Lu Cheng said, "The parking fees here in Long County aren’t high. Round trip costs are cheaper than taking a taxi, and it’s mainly about convenience."

"Here, they don’t use the meter for round trips, it’s twenty bucks per person or thirty per car."

"Do the math, sixty bucks, parking for a day is just ten bucks, even if you don’t park for a week, you won’t lose out."

"Want to grab a bite?" Lu Cheng replied, asking.

Mu Nanshu chuckled calmly, "No need, you’ve got ’anxiety’ written all over your face. Take me back to the neighborhood first, then you should head to the hospital."

"You’re on night shift today, you’re losing time."

"I’ll take the bus to En City tomorrow morning. I still need to go back to Han City."

"Yeah, no matter what, Xie Yuan’an still needs help if he needs it."

Mu Nanshu didn’t mention her contact with Professor Zhong Junyun; mainly because Mu Nanshu hadn’t made a decision, just communicated some details with Professor Zhong.

It was still up to Lu Cheng to decide.

"Why don’t you visit my place and take some local specialties over? Fermented bean curd, water fermented black beans, these could show your intentions." Lu Cheng suggested.

"If it weren’t for Teacher Xie’s ’gossiping,’ I might not have had so many opportunities now."

"Alright." Mu Nanshu agreed without hesitation.

Lu Cheng directly took Mu Nanshu back to his place in Gaojia Slope District, then let Mu Nanshu go upstairs by herself while he rode his electric scooter to the hospital.

At 9:40 PM, Lu Cheng finally arrived at the emergency surgery doctor’s office.

"Brother Zhang, sorry for the trouble. I could’ve made it back before my night shift, but I got delayed by some things." Lu Cheng immediately apologized.

"Before I came to cover the shift, I ordered some BBQ, it should be arriving soon. If you’re not in a hurry, want to eat together before you go back?"

Zhang Tiesheng was playing on his phone, and after listening, put it away, "Xiao Lu, aren’t you being too polite?"

"Come, come, sit down first."

Lu Cheng quickly changed into his work clothes and asked, "Brother Zhang, how many patients came in these past few days?"

Lu Cheng had gone to Sha City on Friday afternoon, so he had just been away for two days.

"We’re not admitting many patients, most of them were referred elsewhere. We just did an appendectomy and a gallbladder removal, and they’re both recovering well."

Zhang Tiesheng replied casually, looked around, and lowered his voice, "There’s been another big event at our hospital."

"Another one?" Lu Cheng paused while adjusting his collar.

Zhang Tiesheng nodded slowly, "E Province Feng County, a new hospital was built, you know that, right?"

"Heard about it, didn’t pay much attention to it, since it’s in the neighboring province."

"At least three of our hospital’s directors submitted their resignations at the beginning of this month, and they’ll be leaving by the end of this month. Sixty thousand is directly given to each of them."

Lu Cheng: "???"

"Which ones?"

After being shocked for a moment, Lu Cheng eased up, "Feng County in E Province has a better economic level than our Long County, it’s understandable that their pay is higher."

Personnel changes are a normal thing. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Feng County isn’t far from Long County, and the Integrity Square District where Mu Nanshu lives is adjacent to E Province.

Some people in the emergency department have even bought houses in neighboring Feng County and work in Long County.

And there are Long County patients going to Feng County People’s Hospital for treatment.

"General Surgery’s Du Qiang, Neurosurgery’s Zhou Bin, Respiratory Medicine’s Chen Guangming," Zhang Tiesheng counted three fingers.

"Director Du Qiang resigned?" Lu Cheng felt a chill inside.

"This happened at the beginning of the month?"

Oh, boy, this Du Qiang is really something. He’s leaving and still gives favors with full pragmatism; truly a clever person.

You’d say he used his position for convenience, but he gave favors by almost cursing Lu Cheng, almost like cursing his mother.

It can even be understood as his way of venting frustration before leaving.

"Exactly!~"

"So now, many in the department are saying, Director Du’s unreasonable scolding of you was well-planned."

"Anyway, he doesn’t plan to stay in our county, our province, so he figured he might as well scold you."

"But perhaps he didn’t expect that scolding you didn’t affect you much," Zhang Tiesheng consoled.

The conversations between Lu Cheng and Du Qiang didn’t reach the "six ears" level.

Zhang Tiesheng didn’t know what Du Qiang had said to Lu Cheng in private, but from Zhang Tiesheng’s perspective, there was animosity because Lu Cheng didn’t follow Du Qiang’s orders.

"This time, our hospital is going through a hard time, if directors leave in batches, they might not bring in new people..."

"Otherwise, some surgeries we used to do will be interrupted again," Zhang Tiesheng sighed.

County Renmin Hospital is like this, there’s an interruption in technology, fundamentally lacking risk resilience.

When a certain director leaves, certain surgeries can’t be performed anymore.

This is different from municipal hospitals, in municipal hospitals, cutting a general person won’t affect the variety of surgeries much.

Unless it’s some specific surgeries only one or two people can perform, then their departure would be a major issue.

As Zhang Tiesheng and Lu Cheng were gossiping, the delivery arrived.

Lu Cheng, being on night duty in the ward, didn’t have to stay in the office for his shift. He went to get the delivery and shared some with Tian Zhuang, who was on night duty in the emergency clinic.

Then he returned to the doctors’ lounge.

As he opened the door, Lu Cheng saw Zhang Tiesheng’s panicked expression, "Director Bao, you can’t talk recklessly. This isn’t good news."