Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 560 Free of Charge
It was a little too early for Li Yancheng to relax.

After finishing his meal and cleaning up, just as he was sitting down on the lounge chair in the yard and preparing to have a good rest, his wife's words made his hair stand on end.

"Dacheng..."

"Ok?"

"How come I didn't know that you knew Ningning's former high school class teacher Zhao Yanan?"

!!!

After dinner, the two children ran out to play with their friends, leaving the couple alone at home. Today, he had talked with those professors for several hours, which made him physically and mentally exhausted. Then, he was nervous because of being followed, so after dinner, he even skipped his normal walk and just wanted to rest.

Since he didn't go out, Luo Min was too lazy to move and sat in the yard knitting sweaters for the children.

As she was knitting, she suddenly remembered what her daughter had said to her in the car on the way back, so she asked.

No one had ever told her that Li Yancheng had had a blind date with Zhao Yanan.

Later, when Zhao Yanan came to visit Ningning at home, Li Yancheng happened to be away on a business trip, so in Luo Min's opinion, the two people should not know each other.

But from my daughter's description just now, these two people not only know each other, but have known each other for a long time.

Whether she knew her daughter or not, Luo Min didn't take it to heart. What made her curious was what her daughter said later.

In her memory, her well-behaved, sensible and lovely little daughter had never clearly expressed that she didn't like someone, not to mention that her daughter also said that she didn't like the way Teacher Zhao looked at her father even more.

This made Luo Min a little curious.

Don't like the way Mr. Zhao looks at my dad? What kind of look?
Faced with his wife's question, Li Yancheng's body tensed up for a moment, but then he relaxed again. For things like this, it was better to just tell the truth. He hadn't done anything shameful, so there was no need to hide it.

In fact, Luo Min didn't have any doubts. She had been married for eleven years. If she didn't even have this little trust in her man, then she would be a failure as a wife.

She was simply curious about why her daughter said she didn't like Teacher Zhao, and even more so, she didn't like the way Teacher Zhao looked at her father.

"I have known Teacher Zhao for a long time, probably when you first went to the countryside to work as a sent-down youth. You know Sister Ding Liying, right?"

"Yes, she is the daughter of Aunt Zhang, the former director of our neighborhood committee. She is the section chief of Meishan Middle School."

"Yes, it was Aunt Zhang who introduced me to Teacher Zhao."

"Oh oh oh, I understand." Hearing this, Luo Min roughly understood what was going on.

"You and Zhao Yanan met through a blind date introduced by Aunt Zhang?"

"Yes, that's right, but we only met once and we were not very satisfied with each other, so the blind date thing never happened again."

"Are you both dissatisfied with each other?" Hearing her husband say this, Luo Min, who was knitting a sweater with her head down, was stunned for a moment, then looked up at her husband and said, "Dacheng, I don't mean to belittle you, but whether it's the image or the work of Teacher Zhao, you should have no problem matching her since she was divorced at the time, right?
And I doubt whether her parents would agree to this blind date."

Luo Min's words did not really mean to look down on her husband. If she really had such a thought, she would never have married him.

What she said is the truth.

Even in the 1980s, divorce was not an honorable thing for either men or women. It was extremely difficult to find a new partner after divorce, let alone finding the next partner in advance.

Not to mention that you, a first- or second-time married person, are looking for someone who is first-time married.

Of course, there are special cases, such as those who are widowed or those who are particularly well off.

The reason why Aunt Zhang from the neighborhood committee thought of introducing Zhao Yanan to Li Yancheng at that time was because, firstly, his personal conditions were very good, and secondly, the divorce was not his fault.

Although the Li family has no elders, there will be no one to lend a hand and help the young couple in life in the future, but there will also be no mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship involved.

The couple can decide their own affairs, and there will be no trouble of serving the parents-in-law in the future. There are pros and cons, but overall the pros outweigh the cons.

"It's true that I didn't like her. I already had you in my heart at that time, so how could I consider someone else? But we hadn't confirmed our relationship yet, so I couldn't tell anyone else.

Aunt Zhang enthusiastically offered to introduce me to someone, and I couldn't refuse her kindness, so I thought I'd just meet her once, and at worst I could just say I wasn't interested. "

Hearing her husband's words, Luo Min smiled sweetly. She liked to hear her man say sweet words to her, but she still had to finish eating the melon.

"It just so happened that Zhao Yanan made a somewhat excessive request after meeting me, and I rejected her directly. Maybe she felt embarrassed by my rejection to her face without hesitation, so she left without even having dinner that day.

Since then, I have hardly seen her again. Even if we met on the street, we never talked. By the way, I remember that after we got married, we met her on the street while taking a walk at night. You told me that a woman looked at me. Didn’t I tell you about the relationship between her and me? "

"Ah? Is that true?" Luo Min looked at her man blankly, and couldn't remember anything about it.

She is a bit careless by nature. If she thinks something is not important, she will forget it in a moment, but if it is an important matter, she will remember it clearly.

