Chapter 92: Strange Mental Illness, Telephone, and Fate-Changing...
Sun Aihong's elder sister is named Sun Ailan. The two sisters grew up with their grandparents in their hometown. Their mother died in childbirth. Their father was a guard for Mr. Jiang. He only took the two sisters to his side to raise them after the situation stabilized.
"My grandmother was a very traditional and timid rural woman. My sister is very similar to her in this respect. But I am the odd one out in our family. They say I am more like my father. I am fearless and always make trouble for my family." As soon as she was taken to Beijing, she fought fiercely with the son led by her father. Her fate with Jiang Weijun was forged through fighting.
"At that time, when the family members in the compound heard Sun Aihong's name, the adults shook their heads and the children ran away, treating me like a devil."
"My sister was different. She was gentle and quiet since she was young and was afraid of conflicts with anyone. Later, my father arranged for her to work in a department store, where she also did a simple sales job. He kicked me into the military camp and I grew up with Jiang Weijun and Xu Duan."
Unlike her and Jiang Weijun who got to know each other through fighting, Sun Ailan's marriage was very bumpy. At that time, Grandpa Sun was away and had not returned home for several years. The situation was chaotic and they could not receive any letters. The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren at home were almost starving to death. It happened that the neighbor next door gave them 20 kilograms of food and saved their lives. In order to thank the neighbor, Grandma Sun agreed to marry Sun Ailan to their grandson in the future.
This was considered an arranged marriage, but who would have thought that Mr. Sun would become successful and bring them to Beijing to enjoy a good life. A neighboring family also felt that the marriage could not be completed, so they found another girl for their son.
Unexpectedly, the son was very infatuated with Sun Ailan and was a childhood sweetheart of hers. He said that he must go to Beijing to find out clearly, and only if their family did not want to marry, would he agree to find another one for his family.
"Later, he really walked all the way and asked all the way, and finally found my sister. My sister was willing to marry him, and even my father felt that he couldn't go back on his word. Even though the circumstances of the two families were very different, he asked Jiang Weijun's father to arrange a job for him after the marriage, so that he could get out of the farm and support himself, and they could make a living."
If things ended here, it would be a beautiful love story, but unfortunately it is not——
Not long after Sun Ailan's fiancé returned home, he was found to have a sallow complexion and a big belly. At first, he thought it was a "big belly disease" caused by his frugality on the road, and it would heal after a while. Unexpectedly, her belly grew bigger and bigger. She was sent to the commune hospital, but the hospital said it could not cure her. She was told to go to the county hospital, but the county hospital said she was infected with schistosomiasis.
No one knew whether he was infected in his hometown or on the way to find Sun Ailan. In any case, the medical conditions were limited and it was too late when the disease was discovered. He died after more than three months of treatment.
When the Sun family heard that he was ill, they helped contact the hospital in his hometown and arranged for him to be transferred for treatment. They paid a lot of medical expenses, but they failed to save his young life.
"Since then, my sister's mood has been a little off. She doesn't like to laugh anymore and looks dull all day long. I don't know what she's thinking."
But life had to go on, and soon another temporary salesperson in the same unit kept pursuing her. Mr. Sun also wanted her to get over it quickly, and used a new relationship to help her get over the pain. Seeing that the young man was not bad, he agreed to the marriage.
"I didn't agree at first, but I was too young and my dad wouldn't listen to me. Plus, Niu kept promising that he would treat my sister well in the future and that he didn't mind that my sister had someone else in her heart. He would definitely take good care of my sister and help her get out of the haze, so my dad agreed."
Sun's father has never been a person who cares about family background. He thinks that since he has a good position in the department store system, it would be nice to find a son-in-law like this. He can ensure his job is converted to a regular position and promoted, and he will not dare to treat his daughter badly in the future.
When Shu Jinyue heard this, he cursed Niu Xiaofang and her daughter in his heart for being good-for-nothings. In this situation, with such a long time between the events, how could the child not be Manager Niu's biological child? Aren't they afraid of being struck by lightning for instigating such a thing?
And the most inhumane one is Manager Niu. He doesn't trust his wife's character, but he actually trusts the mother and daughter of the Niu family. She even suspects that Manager Niu has been unwilling to divorce just to continue to take advantage of the Sun family and continue to benefit from the Sun and Jiang families... To be honest, if his father-in-law's surname was not Sun and the Sun family had a good relationship with the Jiang family, how could he, a temporary worker, become the manager of the San Department Store.
