Chapter 36 Chapter 36 If you can introduce me successfully, I will give you this...
We were originally planning to bring cotton bedding on this trip, but Grandma Xie called yesterday and said we didn't need to bring anything. She had prepared new items for two people, from tables, chairs and benches to water bottles, washbasins, towels and toothbrushes. So we didn't bring much luggage, and it was very convenient to get on and off the bus. We also brought the small potted plant this time, and Jiang Xiaoci held it in her arms the whole time.
She fell asleep as soon as she got on the bus. She didn't know how long she slept. When she woke up, she saw Han Jingyuan sitting on a simple stool in the aisle of the sleeper berth. Why wasn't he asleep yet?
Jiang Xiaoci sat up and asked, "Brother Han, are you suffering from insomnia?"
Han Jingyuan returned to the sleeper car, sat on her berth, and lowered his voice: "Everyone else is asleep, don't talk, just sleep."
He wanted to get some sleep after his marriage status changed, but his brain couldn't calm down. He saw that Jiang Xiaoci was carefree and her mentality hadn't changed before and after getting the marriage certificate. He wondered if she would realize the difference after the wedding.
Jiang Xiaoci opened her eyes again. It was bright outside. There was a place to wash up in the sleeper car. She simply brushed her teeth and washed her face, tied her hair, and waited for a while before the train arrived.
The luggage was all on Han Jingyuan's back. She grabbed his hand, raised their hand happily, and said with a smile, "Now it's legitimate."
Han Jingyuan pursed his lips and smiled, but there was still something different.
They took a car back to the matchmaking agency. The newly opened flower shop next door was doing good business, with many customers choosing flowers. Cheng Lianjin saw the seedling in her arms. It only had a main stem, as thick as a chopstick, with a few leaves, and looked ugly. He was curious: "Xiaoci, you came all the way here just to bring this?"
Jiang Xiaoci touched the leaves and said, "Uncle Cheng, it will grow beautifully."
Cheng Lianjin had already prepared a bouquet of flowers for Jiang Xiaoci, and tacitly blessed her: "Xiaoci, take them home and put them in a vase. The room upstairs has been decorated. If you need anything, tell your grandmother Xie."
Jiang Xiaoci held the flowers and they smelled so good. She used her ability as a flower fairy to check and found that there was no red string on Uncle Cheng's body, so their fate had not yet arrived.
She waved the flowers: "Uncle Cheng, thank you for the flowers, I like them very much."
Zheng Yunzhi was actually there the whole time. She hid in a corner of the flower shop, pretending to choose flowers. Now she came out, looked at the next door, and asked Cheng Lianjin, "Hey, why is Han Jingyuan also living in the shop?"
Cheng Lianjin naturally would not tell others what he had told him. He only said, "They are engaged and will get married in the second half of the year. For their safety, their family let them live together."
Zheng Yunzhi was envious: "That's great, their families all support them, so lucky."
Cheng Lianjin didn't want to continue the conversation, so he asked, "Have you chosen the flowers you want?"
Zheng Yunzhi handed over a few lilies she had chosen: "These are the ones I'll take."
Cheng Lianjin packed her food and treated her just like any other customer, taking her money and sending her off.
Zheng Yunzhi walked more than ten meters away before turning back and saw that Cheng Lianjin smiled at other flower buyers more than she did.
She didn't understand why the man was so heartless. Instead of trying to help her get a divorce and escape from her misery, couldn't he see the wounds from domestic violence exposed outside her sleeves?
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Jiang Xiaoci went upstairs and took a look. Grandma Xie had arranged two rooms.
Han Jingyuan asked: "Xiaoci, which room do you want to stay in?"
Jiang Xiaoci pointed to a room closer to the sanitary napkins and said, "This one."
After that, she called Han Jiangyuan to help and carried the quilt from the other room to the room she had chosen. Han Jingyuan was horrified: "Jiang Xiaoci, do you want to sleep in the same room?"
