Chapter 95 Black sweat syndrome & regret & big sales
Sun Ailan was sleeping. Even after taking a large dose of sedatives, she still slept restlessly, with her brows slightly furrowed and her hands and feet moving from time to time.
Shu Jinyue moved closer and looked at her pillow carefully. It was covered with an acrylic pillowcase with a very common pattern. It was just that the lower half of the pillowcase, where it touched the back of her neck, was a little darker in color.
"Sister Aihong, soldier, please move Sister Ailan aside a little so I can take a look at her bed sheet."
Although they didn't understand why, they felt that since Jin Yue had been running around and working hard for her sister (mother) illness for so long, they should cooperate with her request.
Although Sun Ailan slept uneasily, a sedative is a sedative. They helped her up and moved her away with large movements, but she did not wake up.
The place where she had just slept was exposed. It was still warm and a little wet; she was sweating.
More importantly, the color of the snow-white sheets where she slept was a little darker.
The light grey colour is invisible unless you look closely, and you’ll only see slight signs of use in these areas.
Jin Yue walked into the private bathroom and saw a washing basin with two newly changed clothes in it. They must have just been changed and had not had time to wash when Sun Aihong and Niu Xiaobing came, so she went to eat first. Who knew that she would get sick after eating the braised donkey meat——
Sure enough, just as Jin Yue guessed, the clothes she wore smelled of sweat, and the collar, armpits, and chest were all a light gray-black color.
"Hey, did my sister's clothes fade?" Sun Aihong saw it and was a little confused, but then she thought, "No, that's not right. She was wearing light-colored clothes inside and outside, it's impossible for them to fade to this color."
"The collar and armpits are so dark, it looks like sweat, but whose sweat is black?" She put the clothes down and felt that it was ridiculous for her to say these words.
Jin Yue laughed, "It's black sweat."
"ah?"
Jin Yue stood up and came to the bedside, "Sister Ailan sweats black sweat. She suffers from black sweat syndrome."
Sun Aihong felt a buzzing in her head, just like when she first joined the army and a grenade exploded next to her ear, making her ears buzz, painful and dizzy, and she could not hear any sounds around her.
"What did you say?"
Shu Jinyue came to Sun Ailan's bed again and looked carefully at her sheets and blankets. They really looked like they were stained black, and she was indeed sweating.
"It's easy to verify whether your guess is correct. Bring me your handkerchief."
After all, Sun Aihong was a professional soldier with better qualities than the average person. He reacted quickly, took out the handkerchief he carried with him, and put it directly under his sister's armpit to wipe it a few times.
When she took it out again, she saw a gray-black mark on her originally snow-white handkerchief. It was not obvious, but her eyesight was sharp enough to see it.
If this happens every time she wipes it with a handkerchief, what about the clothes Sun Ailan wears and the sheets she sleeps on every day? What if you are busy and conditions are limited and you can’t take a shower for a few days? How dark it would be! No wonder she takes a shower, washes clothes and bed sheets every day. No clean person can stand this!
Imayoshi explained: "Melanhidrosis, as the name suggests, means that the sweat is black."
"Shouldn't normal sweat secreted by humans be colorless and odorless?" If there is an odor, it is pathological.
Jin Yue nodded, "That's true in theory, but many times when people get sick they break the rules and overturn the theory. I have seen yellow sweat, red sweat and green sweat in clinical practice, but black sweat is the first time I've seen it." Hu Guizhi's previous case was epihidrosis.
The human body is so complex. There are epihidrosis, anhidrosis, yellow sweat, and black sweat.
"My sister wasn't like this before. I can be sure that her sweat was colorless before." Sun Aihong said with certainty, but she didn't know exactly when she started sweating black. "Do you know, little soldier?"
Niu Xiaobing shook his head. “My mother never told me this. Every time I came to see her, she said she was in good health and I shouldn’t worry about her.” A mother who only reports good news and not bad news.
Shu Jinyue had a guess in her mind, "Perhaps her black sweat syndrome started from the time she ate something that looked like dog meat."
"And her mental illness was also caused by this disease."
"What do you mean?" Suddenly, a thin old man stood at the door. Although he was old, he had a very straight figure.
"Dad, why are you here? Just stay at home."
