The 80th day of being eavesdropped
Gu Jinshui brought three antiques to see Chen Dengxing in the morning. One was the Tang Dynasty bronze incense burner, and the other two were the painted double-ringed bun dancing female figurine and the gilded parrot-patterned silver jar with a handle.
Chen Dengxing's favorite was the painted double-ringed bun dancing female figurine. He carefully looked around with a magnifying glass and kept praising it: "Good, good, this pottery figurine is common, but this is the first time I have seen a female dancing figurine of this shape. I heard that there are several pieces in museums in the United States and Japan, but I have never had the opportunity to go abroad to see them."
Chen Dengxing sighed when he said this.
During the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, antique dealers from all over the world were buying up antiques in China. Now, which foreign museum doesn't have Chinese ceramics and bronzes?
"Old man, if you like, you can keep them and play with them for a few days."
Gu Jinshui picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water for Chen Dengxing.
Chen Dengxing smiled and said, "That's not necessary. Aren't you in a hurry for the money? How much do you estimate you want to offer for these things?"
"I'm thinking eighteen hundred for the incense burner," Gu Jinshui said thoughtfully, "The dancing female figurine and the silver jar with a handle are well preserved, and they all have large doors. Especially the dancing female figurine, you also said that there is no such thing in the country until now. I think this thing is valuable because of its rarity, and it can be sold at a high price."
Chen Dengxing had an idea in his mind. He nodded and said, "Okay, leave it to me. I'll call you if I have news in a few days."
Gu Jinshui knew that the matter was 90% certain.
He picked the best items this time. Both the female dancer figurine and the bronze incense burner are rare. Although the bronze incense burner is from the Tang Dynasty and has no history, bronze wares have gradually decreased since the Tang Dynasty. If you miss such a good item, you may not be able to buy it again. Therefore, it is not difficult to sell it at a high price.
However, one thing happened. Gu Jinshui went to the big sister of the Housing Reform Bureau and said that he had returned and would be able to find the owner to sign the contract in a while.
After finishing the work, it was already noon.
Gu Jinshui was about to go home for lunch, and he ran into Song Jianshe in the alley.
Song Jianshe's face was ashen and his expression was very ugly. When he met Gu Jinshui, he had a dark face and went straight into the yard without saying hello.
Who is this person?
Gu Jinshui shook his head and went home to eat.
Huang Xirong bought a few dishes outside and cooked rice. When he saw Song Jianshe coming back, he hurried to greet him, "How is it?"
"Let's talk inside." Song Jianshe's forehead veins bulged.
Huang Xirong had a bad feeling when she saw this. She was afraid that someone would hear her, so she hurriedly closed the door and went straight into the house without paying attention to the meal.
Song Jianshe took out the gold brick he had taken out this morning from his arms and put it on the table with a bang.
The child in the house heard the noise and was startled and burst into tears.
Huang Xirong didn't care about the child. She looked at the gold brick and asked anxiously, "Didn't you say you would sell it on the black market? Why is it still here?"
"It can't be sold!"
Song Jianshe gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. "This is not gold, it's brass."
"What?!" Huang Xirong's head buzzed and she felt a black screen in front of her eyes. She took a deep breath and looked at the gold brick on the table. "How can this be brass? You clearly brought back the bag, and there are still several hundred in it!"
Yes.
If there wasn't so much money in the bag that day, Song Jianshe and his family wouldn't have believed so naturally that the bag contained gold bricks.
Song Jianshe picked up the gold brick and patted it on the ground. There were bangs and bangs. He picked up the gold brick and showed it to Huang Xirong. "Look for yourself. If it was gold, it would have left traces long ago. This thing is as hard as bone. People thought I was trying to cheat them. They almost beat me up. Fortunately, I ran fast."
Huang Xirong looked at the gold brick again and again, and cold sweat ran down her forehead.
She quickly took out the bag and checked the five or six gold bricks one by one. They were all fake!
