Chapter 46046 Treatment Effect & Wedding Banquet & Shen Heping...
"Yes, we want to try it together." Shu Wenming held his wife's hand and looked at Shu Jinyue.
"Have you thought about it? This method is very risky. What if..."
"If you've thought about it, let's give it a try. It's nothing serious anyway." Xu Wenli smiled, "Don't worry, I have a good body. Don't look at me as thin now. I used to be in good shape. Do you remember the spring outing last year? I was better at climbing than your second brother."
"In the end, it was me who pulled you up." Shu Wenming curled his lips.
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more. It was true. She dared to mention the Qinghuang Powder because she took into consideration that Xu Wenli had a good physical foundation and was young. The illness had not occurred for long. Even if she was seriously ill, her physical foundation had not been completely drained. In addition, she had been supplementing protein every day for the past few months. She should be able to tolerate the "poison".
"By the way, Jin Yue, you didn't explain it clearly just now. Please tell us in detail what this medicine is, how much to take, how many courses of treatment, and what changes will occur if it works, so that we can have a better idea."
Shu Jinyue then took out her notebook. She had thought about these questions a long time ago. "This medicine is very simple. It only has two ingredients, one is indigo powder and the other is realgar."
"What is indigo powder?"
"Do you know Isatis root? It is different parts of the same plant as Isatis root and Isatis indigo leaf. Isatis root is the root, Isatis indigo leaf is its leaf, and Indigo is the pigment powder extracted by crushing Isatis indigo leaf and adding lime. It can be used to dye cloth and is basically non-toxic."
Shu Wenming nodded. Once he mentioned Isatis root, it was fine. It was something that everyone in Long country knew.
"Among them, realgar is quite toxic. Its active ingredient is..." blah blah, she said as Shu Wenming took notes.
An hour later, Li Yulan and Shu Wenyun were yawning and their eyes were shining. Shu Wenming's notebook was filled with two full pages of his dog-crawling characters.
"Tomorrow, I will call the stone expert and ask for his opinion."
Because of the important matters, Li Yulan did not tease Jin Yue anymore. She wanted to leave the next day, but she couldn't bear to see Xu Wenli staying alone, so she said she would stay for two more days and talk to her. The whole Shu family was very grateful to her.
"What a good girl. When Wenming went on a blind date with her, I thought... But now it's okay. Wenli and she are both good girls. Besides Wenming, there are many good men in this world. Let's keep an eye out for her." Zhao Wanqiu was actually a little afraid that she would have a problem with Xu Wenli. Who knew that the two of them hit it off at the last spring outing, and this time they had endless topics to talk about.
What’s the point of being a love rival? Putting aside the stinky men, wouldn’t it be nice to be good sisters?
"She's here to accompany Wenli, so I'll go out for a walk. My waist has been hurting so much these days. I'll ask Jin Yue to give me a couple of injections some other day."
Teacher Shu seemed to be uninterested in these women's affairs. He played chess with those bad chess players without fail. But Wenli was a new daughter-in-law, and it was not right for him to ignore everything. He went to the backyard, stood at the door and said to the two girls who were chatting in the house: "Wenli, what do you want to eat later? Ask your mother to buy it for you."
"I want to eat pickled radish, is that okay?" Wen Li asked in a low voice. Shu Wenming said the doctor forbade her to eat this pickled food, so he refused to let her touch it.
"Okay, okay, okay. I'll tell your mom that the ones you buy outside are not good. They don't taste as good as your Aunt Zhao's. Let her go to your Aunt Zhao's house and get a bowl for her." Just take a few bites and satisfy her craving.
They talked as if no one was around, but to Aunt Li's ears - she didn't go to work after getting married and still wanted to eat sour food, which meant she was definitely pregnant!
She suddenly became even angrier, thinking that Shu Wenming was such a shameless bastard who acted so quickly. No, she couldn't be the propaganda officer of Courtyard No. 16 for nothing, she had to go out and do some propaganda.
***
Shu Jinyue told Shi Xuehai about his plan on the phone. He was very curious and cautious, and asked in detail about the source of information. There was not enough case data to prove that this method was indeed reliable, so he was also very hesitant. In the end, he said that if they were willing to try it themselves, then they could give it a try.
"By the way, you may not know that your sister-in-law's condition has progressed quite quickly. Xiao Mo mentioned it to me when he called me before the New Year. Her liver and spleen have begun to swell."
