45 Another winter (1/2)
Zhang Fan went every night to go treat Li Xiao. It was many days before Zhang Fan went to an ATM to check the bank card that she had given him—he had been trying to suppress his desire to check the account, not wanting to become controlled by money. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
As she promised, there was 30,000 yuan on the card. This was quite a lot of money for Zhang Fan, equal to almost half a year's worth of income for him. For this entire year, Zhang Fan had made slightly more than 100,000 yuan. He was highly satisfied.
However, things were different for Li Hui. He had no money saved up whatsoever, and just like Zhang Fan, Li Hui didn't have a medical license yet. Not having a medical license would mean not having much income. Yet, Zhang Fan was different. No matter if it was in Kuake City or Chasu City Hospital, Zhang Fan had carved out a solid position for himself. Meanwhile, Li Hui was in internal medicine, with zero authority, and couldn't even work individually. He was working together with his female teacher every day, and had no extra income at all apart from base salary.
Li Hui's frustration had been caused by several things put together recently. He was the free-spirited type who loved to play around and party. In his department, he loved to joke around. However, the female doctor assigned to be his teacher was the serious type. She had lectured Li Hui several times, but Li Hui wasn't able to change his personality so easily. This made his teacher really angry, and she stopped trying so hard to teach him. Plus, since Li Hui loved to play around, he would always go visit bars and nightclubs every day after work. Apparently, one of the nurses in his department had seen him, and now scandalous rumors about him were spreading throughout his department. Also, Li Hui's biggest frustration was that his ex-girlfriend Wang Sha was apparently getting engaged. Obviously, Li Hui wasn't her fiancé.
As Li Hui and Zhang Fan ate Sichuan cuisine together, Li Hui spoke with a mouth filled with food. ”How are you doing at your surgical department? Ha! I probably don't even need to ask. You're probably doing wonderful with your skills in surgery. All the doctors and nurses in internal secretion are f***ing going through menopause. All they do is gossip about me.” Li Hui had been assigned to the internal secretion department of internal medicine, which department primarily consisted of female doctors.
Zhang Fan smiled without saying anything. 'This is how your personality really is, though. So, why should you be afraid of others gossiping about what you're actually like?'
Li Hui ordered a bottle of white wine, and served himself some while saying, ”Wang Sha is getting engaged, have you heard?”
Although Zhang Fan didn't know about it, he wasn't surprised at all that it happened. Of course people would want to get married at this age. Originally, Zhang Fan had thought that Wang Sha would leave Kuake City and return to her hometown; he hadn't expected that she would permanently settle down in Kuake City. Zhang Fan also chatted as he ate. ”What is it, you're unwilling for that to happen? You're not thinking about trying to interfere with her wedding, are you? I'm definitely not going to go with you. Someone will probably die.”
Li Hui ignored Zhang Fan while just drinking his own alcohol. He then heaved a deep sigh before saying, ”It's all my fault. I can't blame Wang Sha at all. I was thinking that once I stabilized things here, I would try to help Wang Sha come over here. Who knew that she would be so stubborn?”
Zhang Fan ignored Li Hui's words as he felt they were all rubbish. ”Could it be that Kuake City Hospital helped to set up her engagement?”
”She's getting engaged to a director of a high school in Kuake City. That bastard Shi Lei from your surgical department set up the engagement for her.”
”You know so much about it. Still, it's not their fault. Even without Shi Lei, others would surely try to introduce a good match for her. Wang Sha's pretty outstanding in many areas. If it weren't for her own mental weakness, she definitely would have been able to pass the practical skills portion of the medical license exam. Then, she would have also been able to pass Chasu City Hospital's recruitment exam. Sigh! This is heaven's will. Just give up.” Zhang Fan was unable to help any more than saying this. To be honest, he really wanted to say that Li Hui deserved what he got for his own behavior. However, he didn't want to say so after seeing how Li Hui was in a drunken stupor.
Although Li Hui's alcohol tolerance was alright, he was in a bad mood, so he got drunk really quickly. Zhang Fan directly paid for a hotel room near the Sichuan restaurant, letting Li Hui sleep it off there until he woke up tomorrow. Li Hui already had a poor reputation at his department, so it would become even worse for him if someone saw him so drunk. There were plenty who loved to gossip inside the hospital, and rumors would easily spread everywhere. For instance, there was a young woman who entered the hospital together with Wang Yanan's group. She was quite beautiful and loved to dress up pretty. However, someone spread a rumor that she was actually a mistress to a rich man.