◎Second update◎
After returning home, Liang Baozhen told her family about her idea and decided to take Xu Shengya to the No. 1 Municipal Hospital for a full-body check-up on Sunday. Of course, the current examinations are not as good as those in the future, but the Municipal Hospital is already the best hospital in the city, and I heard that the medical equipment is also relatively advanced in the country.
In the dream, Xu Shengya lived cautiously because of her long-term illness and felt inferior because of it. But now she hasn't felt uncomfortable in her heart for a long time, and even jogging from time to time is no problem.
However, people nowadays generally do not consider regular physical examinations, so Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie took her to the hospital to register.
The little girl was visibly nervous. Having to take medicine for a long time made her pay great attention to her health. She also loved to check whether her family members were dressed warmly. She hated being sick and didn't want anyone in her family to get sick.
"It's okay, just let the doctor check you out. Haven't you had chest discomfort for a long time?" Liang Baozhen held her sister-in-law's hand tightly and comforted her with a smile.
"Yes, sister-in-law, I've been in good health recently. I'm in good health." Xu Shengya felt a strange sense of warmth and strength when her sister-in-law held her hand.
Xu Shengjie saw the nurse calling for help, and patted his sister on the shoulder, "Go ahead, we'll wait for you here."
"good."
While waiting for the examination, Liang Baozhen remembered that Tu Min's family was also in the city hospital, so she went over to take a look.
Tu Min's family is a couple who both work, so they should have good conditions. However, they were hit hard because their children could not be raised one after another. Only the eldest child survived. As a result, their fourth child was diagnosed with congenital heart disease.
Liang Baozhen saw Tu Min with a sad face. Giving birth is already very harmful to pregnant women, and now the child is born with a disease, which makes her even more exhausted.
"My child has a miserable life." Tu Min felt upset and could not say anything else. This disease is difficult to cure according to current medical technology. Even if it requires phased treatment, the cost is very high, which is simply not affordable for them.
Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie were distressed and comforted them. Before leaving, they stuffed ten yuan into Tu Min's pocket.
"I heard that current medical technology cannot achieve a radical cure." Xu Shengjie had some understanding of this. He had gone to the hospital to inquire about it when his sister was sick before. However, Xu Shengya's problem was caused by squeezing when she was born. That time, her mother Wu Huacui had an unsmooth delivery, and Xiaowei came out first, but Xiaoya, who came later, had a wrong fetal position and it took a while for her to come out.
"Just wait a little longer and take care of yourself slowly. Medical treatment will develop in the future." Liang Baozhen was full of confidence when she thought of the rapid development of technology.
When they returned to the door of the inspection room, Xu Shengya had not come out yet. The two waited for a while, and the door was finally opened. It would take another half a day to wait for the inspection results, so the three of them went outside to eat first. They went to the state-owned steamed bun shop and each of them ate two meat buns. Xu Shengjie ate two meat buns and two vegetarian buns.
Looking at her anxious sister-in-law, Liang Baozhen teased Xu Shengjie, "Look at your brother, he eats a lot."
"Big brother, the more you eat, the stronger you will be."
"What's this? When we were in the army, we ate a lot, but unfortunately we often couldn't get enough food. We ate whatever we could get. After training, we can eat as much as a cow."
"Then you are really hungry." The aunt and sister-in-law said in unison.
After returning to the hospital to get the report, the doctor said that Xu Shengya had no major health problems and that she was fine after all these years of recuperation. "But she was a little weak when she was born, so she still needs to be careful and not run around too much."
"I see. Thank you, doctor."
After leaving the hospital, the family was in a good mood and simply went out for a walk. Liang Baozhen saw a chest of drawers in the supply and marketing cooperative. It was a beautiful five-chest chest of drawers made of carved huanghuali wood with fine workmanship. The highlight was the five drawers that could hold many things in different categories. She liked it at first sight.
"Comrade, how much is the five-box cabinet?" Xu Shengjie asked the salesperson the price.
