Chapter 29 029 Twins & Help Cut the Bloody Plot &…
Shu Wenming's face was also very interesting. He pointed at himself and confirmed with Aunt Zhao: "Are you sure it's me?"
"That's you."
"Did she say that herself?"
"Oh my, how can a girl make the decision on such an important matter by herself? It was her mother who told me, not me spreading rumors. She is not young anymore, she is pretty, and she has high standards. She dated several men before, but it didn't work out. Now she is a little anxious."
Aunt Zhao patted her chest and assured, "After hearing about it for so long, she still remembers your name and work unit. I think it's up to you whether you are willing or not, so I just came to ask."
If others do this, they will definitely be angry. No one wants to be promoted from a spare tire to a regular one, as it hurts their self-esteem.
But Shu Wenming is different. Everyone knows his situation. If he had room to be picky, he wouldn't be single until he is almost thirty years old.
For a man who can't get married, how much is that little bit of self-esteem worth? Even Teacher Shu thinks it's worth meeting.
"It's normal to have dated before. What young person hasn't dated a few people?" Afraid that his son would mind, he coughed lightly and said, "Your Aunt Zhao and I are a second marriage, and we live happily together."
"Give each other another chance. It won't hurt to meet each other anyway." Teacher Shu looked at Aunt Zhao, "Sister-in-law, I have to trouble you again this time. How about letting them go out for a meal and get to know each other better?"
Aunt Zhao waved her hands quickly, "Don't eat, it would be a waste of money if it doesn't work."
Even she didn't like Wang Xiaohong very much. As they were such distant relatives, she couldn't say anything. If her nieces and nephews did such a thing, she would definitely scold them.
"I think we should do the same as last time and meet at People's Park. If we can talk, then talk. If not, then leave early."
Everyone looked at Shu Wenming. His face looked a little unhappy, but for some reason, he did not refuse outright. "You decide."
He left without looking back, and the three old men sighed. They knew that he was unhappy, but reality forced him to compromise.
Jin Yue, on the other hand, thought quickly, "It's just that you were in a relationship with someone before, and now you've broken up and you want to start a new relationship. This is called freedom of love. I don't think it's a big deal. It's just that the seven brothers in the Wang family..." She didn't like it.
"Well, the seven of you, don't worry. If you really get along, you can visit each other more often. If you don't, you can just meet once during the holidays. It won't be a problem."
Seeing that his parents were determined to let his second brother go to meet them, he didn't know what to say. Just like what he had judged last time, the seven Vajras of the Wang family were not that good, but Wang Xiaohong at least had basic manners and was pretty. He should live with his wife, not with seven brothers-in-law.
Instead of letting my second brother live out his life alone and far away from home like in his previous life, it would be better to give him a chance.
After thinking about it this way, Jin Yue finally came to his senses and prepared to go next door to ask his second brother for his opinion.
"You really didn't talk to Sister Wenli?"
"No, she has talked to someone from her father's unit. He is a cadre." Shu Wenming said sullenly.
"Are you sure?"
"The cadre came to pick her up and they had dinner together. Everyone in our store saw it."
Well, Shu Jinyue could only sigh. It was a pity. She actually liked Xu Wenli very much, but she also knew that a forced melon would not be sweet. Now that she was already in a relationship, her second brother had no chance.
Besides, this matter is not as simple as whether he is willing to steal someone else's love - Xu Wenli is an only child, her parents are both cadres, and they are from completely different worlds from the Shu family. Just like her, she knew from the beginning that she and Qin Haiyang were not from the same world.
Maybe Xu Wenli really liked the second brother for a period of time, but he had a stinky mouth and could not spit out ivory. After a long time, even the most infatuated girl would be disappointed. She was pampered and had everything she wanted. She went to the second brother just for emotional value, but he could not even provide emotional value. Why should she hang herself on this crooked tree of his?
After liking someone for a while, you may find it boring and think it would be more appropriate to find someone of the same class and social status as her. This is also human nature.
"Okay, if you are single now, then go and meet Wang Xiaohong and give it a try."
Shu Wenming also knew her good intentions, but he just couldn't get the hang of it. He rolled over on the bed a few times and kicked the bed board twice, but he still didn't seem to be satisfied.
"Do you think I'm that bad? The people I introduce to you are getting worse every year. Will all the divorced women, those whose husbands have died, and those with children be pushed to me in the future?"
