding banquet soon?"
"When you give birth, your family will have double happiness."
Qin Lanfang couldn't stop smiling. These days were a time of sweetness after bitterness for the two sisters.
"Doctor Zhan, I feel like every day of my life is like a dream."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "What do you mean it's like a dream? This is the down-to-earth reality of life. We don't dream, we are down-to-earth. If you feel it's unreal, you can pinch yourself."
She talked to Qin Lanfang for a while, and Dean Hao called her over again and handed her a large book of materials. "Next month, you will be responsible for receiving the medical equipment sent by the county. Bring a few people with you to store them in the warehouse over there first, and then we will slowly learn how to use them."
"It will take until July or August for the hospital to put it into use. A new batch of medical school graduates will graduate, and our hospital will need more medical staff..."
Zhan Aiping opened the list of medical equipment. There were a lot of medical equipment in this batch, both large and small, including more than a dozen sets of surgical instruments, electric centrifuges, analytical balances... microscopes, sphygmomanometers, two small X-ray machines, a small ultrasonic diagnostic instrument, an electrocardiograph... and two refrigerators.
Refrigerators in this era were considered medical devices and had not yet been promoted for civilian use. Having two more refrigerators in the hospital made things much more convenient.
"Okay, I'll take care of this."
Dean Hao smiled and said, "The more capable you are, the more work you will do. When new doctors come here, you will have to guide them. The county hospital will also send a medical guidance team."
Zhan Aiping nodded, "Our health center will develop slowly."
"Yes, we can't be too impatient. We can't be careless when it comes to curing illnesses and saving lives." Dean Hao turned around and looked at the inpatient building in front of him, taking a deep breath: "Everything is getting better, and our hospital will get better and better."
Zhan Aiping smiled: "It will get better and better."
In the evening, Zhan Aiping, Qin Lanfang and Shen Liqing took their two children back by car. Shen Liqing was very worried. She had already started teaching her children. "Now when I see those children, my head hurts."
Shen Liqing is now a calligraphy and painting teacher in an elementary school. She teaches art and calligraphy classes to the entire school.
She teaches all grades in the entire school.
Although it is not a core subject and there is nothing tiring to do, Shen Liqing feels upset when she sees too many children every day. No matter what era, primary school students are very naughty.
Qin Lanfang smiled and said, "The child is very cute."
"I love and hate them. These kids are so sweet. They praise me for being pretty every day and say I'm a beautiful teacher." Shen Liqing smiled. Although she was a lazy bum, she also liked to hear people flatter her. The flattery from children was the most innocent.
Her motivation for going to class every day is to be praised as a beautiful teacher.
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "Then why don't you be happy?"
"Be happy, these kids change their attitude so quickly. One moment they say you are the best teacher, and the next moment they start to be naughty and cause trouble for you. They change faster than the rain in June."
Shen Liqing smiled and said, "I told them that I know a doctor named Zhan, and if anyone dares to disobey me, I will let Doctor Zhan prick him with a needle."
"And I have to drink a very very bitter medicine!"
Zhan Aiping: "... When you raise your own child in the future, you won't use me to threaten the child, will you?"
Are you trying to treat her like Rong Mama
"Yes, if my child doesn't listen, Aunt Zhan from the yard will come and give him an injection in the buttocks. Whoever doesn't listen will be pricked with a needle."
Zhan Aiping snorted and laughed: "Your children won't believe it. They are not afraid of me at all when they see such a kind and beautiful doctor like me every day."
Shen Liqing sighed: "I'm really afraid that the child will be naughty."
Qin Lanfang said, "You and Comrade Wang both have good personalities, so the child won't be naughty, right?"
"That's not something I know about."
Shen Liqing continued, "Doctor Zhan, how are you going to teach your two children? They look so well behaved, not crying or making a fuss, right? They are two good kids who still go to work with their mother. They will become two great doctors in the future."
"This is a baby who grew up in a hospital. If anyone asks, he has a background in primary school medicine."
