Chapter 83083 Perfumer's strange disease & the growth of Shu Jinyue & the role of...
In state-owned factories, they are called perfumers, and in the future they will be called perfumers.
The fact that Li Xiaodi can work as a perfumer in the famous Erri Chemical at such a young age is enough to prove that he is no ordinary person. With the rise of various domestic perfumes in the future, perfumers will be in short supply. Many people will hire them with an annual salary of one million. If they have the capital, they can set up a factory by themselves and earn more money.
After all, people's lives will be better in the future, and their pursuit of beauty and charm will increase day by day. This market will undoubtedly be huge.
But now, Brother Li is going to be fired just because he can't smell the difference between good and bad smells.
"My brother used to have a good nose... We are a rough family. My father is a butcher, my mother is a packer in a button factory, my brother is a police officer, and I also do rough work. Only my brother has been quiet since he was a child and likes to tinker with things."
Zhao Wanqiu handed her a cup of warm water and said, "Sit down and drink some water, then talk slowly." Nothing was making sense at all.
Brother Li is just 23 years old this year. It is said that he has liked to ponder strange things since he was a child, and he is particularly sensitive to smells. He can smell smells that ordinary people cannot smell from a long distance.
"Not only that, he can accurately distinguish the extremely subtle differences between hundreds of smells."
"When he was 13 years old, he followed my dad to slaughter pigs. When he walked to the entrance of the second-day chemical factory, he smelled the odor of the toilet water they produced. He could actually describe the formula of the human body almost accurately."
"My father is a rough man who doesn't understand these things. He blamed my brother for not studying hard and just guessing all day. But a master teacher happened to hear him and called him in to have a chat. The master teacher found that my brother was very talented, especially with a keen sense of smell, and immediately wanted to take him in as his apprentice, but unfortunately my father didn't agree."
Yes, people of that era were relatively conservative. They had just emerged from hard times and believed that physical labor was a man's job. A perfumer dealt with all those bottles and jars of rouge and powder, which in the old society was something only dandy boys and prodigal sons who were obsessed with material things could do.
Butcher Li didn't like his son figuring out these things in the first place. He thought his son had gone astray. Did he want him to make a living by doing this for the rest of his life? Then he couldn't agree even more.
"But my brother is also stubborn. If my dad doesn't agree, he won't go to school. My brother and I also pleaded for him. My mom felt sorry for him and said to let him go. Maybe after a few days, the novelty will wear off. Children are always short-lived."
Who knew that little brother Li was a child with amazing perseverance. He studied for ten years and was about to graduate last year. Coincidentally, the master was about to retire, and the daily chemical factory planned to select two apprentices before he retired. The two apprentices would become the backbone of the factory's perfumers in the future.
"My brother got sick at this critical moment. He got caught in the rain and caught a cold for more than half a month. At that time, he said he had a stuffy nose, but no one took it seriously, thinking that he hadn't recovered from the cold. But later, the cold symptoms disappeared, but he still couldn't smell anything, so he missed the selection exam."
Mrs. Li sighed, "The most important thing for a perfumer is to have a good nose, but he can't smell anything. He has made several mistakes at work. Last month, he got the formula wrong again, causing serious losses to the factory. Now the boss wants to fire him. Our whole family is so worried that my mother has fallen ill."
Shu Jinyue sighed. In such a special profession, not being able to smell the fragrance or stench means losing your job.
A traditional family like the Li family would never tolerate the existence of an unemployed vagrant. Their home would definitely be in chaos.
She quickly asked a few key questions: "When did the cold start?"
"Last summer."
That's a year and a half. It took so long. "Have you visited it during the process?"
"I have seen a lot of Western and Chinese doctors. I also went to the ENT department of the provincial hospital. The doctor there said he had rhinitis."
It is understandable that people with rhinitis cannot smell anything, and some severe patients cannot smell anything most of the time. But the air pollution is not serious now. The incidence of rhinitis among Chinese people will not be as high as it will be in fifty years. He is in good health and will not suddenly develop such serious rhinitis.
"Sister-in-law, think carefully. Has your brother ever had this disease before? Is there anyone in your family who has this disease?"
Mrs. Li said confidently: "When we went to other hospitals, the doctors there also asked about it and found that there is no family history of the disease. My brother's nose is also very good and has never had any problems."
When Jin Yue continued to ask him what medicine he had taken, Mrs. Li couldn't say anything. After all, she was not sick, and her brother was rather introverted. The family members asked him for a long time before he said a few brief words. Except for himself, no one could explain the treatment process.
Jin Yue understood, "Then bring him over as soon as possible so I can take a look."
