Chapter 108 108 Fake vase & ice powder incident & a thief breaks in! …
How difficult is it to get an appointment with Dr. Shu nowadays?
Three days in advance, at 6:30 pm, we lined up in front of Jinyue Clinic opposite San Department Store to grab the tickets on the spot! The numbers are cheap, only 40 cents each, but they are really hard to get!
This is for patients coming from other provinces, who can only make an appointment three days in advance. If the time is advanced to seven days, I don’t know how many days they will have to wait here before they can get a table. This greatly increases the time and economic costs of seeing a doctor.
After Xu Duan came back from Shenzhen, he and Jin Yue took some things to Ma Shuhui and Secretary Liu's house and discussed for a long time. Finally, they reached an agreement: he could not resign, but Jin Yue's consultation time at the street office would be reduced to all day on Mondays and Fridays, which was equivalent to reducing the workload to one third of the previous amount.
She volunteered to lower her salary, but Secretary Liu did not agree in order to keep her. At the same time, they applied to their superiors for approval to increase Jin Yue's registration fee at the epidemic prevention station to one yuan, which would all belong to Jin Yue.
Generally speaking, the registration fees of ordinary doctors in public hospitals do not belong to them entirely, just like Jin Yue before, when each registration fee was 1 cent and she did not get a penny, but she was told that he was an ordinary doctor. Xu Duan took two newspapers and got her expert treatment, and special matters were handled specially.
Until he left Secretary Liu's house, Jin Yue still couldn't believe that he had actually negotiated such a high price! Her initial psychological expectation was that if she could reduce her outpatient visits by one day, it would be enough to give her some relief.
Who would have thought that Xu Duan would actually reduce the workload from six days to two days and raise the registration fee so high!
Obviously, he didn't bring any expensive gifts, just some lychee wine, a specialty of the south, and two packs of cigarettes. He didn't treat us to a meal, but we just sat on the sofa and chatted for a few minutes, and the deal was done. Is this the skill of negotiation? The key is still those two newspapers. He tried to find a way to get her on the newspapers, not only to build momentum for her, not only to vindicate traditional Chinese medicine, but most fundamentally to increase her bargaining chips.
Shu Jinyue felt that she had a lot to learn.
"What are you thinking about?" On the way back, Xu Duan held her hand, and they didn't ride a bike. They walked slowly along the road, just like taking a walk.
"I was thinking, I only have to work two days at the epidemic prevention station in the future, I'm happy." Who likes to go to work naturally? She just likes the sense of accomplishment that comes with going to work, but frequent and continuous sense of accomplishment can also make people numb and tired. Once the threshold is raised, the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment will be reduced.
"I want to take it easy. I don't have to work so closely at the clinic. I can just go all day and night on Tuesday and Thursday. I won't go anywhere on Saturday and Sunday and can concentrate on reading. What do you think?"
Looking at her bright eyes, Xu Duan smiled and shook his head, "No."
"Why, I tried so hard!"
"You can't just read for two days. You need to rest. You are not a machine."
Shu Jinyue was stunned for a moment, then hit him twice, "Okay."
After so many years of rebirth, she has been busy with work and school, but has not enjoyed life properly. It is time for her to take a break. "Let's go out and play for a few days when both work is on track."
"Okay, where do you want to go?"
Jin Yue looked up and could see the light blue stubble on his chin. "Let's go to the Jiangnan water town, then go to the seaside, to the Northeast, and to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau."
Xu Duan held her hand tightly, squinting his eyes and imagining the high and low lines on the map, with a look of longing on his face. "Okay, let's take a plane or a train."
"We have to take a ship."
"Xiao Shu?"
They both turned around and asked, "Sister Wang?"
"Oh, Xiao Shu, this is your boyfriend. He's so handsome. Would it be convenient for him to come to our house and sit for a while?" Sister Wang looked at them eagerly.
Xu Duan had just discovered that this person had followed them for less than two minutes. He was just about to take Jin Yue and take a detour to get away from him, but he didn't expect that it was someone Jin Yue knew. Besides, he had heard it too.
Shu Jinyue didn't want to go to Sister Wang's house at all. She had nowhere to stay, but there was no guarantee that there would be anything good there. After all, Sister Wang is illiterate. Even if she receives something good, she doesn't know how to identify it and is reluctant to show it to others, so it's hard to guarantee that she can keep the good things.