Pooh!
Shu Jinyue felt his fist harden. "No matter if it can be cured or not, I want to go see Sister Ailan. Is that ok?"
Sun Aihong nodded. "Given my sister's condition, if Mr. Niu wants to find someone else, we don't mind. I'd rather he find someone quickly and not bother my sister anymore. But what kind of person is he looking for? It's obvious that the mother and daughter of the Niu family are not good people."
"You don't know, Niu Xiaofang went to great lengths to persuade them to divorce. She said she would find a good doctor for my sister, who might be able to cure her, but the prerequisite was that our family had to agree to let the man surnamed Niu divorce my sister. I can't wait for them to divorce!"
I just didn’t expect that this “good doctor” turned out to be Shu Jinyue.
Jin Yue also had no choice but to smile bitterly. With such unpresentable neighbors, Jin Yue felt that there was something wrong with the feng shui of Liuye Hutong. How could such bad things always happen?
Sun Aihong can drive, so she drove Jiang Weijun's jeep. The two of them arrived at the Shucheng Mental Hospital where Sun Ailan lived very quickly, just over ten minutes' drive away.
The Sun family was obviously a regular here. As soon as they walked to the door, the nurse greeted Sun Aihong: "Comrade Sun is here to see your sister again. She is basking in the sun now."
Following the direction of her finger, Jin Yue followed Sun Aihong and walked over. It was a rooftop-like place surrounded by iron railings. There were a few sheets, pillowcases, pillowcases and other things hanging on the railings, but no one knew who they belonged to.
It was very quiet there, with only a woman sitting quietly in the shade under the sun, writing something in a notebook with a pen.
Sun Ailan and Sun Aihong do not look alike. Sun Aihong has an oval face, short hair and a slender figure, while Sun Ailan has sickly pale skin, big eyes, a melon-shaped face and long hair. She looks very literary and has a broken beauty.
Sometimes she looked at the sky, sometimes at the big tree outside the railing, sometimes she lowered her head to write a few words, sometimes she just frowned, as if she was thinking... If you didn't know, you would think she was a painter sketching in the wild, or a poet carefully choosing his words.
Shu Jinyue thought to himself that mental illness was indeed a strange disease. People suffering from this disease were all kinds of strange. Some were ragged and cried and laughed at random, some were barefoot and naked, running around and smashing things crazily, while some were like quiet painters.
"sister."
Sun Ailan turned around and smiled at Sun Aihong, "You're here. Have you been busy with work recently?"
"It's OK. I have two days off. How are you feeling recently?"
Sun Ailan didn't say anything, looking at the sky in the distance, "It's still the same. When it's not sick, it's very normal. When it's sick... it's just like that."
Shu Jinyue was stunned. She actually knew when he was sick and when he was normal? !
You know, many mental patients are either completely unaware that they are ill and do not know that they are abnormal, or they are internally rejecting and resisting admitting that they are ill. Sun Ailan's attitude is too calm.
If she didn't know the previous situation, she really wouldn't think of her as a mental patient.
"This is Doctor Shu, she's very skilled. Can I ask her to help you?"
Sun Ailan then looked at Jin Yue. Except for the first time when she politely nodded to Jin Yue, this was the first time she looked directly at the girl in front of her.
"My disease cannot be cured. I don't need to see a doctor anymore."
"She is different from the previous doctors. She is a Chinese medicine practitioner. She cured my little Huzi's high fever and diagnosed his grandfather's cerebral infarction through pulse diagnosis. You can let her take a look. Maybe there will be some results."
Sun Ailan shook her head, obviously refusing treatment.
Shu Jinyue was reluctant to force himself on her pulse, as this was the most basic respect, and Sun Ailan... well, she remembered that Sun Aihong had said on the way here that she couldn't get too excited, or she would get sick.
Her attacks were different from those of other mental patients. She would not hit or swear. When her attack was mild, she would just stare with her eyes wide open and not sleep. She could not close her eyes all night long, sometimes for forty or fifty hours. When her attack was serious, she would run around everywhere, take off her clothes for no reason, and even bang her head against the wall or door.
She knew she would have an attack, but her family never dared to tell her about taking off her clothes. They only said that she would hurt herself, so they sent her to a mental hospital for treatment. She was willing to accept this reality.