Mrs. Li stood up, and Zhao Wanqiu hurried to the yard to observe. Seeing that Aunt Li was not there, she quickly asked her to go out.
If these mother-in-law and daughter-in-law meet, Aunt Li will go crazy.
"Little Li's wife is also unlucky. She married her son and couldn't go back to her good home. She had to bring Little Li with her to marry into the family. Fortunately, Li's brothers and sisters were reasonable and didn't make a fuss with her. Otherwise, her family would be in chaos."
Zhao Wanqiu rubbed her old waist and continued to sigh: "Maybe it's because of our good relationship, so I was so concerned about my brother's illness that I didn't care about my own health."
***
In the next few days, Jin Yue specifically read several books on the treatment of ENT diseases, especially those on rhinitis. She basically knew them by heart, but Brother Li never came to see her.
Although she really wanted to help, if the patient didn't come on his own, she couldn't provide medical care at home and show her care, right?
Just as I was thinking about it, Little Chicken Popcorn came again, this time holding a steaming hot sweet potato in his hand, "Sister Jinyue, my mother asked me to bring you some sweet potatoes."
Jin Yue sniffed hard, it smelled so good!
"Only your mother knows that I like to eat baked sweet potatoes. Take your time. Don't be in a hurry. Is it hot?"
"It's not hot, mom told me to use a towel to pad it!" He shook his little hands. Jin Yue touched them and they were warm and red. "Little fool, it won't be too late to send it back later when it's cool."
"It tastes better when it's hot. My grandma knows that my sister likes to eat roasted sweet potatoes, so she told me to go to my house and get some sweet potatoes. I'm too weak to get them."
"Oh my, you keep calling me mom and grandma. What a sweet kid." Aunt Feng teased him when she heard him. "I heard you help your mom wash socks and wash your sister's clothes?"
Popcorn Chicken put his hands on his hips and nodded proudly, "Yeah!"
Mom's feet were swollen and it was difficult for her to put on socks, so he helped her wash the socks, put them on and take them off, and tied her shoelaces. He also washed the small clothes that Grandma Wanqiu gave her for my younger sister so that she could wear them when she was born!
"Bah, this stepmother is a stepmother, she's so evil." Aunt Li spoiled the mood again, "Little Chicken, if you're wronged at home, you can go to the street office and complain to the leader. Your stepmother orders you to work, that's abuse, don't you understand?"
Humph, it would be better to sue her job!
The onlookers were so angry that they laughed, "Auntie Li really can't stand seeing people being nice. You can't feel comfortable if there's no conflict in other people's families, right?"
"Engineer Yulan said that we should train children to do small things within their ability. You are the only one who is meddling in other people's business."
"Shit stirrer."
Now the neighbors in the compound will no longer give her face and will scold her as much as they want. She cannot defeat them all, so Aunt Li can only hide in her house in shame and slam the door loudly.
"Bang——"
It was just a coincidence that the door panel that seemed to be fine suddenly collapsed.
Everyone was stunned: "..."
Shu Jinyue: Ah? ! This door just fell down by itself?
No, no, you can't say that it fell down by itself. After all, Aunt Li often slams it down. It would make a "bang" sound whenever something goes wrong. This door panel has endured too much. It's not easy for it to hold up until today.
It was such a cold day, and the door panels of her house were quite heavy, so it was difficult to reinstall them. She had offended everyone, and no strong laborers in the compound would pay any attention to her. She could only turn to Uncle Zhao in the front yard for help.
Uncle Zhao is a good man. Just as he was about to agree, Aunt Zhao glared at her husband. Uncle Zhao quickly made the excuse that he had to work overtime at the company and slipped away.
Aunt Li went to this one because she had a stomachache, and to that one because he had to work overtime, but she didn't dare to walk far to call her son, for fear that someone would break into her house and steal things.
It was a very cold day, but he just sat on the doorstep, guarding it, cursing while sobbing.
Everyone thought she deserved it. Neighbors would help each other, but most people didn't dare to help her. She kept scolding until it was almost dark. Then Du Aiguo and his wife, who rented a house in Jinyue from the Central Court, came back. Seeing that she was so angry, they helped her put the things back in place.
Jin Yue hid on the kang, ate a sweet potato, poured a cup of warm water and prepared to brush his teeth before going to bed. As a result, just as he got off the kang, he heard Xu Duan knocking on the door.
"You're back?"
"Well, I'm back and I've got something to bring you." He went to Changchun in the northeast a few days ago. It was said that he went to attend a meeting related to the automobile manufacturing industry. He told me about it on the phone, but Jin Yue didn't understand.
"Have you eaten yet?"
"not yet."
