Chapter 94: Director Xiang’s Reaction!
On September 11th, a Friday, the weather was sunny and bright.
After Lu Cheng lifted the edge of the quilt, the warm sun outside the window, not piercing, grazed the corner and slanted in…
This can prove that the designer of this residential area has some issues; it’s not a standard north-south orientation.
Lu Cheng got up and sent Director Lin Qianlong a late voice message: “Director Lin, Professor Chen said he’s taking leave today. After he eats lunch here, he needs to go back to Shashi City.”
“I’m on duty today, so I can’t make it. Would you mind helping to find a place to arrange lunch for Professor Chen Song…”
It wasn’t until after September 10th was almost over that Lu Cheng realized that the Teachers’ Day dinner on September 10th couldn’t be a casual affair.
There are considerations about who you can eat with and who you cannot.
Teachers’ Day dinners are generally hosted by bosses for their subordinates, colleagues within the group, and students; there aren’t many who bring family members.
If family members aren’t even allowed, what kind of discussion would there be for Chen Song to eat with Lin Qianlong and the others?
After Chen Song leaves, if Lin Qianlong needs something, and he hesitates, he won’t be able to refuse straightforwardly.
Of course, today is Friday, and the reason Tong Yuan’an and Chen Song are taking leave to return is because Teachers’ Day is here, and they also need to ‘report’ to their respective masters!
If Teachers’ Day falls on a workday, the dinner is usually postponed to a non-working day on the weekend.
“Lu Cheng, what happened yesterday?” Lin Qianlong replied with a smile. He thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out how Chen Song and Tong Yuan’an were both taken down by just Lu Cheng.
And it was a genuine “by chance” kind of drunk.
Lu Cheng explained: “Director Lin, it’s like this, Professor Chen and Professor Tong got into it yesterday, and I stayed with them the whole time.”
“Four bottles of wine, four catties, a little over a catty each… I still need to go pick up the rest later…”
Lu Cheng said this with a slightly hesitant tone: “Director Lin, the two professors were having a great time. If I had tried to stop them, they would have said I was being stingy with the wine!”
Lu Cheng actually felt a bit pained. Just so Chen Song and Tong Yuan’an could legitimately get away with skipping the dinner, Lu Cheng spent over ten thousand yuan.
Parents are very thrifty; their living and food expenses for half a year probably wouldn’t reach ten thousand.
“That won’t do!” Lin Qianlong didn’t blame Lu Cheng, but instead said, “It’s just that your ability to encourage drinking, Xiao Lu, is quite something. You managed to take down both professors.”
“Your strength and ability are very good, worthy of affirmation!”
Lin Qianlong began to praise him.
How should I put it? Someone like Chen Song wouldn’t get drunk in front of ordinary people, let alone someone who is far from home and holds a certain status?
…
As Lu Cheng rode his electric scooter into the Emergency Department, he heard Professor Chen Song’s “indignant” voice: “That brat Xiao Lu is too devious. He fanned the flames between me and Tong Yuan’an yesterday.”
“As we kept going back and forth, we got worked up. You take a drink, I take a drink, and before we knew it, we’d downed over a catty.”
Chen Song’s muddled words were nine parts true and one part false.
Lu Cheng did fan the flames, and he fanned them quite intensely; the two of them almost got into a fight, but it wasn’t about encouraging drinking!
To outsiders, nine parts true and one part false sounds completely true.
Director Lin Qianlong and old brother Zhang Tiesheng both chuckled and said, “Professor Chen, that’s because you were too partial and raised a ’roundworm’ yourself.”
“Now that it’s backfiring, aren’t you happy about it?”
Zhang Tiesheng was very astute. As he spoke, he saw Lu Cheng and quickly waved: “Lu Cheng, come here. Professor Chen has a big opinion of you and has complained to Director Lin!”
Lu Cheng immediately trotted over to Chen Song: “I’m sorry, Teacher Chen. I also drank quite a bit yesterday, so I might have spoken carelessly.”
Lu Cheng’s words were also very true, but others couldn’t understand the underlying meaning at all!
“Since you know you were wrong, you’ll punish yourself next time.”
