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Machinery Factory Workers’ Hospital.
"I knew you would leave sooner or later, but I didn't expect that day would come so early!"
Song Lan went to the department director and hospital leaders to complete all the formalities. Now she was packing the things she wanted to take away from the clinic.
Suddenly she heard Wang Ping's voice and looked towards the door of the clinic. She saw Wang Ping looking at her with reluctance.
"No matter where I am, you are my friend and that will never change."
Song Lan responded with a smile.
"But I can't bear to leave you!"
Wang Ping walked into the clinic: "It will be hard for me to find someone to speak my mind to in the future."
"We can exchange letters."
Song Lan said: "You can also come to Beijing to see me during the holidays. After all, I'm not in outer space."
"You are so humorous!"
Glancing at Song Lan, Wang Ping said, "Do you need my help to clean up?"
"Need not."
Song Lan shook her head and said, "There's nothing to pack. Look, I've already packed it."
She didn't keep many personal belongings in her office.
"Will your spouse come to pick you up, or will you go back alone?"
Wang Ping asked.
"He's coming to pick me up."
Song Lan responded with a smile.
"I just asked a nonsense question."
Wang Ping smiled uncomfortably: "Everyone in our hospital knows how good your wife is to you."
Song Lan smiled but didn't respond.
Wang Ping added: "When you were pregnant with your first and second child, your wife drove you back and forth. Now that you are pregnant with your second child,
Your wife is still the same as always, worried that something bad might happen to you on your way to and from get off work, which makes the female comrades in our hospital very envious!"
"Look at what you said. Don't people envy you? I remember when you were pregnant with your first and second child, you two not only picked you up and dropped you off at get off work, but also took great care of you!"
Wang Ping gave birth to two children in succession, and the two children were less than one year apart in age.
Now, I have both a son and a daughter.
"My husband can't compare to your husband."
Although Wang Ping said this, her heart was as sweet as honey.
"is it?"
Song Lan looked teasing.
"Okay, okay, if you keep talking, I'm going to blush!"
Covering her face, Wang Ping stamped her feet lightly, acting like a little girl.
Seeing this, Song Lan couldn't help laughing: "Your marriage life is very happy!"
It is because she has been spoiled by her significant other that she has been able to maintain her girlish appearance even after marriage.
It can be seen that her friend's married life is indeed very good.
As a friend, Song Lan secretly wished the other party: a happy and worry-free life!
"That's it!"
Wang Ping looked a little embarrassed.
Song Lan laughed again: "Are you being modest?"
"Your marriage life is also very happy. Every time I see your lover coming to pick you up, from the look in his eyes, I know how much he cares about you!"
Hearing Wang Ping say this, Song Lan was startled at first, then her eyes were filled with tenderness: "He treats me very well!"
"Yes, yes, your husband treats you very well!"
Wang Ping's tone was full of joking: "Holding her in the palm of your hand is afraid of dropping her, and holding her in your mouth is afraid of melting. I have never seen anyone who cares about his wife more than your husband!"
"You don't mean your husband, do you?"
There was a smile in Song Lan's beautiful eyes, and her pretty eyebrows were slightly raised.
"No way! I was obviously talking about your husband!"
Wang Ping flatly denied it.
"I won't tease you anymore. I'll be back in Beijing tomorrow. If you need any help from me in the future, just call my house."
With a smile on her face, Song Lan quickly wrote down the landline number and handed it to Wang Ping.
"That's what you said. If I need your help with something, I will definitely trouble you!"
Wang Ping folded the paper Song Lan stuffed into her pocket, then grabbed Song Lan's hand and said, "Take care of yourself!"
"You too."
Song Lan nodded slightly.
"Yes, let's take care of each other, so that we have a chance to reunite!"
Wang Ping's eyes were a little wet.
"All good things must come to an end. Beijing is not far from here. It only takes six or seven hours by train. Don't cry in front of me. This will damage your perfect image in my heart."
Being teased by Song Lan, Wang Ping's sadness caused by separation instantly disappeared. She rolled her eyes at Song Lan and snorted:
"I know what I am like. What about the perfect image? The word 'perfect' is more suitable for you!"
Song Lan didn't say anything, she just looked at the other person with a smile.
"You just know how to make fun of me, you bad guy!"
Wang Ping pretended to be shy and glared at Song Lan.
"Heaven, earth, sun and moon can bear witness to this. I am telling the truth!"
Song Lan had a smile on her lips, and her eyes were also filled with smiles when she looked at Wang Ping.
"Lanlan~"
Qin Yanzheng's voice sounded outside the clinic door.
"I'm getting goosebumps!"