Jiang Xiaoci took it for granted: "After getting married, you have to sleep in the same room. My parents, Aunt Feng and Doctor Zhu, and Qi Jiayue and his wife, aren't they all like this?"
Han Jingyuan: "...but they have held a banquet."
Jiang Xiaoci smiled: "But we have a marriage certificate, and this bed is 1.8 meters long, so it's enough to put two quilts on it."
It turned out that there were two quilts. Han Jingyuan didn't say anything, because even if he said anything, she would deny it.
I had just made the bed when there was a knock on the door downstairs. Today was Sunday and the matchmaking agency was closed. The business hours were posted on the glass window at the door, and the fees and introduction rules were also posted inside the store, which could be seen even from outside the store. Who else was knocking on the door?
Jiang Xiaoci said, "I'll go down and take a look."
Han Jingyuan: "Together."
The two went downstairs and opened the door. It was someone they knew. Han Jingyuan introduced the beautiful woman at the door and said, "Xiaoci, this is my cousin."
Jiang Xiaoci had heard Aunt Feng introduce her family relationships. She had an older brother who died early, and a younger sister who went abroad with her mother ten years ago and only came back last year. She has been filming in various places, and she came when Aunt Feng got married.
The little sister is a few years younger than her brother’s niece, and the one who came today is her cousin.
I heard that this cousin Feng is quite capable, but she is still single at the age of 35. Could she be here to introduce someone to someone?
She called out crisply, "Hello, Sister Wenyu."
Feng Wenyu heard from her mother that Han Jingyuan had a girlfriend and did not live at home but lived in the hotel with her girlfriend. She was open-minded and thought it was okay, and asked her mother not to say too much.
Feng Wenyu scolded Han Jingyuan: "You started dating someone, but you didn't even tell me."
Han Jingyuan: "I've told grandpa, cousin, you've dated several people, and I only found out after you broke up."
Feng Wenyu scolded, "Nothing can stop you from making noise. Hurry up and leave. I want to talk to Xiaoci alone."
Han Jingyuan guessed his cousin's purpose. She loved to join in the fun. After hearing that Xiaoci was good at matchmaking, she wanted to join in the fun.
Han Jingyuan said: "Cousin, today is the weekend."
Feng Wenyu laughed angrily: "Han Jingyuan, I didn't go to your mother's wedding. They got married too hastily and I couldn't make it back. I still hold a grudge against you. Can you make up with me?"
Han Jingyuan didn't want to talk about these things, and said to Jiang Xiaoci: "I'm going to go see grandpa, you chat with my cousin."
Jiang Xiaoci nodded, invited her cousin to come in and sit down, and made her some good tea: "Cousin, this is the tea brought from Dahe Village. I don't serve it to ordinary people."
Feng Wenyu smelled it and it was indeed fragrant. This girl was much easier to communicate with than Han Jingyuan.
She really didn't come here just to join in the fun. She had started dating someone more than a month ago, and their relationship was heating up very quickly. She wanted to get married, but was afraid that her family would object. So she wanted to use Jiang Xiaoci's matchmaking agency to claim that it was a perfect match, so that her marriage to her boyfriend would be smoother.
Feng Wenyu looked carefully at this pretty girl with fair skin. Could she really be a matchmaker? Since that’s what you say, just think of it as spending some money to buy peace of mind.
Feng Wenyu took a sip of tea and said, "Your charging rules are to rip off the rich. Last month, I made 3,000 yuan from a business partnership with someone else. If I take half of it, it would be 1,500 yuan. If you can successfully introduce someone, I will be willing to pay you this money."
Fifteen thousand yuan. Jiang Xiaoci was a little tempted. She and Brother Han only spent eight thousand yuan to buy this house.
She took a pen and paper to prepare for registration: "Sister Wenyu, you earn so much a month, your requirements must be very high. I won't charge if I don't succeed, so it's still cost-effective. Tell me your conditions first, and then tell me your requirements for your other half."