Zhan Aiping looked at the two children with a smile: "What else can we do? We'll just have to act according to circumstances."
Qin Lanfang said: "You can tell a person's future from the age of three. You will know in a few years."
Shen Liqing gently stroked her belly and couldn't help but say, "It's almost as big as a watermelon, Sister Qin, mine is much bigger than yours."
"You are carrying twins." Qin Lanfang said with a smile. She was pregnant with a single baby and her belly was not too big.
Zhan Aiping glanced at the two of them and said, "It's better to unload the goods."
When he got home, Gu Sheng was also anxious when he came back, and asked her how the situation was. Zhan Aiping said proudly: "If I take action, can your wife not become the vice president?"
"Congratulations, Comrade Gu, you now have a wife who is the vice president."
Gu Sheng smiled and nodded, then kissed her on the cheek, "Congratulations to my wife on her promotion."
"Do you want to cook some more dishes tonight to celebrate?" Gu Sheng folded up his sleeves and prepared to cook.
"Of course."
While Gu Sheng went to cook, Zhan Aiping teased the two children to turn over. The two little guys already knew how to turn over, and by teasing and enticing them with toys, they could perform a trick of the trade.
Their little arms are chubby, just like their name, their arms are like lotus root nodes, short and fat, making people wonder if they have no bones.
"Our brother is great, he has already turned over, come on, sister."
"Little Tangyuan, are you going to sleep? Why are you lying there motionless? Come and see your mother's hand."
Zhan Aiping played with the children for a while. The smell of food wafted through the air, and the two children became restless. Zhan Aiping fed them. After drinking the milk, the two children acted like the boss and lay there motionless, humming. People tend to become drowsy when they are full.
They both hummed songs to themselves, and the brother and sister babbled one after another. Because they had each other to keep them company, they did not need their parents to cooperate with them in playing.
Although they can't speak yet, the brother and sister have a strong desire to talk to people. They make "wow" sounds all the time as if they are saying something, and they grin as long as someone responds to them.
Gu Sheng brought the dishes over and teased the two children: "Wait a little longer, you don't have to just feed on milk."
"Well, you need to feed him some other complementary food." As the child grows, simple breast milk can no longer meet the nutritional needs of the child.
"Thank you for your hard work, my wife."
"Luckily, we have two piglets at home." Zhan Aiping smiled slightly: "They can eat and sleep well, and they don't make noises. At most, they howl a few times in their father's ear."
Gu Sheng smiled: "The big elbow next door is getting louder and louder. Mrs. Zhou even said she wanted to thank you. Thanks to your advice, her big elbow is almost becoming a 'big elbow' and has become much stronger recently."
"Deputy Group Leader Qian told me that Dr. Zhan in your family is the best at raising children, and it would be better for me to marry a doctor. He said I made a fortune."
"I didn't just make a lot of money, I made a fortune."
Zhan Aiping clicked her tongue twice: "So proud? You stinky men, you just want to save trouble. You want to marry a teacher so you don't have to worry about educating your children. You also want to marry a doctor. Once the child is sick, you just leave it to your wife to take care of. If she can't take good care of the child, you will start to criticize her. You are a teacher and you can't teach your own children. You are a doctor and you don't even know that your child is sick? Why don't you pay more attention to your children..."
"You're in big trouble then." Gu Sheng teased, "Our Pingping is now a well-known author, the vice president of a hospital, a doctor, and is about to be invited to teach at a medical school. Well, I, as her husband, will have something to say in the future."
"Then I will say - you are a great writer, but you don't care about our child's writing? You don't know that our child is sick? You are a teacher, but you can't manage the child's study, Zhan Da Pingping, you disappoint me so much."
"Go away!" Zhan Aiping kicked him, and Gu Sheng smiled, grabbed her hand and brought her into his arms.
Zhan Aiping raised her hand and rubbed his prickly hair: "In the future, you will be responsible for the child's education, if the child is disobedient, if the child doesn't study, and if the child is sick, you will also be responsible."