Wang Ping leaned over to Song Lan's ear and whispered, "You two wouldn't talk in such a cheesy way at home, would you?"
"Sounds pretty normal to me."
Song Lan really didn't think the way Qin Yanzheng called her was corny.
"Your lover dragged out the last word!"
Wang Ping distanced herself from Song Lan and turned to look at the door of the clinic. "Hello, Comrade Qin. Are you here to pick up Doctor Song?"
Qin Yanzheng nodded.
"Doctor Song has packed everything. Let's go. I'll take you there!"
Wang Ping took Song Lan's arm and said, "Comrade Qin, I'll leave the box on the examination table to you now!"
Without waiting for Qin Yanzheng to respond, Wang Ping walked out of the clinic with Song Lan.
"Your lover's eyes were almost thread-like when he looked at you just now."
"You are exaggerating!"
"not at all!"
"It's obviously a normal look, but you said it was like that. It makes my comrade Qin look so dishonest. You are simply wrongly accusing a good person!"
"I didn't say your comrade Qin was not serious. I said that the way he looked at you was full of tenderness and affection."
Wang Ping and Song Lan were whispering as they walked.
"When did you become so talkative?"
Song Lan asked with a smile.
"I've always been like this!"
Wang Ping looked innocent.
"That's because you didn't say enough good things to me before. To punish you, you have to praise me ten times in one breath without repeating yourself. Can you do it?"
Song Lan teased Wang Ping with a smile on her face.
"Don't even mention ten sentences, even a hundred sentences are nothing to me."
Wang Ping cleared her throat and continued: "Listen carefully..."
Without pausing, she praised Song Lan from head to toe, inside and out.
"That's enough, that's enough. I surrender to you, and you can even praise my hair into a flower. If you continue to praise me like this, I think even one day and one night will not be enough."
Song Lan smiled and shook his head, his expression showing helplessness.
"How can one day and one night be enough? Ten days or eight days is just the minimum."
Wang Ping said: "Like the interpersonal relationship and medical skills..."
"Stop!"
To prevent Wang Ping from praising her again, Song Lan called a halt, and then she said, "I am just an ordinary person like you. Please don't praise me like that anymore, otherwise I will have to hide in the ground in the future."
"I'm not exaggerating. You don't need to hide in the ground."
Wang Ping smiled and said, "In my eyes, our Doctor Song is so perfect!"
Qin Yanzheng put the cardboard box in his hand into the car. After Song Lan and Wang Ping said goodbye and got in the car, he nodded to them and then sat in the driver's seat.
"goodbye!"
Song Lan waved to Wang Ping through the open car window.
"goodbye!"
Wang Ping also waved and watched the car go away.
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Beijing Military Region General Hospital.
Canteen.
"Have you heard about it?"
Qiu Mingxuan prepared the food and casually glanced around, locking onto the table where his friend was sitting. Without hesitation, he walked straight over with the plate in hand and spoke as soon as he sat down.
"..."
Mu Ting glanced at him, puzzled: "What did you hear?"
I have to mention here that since Mu Ting always had a blank expression on his face wherever he went and rarely took the initiative to talk to others, even when eating in the staff cafeteria, few people dared to sit at the same table with him.
One was that he was afraid of being frozen by the cold air emanating from Mu Ting.
Another thing I’m afraid of is indigestion.
In short, when Mu Ting went to the staff cafeteria to eat, the table he sat at was occasionally shared by the hospital leaders, Qiu Mingxuan and a few others, and other people would subconsciously avoid it when they saw him.
"Doctor Song has been transferred to our hospital. She will be able to report here in two days at most."
Qiu Mingxuan lowered his voice and Mu Ting didn't show any special expression when he heard it: "I heard the dean mention it more than half a month ago, but I didn't expect that Doctor Song would come now..."
"You should know why Dr. Song agreed to transfer here, right?"
Qiu Mingxuan asked tentatively.
Mu Ting didn't say anything.
"It is said that Dr. Song agreed to work in our hospital because her husband was transferred to another job."
Brother, forget about hopeless relationships!
Otherwise, you will get stuck and unable to get out, and live your whole life in vain?
Mu Ting could hear the hidden meaning of his friend's words. He looked complicated and asked, "Are you thinking too much?"
"Brother, I'm doing this for your own good."
Qiu Mingxuan curled the corner of his mouth and did not deny that Mu Ting was hinting at something.
"You think I'm stubborn?"
Mu Ting asked.
Qiu Mingxuan: “…”
He didn't say anything, but the meaning in his eyes was very clear - aren't you?
Mu Ting's mouth twitched: "I have a sense of right and wrong, and I know that there are things that can be done and things that cannot be done. You should focus on your business and don't have to worry about me."
