"Okay, Dad. I'll talk to Director Sun about it later."
"Okay, you two go back and rest."
After seeing off his newly pregnant daughter and son-in-law, Li Chu turned around and hugged his wife.
"Honey, we're going to be grandparents soon."
“I remember Wenhui said she wanted to wait two years before having children, how come she suddenly got pregnant?”
"Hehe, that's what she said last year, but she also knows that whether it's Xiao Yi, the old man of the Shen family, or her parents-in-law, they all really want to have a child, but none of them urged her to do so, and they all respected her choice."
She's already taken such a big step back. If she truly loves Xiao Yi and wants to live a good life with him, then having a child should definitely be on the agenda.
I just didn't expect it to happen sooner than I anticipated. I thought we'd wait until early next year. Huihui has really grown up.
Ding Qiunan thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "Indeed, we've been married for a year, and none of my in-laws, including Grandpa Shen, have mentioned having children soon."
"That's why I said Huihui has grown up. When a couple lives together, you think about me, so of course I have to think about you too. Xiaoyi was so happy when he got the confirmation."
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"Hehe, you were just as silly back then, weren't you?"
"How could I not be excited about becoming a father for the first time? Time flies so fast. It feels like just yesterday that Wenhui and Wenxuan were learning to speak, and now one of them is a father and the other is a mother-to-be."
Ding Qiunan, who was standing side by side, suddenly turned around and hugged her man tightly without saying a word.
Several dogs, who were sleeping on a blanket, seemed to smell the sour stench in the air and looked up at their owners, the man and woman, standing in the doorway.
Then, in unison, they ran to their doghouses near the heater, each crawling into their own, burying their heads under their paws as if they couldn't bear to look at their owners.
Their movements caught the attention of the two men. Li Chu picked up Ding Qiunan with a sudden effort and carried her into the bathroom. It was getting late, so they decided to wash up and go to bed.
...
The meeting continued the next day, and today is the last day of this five-day conference.
Li Chu and the other invited attendees were all seated in the front row today, so they couldn't slack off.
At the beginning of the meeting, everything seemed calm and peaceful. However, when the dean of a medical school spoke and suggested canceling the traditional Chinese medicine major, arguing that traditional Chinese medicine was unscientific and a waste of limited educational resources and funds, the atmosphere in the entire room suddenly became tense.
Li Chu sat there listening to yet another person cheering him on, inwardly rolling his eyes.
These people are really persistent. They keep saying it year after year. Don't they get tired of it? They may not say they're tired of it, but they're tired of hearing it.
After three or four people from the Western medicine field spoke in succession, several people from the traditional Chinese medicine field followed with a heated exchange.
In truth, Li Chu also felt that one couldn't learn much about traditional Chinese medicine in school. After a few years of study, besides memorizing a few prescriptions and mastering some theoretical knowledge, how many of them could actually treat patients?
Some people can't even distinguish between different pulse types, such as weak pulse, strong pulse, floating pulse, and deep pulse.
But he couldn't say these things; on the contrary, he should cheer them on. Only when education is developed can this industry flourish.
He originally planned not to speak at the meeting and just be a spectator, but the host of the conference, whether instructed by his superiors or not, insisted that the staff bring the microphone to him.
Li Chu was dumbfounded when he saw the microphone placed in front of him, and the people sitting behind him were even more confused.
This is such a discriminatory treatment! Everyone else has to raise their hand to speak, and then the host has to call on you before you can go up on stage to speak.
But this person? He just grabbed the microphone, sat down in his seat, and said, "What a big shot!"
"Hey, Dean Liu, who's that?"
"From the military, I didn't see anyone wearing a uniform."
"I know that, but aren't all the hospital directors sitting over there?"
The man gestured to the other side of the conference room, where a dozen or so people in military uniforms were sitting.
"That's hard to figure out, but they all know each other. I saw these soldiers eating together yesterday at noon. That one should be from Beijing. He was hiding in the last row during the meetings the past two days, but I don't know why he's in the first row today."
"The people in the first two rows all seem to be invited experts and scholars."
"Experts are all so young these days? Wow, truly, new talents emerge in every generation!"
The mockery was palpable even from two miles away.
At this moment, the person presiding over the meeting spoke.
"Next, please welcome Director Li Chu of the General Logistics Department Health Care Committee to speak."
Since they'd already named him directly, it would be awkward if he didn't say something. Li Chu could only clear his throat.
A moment of complete silence fell over both the stage and the audience.
Everyone wanted to hear what he had to say.
Especially those who had attended previous meetings, these people knew all too well who Li Chu was, and wanted to see if he would still start criticizing right away as before.
"Ahem... I just listened to the speeches of several experts. Everyone was talking about the same old things. The same questions are asked almost every year. Some people keep saying that traditional Chinese medicine is unscientific, and that we have entered a new era. We should discard the dross and develop Western medicine with all our might."
Ha! You call something unscientific just because you can't explain it? Is that excluding dissidents?
He came up with a big hat right away, making the faces of the people below change!
"Hehe, Lao Du, our Director Li hasn't changed a bit in the past two years!"
"No, people's personalities don't change that easily. Old Li has just been less visible these past two years."
"Hey, Lao Du, you two are in frequent contact, is Director Li's medical skill really that amazing?"
"Let me put it this way, you know Dean Liu from before, right?"
"I know, it wasn't in May that he was with his partner..."
"Yes, because Dean Liu still had some things to take care of at the time, and asked Lao Li to help extend his wife's life."
"What did you say?"
"You heard right. Dean Liu's wife was actually on her deathbed a long time ago. The monitoring equipment had indicated that she was gone several times, but Lao Li brought her back to life. He managed to keep her going for almost a month. Even so, at the very last moment, Lao Li managed to get his wife to speak again!"
"My goodness, is this even human?"
"Look, he's sitting over there speaking. Do you think he's a human being?"
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