Jin Yue hurriedly let him go into the house first, and she went to the old house, thinking that she had to cook a meal for her boyfriend who came to see her the first time after traveling thousands of miles. As a result... well, there was nothing left from dinner, only half a basket of rice, which she planned to eat tomorrow.
I just finished my food and plan to buy fresh ones tomorrow.
When Zhao Wanqiu heard that Xu Duan hadn't eaten dinner yet, she said, "Go talk to him. I'll do it."
"I don't expect to teach you now. Just do your job well. I'll cook for you when you two come back to eat."
The more Shu Jin thought about that scene, the more beautiful it was. She couldn't cook, and Xu Duan was too busy to do it. The two of them couldn't eat in the cafeteria or in restaurants every meal, right? At that time, I will pay some food expenses to my family every month. Just tell my mother what I want to eat, and I can eat it when I get home.
"No, don't they have a nanny at home?"
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, "Do you still remember their eldest sister Bao? She went back to her hometown a long time ago. She said that her husband's health condition worsened and he couldn't leave his side. And her mother-in-law broke her leg and couldn't move, so she had to go back to take care of her."
Xu Duan asked her to go back not only because she was meddling too much, but also because of her family factors.
"How is her husband now? Is he feeling better?" It's not easy for a high-level paraplegic patient to survive after being frozen in the snow for so long. Thinking that he had an accident because of a mission with Xu Duan, Zhao Wanqiu became more tolerant of Sister Bao. "This family is really not easy."
While sighing, he quickly took out an egg from the kang cabinet, cut a small piece of the three-finger-wide bacon hanging by the stove, chopped it into small pieces, washed the pot, added half a spoonful of lard, melted it, and quickly fried some bacon and egg fried rice.
Jin Yue returned to his room holding a pot of fragrant fried rice. Xu was sitting on a stool with his eyes closed. He opened his eyes immediately when he heard the voice. There was still a hint of confusion in his eyes, as if he didn't remember why he was here.
The man who used to be so neat and clean now has stubbled hair and beard, a dusty face, bloodshot eyes, and looks exhausted. He just came back to see her.
Jin Yue felt a little sad, "Why are you in such a hurry? It's not like I have to go back to work."
Xu Duan ate the fried rice in big mouthfuls, "I want to see you."
Jin Yue felt sweet inside, as if he had drunk honey, "I won't run away."
Xu Duan stopped talking about this topic and asked, "Is there bacon in the rice?"
"It was sent by Sun Tieniu's family. They had their second child this year, so they killed the New Year pig in advance." I was afraid he would not remember it, so I explained, "It was the first patient I met when I started working that year, the one with suspected schistosomiasis. He got married, and his second child was born this year."
Of course Xu Duan remembered it, but he liked to listen to her talk about it, especially those things that gave her a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
After listening and talking, Jin Yue brought him another basin of warm water after finishing the meal, "Wash your face first."
She handed him her towel, but Xu Duan was reluctant to use it. His face was too dirty, so he washed his neck and arms as well, and the water turned black. I washed it three times before the water came out clear. I rubbed her towel clean, hung it on the towel rack, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Is everything going well?"
"It's OK, but I may need to make more trips in the future. Changchun's automobile manufacturing industry is a model for us to learn from."
Jin Yue nodded, and while watching him take out things one by one, he told him about his situation at home.
"This is some candy. I don't know if it tastes good or not. A lot of people are buying it."
Jin Yue took a look and found it was called Lao Mao Sheng Candy. She could smell a faint sweet fragrance and she liked it!
“Why are there canned yellow peaches?” In fact, Shucheng City also has canned yellow peaches. It can be said that most areas of Longguo produce them, and the taste is almost the same.
"Since the bag can hold it, I'll just take it." Xu Duan took out a few more things, including two packs of Changbai Mountain cigarettes!
This is a famous cigarette from Northeast China. Jin Yue knew this because Zhu Daqiang likes to collect these cigarettes and alcohols. He always talks about them in the office when he has nothing to do. Jin Yue has become an old expert by listening to him.
Xu Duan handed the cigarettes to Zhao Wanqiu, "Give them to uncle and eldest and second brothers." The other cigarettes were for her and Mengmeng and Yaya.
Zhao Wanqiu was so happy. Everyone saw that Jin Yue’s boyfriend gave them cigarettes. What a great honor! When it comes to dealing with human relations, Xu Duan is unmatched in the entire Liuye Hutong. He takes care of everything and does not miss even the smallest sprout.
It is said that the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more satisfied she is. Although they are not married yet, in Zhao Wanqiu's eyes, he is half a son-in-law. "It's good that you're back. What else do you need to bring?"