And a mentally ill person like this who hardly hurts others and only hurts herself is the one who cannot be stimulated the most. Because she is likely to go to extremes, Jin Yue dare not force her.
The two of them left the mental hospital and got in the car. Sun Aihong sighed, "In fact, when she is not sick, I always feel that she has never been sick. Look, she is fine, can communicate, eat, and take care of herself. How can she be sick?"
Yeah, that's a normal person.
She handed over a stack of documents and said, "Take a look. These are the tests we have done in the past few years."
Psychiatric examinations mainly rely on professional doctor interviews and assessments, as well as scale scoring and EEG examinations...but strangely, there were no obvious abnormalities in the doctor's evaluation and the scale.
Jin Yue guessed that these were done when she was awake, and a "normal person" would definitely not do anything abnormal.
"The EEG was normal when she was awake at the beginning. The doctor suggested that it should be done during the seizure phase in order to collect more information. So there were two times when she had an attack...but strangely, there was no abnormal discharge." Speaking of those two times, Sun Aihong felt guilty. She felt that she was cruel to her sister.
Such a thin woman, who had done nothing wrong and had not hurt anyone, was tied to the bed like an animal.
Jin Yue didn't have time to comfort her. She read the report carefully from beginning to end. There was really no problem at all. There was no abnormal discharge. It was acceptable once, but it was the same twice... Such results showed that there was really nothing wrong with her brain.
Sun Ailan's symptoms mainly included keeping her eyes open, taking off her clothes and running wildly, and self-injury, so the doctor also gave her a full-body examination to rule out diseases of other systems, including X-rays, electrocardiograms, liver and kidney function tests, thyroid function tests... everything that could be done under the existing conditions was done.
Except for those that are harmful to the human body, other examinations are conducted once a year and have been normal for ten consecutive years.
If you only look at this thick stack of information, everyone would think that Sun Ailan is a normal person, and a very healthy one at that, the type who doesn't need to take cold medicine for several years.
It's a very strange feeling.
Jin Yue thought of the notebook she had been holding just now, "What did Sister Ailan write in the notebook?"
"Oh, this is an old problem my sister has had since she got sick. At first, she couldn't remember what happened after she got sick, so she wanted to take a notebook to write it down, but it was useless. She couldn't remember it when she was really crazy. But she developed a habit of writing it down in a notebook, such as what happened today, what she ate, and how long she took a nap."
This is a bit like a stereotyped action.
"I see she treasures that notebook very much. Have you seen what she wrote in it?"
Sun Aihong said as she drove: "Jiang Weijun thought so too, saying that the cause of my sister's illness might be found in it, but we have been looking for several years. We have checked every notebook of hers and there is no useful clue."
"But she really treasured that thing. When she was ill, she lost her necklace, earrings and watch. Sometimes she took off her clothes and pants without even noticing, but she never forgot her notebook."
This notebook seems to be her obsession, and writing something seems to be her muscle memory.
Shu Jinyue felt that this disease was a bit strange. If it was accompanied by some weird music, it would feel a bit like a horror movie.
"But as long as she doesn't get sick, it's actually pretty good. Not living with the Niu guy is actually a real relief for her." Sun Aihong sighed, "My dad is old-fashioned. He always thinks that people can only be considered adults after getting married. He can feel relieved, but he doesn't know how painful it is to marry someone you don't love."
Shu Jinyue agreed. Which head of the family isn't like this these days? Even fifty years later, there are still many parents like this.
"It's better to get divorced, but I feel sorry for my nephew. He has to take the college entrance examination this year, so I must not let it affect him."
Jin Yue thought of the annoying Niu family mother and daughter and planned to remind her: "This mother and daughter are stupid and bad, you should pay attention to it. If not, take your nephew back to his grandfather's house to live for a while until the college entrance examination is over."
"That's right. Thank you for reminding me. I'll ask the kid later. If he agrees, I'll go pick him up."
"I want to tell you something, don't be angry."
Sun Aihong glanced at her. It can be said that the more Shu Jin "grew up" under her watch, the simple, naive, and gullible she used to give people the feeling of being a silly little girl whose emotions were written on her face, who had no scheming and was particularly easy to trust others. That's why people always ignored her real age and thought she was just Xu Duan's "niece."
But now, she is different.
It’s hard to say what the specific difference is, but Sun Aihong feels that she no longer treats her as a junior, but as a rational and mature adult like herself.
"Well, go ahead."