"I just can't understand. Do I, Shu Wenming, have one less eye or one less ear than others? Why do they always introduce me to these things..." These things are actually nothing. It is not a crime to be divorced or have a deceased husband. Even if one has been to jail, in his opinion, as long as one sincerely repents, it is not a bad thing.
Jin Yue did not respond and let him vent his temper. After he finished speaking and paused, she said quietly: "Second brother, have you heard that no matter what kind of blind date the matchmaker introduces to you, it means that in the matchmaker's mind, you are just like that." You are only worthy of that kind of person.
"roll."
Shu Jinyue spread her hands and said, you see, her second brother just couldn't see the reality clearly and always thought that he was still an eighteen-year-old virgin.
"But I'm just saying that. If you don't want to, just tell Aunt Zhao. If you're embarrassed, I can speak for you."
"Forget it, let's meet. I want to see what she's up to."
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This meeting was more rushed than the last time. As soon as Shu Wenming agreed, Wang Xiaohong immediately scheduled the meeting for noon on the third day.
"This is a good time arrangement. If you are suitable, you can go to the movies and go shopping together in the afternoon, and have dinner together in the evening. If you are not suitable, you can say that you have something to do in the restaurant in the afternoon and leave first." Aunt Zhao gave an idea, "Last time she was half an hour late, so you should also be half an hour late this time, so that she can experience the taste of it."
Jin Yue didn't care about such small details, but Shu Wenming took them to heart. He didn't wash his hair or change his clothes, and it took him half an hour to reach the park.
He didn't let Shu Jinyue follow him, and Jinyue didn't know how the meeting went. However, his attitude was pretty good that night and he didn't get angry.
Could there be a play?
In the next few days, Shu Wenming did not go home for dinner after get off work. Everyone guessed that he ate out with Wang Xiaohong. The Shu family was very happy. Zhao Wanqiu even felt that this might be the second happy event in the family recently.
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Shu Jinyue has not been idle. She has been busy recently. After the vigorous patriotic health campaign in the first half of this year, the higher authorities required that this work be regularized and done every month, and even reports need to be written. Jinyue took on the writing work and went to sweep the streets with the people from the street office every week.
Just when we made this work a normal practice, the weather got hot and we started to eliminate the four pests.
Summer is the season that mosquitoes, flies, rats and cockroaches love the most and are most likely to breed, especially in alleys where public health conditions are worrying. This is the most troublesome time of the year for the epidemic prevention station.
In order to prevent the spread of the four pests, the district also asked them to increase the intensity of health supervision inspections. It was not enough for Zhu Daqiang and Liu Jinbu to go out for inspections, and Shu Jinyue was also called in. Schools, canteens, food factories, dairy factories and the like were even more key areas, and 100% coverage was required. This was repeated many times... Jinyue went out to supervise in the morning, wrote reports in the afternoon, and had to send the reports to the district before getting off work. He was so busy that he had no time to take care of the affairs at home.
When she was done with her busy schedule and went home to sit down and have a good meal, she suddenly heard that her second brother was dating Wang Xiaohong.
"Are you really in a relationship?" Jin Yue opened her mouth in surprise, but she saw that her second brother didn't seem to be in a relationship. In the past, when he went on blind dates, he would at least wash his hair, take a shower, and change clothes. But recently he hasn't been so "grand". He just goes out and comes back in work clothes every day.
"I think so. He hasn't come back for dinner for several days. He wasn't like this before."
"Ask him someday if he has any money on him. He spends a lot of money eating out all the time." Zhao Wanqiu took the initiative to offer him some subsidy.
Teacher Shu shook his head. "I'm happy that he's in love, but this precedent cannot be set. We're not well-off financially, and we still have Wen Yun and Jin Yue."
Jin Yue didn't care about this little money. She just thought it was weird, but the two elders were in high spirits, so she didn't say anything and just kept the doubt in her heart.
However, that night, Shu Wenyan and Liu Huifang came over happily, and everyone knew from their expressions that the pregnancy was real.
The more I thought about Shu Wenyan being so proud and singing like a liberated serf, I didn't expect him to be so proud and throw a list at me, "Take a look."
Jin Yue's eyes lit up, "Twins?!"
"What? Let me see."
Teacher Shu didn't even have time to find his reading glasses, "Come on, Jin Yue, read to Dad."
It says on it, early intrauterine pregnancy, twin live fetuses!
