Chapter 94 094 Blue and White Wine Cup & Bud’s Talent & “Just for fun…
Thinking that the cause of the disease could be found this time, Jin Yue breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was pitiful to have a terrible experience, compared to being able to cure the disease, the latter was obviously more important.
However, Shu Jinyue's conjecture was once again proved wrong.
A week later, Sun Aihong called her and sounded relaxed: "When my dad arrived, my sister was still in the bathroom vomiting and washing. She didn't want to come out or put on clothes. My dad said he was sure my sister had injuries, but they were all red marks from her scrubbing herself, not from abuse. He was also sure she didn't have any old injuries. When she went to see a doctor, he was careful and found an experienced gynecologist, who also said she had no signs of violent sexual behavior."
Sun's father's recollection of the matter was not enough. Sun Aihong also went to find the doctor who had treated the patient that year and checked the medical records from that year. There should be nothing wrong. It said that the patient was sent to the hospital due to unexplained vomiting and excessive cleaning.
"My dad asked Niu at the time. They had dinner at home that night. He ate the same meal. He didn't show any signs of vomiting, so it shouldn't be caused by eating something bad."
"Even if you eat something bad, it has nothing to do with your skin, so you don't need to take a crazy shower."
"I asked my sister's close friends and colleagues during that time, and they all said that her reaction was normal during that time. A colleague in the same office also said that he remembered that a few days before the accident, when it was almost time to get off work, my sister was happy to say that her puppy had been found."
"Wasn't it the day when the disease broke out?" Jin Yue asked.
"No, that colleague said it was about four or five days before she became ill. She went to work for a few days afterwards and was normal, but she seemed to be in a bad mood. She said the dog was still not found."
"My sister used to have a puppy, which was a birthday gift from a man named Niu. She had raised it for several years and had a deep affection for it. But six months before she became ill, the dog was lost, and she was sad for several months..."
Jin Yue quickly asked, "Could it be related to this dog?"
"It shouldn't be. Although my sister likes this dog, it's been half a year since the incident happened. It shouldn't be that serious." Moreover, the dog was lost and suspected to have been found before the onset of the disease, not on the same day, which means that he must have been stimulated by other factors on that day.
Although the clue ended here, Jin Yue was still happy. Fortunately, Sun Ailan did not encounter such misfortune.
Sun Aihong was really embarrassed. She cared too much about Sun Ailan's affairs. Sometimes she felt that she cared more about her than her own sister. When she told Jiang Weijun about it, Jiang Weijun was also deeply moved.
"The old man said that Jin Yue is different from others. She not only has skills, but also ideas. Such a person is destined to be extraordinary."
"She is more knowledgeable and dedicated to her industry than most of us ordinary people."
Jiang Weijun is already in his thirties and has been in his industry for twenty years. He is a well-deserved leader, but compared with Jin Yue, who is less than twenty-five years old, they still seem to be missing something.
"Look, Old Xu always says that people have limited energy. Since he can't help with other things, he helps his wife Jin Yue with some of the dirty and tiring work so that she can focus on her professional work. Now you see, he is addicted to being a househusband and has even moved in with his mother-in-law."
Sun Aihong was really envious. She also wanted Jiang Weijun to move back to her parents' home with her, but she could only think about it. Her father-in-law was very good to her, and she was doing this just to save his face.
"I heard from Jin Yue that Old Xu has been in Shenzhen recently?"
"Well, he wants to make some progress in his career before he has any children. When he considers having children in the future, he won't be able to stay out all the time."
Sun Aihong was even more envious, "Look at you, why don't you have the same awareness as others?"
Jiang Weijun touched his nose and said, "Who knew his old house would catch fire so fiercely?"
He never dared to think that these two people could become a couple from the beginning. He thought that the partner that Old Xu would find in the future should be a virtuous, family-oriented female comrade of the same age, such as a teacher or cadre with a less busy job. He just didn't expect that it would be a female "miracle doctor" who was six years younger than him and busier than him at work.
In the end, it is still Old Xu who has to take care of her, and Old Xu himself has to take care of the family.
"I'm warning you, Jiang Weijun, don't think that the Gu family is a woman's business. Political Commissar Yang talked to me a few days ago... I won't be able to handle it in the future. You either find a way yourself or find someone else."
