Chapter 101101 Abacus & Liu Huifang's plan & having a child...
She was a slightly plump woman with fair skin and big eyes, and was 70 to 80 percent similar to Xu Wenli.
So as soon as she arrived at the door, the neighbors guessed who she was and shouted, "Teacher Shu, your mother-in-law is here!"
Shu Linong was feeding eggs to Xiao Ping'an in the house, coaxing him to eat one more bite so that he could go out to the yard to play after he finished eating.
As soon as Xu's mother entered the house and saw this scene, she felt even worse. "Father-in-law, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but my daughter is still young, why did you just adopt her? No matter how good someone else's child is, it's not as caring as your own."
She walked two steps inside and took a closer look at the child. The child was thin, small and timid. She muttered to herself that this was not a very good child. He was just like a little mouse, much worse than her son.
She put her hands on her hips and raised her eyebrows: "My Wenli is still young and will definitely be able to have children in the future. What do you mean by this?"
Shu Linong was not good at talking to begin with, and she caught him off guard. For a moment he didn't know which question to answer first, and could only rub his hands awkwardly.
"You didn't discuss this matter with our family, but just brought the child back without telling us. People who didn't know would think that Wenming was having an affair outside..."
"Mom, what are you saying?" Xu Wenli came in angrily. She was also told by her neighbors that someone from her mother's family was coming, so she hurried back. After so many years of marriage, when had her mother's family ever come to Liuye Hutong?
It's definitely not a good thing to come here today.
As soon as she saw her coming back, Xu's mother became even more angry, "Why did I give birth to such a coward? You let your man raise someone else's child. Are you stupid?"
"Mom, what are you talking about? I will explain this to you. It's not appropriate to do this in front of the children. Come out with me." Xu Wenli is now much more mature and steady than before. Without saying a word, she half dragged and half pulled Xu's mother into their room.
"You are still young, don't worry if you can't get pregnant. Go see a doctor more often and take care of yourself. You will definitely be able to have a baby. Even if you can't, you can't raise someone else's child. Your son-in-law runs a factory and has a house in Jinyu Hutong. He has a lot of savings, right? How can you raise someone else's child?"
Mother Xu pulled Wenli's ear and became even more angry seeing that she was still as silly as she was when she was a child.
She lowered her voice and said, "Let me ask you, do you know how much money your son-in-law has now? He sells so many clothes every month. I saw from afar that one piece of clothing costs 20 or 30 yuan. How much can he earn? I think he can sell at least ten pieces a day. His profit should be quite a lot, right?"
"I don't know." Even if I knew, I wouldn't say it.
Xu's mother observed her expression. She knew the daughter she had raised was really a silly girl who never took anything to heart.
Xu's mother was very disappointed. "You are so stupid. Why don't you try and ask? We women have to know what's going on at all times. Men become bad when they have money. He was lazy when he was a temporary worker before. Now that he has money, many women are willing to come to him. You can't get pregnant, so you have to keep the money in your own hands."
"Don't just eat all day long. What's the point of pampering your mouth? How much money can you spend on food? He bought you some delicious food just to please you. Why are you so simple-minded?"
Xu Wenli shook her head honestly, "He's not that kind of person, and I don't care about money."
Mother Xu was really pissed off by her. If her husband hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't have noticed that her son-in-law had become so rich in the past two years. The main reason was that when they went back to her parents' home every year, they would just bring two ordinary bottles of wine, which were the kind of miscellaneous wine they usually used to entertain relatives from the countryside... Who knew that he had become a big boss outside in the past two years and even opened a garment factory!
"I don't care. It's fine if you can't control him in other matters, but you can't raise this child. You can't raise someone who has no blood relationship with you."
Xu Wenli's heart skipped a beat. She felt something was wrong. She was naive, but not stupid. So she followed the topic and asked tentatively, "But I can't give birth. Where can I find a child who is related to me by blood..."
"Your brother, he is only nine years old this year, very sensible, and always thinking about you. He is of the same mind as you, and he has raised this huge family business. Isn't it for you and your sister?"
Xu Wenli originally thought that she was "seeking justice" for herself. Although it was reckless, at least she felt a little warm in her heart. But when she heard these words, her expectation finally died.
Oh, after all, she has to support her brother.
She even suspected that if she really couldn't give birth, her mother would be secretly happy, after all, their family business would belong to her younger brother.