"Oh, it seems that you inherited Huifang's genes. Your mother gave birth to twins back then, right?" Zhao Wanqiu looked at the report, then at her belly which was not yet visible, and sighed that genes were really amazing.
In those days, there were no test-tube babies or artificial insemination, and twins were conceived naturally. The probability was very low and it was generally considered a blessing. Liu Huifang's face flushed as she held Jin Yue's hand. "Well, I want to thank Jin Yue. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't even dare to think about getting pregnant, let alone twins."
Shu Jinyue was also very emotional. She remembered that her elder brother and sister-in-law had no children in her previous life. Her sister-in-law had to be laid off due to factory restructuring. She borrowed money to buy two old trucks. Relying on these two trucks, she worked hard to earn a living by going out early and returning late, and later she even opened a freight company and made a lot of money. The eldest brother contributed articles to newspapers and magazines, and gradually attracted a group of fans with his sharp and humorous writing style, becoming a well-known writer.
They were all busy with their own things and without the common bond of a child, they had less and less in common. Later, as Shu Wenyan became more and more famous, they divorced within a few years due to their professional differences and disparity in social status.
After the divorce, neither of them looked for another partner, but Liu Huifang would occasionally come back to visit their parents.
Teacher Shu and Zhao Wanqiu were full of praise for their former daughter-in-law, but they were full of complaints about Shu Wenyan.
"Dad, Aunt Zhao, this is a little gift from me, please keep it." Because she was pregnant with twins, Shu Wenyan was glowing with joy and vitality, and she even bought two kilograms of cooking oil for the old man.
This is clear oil, which is hard to buy even with money or tickets! Still two kilograms!
Teacher Shu was extremely surprised. Could it be that the sun rises from the west?
Zhao Wanqiu was so scared that she didn't dare to take the things, and her eyes were twitching.
Only Shu Jinyue took the things calmly and said, "Brother, you should have been filial to dad a long time ago. You will have at least two children in the future. You should set an example for them. If you are filial to your parents now, your children will be filial to you in the future. Don't you understand?"
If you rely on your parents for support, your children will also rely on you in the future and will eat you up until nothing is left of you.
Shu Wenyan felt a pain in his heart. He himself was reluctant to buy the cooking oil. If Huifang hadn't insisted on buying it, he would rather exchange the oil coupons with his colleagues for something else he could use.
Alas, his wife is the boss after all. Considering that she is pregnant with twins, he will tolerate her for a few days and let her be the boss for a few days. Once the children are born, he will let her know what a man's power is and what it means to be the head of the family.
Of course, Shu Wenyan couldn’t sit still in the house and wanted to go out for some fresh air. Soon, the entire No. 16 courtyard knew that his wife was pregnant with twins!
It had been many years since anyone had seen a twin pregnancy, so as soon as they heard about it, they all came to the Shu family to congratulate them. The newly married young wife even held Huifang's hand, hoping to get some of the blessings.
And the great contributor Shu Jinyue became famous again. Liu Huifang said in person that it was Jinyue who cured her. She had only been using the medicine for less than a month and she was pregnant, blah blah blah... Everyone looked at Jinyue as if they were the goddess of fertility.
This couple had been married for ten years but had never gotten pregnant. Now, after Jin Yue took care of herself, she got pregnant in just one month, and they were twins... Oh my god, Jin Yue is really amazing!
One said that her niece had been pregnant for two years after marriage, and the other said that her sister hadn't been pregnant for half a year, and both asked Jin Yue to help take a look.
Shu Jin is finding it more funny. Not getting pregnant for two years is not considered a disease, but not getting pregnant for half a year is even more exaggerated. With their high demands, doesn't that mean they have to get pregnant right after getting married?
"Jin Yue has only been learning for three years and he is already so powerful. Isn't your master in the countryside even more powerful?"
Shu Jinyue nodded. The old Chinese doctor was indeed amazing. Although he had never attended a modern school, he was able to truly integrate Chinese and Western medicine. He often used a combination of Chinese and Western medicines, and the effects were very fast.
Unfortunately, he accidentally fell off a cliff and died on the spot.
She was not bragging. If a master like her master could live until after the reform and opening up, he would definitely be a famous doctor, at least at the provincial level.
"Humph, you guys praise her so much, but I haven't seen her bring any benefits to the people in our compound. My family asked her to see a doctor, but she refused and acted like she was begging her. Do you think she cares about you?"
