16

It was perfectly normal for Chi Qingyun to take Li Li to the B-ultrasound room through the back door. Because Chi Qingyun was the only doctor in her family compound and a “free health care doctor”, the home phone also became a hotline. When children lose their appetite, when someone catches a cold or falls ill, and even when some of these people’s relatives from other places are ill, regardless of whether they know them or not, people habitually pick up the phone and ask her.

Whenever Chi Qingyun went to the small shop in the courtyard to buy things or to the small barber shop to get a haircut, the owner would always ......