"Anyway, you have to take care of our child's eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, and even if his composition is not good, you have to take care of him. Who told you to peek at my diary?"
Gu Sheng smiled with his eyes narrowed. He deliberately rubbed her face with his chin, "Okay, I'll take care of it. I promise to take care of the child."
"Yes, that's it." Zhan Aiping smiled and pushed his face away. The man's clean-shaven chin was still a little rough, and it felt very special when it brushed against her tender face.
"I want to write down what you said. I want to write it down in a little notebook."
Zhan Aiping laughed and teased him, "I will have something to say to you then - your future Captain Gu can manage thousands of people, but can't he manage two children? You are so useless! Gu Dasheng, I am very disappointed in you!"
Gu Sheng pinched her nose: "I promise I won't let you down."
Gu Sheng said helplessly: "If the children can ride on my head, it must be because their mother is backing them up. If anyone is to blame, they can only blame their mother."
"You are the child's amulet, and you are still firing blanks here. Loving mothers often spoil their children."
"I—" Zhan Aiping admitted defeat: "Chief of Staff Gu is still good at trash talking."
When two sides face off, no matter it is a conspiracy or a head-on confrontation, they always have to say some trash talk beforehand to shake the other side's morale. Her old Gu has always been first-rate at saying tough words.
"What rubbish! I, Gu, always tell the truth."
"You're just bragging, who would believe you? Look, the sweet and sour pork is staring at you—" Zhan Aiping looked at the child carefully, she was a little worried: "Gu Dasheng, you said the child has heard us bickering since he was young, will they do the same in the future? Then our family will be in chaos."
Gu Sheng ruffled her hair and said, "Fortunately, we are just arguing with each other now. At least we are not physically fighting. We are only fighting secretly where the children can't see."
"You, Gu Sheng, are such a troublemaker. You enjoy other people's misfortunes, watch the fun and fan the flames. No wonder I thought you deserved a beating when I was a kid. You always act like you don't care and you're not afraid of anything. You're invincible. You're not even afraid of the sky falling. You really deserve a beating."
"Isn't it my job to stabilize the morale of the troops? If I panic, who will stabilize the morale of our troops? Will I cry with you?"
Zhan Aiping leaned on him: "I suspect you are mocking me for shaking the morale of the troops."
"Yeah, Zhan Da Pingping, how good are you? I know you are not afraid, you are doing it on purpose, you are the one who is fanning the flames and shaking the morale of the troops."
Zhan Aiping: “…”
"Pingping, you can't beat me." Gu Sheng touched her lovingly, "Don't worry, I've got you at home."
Zhan Aiping reached out and pinched her daughter's paw: "You are bragging, you are bragging, come and listen to me, little glutinous rice balls and sweet and sour pork, your father is so shameless, bragging."
"I really don't know where you get your confidence from."
After listening to their verbal battle, the children also laughed excitedly. Although they could not understand what their parents said, they could feel that their parents were very excited and happy. The two little siblings were eager to join in the lively conversation.
They were both impatiently shouting "ah ah", waving their hands and feet, drooling, they just wanted to talk.
Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping each picked up the two restless little caterpillars.
Gu Sheng grabbed his daughter's arm and laughed, "It seems that our two are like their mother, two chirping little sparrows."
"My dad has always said that you are a chirping little sparrow, and you are particularly good at shaking the morale of the troops."
"You are the chirping sparrow. Both you and your son are blind." Zhan Aiping snorted, "What's wrong with me shaking the morale of the army?"
Gu Sheng pointed at his face and said, "Kiss me, and you will sway my army's will."
Zhan Aiping kissed him twice without hesitation: "Let me try shaking it twice."
"Okay." Gu Sheng said calmly, "Wife, I'm so scared. What should we do if our child becomes naughty in the future?"
Zhan Aiping: "... I won't shake the morale of the army. They are not sincere."
"Next time I'll let you try to be sincere."
