Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 161: Second Marriage? No!
After saying this, Lao Xu left, and Li Yancheng's mood became depressed.

Originally, he had forgotten about the fact that someone wanted to kill him and planned to play ostrich and pretend nothing happened.

But now that it was brought up again, his heart couldn't help but beat a little.

If personal safety is threatened, probably few people would not take it seriously at all.

He couldn't help but think of the blind date tomorrow. Now that he was like this, the blind date...

Oh, I should talk it all out with the girl tomorrow so as not to let her get cheated.

He raised his arm and looked at the time. It was almost twelve o'clock and time for lunch. He got up somewhat listlessly and washed his hands on the washbasin rack behind the door.

No matter how big the world is, eating is the most important thing. Even if you really die, you should die with a full stomach, right?

……

At the same time, in a room in the single dormitory of Meishan Middle School.

"Nannan, what did you say?"

A beautiful middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties was looking at the young girl who was folding clothes by the bed with a look of disbelief on her face. She even raised her right hand and moved her ears, as if she didn't believe what she had just heard.

"Mom, I said I'm going on a blind date tomorrow, Zhang..."

"Wait a moment." After making sure that she had heard correctly, the middle-aged woman interrupted her daughter's unfinished words.

"Blind date? You're going on a blind date? Nan Nan, are you kidding me?"

Although she was sure that she had heard correctly, the middle-aged woman was obviously skeptical about what her daughter said.

Based on her understanding of her daughter, a blind date is impossible. If this girl is really so obedient, how could such an embarrassing thing happen?

The girl who was folding clothes with her head down looked up at her mother helplessly and spoke word by word very seriously.

"Mom, I'm serious. I'm going on a blind date tomorrow. I've made an appointment with my colleague's mother. She will come to school at nine o'clock tomorrow morning to take me there."

Looking at her daughter's serious expression, the middle-aged woman believed it this time, but even though she believed it, she still felt a little unbelievable.

My daughter is very opposed to blind dates. Why has she changed her mind just two months after being transferred to this school?

Um? wrong!

The middle-aged woman thought of another possibility.

"Nannan, please tell mom, are you dating someone yourself and are you afraid that we won't agree, so you said someone else introduced you to someone?"

"Oh, mom..." Seeing that her mother still didn't believe what she said, the girl felt a little amused and dropped the clothes in her hands that she had not yet finished folding. She turned around and looked at her mother head on.

"Mom, I really didn't talk about it myself. Let's just say that even if I really wanted to talk about it myself, it wouldn't be possible so quickly."

"Then tell me, where is the man's family from?"

“It’s right here.”

"From here? Are you in this school now?" When the middle-aged woman heard that the man was from here, she believed it a little, because in her impression, her daughter only knew a few people from the east side of the city.

"He's not from our school. My colleague's mother said that the man is a doctor. No..."

"doctor?"

This profession immediately aroused the middle-aged woman's interest. Her eyes brightened up and she didn't notice that she had interrupted her daughter's words again.

"Mom, don't be anxious, just listen to what I have to say."

The girl was obviously used to being interrupted by her mother and said with a roll of her eyes.

"Uh...you say."

"My colleague's mother said that the man is a doctor, yes, but he doesn't work in a hospital. No, no, he used to work in a hospital, in the East City First Hospital, but has now been transferred to work in another unit.

It's called the City Public Security Bureau's Security Department's Third Health Room. This unit isn't far from here, right by the Shichahai Sea."

"Public Security?" The middle-aged woman frowned slightly.

The Public Security Bureau is really not a very good unit these days.

To be precise, all administrative and public institutions are not considered good units these days.

At least that's how it looks in the eyes of ordinary people. As mentioned before, it's mainly a question of welfare benefits.

The benefits of these units are vastly different from those of other companies.

Now, if you work in these units, you will only get a fixed salary all year round, and if you want to move up in administrative rank, you just have to rely on years of experience.

Seniority has pinned everyone down to their positions. If one wants to skip a grade or get an exception, it is simply impossible unless one has made significant contributions.

In the administrative hierarchy, a clerk alone is divided into twelve levels. Even if you graduate from college, you can only be a fourth-level clerk after becoming a regular employee. It will take more than ten years to become a first-level clerk.

If you start as a level 12 clerk and work your way up to become a level 1 clerk by the time you retire, unless there are special circumstances.

The salary of a first-level clerk is only 78 yuan.

Li Yancheng was able to get the 17th administrative grade right away, equivalent to the deputy section level, because of the second-class merit and his own high level of health technology, which was equivalent to an intermediate professional title.

Otherwise, his starting point of administrative rank would not have been so high.

Even so, if calculated over the entire year, he did not earn as much as a fifth or sixth level worker in the factory.

Because the factories have benefits, like monthly distribution of labor protection supplies, supplies for festivals, cooling products in the summer, heating subsidies in the winter, not to mention daily meal allowances, which are higher in all enterprises than in administrative and public institutions.

This is also the reason why people nowadays want to work in enterprises rather than government departments, as the visible and invisible benefits are very different.

