Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 4 Going Home
When Yuan Hongqi and Lin Rong heard that Fang Yan was hitchhiking back by car, they thought he had met someone familiar from home. Without even saying a few words, Yuan Hongqi helped Fang Yan carry his luggage.

The couple accompanied Fangyan to his home on the third floor.

Hearing the noise outside the door, Fang's parents opened the door and saw Yuan Hongqi, Lin Rong, and someone who looked familiar.

After carefully looking at the other person's appearance, Fang Zhenhua and his wife He Huiru were both startled. He Huiru spoke first:
"Xiao...Xiaoyan?"

"Third brother!" Fang Zhenhua followed closely behind.

Fangyan turned around and responded:

"Dad, Mom, I'm back."

When Father Fang Zhenhua heard this, he immediately confirmed that the thin and unrecognizable young man in front of him was his third son. He stepped forward and took the package from him, thanked Yuan Hongqi and Lin Rong for bringing him up, and the family of three returned to the house.

After returning home, He Huiru took Fangyan's hand and looked him up and down, her eyes red. Fangyan was not yet an adult when he went to the countryside a few years ago, but he had grown into a young man when he came back this time. His dark skin no longer looked as fair and tender as it did in the past.

He opened his mouth several times but didn't say that he suffered outside. He just kept saying "I'm glad you're back, I'm glad you're back."

When she found out that he had not eaten dinner yet, He Huiru immediately ran to the kitchen to make him a bowl of noodles. She also fried two eggs and sprinkled a handful of lard on them.

"We thought you would be back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, so we planned to go to the station to wait for you tomorrow, but we didn't expect you to be back today."

"It must be difficult to walk back from the station, right?" Dad Fang Zhenhua asked Fang Yan how he got back while watching him eat noodles.

Fang Yan said that she had hitchhiked in the car of Professor Wang Ze of BJ Medical College. They were curious about how Fang Yan did it. As far as they could remember, no one in the couple knew Wang Ze, even though He Huiru worked at Union Hospital. She was a gynecologist and the people she knew were all in the gynecology field.

Then Fangyan talked about how he saved someone on the train.

By the way, he talked about his Taoist medicine massage skills. In fact, he learned it from a Taoist priest when he went to the countryside. However, in order to appear convincing, he said that he learned it from his mother He Huiru. After all, doctors at Union Hospital are naturally persuasive.

The Fang couple did not delve into Fangyan's statement, but were more curious about what Fangyan had experienced in the countryside over the years.

In the past few years, our family was scattered all over the country, and the correspondence had to be reviewed. There was basically very little that could be written in it, and they only reported good news, not bad news. Now that we are finally together, of course we have to talk about our experiences over the years.

Fortunately, Fangyan inherited the original owner's memory, so these topics were not difficult for him. The family of three chatted for more than two hours, and they ended only when Fangyan could hardly open his eyes.

Then Fangyan opened the room prepared for him.

This house was allocated by my father Fang Zhenhua's unit. It has two bedrooms and a living room, is over 60 square meters, and has everything you need, including a living room, kitchen, and toilet.

Fangyan is the first person in the family to return to the city, so he can still live in a room of his own now. But when his older sister and younger brother come back, the house won’t be so spacious anymore.

After sitting in the car for several days, Fangyan felt extremely tired and fell asleep soon after lying down. During this sleep, Fangyan had a dream. He dreamed that he was teaching his former classmates in school, and he also married his female teacher who had never married in her life.

When he woke up again, Fangyan felt pain all over his body. He knew it was the sequelae of the hard seat train. Everything was fine before he went to sleep, but after sleeping, his whole body felt like it was falling apart. Fangyan secretly made up his mind that next time he took a train to travel far, he must get a second-hand sleeper ticket.

I struggled to get up from the bed, looked out through the curtains and found that it was already bright outside.

There were already quite a few people coming in and out downstairs.

Fangyan didn't have a watch on him, so he didn't know what time it was. He put on his clothes, opened the door and walked out. Fangyan saw that the time on the wall clock in the living room was already 8:15.

There was also a note on the dining table.

It said that there was breakfast being heated in the pot in the kitchen. I saw Fangyan was sleeping soundly in the morning so I didn't wake him up. At noon, I asked him to go to Haidian Commune to transfer his household registration from the rural area, and then go to Union Hospital to eat in the internal cafeteria with my mother at noon. My mother asked someone to arrange a job for him, but they had to see him first.

On the back of the note, there was five dollars and the house key left for Fangyan.

After finishing his breakfast, Fangyan took his things and took the bus to Haidian Commune. It was still early, but many educated youth who had returned to the city were already here to handle the procedures for transferring their household registration.

There were at least twenty people queuing in front of Fangyan. When the sun was almost overhead, Fangyan finally finished everything and received his food book.

Then, according to my mother's request, I took the bus and headed towards the East Campus of Union Hospital.

Peking Union Medical College is a well-known hospital both in this era and in later generations. It is the School of Clinical Medicine of Peking Union Medical College and the Institute of Clinical Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. It is a large comprehensive hospital integrating medicine, teaching and research. It is also one of the earliest designated hospitals to undertake health care for cadres, medical treatment for foreign guests and medical services for national athletes.

Since my mother can be a chief gynecologist here, her network of contacts is definitely wider than my father's. After all, she comes into contact with more people. So it is natural that the task of arranging a job for Fangyan falls on her.

But Fangyan is now thinking about taking the college entrance examination at the end of this year. If a job is arranged for him now, unless it is the kind that is convenient for slacking off, he thinks it is better for him to review his lessons at home.

The bus swayed slowly until it arrived at Union Hospital. After getting off the bus, Fangyan found the floor where the gynecology department was located in the hospital and went straight there.

Union Hospital is indeed a big hospital. There are indeed a lot of patients seeing the doctor here. It is almost lunch time, but there are still people waiting for treatment outside several gynecology clinics.

Most of the patients came alone, and some pregnant women were accompanied by their husbands. The appearance of Fangyan, a man without a doctor's white coat, immediately attracted a lot of attention.

After finding his mother's clinic, Fang Yan saw that his mother was treating a patient. There was a young female doctor in a white coat standing behind her, watching the whole process. Fang Yan guessed that she was probably the intern who was guiding the new one.

After greeting my mother outside the door, Fangyan found a seat in the aisle and sat down. He waited for more than half an hour.

Normally, people would stop calling numbers at mealtime, but my mother, He Huiru, continued to call numbers. Finally, after forty minutes, she walked out of the clinic after seeing everyone.

After seeing the dialect, she suddenly slapped her forehead and said in a lost voice:

"It's bad! I have a date!"

(End of this chapter)