You don't have to look, the one who always says unlucky things to spoil everyone's mood is none other than Aunt Li.
Anyone who doesn't let her take advantage is a bad person.
"Come on, your Xiao Li is not beyond help after being seen elsewhere. If that were the case, Jin Yue would definitely help. But she said that Xiao Li's kidney stones are big and he needs surgery. You are reluctant to spend the money and insist on forcing Jin Yue to prescribe Chinese medicine. What if something happens..." Aunt Zhao said this in one breath and she didn't know how to say that word.
"What if the stone falls off and gets stuck on a tube, causing inflammation and necrosis? Once necrosis occurs, the entire kidney will have to be removed." Zhao Wanqiu continued, and she would definitely fight with Jin Yue to the death.
So, it’s not that they are cruel, it’s Aunt Li’s character that makes everyone stay away from her.
"Zhao Wanqiu, you are such a good person. It would be fine if you didn't help, but you actually cursed my son's kidney with such a bad conscience. My son's kidney is not bad, yours is bad!"
Everyone: “…”
Zhao Wanqiu was too lazy to pay attention to her. If she talked to her again, she would slap her hard.
Brother Li heard this from inside the room and pounded the bed in shame. "Wife, how could I have such a mother? I really, really hate myself..."
It is said that men don't shed tears easily. Xiao Li's eyes were red and two tears slid down his cheeks.
Xiao Li's wife hugged him gently and said, "Don't think too much. Take care of your body first. You have been sad about this matter these days and have no appetite. If you don't eat well, how can your body recover?"
The man lay on the kang, staring at the ceiling and crying.
"Do you think she really treats me like her son? Every time she forces the sisters to subsidize me, she calls me her sweetheart and gives me all the delicious food at home. But that night, it was a matter of life and death, and I was in so much pain, but she refused to pay. Do you think she really loves me?"
The woman didn't say anything. She had actually wanted to say something a long time ago, but she was afraid that her husband would misunderstand that she was trying to sow discord between them.
But in a normal family, if the parents love their children, when they see their children in so much pain, wouldn’t they want to feel the pain for them themselves and want to pay the money and have the doctor treat them quickly? She even has time to quarrel with others and still owes medical bills. The factory union officials have gone to the workshop to look for her several times.
She had no choice but to suggest deducting the money from her next month's salary. If her mother-in-law found out that her salary was less, there would definitely be another fuss.
"Wife, does what your father said last time still count?" Xiao Li suddenly grabbed his wife's hand, his voice trembling.
The woman was stunned, as if she couldn't believe it. "It does count, but..."
"Why don't we think about it?" Xiao Li closed his eyes and clenched his teeth.
"Are you sure?" The woman looked at him cautiously, and suddenly felt a little happy in her heart. Is it really possible? If that's the case...
"I'll think about it."
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In the following days, the weather became hotter day by day, and Jin Yue completely took off her trousers and changed into light summer clothes. She had fair skin and a petite figure. She wore a white short-sleeved shirt and overalls, with short hair that reached her ears. She had the "first love feeling" mentioned on the mobile phone.
Shu Wenyun, on the other hand, was born with long wavy hair, paired with a plaid skirt and a pair of black leather shoes, she is a beautiful sight whenever she goes out.
The two girls of the Shu family are beautiful in their own ways, but Shu Wenyun is the most eye-catching one. Jin Yue has encountered this several times. A male doctor from the district hospital sent her home and even came to her home on Sundays to tutor her.
Apparently, he broke up with Xu Siqi.
But they are clearly an official couple. Jin Yue really wants to remind these male doctors not to waste their time, because you can’t break up an official couple!
However, unlike the story line in her previous life, Shu Wenyun started reading books and studying in advance to prepare for the nursing certificate exam, and the direction was also different.
In her previous life, about half a year before she married Xu Siqi, the Xu family found a way to transfer her to the municipal hospital where Zhang Zhen worked, and transferred her from the busy clinical department to the less busy nursing department. Then, because she stole the show in several large-scale art performances, she was valued by the leaders. As the hospital was short of staff, she became the director of the nursing department at a young age, and later was promoted to deputy director, and was even transferred directly to the municipal agency to take up an important position.
Although everyone said that she married Xu Siqi for the highest position, Jin Yue felt that even without the Xu family's help, she could still make a name for herself on her own.
This is what we call a heroine-led script.