Take the Public Security Bureau as an example. If they had a choice, at least 90 percent of the registered police officers in the Public Security Bureau would choose to work in the security departments of factories and mines rather than stay here.

This is the status quo.

Another very typical situation is that in the 1980s, as the public security environment continued to deteriorate, many large factories and mines applied to establish their own public security bureaus and public security departments.

People working in this department also wear police uniforms. The only difference between them and the police officers in the Public Security Bureau is the armband on their uniforms, which has the words "Economic Police" written on it.

The public security departments (sections) of these large factories and mines actually exercise the powers of public security police within the factory areas, arresting, interrogating, and transferring to the procuratorate for prosecution.

It was not until the 1990s that the public security departments (sections) of these factories, mines and enterprises were incorporated into the Public Security Bureau, and at that time, the personnel were incorporated together.

When the department was incorporated, everyone tried their best to stay in the enterprise, and no one wanted to work in the Public Security Bureau.

why?
It’s not that the welfare benefits are too different.

As for whether those who had the opportunity to go but didn’t go will regret it in a few years, that is another matter. After all, no one can see that far.

The topic has gone too far.

This is also the reason why the middle-aged woman frowned. When she first heard that the man was a doctor, she was very happy. This is a technical job, but the public security...

Of course the girl saw her mother frowning, and she smiled softly, "What's wrong, Mom? Are you not satisfied? I'll tell my colleague later that I won't go tomorrow. It just so happens that I don't like blind dates anyway."

Hearing her daughter say this, the middle-aged woman's frown immediately smoothed out.

The fact that my daughter has agreed to go on a blind date means she is already making a change, and I must not fall behind.

"No, no, no, I'm not dissatisfied." The middle-aged woman shook her head quickly.

"I just don't understand why he was transferred from the hospital to the Public Security Bureau. This major is not suitable."

"Didn't I tell you that he is still a doctor in the Public Security Bureau, working in the clinic?"

"Oh, right!" The middle-aged woman raised her hand and patted her forehead: "Look, mom, I only remembered the Public Security Bureau, but forgot the clinic behind. If you put it that way, it's not so bad. Nan Nan, where is this boy from?"

"My home is in Meishandong Hutong, and my colleague's mother works in their neighborhood committee."

"Your colleague's mother works in the neighborhood committee, so the person who introduces her should be more reliable." When the middle-aged woman heard her daughter say that the introducer worked in the neighborhood committee, her eyes lit up again.

In the minds of people of this generation, the neighborhood committee members are still very new. "What do the boy's parents do?"

"No." The girl lowered her head and started packing her clothes again. After hearing her mother's question, she shook her head.

"No? What do you mean? He's an orphan?"

"Yes, Aunt Zhang, my colleague's mother said that his parents must have passed away four or five years ago. He was only three years old at the time and was rescued by his grandfather, who also passed away three years ago."

"Oh, I see." The middle-aged woman nodded. Just as she was about to ask something else, her expression paused slightly, as if she had thought of something and counted on her fingers.

"Nannan, that man... that man is already 27 this year?"

Now she doesn't call it a boy anymore. She is almost 30 years old and can't call him a boy no matter how you look at it.

"Yes, I am twenty-seven years old this year."

"He's still not married at the age of 27. Is there something wrong with him?"

The girl pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, then raised her head and said, "There is no physical defect, but he...he has been married once."

"What?" Upon hearing that the man had been married once, the middle-aged woman's voice rose eight octaves.

"I'm telling you, Nannan, I don't agree. I absolutely don't agree. You don't have to go meet him. I believe your father won't agree if he knows."

"Mom, please don't be anxious. Just listen to what I have to say, okay?"

"How can I not be anxious? I'm telling you, Nan Nan, even if you don't want to get married in the future, Mom will not agree to you marrying a divorced woman."

"Mom, can you please listen to what I have to say first?"

"Hoo...Hoo..." The middle-aged woman breathed heavily with some excitement, calmed herself down a little, and then said unhappily: "Tell me, I want to hear what you can say."

"Mom, it's true that the man Aunt Zhang introduced is a second marriage, but there is a reason for his second marriage."

"What's the reason? His ex-wife is gone?"

"Almost. His ex-wife and her family ran away at the beginning of the year before last. They almost killed him at that time."

"Run...run?" The middle-aged woman was a little dazed. She blinked and stared at her daughter, not understanding what the word 'run' meant.

"That is... her ex-wife's family had their own factory before liberation."

"Oh oh oh"

After hearing her daughter's explanation, the middle-aged woman immediately understood what the word "run away" meant.

"This..." She hesitated for a moment, but soon shook her head and said, "No, no, I still don't agree. It's not like my daughter can't get married. You're pretty and have a good job. Your father and I both have jobs, and we don't need your help in the future. With such good conditions, there are so many options. Why should I look for someone who is married twice? No, I strongly disagree. You can't go tomorrow."

"Mom, I've already promised Aunt Zhang, it would be inappropriate not to go."

"What's inappropriate about that? You were engaged before, but you didn't get a marriage certificate. You're still a virgin. How can you date someone who's been married twice? Not to mention that I don't agree, your dad won't agree either.

