Fan Qi saw Chen Zhiqian's car coming in: "Ah Qian is back, let's eat."
Chen Zhiqian came in and nodded to Xu Miaoer: "Miaoer, hello!"
"Hello!"
Fan Qi called out, "Miao'er, come and sit down."
Xu Miaoer sat down, and Fan Qi said, "My aunt is at home these days, and the food is basically from our countryside. You can try it."
After inviting Miao Er to eat, Fan Qi said as they ate: "When I passed by Wyndham Street today, I saw a building that seemed to have collapsed, and there were a lot of people gathered around it."
"I saw it, too. The 1960s Xianshui Building did collapse," Chen Zhiqian said. "On my way back, the news had already come out, saying that most of the residents in the building ran out before the collapse. It's estimated that five or six people were buried inside."
"Ah?" Fan Qi exclaimed in surprise, and his uncle and aunt looked at them.
Xu Miaoer asked: "Hasn't the Saltwater Building been discovered many years ago and has it been checked and cleaned up? How come it's still there?"
"That was a public housing project built by the government. At that time, they encountered many obstacles and only found 26 extremely serious saltwater buildings. This building was a tenement building built in the 1960s and was a private house." Chen Zhiqian said, "There are quite a lot of these houses."
Fan Qi didn't understand what they were saying, so Chen Zhiqian explained, "Hong Kong City has always lacked fresh water, even for domestic use, let alone water for building. It wasn't until the water from the Dongjiang River came that the water shortage was completely solved. Especially in the 1960s, when the water shortage was the greatest, the tap water would stop for three or four days. If a construction site wanted to build a building, it had to dig a well, but digging a well was expensive, so some real estate developers had a crooked idea and used seawater to mix concrete. The chloride ions in the seawater corroded the steel bars inside. After more than a decade, the steel bars became as brittle as bamboo, the walls were mottled, and the buildings became dangerous."
Fan Qi had a question: "Is there no quality supervision? No acceptance?"
"Back then? Bribing building inspectors was commonplace. Even when this matter was re-investigated a few years ago, because of the interests involved, even though it was a big news at the time and involved 70,000 people renting public housing, in the end the government just demolished and rebuilt and reinforced it." Xu Miaoer asked, "Will this matter be brought up again this time?"
Chen Zhiqian nodded: "It's possible, but these things happened over a long period of time, so it's not easy to investigate."
Fan Qi sighed. How could he explain this kind of thing?
Chapter 113
◎I am lucky to have it◎
After dinner, Fan Qi saw that it was already half past six and asked Chen Zhiqian: "Ah Qian, Mom should be home from get off work, right?"
"You can call her. Sometimes she doesn't come home until 7 or 8 at night. You can't be sure."
Experts are scarce in this era. As a gynecologist, Xue Xiaojing not only has to see patients and perform surgeries in the hospital, but also has to supervise graduate students and even go to school every week to teach undergraduate students. Her workload is very heavy.
Fan Qi dialed the number, and the voice on the other side happened to be Xue Xiaojing's: "Mom, you came home early today? I have a friend who also has dysmenorrhea. I told her that I took the pigeon soup you prescribed, and the pain was basically gone in the third month, so I asked her to ask you."
Xue Xiaojing listened to Fan Qi acting as an interpreter. She couldn't see the patient face to face, so she could only listen to the general idea: "Nannan, since I didn't see her face to face, the prescription I wrote may not be completely accurate. So the prescription is relatively mild. Let her take it first. What if it doesn't work? It would be best if she came to see me, or we can see her face to face." ▲This work is provided by ▲SiTu.com▲Online reading▲
Fan Qi wrote down the prescription: "My mother-in-law said that from her second-hand description, you have liver depression and qi stagnation, and you get angry easily. So you need to soothe the liver and strengthen the spleen..."
Xu Miaoer didn't expect that when she went to see a doctor, Fan Qi's mother-in-law would know that she was easily angered? She picked up the dietary prescription and put it away carefully.
Xue Xiaojing agreed with the recipe and asked, "Nannan, why did you ask your mother to bring money back for us?"
Fan Qi was stunned for a moment, then realized that she was stupid. She didn't expect that her parents' family and her husband's family were balanced. She just thought that her parents-in-law were highly educated with high salaries and were not short of money. Besides, the last time her parents-in-law came, she didn't have much money, so she didn't give them any. Her mother felt embarrassed to take so much money from her own family, so she also gave money to her parents-in-law?
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