Jiang Weijun hurriedly coaxed his wife, "What are you talking about? I won't change her even if I kill myself. I can't find another woman as good as Aihong in my family even if I search with a lantern."
The two were childhood sweethearts and bickering lovers. In Xu Duan's words, their feelings were genuine, forged from real punches and kicks. Even though they are older and more stable now, they could still fight on the kang in the first two years after their marriage.
Shu Jinyue was at home, she was completely confused. After ruling out so many reasons, she really couldn't think of what could have stimulated Sun Ailan to go crazy.
Or, could it be that...she is not crazy, but just pretending?
"What are you mumbling about? Come and help me peel potatoes." Zhao Wanqiu shouted at the kitchen door in the front yard.
Jin Yue put down the phone and hurried over to help. Today she said she wanted to eat mashed potatoes. Her mother doesn't know how to make it and has never heard of this term. She described it according to the method used by a food blogger, and her mother immediately understood.
The potatoes were washed and steamed first. They were very hot. Jin Yue was peeling them while making a "hissing" sound. It was too hot!
I don’t know why my mom couldn’t wait a little longer and insisted on peeling it now.
However, after the potatoes are steamed, they break apart. Gently pinch a corner and tear it off. The brown potato skin will fall off, revealing the yellow flesh. Dig out the bad parts or the places with black spots, forming a whole white potato... This process is really relaxing and healing!
Shu Jinyue felt that if it wasn't too hot, she could peel it until the end of time!
"By the way, Mom, have you ever seen someone pretending to be mentally ill?"
Zhao Wanqiu was preparing the sauce for the mashed potatoes later, and she didn't even raise her head. "Pretending? Of course I've seen it before. I'm an experienced nurse."
What kind of patients hasn’t the old nurse seen? It can be said that the amount of melons she had eaten in Liuye Hutong over the years was not as much as the amount she had eaten in the hospital in a year.
"The young girl didn't want to get married, so she pretended to be crazy and stupid and let her brother and sister-in-law support her for more than ten years; the young man didn't want to work, so he pretended to be crazy and ate dog shit in public; and the old man couldn't win an argument with his wife, so he pretended to be crazy and hit his head against the wall, causing intracranial hemorrhage..."
Shu Jinyue blinked, she didn't smile, she was thinking about Sun Ailan. All of Sun Ailan's tests were normal, and she was also normal when she was not "sick." During the conversation, it was discovered that she had a quick mind and sound logic, and she did not look like someone who had suffered from mental illness for ten years at all.
You know, most people will have some sequelae after using sedatives for so many years, but Jin Yue didn't see any of that in Sun Ailan.
"Is it because of the unhappy marriage that he is escaping reality by pretending to be crazy?"
Zhao Wanqiu knew she was talking about Sun Ailan and glared at her. "I don't think it's likely."
"Why?"
Zhao Wanqiu prepared the sauce, wiped her hands and said, "You've never been a mother, so you don't know."
A mother who loves her child deeply will not lock herself in a tortoise shell and leave her seven-year-old child outside to face the storms of the world alone.
Thinking of something, she showed a trace of guilt in her eyes and sighed, "No matter how big the problem is for her, it is not a reason for her to retreat into her shell. She must be really sick, but there is no equipment that can detect where her illness is and what it is."
I heard from Sun Aihong that Manager Niu was not good to the child at all. After his mother left home, he often went hungry. He learned to cook and wash clothes, do his homework and sleep by himself before he was ten years old. Once he had a high fever and no one knew about it. He even fell into a coma. It was not until Sun's father came to see the child that he was discovered and sent to the hospital for treatment.
From then on, the Sun family took the child over, and he seldom met with Manager Niu again, but he would ask Manager Niu for money every month without fail.
He needs his living expenses and his mother's medical expenses.
The Sun family didn't need this little money, so they said there was no need to ask Manager Niu for it, so as to avoid being annoyed. However, the child said with a stern face: This money should be paid by my father. He has the obligation to support me, a minor, and also the obligation to provide for my mother.
"He even said that as long as Mr. Niu doesn't have another child, he should inherit his family business."
Zhao Wanqiu laughed, "This child is quite patient." In order to get his father's money, he really endured humiliation and endured hardships.