Xu Duan said a few polite words and greeted everyone before leaving.
He wanted to stay a little longer, but they were not married yet and it was late at night. There were many people in the compound and they were gossipy. What if something got out that would damage Jin Yue's reputation?
***
On the day when all 100 down quilts were sold out, Shu Wenming came back again, exhausted. This time, he wanted to make a big purchase and take advantage of the colder weather to make a big splash. However, the production efficiency of the down factory was low and the pressure was too great. After all his efforts, he could only produce 30 quilts.
Thanks to the hard work in the early stage, this new type of quilt has become famous, and the sales this time are even more impressive. Jin Yue went to see it one day when he had no classes. Wow, as soon as it was taken out, it was sold out in seconds!
At this rate, even if we have another 300 beds, they will all be sold out!
Shu Wenming was so excited that his hands and feet were sweating and his chest was numb. "We will be able to clear out the inventory soon. After that, we will take a break for a while and sell again next autumn."
Based on the profit of four dollars per bed, they will be able to make a net profit of five hundred dollars in a short time. Jin Yue only invested money and did not participate in the actual transaction. Shu Wenming was in charge of all the dirty work. Apart from the money given to his filial parents, he could still get at least three hundred dollars!
Including the capital he got back, he already had a large sum of money in his hands. If he had just worked honestly at the vegetable market, he probably wouldn't have been able to earn that much money in ten years.
But then, his face became a little unhappy again, "Everyone wants to do this money-making business. Song Yingying's cousin saw that we were selling so well, so he asked his brother to secretly get him a batch of goods. They are all the same goods, but he is 50 cents cheaper than us. He has taken away a lot of our business in the past two days."
The current black market is completely disorderly. What he is doing is clearly an attempt to steal business. If Shu Wenming wants to beat him, he can only be cheaper than him. If he really does this, vicious competition will soon form.
By then, no one would be able to even have a sip of soup.
"But we did buy it through Brother Song's connections, so it's impossible to hide it from him." Shu Wenming put his hands behind his head and lay on the kang. "You know, how great would it be if we had our own down processing factory?"
Jin Yue stared at him for three seconds, "Second brother, do you want to run a factory in the future?"
"I have the idea, but I don't have the capital." He believed what Jin Yue said, that the environment would change in the future and private individuals might be able to set up factories, but where would he get the money for such a huge investment?
"If you really have this idea, I will invest money in your shares in the future."
Shu Wenming's eyes widened. "Really?"
"certainly!"
Shu Jinyue has some money now, but she knows her own limitations. She has neither the time nor the energy to think about making money. Apart from buying a house, she dare not make any investment that she is not sure of. Investing in Erge - the probability of failure is much lower than her other investments, it is like taking out an insurance policy for her capital.
Besides, helping young people realize their dreams is everyone’s responsibility.
The brother and sister were imagining a beautiful blueprint for the future when two people came in from the door, running in like loaches.
"Oh my god, I was so scared. My mother-in-law almost saw it." Mrs. Li patted her chest in fear.
Aunt Li has been quiet for a few days since the door collapsed. She has not caused any trouble recently and has to stay at home, fearing that the door will collapse again and someone will rob the house.
"Jin Yue, this is my brother Li Xiangyang."
Li Xiangyang is a very... well, special boy.
How to put it, his skin is very delicate and white, his eyes are big, his eyelashes are long and curled, his lips are also bright red, and even his figure is very slender. If I have to use an accurate word to describe him, he looks more like a girl than his sister. If she were to wear women's clothes, she would definitely be the kind of beautiful girl who could charm a lot of boys.
Perhaps sensing Jin Yue's gaze, Li Xiangyang immediately lowered his head, his long, fan-like eyelashes leaving a shadow.
Mrs. Li smiled apologetically at Jin Yue, "My Xiangyang has been a quiet boy since he was little."
It can be seen that he is not only taciturn, but also shy and sensitive. Li the butcher is big and strong with a beard, and Li the policeman also has thick eyebrows, big eyes and a strong back. In such a family, Li Xiangyang is indeed an "oddball".
"Xiangyang, look, this is the doctor Shu I told you about. Don't be fooled by her young age. She is actually very skilled in medicine and has cured many difficult and complicated diseases. Can you tell her about your condition?"
Li Xiangyang raised his head, glanced at Jin Yue, then lowered his head again, and remained silent.
Mrs. Li gently advised him, "Let's not worry about your work for now. It's not good for you to lose your sense of smell. Let's cure your illness first and then talk about the future later, okay?"
The tone was like coaxing a child.
Shu Jinyue thought to himself, this Li Xiangyang is really something, a grown man but so shy, he came here but didn't say anything, is he going to see the doctor or not?
