"Yes, we lived over there before we moved here. Xu Yang's family, and He Yuzhu and Jia Geng's family, we all lived in the same courtyard."
Hearing this, Li Wenxuan interjected, "I know that. Our house is in the front yard, and theirs are in the middle and back yards. When I was little, you even carried me and my sister back there."
"Yes, your mother and I got married in that room."
As he spoke, Li Chu couldn't help but show a look of reminiscence, and after a while, he shook his head with a smile.
"That house was allocated to your grandparents by the organization. They were originally supposed to live with your Grandpa Liu and his family, but your grandfather took this house to accommodate other colleagues in the bureau."
"Sigh, if they had lived in that family compound back then, they probably wouldn't have died."
"Dad, where were you when Grandpa and Grandma sacrificed their lives?"
"Me? I was studying under your master at that time. When your grandparents had their accident, I happened to be practicing medicine outside the Great Wall."
By the time I returned and found out, half a month had already passed. Your master felt extremely sorry for me because of this, and he was still talking about it until the very end.
"Dad, I only remembered you when you mentioned Master. I've been asking you about it, but I keep forgetting."
I once saw my master's information in the school's archives, but why did it say his birth date was unknown?
Hearing Wenxuan's question, Li Chu smiled slightly: "Because your master always gave a birth date on the spot when registering his household registration, whether it was during the Republic of China or after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was completely unreliable. The people who registered the data knew this, so in order to be more rigorous, they simply wrote down an unknown birth date."
"Do you know your master's real age?"
"Of course I know, your grandmaster was born in the 20th year of the Daoguang Emperor's reign."
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Li Wenxuan was full of questions. Although he was a good student and had a good memory, it didn't mean he could remember everything.
“That year was the Gengzi year in the lunar calendar,” Li Chu explained again.
"The Year of Gengzi?" Li Wenxuan muttered under his breath.
"The Boxer Indemnity? 1900? Oh...it hurts..."
Before he could finish speaking, his father slapped him on the head.
"What nonsense are you spouting here? The Boxer Indemnity? According to you, your master only lived to be fifty-nine."
Li Wenxuan covered his head and gave his father a resentful look.
“If we go back further, the lunar calendar cycles every sixty years, so that would be 1840.”
Li Wenxuan stopped there, his eyes widening in disbelief.
"Dad, if we calculate it that way, Master lived for 119 years?"
"That's right, your master died peacefully in his old age without any illness or disaster, at the age of 119."
Li Wenxuan's mouth was so open at that moment that a goose egg could be stuffed inside.
"Why are you so surprised? Your master is in very good health. He took me as his disciple back then because he felt his health was failing and he didn't want all the knowledge he had learned in his life to just disappear like that."
"Why didn't Master take on a disciple sooner?"
Li Chu had asked the same question back then, and now, hearing his son ask it again, he slowly shook his head: "I asked that question too. Your master just smiled and didn't answer me, so I don't know what he was thinking."
At this point, he looked at Wenxuan and said, "Be careful when you deal with those kids from high-ranking families. Don't just associate with anyone."
“I know, Dad, and Sister… Xiao Yi also told me that his friends are all good people, they all have regular jobs, and they're all married. We just occasionally have a meal together.”
"Where do you all eat?" Li Chu asked with great interest.
"I used to go to Lao Mo's restaurant more often, but now I mostly go to Xu Yang's family restaurant. Dad, Uncle He's cooking is really delicious."
"Wow, you guys are pretty good at this, even going upstairs to eat Tan Family Cuisine."
"Hehe," Li Wenxuan chuckled sheepishly, "I've only eaten there once, it's too expensive, we can't afford it."
Who usually pays for your meals?
"Let's split the bill. Who can afford to treat others to this? We're all wolves; drinking is like drinking water to us."
"Wenxuan, how's your drinking?" Li Chu suddenly asked. Li Wenxuan usually doesn't drink at home, so his father didn't know whether his son drank or not.
"Uh... I only drink a little occasionally, never much. Yueyue knows every time I drink, and she doesn't let me drink too much either."
Li Wenxuan quickly explained that he knew his father almost never drank alcohol, except for having a couple of drinks with the family during holidays.
The only time I got drunk was on the day of Yuanyuan's wedding, which was because I had to accompany my uncle.
Li Chu waved his hand dismissively: "Men, it's okay to drink a little, as long as they can control themselves."
There weren't many patients today, and the father and son sat in the consultation room chatting casually.
Li Wenxuan has learned almost everything he needs to learn; the only thing he lacks is experience.
Now all we can do is see more cases.
There's no shortcut to this; you just have to wait and see.
Looking at her son, who was talking eloquently in front of her, and then thinking about visiting her fiancé's daughter, she realized that in the blink of an eye, her two children had grown up. It was wonderful.
"dad……"
Li Wenxuan's shout woke Li Chu from his deep thoughts.
"Dad, you know about the incident last year where a doctor at that hospital was attacked by the victim's family and their gang for treating a criminal, right?"
"Yes, I know. What's wrong?"
"What I want to ask is, if we encounter such a situation, should we help or not?"
Li Wenxuan's question unconsciously brought Li Chu back to the incident from last year.
The matter is actually quite simple: the suspect got into an argument with the victim over some trivial matters, which eventually escalated into a murder case.
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The suspect was shot and wounded by police officers who were apprehending him while he was on the run.
Then the police took the shot suspect to the hospital for emergency treatment, but the doctor who participated in the treatment was attacked by the victim's family and others.
The last few family members who participated in the siege were also arrested, as expected.
Do you think that doctor who was besieged was wronged or not?
He was simply doing his job.
This incident was reported by the Daily News, which immediately sparked a nationwide discussion.
Li Chu had also heard that many doctors in Beijing said they would no longer dare to treat criminals brought in by the police.
He thought this was absolutely outrageous.
What was once a chance occurrence seems to have become commonplace in the eyes of these people.
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