Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 2 Procedure
"Yancheng, your home is near Coal Hill Park, right?"

Seeing Li Yancheng coming back, Zhou Guotao closed the book in his hand and started chatting with him.

"Yes, it's in Meishan East Hutong."

When the farming season just ended, the health center was busy for a while. Villagers living in villages near Mulin Town would come to see the doctors to treat their illnesses that had accumulated over the past few months and ask them to prescribe some painkillers.

But it's only busy for a while. Unless the pain is really severe, no one would want to go to the hospital for no reason.

For those who come here to provide medical support, coming here is basically equivalent to paid vacation, except that it is inconvenient to go home.

If I wanted to go back home, I had to get up at four in the morning and check in advance to see if there was a tractor or donkey cart or horse carriage going to the county.

It is about 20 kilometers from Mulin Town to Yishun County. If you want to go back to Jingshi City, you have to get to the county before 8:30 in the morning, because there is only one bus to the city at that time. If you miss that point, you can't leave today. There is only one bus every day, and it returns from the city at around 3:00 in the afternoon.

I'm in trouble.

"I heard that our hospital has already applied to the district to build a family housing building, but I don't know how many buildings we can build."

Li Yancheng took the cigarette Zhou Guotao handed over, lit it with a match and said, "There is no land near our hospital. Even if we build one, it's probably far away. And someone like me who has only been here for two years may not be able to get one."

The First Hospital was a newly established hospital in the 13th year after the founding of the People's Republic of China. There are a total of about one hundred medical staff and employees. At present, let alone a family building, there is not even a two-story building in the entire hospital. Even the hospital itself is full of bungalows.

Li Yancheng had no expectations about whether the family buildings would be built or not. As he said, even if they were built, he might not be able to live there.

Moreover, the design of buildings nowadays is just like that. The reason why ordinary people want to live in family buildings is that they think it is fashionable and more convenient than living in a slum. At least they don’t have to queue up with everyone in the alley to go to the toilet in the morning, and tap water can be connected to the house without having to compete with others. There is no need to worry about the water pipes freezing in winter.

Furthermore, units with better conditions might be able to provide heating, which would make the winter much better.

"It doesn't matter how far it is, as long as it can be built." Zhou Guotao is full of expectations for the hospital to build a family building.

He has a large family. He, his wife and four children live in a house of less than 20 square meters. It is inconvenient to do anything, so of course they hope to move to a bigger house.

Li Yancheng is different. The house he lives in now was left to him by the old man who adopted him. It is a main house of a quadrangle with two entrances, about 40 square meters. The ear room next to the main house also belongs to him, and it is now filled with sundries.

He lives alone in two rooms, one large and one small. Even if the hospital builds a family building in the future, he is eligible for one, but the hospital will not give him any because the current housing needs to give priority to those who have no house or who have a limited housing supply.

"By the way, Yancheng, I want to ask you something. Don't blame me for being nosy."

"It's okay, Brother Zhou, you ask." Li Yancheng shook his head indifferently. He could probably guess what Zhou Guotao wanted to ask. If nothing unexpected happened, it should be about the original owner's wife who ran away.

"Your... let's just call her my wife. Hasn't she already run away? Have you gone to the street office to complete the divorce procedures?"

As expected, he was asking about her.

Li Yancheng was slightly stunned by the question raised by others, and he quickly looked through his memory. He found that this guy had never gone through the divorce procedures. Fortunately, he was reminded, otherwise this might become a trap. If someone brings this matter to trouble him again, saying that he had no intention of drawing a clear line with that woman, then even the dismissed director of the street office would not be able to explain anything for him.

"Thank you, Brother Zhou. If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten about it. I will go to the street office to complete the formalities when I return next month."

Li Yancheng thanked with gratitude, this reminder could really save his life.

Zhou Guotao smiled and waved his hands: "Well, what's there to thank me for? Actually, this is not what I thought of. Doesn't your sister-in-law work in the neighborhood committee where we live? It was she who told me about it when I went back that day.

The problems of your ex-wife's family are her family's problems, and have nothing to do with you. Now that they have run away, you should completely cut ties with them and don't get entangled with them, or someone will remember to bring up the past later."

"Yes, yes, sister-in-law, you are right. I didn't think carefully enough before. I just thought that once the investigation was complete, the matter would be over. I didn't even think about going through the formal procedures."

The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. Li Yancheng felt that he could no longer sit still. He wanted to go back and resolve the matter once and for all to avoid any more trouble.

Zhou Guotao saw what he was thinking and said with a smile, "It won't work today. Go and borrow a bicycle from Director Liu of the health center. Go to the county and take a bus back to the city to complete the formalities tomorrow morning."

"it is good!"

It has to be done as soon as possible. If the distance wasn't too far, Li Yancheng would have wanted to go back right now.

"By the way, Yancheng, how is the director of the street office who introduced you to a matchmaker now?"

"He has been removed from office."

Seeing that Zhou Guotao asked something else, Li Yancheng calmed down and answered.

He had no experience on how to survive in this era, and he had to be careful in everything he did, lest he fall off a cliff with one wrong step.

"Director Fang is too deeply involved with the Chen family. The letters of introduction that the Chen family held when they left were all issued by him."

At this point, Li Yancheng sighed, "Alas, Director Fang has actually been kept in the dark. The Chen family's plan to leave is definitely not a sudden decision, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to clean up the house so thoroughly in an instant.

At that time, they asked Director Fang to introduce a date to their daughter. I guess it was just a delaying tactic on their part, and I just happened to run into it."

"Alas, in such a messy environment, it's better to be careful no matter what you do."

Being cautious in what you say and do is deeply rooted in people's minds. The two of them did not discuss this topic in depth, but just touched on it briefly.

The two chatted casually like this until they went to the health center cafeteria to get food. During this time, two villagers from nearby villages came to see a doctor.

After the meal was ready and they returned to their temporary dormitory and sat down to eat, Zhou Guotao finally asked about a question he had just discovered.

(End of this chapter)