Chapter 67067 Being mistress & there is something in the rat hole & digging digging digging...
"Doctor Shu, do you know that person? Is his name Song Yingwu?" He remembered that the female comrade standing opposite him was Doctor Shu's friend, whom he had just met.
For some unknown reason, Shu Jinyue denied it, "I don't know him, and I haven't seen him before."
"Do you know someone called Brother Yingwu?" she asked with pretended curiosity.
"Yes, there is a man named Song Yingwu in our village. He has been very capable since he was young. He also came from a poor family and joined the army, but he is better than us. He has made contributions, and the cadres of the commune beat gongs and drums to send the good news. Every household in our village went to see it. I squeezed in the crowd, looking at the big award certificate, thinking to myself, if I can bring such honor to my family in the future, how great it would be."
Chen Baochang smiled innocently, "But, the person just now probably just looked similar...it's impossible that they are the same person."
Intellectually, he thought that it shouldn't be the case, but the side view and back view he had just seen were very similar, almost exactly the same.
Shu Jinyue agreed, "I don't think so. Otherwise, you two are so lucky to meet an old friend even though you are so far away from home."
"We grew up in the same village. He went out to join the army early and didn't remember me much, but I remember him. It was because of his influence that I wanted to join the army to find a way out." Chen Baochang scratched the back of his head. "He also retired a few years ago. He said he was working in the city, but he couldn't tell which unit his hometown was. It shouldn't be such a coincidence that we are in the same city."
The more he thought about it, the more he regretted it. “I should have greeted him just now to see if he was Brother Yingwu.”
Shu Jinyue suppressed the bad feeling in his heart and pretended to chat with him as if nothing had happened, including which county, commune and brigade headquarters in Yangcheng City their hometown was in, and also asked about the situation of the "Song Yingwu" he mentioned.
"Brother Yingwu is a very good man. He grew up without a father or a mother. He and Sister Haiyan raised three younger siblings. People in the village said that it was not easy for them. The conditions were very difficult during those years. Sister Haiyan saved food for them and starved herself. As a result, she still has no children."
Shu Jinyue's heart was pounding. What does this mean?
"This Sister Haiyan, is she his lover?" She squeezed out the last two words from between her teeth. She had seen this woman before, in a small garden not far from the entrance of Jinyu Hutong last year. At that time, because she heard him call her "Sister Haiyan", she didn't think much of it and thought she was a fellow villager or relative.
But later she still reminded Yao Qingqing to be careful, as she thought this person was someone who came to borrow money from Song Yingwu.
"Hehe, city people call her a lover, but in the countryside we call her a daughter-in-law, but they are not completely... that is, child brides."
Shu Jinyue felt a little itchy in his throat, as if he was going to vomit something, but he had to pretend to be curious, "Child bride is a term used in the old society, right? We don't talk about this in Xinlong Country."
Talking about this, Chen Baochang stopped hiccuping. "That's in your city. In our countryside, some poor farmers will send their hard-to-raise girls to families with boys to save food at home without starving the children to death."
"Sister Haiyan was sent to the Song family in this way. She was old. She was already twelve years old when she was sent to the Song family. They said she was to be the wife of Brother Yingwu, but Brother Yingwu was a few years younger than her."
Oh, what a great person who is both a sister and a wife.
"Later... Later, Uncle Song and Auntie passed away. Sister Haiyan supported Brother Yingwu to go to the army, and she took care of the three younger siblings at home by herself. When I went back last year, I heard that the eldest brother had graduated from high school and was also going to the army. The second brother was in junior high school and his grades were very good. The third sister was still in elementary school. Everyone in this area praised Sister Haiyan for her ability. She couldn't read a word, but she was able to support a family of high school students, and she didn't even give up on the youngest sister."
Shu Jinyue felt a lump in his chest. It turned out that it was his child bride who helped him run the household. What about the second uncle and second aunt? Where did these second uncle and second aunt come from?
"This lesbian named Sister Haiyan is really amazing. Isn't she worried that your brother Yingwu will meet a better lesbian and abandon her after working outside?" Shu Jinyue asked in a joking tone.
"Well, if it were someone else, it would be possible, but Brother Yingwu wouldn't. He has a very good relationship with Sister Haiyan. Sister Haiyan starved herself just to save food for them. If it weren't for Sister Haiyan's management over the years, he wouldn't be able to make meritorious contributions in the army and work peacefully outside, right? He's not that kind of person."
