Chapter 176 Dozing off during meetings is human instinct!
Su Mei has seen many emotionally unstable family members, especially a mother who lost many of her loved ones at once. She did not lose her composure because of this mother's behavior.
There were no soldiers guarding outside, as there were not enough people to carry out the rescue operation. Perhaps because they thought Su Mei was rescuing people here and would not show up intentionally, no one was left watching outside.
Fortunately, the people nearby heard what Su Mei said, and soon someone took the lead and came over to drag the child's mother out.
Su Mei checked the child's condition and found that she had just fainted due to pain and was not in serious danger of life.
She took out the silver needles she had carried with her, and after seven injections, the child woke up.
After the child's condition stabilized a little, Su Mei asked someone to find a soldier to send the child to the hospital.
At the same time, Su Mei wrote down a list of medicines and asked the soldier who sent the little girl back to the county hospital to bring it back so that Su Mei could perform some simple operations on the spot.
When the girl heard Su Mei say that the child had to be sent to the hospital, she immediately refused to give in. She came up to Su Mei and questioned:
"Since she still needs to be sent to the hospital for rescue, why are you being so stubborn? This is just delaying things. If it weren't for you, my Niuniu would have been in the hospital long ago!"
"Why are you like this, woman? If Doctor Su hadn't treated her first, she would have died before she could get to the hospital. Even if she didn't die, she would have lost her arm. You are like a dog biting Lu Dongbin, you don't know how to be kind!" The young nurse couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she stood up and spoke for Su Mei.
Su Mei smiled at the nurse without caring much and said, "Thank you, it's okay, don't pay attention to her."
This woman is very annoying and has a nasty attitude towards her. She has no way to deal with Liu Kai. When Su Mei speaks to her in a gentle voice, she thinks Su Mei is easy to bully and acts in front of Su Mei.
Good people are often bullied. Some people just like to bully the weak and fear the strong. Su Mei is too lazy to bother with such fussy and nagging family members. After all, there are too many such family members, and there is no need to be aggressive with them.
At best, it is just a pile of mud encountered in the journey of life, not even a passerby.
After finishing the treatment of the little girl, Su Mei followed several new soldiers she met to look for newly discovered wounded.
Only then did she realize that many of the injured were simply bandaged by the rescue doctors and were sent to the county hospital regardless of the severity of their injuries.
The temporary county hospital has a limited area. If all doctors do this and send patients directly to the hospital instead of rescuing them on the spot, the county hospital will probably be overcrowded soon.
The consequence is that some seriously injured patients who need immediate rescue will be delayed, causing them to lose precious medical resources and thus lose their lives.
This is not acceptable. Su Mei asked several doctors and found out that this was all Liu Kai's request.
It turned out that Liu Kai was not unaware that the little girl's life was in danger, he was just afraid of trouble and wanted to take it easy, so he did nothing and just asked all the doctors to simply treat the injured and send the patients to the county hospital.
Battlefield rescue has indeed made things much easier, but it has caused hardships for the injured and the doctors in the county hospital.
"We can't go on like this. Patients with simple finger fractures and minor rib fractures who are not in danger of life do not need to be sent to the county hospital, which will increase the medical burden of the county hospital.
I will write a simple list of surgical procedures and ask the county hospital to bring it over. For patients who can be simply treated, we will handle them on the spot so as not to cause trouble for the county hospital.
Another thing is that for those disaster victims who do not have tents to shelter in, we should not leave them waiting on the roadside for supplies. Instead, we should gather them together and have them go out to look for firewood nearby.
We have to light it up at night. Otherwise, in this weather, we will be left freezing without a tent. I am afraid that there will be more patients tomorrow besides injuries.”
In modern times, Su Mei has also participated in earthquake relief. She has seen the rescue methods of modern soldiers, so she told the soldiers around her all the rescue knowledge she knew.
Some modern rescue knowledge is a set of theoretical experience gained through repeated rescue operations, and some of this experience is still very useful.
But she didn't know much, and most of what she could think of were things related to medical rescue. She could only tell everyone she knew as much as possible.
Under Su Mei's arrangement, not all injured patients found next will be sent to the county hospital.
Seriously ill patients will first be sent to a tent for examination by a doctor to rule out danger to their lives, receive some treatment in advance, and then be sent to the county hospital.
