Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 694 Adjustment
Since that phone call, Li Yancheng didn't receive any other related calls until he left work in the afternoon. It seems that the information he revealed had worked.

Not only did they not receive such a call, but Kim Ji-hae also didn't call.

This was within his expectations. After Jiang Feiyang was brought back, he certainly wouldn't confess too quickly and would put up a stubborn resistance for a while, but that time wouldn't be too long, no later than tomorrow.

The kid was still fantasizing that someone would come to bail him out, but if nothing happened tonight, then panic would break through his psychological defenses.

If this line of defense is breached, then what follows is a complete collapse.

Since all the men are out of options, you guys shouldn't expect to continue living a carefree life outside either.

Based on this judgment, Li Yancheng did not call Jin Zhihai to ask about the situation. Instead, he waited until after get off work, then leisurely got into his car, picked up his wife first, and the couple went home together.

"Da Cheng, did you guys arrest someone named Jiang... oh, Jiang Feiyang?"

Just as Li Yancheng got home and was about to go into the bathroom on the first floor to wash his face, Luo Min, who hadn't said anything the whole way, suddenly asked.

Did someone mention this to his wife?
"What's wrong? Someone's looking for you, wanting you to whisper sweet nothings in their ear?"

Seeing her husband's somewhat puzzled expression, Luo Min smiled and said, "No, it's not that. He's a friend who lived in the same compound when we were kids. We keep in touch occasionally. He came to my workplace today to ask about Jiang Feiyang."

She had a good relationship with Jiang Feiyang's wife. Apparently, the Henan Provincial Public Security Bureau detained the entire family of three on the train last night, and they were flown to Beijing this morning.

After landing, the people from your bureau's criminal investigation team took Jiang Feiyang away and told his wife and children to go home first, saying that they could not leave Beijing without prior notice.

His wife never understood what had happened along the way. She said that even when she left yesterday, it was Jiang Feiyang who told her to leave at the last minute.

After returning home, she started asking around, but the information she got was unclear, so her friend came to me for help.

But I can't explain it either.

“Jiang Feiyang is involved in a murder case, and there are definitely disciplinary issues involved as well. The Municipal Supervisory Commission is also following up on the case. If your friend has no business dealings with him, tell her not to get involved.”

His wife has a rather aloof personality and doesn't have many friends. The fact that he keeps in touch with those he can tell her that their relationship is pretty good, so he said a few more words.

Hearing her husband say this, Luo Min immediately understood that Jiang Feiyang's problem was very serious. She nodded solemnly and said, "I understand. I'll call her later and tell her to stop asking around."

"Hmm, where does your friend work now?"

"What's wrong with the Municipal Planning Commission?"

"It's nothing, just asking." Li Yancheng waved his hand and turned to walk into the washroom on the first floor.

Watching her husband's retreating figure, Luo Min puffed out her cheeks and wrinkled her nose at his back.

Unlike when she was serious and always had a cold expression in public, she is now lively and cheerful at home. She laughs, makes a fuss, and even acts coquettishly with her husband. She also often does some funny things, which is much better than when she first got married.

But even Li Yancheng would often be distracted by her pretty face, which was almost exactly the same as when she got married more than ten years ago.

He also felt a little strange, as if the god who controlled time had forgotten about his wife, and the years had left no trace on her face.

If it's true that the medicine he prescribed worked, it wasn't just her who had it prescribed. Jin Zhihai's wife, Xing Lihua, Luo Min's sister, Luo Ting, and Luo Yang's wife, and so on, many others had also taken the medicine he prescribed to improve their skin condition, but none of them had such dramatic results.

Only his wife, the mother of two children, whose eldest child is already fourteen years old, and who herself is thirty-four, still looks like she's in her early twenties.

When Huansheng entered junior high school, she attended her first parent-teacher conference. The teacher assumed she was Huansheng's older sister. When she heard Huansheng say she was her mother, the teacher initially thought she was her stepmother and kept praising Huansheng in front of her, as if afraid that the stepmother would treat the child badly. After Huansheng understood the teacher's implied meaning, she didn't know whether to smile or not.