Mrs. Li was extremely embarrassed. She pulled her brother out of the house and tried to persuade him for a long time. Finally, he came in reluctantly and sat on the bench. Jin Yue put his hand on him.
This ride lasted for five minutes.
Li Xiangyang's pulse is deep, fine and astringent, especially the inch part of his right hand, which is the heaviest. You need to press hard to find the pulse. But Jin Yue remembered that when he first came in, he had a stuffy nose and sniffed hard a few times, and some clear nasal discharge could be seen faintly. Just now, Xiao Li's wife also mentioned that he has been complaining of headaches recently and has a low fever.
These symptoms are manifestations of Wei Qi stagnation, which is commonly known as a cold. The pulse of a cold should be a floating pulse, especially the lung pulse, but his lung pulse is the heaviest of the six pulses.
One rises and the other sinks, going in opposite directions.
"Besides the headache, stuffy nose, runny nose, and fever, are you feeling any other discomfort?"
Li Xiangyang shook his head.
Shu Jinyue asked him to stick out his tongue and looked at it under natural light. His tongue was pale with white coating, which was normal and nothing could be seen for the time being.
"Have you been catching colds frequently since you became ill last year?"
Li Xiangyang nodded.
Jin Yue asked a few more questions, and he either shook his head or nodded. He didn't take the initiative to answer questions that Jin Yue didn't ask... Overall, he was very passive and not proactive.
But if you say that he rejects traditional Chinese medicine, he didn't say anything derogatory, nor did he reveal any attitude, and he basically cooperated throughout the process.
This person not only has a strange disease, but also a strange personality.
"This is the examination we did last time at the ENT department of the provincial hospital." Mrs. Li handed over a stack of lists. Jin Yue looked through them carefully. There was nothing abnormal. Only inflammation of the paranasal sinus and frontal sinus and paralysis of the olfactory nerve were found.
After reading all the results and combining observation, smell, questioning and palpation, Jin Yue still couldn't make a diagnosis. "I'm sorry, sister-in-law, I don't have a clue about this disease for now. If you trust me, I'll continue to think about it."
Mrs. Li trusted her unconditionally. "Okay, okay, we won't bother you. We're not in a hurry to come back in a day or two. Think about it first, and we'll come back in a few days."
As she spoke, she handed over a bamboo basket, and when she saw that Aunt Li wasn't paying attention, the brother and sister slipped away.
Zhao Wanqiu opened the basket and saw another basket of buttons and zippers. Li's mother worked in a garment factory, and she had no shortage of zippers and buttons. She hurriedly wanted to chase after her: "She hasn't used up all the buttons she gave her two years ago. What an honest child."
That year, Jin Yue cured Xiao Li's kidney stones, and she also gave him buttons as a gift.
Anyway, it was just some small things, and it was also a welfare provided by the factory. Jin Yue told Zhao Wanqiu not to pursue it, "Keep it. We can't use it all ourselves, so we can give it to others."
Jin Yue originally wanted to make toys for Meng Meng and Ya Ya to play with, but then he thought that if the buttons were not sewn properly, they would eat them, which would be terrible. After all, children of their age would quickly put anything they picked up on the road into their mouths, "adults' hands can never catch up with their speed in putting things into their mouths."
Zhao Wanqiu also smiled when she thought of her two clever and cute granddaughters. "Your sister-in-law will be on vacation tomorrow, so ask her to bring the kids over to play for a day."
Shu Wenyan is now much more motivated at work, and often even takes the initiative to work overtime. He never gets home before dark, and his two children are taken care of by Grandpa Liu. "Their grandfather likes to walk his birds and has three parrots. Other people's parrots learn to talk like people, but in their family, it's the opposite. The children learn to talk like parrots."
The mother and daughter chatted for a while, but Jin Yue was still worried about Li Xiangyang's illness, so she went back to her room to read.
Unfortunately, this disease is very strange, and Jin Yue couldn’t find the answer in existing books. She decided to go to the school library to look for it the day after tomorrow.
The next day was Sunday, a rare day off, so after lunch Jin Yue washed her hair, put on makeup and matched her clothes, which took her an hour. She had a meeting with Xu Duan in the afternoon. There's nothing new about straight men, just the three-piece set of watching movies, shopping and eating. But fortunately, Jin Yue is rich now, so he can not only buy them for himself, but also buy a few for him.
It was still early after the appointment, so Jin Yue asked him not to send her off. She walked home slowly by herself, just to digest the food.
When her boyfriend is around, she has an overly strong desire to share and spends most of her time chatting, which doesn't help her concentrate on thinking.
