Chapter 1224 3 Yue Jia can swallow Wu
The old-fashioned tungsten chandelier swayed on the beam, casting a dim halo of light on the carved window frames of "South Beauty".
The dining hall, which had never been used for banquets before, was now decorated with red and green, presenting a festive scene.
Li Xiangnan slowly stood up at the main table in front of the huge banner with the words "Celebrating the Relocation of Nianwei Hospital". Pinned on the pocket of his Zhongshan suit was a newly made copper badge from the hospital, which shone with a green glow in the warm light.
\"Everyone, hold up your enamelware pots——\" Wang Defa's Beijing accent dragged out the long erhua sound, which scared away the sparrows that had built a nest on the beams outside.
Hundreds of enamel jars were raised in response. The older ones' cups were filled not with red wine, but with Arctic Ocean soda mixed with Wuliangye, with a few bright red wolfberries floating on them; the younger ones' cups were all filled with the mellow yellow Maotai.
\"This jar of wine is for Dean Li who wears his stethoscope on his belt!\"
Wang Defa's loud voice made the glazed tiles fall to the ground in a rustling sound.
\"It was this guy who led us to use an IV stand to support a folding bed in the emergency room and used a surgical blade to carve words on steel plates. He managed to turn Nianwei Hospital from a small 200-square-meter hospital into a large hospital covering acres! \"
"Hahahaha!" Everyone tilted their necks back and laughed.
Everyone knows that Wang Defa and Li Xiangnan have a close relationship, and no one can say it as intimately as he does.
The applause mixed with the crisp sound of bicycle bells exploded, and the whole banquet was in an uproar.
Li Xiangnan saw that the second eight-person table next to the main table was filled with female guests.
Song Yi, Ding Yuqiu, Qiao Henwan, Jiang Qitao, Lin Chuqiao, Lin Muyu, Lin Youwei, Jian Jingzhe.
Everyone there looked up at him, smiling with an unspeakable light in their eyes.
Finish the first cup.
"We should pay tribute to all the men, young and old, who are holding up this ark of life!" Liu Zhiyuan stood up with an enamel pot in his hand, "Comrades, Xiao Li and I met at the Hongshankou Machine Repair Factory two summers ago. At that time, he was an ordinary doctor in the emergency department! Now he can work independently! What does this show? As long as you work hard, there are unlimited possibilities in the future!"
He patted his old waist, put his hand on Li Xiangnan's shoulder, and said with great enthusiasm: "The world is yours, and it is ours, but in the final analysis, it is still yours!"
"Hahaha!"
Hearing this familiar argument and remembering the expectations behind this simple language of a very high level, everyone laughed and felt a layer of fine goose bumps on their arms and their eyes turned slightly red.
After the second cup, everyone was already slightly excited.
"Old Lin, say something!" After Liu Zhiyuan said this, he sighed and hurriedly tried to pull Lin Jianzhou who was sitting next to him.
"Old Liu, I won't steal the show!" Lin Jianzhou shook his head and laughed, but he sensibly lifted up Shen Qianzhong's wrist, "I think in today's situation, Comrade Shen Qianzhong should give us the speech anyway!"
Among all the officials present, the one with the highest status sitting at the main table is Shen Qianzhong.
Although the second son of the Song family, Song Cijiu, also came, his status was naturally not low due to the name of the Song family and his eldest brother Song Yingxin.
But Cijiu is a commoner after all, and it would be awkward for him to stand up and support Li Xiangnan, as it would not look good.
He was sitting at the main table, and had actually already set the tone.
"Captain Shen!" Li Xiangnan also invited him with a smile.
"You guys!" Shen Qianzhong smiled and did not refuse. He stood up, took the enamel pot in his hand, stood up, and looked at the whole hall full of people.
"The story of how Xiao Li and I met was a little dramatic! In the summer of 78, we went to Sanduhe to provide medical assistance. At that time, Xiao Li used calamus to cure the motion sickness of many medical comrades, which made me notice the ability of this young comrade!"
"He didn't like to talk much at that time, and he was also taciturn when he was providing medical support. He just helped the villagers with their illnesses! But whether it was motion sickness, treating functional aphonia for Miss Jinxiu, or treating anomia for Miss Dujuan, it made me realize Comrade Li Xiangnan's ability in medicine!"
His words made many people present feel the same. Many comrades at the scene were members of the Sanduhe medical support team that year. Thinking back on the past scenes, it seemed like they happened yesterday. Those ordinary yet extraordinary medical treatment events still make people cry when they think of them.
"I am very grateful to Hongshan County for training such excellent rural doctors and barefoot doctors. I am also very grateful to the country for giving such educated young people the opportunity to change their destiny through the college entrance examination! Li Xiangnan's experience in the past few years is exactly in line with that saying..."
"Those who have aspirations will succeed in breaking the boat, and the Bai Er Qin Guan will ultimately belong to Chu; the hardworking people, the sky will not fail, the hard work and the courage, three thousand more can swallow Wu."
"cheers!"
Everyone responded with a roar: "Cheers!"
When all the enamel jars finally gathered into a torrent of light, Li Xiangnan saw his own reflection in the jars shattering - turning into countless figures in the countryside riding oxen carrying medicine boxes, turning into tweezers used to remove hydatids in the operating room, and turning into a bronchoscope used to remove leeches from the patient's throat.
He tilted his head back and drank the whole jar of wine. The spiciness burned from the tip of his tongue to his stomach, but it could not extinguish the fire that had been ignited when he took the oath in medical school.
Where there is a will, things can come true. If the cauldron sinks the boat, one hundred and two Qin passes will eventually belong to Chu!
Looking back now, he can say without hesitation, I did it!
I actually built a hospital of my own in 1980!
"May our hospital become a lantern that never goes out in this city!"
He lifted the empty jar, and the last drop of wine slid down the wall of the jar, forming a tear mark on the bright bottom of the jar.
Outside the window, the ice surface of Shichahai was dyed dark green by the twilight. In the distance, the sound of accordion came from the alley, mixed with the hawking of candied haws, and floated into the carved wooden window with the slogan "Building Four Modernizations" posted on it.
As the wine glasses circulated, someone noticed that Dr. Li's hands, which were always holding the legs of the enamel pot, were shaking. These hands, which were as steady as a rock when performing operations on countless people, were now squeezing the enamel pot so hard that it creaked, as if he was afraid that if he let go, the medical pavilion built with his youthful blood and passion would dissipate like morning mist.
It was not until the waiter brought the cream cake - this rare item was bought from the Friendship Store by someone else - and the candlelight illuminated the sparkle in the corners of his eyes, that people realized: this young man who could insert a gastric tube with his bare hands was gently stroking the frosting words "Save the Dead and Heal the Wounded" on the cake with his fingertips, as if caressing his nascent medical oath.
When the eight o'clock bell rang from the direction of the Drum Tower, Li Xiangnan leaned alone against the vermilion lacquered corridor column.
He unbuttoned the collar of his Mao suit, letting the evening breeze seep into his Dacron shirt, and suddenly recalled that summer night two years ago.
In the hot warehouse of the factory hospital, he sat outside the room, watching mosquitoes extinguishing the coal stove and illuminating the mottled red paint on the wall that read "Focus medical and health work on the countryside."
Now, the noise from the banquet hall behind him was passing through the carved partition, casting his shadow very, very long in the neon night of Beijing.
"The next step should be our career, right?"
A silver bell-like laughter came from behind.
Li Xiangnan looked back and saw Jian Jingzhe walking briskly to the window and placing a bottle of imported lighter fluid on the window sill.
"I'm here to cheer you up!"
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