"How could this be fake?"
Huang Xirong refused to accept the reality. He originally thought that his son would be able to become rich this time. If he failed, it would be fine. If the gold bricks hidden in the house were all fake, Huang Xirong would not want to live. "Son, think carefully, did someone swap the things? Could it be your wife?"
Song Jianshe showed a helpless look on his face.
He sighed, "Mom, Lianhua doesn't know where we hid the things, how could she switch them? Besides, we have seen these gold bricks before, they are these, there is no mistake. Damn it, I guess when I brought them back that night, they were fake."
Song Jianshe took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a deep breath, and his face was full of decadence.
Huang Xirong's face turned pale. She looked at the gold bricks on the ground and suddenly remembered Song Jianshe's job. "The gold bricks are fake, so what are you going to do in the future?"
This time it was a good question.
Before Song Jianshe left, he sold his job for capital. He thought that his family had become rich, and once those gold bricks were sold, the whole family would not have to work for the rest of their lives.
But who knew that the gold bricks were actually fake.
"Song Mei, your watch is so beautiful. I saw it in a department store before. It must have cost a lot of money, right?" Several nurses saw the glittering watch on Song Mei's hand and couldn't help coming over to inquire.
Nowadays, a watch costs hundreds of dollars, which is equivalent to an ordinary person's annual salary.
You can't afford to buy it unless you are very rich!
Song Mei deliberately took off her watch to show them, and glanced at Gu Yinxing who was writing a report next to her, and said, "It's not much, just over 200 yuan, it's a foreign product, I said no, but our Donglai insisted that we buy one for me before we get married."
"Song Mei, your boyfriend is really generous, he also bought you this dress, right?" The little nurse said enviously.
Song Mei has been showing off her boyfriend's conditions in front of her colleagues these days. He works in a department store and is an only child. Zhao Donglai's conditions are still very good.
Therefore, everyone is very jealous of Song Mei.
"Yes, they only bought two skirts of this style in the department store." Song Mei pulled the skirt on her body, smiling, but pretending that it was nothing, "He only left me one, one hundred and thirty."
Colleagues couldn't help but be amazed, some praised Zhao Donglai for being generous, and some said that Song Mei was lucky.
Song Mei was flattered by everyone and she said happily: "I will get married on the eighth of next month. When you are free, come to the wedding banquet."
"Of course." Everyone agreed.
Song Mei looked at Gu Yinxing next to her and said with a smile: "Yinxing, you have been talking to Comrade Yan for a while, you are not young anymore, it's time to get married."
Chen Dengdeng bumped Gu Yinxing's arm.
Gu Yinxing raised his head, looked at Chen Dengdeng helplessly, and then said to Song Mei: "We are not in a hurry about this matter, I am still young anyway."
Song Mei's smile froze.
She is two or three years older than Gu Yinxing, but so what.
She was shuffling the documents on the table and said calmly, "It's not urgent, but we still can't get married. You are young, but you are tough. I'm not saying that the tough conditions are so good, you have to seize them, don't look back and lose everything."
Gu Yinxing was furious.
She looked at Song Mei and said bluntly, "I think this is your personal experience, but this experience is only suitable for you. Ordinary people can't do such shameless things."
Her words were meaningful, and Song Mei, who was guilty of being a thief, understood it. She blushed and was about to lose her temper, but Gu Yinxing had already left with the report.
Song Mei wanted to lose her temper but couldn't find anyone to vent it on.
Chen Dengdeng walked out with a chuckle and caught up with Gu Yinxing, giving her a thumbs up, "Sisters,
you are so good at talking!" Gu Yinxing rolled her eyes at her, "I didn't say anything, and don't tell anyone else about what I talked about with Zhao Donglai."
When Gu Yinxing was with Zhao Donglai before, she didn't take him seriously and rarely brought Zhao Donglai to the hospital. Therefore, her colleagues didn't know that Gu Yinxing had talked about it with Zhao Donglai before. Song Mei probably didn't say anything for her own face, and just said that someone introduced her to a guy.