The more Shu Jin thought about that scene, the more he wanted to laugh. Mr. Niu had worked hard all his life to build up his family business, but in the future it would be passed on to a child who didn't look like him at all. How could he not be angry? I was so angry that I wished I could give birth to a little pumpkin like him right here on the spot!
"Pah, he worked so hard? He must have forgotten how he was promoted from a temporary worker to a regular employee and how he became a manager." Zhao Wanqiu became more and more angry as she spoke. "He is really a son-in-law who would destroy his own bridges after crossing them."
In the past, when Sun's father was still in charge of personnel promotions and changes within the system, he still pretended to be nice and often went to see Sun Ailan. Later, when Sun's father retired and his influence faded, he himself climbed to the position of manager, and his true colors were finally revealed.
"That kid was right. He just wanted to ask him for money. Everything he has in the future should belong to the kid. He got it by stepping on his grandfather's shoulders anyway, so he should give it back."
At this point, Zhao Wanqiu couldn't help scolding Niu Xiaofang again, saying that she was really shameless. "In the past, we only said that Aunt Li in our courtyard was shameless, but now it seems that the most shameless are the Niu family. A grown girl climbs into the bed of an old man and has the nerve to stir up trouble between his father and son. Ugh!"
No one heard the previous words, but Aunt Zhao and the others also heard the curses on the Niu family and joined in.
Yes, everyone is poor and envious of the Niu family's good life, but that was in the past, when everyone earned money through their abilities and labor. But now, when we see that they are willing to do anything shameless just to live a "good life", we can only despise them.
"They said they'd invite us to their wedding, but I won't go."
"I'm not going either."
"I won't go either."
Uncle Feng shook his head, "If you don't go, I will go. I want Chunxia's whole family to come back and go with us."
There are so many children in Feng Chunxia's family, plus Da Ni'er who just got married not long ago, I'm afraid there won't be enough space for them at two tables! The banquet at Shilan Hotel is very expensive. Giving a gift money to two tables of people, is this going to make the Niu family so angry that they bleed?
Everyone laughed and scolded: "You are such a stingy old Feng."
The mashed potatoes made by Zhao Wanqiu are delicious, fragrant and melt-in-your-mouth. Mashed potatoes can be sweet, salty, sour, or spicy. Nowadays, I like sour and spicy ones more. Add the soulful sauce prepared by my mother, and it is simply delicious.
Shu Jinyue ate while sighing that being a mama's girl was really a blessing, because as long as you spend money, your mom can make anything for you. Although Xu Duan is not in the bookstore during this period, he pays 30 yuan for living expenses every month. Not to mention Jin Yue alone, even a young couple at home cannot afford to eat so much. This is a disguised way of subsidizing his mother-in-law.
Jin Yue was feeling happy when she suddenly saw her second brother running in excitedly and almost kicking over the bench on the ground.
"What are you doing?"
Shu Wenming clicked his tongue and picked up a bowl of mashed potatoes to eat. Then he looked towards the middle courtyard and said, "This Sun Laoliu is really lucky."
He can also make money now, and has a feeling that he will make a lot of money once Mingyue down jackets are on the market, but this does not stop him from being jealous of this guy Sun Laoliu. He does not have to do anything. He had grandparents when he was a child. He lived a life of luxury when he grew up. Suddenly he took out a family heirloom, and after selling it, he bought a courtyard house. He lived a life of luxury for a few more years. Now he takes out another heirloom, and after selling it, he transforms himself again, putting on a suit and buying a motorcycle.
“He bought a motorcycle?!”
Shu Jinyue was shocked. Motorcycles of this era were not affordable for ordinary rich people. Not only did it cost money, a lot of money, but you also needed a permit to get a spot.
No wonder the second brother was jealous. She felt jealous just by listening to him.
They are not jealous of those who work as hard as they do and get rich step by step, because they are convinced that such people get rich first. They would really be jealous of a guy like Sun Laoliu who can even abandon his own grandmother but actually takes a big step to the pinnacle of life.
God is so unfair!
Shu Jinyue thought of the things he had dug out from the rat hole and asked tentatively, "What is the heirloom he is selling this time?"
"I heard it was a blue and white porcelain wine cup. The big bowl he sold last time was only worth a thousand yuan. How much do you think he sold it for this time?"
I guessed higher, "Two thousand?" After all, a wine cup is only a small thing, while a big bowl is very big.