Shu Jinyue guessed that his second brother got married suddenly without saying anything. The letter of introduction must not have been issued on his first day at work, but on the day when his condition was found to be deteriorating rapidly... This proved that he had known about it for a long time and was mentally prepared.
"Okay, I'm mentally prepared. If there's anything I can ask you then."
After the phone call, he asked Lao Zhu and Doctor Mo to help Shu Jinyue buy a very small amount of realgar. He also asked Kang Yongxin from the pharmaceutical factory for a few capsule shells. He mixed indigo powder and realgar in a ratio of four to one and packed them into capsules.
The medicine is definitely most effective when taken on an empty stomach, but Indigo is too cold, and Shu Jinyue was afraid it would upset the stomach, so he asked Xu Wenli to take it an hour after a meal.
After eating, the whole family looked at her nervously, fearing that something might happen to her. Instead, Xu Wenli laughed, "Oh, mom and dad, please stop looking. I'm sorry. It's okay. Go and do your work."
Shu Wenming was also absent-minded at work, always worried about something going wrong, and even wanted to run home to check on the work. In order to stay by her side and take care of her, Shu Jinyue took two more days off from work, thinking that if anything went wrong, it would be convenient for her and Zhao Wanqiu to be rescued, one in the middle and the other in the west.
However, it turned out that they still underestimated Xu Wenli's body's ability to withstand the test. She just had a little diarrhea two hours after taking the medicine, and had no reaction afterwards. Her eating and sleeping were almost the same as in the previous few days. On the third day, Jin Yue felt relieved and went to work.
The Chinese New Year had just passed and there was actually nothing to do, so Shu Jinyue came to the unit. Now listening to Sister Qiao and others chatting, he actually felt that it was not bad.
The mindset is different, even gossip sounds different.
The protagonist of this gossip is actually Secretary Liu.
"Hey, did you hear that? Secretary Liu was so angry that his liver hurt. He even broke a glass just now. It was a glass!"
Everyone felt pained, "No wonder he always looked at us with disdain when we met him these past two days, as if someone owed him money."
"He used to be quite arrogant. I heard that he was going to be transferred to the district. Why is he still in the street office? It turns out that something happened to his father-in-law."
So everyone asked what happened.
"My third sister's sister-in-law is in the district. She heard that Liu Dong's father-in-law was reported for embezzling other people's things or something. When they went to his home, they found so much cash and seven or eight small yellow croakers!"
The older sister gestured with her hands, and everyone thought it was a fairy tale. Some began to calculate how much a small yellow croaker was worth, some calculated how much so much cash was, and some calculated his salary, saying how many lifetimes it would take to earn that much... Shu Jinyue listened for a while and gradually lost interest.
Liu Dong failed in his first attempt to curry favor with someone and even lost his marriage, while Secretary Liu had no hope of promotion at all. Neither the father nor the son deserves sympathy. But poor Liu Dong's wife, the girl that Shu Jinyue had never met.
A man like Liu Dong will definitely divorce her within a week, and will create an image of himself as "upright" and "unsympathetic". This marriage will not be a good one.
This example tells all the girls around you that you need to be cautious when getting married, because you never know if the person you are getting the marriage certificate with is a human or a ghost.
Shu Jinyue shuddered and ran home as soon as the get off work was over. As soon as he entered the house, he heard Zhao Wanqiu and others discussing this matter.
"Mom, how come you guys are so well-informed? I just heard about it at work, too."
"Hey, it's your dad. It's said that the old man who played chess with him has a son in the district. He went to arrest him personally during the Spring Festival. The man knew that he had a conflict with Secretary Liu, so he took it as good news."
When Shu Wenyun and Liu Dong broke up, the two families had a bad time, and many people knew about it.
"Humph, Liu Dong deserves it!" Xu Wenli said angrily, and then looked at Zhao Wanqiu pitifully, "Mom, can I have another bite, just a small bite, okay?"
Who can stand a pretty and lovely young girl acting like a spoiled child? Zhao Wanqiu was about to waver, but she heard Shu Wenming's voice, "No, you are taking medicine now and you are not allowed to eat sour food. Have you forgotten what Jin Yue said?"
He entered the room and pinched her angry cheeks first, "If you don't obey me, I won't take you out to play."
In order to encourage his wife to treat her illness, he promised to take her on another spring outing to Xishan when the weather got warmer. She had been looking forward to it for a long time and even planned what to eat and drink at that time.
Xu Wenli snorted, "Look, Mom, he bullied me!"
Zhao Wanqiu couldn't say anything to her stepson, so she could only comfort her, "Come, let Jin Yue take your pulse."