Zhan Aiping shook her head. "When we came back today, Shen Liqing was still talking about me in the car. She said she would use me to scare children in the future. If the children don't obey, they will say that Doctor Zhan is going to give them an injection. Doctor Zhan will give bad kids very bitter Chinese medicine."
Gu Sheng smiled: "Good idea."
"What a fart."
After digesting the food for a while, the family went into the study. Zhan Aiping asked Gu Sheng to continue helping her copy the manuscript. The child lay on the bed, while she sat in front of the sewing machine, preparing to sew a few small floral bibs for the child, and also to make a few overalls for the two little ones.
Gu Sheng laughed as he copied.
Zhan Aiping clicked his tongue: "Are you shocked by your wife's masterpiece?"
Gu Sheng praised her: "It's very interesting. When it's published, we should have at least a dozen copies at home."
"I will use it to teach my children to read in the future."
Zhan Aiping shook her head: "There are children's books for children to learn to read."
"Gu Sheng, you're so good at drawing, why don't you draw for the kids and I'll come up with the ideas."
Gu Sheng refused: "I don't want to be a painter, but I can draw airplanes and cannons for children."
The next day, Zhan Aiping didn't go to work. Mrs. Zhou from next door came to chat with her and brought her big elbow. Her big elbow had grown a lot. Zhan Aiping hugged the big elbow and said, "It's heavier."
Mrs. Zhou smiled from ear to ear: "Your way of raising children is still the best. When we raise children now, we should learn from you doctors. We should pay attention to hygiene and prevent those bacteria and viruses... Our big elbow has a better appetite recently and doesn't cry anymore."
"Growing teeth?"
Mrs. Zhou said, "I hope he grows up quickly."
When Mrs. Zhou came over, she gave her some pumpkin flowers and maltose. Zhan Aiping gave her some White Rabbit candies and said, "Take them back and give them to your daughters."
Mrs. Zhou didn't bother to be polite with her and said with a smile, "Thank her, Aunt Zhan."
Zhan Aiping asked, "Is your mother-in-law back?"
"She's gone." Mrs. Zhou nodded. "It's good that she's gone. It's quieter. There's one less person to look after the children. Doctor Zhan, you're much better than me. You're taking care of two children. I still have Daya and Erya to look after them at home."
"If Daya and Erya are obedient, you won't have to worry about anything."
Mrs. Zhou smiled and said, "Yes, my two daughters make me worry less."
"When Dazhuozi grows up, I will let him take care of his younger brother Youyou and his younger sister Yuanyuan."
"Big Elbow, Big Elbow." Mrs. Zhou smiled happily: "It's better to change the name to Big Elbow. Since the name change, the child has grown stronger and stronger."
Zhan Aiping: “…”
Big pork elbow, sweet and sour pork, small glutinous rice balls... Zhan Aiping thought of the big plate of chicken in Qin Lanfang's stomach again. She smiled and thought that it might not be really big plate of chicken.
In the evening, Mrs. Zhou left. When Gu Sheng came back, Officer Xie Shuxie came to their house and returned the notebook to Gu Sheng. This notebook had been borrowed and copied by someone for several months, and it was finally returned.
"Thank you, Chief of Staff Gu." Xie Shu handed him a pack of cigarettes.
Gu Sheng refused: "I don't smoke now."
Xie Shu said: "I don't smoke anymore either."
"I just met your two children. They are so well-raised, fair and tender. Our Lingling always praises them. Um... Chief of Staff Gu, are you still taking notes?"
Gu Sheng: “I wrote a little more.”
"Write it well and lend it to me to copy later."
After that, Xie Shu went back. He Lingling asked him how he was doing. Xie Shu said, "His two children are fair and tender, and the neighbor's big elbow is also strong. Deputy Head Qian said that you still have to listen to the doctor when raising children."
He Lingling was pregnant, feeling sweet but also anxious. It was her first time being a mother, and she was not used to it. She was afraid that she would not be able to raise such a small child. She wished, "Let's give our child a dish name in the future."
Xie Shu said: "It's a pity that someone else has used such a good name as Big Elbow first."