"They may have instigated Director Niu, saying... saying..."
"You said my nephew is not his biological son?" Sun Aihong laughed. "I can guess it. To be honest, if I didn't know my sister's character, I would have this doubt. You will know when you meet my nephew."
Director Niu's appearance is ordinary, and he even looks a bit ugly because of hair loss and greasiness. Does this mean that his son is much better looking than him?
Jin Yue was a little curious about what this calf looked like.
After returning to the compound, Jin Yue was about to go back to his room to read a book when he saw Xu Duanzheng and his men tinkering in the living room. "What are you doing?"
"Let's install a telephone at home so we don't have to go out to make calls."
Shu Jinyue was shocked. She remembered that Mo Shuyi also wanted to install a telephone, but when she asked at the post office and telephone bureau, she was told that the cost was very high, and even if she didn't get the approval, it would basically not be possible to install it.
"It doesn't cost much. This is what Mr. Jiang said. What you are doing now is to earn foreign exchange for our country. All departments must fully cooperate."
Shu Jinyue: "Ah???"
No, she didn't expect that even Mr. Jiang knew about the rhinitis medicine.
And because of the old man's orders, not only did they spend less money, but their work efficiency was also very high. In just two days, the Shu family's telephone was ready for use!
No matter how strange everyone thinks, Jin Yue's first thing is to inform a few good friends. From now on, they can just call their home directly without calling the street office. The second thing is to contact Sato.
"Doctor Shu, I have good news for you. The rhinitis medicine this time is very effective. After taking your medicine, my five friends' rhinitis symptoms were effectively relieved and controlled. According to clinical data, the complete relief rate is as high as 80%, and the partial improvement rate is 20%, with an overall effective rate of 100%."
Shu Jinyue laughed more and more, "This is because there are so few samples."
"No, no, no, they are asking me to continue buying. I want to ask, what is the maximum quantity you can prepare within three days?"
Jin Yue tried his best to ignore his strange translation tone and word order, "How much do you want?"
"To be honest, in addition to their relatives and friends, there is also a friend who works in the ENT department of a private clinic, and his patients may be in great need."
"What about the thirty portions?" One portion means one box, one course of treatment.
"Not enough."
"Fifty?"
"One hundred copies, at least, no less, within three days."
Shu Jinyue thought to himself that this amount was not much for a Chinese medicine factory, but as for the money...
"One hundred yuan each, the total price is 10,000 Dragon Country Currency. I will transfer the money immediately."
Shu Jinyue swallowed his saliva.
"Is the payment account the company that Xu Duanjun mentioned last time? I will pay soon. Please prepare the medicine for me first." Sato paused. "Last time, Xu Duanjun proposed the sanitary napkin factory. My aunt said she would consider it, but there is no reply yet. I will contact you as soon as there is a reply."
After hanging up the phone, Shu Jinyue took a deep breath and realized for the first time that this money was really easy to make! ! !
In the past, in order to scrape together a few hundred dollars for a job, she had to go out early and come back late to roam around the ghost market, and she almost lost her life. In order to sell a ginseng, she disguised herself as a young man from Northeast China, but in the end she only got 75 yuan. But now, it’s just a recipe that she usually uses, just grinding it into powder, and adding a little gorgeous packaging, and she can actually sell it for so much money in one go!
She didn't know what was different, but she felt that it was becoming easier to make money and the amount of money she earned was increasing, but she clearly had these skills before.
Kang Yongxin was also surprised when he received the call. When he heard that they wanted so much more, he said unambiguously, "Okay, I will report to Deputy Director Su now and ensure that the task is completed on time."
This is because Shu Jinyue has this ability. She has treated him, Deputy Director Su, the factory director and secretary, and many workers. Every time she treats a patient, she refuses to charge a penny more. So when she needs to use the factory's resources, the factory makes an exception and accepts her "outside order".
If it were anyone else, don't even think about it.
If Jin Yue had only a vague understanding of the word "resources" a few days ago, this phone call was like an epiphany for her.
Many times, it is not that difficult to speak up, and to make money, you need cooperation and help from each other. No businessman can succeed by working alone in isolation.
Learning to accumulate resources is important, but using resources is also a very important ability.
***
After the ten thousand yuan arrived, Shu Jinyue instantly became a wealthy woman with a deposit of fifty thousand yuan, and she even walked with a dizzy look on her face.
