Chapter 135 Raising Money & Building a Building & Giving Birth
"Open a hospital? A comprehensive hospital at that? How much will it cost?!" Zhao Wanqiu's voice was a little trembling. God knew how excited she was at this moment. It was just like the first time she went into the clinic, gave people an injection and drew blood for the first time. Those blue blood vessels she touched were not blood vessels, but the brilliant future she could foresee.
"Mom, are you no longer satisfied with just running a small clinic in Yue?" Xu Wenli held her chin and blinked her big eyes.
Zhao Wanqiu smiled embarrassedly, "I'm used to staying in the hospital, so I'm a little uncomfortable."
Compared with the district hospital, the clinic is too small. Not only is the space cramped, but the number of colleagues has been reduced from a group to just a few. More importantly, many related supporting departments and functional departments are not available, which is really inconvenient. "Sometimes we are unsure of the patient's condition and want to prescribe an examination, but we don't have the conditions to do so."
"Does a Chinese doctor need to prescribe a checkup?" Shu Linong's words were obviously provocative. Zhao Wanqiu's anger instantly soared. She glared at him, "Chinese medicine is not omnipotent. Sometimes the condition is too complicated, or the doctor's skills are not up to par. In such cases, can't we use modern testing and imaging technology appropriately? Can't Western doctors prescribe Chinese patent medicines? Why can't Chinese medicine prescribe a checkup?"
Shu Linong touched his nose and didn't dare to speak. His wife has been very busy in the past two years and has a really bad temper. But it makes sense when you think about it, just like when Li Xuemei had twins, Jin Yue was able to "check" out that they were twins through ultrasound, and at this time ultrasound became a means to verify Jin Yue's pulse diagnosis skills. It’s okay to use it once.
And Zhao Wanqiu had a reason to be angry, "Something almost happened three months ago."
It turned out that not long ago she met a female patient who came to see her for late menstruation. Her period was one month late. She was 47 or 48 years old and usually had hot flashes, night sweats, and soreness in the waist and knees. Conventionally speaking, it should be menopausal syndrome. If it didn't come this time, it would be menopause. However, when she felt her pulse, she felt it was a bit slippery, which was a typical pregnancy pulse, so she asked the patient about her sexual life in recent months.
The patient was trying to hide it at first, but then she felt something was wrong. Did the doctor suspect she was pregnant? She immediately became angry and had a quarrel with Zhao Wanqiu. She said that she came to see the doctor just to take some blood-activating and menstruation-inducing medicine, not to get pregnant. What a crappy doctor this was, he couldn't even induce menstruation, and she might as well go see a Western doctor.
Zhao Wanqiu suppressed her anger and did not prescribe any blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs for her. She asked her to go to another hospital to have a blood test and bring the blood test results back before she could prescribe Chinese medicine. The female patient was angry, as if it was not normal for her to get pregnant at this age. She stormed out of the house and found a random Chinese medicine doctor to prescribe blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine in the hope of inducing her period.
The Chinese doctor was not so cautious, and he did not detect the slippery pulse, and he really prescribed the medicine... As a result, she really got pregnant, and after taking three doses of Chinese medicine, she accidentally had a miscarriage!
Later, the female patient kept making a fuss for a long time, and the whole industry knew about it. But now Yue Clinic has successfully escaped the disaster because of my mother's caution.
"If our clinic could do the test that day, we could have given her the report right away, and she wouldn't have to argue with me. It would have been much easier... and she wouldn't have to suffer the pain of a miscarriage at such an old age."
Zhao Wanqiu is kind after all and can't bear to see others suffer. Shu Jinyue, however, feels that such a person does not deserve sympathy. She is an adult with a history of childbearing. It would be fine if she didn't have common sense, but she also refused to listen to advice. In the end, she was just paying the price for her ignorance. Since no life-threatening health situation other than miscarriage occurred, this "price" was already very small.
As for feeling ashamed of being pregnant? Then why aren’t you ashamed when you go to bed?