"What are you laughing at?" Xu's mother was frightened by her half-smile. She actually knew that her calculations were too shrewd, but who made her think that her daughter was a silly girl?
The silly girl happened to be lucky enough to marry a son-in-law who can make money.
Xu Wenli was extremely disappointed, but she was no longer sad: "You are really good at scheming. Not only did you scheme against me, but you also schemed against Wenming, the family business that Wenming had worked so hard to earn."
Shu Wenming never said a bad word about her parents in front of her, but she was not really stupid. She remembered that when she was sick that year, no one wanted her to continue treatment except Wenming and the Shu family. She remembered that every mouthful of porridge and every spoonful of soup she drank during her convalescence was cooked by the Shu family. She also remembered what her parents looked like when they came to her house with gifts like other daughters and sons-in-law for so many years.
So, when Wenming suggested buying her some good cigarettes and alcohol, she thought about it and decided to refuse. She decided not to reveal the fact that Wenming could make money for the time being. She should observe for another two years and then decide when there was a suitable opportunity.
Haha, they couldn’t help it and came here because of the smell.
"Sometimes I really doubt whether the childhood in which you all granted my requests in my memory really existed?" She remembered that her parents would buy her whatever she wanted to eat, and that her father had many connections and could always get her things that ordinary families could not afford.
However, her memory also includes the terribly silent living room, the middle-aged man sitting cross-legged and reading the newspaper, and the middle-aged woman mumbling about her colleagues while eating.
The kindness in the past was real, the indifference was real, and the calculations now are also real.
Xu Wenli's eyes turned red. "Go back now. I will pretend that you have never been here today and will not tell Wenming. But if you want us to raise your child again, don't blame me for not reminding you. Wenming is not as stupid as me."
Mother Xu sighed and said frankly, "I'm not doing this entirely for your brother. I admit that I have my own selfish motives, but I'm really worried about your current situation. There is no man in this world who doesn't want his own flesh and blood. Now you have only been married for a few years and are still in love. He doesn't use this to stab you, but what about the future? In another ten or twenty years, will he be willing to accept it?"
"Even if he doesn't have any ideas, he has so much money in his hands, and there are many people who will help him make plans and introduce him to others. You are old and ugly, and you can't control the financial power of the family. Who can you cry to?"
Xu's mother talked to her heart for a long time. Seeing that she still had that half-smile on her face, she got angry and said, "Don't take it lightly. You will regret it later."
"Okay, then just wait and see if I regret it later." Xu Wenli pushed her out and closed the door with a "click".
With so many eyes watching in the compound, Xu's mother couldn't save her face, but she couldn't argue with her because of her status, so she could only grit her teeth and pretend nothing had happened and leave.
She was certain that Wen Li would regret it in the future and would lose both her money and her life.
Shu Linong was still thoughtful. He slowly fed Xiao Ping'an the eggs, then came to the backyard and asked, "Wen Li, ask your mother to stay for dinner. I'll go buy some groceries."
Everyone: “?!”
Is Mr. Shu really slow to react or is he just pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger?
"No need, Dad. She went back home because of something."
Shu Linong was surprised. Was his mother-in-law angry? Thinking back to when she questioned them as soon as she entered the room, she probably was really angry, "Explain to her some other day that we didn't mean that."
But he was really not good at explaining what he meant. Although he was pedantic, he never said anything to his daughter-in-law and told everything to his son. Since he had already expressed his suggestions to the second son, it was their own business whether to listen or not. Let them discuss it.
Shu Wenming did want to discuss it, but something happened at the garment factory and he was too busy to do anything. He asked around to see if anyone knew anyone at the duck down factory. One always has to pay to make connections; drinking, treating, and giving gifts are just small matters. He was out socializing every day and when he got home he was either drunk or exhausted. Wen Li had even fallen asleep, and he didn't have the heart to wake her up to chat.
The young couple's schedules are always out of sync.
＊＊＊
The Shu family now thinks that this incident was just a minor episode and they should continue doing what they should do.
Xu Duan called back and seemed not to be in a very good mood.
"What's wrong? Is work not going well?"
"No, work is going well." He didn't want to call from a long distance to talk about irrelevant things, but he felt like something was stuck in his heart. "A few days ago, a foreign delegation went to Huizhou to observe a rice paper factory. The whole process was led by the factory director and the factory's technicians. The foreign delegation took photos throughout the whole process..."