"If I don't come, will you not tell me the real condition of your sister? You never tell me every time she has an attack. My old bones are not yet so inexperienced." Father Sun looked at Shu Jinyue. He heard about Jinyue when he went to play chess with his old leader not long ago. He felt a little regretful at that time. If he had gone to the old leader earlier to keep in touch with him, he might have known Shu Jinyue earlier and invited her to see the doctor earlier. The old leader praised her very much.
Sun's father had been upright all his life. The only thing he had done through the back door was to help his (former) son-in-law become a regular employee and the manager of the third department store. At the time, he felt that this was not a decent thing to do, and it was not convenient for him to go to his old leader. The contact between the two families became less frequent until they became in-laws. In order to avoid suspicion, he tried not to go to the Jiang family and give others any handle to talk about Aihong.
"Hello, Uncle Sun." Jin Yue greeted him, "Let me first tell you my own guess."
"From her pulse, Sister Ailan has a bit of yin deficiency, but it's not too obvious and probably not too serious. She used to have dry mouth easily, liked to drink water, and also liked to eat spicy, hot and dry food, right?"
"Yes." Niu Xiaobing said quickly.
Shu Jinyue nodded. "This is not a very serious disease for adults. What really made her sick was the donkey meat she had ten years ago."
"Donkey meat is generally neutral, but Xiaobing said that the donkey meat his father brought home was braised, fried and cooked with a variety of spices, which increased the heat of the donkey meat. People with yin deficiency constitutions are most afraid of hot foods. After Sister Ailan ate it, the internal heat in her body was aroused, causing her heart qi to become disordered."
"She didn't get sick at the time because she was frightened by what Manager Niu said. Her mind was completely focused on the fact that she had eaten black beans. She was angry, sad, and guilty. These emotions combined into a deep fear."
"In the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the five emotions hurt the five internal organs. Everyone knows that anger hurts the liver, and Zhou Yu was angry to death because of this. Joy hurts the heart, and Fan Jin's success in the imperial examination is a typical example. In Sister Ailan's case, fear hurts the kidneys."
Everyone nodded, saying that they understood these familiar examples.
"The five internal organs correspond to five colors, and the kidney corresponds to black, so Sister Ailan's sweat is black sweat. The yellow sweat I encountered before is a spleen problem, and bloody sweat is a heart problem."
"So what you mean is that my sister has black sweat syndrome due to kidney yin deficiency?"
Jin Yue nodded, and she discovered that Sun Ailan hardly sweated when talking to people during the day, but only after falling asleep. This is a typical night sweat and also a manifestation of yin deficiency.
"So, what does this have to do with her illness?" Sun Aihong asked the question that everyone was wondering. After Jin Yue's explanation, they learned that Ailan was still suffering from black sweat syndrome in a place they couldn't see, but what they wanted to solve most was the problem of mental illness.
"Originally, there was no problem, but she chose to eat dog meat, and she happened to have no black beans during those days."
Sun Ailan is a gentle, sensitive and timid woman. She was already depressed and guilty because of the death of her fiancé. She thought that her fiancé was infected with schistosomiasis in order to find her, and she felt extremely tormented and guilty. And "eating" the meat of Hei Dou, whom she treated as a family member, was a huge blow to her fragile heart. She felt so guilty that she tried to vomit out the meat she had eaten, but it was no use.
She even developed a psychological trauma about eating meat. She no longer wanted to eat meat and wanted to atone her sins.
"At this time, one day, she woke up at two or three in the morning and suddenly found that her clothes were wet and black. Her forehead, armpits, chest and even the palms of her hands were all black from the sweat she wiped off. What do you think she thought?"
Sun Aihong put herself in her sister's shoes and put herself in her sister's shoes. She knew better than anyone that her sister, who was raised by her grandmother in the countryside, was most afraid of ghosts and gods. She firmly believed that such things really existed in the world.
"She would think that the black sweat all over her body was because she was possessed by Black Bean, and that it was Black Bean blaming her, it was Black Bean..."
So, at two or three in the morning, she vomited like crazy, washed the black sweat off her body like crazy, and wanted to atone for her sins and hurt her "dirty" self like crazy. She was completely crazy.
Black sweat syndrome was the last straw that completely crushed her spiritual core.
