Chapter 43 043 Sealed Heart and Locked Love & Yaoyaoba and his Three Sons & Runny Nose...
Shu Wenming was very concerned and thought that he would have a good talk with Xu Wenli when he went to work on Monday and told her not to be a silly babysitter. Unexpectedly, Xu Wenli did not come to work on Monday, nor on Tuesday, and did not show up at the vegetable market until Wednesday with a pale face.
"What's wrong with you? Are you sick again?"
Xu Wenli bit her lip and shook her head. "She was almost healed, but then my mom was discharged from the hospital and my dad had to go to work. There was no one to take care of her during the confinement period, so I had to do it."
In such a cold day, she has to take medicine with her every day, but she still has to take care of her mother who is in confinement. She can't cook, but she has to learn how to make confinement meals. If she doesn't cook well, her mother will blame her for not having enough milk. Because of insufficient milk, her younger brother cries every night and she has to hold him and comfort him.
Shu Wenming was furious when he heard this. "She is old and not suitable for having children. What does it have to do with you? Don't you have a brain?"
Xu Wenli pursed her lips, "But I feel that my family is pretty good now. Before, no one would talk when I got home from get off work until bedtime. Now, my dad comes home every day and asks if my brother is okay and how much milk he has eaten. My mom is also in a good mood and only talks about happy things. The atmosphere at home has improved a lot."
Shu Wenming wanted to say something to her, but now he was really disappointed. "Is this why you are so happy as a babysitter?"
"Not really. My brother is cute anyway. I like children."
Shu Wenming suddenly laughed evilly and said, "If you like me, marry me quickly. Why would you care about other people's things?"
"Shu Wenming, you are shameless!" The girl chased him around the room with a red face.
With this interruption, her worries temporarily subsided, but Shu Wenming deliberately pulled her aside. He would rather keep her in the company and work overtime without pay than let her go home to be a nanny. He told her to pretend to be sick every day and taught her that crying children get candy.
When Xu's mother was out of confinement and able to cook and wash clothes by herself, Xu Wenli could finally relax a little.
The weather was getting colder and colder at this time. After the first snow fell in Shucheng City, the breath began to turn into ice. The street office where Shu Jinyue worked also started to provide heating. The indoor temperature was much warmer than outside, and everyone was reluctant to go out once they entered the office.
This kind of weather is also perfect for chatting. Sister Qiao and other aunts and uncles would run to Shu Jinyue's side when they had nothing to do, as if the heating in their office was more sufficient.
"Hey Liu Jinbu, do you still have the braised dishes you brought yesterday?" asked the greedy Sister Sun.
"No, my wife is just an office worker, how can she afford so much brine?"
"Come on, your wife is the manager of their store, and she has the final say over the entire store."
Liu Jinbu himself is "not ambitious", but his wife is quite ambitious. The old manager retired last month and she was promoted. She has been very successful recently. Sister Qiao and her friends laughed at him behind his back, saying that he was determined to live off his wife forever, but he didn't get angry. He was happier about his wife's promotion than himself. He was in high spirits all day long. He would bring some delicious food to Old Zhu Jinyue if there was anything delicious at home, and Sister Qiao and her friends who loved to visit would also eat a lot of it.
"Honestly, Liu Jinbu, we're not eating your food for free. Can we buy some brine from your wife?"
"Yes, the weather has been cold recently, and the kids say everything they eat has no taste. We can use the brine to make some vegetarian dishes."
At this point, Liu Jinbu reluctantly agreed, "I'll go back and ask."
"Hey, you're still asking? You can't make the decision? Who makes the decision in your family?" Old Liu, who is in charge of sanitation on the second floor, also came down and teased.
As he was talking, a cute girl in a white down jacket ran in quickly, "It's so cold!"
"Hey Jinyue is here, is that a down jacket you're wearing?"
"It's really beautiful. Where did you buy it? Is it warm?" Sister Qiao touched her waist directly inside her clothes. "Wow, it's as hot as a small stove!"
Shu Jinyue is not tall, but has good proportions. When she puts on this long down jacket and zips it up, she looks a lot taller. If you don't know her, you would think she is at least 1.65 meters tall.
Some people were circling around her, "Hey, have you noticed that our Jin Yue seems to be a lot prettier these days?"
If she hadn't said it, no one would have noticed it, but now that she said it, it seems to be true.
Although Jin Yue was fair-skinned before, she didn't dress up and usually wore whatever was comfortable. But recently, she put on a wool sweater and a down jacket, and also wore special slim-fitting pants, which made her waist look thin and her legs look long. Her hair is still short, but the quality is much better, smooth and soft. Her eyes are watery, and she looks like an elf with a melon-shaped smiling face. It seems that even her lips are much redder than before...
