Chapter 8 008 Old Lady Yang's Strange Disease
Shu Jinyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Xu Siqi had already introduced them. Male guest number one was the only son of a seventh-level fitter in the factory. Male guest number two was the director of the factory's publicity department. Male guest number three was his classmate at the Industrial University. Male guest number four...
"What's wrong, Comrade Xiao Shu? Are you not satisfied? It doesn't matter. Just let us know what you want. We will check and find the one that suits you best."
Shu Jinyue spread his hands: "..."Brother, I just want to go to work, I don’t want to have a relationship.
"Hey Jin Yue, are you going on a blind date tomorrow? Where does the other party live and which company does he/she work for?" Aunt Li in the backyard had eavesdropped and listened.
"Then you have to find someone better than Liu Dong. You two sisters are so good, it would be a waste if you don't find a good family! Your father is old-fashioned. He has two mountains of gold and silver but doesn't know how to use them. When you were young, you were well fed and well fed. Now that you have grown up, you should expect rewards..."
I'm too lazy to care now. Although many people in this era favor boys over girls, Aunt Li is definitely a "leader" among them. Her five daughters are weeds, and her only son is the apple of her eye. Before and after marriage, she always forces her daughters to be brother-supporting demons, which causes a lot of jokes.
Since she was a child, she knew that Aunt Li looked down on her and Shu Wenyun the most. The old lady thought that Teacher Shu was stupid for treating them like treasures, and she wished that all the fried dough sticks and meat buns they ate would go into her son's mouth so that they would not be wasted.
Xu Siqi didn't respond, but just looked at Jin Yue's expression, "How about...if you're not satisfied with any of them, let my uncle introduce you to a few comrades-in-arms. His comrades-in-arms are about the same age as him, so they're a little too old for you."
Jin Yue suddenly thought, being a soldier is the most glorious profession!
As for age, she has already lived two lifetimes. In terms of psychological age, it is still unclear who is older.
"Oh, it's good to be old. When you are old, you know how to care for others. Once you win him over, you can bring back all the good things to honor Teacher Shu and your mother." Aunt Li interrupted again, "It just so happens that your second brother doesn't have a formal job. Find one for him quickly. Your eldest brother should move on after so many years. Oh, a son-in-law who doesn't take care of his uncle is not a good son-in-law."
"Then my uncle Li is really a good son-in-law."
Everyone knew that she had tamed her five daughters into brother-supporting women, but she herself wanted to be one but couldn't, because Old Man Li was notoriously stingy. In the first two years after their marriage, whenever she secretly sent two potatoes and a scallion to her parents' home, he would press her on the kang and beat her. After a few beatings, she dared not to help anymore.
Because of this, her brother from her natal side severed ties with her, but it was not completely severed because he would come and cause a fight every New Year in the first month of the lunar calendar. This was a regular New Year "program" in the No. 16 Courtyard.
"You, you, you little girl, are you trying to piss me off on purpose?"
Shu Jinyue was too lazy to pay attention to her, and quickly called Xu Siqi into the house. If she let him continue, everyone in the alley would know tomorrow that she, Shu Jinyue, was the female sea king who wanted to date six male guests in one breath and would not even let old men go!
***
Five minutes later, Jin Yue declined the blind date on the grounds of her young age. She made it clear that the most important thing for her at the moment was to secure a job. In order to increase her chances of success, she even patted her chest and assured that the money was ready.
"You really don't want to meet?"
"You don't even want the troops from my uncle's unit?"
"Are you sure?"
"So I really replied to them, huh?"
Jin Yue confirmed again and again before sending the man away. Turning around, he saw Lao Shu coming out from behind the screen wall. "When did Dad come back?"
"Just arrived." The old man put his hands behind his back, "Jinyue, more choices mean more paths. Everyone has to get married when they grow up, right?"
"Your mother and I don't have the ability to find so much for you, but the Xu family really cares about you..." I have to go buy something with Wanqiu some other day and go to their house to express my gratitude.
"Oh, Dad, please spare me." Shu Jin felt more and more overwhelmed and his toes began to itch again. He remembered a statement he had read on his mobile phone. For low-income families, they generally recognized that women getting married could really change their destiny.
Seeing that she was so opposed to blind dating, Lao Shu couldn't help but become more worried, "Jin Yue, tell Dad the truth, is there anyone bullying you in the countryside?"