Shu Jinyue frowned. Xuan paper is a handicraft unique to Longguo. The manufacturing process of Xuan paper is a traditional craft of Longguo. It is quite complicated. It is said that there are more than one hundred complicated processes, some of which are still "unsolved mysteries" of Longguo. It would have been fine if the old master explained it in person, but he also carried a camera and filmed the whole process... This reminded her of a piece of news she had read in her previous life. It was said that the world's largest and most famous Xuan paper factory was in Japan.
This is somewhat similar to the situation of Chinese medicine in Longguo. They were all spread free of charge. However, many years later, it was discovered that the largest medicinal material dealer was from Japan, and almost all the patents for ancient prescriptions were registered. It was both infuriating and disgusting.
Xu Duan heard her slightly rapid breathing. "Many of us made a serious mistake after opening the door. We always thought we should treat others with courtesy and sincerity, and use the best things in our home to entertain others. However, we never thought that others were more than just guests."
"You must keep the secret recipe in your hand well."
Shu Jinyue nodded solemnly.
***
Finally it was Sunday, and Jin Yue wanted to go shopping, but Yao Qingqing was pregnant and couldn't work hard, and Lin Zhen had to be on duty and couldn't leave, so she had to let her and her second sister-in-law go shopping.
After shopping in the department store and buying two skirts and a pair of leather shoes, my second sister-in-law also bought Xiao Ping'an two new clothes and a pair of new big-toed leather shoes.
Jin Yue took a look at the price of the leather shoes, thirty-eight yuan and eighty cents, which was almost as much as her monthly salary!
"Your second brother told me to buy whatever I want. We don't have any children anyway, so we don't have any big expenses. If I don't spend money now, I won't be able to spend it when I get old." In the past, she might have hesitated. After all, she would not be willing to spend a month's salary on a pair of shoes for a child no matter how rich she was. But her mother's words a few days ago really irritated her.
Jin Yue swallowed his saliva and said, "Second sister-in-law, I noticed that you are a bit of a revenge spender."
"Really? There's no point in keeping the money anyway. Come on, you liked that skirt just now, I'll give it to you."
A silk skirt costs more than 160 yuan, but the young rich woman Jin Yue is reluctant to buy it. She always uses her current salary to measure whether she can afford something. Once she measures it, she thinks everything is expensive.
"No, I don't really like it either, it's just normal. I still like to go to the free market. Let's go build the bridge, shall we?"
The two hit it off immediately, took the shopping items home first, and then rode their bikes straight to the Jianshe Bridge. Mingyue Garment Factory's stall has been fixed in the middle position under the bridge, and there are several shops around it that also sell clothes.
In order to encourage this kind of individual economic behavior of choosing jobs voluntarily to reduce the burden on the country, the staff of the street tax office also started to collect taxes regularly. It is not much, just one cent a day, which is better than nothing.
But by paying this money, it proves that setting up a stall here is legal, so sellers and buyers can feel at ease, right?
The two of them took a stroll. With money in their hands and the warmer weather, they couldn't help but spend lavishly. They replaced things at home and bought things that needed to be replaced. They bought some new clothes and a few new pairs of shoes for their parents. They bought some for little Ping'an, but they couldn't forget the cute little Yaya.
The two little ones are so sweet now. Whenever they come to the old house, they call each other "little aunt" and "little aunt" and rush to say that they like little aunt the most. Mengmeng performs singing and dancing for little aunt, and Yaya recites the medicinal properties and prescription rhymes... Yes, Yaya likes to perform these and every time she can make the whole family laugh.
Just as they returned home with their bags, they heard everyone praising them: "Ya Ya is really the happy pill of our family!"
"Last time Mengmeng said she could count, and could count from one to one hundred."
Jin Yue put the things on the table and began to divide them one by one, "Then go to school quickly and don't let them be so happy."
Zhao Wanqiu hit her, "How can you treat your younger sister-in-law like this? I hope they can go to school later, but Grandpa Liu has something to do in his hometown, so he will probably have to go back and live there for a while this summer. Your sister-in-law wants to send Meng Meng and Ya Ya to the first grade."
Shu Wenyan used to be an educator, and he thought that the most important thing for children was to have fun, so he didn’t let them go to kindergarten and just let them play everywhere. This year, they are already three months past the age to go to first grade. Liu Huifang can no longer let them play around, so she orders them to go to school.
In addition, Grandpa Liu has an old mother who has always been supported by his younger brother, and he was only responsible for paying the money. Now the old lady has Alzheimer's disease and is always talking about her eldest son. The two brothers discussed and decided to let Grandpa Liu take care of her for a while.