Shu Jinyue smiled, knowing that she had already received all the information she needed, so she changed the topic and tried her best to cover up this topic. At the same time, she also did not reveal Song Yingwu's current situation, fearing that Chen Baochang would lose his temper and tell someone else about it.
Her top priority now is to keep her troops in place and not alert the enemy.
After Chen Baochang left for a while, she took a deep breath and exhaled the foul air in her chest, staring at the direction of the intersection in a daze. God was really blind. Qingqing was already so unfortunate, and yet she was deceived by a scumbag. She wanted to stab him now, immediately, right away!
When she turned around, she ran into Song Yingwu who came out of Liuye Hutong. He looked like an honest man and didn't talk much. He nodded at her and said, "Qingqing and I had some unpleasantness. I'd like to trouble Comrade Shu to take care of her for the next two days."
Shu Jinyue resisted the urge to spit in his face and just kept a cold face.
Song Yingwu didn't think much about it. After all, ever since he left the sick Qingqing to go back to his hometown, Qingqing's best friend has always disliked him. He would find it strange if Jin Yue suddenly greeted him with a smile.
He nodded and walked to the bus stop.
Shu Jinyue wanted to hold it in for a while longer, but he couldn't hold it in any longer. He held onto the pomegranate tree and vomited violently. He really vomited.
She didn't expect that the plot of being cheated on by a mistress on TV actually happened to her, and the victim turned out to be her best friend. Qingqing was so sunny, cheerful and kind, a girl who didn't even dare to watch a chicken being killed, why would she meet such a scumbag!
Calling him a Phoenix Man is a compliment. Fortunately, Qingqing hasn't married him yet. If she had, she would definitely be eaten up by him!
Shu Jinyue spat out a few words, and his mood eased. He immediately ran to the duty room of the street office and called Xu Duan.
She knew that it would be too slow for her to handle such a big thing alone. If she wanted to deal a fatal blow to the scumbag and minimize the harm to Qingqing, she had to have help from others, and Xu Duan was someone they could trust.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Xu Duan on the other end of the phone also fell silent.
"Hey, do you understand?"
"Okay, I get it. Don't act rashly. I'll take care of this matter." Xu Duan said, "I'm not trying to scare you. If he really wants to wipe out the whole family, he must be much more cruel than you think. Such a person can do anything when he is pushed to the limit. You two must not provoke him. Do you hear me?"
"I want to find someone to beat him up, preferably not to death but at the same time not to make him recover."
"Did you hear what I just said?" Xu Duan rubbed his temples. The little girl was good in every way except that she was too impulsive and could not keep her cool.
"Okay, okay, I heard you."
"Then repeat it."
Shu Jinyue rolled his eyes. "Not only will I restrain myself from provoking him, but I will also keep Qingqing steady and tell her not to act rashly or alert the enemy. Okay?"
Xu Duan was relieved. He hung up the phone and dialed another number. It turned out to be a comrade-in-arms who was working at the Yangcheng Public Security Bureau after retirement.
The information Jin Yue had just collected was very complete, and it was very easy to accurately locate Song Yingwu. When he heard that he wanted to inquire about such a person, he immediately patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, Old Xu, I know that it must be kept secret, just wait for my news."
When Shu Jinyue returned home, his mood had almost calmed down, but his face was a little red - because he was angry.
"Jinyue, where have you been? I went out to look for you but couldn't find you." Yao Qingqing was helping Zhao Wanqiu wash dishes in the kitchen and couldn't be driven away.
Zhao Wanqiu was helpless, "Hey kid, I told you to stop working but you insisted on coming in."
Yao Qingqing stuck out her tongue and said, "Auntie, cooking is so tiring. What's the use of me helping to wash the dishes?"
Who wouldn’t like a sweet-talking girl? No wonder Zhao Wanqiu would arrange for Jin Yue to send her some food every time the festival came. That year, she praised the delicious Laba porridge and Laba garlic. So Zhao Wanqiu arranged for Jin Yue to send two large jars of food over early the next year, saying that she would send more after she had eaten.
Because she also grew up without a father or a mother, she felt a kind of sympathy for Qingqing.
The more Shu Jin watched, the more upset he felt. "Where's my second brother? Hasn't he come back yet?"
"No, he said he had something to do outside and asked us to eat without waiting for him." Xu Wenli leaned against the door frame and ate melon seeds.
The more curious he became, as he seemed to be away from home quite often recently, and he didn't know what he was busy with every day. The batch of Dacron a few months ago made him taste the sweetness of doing business, so whenever he had time, he would go to the ghost market, wander around, and do some small business. He didn't make much money, but just considered it as an opportunity to get to know more people.
