"Does your hospital have a back door?" Song Xiaodong asked. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"Yes, but it's useless. These people have already got a clear understanding of the hospital's situation. There's someone guarding the back door too, just waiting for me to come out," Lin Su'er said.

"Alright then, I'm going in." Song Xiaodong went into the hospital to find Lin Su'er.

Song Xiaodong and Lin Su'er were having lunch in the hospital cafeteria.

"Ugh, being the director, I feel like a turtle hiding in its shell," Lin Su'er looked at the food in front of her with no appetite.

"It's alright, don't worry, they'll definitely leave this afternoon," Song Xiaodong reassured Lin Su'er with a pat on the shoulder.

"Brother Xiaodong, what did you do?" Lin Su'er asked Song Xiaodong nervously.

"Oh, why are you afraid? Even if things get really bad, you'll just be dismissed," Song Xiaodong comforted Lin Su'er.

"Well, that's true, but it's pitiful that I haven't even warmed the director's seat yet and I'm already about to lose the job," Lin Su'er sighed.

"You're such a little power fanatic!" Song Xiaodong laughed as he spoke to Lin Su'er.

"I got the city inspectors to stop the aunties from getting their food delivered, took away their meals along with their tricycles, leaving them to go hungry during their sit-in," Song Xiaodong said with a grin.

"You're so wicked!" Lin Su'er reproached Song Xiaodong, but secretly felt a bit pleased.

"I'll stir them up again this afternoon, and they surely won't dare come tomorrow," Song Xiaodong told Lin Su'er.

"Alright, I'm not planning to stay on either, so get even for me!"

After eating, Song Xiaodong went back to his car to continue watching the drama.

The aunties were no longer just sitting; by two o'clock in the afternoon sun, they were sweating and shiny, whispering at first, then loudly discussing.

"Why hasn't Guilan shown up yet?"

"Yeah, we're starving and thirsty here!"

"Maybe she got held up!"

"But she delivers it on the dot at 12 every day, how could she be delayed?"

"What's there to delay? It's not that far from here!"

"Did you call Xiulan?"

"Yes, I did, but no one answered!"

The auntie responsible for delivering food and water, named Guilan, had been taken with her tricycle to the Administrative Enforcement Bureau by one of their vehicles, and was there awaiting investigation and report filing, with three other vehicles on standby at the hospital entrance.

"Let's just call the place that sells boxed lunches on the street."

"I don't have their number!"

"I do!"

"Hello, is this the place selling boxed lunches?"

"Ah, yes, it is."

"We want, let me see, one, two, three, four... sixteen boxes, delivered to the entrance of ** hospital."

"Alright, alright, please hold on."

Soon, the boxed lunch vendor pedaled their tricycle towards the hospital direction, but spotting three Administrative Enforcement vehicles parked on the roadside, they quickly turned around and left, pedaling even harder than on the way there.

A group of aunties, hungry, thirsty, and hot, began calling their head: "Xiao Liu, how come you can't get the food delivered? Why hasn't Guilan come yet?"

"Tell Guilan not to come, we've bought boxed lunches ourselves!"

"By the way, let's also buy some ice cream, it's clearly autumn, why is it so hot?"

The boxed lunch vendor called back shortly: "Sorry, the city inspectors are here, I can't deliver your food."

"What?"

Before long, the water and ice cream delivery also called, saying they couldn't deliver.

The air began to fill with the scent of middle-aged women's sweat-drenched shirts and body odor.

Song Xiaodong was in his car, enjoying the air conditioning and sipping a soda, leisurely observing for a while, then picked up the phone to call Director Li of the Traffic Administration Bureau: "Hello? Director Li?"

"Yes, and you are, Mr. Song?"

"It's me, Song Xiaodong!"

"Oh, Mr. Song, what brings you to call me today?"

"Here's the thing, Director Li. I'm passing by ** hospital in Haishan District, and I noticed the dust on the road here is quite severe, with many vehicles passing by, creating a lot of dust that really affects the safety and health of pedestrians and drivers. So I wanted to call and ask if you could handle it?"

"Ah, yes, this place does have that issue. The road is a bit old and the asphalt surface is aging, so the dust problem is indeed quite serious. Originally, there were plans to build a new road here, but since it's near a hospital, to ensure the hospital's normal operation, only minor repairs and maintenance were done." Director Li replied.

"Yes, indeed, since the weather is dry in autumn, I hope Director Li can arrange for a cleaning and watering truck to keep the road surface at the hospital entrance moist."

"Of course, Mr. Song, I'll see to it right away."

Song Xiaodong hung up the phone, and the group of aunties, both hungry and hot, reached the limits of their patience.

"I can't take it anymore, I'm leaving, I'm going to get some food. I'm going to die under this sun." Finally, one auntie, overheated, left her seat.

A group of aunties immediately followed suit, all abandoning their sit-in spots and heading to a small alley next to the hospital.

These professional protesters surely live up to their skills, able to conduct a sit-in like pros, sitting still until they're dizzy from hunger.

All the aunties, dizzy with hunger, left their sit-in spots without leaving anyone to guard them. The hospital's security saw the opportunity, rushed out, took all the mats, stools, and old newspapers and books the aunties had brought, and threw them into the smelly ditch by the road.

By the time the aunties, full and satisfied, returned an hour later, laughing and chatting, with sodas and ice creams in hand, they found their mats, stools, old newspapers, and books were gone.