She also tasted the sweetness of success from the Bronze Man and "Imperial Han Medicine" last time. Now almost half of the books in her home were bought from the recycling station.
Seeing her hesitation and reluctance, Sister Wang became anxious and quickly flattered her, "I heard that you were on the newspaper and can treat foreigners! You can cure diseases that foreign experts can't. You are amazing!"
No one could have imagined that the girl who had shamelessly asked her to work as a handyman at a scrap recycling station in order to stay in the city and buy a job would now become a famous doctor known far and wide, even throughout the province. She felt really bad.
At the beginning, she bullied her because she was young and young, and wanted to get some benefits from her. It was a bit unfair. If she had known that she would be so successful now, she should have established a good relationship with her. Who knows when this kind of connection will come in handy.
Xu Duan looked at Sister Wang calmly and chatted with her for a few more sentences. He was sure that she was a rather greedy petty citizen. She didn't dare to do big bad things, but she had definitely done a lot of cheating and stealing.
Jin Yue scratched his palm, signaling him not to be nervous, as she had her own plan.
Arriving at Sister Wang's house, she wanted to get some water, but Jin Yue quickly said no, "Just tell me what you want, we have something else to do at home."
"It's nothing, I just wanted to ask you, will you accept these books?" She dug out a pile of old books from the mountain of waste paper.
Xu Duan asked Jin Yue to go to the door to get some fresh air first. He lowered his head and flipped through the books one by one. Although he was not proficient in medicine, he could still distinguish the basic medical books from other books.
"Your partner is so nice. He's even afraid that you'll smell it... There is indeed a smell in my house, but we're used to it and don't think it's a big deal. You..." Sister Wang started looking at Jin Yue's belly before she finished her three sentences.
It's been three years, and I've gotten used to this kind of look. At first it was from the neighbors in the compound, and later it was from colleagues like Sister Qiao. It seemed that getting married meant getting pregnant, and not getting pregnant was abnormal.
She didn't respond, but Sister Wang was not embarrassed at all. She continued to talk about her own things, and her eyes did not ignore Xu Duan. She kept staring at him until Xu Duan picked out three old books. Only then did she feel relieved.
"These books should be helpful to your medical practice, right?"
Jin Yue took it and flipped through it casually. It was not a rare or precious ancient book, but it was related to medicine. There was also a book called "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" annotated by several old Chinese medicine practitioners from Shilan Province, which was also stamped with many people's seals. Although its value is currently unknown, it was still a small gain.
Seeing that there was nothing to show in her expression, Sister Wang was disappointed, but she also knew that this was something that could only be encountered by chance, and she couldn't come across that Shandong cuisine cookbook every time, right?
"Well, if you like it, I'll give it to you as a gift."
Jin Yue raised her eyebrows, it seemed that these were not the books she wanted to sell today.
Seeing that the young couple didn't respond at all and seemed to have no interest in her things at all, Sister Wang became anxious. She thought that Shu Jinyue was really different after becoming famous and could hide things now. In the past, whenever she heard that I had something good to "give" her, she would be so happy that her teeth were not visible, but this time she was not moved at all.
No, to be precise, she was not unmoved. She had been in the market for half her life, and you could not see any emotion on her face at all. Was she interested or not? Want it or not?
But time waits for no one, it's too late! Sister Wang gritted her teeth and stamped her feet. "You liked that vase that year, so I kept it for you. Many people came and offered high prices, but I remembered your kindness and kept it for you. Do you still want it?"
If someone didn't know the whole story, they would think they were really close friends.
Shu Jinyue held back his laughter and played dumb with her, "Which vase? What vase?"
Seeing her like this, Sister Wang realized that she had obviously not thought about that thing in the past few years. With a "ding dong", she subtracted a zero from the price she expected.
"Oh, look at you, you are really childish. You loved this vase so much that year that you held it tightly and refused to let go. You almost cried and said you wanted it because you liked it. How come you have forgotten it now? Take a good look at it. Do you like it?"
She took out a blue and white porcelain vase with the pattern of Uncle Mao Ailian from the kang cabinet, placed it on the small table, and looked at Jin Yue's expression.
Shu Jinyue was really not in a hurry, not at all. She just glanced at it calmly and said, "Oh, isn't this just an old vase? It can't be sold with such a big crack, right?"
Sister Wang choked up, "What are you talking about? This is authentic Yuan blue and white porcelain. There are not many Yuan blue and white porcelains in the whole Dragon Kingdom. This pattern is something else, Uncle Cat Loves Lotus, very elegant and stylish. I also remembered that you liked it, so I didn't sell it, thinking that if you have money in your hands one day, you will come back to buy it, right?"