Everyone was also scared after hearing this. Xu Wenli, who does not know medicine, said: "It is still necessary to have supporting examinations. Not only can it increase the accuracy of diagnosis and better target medication, but it can also avoid many risks."
Medical staff also need to protect themselves! Medical institutions cannot assume responsibility for patients' non-cooperation that does not belong to them.
After hearing this, the whole family immediately agreed to Xu Duan and Shu Wenming's proposal and began planning to open a hospital. It’s still the same. Xu Duan will figure out the macro policy issues, and Jin Yue only needs to worry about the technical issues.
"In fact, that place is very good. The geographical location is very advantageous. Both the transportation and the prosperity of the surrounding area are conducive to the gathering of a large number of people." Shu Wenming touched his chin and pondered, "It's just that the place is too narrow. The small building, including the front and back yards, only covers an area of about 300 square meters. It's too small to open a hospital."
Xu Duan said: "We can buy the front, back, left and right."
"What?!"
"Buy so many houses? Houses in that area are not cheap. Take Jinyue's small building for example, its price has risen to at least 60,000 or 70,000 yuan now, and it is still priceless. Many people outside want to buy it but can't find a way." He actually "bought everywhere", how much would it cost?
"I'll go find out first."
Xu Duan said he would go and find out, and he really found out the market situation and the owner's situation within two days. There was no obstruction in the front, and Jin Yue's building was the first building facing the street. There was a small courtyard in the back and the other building was owned by a local from Shilan Province, who was from another province. On both sides were people from the book city, and they all rented out the houses for business. As the back of their two houses were not on the street and difficult to do business in, they rented them out.
"I asked a middleman for information on the price. The two buildings on the left and right are more expensive. The prices of the three buildings at the back are not too high because they are not on the street. If all five buildings are purchased, it will cost about 250,000 yuan."
Except for Shu Wenming and Shu Jinyue, everyone gasped.
What does 250,000 mean? Where can they get so much money? This is not two hundred and fifty, not two thousand and five, but two hundred and fifty thousand... Nowadays, anyone who can come up with five thousand yuan is considered a very well-off family.
Two hundred and fifty thousand is an astronomical figure!
But the thought that flashed through Shu Jinyue’s mind was - it’s too cheap!
It’s really cheap! This plot of land will be one of the most prosperous areas in Shucheng City in the future. The price per square meter has been driven up to six figures. Not to mention buying it to build a hospital, even buying it to live in is not affordable for ordinary people... Oh, that's not right. There is one type of hospital that can afford to rent, and that's those that do medical beauty and plastic surgery!
Because the location is prosperous and surrounded by business districts, if medical beauty institutions rent the property, the annual rent alone would be over 100 million yuan, according to some self-media reports.
If I buy it now, it only costs 250,000... In the future, even if I don't run it and rent it out, what does it mean to earn hundreds of millions of yuan in rent a year?
The more Shu Jin thought about the money, the more excited he became. "It's not expensive. Go ahead and buy it. Can you buy more?"
"You mean buying the five nearby buildings isn't enough?"
Shu Jinyue couldn't think about whether it was enough or not. The only thing on her mind was "hundreds of millions of yuan in rent". "Let's buy more. If we don't have money, we can find a way."
Xu Duan actually had this plan as well, but he didn't want to buy a house facing the street on either side. Instead, he wanted to consider a location at the back that was not facing the street, as this way the price would be much cheaper. To open a hospital, all you need is a conspicuous doorhead. As long as you enter the door, no matter how deep the treatment area is, no one will have trouble finding it.
"I know about this. If I buy six more buildings later, right next to the Qingshui River, I will probably need another two hundred thousand."
"So it will cost 450,000 just to buy the house?!" Shu Linong felt his tongue was tied. He had never seen such a large amount of money even in the newspaper, and now he had to take it out of the couple's bag. He couldn't even breathe.
However, Shu Jinyue still felt that it was not enough, "Can you add more, and expand it to the width of two buildings on each side?"