Sun Aihong's eyes were red, her father sat dejectedly on the chair, Niu Xiaobing knelt beside the bed, holding his mother's hand tightly.
This poor woman was driven crazy by her husband.
Yes, Manager Niu didn't hit her or scold her, he just played a very ordinary joke. In the eyes of most people, this was not even evil, but a prank at most.
He just wanted to vent his anger for a moment, but he didn't expect that what she cared about most was the black beans he gave her. They were her good friend who accompanied her the most when he was not at home. They were more like her family. But he insisted on describing in vivid detail how he caught the black beans, how the little dog struggled, how he killed the black beans, how he peeled the skin, how he chopped the black beans into pieces of meat, and finally how he tricked her into eating the meat... No one knew the details of the quarrel that night, but Niu Xiaobing still remembered it.
The seven-year-old boy remembered it for a full ten years, but he never imagined that these details would hurt his mother the most.
Niu Xiaobing stood up and wanted to run out. Jin Yue knew what he was going to do and grabbed him, "You still have to take care of your mother."
Niu Xiaobing was so angry that his teeth were chattering and he covered his face and cried bitterly.
Shu Jinyue left the space to the Sun family and went up to the rooftop, staring at the bare railings in a daze. She had been here many times, and every time she saw Ailan's sheets hanging out to dry, but she didn't know and didn't ask much, so she had been delayed until now.
It would have been great if I had asked earlier.
This is how it works when you see a doctor. You do all the tests you can and ask all the questions you can, but you just can’t find the cause of the illness. You never thought that a simple word or a simple action might be the source of your “strange disease.”
Shu Jinyue could probably guess that Sun Ailan had been suffering from illnesses intermittently over the years because of eating meat, and that she had not had any illnesses in the past four months because she did not eat meat.
"Tell me, what does marriage bring to people?" Sun Aihong's voice sounded behind him.
Shu Jinyue thought about it seriously and shook her head, saying that she couldn't explain it clearly.
The marriages around her are basically happy. Although not perfect, no one regrets getting married. However, many of the patients she comes into contact with suffer from misfortune in one way or another due to their marriage.
"If she could be with the neighbor's brother, would she be happy?" Sun Aihong sighed, not wanting to think about this assumption. "The man surnamed Niu was really pursuing my sister at the beginning, otherwise my father would not agree. But why did it turn out like that later?"
Shu Jinyue couldn't explain why. She only knew that Ma Shuhui's husband was truly in love with her at the beginning, and they were student lovers who got married. She also remembered that Huang Mei's parents had a good relationship at the beginning, so why did they start fighting each other later?
Perhaps, love is the most fickle thing. When someone says they love you, they really love you, but when they don’t love you anymore, they really don’t love you anymore.
Shu Jinyue patted Sun Aihong on the shoulder and said, "We will consider these issues later. The most important thing now is treatment. I will prescribe a prescription for Sister Ailan to treat black sweat. The medicine can treat the disease and black sweat can be cured, but she needs you to relieve her fear and guilt."
"Xiao Bing just said that he will stay tonight to take care of my sister. He will go to look for Hei Dou tomorrow after my sister wakes up."
"Is the puppy still alive?"
Sun Aihong shook her head, "I don't know either. The last time I saw him was a few years ago. Even if he's still alive, I don't know where he is."
"If I can't find it, I can only try to buy a similar one." If it has white spots on its body, it may be difficult to find an identical one, but a small black dog should be easier to find. "I don't know if I can fool her then."
Jin Yue was thinking of the same idea. The fact that their family could think of it showed that they really cared about Sun Ailan. She was a happy and lucky woman.
Although lying is wrong, she has to lie in order to eliminate her guilt at this time.
After chatting for a while, Jin Yue politely declined the Sun family's car and hurried downstairs. Shu Wenming had been feeding mosquitoes downstairs all night, with red mosquito bites all over his face and arms. "Why did it take so long? If you're any later, I'll be just a dried corpse."
"What nonsense, let's go home."
Heard that Sun Ailan would take off her clothes when she got sick, and it was not easy for him, a grown man, to go up to her, so he just waited below. Shu Wenming scratched the mosquito bite on his arm, it was really painful and itchy!
"Are you happy, brother?"
"nonsense."
"So what do you think marriage has brought you?"