Shu Jinyue was trying to hold back his laughter. What a great “cat” uncle who loves Lian. It was a sign of her having a good memory that she didn’t say that the cat uncle was in love.
"I don't understand these things. Anyway, I can't see what's good about it... By the way, if it's so good, why don't you sell it to someone else? Are you really keeping it for me?" She smiled and made it clear that she didn't believe her words.
Sister Wang choked again. Doesn’t she want to sell it? She asked people to find several buyers, but they shook their heads as soon as they saw the item, saying it was fake and making a bunch of analysis pointing out various issues. She didn't listen to a word they said, but she remembered what they said - this thing was worth at most 20 yuan, and if it was taken to the antique market, it would be worth at most 25 yuan.
Sister Wang was dumbfounded. Her first reaction was certainly one of disbelief. She remembered clearly that when she asked the master craftsman to look at it that year, he swore that this was a rare pattern of Mao Shu's love of lotus flowers in Yuan blue and white porcelain, and that it would be worth at least three thousand yuan in a few years. So she had not touched it at all in all these years, and it turned out to be only twenty-five yuan after holding on to it for several years? !
What’s the difference between this and taking out her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys?
Sister Wang was so angry that she couldn't breathe. After being rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, she burst into tears several times. She didn't believe it and went to see other "experts", but they said the same thing again. She finally gave up and almost smashed the vase.
Last month, she saw Shu Jinyue in the newspaper, and suddenly she had an idea. If anyone else doesn't want him, then there's still a sucker out there!
"Jin Yue, you are a famous doctor now, you are not short of money, but your sister Wang is just waiting for the rice to cook. You see, we had a pleasant cooperation in the past. Why don't you help me collect it, just as a favor to me, and pity my child? This child has been complaining of leg pain when sleeping recently. We went to the hospital for a check-up and found that it was growing pains, which is calcium deficiency and lack of nutrition. You must know that you need to eat more good food since you studied medicine, right?"
Shu Jinyue seemed a little moved. "Your child is quite pitiful. It's not that I can't buy your vase, but... Big sister, you can't cheat me. Tell me the truth."
"Two hundred. Someone outside gave me two hundred, so I won't ask for more. You can take the one hundred and eighty, okay?" Sister Wang reluctantly gave it up.
Shu Jinyue immediately waved his hand, "That's too expensive, I don't want it."
She didn't even want those three books anymore. To be honest, they were not rare copies. She didn't really want these old books that had been publicly released and would be sold openly on the street or under the overpass in two years.
Seeing that she was about to leave, Sister Wang became anxious and said, "Okay, okay, then how much do you want to give? Just name your price."
"Thirty yuan, no more. If you take it out, you can only get twenty-five or twenty-six at most." Xu Duan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.
Sister Wang didn't dare to look him in the eye. After hesitating for a long time, she finally decided, "Okay, take it, take it."
Thirty yuan for a fake vase and a few old books. Jin Yue didn't really want them. When she left Wang's house with the things, she complained to Xu Duan: "Why do you want them? They're fake. There's no point in keeping them."
"Do you think she really kept it for me all these years? It's fake and can't be sold. When she saw me in the newspaper, she thought of me as the sucker." Jin Yue got angrier when she thought about it. She suspected that the three words "I'm easy to cheat" were really written on her, otherwise why would anyone come to cheat her.
Xu Duan shook his head, looking mysterious.
Shu Jinyue suddenly paused, his heart skipped a beat, and he said in a low voice, "Wait, this can't be true? So many people have made the mistake?!"
Xu Duan held her hand tightly and laughed, "What are you thinking? How can an amateur like us possibly get a bargain from so many experts? This is fake, but it's not too obvious."
"Then why did you buy it? You wasted half a month's salary for nothing."
Xu Duan rubbed the smooth back of her hand with his thumb and said, "Wait, it will work."
When Jin Yue asked again, he was unwilling to say anything. However, when he returned to the compound, he seemed to be particularly fond of the thing. He went to the old house to ask Teacher Shu for an old cotton-padded jacket, and covered himself tightly with it.
"I think you have too much money and don't know where to spend it." Xu Duan sold all the twenty cars and made a lot of money. He gave the money to Jin Yue for safekeeping, but Jin Yue refused.