But the old lady is used to living in the countryside and she doesn't like coming to the city. She has been lost twice in the three days since she was brought here. A few days ago, even Jin Yue's family went out to look for her. Everyone decided to move back to their hometown.
As soon as he left, Mengmeng and Yaya had to go to school even if they didn't want to.
It was a rare occasion that Shu Wenming also came back. He was watching them distribute the things they bought with great interest. The old people didn't like things that were too expensive. For example, Zhao Wanqiu was reluctant to wear the purple wool coat with a fox collar that year. Every time she took it out to dry in the sun before winter to get rid of the smell, she would move a small stool to watch over it, for fear that it would be lost. So, now when young people buy things for them, they either lie about the price or buy them at stalls in the free market, and they feel at ease wearing them.
"By the way, what did Xiao Xu say? When will he be back?" Shu Linong asked, handing each of the three children a small piece of date cake he had made.
"Soon. They said on the phone that it will be next month. I can rest for half a month when I come back."
"It's good to come back. That's when the bookstore is at its busiest. Let's go to Xishan Park for boating, shall we?" Xu Wenli was thinking about going out to play. "Let's take Xiao Ping'an with us, okay?"
Little Ping'an smiled and snuggled into her arms, "Good boy! Erzao mommy!" He was still eating the sweet and soft date cake in his mouth.
Everyone was shocked. Wen Li was surprised and hugged him, "What did you call me?"
"Er Zao Mama!"
Mengmeng and Yaya all call her Second Aunt, but he didn't learn from them. Instead, he learned from Jinyue. Jinyue called Wenli "Second Sister-in-law", and he thought it was "Er Zao", so he learned it by himself and called Wenli "Er Zao's Mother".
Everyone laughed, amazed at the child's incredible logic and also at the fact that he could actually take the initiative to call for help. You know, when he was first brought home, he only knew how to call Jin Yue "Mom". He never learned to call grandpa and grandma, let alone uncles and aunts. But after only a few days of getting along, he actually calls them on his own initiative.
This call of "Er Zao Mom" was just the same as "Mama Zhao", but it really made Xu Wenli very happy. She was so happy that her eyes were filled with tears, and she hugged little Ping An and kissed him.
It's strange to say, during the time that Xiao Ping'an came, Jin Yue had neither the time nor the energy to coax him to sleep at night, so Xu Wenli always took him to sleep with him. One night when Shu Wenming came back, Zhao Wanqiu took the child and said she would take him to sleep with him. As a result, the little guy cried so hard that he could hardly breathe. As soon as Xu Wenli took him to him, he stopped crying in one second and fell asleep in three seconds.
"Okay, okay, you can't call Erzao mom. You can call her Erma or Wenli mom."
Meng Meng and Ya Ya were laughing beside them. They were a few years older than Xiao Ping An and knew more. "Ping An is stupid. You can't call me mom. You have to call me second aunt."
Xiao Ping'an looked at Xu Wenli cautiously, then at Shu Jinyue, and finally at Shu Linong, looking at a loss.
He has too many "moms". In the past, he had the director of the orphanage, then Teacher Zhao, then Jin Yue's mom, and now there is a second mom. Everyone feels that there is no need to correct him, so just let him call her that.
"Xiao Ping'an, can you call me second mom, okay?" Xu Wenli said in a muffled voice.
"Second mother." The childish voice seemed to carry the warm fragrance of date cakes.
Now, even Shu Wenming couldn't hold it anymore. His eyes stayed on his wife for a long time, then looked at the well-behaved Xiao Ping'an. Finally, he let go of his tense shoulders and looked in the direction of Shu Jinyue.
Jin Yueke has no time to see him. Although she has not encountered any difficult and complicated cases in the past few days and has handled every case with ease, she cannot relax in her studies. Mo Shuyi and Qin Haiyang have already figured out a clue. They have applied to the hospital to open a reproductive department in the provincial hospital. Due to lack of staff, it will be temporarily merged into the obstetrics and gynecology department.
Others have progressed to reproductive specialties. With such great progress right before our eyes, Chinese medicine must not stand still. Jin Yue carefully read through several medical books he bought from Zhang Desheng. Xu Duan found a Japanese expert for her. After preliminary identification, it was confirmed that the content of her Japanese medical book was indeed "Imperial Han Medicine", because a version had been translated by a scholar in Haicheng fifty years ago. She borrowed the translated version from the library for comparison and found that the content was indeed similar, except that some words and sentence structures had been modified to make it more in line with publishing standards.
