"As you know, Dean Liu, I was forced into this position as vice dean. If you ask me to be dean, I really don't have the ability."

Dean Liu smiled and pointed at Li Chu: "You, I'm just talking to you this time to get your opinion, so don't feel guilty."

After thinking for a moment, Dean Liu continued, "The higher-ups have another opinion."

Li Chu adopted a listening posture, but he was still a little puzzled. Was this about making arrangements for his future? But why choose this time?

A revolutionary soldier is like a brick; he'll go wherever he's needed. He still has that much awareness.

I just find it a bit strange.

"Another message from above is that the status quo will remain unchanged, but your focus will shift entirely to the health care group. Also, the application from the medical school has been approved, and you can teach as a visiting lecturer. As for the specific class schedule at the medical school, that needs to be coordinated with the health bureau."

Hearing this, Li Chu was stunned. After such a long period of silence, he thought that the application for medical school had been rejected by the higher-ups.

Moreover, as far as he knows, active-duty military personnel should not be allowed to hold part-time jobs outside of military service, right?

"Dean Liu, I don't understand this. In my understanding, military personnel can't hold concurrent positions, right?"

"That's right, you can't work part-time, so if you agree to teach at the medical school, you won't get paid."

? ? ?

So, can part-time work be understood like this? Does not receiving a salary mean it's not part-time work?

Li Chu felt like his brain wasn't working properly.

Is this a case of burying one's head in the sand?

"Finally, our hospital will also establish its own medical school, but just like now, it will not recruit students from outside the hospital, but only recruit junior students for further training. So if the higher-ups approve it, you will have to take over this part again."

"No problem, I'll do whatever the hospital arranges."

He had no objection to the hospital's arrangement; he couldn't just take advantage of them without contributing anything in return.

"The Health Bureau is about to undergo restructuring. The Health Group will be abolished and replaced by Division 1 and Division 2. We will no longer hold any positions and will only serve as members."

...

After leaving Dean Liu's office and returning to his own, Li Chu pondered silently. In general, there hadn't been any major changes; it was simply a matter of waiting for the main medical school's approval before continuing to teach students.

As for the medical school outside, although it has been approved, he is still a little hesitant. If he teaches at both schools at the same time, will he be too busy? After all, his main job is in the health care group.

Forget it, let's take it one step at a time. This is the first year that the medical school outside is recruiting students again. It will be two and a half years before he is needed to teach.

Their continuing education and training programs haven't been approved yet; it's all just a pipe dream.

Then I remembered that I was going to Uncle Wang's house to cook tomorrow, so I started thinking about tomorrow's menu.

Ever since he first cooked medicinal cuisine for everyone, he's been unstoppable. His sister and brother-in-law often come over for meals, and Uncle Wang frequently brings him home to cook.

He has completely become the family's full-time cook. Sometimes when Ding Qiunan wants to cook, the three children all complain.

The original plan was to pick up Mr. and Mrs. Ding from their new house tomorrow morning, but now it will have to be in the afternoon.

The Ran family's courtyard has been cleaned up, and all the furniture and bedding are ready; they're just waiting for people to move in.

The elderly couple were not very willing to come over. They still held the old-fashioned mindset. They didn't believe in the idea of ​​the father-in-law and mother-in-law living in the son-in-law's house, even though they had a son.

In the end, it took Li Chu a lot of persuasion before he reluctantly agreed.

This is because Ding Jianguo is getting married in just over ten days, and they needed to come and help out.

Ding Jianguo's house is simply not big enough, and he will definitely have to take care of his daughter-in-law during her postpartum period. It is obvious that the house here is more suitable.

The news that the son-in-law bought a house for his father-in-law spread throughout the area where Ding's father and his family lived.

The neighbors were already numb with jealousy.

Since he was going to Uncle Wang's house to cook tomorrow, he took out chicken and ribs from the storeroom, and after thinking for a moment, he also took out a few pig's trotters. These were all things they liked to eat. As for vegetables, he would go to the market early tomorrow morning to buy them.

Having finalized everything, he slumped onto his desk and resumed writing medical records.

When Wenxuan got home from get off work in the evening, his wife Wenhui and Yueyue were doing their homework in the room, while Wenxuan sat alone in the yard, looking sullen. Several dogs surrounded him, but he didn't even glance at them.

"Wenxuan, what's wrong with you?"

Ding Qiunan saw her son's condition as soon as she entered the yard and asked him what was wrong.

Li Chu is still behind. He needs the car tomorrow. He drove back by himself today and didn't let Xiao Tian take him.

Wenxuan stood up with his head down after his parents came in, and said in a low voice, "Mom and Dad, our teacher asked you to come to the school on Monday."

!!

This was quite a novelty, and Li Chu and Ding Qiunan exchanged a glance.

My son has never made any mistakes in his life, whether it's a home visit by the teacher or a call for his parents to come to the school. This is the first time.

"Son, what mistake did you make? Tell me so Mom can be happy."

Wenhui and Yueyue saw them return from inside the house. As soon as they came out, they heard what Ding Qiunan said, and the three children stared at her in disbelief.

Is she still her biological mother?

Li Chu was holding something and was about to put it in the kitchen when his wife's words almost made him choke on his own saliva.

It's no wonder Ding Qiunan got excited and started talking nonsense. These two children have been quite obedient and studious since they were little, but they aren't the kind of bookworms who only know how to study.

Both their classmates and teachers liked them.

This also deprived Ding Qiunan of much of the joy of being a mother.

Now that they've finally managed to get their parents called in, it's no wonder they're so agitated.

Li Wenxuan rolled his eyes repeatedly as his mother spoke: "Mom, how can you talk like that?"

"Oh, what I said isn't important." Ding Qiunan waved her hand dismissively and plopped down on the stone bench in the courtyard.

"Tell Mom what mistake you made that warrants a parent-teacher meeting." Although she tried her best to keep a straight face and put on a serious expression, the constantly upturned corners of her mouth and the uncontrollable smile in the corners of her eyes betrayed her.

Wenhui and Yueyue stood at the doorway and shook their heads helplessly. They didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to have such an unreliable mother (mother-in-law).

Wenxuan no longer wanted to correct his mother. He simply said, "I don't know what I did wrong. The teacher just told me to tell you to come to school on Monday."