I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 255: Your mosquitoes are huge!

"...The moon moved through clouds like white lotus blossoms, and the evening breeze carried joyful songs. We sat beside the tall haystacks, listening to Mother tell stories of the past..."

Yuan Xiu sat on the edge of the bed, singing softly.

The room was lit only by a dim, yellow lamp, the soft light falling on the two children's faces.

The two little ones slept head to head, their eyelids drooping as she gently patted them and sang softly.

"Mother……"

Qiaoqiao opened her eyes and called out groggily.

"Sleep, sleep, my dear baby," Yuan Xiu coaxed softly.

"Not running..."

After saying that, he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Yuan Xiu: "..."

He reached out and tucked the blankets in for them, then got up, turned off the lights, went out, and closed the door.

The children's room was right next to theirs, and Yuan Xiu took a few steps before entering her and Jiang Zhou's master bedroom.

Jiang Zhou had already washed up and was lying in bed wearing a blanket, waiting for her.

"Asleep?" he asked.

Seeing Yuan Xiu nod, he continued, "You fell asleep quickly today."

Yuan Xiu sat at the dressing table and applied face cream. "Just a moment before she fell asleep, she was saying 'I'm not going to run.' As soon as she said that, she fell asleep immediately. Look at you, you scared Qiao Qiao so much that she still remembers it even when she's sleeping."

"They are at the perfect age to start running. Training should start from a young age. They are young now, so two or three times a week is enough. We can gradually increase the time later."

Yuan Xiu looked at him in the mirror. "You said you'd do it every day at the beginning."

Jiang Zhou cleared his throat and changed the subject, "Are you done yet?"

Yuan Xiu slowed her movements even further. "What's the rush?"

She wasn't in a hurry, but someone else was. Jiang Zhou got out of bed and reached out to pull her up.

Yuan Xiu deliberately dawdled, "Oh dear, can't you wait a little while? You're almost thirty, but you still think you're in your early twenties."

Jiang Zhou lifted her up in one swift motion. "What do you mean almost thirty? I'm only twenty-eight!"

He laid her on the bed and pressed himself against her. "What do you mean by that? Are you saying I'm not as good as I used to be?"

Yuan Xiu thought to herself: Oh no!

"That's not what I meant. I meant we have to accept it..."

Before he could finish speaking, his mouth was covered.

With a click, the lights in the room went out.

"...Ouch, be gentle."

"Don't bite me, are you a dog or something..."

"The blanket, the blanket..."

……

The next day, Yuan Xiu went to work while yawning.

"Did you not sleep well?" I ran into Hao Jia as soon as I entered the hospital.

"Ha!" Yuan Xiu blinked the tears welling up in her eyes. "It's not that I didn't sleep well."

It's because I slept too well.

Hao Jia, with her sharp eyes, immediately noticed the red mark on her neck. Being a married woman herself, she naturally knew what it was. She smiled suggestively and deliberately asked, "Oh, what's that red mark on your neck?"

Yuan Xiu rolled her eyes at her. "It's from a mosquito bite."

"Wow, your mosquitoes are huge! They must be at least 1.9 meters tall!"

Yuan Xiu: "..."

Today, the hospital had the most interns reporting for duty. Apart from a few hospital staff who had gone to university with Yuan Xiu and studied medicine, the rest were all interns who had been assigned there.

"Yuan Xiu has arrived."

Director Hao waved to Yuan Xiu, who was knocking on the door, and pointed to a tall, thin man in a white coat standing with his back to the door, saying, "This is also an intern assigned to your medical school's Traditional Chinese Medicine department. You should know him, right?"

The man turned to Yuan Xiu and smiled, "We know each other, we're classmates."

Yuan Xiu smiled and nodded to Xia Yang, "He's our class's study committee member."