Shu Jinyue reached out his hand to check on her. Her pulse was still deep and stringy, with little change. But her appetite had increased a little. He didn't know if it was because of the large family structure or if the medicine was really effective. But in either case, it was good news.
"Sister-in-law, hold on for a few more days. Once you finish this course of treatment, you can rest for a few days. Is your stomach okay?"
"No, I'm fine."
If an ordinary person ingested so much arsenic in a short period of time, their stomach would definitely have problems, not to mention other things. However, she had never suffered any hardship before, and her stomach was well taken care of, so she didn't have any reaction at all. Shu Jinyue couldn't help but sigh. It was not obvious at other times, but only at this time could she realize that "the body is the capital of revolution."
"Oh, by the way, where's Sister Yulan? Has she gone home? Didn't she say she would stay for a few more days?"
Zhao Wanqiu and Xu Wenli laughed at the same time, "Don't mention it, Yulan's little mouth is like poison, and she almost made Aunt Li so angry that she couldn't breathe."
It turned out that she was chatting with Xu Wenli in the new house in the morning. For some reason, Aunt Li went to knock on Engineer Shang's door again and said something about the popcorn chicken making too much noise and disturbing her rest, that the family cannot live without a woman, and that the child lacked education... She scared the child to tears, but the child was obviously reading a picture book quietly at home.
Li Yulan couldn't bear to see her bullying the kids. Wasn't it because she was going to die soon and wanted to bully the cute and honest kids? If she had the ability, why didn't she bully Shang Guangming? Why didn't she bully Li Yulan... She kept talking and making Aunt Li unable to say a word.
Li Yulan had a hot-tempered personality to begin with, and having grown up in the village, she had learned a lot of swear words, and she blurted out all kinds of unpleasant words. It was bad enough that Aunt Li was scolded, but the speed of the speech made it impossible for her to get a word in. Even if she had a thousand abilities, she just couldn't get a word in and couldn't use them!
I was so depressed that I almost died on the spot.
"What about Sister Yulan?"
"She was afraid that Aunt Li would scare the children again, so she stayed there to accompany little Jimmi. She had a childish temper, and she and Jimmi played together."
The more Shu Jin thought about that scene, the more he wished he couldn't be there in person.
A wicked person like Aunt Li needs someone who is more wicked than her. A reasonable person like Teacher Shu can't do anything to her. Neighbors like Aunt Zhao and Zhao Wanqiu, for the sake of their long-term neighbors, will turn a blind eye as long as her interests are not threatened. But Li Yulan is different.
She is a tough one.
Moreover, he is a tough guy who doesn't live here and is not afraid that she will do disgusting things to retaliate.
"I don't know who Yulan inherited her temper from. Her mother is a kind person and her father doesn't talk much, but why is she so... so powerful?" Zhao Wanqiu didn't know how to describe it. "A few days ago, I asked your father to keep an eye out for a guy for her. Now it seems that there are not many gay men who can control her."
Shu Jinyue disagrees with the idea of "who conquers whom". Who says that only men can be the dominant ones in a family? Why should women be the ones to be conquered? But she was too lazy to argue with them, so she didn't respond. She had one most important thing to do right now -
After taking the medicine for five days, she decided to take Xu Wenli to the provincial hospital for a reexamination.
It happened to be a Sunday, so I went there early in the morning to have her blood drawn first, and then I accompanied her to see Dr. Wang for an ultrasound examination. This time there was no rush and as they had plenty of time, they lined up obediently and waited until it was almost time to get off work before it was their turn to go in.
"Dr. Shu, what have you been busy with recently? I haven't seen you for a long time." Doctor Wang was still the same as before. He asked Xu Wenli to lie down and lifted up her clothes.
Shu Jinyue's attention was on Xu Wenli. She said a few perfunctory words, recalling the last examination data in her mind. She asked Shu Wenming for it before she started taking the medicine. This was one of the indicators to test whether her medicine was effective, and it would also determine the next dosage and time of taking the medicine.
Xu Wenli was a little shy and wanted Shu Wenming to go out.
Before the couple got married, Shu Wenming was too embarrassed to come in and keep them company. But now, with his majestic figure standing beside them, he still has a bit of oppressive power.
"It's okay. I won't watch it. I'll just listen." Shu Wenming really turned around.
If Shu Jinyue hadn't told him in advance that they were already married, Dr. Wang would have wanted to kick this "irrelevant" person out of the clinic. But looking at this, it seems like, this couple is already married, but they are still not familiar with each other?
