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

Unable to resist the pestering from everyone, Wang Jianguo put down his wine glass, coughed twice, pushed up his glasses, blushed, and spoke.

"Tell me, there was an old man who went to the hospital for a checkup. The doctor asked him, 'Where do you feel unwell?'"

The old man said, "My face turns red as soon as I drink." The doctor said, "Then you shouldn't drink." The old man said, "No, my face turns even redder if I don't drink."

Everyone paused for a moment, then Wang Tao was the first to burst out laughing, so hard he was practically lying on the table, slapping it and shouting, "Dr. Wang, what kind of dirty joke is that? It's not even a vegetarian one!"

"Isn't this considered 'meat'?" Wang Jianguo glared. "Did you understand?"

"I understand, I understand."

Li Fang laughed until tears streamed down her face. "The old man means that if you don't drink, you'll blush when you see a nurse, right?"

Wang Jianguo chuckled twice, picked up his wine glass, took a sip, and his eyes behind his reading glasses shone brightly.

Wang Tao was not satisfied and clamored for Wang Jianguo to tell another story.

Wang Jianguo couldn't refuse, so he told another story.

"Let me tell you, there was a couple where the husband went out to play cards every night, and the wife was very unhappy about it."

One day, the wife said to her husband, "If you go out to gamble again, I'll kill the dog."

The husband asked, "Why did you kill the dog?" The wife replied, "So it could appear in your dreams and tell you what I'm doing."

This time, everyone took half a second to react, and then burst into laughter.

Li Fang laughed so hard she slapped her thigh, Liu Wei laughed so hard he sprayed wine all over the table, and Wang Tao laughed so hard he slid off his stool and squatted on the ground, unable to get up.

Zhao Guosheng, holding the jar, laughed so hard he coughed, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Even Wang Jianguo himself laughed, laughing so hard that his reading glasses tilted to one side.

Chen Ping also laughed, and laughed very loudly.

He hadn't laughed like that in a long time.

Cui Ying sat next to him, laughing so hard she covered her face, her shoulders shaking.

She laughed for a while before putting her hand down, her eyes red, not from crying, but from laughing.

"Dr. Wang, what's going on in your head?" Li Fang asked, wiping away her tears and panting.

"It's filled with knowledge," Wang Jianguo said seriously, pushing up his glasses.

"Is it yellow knowledge?" Wang Tao got up from the ground with a wicked grin.

Everyone laughed again.

After laughing, Li Fang picked up her wine glass and looked at Chen Ping and Cui Ying with a meaningful expression.

She had drunk quite a bit, and her words became unrestrained.

"Dr. Chen, Xiao Cui, when are you two getting married?"

Chen Ping was taken aback: "What do you need me to do?"

"Get married."

Li Fang laughed, "You two are always together, and Xiao Cui even buys you clothes, cooks for you, and does your laundry. What else could you be but a married couple?"

Cui Ying's face flushed red, even redder than before, from her neck all the way to the roots of her ears.

She lowered her head, her fingers gripping the hem of her clothes tightly, but she said, "Sister Li Fang, don't talk nonsense. Dr. Chen and I are just colleagues."

"A colleague?" Li Fang laughed. "A colleague does your laundry? A colleague buys you clothes?"

"You're our colleague, so why haven't we seen you doing our laundry or buying us clothes?"

Cui Ying's face turned even redder, and she wished she could disappear into the ground.

She stole a glance at Chen Ping, who was also looking at her. Their eyes met, then looked away.

Wang Tao chimed in from the side, "Dr. Chen, stop pretending. Everyone in the health center knows about your affair with Sister Cui Ying. Just admit it."

"That's right, that's right." Liu Wei chimed in, "Dr. Chen, you and Sister Cui Ying are a perfect match, really."

Zhao Guosheng held the jar, smiling without saying a word, his eyes darting back and forth between Chen Ping and Cui Ying.

Wang Jianguo pushed up his glasses, chuckled twice, and didn't say anything.

Chen Ping picked up his wine glass, took a big gulp, and didn't say anything. Cui Ying kept her head down, her fingers almost tearing the hem of her clothes.

Li Fang, knowing when to stop, waved her hand with a smile: "Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. Come on, let's drink!"

Everyone drank another round.

When the two cases of beer were empty, Liu Er brought over another case.

Zhao Guosheng's face was flushed, and he was slurring his words, but he still kept shouting, "It's my treat today! We won't leave until we're drunk!"

As everyone was enjoying their drinks, several figures suddenly appeared from the other end of the street.

The five men, all young men in their early twenties, were walking unsteadily, clearly having drunk quite a bit.

The leader was a man with dyed yellow hair, wearing a flashy T-shirt, and the gold chain around his neck glittered in the moonlight.

They were originally heading to another street, but when they passed a barbecue stall, Huang Mao stopped.

His gaze swept across the table, landing on Li Fang and Cui Ying, and his eyes lit up.

"Hey, isn't this Li and Cui from the health center?"

The blond-haired guy grinned and reeked of alcohol. "Drinking here so late at night?"

Li Fang frowned and ignored him.

Cui Ying moved closer to Chen Ping without saying a word.

Huang Mao persisted, reaching out to grab Li Fang's arm: "Come on, come on, have another drink with us brothers."

Li Fang flung his hand away, her voice turning cold: "What are you doing? Trying to touch me?"

"Hey, you've got quite a temper." Yellow Hair laughed, glancing back at his companions, who all laughed too.

Wang Tao jumped to his feet, his face flushed red, whether from anger or from drinking, it was hard to tell: "What are you doing? Go home and sleep if you're drunk, don't cause trouble here!"

The blond-haired man glanced at him and scoffed, "Who do you think you are? Meddling in other people's business?"

"Whose grandfather are you talking about?" Wang Tao, feeling the effects of the alcohol, rolled up his sleeves and was about to charge forward.

Liu Wei tried to pull him back, but couldn't.

Wang Tao rushed up to Huang Mao, but before he could even stand up straight, he was punched in the face.

The punch wasn't heavy, but Wang Tao had been drinking and was unsteady on his feet. He stumbled back several steps, crashing into the table, causing beer bottles to clatter all over the floor.

Li Fang screamed.

Cui Ying stood up, took a step back, and bumped into Chen Ping.

The courtyard was silent for a second.

Zhao Guosheng's beer jug ​​slammed to the ground, spilling beer everywhere.

His face went from red to white, then back to red. He grabbed an empty beer bottle from the table, smashed it on the table, and the bottom shattered, revealing sharp shards of glass.

He held up the broken bottle, pointed at the group of young people, and spoke so loudly that the whole street could hear him.

"Beat them! They dare to bully our clinic staff? They've gone too far!"

Zhao Guosheng was the first to rush forward, holding the broken bottle like a flag.

Wang Tao got up from the ground, grabbed a stool, and smashed it over the ground.

Liu Wei picked up an iron skewer from the table, stuck it into the table, pulled it out, and stuck it into the table again, as if he were practicing some kind of martial arts.

Li Fang picked up a plate of leftover food and splashed it at Huang Mao's face.

Wang Jianguo charged forward with a roar, his little fists swinging wide, hitting the blond-haired guy's back like a tickle, but he shouted the loudest: "Hit! Hit! Kill these bastards!"

Chen Ping was the last to make a move.

He pulled Cui Ying behind him, said "Don't move," and then rushed forward.