Xu Duan quickly calculated in his mind, "In this case, I will need to prepare about 850,000."
"What?! 850,000?!" Shu Linong spat out a mouthful of tea, and his clothes and pants were all wet. Zhao Wanqiu threw him a dry towel, "Wipe it first, don't get excited. It's better to open a larger area for a hospital. Ours is across from the San Department Store but it's too crowded."
It seemed too big at first, but it became smaller as time went by.
Shu Jinyue didn't care. She quickly went over their savings in her mind. Adding what Xu Duan had earned in the past few years, they actually had nearly two million in savings. They could afford to spend 850,000, but the key was -
"After you buy it, you want to tear it down and rebuild it. You need to build at least eight or nine floors, plus renovations. Based on the current price, you will need another three million at least." Shu Wenming was also a little nervous. His palms were sweating slightly, and he stared at Xu Duan and Jin Yue closely.
Shu Jinyue is not that proficient in anything other than medicine. Sometimes he is not even as good as his second sister-in-law. "Does it really cost so much to build a building?"
Everyone nodded heavily, saying that it was really necessary and it might not be enough.
"If I add the equipment, wouldn't it be around four million?" Add to that the money for buying the land and the initial employee salaries, water and electricity expenses, to do this, the minimum cost would be five million.
Of course, the five million was not spent all at once. Some of the money would be used slowly in the later stages. By then, her dividend would arrive and she would be able to earn some money, and Xu Duan's factory should also be able to return some money, so they could barely make up five hundred thousand... which meant they still had a gap of 2.5 million.
If it were Shu Jinyue in her previous life, she would not even dare to dream of having so much money. But when she thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars in rent, hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars in rent a year for those medical beauty hospitals, she felt that she had to buy one even if she had to sell everything she had.
Even if you don't make money running your own hospital, you can still live comfortably for many years in the future relying on the rent. If her children are not good at going to school or do not have the skills, then they can just guard the empire she has built. As long as they do not make random investments or start any business, they can live a life without worries about food and clothing. Even their children can continue to enjoy the empire built by their grandmother.
This really brings hardship to their generation, but happiness to three generations!
But even though they thought so, the actual situation was that the gap of 2.5 million was too big, and no one had any ideas for the time being. Shu Wenming and Xu Wenli discussed it and said that they could raise 500,000, the old couple could raise 50,000, and the eldest sister-in-law might be able to raise 70,000 or 80,000, but compared to the gap, it was just a drop in the bucket.
And this is the best effort that everyone can make by tightening their belts and leaving just enough for living expenses. Especially on the second brother's side, his business is getting more and more popular after his advertisement was put out. He now has a lot of money owed for raw materials every month, and he is already gritting his teeth to help her if he can come up with 500,000 yuan in cash flow.
Shu Jinyue was extremely grateful. Her whole family was trying their best to help her with such a whimsical and even shocking idea. She was really touched.
The Shu family used to be a group of scattered sands, but now they have been condensed into a brick, and after being compacted, they are adding bricks and tiles to her dream.
When she was reborn at the beginning, she was full of resentment towards her parents and siblings. She always felt that she was so miserable in her previous life and that they "made all the contributions". But as she grew up, she realized her own character flaws and gradually saw everyone's shining points, and she slowly let it go.
The most fundamental reason for her failure in her previous life was that her character determined her destiny, and the influence of others on her destiny was not as great as she thought.
And now, everyone is helping her, and she feels warm inside.
***
When they returned to their room at night, Jin Yue suddenly asked Xu Duan, "Did you hear about the gold watch found in Lao Limei's room?"
Xu Duan nodded, "Not only the gold watch, but also a lot of jewelry."
Shu Jinyue's focus was not on this. "Do you still remember what we dug out from Grandma Sun's rat hole that year?"
She still has the small yellow croaker and jewelry, and she never thought of selling them all these years, mainly because she is not short of money.