Doctor Wang complained in his heart as he put the probe on it. About two seconds later, he let out a "huh".
"What's wrong, doctor?" Shu Wenming turned around and blinked at him, full of hints.
If the condition gets worse, Wenli must not be told, for fear that she will be in a bad mood.
But Doctor Wang ignored the twitching in the corners of his eyes and stared at Xu Wenli's belly, "Why is it smaller..."
Shu Jinyue's heart skipped a beat. "Did the liver and spleen shrink?"
"Yes, you see, it was already swollen to this position last time, but today it has shrunk three centimeters upwards and will soon return to its original anatomical position."
Shu Jinyue tilted her head. Although she didn't quite understand what was going on, it didn't stop her from observing Dr. Wang's expression. His surprise was real, and not a show that he had agreed with his second brother.
In fact, since his second brother could get a marriage certificate on his first day at work, Jin Yue felt that he could do something like collusion - as long as he could give Xu Wenli more motivation and vitality, he could do anything.
This is the most cunning second brother in the family.
"Doctor Shu, you don't believe me? Come and see for yourself. The normal position of the liver is here, right? Last time, your sister-in-law's liver was already here, but this time, look, has it shrunk back?"
Shu Jinyue looked at it carefully, not missing any point - it was true! !
"Are you taking Chinese medicine this time too? Doctor Shu, this case of yours is worth learning from in our clinical practice. I'll ask someone to call Lao Mo down right away."
An intern ran up and quickly called Mo Shuyi down. Mo Shuyi's excitement was beyond words. "This is good. The retraction is good. You wait a moment. I'll ask someone to go to the laboratory to urge them."
So, the young intern ran there again.
Shu Jinyue's palms were sweating, and her hand holding Xu Wenli's was shaking. Xu Wenli had tears in her eyes. She looked at her and then at Shu Wenming, like a child who had found a gold bar and didn't know who to give it to.
Surprised and overwhelmed.
"Don't be afraid. I told you that Shu Jinyue is awesome. This little devil has the most ideas. Am I right?" Shu Wenming grinned. God knows how excited he was. He wanted to jump up and shout three times.
Soon, the intern came back with the report, "Teacher Mo, Teacher Wang, here you go."
Mo Shuyi took it, took a look at it first, raised his eyebrows, and let out a long "eh". Shu Jinyue and Doctor Wang couldn't wait and snatched it away directly.
The first things she looked at were the white blood cell count, hemoglobin and platelets. She couldn't hide the surprise on her face - the white blood cell count had finally dropped!
She remembered it clearly. During her most recent checkup a few years ago, after taking two courses of imported medicine, her white blood cell count was 94.2 (the unified unit was negligible), but today it has dropped to 4.6! It has dropped to only a fraction of its original amount!
What’s more important is not that it has dropped, but that the value has returned to the level of normal healthy people!
Looking at hemoglobin and platelets, although they are slightly reduced, this is related to cachexia. Even if they are reduced, they are still normal and have not reached the level of anemia.
She looked at Mo Shuyi, who also had an expression of disbelief. The failure to lower the white blood cell count has always been a big problem. Shi Xuehai suspected that Xu Wenli was insensitive to the previous medicine. He changed to another one, but it still didn't go down. He changed to another one, but it still didn't go down at all. He had prepared himself for the worst, but he didn't expect that after taking the Chinese medicine for less than a week, the count would go down so immediately!
"Could it be that the laboratory made a mistake?" Shu Wenming still felt uneasy.
Since Xu Wenli fell ill, he has taught himself a lot of knowledge about the disease. He knows which indicators to look at and the corresponding clinical significance of these indicators. A decrease means that the disease is developing in a good direction... He was afraid that it was a mirage.
Shu Jin found it more and more funny. This second brother was really something. When he found out there was a problem, he lied and hid everything from his second sister-in-law. Now that the problem was obvious, he began to doubt whether the data was wrong. What could he say about him?
"Don't worry, second brother. It won't happen in such a big hospital."
Mo Shuyi was also a little amused, thinking that the second brother of the Shu family was really talented. "It doesn't matter. I have to check again in a week anyway. It's impossible for him to be wrong every time."
Shu Wenming grinned and scratched the back of his head, "Hey, that's not what I meant."
"It's okay. Sometimes we all doubt each other in different departments anyway."
Everybody laughed.
Mo Shuyi sighed, "The young soldier who used imported drugs with Comrade Xu Wenli last time, they just came for a follow-up check yesterday. They saw that the data was not ideal, and they also suspected that the laboratory department made a mistake."
