Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1838: Listening to Stories
Aunt Min expressed her belief in what was said: "I know Sun Rongfang, she was an active worker who was once praised by her unit, spending all her spare time studying. I first met her at the health clinic. Just like you said, she couldn’t tell that I was a singer and an actress at all. At that time, I was performing arts in the countryside and accidentally fell, injuring my knee with a deep wound that bled a lot. The others in the art troupe hurriedly sent me to the clinic. The other doctors were not around, and your mother carefully treated my wound first."
These meticulous recollections of her mother’s rural experience were things Xie Wanying hardly heard from her mom at home.
Sun Rongfang didn’t like bringing up these past events because they’re a major scar in her life, rather than a pleasant memory. Every time she remembered them, it probably brought only tears of sadness.
She loved medicine so much and wanted to be a doctor, but in the end, her dream shattered completely.
Aunt Min, knowing her mother’s past ambition to be a doctor, asked Xie Wanying if her mother’s dream came true: "Your mother later went back to the city to become a doctor, right? I said she would definitely become a doctor one day, and look, now you as her daughter are studying to become a doctor like her."
It was deeply regrettable that her mother didn’t become a doctor, instead, she got married and had children.
"No?" Aunt Min seemed somewhat surprised by this result, falling into a thoughtful silence about an old memory, saying, "When she left at that time, she mentioned to me that not passing the exams and not getting recommended didn’t matter, she would go back to the city and continue to strive for a spot to study. I firmly believed her words because when she was assigned to help at the clinic, all the patients coming to the clinic, including me, had a very good impression of her. Everyone thought she would make a good doctor. The person who recommended her for the preliminary written test was the clinic director, which shows that the unit leaders also had a very good impression of her."
"Written test?" This was something Xie Wanying never heard her mother mention. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
Back then, getting an education was extremely difficult. The national unified college entrance examination was suspended for a while, and studying relied on the so-called recommendation system. How the recommendation system selected talent depended on the allocation of spots, and given there could be many candidates recommended, making the competition fierce, in the name of fairness, some grassroots units would organize their own exams for selection.
"Your mother was a very hardworking person, reading late into the night under the lamp, when there was no lamp, she’d use a candle, burying her head in books until one or two o’clock. Because she had to work during the day, leaving no time for study. I worried her eyes might go bad from all the reading. Since we were quite close at that time in the countryside, whenever I went back to see her, I always brought her some review materials. Your mother was a good person, many people brought her books to encourage her to definitely pass."
Her mother was like her childhood friends, very sociable, helpful, and had a wide circle of friends, unlike her daughter who was a bit of a loner.
Aunt Min looked at her face and saw this, smiling as she said, "I wasn’t sure initially because of this reason. Your personality is very unlike your mother’s, the only similarity may be the charm in your eyes when you smile, which is exactly the same as when your mother was young."
"Auntie, what happened with the written test later—" Xie Wanying continued to ask about her mother’s situation with the exam.
