Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 5 Tong Ren Tang

"Doctors are like this. Once they get busy, they forget everything."

In the doctors' cafeteria of Union Hospital, a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties sat opposite the late Fangyan mother and son, and spoke to them with a smile.

This person is Aunt Wang Huiyuan, who wanted to meet Fangyan in person before introducing the job. His mother He Huiru had already made arrangements with this good friend before Fangyan came back.

I will arrange a job for Fangyan when he returns. There are many educated youth returning to the city now, and there are fewer and fewer jobs every day. If you want to find a good job, you must hurry and plan.

So less than 24 hours after Fangyan returned, work arrangements had already begun.

I don’t know what unit Aunt Wang worked for, but she said she could arrange for Fangyan to work as a pharmacist at Tongrentang. There was no such thing as a practicing pharmacist qualification certificate at that time.

The only requirement for a pharmacist is to know how to read and use a scale.

Tongrentang was nationalized after the public-private partnership. On weekdays, there are still some Chinese medicine practitioners in the clinic who take the pulse, read the tongue and prescribe Chinese medicine for patients.

The most important thing is that these Chinese medicine practitioners only look at the morning time, because taking the pulse in the morning is mainly because the accuracy of taking the pulse in the morning is higher.

Because when you just wake up in the morning, the blood vessels are still relatively full of qi and blood. In the afternoon, it may be disturbed by exercise and eating, causing changes in the pulse and tongue.

If the diagnosis is not accurate in the afternoon, it is also irresponsible to the patient, so these old Chinese medicine practitioners only see patients for half a day in the morning and rest in the afternoon. Even the people responsible for dispensing medicine will take turns to rest. Why do they take turns? Because there are other people who come to get medicine in the afternoon with prescriptions.

This job is really a good match for Fangyan. It not only gives him time to review and read books, but also allows him to connect with his major. Most importantly, he can see how the old Chinese doctors of this era actually treat patients.

Seeing patients for half a day in the morning was, before Fangyan traveled through time, only the privilege of senior experts. Others had to receive patients no matter when they came. The first reason was so that the patients could receive timely diagnosis and treatment, and the second was for the efficiency of the hospital.

In the future, everything will be about money. Otherwise, there would not be Western pharmaceutical companies buying out some prescriptions and hiding them, not allowing them to circulate in the market.

"This job is really good. You will be provided with a dormitory. Although it is a bit small, you will have your own house to live in. When the other members of your family come back, there will be no room for them at home." Aunt Wang said with a smile.

Fang Yan then realized that he could actually get a dormitory.

Aunt Wang continued:
"Actually, it's not impossible to live in a bigger dormitory if you want. There's a pharmaceutical factory over at Tongrentang, and the houses there are much bigger. It's just a little far away. Anyway, I can arrange it for you after discussing it."

Before Fang Yan could answer, his mother spoke first:
"Let's just choose a pharmacy. Forget about the pharmaceutical factory, because it's too far away. If we choose a pharmaceutical factory, we won't be able to come back once a month, right?"

Aunt Wang nodded:

"That's true. The pharmacy is not too far from your home in Dashilan, and it's even closer to here. You two can go home together after get off work, and it's much safer on the road."

Then she continued:

"Oh, now more and more educated youth are returning to the city, and it's hard to find a job. Those without a job just wander around. Now if I go home a little late, I feel uneasy, for fear of encountering a robber."

"That's right, you're fine. We live in a rural area in Haidian, and we were really scared all the way there." The mother took over the conversation and started chatting with her.

In just one lunch time, they easily solved the work problems that the returning educated youth were unable to solve.

After dinner, Fangyan followed Aunt Wang to the Tongrentang store in Dashilan. She simply filled out a form and went through the onboarding process, and then they told Fangyan that she could start work the next day.

The monthly salary is 38 yuan. On weekdays, we work in the morning and several people take turns to rest in the afternoon. One person can be on duty in the afternoon about twice a week.

The work can be said to be quite easy, and Fangyan found that there were only two people who were slightly older than him working here. The other six or seven people were young people who were almost the same as him. In other words, they were all educated youth who had returned to the city.

It seems that I am not the only one who used the backdoor.

It’s hard to find a job now, let alone find a good one.

Then he took me to a nearby alley, where there was an empty single room in the courtyard, which was Fangyan's dormitory.

This place has no toilet or kitchen. Anyone who comes here has to go to the public toilet in the alley to empty the urine bucket. It is completely incomparable to the house where my dad went to school. Fangyan also knows what this house is like.

After looking at the house and getting the key, Fang Yan returned to Tong Ren Tang and sat at the Chinese medicine consultation table for a while. In fact, he wanted to see if there were any medical records left.

It turned out that all the cabinets were locked and these important things were not left outside.

Who to guard against?
Dialects are speechless.

But when you come tomorrow, you can take a look at it yourself and you should be able to see what’s inside.

Before leaving, Yan prescribed himself a Chinese medicine according to the prescription he knew, intending to go back and boil it to recuperate his body. The original owner had been in the countryside for many years and had many illnesses. When he looked in the mirror in the morning, he found that his white hair had improved a lot, and these all needed to be slowly recuperated.

After Aunt Wang finished making arrangements, she went back to her unit. Before leaving, she told Fang Yan that he could tell his family about any problems he encountered and she would definitely help solve them if she could.

Judging from the tone of voice, Fangyan had reason to suspect that this person should be a big shot in the health department.

After solving the problem at work, Fangyan went to tell his mother and then went to the Xinhua Bookstore in Dongcheng District.

He took a look when he went out this morning and found that he didn't find any high school textbooks at home, so he decided to buy some himself.

In addition to the 5 yuan his parents gave him today, he also had some money on him. Those were the savings of the original owner when he went to the countryside. Although it wasn't much, it was enough to buy textbooks.

But when he arrived at the Xinhua Bookstore, something unexpected happened to Fangyan. There were no high school textbooks here at all. The high school had been discontinued for many years and they were not on the bookshelves at all. It was then that Fangyan remembered that the bookstore only sold current books and there were really no textbooks here.

Finally, I used the money to buy several Chinese medicine books, including "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Acupuncture", "Jia Yi", "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Acupuncture", "Compendium of Materia Medica", and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", spending a total of more than one yuan.

As for finding textbooks, I really have to ask my father at home.

I guess they should have it in their school.

After returning home, Fangyan started to boil the Chinese medicine. No matter what, he solved the problem at work today, which also relieved his parents' worries.

Just when he had prepared the medicine in several batches, the long-lost system prompt suddenly rang in his mind again!

(End of this chapter)