Hey, now working in the vegetable store has become his "side job".
Jin Yue didn't have time to think about these things. She looked at Qing Qing and said, "Let's go to my room to warm up."
She was afraid of the cold, so Zhao Wanqiu heated her kang early, and it became warm as soon as it got dark. For convenience, Qingqing even put a set of sleeping clothes here, and the two of them changed and lay on the kang together.
"What's the matter? Why are you still so mysterious?"
Jin Yue sighed, "I want to tell you something, and you must promise not to get excited first."
"Okay, I promise, just what you say is true."
"Just now when I was sending Chen Baochang out, I saw you and Song Yingwu in the alley. He said he knew Song Yingwu and they were from the same village..." blah blah.
She observed Qingqing's expression as she spoke, and saw with her own eyes her change from indifference to curiosity, then to shock, to anger, and finally to sadness...
Jin Yue hugged her and let her cry in his arms. There was no need for any words of comfort at this time, because no matter how good the relationship was, they could not empathize with each other.
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Jin Yue didn't sleep much that night because she was worried about Qingqing, afraid that she would do something bad. She woke up from time to time to check if she was still there, wiped her tears, and changed her pillowcase and pillow. It was not until dawn that Qingqing reluctantly fell asleep.
"You go to work. I won't do anything stupid. I'll sleep a little longer. Please help me call our finance department and ask for leave. I need to rest for two days." She said sullenly while hiding in the quilt.
Jin Yue was relieved when he saw that she still remembered to ask for leave. "Okay, then you can sleep a little longer. My mom will keep your breakfast warm on the stove. You can sleep as late as you want."
I don't know how Xu Duan will deal with Song Yingwu. As a cautious person, his first step will definitely be to verify the situation and find someone he trusts to check whether it is the same person. If he confirms that Song Yingwu does have a child bride in his hometown, then he will deal with him.
"What are you thinking about, Jinyue? Lao Zhu is calling you." Liu Jinbu waved his hand in front of her.
"What does Director Zhu want to see me about?"
Lao Zhu called her to the stairwell outside and asked, "What happened to you today? Did something happen to you?"
Jin Yue rubbed his face, the dark circles under his eyes were a bit heavy, "Well, something happened with my friend."
"Then secondment won't have any impact, right?"
Jin Yue was stunned, "What tune?"
Old Zhu laughed, "So you didn't hear what I just said at all."
It turned out that a few days ago, a worker from Jiangsu Province came to the neighboring district to attend the training. He lived in the training dormitory and ate in the collective canteen. As a result, two days ago, he said he had a stomachache and a high fever, and fainted in the workshop, so he was rushed to the hospital. At first, the cause of the disease could not be found. Later, the director who treated Sun Tieniu last year suggested that they check for schistosomiasis. As a result, the disease was confirmed. Upon inquiry, we found out that the worker's home was next to the water, and that area of water was an epidemic water area contaminated by snails. It was not until he set out for the book city that the area was sealed off.
"Although he is not temporarily residing in our area, he is under the management of our area because the first diagnosis and confirmation was made in our area. Last year, you made great contributions in handling Sun Tieniu's suspected case of schistosomiasis, and later cured him with Chinese medicine. Now the higher-ups have specifically asked you to assist in the diagnosis and treatment."
Of course, the title is not assisting in diagnosis and treatment, but “Traditional Chinese Medicine Guidance Expert”.
Mr. Zhu might have felt embarrassed to call a young girl in her early twenties an "expert", so he changed his terminology.
When Jin Yue heard about this, she said, "Okay, as long as I can go home at night." The last time she went to the tuberculosis epidemic area in Lin City, she stayed there for a while before going home.
At noon, Jin Yue went home to see Yao Qingqing. She seemed to be in much better condition because she ate fennel cakes faster than himself!
Tell her family not to wait for her for dinner, as she will probably be very busy with work handover on the first day and may not be able to get home.
"Go ahead, go ahead. I'm fine. I have to go shopping with my second sister-in-law to buy a new pair of shoes later!" Yao Qingqing snorted and threw away the broken shoes.
Jin Yue laughed out loud, yes, Song Yingwu is a slut!
In the afternoon, she walked to the district epidemic prevention station by herself. Although she didn't come here often, everyone knew her as the "little miracle doctor" who had cured many strange diseases. "Doctor Shu is here, and Director Ma is upstairs."