If you feel embarrassed to say it, then take me to find that Aunt Zhang you mentioned, and I will tell her. "

As she spoke, the middle-aged woman stood up, looking as if she was going to look for someone right away.

When the girl saw her mother's look, she dropped the clothes in her hands, stood up with a smile and took her mother's arm.

"Mom, you seem anxious again, please sit down and listen to what I have to say."

"What else do you want to say?" The middle-aged woman glanced at her daughter with sidelong eyes, her expression showing great dissatisfaction.

"Please sit down first. If you still feel uncomfortable after listening to me, I will definitely take you to see Aunt Zhang."

The girl forcibly pulled her mother's arm and pushed her onto the chair.

"It's like this, mom. Didn't I tell you that Aunt Zhang is the mother of my colleague? My colleague is Ding Liying, and she used to be a classmate of Sister Mei. Sister Mei, you must know her, right?"

"Meimei? Are you talking about your uncle Liu's daughter Liu Xiaomei?"

"Yes, when Sister Mei heard that I was transferred to Meishan Middle School to teach, she came to introduce me to her classmate, Ding Liying, who is the deputy director of the logistics department of our school. I can live in this house because Director Ding gave it to me for Sister Mei's sake.

Although this house used to be a warehouse, it's better than having no place to live and running around every day.

Don't you think about it? If I didn't have this relationship, how could I have been assigned a room right after I arrived? Even Yangchao Middle School doesn't have this treatment."

Hearing this, the middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows and said, "You mean, that's why you gave Chief Ding a favor and agreed to meet the person her mother introduced to you?"

"That's right. I can't just not give him any face after he did me such a big favor. It won't be a big deal to go meet him. I can just find an excuse to say it's not appropriate."

That's not a bad idea.

The middle-aged woman pondered for a moment and nodded gently.

She knew that her daughter was proud and arrogant, and that what that bastard had done was a big blow to her. That was why she was worried that her daughter would give up on herself and just find someone to make do with.

"Hey, Nan Nan, don't blame me for being so excited just now. I'm just worried about you."

"Mom, I understand what you're thinking. Don't worry, no matter what, even if I never get married, I won't let myself down."

"Silly girl, look at what you are saying. How can you not get married?"

The girl stood behind the chair and leaned over to hug her mother's neck, grinning and saying, "Mom, that's just what I said. Anyway, if I can't find someone I think is suitable, I will definitely not make do with it."

"You"

The middle-aged woman raised her hand helplessly and patted her daughter's hand: "You are spoiled by your father and your elder and second brothers. No matter what you do, you have to follow your own temper.

At the beginning, I didn't agree with Su Xinfeng. I told you that the guy had a bad heart, but you didn't listen to me. You thought that he was your college classmate, an intellectual, and a good-looking man, so he couldn't be wrong.

Take a look for yourself, what is the reality? My daughter, I bring this up again, not for any other reason, but to tell you that marriage is a lifelong thing, and you can't just look at the appearance.

Your mother works at the Women's Federation, and I've seen all kinds of people."

"I know, Mom. I promise that when I find a partner in the future, I will definitely satisfy you first. Is that okay?"

"Silly girl, what do you mean by satisfying me? I'm looking for you. What I mean is that you must understand clearly, not only the appearance but also the heart."

"Yes, Mom, I remember."

"Ugh……"

The middle-aged woman knew very well that her daughter's agreement was mostly to satisfy her. The child was grown up and no longer under the control of the mother, so she couldn't say much. If she said too much, the child's rebelliousness would become even stronger.

She only hopes that her silly daughter can meet a true lover who belongs to her.

After having lunch with her daughter in the school cafeteria at noon, the middle-aged woman left the school. She came here today just to see how her daughter was doing. She felt relieved that she was doing well.

After coming out of school, she walked to the main road and was just about to find a bus stop to take the bus back home, when she somehow thought of the man her daughter had just mentioned, the one she was going to have a blind date with the next day.

Where is the unit?

Oh yes, it’s on the shore of Shichahai Lake, it seems to be the Third Security Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged woman turned and walked west along the road.

This place is not far from Shichahai. Although I don’t know exactly where the unit is, I will definitely be able to find it by asking around.

More than half an hour later, she appeared at the door of Operations Unit 1 with a sign saying "Secure Unit 3".

Looking at the sentry standing in the booth with a gun at the gate of the unit, the middle-aged woman hesitated again, because she suddenly remembered that she didn't know the man's name at all, and she wouldn't be able to ask him if she went over.

Just as she was hesitating, the guard on duty at the door had noticed her. The one standing guard with a gun did not move, but the one on duty stood up and walked out from behind the desk and walked towards her.

"Hello, comrade." The duty officer came over and saluted first: "Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with? I see you have been looking at our unit here."

"Uh..." The middle-aged woman didn't expect that if she just stood across the street and looked at him for a few more times, someone would come over to ask her questions. After hesitating for a while, she said, "I... I want to find someone at your company. Oh, this is my work ID. I'm from the Yangchao District Women's Federation."

(End of this chapter)