"Guess again."
"Is it possible that... three thousand yuan is missing?"
Shu Wenming smiled, "Just be brave and guess. I guarantee you won't guess it."
Jin Yue's heart skipped a beat. "Could it be tens of thousands? This is impossible, absolutely impossible. Don't think I don't know about antiques. Xu Duan knows a little bit. He didn't say at the time that the blue and white porcelain... was so valuable."
Oops, she almost let the cat out of the bag. Her family doesn't know yet that she dug something out of the rat hole, and she doesn't plan to tell anyone about it. It's been several years.
"Humph, fifteen thousand and five!" Shu Wenming was so jealous that his eyes turned red. He didn't notice Jin Yue's abnormality at all. He squatted in the ghost market in the cold wind, he huddled in the cab of a large truck for more than ten days, he worked hard day and night in a small workshop, his nose and throat were full of duck down, and there was a smell of duck shit when he slept...but in the end he didn't earn a fraction of what others made.
Shu Jinyue took a deep breath, "So many?!"
According to Xu Duan, the wine cups in the rat hole should be a set, and should be a set with the ones in Sun Laoliu's hands. He can sell one for more than 15,000 yuan, so wouldn't his two be able to easily sell for 30,000 or 40,000 yuan? !
After all, for players who collect these things, they like to round up the numbers, and the more they need to round up, the more scarce they are, and the more expensive they are.
Shu Jinyue swallowed her saliva. The rhinitis prescription she had worked hard on for many years was only sold for such a small amount of money. However, Sun Laoliu sold it for so much from just one wine cup. Not to mention her second brother, even she herself was jealous.
"But we'll see. I can't keep Lao Liu's money." Shu Wenming lay on the kang like a boneless person. "I heard that several groups of people are targeting him."
Isn’t Sun Laoliu, who has suddenly become rich and high-profile, a big fat sheep?
The old couple were amazed when they heard this, and they lamented that the Sun family was really a hidden talent. "I thought that the blue and white bowl was the limit, but who knew they would find another one out of nowhere."
"But what on earth is this? Why is it so valuable? Who would be willing to spend so much money on it?"
Shu Wenming didn't pay much attention to it that year, but this year he was stimulated and really found out: "It is said to be a blue and white porcelain wine cup from the Yuan Dynasty, which was said to have been used by Empress Dowager Cixi and was later taken out of the palace by Li Lianying. It was originally a set of eight, but five were broken, and now only three are left."
Shu Jinyue's heart was pounding. Coincidentally, she had two of them in her hand.
"Is blue and white porcelain so valuable?"
"It's Yuan blue and white porcelain, still in the Qing Palace, used by Empress Dowager Cixi. The most important thing is that it's the only set of Mao Shu Ai Lian wine cups left. Most of the Mao Shu Ai Lian patterns are on jars and jade vases, and there's probably only one set of wine cups left, and there are only three left... Oh, Sun Lao Liu is really lucky."
He sold one for 15,500 yuan. If he sold three together, wouldn’t that be 50,000 yuan?
"Many people teased him like that, but he said he only had one and there were really no more. I don't know if it was true or not."
"Isn't this possible?" Jin Yue said hypocritically.
"Someone really did break into his house. It's true that some people almost dug it up." The security is not as good as before, and he is so high-profile. There must be too many people who are targeting him. The courtyard of their house has been trampled into a vegetable market by the sneaks.
Xu Wenli listened infatuatedly, "Whoever gets the other two will make a fortune, right?"
Shu Jinyue was secretly delighted and thought, hey, the person who will make a fortune is right next to you! But she believed what Xu Duan said, that the price of this kind of thing would be even higher in two years. Thousands or tens of thousands of dollars would be astronomical figures now, but in the future, it would cost at least several million at auction. If she didn't need the money urgently, there would be no harm in waiting.
Grandma Sun’s house was really worth buying. That big gray mouse had good taste, picking out the good things and dragging them into the hole, hehe!
It’s a pity that Grandma Sun has passed away, otherwise she would have wanted to secretly send her some food. Huaishu Hutong has now become a place she really doesn't want to go to. Two old ladies that Jin Yue liked very much both died there. Now, unless she has something to do, she will not go there on purpose.