She simply took back the capital she had given him, and the rest was what he earned, with more than two million in his hand, which served as his start-up capital.
"I will not pay off the loan for now, I will pay a little every month. I plan to use this money to build a factory in Shucheng, starting with auto parts, so that we don't have to live apart in the future."
He rubbed Jin Yue's soft fingers. The skin on her fingertips was very rough. Every time he touched them, he would think of her when she was sixteen.
"Okay, you decide for yourself. By the way, Sister Bao told you the other day to go see Brother Wengui when you are free and have a couple of drinks with him. You don't have to go home for dinner tomorrow. I'll tell Dad."
Xu Duan hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay."
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Jin Yue thought it was odd that he bought a vase, but she didn't have time to care about it. The next day, while he was at home, she washed the bedding and cleaned the house.
Usually she is alone at home, and the bedding is changed frequently when he is not around. If he is around, it has to be changed once a week. This is with a layer of padding on top. She has to wash it after each use before lying on it, otherwise it will get dirty faster.
Jin Yue didn't have to do these things, so she just leaned against the door frame and ate melon seeds. The neighbors saw Xu Duan busying in and out, washing and drying things, and she didn't even have to lift a hand, so they were so envious. Of course, they all sincerely praised Xu Duan for his diligence.
Fan Qiuyue was doing some general cleaning today as the garment factory was closed for the day. She was taking off the quilt cover. Seeing this, she immediately put down her work and pointed at Du Aiguo who was reading by the window, "You come."
Du Aiguo is preparing for an exam recently. The document says that there will be a batch of vacancies for regular teachers soon. His length of service and experience in going to the countryside meet the requirements, so he is a priority for regularization. He is now waiting for the exam. Once he passes, he can go to the Labor Bureau to go through the formalities and will no longer be a substitute teacher earning the minimum wage.
Hearing this, he said without even raising his head: "I'm reading a book. Time is tight and the task is heavy. Please take care of it for a while."
Fan Qiuyue threw the quilt and said, "Why are you so rigid? What's the big deal if you pass the exam? It's just an extra 30 or 40 yuan. I already make more than 200 yuan a month. What can you do with the extra 30 or 40 yuan?"
Du Aiguo pursed his lips, not daring to talk back, and went over to take off the quilt cover in silence.
"Look at Xiao Xu. According to our boss, she made a lot of money in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, but she treated Jin Yue with such love when she came back. She didn't let her get involved in anything at home. I'm not forcing you to make a lot of money, but at least you should learn from her and be more active, don't you understand?"
How could Du Aiguo dare to talk back? Ever since she went to work in the garment factory, Fan Qiuyue has become more and more assertive. She is now very tough with her in-laws and will confront them whenever she is unhappy. When his brothers and sisters' children bully their two children, Fan Qiuyue is too lazy to reason with those naughty kids and starts teaching them a lesson directly, under the euphemism of "teaching our brothers and sisters' children a lesson."
In the past, she wouldn't even dare to touch a hair on someone else's head and would want to stay as far away from them as possible.
Du Aiguo felt happy when he thought of his brother and sister being humiliated, and those naughty kids being beaten and crying. He accepted his wife's criticism and just worked hard. There were many men doing housework in the No. 16 yard anyway, from top to bottom, so it was not shameful for him.
Shu Jinyue didn't know what Xu Duan talked about when he went to Sister Bao's house. When he came back in the evening, he was a little drunk. His eyes were not as clear as usual, and he tossed and turned on the kang so hard that he almost broke her waist.
"What's wrong with you? Did you take the wrong medicine?" Jin Yue was confused and so tired that his whole body ached. He didn't even have the strength to speak.
"without."
"Then it's like you've taken..." an aphrodisiac.
Xu Duan hugged her and stroked her slender spine. The calluses on his hands brought a rough friction feeling. Jin Yue's whole body softened again and she let out a few tiny sounds.
That soft humming immediately raised his vigor, which had just been suppressed, and asked, "Again?"
Shu Jinyue quickly shook her head. Who said there are only oxen that die of exhaustion, but no fields that are damaged by plowing? Her field was damaged by exhaustion, but the old ox was still enjoying it.
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In the next few days, Jin Yue could finally take a breath. He no longer had to work more than ten hours a day. He only needed to go to work when he was scheduled to work, and otherwise he would read books at home. The weather was still very hot. She sat by the window and could hear everyone talking about the latest news through the open window.