"Eighty-eight. This is top-quality Huanghuali wood."
Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie looked at each other, both of them were a little moved. Xu Shengjie gave her a look, "Do you want it?"
"Forget it." Liang Baozhen retained her last bit of rationality. Although the things were good, they really couldn't fit in the house. The place was so small, and now there was a child. The family of six was already crowded, and it would be difficult to put things in the future, let alone a large piece of furniture. "When our house is bigger in the future, it will be too crowded now."
Xu Shengjie thought Liang Baozhen wanted to wait for the factory to allocate a big house, so he explained the situation to her, "That's probably a bit difficult. It's very difficult to allocate the family compound now. There are a lot of people without houses waiting in line. If we want to wait for a big house, we don't know how many years we have to wait."
Liang Baozhen smiled and said to him mysteriously, "Maybe we can buy our own house in the future."
"Buy a house?" Xu Shengjie hadn't heard of anyone buying a house. Everyone was waiting for the factory or company to allocate housing. "Who would buy a house these days? Besides, I haven't heard of anyone selling a house."
Liang Baozhen couldn't explain to him that housing would become a lifelong pursuit for many Chinese people. "Well, let's wait and see. It would be great if there is an opportunity later."
There are indeed very few people buying and selling houses now. Everyone is waiting for the factory to allocate houses. Song Jianguo is one of them.
Ever since he met Liang Baoying in the city, Song Jianguo has been thinking about the housing allocation in the factory. There is only a month left before the quota for housing allocation this year is announced.
He asked someone to exchange his cigarette and alcohol tickets, went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a bottle of Wuliangye and a pack of Badaling cigarettes, took the things and went to see his cousin, the deputy factory director.
This was Song Jianguo's second visit to the state-owned hotel today. The vice-president of the soft drink factory had a cousin named Sun Kai, who was a face-loving man. When he saw Song Jianguo coming to his door with things and invited him to dinner at the state-owned hotel, he immediately smiled.
He didn't hesitate and ordered a plate of stir-fried pork with green onions, a plate of braised liver, a plate of braised pork, a bowl of rice, and a plate of steamed buns. He then opened the five-grain liquid and drank it happily.
"Brother Jianguo, why did you invite me to dinner today? I'm so sorry." Although he said sorry, he stretched out his chopsticks without any hesitation.
Song Jianguo was asking for help today, and he didn't touch the meat himself. He just drank a few sips of wine and said, "Brother Kai, I'll be honest with you. I want to ask you for help."
"Hey, the sun is rising from the west. You may be the outstanding worker representative of our workshop last month. You work so hard and have exceeded the output by a large margin. How can you still ask me for help? Don't look down on me as the nephew of the deputy factory director. I am just a minor relative and I have no say." Sun Kai threw a peanut into his mouth and took a sip of wine, drinking it with relish.
Song Jianguo and Sun Kai have known each other for more than a year and have observed this man. He has opinions about people who are stronger than him and likes to make insults to them, but he likes to lend a hand to people who are weaker than him and is satisfied if he hears a few compliments.
Simply put, it means that one cannot bear to see others do well and loves to see people laugh at one another.
Immediately, he held his forehead with his hand and slapped it a few times with his palm, looking worried.
"What's going on?" Sun Kai looked down on Song Jianguo. He could see that he wanted to curry favor with him, but he felt that he was a very stubborn person. He usually dressed up like a decent person and was always striving for progress and wanted to work overtime, as if he had never seen money before.
Occasionally, when everyone got their salary and wanted to go to a state-owned hotel for a meal, he was still reluctant to come. Perhaps he had become a miser after being an educated youth in the countryside for a few years.
Today is really strange, I was given cigarettes and wine and even invited to dinner.
"Ah." Song Jianguo sighed heavily and told Sun Kai about his relationship with Liang Baoying. However, he did not mention that they had a fake divorce, as it would cause trouble if he told others about it. He only said that he regretted his divorce after returning to the city, and thought that his mother and daughter were having a hard time in the countryside, so he wanted to bring them back. "But now my parents are not willing. It's not easy to live at home. Both of us are registered as villagers, so there is no food supply. There are two more mouths to feed at home..."
