"You really don't know how to avoid suspicion!"

"Look at what you're saying. I don't see anything to avoid. In fact, Director Song is more than qualified to be a business deputy. If I may not laugh at you, I would have even recommended Qiu Nan for the administrative deputy position if she hadn't just started working here."

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"You really dare to think that way."

"When recommending someone for a position, one should not avoid relatives. I can't block someone's path to advancement just because they are my lover."

Upon arriving at the small canteen, the staff had already prepared meals for them.

A few people sat around a round table and inevitably started discussing things again. When the staff who came over to serve them saw this, they quickly moved a screen over to enclose the area, creating a small space for them where they could be undisturbed by others.

Li Chu was also helpless. Having been here for so long, he had truly witnessed how little time these people had for themselves. It seemed like they had to eat and rest on time.

As for the leaders, needless to say, one day he had some discomfort in his lower back and asked Li Chu to come and give him a few acupuncture needles. While he was lying on the bed receiving the needles, people kept coming to report on their work, and his work secretary was always by his side reminding him what to do at what time.

Seeing them discussing things while eating, Li Chu thought that this was probably a unique characteristic of China.

In his memory, he read online reports in his previous life that the leader of the United States did not work on weekends. Not only that, he could also take paid leave and take his whole family on vacation.

Are we on holiday here too?

Forget it, he's never seen his boss take a vacation anyway.

His schedule was packed with inspections, meetings, and reports.

When people who came to eat in the small canteen saw that the area was surrounded and several staff members were standing outside, they immediately understood that the senior staff were discussing work matters again. The entire canteen was quiet; the usual chatter during meals and the sound of chairs being moved when people stood up all disappeared.

Because they were discussing things while eating, the meal lasted for nearly an hour. After taking a 30-minute walk and rest in the garden, they returned to the small meeting room to continue.

Perhaps the leader had other work to do in the evening, because the afternoon meeting progressed much faster. It was only a little past five o'clock when it ended, not yet time to leave work.

Li Chu's first nomination after taking office was unanimously approved, and Director Song of the Department of Surgery was successfully promoted to Vice President.

Another vice president was given the position of director of a logistics warehouse in Sichuan.

Once the report is submitted and approved by the top leadership, these two can take office.

After leaving the conference room, he went to the Fourth Secretariat, the department specifically for his needs, and chatted with a few staff members before leaving headquarters and driving himself at breakneck speed to the main hospital.

When he arrived at his wife's office, Ding Qiunan was tidying up her desk, preparing to go home in Wenxuan's car after get off work.

"Huh, your meeting is over?" She was quite surprised to see her husband appear at the office door, as meetings had never ended on time before.

"Yeah, the pace picked up a bit this afternoon." Li Chu plopped down in the chair in front of his desk; his head was throbbing after a day of meetings.

Ding Qiunan glanced at the closed office door and asked in a low voice, "So, any results yet?"

"One is Director Song, and the other is someone transferred from Sichuan, surnamed Ma."

"Huh? That's all?" After waiting for a while without any further news, she asked in surprise.

"No, just two vice deans."

"Shouldn't there also be a deputy political commissar?"

"It's been cancelled; we won't be assigning two deputy political commissars anymore."

"Cancelled?" Ding Qiunan chuckled inwardly upon hearing the news. These past few days, those who felt qualified had been dancing quite enthusiastically, and several had even gone to her home, though none of them had actually seen Li Chu.

That's bad. The higher-ups just canceled one position. Originally there were three positions, now there are only two left. One of them was promoted on the spot, and the other was pulled away.

"Two positions have been canceled. Vice President Liu has stepped down to a secondary role, so his position is gone. If nothing unexpected happens, Director Song will become the deputy director in charge of business, and the person who was transferred from elsewhere will become the deputy director in charge of administration. That's how the staffing will be arranged from now on."

Li Chu picked up his wife's jar from the table, saw there was still a little water inside, and drank it down in one gulp. It was cool and refreshing.

Goodness, this is quite a major reform, using the main hospital as a pilot site.

"Sigh~ You came up a bit late. If it had been a year earlier, I would have promoted you to the position of deputy executive today."

"Me?" Ding Qiunan pointed at herself, staring at her husband in disbelief.

"Hmm, what's wrong? Is it not okay? Never mind..." Li Chu waved his hand: "There's no point in talking about this now. This opportunity is the best, but you don't have enough qualifications, so I can't force you to take it. It might not be so easy in the future. Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Are you ready? Let's go home."

When he was talking to his boss, he tentatively asked a question, but the boss didn't respond, which meant that it was impossible, so he didn't bring it up again when the meeting continued.

He felt it was a pity that such a good opportunity had been wasted.

"Huh? Oh, all packed up, let's go." Ding Qiunan didn't understand the difference between a good opportunity and a bad opportunity; she was frightened by what her man had just said.

"Darling," she called out as her husband reached the door, "I'm perfectly content with being the logistics manager. Don't try to push me up the ranks."

"Okay, I understand." Li Chu nodded noncommittally.

Don't even think about it for the next year or two; there definitely won't be such a good opportunity at the main hospital.

Unless they are transferred to another logistics unit or warehouse, then forget about it.

They lingered in the office for a while, and when they came out, most of the staff in the administration building had already left.

In the parking lot, Li Wenxuan was circling around his father's black Audi.

My mind kept churning: Wasn't there a meeting today? Is he back already?

"Dad, your meeting ended early today."

Hearing footsteps, he turned around and saw that his parents were indeed coming over together.

"Yeah, we finished a little early today, let's go."

"Then you two go back first. I'll go to Yueshengzhai on Qianmenwai Street to buy some braised beef."

"Okay, remember to buy more, and also some braised mutton. Do you have enough money?"

"That's enough, Mom."

After watching Wenxuan drive away, Li Chu followed behind and walked out of the hospital.

"Honey, you know, Yueyue eats so much now. If the baby gets too big, will we have to have a C-section?"

"Hehe, she can absorb it all into herself, the child won't grow much bigger."