Feng Wenyu didn't expect that this place could really find her a match, she just wanted Jiang Xiaoci to match her up according to what she said.
She began by saying, "I am thirty years old..."
As soon as she said this, she was interrupted by Jiang Xiaoci: "Cousin, Aunt Feng said you are already 35, why did you hide your age by five years?"
Feng Wenyu laughed and scolded, "I asked you to write thirty, so you wrote it as I said. Don't I look thirty?"
Jiang Xiaoci said, "You look like that, but your actual age is 35. I have to write it like that. A matchmaking agency cannot help one party to conceal something. That's cheating, and it's immoral."
Feng Wenyu gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do but compromise.
"Okay then. I'm doing business with my friends now, and I'm making a good income in Beijing. You know the situation at home. Han Jingyuan's grandfather, my grandfather, runs a big restaurant, and we have our own house. In the future, most of the inheritance will definitely belong to me. Do you and Han Jingyuan have any objections to this?"
Jiang Xiaoci said, "Cousin, we are not talking about the division of the inheritance now. We are talking about your registration for introduction to a partner. Tell us what you want in your other half."
The conditions for her other half are naturally the conditions of her current partner.
Feng Wenyu was very proud: "Your cousin is so outstanding, so naturally I can't make do with it. The man can't be over 30 years old, and his annual income can't be less than 50,000. After marriage, he must live in Hai City. I have very high requirements for living. The man must have a small Western-style building so that I can support the family after marriage. So, it's reasonable for him to guarantee a place to live, right?"
Jiang Xiaoci felt that this was too demanding.
The annual income cannot be less than 50,000 yuan, and the monthly income must be more than 4,000 yuan. In the mainland, her father, brother and elder brother Han only earn a few dozen yuan a month. How can a normal person earn several thousand yuan a month?
Jiang Xiaoci shook her head: "Cousin, are you really here for a blind date? Are you not here to joke with me?"
Feng Wenyu smiled and said, "I'm not forcing you. If you have it, you have it. If you don't, you don't have it. For me, it's just a registration. It's nothing. Don't feel any psychological pressure."
Well, since Jiang Xiaoci had registered her, she activated the ability of the little flower demon and took a look at her cousin's red line.
There really is a red line, but so far, the other end of the red line is not in the mainland, so how can she introduce it?
She quickly said, "Cousin, your requirements are too high. There may not be anything in the country that meets your requirements."
Feng Wenyu was shocked. She didn't expect that this little girl was so capable and could hit the nail on the head with just a few words. Her boyfriend was indeed not from the mainland, but an overseas Chinese.
She said, "It's okay, it's okay. When the opportunity comes, you have to think about your cousin. I'm in Beijing recently, so it's convenient for us to meet anytime."
There is a red line on my cousin's body, which means she has a partner. If she is not playing tricks on herself, then she is digging her own grave.
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In the evening, when Brother Han came back, Jiang Xiaoci showed him her cousin's registration form.
"I saw that my cousin had a red line attached to her and was not in the mainland. I suspected that her request was based on that of her boyfriend. Was she afraid that her boyfriend would be opposed by his family, so she wanted to use my words?"
Han Jingyuan: "I guess, my cousin's business is over, right?"
For the sake of fifteen hundred dollars, if my cousin doesn't live well in the future, everyone, including my grandfather and aunt, will blame her.
Jiang Xiaoci agreed: "Then don't make her money."
I bought some shredded potatoes for dinner. The shredded potatoes made by the small restaurant were crispy and sour. They were delicious, but it’s not a good idea to buy them all the time when living at home.
Jiang Xiaoci looked at the patio and said, "Brother Han, let's build a small kitchen in the patio to cook and eat."
Han Jingyuan took a look at the layout and decided to convert the utility room into a kitchen with a large window. It would be nice to be able to overlook the flowers and plants on the patio while cooking.
He said, "Okay, I'll find a worker to do it in a few days."
When sleeping at night, even though they were in separate quilts, Han Jingyuan tried his best to sleep next to the bed.
