I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 175: Deliberately Seizing an Opportunity

"Yuan Xiu, this is the prescription for the VIP ward. Please prepare it and decoct it quickly. I need to send it up right away." A young female nurse handed Yuan Xiu a stack of prescriptions.

Yuan Xiu took the prescriptions and looked at them. She then arranged the prescriptions on the counter according to the names of the patients in each ward, and quickly laid out brown paper under each prescription before starting to dispense the medicine.

She didn't have a prescription in her hand. She glanced at it, noted down the names and weights of the herbs, and then, holding a steelyard in one hand, pulled open a drawer with the other and took out the medicine.

Reaching into the medicine cabinet, he grabbed a small handful of herbs and placed them into the small round dish on the scale, then poured them onto the kraft paper on the counter. Throughout the entire process, there were almost no unnecessary movements of repeatedly taking the herbs and precisely measuring them on the scale...

"Wait a minute!" the nurse suddenly said.

Yuan Xiu paused, her hand still holding the medicine. "What's wrong?"

The nurse didn't say anything, but looked over and carefully examined the weight on the scale and the weight written on the prescription.

Three grams?

It really was three grams; she hadn't weighed it wrong.

How can her hands be so accurate?

While Yuan Xiu was getting the medicine, Hao Jia sat to the side waiting for it to be ready so she could take it to the back of the pharmacy to be decocted. Seeing this, Hao Jia scoffed, "Yuan Xiu's hands are more accurate than a steelyard balance; three grams is three grams, no mistake. Besides, we still use a steelyard balance, do you think our pharmacy would dispense medicine haphazardly?"

The nurse awkwardly released her hand. "I was just looking."

Hao Jia scoffed, "You guys must have a lot of free time. I've never seen you standing here watching over us when we get our medicine. You always gave us the prescription, and we'd pick it up after it was prepared or decocted. But these past few days you've had so much free time, watching over us even when we're getting our medicine. Are you coming with me when I go to decoct the medicine later?"

The nurse retorted, "These are medications for the VIP ward. The patients there are mostly military leaders and retired cadres. I have to be extra careful. Don't make it sound like I'm deliberately causing trouble. I'm just worried that your pharmacy might make a mistake."

"You're not afraid our pharmacy will make a mistake, you're actually hoping it will!"

Hao Jia didn't hold back at all. Anyway, she wasn't interested in the university recommendation quota, so she wasn't afraid of being caught out or offending people so that no one would vote for her.

"You're clearly just looking for trouble! Don't think we can't see through you. Those few people from your nursing department have come and gone several times already. Do I need to call them out?"

The nurse was furious, glared at Hao Jia, and left.

Hao Jia spat at her retreating figure, "See, see, I told you they did it on purpose. They caused trouble for the Western medicine pharmacy and now they're trying to find fault with our traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy. They definitely see you as a competitor."

Yuan Xiu laughed and said, "Why would you think it's me? Don't you see me as a competitor?"

"Me?" Hao Jia pointed to her nose. "The whole hospital knows that I have no ambition. If I had even a little ambition, my uncle wouldn't be so disappointed in me."

Since Yuan Xiu arrived, the sentence her uncle, Director Hao, said to her most often was: "Why don't you learn from Yuan Xiu! If you had worked as hard as her when you were in school, you wouldn't have only studied pharmacy."

There's another saying: "If you had even a little ambition, you wouldn't be working in a pharmacy for years."

Hao Jia was also very magnanimous; anyone with a narrow mind would have held a grudge against Yuan Xiu.

In the eyes of her uncle, Director Hao, Yuan Xiu's future was not in the pharmacy, and if Hao Jia continued like this, she would never be able to leave the pharmacy for the rest of her life.

"Actually, they shouldn't treat me as a competitor." Yuan Xiu puffed out her belly. "Instead of focusing on me, they should be focusing on their own people within the nursing department."

"I think so too. I don't know what they're thinking. You're pregnant, how can you go to university? What will happen to the baby if you go to university?"

Hao Jia asked Yuan Xiu, "Do you know who spearheaded this 'combat team'?"

I really don't know Yuan Xiu.

"Wang Xiaomei!"

"Her? No wonder, she's always disliked me."

Hao Jia curled her lip. "Who does she even like? She can't stand anyone more talented than her. The few around her are just as good as her. The higher-ups naturally see the truly capable and talented people. Who would associate with them?"

"Knowing that her professional skills are not up to par, she tries to find other ways to cheat. Someone like Wang Xiaomei, with those two spots, there's no way she would have gotten them. I think she's just wasting her time! She's just rushing ahead to clear obstacles for others."

After Yuan Xiu finished picking up the medicine, Hao Jia took it to the medicine-decocting room in the back to brew it. Yuan Xiu wanted to help, but Hao Jia waved her hand, "Don't come and smell the medicine. I can do it by myself. It's not much. When I have children in the future, I won't compete with you for it. This will definitely be your job."

There aren't many inpatients in the Traditional Chinese Medicine department. Most of them are high-ranking officials staying in the VIP ward, especially retired senior cadres. They are in poor health and are more suited to the gentle tonification of Traditional Chinese Medicine than to the strong effects of Western medicine.

The task of decocting the medicine was then taken care of by Yuan Xiu and Hao Jia.

Yuan Xiu smiled and agreed, "Okay, I'll be waiting."

……

On his way home from get off work, Jiang Zhou brought up the matter of the worker-peasant-soldier college student recommendation quota.

"Your hospital has five openings this year. Has the leadership discussed this in a meeting?"

Yuan Xiu shook her head before realizing he couldn't see her because she was sitting in the back. "No, anyway, it's been quite a spectacle these past few days over these few spots. Even I've been considered a competitor. Isn't that funny?"

"Who considers you a competitor?" Jiang Zhou glanced back at her. "It's not funny to consider you a competitor. It's not like you're incapable of competing with them."

Yuan Xiu smiled and patted him on the back: "Thank you for thinking so highly of me."

"I'm serious."

Jiang Zhou said, "The allocation of quotas will take into account a variety of factors. In terms of personal performance, whether as a military dependent or a hospital employee, your performance has been excellent, and your status as a military dependent is a plus. Your ordinary colleagues at the hospital don't know that you also contributed to the capture of the spy, but the higher-ups all know. Do you think you're not competitive with these advantages?"

After he said that, Yuan Xiu suddenly realized what he meant.

So she really did have it!

"Commander Ye mentioned you," Jiang Zhou said.

"Commander Ye mentioned me again? What did he say this time?"

"He first talked about the university recommendation quota, then asked about you, saying he heard you were known for your love of learning among military spouses, and that military spouses need leaders like you to set an example... You know what he meant, right?"

Yuan Xiu was a little confused. Of course she understood. It meant that if she wanted to go to this university this year, she would likely qualify for the university recommendation quota.

As long as Commander Ye asks the hospital, one of the spots will be hers.