Thinking of this, she started walking towards Xinqiao Street. After taking two steps, she seemed to hear someone calling her name.
"Oh my, it's really you, Xiao Shu. I thought I was seeing things!" He only dared to call out tentatively.
This person is Sister Wang from the scrap collection station. Although they live not far from each other, they don’t see each other often because she is busier with work. Shu Jinyue has changed the most in the past two years. She has cut her hair into a semi-permanent inward-curling shoulder-length style. She has grown taller and has gained more flesh on her face. At first glance, she is a young woman in her prime, no longer the androgynous middle school student she used to be.
It's normal that Sister Wang doesn't dare to recognize her.
"You've changed so much, you've become so much prettier, are you still working at the epidemic prevention station?"
"The welfare benefits of your unit must be very good, unlike us. Others ask us to pick up garbage and we can't even support our families. Now it's not like before. There are also private connections outside. People don't like to sell their waste to our station..." He complained one after another.
For most people, the current social outlook is getting better and better, but for those who have benefited from it in the past, it makes them unhappy.
Jin Yue chatted with her casually and was ready to find an excuse to send her away. She wanted to be alone for a while. Unexpectedly, Sister Wang grabbed her arm and whispered, "Does what you said last time still count?"
Jin Yue was stunned. The “last time” they met was probably a year or two ago. She had long forgotten what she said!
"Oh, you said that if one of us received an ancient medical book or something, you would buy it at a high price, right?"
Jin Yue's eyes lit up.
When Sister Wang saw this, her eyes narrowed and she quickly pulled her to walk a few steps faster. "I dug out a few books from the waste pile last year. They look like old books, but I don't know which dynasty they were written by. Do you want to take a look?"
This is definitely without hesitation. Jin Yue hurried to her house. Their home was not within the jurisdiction of Xinqiao Street, but it was not far away, and it only took four or five minutes to walk there.
The Wang family also lived in a large compound. They lived in the back house, which was low and had poor lighting, so they had to turn on the lights before dark.
"There are too many things at home and I haven't had time to clean them up. Please sit for a while and I'll look for them."
There were all kinds of things piled up in the Wang family's house. In addition to old books, old newspapers and various broken antiques, there were also scrap wooden boards, steel bars, discarded kitchen knives, axes and chopping boards, and even several pairs of new cloth shoes and cotton shoes. They were of different sizes and degrees of wear and tear. It was obvious that they were not worn by their family members themselves.
In the period novels that Jin Yue has read, scrap collectors are one of the groups of people who can easily discover treasures and become rich overnight, and the probability of them becoming rich overnight is limited to investing in real estate. It seems that the novel is not written randomly. Sister Wang and her family built a "nest" for themselves with this mentality.
Sister Wang rummaged through a pile of old books for a long time and scratched her head in annoyance. "Why isn't it here? I just remembered to put it here."
"Don't be in a hurry, Sister Wang. Take your time to look for it."
Jin Yue planned to go to a spacious place to get some fresh air, but it turned out that there was no spacious place at all, and his foot accidentally kicked something, which caused him excruciating pain.
Jin Yue grinned, what kind of luck is this!
When she looked down, she found that what kicked her foot was actually a golden object, like a human figure... She quickly squatted down, pulled away the old newspapers around her, and found that it was indeed a small "golden man".
However, this golden man is not a golden Buddha or a golden Bodhisattva, but a naked, straight, bald human model with red dots densely scattered on it. There are words written around the red dots. When you look closer, you can see that words like "Tanzhong", "Zhongji" and "Yingxiang" are clearly the names of acupoints.
I looked around and saw that there were more than a hundred school place labels.
These red "dots" are connected by several black lines, which are the routes of the human body's meridians!
"Oh, this is fake, not real gold. I asked the master craftsman in our yard to check it. The outer layer is gold-plated, and the core inside is copper. It can only be sold as scrap copper and rotten iron. My children like to play with it, so I keep it." Sister Wang thought to herself, he is indeed a child at heart. He looks mature on the outside, but he is still a child at heart. He actually likes such fake things.
However, it is useless to like it——
"You're late. Someone made a reservation a few days ago. He said he wanted to buy a gift for his child. He happened to pass by the door and saw my child playing with the mannequin. He took a fancy to it and said he wanted to buy it for thirty yuan."
Shu Jinyue's heart moved, and she remembered something, something very important.
When she was a ghost, she sat in on several professional courses on acupuncture and massage, and heard an old professor say that in the 1960s and 1970s, China did not pay enough attention to cultural relics and historical sites, and many precious ancient books were snatched away by people from countries with similar traditional Chinese medicine backgrounds.