I used to think that Grandma Hu was pitiful for not having children of her own in her old age, but Grandma Sun’s experience shows that having children is useless. She raised Old Six Sun with great difficulty, but in the end she still wanted to drive her away?
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Not long after, Shu Jinyue's school started, and the entire Shu family began to focus their attention on Shu Wenming... or to be more precise, on his small workshop.
He went out early and came back late every day in the small workshop, and spent at least 30,000 yuan in it. Except for Jin Yue and his wife, everyone else in the family couldn't understand why he spent so much money and so much time on a small workshop.
Even Xu Wenli's eyes were filled with worry.
Even Shu Wenyan, who was still sulking after the last unpleasant parting, couldn't help but come over. "Second brother, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you should save the money you have. It's not easy to earn that money. You spent it all on a few down jackets and you still owe nearly ten thousand yuan, right?"
He pried all this out of Shu Linong. Of course, he was genuinely worried about the second child, but everyone always looked at him with tinted glasses, so whatever he said was not very pleasant to hear.
"What's this down jacket? Did Jin Yue also invest money in it?"
Shu Jinyue nodded, "I invested 10,000 yuan, I believe that my second brother will definitely make money."
Shu Wenyan swallowed his saliva. His family had some savings, but it was still nothing compared to a wealthy woman like Shu Jinyue who could easily invest tens of thousands of dollars. He could only sigh, a sigh of envy.
Mengmeng and Yaya are now three years old and almost four years old. They speak very clearly and Shu Wenyan has taught them many simple words. For example, when they see the calendar on the wall, they can understand what day it is. When they see the five elements chart that Jin Yue drew for Zhao Wanqiu, they will point and say, "Wood, fire, earth, metal, water."
"Oh my, you even know the character 'gold'? When I was your age, I only knew the characters 'wood' and 'fire'." She often mistook fire for a human.
"I know. The character 'quan' with two more dots means jin, the jin of gold!" Mengmeng said quickly.
Yaya was a beat slower and said softly, "I also know that it was born from the soil and it can also produce water."
The adults laughed, thinking she was talking nonsense. They thought the child was very competitive, and when she saw her sister being praised, she started talking nonsense to attract the adults' attention.
Liu Huifang felt that this problem could be either big or small, and that she should be educated properly when she returned, and not be allowed to develop the habit of speaking without thinking and talking nonsense.
Only Jin Yue didn't laugh. She put away the simple picture she drew and turned it upside down on the table on the kang. "Yaya, tell your aunt, do you know who gave birth to 'Mu'?"
"Aquatic."
"What about the soil?"
"Earth is born from fire."
Shu Wenyan laughed, "Girl, what are you talking about? If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."
Yaya still looked at her father in a soft voice, "My aunt said last time that this is the mutual generation and mutual restraint of the five elements. You are in me and I am in you. You can restrain me, and I can restrain him."
Everyone: “…”
"Ah, so that's what you mean. I said she was talking nonsense." Shu Wenyan admitted his mistake in front of his daughter faster than anyone else. "I'm sorry, it was Dad who wronged you. Dad will apologize to Yaya, okay?"
Yaya nodded, "I forgive Dad. Now let me test you. Do you know who gave birth to Mu?"
Shu Wenyan: "..."
"Humph, Dad didn't listen to what I said just now, so smack me!"
Everyone: "..." Why do their hands feel a little cold? They heard it, but they didn't listen carefully and didn't take it seriously.
It's like a very ordinary sentence that you hear every day but never take it seriously. But when a child asks you about some small details in it one day, you can't answer it.
Shu Jinyue's eyes lit up. She found that Yaya seemed to have a very good memory, especially on issues related to traditional Chinese medicine. For example, last month, she heard herself muttering a few words "Xiao Chaihu Decoction has the function of reconciliation, and Pinellia, ginseng and licorice are used." This is the formula of Xiao Chaihu Decoction. She was reading it to Zhao Wanqiu, but who knew that the little girl heard it and repeated it in the afternoon.
Now it seems that she not only has a good memory, but also a high level of comprehension. She can easily handle such complicated things as the Five Elements' mutual generation and restraint. This is not something that an ordinary child, or even an ordinary Chinese medicine student can do!
Shu Jinyue suddenly thought of a possibility - would his medical skills have a successor?
