Zhejiang Medical College

In the early days of liberation, an intellectual remained unemployed at home for a long time, lacking a government unit as a place to settle. To put it bluntly, he was the dregs left over from the old society, or, to put it more seriously, an unincarcerated counter-revolutionary. The lack of a source of income was already secondary. Coincidentally, as Zuying was about to graduate during the summer vacation and we hoped she would stay and work in Hangzhou after graduation, we entrusted Dr. Shi Huayu, the chief of the thoracic surgery department of the medical college, at the end of April to find her a job drawing anatomical diagrams in the anatomy room. In early September, when the medical college needed staff, Zuying returned to Shanghai due to illness and accepted a position at the Shanghai Railway Bureau’s children’s school, with no intention of returning to Hangzhou. However, the medical college urgently needed a draftsman, so Dr. Shi thought that since I was unemployed anyway, I could fill this vacancy. The favorable condition was that I didn’t need to go to work, just submit six drawings per month. I thought this was perfect, as it provided me with a means of subsistence, and six anatomical drawings would only take me 2 days, leaving the remaining 20+ days for my own affairs. So I agreed.