She quickly called Wang Hongping to inquire about the current price of gold, and it was only 80 yuan per gram. The reason why I say "actually just now" is to compare it with the price fifty years later. When she was a ghost, the price of gold had soared to more than seven hundred and nearly eight hundred yuan, a difference of almost ten times.
But the more you think about it carefully, according to the current prices, one gram of gold can buy eighty kilograms of pork now, and even if pork is mass-produced in fifty years, one gram of gold can only buy less than forty kilograms of pork. All in all, it is more cost-effective to sell it now.
She didn't understand the professional knowledge and could only simply use pork as hard currency to convert it. After thinking about it, she decided to call Wang Hongping for consultation. As a result, Wang Hongping analyzed from a professional perspective and said that it was more cost-effective to sell it now.
She weighed the small yellow croaker she dug out of the rat hole herself, and it was exactly 30 grams. She had not been short of this little money before, but now even the smallest mosquito leg is still meat.
No one knows who this thing belongs to, so it’s definitely not Grandma Sun’s. There’s no special meaning in keeping it. It would be wisest to sell it when it’s the best deal. Xu Duan also agreed and immediately said that he would find someone to deal with it the next day.
"Those rings and earrings should be worth some money. I'll take them out and try them out."
He knew some people who specialized in buying these jewelry on the market. The next day he came back and said, "The jewelry plus the small yellow croaker can be sold for 8,000 yuan. Will you sell it?"
Jin Yue nodded and said, "Go ahead and sell it."
But it's still far from enough.
Shu Jinyue finally couldn't hold back any longer, "Do you think those two blue and white wine cups are worth some money?"
She actually wanted to ask yesterday. To be honest, she didn't know much about this kind of thing, nor could she appreciate the legendary cultural heritage and special meaning, so there was no point in keeping it. If she could cash it in and help her open a hospital, then it would be worth it for her to keep it for so many years.
Xu Duan raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure you want to sell it?"
Jin Yue nodded, "Sell, but I don't know how to sell it."
No one knows who this stuff belongs to, and superstitiously speaking, it's not good to keep it in your hands for too long. It would be "luckier" if you could use it to do something that benefits the country and the people. Just like if you actually found money, it's best to spend it on the same day, buy some snacks for everyone to share, or treat everyone to a restaurant.
As for ways to get in, all she could think of was to wrap the money in a cloth bag and go to a cultural relic store to ask about the price, as described in the literature of the time, or to wait in the antique market, like she did when she sold ginseng, to find a buyer who knew the value of the goods.
But she always felt that she couldn't sell it for much money, as the buyers she met in these places were all low-end players with limited funds.
"To the auction."
"ah?"
"I remember that Mrs. Xu's Mao Shu Ai Lian Yuan blue and white jade huchun vase was sold for three million at the Hong Kong auction. Your wine cup is smaller and not a complete set, but it shouldn't be much cheaper." After all, it was many years ago that Mrs. Xu's things were auctioned off, and the prices at that time were not at the same level as they are now. In addition, the collection value of Yuan blue and white porcelain has skyrocketed in recent years. Whenever a genuine piece appears on the market, players are scrambling to see it.
"Cousin Ruixue from Haicheng, do you still remember her?"
Shu Jinyue thought for a while before she remembered this person. She had gone to Haicheng to see Yamaguchi Sachiko for treatment and had dinner at her house. She also came when they got married, but there were too many people and she didn't have time to say much.
"She is currently doing this kind of work and knows some people. I will contact her first."
Shu Jinyue was immediately excited, “That’s great! It would be great if I could find a way to sell it. The higher the price, the better. I can even make up a story if necessary.” Anyway, for those who can afford to buy these things at an auction house, that little bit of money is like buying a pair of shoes.
They don't care whether the touching story behind the shoes is true or not.
Xu Duan was amused. Jin Yue had also learned how to lie now. "That's quite a progress."
Shu Jinyue blushed, "I'm doing this for the two babies in my belly. Let's work harder now, so we don't have to worry about them in the future."