"Ah, you have such an experience?" Sun Kai was in high spirits now. He loved to see other people in trouble, especially those who were better than him at work. This made him feel mentally balanced.
"It's a difficult situation now. I've been thinking about applying for a house in the factory compound, but this..." Song Jianguo was rarely so worried in the soft drink factory. When he was an educated youth returning to the city, he was worried about being looked down upon and was always careful about his words and actions. After all, he had heard workers talk about a certain educated youth who had come back with the temper of a country bumpkin and was laughed at behind his back several times.
Song Jianguo also wanted to save face and didn't want to be laughed at behind his back.
"I see." Sun Kai ate all the meat, then broke open the steamed bun and dipped it in the soup. His stomach was full from eating so much that he raised an eyebrow at him, "Do you want me to find my third uncle?"
"Yes." Song Jianguo rested his right hand on the dining table and clenched his left hand into a fist on his thigh. "Brother Kai, I can't find any other way to deal with this matter. I can only beg you with a flattering face."
"Hey, I've already told you, don't look at me as just a false name, my third uncle is a tough guy, how can I have a say?"
Song Jianguo understood what he meant. It was a good idea to ask for help. He reached out his hand under the table and made gestures of counting money. It was not easy to take out the money because there were many people outside and it was not easy to see. "You must help me with this matter."
"It's not about money. It's really hard to deal with. I suggest you just stop bringing your country wife back and find another one in the city. Why bother with all this?"
Song Jianguo knew that he could not maintain his dignity today, so he simply drank a glass of white wine and said with red eyes, "Our Baoying was quite well-off in the village. Many people came to propose marriage to her, but she got scolded by her mother when she married me."
"Are you still dissatisfied with me?" Sun Kai became more and more excited and even forgot to drink.
"When I first went to the countryside as an educated youth, I didn't know anything. Even the educated youths who worked in the fields were despised. They were much worse than those who earned ten work points. Who wouldn't be despised? But our Baoying didn't despise me. Alas, if it weren't for her, my days as an educated youth would have been even more miserable. And then there was our Mengmeng. My daughter was smart and pretty, no worse than my niece. But now, my daughter has to eat coarse food in the countryside, while my niece can wear new clothes and eat meat and eggs in the city." Song Jianguo covered his face. He didn't know if it was because he was drunk or because he felt more and more uncomfortable the more he talked. His big red face was wrinkled and he looked painful.
Sun Kai was paid to help someone arrange housing allocation in the factory. There were many twists and turns and deep waters involved. Relying on his relationship as the nephew of the deputy factory director, he naturally made some money.
But he doesn't take money from everyone.
For example, the previous Song Jianguo was always striving to be proactive and advanced in everything, so Sun Kai would not accept him. But the current Song Jianguo is interesting. Looking at his down-and-out appearance, he could be accepted!
"Hey, brother Jianguo, you should cheer up. We are all seniors, don't be so shy. Any problem can be solved. Let me ask around for you, and you should prepare the amount."
He made the number three, then immediately withdrew his hand and continued drinking.
Song Jianguo spends hundreds of yuan on a meal, and he doesn't have that much money on him. He gives one part of his salary to his wife and one part to his family, and he can only save a few yuan a month. But there is nothing he can do now, so he has to get the job done first.
However, the next day, when he went to work at the soda factory, he came back from the cafeteria after getting his meal and heard a few workers gathered in a corner of the workshop, listening to Sun Kai laughing and talking about what happened last night.
"You didn't see it, Song Jianguo usually looks like a decent person, very noble, but this time, he was crying in front of me..."
"Hahahahahaha, he's still like this?"
"You old men, don't you have any shame?"
Song Jianguo clenched his fists, stood there for half a minute, turned around and went out again.
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