This worker is now receiving standardized treatment for schistosomiasis. This treatment method is effective and time-tested. In fact, it doesn't have much effect even if it comes now. She just prescribes a prescription for Chinese medicine when it is needed.
"The patient's condition is relatively stable, so Chinese medicine is not necessary. But if you have nothing to do, you can just prescribe some Chinese medicine to protect the liver." Director Ma said nonchalantly.
Although she had witnessed Shu Jinyue's medical skills several times, she was educated in a formal clinical medicine school, so she just treated this young Chinese medicine practitioner who had no academic qualifications and no experience as she wished.
It's impossible to be completely convinced, but it's not to the point of despising her either. It's better to just give her a bench, as long as she has a seat.
Jin Yue didn't say much. He went into the solitary ward, observed the patient, asked questions, and wrote a simple prescription. The best way to protect the liver is to eat nothing, because any medicine needs to be metabolized by the liver, but he was taking antiviral drugs and a lot of symptomatic drugs, and the patient took the initiative to ask to take Chinese medicine, and Jin Yue did not refuse.
After writing the prescription, no one assigned her anything to do, so she simply found a familiar colleague, sat in her office for a while, and chatted about some trivial gossip.
Although everyone is from the same unit and gets the same salary, there is a difference between those who can stay in the district and those who are "downgraded" to the streets. One is at district level and the other is at the grassroots level. Jin Yue doesn't think there is much difference, but others will.
She sat for a while, felt bored and wanted to leave.
Colleagues from other offices heard that she was here, and they all came over to ask her to help take their pulses to see if there was anything wrong.
Well, I have nothing to do now, so I'll accept any offer.
There are three common problems among gay men: rheumatism, foot odor, and prostate. Especially among the older ones, six out of ten suffer from prostate hyperplasia. They were too embarrassed to tell Jin Yue at first, but another older sister smiled and said that it was Jin Yue who cured Zhu Daqiang. Only then did they talk about the problem themselves.
Shu Jinyue didn't think there was anything to be shy about. She even had the nerve to ask about what happened in the bed between her elder brother and sister-in-law. What was that?
The more serious and calm she was, the more the old men seemed to be unable to relax. The older sisters laughed beside them, and the noise could be heard in the corridor.
Director Ma hummed, and stood at the door at some point. "It's working hours now, what are you doing?"
Everyone scattered like birds and beasts, and Jin Yue quickly stood up, "Director Ma, is there something wrong in the ward?"
Director Ma did not answer, but looked her over and said, "Although it is a secondment, you don't have to come to work every day. Just stay at Xinqiao Station. We will call you if there is anything. If you are not, help Lao Zhu with some work. Don't hang around all day."
After saying that, he disappeared again.
Shu Jinyue touched her nose. What did she mean by wandering around and having nothing to do? Why did she feel that Director Ma was different from before?
In the past, although she was not very pleasant, she would not have such a stern face, as if someone owed her five million. Her introverted personality began to emerge. Jin Yue thought carefully about the few times they had interacted with each other, and there was nothing unpleasant.
She only came to the station a few times a year, and even when she came, it was mostly to give or submit reports. She seldom met the top leader and at most just nodded to him.
Forget it, forget it. We should learn from Comrade Li Yulan, reduce internal friction, and especially not waste time on people who don’t like us!
Jin Yue clenched his fists, finished seeing everyone's patients, rolled up his schoolbag and went back to Xinqiao Street.
Zhu Daqiang was holding up the belt, and when he saw her he was stunned for a moment, "Hey, didn't you just go to the district? Did you forget something? Just give me a call and let me send it to you. Why bother making this trip yourself?"
Shu Jinyue smiled bitterly, "Director Ma asked me to come back and wait."
"Hey, this Ma Shuhui is in trouble. She signed the secondment order, so why did she ask you to come back and wait? If there is an emergency and you need to take action, running around is unnecessary." He is quite familiar with Director Ma and has no scruples when speaking. "I think she is just farting and taking off her pants, humph!"
Jin Yue held back his laughter and dared not speak.
"You are the guidance expert appointed by the Health Bureau. She is the leader of the treatment team, and you even slept with her. Wait, there will be a day when she begs you for help. Humph!"
Jin Yue smiled. She herself was not angry, so how could Old Zhu be angrier than her? "It's okay. Director Ma may have his own plans. Anyway, we just need to obey their instructions."
She had also learned about the patient's condition, and it was indeed schistosomiasis. Fortunately, it was discovered early, and the liver and spleen had not started to swell. With standardized treatment, he should be able to recover soon.