"Okay, I'm overthinking it, but during this year's Chinese New Year, didn't your family push you to get married?"
Qiu Mingxuan stuffed a mouthful of white rice into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, then frowned and said, "My family, from the old to the young, will always be jealous when they see me.
There is no one who is not urging me, but I really don’t understand, whether to get married or not is obviously my own business, why are they so anxious? ! "
"Like you, I say there's no rush."
Mu Ting replied.
"Dr. Yao didn't go to your house during the Spring Festival, did he?"
The Doctor Yao that Qiu Mingxuan mentioned was Yao Qingwan.
"She and her elders came to my house to pay New Year's greetings."
Mu Ting knew what Qiu Mingxuan wanted to know, so he simply said, "I'll be frank in front of the elders. I don't have anyone I like yet."
"I guess it's useless."
Qiu Mingxuan said: "Unless you get married, it will be possible to dispel Dr. Yao's thoughts about you."
"That's her own business, it has nothing to do with me!"
Mu Ting said impatiently.
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Song Lan and his group returned to Beijing and settled down. The next day, after breakfast, Qin Yanzheng took Song Lan to the hospital to report.
"I want to buy a yard near the hospital, what do you think?"
Considering the nature of Qin Yanzheng's work, Song Lan felt that it would be difficult for him to continue to pick her up and drop her off at get off work, and she was pregnant.
It is really not convenient to take the bus from the Military Region General Hospital back to the steel plant's villa area. It would be better to buy a courtyard house near the hospital and live there. This would undoubtedly make commuting to get off work much more convenient.
Besides, she originally wanted to buy more properties in Beijing. After all, she had the memories of the original owner. If she bought a house, it would be best to buy a courtyard house, as there would be great potential for appreciation in value in the future.
As for money, Song Lan has no shortage of it.
"I'll ask my friends to keep an eye out for me."
Qin Yanzheng had no objection at all. Hearing this, Song Lan raised an eyebrow and said, "Why don't you ask me what I bought it for?"
"I'm worried that after I report back to work, I won't be able to pick you up and drop you off at get off work like I do now."
Qin Yanzheng used a declarative tone. Seeing Song Lan's stunned expression, he held her hand tightly and said:
"To be honest, once I report to work, it's difficult for me to leave on time.
Sometimes I can’t even go home for a long time…”
Seeing the guilt in the man's eyes, Song Lan smiled and interrupted him: "You don't have to say more, I know all this."
She played with the man's slender jade-like fingers and said, "I will take good care of myself and the family, you just work with peace of mind."
"How can I rest assured that you are pregnant? How about this, let's ask someone we know to look after the house first.
After I report to work, I will explain my family situation to my supervisor and try to get off work on time every day before you give birth so that I can pick you up."
There are four children in the family and his wife is pregnant. It is a bit unrealistic to ask him to ignore everything and focus on his work.
Because he is a man, it is impossible for him to let his wife bear everything.
Even if she was willing, he felt distressed and didn't want her to suffer too much.
"Then look at a few more. No matter if it's a courtyard house with one entrance, two entrances, or three entrances, as long as the price is right, we'll buy them all when we can."
Song Lan said softly: "I dug up several wild ginsengs in the mountains before, they are all quite old, in addition to the ones we kept for our own use,
I sold all the others and thought that if I had the chance, I would buy a few more properties in Beijing.
By the way, I want to buy a courtyard for my parents in Beijing, so that when my eldest brother and his family are admitted to college in Beijing, they will have a place to stay. Do you have any objection?"
"No."
Qin Yanzheng answered very straightforwardly, and then he said, "Didn't the hospital tell you that they would allocate housing for you?"
"Dean Su said he would give me a two-bedroom apartment."
Song Lan said softly, "Not counting the two babies in my belly, there's only Dabao, Erbao, Mom, and Aunt Liu. The two-bedroom apartment is not big enough."
"It's really not enough."
Qin Yanzheng nodded in agreement, and then he said, "Then let's buy a bigger courtyard house near the hospital."
"I think so too."
Song Lan said with a smile: "We need more houses, so that we don't have to worry about not having enough rooms for so many people."
After a pause, Song Lan continued, "We have to find a school for the fifth and sixth graders before school starts on September 1st."
"Ah."
Qin Yanzheng nodded.
"Just look for it near the hospital!"
Song Lan suggested.
"They are grown up now. Even if they live with their dad in the villa area, it shouldn't be a problem for them to go to and from school."
Qin Yanzheng wanted to reduce the burden on Song Lan.
Song Lan pretended to be unhappy: "How old can elementary school students be? I am their eldest sister-in-law, so I have to take care of them more. If you have any opinions, just keep them to yourself and listen to me."