Chapter 4 still has more juicy gossip to come... Mingxi, the Wang family, and more...
Mingxi, the Wang family, and the neighbors from the tenement courtyard hurried towards the Du family's house.
Du Hai's house is not far away.
The steel mill's residential compound is all in this area, and Du Hai's house is just across an alley from Ming's house.
In less than ten minutes, the group arrived at the gate of Du Hai's courtyard. The residents in the courtyard were startled to see such a large group of people coming over.
A long-faced old woman who was fetching water in the courtyard stepped out tremblingly: "What...what are you doing here? Are you here to cause trouble?"
"Let me tell you, we're close to the police station. If you shout loudly, the police there can hear you!"
Mingxi was both amused and exasperated: "No, Auntie, you've misunderstood. We're not here to cause trouble; we've come to see Du Hai about something."
"Looking for Du Hai?" The old woman looked Mingxi up and down, and feeling relieved that she didn't seem like someone who was there to cause trouble, she coughed and said, "Then you wait here, I'll call Du Hai for you."
She jogged to the backyard and soon came out leading a man with a buzz cut.
Du Hai: "Comrade Ming?"
When Du Hai heard that someone was looking for him, he wondered who it could be, but he was surprised to find it was Ming Xi. He paused for a moment and asked, "Comrade Ming, what can I do for you?"
Mingxi stepped aside, revealing the Wang family members behind her, and said, "It's not me who needs to talk to you, it's Aunt Zhou and the others who need to talk to you."
Du Hai was taken aback again: "Aunt Zhou? Hongmei? You're looking for me?"
"Yes, we're looking for you." Zhou Cuihua put her hands on her hips and went straight to the point: "Du Hai, tell me the truth, are you impotent?"
Upon hearing this, Du Hai's face instantly turned red. His face was a deep, dark red, and it was hard to tell whether he was angry or embarrassed.
"No, Aunt Zhou, what are you saying? I..." Du Hai stammered, unable to finish his sentence.
Zhou Cuihua waved her hand: "Don't stutter. Someone told me this on purpose. They said that many people in your courtyard know that you're not good enough. If you really are not good enough, just admit it. As for your relationship with my Hongmei, forget about it. I only have one daughter, and I absolutely cannot bear to let her live a life of widowhood at such a young age."
Du Hai clenched his fists: "Who, who told you I'm no good?! I'm perfectly fine!"
He stared with bloodshot eyes, his eyeballs almost bulging out.
He's a perfectly normal gay man, and he's been told he's no good for no reason. His fiancée, whom he was about to marry, is going to break up with him because of this. It would be strange if he wasn't angry.
Seeing this, Mingxi quickly stepped forward and placed herself between Du Hai and Zhou Cuihua, saying, "Wait, wait."
"Comrade Du, Aunt Zhou, please don't get agitated. I think there might be a misunderstanding."
Mingxi said to Zhou Cuihua, "Aunt Zhou, look, you heard this from someone else, right? They didn't have any evidence; they just said it offhand. It might not be true, right?"
She turned to face Du Hai and said, "Comrade Du, please don't be angry. Aunt Zhou is just worried about her daughter. As she just said, Wang is her only daughter, and it concerns Wang's happiness for the rest of his life. It's not surprising that she's a little nervous, right?"
Du Hai's face was still flushed, but he nodded after hearing what Ming Xi said.
Mingxi continued, "Of course, this matter concerns your future and your dignity, so I think we need to treat this matter with caution, don't you think?"
Du Hai nodded.
Mingxi: "So how about this, you come with me to the hospital now to get a sexual dysfunction test, okay? Otherwise, even if you just say it, Aunt Zhou won't believe you. And with so many of us watching today, if you can't produce solid evidence, who knows what rumors will spread outside. If we go to the hospital for a checkup and get a doctor's diagnosis, people definitely won't spread rumors, right?"
When it comes to going to the hospital for a checkup, Du Hai instinctively resists. How embarrassing would it be for a grown man like him to go to the hospital for such a checkup?
Not to mention the reason for the checkup was such a ridiculous scandal.
The more I listened to Mingxi, the more sense she made.
With the Wang family coming in such a grand manner, everyone in the courtyard and alley must have seen it. He knew without a doubt that there were many people watching the spectacle. If this matter wasn't explained clearly today, the news that he was in trouble would spread throughout the entire North City tomorrow.
Maybe it'll reach the neighboring province tomorrow.
Du Hai pondered for a long time with a dark expression before finally speaking: "Fine, then I'll go to the hospital for this checkup."
Upon hearing Du Hai agree to undergo the examination, the Wang family felt a moment of panic, especially Zhou Cuihua.
How could Du Hai dare to agree to undergo the examination?
Isn't he afraid that the hospital will find out there's a problem?
Or is Du Hai himself not the problem?
Zhou Cuihua gritted her teeth. If Du Hai was alright, then all her fuss today would have been for nothing. Not only would she have become a laughingstock, but it might also have affected Du Hai's marriage to her daughter.
Wang Hongmei realized something was wrong and instinctively grabbed her mother's arm: "Mom..."
Although Zhou Cuihua was panicked, she didn't show it in front of her daughter. She patted Wang Hongmei's arm lightly and said, "It's okay, let's go to the hospital."
In any case, it's good that the test results came back negative. If there really is something wrong, that's also a good thing, at least it will help her daughter avoid this pitfall.