"Jin Yue, have you made a fortune now? Why are you so proud?" Shu Wenming looked her up and down.
"Is it that obvious?"
"Money really can make things clear." Shu Wenming sighed exaggeratedly, "If you have money, can you invest some money for me? I'm short of money recently."
"What investment?"
"I want to go to Ganxi Province."
Jin Yue raised an eyebrow, "You still want to make a duvet?"
"Well, this thing doesn't cost much, and I can flutter it a few times."
"Why don't you try a down jacket?"
Shu Wenming sighed, "A good down jacket is several times more expensive than a down quilt. I can't afford it."
Jin Yue thought about it and said, "But with the climate in our Shilan Province, down quilts may become a novelty in one or two years. As for long-term development, I think down jackets still have a bigger market." For the older generation like Shu Linong, they think that thick and large quilts are the warmest.
Moreover, Jin Yue was thinking that, in terms of frequency, a person would have many down jackets, but for a down quilt, one down quilt is enough for two people. Clothes can be changed frequently, but one quilt is enough for several years - the market potential is too small.
"If you want to make big money, you have to pick a bigger pool."
"I know what you mean, but I don't have that much money." He lent all the 30,000 yuan he borrowed to Xu Duan. He only had a few thousand yuan in his hand, so he couldn't make many down jackets. What's more important is that he had to pay a deposit.
It's not summer yet. Down jackets sell best in late autumn and early winter. It takes at least half a year to get your money back. In such a good environment and such a busy era, others are eating meat and drinking soup while he just sits and watches?
The world outside changes every day. If I miss this summer and autumn, I wonder if the environment will change next year? No one with ambition would miss this opportunity.
Of course, he was obsessed with making down quilts because he was arrested for this in the past, and he still felt a little uncomfortable about it, with an obsession of "wanting to turn the tables." Objectively speaking, this is indeed a huge market. If you have enough money to invest in it, you will definitely make a profit.
Shu Jinyue also thought of this and hesitated, "Let me think about it."
When Xu Duan came back in the evening, Jin Yue told him about his second brother's proposal, "Do you think I can invest in this?"
"Yes, but don't invest all of it. Keep some of it. It will be useful in the near future."
"About the sanitary napkin factory?"
"Yes." Xu Duan patted her shoulder, "Go to sleep, I'll go take a shower."
"What are you washing? I don't want it."
The two of them take a bath almost every two days, but when they say "take a bath", they mean washing their butts alone. They both pay attention to hygiene, and it seems that this sentence has become the key to opening their married life.
But normally neither of them would say anything, they would just wash silently. It would be a bit embarrassing to say it out loud.
Xu Duan smiled and whispered, "Then I won't wash it. I'll wash it after I'm done?"
"Why are you like this?"
Jin Yue was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he went to the kang and wrapped himself in the quilt. A few minutes later, he came with his bare chest and hugged her in his arms.
One was tall, the other was slender. A long arm with obvious muscular lines was around her slender waist. Jin Yue felt that the arm was hotter than the big kang in winter. It was so hot that her eyes were filled with tears. She could only hug him tightly and let him ride on her.
Before falling asleep again, Shu Jinyue thought, well, it should be her turn to gallop next time. She was the one who galloped last time. It was tiring, but the happiness was doubled.
***
The next day, after a night of consideration, Jin Yue invested 15,000 yuan in her second brother's down factory. Because she didn't have time to participate in the specific management, she invested as much money as before. Shu Wenming went to western Jiangxi Province and stayed there for two months. He found a master craftsman there and paid tuition to learn for a month.
He wanted to start from a small workshop. Whether it was the purchase and processing of down, the sewing of the mesh, the making of the blanks, or the selection of fabrics and linings, he would do it all himself. He would learn it first, and then think about finding someone else to do it.
The duck down bought from Brother Song was not cleaned properly because it was very cheap. After it was transported to Shilan Province, he needed to personally select, wash, remove impurities, dry it in the sun, and also make it fluffy. Large factories have professional equipment, but what should small workshops do if they don’t have machines?
Purely manual.
This requires a group of workers who are meticulous in their work, preferably temporary workers, who are paid when they are needed and save on various labor costs when they are not needed.
"That's easy. I'll ask your Aunt Zhao and the others to do it. How many people do you need?" Zhao Wanqiu said, taking out the reading glasses that Jin Yue had given her and putting them on. "Your Aunt Zhao and the others have better eyesight than me. They can even remove the small hairs on the chickens when they are killed. When the time comes, just tell them your requirements and take them to do it once. I guarantee there will be no problem."
