The two admission tickets in another document bag are very important to Chen Qi and Lan Lijuan personally.

These are two admission tickets for Haidong Medical University’s correspondence undergraduate program.

Even if you want to study correspondence courses in the future, you will still need to take the National College Entrance Examination for Adults, and then be admitted based on the score line, which is fair and just.

But this was in 1983, when all this was not that large-scale, and correspondence courses were still on a pilot basis, with each provincial medical school conducting independent examinations and recruiting students independently.

Of course, the gold content is much higher than that of later generations. Although the correspondence undergraduate courses these days are not as good as the full-time undergraduate courses, they are not much different.

Unlike later generations, these correspondence colleges and technical secondary schools were all taught by Hu Nong people. If you want to find a job with this kind of diploma, almost all employers will not recognize it.

The First Affiliated Hospital of Haidong Medical University, as a subordinate unit of Haidong Medical University, everyone is a family, so there will be many internal preferential policies.

For example, this correspondence undergraduate program is an internal benefit for employees of the unit, giving college students from the first affiliated college a chance to obtain an undergraduate diploma.

It has independent admissions and independent examinations. Of course, Hainan Medical University has the final say on the level of scores. Anyway, most people will definitely be able to pass, unless you are really bad.

Moreover, the academic duration is only 2 years, and the teaching location is in the First Affiliated Hospital of the Province.

Anyway, the professors of Maritime Medical University are themselves doctors from the First Affiliated Hospital, which saves them the time of running around. Therefore, it is an internal employee benefit and is basically not open to the outside world.

Teacher Li Baotian helped Chen Qi and Lan Lijuan get two exam places through his personal connections and asking many people.

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From technical secondary school students, they have the opportunity to become undergraduates. This can save at least 4 years of academic education for Chen Qi and Lan Lijuan. After all, Yuezhong Health School only has college correspondence courses.

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the two students, Li Baotian was extremely satisfied, but he still joked:

"How about it, Dean Chen, my quota has been secured for you. Whether you can pass the exam tomorrow depends on your personal ability. Don't cry if you fail the exam."

Chen Qi thought to himself that with the current difficulty level of the exam, he could be an examiner directly, so how could he fail the exam?

"Teacher Li, you underestimate me too much. Let alone taking the undergraduate exam, I have no problem letting me take the PhD exam now. Why don't you get me another PhD spot?"

"Haha, okay, if you are ambitious, then I will wait for my doctoral student to be born. By the way, the new building of your health center is being built, right? I have seen your Huang Tan experience in the provincial capital newspaper, everyone

The response has been very positive.”

"The new hospital is already under construction. It's just a few rows of bungalows, and they can be built very quickly. In addition to visiting you this time, I also want to purchase an X-ray machine and a color ultrasound machine. I now rely on my own blind guesses to perform surgeries.

, this is too risky.

My skills are high and I can guess pretty well, but my colleagues are definitely not that good, so I have to buy these auxiliary examinations even if I tighten my belt. When I am no longer in Huangtan, they can continue to carry out smoothly.

Work, so that medical accidents will not continue.”

Li Baotian nodded and said in agreement:

"You're right. Auxiliary examinations are an indispensable helper in surgery. To be honest, I'm actually quite worried about you. For example, last time you had a huge abdominal tumor removed and you didn't go directly to the stage for any auxiliary examinations. Now that I think about it, I have a headache.

I'm sweating."

Chen Qi thought to himself that I was hiding this from you, old man. I have done both bedside B-ultrasound and bedside CT, so I was confident, otherwise I wouldn’t dare.

The few of them chatted for a while. Because Li Baotian was busy with work, Chen Qi and Lan Lijuan left first and made an appointment to have dinner together in the evening.

Coming out of the administrative building, two young people strolled in the first affiliated hospital. Lan Lijuan pointed to a small bungalow in the corner of the hospital and said:

"Chen Qi, look there, that's the Department of Infectious Diseases. I visited it a few times when I was bored. It was really eye-opening."

In his heart, Chen Qi does not want his girlfriend to work in the infectious disease department. The risk of exposure in this department is too high. If you are not careful, you will be infected or even lose your life.

But his girlfriend was enthusiastic about this, so he didn't dare to show it, so he could only joke:

"Then let's work hard and strive to be transferred here in ten or twenty years. Then you will be the director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, and I will be the director of the Department of Surgery. We, both male and female, will be invincible throughout the country."

"Shit, you, a barefoot doctor from the countryside, have such a bad tone?"

"Hmph, if you dare to look down on your husband, you deserve to be beaten, but the devil sees you as a stick!"

The two of them ran out of the hospital playfully and walked towards Wulin Road, where the shopping malls are most concentrated.

It is already July, and in three months the two will get married, so preparations for the wedding have to be started.

The house is ready-made and there is no need to prepare anything. This alone puts it ahead of most young workers.

For example, in the large courtyard houses in the capital, a few members of a family live in a shabby bungalow with an area of ​​more than ten square meters. When young people get married, they can only build a house in the courtyard. This is very difficult because almost all the open space in the courtyard is occupied.

These days, units have welfare housing allocation, but in the declining era of state-owned enterprises, most units have no money to build new dormitories, which also results in young people not being able to get welfare housing allocation.

The same situation is also true in Vietnam and China. Except for the People's Hospital, which has a newly built employee community a few years ago, the second hospital and the fourth hospital are all old employee dormitories and tube buildings.

As for this, young doctors don’t get to be assigned rooms. Singles can still live in large collective dormitories, with ten people sharing a room.

