In September 1995, Ding Qiunan, who had just turned fifty-five, officially retired and became a full-time housewife from then on.
Sitting in the back seat of the car, as soon as the car drove out of the compound, she looked back, her eyes full of melancholy.
"What? You can't bear to leave?" Li Chu, who was sitting next to her, smiled and patted his wife's leg.
"It's an exaggeration to say that I can't bear to leave. I just left my place of work suddenly, and I may never come back again. I feel an indescribable feeling in my heart, just like when I left the hospital two years ago."
"That's how it was when I just retired. Didn't our sister and brother-in-law do the same thing back then? It doesn't matter. You'll just get used to it in a few days. I will be at home with you during this time."
"Ah? You don't go to work?"
"I'm on vacation, so I have nothing to do during this time."
After listening to his words, Ding Qiunan's eyes brightened obviously, and he nodded with a smile.
When I got home, I saw the naked part of my military uniform and cap that I had taken off, and I immediately felt depressed again.
After wearing a military uniform for thirty years, I may never wear it again.
"Qiu Nan, have all the procedures been completed?"
Li Qin opened the door curtain and walked in.
"After this is done, sister, you don't have to go there anymore."
Looking at the expression on his sister-in-law's face, Li Qin knew what was going on. Wasn't she the same way back then?
"You'll get used to it in a few days."
"I'm fine, I'm just not used to the sudden force." Ding Qiunan smiled and took his sister's hand and walked to the sofa to sit down.
"Well, even if the children have started school, if they haven't gone to school yet, it would probably be better if I could take care of them at home."
"Now every morning, after we wait for them to finish their meal and go to school, we go out to find a place to play cards. Anyway, we don't have to cook at noon."
"When Li Chu just came back, he said he was also taking a few days off."
"Oh, by the way, where are the others?"
"In the kitchen, we're getting food for the dogs."
There are only four dogs left at home, and they are still being raised quietly.
The city had banned the breeding of large dogs two years ago, and the idea at that time was to send the dogs to be raised in a nursing home.
As a result, the four children almost lost their temper without crying. They had no choice but to keep them like this.
Everyone from the neighbors in the alley to the neighborhood committee office and police station knew that there were several large dogs in this yard, but they all turned a blind eye and thought they had been sent away.
Fortunately, these dogs themselves don't bark much, and the yard is big enough for them to toss around.
Over the years, some of the dogs in the family have died of old age or illness. Now there are only four left, Xiao Hei, the fourth, fifth and sixth day of the lunar month.
Xiao Hei is getting older and can't run even if he takes slow walks all day long. His biggest hobby is that as long as Li Chu is at home, he will follow him wherever he goes.
At this moment, it was lying at the door of the kitchen, quietly watching its owner who was busy inside.
Every time a dog is given away, Li Chu and his family feel uncomfortable for a while.
He has made up his mind this time not to let the remaining three dogs have any more children. After they are taken care of and sent to their old age, their family will no longer keep dogs.
This was also a joint decision made after their family held a family meeting, although everyone was reluctant to give up.
Especially Ding Qiunan, not long after she got married, the first generation of Xiao Hei was picked up. More than thirty years later, the family has never lacked anything but a dog. This made Ding decide not to raise a dog in the future. Although
She reluctantly agreed, but she still ignored her man for a whole day.
These dogs brought so much laughter to their family and helped them a lot. When they got home from get off work or school, the first ones to greet them were always those dogs.
Even now, the police dogs in the police dog team of the Public Security Bureau are still the descendants of the first generation of Xiao Hei.
Now the dogs at home can only see the outside world when they go to the nursing home with their owners on weekends. Usually they stay at home and never leave the house.
Others can pretend not to know, but if you take your dog outside for a walk, that's really going too far.
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Autumn
Winter comes, winter goes and spring comes...
Li Chu finally fulfilled his promise back then and allowed several old comrades to live to see the grand occasion of 1997.
And as he wished, after the meeting that year, he retired and returned to work, living the life of an ordinary doctor.