And so, led by Mingxi, the Wang family, along with the neighbors from the tenement who had come to watch the commotion, and the neighbors from Du Hai's courtyard, all went to the hospital together.
A huge crowd of people arrived at the hospital, filling the small urology clinic. The bespectacled doctor quickly adjusted his glasses and asked the crowd, "Ahem, who here is here to see a doctor?"
Du Hai stepped forward: "Doctor, it's me."
The old doctor glanced at Du Hai and then clicked his tongue.
Such a young man coming to see a urologist?
No wonder so many people followed; they must all be the young man's relatives who couldn't bear to see him fail at such a young age.
The old doctor sighed inwardly, pointing to the seat opposite him: "Alright, you can sit down. As for your family members, you can go out first. I'll call you when I'm done with the examination, and then you can come back in."
Mingxi: "Let's go, let's go outside and let the doctor examine us."
She kicked the person out of the ward, and then came out of the ward herself as well.
Everyone wanted to stay in the ward and watch the excitement, but the doctor had already spoken, so they had no choice but to come out and wait at the door.
For the neighbors who came to watch the spectacle, the time spent waiting for the test results in the ward was just as unbearable as waiting outside the delivery room.
Is Du Hai any good or not?
They were eager to know!
After waiting for a while, the ward door finally opened, and Du Hai came out. Seeing the people crowding around him, he placed the test results in front of everyone and said, "Look, I told you I was fine!"
"Let me see!" Zhou Cuihua immediately snatched the order form from his hand.
Zhou Cuihua was illiterate. She snatched the form and looked at it for a long time, but she still couldn't understand what was written on it. In the end, she handed the form to her daughter.
Wang Hongmei read aloud softly, "No abnormalities were found in the patient's [specific organ/female] function..."
Zhou Cuihua: "What the hell? What does it say? What's this...?"
Wang Hongmei blushed and said, "That means Du Hai is right!"
Zhou Cuihua: "No problem, then then then..."
She stammered and couldn't speak. At this moment, Mingxi stepped forward and said, "Aunt Zhou, now you should believe me, right? Comrade Du is fine, and my mother hasn't been hiding anything from you."
Although Zhou Cuihua was a feisty person, she was also reasonable. Knowing that she had wronged Du Hai and Zhao Sulan, she immediately apologized.
"Du Hai, and Comrade Ming, um, I'm so sorry, I misunderstood. I... I apologize to you!"
She bowed deeply to Mingxi and Du Hai and said, "I'm sorry."
Zhou Cuihua stood up, her face full of apology: "Comrade Ming, I'm so sorry, I didn't realize I had misunderstood. I thought your mother... By the way, is your mother alright? You said she was hospitalized, was it because she hit me before?"
She pulled a wad of cash from her pocket and stuffed it into Mingxi's hand: "I was too outrageous before, I hit your mother and caused her to be hospitalized. Here, consider this money as my payment for your mother's medical expenses. You can use the rest to buy your mother some nutritional supplements."
Mingxi glanced at the money Zhou Cuihua handed over; it was quite a lot, roughly estimated to be close to a hundred.
She made a couple of feigned refusal before putting the money in her pocket.
She wouldn't feel guilty keeping the money.
After all, Zhao Sulan's hospitalization was all because of Zhou Cuihua.
Although Zhao Sulan was injured and hospitalized because she accidentally strained herself while hitting someone.
But that was also because of Zhou Cuihua.
While Mingxi was receiving the money, Zhou Cuihua turned around and apologized to Du Hai.
She had previously been reluctant to let her daughter marry Du Hai because of his impotence. Now that Du Hai's tests showed he was fine, she naturally didn't think that way anymore.
Du Hai is handsome, owns a house and a car (bicycle), has a stable job with a decent salary, and is also capable and responsible—a perfect candidate for son-in-law.
At this moment, Zhou Cuihua lowered her stance, took all the blame upon herself, and sincerely apologized to Du Hai: "Aunt Zhou, I apologize to you. Du Hai, if you are angry, be angry with Aunt Zhou, please don't take it out on Hongmei."
“Hongmei believes in you. She even tried to stop me from causing trouble. I was stupid and believed what others said about you. So I came to cause trouble for you. Here, you can punish me however you want, as long as you and Hongmei are on good terms.”
Du Hai kept his head down and didn't say anything.
He was genuinely angry about what happened today.
But he wasn't angry that Zhou Cuihua and the Wang family were causing trouble.
He was a member of the Qi King's family, and they didn't even ask him before they suspected he was incompetent.
Besides the initial meeting, Du Hai and Wang Hongmei met several more times and even went out together once. After getting to know each other thoroughly, they felt that the other was the right person for them, which is why they started discussing marriage.
Even so, Wang Hongmei never thought of asking him what was going on.
Zhou Cuihua talked to herself for a long time, and Du Hai didn't respond, so the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became strange.
Mingxi glanced at Du Hai, who was sulking with his head down, and then at Wang Hongmei, who was also looking down and expressionless. She sighed inwardly.
She figured that things were definitely not going to work out between the two of them.
Zhou Cuihua gritted her teeth: "Du Hai, don't blame me for not believing you. I was skeptical at first when I heard it from others, but your aunt and the neighbors in your building all said so, so I..."
"My aunt?!" Du Hai stared wide-eyed.
Mingxi thought to herself, "Oh ho!"
Looks like there's more drama to come!
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