Shu Wenming didn't even turn his head. The night wind blew up his short sleeves, forming a big bulge behind him. Jin Yue pushed the bulge down, patted his back, and urged him to answer quickly.
"To bring happiness."
"What else?"
"What else?" Shu Wenming looked back at her. "You are married yourself. What does marriage bring you? Can you explain it clearly?"
Jin Yue was just thinking about this question. She really couldn't figure it out. The moment she heard this question, many images emerged in her mind. He gave her milk, gave her chocolate, and bought her the most suitable leather shoes. She saw all of these. And in places where she couldn't see, he helped her find a job, helped her deal with the bullies, helped her clear many obstacles, and protected her... and in the end it all came down to one scene, he let his left leg bleed, carried her on his back, and walked in the snowy night with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
On that snowy night, he promised to give her chocolate, leather shoes, milk, and lots more...
He was probably afraid that she would suffer from hypothermia shock and die.
Shu Jinyue's eyes were a little sore. She still didn't know what marriage would bring her, but she knew that marrying Xu Duan would be a pleasant thing both physically and mentally.
So, Xu Duan, who had just finished overtime work in Shenzhen and washed his face with water from the construction site, heard the phone ringing when he returned to the office. The first thing he said when he picked up the phone was -
"I miss you."
Xu Duan's first reaction was not happiness, but confusion and a hint of worry. "What's wrong, Su Su? Did something happen?"
He would only call her Su Su when he was in bed and felt aroused.
Shu Jinyue's ears turned red. "It's okay. I just thought of you."
The call came out of nowhere, just like her longing for him came out of nowhere. After hanging up the phone, Shu Jinyue had a good sleep. Although the next day was Wednesday, she had no classes and Jinyue did not plan to go to the street office. How happy it would be to be able to stay at home.
The prescription was written last night. Niu Xiaobing boiled the medicine this morning and gave it to Sun Ailan to drink. Jin Yue is looking forward to the effect.
Again, as long as the cause and pathogenesis of the disease are identified, she is confident in her treatment.
Zhao Wanqiu has been very busy these past two days, and she has a lot of patients now. To be on the safe side, I helped her sign up for the practicing physician examination while the regulations are not strict yet. She passed the exam very well and went to the Health Bureau to get her practicing certificate and qualification certificate. From now on, she is a real doctor, not just a nurse.
Plus, she knows how to give injections, change dressings, bandage, provide first aid and dispense medicine. People from the entire Xinqiao Street come to her when they are sick. Isn't she very busy?
Besides, she now holds an important position! Just last month, she was hired by the district sports committee as the leader of the district's Tai Chi teaching group for the elderly - yes, Zhao Wanqiu is very good at Tai Chi, and with some knowledge of Chinese medicine in recent years, she can also pronounce it clearly. She is the most standardized and spirited one among the group of Tai Chi veterans!
This teaching group leader was not actually a formal position and did not receive any salary. He only had to teach the students Tai Chi twice a month. But Zhao Wanqiu was very enthusiastic about it and taught whenever she had time. Gradually, she had thirty or forty "students" following her.
As the number of students increased, all of them were retired cadres with little burden, so there were more activities, such as boating in the park, picking mushrooms in the mountains, and providing warmth to lonely elderly people... If there were too many activities, she would be too busy to handle them all.
Just then, my mother was about to go out in a hurry, and Jin Yue quickly pulled her back, "Mom, don't worry, let's discuss something."
Zhao Wanqiu had just given an injection to an old lady in the yard next door and threw the needle into a special trash can. It had to be properly kept and sent to the hospital for disposal.
"Mom, why don't we open a clinic?"
"What? Open a clinic?!"
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This sentence completely shocked the entire Shu family. They had just returned home at noon and had not had time to eat yet, but Zhao Wanqiu said this. Xu Wenli didn't even have time to eat snacks.
Jin Yue took out a newspaper that he had treasured for a long time, "First of all, from a policy perspective, the government encourages the development of the non-public economy and allows the establishment of private enterprises."
“But this isn’t a business, is it?”
“For-profit medical institutions are actually businesses in nature.”
No one quite understands it, and Jin Yue doesn't need them to understand. The last chat with Mr. Jiang was still very useful. Recently, the province has been discussing the feasibility of private clinics and hospitals.