In fact, she had read some later research documents. "Director Zhu, I have an immature opinion. There should be no praziquantel in our country to treat this disease, right?"
“What is praziquantel?”
Shu Jinyue thought to himself that it seemed that he remembered correctly. The broad-spectrum insecticide praziquantel, which was widely used in later generations, was indeed launched abroad, but the extraction technology was still in the hands of foreign big capitalists and should not have been introduced to China, let alone the development of a domestic version of the insecticide.
However, due to the lack of relatively more effective and safer insecticides, many patients with schistosomiasis cannot receive effective and timely treatment. Decades later, when they are middle-aged or elderly, many of them will develop cirrhosis or even liver cancer.
So, being able to survive is one thing, but being able to live longer and healthier is definitely different.
"I was thinking, since it's so difficult to import medicines now, and we have to ask for help everywhere, if we can prepare some backup Chinese medicines, can we also contribute a little to the prevention and treatment of schistosomiasis?"
Old Zhu was moved by what she said, "That's the truth. In your opinion, what kind of prescription can be selected as a backup prescription?"
"I only know some general information, but we have never come into contact with schistosomiasis. It's just theory. Different people have different diseases. Schistosomiasis and schistosomiasis are also different. Traditional Chinese medicine does not have a universal prescription that can correspond to all syndromes."
"So what you mean is..."
"I suggest you talk to Director Ma about sending someone to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places where schistosomiasis is prevalent to learn some techniques, just in case of emergency. At the same time, learn a few effective prescriptions that they commonly use, and copying their experience can help you avoid many detours." As for whether it will be applicable when you return to Shilan Province and whether you need to adapt to local conditions, you just need to be flexible and adaptable when the time comes.
At that time, people's understanding of infectious diseases was still relatively one-sided. The sudden emergence of schistosomiasis cases sounded a wake-up call for Jin Yue. Learning and being prepared at all times should be the basic qualities of disease control personnel.
She recalled seeing some learning channels on her mobile phone decades later, and found that as long as a certain infectious disease appeared in any province across the country, all levels of hospitals and all medical staff would soon have various learning videos, some crudely produced and some well-made, on their learning platforms, including the causes of the disease, epidemiological characteristics, main symptoms, differential diagnosis and treatment methods, medication guidelines... Then, doctors in the Northwest would be able to learn how to treat infectious diseases that only appear in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River in the shortest time possible.
This is the superiority of the system. It is very difficult to achieve such large-scale collective learning in capitalist countries.
But now, because there is no Internet, no mobile phones and computers, if you want to learn this kind of experience that you don’t have, you have to go to the field.
Zhu Daqiang nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, that's right. I have to talk to Ma Shuhui about this."
Shu Jinyue, who was left out, was not depressed. She was not forcing a smile. She really didn't feel anything. Ma Shuhui was a strong woman and had her own style of doing things. Maybe she really had her own arrangements. As a subordinate, she just had to obey the arrangements and be ready to play at any time.
So she studied peacefully in the office, found two professional books on infectious diseases and public health that she had just borrowed, read them attentively for a whole morning, stretched, and prepared to go home from get off work.
As soon as she reached the gate, Xu Duan was waiting there pushing his bicycle. "We have investigated Song Yingwu's case. He did have a child bride in his hometown. Everyone knows about it, but they just didn't get the marriage certificate."
No wonder Song Yingwu has always claimed to be single, because he does not have a wife in the legal sense.
Shu Jinyue snorted coldly, "Then does he not have any crappy second uncle or second aunt?"
"Um."
Shu Jinyue was too lazy to snort coldly. Look at this bastard. His original wife worked like a slave for him in his hometown to serve his brothers and sisters, but he turned around and claimed to be single in the city, dating an only child who had a house, savings, a job and no parents. He was really getting all the good things!
Then, there are two possibilities for his motives. Either he really had feelings for Yao Qingqing and really wanted to be with her, and the child bride became the one who was abandoned; or he truly loved or was grateful to the child bride, and Qingqing was just his stepping stone, and he wanted to use the money he got from Qingqing to support his younger brothers and sisters and the child bride.
Xu Duan frowned, "It is possible that there are more sinister intentions."
Jin Yue's heart skipped a beat.
She knew what "more sinister intentions" meant. She had not read all those social news in the past in vain. The "septic tank warning" was not just a joke, but a real thing that happened. It was a painful lesson!