“Oh, right, do we still have some wine that we didn’t take away?” Chen Song suddenly remembered and asked.
Lu Cheng said, “Yes, Teacher Chen, but I called this morning, and it’s stored at the shop.”
Lin Qianlong looked at the time and said, “Lu Cheng, you’ll have to sort out your own breakfast today. I’ve arranged to have dumplings with Professor Chen upstairs.”
“Zhang Tiesheng…”
Zhang Tiesheng immediately took out his mobile phone and said, “Director, you and Teacher Chen haven’t truly left yet, so I didn’t dare to order on my own. I was afraid that if you and Teacher Lin were to change your minds, I wouldn’t be able to prioritize showing you both respect first?”
“Director Lin, are you sure you’re going out to eat?”
“Let’s go!” Lin Qianlong and Chen Song had already walked out.
Zhang Tiesheng, already familiar with Lu Cheng’s taste, quickly ordered two bowls of noodles and four toppings. He then stood up briskly and said, “Let’s go, Brother Lu, can you take me to do a round of ward rounds?”
Lu Cheng followed behind Zhang Tiesheng: “Brother Zhang, you’ve been promoted to Deputy Director… of course, you should take me.”
Zhang Tiesheng’s results for the Deputy Senior Physician exam had come out, and he had passed, just waiting for the hospital’s official appointment.
“What good is being a Deputy Director? Isn’t Director Xiang being forced by you, Xiao Lu, to sign up for several training classes?”
“I heard he spent over forty thousand yuan to enroll in three short-term classes. Now he’s honestly here in the Emergency Department on Tuesdays and Thursdays to wait for manual reduction of fractures.”
Zhang Tiesheng gave Lu Cheng a thumbs-up: “You can redefine what a Deputy Chief Physician is. You’re amazing, Xiao Lu!”
Zhang Tiesheng said this and then whispered in Lu Cheng’s ear, “Xiang Kuihua privately told me that before he encountered manual reduction, he thought you were just messing around.”
“After experiencing it, he realized you’re a freak. He also said that your Orthopedics Director, Peng Haibo, is really not a good person!”
“To protect his son’s status, he deliberately sidelined you. Is that true…”
Lu Cheng stopped upon hearing this and replied, avoiding the question, “Brother Zhang, do you know why I don’t agree with patients in the Emergency Department self-referring to specialty departments?”
Zhang Tiesheng’s expression became slightly unnatural, but he still responded enthusiastically: “Xiao Lu, you must have your own considerations.”
It was very common for patients in the Emergency Department to be referred to specialty departments.
Especially in county hospitals.
“When I was in my standardized training at Zhongnan Hospital, they transferred a patient like that, and she died on the way. She was the daughter of a provincial leader!”
“The Deputy Director of the Emergency Department, the Deputy Director of Trauma Surgery, the Chief Resident – they were all dismissed from their positions on the spot and expelled, received a major demerit, and it was entered into their records.”
“The on-duty doctor in the trauma clinic!”
Lu Cheng glanced at Zhang Tiesheng: “His doctoral dissertation was found to have problems, issues that were present from the beginning, but if they hadn’t investigated so meticulously, the problems wouldn’t have surfaced.”
“His doctoral degree was temporarily revoked, and Zhongnan Hospital unilaterally terminated his contract. I heard it was two years ago, and he’s still doing experiments to defend his doctoral degree!”
“The Chief Resident of Orthopedics was also found to have committed academic fraud.”
When it comes to a doctoral dissertation defense, if it were you, you could easily pass. But if they wanted to fail you, especially for a doctoral degree… you’d better pray you have real talent, substantial research output, and can produce very professional academic work…
Otherwise, you might not get out of that predicament for most of your life!
This is because there are no objective standards for graduation defenses.
Zhang Tiesheng’s expression became serious: “Hmm, I understand! It’s still you, Xiao Lu, who is cautious.”
Lu Cheng smiled and said, “Brother Zhang, it’s not that I’m particularly cautious; it’s just that I’ve seen the consequences of very high trial-and-error costs!”
“Fortunately, I’m not on duty in the emergency clinic right now, otherwise, there would be even more people I’d have to offend.”
