I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 358 - 154: Can Lu Xuan Win This Year’s Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award? (Part 2)
"Huang Beishan, I see you’re not going to rest until you drink my wine."
After speaking, he turned to Lu Xuan: "I’ll need Dr. Lu to do me the favor then."
Lu Xuan turned his head to look at Huang Beishan.
Huang Beishan chuckled and said, "Go on, this guy owes you, and it’s just right for me and Old Zhang to go taste some good wine. Since I’ve spoken this much, if you don’t go, our Dean Zhang will probably feel uneasy. Besides, it’s just a casual meal, not like you’re repaying a favor. A dean’s position can’t be repaid with just one meal.
Of course, if Dean Zhang is okay with that, then I didn’t say anything."
"Huang Beishan, do you feel itchy when you don’t tease me a bit?" Zhang Jiwei said discontentedly.
"Just joking, just joking, no need to get angry."
Zhang Jiwei was too lazy to talk, and at that moment, a voice sounded at the door: "Dean, I’ve brought dinner. Are you and the other experts going to eat here, or find somewhere else?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Jiwei turned and asked Huang Beishan and others: "Old Huang, Old Zhang, Dr. Lu, what do you say?"
"Boxed meal?"
"Yes, yes, it’s a boxed meal."
Huang Beishan thought for a moment and said, "If it’s a boxed meal, then let’s eat here. Speaking of which, I haven’t had a boxed meal in years, didn’t expect to taste one here at City First Hospital."
"So, Comrade Old Huang is disdaining the boxed meal?"
"Not at all, the boxed meal tastes pretty good. Sometimes even better than your First Hospital cafeteria." Huang Beishan shrugged his shoulders.
Zhang Jiwei was too lazy to talk further. After someone brought the boxed meals in, the four of them sat around the medicine pot and started eating.
"Dean Zhang, this boxed meal tastes good. You, as a dean, know how to enjoy, even a boxed meal is better than what I eat." Huang Beishan said with enjoyment.
"Speaking of boxed meals, I am reminded of the school days, playing games in internet cafes. Every time, someone would bring boxed meals to sell there, less than ten bucks for green pepper shredded pork and green pepper scrambled egg. It was truly delicious. Nowadays, although there are more dishes, I can’t taste that flavor and feeling anymore." Zhang Jiwei recalled.
This remark immediately drew Huang Beishan and Zhang Jingcai into the nostalgic atmosphere.
Huang Beishan readily agreed: "Indeed, back then I loved the boxed meals in internet cafes, they were so good, even if most of it was chili, it was still tastier than now."
"The taste of childhood is always so unique." Zhang Jingcai said with a smile.
"It’s still Old Zhang who knows how to speak, so refined. I can’t speak like that, just a rough guy." Huang Beishan responded.
Turning his head to Lu Xuan again: "Lu, have you ever been to an internet cafe?"
"I have."
"Have you eaten boxed meals there?"
"Nowadays they are internet cafes, no longer the type that carried foam boxes shouting about. Even if there are, they don’t taste the same as before."
Lu Xuan thought for a while: "At least during high school and college, it wasn’t the same flavor anymore, couldn’t taste that feeling. After graduation, I’ve been graduated for less than a year, maybe I don’t have quite as deep a feeling as you all. But this boxed meal indeed tastes good, much better than Health Center’s cafeteria."
Lu Xuan spoke to himself, occasionally scooping a mouthful of the delicious rice and dishes, not noticing that the other three, who were originally very nostalgic due to the boxed meals, were now silently burying their heads in their meals.
Huang Beishan and Zhang Jingcai were better, but the most depressed was Zhang Jiwei.
Graduated less than a year, can the gap between people be so big?
What was he doing when he graduated from medical university?
Although it’s been decades, Zhang Jiwei remembered that time very clearly, can’t even use the term ’miserable’ to describe it. As an intern in the cardiology department, apart from following the director on rounds, most other times were even inferior to the nurses.
The nurses had their work fully scheduled every day, but their batch of interns had to fight for chances to follow the director on rounds. It took a long time to get noticed by a doctor willing to teach more, and then being scolded mercilessly was the norm.
When he finally had the capability to consult independently, that was after becoming an attending physician, at least four or five years post-graduation.
Even as an attending physician, not many would register to see him; at most, the conditions improved a bit, his status slightly elevated, but still at the beck and call of others.
In front of a chief physician, he still had to do what needed to be done.
How can he compare to Lu Xuan today.
Graduated less than half a year, Health Center aside, able to consult at United South Chinese Medicine Association, it’s like graduating directly as an expert chief physician, unimaginable.
Moreover, Huang Beishan mentioned that soon Lu Xuan would be a director of the Yong City Chinese Medical Association.
How long did it take him to become a director of the Yong City Medical Association?
The good thing he succeeded as a chief physician and gained fame in the cardiology department.
"Monster!"
Thinking of himself, looking at Lu Xuan’s current achievements, Zhang Jiwei’s mind was left with just one word.
While Zhang Jiwei was very depressed, Huang Beishan swallowed a few mouthfuls of somewhat not-so-delicious food, then turned and asked: "Lu, how’s your application material going, anything you need help with?"
