If he hadn't known Su Mei for many years, Huo Jianguo would have suspected that the person in front of him was not Su Mei at all.
Huo Jianguo placed a stack of meal tickets in front of Su Mei and said:
"This is given by Chief Chen. There are 60 meal tickets in total. One ticket is used for one meal. We eat at home in the morning and use two tickets a day. Sixty tickets are just enough for a month.
In a month's time, Doctor Qin will probably be back. I'll take you to the cafeteria today to get familiar with it. Then you can eat by yourself when it's time for dinner. "
"Oh!" Su Mei put down the pen in her hand, flexed her body, and then picked up the meal ticket and looked at it.
The meal ticket is made of yellow paper, with the words "Meal Ticket for the Fourth Frontier Corps" written on it, and a large red seal stamped at the bottom.
After taking out one ticket, Su Mei stuffed the remaining tickets into the desk drawer, then stood up and asked:
"Is there no one outside who wants to see a doctor?"
"It's not that there aren't any, it's that the soldiers also know that it's meal time, so there will automatically be no one at this time. It's your first day at work, so you'll be a little busier.
There is a two-hour break at noon. After dinner, you can go and lie down on the sofa in the rest room. Come with me to eat first! "As he spoke, Huo Jianguo turned around and walked outside.
Seeing this, Su Mei hurriedly followed.
The cafeteria is adjacent to the clinic, and you can walk to the entrance of the cafeteria in two minutes.
Judging from the appearance of the building, the canteen does not look big. Su Mei couldn't help but ask: "I heard from the soldiers that there are 50,000 people in the military region. How can it accommodate so many people to eat?"
"This is a regiment's canteen. There are only more than 5,000 soldiers eating here." Huo Jianguo answered Su Mei's question while taking her to queue.
So that was it. Su Mei glanced at the meal ticket in her hand and thought that the only people eating here were the soldiers of the Fourth Army. "The cafeteria is divided into many, why is there only one clinic?"
"Because there are not so many doctors." Huo Jianguo said and took a deep look at Su Mei. She seemed to have no idea how scarce a rare resource doctors were.
Not to mention the frontier areas with difficult conditions, even in some plain areas with superior conditions, doctors are very rare.
In rural areas, those responsible for treating farmers are barefoot doctors.
Barefoot doctors are educated young people recommended by the brigade. They go to training institutions for training, or go to county hospitals to learn some simple techniques such as injections, acupuncture, and medication. Then they can go to the fields with medicine boxes on their backs and travel from village to house to treat patients. People see a doctor.
No certificate is required to be a barefoot doctor, but even a barefoot doctor is a respected figure in the village.
Huo Jianguo saw that Su Mei didn't know anything about the doctor's profession, so he kindly gave her a little reminder:
"You have such a skill, you don't have to worry about life anywhere, even if you go back to the countryside and become a barefoot doctor, you can live a good life.
Didn't Grandpa Su tell you this? "
"No." Su Mei recalled the original owner's grandfather and came to the conclusion:
"Grandpa has never asked me to worry about life. Before marrying you, I lived a life where I could only open my mouth when I had food to eat."
"Then you can work hard and try on your own." Huo Jianguo has no background and no money. His status today is achieved by his own flesh and blood. He couldn't help but tell Su Mei:
"If you try hard, you will know that hard work is an addictive thing, especially when you taste the sweetness of hard work."
"I'm trying my best, aren't I?" Su Mei nodded, fully agreeing with Huo Jianguo's words.
She grew up in an orphanage and became a key surgeon in the Department of Surgery in her early thirties. How could she not know the charm of hard work?
The two of them lined up and chatted all the way, and before they knew it, they had reached the canteen window.
The rice bowls were provided by the canteen. When they arrived at the window, Huo Jianguo took the tickets from Su Mei's hand and asked the cook for food for two people.
Soon, the cook handed the dinner plate out of the window.
A square piece of rice, two vegetarian dishes, and one meat dish. The soup is free. If you want to drink soup, you can bring your own bowl.
After preparing the meal, Huo Jianguo took Su Mei and sat in the corner.
Su Mei glanced at the rice on the plate, split the rice ball into two parts with chopsticks, put one piece on Huo Jianguo's plate.
Seeing the sudden extra rice on the plate, Huo Jianguo raised his head and glanced at Su Mei, then lowered his head and ate silently.
He looked calm, but inside he was in shock.
Because he didn't expect that one day he would talk to Su Mei so calmly and sit face to face with her in the cafeteria to eat. This was something he never dared to imagine before.
The two of them lowered their heads and ate the rice in their bowls. People passing by looked at the two of them with curious eyes.
People who knew Su Mei were full of curiosity. They didn't understand why Su Mei went to the canteen of the military area to eat. Maybe she made a mistake in the family compound and was put under house arrest in the military area?
People who didn't know Su Mei were also curious. They couldn't figure out why Huo Jianguo sat down to eat with a woman whose facial features were so fat that they were crowded together.
There are also soldiers who have heard of Su Mei but have never seen her true face in Lushan. When passing by, they can't help but secretly look at Su Mei for a few times, and then hurried away under Huo Jianguo's cold eyes.
The rest were those who had seen Su Mei at the clinic. They were all wondering about the relationship between the new doctor and Huo Jianguo.
Occasionally, someone would come up to say hello to Huo Jianguo, and then look at Su Mei and stop talking.
This feeling of being watched like a monkey in the zoo made Su Mei very uncomfortable. She ate slowly at first, but then she had to speed up her meal.
Just when she was halfway through her meal, two soldiers came over and sat beside Su Mei and Huo Jianguo.
"Master, who is this?" The young man sitting next to Huo Jianguo asked Huo Jianguo.
Huo Jianguo put down his chopsticks and said, "Your sister-in-law!"
Without divorce, Huo Jianguo would naturally introduce Su Mei as his lover to outsiders.
When the little soldier heard Huo Jianguo's words, his face turned cold. Then he didn't say anything and glanced at Su Mei with disgust.
But the soldier sitting next to Su Mei softly shouted to Su Mei: "Sister-in-law!"
"Yes." Su Mei responded politely.
At this time, Huo Jianguo had already finished his meal and stood up. He said to Su Mei:
"I still have something to do. After you finish eating, go to the sink to wash out the dishes and return them, okay?"
"Okay, you go about your business." Su Mei nodded slightly towards Huo Jianguo. Although she gave half of the meal to Huo Jianguo, she chewed her food carefully and still ate much slower than Huo Jianguo.
After receiving Su Mei's response, Huo Jianguo turned around and walked towards the sink.
When Huo Jianguo walked away, the young man sitting next to Huo Jianguo glanced at Su Mei coldly and said to the person sitting next to Su Mei:
"Shao Gang, don't call me sister-in-law, this stupid pig is not worthy of our teacher!"