Of course, according to the development trajectory in Jin Yue's memory, private hospitals appeared earlier than private clinics, and first appeared in Beijing and Shenzhen. Jin Yue didn't know how far her butterfly wings could flap, and she had no intention of changing the trajectory too much. It was just that if the higher-ups had already noticed the feasibility of this matter, then making plans early would be a plus.
"We'll just have to wait for notification on whether it can be done. I went to the city health bureau to report it yesterday, and the leaders there didn't say it can't be done, they just told us to prepare the materials first."
Nowadays, many things are done by feeling the way forward. There is no precedent and no one dares to say yes or no. But since no one has refused outright, there is still hope. Zhao Wanqiu's heart suddenly warmed up.
She worked in the district hospital for her entire life and held the most entry-level professional title until retirement. She prided herself on her professional skills and sense of responsibility being no worse than anyone else, but she was only at the bottom until retirement. She must have felt very unhappy about this. But now it's different. She has medical skills and has passed the medical license exam. Her nursing license is also being revalidated regularly, which means she has the qualifications of both a doctor and a nurse, so she can do two jobs by herself.
Although it was still the most entry-level job title, she was now working for herself and did not have to endure anyone's bullying. She had not enjoyed this feeling of freedom for many years!
So, she said it out loud just to get everyone's support.
Her eyes slid across the faces of Shu Linong and Shu Wenming, a young couple.
Shu Linong said without hesitation: "Go and try, Wanqiu."
"Yeah, try it, Mom."
"Give it a try, Aunt Zhao. If you need money, we can pool our money together and open a pharmacy for you. Then we can hire two nurses to help. You and Jin Yue will be responsible for seeing patients. We can open both a Chinese medicine pharmacy and a Western medicine pharmacy. That's how you can make money."
Zhao Wanqiu was immediately fascinated by the blueprint he described, "We don't need to open a Western medicine pharmacy. Jin Yue and I can just go to the Chinese medicine clinic."
If I open a Western medicine pharmacy, there will be a lot of trouble. I will then have to find doctors with the right professional expertise and scope. If I expand my business too much, I may not be able to control it.
"I don't dare to think that big now. If I can really open a business, Jin Yue will go to school when he is not in school. I will help with the consultation. I will give people IV drips and acupuncture, do business with the old neighbors, and earn some money to buy groceries."
Everyone laughed. How could they really use her money to buy food? "You can save whatever you earn and spend it on yourself. We will pay for the expenses of the family every month."
Seeing that his mother was about to argue with his second brother over such a trivial matter as grocery money, Jin Yue quickly asked them to stop, "No, no, no, let's talk about something serious. Where should we open this clinic?"
"It's on the street and close to the road, so it's easy for patients to find it. It would be best if there is parking at the door, or the car can drive directly in. Sometimes you may encounter critically ill patients who need emergency treatment." Not to mention, Shu Wenming followed Jin Yue around to see patients, and he learned a lot.
These are the only ones Jin Yue can think of at the moment. "Let's keep an eye on them first. If there's anything suitable, we'll go ask. There's no rush in just one or two days anyway."
Having said that, the whole family started to take it seriously. Even a "freeloader" like Shu Linong started going out every day and strolling around the neighborhood.
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Of course, that's a story for later. Let's talk about Shenzhen. After Jin Yue hung up the phone, Xu Duan was still worried and called another number, "Have you found it?"
The other side seemed to say that it was not yet. Xu Duan's expression remained unchanged, but his voice became colder. "If you can't find it, change someone."
The other side quickly reported several suspicious or similar names that had been found so far, and Xu Duan wrote them down one by one, "I will go there myself tomorrow, you guys continue looking."
Shu Jinyue didn't know whether Xu Duan returned to Shilan Province because of her words, or went to the countryside where she was sent to stay for a month. She just felt that Xu Duan was really busy recently. She made several phone calls in a row, and everyone in the Shenzhen office said that Mr. Xu was on a business trip.
They didn't know where exactly they were going on the business trip. They were college students recruited locally after Xu Duan went to Shenzhen. They were all fresh graduates from Guangzhou. They were serious and responsible in their work and had a spirit of enterprising, but they were clueless about many things.
Shu Jinyue hung up the phone again.
