Chapter 2255 - 2255:

So, Liu Zhizhong told Doctor Wang Tian and Nurse Yang Xiang.

First, he thanked them for their treatment and care, and also thanked Yang Xiang's boyfriend; it really was an unexpected kind of therapy that had benefited him.

Second, about the fact that he'd woken up, please don't announce it to the outside world for the time being. I want to rest quietly and recover, and when I can really be discharged, then we'll talk. As for the matter between me and Director Zhang Xiaoyang, I'll handle it myself.

Third, could you send me some newspapers, books and such every day? I need something to pass the time.

These requests were all quite reasonable and orderly, so the doctor and nurse agreed.

Thus, over the next almost two months, Liu Zhizhong stayed in Shunping Second Hospital, recuperating and at the same time catching up on information from the outside world.

After all, he'd been a vegetable for more than two years; some information simply couldn't have kept pace, he could only slowly make it up.

Back in college he'd already wanted to go into politics; as a campus prodigy, his political sensitivity was very strong.

Of course, Nurse Yang Xiang even lent him a tablet so he could get to know the world faster and more comprehensively — she really was quite thoughtful.

Anyway, being a patient who was an City Organization Department selected civil service candidate — that title was pretty good at impressing the little nurses in a county seat, hehe...

By the time the two months were up, Liu Zhizhong's recovery was quite good.

His figure recovered, his strength recovered, and the image of a healthy, sunny young man unfolded before people's eyes.

Of course, in those deep eyes of his, there was a trace of calm and steadiness that his peers couldn't reach, incredibly mature.

This quality is truly rare.

It's hard to imagine this is someone who'd been in a coma as a vegetable for more than two years, and after waking he's only twenty‑five, yet his expression and bearing are far from ordinarily steady!

And in these two months, Liu Zhizhong had already grasped the current state of the entire administrative officialdom like the back of his hand.

History really is nothing but low‑end cycles over and over; officialdom is roughly like that. It's still an era that talks about background, connections, and hugging big thighs — who can escape?

Even if you're an absolute genius, without those things, no matter how capable you are, it's equivalent to being incapable.

Back to reality, he needed a new departure. Only, for a young person who was supposed to be completely blank about officialdom, he seemed to already understand a lot.

He truly needed to thank someone, namely Nurse Yang Xiang's boyfriend, who was now furthering his studies in a Hospital in the Provincial City and wouldn't be back for a while.

But, how to thank him?

Right now Liu Zhizhong was basically without father or mother, without home or friends; his phone was unusable, he had no computer, and very little money.

When he was transferred to Shunping Second Hospital back then, his phone had come along, but it had sat in a locker for more than two years, and now it wouldn't even turn on.

At the same time, his number had been directly cancelled for being in arrears for more than two years.

His laptop had been bought with money he earned from part‑time jobs, but during the conflict it had been smashed by Zhang Xiaoyang — that, at least, he could ask him to compensate.

There were still three thousand yuan in his bank card.

Those three thousand yuan, hehe, had been all his possessions when he graduated from university and returned to Dongnan City.

Originally, he should have reported to the City Organization Department immediately, then been assigned a job, gone straight to a unit where there'd be accommodation arranged and so on; for meals he could just eat in the canteen and muddle through.

The result...

Because of a woman, alas... he and Zhang Xiaoyang had a fierce drunken conflict, and he accidentally became a vegetable.

When the time was about right, Liu Zhizhong felt he really could be discharged.

A person's future, a lonely road, also requires effort.

In this very realistic era, he felt he would definitely make it.

Through Doctor Wang Tian, Liu Zhizhong let Zhang Xiaoyang know that he'd woken up and was about to be discharged.

Doctor Wang Tian certainly didn't need to ask Director Zhang, "What do you plan to do?" — Zhang Xiaoyang directly told him: "Doctor Wang, don't worry. I'll immediately arrange my current work and get to the hospital as soon as possible. There are some things I need to explain face‑to‑face to Mr. Liu Zhizhong and bring to a close. What I owe him, I'll give him every cent; as long as we don't affect each other's future, that's fine."

When the news reached Liu Zhizhong, he gave a calm smile and nodded. "Mm, this style has a bit of the flavor of a deputy director of the county Party committee office."

Doctor Wang Tian pushed up his glasses frame and said, "Mr. Liu, your situation and Director Zhang's situation really can't be compared! When you meet, you both still need to stay gentle, you can't be impulsive again!"

Liu Zhizhong smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, Doctor Wang, I won't let youthful impulse ruin big things again. If I hadn't been careless, it really wouldn't have been possible for Director Zhang to give me a shove from behind and for me to fall and become a vegetable. This time I just want to have a good talk with him, that's all. It won't lead to any big conflict or trouble that could affect his settlement and payment of the medical expenses, hehe..."

As he was saying this, Yang Xiang came in from outside and said to Wang Tian, "Hey, Doctor Wang, the city medical insurance bureau has notified us that we can process Mr. Liu Zhizhong's medical insurance reimbursement. Because his situation is special, although he hasn't taken up his post yet, he already has the City Organization Department selected civil service identity, so he ought to enjoy administrative medical insurance. As for the reimbursement ratio... looks like now it can reach 90%! This time, hehe..."

As she spoke, she smiled at Liu Zhizhong and said, "So what you have to pay personally will be very little... hee hee..."

This twenty‑seven‑year‑old nurse's eyes at that moment were so bright, full of a kind of cheerful goodness.

Wang Tian just smiled and said, "Yang Xiang, you're still young after all! Now that it can be reimbursed by insurance, do you think Director Zhang Xiaoyang is short of the remaining out‑of‑pocket portion?"

Yang Xiang froze, then chuckled, "Oh right, it should be him paying, hehe... anyway, the Zhang Family has tons of money! For local bureaucratic aristocratic families like them, money really isn't a problem!"

What she said was the plain truth, and both Liu Zhizhong and Wang Tian laughed.

After that, Wang Tian went to do rounds in other wards, leaving Yang Xiang here to see if there was anything else she could help Liu Zhizhong with.

Now Liu Zhizhong was just waiting for Zhang Xiaoyang to come and discuss the follow‑up settlement, and then he'd formally be discharged; there didn't really seem to be anything he needed help with.

However, Yang Xiang said, "Hey, Mr. Liu, your situation is so special. After you're discharged, where can you go? Don't tell me you'll be going to Shunping Welfare Institute?"

In fact, strictly speaking in legal terms, Liu Zhizhong really could only go to Shunping Welfare Institute, because his household registration had always been there. Now his personnel file had been transferred from the university to the City Committee, but it's not like he can go sleep at the City Committee, right?

Once this place was brought up, Liu Zhizhong did feel a bit stuck for the moment, so he said, "Maybe. I could go back to the welfare institute to have a look, but as for living there... I'll stay in a hotel for a few days for now, and after my job is settled, I'll move to the unit."