"If you have anything to say, tell us. Even though we don't have much ability, we won't just stand by and watch you get bullied."
Jin Yue sighed. The old couple couldn’t even protect themselves, so how could he help her? Speaking out would only add to their troubles.
Just as I was thinking about it, there was a scream suddenly from the yard, followed by shrill crying and shouting, and many neighbors ran to the back.
"Oh, what a sin! What kind of life is your brother Li's wife leading? That's why when a lesbian gets married, she should carefully examine the character of the man's parents, and not just look at the man himself."
Brother Li is the only child in Aunt Li's family. He grew up with the Shu brothers and sisters. He did not go to the countryside, and it was unexpected that he got married so early.
"Your Aunt Li is an unreasonable person. She takes it out on others when things don't go her way."
Jin Yue snorted, "Then why doesn't she take it out on Uncle Li?"
Teacher Shu recalled the fight between the couple and laughed, "This is called picking on the weak. What they did was not called fighting each other, but called one-sided beating."
It's not that he is not kind. At the beginning, he would go to persuade them to stop fighting like many people in the compound. After all, a man should not hit a woman. The couple should just talk it out peacefully. But every time he finished persuading them, Aunt Li would scold them for meddling in other people's business. Gradually, everyone got too lazy to persuade them.
It's lively, I like watching it.
"I thought she would be more restrained now that Old Li was gone, but who knew... she was so cruel to her own daughter, not to mention the daughter-in-law she married into the family."
Xiao Li’s wife has only been married for less than two years, but she has been tortured to the point of being a nobody. She has filed for divorce several times. “She is such a wicked person. Every time Xiao Li goes to his father-in-law’s house to beg for his wife to come back, and it’s only been a few days, and she’s filing for divorce again!”
If it weren't for the fact that Brother Li was a nice person, I would have left him eight hundred times ago.
Teacher Shu sighed while going to the backyard with his hands behind his back to watch the fun. As the saying goes, "I never get tired of eating melons."
Jin Yue, however, was not in the mood to watch the fun. She didn't say anything final to Xu Siqi just now. She just said that she didn't want to meet for the time being and needed to give her a few days. But what if Xu Siqi still didn't find a suitable job, or she didn't have enough money, then she might have to go on a blind date in the end.
This had to happen quickly, before Shu Wenyun discovered that Xu Siqi was helping her.
Thinking of Shu Wenyun, Jin Yue became depressed again. She had conflicting feelings towards this sister. In fact, the two of them were not scheming against each other, and their hatred was far from life-and-death. In her previous life, after Zhao Wan had a stroke, she helped take care of her for three years, until she became pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to take care of the patient, and then her second brother took over.
Besides, Teacher Shu was like a loving father who raised her.
But it was also a fact that his job opportunity was taken away by her and he never went to the countryside to care about her. Shu Jinyue couldn't forgive her.
***
On the other side of the bookstore, in the city hospital, in a single room, several doctors in white coats were surrounding a male comrade dressed as a cadre, and the man was looking at the old lady on the bed with concern.
If Shu Jinyue was at the scene, he would definitely recognize her. This old lady was the cadre-pretending old lady he met on the train a few days ago.
"Mom, are you feeling better?" Yang Zhengkang held his mother's hand. In just a few days, his mother seemed to have aged ten years.
"Much better. Go to work as soon as possible and don't delay your work." Although Mrs. Yang wanted to comfort her son, her weak voice could not hide the lingering pain.
Yang Zhengkang smiled comfortingly at his mother, but turned to the doctor with a sullen face, "What's wrong with you? Didn't you say at the beginning that it was just a common cold? You even patted my chest and assured me that it would be fine in two days. How come it's not only not fine now, but it's getting worse?"
Several people dared not speak.
No one would understand this. Old lady Yang came to the hospital not for herself but to see a doctor for her elder sister who was suffering from a cough. Unexpectedly, she met Director Jin of the Internal Medicine Department. She suddenly mentioned that she had a cold recently and had taken a lot of medicine but it didn't get better, so she asked him to take a look.
In fact, for a simple cold, an ordinary internal medicine doctor sees at least 800 cases a year, if not a thousand. He knows how to treat it with his eyes closed. Even ordinary people know to prepare a few cold medicines at home and take a few pills when they are sick. Why do they need to go to the hospital?