She didn't expect that such a ruthless character was actually around her. Song Yingwu's honest face seemed to have grown fangs, which made her feel sick just thinking about it.
Xu Duan did not elaborate further for fear of scaring her. Young girls are always full of fantasies about love. He would not let her come into contact with those poisons wrapped in sweet candy wrappers. That was enough.
He pushed the cart and said, "I'll take you back first to meet Qingqing."
The two of them came to Liuye Hutong. Yao Qingqing had just come back from shopping with Xu Wenli. Xu Wenli's unit was not busy recently, so she took a few half-day leaves to rest. Shu Wenming said that she should not be too tired and that going to work was just to give her something to do, not to make money. She was happy to relax.
Xu Duan said he wanted to talk to Qingqing, and Jin Yue looked at his friend, asking with his eyes if he needed her to accompany him.
Qingqing shook her head. "I'll just talk to Brother Xu, Jinyue, you go ahead and do your work."
Shu Jinyue gave Xu Duan a look that said "speak nicely to me" and "don't hurt my best friend", and found a suitable place for them to talk.
As for their own room, Xu Duan was a gay man after all. The clothes they had changed in the past few days had made the room a mess, and they were embarrassed to let him in. There were also many people coming and going in the yard. Jin Yue thought about it, went to Qian Chunhua to get the key, opened the room at the edge of the middle yard where Grandma Sun had lived, and gave them two small stools, "Let's go in and talk."
They really needed to seek Yao Qingqing's advice on how to deal with this relationship and how to deal with Song Yingwu.
Jin Yue came to the front yard and finally saw Shu Wenming coming back. She grabbed him and said, "Wait a minute, second brother. I asked you to help me deal with the rat hole. Where have you been recently?"
Shu Wenming grinned, chewing a roasted soybean, "Don't mind your own business."
"It's a problem. Do you think I care about you? If you can't get cement, sand and ash, I will ask Xu Duan to help me fix it."
Compared with the "men" in the Shu family who don't do things properly, Xu Duan's execution ability is simply off the charts. He will not leave anything for the next day, and he will make sure it is done beautifully. "It takes a month to find someone like you to make a kang. I really don't like the work you do."
"Hey, now that you have a partner, you no longer care about your second brother, right?"
Shu Jinyue was too lazy to pay attention to him and went to the kitchen to see what Ms. Zhao Wanqiu was going to cook today.
A pot of plump, soft steamed buns was just coming out of the pot, and Jin Yue's eyes suddenly lit up, "It's rare to eat fine grains today."
"Go, Qingqing said yesterday that she wanted to eat steamed buns, so make them for her. Eat less." Zhao Wanqiu glanced at her and didn't stop moving. The kitchen knife seemed to have eyes of its own and cut the two carrots into thin strips half the length of a finger.
Next is the soaked black fungus, which is also cut into thin strips; cut the tomatoes and mushrooms into small cubes, and cut the tofu into small pieces... All the actions are done without using the eyes, just with two hands and a kitchen knife!
Shu Jinyue's mouth twitched, "Mom, be careful, your fingers..."
Zhao Wanqiu was very confident. "It's okay. Didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to drink hot and sour soup? I happened to buy carrots and tofu today, so I made it for you."
As the name suggests, hot and sour soup is sour and spicy, very appetizing. After the aroma comes out of the pot, fry the tomatoes until they are sandy, then add some vinegar to make it sour, and then add some chili oil, and cook the carrots, mushrooms, fungus and tofu. After they are soft and tasty, beat an egg into it and stir it into egg flowers. Well, rich families can beat two or three, but the Shu family has always only been willing to beat one.
But today was an exception. Qingqing lived at home, so Zhao Wanqiu made up her mind to put three bowls in... Well, there was too much soup. Since there were so many people, she had to add more soup, otherwise two bowls would not be enough for each person.
Finally, add some water mixed with sweet potato flour to thicken the soup, and a pot of thick, fragrant hot and sour soup is ready!
Add chili oil, a sip of hot and sour soup, and two bites of white steamed buns, Jin Yue just feels so delicious just thinking about the taste. She herself hadn't eaten this soup for many years. When she was sick as a child, Teacher Shu often made this soup for her. It didn't matter if she didn't want to beat the eggs. It tasted sour and spicy when she drank it, and it made her forehead sweat from the heat. Once the sweat came out, her illness would be cured, and she wouldn't even need to take medicine.
Later, she even pretended to be sick in order to drink hot and sour soup.
She leaned forward and asked, "Mom, do you mind if we have another guest?"