Shu Jinyue is a little scheming. She has used lipstick before. She was in a bad mood after receiving her salary last month, so she went directly to the mall and bought two lipsticks and eyebrow pencils. She doesn't know how to do other things, but she has seen a lot of scheming makeup, pure desire makeup, nude commuting makeup on her mobile phone... She still remembers the steps. It doesn't matter if she lacks cosmetics, she can always replicate 70% to 80% of the results.
Sure enough, once a girl sets her heart on love and learns how to put on makeup, it’s like she’s turned on a cheat code.
"By the way, could your acquaintance help me knit three more pairs of gloves, one pair with peony flowers and two pairs with plum blossoms? I'll give you a deposit first." Sister Qiao went back to her parents' home wearing the gloves knitted by Sister Zhao. Her sisters all wanted them.
When the other sisters heard this, they also asked for more. Jin Yue wrote down the style, color and quantity, and would notify Mrs. Zhao when she got off work.
Sister Qiao squeezed over and lowered her voice: "What's going on between you and Qin Haiyang? I heard that he was sent abroad on official business?"
Shu Jinyue nodded. The room was warm enough. She took off her down jacket, shook it, and hung it on the back of the chair. "He went to Japan and said he would not be back for three years."
"So there's really no hope for you two?"
Shu Jinyue was helpless, "Really not."
Sister Qiao's eyes suddenly lit up. "How about I introduce you to someone? He's my husband's cousin, a cadre, 24 years old, energetic, with a high salary, and an only child. His parents are also cadres and have pensions."
Ever since Jin Yue was rejected when she "confessed" her love to Xu Duan, she has really lost interest in love. She thinks all men are the same and are not good. Now she only wants to make money, become beautiful, and pursue a career.
Not surprisingly, she rejected Sister Qiao again.
"Hey, I haven't finished yet. This time I didn't say this. Someone came to me and introduced me to you. He said he had seen you before and thought you were a nice person. He wanted to develop a revolutionary friendship with you."
Shu Jinyue thought that she had treated him before. After all, she couldn't tell who was who among those relatives of Sister Qiao. "Really, there's no need. Just tell him that I'm young and don't want to date yet."
***
Xu Duan wanted to apologize for what happened that day, but it had been almost two months and Shu Jinyue hadn't given him the chance.
Because since then, she never went to Huaishu Hutong or Jinyu Hutong again.
Sister Bao watched as the amount of milk in the refrigerator increased. When she cleaned it out after a while, she couldn't remember how many bottles there were. She felt very upset. If she drank it, Leader Xu said it was expired and she couldn't drink it because it would upset her stomach. If she didn't drink it, she would stuff another bottle in every day... When would this end?
Leader Xu did not cancel the trip to the milk station and still delivered one bottle to each home every day.
But no matter how regrettable it was, she didn't dare to take it home on her own initiative. Sometimes, when Leader Xu remembered it, he would ask her to take it home for her children to drink, and asked her to drink it the same day and not keep it for a long time. Sometimes, when Leader Xu was away on business, the refrigerator would be filled with milk.
Even Zhang Zhen was puzzled. "Why doesn't his uncle drink milk anymore? He used to drink a bottle a day."
Sister Bao opened her mouth. She suspected that Leader Xu didn't drink it at all. The milk was ordered for someone else, but he later had a falling out with that person.
"Oh, what a waste! The sooner you turn over the better."
After Shu Jinyue figured it out, he no longer hated Xu Duan. Instead, he felt that he said a lot of nonsense, but there was one thing he said that made special sense - being nice to you is the cheapest and easiest thing to disappear.
So, in addition to working, she is now improving herself, not only improving her clinical experience and abilities, but also working hard to participate in social activities. In the past, Qin Haiyang invited her to parties, and Yao Qingqing invited her to go shopping with friends, but she refused to go. But now she finds that having connections is a good thing. Even if it doesn't bring her a lot of trouble, at least she can have more friends.
Last time, when Song Yingying "lost her child", she did a lot to help the hospital clear suspicion. Later, the vice president and senior obstetrician and gynecologist asked her to share her experience with hospital staff, and she did not refuse.
The first time she stood on the podium, the young woman with no academic background was afraid and nervous. However, she knew that in order to improve herself, she had to broaden her horizons. The knowledge she had previously acquired from her mobile phone was too fragmented and too one-sided. She benefited greatly from interacting with these veteran doctors who had actually spent their entire lives in clinical practice.
At the same time, whenever Mo Shuyi encountered any difficult or complicated cases, he would call her over. She helped the provincial hospital solve many "difficult problems". She also got along well with the doctors there. As a result, she had some acquaintances in several major hospitals in the city.