Shu Wenming actually didn't want to hire young people, because this kind of work was too simple and didn't require much technical skills. From the perspective of a qualified boss, hiring young people would require high wages, and the middle-aged women would only need one dollar a day at most.
Soon, Aunt Zhao, Aunt Feng and six others came to the Shu family quietly. After listening to Shu Wenming's request, they did it on their own without his demonstration.
In order to do this job, Shu Wenming even rented a large room in the next yard as a special venue. Every morning when the young people went to work, they would go there and work until they were about to get off work and go home to cook. Time passed quickly. After three weeks, all the duck down they bought was processed cleanly.
They came quietly and left quietly, and no one noticed at first, but there is no impenetrable wall in Yard No. 16!
"Hey, Mr. Zhao, where have you and Mr. Feng been? I haven't seen you in a few days."
"Well, there's something going on outside, so I'm going to go help out for a few days."
"Who are you helping? Can you come over? If not, why don't you let us go with you?"
Aunt Li also said, "We don't want money, let us help too, we have nothing to do anyway."
Aunt Zhao gave a fake smile and thought to herself, if you don't want money, then there is no one in this world who wants money. If it were normal times, I would have said a few words to her, but now I'm getting paid and I have to keep it a secret, so I don't want to make trouble.
Not only her, but the other five aunts also thought so. The compound became unusually calm and peaceful.
Shu Jinyue didn't know about these things, and even if he did, he wouldn't be in a hurry. The authorities now encourage private individuals to open small factories, and as long as the number of regular employees is controlled within a certain range, it will be fine. Besides, his second brother has obtained a certificate, so even if someone really reports it, it won't matter.
"Don't worry. A few days ago, someone making shoes in Beicheng District was reported. The person who received the report went to the scene to verify and found that everything was within the policy. Then he criticized the reporter." Xu Duan parked the car and said in a low voice.
The young couple had been married for a few months. Jin Yue's friends had come to their house, but Xu Duan's friends had not. The last time Jin Yue failed to treat Sun Ailan, it reminded her that it was time to invite friends to come to their house and get to know the place.
They carried the fish, beef and mutton they bought to the kitchen. Zhao Wanqiu was busy steaming rice. Xu Wenli was adding firewood to the stove while eating melon seeds. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were chatting in low voices about gossip in the alley.
"Niu Xiaofang is really getting married. Is she really going to get married with Manager Niu this time?"
Zhao Wanqiu nodded, "I met your Aunt Niu yesterday. She was very proud and said that she would invite her to stay at Shilan Hotel like our Jinyue did. Then she turned around and asked me to help her find some connections. They didn't know who to contact to hold the wedding banquet at Shilan Hotel. She also said that she would give me a red envelope if it was successful."
Aunt Niu's whole family always employs people forward and never backward. If the promised benefits are not given before the work is done, then the benefits will not be in place when the work is done. This was the painful lesson Aunt Li learned back then.
"No, Mom, do you really want to benefit from her?" Jin Yue walked into the house and handed over the beef and mutton, while Xu Duan took the three lively grass carps to the well to process them.
"Is your mother so shallow?" Zhao Wanqiu laughed, "I refused at the time, saying that I didn't know anyone and that all these things were done by Xu Duan. Guess what she said?"
"When she saw that I was unwilling to ask Xu Duan for help, she actually said that she would ask Sun Aihong's father to intercede with the hotel."
Shu Jinyue and Xu Wenli opened their mouths at the same time, amazed: Has Aunt Niu really been kicked in the head by a donkey? !
The son-in-law is holding a wedding banquet for his second marriage, but he actually has to ask his ex-father-in-law to help him book a hotel? !
Just posting this sentence on a certain book is outrageous enough to warrant a new account!
After Jiang Weijun and his family arrived, Shu Jinyue heard an even more explosive news - Niu Xiaofang was actually pregnant!
"No wonder they are in a hurry to get married, it turns out they are pregnant, haha." Sun Aihong was sitting on the sofa in Jin Yue's house. Xiao Huzi and the other children went out to play in the yard.
Quite a few people came today, about a dozen or so, all of them were Xu Duan’s friends. Some of them were childhood friends, some were old comrades in the army. The whole family came, and there were quite a few children alone.