"You also think big pork elbow is good?" He Lingling's eyes lit up.
Xie Shu said: "It's better to call it big elbow than spare ribs."
He Lingling said, "The fatter the better. How about we call it red-braised pork?"
Xie Shu hesitated and said, "It sounds a little wrong."
Braised pork
Big pork elbow doesn’t sound as brutal as braised pork.
"Don't bring 'burn', it doesn't sound good."
Xie Shu said: "Then let's think about it slowly."
The Xie couple continued to think of names for the dishes.
After Xie Shu left, Gu Sheng complained to Zhan Aiping, "Look, they are all addicted to copying, and they even ask me to copy. They are all the same, and Captain Jiang is even staring at me as I write."
"Now I have three separate notebooks, two for recording, and one for writing dates. My diary is only for you, my wife."
Zhan Aiping said casually: "Who would write a diary if they were serious? I never write one."
Gu Sheng said: "You don't write a diary, you write your Liao Zhai."
Zhan Aiping: “…”
"I write my diary, and you write your Liao Zhai. We don't interfere with each other. After so many days of hard work, I have finally finished copying your Liao Zhai."
Zhan Aiping rarely felt guilty, so she patted Gu Sheng on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Comrade Gu."
Gu Sheng sighed: "Help me massage my shoulders and legs in the evening."
Zhan Aiping snorted: "I told you you're fat and you're out of breath."
*
By April, Zhan Aiping had become Vice President of the hospital, and the batch of medical equipment was also shipped over. Zhan Aiping took a few people to receive and count the equipment, and move them into various rooms. Those that needed to be moved to the laboratory were moved to the laboratory, and those that needed to be moved to the operating room were moved to the operating room.
Many medical equipment could not be used temporarily, but there was one very convenient thing, which was the refrigerator. It waited quietly for a day. The next day, everyone in the hospital couldn't wait to plug them in. They had two extra-large refrigerators to use.
A refrigerator is a super big item. Who wouldn’t be excited to see it? But every household doesn’t have it. Only hospitals and factories have it.
People from the entire hospital gathered around the refrigerator to look at it, and one by one they reached out to touch the cold air. "It's so cold, it's really cold. It actually works, it's amazing."
Doctor Zhou Zhonghua was amazed at the refrigerator. He thought that things had changed so much over the years. When he was a kid, he had never seen electricity. Now we have light bulbs, refrigerators, and microscopes that can see tiny bacteria. Zhan Aiping reminded him, "Don't open it for too long. If moisture gets in, it will frost."
They closed the refrigerator and discussed what to put in it to test the refrigerator.
Qin Yanfang was delighted: "The medicine hasn't arrived yet, can we freeze something else? It seems that this is divided into refrigerated and frozen."
Zhan Aiping suggested: "Try making milk popsicles."
"In the future, buffalo milk can be stored in a refrigerator." Nowadays, milk and fruit are not easy to store. Without a refrigerator, if you can't finish eating or drinking them, they will just rot and stink, and can only be fed to pigs or used as fertilizer.
"Let's freeze some more ice cubes." Zhan Aiping thought it was appropriate to use this refrigerator to freeze some ice cubes. She could bring the ice cubes home in a quilt and occasionally taste the taste of cold drinks.
Doctor Zhao said, "Make some green bean paste."
Dean Hao stood by with his hands behind his back, shaking his head repeatedly: "Look at you guys, this refrigerator is a medical device, is it used to freeze popsicles for you? If you put medicine in it, it will smell like medicine."
Qin Yanfang: "I don't mind the smell of medicine. I'm used to it."
Zhou Zhonghua said: "I don't mind it either."
"Let's make it with red bean flavor." said Dean Hao.
Everyone laughed.
Doctor Zhou said, "This refrigerator is a good thing."
Qin Yanfang said: "It would be nice if I had one at home. I freeze ice cubes every day in the hot summer."
Dean Hao said: "This is a medical device, not for you to keep at home."
"Maybe we'll put them at home in the future." Zhan Aiping said with a smile, "By then every household will have one, just like light bulbs in the city."