These are things that Jin Yue would never think about or deal with in the past. Even Shu Wenming said that she has grown up. His original words were: "A failed unrequited love can really make people grow up."
"Go to hell, don't hit someone in the face, Shu Wenming."
Shu Wenming was about to retort when they suddenly heard voices coming from the door. It sounded very unfamiliar. They both sat up and hurried out to watch the fun.
Yes, the family of Engineer Shang, who was said to have a monthly salary of 1.18 million, finally moved in.
"Why did you move in just now? You've been renting this house for two months, right?" Aunt Zhao felt pained just seeing the rent being paid even if the house was empty. She thought her husband was such a spendthrift and didn't know how to live.
Shang Guangming looked to be in his early thirties, tall, with fair skin, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and was very gentle and polite. There was a child with him who looked like a glutinous rice dumpling, about eight or nine years old, who started calling for help as soon as he opened his mouth.
A group of middle-aged women were so happy that they were even happier than being called by their own grandchildren. They asked him how old he was, whether he went to school, and what grade he was in.
However, several young girls and wives were looking at Yaoyaoba shyly.
"Don't look at him, he's a widower. He's even older than that old bastard Xu Duan." Shu Wenming leaned close to Shu Jinyue's ear and said.
Jin Yue rolled her eyes at him, but she had to admit that Shang Guangming was really good-looking. She would never believe that he could live in the compound for a long time. She guessed that he was just here to stay for a few days. He looked like the type who would live in a villa and drive a car.
If she were to ask who among the people she knew looked more like a capitalist son, she would think Shang Guangming was the perfect example. On the contrary, Xu Duan looked more like someone who came from the working class.
"Tsk tsk tsk, our Aunt Li is really bold to think of such a talent." Shu Wenming smiled, "There will be a lot of fun in our compound in the future, remember to come back early every day."
His mouth really sounded blessed. As soon as he finished speaking, Aunt Li rushed to clean up the house and move the luggage for the new tenant. She even wanted to prepare dinner and put it on the table for the three of them.
"But Engineer Shang didn't eat Aunt Li's meal. He said he didn't need it. The three of them ate by themselves. Guess what they ate?" Zhao Wanqiu gossiped while eating. "They used malted milk soaked in boiling water and a bunch of biscuits. I heard they also fried three eggs in cooking oil, fried them into the kind of poached eggs that were runny."
"This eating habit is a bit Western," commented Teacher Shu.
"He grew up abroad. I heard that his mother and two brothers are also abroad. He has been eating like this since he was a child."
"And that bloody steak, aren't you afraid of parasites..." Zhao Wanqiu has been in the clinic for a long time, and she hates drinking raw water and eating raw meat the most. She couldn't help but talk about why the soldiers on the battlefield developed the habit of drinking boiled water. It was all caused by the enemy's poisoning.
Bacteriological warfare and biological warfare are also warfare, and are even more immoral ways of killing people without shedding blood. For example, the schistosomiasis in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas is said to have been introduced by the Japanese.
Everyone is tired of hearing these old stories and would rather hear the gossip from the neighbors. "They grew up abroad, so do they speak our Dragon language?"
"That's a very good way to put it!"
"By the way, the names of their two children are also weird. The older one is called Mai Ke. You know, in our Long country, there are people who call their children wheat ears and millet, but why did he insist on calling them Mai Ke? The younger one is even uglier, why is he called Jimi?"
Shu Jinyue couldn't help but burst out laughing. They were called Mike and Jimmy, right? These old ladies really knew how to call him that. It was a good thing he wasn't named Tom, otherwise they would have called him Tangmu.
But this engineer Shang is really bold. What era is this? He actually dares to give his child a foreign name. Maybe he hasn't stayed in the countryside enough.
Fortunately, not many people know that these are foreign names. Everyone will automatically "translate" them into wheat husks and chicken rice. Look, aren't these the characters for Longguo? How come they are not the names of Longguo?
"I just don't know if they can get used to the life here. I don't think they can adapt to the public toilets."
"The public toilets they use in the countryside are not much better than the ones in our slum." Jin Yue has the right to speak. The toilets she used in the countryside were even worse. They just dug a hole in the ground and put a thin wooden board or firewood on top. It was as dirty as it could be. If you were not careful, you might fall into the hole if you squatted. When she first went there, she was scared every time she went to the toilet.
If you fall into it, it will be no different from social death.
As everyone was talking, they suddenly heard a child shouting, "It fell into the toilet."
Shu Jinyue: “Ah?”
She just thought of falling into the toilet, and someone actually fell in? !
Not to mention the Shu family, everyone in Yard No. 16 leaned out to see who was so unlucky as to fall into the pit!
"Hey, Wenming, you are still watching the fun. Your brother fell into the toilet and it's yellow. Ouch, it's coming... Yue..."