"Recently, quite a few people have applied for unpaid leave. Shugang and Shuji are considered to have good performance. Most of our people are from these two factories. I haven't heard of anyone applying for it, but many people from the Cotton Mill have applied. They said that the factory encourages it. If you take the initiative to apply for unpaid leave now, the house allocated by the factory will not be taken back. If you stay in the factory, you can only get the basic salary."
"As long as the factory promises not to take back the house, I can earn that basic salary by doing anything I want. I just don't know how long this unpaid leave will last, and whether I can get the money back when the business is better." Aunt Zhao said this, and she really thought so.
It is rare to find welders as skilled as Uncle Zhao. Although he is not as good as the eighth-level fitter who can rub nuclear bombs with his hands, he is also well-known in their industry. Just two years ago, after retiring, he was invited to work at a township enterprise, where he was paid on a piece-rate basis and could earn 170 or 180 yuan a month, which was higher than his previous salary in the factory!
When everyone thinks of this, they can only feel envy.
Aunt Liu sighed, "There aren't many experienced people like your Lao Zhao in this bookstore. Those who are advised to take unpaid leave are all young people with no skills. What else can they eat if they leave their companies?"
Everyone sighed and said, yes, who knows when this mountain will fall on their children?
Aunt Li suddenly interrupted and said, "I heard that Tian Meizhi also applied for unpaid leave."
"She?" Everyone was excited, this was explosive news!
"Are you sure? She is supporting Old Man Tian and his son all by herself. Can she really do it?"
Shu Jinyue quietly put down the pen in his hand, pricked up his ears and wanted to listen.
"No, didn't she buy the job opportunity of Liu Laoguang's second sister to get into the factory? I heard that she spent all the family savings and borrowed a lot of foreign debt. Now she's quitting. Isn't all that money wasted?"
Aunt Li snorted disdainfully, "That's nothing. I heard that she was able to stay because she asked the workshop director to untie his belt. At that time, the director was the one who lived in Chunhua Hutong, not the one who got engaged to Niu Xiaofang later."
Everyone: “…” So exciting?
However, almost the next second, they felt that it was not credible. Aunt Li was unreliable and very vengeful. Anyone who had offended her would be framed with fabricated stories. It was heard that Tian Meizhi had had a fight with her last month.
"Oh, by the way, Aunt Li, why did you quarrel last month?"
When talking about this, Aunt Li was still indignant. "She stole my business. I used to sell steamed buns at the school gate. When I was alone, the business was good. But when she came, all my business was taken away by her."
"You don't know, she is so shameless at such a young age, she smiles and makes faces at everyone she sees, and you can tell she is not a serious person. The male teachers in the school, the male parents at the school gate, and even the little boys are all fooled around by her." She paused, gritted her teeth, and added sourly, "Alas, she is young and pretty. How can we old ladies compare with her?"
So that's it, Shu Jinyue thought, the reason why Aunt Li hates Tian Meizhi so much is because of a conflict of interest.
But what made Aunt Li so angry was probably that Tian Meizhi didn't just take away a little bit, but most of it, right?
"She is such a disobedient person. I only sell steamed buns, but she actually sells flower rolls and meat buns. A few days ago, she even went there in the afternoon after school to sell cold shrimp ice jelly. It's sweet and cold, who wouldn't like it? She's acting like she doesn't know how to do it. I'm going to sell this tomorrow too!"
As the final exams are approaching these days, the children have the most pocket money, so if you want to make money from them, you have to take advantage of this time.
Aunt Li is also a person of action. She does what she says. She immediately left the gossiping crowd behind and went to the No. 3 courtyard with her handkerchief bag to find Aunt Niu to buy ice jelly seeds.
"Have they reconciled again?"
"They've made up. Ever since she had a fight with Tian Meizhi, Aunt Niu has been shamelessly coming up to her." The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
A common enemy means having common interests. In order to encircle and suppress Tian Meizhi, the two old ladies formed an alliance again. However, this time there was no Shu Wenyan to make trouble. Their alliance was temporarily solid and firm.
The more Shu Jin thought about it, the more she laughed. She felt like she could eat melons every day. She had been too busy in the past few years and had lost most of the fun in her life.
However, Aunt Li's action reminded Jin Yue. She took the book and went to the old house to find Teacher Shu. "Dad, can you make ice jelly? It's hot, can you make some for us?"
"What a coincidence! Your Uncle Tian just gave me some ice jelly seeds this morning. I saw my mother making it when I was a kid. He said that in addition to brown sugar water, you can also add some chopped hawthorn to the ice jelly, which tastes sour and sweet."
