Chapter 196 Ambition
In the hospital room, Yang Lizhen lay by the bedside crying.
Chen Weiliang, who had been awake for some time, glanced at her silently before closing his eyes.
Yang Lizhen cried for so long that she attracted the attention of the nurses.
The nurse asked, "Who are you to him? There are other patients in the ward. You keep crying, and the patients can't rest in peace. Can you please be more mindful of your behavior?"
Lost in her sobs, Yang Lizhen asked in a thick, nasal voice, "When will he wake up? Has he woken up yet?"
The nurse said, "He has woken up, but he is very weak now and only stays awake for a short time each day. Please don't cry here; it's disturbing the patient."
Yang Lizhen sobbed as she got up and ran wildly after leaving the hospital.
She ran home, her heart brimming with anger.
She knew in her heart that she was the one who had ruined Chen Weiliang.
If she hadn't been afraid to defy her mother, she wouldn't have married Wang Yang.
She regretted marrying Wang Yang every single day.
She wanted a divorce, but both Wang Yang's parents and her own parents disagreed.
After a few days of commotion, Chen Weiliang was discharged from the military.
She clearly remembered Chen Weiliang saying before that he had no intention of changing careers...
She dared not make any further moves.
It's Wang Yang, it must be him!
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Yang Lizhen ran off like the wind, knocking Song Lubai and Wei Yang aside in the corridor.
With some time remaining, Yang Lizhen left, and the two returned to the ward to visit Chen Weiliang.
When the two entered the ward, Chen Weiliang's eyes were open.
Chen Weiliang's head was temporarily immobile, but his eyes remained fixed on the two men.
"Comrade Chen, are you feeling better? Can you speak?"
Chen Weiliang's voice was hoarse: "Why are you here?"
Song Lubai crouched down close to him and whispered, "I've already written to your family. They might come in a few days."
"Comrade Chen, do you need to report this to the police? That morning when I walked to the grain bureau area, I saw you collapsed in the alley. Among the people who fled, it seemed that Yang Lizhen's husband, Wang Yang, was one of them. There were four people in total. I haven't seen the other three."
She practically whispered these words in his ear.
Wang Yang's identity is not simple. Song Lubai doesn't know if reporting it to the police will be useful, and she is also afraid of getting herself into trouble.
Yang Lizhen's parents are not ordinary people, and her husband Wang Yang's family must be well-off as well.
The way Wang Yang went about getting Chen Weiliang beaten up without holding back shows how ruthless he is.
After a long pause, Chen Weiliang shook his head.
"If my family comes, I will have difficulty moving around, and I will need your help to look after them."
Song Lubai nodded, "Okay, take good care of yourself in the hospital, I'll come see you again in a few days."
Seeing that Song Lubai had finished saying what she needed to say, Wei Yang went to the bedside and said, "Comrade Chen, take good care of yourself. We'll have a meal and tea together when you recover."
Chen Weiliang nodded and watched the two leave the ward.
My whole body aches, and one area is constantly numb.
Under the covers, he clenched his fists tightly.
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Although Song Lubai and Wei Yang hadn't seen each other for a long time, they were both busy with work and didn't have much time to talk, so they parted ways halfway through their journey.
Song Lubai rushed to the supply department, while Wei Yang went to deal with the migrant workers.
When I returned to the ministry compound in the afternoon, Wei Yang had already left.
After lunch, the building manager informed us to come back at noon tomorrow to move our things, as the building needs to be vacated.
The new accommodation is a row of brick houses, each less than ten square meters. Two people live in each dormitory. It is located on the street behind the supply and marketing department, only a ten-minute walk from the department.
The house wasn't new; old newspapers were still pasted on the walls and on the windows. The room contained only two small beds, and the space was very cramped.
Song Lubai and Sun Hong moved into the same dormitory.
After lunch, they started moving things. After moving all the odds and ends, they didn't have time to tidy up properly before locking the door and going to work.
After the small second floor was vacated, the people in the original supply department office also began moving their things to headquarters.
The original supply department only left the storage and transportation department, which couldn't be moved with it, still there.
Once settled, Song Lubai began working on her next plan.
Being ordered around to run errands won't do. If she stays in this kind of work situation, she won't learn anything, and she won't be able to establish herself in the supply and marketing department.
Before leaving get off work today, Song Lubai took the documents in her hand to the Statistics Department.
The people in the Statistics Department are very busy at the end of each month. While other less busy departments are already preparing to leave work, there is still no movement in the Statistics Department office.
Song Lubai walked straight to the desk of Gao Liang, the head of the statistics department.
Gao Liang looked up and saw it was her. He rubbed his temples and asked, "What is it, Secretary Song?"
After starting work, Song Lubai got to know all the leaders in the department.
Song Lubai placed the completed report in front of him. "Gao Chu, I organized the data in the secretary's office before and found that those piles of receipts could be summarized into a single table, which would greatly improve the efficiency of the secretary's office. Could you take a look at the data I compiled for the department store and see if it's correct and useful?"
Gao Liang looked at the tables and asked a pointless question: "Where did you get this data from?"
Song Lubai said, "I saw this in the secretary's office when I was organizing documents before I was assigned to work under Vice Minister Lou. I wonder if you think it's useful?"
Gao Liang looked at it carefully, his eyes growing brighter and brighter. He nodded and said, "It's useful. How could it not be useful? If we do this kind of statistics every week, we won't be so busy at the end of the month."
Such reports look concise and clear, and they are easy for leaders to understand after being submitted.
Their statistics department also does statistics, but they just don't do it as well as this table.
Secretary Song had done a good job of categorizing everything, with almost nothing missing.
Song Lubai smiled and said, "It's good that it's useful."
Gao Liang glanced at his watch and asked, "You must have spent a lot of time on this, right?"
Song Lubai nodded. "There are too many receipts and they are too trivial. I looked at a bunch of receipts and records from the department store, and my eyes were getting tired. I don't know how the comrades in the statistics department manage to keep going every day while dealing with all this."
This statement resonated strongly with the clerks in the office.
Seeing Huo Jie, who was heavily pregnant, yawning and stretching, Song Lubai took the opportunity to ask, "Comrade Huo, you're still sticking to your post even with such a big belly. That's really remarkable."
"Director Gao, I think your office is the busiest in the department. The people under you are all very capable."
Huo Jie was so embarrassed by the praise that she felt embarrassed.
She has to stay until she gives birth before she can take a month of maternity leave; it's not easy to get leave in their office.
Gao Liang also chimed in, "Huo Jie is really great. She didn't complain or take much leave during her pregnancy. After you give birth, I'll try to get you some milk powder vouchers."
Overjoyed by the surprise of receiving the milk powder voucher, Huo Jie glanced gratefully at Song Lubai.
Song Lubai smiled and continued to say to Director Gao, "If you need me to organize any materials, just call me. I can learn something while I'm at it. I'll be going now if there's nothing else."
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