Everyone in the Shu family was stunned. They had thought about Aunt Li falling into the toilet and Aunt Liu falling into the toilet, but they didn't expect that Shu Wenyan, who lived two alleys away, would fall into the toilet in Liuye Hutong!
But Shu Wenyan was unpopular, so everyone covered their noses and wanted to close the door, pretending they didn't hear anything.
"No, no, no, no, my second brother, get me some water to rinse my face!" It was indeed Shu Wenyan, and he came with a smell of shit on him.
Shu Wenming covered his nose and said, "There is no water at home. Go back home and wash yourself."
"It would be better to just let me die." On the way home, the entire Xinqiao street knew that Shu Wenyan fell into the toilet... No, no, what do you mean he fell into the toilet? He was saving people.
"Open the door quickly. It's not just me, there's also a child. I can't understand what he's saying, and he fell into the pit and couldn't get out. If I hadn't gone to the toilet on the way and heard it, he would have died in the pit."
The key point is that this little guy looks small, but the flesh on his body is very heavy. He failed to fish it out and instead fell himself down. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten so dirty.
If he was alone, Wenming and Jinyue would never open the door for him, but there was a child, so forget it, and just do a good deed for the day.
"Don't come in yet, I'll go get you some water, don't move, you can't even have this set of clothes...yue..."
Shu Jinyue looked at the child he was carrying and felt that he was unfamiliar. "Which courtyard are you from? You are not from Liuye Hutong, right? Where are your parents?"
The child blinked his big eyes and said, "My name is Jimmy."
The Shu family: “…” So this is the child of Engineer Shang whom they were just talking about.
So Shu Wenming hurried to the backyard and called out to Yaoyaoba, "Your child fell into the toilet and it was my big brother who hated dogs who rescued him."
Engineer Shang was not at home, saying he was working overtime at the factory. Aunt Li, who was devoted to trying to please him, closed the door as soon as she heard that the chicken had fallen into the toilet. "Don't come in. I rented this house to your family. If you don't take good care of it, I will kick you all out tomorrow."
The child is so pitiful, he has no home to return to and looks at her with tears in his eyes.
No one has ever seen such an inhumane landlord. "Aunt Li, why are you like this? You won't let me in when the owner is not at home. You don't have this attitude when Engineer Shang is at home."
Aunt Li put her hands on her hips and said, "Why, you feel sorry for him, then take him home."
The neighbors were afraid to say anything, these two guys were so smelly!
Shu Wenyan was almost crying because of the stench, so he could only ask Jin Yue to bring hot water to the yard and wash the popcorn while washing himself. "You poor child, can't you watch yourself when you go to the toilet? Today, I am the only one who goes in. If no one else goes in, you will freeze to death in the pit, do you understand?"
Popcorn Chicken looked at him blankly.
Shu Wenyan was going to be a father soon, and he couldn't bear to see that look in his eyes, so he thought, forget it, just do a good deed that day.
In the midst of the chaos, another child called out at the door: "Sister Jinyue, someone is looking for you outside."
Shu Jinyue looked calm and said, "Just say I'm not here."
"She said she's not home." The child shouted out the door.
Shu Jinyue: “…” Is this kid really a brat or really stupid.
Xu Duan smiled bitterly at the door. The little girl was really angry. He had been busy with work during this period and had been away on business for a few days. When he came back, he found that she had completely ignored him.
He had come to Liuye Hutong to look for her three times, and this was the fourth time, but he had never seen her. He could usually find her at work, but she always looked very businesslike and said, "I don't know you well." He didn't want to cause trouble for her because there were so many people around, so he felt like his heart was blocked by a ball of cotton.
In the past, people said that this little girl was timid and wouldn't lose her temper, but now it seems that she is very aggressive. Before, he saw the kitten hiding her claws, but now she has shown her sharp claws and is pointing them at him.
***
After Shu Jinyue refused the meeting, she didn't feel any pain in her conscience. She spent more time on learning and improving herself. In the meantime, Mo Shuyi received invitations to two national academic conferences, and Jinyue gladly agreed to go.
One was about the summary of lupus treatment experience, and the other was about leukemia. The invited speakers were nationally renowned hematology experts. The venue was chosen to be Shucheng City. Firstly, it had beautiful scenery, and secondly, Mo Shuyi happened to know several of the experts. They were all seniors who studied in the Soviet Union together. As soon as he proposed it, they came.
Although he had no knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine at all, Shu Jinyue was able to understand clinical medicine. They had enough case numbers to support their discussion and were very convincing when discussing their treatment experience. In addition, the experts were good at giving examples and mobilizing the atmosphere. Shu Jinyue was not distracted at all and listened attentively for more than four hours.