Jin Yue thought: It’s more than just chopped hawthorn. You can also add raisins, chopped peanuts, various fruits like watermelon and mango, as well as various condiments in milk tea... Anyway, you can add whatever you want to eat.
Teacher Shu washed his hands and squeezed and kneaded the ice jelly seeds with clean white gauze. Jin Yue rummaged around the house and found some raisins and two cans of lychees. When the ice jelly is ready and has formed into large, transparent, soft solid chunks, break it up slightly with a spoon, scoop on two spoons of brown sugar water and a few lychees in syrup, and sprinkle with a handful of raisins... Well, perfect!
Jin Yue ate one bowl himself and sent another bowl to Wenli’s store.
"Sister-in-law, have some ice jelly."
Xu Wenli was sitting by the window reading a novel, her eyes were red and she spoke in a muffled voice. Jin Yue took a quick glance and saw that the novel was called "Broken". The name clearly indicated a scar novel, which was the most popular type of novel in the literary and art circles and among young people recently.
"Don't keep your head down. You'll see signs of cervical spondylosis."
Xu Wenli smiled embarrassedly, "I don't watch it every day. I can't take care of it when I'm busy."
Just then someone came to buy something, Jin Yue handed over the ice jelly, "You eat it, I'll take it."
After all, she had come to help before, so she was very familiar with where everything was. After opening for a few months, the business has gradually stabilized. Although it is not enough to make me rich, with the cheap and stable supply of goods, and the fact that the house is my own and I don’t have to pay rent, it is not a problem for me to support a family of three.
She had just found the food, collected the money and made the change, when she turned around and saw, "Second sister-in-law, have you eaten everything?"
“Mm, delicious.”
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, "These are cooling in nature and have a high sugar content, so you should be careful."
Xu Wenli didn't care at all, but she couldn't be ungrateful, so she said with a smile: "Okay, I'll eat less next time and control myself."
Jin Yue was not in a hurry to go home. He sat down in the convenience store. His second brother installed an electric fan in the room, the kind that could shake its head and blow at all angles, so the air in the room could also circulate. Sometimes Wenli would open the door and put the window facing the door so the air wouldn't be stuffy.
"What has my second brother been busy with lately? I haven't seen him for several days."
Wen Li shook her head. "I don't know. It seems like he just made some new friends. I saw him bring back a lot of good cigarettes and alcohol recently. He said they were given to him by someone. He also treated us to meals. We often go to restaurants."
He worked outside and knew a lot of people, so Jin Yue didn't suspect anything and chatted with him for a few more minutes before preparing to go back to his room to read.
As soon as I got back to Courtyard 16, the phone in the living room rang. "Hello?"
"Doctor Shu, it's me."
"Hello Mr. Sato, long time no see."
Sato laughed twice, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then got down to business: "My aunt said she wants to meet you and talk. Is that okay?"
"Is it about the sanitary napkin production line in their factory?" Jin Yue originally wanted to make sanitary napkins. At that time, she wanted to improve the menstrual hygiene of the women around her, including herself. But in the past two years, Longguo has also had its own sanitary napkin factories, which were transformed from former toilet paper factories. The product quality is very good and it is also very convenient to use, so she no longer wanted to do this.
As I said, she knew that she was not cut out for business, so she didn't want to make money beyond her ability. It was okay to take the lead, but to compete with people who had been immersed in this industry for their entire lives, she'd better give up the idea as soon as possible.
Sato didn't know whether he was silent or didn't hear it. Jin Yue told him the truth before he spoke: "If it's about this matter, I hope you can tell her first that I don't want to do it anymore. I hope she can find a better partner."
"No, that's not it."
Jin Yue was stunned, "What's that?"
"She wants to be the exclusive agent of your rhinitis medicine in Japan. She also wants to ask if you have any formulas or prescriptions. She wants to cooperate with you. In her words, we can both get what we need."
Shu Jinyue was really moved.
Now the Weisheng Liquid is sold to Xiaolin through the city's traditional Chinese medicine factory. Xiaolin does not sell it out in bulk, but keeps it in his own clinic and prescribes it with his prescription rights, making two to three times the profit on each box of medicine.
This approach is good, but it always feels a little bit lacking. She doesn't want Xiaolin to make so much money... Thanks to Xiaolin's enthusiastic promotion, Weishengye is now a miracle drug that almost everyone in Japan knows. He is at the end of the industrial chain but can make profits several times that of today's Yue. It's unpleasant to think about it.