There is no way to quit this profession, just like his status as a health bureau, he has to work until he dies.
But this already made him very satisfied.
The first thing he did after retiring was to arrange good positions for Zhao Zhijun and Tian Jun, who had been with him for more than ten years.
Then he immediately took Ding Qiunan out to experience the great rivers and mountains of the motherland.
For three years, for three years, they sometimes brought Ding's father and Ding's mother, sometimes they took their elder sister and brother-in-law, and when the children were on vacation, they would take a few of them with them, traveling almost all over the country.
After entering the new millennium, Li Chu, who was already sixty-five years old, resumed his practice at the main hospital.
Because of Li Chu’s previous words and deeds, as well as Li Wenxuan, Liu Ziqiang and Duan Jianing, the three students he personally taught, after so many years of development, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine has long become a leading department of the main hospital.
From doctors to trainees, from doctors to nurses, the total number of people in the general practice exceeds 200.
Because of the large number of people, the main hospital also specially allocated the entire third floor of the new outpatient clinic to the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
As the department was upgraded, Li Wenxuan naturally wore a 24-cent epaulette.
The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the General Hospital is so famous that it ranks first in the country.
Their department is also unique in that it does not set up any specialist clinics. All patients who come to see the doctor have a registration fee of two yuan.
Of course, patients do not have the right to choose a doctor. They have to wait in line to see who is who.
Even if many people can enter the main hospital and come to the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine after graduation, it is not easy to sit here. It doesn’t matter what exam you passed or obtained a practicing certificate. It doesn’t matter who your student is or what your academic qualifications are.
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If you want to be qualified to sit in a clinic here, you must pass the department exam and get the nod from the director and deputy director.
After Li Chu came for a consultation, he did not accept appointments as before. He was not a specialist clinic. The registration fee was also the same and the time was not fixed. I was happy that I could sit in the clinic for a whole day. I didn’t want to come here for several days in a row.
You may not even see anyone.
When he first came, the hospital leaders were very nervous. He said he was retired, but after all, the level gap was too big. If any aspect was not done well, they would be the ones who would suffer.
After observing for a period of time, these leaders finally determined that this person was here just for consultation and ignored other messy things. They were half relieved.
As for the other half of their hearts, they can't let go as long as this person is still sitting here.
On October 1, everyone celebrates
Li Chu walked out of the house angrily. He didn't know what the old woman was doing. She didn't buy all the vegetables yesterday, so why did she ask him to go out to buy vegetables?
Oh, no, I mean that I want to eat tofu from someone else, so I sent myself to buy tofu for her.
Unfortunately, the tofu store that sells it is more than ten kilometers away from here, and I don't know if eating the tofu from that store will lead to immortality.
As he walked towards the bus stop, he muttered something to himself.
And Xing Jian, this bastard is not a good person either. He didn't even go with me.
It’s a thirty-kilometer round trip. Oh my god, it’s time for lunch when we get back.
It was only after he got on the bus that he realized why everything today was so weird.
Just then the car was driven away, everyone at home was busy and no one came out with her, and she just wanted to eat the tofu from that place, so she only ate that one.
Is this old woman trying to cause trouble again?
Li Chu was sitting on the bus, thinking wildly in his mind.
"Why do you little girl keep staring at an old man like me?"
Although he is getting older and has other things on his mind, his intuition has not deteriorated at all over the years.
The little girl sitting next to her, about twenty years old, had been looking at him from time to time since she got in the car and sat here, which made him
Feeling a little uncomfortable.
"Ah? I'm really sorry, uncle." The little girl blushed when Li Chu said this. She quickly said sorry, and then asked cautiously: "Excuse me, are you Li Chu?"
Professor, right?”
Um?
"Can you recognize me even if I'm wearing a mask?"
"It's really you, Professor Li. I am a student majoring in pharmacy at Union College and I have attended your class."
"That's not right. Where did you take my class? I haven't taken a class at Xiehe University in more than ten years."