What's more, the person who showed it to her was the experienced Director Jin, so it was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
But when asked, it turned out that the old lady had taken several kinds of cold medicines at home, including the common ones such as Analgin, Clemensin, headache powder, Huoxiang Zhengqi Water, Ganmaotong, and even Vitamin C Yinqiao tablets, but there was no improvement.
The director thought about it and realized that these were the medicines he usually prescribed for her. It was useless if she took twice as much medicine as she wanted, and it might not be helpful if he prescribed more medicine for her. Could it be that she had a cold?
This old lady is not an ordinary person. Her son Yang Zhengkang is the second in command of a certain association in the city. Even if it is a small problem, they have to inform her of all possible risks in detail. It is best to prevent them in advance to avoid problems being blamed on them.
After the patient and his family agreed, they immediately arranged for an examination. The first thing they suspected was whether there was something wrong with the lungs, and then whether it was an allergic disease, rhinitis, or something like that. However, after doing a full examination inside and out, they couldn't find any problems.
"It's fine if you can't treat infectious diseases or severe colds, but my mom just had a simple sneeze and you couldn't even treat it. Your hospital's professional level is really disappointing."
Yes, Mrs. Yang’s “cold” was very mild, with only one symptom – sneezing.
Every morning at 6:15, I start sneezing uncontrollably, more punctually than the alarm clock. I sneeze while lying down, sitting, and even more severely if I stand up and are blown by the cold wind. The strange thing is that by around 8 o'clock, the sneezing will stop on its own without any medicine.
If she doesn't sneeze, she's just an old lady who can eat, sleep and has a rosy complexion.
When other people catch a cold they will have fever, cough and headache, but she only had this one symptom, and it healed on its own without any medicine. At first, she naturally didn't take it seriously, thinking that she could just take some cold medicine. After taking a lot of cold medicine without any effect, she mentioned it when she came to the hospital, hoping that the doctor would prescribe something suitable for her condition and she would be cured in two or three days at most.
Who knew? Not only did I not get better, I even had to be hospitalized. It would have been fine if I had been hospitalized and had a bunch of tests without finding anything wrong, but in the past two days I have had difficulty breathing, cannot lie flat, and have to rely on oxygen!
The more you treat it, the worse it gets!
"Originally, we did treat it as a cold, but when we found that it was ineffective, we also tried to consider allergic diseases and nasal diseases. We did the necessary tests and used the necessary medicines..."
"Don't mention it. How much suffering did these examinations of yours put my mother through?" Even young people couldn't stand so many nasal examinations in a row. The old lady's spirit collapsed all of a sudden after being "poked all over the place".
Several doctors in white coats lowered their heads and dared not speak. They also wanted to know why a simple sneeze could not be cured. They checked all the diseases that could cause sneezing, invited experts from the provincial hospital, and even called Beijing and Haicheng for business consultation, but they could not find the cause. They even suspected that the old lady was lying.
Some elderly people who have lacked care for a long time will deliberately exaggerate their illness in order to attract the attention of their children.
But every morning at 6:15, they had heard the sound of "Ah, cut" inside and outside the ward very punctually. The sneezes that could not be stopped did not seem to be disguised.
"What exactly is the problem? Can you cure it? Give me a definite answer." Yang Zhengkang said with a serious face.
"this……"
"What's this? You are a municipal hospital. My aunt had a simple cough, but if my mother hadn't reminded me, you would have almost failed to cure her. Now I seriously doubt whether your professional ability is worthy of all the honorary titles your hospital has won!"
The dean wiped the sweat from his forehead. He couldn't bear this big pot.
Suddenly, when her son mentioned his aunt's cough, Yang's mother had an idea and struggled to sit up. "How about we ask the girl on the train to come and take a look?"
Yang Zhengkang frowned, "Mom, you should take a good rest and don't cause any more trouble." The little girl really thought she was a miracle doctor.
"You forgot that she was the one who predicted your aunt's cough. We took her to see so many doctors, but none of them could cure her. Some doctors even said she had tuberculosis, and said she had a heart disease because her lips were purple. It was only after I mentioned it to the doctors that they found a Chinese doctor to cure her. Now I only believe in Chinese medicine."
"Zhengkang, find me a Chinese doctor, find that little girl."
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