Patients with less severe conditions stayed in the tent and were treated directly by Su Mei.
Because there were several more fires in the open space, it was warmer to sit by the fire than in the tent, so many old people and children squatted by the fire.
As a result, many tents were vacated, and some patients with minor injuries had a place to stay.
Su Mei was busy for the whole day, and the only food she had during the day were the two pieces of dry rations handed to her by the soldiers.
There were no more food supplies coming in, and the soldiers were still clearing the roads, but the clearance was very difficult, and it was unknown when all the obstacles would be cleared and the supplies would be transported out.
At night, the soldiers distributed the food they found during the search and rescue process to the people, and also found some large pots and asked the people to cook porridge over the fire.
After the porridge was cooked, someone took the initiative to bring a bowl of porridge to Su Mei and the young nurse in the tent.
Su Mei had almost no time to rest the whole night.
It was almost dawn when she was able to sleep for two hours in the empty tent.
After the sky becomes completely bright, the sun appears in the sky and the weather turns warmer. These three good news mean that there will generally be no more heavy rains, which means there will be no more aftershocks.
At the foot of the mountain in the distance, the flood water has receded a lot. Although the city is still ruined, its original outline can be vaguely seen.
Three days passed in a flash, and the number of injured people rescued later was decreasing.
A week later, the soldiers finally cleared a road from another county to the disaster area, allowing supplies to be transported in.
After the normal circulation of supplies, the soldiers began to build temporary homes for the people, and the robbery came to an end.
During this period, Su Mei and Huo Jianguo did not meet each other.
Not until everything in the disaster area was in order and the floods in the city were completely cleared up did Huo Jianguo appear in front of Su Mei, exhausted.
The two hadn't seen each other for a week. As soon as Huo Jianguo saw Su Mei, he hugged her tightly in his arms.
He stroked her dark hair and said:
"I haven't seen you for only a week, but I feel like it's been a long time. If you really go to school, we can only see you once every few months. Wouldn't I go crazy?"
"I'll apply to a school that's closer?" Su Mei hadn't even decided what major to study yet, so it didn't matter what school to go to.
It's just a diploma anyway. She already has a medical qualification certificate. The diploma is just the icing on the cake. It seems to be the same no matter where she goes?
Huo Jianguo didn't think so. He immediately dismissed Su Mei's idea:
"Forget about it. There are no good schools here. You can go to a big city like Beijing, Shanghai, or Nanjing. The more famous the place, the better the school."
"It's too far. We can only see each other once a year or so."
“The future is important.”
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The couple was taken by the soldiers to the place where they abandoned their car. All the supplies they had bought in the car were looted, leaving only an empty car parked there.
They didn't care about this. When leaving the car, Huo Jianguo deliberately didn't lock the door so that if someone discovered the car, they could easily take the food in the car.
Huo Jianguo and Su Mei drove back to the compound.
After working hard for many days, the two got two days off. It was sunny and windy during these two days, but the couple had no intention of going out at all.
They basically lay in bed to rest on the first day. It was not until the second day that Su Mei felt a little better. Seeing her neighbor Aunt Wang planting vegetables, she asked Aunt Wang for some seeds. She planned to turn over the land at home and plant some edible vegetables in the spring.
When Huo Jianguo heard Su Mei say that she was going to grow vegetables, he put on his hoe without thinking much and followed Su Mei to plow the soil.
There are many military wives working in the fields, but Huo Jianguo, who is wearing a green military uniform, is the only soldier working in the fields. The deep green color is very eye-catching among the military wives.
Su Mei had never done farm work before, and at first she wanted to learn how to plant seeds from Aunt Wang. However, she couldn't do it properly no matter how hard she tried, and the seeds she planted had to be dug out and planted again by Huo Jianguo.
In order not to cause more trouble, she simply stopped working and walked to a tree not far from the land, quietly watching Huo Jianguo sweating on the ground.
In the distance, Cai Guihua, who was weeding, wiped the sweat off her face and said with a sour tone:
"If you say this person is more annoying than others, we are both women, but our lives are not as good as Su Mei's!"
Aunt Wang heard this sinister tone and she straightened her back and retorted mercilessly:
"If you really can't get over it, you can just reincarnate into a new family with a better fate."