Zhao Wanqiu knew who her "guest" was with just her toes. "Come on, come on. Can I chase them away?"
Xu Shujinyue was immediately delighted. There were plenty of steamed buns and soup anyway. She guessed that the two of them should have talked enough, so she walked towards the central courtyard.
Unexpectedly, just as he reached the door, Yao Qingqing suddenly ran out, covering her mouth, "Jin Yue, come here quickly!"
Shu Jinyue thought she was upset and crying, "What's wrong? Did he say something unpleasant? Don't listen to him."
"No, come here." Yao Qingqing's eyes widened and she looked left and right, afraid of being seen.
It’s not like I’m sad, but rather… excited?
"No, I'm fine, just don't worry." She whispered, pointing into the house.
Xu Duanzheng was squatting in front of the two rat holes, looking inside intently.
Jin Yue deliberately lowered his footsteps, and when he walked behind him, he suddenly stomped his feet heavily and let out an "ah" sound. "What are you looking at? Watch out for rats coming out."
Xu Duan turned around, made a "hush" gesture, and waved at her, "Come here quickly."
Shu Jinyue was a little disappointed that he was not scared, but he was also very curious about the way they looked. He wondered if this was a major discovery that could make Yao Qingqing, who was heartbroken last night, look so excited now?
"These are just two rat holes. What's so interesting about them?"
"Just now when I was talking to Brother Xu, a big gray rat came out from inside. Brother Xu said that the rat was too big and something was wrong, so he looked inside. Guess what he found?"
Yao Qingqing was so excited that she jumped up and down. "He actually found a silver bracelet in there! Look!"
She took out a silver-gray round object from under a brick in the corner. It was unknown how long it had been stored in the rat hole, so the color was not bright enough, but the pattern on it was very beautiful, and it was obviously a very delicate style.
Qingqing patted her chest and said, "I don't even dare to take it out. I'll hide it first. It would be bad if someone finds out. Didn't you buy this house from someone? How come that family didn't find it after hiding it for so many years?"
Shu Jinyue's heart was beating fast. Why didn't the Sun family find the good stuff in the rat hole? First, they never entered Grandma Sun's room. She had lived in this room for twenty or thirty years and it had become so tasteful. Second, of course Xu Duan had good eyesight. Aren't those from the vanguard company the same? He could take out something good just by getting close and taking a look!
Seeing her so proud and about to put the silver bracelet into her bosom, Xu Duan quickly stopped her: "Don't put it on your body yet, wait until it's clean."
Jin Yue thought about it and it made sense, so he quickly put the things down.
What a sin! At that moment, she didn’t even think about hygiene or infectious diseases. The only thing in her eyes was “This is very valuable.”
"I suspect there might be something else in there." As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Yue ran to get a flashlight from his room, "Here, quickly."
This is her house!
Xu Duan smiled helplessly, but he didn't want to spoil the fun and actually looked inside.
"How's that, any more?"
Xu Duan shook his head.
Jin Yue lamented, "How come it's gone? Take another look, take a good look. I'll get you any tools you need."
"These two rat holes are too deep and winding. I'm not sure how deep they will go. I can't see anything else at the moment. If I want to dig deeper, it will make too much noise."
This silver bracelet might have been stuck not far from the cave entrance, so he could see it at a glance.
If they wanted to find out what was inside, they had to dig up the rat hole thoroughly. But in such an old house, it was impossible to dig three feet underground quietly. It would be difficult to do so because there were so many people in the compound.
Shu Jinyue nodded quickly, "Okay, okay, I'm not in a hurry, let's wait a few days... No, don't wait, the longer the night, the more trouble there is, as soon as possible... let's find a reason to dig it up as soon as possible."
And the most appropriate excuse for making such a big fuss is, of course - to build a kang!
Xu Duan went to Shu Wenming to ask for some leftover waterproof and moisture-proof oil paper that he had used to seal the windows. He sealed the hole, put two stacks of bricks on top, and then moved a few old wooden boxes from the old house and put them on top to avoid attracting other people's attention.
Shu Jinyue hid the silver bracelet and after thinking it over she decided not to tell her family. It would be bad if they were too nervous and concerned and someone noticed something. She only told her second brother that the rat hole would not be sealed for the time being and that she wanted to sort out her old clothes and books and she wanted to make a kang when she had time.
She even kept the key herself and didn't give it to Qian Chunhua.
Although the family felt that the house was not occupied for the time being and that renovating it was a waste of money, they did not say anything in front of the guests.
