Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 671: New Year's Eve Duty Story, President Li Spends Money

Time flies, and a few days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Before I knew it, it was February 1978, 2.

This day is the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

According to the lunar calendar, the New Year's Eve of 1978 fell on the th day of the twelfth lunar month, so there was no New Year's Eve. (PS: It was not a coincidence!)

Early in the morning before dawn that day, the sound of humming and laughing from people practicing martial arts could be heard from the yard of Fangyan's home.

After a few days of training, Hu Daohu came on time every morning and practiced very diligently, but no one knew where he learned this habit, but he always shouted out deliberately when he punched.

It feels more impressive to say this.

Anyway, money can’t buy his happiness, so if he wants to call, let him call. Anyway, no one in Fangyan’s family sleeps in.

Amid Boss Hu's laughter, the Fang family got busy early in the morning.

The adults in the family all got up early and began to prepare for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

The supply of materials is obviously tight during the Chinese New Year, and many families go to the vegetable market or grocery store a few days in advance to queue up to buy ingredients.

During this period, Fangyan's family also purchased some pork, fish, cabbage, flour, etc. Otherwise, when there are more guests at home in the first month of the New Year, there might not be enough food.

This year, both the Fang and Zhu families will celebrate the New Year in this courtyard, so there will be many more guests coming and going.

Not to mention others, there will be no shortage of people who need to be received just in dialect.

In addition, there is a traditional task early in the morning on New Year's Eve, which is cleaning.

Including cleaning windows and tidying up the room.

There is a custom in this capital city that on the morning of New Year's Eve, every household will do a thorough cleaning, which means "sweeping away bad luck and welcoming the new year."

The adults swept the floor and wiped the furniture, while the children helped take out the trash and tidy up the clutter.

This is the case in every household.

After cleaning, the elders in the family will go to the main hall, wipe the altar clean, put up the incense burner, and neatly place the dumplings, fruits and other offerings prepared in advance on the altar.

It’s Chinese New Year, and we burn incense and offer sacrifices to our ancestors, praying for good luck in the coming year.

This year, the Fang family and the Zhu family held it here together.

Fangyan pays respects to his own family members and also to the Zhu family.

Whoever stands out will protect me! I will burn incense to them!

It’s not feudal superstition. Every family does this. It’s a tradition of the Chinese people.

In addition, after breakfast, we will put up Spring Festival couplets and window decorations at home.

Spring Festival couplets are written in the dialect with a brush, and the content contains auspicious words such as "Welcome the Spring and Receive Blessings" and "Good Luck and Good Fortune". This year, he has been asked to write Spring Festival couplets for all the neighbors, so he took the time to write some more, and sent them out one after another in the past few days.

Every neighbor’s home has one, and its main feature is that it’s large in quantity and filling enough to fill you up.

Of course, each family has their own window paper-cuts.

The paper-cuts at Fangyan’s home were made by sisters Zhu Lin and Zhu Xian. There are all kinds of styles, and the red paper-cuts look particularly festive.

While eating breakfast, my mother He Huiru said to Hu Daohu:
"Xiao Hu, today is New Year's Eve, why don't you and Xiao Huang come to our house and spend it together."

Hu Daohu immediately said:
"Sure, Auntie. Huijie and I just happen to have nowhere to go."

Fang Yan looked at him puzzledly and asked:
"Why do I remember that you two were invited to attend the gala at the Great Hall tonight?"

Hu Daohu said:
"Yes, I am going to go, but I will just show my face, take a photo and leave."

"Oh, so..." Fangyan suddenly realized.

At this time, Hu Daohu said to Fang Yan:

"But I do find it a little strange that you didn't receive an invitation to the gala."

Speaking of this, Fangyan was also a little puzzled.

Logically speaking, since he has been so popular recently, he should have received an invitation, but he didn't.

"Maybe he forgot about it?" Fang Yan said.

At this time, the second sister said to Fang Yan:

"I guess when you go to work later, the dean will look for you and give you an invitation letter."

After hearing this, Fangyan smiled and said:

"Actually, I still think it's better to have the New Year's Eve dinner at home. The party is not that interesting."

Second sister Fang Ning reminded Fang Yan:
"Comrade Fangyan, please be aware of the impact. We have fellow overseas Chinese here."

Fang Yan glanced at Hu Daohu standing beside him, waved his hand and said:
"It's okay, this is one of ours."

Hu Daohu was startled, but was very satisfied with Fangyan's statement. He nodded and said with a smile:

"Hahaha...yes, I'm one of you, you can say whatever you want, I promise I won't reveal it to anyone."

At this time, the younger brother said to the dialect:

"Actually, I guess I haven't decided which party to invite you to. After all, there are so many organizations."

He actually also received an invitation to the gala, the Capital's Mass Spring Festival Gala, which will be held in the Great Hall tonight. There are only ten invitations in the entire Writers Association. I don't know who was so lucky that a newcomer like me, who emerged in the second half of last year, was able to get an invitation.

Afterwards, Fangyan guessed that it was probably Nanako's father.

Either it's Mr. Shen or Mr. Ye.

Of course, it is not ruled out that "People's Literature" ranked sales and found that my little brother had the highest sales and was the sales champion last year, and then he was included in the ranking.

After breakfast, Fangyan started today's work.