She firmly believes that a chicken child will never be as good as a chicken parent.
Xu Duan had no objection. In the next few days, he took the two blue and white wine cups with him to the port city. He stayed there for almost a month before coming back. During that time, he called every day to let Jin Yue know that he was negotiating with several buyers. When people heard that Mao Shuai Lian's Yuan blue and white wine cups had appeared in the market, many players became interested. He found a few more reliable ones and talked to them one by one.
A wine cup could originally be sold for a maximum of 900,000 yuan, which was already a sky-high price. Even if it was put up for auction, it would not be much more than that. However, if it was to be put up for auction, the formalities and procedures would be different. Xu Duan did not want to create unnecessary trouble, so he finally sold it privately for 2.3 million yuan through a big antique dealer found by Wang Mate.
Yes, one piece would cost at most 900,000, but collectors all have a bit of philatelic obsessive-compulsive disorder. When there is only one left in a set, they will definitely buy it. He already had two of the four wine cups, and Xu Duan was going to sell him one more. When they were just short of the last one, Xu Duan suddenly said that he had another one at home, but the old people in his family were reluctant to sell it, saying that they wanted to keep it as a keepsake, saying that it was something left by their ancestors and they had deep feelings for it... Okay, stop talking, he just wanted more money.
In the end, Xu Duan returned to Shenzhen with the huge check, went through various formalities, exchanged it for Jackie Chan's national currency in Shenzhen, and deposited it into Jin Yue's account before returning home.
Shu Jinyue looked at the 2.3 million in the account and counted the zeros several times to see how many there were. "Do we really have that much money?"
It's not real. It's too unreal.
People are so strange. At the beginning, she was so happy that she couldn't sleep when she had a savings of 1,000 yuan. Now she has 2.3 million, more than 2,000 times as much as before, but her happiness has not increased by 2,000 times. She even loses the extreme happiness she had before. She just feels unreal.
"It's unreal. Two small broken wine cups can be sold for so much money. Antiques are so profitable. Why bother doing business or treating illness? If I had known earlier, I should have waited in the purchasing station a few years ago."
After not seeing each other for a month, Xu Duan looked at Jin Yue's belly which had grown a little bigger. "You, don't expect to have anything. People's luck is limited. It's enough to get lucky once or twice. It's impossible to get rich all your life."
He paused, "This is what you deserve for your kindness."
When they bought the three houses, Sun Laoliu was reluctant to take Grandma Sun away, and Jin Yue did not force him. The Shu family members negotiated with them in a friendly manner, and later they had no choice but to call the police. After the old lady passed away, they cleaned the room she had lived in without complaint, and during the cleaning they discovered a rat hole… Sun Laoliu had been guarding such a rat hole in vain but found nothing, wasn’t it because he had never cleaned for Grandma Sun?
If he had been a little more filial and had a little conscience, if he had cleaned the house, the 2.3 million would have been his, and it would not have been Shu Jinyue's turn to pick it up.
Jin Yue thought about it and it made sense, "Our family is really like that. They may not have other advantages, but they are definitely kind."
Even though my mother has been in such a state because of the patient, I still want to make her suffer less. I am still thinking about others.
Xu Duan didn't know how to respond to his mother-in-law's words, so he didn't respond.
“By the way, you said that this big client was introduced by Wang Matt?”
"Yes, he has abundant resources and deep connections in Hong Kong. He knows exactly who has a hobby of collecting."
"Although this person looks unreliable, he does a good job."
Xu Duan thought to himself, it's because of your medical skills that you can control him. If he didn't need your help, do you think he would be so hardworking and attentive? Businessmen value profit and will not do anything without profit. For Wang Mate, Jin Yue’s irreplaceable medical skills are the greatest benefit he can get.
Only those who have been sick know how important health is.
Xu Duan continued to think about the money: "With this, plus what we have, if things don't work out later, I can take some more money out of the factory, and we can buy the land first."
