Chapter 1173 Xiao Qin, you are not infertile, right?
Nanluoguxiang.
At the entrance of the public toilet, there were many women queuing up, chattering enthusiastically about something.
"Have you heard that the mute married by the Zhou family in Yard 80 is suffering from morning sickness?"
"Oh, congratulations! This is a happy event for our alley!"
"Hey, why are you congratulating me? I'm so worried. The father is disabled and the mother is deaf-mute. What will happen to the child after he is born? How will he be educated and how will he live? If it were me, I would rather not have this child!"
"Aunt Xu, look how worried you are! You should take care of the fact that your remarried daughter-in-law is unwilling to bear a child for your family!"
Everyone burst into laughter. Aunt Xu usually loved to gossip, and when someone talked about her sore spot today, she immediately looked behind her with a sullen face, ready to curse the person who said something. But when she turned around, she saw Li Xiangnan, who was two steps away, looking up at the sky.
He immediately put on a smile on his face, "Hey, Doctor Li, you're here to line up for the family members again?"
"Yeah!" Li Xiangnan withdrew his gaze and nodded boredly.
Most of the neighbors are nice, but there are women like Aunt Xu and others in the courtyard who usually have nothing to do but gossip about the dirty things of the Zhang and Li families, comment on other people's family affairs, and spread rumors with malicious exaggeration. They are the most hateful.
"Doctor Li, I heard that the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family in your hospital has morning sickness! Why haven't you and Xiao Qin had any news for so long? Is there something wrong? If you are sick, you must hurry up and get treatment..."
Look, Aunt Xu always gossips about you in front of others, and I don’t know what she says about you behind your back!
Li Xiangnan cast a cold gaze across Aunt Xu's face and said indifferently, "Aunt Xu is quite knowledgeable about childbirth. Can you give a lecture in my hospital and pass on your experience in obstetrics and gynecology to the general public?"
puff!
The people queuing for the toilet all laughed at once.
Someone froze up and said to Aunt Xu, who couldn't believe that Li Xiangnan would be so rude, "Aunt, why don't you thank Dr. Li quickly? He's going to give you a lecture!"
"I remembered that I forgot to turn off the fire at home!" Aunt Xu blushed and pulled out her handkerchief from her pocket, covering her face with it and trotted away.
Everyone laughed even more happily.
Qin Ruobai walked over from behind and happened to bump into Aunt Xu who was passing by the gate and quickly went into the next yard. He replaced Li Xiangnan with a puzzled look on his face, "What happened to Aunt Xu just now? Why did she seem to be crying?"
"She deserves it! A girl from their courtyard got pregnant last month, and she was so mad! Miss Wanchun from your courtyard is pregnant too, and I don't know what's wrong with her. Anyway, whenever someone from another family gets pregnant, she becomes irritated and slanders people everywhere! Especially when she sees girls who are prettier than her daughter-in-law, I don't know how jealous she is! As long as she catches someone attacking you, she will spread rumors! Several courtyards nearby are fed up with her!"
Before Li Xiangnan could say anything, a neighbor nearby complained to Qin Ruobai.
"That's right. Just now she asked you and Dr. Li why you haven't had a baby yet! You said it's none of her business and even said you are sick. Dr. Li is a miracle doctor, why should she worry about it!" Another neighbor said unhappily.
Shaking Qin Ruobai's hand, Li Xiangnan took out some toilet paper from his pocket and gave it to her. He smiled and said, "I'm just starting my career now, and I'm so busy at the hospital! Ruobai is busy catching bad guys every day, so how can she have time to raise a child? We've already agreed to wait until our work stabilizes in two years before we do it! We're only in our early twenties, why rush!"
The neighbors around nodded after hearing this.
"Doctor Li, you should be considerate of Xiao Qin's work. It's not easy for the two of you! A doctor and a police officer, you spend so little time together and are apart for so long, yet you still have such a good relationship. Our neighbors are envious!"
"Yes, Doctor Li heard that you have become a big boss in the new hospital near the Summer Palace! You are even busier now. It is right to wait until your work is stable before having a child!"
Qin Ruobai pursed her lips, feeling deeply touched by Xiangnan's thoughtfulness.
A large number of women from the courtyards gather here, just like the intelligence centers at the alley entrances and courtyard gates. They discuss every day which family is getting married and which family has a baby. There is nothing they don't care about, big or small, national affairs or family affairs.