She doesn't take gossip like this, even if it's about her man, to heart as long as it doesn't affect their relationship or her family.

Seeing his wife's confused expression, Li Yancheng smiled, sat up from the recliner, and reached out to rub her hair.

Luo Min didn't bother to think about whether she knew about this matter before, and asked, "You said she proposed a rather excessive condition. What condition was it?"

"She felt that my job was somewhat dangerous and wanted me to be transferred out of the Social Affairs Bureau and continue to work as a doctor in the hospital."

"Haha," Luo Min smiled and shook her head, "She really dared to ask that. She thought the Social Affairs Bureau was a department store. If you want to buy something, you can go in. If you don't want to buy anything, you don't have to go."

"She may not understand. After all, outsiders cannot know the internal regulations of the Social Affairs Bureau." Li Yancheng shrugged.

"Let's not talk about what happened before. Why did my daughter say that she didn't like the way Teacher Zhao looked at you? How did she see you?"

"How would I know what Zhao Yanan thought of me? My attention was on the two people who were following me at that time. Although I said a few words to her, I didn't pay much attention to her at all."

Children can express their likes and dislikes freely. He is an adult, and he doesn't want to speculate what Zhao Yanan is thinking. As long as it doesn't affect his family and work, what others think is her own business as long as it doesn't break the law.

"Does she regret the choice she made back then? A lot of things happened to her during those years, and her marriage was not happy at all. In the end, it caused a lot of trouble."

"Does her regret have anything to do with me? I have so many things to do that I don't have time to think about her. Besides, my family life is happy and fulfilling. Everyone has their own destiny.

Let's not talk about her, she's just an irrelevant person. I may have to substitute for you after the National Day, ahem... classmate Luo Min, please call me teacher when you see me from now on."

"Look at your behavior!"

Seeing the obscene smile on her man's face, Luo Min immediately knew what he was thinking. She rolled her eyes in annoyance, then lowered her head and continued to work on the sweater in her hands.

It is October in the Gregorian calendar and the temperature changes every day. It will soon get colder. After knitting a sweater for her son, she is going to knit one for her daughter. If there is enough wool left, she also wants to knit another pair of woolen trousers for her husband. The previous one is three years old, and she plans to take it apart and wash it this year.

She regretted going to this school. After going to this school, she could no longer take care of her home, husband, and children.

Seeing how well her husband took care of the children and kept the home in order, she always felt a little guilty.

If her husband was just an ordinary cadre who went to get off work and came home on time every day, she wouldn't think too much about it.

But she knew too well how busy her husband was at work every day. Originally, she should have been the good wife in this situation, but the reality was that he had to take care of everything at home, while she went to school leisurely, just to make up for the regret that she could not go to college.

Although this school admission was applied for by her husband and was not her own initiative, if she had resolutely refused to go last year, no one could have forced her to go.

"Dacheng" "Hmm?"

"Or...I'll drop out of school."

"Pfft... cough cough..." Li Yancheng had just picked up the teacup on the stone table and took a sip of water, but the words that suddenly came out of his wife's mouth made him spit out everything.

"Ahem...you...ahem...what did you say?"

"Slow down." Seeing that he was choking, Luo Min put down the sweater in his hand, stood up and walked over to pat him on the back.

"I'm fine. What did you say just now, honey?" Li Yancheng suspected that he might have heard it wrong, turned his head and asked his wife who was standing behind him.

"I said I'd like to drop out of school. You're so busy at work every day, and you still have to worry about taking care of the children. I can't help you at school. I..."

"stop stop"

Hearing this, Li Yancheng interrupted directly: "I am happy, okay? I am happy for my wife to go to school, I am happy to take care of the children, and I am happy to be busy.

Wife, just study hard and stop thinking about these nonsense. You can drop out of school or help take care of the family. When I was away on business, weren't you the only one busy at home and outside?

So, do I not want to go on business trips anymore?"

"How can that be? It's official business."

"Going to school is also a public matter. The bureau sent you there for further studies. If you don't want to go, then don't go. What do you think this is? Are you playing house? Stop thinking about it and study hard." Li Yancheng patted his wife's butt lightly with his backhand, causing her to sway.

"Hmm..." After being hit, Luo Min pouted a little dissatisfied.

Seeing that fluctuation, Li Yancheng licked his lips greedily with his tongue, but when he thought about his wife who had been refusing to fight since yesterday, he could only sigh helplessly.

He has to take a week off every month, which makes him a little unhappy even though he is full of energy.

They have been married for eleven years. Luo Min can understand what his husband means by the slightest change in expression. When she sees him staring at her and then sighing, she purses her lips and smiles secretly.

She followed suit and raised her hand to rub her man's hair, which was neither too long nor too short. "You should take a break too. Don't think about that. It's useless. You've been forced to take a vacation."

"Hey, you dare to tease me."

Li Yancheng reached out and pulled his wife over and let her sit on his lap.