When the old professor talked about a bronze acupuncture man, he shed tears of regret. He said that the bronze man was originally a treasure collected by a large medical family. It not only had a lifelike shape and scientific proportions, but also had clear and accurate academic titles. It also had more than a dozen more academic titles than ordinary acupuncture bronze men. It was one of the very precious teaching aids of the Imperial Hospital during the Song and Yuan dynasties, which was equivalent to a model teaching aid in the highest medical institution of that period.
Unfortunately, such a good thing was sold to a man from country H for thirty yuan by a staff member of a scrap collection station.
After the H countryman got the item, he announced to the outside world that the bronze acupuncture man was his family's heirloom. He even made up an extremely touching story, swearing that he was the x-generation eldest direct descendant of the King of Medicine Sun Simiao... This caused quite a stir in the Asian Chinese medicine community at the time.
He even used this as evidence to prove that Chinese medicine (Han medicine) originated in their country and was a valuable asset of their nation. This made a group of Chinese medicine practitioners in Long Country very angry. The old professor who was giving the lecture was so angry that he held his head and cried.
When some people in the field of traditional Chinese medicine in China heard about it, they immediately looked for an intermediary to coordinate, saying that they were willing to pay to buy back the bronze acupuncture man that belonged to the Dragon people. The H countryman first asked for five million US dollars, but when he saw that so many Chinese medicine practitioners actually found ways to mobilize the whole society to raise funds, he changed his mind and asked for ten million.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners don't make much money to begin with, and everyone has to support their families. They are already tightening their belts to scrape together that much money. His 10 million dollars would force everyone to sell everything they had. So many people became pessimistic, saying that it was impossible to scrape together 10 million dollars, and that they shouldn't waste their time.
Some also said that the H countrymen were just teasing them deliberately and it was impossible for them to be really willing to sell. Otherwise, they would just take the money but not give them the goods, which would be a waste of their efforts.
Coupled with the intensive hype of various capitals and the booing with ulterior motives, domestic public opinion was in an uproar. Some accused these "doctors" of not doing their jobs and that the work must not be tiring enough. Some said that their salaries were unreasonable and that the salaries of medical staff should be reduced... The enthusiasm that everyone had finally gathered was dispersed in an instant, and the call for action could only stop.
When the old professor talked about this, tears streamed down his face. Apia Jinyue became furious when he heard it. What a bullshit origin, bullshit redemption. The owner actually had to pay a huge sum of money to the thief to buy back his things. It was simply too much!
Now, most of the information about time, place, people and price matches. This bronze man is most likely the treasure that was bought by the H countryman that year.
Jin Yue took a deep breath.
"What's wrong, Xiaoshu? I see if you feel uncomfortable somewhere."
Shu Jinyue was suddenly startled and found himself too excited, which was a taboo before he finally achieved his goal - Xu Duan once said that if you really want to do something and this thing will be blocked by someone, you must not show your emotions easily.
That would be tantamount to offering your neck to be strangled by others. But Sister Wang is not as enthusiastic as she appears.
Ever since he had a setback at the hands of Sister Qiao, Jin Yue has learned a little bit about how to do things. Don't look at how nice a person's words sound, but look at what she actually does.
When she came just now, I asked her if she was willing to "buy it at a high price", which shows that she really wants money; and when I heard that there were old books, my eyes lit up, and she found it, so I dragged her to have a look, which shows that she really wants money; on the way, I asked her if she bought a house, and I heard that she got dividends from the city's traditional Chinese medicine factory; now she says she can't find it, maybe she wants to raise the price.
In the past, she felt that this was thinking the worst of people, but after what happened to Sister Qiao, she felt that her current age and status always gave people an invisible feeling that "I am very simple and easy to deceive." They may be very sincere to others, but it is different for her.
Sister Qiao could put her together with a scumbag like Shen Heping, so Sister Wang, who had been in the market for half her life, could easily tear a piece of meat off her.
Shu Jinyue thought about these problems and rubbed his solar plexus. "I am a little dizzy. Maybe I haven't slept well recently."
She casually put the bronze statue back to the corner and said, "I'm going to go out and get some fresh air."
Sister Wang didn't take it seriously. She was afraid that Jin Yue might feel unwell and want to go home, so she didn't dare to keep her waiting any longer. She searched in another pile of waste paper and pretended to have discovered a new world: "Oh, here it is!"
"Finally I found it. This house is so messy that I couldn't find it anymore. It's all my husband's fault... Look quickly, what are these books?"
Jin Yue pretended to be very excited when he took them. They were all yellowed, tattered books with no covers. They were all in traditional Chinese characters and in vertical format. The first one was a collection of jokes in vernacular Chinese. He could take it back to his second sister-in-law and Yulan to kill time.