Director Hao had reviewed the files and, having worked in the TCM industry for many years, naturally knew Xia Yang's background. Almost his entire family was in the medical field, and he had many connections in the medical community. However, no matter how many connections he had, he treated everyone the same. "That's good. Then Comrade Xia Yang will also work with Dr. Sun. Yuan Xiu, you are a long-time employee of our hospital, so please take good care of Comrade Xia Yang."

Yuan Xiu naturally agreed.

After handing the documents to Director Hao, Yuan Xiu took Xia Yang out.

"Why are you at our hospital? I remember we said you might be assigned to the Municipal Central Hospital for your internship?"

Xia Yang adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose. "I didn't want to go to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Going there would mean doing an internship right under my family's noses. I wanted a different environment, and I ended up here."

Xia Yang wanted to go to the grassroots level, to places with difficulties. He couldn't go against his family's arrangements, and his family was afraid that he would actually write an application to go to a remote place, so they found a way to transfer him here.

When it comes to internships, if you want to go to a good place, you can't; you have to accept the assignment. But if you want to go to a remote place, you can go whenever you want.

"People who want to go to traditional Chinese medicine hospitals can't even get in, but you, you insist on going to a combined hospital like ours."

"I know who you're talking about," Xia Yang said.

Since last year, Ding Xuewen has been trying to curry favor with me and even managed to bump into me at his home. Unfortunately, his family members are all shrewd and wouldn't let someone like Ding Xuewen use them as a stepping stone.

"Ding Xuewen was assigned to the pharmaceutical factory's staff hospital, right?" Yuan Xiu asked.

"Yes. I heard they applied for the internship at their factory."

The level of the staff hospital is equivalent to that of a primary care hospital.

Because this year's college graduates were the first cohort, they were generally given priority in being assigned to top-tier hospitals, key universities, military hospitals, and teaching hospitals, with very few being assigned to grassroots hospitals.

Ding Xuewen was the only student in his class who was assigned to a grassroots hospital for an internship.

Yuan Xiu suspected that the pharmaceutical factory's staff hospital might have some kind of grudge against Ding Xuewen.

If the pharmaceutical company doesn't apply, Ding Xuewen will basically not be assigned to a grassroots hospital for his internship.

Yuan Xiu led Xia Yang into Doctor Sun's consultation room and introduced Xia Yang to him.

"Alright, alright, it's the same whether I'm herding one sheep or two. With you here, I can relax a bit more." Doctor Sun stared at Xia Yang for a few moments. "A young man with no experience is unreliable. Why don't you grow a beard?"

Xia Yang covered his chin and shook his head.

"Tsk! What's wrong with a man growing a beard? If you grow a beard, I won't have to explain it to each patient individually."

When it comes to traditional Chinese medicine, people tend to trust senior doctors, and the older the doctor, the more sought-after they are. Few people trust younger doctors, and even if you say you're a college graduate, people still look at you with suspicion.

"Please don't give me any advice, old man. Xia Yang doesn't even have a girlfriend yet. How is he going to find one with a beard? Are you going to take responsibility for that?"

Dr. Sun's eyes lit up. "I'll take responsibility! I know a nice young lady, about the same age as Xia. When can I introduce you two?"

"No, no, I don't want to find a partner right now." Xia Yang gave Yuan Xiu a resentful look, she really knew how to rub salt in the wound.

Yuan Xiu touched the tip of her nose.

"Why don't you want to find someone anymore? You young people don't even know what it means to settle down before building a career. Look how proactive Xiao Yuan is! He's only two years older than you, and his child is already in kindergarten! You need to hurry up with your personal life, Comrade Xia!"

"Yes, I just want to wait until after my internship is over before I think about dating. It'll be more appropriate to start dating after I'm assigned to a job."

Dr. Sun nodded, "That's true. It would be even better if they worked for the same company. It's easier for dual-income couples to get housing, and they might even get a bigger one."

Xia Yang: How did we end up talking about room allocation again?

"Yes, you're right, that's exactly what I think..."