activa-t Chapter 217 Military Medical University!
Chapter 217 Military Medical University!
"Why are you disturbing me? Sister Yan is applying medicine to me. Come in!"
Zhong Yuemin went over and sat on the chair behind the desk. "What's the matter with you?"
"Nothing much. A few days ago, Jiang Biyun, Li Ping, and Cao Gang came over. They were pulling bean dregs to feed the fish at the dairy factory. You happened to be away because you were at a meeting in the county. So they asked if our commune had any vacancies for factory work. Electricians, right?"
"How could female educated youth like Jiang Biyun and Li Ping do this? There are a few vacancies, but don't count on it. There are requirements. First, you have to have been sent to the countryside for three years. If you meet the first requirement, you won't be qualified. Also, electricians are working outside laying wires, sleeping in the open air and digging for food in the fields. It's not much better. Don't even think about this job. I'll save good jobs for them in the future."
Qin Ling nodded,
"There's one more thing. Director Liu from the county radio station asked Sister Yan and me to go work there. He said they're short of staff and need professionals like us. What do you think, should we go?"
"Give me a raise? Is it a permanent job, or just a temporary loan?"
"You'll get a five-dollar salary increase, and you'll be seconded first. If you do well there, you'll have a chance to stay at the county radio station."
"I'm not going!"
Li Yan said:
"Qinling, don't go either. Even if you get a permanent job, what's the use? We're going to Hong Kong Island sooner or later. Stop wasting time and stay in the commune here. If you go to the county, you might run into a pervert like Shen Tao again. We're fine in Hongqi Commune."
Qin Ling smiled and jokingly said, "Sister Yan, are you willing to let Director Zhong, a pervert, bully you?"
"Hey, Qin Ling, you little girl dares to tease your sister Yan now, wait and see how I will deal with you!"
He started tickling the other woman, and the two women started to quarrel. “Ah, ah, no more…”
"Hey, hey, I mean two of you!"
He hurried to persuade her,
"Hurry up and take a break. This is the office. Someone who doesn't know would think I, the director, am doing something bad in broad daylight. It's up to you two to decide whether to go to the county radio station or not. It doesn't conflict with going to Hong Kong Island. You can leave anytime."
Qin Ling shook his head,
"If Sister Yan isn't going, I won't be going either. I'll turn the matter down to Station Master Liu. Oh, and there's another problem with our radio station. The weather forecast is so inaccurate. It's not just an error; it's completely off the mark. For example, today we announced that most of the county would be sunny tomorrow, but right after we finished saying that, it started raining in the middle of the night. It seems the Dragon King is still at work. Many members of the brigade below have complained and even come to the commune radio station to talk about it, delaying their production."
"Our area is short of rain. Spring rain is as precious as oil, but here the rain is even more precious than gold. How can it be good if it rains?"
"It's not all good!" Li Yan interrupted.
"Some of the commune members down below listened to our weather forecast and had to collect the sweet potato flour they had been drying during the day. Then, it rained at night and all the flour got soaked. There are a lot of cases like this: we say it's sunny, then it's cloudy and windy. We say it's good weather, then a 'dulong' (sandstorm) rolls in. Do you know what the people down below think of our radio station's weather forecast?"
"How to say?"
"I don't tell you the weather, I tell you the opposite."
"Where do you get this weather forecast information?"
"Where else can it be? The county."
"That's nonsense! If you have any opinions, go to the County Meteorological Bureau. Our commune radio station is just a transit station, a mouthpiece for the county."
"There's no such thing as a weather bureau in the county. There's a weather station, but it doesn't have any weather equipment. I heard they even keep turtles and fish there, and they use the animals' behavior to predict weather changes. Do you think they can report accurately with that?"
"If you can't do it, don't report it," Zhong Yuemin said.
"Everyone knows what's going on. If it really doesn't work, you two shouldn't be so stubborn. Say one thing and mean another. Don't be so ambiguous."
"What do you mean?" The two women looked over, blinking.
"Don't you understand?" Zhong Yuemin taught.
"For example, if the county reports that tomorrow will be sunny, you can add some euphemisms like maybe, perhaps, or. Anyway, you can't just say it all at once. You have to have a way out, understand?"
"This is just fooling people!"
Zhong Yuemin smiled. "This weather station is using turtles and fish as weather equipment. Is there anything more deceptive than this? It's good enough."
Two months passed in a flash. Zhou Xiaobai and Luo Yun arrived at the Military Medical University in Xi'an to enroll. When he received Xiaobai's letter, they had already been at the school for half a month. He asked for leave and hurried to the provincial capital. He arrived in one morning.
In the four-person female dormitory of the Military Medical University, Zhou Xiaobai sat on her bed. Now that she was in college, she wasn't as busy as she was in the military hospital, so she had more free time. She was knitting a pair of gloves. One was already finished, and the other was still halfway done.
A roommate came over and jokingly said:
"Xiaobai, which boy are you knitting these gloves for? They won't be used today."
Another said:
"There's still time to knit it in the winter. No need to ask, it must be Xiaobai's boyfriend. We've only been in school for a short time. Which boy has the ability to snatch Xiaobai, the school beauty, away from us?"
Zhou Xiaobai just smiled and didn't say much. On campus, it was not encouraged for men and women to date, but it was not forbidden like in the army. She also knew that anyone who could enter the Military Medical University had some connections and background. She herself was not a high-profile person, so she just told others that she came from an ordinary cadre family.
"By the way, Xiaobai!" the roommate said again:
"That Luo Yun from the third squad, is she from the same unit as you?"
Zhou Xiaobai nodded, "We are both from Beijing and have known each other since childhood."
"Your fellow villager is really amazing. You've only been here for half a month, and you're already in a relationship with Liu Yuan."
Zhou Xiaobai asked, "Who is Liu Yuan?"
"It's the boy who gave a speech on the rostrum as a representative of the freshmen during our final military training performance two days ago."
"Oh, I know, I know," a roommate said excitedly, "That boy is tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he's quite handsome."
"Stop being such a fangirl! I already have a partner. It's Luo Yun. Do you know who Liu Yuan's father is? He's Vice Principal Liu from our school."
Zhou Xiaobai understood what was going on as soon as she heard it. After the incident between Luo Yun and Zhang Jing in the army, Yuan Jun told her that maybe Luo Yun had been using Zhang Jing from the beginning, and even Zhang Jing's drunken attempt to assault Luo Yun might have been planned by him. She didn't believe it, but now Luo Yun was with someone named Liu Yuan. She didn't believe that her best friend would be the kind of person who would do anything to achieve her goals, but the facts were before her eyes.
Think about it, is this really necessary? Compared to most ordinary people, Luo Yun, you are already much, much better.