Chen Dengdeng: "How could I not know that I can't tell you? If you ask me, Song Mei is lucky. She has been involved in our blind dates every day, but she actually found such a good match."
Zhao Donglai's appearance and conditions are both very good.
Gu Yinxing's expression was complicated.
Is it okay?
Not necessarily. Zhao Donglai has hidden such a big secret. This kind of thing can only be known after marriage. By then, the marriage will be over, and it will be too late for Song Mei to regret it.
After being proud in the hospital for a long time, Song Mei returned home, parked her bicycle in the yard happily, and walked into the house, "Brother, Mom, is my brother back?"
Huang Xirong was changing Dabao's diaper. When she heard this, her face showed an embarrassed expression. After she changed the diaper, Song Mei opened the curtain and came in, "Mom, you are here, why don't you say anything?"
"Xiaomei, your brother went out."
Huang Xirong held her grandson and didn't know how to answer.
Song Mei was stunned. "He's out. When will he come back? I made an appointment with Donglai to go see if there's a TV. Their family has agreed to give a TV as a betrothal gift. We don't need to buy anything else. Just bring the money and things with us."
After Song Mei finished speaking, she turned around and took out the powder cake from the dressing table. She put on makeup in front of the mirror and said, "Mom, you don't know that their relatives are well off. I heard from Donglai that their relatives complain that our family is poor and not well off. Hum, I'll ask them to see how poor our family is. My dowry is one of the best in Beijing."
Huang Xirong didn't know how to start
talking Her lips moved, "Xiaomei, you, haven't you saved some money in these years?"
"Me?" Song Mei stopped applying powder, she turned her head and looked at his mother in disbelief: "Don't you know how much money I have? I've spent a lot on you in these years, and I also have expenses. Eating out, dressing up, everything costs money, and I was fined by the hospital before. How much money can I have? A total of more than 30 yuan."
"You only have a few dozen yuan?!"
Huang Xirong's voice suddenly rose, "Then do you expect your family to give you all the dowry?!"
Song Mei was stunned, "Isn't my brother rich? He is so rich, what's wrong with giving me a few hundred yuan for dowry?!"
Huang Xirong didn't know what to say.
She said nothing, went to Song Jianshe's house, picked up the bag, threw it on the ground, and said, "Your brother has no money. I went to the black market today and found that those gold bricks are fake and can't be sold for money."
Song Mei looked at her blankly, then smiled, "Mom, you are kidding me. You are not persuaded by your sister-in-law and don't want to give me a dowry?"
Huang Xirong was not happy, "I'm not lying. Look for yourself. We only have two or three hundred yuan left in savings. You can forget about your dowry. You have to do it yourself. "
Song Mei's face changed, she squatted down hurriedly, checked the golden bricks, not a single one was missing, her heart kept sinking, "Then, what about tomorrow's matter? Tomorrow they will come to discuss the bride price and dowry with us."
Huang Xirong said, "Our family will ask for less bride price, and dowry, what dowry? Nowadays, every girl in the city gives money to her family when she gets married, why are you taking it back? The wedding date has been set, I don't believe they dare to regret it!"
The Zhao family really didn't dare.
But Zhao Donglai's parents looked unhappy. They wore their best clothes today and brought malted milk candy snacks. They thought the two families had reached a consensus on this matter. Zhao's mother was a little disappointed that Song Mei was not good-looking enough at first, but when she heard that her family could give such a large dowry, she felt that the Song family was quite sincere.
Zhao's mother even found someone to exchange the ticket for the sewing machine, thinking that she would put it in the betrothal gift later. When the time comes, she will bring the TV and the sewing machine together, which will be decent and can be seen by relatives and friends.
But who would have thought that at the end of the day, the Song family actually said that the dowry would only be fifty yuan.