But in this life, she seems to be planning to take the professional and technical route. She works night shifts until she vomits, and then goes home to prepare for the nursing certification exam. She is taking advantage of every opportunity to learn.
Jin Yue felt a little jealous, but also a little happy for her. She felt that she had a mental problem.
With contempt for herself, Jin Yue walked into Xinhua Bookstore. She wanted to buy an English dictionary. She had recently borrowed some journals from the medical school, which contained some English words. She was completely clueless.
Shu Jinyue not only wants to do a good job in traditional Chinese medicine, but also wants to spread it to the world, so it is necessary to master a universal language.
She asked the clerk where the English dictionary was, walked over, picked out two, compared the price-performance ratio, and finally chose a thicker one and prepared to go to the checkout counter to pay.
Unexpectedly, after taking just two steps, he was bumped from behind.
"I'm sorry, comrade. I didn't mean it."
Jin Yue turned around and said, "Sister Wenli?"
The girl seemed to have lost a lot of weight. If it weren't for her iconic round face and round eyes, Jin Yue almost didn't recognize her. When they met half a year ago, she was still a girl as beautiful as an autumn apple.
"Are you coming to buy books today?" Xu Wenli stroked her hair. "It's been a while since we last met. How are you guys doing?"
"Very well, how are you doing recently, Sister Wenli? I see you seem to have lost some weight."
Xu Wenli's eyes no longer had the previous happiness and carefreeness. Instead, she was almost filled with fatigue. "I'm fine too. I just got sick a while ago and couldn't eat, so I lost some weight."
Jin Yue hurriedly asked what the illness was.
"I have a cold and the fever won't go away."
"But you don't have to worry. I'm fine recently. It's better to lose weight so that your brother won't always say that I'm fat. I don't look good when I'm fat." There was a hint of loneliness in her eyes.
Jin Yue sighed in his heart, this was not a fever at all, it was probably a mental illness.
Jin Yue was really curious about what happened between her and Shu Wenming. Shu Wenming was tight-lipped and she couldn't get any information from him. She hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help herself: "Is Sister Wenli busy? If not, can we go for a walk in the park?"
Xu Wenli said "hmm", and the two of them soon arrived at the People's Park not far away. This is the place where many young men and women go on blind dates. Jin Yue thought of Shu Wenming's blind date and Wang Xiaohong. Everyone said that his second brother and Wang Xiaohong were dating, but Jin Yue didn't think that was the case. According to her superficial understanding, if she were to date someone, at least while there was still some novelty in the relationship, she would never go on a date without washing her hair or changing her clothes.
He seems to have given up a bit recently.
Not to mention that he tossed and turned in bed every night, sighing and groaning, getting angry at anyone who touched him, and even wanting to kick a dog. He didn't look like a man who was nourished by love.
Jin Yue is now certain that her second brother truly likes Xu Wenli, and Xu Wenli also has feelings for him, but these two people cannot be together, and she feels as uncomfortable as if she were being scratched by a cat.
"Sister Wenli, I'm going to ask you a question, do you have a partner now?"
Xu Wenli's face faded, "I don't know if it counts."
She had met the young cadre from her father's unit several times and had meals together. He came to the unit to pick her up and she had sat on the back of his bicycle. Both sets of parents had also met and had a very pleasant conversation. But when it comes to marrying him in the future and starting a small family that would satisfy both sets of parents, she has no interest at all.
She even saw through him what her father looked like now, and she would become what her mother looked like now in twenty years.
Her parents had no affection for each other, and as far as she could remember, they had never lived in the same room. They always lived separately. Her mother cooked the same few dishes every day, with a look of worry from years of hard work. Her father came home every day to sit on the sofa and read the newspaper. He went fishing and playing chess on weekends, and never helped her mother wash a bowl or a pair of chopsticks. They rarely had face-to-face conversations at home, so the house was always very quiet, as quiet as if there were not three people living there, but three parrots with their vocal cords cut.
But, they told her that all she had to do was get married and she would be happy.
Does she need such "happiness"?
She couldn't help but think of the temporary worker colleague at work who always had a bad face, as if the whole world owed him 800 yuan, but every time the cooperative delivered vegetables, he would not sit idly by like those smiling colleagues. He would take the initiative to help load and unload, help the old lady to deliver the vegetables across the street, and sell the not-so-fresh vegetables cheaply to the lonely elderly... He would also criticize her, saying that she was fat and greedy, but every time there was something delicious, he would still quietly give it to her, and only to her.