They have to be on duty on New Year's Eve. This is the job of doctors. Of course, this is not the job of all doctors. For example, except for Doctor Fangyan, all other doctors are on holiday.

When I went to work today, Fangyan realized the meaning of the phrase "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!" Otherwise, why would I still be on duty at noon on New Year's Eve?

The only people hospitalized in the hospital now are Mr. and Mrs. Hu.

There were only four people: Chairman Li, the overseas Chinese businessman who escaped death, the 19-year-old girl with hemangioma, Ms. Fu who had heart problems, and Mr. Zhang who had teeth growing in his mouth.

All others have been discharged from the hospital.

During the Chinese New Year period, everyone who can be discharged from the hospital will definitely be discharged.

Although the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Peking Union Medical College approved the dialect suggestion and began to accept external patients.

But when people found out that the doctor was not from Fangyan, most of them decisively chose not to come.

This is a bit embarrassing.

It was only then that Fangyan realized that people didn't really need to see a Chinese medicine doctor, they just needed him as a Chinese medicine doctor.

Now I have established my own brand, but traditional Chinese medicine has not yet become popular.

It seems that the next focus must still be on school.

When I went out in the morning, there were not many people on the street, but there were already people who had gotten up early queuing up to buy New Year's goods. When the neighbors saw Fangyan going to work, they all greeted him.

Now when you pass by the gates of various shantytowns, you will see Spring Festival couplets written in dialect posted on them.

When we arrived at the hospital gate, we saw that there were only a few doctors on duty that day.

Seeing Fangyan also come to work, everyone's originally listless expressions suddenly became excited.

There is no way, this is the power of idols.

Fangyan is now basically the spokesperson for Concordia.

He and the name Concorde have been highly associated in recent times.

Seeing him come to work is more inspiring than seeing the dean come to work.

The person who accompanied Fangyan on duty today was Comrade Meng Jimin, who has always wanted to have a second child. He has been listless for the past week, like a salted fish that has lost its dream.

The general situation was that I discussed the issue of having a son with my wife, but the discussion failed again.

It was probably because his wife's words were rather harsh this time, which made Lao Meng feel a little uncomfortable. In addition, he had to be on duty on New Year's Eve, so he looked even more lifeless.

When Fangyan came to make his rounds, except for President Li, the other three locals, without exception, invited Fangyan to go home and reunite with their families in the evening.

In principle, patients who are hospitalized are not allowed to leave the hospital before they have fully recovered.

But the principle is that dialect has the final say.

So when faced with these people's requests, Fang Yan thought about it carefully and realized that in fact only Ms. Fu could not leave, while everyone else could go back.

Even Mr. Zhang, who has teeth in his mouth, can be discharged from the hospital now.

Yesterday morning, he said that a bone tooth in his mouth was broken.

Then, based on the acupuncture results of the past few days, he has basically controlled the bone hyperplasia in his mouth and the dizziness during urination.

From now on, you can just take Jinkui Shenqi Pills without using any prescriptions to enhance the efficacy of the medicine.

So Fangyan immediately processed the procedures for them according to their circumstances.

Mr. Zhang was discharged directly from the hospital and came back for a follow-up examination on the third day of the first lunar month.

The 19-year-old girl with hemangioma was given two days off and returned to the hospital on the second day of the first lunar month to continue her treatment.

Ms. Fu still cannot be discharged from the hospital, but Fangyan told her that the main reason is that after she left, only the overseas Chinese businessman President Li and his family would be left here.

She is also a leading cadre, and the hospital hopes that she can take the lead and accompany the overseas Chinese businessman President Li and his family to spend New Year's Eve here.

The hospital here will also talk to Director Liao of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office about this matter.

When she heard this excuse, Ms. Fu was a little confused, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt it was quite reasonable. Among so many patients, she was the only leading cadre. It would seem wrong for her not to take the lead in matters involving her external image.

So I agreed without thinking.

I even used the nurses' station's phone to call home and asked them to make more dumplings to share with the overseas Chinese businessmen here tonight.

After the phone call, President Li heard about this. When that guy found out that there was someone who didn't go back to reunite with his family, but stayed here to accompany him and even made dumplings for him, President Li was very moved.

If Ms. Fu had not been married and elderly, he would have thought that she was still as charming as ever.

However, once my mood improved, I started the second coin-giving activity.

On New Year's Eve, there are still so many people accompanying them at home, which is equivalent to serving them specially. Shouldn't President Li express his gratitude?
This time there was no need to use dialect to divide the money. President Li immediately asked his son to count everyone in the account, and then gave each person a red envelope.

However, the amount they give out is different. Ordinary medical staff who are not familiar with the disease get 100 US dollars, while those who are familiar with the disease get more.

For example, Meng Jimin, Zhang Yanchang, and Yang Jingxiang, there are hundreds of them.

When Fangyan finally got the red envelope, he found there was 1200 US dollars in it, which was also the largest amount.

Of course, Ms. Fu next door also received red envelopes.

It was President Li who delivered it personally, but I don’t know how many dialects were used.

Anyway, Ms. Fu is quite happy.

At half past nine, the dean and Director Liao of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office came with several overseas Chinese businessmen.

He said he was visiting President Li, and at the same time he was sending an invitation to Fang Yan.

Invite him to attend the gala organized by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.

PS: The 6000-word basic chapter has been updated.

There will be more updates later.

(End of this chapter)