"Oh right, Da Cheng, I almost forgot about the important matter. This afternoon, Lao Cui, who is in charge of personnel, talked to me and said he wanted to transfer me to the archives as the deputy director. That way, my work will be less busy, and I will have time to take care of my family. It's like giving me a promotion."

After making that strange face, Luo Min was about to leave the main house to go to the kitchen to heat up her food when she suddenly remembered what the executive deputy director, Lao Cui, had said to her that afternoon. She walked to the bathroom door and looked at her husband, who was washing his face with his head down, and said...

His wife's words made Li Yancheng pause in his actions, and then he looked up.

"what are you thinking?"

He didn't offer his own opinion, but wanted to hear his wife's thoughts first.

He could understand the purpose of the Municipal Social Affairs Bureau's actions. It was simply because he was now the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau and was very busy with work. Therefore, the organization should take care of his family and make his work less demanding, so that he could have more time to take care of his family and relieve Li Yancheng's worries.

However, he was certain that this was not Lao Xu's idea, but rather the idea of ​​Lao Cui, the executive deputy director.

Because if it were Lao Xu, he would definitely communicate with me first after having this idea, instead of talking to Luo Min directly.

"I don't really care. I think it's all the same which department I go to. Hehe, didn't you used to be the deputy director and director of the archives? It would be good for me to follow in your footsteps."

Li Yancheng was transferred from the position of director of the archives office of the municipal social bureau to the position of deputy secretary-general in the general office of the headquarters.

The thought of working in the office where her husband had once worked made Luo Min think it would be a pretty good experience.

But her husband didn't think that way.

"Since you don't care, then you can stay in the Confidential Section. However, your administrative rank may be delayed for another two years."

His words startled Luo Min. She thought her husband would agree to her transfer to the archives as deputy director. It wasn't for the deputy director level, but because that way she would have plenty of time to take care of the family.

She is now the head of the confidential section. Although she is not as busy as the frontline staff, she often has to work overtime and cannot even guarantee holidays.

"Why? I thought you would agree."

"Prospects for development," Li Yancheng replied casually, lowering his head to continue washing his face. Although he had also worked his way up from the position of deputy director of the archives, his ability to leave this cold and unassuming department did not mean that others could do the same. Moreover, his position was deliberately arranged by the organization.

For most people, becoming the director or deputy director of the archives is basically a step up from their previous career advancement.

He never considered making his wife his subordinate, firmly believing that everyone should have their own career.

Moreover, his wife is a full-time college graduate, which is quite a prestigious degree these days. She's also very young, and the Confidential Affairs Section is a very important department in the Social Affairs Bureau's second-tier division, offering much wider career paths than the Archives Section.

As long as she works hard and diligently, not to mention Elder Luo, with Li Yancheng around, it's not impossible for her to rise to the position of deputy director of administration in the future.

Hearing her husband utter that word, Luo Min was silent for a moment. After thinking for a while, she said in a calm tone, "Dacheng, you know I don't care about that. Even if I were to become this section chief, I was forced into it. What I want most is to take good care of you and the children, and to take good care of our family. I am indeed a bit busy right now."

Since graduation, despite her busy work schedule, she has tried her best to take care of the family, doing things like laundry, cooking, and cleaning. Whenever she is home, she almost never lets Li Yancheng do these chores.

Because she knew very well that her man had too heavy a burden. Every day there were endless big and small matters to attend to. Being the police chief in a city with a population of ten million, the various meetings and documents that needed to be personally reviewed could be overwhelming.

Many times she saw her husband still working in the study at two or three in the morning, handling official business and thinking about work.

She used to think her husband would never grow old, that he had inexhaustible energy and was incredibly healthy, until that day she saw the strands of white hair at his temples.

She then realized that her husband was already in his early forties and had entered middle age. Although he was still in very good health, he was no longer a young man in his twenties.

So, the idea that had come to her mind before resurfaced.

That means reducing your workload and focusing more on your home.

It can be said that today, Deputy Director Cui talked to her and wanted to reassign her to a different job. Regardless of his true intentions, it suited her perfectly.