During the conversation, Mo Shuyi took her to talk to the keynote speaker and discuss some things that she didn't quite understand. Jin Yue was stage frightened at the beginning, but gradually relaxed later on, and even took the initiative to mention the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in treating these blood diseases. The two sides had a very pleasant conversation.
Finally, Shu Jinyue got the business cards of several experts and said that he would ask them for more advice when he encountered problems in the future.
These experts accumulated a huge amount of case and treatment experience when they were young, and have studied abroad and received world-leading medical technology training. They now treat leaders in the highest-level hospitals in Beijing and Haicheng. Ordinary people don't even know where to make an appointment if they want to see them, let alone ask them questions.
Shu Jinyue once again realized the importance of personal connections. With Mo Shuyi's introduction, she was able to communicate with these experts face to face. This experience was really great.
After attending the meeting, Shu Jinyue planned to go find Yao Qingqing on the way, as the meeting place was right next to the Geological University.
It was not yet time to get off work, so she went straight to the finance office where Yao Qingqing was. She did not go in, but just sat on a chair downstairs and waited.
During the whole day at the venue, Mo Shuyi saw that she was embarrassed at first, so he helped her get some tea, fruit snacks, etc. The more she ate, the thirstier she became, and the thirstier she became, the more she ate. Now, she wanted to go to the toilet after sitting for a short while.
The toilet was at the end of the corridor. She trotted in and squatted down as usual, finding the deepest spot closest to the window. The toilets in the school now do not have separate cubicles and door panels. There are only a few half-person-high walls built with red bricks. There are no doors. There is an old iron water tank at the front, which flushes automatically every once in a while.
Jin Yue had just finished using the toilet and was about to get up when he suddenly heard two lesbians coming in chatting.
"They are talking to each other right now. I heard that she took the initiative with Comrade Song. She even brought him breakfast and invited him to the movies. Young girls nowadays are really bold."
"Come on, forget it. She's just relying on the fact that she's the child of a school faculty member and her parents died in the line of duty. Otherwise, how could someone like her get into the school to be an accountant?" The person who spoke had a sharp, thin voice, and a sarcastic tone to it.
Shu Jinyue intuitively disliked this person.
"Well, that's true, but her family is well-off, her brother died in the line of duty, and he will be taken care of in the future when it comes to promotions. And she lives alone in such a large courtyard house... Goldfish Alley, I heard that people living in that alley can easily afford to buy a few goldfish."
"So what if he's rich? Is being rich that great? I obviously have a crush on Xiao Song and wanted to introduce her to my niece, but she got there first..."
The other woman laughed, "So you're holding a grudge against her because of this. It's not a big deal. We don't know if Xiao Song and her can be together yet. Why are you in such a hurry?"
Soon, the two left the toilet. Shu Jinyue squatted for a while, then stood up and stretched her legs. She felt uncomfortable. She always felt that the protagonist they were talking about should be Yao Qingqing, as a lot of the information matched.
But what that shrill woman said was really harsh. It was so mean of her to make up stories behind the back of a girl whose parents and brother died in the line of duty. She shouldn't do that even if they were strangers, let alone colleagues she worked with day and night.
Shu Jinyue was snorting angrily, regretting that he was a beat slow to react. He should have said something to her right away to feel better.
With this anger, when she saw Yao Qingqing, she felt a little guilty. As a good friend, she was really not loyal enough.
"Finally you come to see me. I've brought you messages several times. Why don't you come to play with me?" Yao Qingqing came up to him happily and "questioned" him a few words first.
Shu Jinyue couldn't say it because she wanted to avoid Xu Duan and completely close her heart and lock herself in love, so she just said that she was busy with work recently and had no time.
"Forget it, I forgive you. It just so happens that I'll take you to the cafeteria. Didn't you also say that our school cafeteria is delicious?"
"'Also', has anyone said that?" she asked mischievously.
Yao Qingqing blushed, "Hey, I'll tell you later, there's no rush."
The two followed the large group of students to the cafeteria. When they reached the staff cafeteria on the second floor, there were obviously fewer people there than last time. At this time, those with families had gone home to eat. Only people like Yao Qingqing who had no one at home would eat in the cafeteria.
Shu Jinyue's heart softened, "I'll treat you today."
"No, I'll treat you. I have something to tell you. It's my turn to treat you."
Shu Jinyue had actually guessed what she was going to say - "I'm dating someone. You've met him. It's Comrade Song Yingwu, whom we met together last time."
"The last time we had dinner here, we met the gay man who shared the table with us?"
"Yes, that's him." Yao Qingqing has always been a person who dares to love and hate. She talked about it and didn't intend to hide it. Song Yingwu didn't want to make it public. "He is actually a taciturn person, quite boring, too honest, but honest people also have their good points."