Of course, the term "successor" is too old, and the child is still young, so it is better not to force her growth. If she has learned enough cultural knowledge and is still interested in Chinese medicine, then you can learn it.
Jin Yue suppressed this thought and didn't tell anyone.
On the way home in the evening, Mengmeng and Yaya ran hand in hand in front, while Shu Wenyan and Liu Huifang followed behind, sighing.
"Why are you sighing? Look how upset you are. Your brothers and sisters are doing well, but it makes you feel worse than killing them?"
Shu Wenyan felt more wronged than Dou E: "No, in your eyes, Liu Huifang, I am the kind of person who can't stand seeing my brothers and sisters doing well?"
"Then why are you sighing with such a sullen face?"
"I'm not pulling a face. I was born with a longer face than others. No, that's not the point. I was just thinking that maybe what you said last night made sense."
Last night, Liu Huifang talked about the recent changes in their unit and was very emotional: because of the special and convenient nature of their profession, many truck drivers have started to engage in the reselling business from north to south. Even the most honest Zhao Dayong knows how to help people bring some local specialties and earn a lot of money in a month. But she, who works in an office, sees her salary getting less and less every month.
Everyone was busy with their personal matters and were not as serious about their official duties. The efficiency was not as good as before. In the past two months, even the salaries could not be paid on time. Several experienced workers were even poached by other transportation companies.
You have to know that at that time there were very few people who had driving skills, let alone large trucks. Once they left, the transportation company's vehicles were idle and no one drove them. The longer they were idle, the more problems they had. Two of the vehicles could not be started. Many people were asked to repair them. Liu Huifang also tried, and the car seemed to be really broken.
She was worried that if she never touched the steering wheel again, would her car become as old as those two cars that were once so glorious but are now idle in the corner?
"If you want to drive, I don't object. We have to save some money for our cute little kids." Shu Wenyan was also stimulated by his younger siblings. They could get 10,000 yuan with just the movement of their fingers. He used to be the most well-off one in the family, but now he has become the most backward one.
More important than the desire to win is the future of the two girls. "I grew up in a family with little food and clothing, so all of you look down on me and think I'm snobbish, mercenary, and stingy. But if I could be loved by my parents like Jin Yue, have an extra portion of food than my other brothers and sisters, and get praise from my parents no matter how many points I get in the exam, would I still be so competitive?"
“I don’t want Meng Meng Ya Ya to end up like me.”
Liu Huifang snorted, her heart was deeply moved, but she was unforgiving, "Come on, this is obviously your own problem, don't blame Jin Yue, Jin Yue and her daughter didn't take advantage of your family."
"I know I was petty before. In fact, we owe Aunt Zhao. But look, Jin Yue buys her this and that, the second son buys her expensive clothes and gives her pocket money every month, and even Wen Yun buys her a gold necklace from Hong Kong. Only we are lagging behind... Do you think I don't want to compensate Aunt Zhao? But we only have so little money, and I have to take care of my own children first."
Mengmeng Yaya is going to kindergarten soon. As she grows up, what should she do about getting married?
They only have these two children, who else should they plan for if not for them?
After entering the 1980s, family planning became stricter year by year. There were families with only one daughter or two daughters around them. In other provinces, they might be able to have another child, but in Shilan, that was absolutely not possible. Those who were brave enough and didn't want to work could have a child, while those who were timid didn't dare to have one. But they just had to lie down.
The word "lying flat" was uttered by Jin Yue, but Shu Wenyan felt that it accurately described the state of those people.
They said, "It would be great if it was a son. A son would give us as parents the motivation to strive for success."
They said, "My daughter is going to get married anyway, so just prepare some dowry. There is no need to save money. We will give her whatever we have when the time comes."
They said, "Instead of working hard for most of your life and having your daughter take all your money to her husband's house in the end, it's better to enjoy yourself now and not be too tired."
Shu Wenyan always felt harsh and uncomfortable when hearing these words. In fact, if he thought back ten years ago, he would have thought the same way, but now he couldn't tell what was different. He just felt annoyed when hearing these words.
"You said that before because you didn't have children, but now you really have two daughters." Liu Huifang smiled, took his arm, stood on tiptoe and kissed him gently, "I want to drive, but not the way I used to. How much money can I make that way?"
As for their two daughters, they want to have their own house and savings like their aunt in the future, and most importantly, have at least one professional skill in their hands, so that they can live a good life even if they are gone.