"I don't know how many years I have to wait." Qin Yanfang sighed.
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "You're living in an apartment now, so a refrigerator won't be far away."
"In the future, there will be more and more refrigerators in our hospital."
Several people were chatting animatedly around the refrigerator. Since there were no frozen medicinal herbs, they froze a lot of popsicles, some made of buffalo milk. Zhan Aiping also tried to make some milk ice cream. The milk popsicles and milk ice cream she made were very popular, but it was a pity that she couldn't eat them yet.
Qin Yanfang and her friends cooked mung bean paste and red bean paste, put them into molds, and made red bean paste popsicles.
Zhan Aiping and Qin Lanfang couldn't eat, but Qin Lanfang and Zhao Jing were eating with relish.
"This mung bean popsicle is delicious, but you can't take too many bites." Qin Yanfang was eating the mung bean popsicle in her hand. She took a few more bites, and the originally turbid mung bean popsicle turned transparent white in some places. It seemed that she had sucked away all the sugar juice.
"It's delicious. I can be happy just by eating ice."
Zhan Aiping said: "In the hot summer, it's fun to freeze a watermelon."
"Pingping, you are still good at eating it. It's a pity that you can't finish it. Wow, your milk popsicle is so fragrant, rich and delicious."
Dean Hao was silent beside him, he was also eating voraciously, and Doctor Zhao couldn't help but advise him: "Dean, you are old, eating too much ice will give you diarrhea."
Dean Hao said: "Just prescribe some medicine for me, and I have to take what I need to take."
Even if he had diarrhea, he would finish the popsicle and bring some for his family.
—I don’t know how many people here will be pulled.
Zhan Aiping: “…”
Doctors don't pay attention to health preservation either.
Zhu Hui didn't say much. She ate the milk popsicles made by Zhan Aiping. Zhu Hui has been studying hard recently. She is thinking about going to the county for training. Zhu Hui wants to transform from a nurse to an anesthesiologist.
The management at that time was not strict. Nurses could change their careers to become anesthesiologists, but they had to obtain the corresponding qualification certificate. Zhu Hui was preparing for this.
Zhu Hui is divorced and is not in a hurry to find a partner. She wants to improve herself, and Zhan Aiping supports her very much.
Zhu Hui smiled and said, "As for me, I want to learn from you, Vice Dean Zhan. Look at our age, and you are the Vice Dean and a teacher. You can even write and publish books. You, Zhan Dapingping, are amazing."
"Don't be so modest."
Zhu Hui shook her head: "I'm not being modest, I'm ashamed of myself. When I was in the art troupe, I always wanted to marry someone with good conditions, I wanted to marry a powerful officer, I wanted people to envy me, I always wanted to rely on men, but now I don't want to be like that anymore, I want to rely on myself, I want to study, I want to work, I want to become an excellent person."
"You have hands and feet, why do you have to rely on men?"
"Yes." Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "You are motivated. Keep it up."
As the vice president, she should also fulfill her role of supervision and encouragement and give Comrade Zhu Hui more hope.
"When you become an anesthesiologist in the future, we will join forces." Zhan Aiping raised her hand, ready to high-five her.
Zhu Hui raised her hand and responded softly: "What do you mean by strong alliance? I just hope I won't be a drag."
"Look at you, you go to the county to teach people, and I go to the county to study."
Zhan Aiping said: "Let's encourage each other, study together, and go to the county together tomorrow."
Zhu Hui smiled happily: "Pingping, I like your proud and confident look."
Zhan Aiping glared at her: "How can I be proud? I am a very modest person."
Old Gu in their family is the proudest.
Zhu Hui smiled but said nothing. She blinked her eyes and said, "I can eat popsicles but you can't. I'm so proud of myself."
Zhan Aiping: “…”
Zhan Aiping packed some popsicles wrapped in ice cubes and took them back. Although she couldn't eat them, she could give them to Gu Sheng to make him have a stomachache.
(End of this chapter)