Chapter 96: Chapter 96: I’m Here to Share Your Hardships
With her discarded stuff?
Well, strictly speaking, it wasn’t her that discarded them; they were left by the doctor who ca to support before her. She bought new ones and simply stopped using the old ones.
If he wanted to use them, let him.
Knowing that the person had arrived and had been well received, Su ixi wasn’t worried anymore.
After finishing her consultations, she went back to town, stopped by the shop to buy so rice and noodles, and then returned to the health clinic.
Sarah had already finished her work, so Su ixi entered through the clinic’s yard gate.
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Upon opening the door, she saw a large black suitcase placed at the next room’s door, which was also open.
Dr. Ma wasn’t there, so the new doctor was of course going to stay there.
She set down the things she had bought from the shop and thought to go over to say hello.
At that mont, the sound of footsteps ca from the next room. Before Su ixi could go out, the person next door ca over.
He called out, “Xiao Xi.”
Su ixi was taken aback.
She looked up, turned around, and saw Bi Yuanhang standing at the door!
Why was it him?
When the Health Bureau had called that morning, they hadn’t ntioned his full na, only said it was a male doctor with the surna Bi. She hadn’t expected it to be him.
“How co, not happy to see ?” Bi Yuanhang stood at the door, smiled, displaying a set of white teeth.
Su ixi remained silent for a good while before asking, “Why is it you?”
Bi Yuanhang looked sowhat excited: “I heard you were here, so I did a lot of work just to co endure hardships and face difficulties with you.”
But she distinctly rembered, before coming to provide support, his attitude towards her had already cooled, and they were no different from ordinary neighbors.
“But I don’t think coming here is suffering,” she said calmly.
“You like it here?” Bi Yuanhang looked at her incredulously.
No one would like such a place unless it was their holand.
Su ixi replied, “It’s not about liking it, but at least it’s not suffering.”
Bi Yuanhang still seed pleased: “Anyhow, from now on, we two have to help each other; after all, there are only two doctors at this clinic.”
“I’ll call the Health Bureau tomorrow to see if they can transfer you. We already have one traditional doctor here, we don’t need two. It would be more appropriate to send a clinical doctor.”
Bi Yuanhang said, “But before I ca, I had already trained for two months in clinical, and I also studied both traditional and Western dicine in Canada; I can adapt to the work here.”
Su ixi simply replied, “Then that’s up to you.”
Bi Yuanhang was a bit disheartened.
He had thought that traveling such a long way to be with her, she would be moved, but she didn’t welco him at all.
Well, ti was on his side. They would grow closer by spending every day together.
“Ah Xi, I saw a small restaurant at the entrance. Sister Sai told you eat there every day. How about I treat you to dinner tonight?”
“No need, I’ll just cook so noodles for myself.”
Bi Yuanhang looked at the pots and pans on the shelf in Su ixi’s dormitory and couldn’t help swallowing his saliva.
He had a light palate and since arriving here, he had struggled with the local food, longing for the simple rice and porridge of his hotown. If she had invited him to dinner, he would have been very touched.
But it seed Su ixi had no intention of inviting him for dinner.
Her pot for cooking noodles was quite small, enough for just one person.
He ended up dining alone at the small restaurant.
The restaurant’s proprietor, Weina, was hospitable to everyone. Seeing that he was a new face, she asked where he was from, and he told her he was at the health clinic to help.
Without thinking, the proprietor asked, “Then where are you staying at night?”
“In the back courtyard.”
“With Dr. Su?”
“Yes, next door to her.” After all, there weren’t any spare rooms.
The proprietor frowned slightly.
It didn’t seem quite appropriate.
She would need to notify Xiao Ding and Da Liu about this.
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Bi Yuanhang had a hard ti getting full.
Hard because he disliked wheat-based food, also couldn’t get used to the local oily and spicy dishes, especially lamb and beef. He could barely tolerate beef, but he really didn’t care for lamb.
Unfortunately, the beef was sold out today; only lamb was available, which had a strong mutton sll to him, so he had to add a heap of chili sauce to mask it.
The proprietor, Weina, watched with a frown. Was her family’s food really that unappetizing?
After his al, Bi Yuanhang felt his throat becoming sore; spicy food often upset his body, and if nothing went wrong, he would probably have aching gums the next day.
He returned to the health clinic and saw that Su ixi had already closed her room door, the light visible through the gap.
Bi Yuanhang never expected to end up like this. He always thought that traveling all this way, she would be moved.
Such a heart of stone!
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Su ixi felt uncomfortable everywhere ever since Bi Yuanhang had arrived.
First, there was only one toilet in the backyard, which they had to share, and secondly, the rooms were too small. Normally they would wash up squatting by the tap in the courtyard, and Dr. Ma had been fine with it since she was an elder and also because Dr. Ma always got up very early and never occupied the toilet when she needed it.
But this morning, when she got up early, she found the toilet door closed, presumably Bi Yuanhang inside.
She had to go and wash up first and, after washing her face, saw Bi Yuanhang pass by and even greeted her.
Su ixi could only respond faintly.
Having a male peer see her washing her face was quite awkward.
Finally, after taking care of her personal hygiene, Su ixi put on her light jacket and prepared to go to work.
“Xiao Xi, do you have any spare dicine for a sore throat?” Bi Yuanhang asked.
Su ixi did have so, but she didn’t want to give it.
“There’s plenty at the health clinic. If you need it, just go take so and make sure to record it,” Su ixi said.
“Alright, then I’ll buy so myself later,” Bi Yuanhang said with a hoarse voice.
“Yeah,” Su ixi responded without further inquiry and started her work.
Bi Yuanhang felt a bit let down.
His throat was clearly hoarse, yet she didn’t seem to notice or care.
The health clinic had yet to receive any patients, and there were no calls for house calls, so Su ixi went to sort out dical records from the previous day’s consultations.
Bi Yuanhang ca over to her and said, “The climate here is really dry, isn’t it?”
“You’ll get used to it,” replied Su ixi.
“What do you usually do here? What are your main tasks every day?” Bi Yuanhang asked again.
Su ixi didn’t even lift her head, “Hard to say. If there are patients, I see them. If there’s a house call to make, I go do it. There are also so occasional assistive tasks that the higher-ups will call about.”
“Oh.”
Bi Yuanhang didn’t ask her more.
After a while, Nurse Sarah also ca over, and she was quite warm towards Bi Yuanhang; she took him around to familiarize him with the dicine placent in the clinic and taught him various procedures.
At dusk.
A jeep stopped outside the health clinic and Gu Wei stepped out of it.
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