Chapter 282 Who doesn’t love gossip?

The clothing store was not busy, and having Mei and Gao Shufang around was enough, so Gao Mingcheng had most of his free time. He would go back to Gaojia Village every now and then to check on things at home, play with Black Tiger and the elf for a while, and bring some vegetables from the fields.

When he was not returning to Gaojia Village, he would wander around, or go to the police station to talk to Gao Guobing and others, or go to the transportation company and talk to Gao Mingli.

Gao Mingli still stays to work in the sugar factory. This has something to do with his personality. He likes a stable life and does not have the spirit of adventure. Although the current salary in the sugar factory is not high, Gao Mingli does not have the worry of supporting a family, so it doesn't matter to be a moonlighter.

Gao Mingcheng suggested that Gao Mingli move to his house. There were four rooms on the second floor, all of which had been simply decorated.

But Gao Mingli did not move in immediately because his rent at Officer Zhao's house was paid on a monthly basis and he had to live there for a month before he was willing to move out.

That day, Huang Dazhi came to see Gao Mingcheng.

"Mingcheng, the plaster on Xiaoan's leg has been in cast for two months, and it should be time to remove it. Are you free tomorrow?" Huang Dazhi asked. He knew that Gao Mingcheng would often go back and forth to Gaojia Village recently, so he wanted to ask Gao Mingcheng for a favor and take his brother to the county hospital.

Although the operation was performed in the provincial hospital, the technical content of removing the plaster was obviously average and could be done by the county hospital.

In this case, there is naturally no reason to seek something far away rather than something near.

Gao Mingcheng calculated the time and it was indeed time to dismantle it.

So he agreed generously and said, "Okay, then I'll go back early tomorrow and send the person directly to the county hospital."

Huang Dazhi looked grateful and thanked repeatedly.

"There's no need to say all this about our friendship! Dazhi, what do you think about the house?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

Huang Dazhi shook his head and said, "We have to wait and see about the house. Everyone in the bureau knows that I took my parents and brother to the provincial hospital for treatment not long ago. My brother also had an operation, which cost a lot of money, so I can't buy a house right away."

"Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry. I'll take my time to choose."

Huang Dazhi is a very cautious person. Although he could tell others that the money was borrowed from Gao Mingcheng, spending two large sums of money in a short period of time was still very eye-catching.

Everyone in the bureau is an expert at handling cases, so Huang Dazhi dare not reveal too much, so it is better to be cautious in what he says and does.

"You can buy it after that year." Gao Mingcheng nodded, thinking that Huang Dazhi's consideration was very prudent, and then asked about Huang Dazhi's blind date.

Huang Dazhi is not young anymore, and the children of his peers are almost old enough to help with cooking!

Not long ago, the mother of a colleague in the bureau introduced Huang Dazhi to a blind date. The other party was her cousin's daughter, who was just 20 years old this year. She said she wanted to find someone who worked in the city.

Although Huang Dazhi is a villager and is only an auxiliary police officer now, everyone knows that his promotion to a police officer is a foregone conclusion.

Huang Dazhi is rigorous and meticulous in his work and has made many contributions. In addition, he has some relationship with Gao Guobing. At present, when there are no rigid standards for becoming a regular employee, whether he is promoted or not is just a matter of a word from Gao Guobing.

When talking about blind dates, Huang Dazhi's face shows a variety of expressions, including shyness, disappointment and sadness.

"Ah." Huang Dazhi sighed first, then frowned and said, "The woman is average looking, not pretty nor ugly, a little short, but still okay. I'm old, so I want to get married and have kids soon, so I don't dare to set too high standards for the woman."

"When we first met, we both had a good impression of each other, but later... the woman asked us to live in the city after marriage. I had no problem with that. My job also requires me to live in the city, and she said that she would buy a house in the city even if she had to borrow money."

"But the girl said that we couldn't bring my parents and brother here. At this point, I was not very happy. In fact, I definitely would not bring my parents and brother to live in the city now. They are still in good health, and there are a lot of things to take care of in the countryside. But they will get old one day, and I can't ignore them forever."

"Although I'm not happy, I want to appease the girl first. Anyway, she will definitely not bring my parents to live with us in the next ten years. After the child is born, she won't dare to say anything."

"The matter was over, but I couldn't accept the bride price the woman asked for. She wanted 880 yuan in cash, two jars of old wine, and two sets of clothes, which meant she wanted more than 200 yuan. She also wanted three kilograms of wool, a watch, a bicycle, 24 kilograms of meat, and a red umbrella."

Huang Dazhi's face was almost wrinkled into a bitter gourd. He turned his head to look at Gao Mingcheng and smiled bitterly, "You know how much money I have. If I really want to marry her, I can afford it. But... she said that she won't bring anything except two sets of clothes and a red umbrella, because she has a brother who is getting married, and the money and things must be used for her brother's wedding."