He felt that since Jiang Xiaoci could get two quilts, she probably didn't know what it meant to get a marriage certificate. She just subconsciously thought that no one would say anything if they got married and lived together.
Han Jingyuan couldn't sleep for a long time.
Jiang Xiaoci was also having trouble sleeping, so she lifted her own quilt, then lifted Han Jingyuan's quilt, turned over, ran behind his quilt, and hugged him. Brother Han's body was warm and soft, and it was very comfortable to hug him.
"Aren't we sleeping in separate beds?" Han Jingyuan asked.
Jiang Xiaoci said: "I want to try to see if it's comfortable to hold you."
Han Jingyuan asked: "Is that comfortable?"
Jiang Xiaoci's body was honest: "It's very warm and soft. I don't have insomnia anymore. I feel like sleeping right away."
Han Jingyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and told her not to move her hands: "Then go to sleep."
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After a few days, a beautiful and practical kitchen was built. When Han Jingyuan didn't come back at noon and sometimes got off work early, the two of them would cook and eat together.
The photo studio next door opened more than half a month earlier after Du's brother-in-law returned from his studies.
In order to take care of his business, Jiang Xiaoci pulled Han Jingyuan over to take pictures and said, "We didn't take pictures when we got the marriage certificate, we are just waiting to take pictures here with Du's brother-in-law, take more pictures."
Du Shunmin brought his older sister Du Shunyi to help take care of Du Sui, who was less than three years old. Jiang Xiaoci liked Xiao Sui very much and took several photos with him in her arms.
Sister Du’s cooking is delicious. After a few people discussed it, Jiang Xiaoci and Uncle Cheng paid for the food, and they had lunch together at the photo studio. Du Shunyi, who knows how to live, could use the extra money for buying groceries to cover her food expenses.
On the opening day, Cheng Lianjin provided a flower arrangement, saying it was an opening gift for the photo studio.
There were discounts on photo shoots on the opening day, and business was pretty good. Du Shunmin and Du Shunyi felt a little relieved because they were busy with customers coming to the store. They had almost spent all the compensation given by the Cheng family on opening this photo studio, and their lives were supported by the income from the store.
When there were fewer people, Xie Shuju and Aunt Cheng came and took care of their emotions considerately: "It's just right, we also want to take some photos, of course from our family's photo studio."
Since Du Shunmin had a new hope, he had come out of the haze and said gratefully, "Thank you."
Du Shunyi was even more grateful to Xie Shuju's family for giving her brother and children another way out.
Du Sui was at the age of being cute, and he especially liked Aunt Cheng. After Aunt Cheng became pregnant, her heart softened. She was glad that the two families could still be friends after taking a step back. Xiaoci was right. Harmony and happiness are the happiest things.
When everyone was happy, Jiang Xiaoci saw Ji Qinglan in the distance, but she didn't come over. She was very surprised: "Does she want to take pictures but is too embarrassed?"
"Where?"
“It was just over there.”
Jiang Xiaoci pointed to the other side of the road. Cheng Lianjin looked over but saw no one.
"Maybe I saw it wrongly." He said, "She is due to give birth in half a month, why is she here?"
But Jiang Xiaoci believed in her own eyesight and she was not wrong.
Xie Shuju took a few photos and left with her daughter. Everyone was preparing to have lunch when Ji Qinglan suddenly ran into the flower shop and begged Uncle Cheng to save Zheng Yunzhi.
"Uncle Cheng, if you don't go, my Aunt Yunzhi will be beaten to death. Please go." This request made no sense. The Ji family had relatives and friends in Beijing, so how could they ask Cheng Lianjin for help? The purpose was too obvious, and he had been hesitating and not coming out, probably because he wanted to wait for Grandma Xie to leave. Now Jiang Xiaoci was even more certain that she was not mistaken.
Cheng Lianjin was a hesitant person. When he heard about the matter involving human life, a look of doubt appeared on his face.