"Mom and Dad, fifty yuan is fifty yuan, and our family doesn't lack this little money."
Zhao Donglai saw that his mother was unhappy, and spoke first, "Besides, the most important thing about this marriage is that Song Mei and I like each other, and dowry and gifts are secondary." Song Mei
had been worried all the time, and she was so moved when she heard this, and her eyes were full of tears when she looked at Zhao Donglai.
Zhao's father looked at his son's expression and said, "Since Donglai said so, then let's do it, but the fifty yuan should be exchanged for a quilt or something, at least it can save face."
"Don't worry about this, I have already decided to give my daughter four quilts as a dowry, so that the children will have quilts to cover themselves in the future."
Huang Xirong quietly breathed a sigh of relief and agreed with a smile.
Although the atmosphere between the two families was not very warm, at least the deal was done.
The wedding banquet would have more than ten tables, and the Zhao family had already asked relatives and friends to collect enough vegetables and meat for the day. The Song family regretted it at the last minute, so they naturally did not dare to say anything about the money.
Finally, it was decided that there would be six cold dishes and six hot dishes, Daqianmen cigarettes, and beer. The displeasure of the Zhao family was all in these dishes.
You know, originally it was agreed that the cigarettes would be Zhonghua, and the wine would be at least Lotus White. The money was paid by the Zhao family. The Zhao family planned to put out such wine because of the rich dowry of the Song family. After all, in Beijing now, the gift is only one or two yuan, and eating like this will not make up for the cost.
But now the Song family went back on their word, so the banquet naturally changed.
Although Song Mei felt aggrieved, she didn't dare to speak out. After the two families finished their meal, Zhao's father and mother left early. Zhao Donglai stayed for a while. Song Mei sent him out of the alley with red eyes, "Donglai, will your parents blame me?"
"Xiaomei, don't think too much. My parents are not that kind of people." Zhao Donglai said vaguely. Of course, he knew that his parents were unhappy. Not to mention his parents, even he was not happy.
He had told his colleagues that Song Mei's dowry was not small.
In the end, it was only fifty yuan, which was not as good as others.
Song Mei said, "I know, it's also my brother's fault. He, he has no ability but still brags."
Song Mei's tone was full of complaints.
Zhao Donglai couldn't say anything about this, so he laughed it off.
He turned around and saw Gu Yinxing and Yan Qian walking into the alley.
Gu Yinxing and Yan Qian also saw them.
Gu Yinxing glanced at Song Mei's red eyes, "Hey, what's wrong? Why are you crying?"
Song Mei quickly raised her hand to wipe away her tears, "Nothing, the wind blew it."
She looked at the food that Gu Yinxing had packed. The bags outside were all written with English names. Song Mei bit her lip and deliberately said, "Yan Qian, Yinxing, we are getting married in a few days. Will you come to the wedding?"
"I..."
Yan Qian was about to speak when he felt someone pinched him. He coughed and looked down at Gu Yinxing.
Gu Yinxing smiled brilliantly, "We wanted to too, but unfortunately we had something to do that day and we couldn't go."
After she said this, she pulled Yan Qian forward, "We still have things to do, so we won't disturb you guys anymore. You guys continue talking."
Yan Qian obediently let her pull him into the yard.
Gu Yinxing saw that no one was following behind, so she pulled Yan Qian aside and asked, "Did you want to agree to go to the wedding?"
Yan Qian was at a loss for words, "I didn't want to agree."
"You're smart then." Gu Yinxing was satisfied, and she said to Yan Qian, "Don't say I care about you, I'm doing this for your own good, stay away from Song Mei."
"We have nothing to do with each other, but you seem to care about her a lot." Yan Qian lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Yinxing thoughtfully, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Gu Yinxing's heart skipped a beat.
She had forgotten how attentive Yan Qian was.
Embarrassed, Gu Yinxing turned his head away. "Nothing. Oh, it's getting late. You should go back quickly. I have to go back to study."
