The combination of Teacher Zhang and Li Hongmei was such a happy match in the eyes of people at that time. One was a school teacher, the other was a doctor, and they were both veritable intellectuals. It was that tube building that also added a lot of flavor to their lives.

Every day when they get off work, the corridor of the tube building is a vibrant life scene, because of the stir-fried vegetables and the smell of various oil smoke, for their life to add a unique scenery, almost stay in the provincial city of college students, are living in this condition, they are already satisfied. At this time, it was the early eighties of the twentieth century, and everything was developing in disorder and order.

Li Hongmei and Teacher Zhang's lives have long since calmed down, their newlywed honeymoon was completed long before they got married, and they are now living a self-made life like all newlyweds.

After work, after the two of them have eaten, they are in a good mood, and if the weather is good, they will go out for a walk outside, or sit under the shade of a tree to look at the people walking around them.

At first, it was nothing, but then Li Hongmei paid attention to those young pregnant women. They walked in front of them with their stomachs up. Her heart was empty. She didn't want to have a child of her own, but she knew she had lost that right. She could only watch with envy as others walked in front of her with their increasingly bulging abdomen, and her heart itched. Mr. Zhang's eyes sometimes traced the backs of these pregnant women, and he also sighed in front of her: Pregnant women are the happiest and proudest women.

When she heard what he said, she became angry in her heart, and when they secretly tasted the forbidden fruit before they got married, he swore that he was studying medicine and that there would be no mistakes. But it turned out to be a big mistake. When she thought of this, she felt angry in her heart. Hearing him say this, he said angrily: If it weren't for your fault, maybe I would have given birth to all the children by now.

Teacher Zhang has nothing to say, he looks tasteless.

In the blink of an eye, it is a cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the days pass inadvertently, those women who were pregnant with shy stomachs in the past, the children have already been born, and the couple have taken their children out in a grand manner when they are walking, and the children are healthy, and some are babbling. When Li Hongmei walked past them, she couldn't help but look at these children a few more times, or lean down to tease these cute children, and when she left these children, she couldn't help but feel empty. I'm twenty-eight or nineteen years old. Teacher Zhang is also in her early thirties, and this kind of unchanging and unprosperous days make her lonely and lonely.

Some of the young teachers who live with them or some of the school employees have already resigned from their public offices and gone to the sea to start a business.

At first, Li Hongmei felt that the actions of these people were a little incredible, and such thoughts coincided with Teacher Zhang. Mr. Zhang believes that being a teacher is the most stable profession in the world, with a fixed income, the wind can't blow, the rain can't show, where to find such a career.

But with the change of time, those who went to the sea to set up a company, or jumped to work in other companies, have moved out of the building one after another, some have bought their own houses, and some have been given houses by the company.

What hasn't changed is Teacher Zhang and Li Hongmei. Li Hongmei began to complain, complaining that the medical school still did not give Mr. Zhang a house. During these years, several buildings were built in the college, which were used for teaching purposes or as student dormitories. After the resumption of the college entrance examination, the college has been expanding its enrollment every year, and the original teaching facilities have long been unable to keep up with the needs of the situation. One or two faculty dormitories were built, but they were all divided by the professors.

Mr. Zhang is now just a lecturer. He was also a worker, peasant and soldier cadet, and such an identity embarrassed him, and he shouted for a while that the academic qualifications of the worker, peasant and soldier college students were not recognized. He and Li Hongmei reviewed together, took the exam again, and finally passed, but their academic qualifications are still questionable, first others began to look down on the workers, peasants and soldiers college students, and later, gradually, they themselves began to doubt themselves. When I talk about my identity, I feel blush.

If they talk about seniority in this way, for another ten years, Mr. Zhang will not be able to share the house, in that case, they can only live in a smoky building. They were embarrassed by the situation.

When everyone lives the same life, they feel that fate is fair and there is nothing. Just like Li Hongmei cut in line at the beginning, then went to college, and finally lived in a tube building, she even felt that she was very lucky, so she felt satisfied. Now that she is not paying attention, her life has been left behind by others, and her state of mind can be imagined.

She worked as a doctor in the surgery department of the affiliated hospital, and the situation was not good, until now, her reputation was only an assistant physician, not to mention major surgery, such as a small operation like the appendix could not be her turn, she could only be an assistant to others, and after others had done the operation, she would stitch it up herself, or check the ward or something.

Hospitals have been reformed, and everyone's income is tied to their job title and how many surgeries they have performed. In this way, Li Hongmei's income is far away from those attending doctors. Those attending doctors sometimes get nearly 1,000 yuan a month, and themselves, except for some night shift subsidies, only have that dead salary, which adds up to a few hundred yuan.

Days like this have thrown her heart out of balance. To improve the living conditions of the family, it seems that there is no hope for Mr. Zhang. In desperation, she could only envy others from afar.

Inadvertently, Li Hongmei's life has quietly changed again.

The Department of Surgery of the Affiliated Hospital was admitted to a division chief. The director's surname is Wang, and he is not an ordinary director, but the director of the Department of Health in charge of medical devices. What kind of medical equipment is equipped in all hospitals in the province must be personally approved by Director Wang, so Director Wang gets the same VIP treatment when he lives in the affiliated hospital.

Director Wang wanted to cut off his appendix and was admitted to the affiliated hospital. For the sake of safety and to be responsible for Director Wang's body, Director Wang had to recuperate in the hospital for a period of time before he could operate.

Li Hongmei followed the attending doctor to check Director Wang's room several times, and also measured Director Wang's blood pressure and body temperature several times. Director Wang seems to be very friendly to Li Hongmei, and always has nothing to say to Li Hongmei.

Every time Li Hongmei appeared in the ward, she always wore a white coat and a mask, and she naturally looked very calm. Director Wang said, "Dr. Li, your eyes are so beautiful."

Li Hongmei hadn't heard such words for a long time, and these words made her heart warm once. She smiled at Director Wang with her eyes.

Director Wang is in his forties, and he is well maintained, and he is white and clean. In the hospital, he also speaks in a gentle and approachable tone.

Director Wang has many friends, and since he was admitted to the hospital, the people who have come to visit him have never stopped, the room is full of flowers, and the nutritional products are piled up into a small mountain.

Li Hongmei didn't see Director Wang's wife appear, and from that moment, she began to pay attention to Director Wang.