Jiang Xiaoci has already acknowledged Grandma Xie as her godgranny, and Uncle Cheng is her goduncle. She cannot bear to see her uncle being deceived.
Maybe even God couldn't bear it. A girl was walking on the side of the road, holding her bulging belly, and suddenly fainted opposite the flower shop.
Jiang Xiaoci shouted, "Uncle Cheng, someone has fainted, come with me to save him."
Du Shunmin also hurriedly dropped the camera in his hand and wanted to run out to save people, but Du Shunyi stuffed the child in his arms to him and glared at him:
"Are you stupid? Can't you see that Xiaoci deliberately sent Cheng Lianjin away to prevent him from being dragged away by Miss Ji? Even if Zheng Yunzhi was really about to be beaten to death, she should have called the police and had time to come here to ask for help? If she was really in such a hurry as she said, we can only wait to collect the body if we rush over now."
Du Shunmin suddenly realized and said, "This is to confirm the rumor before her second aunt gets divorced."
Du Shunyi nodded: "Yes, that's not what she meant. She came over to call Cheng Lianjin. Isn't she afraid of offending Aunt Xie? She just wanted to make things clear. Even Xiaoci saw it. I really don't understand, how can you men not see through it?"
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Jiang Xiaoci really admired Ji Qinglan. She was due to give birth in more than half a month, but she actually came here with a big belly to make plans for her aunt.
The girl they rescued was sent to the hospital. Because of long-term emotional instability, malnutrition, severe anemia, and broken amniotic fluid, she needed an emergency caesarean section.
We don’t know her identity now, and we don’t know whether she has any relatives in Beijing. Saving lives is the most important thing. Jiang Xiaoci paid for her surgery out of her own pocket and stayed outside the delivery room.
When the mother and baby were born, Jiang Xiaoci immediately wrote down the places where the baby had moles in a small notebook.
Caesarean section is performed under general anesthesia, and it takes several hours for the mother to wake up. The nurse took the baby to take a bath, and Jiang Xiaoci followed her closely, which made the nurse angry and amused.
"You follow me like this, do you think we will switch the baby?"
Jiang Xiaoci was afraid that this would happen: "Auntie, don't be angry. I've heard about baby swaps. The swapped children grew up feeling very wronged. I helped send the child here, so I have to take responsibility."
The head nurse was stunned. After asking carefully, she couldn't help but feel scared. She didn't blame Jiang Xiaoci at all for running around and causing trouble.
She said: "Don't worry, I will pay attention to every child in the future."
The baby was bathed and placed next to the mother. Jiang Xiaoci and Uncle Cheng were both with him in the ward.
Suddenly, Jiang Xiaoci saw the other end of Ji Qinglan's red line appear in the hospital.
At the other end of the red line is the man on the train who has never been seen. He appeared in the hospital today. Did he come back for his child?
Her heart beat faster. Did that man want to marry Ji Qinglan, or did he just want a child?
Jiang Xiaoci said to Cheng Lianjin, "Uncle Cheng, I have something urgent to do and I need to leave. You stay here and wait until Sister Du comes. Otherwise, you can't leave."
How could a woman who had just finished surgery be without someone around her? Cheng Lianjin said, "Don't worry. If it's convenient, give your grandmother Xie a call and let her know."
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Jiang Xiaoci followed the red line and found the person in an abandoned flower bed in a remote area of the hospital, but there was only Ji Qinglan sitting on the ground, holding his stomach, in great pain.
The man I saw on the train ran away again! Jiang Xiaoci stomped her feet. What was even more infuriating was that maybe because of what Ji Qinglan and the man had just said, their red thread had been severed. Without the red thread, Jiang Xiaoci wouldn't be able to find anyone.
Jiang Xiaoci was shocked when she saw Ji Qinglan's amniotic fluid broke. Without thinking about anything else, she turned around and ran to call for help. Soon medical staff came and sent Ji Qinglan, who was about to give birth prematurely, to the delivery room.
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