Sister Wang quietly observed her expression and saw that she just flipped through the book twice and smiled. She knew that this was not the book she wanted.
The second book was even more outrageous. It was actually a pornographic book. Although there were no pictures, the text was very explicit. Other girls might have thrown it away with a blushing face, but she was very curious about who Shu Jinyue was, so she immediately flipped through a few pages.
Sister Wang guessed that she liked this book.
It’s funny to say that although Sister Wang works at a purchasing station and deals with old books and newspapers every day, she is illiterate! The reason why Jin Yue was able to find a part-time job to help out was because she was illiterate and could not do the tasks assigned by her leader, so she temporarily asked Jin Yue to cover for her.
Unfortunately, her husband was illiterate, so she only knew that most of the strokes of these books were traditional Chinese characters, which were written by ancient people. Once she put them in her arms, she would not want to take them out again.
She was afraid that if she took the money out to ask people what was written on it, they would cheat her out of it, so she kept it hidden until Shu Jinyue, who she thought was naive and easy to cheat, came to her, intending to make some money.
And Shu Jinyue did not disappoint her. When she saw the fifth book, her eyes sparkled, her lips trembled, and her hands shook. "This, this, this is actually, is..."
Sister Wang's two little eyes shone like searchlights, and with a ding-dong sound, she quickly added a zero after the price she expected.
Jin Yue was like an unsuspecting rookie. "Sister Wang, I really like this book. How is it sold? Is there a sequel?"
Sister Wang looked very distressed. "Oh, let me see what kind of book it is."
He pretended to read it over and over again twice, then shook his head and sighed, "It's this one..."
"What's wrong with this one?"
"Unfortunately, this medical book has been reserved by someone, an old professor of a medical school. I heard that he is still working as a specialist in the provincial hospital. It is very difficult to get an appointment. He said that this book is very rare and may be put in a museum in the future."
Jin Yue looked disappointed on the surface, but he was very happy in his heart. Which great expert or professor wanted to buy a cookbook of Shandong cuisine?
"What should I do? This is... but... there is no other copy in the whole Dragon Country right now. Maybe it can be put in a museum in the future. What should I do..." Jin Yue muttered to himself while holding back his laughter, "No matter how much he gives you, I will pay double."
Sister Wang swallowed her saliva and said, "This is not good. He wants to pay 100 yuan. If you double it, it will be 200 yuan. Will your family agree to this?"
Sure enough, the light in Jin Yue's eyes dimmed. "It's so expensive. I can't afford it. Although my parents don't care about my salary, I don't have much money. You know young people."
Seeing that she wanted to back out, Sister Wang was startled and quickly changed her words: "Well, with our relationship, how can I charge you double the price? If you want, just give me some. The main thing is that when I agreed to sell it to the old professor, I received a deposit of 80 yuan from him. If I regret not selling it, I will have to return him double the deposit. You have seen the conditions of my family. We are just waiting for the rice to cook. Where can I get the extra 80 yuan deposit..."
As she spoke, she began to wipe away her tears and complained about her husband being useless and her children being disobedient.
Jin Yue was moved by what he heard and hesitated for a long time, "Then I will give you the eighty?"
Sister Wang clapped her hands in her heart, but she still looked embarrassed. "How can I let you pay for this? If others tell others, they will think I am not kind. If your parents knew..."
You foolish son of a landlord, I’m afraid your parents will come to me to argue with you!
"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. My parents love me, and if I'm afraid they'll be angry, I'll just give them a gift to appease them. See if there's anything I can give them as a gift that the old people will like."
She didn't choose herself, she gave the initiative to Sister Wang.
Given Sister Wang's personality, if Jin Yue took the initiative to choose, Sister Wang might even raise the price. Only if she was the one to choose would she feel that she had picked the worthless and useless things.
Sister Wang was eager to make the deal on the spot. She glanced around and saw the fake golden man she had just picked up, but quickly looked away.
After all, that was a thirty-dollar item and a sucker had already reserved it. The guy said he was staying at the Shilan Hotel and it was inconvenient for him to carry it with him, so he would come to buy it when he left.
Why did Shu Jinyue act from beginning to end? How could he let her miss it? He immediately pointed to her kang table, where there was a blue and white porcelain vase.
"I want this vase."
Jin Yue didn't understand these things and had never watched any treasure appraisal programs, but she found at a glance that the pattern of this vase was very similar to the one she dug out from Sun Laoliu's rat hole. Xu Duan said that thing was valuable, so by analogy, this vase must be valuable as well.
Sure enough, Sister Wang's face changed drastically, "How is this possible?!"
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