After hearing this, Gao Mingcheng just wanted to exclaim, "Wow!"

Is this robbing the rich to help the poor, or is this helping the devil?

You pay for a lot of things, but in the end you only get one person, and the key is that this person is not very virtuous and filial!

Gao Mingcheng had heard of a term in later generations called outsourcing of filial piety. Although he was a man, he did not agree with this approach. One must always be filial to one's own parents, but the spouse should also have the obligation to assist. For example, the woman that Huang Dazhi had a blind date with did not allow Huang Dazhi to bring his parents to live with him. This was obviously not acceptable.

For example, his own parents looked down on Xuanyuemei, which made Xuanyuemei a little angry. However, when he went to help his parents' house, he did not ask Xuanyuemei to go with them, and Xuanyuemei would not stop him from going.

"Does the aunt who introduced you to this woman know about these conditions?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

If that colleague's mother knew about this, then they would be colluding to trick Huang Dazhi! Don't have any contact with that colleague from now on.

Huang Dazhi said: "My aunt had good intentions. She only knew that her cousin wanted to marry a city man, but she was from the countryside and it was difficult for her to marry in the city, so she didn't get married until she was 20 years old."

"After I knew the bride price requirement from the woman's side, I went straight to my aunt and told her that I had no money and couldn't afford it. She also expressed her understanding and said that I shouldn't introduce her cousin to me."

Huang Dazhi waved his hands. He really couldn't agree to this condition. If he didn't agree, no one would think bad of him. But if he agreed, people would question where his money came from.

"You were right to refuse. The gift price request is too outrageous!" Gao Mingcheng also complained.

Back then, He Xiuman's parents wanted to sell He Xiuman for money, so they asked for a higher bride price, but in the end they only agreed on 680 yuan, and that was all, nothing else, no clothes, bicycles, watches, or meat, nothing at all.

Later, when He Xiuman got married, she brought a dowry of more than a hundred yuan. Although this marriage was not profitable, it was definitely acceptable.

The girl Huang Dazhi was dating was a bit too ambitious but of lowly status.

You are a country boy, not good-looking, and yet you want so much money and things from others. You are just dreaming!

"Good things take time, Dazhi, just relax and take it slow, you will always meet the right person." Gao Mingcheng patted Huang Dazhi on the shoulder, thinking that this brother had a hard time too.

Huang Dazhi felt better now. He had been keeping these things in his heart and had no one to talk to. Now that he had talked to Gao Mingcheng, he felt better.

"Dazhi, I think you should not let the people in the city introduce you to someone. You can just look for one in our area! It's better if you know him well, so you don't have to make some irrelevant requests." Gao Mingcheng made a suggestion.

Huang Dazhi thought this was a good suggestion and nodded, saying, "I thought so too. There are more than a dozen villages in our area. It should be possible if we look for them."

The bride price in their countryside is generally around 680 yuan. Some poorer families can offer 300 or 400 yuan, and some wealthy families can offer a little over 1,000 yuan at most.

Huang Dazhi could accept a dowry of more than one thousand yuan, but he required the woman to be virtuous and filial. He also wanted to adopt the baby girl with cleft lip for his younger brother. If the woman had a bad character, she would definitely not agree and would even make trouble.

On this day, Huang Dazhi told Gao Mingcheng everything that was on his mind, including his personal feelings and some gossip about the police station.

Gao Mingcheng accepted everyone who came to him and listened to a lot of gossip!

In fact, gossip is something that not only women love, but men love it too!

Early the next morning, Gao Mingcheng went to Junling to pick up Huang Xiaoan as promised.

Huang Xiaoan's legs are in plaster, making it difficult for him to move, but Huang Dazhi bought him a wheelchair, so when the weather is good, his parents will put him in the wheelchair and push him around the village.

After taking the medicine, Huang Dazhi's father's kidney stones were cured, the pain was relieved a lot, and he had more strength to do his daily work.

This time, it was his father who accompanied Huang Xiaoan to the hospital to remove the plaster.

There was an old mattress on the tractor bed. Huang Xiaoan was dressed warmly and sat on the mattress. He was also wearing a dog-skin hat. He sat with his back to Gao Mingcheng to reduce the cold wind blowing on his body.

Having a tractor is indeed very convenient, but when using it in winter, the cold wind blowing on people is really uncomfortable.

Sure enough, people’s pursuit improves step by step in this way.

When I didn’t have a car, I thought a tractor was pretty good, but after I got a tractor, I started wanting a better car, such as a jeep that could shelter me from the wind and rain.

But when Gao Mingcheng thought about the price of the jeep, he gave up the idea.

Poor, really poor!

All the way to the county hospital, Gao Mingcheng helped to register and find the outpatient office.

When the plaster was being removed, Huang Dazhi also came over. He wanted to see the changes in Huang Xiaoan with his own eyes.