This was an awkward and contradictory person. Xu Wenli didn't like him at all at the beginning, and was even a little afraid of him. But after working together for several times, she found that he could always calculate the most complicated accounts in the fastest time, and always rushed to do the dirtiest and heaviest work, while she only needed to sit aside, swinging her legs, and watching him quarrel with the sarcastic old lady who came to buy vegetables.
She found that she enjoyed deliberately irritating him, making him jump at her and call her a greedy girl.
Later, she knew that this was what love was. She liked him, and she liked his poor, noisy, and warm family. She had boldly hinted it to him, but he pretended not to understand.
The two of them had a bad relationship for a while, but later he gave her some sour-sweet dried apricots and half a piece of chocolate, and they reconciled without any explanation.
The most recent time was a real falling out because she was forced by her parents to go on a blind date...
"I didn't really want to go on a blind date, I just didn't know how to reject them. But I selfishly didn't want him to know, so I lied to him that day and said I was going to the hospital for a cold. Coincidentally, he didn't find me in the hospital, but saw me having dinner with that guy outside the restaurant, and then..." It was a misunderstanding.
Later, when her blind date came to pick her up several times, Shu Wenming became even more furious, and the situation became increasingly out of control.
Shu Jinyue finally figured out the whole story. It turned out to be a story of two happy enemies and a melodramatic misunderstanding. Jinyue loved reading such novels, but when it really happened to him, he was speechless - Shu Wenming, a grown man, had no mouth.
"My second brother deserves to be single. He has a broken mouth and doesn't say what he should say, but he keeps saying things he shouldn't say."
Xu Wenli laughed, "Yeah, it's annoying sometimes."
Jin Yue looked at her seriously, "Sister Wenli, you know the situation in our family. My second brother always feels that he is not good enough for you, so he has been avoiding things with you. I hope you can understand him a little bit."
Xu Wenli nodded, "I know, I don't care."
She would rather live in the Shu family's small room than live alone in her own big house.
Jin Yue didn't know what to say. She wasn't love-brained. In fact, she was still very sober and knew what she wanted. But considering Jin Yue's situation, if she were to get married, she would definitely not find someone worse than her own family. She had realized how insignificant her family was in this city, so insignificant that a small production team leader could put her to death.
"Then let me tell you something, don't be angry." Jin Yue looked at her face, not knowing whether he should say it or not.
"You mean he's dating someone? I know he's been bringing that lesbian to our store lately. I've seen it." She looked increasingly desolate.
Wang Xiaohong is indeed very beautiful, and one of the most beautiful girls in the city. She is not much inferior to Shu Wenyun. But her eyes are not big enough, her face is not small enough, and most importantly, she is fat.
"No one would dislike a girl like that."
Jin Yue patted her shoulder lovingly, "Sister Wenli is also very beautiful. Beauty in the world is not the same as big eyes and oval face. You are also beautiful. I like you."
Xu Wenli blushed. That era was still very conservative, and it was too embarrassing to say "I like you" in public.
"Then let me tell you one more thing. My second brother didn't really talk to Wang Xiaohong. There was a misunderstanding between him and you..." blah blah, Jin Yue expressed her speculations. She did her best for her second brother's lifelong event.
Xu Wenli's eyes lit up. "Really? Did he really lie to me just to piss me off?"
"Really." Jin Yue held his forehead with his hand. Could you please stop playing this kind of melodramatic plot?
"Humph, that's better. If he dares to like other lesbians, I will... I will... well, I will die in front of him!"
Shu Jinyue was stunned: “…” My elder sister just said that you are not in love, I misjudged you.
But she also knew that this was just the little girl's angry words. "I'll tell you the truth, and you can handle it yourself. I don't want to get involved in your affairs anymore."
"Yeah, thank you Jin Yue, you are so nice. If I could be with you... with you... hehe, it would definitely be great."
"Okay, okay, then don't accuse me of tipping you off. Let's just pretend we haven't met today."
When Jin Yue returned home, he saw Shu Wenming, who had just returned from a "date", lying on the kang in a daze. His hair was so dark that it could be used for cooking, and his clothes were full of patches. He did not look like a man in love at all.
Teacher Shu looked at his unkempt son and felt something was wrong. Even though he was an old man and didn't really understand what it meant to dress to please oneself, he knew: "How can a young man make himself so sloppy? Doesn't the girl dislike you?"