"What are you thinking about, Jin Yue, look who's here."
Shu Jinyue looked up and saw that it was actually the Sun Aihong sister!
"Jin Yue, your medicine is really amazing. My sister stopped sweating after drinking it for only three days!" Sun Aihong hugged Jin Yue's shoulders.
Shu Jinyue was not as tall as her, so he was picked up in her arms like a little chicken, and his nose even hit her chest. The female soldier queen was so powerful that you couldn't tell from her clothes, but she was actually full of muscles.
"After drinking it for a few days, the night sweats disappeared completely. Can you tell me how my pulse is?"
Jin Yue then took Sun Ailan's pulse.
Sun Ailan, whom I haven't seen for a while, is still as gentle as before, but I feel that something is different now. She used to have no interest in anything and had no interest in life, but now she seems to have figured it out and is open-minded.
The whole person is very bright.
"My sister knew that the man surnamed Niu divorced her, so she ate an extra bowl of rice."
Jin Yue smiled. Manager Niu and Niu Xiaofang had already gotten married, but they did not hold the wedding at the Shilan Hotel because the Sun family intervened.
It is said that at noon on the day before their wedding, Manager Niu was holding a meeting in the company with great enthusiasm, when he was suddenly taken away from the meeting room by the police - someone reported that he had embezzled and accepted bribes, causing major economic losses to the Three Department Stores!
No one knows who the whistleblower is, but he is not making random accusations. The evidence he has prepared is very thorough and specific, including the time and place, the reason, from whom he received the goods or gifts, or cash, and how much money he received. The matter can even be traced back to more than ten years ago, when he had just been converted to a regular employee, from a temporary worker to a regular worker, then to a team leader, to a deputy manager, and then to a manager... It was as if there were surveillance cameras installed in his office.
Manager Niu’s incident was quite serious this time, and Niu Xiaofang, who had just obtained her marriage certificate with Manager Niu in the morning, was completely dumbfounded.
I cried so hard that I was out of breath.
"My sister is now out of her misery. She wanted to come and thank you in person before she was fully recovered from her illness."
Sun Ailan smiled and nodded at Jin Yue, "Thank you, Doctor Shu."
"My medicine is only for curing the disease. What's more important is that you can untie the knot in your heart. Have you untied it now?"
After carefully counting her pulse, it was gone and now it was very normal. Upon inquiry, she showed no other discomfort, just a little insomnia occasionally. However, she had just experienced ups and downs, and a normal person would need time to digest it, not to mention that her heart was inherently fragile.
"Xiao Bing helped me find Hei Dou, and I feel like I'm alive again. Thank you, Dr. Shu, for giving me a second life." She stood up and bowed deeply.
Shu Jinyue helped her up and said, "I hope you can be a little selfish in the future. It's okay to be a little unkind. You have to remember that you are the most important." No one else is worth being so sad.
If she doesn't change her personality, she will still be hurt in the future. As long as she lives, she will have to deal with people every day. She has to learn to let go.
"By the way, where did you find the black beans?"
"The soldier searched the area where they lived when they were children and asked everyone he met. Later, he actually found out that someone had seen him near the elementary school he attended." Because black dogs are not auspicious in the eyes of the people of Shilan, not many people raise them, but everyone who has seen one will have some impression of it.
"Later, he found the dog in front of a small private restaurant. I heard that the family had picked it up and raised it for a few years. Now the dog is old, and they are going to kill it and sell the meat. He went there in time. If he had been a little later, he might have..."
If that happens, Sun Ailan's knot in her heart will never be resolved.
But it was also the act of rescuing Hei Dou from the butcher's knife that completely awakened Sun Ailan's consciousness. She first hugged Hei Dou and cried, and Hei Dou licked her in her arms. Although ten years had passed, Hei Dou could still recognize her.
After that hearty cry, Sun Ailan’s illness was completely cured.
After Shu Jinyue took her pulse, he told them the good news.
"After this trough, it will be uphill from now on, and it will get better and better!"
The two Sun sisters held hands and snuggled up to each other.
Because they were Xu Duan's good friends, they didn't act too politely and didn't give any gifts. They even stayed at Shu's house and had a meal before leaving. Father Sun said that if the Shu family wanted to buy anything that was not easy to buy in the future, they just had to give him a call. Even big items like televisions and refrigerators could be bought with just a word from him.