“You know I don’t care about that. We can’t both be busy with work. I don’t have much ambition in my career. Going to the archives seems pretty good. I can even sit in the office you used to work in.”

"Do you really think so?"

"Otherwise, Da Cheng, you should understand me."

“Okay,” Li Yancheng said while wiping his face.

Since his wife had this idea, he certainly wouldn't force her to be promoted to a certain level in the future.

“Actually, in another year or two, we can hire a nanny. She can do things like cooking and cleaning.”

Li Yancheng said this because he knew that in another year or two, someone would start doing this kind of thing. At that time, he would find someone from a clean family background to come to his house, which would make things much easier.

"So fast?"

But when Luo Min heard these words, she misunderstood them. She looked at her man in surprise and blurted out words of disbelief.

She thought her husband meant that in another year or two, he would be able to enjoy the privilege of having a maid at home.

In her opinion, this was too fast. He had only been promoted to deputy leadership level in March of this year, and he could be promoted to full leadership level so quickly? Even if it was just to enjoy the benefits, it was still a bit fast. This speed was like riding a rocket.

Seeing his wife's surprised expression, Li Yancheng was also stunned. After a while, he realized what his wife meant by speaking so quickly.

He shook his head and chuckled, "What are you thinking? Even if I took a plane, I couldn't get there that fast. What I mean is, we should ask someone to find a familiar housekeeper for us, so that we can both have an easier time."

"Oh, so that's what you mean!" Luo Min finally understood what her man was talking about.

"But... is it really okay to hire someone to come to our home as a nanny? Won't they make a mistake?" she asked hesitantly.

"How could that be? We pay wages when they're due and allow leave when they're due. It's not exploitation. On the contrary, it creates a job and helps an unemployed person. I just need to go through the proper procedures to report to the organization. There won't be any mistakes."

"You just need to have a general idea in mind, but where do you find someone like that? At the very least, you need to know their background, be quick and efficient, and know how to cook."

"No rush, we can figure it out later. Come on, honey, let's heat up the food and eat. After we finish, we'll go for a walk outside."

"okay"

Luo Min gets her meals from the Social Affairs Bureau canteen after get off work. Since neither of her two children are home, this is how they have dinner every afternoon. She also makes sure to get a meal for the driver as well.

If the children were at home, she wouldn't make do like this. Both children are at a crucial stage of growth. In her husband's words, now that conditions are better, the children's nutrition must keep up, and the meals must be a balanced mix of meat and vegetables so that they will be healthier in the future.

She didn't understand anything about nutrition, but she did understand the concept of a balanced diet.

Luo Min often feels sentimental when she looks at the meat while cooking. Look at it now, even if you can't eat as much meat as you want, you can still buy it at the market in the morning, even without meat coupons.

Unlike before, when each household was only given one or two kilograms of meat coupons each month, and everyone wanted fatty meat when they went to the market to buy meat, because fatty meat can be rendered into oil. Cooking oil was rationed per person per month, which was not enough at all, so they could only try to get more fatty meat to render into oil.

If there's even a little bit of rendered pork fat in the food, it's like Chinese New Year. Not to mention, if there's meat in the dish, everyone, adults and children alike, will have their eyes light up.

The situation is completely different now. Although you still need meat coupons to buy meat, as long as you are willing to spend more money, you can buy it even without coupons.

Of course, when people buy meat, they still tend to buy more fatty meat, and few people are willing to spend more money to buy meat, unless it is during holidays, when there is no other way, after a year of hard work, you have to eat something good.

Comparatively speaking, the Li family is much better off, since both of them have high salaries and they almost never run out of meat at home. Whether it's pork, mutton, beef, or chicken, as long as they cook at home, there will always be one of these in their dishes.

The ample supply of meat has caused the two children to grow taller rapidly. Huansheng, who is fourteen years old, has already grown to 1.75 meters tall. Girls develop earlier, and Xiaoyu, who is eleven years old, has also grown to 1.7 meters tall. She is only in the fifth grade of elementary school and stands out from the crowd at school.

(End of this chapter)