Yan Qian's lips twitched. Even his cousin was not as good at changing the subject.
"Okay, you work hard. I'll give you a reward when you pass the exam."
"That's what you said. You should prepare the money. I'm sure to pass the qualification exam!" Gu Yinxing said confidently.
Yan Qian smiled and sent Gu Yinxing home before going back.
Gu Yinxing didn't worry too much about the Song family's marriage. She was too busy preparing for the exam.
The exam for this qualification certificate was held the day before Song Mei's wedding. Although Gu Yinxing applied for the exam on a whim, she had been studying hard for the past few months. Apart from work, she read books after work.
He Chunlian felt that the sun was rising from the west. If she had used this energy to take the college entrance examination, she might have graduated.
That afternoon.
After Gu Yinxing gave injections to several patients and came back after checking their conditions, the head nurse called her, "Yinxing, come here." The
head nurse's tone was a bit stern. Gu Yinxing noticed something was wrong, but she didn't dare to say anything. She put down her things and followed the head nurse out.
The head nurse asked as they walked, "Did you take care of a female patient who was admitted to the hospital because she ate the wrong food two days ago?"
"Yes, the patient stayed in the hospital for two days and one night, and was discharged yesterday." Gu Yinxing said without thinking, the woman didn't have a serious illness, she just had diarrhea and dehydration, she could have left after taking the medicine, but she still had to be hospitalized. Gu Yinxing was still wondering
, thinking that the woman didn't look like a rich person, how could she be willing to pay for hospitalization, which costs one dollar a day.
"She came to complain to you, saying that there was something wrong with the medicine you gave her. After she went home, her condition had improved, but she started to have diarrhea again after taking the medicine."
The head nurse looked at Gu Yinxing seriously, "Think back, did you give her the wrong medicine?"
Wrong medicine?
How is this possible? !
Gu Yinxing's head buzzed as if struck by lightning.
She was angry and anxious. She had been a nurse for several years. She had heard that someone had given the wrong medicine to a patient, but she was always very careful about such things because He Chunlian had always told her that she had to be very careful with things that involved human life. Every time Gu Yinxing went to get medicine, she checked it several times before giving it to the patient.
"Head nurse, this must be a misunderstanding. I got her medicine and I checked it three times before giving it to her."
Gu Yinxing said angrily.
Arriving at the office of the director of the nursing department, the head nurse looked at Gu Yinxing, hesitated for a moment, and said, "If it were me, I would certainly trust you, but it's hard to say for Director Shen. You go in later and make sure to explain everything clearly, understand?"
Gu Yinxing's face turned pale, but he still nodded heavily.
The head nurse knocked on the door, and someone called out to come in. Gu Yinxing followed the head nurse in.
Sitting behind the desk was a middle-aged woman with a serious face and glasses. In front of her were a man and a woman. The woman was the woman Gu Yinxing had seen a few days ago. There was a black spot on the left side of her face. The man looked older than her and looked very similar to her. They were probably relatives.
"Yes, it was her. The medicine she gave me killed me. I took the medicine last night and had diarrhea all night!" Lin Fengxian pointed at Gu Yinxing angrily.
The man immediately glared at Gu Yinxing and clenched his fists, "It was you, a little nurse, who almost killed my sister. What did you do, nurse? If you can't do it, get out!"
"Please talk nicely. This matter has not been clarified yet."
The head nurse pulled Gu Yinxing behind her, frowned and shouted, "It is still impossible to determine that it was the staff of our hospital who made the mistake."
"Bullshit, did you take her money?"
Lin Fengxian cursed and spit on the head nurse's face, "Your director has also looked at my medicine. It was prescribed for poop. I went to the hospital with diarrhea and you still gave me this medicine. This is not murder for money, what do you want to do?!"
"I don't care, you must give me an explanation today, either fire her or compensate me 10,000 yuan, otherwise I will go to the newspaper and say that your hospital has no medical ethics!"
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