Chapter 258 - A new year (1/2)
After 15 days, the Spring Festival was now over. People started going back to other provinces, returning to their jobs. They would be gone for one year. No matter how warm their home was, and how cold working far away from home was, they would still have to go. The farmers also needed to start fertilizing their fields for spring. Everyone out on the streets started walking far quicker in comparison to the idleness of the holiday.
There were plenty of office workers who had a bun in their mouth, cell phone in hand, and document bag in the other hand while chasing after a bus. They still hadn’t fully recovered from the Spring Festival’s atmosphere yet. Students, too, would have to start focusing on school again as the schools would soon start up again.
Shao Hua prepared many things for Jingshu. “You must take this as well as this. If this is too much, we can have it delivered!” Shao Hua had prepared too many things for Jingshu, even to the extent where Jingshu was unable to move the suitcases.
“Sister-in-law, this is far too much! I can buy most of this at my college.”
“I’d never believe you. Once you’re back at college, you’ll return to being unwilling to spend money on yourself. That’s why I must prepare all of this for you. You can just leave all this here as you take your flight to Shanghai. I’ll have all of this shipped over to your college,” Shao Hua said as she busily prepared everything.
“Sister-in-law!” Jingshu acted a little bit spoiled as she embraced Shao Hua!
“Yes, what is it?”
“When are you and my brother going to get married?”
“Hey! You’ll have to ask your brother for that.”
“Has he proposed to you yet?” The two women were in Shao Hua’s room as they organized everything. Since there were some private things, it would be awkward for Zhang Fan to enter. He sat outside in the study, only half focusing on his medical textbooks as he occasionally checked on what was going on inside Shao Hua’s room.
Jingshu took a plane back to Shanghai. At Chasu City’s small airport, Zhang Fan watched the plane completely disappear in the sky before he left together with Shao Hua. Now that the Spring Festival was over, it was time to return to normal life. There would be many things this year as well.
First up was the matter of Zhang Fan and Shao Hua’s engagement. Zhang Fan, Shao Hua, and both sides’ parents had a discussion and finally set Zhang Fan and Shao Hua’s engagement date to be on October 1st, borrowing the celebratory mood as October 1st was also China’s National Day!
Chasu City Hospital’s new apartments for its employees had now been completed. All that was left was to assign apartments to the hospital staff. The apartment’s neighborhood was rather nice. The price was also very cheap. Zhang Fan would definitely receive an apartment of his own, although what floor the apartment was on and other things would be uncertain since he was still young and inexperienced compared to many doctors at the hospital.
Next up was Shao Hua registering for the accounting examination. She intended to pass the accounting examination after just one year of preparation, which would really bring a significant amount of pressure. Although Shao Hua was excellent at her studies, and she also worked really hard, the accounting examination was considered to be one of China’s four most difficult examinations. It really was highly difficult. Even though Zhang Fan kept telling her that there was no rush and that she could take things slowly, Shao Hua wouldn’t listen. She absolutely insisted on being able to pass in her first year.
There was also the matter of Zhang Fan’s hospital, which was no small matter at all. He had run it for a few months now. The hospital was already beginning to make a profit. However, it couldn’t be continuously operated just like this. A hospital was an integrated organization, not some small food stand. There needed to be a professional manager. Right now, Zhang Fan’s hospital had zero competitors in Chasu City for limb replantation surgery, but as long as his hospital continued to remain popular, some other hospital would definitely step up to compete with him.
There were so many things to take care of that there was no time to rest. Everyone would have to constantly work hard in order to live a better life. Chasu City Hospital’s new emergency center was now in the stage of internal renovations. For this new year, due to the construction of the new emergency center, Chasu City Hospital intended to hire a large number of new doctors. Of course, any new doctors would have to have a master’s degree at minimum.
Over the past year, Chasu City Hospital had developed incredibly swiftly under Superintendent Ouyang’s leadership. Before, Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital, the only other Class A hospital in Chasu City, had been considered an equivalent to Chasu City Hospital. However, ever since Superintendent Ouyang had become the leader of Chasu City Hospital last year, Chasu City Hospital had begun to completely suppress Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital.
This wasn’t because of traditional Chinese medicine being bad, but rather because the area around Chasu City in the border province didn’t have any good traditional Chinese medicine specialists. Although Chasu City Chinese Medicine Hospital was supposedly a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, their treatments were far too simple.