Chapter 1 Promotion?

"Promoted? Promoted to what?"

Chen Xiao was stunned. Good heavens, he hadn't been to work for so many days. It was already a stroke of luck that he hadn't been fired by the hospital. He never expected a promotion!

Dean Hao took a sip of water and said, spitting out tea leaves, "Song Anran has been gone for so long. You can't keep idling under the guise of being her assistant. It's a waste of time and your talent..."

As soon as Chen Xiao heard this, he immediately understood what Dean Hao meant.

What did he mean by wasting talent? He wanted to tie him to the hospital!

It must be because he hadn't been to work lately, and Dean Hao couldn't fire him, so he came up with this idea.

Then Dean Hao continued, "It just so happens that the position of director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine department has become vacant recently. I think it's time to add some responsibilities to your shoulders. Young man, keep up the good work, I have faith in you!"

As he spoke, Dean Hao spat out another mouthful of tea leaves, then waved his hand, looking impatient.

"Alright, go report for duty, don't waste time with me here."

Chen Xiao was speechless again. What kind of talk was that? What did he mean by him wasting time? It was as if he loved coming here!

But to be honest, when Chen Xiao heard that he had become the director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, he was a little excited.

After all, being able to stay in Jiangcheng Hospital and become the director of a department had once been his lifelong dream!

Although that was a long time ago, and things were different now, a dream was still a dream, whether new or old. Achieving it still made one happy!

It was like not being able to afford a game console as a child, and finally having the money to buy it when he grew up. Although he might no longer have the time or mood to play games, the sense of satisfaction at the moment of buying the game console was still pleasing.

The current Chen Xiao was like that adult who had bought the game console, with an irrepressible surge of emotion and excitement in his heart.

This pleasant feeling, this surge of emotion and excitement, lasted until Chen Xiao walked into the Traditional Chinese Medicine department.

When he found that there was only one person in the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, that joy, that excitement and emotion, were like a balloon flying into the sky, bursting with a 'bang.'

Chen Xiao knew that in this era, Traditional Chinese Medicine had long been in decline, but he still couldn't imagine that the Traditional Chinese Medicine department of Jiangcheng Hospital would be so desolate.

In the huge office, there was only one young man in his early thirties, dozing off on the table.

Chen Xiao walked over and knocked on the man's desk.

Tap tap tap—

The man woke up with a start, picked up his glasses, and looked at Chen Xiao blankly, "Who are you?"

"I'm Chen Xiao."

Chen Xiao's tone was cold, "The new department director."

Chen Xiao naturally couldn't be enthusiastic about a guy who slept on the job.

The man suddenly realized, and immediately became cautious and obsequious, saying with a flattering expression, "So it's Director Chen, you're here, Director Chen, please have a seat!"

Chen Xiao frowned slightly, thinking, since he had arrived at his own department, why did it feel like he was a guest?

At this moment, the man slapped his forehead and said, "Look at me, Director Chen, I was so excited to see you that I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Jia Bing, and I've been in our Traditional Chinese Medicine department for eight years."

Chen Xiao randomly found a chair to sit down and asked, "Where is my office?"

Jia Bing said with an embarrassed expression, "Director Chen, our Traditional Chinese Medicine department hasn't had a director for three years, so the director's office has now become a storage room. If you're not in a hurry, just wait a moment, give me half a day... no, make it a day and a half, and I'll definitely clean it up for you."

"Wait! How many years did you say our department hasn't had a director?"

Chen Xiao almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Three years, what's wrong, Director Chen?"

Jia Bing said with an embarrassed expression.

Chen Xiao was so angry that his teeth itched. Damn it, he had been tricked again by that old thing, Dean Hao!

Wasn't he saying that it had only recently become vacant? Good heavens, so three years ago was also considered recently?

It took Chen Xiao a long time to calm down. Fine, since he was here, he might as well stay.

He looked at Jia Bing and asked, "So, besides you and me, there's no one else in our department, is that right?"

Hearing this, Jia Bing shook his head, "No, no, how could that be? How could there be just the two of us in such a big department!"

Then Jia Bing introduced, "Besides the two of us, our Traditional Chinese Medicine department also has three doctors."

"Then where are they?"

Chen Xiao couldn't help but frown. It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, and they hadn't come to work yet. Weren't they being too unprofessional?

Someone had forgotten that it was him who had been skipping work for several days in a row...

Jia Bing said with an embarrassed expression, "The three of them haven't come yet... Sigh, forget it, Director Chen, let me be frank with you. The three of them all have their own businesses outside, and they usually don't come very often. Even if they do come, it's usually in the afternoon, because they can eat in the cafeteria for free at noon."

Hearing this, Chen Xiao was furious, "That's ridiculous. Does no one care about them? The Traditional Chinese Medicine department hasn't had a director for three years, so isn't there even a deputy director?"

Chen Xiao slammed the table. Having just become the director, he immediately put on airs of authority.

Jia Bing smiled obsequiously, "Director Chen, you guessed right, our Traditional Chinese Medicine department does have deputy directors, and there are even three of them!"

Hearing this, Chen Xiao was instantly dumbfounded.

He asked tentatively, "The three deputy directors you're talking about, wouldn't they be those three?"

Jia Bing smiled bitterly, "That's right, Director Chen, you're so brilliant, you guessed it right away!"

Chen Xiao: "..."

This was truly speechless to the extreme!

Then Jia Bing said again:

"Director Chen, now you know why our Traditional Chinese Medicine department hasn't had a director, right? Because after the old director retired, none of these three were willing to submit to the others. The three of them all felt that they were the most qualified to be the director."

"They fought over it so much, but in the end, none of them got the position. In addition, the status of the Traditional Chinese Medicine department in the entire hospital became lower and lower, so the hospital didn't want to bother with it. That's how it became vacant, and it's been vacant for three years!"

Chen Xiao understood. Not only did these three old-timers think highly of themselves, but they were also disobedient!

Dean Hao wasn't promoting him, he was throwing a hot potato at him.

It wasn't just a hot potato, it was a rotten potato that no one wanted to pick up even if it was dropped on the street.

Seeing Chen Xiao remain silent for a long time, Jia Bing sneered inwardly. Little brat, now you know how deep the water is in the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, right?

He sneered in his heart, but on the surface he had a flattering smile, "Director Chen, you rest first, I'll go over and clean up your office for you!"

Chen Xiao waved his hand, stopping him.

"Forget it, cleaning up the office isn't urgent. The top priority is to call those three deputy directors over here!"

Jia Bing said with a troubled expression, "Director Chen, those three deputy directors are thick-skinned and fearless, I'm afraid I can't get them to come..."

Chen Xiao snorted coldly, "If they dare not come today, they don't need to come in the future. Just say I said so!"