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At the old house, after the eldest brother's family left, everyone prepared to disperse and went back to their rooms to rest. Jin Yue went to the living room to call Xu Duan.
Xu Duan's trading company was initially established and the business volume was not very large, but there was a telephone in the office he rented for himself. When he worked overtime, he slept next to the telephone, and his toiletries were under the table. He ate and slept in the office.
Fortunately, his work there has come to a temporary end, and he should be able to come back and stay for a while during the National Day. I am usually too busy to think of him, but when I have free time, Jin Yue will think of him.
"I miss you." Xu Duan suddenly said on the other end of the phone.
Shu Jinyue, who was bragging about Yaya's glorious deeds: "..."
A second later, "I missed you, too."
"Where do you want to go?"
"I think about it everywhere, in my heart and in my body."
Sure enough, across the phone line, Jin Yue could clearly feel that his breathing had become heavier.
Shu Jinyue was a little proud, "You'll know how much I miss you when you come back."
Xu Duan didn't say anything. After several seconds of silence, Jin Yue heard his breathing. "You, you know I can't leave, but you still say this on purpose."
Jin Yue really missed him. When she was reading, he was always at the other end of the desk, also reading; when she was taking a shower, he was guarding the door; when it was cold, his hot chest; of course, he also missed his strong shoulders, powerful waist, and the thin layer of muscle lines covering it...
After hanging up the phone, Jin Yue's face turned red and his heart beat a little faster. He was about to go back to the room to wash his face with cold water to sober up when the phone suddenly rang again.
Jin Yue thought it was Xu Duan calling, and thought that he should have finished washing up by now. If he had a cell phone, he would at least make a video call to check.
"Why again——"
"Jin Yue, please come to the mental hospital." It was Sun Aihong's voice, and she was very anxious. "My sister is having another attack, please come to the scene and see if there are any clues."
Shu Jinyue collected his thoughts and said, "Okay, I'll leave right away."
The family was worried, so Shu Wenming followed her. He rode his bike very fast. Jin Yue was thinking about Sun Ailan's illness in his heart. It has been nearly four months since her last attack. The mental hospital has reduced her medication dosage to a quarter of its original dosage and said that if there are no abnormalities in another two months, she can be taken home.
Who knew that at this critical juncture, with only two months left... I don't know what stimulation I received.
Jin Yue knew that tonight might be the key to breaking the deadlock. She took a deep breath and calmed herself down. It would be even better if she could happen to catch her going crazy and take her pulse.
Unfortunately, they were still too late. When they arrived at the mental hospital, Sun Ailan had already calmed down - there was gauze wrapped on her forehead, and blood was still oozing out of the gauze.
Sun Ai's eyes were red as she looked at a young man beside the bed. "Xiaobing, look after your mother. I'm going to go out and say a few words."
The young man looked up, revealing a very handsome face. If it wasn't the wrong timing, Jin Yue would have compared him with the young actors in movie pictorials. His facial features were extremely delicate, with big eyes, double eyelids, a high nose bridge, lips of moderate thickness, and shiny black hair.
No wonder Niu Xiaofang’s clumsy tactics of provocation worked, this kid really doesn’t look like Manager Niu at all!
Even if Manager Niu were 20 years younger or 40 pounds thinner, the two of them would not look alike.
Niu Xiaobing is a handsome boy, but Manager Niu is a big pumpkin. The difference between them is even bigger than that between the ugly duckling and the white swan. They are simply two different species!
Jin Yue didn't go out immediately. She took Sun Ailan's pulse as she had just fallen ill.
Because she started to hurt herself again, she had to take a sedative. She fell asleep again, and Jin Yue was able to take her pulse successfully.
Still counting the pulse carefully like last time.
After finding nothing, Jin Yue followed Sun Aihong to the rooftop. There was no one on the rooftop late at night. A bed sheet, a quilt cover, and a small pillowcase were hanging there to dry.
The bleak autumn wind blew these things into a flutter. Jin Yue straightened his collar and asked, "What happened tonight? Did anyone irritate Sister Ailan?"
"Yes, today is my father's birthday. I brought her some food. While she was eating, she suddenly felt unwell. She dug her throat and vomited out all the dinner she had eaten. She vomited out all the bitter bile."