She really wanted to let the Japanese see their "national treasure", but she also knew that she was weak and alone at the moment, so she shouldn't take the initiative to provoke them for the time being. The most important thing was to strengthen herself first.
While Jin Yue was thinking, he went to the living room to make a phone call to confirm the time and place of next month's seminar with Lin Zhen.
Yes, they have started preparing for the seminar they will attend next month. The key is that they are just auditors, not lecturers.
Lin Zhen is currently interning in the surgery department of the provincial hospital. As a student of traditional Chinese medicine, she has to rotate to the surgery department and follow her teacher to perform surgeries on appendicitis, gallstones and gastric cancer. At first, she could only watch from the side. Later, the teacher found that although she was young and small, she had a solid theoretical foundation, so she simply asked her to help with retractors and sutures.
"Next month's seminar will invite an expert from Country M, named Brian. My teacher told me that he is a famous liver disease expert. The entire hospital will be attending, even the surgeons and gynecologists will be attending. He even asked me to save a seat for him. You must come early!"
Jin Yue had heard her say this many times and had heard a little about this expert. "Next month is still early, and there are still many variables. It's not certain whether he can come."
Lin Zhen pouted, "How is that possible? He will definitely come. The hospital has already paid for it!"
Since the reform and opening up, the exchanges between Longguo and Western capitalist countries have become increasingly frequent. All walks of life are proud to invite foreign experts to visit and discuss. Foreign experts attend these activities in their private capacity and need to pay a fee. Unlike Longguo people, they go as soon as the organization arranges, and bring all their lifelong skills, vowing to share with their peers... Jin Yue thought of the paper mill again and sighed.
"Dr. Brian is currently engaged in the most advanced liver disease research in Country M. He is particularly good at treating hepatorenal syndrome. It would be nice for us to learn from him when the time comes."
Shu Jinyue now has his own clinic, so naturally he wants to have more contact with the outside world. This is a good opportunity that cannot be missed.
Just after hanging up the phone, Shu Wenming stood behind him without knowing when, "You ghost, what's the matter?"
"Can you ask Long Gongan, Xiao Ping'an...if we can adopt him."
Jin Yue was stunned, a little bit unable to react, "Why?"
"I think Wenli likes him very much."
Shu Jinyue remained silent. She felt that this matter was too serious to decide all at once. "Why don't you discuss it again? I don't know much about Public Security Long either. I need to ask him."
In fact, she also had a vague feeling that the current Teacher Zhao was not the best destination for Xiao Ping'an. Public Security Long was also a little dissatisfied, but he was out of reach and could not blame his colleague's lover. Sending Xiao Ping'an to live with the Shu family was probably because he wanted the child to have more people to care for him.
"I don't know the details of Xiao Ping'an's identity, but his parents must have many enemies with considerable power. If you adopt such a child, it may bring you trouble. I hope you can think this through."
Shu Wenming nodded. "I've thought it through. I, Shu Wenming, have been a coward for most of my life. I'm already forty years old. I don't believe I can't protect a child. I've been through so much hardship for so many years, and I'm not a pushover."
He licked the corner of his mouth viciously, "If I don't even have this ability, then all these years have been in vain."
Jin Yue agreed. There might be trouble, but there are so many people in the Shu family. Xu Duan and the second brother are not pushovers. There is also No. 16 Courtyard and Liuye Hutong with so many enthusiastic people. She doesn't believe that they can't protect the orphan of a martyr!
She immediately dismissed this concern, but her second brother's next words surprised her even more: "Isn't it selfish of me to not let Wenli have a child?"
He just wanted her to be alive, but for someone who loves children, how could he make up for the regret in his heart if she just lived with him eating and drinking well for decades?
"When I saw her crying, I realized that I had been treating her well over the past few years without really considering whether she really needed such 'goodness'."
Shu Jinyue nodded. She was a fence-sitter. Sometimes she thought that her second brother's decision to have a sterilization was wise, and sometimes she wondered if it was unfair to Wenli. But in the final analysis, Wenli had the right to choose what kind of life she wanted, and her second brother should give this right back to her.
The brother and sister looked at each other in silence. Jin Yue was about to call Xu Duan when he heard Liu Huifang's voice coming from the front yard.
