Chapter 152 - Marriage (1/2)

After the meal, Chen Qifa, Li Liang, and Xue Fei were now drunk. Wang Yanan was also beginning to feel dizzy. Still, everyone was really happy. The atmosphere was quite good.

Although Li Liang was drunk, he still kept insisting on taking Wang Yanan home as he grabbed onto her purse and refused to let go. He was the classical type who would become more daring when drunk, doing what he normally would never dare to do. He didn't care about the potential consequences. There was no helping it.

In the end, Chen Qifa was too drunk to drive, so his wife had to drive him home. The other drunk people also got rides with those who weren't drunk.

Zhang Fan and Shao Hua took Li Liang and Wang Yanan to their respective homes. After dropping off Wang Yanan, Li Liang seemed to wake up a bit. He was walking steadier. However, he remained really silent!

”What's the matter?” Zhang Fan asked.

”Brother Zhang, do you think I'll still have a chance with Wang Yanan if I go work at the private hospital?”

”You're not drunk?” Shao Hua asked in some confusion.

”He got drunk, but he probably woke up a bit by now!” Zhang Fan chuckled.

Li Liang's question was understandable. He worked at a smaller city hospital, while Wang Yanan worked at the best city hospital in the local area. Li Liang was also someone who lacked self-confidence. Normally, he would never dare to act like this. Since he was drinking alcohol, he pretended to be drunker than he really was so that he could sort of half-confess his love to Wang Yanan!

”No matter what, just try your hardest. If things really don't work out, pretend that it doesn't matter! Pretend that you've forgotten about her!” Zhang Fan said while looking at the lights in the distance.

”It sounds as if you have experience with such things!” Shao Hua pinched Zhang Fan's arm.

”Haha! I need to give Li Liang advice, right? I need to sound more passionate, otherwise he might give up! Li Liang was already getting afraid the moment that he saw Wang Yanan's apartment! Am I right?”

”Yeah! I'll see how things go, sigh! I'm fine now. Brother Zhang, Shao Hua, you guys can go back without me. I'll take a taxi the rest of the way!” Li Liang didn't give Zhang Fan a chance to speak as he instantly left.

Li Liang truly was in a bad mood today. He had no more hope of landing a job at Chasu City Hospital. When he saw today the luxurious place that Wang Yanan lived in, he felt even sadder! He had just turned 20 recently, but he felt really bad for himself today! He had so much energy, but had nowhere to use it! He hated how things were! He hated how he hadn't studied properly while he was in college! He hated why he hadn't worked harder before! Was it possible to turn time back by one year? That would be impossible! Could he really do what Zhang Fan said to, pretending that things didn't matter and pretending to forget about Wang Yanan?

After Liu Wenli was discharged, Zhang Fan was also finished with his rotation in the cardiothoracic surgery department. Director Liu really didn't want to let Zhang Fan go. He felt so happy now that there was someone else who could finally share the responsibility of being on call at night with him! He was unwilling to hand Zhang Fan the rotation paperwork and held onto the papers for quite a long while.

”How about you stay here for another month? There're many things you haven't learned yet. We didn't even receive a single heart surgery patient this month. Honestly, there's many challenging things to learn in this department. Most young people don't have the courage to join this department. You're sort of good enough, so how about it?”

”Director Liu, I'm officially going to join orthopedic department #1! You'll have to ask Director Gao and Superintendent Ouyang!” Zhang Fan could only bring out Gao Shijun to block Director Liu's directness.

”Orthopedic surgeries and surgeons are too rough and don't require skill. It's such a pity that you've chosen orthopedic surgery! Sigh, it's all because orthopedic surgery has good income! I won't stop you from making money, but if you ever change your mind in the future and decide that you don't want to do orthopedic surgery anymore, feel free to come find me, and I'll ask the superintendent to assign you to my department!” Director Liu was under the impression that Zhang Fan was young and hungry for money.

”Alright, Director Liu, I'll be leaving now!” Zhang Fan took his rotation paperwork and left. After one month here in the cardiothoracic department, there was no longer a sense of distance between him and the other doctors. Director Liu also truly liked Zhang Fan. Unfortunately for the director, Zhang Fan wasn't interested in this department!

Zhang Fan's next department was the neurosurgery department! This was the surgical department developed the worst in all of northwestern China! It could be said that the brain was the single most complex organ in the human body. It could be described as incredibly fragile, for lacking oxygen for just a few minutes would cause irreparable damage to the brain or even cause the person to die! But, the brain could also be described as tough, for the brain would still be able to barely manage to maintain basic life functions even with 25% of its total area damaged.

In neurosurgery, unless you had a doctorate degree in this profession, you would only be able to use already common knowledge to treat diseases that were well known. Yet, it would be common for the doctors to find it difficult to deal with diseases that deviated even slightly from what the textbooks said. China was already reaching the top of the world in orthopedic surgery, general surgery, and even heart surgery, yet China was far behind in performing brain surgery.