Fortunately, when she signed the contract, she did not agree to sell it to him only. It is actually completely reasonable and legal for her to find someone else now. The cooperation has not been terminated for so many years, mainly because no one can replace Xiaolin for the time being.
So, would Aunt Sato be the right partner?
After hanging up the phone, Shu Jinyue thought about it and decided to call Xu Duan, tell him what happened and ask him how to deal with it.
Xu Duan hesitated for a moment and said, "You can consider it. Let her come and I will talk to her then."
"It's so kind of you."
Xu Duan was stunned. "That's not what you said last night."
Jin Yue blushed and hung up the phone. Humph, it turned out that I couldn't give him a good face.
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The luxurious gift pack of ice jelly made by Teacher Shu and improved by Jin Yue won the praise of the whole family. Everyone in the family, young and old, must eat two bowls of it every day at noon and in the evening. The three little ones can even eat only the ice jelly without a bite of rice.
Zhao Wanqiu didn't spoil them. She said they were only allowed to eat when the temperature was high and not at other times. Whoever didn't follow the rules would be punished by not being allowed to eat snacks for three days. This order was much more effective than the soft ones from Teacher Shu and Xu Wenli. The children were very good at reading people's faces, and after looking around, they found that grandma was the toughest.
"Oh, I can't eat anymore. Can I ask Brother Jimmi to eat it?" Yaya asked with her little head tilted.
Popcorn Chicken is a good kid, Shu Linong agreed immediately.
As soon as he agreed, Yaya came to Yard No. 3 with a bowl of luxurious ice jelly gift pack, calling "Brother" and "Brother". Mengmeng and Xiaopingan also hurriedly caught up, each holding a bowl, one for brother Mai Ke and one for sister Zhenzhen.
Everyone just took a look and passed it by. Children like to share good things with good friends. This is a good habit and there is no need to stop it.
Unexpectedly, in the evening, when the Shu family was preparing to have dinner, a sharp female voice broke the silence of Yard No. 16.
"You are so evil-hearted! You poisoned such a young child! You will die a horrible death!" The woman's shrill curses were mixed with the child's heart-wrenching cries.
"Who is it?" Jin Yue listened around and the voice didn't seem to be from Liuye Hutong.
Sure enough, Aunt Zhao came over and whispered, "It's Liu Ermei from Xinghua Hutong next door."
Seeing that the Shu family was puzzled, she quickly explained: "You don't know Liu Ermei, but you must know Liu Laoguang, right? She is Liu Laoguang's second sister."
That was the man who was said to have sold the job opportunity to Tian Meizhi. But no one could figure out how it got to this point, and what was the whole story about poisoning a child?
"Why don't Jin Yue go and take a look at the child?" Aunt Feng asked worriedly.
Shu Jinyue actually thought of this before she went out, but when she heard the heart-wrenching cry, she gave up the idea. The sound was so loud that it could burst a person's eardrum. How could he possibly need to see a doctor?
Sure enough, Liu Ermei, as a mother, did not feel sorry for the child, nor did she think of taking the child to see a doctor immediately. Instead, she rushed to the backyard and started arguing with Aunt Li.
Only then did everyone know the whole story from their mutual scolding: Liu Ermei's son bought Aunt Li's ice jelly at the school gate today, but had problems after eating it, vomiting, diarrhea, and rolling his eyes. The medical expenses alone cost 20 yuan, and he asked Aunt Li to compensate him.
Aunt Li's version was: she had never sold ice jelly to the child, she had never even seen the child, and Liu Ermei must have been instructed by her competitor Tian Meizhi to blackmail her.
Both sides insisted on their own story. Liu Ermei could tell when her child bought the product, how much it cost, and even found her child's classmates to testify. Aunt Li also assured him that she had never sold it to him, and said that she only sold three bowls of ice jelly today. She remembered it clearly, and they were all children from several nearby alleys, definitely not her son.
The neighbors looked at each other in confusion. Who should they believe?
Neither of them felt that they were telling lies, and they were both shouting at each other, with the curses getting dirtier and fouler.
Liu Ermei: "That old woman deserves to be childless!"
Aunt Li: "You shameless brother deserves to be a bachelor for the rest of his life because you are such a swindler!"
Everyone: “…” They all stabbed each other in the most painful place.