Newly married young people can only rent a house. Rent is also a heavy burden in this era, because a considerable part of your salary has to support your family, especially those who live in rural areas.

Provincial Department Store Building, this is the largest shopping mall in Haidong Province, with 4 floors above and below, and there are so many customers coming and going.

This shopping mall is a must-stop spot for people traveling to the provincial capital on business trips from all over the province, even if they don’t buy anything, it’s good to just take in the excitement.

Lan Lijuan looked at the dazzling array of products and was so nervous that she swallowed her saliva.

Don't laugh at her for her lack of knowledge. In fact, she is just a 21-year-old country boy. When has she ever seen such a big scene?

Of course, except for the old driver Chen, so seeing that his girlfriend was a little timid, Chen Qi wanted to hold his girlfriend's hand generously and give her courage and confidence.

As soon as the two of them were holding hands, they heard an older salesperson next to them cough a few times and use his eyes to signal the two of them to behave themselves.

It immediately made Lan Lijuan blush.

Chen Qi had no choice but to bend down and beg for mercy. He was not a weakling. It was because the salespersons these days were too powerful and could not quarrel with them.

Besides, this is 1983...

The clothes on Chen Qi and Lan Lijuan can only be regarded as clean and tidy. At best, they are unpretentious, and at worst, they are unpretentious.

Lan Lijuan's trousers didn't even cover the instep, the trousers only reached the ankles, and with a pair of ordinary cloth shoes, she was really tacky.

What's even more rustic is her hairstyle, which is still made of two "twisted braids", which are then thrown up from the back and hung on the shoulders.

With those big eyes and small round face, she looks like a girl from the village named Xiaofang.

If it were just in Keqiao Town, where the Fourth Hospital is located, or in Yuezhong City, Lan Lijuan's dress could only be said to be following the crowd, very ordinary, neither standing out nor lagging behind.

But in the provincial capital, especially in this department store, this look is not enough.

No matter how beautiful your round face is and how bright your eyes are, in this fifth year of reform and opening up, in this materialistic society, it is still synonymous with "poor".

When a girl like this walks in a department store, the salespeople will look down upon you.

It's just like when you go to a luxury store in the future, the salespersons' nostrils are pointed upward, and they tell you "don't touch it if you don't want to buy it."

If Chen Qi was a pauper, he would have tolerated it, but now he is at the top of the working class in terms of savings and monthly income. How can he let his girlfriend dress so plainly?

"Lijuan, come on, try this pink shirt, and this one with patterns, well, pair it with this little floral skirt..."

"Chen Qi, I, I haven't worn a skirt, I'd be embarrassed to wear it out."

"What are you embarrassed about? You have such a good figure, it would be a pity not to wear a skirt. Look at the fabric, it's made of cotton, how nice it is."

The salesperson next to him burst out laughing:

"Comrade, I really don't know whether you are generous or stingy. The best fabric is of course Doliang. All the big cadres wear this. Why did you choose pure cotton? Haha."

Chen Qi also chuckled, thinking you know nothing. The polyester is made of chemical fiber cloth. It is not warm in winter and not breathable in summer. Only fools wear this kind of polyester silk cloth.

In later generations, no one would pick up this kind of cloth if it was thrown on the street.

All cotton is always YYDS.

Before Chen Qi could refute, Lan Lijuan stopped him and smiled at the salesperson:

"Comrade, I like cotton. My work often requires me to work in a laboratory. I cannot wear static-charged fabrics."

When the salesperson suddenly understood, he smiled and said nothing more. The people working in the laboratory these days are all high-level intellectuals, and they are not the same as the salesperson.

Of course, Lan Lijuan didn't buy too many clothes in the end. She just bought a skirt, a pair of pants, and two shirts.

In the end, with Chen Qi’s repeated insistence, I bought a red dress that was said to be from Dongguang Province and in the Xiangjiang style to wear on the wedding day.

The total cost was 285 yuan. The price almost made Lan Lijuan vomit blood. If Chen Qi hadn't stopped her, she would have returned it.

The most expensive thing is that skirt made in Dongguang Province. A set of clothes costs 210 yuan. Chen Qi thought to himself, this is really the golden age for making clothes.

Those who are not afraid of hardship can make a small fortune by taking a train to Dongguang Province and carrying a large bag of the latest clothes and selling them back. Of course, the prerequisite is that they don't get stolen or robbed on the way.

No joke, if you go south, your train will pass through Juzhou in Haidong Province and enter Xijiang Province. The brave gangsters will even dare to rob the train, right?

Lan Lijuan herself was reluctant to buy more clothes, but she was surprisingly generous to Chen Qi.

The little girl spent her own money to buy Dean Chen two pairs of pants, two white shirts, and a pair of leather shoes. More than 100 yuan was gone.

Lan Lijuan doesn't make extra money like Chen Qi. She just earns some dead wages, which are all the money she saves.

The two spent a long time shopping for clothes, and then went to a bedding store to buy some sheets and pillow cushions. The four-piece and eight-piece sets that Chen Qi was familiar with were not available. If you want to cover yourself with a quilt, you need to sew it together stitch by stitch.

Some people may ask, where did the two protagonists buy so many things, where did they get the cloth tickets?

This is because Haidong Province is the most important fabric production base in the country and has no shortage of fabric at all, so it became the first country in the country to cancel cloth stamps.

As for the cancellation of nationwide ticket distribution, it will have to wait for another half a year, until December, before it will be canceled nationwide.

The reason why Haidong Province later became the most developed province in the country is because it has always been at the forefront of the country's reform and opening up.
To be continued...