"Oh, stop it, let me go knit a sweater before it gets too cold... Hahaha... Ah hahaha... Ah, Li Yancheng, I'm going to fight you."

Luo Min's bell-like laughter floated over the air above Yard No. 20.

The orange cat who was lying on the other end of the recliner with his eyes closed opened his eyes and looked around, licked his paws twice with his tongue, then rubbed his face with his paws twice, stood up, changed direction, and lay down again and closed his eyes, as if he couldn't bear to look at these two stupid owners.

Two people who are almost seventy years old in total are still playing tickling games. Humph, so childish!

……

"There is one more thing. The Foreign Affairs Department just called and said that the Cheng family contacted them and planned to donate 30 cars to the Beijing Public Security Bureau free of charge, so that the public security department can serve the people more quickly and conveniently.

The cars are already in Hong Kong Island. If we agree, they will be loaded onto the ship and shipped to Jinshi Port along with other supplies."

In a certain compound, although it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, many offices in the compound were still brightly lit.

In an office in one of the antique stand-alone office buildings, an old man was writing something at his desk while listening to his secretary's report. When he heard that the Cheng Group specifically wanted to donate 30 cars to the Beijing Public Security Bureau and that they were already ready to be shipped in Hong Kong Island, the pen in his hand paused slightly, and he looked up and asked in surprise.

"Donate 30 cars to the Beijing Public Security Bureau?"

"Yes, Chief, that's what the Foreign Affairs Department said."

"Hehe..." After receiving an affirmative answer, the old man smiled and inserted the dip pen in his hand into the ink bottle. He leaned back, then reached out to pick up the cigarette on the table and lit one for himself with a match.

Seeing the old man lighting a cigarette, the secretary moved his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but before he could open his mouth, the old man waved his hand holding the cigarette.

"Okay, Weiguo, I know what you want to say. Didn't the health doctor say that I have been smoking for a long time and I am old. I can't quit smoking completely. If I really want to quit smoking, it will be bad for my health. I just need to control the amount. This is only my fourth cigarette today..."

"Huh?" Hearing the old man taking the initiative to reduce the number for himself, the secretary looked at the old man and asked in doubt.

"Uh... the fifth... hey, why are you staring at me all day? This is the seventh one today, okay? Didn't the health doctor say that as long as you don't exceed ten a day, it's fine."

"But Comrade Li Yancheng also said last time that it's best to limit your daily cigarette intake to three to five cigarettes."

"Heh... He still has the nerve to let me control him. I've heard that the guy smokes one cigarette after another when he's investigating a case, and the same thing happens when he's writing a book."

“Comrade Li Yancheng is a doctor himself. He knows his own physical condition very well. He dares to draw like that, which means he can take good care of his body.

And you have also seen how good his physical fitness is. Although it was just a demonstration and everyone was holding back, Deputy Captain Jiao could not last more than thirty seconds under him. This is enough to illustrate his physical condition.

Besides, he is not even forty yet, still in the prime of his life."

"Haha, you, you, I said one sentence, and you have ten sentences waiting for me. Okay, I won't smoke anymore, okay?" The old man smiled and shook his head, leaned over and put out the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray on the table.

He only took three puffs of the cigarette and was reluctant to throw it away. Instead, he put the rest away and waited to light it next time.

"Speaking of Li Yancheng, the Cheng Group is going to donate 30 cars to the Beijing Public Security Bureau free of charge. It's probably for him."

"I think so. Comrade Li Yancheng is the real eldest son of the Cheng family. Although he has not been home for many years, it is normal for him to express his gratitude now that he has been found."

"Hehe, did the foreign affairs department tell you what the Cheng family said about the investment?"

"We have decided to invest in a textile factory, a clothing factory and a television production plant. The initial investment amount is no less than 7 million US dollars."

Swish!
The secretary's words made the old man's eyes light up and a smile appeared on his face.

Really speaking, is $7 million a lot? For an individual, it is a huge sum of money in any era.

But for a country, this amount of money is nothing, not even a drop in the bucket.

The old man smiled, not because he was satisfied with the investment amount. No matter how much he invested, it would not be too much. The reason he smiled was that he was satisfied with the chain effect that this investment might bring in the future.

Although there are already Hong Kong businessmen investing in the country, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the number of people who have already started investing does not mean anything, because their hearts have always been on this side.

Most people are still waiting and watching at this time. Like some members of the Cheng family, these people are also unsure about the policies and dare not be the first to try something new.

If someone can invest first and see the benefits in a short period of time, then those who are waiting on the sidelines will be likely to take action.

If the Cheng family is willing to take the lead and offer no less than 7 million US dollars, that would definitely be good news.

The old man tapped the table twice with his right index finger. After thinking for a while, he said, "Reply to the Foreign Affairs Department and agree to the Cheng family's donation. You can contact the Public Security Headquarters. Since others have given such a big gift, ask them to increase the standard of the donation."

"Ok"

(End of this chapter)