"Since you're going to get married anyway, why not find someone you don't hate so much?"
Shu Jinyue noticed a hint of loneliness in her expression. In fact, she wanted to find the shadow of her brother in Song Yingwu, right? It’s not that there is anything between the brother and sister, but when a person is too lonely, he always needs some people or things that can remind him of the good things.
Song Yingwu and Yao Feiyang have a similar life experience, and this is what she cares about.
Shu Jinyue sighed inwardly, "So is he good to you?"
"He's pretty good, but he doesn't talk much and he's too honest. He's so honest that I want to be angry with him."
Shu Jinyue hurriedly asked what happened. It turned out that Song Yingwu was born in the countryside and joined the army at a very young age. His parents died, leaving behind three younger brothers and sisters. After joining the army, he could only entrust his younger brothers and sisters to his second uncle's family, and let his second uncle and aunt take care of them. In return, he sent a 20 yuan allowance home every month, which was enough for his younger brothers and sisters to go to school and eat in the countryside.
"His uncle and aunt are really black-hearted. Now that he has retired and got a job, they actually asked for a huge sum of money, asking him to send 30 yuan back home, saying 10 yuan for each child, otherwise they won't let them go to school." Yao Qingqing snorted, "It doesn't cost that much to raise a child in the city. They are blatantly extorting money. I told him to leave it alone and let them take the money, but he couldn't bear it and gave it to them anyway. Isn't it infuriating?"
Shu Jinyue did not comment.
"I'm not saying that he shouldn't take care of his younger siblings. He should, but he can't give them so much money. His younger siblings are getting older. One is in high school, one is in junior high school, and the other is in elementary school. They will be able to return to the village as substitute teachers right after graduating from high school. They don't need him to give them living expenses. He can just help them out when they get married. Ten yuan a month for the remaining two is actually enough. If he really wants to give them money, he can save it for them to help out when they get married. Isn't it better than letting his second uncle and second aunt embezzle it directly?"
Shu Jinyue nodded. That was true. If it were her, she would have suggested the same thing.
"He is too honest and only knows how to give money silently. In my opinion, it would be better to bring the two children to the city to go to school, so that they won't be blackmailed by his uncle and aunt."
Shu Jinyue shook his head, "You think too simply. They come to the city without a hukou. What school can they go to? What reason do they have to stay in the city?"
Yao Qingqing also sighed. She had indeed thought of these things, but she couldn't solve them with her ability, so she gave up and said, "If it doesn't work, just put it in my name first, and use the household registration of my house."
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, "Virgin Mary, why are you so generous? Why don't you put my name on it as well? If the house is demolished or sold in the future, you can give me half."
Yao Qingqing hit her, "Just say whatever you want."
However, this did remind her that if she really helped them settle down, there would be more and more complicated issues involved. "Forget it, let him do whatever he wants, I can't control it."
"I know you have a chivalrous temper and you can't stand seeing honest people being bullied, but some things still have to be solved by men themselves. He needs training to grow. You don't want to have a boyfriend like you have a son, right?"
Yao Qingqing blushed, "Go to hell, who wants to be someone's mother?"
Shu Jinyue then led her to talk about Song Yingwu's situation. "I heard that he is very popular in your school. Many people are vying to introduce him to a girl?"
"That's right. He's good-looking and he's just retired from the army. He's full of energy, but he doesn't talk much. He doesn't have much to say to other people. It's because I talk too much and always pester him with questions that I, that..."
Shu Jinyue understood more and more that the sharp-tongued woman was right. Qingqing was more proactive in this relationship.
Why are these two poor sisters so unlucky?
"By the way, how are you doing recently? Don't just talk about me." Yao Qingqing asked while eating.
"That's it. But I've been to the provincial and municipal hospitals more often recently. Whenever they encounter difficult and complicated cases, they always ask me to help. Just like Dr. Mo, whom I told you about last time, he's a very good person. He took me to several academic conferences, which benefited me a lot."
Yao Qingqing's eyes lit up with gossip, "Is that Doctor Mo really that handsome?"
Shu Jinyue nodded. Even though they met frequently, she had to admit that the Provincial Hospital's grass wasn't called that for nothing. "When you're free, I'll introduce you to each other."
"Okay, I'll make an appointment with you then." Yao Qingqing looked at the time, "Let's go, he'll take me back today, we'll go together."
"Does he send you off every day?"
"Well, he said that it was unsafe for me as a girl. At first he would send me home when I worked overtime too late, but after we started dating, he sent me home every day."
Shu Jinyue nodded. This was pretty good. He had some awareness of being a boyfriend. I don’t know if it was said on the phone, but the girls are not very satisfied with their best friends’ boyfriends. She had a good impression of Song Yingwu when she first met him, but after knowing that he became Qingqing’s boyfriend, her impression of him was greatly reduced, especially when she heard about the mess at home, she felt even more uncomfortable.