"What are Aihong and Jin Yue talking about?" A woman squeezed over. Jin Yue remembered that Xu Duan had introduced her as the lover of his comrade-in-arms Yang Guodong. Yang Guodong was still in the army, but had been transferred to the Shilan Provincial Military Region and was already a brigade-level leader.
She smiled and said to Jin Yue, "Sister Jin Yue, are you having a headache because of these naughty monkeys? You will understand when you have children in the future. You want them when you don't have them, and when you have them, you want to put them back. It's so infuriating."
Today, the more I smile.
"You've been married for a while now. Have you started having children? Our Xu Tuan is not young anymore. Is he five or four years younger than my old Yang?"
This was too enthusiastic and too straight to the point. Jin Yue smiled, nodded and agreed, and quickly changed the subject.
Sister Yang was also a straightforward person, and she was quickly attracted by the new topic, because Jin Yue and Sun Aihong were talking about seeing a doctor, and she was curious——
"Aihong, your sister's illness can't be cured, but she's fine now, right? When your nephew goes to college, she won't have anything to worry about."
Sun Aihong also felt so, and the entire Sun family felt so. But Shu Jinyue couldn't tell what was wrong. She just felt that Sun Ailan shouldn't have such a fate. She could live without love and marriage, but she should at least have dignity.
An adult takes off her clothes uncontrollably at any time and place. If she knows she has done such a thing after she wakes up, how upset would she be?
This is basic human dignity for both men and women.
However, unlike Jin Yue's worries, his friends sent their best wishes to the couple's new life and praised the meal.
Zhao Wanqiu has honed her cooking skills over the past few years. Whenever she brings out her three signature dishes, braised pork, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, and stir-fried pork intestines, everyone will praise her.
As for the fact that Xu Duan moved to his mother-in-law's house after marriage, his friends didn't say a word. Even the neighbors in the compound couldn't say anything. They even felt a little envious. Who wouldn't want a son-in-law who bought fish and meat for them from time to time? You have to know that the house they live in belongs to Jin Yue, not the Shu family.
Since you are a couple, it doesn’t make much difference whose house you live in.
***
Aunt Li couldn't find out anything about what the Shu family was busy with and could only worry.
But Fan Qiuyue, the daughter-in-law of the Du family who rented Jin Yue's house, is a thoughtful person. She has always been a man of few words, and her presence in the compound is as low as that of the mother and daughter of the Qian family. She has always just kept her head down and done her work, never talking about anyone's right or wrong. However, she does not have the hidden cleverness and greed for petty gains like Aunt Qian, so everyone likes her better than Aunt Qian.
That day, she walked into Compound No. 16 with a sad face, not knowing what to do for her child’s grandmother’s 80th birthday the next day.
Although her husband Du Aiguo is from a city, he has many brothers and sisters in his family with a big age gap. He, the youngest brother, has been working in the countryside for so many years and has nothing when he comes back. He had to beg for a job as a substitute teacher in the street primary school.
As a result, the school's salary was delayed this month, and it happened to be my mother-in-law's 80th birthday, so my brothers and sisters agreed to give it all at once, and agreed that each family would contribute eight yuan. Du Aiguo only gets 23 yuan a month, and it was paid late this month. He scraped together five yuan, but he didn't know where to get the remaining three yuan.
When she thought about the fact that their family would not be able to afford the money and that they would inevitably be ridiculed by their brothers and sisters, Fan Qiuyue didn't want to go to her mother-in-law's house at all.
Her parents-in-law and her cousins all felt that Du Aiguo should not have brought her and the children with him when he returned to the city. Many educated youth returned home after divorce, but he chose to bring back three burdens. Her in-laws did not treat her well at all.
As she was thinking, she almost bumped into someone. She quickly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention."
When I looked up, it turned out to be the second son of the Shu family in the front yard, Jin Yue's second brother.
She suddenly had an idea, "Brother Wenming, can I... chat with you for a few minutes?"
Shu Wenming has had a headache these past two days. He has learned how to make the blanks, but making them requires some technical skills, and some tailoring skills. The aunties are good at doing rough work, but they lack the skills to do this, so he doesn't know who to ask for help.
"Well, Sister Du, you say."
Fan Qiuyue's presence was too low. He only knew that she worked odd jobs everywhere. Their two children would often go to the vegetable market to pick up rotten vegetable leaves and potatoes. Xu Wenli would quietly leave the ones that were not too rotten to be scrapped for them. He was deeply impressed.