But in fact, his white blood cell count did increase again. Expert Shi suspected that the long-term use of the same drug had led to a decrease in drug sensitivity and suggested changing to another one. But the price is higher and the side effects are greater, so they said they would go back and think about it.
This is what a hospital is like: some people are crying, some are laughing, some are welcoming a new life, and some are saying goodbye.
Mo Shuyi put away his melancholy and gave Xu Wenli some professional advice based on the indicators on the list. "Go back without worry and come back for a checkup when the time comes. Can I tell Expert Shi about this good news?"
Shu Wenming looked at Xu Wenli and asked for her opinion.
"Can."
Shu Jinyue felt that the dark clouds that had been hanging over his head for the past few months were finally slowly dispersing. Although he hadn't seen the sun yet, the sky was getting brighter and the fog in the air was gradually clearing away.
The three of them walked out of the hospital. Shu Wenming was so happy that he shouted towards the sky three times, scaring the people around him so much that they all moved away. Shu Jinyue and Xu Wenli just wanted to cover their faces. Why did they feel a little embarrassed?
Because he was in a good mood, Shu Wenming suddenly said that he had been married for more than a week, but had not yet had a wedding banquet. He planned to set up two tables at home next Sunday and invite relatives and friends to have a meal. Of course, when someone in the slum gets married, they will set up two tables as a token of their respect, but the banquet is very limited. Only one adult from each family will be invited so as not to add burden to the other party… After all, every family has a wedding, and when the whole family comes back for a meal, won’t you cry? Nowadays, every family has seven, eight or ten people.
When Teacher Shu and Zhao Wanqiu heard that there had been such a big improvement, they took the initiative to suggest setting up a wine party for the young couple without Shu Wenming suggesting it.
"Your father's former colleagues from our compound, my two frequent friends, plus Wenming and Wenli's colleagues, let's roughly calculate how many tables we should set up." Zhao Wanqiu glanced at her husband, "Your father and I will pay for the banquet, so don't tell anyone."
Everyone knows that "don't tell anyone" means don't tell the eldest brother. Shu Wenyan didn't have a wedding banquet when he got married because his family was poor. If he knew that the second brother's parents paid for the wedding banquet, it would inevitably cause trouble again.
"No one in Liuye Hutong had a wedding ceremony that year, and the situation that year was not good to begin with. If he's making a fuss about this, then I'd have to have a serious talk with him," Teacher Shu said angrily.
"Come on, come on, let's just talk about this behind closed doors. If we make a scene, everyone will laugh at us."
In fact, they were not biased towards the second son. Although they said a few months ago that they would pay for Wenli's medical treatment, the second son finally refused. Since they could not give him a house, hosting a few banquets for him was considered the parents' best efforts.
Shu Wenming wanted to tell them that they didn't need to pay, but when he thought about it, he really didn't have a penny and had a lot of foreign debts. Wen Li still needed to take care of her health, so there was not much point in saying such polite words.
"Okay, thank you, Dad, and thank you, Aunt Zhao."
***
After agreeing to hold a wedding banquet, everyone started to contribute money and effort. They asked Brother Li's father-in-law to buy meat, asked Li Yulan's family to buy chickens and eggs, asked Zhang Liangwei to buy food, and asked Aunt Zhao's family to borrow tables, benches, and bowls and chopsticks. Shu Jinyue had only one task, which was to keep a good eye on Xu Wenli.
Since the first course of treatment took effect, Xu Wenli was in a good mood and had a greatly increased appetite. She even had indigestion twice, but Jin Yue did not dare to give her medicine. He just gave her massage, and after a while he would also give her an injection to promote metabolism. He was so busy that he could not stop during this time.
Because it was the first happy event after the two families got to know each other, Zhao Wanqiu took the initiative to invite the Xu family. "Director Xu said he would come at that time, but his wife might not be able to come because she is busy with work. We can plan to have two more people at that time."
"Okay, Aunt Zhao, do you think this quantity is enough?" It was Shu Wenming himself who suggested inviting Xu Duan. The other person sent such a big bottle of good wine, it didn't make sense to leave him out after a formal invitation.
Zhao Wanqiu took the list, looked at the additions and subtractions, and planned to have four meat dishes, three vegetable dishes, and a soup. The vegetable dishes and the soup didn't cost much money, they were all brought by Li Yulan from home. They were mainly meat dishes, one braised pork, one stir-fried pork intestines, one meatball with egg, and one cold-cut pork. These were the real hard dishes, and they really consumed a lot of meat.