Now he took the initiative to avoid talking about his physical problems in front of everyone, using being busy at work as an excuse. As time went by, people in the surrounding courtyards who were concerned about this matter all knew the reason. He just wanted to protect himself from being framed and slandered behind his back by others, for fear of being stabbed in the back.
He cares about himself and protects himself!
"You should go home for dinner and go to school! I'm going directly to the city government for a meeting in the morning, so you don't have to see me off!" Seeing that the neighbors around were praising Li Xiangnan for being considerate, Qin Ruobai felt embarrassed to let her husband accompany her.
"Okay, I'll go first, be careful!"
Li Xiangnan didn't act pretentiously. After all, he had achieved his goal this morning. He went home to eat and went straight to the construction site.
When they arrived at the site, people from the Municipal Construction Committee, accompanied by Gong Kaijiang, were inspecting and accepting the final environmental pool.
Li Xiangnan stayed in the office for the whole morning and only went out when the acceptance was completed.
"Chief Tong, I'm really in trouble today. I'll host lunch for everyone and let's have a simple meal together!"
After hearing Gong Kaijiang introduce this person as Li Xiangnan, the young director of the famous Nianwei Hospital, Section Chief Tong was very surprised and hurriedly shook hands with him. "I've heard a lot about you! Today I finally get to meet you in person. You really live up to your reputation! Acceptance inspection is part of our job, it's not a big deal, so we don't have to have a meal..."
He was about to refuse, but Li Xiangnan smiled and said, "Deputy Mayor Hu is here, as well as Director Zhu. Let's get together and have a simple meal. Chief Tong, would you please do me a favor?"
"Oh, Dean Li, you are so polite! I'd better obey your command!"
When Section Chief Tong heard that even Deputy Mayor Hu Jinbang and his own director Zhu Fengtian were going, he didn't dare to act like a big shot in front of Li Xiangnan. He had not agreed to go to dinner before because although he had some real power and was in charge of planning, construction and approval matters, he and Li Xiangnan were only acquaintances and they could not be said to have any friendship, so it would be better not to go to dinner invited by a stranger.
But now it’s different. Deputy Mayor Hu has to give face to Li Xiangnan. If Section Chief Tong doesn’t go, he would be immature!
At the door, watching Section Chief Tong and his group get on the construction vehicle and leave first, Li Xiangnan turned around and hugged Hu Yubin who was standing behind him, "Brother Hu, you didn't even tell me you were coming to Yanjing. If I hadn't come to the construction site, I wouldn't have seen you!"
"I just got off the train this morning and I rushed over! I thought I'd tell you after the acceptance is passed! What a coincidence!" Hu Yubin grinned, "The hospital has passed the acceptance, it's such a big deal that I have to come over!"
Gong Kaijiang was somewhat curious about why Li Xiangnan came here today to invite Section Chief Tong to dinner. After the driver drove the car over, he asked, "Brother Li, you invited Deputy Mayor Hu, Director Zhu, and Section Chief Tong to dinner today. It's not just to thank them for their efficiency in accepting our hospital, right?"
Li Xiangnan pressed Gong Kaijiang's shoulder and said, "Old Gong is so smart!"
He pointed to the more than 300 acres of land on the side of the hospital and said with a smile: "Such a large piece of land, we can't just watch it sit empty, right? Inviting them to dinner is also for the better development of the next step of work!"
Hu Yubin and Gong Kaijiang looked at each other and exclaimed, "Brother Li, you are not going to do anything else with this piece of land. Do you already have an idea in mind?"
"It's not that I have an idea!" Li Xiangnan shook his head and said with a determined look, "It's already being implemented! Next week, 64 tons of steel will be shipped from the th Yanjing Steel Plant. Old Gong, I want your people to build a steel structure factory that meets my requirements within three months!"
"Build a factory?" The two looked at each other and were shocked.
Hu Yubin was even more excited and stepped forward to grab Li Xiangnan's arm and asked, "Brother, what kind of factory do you want to build? It can't be the one you said..."
Li Xiangnan turned to look at him, his eyes sparkling as he said, "Brother Hu, the preliminary work is almost complete now!"
He took two steps forward, pointed at the area and said, "Yes, I want to build a biopharmaceutical factory here!"
Hu Yubin and Gong Kaijiang felt their scalps tingling.
"Old Dong and your third uncle have been in Hongshan County for half a year...hiss, have you really been planning this for half a year?"