She just came in from the front door, holding a jar in her hand, "Mom, Jinyue, this is the duck stewed by my dad. It was sent from my hometown a few days ago. You guys try it."
The duck just out of the pot smelled delicious. Jin Yue ate a piece and was overwhelmed by its deliciousness. "It's really delicious. Why does it taste different from the duck we usually eat?"
"Well, my grandmother's family raises ducks. They don't feed them with feed. Every day when she goes out to work, she releases the ducks to the river. They come back by themselves at night and eat the water plants and small fish until they are full. The duck meat is also more delicious than the ones raised at home."
"I'll send you some salted duck eggs in a few days. My grandma doesn't recognize people anymore, but she makes delicious salted duck eggs. She hasn't forgotten the secret recipe."
Everyone laughed, and Shu Wenming's eyes suddenly lit up, "Raising ducks, then are there many ducks in Grandpa Liu's hometown?"
It's no wonder he asked this question. The main reason is that Shilan Province is an inland province. Unlike the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, not many people raise ducks. As local people of Shilan, they have never heard of any place raising ducks in the province.
"There are many. There are also many duck farms. They used to be collective enterprises run by the village. In the past two years, the production quota has been allocated to each household, and everyone has started to raise ducks on their own. Many families have actually managed to raise ducks on a large scale."
Shu Wenming quickly asked where Grandpa Liu's hometown was, and he wanted to go and see it some other day. Everyone understood at first glance that he wanted to buy duck down. Ever since his garment factory made a lot of money last year, Song Yingying's cousins also started to become active. It's only spring now, and they heard that they have bought a lot of duck down from western Jiangxi, preparing to follow Shu Wenming's example and do something big! Not to mention that Brother Song dug a hole for Wenming and stuffed him with a bunch of low-quality duck down, which almost ruined his reputation. If he fell, the Song brothers would have no rivals in the down jacket market in the book city.
Shu Wenming certainly couldn't just sit there and wait for death, so he has been busy with this matter during this period of time.
As for Song Yingying, he didn't blame her because she had never cheated him.
After everyone was present, Liu Huifang began to explain her purpose: "I have a difficult problem now, and I thought that Jin Yue and my brother-in-law are knowledgeable, so you can help me with some advice."
Xu Duan was not at home, but he kept in touch with Jin Yue at any time. He participated in all the matters of the Shu family, big or small, and never missed a thing.
"It's like this. Our company's performance is very poor now. Many of our engineers have been poached by other companies. I'm a woman, so they don't like me. There are people who want to poach me, but the price they offer is not as high as theirs. I feel really bad."
Her driving skills and experience are no worse than those of the male masters, and she also has some advantages unique to women, but in the eyes of these people, she is not good enough, not because of her skills and experience, but because of her gender.
She does the same job but does not get the same salary, and is picked on and told that she is not as good as men in this or that aspect. She feels really uncomfortable.
"I thought, if that's the case, why don't I go out too? There's an old man in our unit who went out on his own. His brother-in-law works for a taxi company in Beijing and they said they're short of drivers. He went there to drive for a while and made a lot of money, at least two or three hundred a month."
What does two or three hundred mean? They only have a basic salary of forty or fifty now.
Zhao Wanqiu nodded repeatedly after hearing this. "There are many people who have resigned without pay now, but we don't have a taxi company in our bookstore. What should we do?"
"If you can't make it, just open one yourself." Now that she's out on her own, she's become a lot bolder and actually dares to say something like this.
Shu Linong quickly retorted: "It takes a lot of money to open a taxi company. Forget it. Just take the class if you have one. Maybe it will be more profitable after a while."
None of the young people spoke. Is this good or not? Who can say for sure?
Shu Jinyue looked at Liu Huifang, "Sister-in-law, do you have any ideas?"
"I inquired last time. Because our unit has lost a lot of drivers, several trucks are unmanned. I heard from the neighboring unit that our transportation system will be reorganized soon. These old trucks and other items will be sold at a low price. I want to buy them and run the transportation myself."
Here it comes. My sister-in-law in the previous life started out by taking out a loan to buy a used car and started a transport business, which was then gradually developed into a transport company. In this life, she has a baby, and they are still together, but those who are supposed to be female bosses still have to be female bosses!
"What is Jin Yue thinking about? What do you think?" Liu Huifang asked her.