Fortunately, after the Spring Festival, people's demand for meat temporarily decreased, and the meat processing factory was contacted in advance, so it was possible to buy it.
On the wedding day, early in the morning, Shu Wenyun went to the new house to help the couple wash and dress up, while Jin Yue helped his mother with running errands.
She can't cook, but she can do just fine at washing and cutting.
"Okay Jin Yue, don't come and make trouble. We are a few aunts here. Go and entertain the guests first."
Jin Yue followed the advice and went back to her room to change into a blue and white plaid short-sleeved blouse and a pair of pure black cropped pants, which made her look like she was wearing leggings under a skirt. After washing her hair, she used a method she saw on her phone to make it fluffy, making her head look higher. She then put on some light makeup that she had thought of, and she suddenly became much more beautiful.
As soon as she came out of the room, Liu Huifang exclaimed, "Oh my goodness, where did this fairy come from?"
Shu Jinyue blushed at her teasing, "Sister-in-law is not serious."
"I'm really praising you. I've discovered that our Jin Yue is also a little beauty. Normally, when she doesn't dress up, she's called plain. But now that she's dressed up, she's called a fairy descending to earth."
Everyone in the yard laughed and praised her for being really beautiful. Everyone knew that Shu Wenyun was a great beauty before, but no one expected that Jin Yue would also be beautiful after dressing up like this. It’s just that the two sisters have different styles, one is glamorous and the other is quirky.
After a while, the newlyweds were dressed up. The aesthetic taste of the beautiful lady Shu Wenyun was impeccable. The groom wore a dark grey suit with a fake collar, and his hair was moussed, which looked stiff and stylish. He covered what should be covered and showed what should be shown, making the best use of his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses.
Not to mention the bride, who wore a red tweed skirt, white stockings, and a very fashionable bridal hairstyle with a few curls hanging down at her temples. She wore a red artificial flower on her head, and her makeup was done in just the right amount of shades. She was definitely a beautiful bride!
"Oh, Wanqiu, your children are so cute!"
"A talented man and a beautiful woman!"
"You can't tell unless you mess around with him, but Wenming is pretty handsome."
"Nonsense, how could a man like Bu Jun marry such a good wife?" Everyone looked at Xu Wenli's belly. According to Aunt Li, she was already two months pregnant.
If they were not married, there would definitely be a lot of gossip, but if they were married, it would be a good story. In the eyes of the aunties, it would be rare for a married woman not to get pregnant.
Xu Wenli is a bit careless and thinks her skirt looks good. Everyone come and look at her skirt, so she pulls Jin Yue to help her check if there are any wrinkles on it that cannot be stretched out.
Jin Yue didn't know what to say. Only someone as calm as his second sister-in-law could face the disease so optimistically and cheerfully. She has only been taking Qinghuangsan for half a month, and now her complexion is gradually becoming rosy.
At 3:30 in the afternoon, Shu Jinyue was standing at the gate with a newlywed couple wearing plastic flowers on their chests to welcome guests. Old contacts of the Shu family began to arrive one after another. The senior brother Li who introduced Li Yulan to Shu Wenming for a blind date was Teacher Shu's favorite student, and he came with his lover.
Two of Zhao Wanqiu's colleagues from the department came over, and they both had a great time. Zhao Wanqiu also attended their children's weddings.
The rest were Shu Wenming and Xu Wenli’s classmates. The longer it had been since graduation, the fewer classmates they still kept in touch with. About ten of them came one after another, and the rest were Li Yulan’s family, Huang Mei’s family, Liu Huifang’s parents’ family, and the colleagues of the newlyweds.
Shu Jinyue wore small leather shoes, but her feet didn't feel tired. However, Xu Wenli wore a pair of high heels to match her skirt, and her calves felt a little sore.
"Second sister-in-law, you guys go in first, I'll be here to welcome you." It's just a matter of courtesy, it's not necessary to welcome.
"Okay, then you just need to welcome them for a while. Almost everyone who should be here has arrived." Shu Wenming helped Wen Li go back to her room to rest.
Shu Jinyue stood at the gate. The wind was still a bit cold. Her outfit looked nice, but it was not very warm. She decided to wait for another half an hour. If no one came, she would go into the house to rest.
Just as I was thinking about it, three or four people came in from the alley. Upon closer inspection, they were Zhu Daqiang, Liu Jinbu and Sister Qiao, as well as a male comrade I didn't recognize.
