Sent to the countryside, I turned the health center into a top-tier hospital.

"Third brother, take the medicine. It says how to take it on the label. Help your mother to the car and wait a moment."

Old Song handed several packets of traditional Chinese medicine to the man and said.

"Okay!" The man nodded, then helped the old lady up. "Mom, let's go to the car and wait for my brother."

The old lady stood up shakily and was helped to walk outside.

As she reached the door, the old lady turned back to look at Chen Ping, raised her withered hand, and gently waved goodbye to him.

Chen Ping waved to her.

"Old Song, sit on the bed, I'll give you acupuncture."

Chen Ping said.

Old Song nodded, took off his coat and draped it over the back of the chair, then sat down on the examination bed.

First, insert a few needles into the back of the neck and shoulders to relax the muscles.

When the silver needle was inserted, Old Song took a breath and then slowly exhaled. The two muscles in his shoulders that had been as stiff as stone finally relaxed a little.

"Dr. Chen, how is your ex-wife doing?" Old Song asked proactively.

As Chen Ping twisted the needle, he said, "She's out, she wasn't punished, and she's been reinstated. I'm so grateful to Elder Song."

Old Song closed his eyes, waved his hand, and said in a calm tone, "Why thank me? I didn't do anything. If she really embezzled that 500,000 yuan, no amount of phone calls would have helped. She got out because she was honest and could withstand investigation; it has nothing to do with me."

"That was because of Old Song that Secretary Li got involved. If Secretary Li hadn't intervened, what good would it have done, no matter how honest she was?" Chen Ping smiled bitterly.

Old Song slowly opened his eyes; he could hear the dissatisfaction in Chen Ping's words.

"Dr. Chen."

Old Song's voice turned serious, no longer the casual tone he had used during their earlier chat. "I can tell you're resentful. You feel that your ex-wife was clearly framed, yet the Discipline Inspection Commission detained her for so many days, and in the end, they only managed to get her out through personal connections."

"You feel it's unfair. She didn't embezzle or take anything, so why should she suffer like this? Some officials colluded and pulled strings behind the scenes, so why are they getting away with it?"

Chen Ping paused for a moment while twisting the needle, neither denying nor responding, but simply twisting the silver needle in half a circle.

Chen Ping was indeed angry, believing that people like Xu Wenshan and Fang Hai were not fit to be officials.

And then there's Xiao Lei, who acts utterly lawless because his father is the vice mayor.

Seeing that Chen Ping remained silent, Old Song continued, "It's not your fault that you have this idea. If I were young and encountered something like this, I would have slammed my fist on the table and cursed too."

"But you should know that there are two kinds of unfairness in this world. One is the unfairness caused by the unreasonableness of the system itself, and the other is the unfairness caused by a few people taking advantage of loopholes and distorting the original intention of the system during its implementation."

He raised his hand and pointed to the two rows of poplar trees on the street outside the window: "Do you see those poplar trees on the street? Some grow straight, and some grow crooked."

"You can't say the whole forest is crooked just because there are a few crooked trees. I served in the army my whole life and worked in the provincial government for decades. I've seen more district and county party secretaries than you've seen patients."

"You think Su Meng's case was overturned because of Li Jizhong's words. That's true and false. Li Jizhong did make a phone call, but he didn't call the Discipline Inspection Commission to release her; he called them to re-examine the case according to procedure."

"The Discipline Inspection Commission re-examined the case and found that Su Meng was indeed innocent, so they released her. This procedure wasn't invented by Li Jizhong; it was already written there. It's just that without external pressure, it started slowly."

Chen Ping removed the silver needle from the back of Old Song's neck, gently pressed a cotton ball on the needle hole, and still did not speak or refute.

Seeing that he remained silent, Old Song added, "When I was in the army, a company commander once said something to me that I've remembered for the rest of my life."

He said, "Xiao Song, you can't use the mistakes of a few soldiers to negate the whole unit, but you also can't use the honor of the whole unit to excuse the soldier who made the mistake."

"Whoever makes a mistake will be punished. Those who deserve to be executed will be executed, and those who deserve to be imprisoned will be imprisoned. After that, the army is still the army, and discipline is still discipline."

"The matter of your ex-wife is ultimately caused by a few officials pulling strings behind the scenes for their own selfish interests. It's not that the system is wrong, it's that these few people are wrong. They will be dealt with when the time comes; it's just not the right time yet."

After saying that, Old Song slowly closed his eyes again, and his voice softened considerably: "When a person lives in this world, they will always encounter injustice. The key is, after encountering it, do you choose to believe that there is still justice in this society, or do you condemn everyone based on a single example? Dr. Chen is a wise man, I don't need to say more, do I?"

Chen Ping stood behind Elder Song, paused slightly with his wrist, removed the last silver needle, pressed a dry cotton ball to the needle eye, and said softly, "Understood, Elder Song."

"It's good that you know. You're still young. With your abilities, you can't stay in this health center in Siping Township for the rest of your life."

"If you choose to stay here for the rest of your life, that would be irresponsible to yourself, to the country, and to society. You need to use your abilities to serve more people."

"You must remember what I'm telling you today; it might come in handy someday."

Old Song said meaningfully.

It's clear that Old Song greatly admires Chen Ping and knows that Chen Ping's future career prospects are limitless.

Chen Ping is now just a junior doctor at the Siping Township Health Center. He can say whatever he wants and has his own emotions and thoughts.

But when Chen Ping's status reached a certain level, he had to be careful with his words and actions, because at that moment, he no longer represented himself, but perhaps the people, or even the country.

Chen Ping nodded as if he understood, "I will keep Mr. Song's teachings in mind. It's just that my ex-wife has decided to resign. It seems like she's going through the process."

"It's good that you resigned. Your ex-wife really wasn't suitable for that position. It seems she got transferred through connections," Old Song said calmly.

Chen Ping was stunned, his face full of surprise.

It seems that Elder Song already knows Su Meng quite well, proving that he has investigated Su Meng.

"I think so!" Chen Ping said ambiguously.

When Su Meng was the deputy director, Xiao Lei used his father's connections to help her a lot.

"Being an official may seem glamorous from the outside, but only the person in charge knows the difficulties involved. Not everyone can do it, and not everyone is suited for it."

"Having culture alone is not enough; you also need the right mindset, the right resilience, and sometimes even the right ruthlessness."

"Take my family for example. You just saw my third aunt. She raised several children all by herself."

"That son was the third son, named Yutian. Yutian is such an honest kid, he's never told a lie since he was a child."

"When he was young, I thought about helping him join the army. I even paved the way for him to get promoted, but he refused. He was afraid of embarrassing me and said that he wasn't cut out for it and that going would just be taking up a spot for nothing."

"Later I wanted to arrange for him to work as a clerk in the county, but he refused, saying that he felt uncomfortable sitting in an office and that he would rather go back to the mountains to farm."

"Over the years, I've just stayed in those few old houses in my hometown, guarded our ancestral graves, and stayed on that hill."

"Every time I go back to the village and see him squatting on the ground eating steamed buns and drinking cold water, I feel bad. My third uncle passed away early, and I watched Youtian grow up. I always feel that I, as his older brother, did not make good arrangements for him and let him down throughout his life. I feel guilty."