Fan Qiuyue lowered her voice and said carefully, "Brother Wenming, do you want to make a down jacket? I can make one. Can I help you? I used to raise ducks in my village in the countryside. My father and uncles were all duck herders. We would use the leftover duck feathers to make jackets. They are very warm."
Duck herder is a very ancient profession, and people in Shilan Province have basically never heard of it. Fan Qiuyue's father and his brothers had to live outside all their lives, sleeping in the open air and eating the wind and rain. Once they were gone, they would be gone for more than half a year. They would drive the skinny and yellow fluffy ducklings out at the beginning of the year and drive back the fat big ducks in the summer. The ducks were sold to the meat processing factory, but no one collected the duck feathers, so everyone just tried to make some jackets for themselves.
Seeing that Shu Wenming had no expression on his face, she quickly explained, "I didn't mean to ask what Aunt Zhao and the others did. I saw duck down on the bodies of the aunts. I have been dealing with this since I was a child, so I guessed it. They didn't tell me, so don't misunderstand me."
Shu Wenming thought, So that's it.
Fan Qiuyue was also a thoughtful person. Aunt Li kept asking them what they were doing and even followed them, but she couldn't "find out" anything. Fan Qiuyue didn't do anything and knew what they were doing without even getting close to them.
The key is that she keeps her mouth shut and didn't tell anyone even after she knew about it.
"Okay, then you come with me and try. Remember, I need to keep this a secret, don't tell anyone. If you do well, I won't treat you unfairly since we're from the same compound. If you don't do well, I don't have the money to support you."
He had no friendship with the new neighbors, so naturally he wasn't going to be polite to them.
Pitiful? There are so many pitiful people in the world, but Shu Wenming only looks at whether they have ability or not, not whether they are pitiful or not.
So, two hours later, after watching her skillfully and quickly use duck down to make a tightly wrapped, tightly stitched down jacket lining, my whole expression changed.
Shu Wenming carefully examined her finished product, trying to find some faults, but he couldn't find anything because it was so perfect. He thought he had a good learning ability, having stayed in western Jiangxi province for more than two months, so he had learned something, but it was nothing compared to Fan Qiuyue.
Her technical proficiency is second only to that of the master craftsman whom she hired.
"Okay, you'll start working today, and you'll be paid two dollars a day."
Fan Qiuyue was stunned. "Two... two pieces?"
She worked odd jobs outside and only earned fifty cents a day after working so hard, which was not even enough to buy half a pound of meat for her children. But now Shu Wenming paid her two dollars a day? ! If there is work to do every day, wouldn't she be able to earn 60 yuan a month? ! Then wouldn’t her salary be higher than Du Aiguo’s? !
"Is there anyone around you who can do this?"
Fan Qiuyue nodded stupidly, "All the women in our village can do it. There are three sisters like me who returned to the city as educated youth. They live in Dongcheng District. Can I ask them to come over and have a look?"
Shu Wenming nodded, and she immediately ran to call for help. Because she was in a hurry, she gritted her teeth and took a bus. She told herself not to feel bad about the fare, never feel bad about it, because it would be nothing when she earned money.
Shu Wenming didn't know how fast she ran, but he knew it only took her an hour to go back and forth. The three women who came with her had not yet taken off their aprons, and their headscarves were all crooked.
Fan Qiuyue had already told them on the way here, and the three of them successfully passed the probationary period on the spot and started working that day.
Shu Wenming was not in a hurry for a day or two. He just felt that they had traveled a long way and spent money on the car fare to come here. Although it was already past ten in the morning, they could work a little longer in the evening, so he gave them a day's salary.
After dark, the four women cried with joy, holding the two warm dollars in their hands.
After they followed their educated youth husbands back to the city, they had no jobs and their in-laws no longer had houses for them, so they were all forced to rent houses outside. Some of their husbands found a temporary job to barely fill their stomachs, while some of them didn't even have a job, so the whole family had to tighten their belts, do odd jobs and pick up rotten vegetable leaves to make a living.
It can be said that every family is waiting for the rice to be cooked. The wages of up to two yuan per day are simply life-saving money for the family.
Several people looked at each other and had the same idea in their minds - as long as the Shu family asked them to work for a day, they must make these coats beautifully and warmly!
What they didn't expect was that this decision changed the fate of the rest of their lives.
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