"I think it will work. In the future, the whole country and even the whole world will become a community. Both big cities and small towns will become hubs on the map. There will be more goods traveling north and south, and it will be impossible for all of them to go by train. Automobile transportation will also have a place." Moreover, automobile transportation can develop into express delivery companies in the future. This is also a huge business opportunity that 99% of people don't know about. Anyone who enters the market early will make a fortune in the end.
Jin Yue didn't understand much about going public, but she knew that she could definitely make money by running transportation now, and opening an express delivery company in the future would be a sure win.
"Sister-in-law, just do it now, while everyone else hasn't reacted yet."
Shu Wenming also said: "Sister-in-law, if you can sell the old cars in your company at a low price, you might as well buy a few more."
"But I'm alone, and I don't have many hands-on time to drive the car after I bought it. If the car is left unused for a long time, it will break down. Now they are selling the ones that are prone to breaking down at a low price."
Shu Linong nodded quickly. He even felt that two were too many. One would be enough. One was the most.
Shu Wenming laughed and said, "Who said you should open it yourself? You can hire someone to open it and pay them a salary."
Everyone suddenly understood, because that's how his garment factory worked. He never dared to hire workers, and only asked neighbors like Aunt Zhao and Aunt Feng to help quietly. Then he asked Fan Qiuyue and others to help, and then slowly developed a long-term employment relationship. He also registered with the Labor Bureau. Now his garment factory has certificates, licenses, workers, and customers... If he had to do everything himself, he wouldn't be where he is today.
Liu Huifang's heart was filled with emotion. She had come up with this idea after seeing her brothers and sisters around her rising up and her colleagues jumping out of their iron rice bowls and getting into the big pot. From the day she had a heart-to-heart talk with Shu Wenyan until now, she hadn't told anyone and hadn't acted rashly. She was just waiting for herself to calm down so that she could think deeply.
Now, she has thought it over.
"Okay, let's do it. I'll go to the company tomorrow and ask. If internal employees buy it, it should be cheaper."
Zhao Wanqiu said: "You can ask first. If you are short of money, we can also gather some money here. We can put it in first. When the business is successful, the money will be returned."
"Just like when Jin Yue and I opened a clinic, we had to pay thousands of dollars for rent and renovations at the beginning. It was like running water, a few hundred here, a few hundred there. My heart ached as if I was being cut by a knife again and again. But when the clinic was really opened, it turned out that the money was not as hard to make as we imagined."
Shu Jinyue charges 40 cents per patient, and she sees an average of 16 or 17 patients a night. The consultation fee alone is more than 6 yuan. If she makes some money from Chinese medicine, she can earn more than 10 yuan a night. This is when there are the least patients. Their medicine prices are strictly based on market prices, without much increase.
Of course, she didn't mention how much Jin Yue made, but only used herself as an example: "I make 1.5 cents per patient, and I can see about 10 patients a day, which is 1.5 yuan. Add in the cost of medicine, IV drips, and injections, and I can make 5 or 6 yuan a day. Even the head nurse of our department only makes more than 80 yuan a month, and I make twice as much as her."
This is not just a matter of money, it's also about a middle-aged or elderly woman's inner satisfaction and sense of accomplishment - you excluded me and didn't let me get along well before, but now I'm working on my own and one month's work is equivalent to two months of yours!
Liu Huifang really calculated it seriously. "Based on the speed at which Mom makes money, it won't take long to earn back the rent and renovation costs."
Zhao Wanqiu straightened her chest and said, "According to this trend, it should be about the same."
Shu Wenming looked at Jin Yue and knew that this was a humble statement. Jin Yue had just started working at the clinic and there were not many patients yet. He didn't even know where to find some of his old patients. When the number of patients really increased, according to past rules, the number would increase exponentially. If he could make some more money from the medicine, it would be possible to make thousands a month.
By then, even if she has no investment, she can become a millionaire just by the income from treating patients in the clinic.
***
A month later, when Book City entered its hottest season, Public Security Long came to the Shu family again. This time he was not wearing work clothes, but casual clothes.
Just as I walked to the door, I heard a child's giggling voice coming from the open door of the Shu family's old house, "Second mother!"
This is the voice of Xiao Ping'an, whom I haven't seen for a while.
"Hey!" This was a female voice that I had never heard before, but it was very gentle.
"Second mother!"
“Hey!”
"Second mother!"
“Hey!”
The person next to him couldn't bear to listen any longer and said, "Just tell me what you want to say."