"Jin Yue, we're here to have a drink at the wedding, do you mind?" Liu Jinbu said with a smile.
Jin Yue mentioned it before she got off work yesterday, because her second brother had come to the company to look for her and had asked for leave for her several times. She had met Zhu Daqiang and Liu Jinbu many times, and they were from the same street, so it was not an exaggeration to call them. But she didn't expect that they would actually come, and even Sister Qiao knew about it.
"Welcome, welcome, Director, Brother Liu, Sister Qiao and this comrade, please come in and sit down."
Sister Qiao looked at her with a smile, "Our Jin Yue is so beautiful. This is a relative of mine, named Shen Heping. I happened to meet her here today while doing business."
Shu Jinyue didn't take it to heart and greeted him with a smile: "Hello, Comrade Shen, welcome."
Although she wore makeup today, it was a light makeup that could not be seen unless you looked closely. In the eyes of straight men, it was not made up. She had a kind of natural and simple beauty, especially when she smiled and looked at people like this, like an incredibly beautiful kitten. Shen Heping blushed and his heart beat fast when he was looked at by her: "Hello, Comrade Shu."
Not only did they come, they also brought some wedding gifts such as enamel basins and face towels. Jin Yue felt embarrassed, "You are here, why are you still so polite? I won't dare to tell you anything in the future."
"Well, we are here to enjoy the good times."
Shu Jinyue was not polite. Since everyone was nice to her, she would be nice to them in the future. Through Mo Shuyi's introduction, she gradually understood that the relationship between colleagues also needed to be maintained through mutual interaction. If they were always clear-cut, she would feel relieved, but she would waste a lot of opportunities.
After entering the house, the elderly guests were all in the old house, while the young couple's classmates and friends were in the new house. Jin Yue led Lao Zhu and his party to the old house and served them tea.
At first glance, there were quite a few wedding gifts on the table, all of them were enamel basins, kettles and the like. Huang Mei, who had a better relationship with her, gave a pair of acrylic pillowcases, while those who were even better, such as Yao Qingqing and Li Yulan, received towel quilts and blankets with bright red peony flowers.
Nowadays, people give gifts instead of cash, and these things can be used to start a new home and new life for the couple.
Teacher Shu didn't expect Zhu Daqiang to come. They were old acquaintances. He stood up and shook hands with him. "Here you are. Come and sit down."
"Old Shu, your life is getting better and better, and you are two blocks ahead of us. Those brats in my family, whom you taught, are still missing out. I am so worried."
"Your son has made great progress and has joined the army. The organization will take good care of you."
It is an honor to let the organization worry about personal problems at any time. Zhu Daqiang really grinned and said, "Forget about these little brats. We must kill a round, come on."
So, a few old men started shouting and killing, while Liu Jinbu met an acquaintance in the compound and went to the man's house to talk.
Sister Qiao strolled around, asked questions here and there, and then said she was going to take a look at the new house, leaving Shen Heping and Shu Jinyue to chat.
Chen Heping is good at chatting. He started with the topic of Shu Jinyue treating patients. "Do you remember the elder sister who came to see you for insomnia? She is my elder sister. She has suffered from insomnia for several years since she gave birth. Sometimes her eyes are open all night long, as if they were propped up by two matchsticks and couldn't be closed. She has seen many doctors but none of them could cure her. Sister Qiao was brought to you by my cousin. After taking a dose of Chinese medicine, she slept for more than four hours that night. After taking three doses of medicine, she was able to sleep through the night."
"The elder sister who suffers from insomnia, is she the one who lives in Baishui River?"
"Oh, yes, that's her. She kept praising you when she went back. I've also heard of Comrade Shu for a long time."
Shu Jinyue smiled and asked about his situation out of politeness. When he heard that he worked in the Materials Bureau, he was stunned and thought what a coincidence.
"In fact, Comrade Shu may not remember that we have met."
"Just after the Chinese New Year last year, you went to our unit to deliver materials to Director Niu from your street office. I met you at the door, and you even asked about our Chief Xu's office..." On that side, he seemed to have fallen in love with her at first sight.
However, he did not know her identity at that time. He only knew that she came to do business. He thought she was from a subordinate unit. Later, he paid attention to her for nearly a year and searched dozens of subordinate units but couldn't find her. He was about to be disappointed. Who would have thought that when he came to Xinqiao Street Office to do business before the New Year this year, he actually saw her profile from a distance.
At that moment, he knew he had found the right person.
After asking about her situation again, he immediately asked someone to introduce her to him.