Zhao Wanqiu felt sorry for the child after all, and wanted to pull the two apart, but Jin Yue held her back, "No, let's just take a look."
"It's not a good idea to keep going like this. What if a fight breaks out? The child is still sick."
Shu Jinyue looked at the child who was howling with his eyes closed. With her eyesight, she could clearly see a thick layer of white coating on his tongue, and a faint blue color between the root of his nose and his eyebrows - this was obviously due to indigestion!
Zhao Wanqiu looked over and was stunned. "Could it be that Liu Ermei was lying and her son didn't have vomiting and diarrhea?"
Jin Yue shook his head, "It should be vomiting and diarrhea, but it's hard to say whether it's because of indigestion or because he ate Aunt Li's ice jelly at the same time."
She had seen Aunt Li making ice jelly before, and it was so dirty that she felt uncomfortable in her stomach even from a distance. It was bad enough that she didn't wash her hands and basin, but even the gauze was yellow-green with some mold spots on it. The key point was that her stuff was left over from overnight. If she couldn't sell all of it the day before, she would leave it in the house for one or two nights... In such hot weather, Jin Yue couldn't imagine how rotten it would be.
Aunt Li was just bullying the child because he was greedy and didn't care about these things. She was also short of food and clothing and couldn't bear to waste food. If she met someone who was picky, she would not be able to keep her snack stand open.
She whispered a few words to Zhao Wanqiu about her discovery, and Zhao Wanqiu immediately said angrily: "Okay, then let Liu Ermei make a scene. The bigger the better. This is what it means to act in the name of justice."
Jin Yue waved to Chicken Popcorn and said, "Hurry up, go do something."
Soon, ten minutes later, several police officers arrived on bicycles. They not only took Aunt Li and Liu Ermei back to the police station, but also took some of the things in Aunt Li's room back for testing.
The moment the door opened, everyone saw the pots and pans scattered all over the room, as well as the stinking steamed buns and ice jelly. Even Aunt Qian, who had always been insignificant, couldn't help but curse: "Bah, what a conscience!"
"This is too immoral. They don't have any children, but she is harming other people's children. Can't she just stand by and see other people doing well?"
"It turns out that he really did something immoral, and now it's his karma."
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When the courtyard quieted down and each household went home to continue eating, Shu Linong whispered, "I'm afraid the Qian family won't have peace tonight."
"Why?"
"A few days ago, I saw Aunt Li giving ice jelly to little Niuniu, but Qian Chunhua refused it. It was Aunt Qian who was greedy and accepted it secretly without her daughter's knowledge. As a result, the child had diarrhea in those two days. They all thought that the child had indigestion and came to me to ask for hawthorn pills. Now the truth is out..." Aunt Qian was about to be scolded by her daughter.
So when the police found those buckets of stinky stuff just now, she was so angry that she was the first one to curse. It turned out that their little girl was the victim!
"Why is this person so unreliable? Chunhua has said it many times that the family doesn't need the money for food, but she still likes to take advantage of small things."
"Because of her problem, Chunhua and Dalong dare not have children. They always think that she will teach the child bad things, but they dare not say anything. Not long ago, she tried to commit suicide after I said a few words to her." It is a fact that Aunt Qian was widowed at a young age, suffered from bullying and was poor. But she can't let her children suffer because of the suffering she has suffered.
No one knew what to say. Jin Yue looked around and asked, "Why hasn't my second brother come back yet?"
Teacher Shu snorted: "Huh, I wonder what you are busy doing outside all day."
Jin Yue didn't say anything. She always felt that her second brother had been away from home for longer and longer periods of time recently. This was not normal. In the past, no matter how busy he was, he would always come back to have dinner with his second sister-in-law.
Before she could figure out where her second brother had gone, at around nine o'clock, a scream suddenly came from the backyard, "A thief has broken in!"
Everyone was on high alert. Women, children and the elderly stayed in their houses while the young men rushed to the backyard with sticks in hand. “Whose house is being robbed?”
Aunt Li, who had just returned home from the police station, pointed at her door and said in a trembling voice: "This, this, this, my house! I locked the door when I left!"
Everyone clenched the sticks in their hands. Before the police took her away, they asked her to go back to the house to get her household registration book and a coat, and reminded her to lock the door. Everyone in the compound saw her locking the door, and Aunt Li was the only one who carried the key with her... As luck would have it, the lock also showed signs of being pried open.
"Wait a minute, the thief may not have left yet!"
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