But Xiao Ping'an didn't say anything, he just shouted, and while shouting he lowered his head, sitting on the kang and playing with a very beautiful red and green cube box. Public Security Long remembered that this was called a Rubik's Cube. A few days ago, Xiaolong said he wanted to buy one, but his wife said it was too expensive and refused to buy it for him. For this reason, Xiaolong even lost his temper and refused to eat at home. In the end, his wife had no choice but to buy it.
Xiao Ping'an has been playing with this expensive novelty toy at Shu's house for several days.
When Long Gongan thought about what Dr. Shu had said to her last month, she was quite happy for Xiao Ping'an.
"Hey, Public Security Long is here, come in and sit down."
Public Security Long was not wearing a mask. He hesitated for a moment, but still went in, thinking that he would just try not to visit Xiao Ping'an.
However, unlike what he imagined of him running towards him crying and making a fuss, little Ping'an was still sitting obediently on the kang playing with the Rubik's Cube. When he saw someone entering the room, he just looked up. Not to mention recognizing his "daddy", he didn't even look at him for a second time.
After not seeing him for a while, the child had obviously gained some weight. His cheeks, which were originally a little sunken, became plump and plump. The green and yellow spots on his face, especially the blue veins at the root of his nose, seemed no longer obvious. Not to mention that he was wearing new clothes that looked not cheap at all and were neat and tidy, unlike other kids of his age who always had snot hanging from their noses and black hands.
Long Gongan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Shu family took good care of him, very well, much better than he expected.
"I just got approval from my superiors today. They agreed to your application." Xiao Ping'an's situation is special. He is not an ordinary child. Anyone who wants to adopt him needs the approval of the relevant department. Of course, the relevant department will not only review the identity, background and experience of the adopter, but also give the adopter some living expenses.
The Shu family members all stopped what they were doing, and Shu Wenming also sat up, "Really?"
"Well, this is the stamped consent form, take a look."
Shu Wenming was quicker than Xu Wenli. After reading it, he immediately handed it to his wife. The two of them leaned together with their heads tilted. When Xiao Ping'an saw it, he stopped playing with the Rubik's Cube and also leaned over, squeezing in between the two adults, holding one in each hand and laughing.
We don’t know what the child is laughing at, but we know why he is laughing.
"We will pay his living expenses monthly..."
"No, no, the organization won't give it to me." Xu Wenli waved her hand. She was not short of money now. If she hadn't always remembered Wenming's words about not spoiling children, she would have wanted to take him to the store every day and buy whatever he pointed to.
Shu Wenming felt helpless seeing his silly wife like this. Ever since they agreed to adopt the child, she was so happy that she couldn't sleep all night. From the next day on, she really treated Xiao Ping'an as her own child. Before going to work, she would wash and dress the child and send him to the old house. She would rush home as soon as she got off work at noon to check if the child was bullied by the children in the compound, whether he had eaten on time, and whether he had taken the medicine prepared by his aunt seriously. In the evening, she would wash and wipe the child's face, making the child's face fragrant and smooth. He couldn't bear to see it.
Now that they have really agreed to adopt the child and can register the child in their household register, even Shu Wenming feels like he really has a child.
This little guy would snatch Wenli from him at night, would put his legs on his stomach at night, and sometimes he would be woken up by his big slap in the morning. But as long as he saw that big smile on his face that looked like someone else, he would think, it’s okay to kick and slap him, as long as he didn’t steal his wife.
"Can we apply to open a special account for his living expenses, deposit the money into it, and then give the passbook to him for safekeeping after he reaches adulthood and becomes sensible?"
This is the honor his parents paid for with their lives. It cannot be "squandered" before he has the ability to manage money. It should be at his disposal after he becomes an adult.
Public Security Officer Long nodded, "Okay, I will report this to my superiors. By the way, Teacher Zhao is too busy at work, and her child is still sick and hasn't recovered yet, so she really doesn't have time to come here in person. She asked me to pass this to you."
He took out a newspaper bag and a notebook from his green schoolbag. The notebook recorded when and how much living expenses he received. He received them 28 times in total. They raised Xiao Ping'an for two years and four months, and not a penny was missing, all neatly placed in the newspaper bag.
They didn't spend a penny on Xiao Ping'an's living expenses.
"If it's convenient, please ask Public Security Long to thank her for us. Thank her for taking care of my son for so long and raising him so well."
Xiao Ping'an's current good living habits and his good temper and politeness that are praised by everyone are all due to Teacher Zhao's teaching.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