"Eating something she can't eat?"
"Yes, I don't know when my sister started to eat vegetarian food. She doesn't eat any meat. At first, she didn't even eat oil. Later, the hospital contacted my father, and he did some ideological work on her for a long time before she agreed to eat oil but not meat."
No wonder, when Jin Yue looked at the three meals a day recorded in her notebook, they were all vegetarian dishes. At that time, she thought that the food in the hospital was not good and only vegetarian dishes were provided.
"Xiaobing was also worried about her, so he said that his grandfather had cooked some braised donkey meat for her birthday and asked her to try it. Who knew it would trigger her illness instead?"
Shu Jinyue found it even more strange. It was okay for her to go crazy and hurt herself, but she actually refused to eat meat. After being sick, she suddenly became a vegetarian. Why did it seem like she was atonement for her sins?
"It's all my fault. My mother must still be atonement. It's all my fault."
I don't know when Niu Xiaobing came to the rooftop. The wind blew his warm black hair, revealing a perfect face.
"What atonement?" Jin Yue asked hurriedly.
"A few days before my mother fell ill that year, she had a serious argument with my father. She said that my father lied to her and that my father lied to her on purpose." The boy gritted his teeth, sparks flashing in his eyes.
Sun Aihong was stunned. "What did your father lie to her about? Tell me now."
"I was only seven years old that year. I only remember that a few days before the onset of the disease, my mother came back happily and told me a good news that our black bean had been found and someone had seen it near my home."
Hei Dou is the puppy she has raised for many years. Its body is completely black, and its eyes and mouth are also black, so it is called Hei Dou.
"That day my dad brought back a pot of donkey meat. Seeing my mom eat several pieces, he drank a little bit of wine and joked that what she ate was not donkey meat but dog meat, the black bean meat that she had been thinking about day and night. Then my mom quarreled with him and vomited. She vomited a lot..."
“Is that really the meat of black beans?”
"No, I saw Black Bean several times later, and it was still alive." But the boy's anger could not be dissipated. "When I grew up, I asked him why he lied to my mother. He said that he just couldn't stand my mother being depressed because of Black Bean. That day, my mother was so happy that someone told her about finding Black Bean that she didn't remember it was his birthday. He was so angry that he drank two glasses of wine and deliberately made fun of dog meat..."
Shu Jinyue rolled his eyes: The one who should be admitted to a mental hospital is Manager Niu, not Sun Ailan!
At first glance, it seemed like an ordinary, slightly exaggerated joke, but did he know that Hei Dou was Sun Ailan's family? He actually said that she was eating the meat of her family. Would he want this kind of "stimulation" if it happened to him?
Could it be that Sun Ailan's psychological defenses were broken down because of that big fight? After all, it was many years later that Manager Niu admitted that he had deceived her, and Sun Ailan did not have a God's perspective at the time. She really believed it and has always felt guilty for eating black bean meat.
Niu Xiaobing thought for a moment, "I only remember that day that they quarreled for a very long time. My mother was afraid of scaring me, so she locked me in the room. When I woke up, they had stopped quarreling, and my mother came to my room to sleep with me."
The next day, she found him a red scarf to remind him not to forget to hand in his homework and not to run around after school and wait for her to pick him up.
"In the next few days, I felt that my mother was not suddenly ill except that she was sad."
The more Shu Jin listened, the more she felt that this incident was not the trigger for her illness. So what was it? She did not suffer any violence, but was provoked by a few jokes from her husband. However, she behaved normally in the next few days. But something happened a few days later that made her completely lose control, vomit wildly, and wash her body.
I feel a little headache now.
Niu Xiaobing said a few more things, but they were of little help. He went over to collect the sheets that were hung out to dry. "I'll send two more to my mother tomorrow. She washes her bedding every day, and it's hard to dry when the weather gets cold. There aren't enough to change."
The sheets and bedding have to be washed every day. Jin Yue recalled that he only washed them once every half a month in winter, and even once a month when it was colder. Sun Ailan is really too particular, to an abnormal level, to the point of being a mysophobia.
Suddenly, a picture flashed through her mind. The last time she went to Sun Ailan's ward for a "surprise inspection", her sheets didn't look like they were washed every day!
Thinking of something, Shu Jinyue hurried back to her ward.
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