He has worked in the department store system for so many years, so he still has some face.
Unlike Sun Ailan who was getting better and better, Niu Xiaofang hit rock bottom. On the day of getting the marriage certificate, when she was planning how to have a stunning wedding the next day, she fell straight from the altar.
Just as the Shu family sent the Sun sisters away, they met her at the gate of Courtyard No. 3. Her belly was already noticeable. If it were in the past, everyone would have said it was a good story. But now, Manager Niu has been arrested. Thanks to Aunt Niu, the Shilan Hotel that she had been bragging about for so long suddenly lost its appeal for holding wedding banquets. When everyone asked about it, the whole world knew that Niu Xiaofang's wedding was ruined again.
It’s different from last time. Last time they were just engaged, but this time they got the marriage certificate and she’s pregnant. If this is a breakup, it’s not called a breakup, it’s called a divorce.
Tian Meizhi didn't let her go, and came to the gate of the third courtyard with her curly hair twisted, "Oh my, who is this? I saw her belly so big from a distance, it turns out to be Xiaofang. Didn't you say you had your wedding banquet last month? How come your belly is so big?"
"It's been at least five or six months, tsk tsk tsk... At that time, Manager Niu hadn't divorced yet, right?"
Everyone looked at Niu Xiaofang with more contempt. She used to scold Tian Meizhi for having an affair with her ex-fiance and being unchaste and deserving of being thrown into the pig cage. Now the boomerang has hit her.
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just fat, plump, and have a big belly!"
The charming Tian Meizhi looked her up and down, and suddenly changed the subject, "Well, if you're pregnant, just get pregnant. Anyway, you've already got the marriage certificate, so pregnancy is natural, right?"
Next sentence——
"I heard that the amount of money he embezzled was huge, and he might even be sentenced to death. You... Alas, the child is born without a father, how pitiful."
Even worse is, "You used to laugh at my child for having no father, saying he was a wild child. Now, you are going to give birth to a wild child too."
Niu Xiaofang was so angry that she was about to die. Would she die if she didn't mention this? She never got to enjoy the blessing of being the manager's wife. When Manager Niu was investigated, she became the first one to suffer unlucky. It was said that the watch, bag and coat given to her were obtained through corruption and had to be confiscated and returned.
As for those that she had already sold or given away, she would naturally have to compensate according to the price!
She paid a heavy price for all these things, and the most important thing was that she was "given" a child. The child is already so big, and she can't abort the baby, so she has to bite the bullet and give birth to the child. How can she find a good partner in the future with this burden? She was so upset just thinking about it!
Why is her future so bleak?
Shu Jinyue was watching from the side and thought that it was right. She used to laugh at her, calling her Shu Jinyue a little burden.
Niu Xiaofang is hateful, but the child is innocent. If he had the right to choose, he would definitely not want the child to be hers and Manager Niu's.
***
Xu Duan did not come back on National Day as he had said he would. However, he called to report that he was safe and that he had negotiated a big deal in Gangcheng, which was very likely to be successful. He wanted to work hard to close the deal and sign the contract before coming back.
Shu Jinyue certainly agreed, but she really missed him, "How about I go find you?"
Xu Duan paused, "This office is still a rough-finished building, without any decoration. It may not be convenient for you to come. Wait a few days. I will come back to see you when I am done. Okay?"
Okay, Shu Jinyue had no choice but to agree.
After mid-October, the weather gradually turned cooler, and every household began to prepare for winter, buying cotton, making quilts, buying cotton-padded clothes, cotton-padded shoes, autumn clothes and autumn pants. The area under the Jianshe Bridge was bustling with people.
Now even private units are allowed to open businesses. The market under the Jianshe Bridge is no longer called the ghost market, but the free market. The market starts early in the morning and lasts until dark during the period before the New Year.
The Shu family dressed up early in the morning. Each of them put on a bright down jacket, paired with bell-bottom pants that Xu Duan bought from Guangzhou, and black leather shoes. They all looked very stylish and energetic.
The oxcart borrowed by Sun Dalong's family was parked at the gate of No. 15 courtyard next door. It was already filled with bulging bags. The women were afraid of getting their new clothes and pants dirty, so they didn't get in the cart and just followed behind the oxcart, attracting everyone's attention along the way.