"I'm not talking about you. Why are you so excited? You're lucky. How come your husband died and you became an old widow?" Cai Guihua rolled her eyes and walked away. She didn't dare to argue for too long.
After what happened in the compound, her husband warned her that if she caused any more trouble, he would send her away.
She was afraid after all, and she has been much more restrained since then.
But that chatterbox has become a habit, and even if he doesn't spread rumors, he can't avoid saying a few bad things to others from time to time.
Losing her husband in middle age was a source of pain for Aunt Wang. She turned pale when Cai Guihua stabbed her like that.
Seeing this, Su Mei took a gourd and scooped some water for Aunt Wang to drink to relieve her discomfort. She said:
"Don't bother with her. She will be ruined by her mouth sooner or later. Let her keep on nagging. Don't remind her. She will regret it someday!"
"Hmm!" Aunt Wang couldn't do anything to Cai Guihua, so she could only sigh and smile bitterly.
After a morning, Huo Jianguo turned over all the land that he and Su Mei were allocated. Aunt Wang said that growing vegetables was simple, and that she would give all the vegetables she would grow to Su Mei in the future, and that Su Mei just had to wait to pick the vegetables, and she could rest assured to hand over the land at home to her.
Su Mei herself didn't know how to farm, and Huo Jianguo certainly didn't have time to take care of things here when he was busy, so she didn't refuse Aunt Wang's kindness, thinking that she would share some of the things she bought in the future with Aunt Wang so that she wouldn't have to work for nothing.
After the break, Su Mei returned to her job, still doing the same work. She learned acupuncture from Qin Zhengting, saw patients, and took time to review. Her life was simple and fulfilling.
Time flies and another half a month has passed.
The central government sent a specialist to hold a summary meeting for the earthquake rescue and asked all those who participated in the rescue to attend. Huo Jianguo also took Su Mei with him. He said that the central government would award awards to medical workers who had made contributions.
The conference was held on the top floor of a state-owned hotel in the county town. So many people came that they filled the entire conference room with noise and crowds.
The process of the meeting was basically the same. First, the leader gave a speech, saying some official and polite words, and then summarized the experience of the robbery. Su Mei was drowsy listening to it, and later she simply put her hands on her temples, covered her eyes with her hands and fell asleep.
This is definitely not a disrespect for the conference. Dozing off during a meeting is absolutely human instinct. Su Mei just did something that is in line with human instinct.
It was not until she heard the people on the stage begin to commend those who had made outstanding contributions to medicine that she yawned with her mouth open and tried to cheer herself up.
The person who was speaking on the stage was the Vice Minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. He was thin, had a serious expression, and spoke in a clear and loud voice. He was obviously a good official. It was the first time that Su Mei had met such a big shot. After just hearing a few words, she was inspired by his strong aura and became energetic.
He said: "The country wants to commend the six medical team leaders who performed outstandingly in this dangerous mission. These six leaders are Ran Hong, Xie Lin, Bai Yu, Liang Yin........."
Among the six people, Su Mei was not there.
Su Mei couldn't help but glance at Huo Jianguo, who was sitting far away from her in the front row. She thought to herself, could it be that Huo Jianguo had made a mistake? Could it be that she was not among the people being honored this time?
After all, she was a self-appointed captain, having snatched the position from Liu Kai in an unjustifiable manner.
It's normal if she didn't get any. She didn't care whether she got praised or not. She just felt it was a pity to waste today's day off, as it wasted her time to sleep until she woke up naturally and study at home.
When Su Mei heard that she was not on the list of people to be commended, she felt sleepy again.
However, after presenting the awards to the six captains, the leader on the stage said: "In addition to these six captains, the organization has also decided to present a special contribution award to a medical captain.
This medical team leader took the lead in setting up a temporary operating room on site in the disaster area, alleviating the medical pressure on the county hospital and providing us with many reliable and useful suggestions for rescue.
We must commend such talented people who have made special contributions, and we hope that everyone will be able to learn from this comrade in the future."
Upon hearing this, Su Mei perked up again. She straightened her back and thought to herself that it was not that she was ineligible for the recognition, but that her recognition was unique.
Just as she sat up straight, waiting to be honored, the person on the stage spoke again:
"Let us give this honor to Comrade Liu Kai, the leader of our Third Medical Team, with warm applause!"