We have just started dating and there are so many problems. What will happen if we really get married in the future? His three younger brothers and sisters may not be the biggest burden, but his extremely bad uncle and aunt, who can squeeze the marrow out of people!
"It's okay to date someone, but don't rush into getting married. Observe more." Maybe if you date for a while longer and more problems are exposed, she will be able to face the reality.
After a while, Song Yingwu came to pick up Yao Qingqing. Jin Yue looked at him with the eyes of a "family member". She deliberately wanted to find some faults with him, but apart from being taciturn, he didn't have any other faults. However, he only spoke taciturn to her. When talking to Qingqing, he could still say a few more words.
He has a good job, good looks, is mature and rational, considerate and thoughtful, and he doesn't have central air conditioning. Such a man is actually popular wherever he is. No wonder that sarcastic woman was jealous. She probably wished Qingqing could break up with her boyfriend so that she could introduce her niece to him.
Shu Jinyue didn't want to meet Xu Duan face to face, so he declined Qingqing's invitation and did not get off at Jinyu Hutong, but went straight back to Liuye Hutong.
When they got home, they naturally talked about gossip about Aunt Li and Engineer Shang. "Aunt Li is really interesting. Engineer Shang said there was no need to bother and they would eat by themselves, but she still prepared a table of delicious food and insisted that her daughter go and invite him."
"But when they refused to go, she grabbed their child and frightened the little boy named Jimmy into crying loudly."
"We couldn't stand it and said a few words to her, but she got angry. What's the point of being angry? Her daughter is like that, and she still wants to eat swan meat!"
Teacher Shu was a little surprised, "Then her fifth son-in-law didn't come to look for her?"
Ever since Engineer Shang moved in, Aunt Li's fifth daughter ran back to her parents' home. Who would run away like that when they are living a simple life? That son-in-law is really a coward.
"He came to pick me up several times. First he came alone, then he brought his three children with him. The youngest was just over a year old and couldn't even walk steadily. He cried so hard that we couldn't bear to see him."
"How can this person be so unreliable? He wants to get close to Engineer Shang, but he also wants to break up a good family and make his son-in-law and his wife and children separated."
Zhao Wanqiu snorted coldly, "I think her daughter is confused. Engineer Shang is respected by everyone in the factory. Many people introduce him to potential partners, many of whom are relatives of the factory director. She is still an unmarried girl, what is she thinking?"
Shu Jinyue and Shu Wenyun looked at each other and laughed, fearing that Aunt Li's efforts would be in vain and her daughter's retreat would be cut off by her.
"By the way, where is my second brother? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
"It's probably the unit's inventory." They do a major inventory every once in a while. It gets dark early in the winter, so it's common to go home in the dark.
In fact, other people did not get off work so late either. The main reason was that he was a temporary worker and had no background, so the manager kept asking him to work hard. If he said he didn't want to do it, the leader would just fire him. This was also one of the means used by capitalists in later generations to force employees to resign voluntarily.
"Second brother, this job pays little and requires a lot of work, and his boss treats him like a slave. He might as well quit." Shu Jinyue couldn't help but complain.
"Where else can we go if we don't work? There are still quite a few people without jobs in our alley. Which of those people do you think looks decent? Not to mention getting married, I'm afraid they won't even be able to support themselves in the future."
Shu Jinyue thought about it and it made sense. The Xu family had always looked down on his second elder brother, and if he became an unemployed vagrant, then there would be no way he could have a relationship with Sister Wen Li. Even for the sake of having a "good reputation" in the outside world, he had to grit his teeth and hold on for another two or three years no matter how stressful his job was.
As he was speaking, the protagonist of the incident rushed in in a hurry, "Jin Yue Jin Yue!"
"Why are you in such a hurry? Is your butt on fire?"
"Jin Yue, come with me quickly. Wen Li is bleeding from the nose again." And today the nose bleeds more heavily and can't be stopped. He is panicking.
"Since she started eating ginseng, she has had nosebleeds almost every day, three times a day, morning, noon and night. At first I thought it was the ginseng that caused internal heat, so I asked her to eat less, but even after eating less or not eating it anymore, she still had nosebleeds three times a day. I accompanied her to the hospital, and they said it was okay. They taught her a few moves to stop the nosebleeds, and she stopped bleeding." Shu Wenming scratched his hair, "But she's been back for several days, and she's still bleeding. Do you think there's something wrong with her?"
Shu Jinyue didn't dare to be careless. He put on his coat and urged him to leave quickly.