The doctor in the provincial capital told him that the operation was successful, but after removing the plaster, he would still need to do some rehabilitation to ensure that his muscles would not atrophy. If the recovery was good, Huang Xiaoan would be able to move freely.

Although the walking posture is not very elegant, being able to move freely is an improvement.

The process of removing the plaster was a bit slow, and since there were two family members accompanying him, Gao Mingcheng planned to take a walk around the hospital.

The County People's Hospital was built in the 1980s and is still relatively new today, but Gao Mingcheng's impression of it is still that it is old, dilapidated and small.

Because it was not until 21 years that the People's Hospital moved to a new hospital. The hospital was naturally built more luxuriously, but patients had to take a long detour to see a doctor. Unlike now, registration, medication, consultation, and examination are almost all in one place. You only need to recognize the words to find the corresponding place.

Because the functions were concentrated, Gao Mingcheng arrived at the door of another department after walking a few steps. He did not peek into those offices, but he would always take a glance when passing by.

Suddenly, a familiar face flashed by. He had passed by the office and turned back.

He glanced at the sign hanging outside the door: Gynecology.

Then look at the familiar person inside the door - Deng Wanwan.

A bad premonition came to his mind. As a reborn person with rich knowledge reserves, he felt that something unfortunate might have happened to Deng Wanwan.

Gao Mingcheng stopped and did not go in without permission. If an unrelated man broke into the gynecology department, it would be tantamount to being a hooligan.

But he stood outside the door and heard Deng Wanwan's mother crying.

"Doctor, something bad happened to our child. We can't keep the baby in my belly!" This sad voice came from Deng's mother.

"Well, it's too late to keep the baby. There are already signs of threatened miscarriage. I'll prescribe some abortion pills for you, take them quickly." This cold voice came from the doctor.

The doctor lowered his head to write the medicine. After he finished writing, he looked up at Deng Wanwan. This time, his voice was a little more tender: "If you don't want a child, you can come to the hospital. Why are you messing around like this? If you do this, your body will be damaged and you may not be able to get pregnant in the future!"

Deng Wanwan looked wooden, like a wooden man, and said, "It's better not to get pregnant!"

She never wants to be touched by a man again in her life, she feels disgusting!

Her mother immediately covered her face and burst into tears, but did not say anything to persuade her.

So the two of them went downstairs to get the medicine, asked the nurse for a glass of water, and swallowed the abortion pills on the spot.

Gao Mingcheng did not approach but directly avoided him because he felt that Deng Wanwan might not be happy to see him now.

After not seeing her for a while, Deng Wanwan looked obviously haggard, with black eyes and some scratches on her body. Especially her expression, it was as if she had lost hope in life.

After she realized something was wrong with her body, she started to torture herself, jumping around non-stop, even climbing up a tree and jumping down from it.

After a lot of tossing and turning, blood gushed out from the lower abdomen, accompanied by pain.

But Deng Wanwan didn't feel any pain, instead she was happy.

She lay on the grass in the woods, looking up at the sky, waiting for that moment to come, but after the contractions, she recovered, which made her very angry.

Fortunately, Deng's mother was experienced. After realizing that something was wrong with Deng Wanwan, she immediately took Deng Wanwan to the hospital for examination.

Then I was diagnosed with pregnancy and also with signs of threatened miscarriage.

The hospital facilities were simple. Deng Wanwan did not rest in a bed, but sat on a public chair in the hospital. After taking the medicine, she soon had a reaction. She curled up in pain like a cooked shrimp.

Despite the pain, Deng Wanwan gritted her teeth and didn't cry, but her whole body was soaked with cold sweat.

Mother Deng hugged her daughter and burst into tears.

At some point, Huang Dazhi also came to Gao Mingcheng's side. They were standing on the second floor, but they could directly see Deng Wanwan sitting on the chair on the first floor.

Huang Dazhi worked in the police station, and came into contact with all kinds of people and learned a lot of knowledge. Therefore, when he saw this scene and thought about Deng Wanwan's experience, he roughly guessed what was going on.

"Oh." He sighed. The hemp rope broke at the thinnest part. Fate always plays tricks on the unfortunate people!

"My brother has removed the plaster. Let's go first. If...if there is a chance, I would really like to help her." Huang Dazhi said, and he did not choose to show up.

A woman's miscarriage is a very private matter, and it is not a very pleasant thing for two grown men to appear in front of her.

Gao Mingcheng also knew that it was not appropriate for him to show up, but he decided to let Xuanyuemei go to Deng's hometown tomorrow to bring some nutritional supplements to Deng Wanwan to replenish her body.

As far as he knew, Deng Wanwan's family was very poor, and now that she had encountered such a thing, she was afraid that she would have nothing good to eat. However, miscarriage for a woman would cause great loss of qi and blood.

If you don't take good care of yourself, your physical fitness will deteriorate in the future.

(End of this chapter)