"Hey, Jin Yue's mom, is this your new dress? It looks so pretty!"
Zhao Wanqiu was wearing a red short down jacket, which was similar to a cotton-padded jacket, puffy but not as heavy as a cotton-padded jacket. The material of the outermost layer seemed to be different from that of the cotton-padded jacket. There were beautiful magnolia flowers embroidered on the cuffs and the heart, which was simply too eye-catching.
She pulled her clothes uncomfortably. She hadn't worn red clothes for decades. At first, she would never wear them because she was afraid that people would laugh at her as an old witch. But Jin Yue insisted that she must wear them. If she didn't want red, she could wear white or yellow. When she saw the color that was as fresh as a peeled egg, she decided to choose red.
"You look really young. Where did you buy those clothes? Are they cotton-padded clothes?"
She has fair skin and is slightly plump, and this color makes her look several years younger. Zhao Wanqiu straightened her chest and said, "My second son's clothing factory made this myself. It's a down jacket, much warmer than a cotton coat. It's too hot. No, I'm sweating all over. I put it on too early. It's more suitable for winter."
"But I don't think your cotton coat is thick, how can it keep you warm?"
Zhao Wanqiu then stretched out her hand and said, "Come and feel it."
Her hands were exposed and were burning hot.
Of course, these neighbors are not the group they want to sell to the most. Their target is the young girls under the construction bridge - the three sisters-in-law are the best models for this sale.
Sure enough, when the family came to the Jianshe Bridge with the cart, they were stared at almost as they walked. People who were buying and selling things all seemed to uncontrollably look at them - they were so bright and beautiful!
Xu Wenli looks especially good in it!
Because she is white and "chubby", but not very fat, and she is the tallest of the three, with very obvious body curves. Wearing a white down jacket, she looks very agile, and her face looks rosy, like an autumn apple, and I can't wait to take a bite of it.
Being thin is not the popular concept in this era. What everyone wants is health, and Xu Wenli is the best interpretation of the word "health".
In comparison, Shu Jinyue looks much smaller. She is not tall and thin, like a college student. But the yellow down jacket makes her look energetic, like a tender bean sprout. Many skinny girls are eager to make a move.
Liu Huifang's skin is not white, but she has a well-proportioned figure, a little thin muscle on her arms, and a neat short hair. She is as amiable as the older colleagues that everyone meets in schools, factories, and units. Her figure is the most common female figure in this era, and the way she dresses is actually the way most women dress.
Everyone sees that ordinary people look energetic when wearing them. In fact, it is easier for everyone to identify themselves with them than with Xu Wenli and Shu Jinyue, because most of them are ordinary people!
With Zhao Wanqiu as a representative of the middle-aged and elderly group, Mingyue down jackets became a hot seller among women of almost all ages on the first day of sale!
Because the colors of the clothes were fresh, and in order not to dirty more clothes, the four pieces they wore became try-ons, and they took off anything they wanted to try on.
Nowadays, people don’t pay too much attention to details. They just put it on and see that it’s the right size, looks good, and provides a warm feeling. Then they ask about the price and find that it’s a bit expensive, but…
"Girl, think about it, this one piece is equivalent to three or four of our normal pieces, and it can be worn for three or four years. How cost-effective is that?"
"Exactly. I think you look best in red. You look like a flower."
"Are you selling those bell-bottom pants you're wearing?"
Shu Wenming, who was so busy collecting money and making change, immediately responded, "Yes, yes, yes. I was just busy today and didn't bring any. You guys wait for two days. When our down jackets are almost sold out, we'll sell bell-bottom pants right away. Come back here to find us at this time next week."
Today is Sunday and everyone is resting.
After everyone left, Xu Wenli whispered to Shu Wenming, "How can we have bell-bottom pants like this at home? These were sent back to us by Xu Duan from Yangcheng. What are you talking about?"
Shu Wenming touched her forehead and said, "Are you tired? Why don't you go back and rest first?"
"I'm just talking about business. I don't have bell-bottom pants at home. How could you lie to me?"
"If I say yes, then yes. You guys just wait and see. I'll go home and make a phone call."
Xu Wenli finally reacted -
Her family’s civilization is too treacherous!
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