Xu Wenli was still at work. Everyone had already left work and the doors were locked. She was huddled outside the door alone, blowing in the cold wind. It was probably too cold, so she could only squat on the ground and curl up like a little hedgehog.
Shu Wenming rushed over before his car had even stopped and almost knocked Shu Jinyue to the ground.
"Didn't I tell you to wait in the store? Who told them to lock the door?"
"Are you cold?" He immediately took off his patched cotton jacket and put it on her. "You haven't been cold since I left, have you?"
Xu Wenli stared at him blankly and shook her head obediently.
Shu Jinyue looked at this with a little sore eyes. See, this is true love. Her unrequited love is really boring.
"Come and take a look soon." Shu Wenming saw her standing there stupidly and urged her hurriedly.
Shu Jinyue pulled Xu Wenli to a place sheltered from the wind. Feeling the skin under his hands getting thinner and thinner, Jinyue's heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.
At Xu Wenli's age, and with such good physical fitness before, it is definitely abnormal for her to lose so much weight in just a few months.
Shu Jinyue calmed herself down and felt her pulse, but just as she put her hand on it, she suddenly felt heat on the back of her hand, and two drops of bright red blood dripped onto her hand. At this moment, feeling the pulse was not the most important thing, the important thing was to stop the nosebleed.
"Sister Wenli, raise your hands like this, raise them higher, that's right."
"I'm fine. Why did Wenming call you here? It's so cold outside. Go back quickly. The doctor at the district hospital taught me this method. If your left nostril is running, raise your right hand. If your right nostril is running, raise your left hand, right?"
"You should talk less. Aren't you cold if you drink the wind?" Shu Wenming sounded fierce, but his voice was very gentle, which was a look Shu Jinyue had never seen before.
He had never spoken to her or any other family member in that tone in more than ten years.
"Huh, why doesn't it work this time?" Xu Wenli muttered to herself, switching between her left hand and her right hand, as if she was joking.
Shu Jinyue also said it was strange, but there was no time to think about it. He pressed her Hegu point a few times but it didn't work. Instead, Xu Wenli took a few steps on her own, looked up for a while, and then stopped.
Jin Yue thought to himself that it was not stopped at all, it was clearly flowing out from the mouth.
She had always thought that Shu Wenming's last comment about Wen Li's nosebleed after eating ginseng was due to internal heat, and that it would stop after one or two times, and she had never heard him mention it again. But now she found out that she had been bleeding every day during this period. How could such a frequency be due to internal heat?
"Brother, let's go to the hospital."
"Okay, why don't we go to a better hospital? I've been to the district hospital several times and they said there's nothing wrong with me. But why do I keep having nosebleeds?" Shu Wenming wanted to curse at these doctors.
"Let's go to the provincial hospital."
"Is the provincial hospital too far? It's late so we won't bother you. Let's go to the nearby municipal hospital." Xu Wenli said with a smile. There were a few bloodstains on her snow-white face that she had just wiped. Shu Wenming felt so distressed that he quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped them gently for her.
"Listen to Jin Yue and go to the provincial hospital."
There were no taxis available at that time, so the three of them took the bus. Along the way, Shu Jinyue tried his best to control his wandering mind and felt very uneasy.
Due to the long-term fever and "cold" and nosebleed, Shu Jinyue had a bad feeling. While Xu Wenli was not paying attention, she grabbed Xu Wenli's wrist and felt her pulse several times. She felt her pulse when she was bleeding from the nose, when it stopped, when she was walking, and when she was resting. The pulse was the same in all cases.
Heavy and stringy, completely different from the previous times.
A deep pulse indicates that the disease is internal, while a stringy pulse is due to the tension of liver qi, and liver qi should be gentle... Shu Jinyue suspected that Sister Wenli had a problem with her liver, and a big problem.
But in traditional Chinese medicine, liver problems generally do not cause long-term fever and colds. She suspected that this was not the initial location of the disease...
She remembered a concept in traditional Chinese medicine - the liver stores blood.
Considering the changes she had undergone during this period, Shu Jinyue decisively asked to go to the provincial hospital.
There, expert Shi Xuehai, whose lecture she had just heard during the day, was still there. She heard that at the invitation of Mo Shuyi, he would hold a seminar on the prevention and treatment of blood diseases with the staff of their department at 8 o'clock tonight, and that the Provincial Hospital had the most mature bone marrow puncture technology in the province.
Xu Wenli didn't know how nervous Shu Jinyue was, but she was in a mood to comfort the Shu brothers and sisters: "Hey, don't be so stern. I just have a nosebleed, it's not a serious illness that can kill me."
Shu Wenming hugged her and held her tightly in his arms. No matter what the other passengers in the car looked at him, he only knew that he wanted to hug her tightly at this moment.
Hug this cute silly girl.
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