Unfortunately, Shu Jinyue was busy with Wen Li's illness at that time and had no time to deal with Sister Qiao's matchmaking. This time he followed her shamelessly.
Shu Jinyue also remembered that day, Xu Duan told her in his office that he would protect her.
He was indeed fulfilling his promise, it was she who was too greedy.
"What are you thinking about, Comrade Shu?" Shen Heping asked with a smile.
"Nothing, just some work stuff."
Shen Heping is 26 years old this year, about the same age as Xu Duan. He has maturity and experience that other boys of Jin Yue's age do not have. He is also a little humorous and very attractive when he talks. Jin Yue has been interested in the topics he brought up several times, and soon it is no longer just a question and answer. Even if he doesn't ask, she will take the initiative to ask.
He was neither too enthusiastic and thus noisy, nor too talkative and thus boring. He seemed to know exactly what to say and when to say it. He was also very polite when he met Teacher Shu and Zhao Wanqiu, and even chatted about elderly people's topics, which frequently made the two of them laugh.
Shu Jinyue was simply amazed by this ability. This must be the legendary social cow!
So, when Xu Duan entered the room, he saw her talking and laughing with Shen Heping. The girl was surprisingly beautiful today, and there was a bright light in her eyes when she looked at the man...Xu Duan's face was a little cold.
"Xiao Xu is here. Where are your brother and sister-in-law?" Zhao Wanqiu went up to greet him.
Xu Duan called out "Sister-in-law" and handed over a pair of mandarin duck bone china teapots with wedding characters on them and a half-meter-high hanging mirror. These things were even rarer than the enamel washbasin series and could not be bought without some connections.
"My brother and sister-in-law have urgent matters at work and can't leave. This is a little gift from us. We wish Brother Wenming a happy wedding."
Calling Zhao Wanqiu "sister-in-law" and calling Shu Wenming "brother" each have their own meaning. Anyway, they are not blood relatives, so no one cares. Just call them whatever is convenient.
He is good-looking, and even if he is not as gentle as he was in front of Shu Jinyue, and just speaks in a normal tone, he is still pleasing to the eye. Zhao Wanqiu didn't know how to thank him. "You're welcome. Come and take your Uncle Xu to the new house soon and have some melon seeds and wedding candy."
Shen Heping had already stood up happily, “Xu Ke…why are you here too?”
Xu Duan's eyes only slid lightly over him and fell on the beautiful girl next to him, "Jin Yue's brother is getting married, I should have come."
"So you are relatives?" Shen Heping was very excited when he heard the voice of "Uncle Xu". "Jin Yue too, why didn't you say so earlier? You should have said you were looking for your uncle that time."
Originally, this was a way to get close to Xu Duan, but unexpectedly, Xu Duan's face became even colder. "Come on, take me to see it."
These words were directed to Jin Yue, so she had to stand up. Not wanting to see his cold face, she deliberately walked in front.
Xu Duan followed behind her, looking at her short hair, which was particularly fluffy today, with the ends of her hair slightly curled inward, making her look like a cute little mushroom... a beautiful poisonous mushroom that was sometimes well-behaved and sometimes poisonous.
He let out a muffled laugh, took a step forward, and stood side by side with her. "Are you cold?"
“It’s not cold.”
He smiled again, "The temperature will drop even lower when the sun sets, so put on a coat."
Shu Jinyue nodded. It wouldn't be long before the weather would be warmer and they wouldn't have to wear cotton-padded jackets anymore. The flowers on the West Hill would also bloom.
It has been more than a year since she was reborn. During this time, she has done a lot of things, made some good friends, protected her family, and found a job that she is satisfied with.
She is quite satisfied with her current life and hopes to be happy forever.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Uncle Xu, can I ask you what you mean?" Shu Jinyue did not take him to the backyard, but stayed under a jujube tree on the corridor.
Xu Duan was extremely helpless. She started calling him Uncle Xu again, which meant she really wanted to draw a clear line between them. "I just want to ask you, have you thought it through?"
Shu Jinyue was stunned for a moment, and suddenly speechless. Could it be that he was still worried about what he said a few months ago, asking her to think clearly about why she liked him... Ah, was his world paused by the magician? It's been so many months, and you're actually asking her if she's thought it through? !
Shu Jinyue was so angry that he laughed, "Are you okay?"
Xu Duan was very serious, frowning, "I am seriously asking for your opinion."
"I've thought it through. Thank you, Uncle Xu, for taking care of me for so long. I will definitely treat you as my own uncle in the future."
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