"Yes, in order to avoid any more trouble at night, act quickly."
Fortunately, most people at that time were still relatively simple and honest, and they did not have the concept of nail households. Xu Duan and Shu Wenming found many people one after another, and they approached the house owners quietly at different times. In the end, they did not spend extra money on the house and successfully got it!
After the application was approved and the review was received, the two began to look for a construction company. Shu Jinyue also started to get busy at this time. She was busy with the design. She had to deal with how to divide the hospital into buildings, which departments were in each building, and what kind of design and structure were needed for each department... It was okay for a small clinic, but for such a large private hospital, Jinyue had been busy for half a month and still hadn't figured it out.
In the end, she gave up doing it herself and asked someone to find a professional designer in this field. The designer first made a sketch, and she would adjust it according to her needs. The designer made targeted modifications, and her efficiency increased immediately.
Xu Duan is really capable. The designer he helped to find is actually a senior engineer who was responsible for the design and construction of provincial and municipal hospitals in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. He has experience in designing medical institutions and can give suggestions on many things that Jin Yue could not think of at the moment.
Jin Yue thought that she had no money. If she had money, she would look for someone like him when she wanted to build a hospital in the future.
After the design drawings were completed, the houses in that area were demolished, and the people in the bookstore didn't notice anything different. The construction site was fenced off, so no one could see it. They could only hear some noises. Suddenly one day, they were surprised to find that -
"Hey, why are there still people building houses here?"
"I remember there were small buildings here before. The one with the best location was always vacant, and the others were either for selling clothes or tea. How come they are all demolished now?"
"I think the area is quite large, from the street all the way to the Qingshui River in the back."
Qingshui River is a river that runs across the entire Book City. In the past, everyone liked to wash clothes by the river. In the past two years, after tap water pipes have been introduced into thousands of households, there has been a call to not pollute the moat of the Book City, and basically no one goes to wash clothes there anymore. However, there are green trees along both sides of the river, and everyone likes to take a walk there in the summer.
"I was taking a walk last night and noticed that they were also building houses over there. It looked like they were going to build tall buildings."
Everyone was talking about it, and as the discussion grew more and more people became curious, they soon learned from the construction company that a private hospital was planned to be built in this area.
"Wow, a private hospital demolished so many buildings, how big is this hospital?!"
"The provincial hospital only has three buildings in total. Are you planning to make it bigger?"
"Will this private hospital treat us?"
"I won't come even if you ask me to. I won't stay in a western hospital. If I want to see a doctor, I'll go to a Chinese doctor. There's a clinic opposite the San Department Store on East Street. The treatment is very good and it's cheap. It only costs two or three yuan per visit."
Someone smiled but said nothing. "Then you must remember what you said today. This private hospital is the same as the clinic opposite the San Department Store. I heard that they will move from there in the future."
The person who said he didn't want to see a Western doctor was shocked: "Are these buildings all Chinese medicine hospitals?"
"I don't know if it's a Chinese medicine hospital, but I know the boss here is the same as the boss over there, and the doctors are the same."
People can't tell the difference between the Traditional Chinese Medicine Department in a general hospital and private Traditional Chinese Medicine clinics outside. Anyway, as long as the doctors are the same, the treatment effects will definitely be the same.
Moreover, we have great confidence in the charging level of Jin Yue Clinic. We firmly believe that even if a high-rise building is built here, the price for medical treatment will remain the same, and Jin Yue will not charge us a penny more.
With low price and remarkable curative effect, the two words "Jin Yue" seem to have become a brand. These two words are the guarantee of medical quality!
Shu Jinyue never thought that her clinic would gain such a good reputation among the people after only being open for a few years. As the building construction was in full swing, money flowed out like water, and her belly grew bigger day by day. After the Chinese New Year, her belly was like a blown-up balloon, and she could not see the ground when she walked.
After the Chinese New Year, as high-rise buildings rose from the ground, March passed, and on the day when she was only half a month away from her due date, she felt a pain in her stomach...
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