Shu Wenming said nothing.
"I say, second brother, you've been dating for a while now. If you feel it's okay, why don't our parents meet and settle things? The sooner you get married, the sooner I can feel at ease."
Shu Wenming snorted coldly, "What's the point of marrying me? Where will I live if I marry her?"
This is a practical problem. There is so little place in the house, and the young couple can't sleep in the same room with their two sisters-in-law. But if they don't sleep in that room, they can't chase the two sisters away... Anyway, there is no place for them to live.
"If it doesn't work out, then go out and rent a place. I'll pay for the first three months' rent, and then you can pay for it yourself after she finds a job."
Even the house in their slum compound cost three or four yuan a room. He earned 18 yuan a month, and had to pay for more than ten kilograms of food coupons, plus he had to support two people... Jin Yue felt a headache just thinking about it.
This is not life at all, even survival is not guaranteed.
"Dad, Aunt Zhao, I was just about to tell you that I have submitted an application a few days ago for a single dormitory in our hospital. How about Jin Yue come and live with me in the dormitory from now on?" Shu Wenyun suddenly spoke.
In this way, the small room can be vacated for the young couple to live in.
Teacher Shu didn't say anything, but he was obviously a little moved. Jin Yue asked quickly, "Do the leaders of your unit agree? Will other colleagues have any objections?"
"It's okay, everyone does this. It's called a single dormitory, but in fact there are couples or families of three or four living here." After all, there are many people who don't have houses, and the hospital can't really kick them out, so it just turns a blind eye.
"If that's the case, it's far from your workplace. Jin Yue has to get up half an hour earlier every morning."
Jin Yue breathed a sigh of relief. It was not a big deal. Well, it’s hard to say when winter comes. I hope she can find a place to move out before winter.
It is difficult to buy and sell houses now, but it does not mean that there is no way out. Jin Yue has a huge sum of nearly 400 yuan in her hand. She may be able to buy two small houses to live in, but if her second brother is getting married soon, she has to pay him back first.
Alas, after all, it’s still a matter of no money.
Hey, that doesn’t make sense. What kind of marriage is he getting? Where’s Xu Wenli? Why is there no news yet? !
"What are you looking at? There's no money on my face." Shu Wen understood her and sat up. "Forget it, you two should not move out for now. I won't be able to get married anyway."
"What do you mean, you guys broke up again?"
Shu Wenming didn't want to explain any more. "No, but we won't get married either. Wenyun, please don't invest your money in it."
Now they have submitted applications, but it will take a long time for them to be approved. In order to move into the dormitory earlier, many people will give gifts to their leaders. Since they have received gifts, they cannot remain indifferent, as it may turn out to be another big expense.
Just as I was thinking about it, Brother Li and his wife came over, "Jin Yue?"
Shu Jinyue thought to herself, it's finally here, she had actually been waiting for Brother Li's reaction. She could cure kidney stones, and this disease was not uncommon in the countryside, she just didn't want to have anything to do with Aunt Li.
"Xiao Li and his wife are here. Please sit down." Zhao Wanqiu brought two clean bowls and poured a bowl of warm water for each of them.
Xiao Li was about to cry again. He remembered that he had been dragging his uncomfortable body to work these days. When he returned home tired after a day, his mother didn't even prepare a bowl of hot soup or hot water for him. She said it was because his wife had to go back to her parents' home. She was in a bad mood and the neighbors in the compound laughed at her. She just kept complaining about her dissatisfaction, but she forgot that the joke was not just about this. She also forgot that the doctor emphasized that people with kidney stones should drink more water.
As for why he went back to his mother's house, Xiao Li sneered in his heart. His wife was pregnant and wanted to go to the hospital for a check-up, but his mother was unwilling to pay for it.
It was obvious that the couple's wages were all handed over to the government, she did it on purpose.
My wife came back from her parents' home today, and my father-in-law paid for the check-up... I finally made the decision, but before leaving, I wanted to come and see Jin Yue first. After all, Chinese herbal medicine is cheap, and I can't do without the surgery at a few dozen dollars.
Now they have to raise their children alone, so every penny they can save counts.
Shu Jinyue didn't ask about their family affairs in detail, but asked him to stretch out his hand and held it.
It's calm, gentle, soft and strong, a very healthy pulse. "It's not happening now, so it looks like nothing's wrong."