"Hey, I'm taking classes here at the Medical College of the General Hospital." The little girl smiled sheepishly.
"You are sincere."
"Professor Li, can I ask when your next class is? You don't have a fixed time for class. It is really difficult for us students outside the school to listen to your lecture once."
Li Chu was a little surprised. No wonder he couldn't sit in the big classroom every time he went to class. It turned out that there were so many students from outside the school rushing over.
"You really confused me. I don't know when the next class will be. They only informed me a day or two in advance after making arrangements.
Let me give you a phone number. It’s a secret phone number from the medical school. He usually helps me coordinate my class schedule. You can call him later and ask."
"Ah, thank you Professor Li, thank you very much."
"No need to thank me, just study hard and the future is yours."
Li Chu said with a smile, then took out a pen from the upper pocket of his jacket, and then took out a small notebook and wrote a phone number and a surname on it.
"You can call him Secretary Guo and Teacher Guo. Just say it's me who called you and ask him to tell you my class time."
The little girl took the piece of paper as if she had found a treasure, carefully put it into the small bag she carried with her, and took out a hard-cover notebook.
"Professor Li, can I ask you a few questions?"
"Is it about learning?"
"certainly"
"That's no problem"
An old man and a young man were sitting on the bus like this, asking questions and answering questions, which attracted the attention of people around them.
It can be seen that this girl is not pretending to like learning. The questions she asked must have been prepared in advance and planned to be used if she can attend his class next time.
Just like that, Li Chu almost didn't get off the bus. Unexpectedly, the little girl even chased him and got off the bus.
"Professor Li, could you please sign your name for me again?"
"Shall I give you an autograph? That's rare. I remember that kids your age like to chase stars. If you get autographs from those celebrities, you can still make some money in the future. What's the use of asking for my autograph?"
"I don't like chasing stars. You see, I have already had several highly respected old professors sign autographs for me. I can't even get in front of you here."
Really, the book she took had several signatures on it. Li Chu looked at them all and recognized them all. They were old men and women in the medical industry.
Seeing this, he simply picked up a pen and signed his name, and also wrote his own blessing, and then left unsteadily.
The little girl held the notebook tightly to her chest as if she had acquired some rare treasure.
Li Chu is not worried about whether his signature will be used to do bad things by malicious people.
His signatures are all very particular. There is one kind of signature for students like this, one kind of signature for prescribing to patients, another kind of signature for signing documents in the past, and another kind of signature for prescribing medicine to those old chiefs.
It will change. Each signature has a different purpose. It has been reported a long time ago.
The latter two signatures will never be circulated to the outside world. Anyone who wants to impersonate his signature is simply looking for trouble for himself and waiting for others to come to check the water meter.
After running thirty kilometers back and forth just to buy two kilograms of tofu, Li Chu looked at the tofu in his hand and shook his head helplessly.
But when he got home and walked in the door, he finally knew what happened today.
This year is their 40th wedding anniversary.
Wow, there are so many people at home!
looking at the yard
All the relatives and friends inside, Li Chu were in a daze.
Who is that? Oh, it's Brother Six, his wife Jiang Li, their children and grandchildren.
He also invited Zhu Wen, a man who had worked for his family for half his life.
Two in-laws, several elders, Uncle Wu, Aunt Wu, and Mr. Shen were all invited over.
Needless to say, there are those friends and companions, as well as the disciples and grandchildren.
Who is standing at the door of the main house? Oh, that is my wife, the woman who has been with me for forty years, the woman who has accompanied me through all the ups and downs, the woman who always regards me as her god.
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At this moment, she stood there with a smile on her face, just like she did when she went to get the certificate with him forty years ago.
At this moment, Li Chu was so fascinated that his eyes seemed to have traveled through forty years and returned to the time when the two of them were standing at the door of the office after receiving their certificates.
"Comrade Ding Qiunan, I am a new husband, please give me your advice in the future!"
"Comrade Li Chu, I am a newbie, please give me your advice in the future!"
(End of this book) This chapter has been completed!