However, Xu Duan found that he was so tired from running around that he didn't even have a sip of water, but there was something wrong with the way Teacher Shu looked at him, as if he didn't like him very much?
But he remembered that he was quite polite when he came here before.
***
I don’t know what Xu Duan and Yao Qingqing discussed. Half a month later, one day, Jin Yue was reading a book at work, and Sister Qiao suddenly ran in excitedly, "Jin Yue, doesn’t your sister work at the Geological University? Tell us about what’s going on at the school."
Shu Jinyue was confused, "What's the matter?"
"Oh my, you don't know yet?"
"A male employee of their school's security department was beaten up at school. He was beaten so badly that his bones were broken on the spot!"
Another elder sister Zhu is also a gossiper. Her neighbor's brother-in-law works at the University of Geology and said he saw it with his own eyes: "Guess who beat him up? It turned out to be his own brother and sister, and his child bride!"
Shu Jinyue still looked curious, but he actually had an idea in his mind.
"They said his family was in financial difficulty when he was young, and that they were able to survive thanks to his child bride. But now he is so ruthless that he wants to abandon his child bride after he has a job and is secretly dating someone better. His child bride is left at home to work like a slave for him, and she is old enough to be his mother. Even his brothers and sisters can't stand seeing such a wicked thing. He is too bad!"
"Oh my, the child bride is pitiful. The city girl is innocent too. Who knew he actually got married in the country?"
"Who says it's not true? He ruined my reputation for no reason. Just because I have good conditions, I deserve to be remembered by someone like him. Do I deserve to be bullied by him?"
"You don't know. He complained even after being beaten. He said they were not married, but that his family was poor and his parents kindly adopted the girl. He only treated her as a sister."
"Bah! It's just that they don't have the money to hold a wedding, and the villagers don't have the awareness to get a marriage certificate, but the whole village knows that they sleep on the same kang, so what else can she be but a wife?"
Yes, this is already a de facto marriage. Even if he doesn't admit it, the villagers can testify.
Ordinary people are sympathetic, and no one wants to find out who the city girl who was cannon fodder is. It just so happened that Yao Qingqing also took a leave of absence, and the heat of the incident gradually died down without the person involved.
"I heard that the incident was quite serious and the principal knew about it. He had to be dealt with seriously and was expelled directly."
"It's his due! This two-timing bastard should be put in a pig cage."
Liu Jinbu coughed twice and said, "Old Qiao, what era is this? Are you still using the pig cage method?"
"Oh, Liu Jinbu is so genuinely sympathetic to this bastard, could he be the same kind as him?"
"you!"
Well, the relationship that had just been broken was broken off again because of a gossip that had nothing to do with them.
There is no real affection between colleagues, Jin Yue thought of this wise saying, but she was more curious about how Xu Duan made the child bride and several children of the Song family turn against Song Yingwu? It is understandable that the child bride turned against him. If she had been kept in the dark before, she would definitely be angry once she found out the truth. If she was provoked again, it would be even harder to say.
But the three younger brothers and sisters of the Song family are Song Yingwu’s blood relatives, and it is quite ironic that they also turned against him.
He often used their "illness" and "school" as excuses to create the illusion for Qingqing that he was short of money and in need of help, but his love for his three younger siblings was also genuine and he was willing to pour out his heart to them, but now they had turned against him... Well, this blow was fatal to him.
This move is really cruel!
But it doesn't matter anymore. Song Yingwu will never appear in front of Qingqing again. Jin Yue is completely relieved and starts to think about the two rat holes in his house.
"What? You want to build a kang for Grandma Sun's room?" Zhao Wanqiu was confused. "No one lives there, so there's no need to bother."
"It's almost winter, and it's hard to find a kang-making technician. The waiting time is half a month later." Teacher Shu looked worried.
Shu Wenming didn't agree with that either. "I've been busy recently. I'll find cement and sand for you in a couple of days. Then you can seal it up tightly with just a touch. Even a rat won't be able to get out again."
Shu Jinyue waved his hand and said, "No need, I'll let my partner do it."
So, Hospital No. 16 soon found out that their most capable doctor, Xiao Shu, had a girlfriend!
This explosive news quickly overshadowed the trivial matter of building a kang for an uninhabited room.
But Shu Jinyue was just playing for the popularity. When everyone was discussing how good-looking and well-off her boyfriend was, and how he was a cadre, Shu Jinyue had quietly dug up the floor of the house and found a rat hole!
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