Xiao Li breathed a sigh of relief, "Besides drinking more water, what else can I do now?"
"It depends on whether you want to be completely cured or just relieve the pain."
Brother Li paused and said, "It will cost a lot of money to cure it completely, right? You know our situation..." Knowing that this disease was not a terminal illness, it was impossible for Aunt Li to ask for money. She wanted to force Brother Li's wife to go back to her parents' home for money, and if that didn't work, she could just blame the company.
"How can this be considered a work-related injury? There's no point in making a fuss with the company. I can't afford to lose face."
"In fact, it's not expensive to treat this disease. You just need to take one thing."
Brother Li's eyes lit up, "What is it?"
"Chicken gizzard."
Zhao Wanqiu explained: "It's the chicken stomach we cut out when we kill the chicken. It's also called chicken stomach. There's a layer of golden stuff on it."
Xiao Li nodded quickly, but isn’t this thing good for the stomach and digestion? Children who grew up in the slum all knew that if they had indigestion during the New Year holidays, they could crush the yellow stuff and drink it with water. After drinking it twice, they would be full of energy and eat delicious food.
As the saying goes, there is an antidote within three steps.
Xiao Li's wife suddenly interrupted, "I remember Jin Yue said last month that this is a way to treat nocturnal enuresis in children. Aunt Zhao's grandson has always had a bed-wetting problem. You told her to drink the stuff on the chicken gizzards with water. After drinking it for more than half a month, the little guy really stopped wetting the bed." She mentioned this when she returned to her parents' home, and said that she would remember these little life tips, and maybe she could use them when raising her own children in the future.
Xiao Li was even more confused. How could a small piece of golden thing be able to treat indigestion, then treat nocturia, and now it can even treat kidney stones?
Zhao Wanqiu smiled and nodded, "Chicken's gizzard lining is actually a layer of gizzard keratin membrane. In addition to treating indigestion and nocturnal enuresis, it can also treat adult spermatorrhea, mouth sores and stones."
The time she spent studying traditional Chinese medicine over the past few months was not in vain.
The young couple was stunned. Aunt Shu was the medical treasure chest of Liuye Hutong. If she said it was okay, then both Chinese and Western medicine would agree that it was okay. "Jin Yue, tell us how to eat it and we will find it right away."
"Remember to use it raw, don't fry it, crush it and grind it into powder. Soak one piece of chicken gizzard lining in a large enamel cup of boiling water for fifteen minutes, then drink it all in one go. Remember to drink it early in the morning without eating anything, and jog two laps after drinking it."
Xiao Li quickly wrote it down. Chicken gizzard lining is free. Anyone in the compound can get two. Just ask for them and drink as much boiled water as you want. Can this disease really be cured without spending a penny?
"Don't worry, the longest is a week, the shortest is three days." Jin Yue yawned, she was so sleepy.
Why do people like to come to see the doctor after nine o'clock? After chatting about this and that, it's already half past ten. She really wants to sleep.
"Okay, okay, we've got it in mind. We'll go back first and not disturb your rest." The young couple quickly stood up, "We won't tell my mom about this, so don't worry, uncle and aunt Jinyue."
They didn't have much to offer, as all the money and food in the family were in the hands of Aunt Li. However, their mother-in-law worked in a button factory and sent them a bag of buttons.
When Zhao Wanqiu opened it, she saw that there were about fifty or sixty of them, white, black, yellow, big and small. This was a real need! Children all know that if buttons on their clothes or pants fall off, they must pick them up immediately. If they don’t, they will be beaten up when they get home, after all, they have to spend money to buy them.
"So many, the young couple are really sincere."
Teacher Shu also sighed, "Good bamboo shoots come from bad bamboos, that's exactly what is said about their family." Old Li was as unpopular as Aunt Li back then. He educated a group of children in a wrong way, but the youngest son was not affected.
"What a pity! We all feel sorry for them under Aunt Li's control." The people in the compound saw it but couldn't do anything about it. After all, it was someone else's business. It would be fine if they listened to the advice, but with Aunt Li's temper, anyone who dared to say anything would be in trouble.
Jin Yue thought to herself, this Aunt Li must be the NPD mentioned on the phone. Her children have been trying to get rid of her all their lives. It's a pity that the first seven daughters all failed. I wonder if little Li will succeed.
Never mind, she just wished him success.
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