For three consecutive days, everyone was in panic. Even the prices of coal, grain, cotton, clothing, etc. rose sharply.

Xu Zhiyi and Qin Zheng also stored some of each item, and even a lot of medicine.

Xu Chengde, who was far away in the capital, also called and asked about Xu Zhiyi and Qin Zheng. Did they have anything stored? Did they have enough money? Did they receive the things they had sent?

A week later, when everyone had gradually calmed down from their panic, the bombshell finally hit.

Inside the hospital conference room, there was a complete silence, and everyone was lost in the silence. They were lost in the words the dean had just said, unable to extricate themselves.

The head of internal medicine couldn't believe it and asked, "Director, are you sure? Is it true that a snowstorm is coming?"

The moment the people in the conference room saw the dean nod, all the doubts in their hearts disappeared, and what followed was worry.

The dean naturally noticed something was amiss in the conference room. He feigned composure and said, "Well, okay, let me tell you something. Don't spread this matter any further. After you spread it, I got scolded. They said our hospital was in a state of panic. So, for now, these things are limited to those in this conference room."

There is no need to be too sad now. After all, we already know what we are about to face. So we also have enough time and ability to prevent this matter, so we should be happy.

We also need to carefully consider the prevention of snowstorms. Furthermore, there is the issue of personnel, which also requires careful consideration within each department.

Let me give you a sneak peek: Several departments, including general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and emergency medicine, must go to the front lines, following the troops to save lives.

As for how many to go, this still needs to be discussed and decided.

As for other departments, we will also allocate one or two doctors to the front lines. Also, regarding nurses, we need to carefully consider these matters.”

The dean then began to talk about the general direction, what we should do next, how many people we need, and how the work will be divided.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform everyone of the difficulties they will face and to prepare all the doctors and nurses in the hospital.

After a while, after the directors of various departments had left, the leaders in the hospital were still sitting there.

The leader of one of the hospitals said directly: "No, I don't agree with your approach. I know that the level of doctors and nurses in our hospital is uneven, but we really don't have the money and time to train a group of experienced nurses. Besides, snowstorms don't happen every year. Maybe there will be one this year, but not next year. So why should we recruit more nurses?"

I think we should use limited human and financial resources to accomplish this task. We can select nurses and doctors with outstanding performance from various departments and have them immediately participate in the subsequent training to lay a knowledge reserve for them to go to the front line in the future.

Instead of spending money to recruit a group of people from outside and train them from scratch, we will only waste more time and resources."

In the conference room, everyone else nodded and agreed with what that person said.

The dean nodded. "Okay, in that case, let's quickly assign the personnel and get them ready for training."

At the same time, the person who first mentioned this matter, Zhang Yumei, waited and waited but still received no response from the hospital, and became completely anxious waiting at home.

Liu Paner came back from outside and saw Zhang Yumei sitting on the sofa in a daze as soon as she entered the room. She immediately became unwilling.

"Oh my, some people are born to be rich and prosperous, unlike me. As an old lady, I was born to suffer."

Zhang Yumei, who was still in a daze on the sofa, did not hear Liu Paner's sarcasm. Liu Paner kicked the stool next to the dining table and then turned back to the bedroom.

This made Zhang Yumei, who was in a daze, suddenly hear a clang and came back to her senses in shock.

Zhang Yumei looked towards Liu Pan'er's bedroom, clenched her fists, and whispered, "Don't be too happy too soon. Just wait, I will take everything back sooner or later."

That night, after Xie Heng returned home, he looked at Zhang Yumei eating at the dining table. Xie Heng just looked at Zhang Yumei without saying a word, but Zhang Yumei noticed a different look in Xie Heng's eyes than in the previous few days.

Late at night, Zhang Yumei looked at Xie Heng who was sitting beside the bed and asked worriedly, "Xie Heng, what's wrong with you? Did something happen?"

Xie Heng shook his head and asked Zhang Yumei, "Yumei, I heard from the director of the military hospital that it was you who went to the hospital and told them about the unusual weather this winter. It was you who told the director that a snowstorm was about to break out?"

Zhang Yumei didn't expect that the hospital director would tell Xie Heng about this matter, but Zhang Yumei recalled every detail of Xie Heng's life since he returned home tonight.

Zhang Yumei nodded and said to Xie Heng, "Xie Heng, I told the director of the military hospital about this matter, but I told him about it because I wanted to go back to work in the hospital. However, the director of the military hospital told me that the hospital is not recruiting people now, and I had rejected the job in the hospital before, so the director didn't want me to go back to work in the hospital. I don't have to work in the military hospital, as long as the organization assigns me a job, but Political Commissar Wang said that he has no control over these things, so I really had no choice but to go to the military hospital.

The director of the military hospital had rejected me in the same way. But when I was little, my parents and I had read a book that said that when the weather changes, natural disasters will also occur. So I thought about the weather over the past month. I had also heard from my sisters-in-law that this year's weather was unusually cold and strange, so I mentioned it to the director of the military hospital.

Xie Heng, everything I said is true. You must believe me now. Xie Heng, you have been so busy these days. Is it because of this matter?

Xie Heng looked at Zhang Yumei, still a little confused, and asked, "Yumei, why do you suddenly want to go back to work at the hospital now? Weren't you reluctant at first?"