Chapter 47

“Mr. Su I’m telling you, that person is really too irritating!” Zhang Ma huffed.

On the fourth day of the month, the Zhu family’s breakfast table was extraordinarily lively, Su Chunjun came to realize that such an important thing had happened yesterday, the Zhu family mother and daughter three, even Zhang Ma was angry, said the thing to him over and over again.

Su Chunjun heard also feel fearful, fortunately the man surnamed Gao has no guts, not really on this house of women hands, or if there is an accident, regret are too late.

“Luckily it’s New Year’s Eve, you have a lot of guests in your house.” Su Chunjun frowned and said to Yang Yuyan, “If you have any problems at home, you can call me at the Finance Bureau, and I’ll be right back.”

When Yang Yuyan heard this, her face immediately felt hot.

For the first time, the second lady became mute when everyone was talking, and lowered her head to eat a mouthful of rice.

Su Chunjun, however, was serious, and told Zhu Yanshu again, and also told Zhang Ma: “Be sure to call me, I’ll be right back. If the situation is bad, report my name.”

Zhang Ma was shocked, “Mr. Su has been promoted so quickly?” You can even report your name?

Zhu Yanshu said, “Teacher Su is now a government official, ordinary small rascals dare to mess with the rich, but they must not dare to go to a government official.” Even the lowliest little section officer was worse to mess with than a businessman with a huge fortune in his pocket.

Zhang Ma usually looked down on people in the government, believing that all of them don’t do proper work and only hug dancing ladies in dance halls, she was surprised to hear Zhu Yanshu say this.

Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “The more time like this, the more powerful the government has to be, otherwise how can we suppress the evil spirits in this area? The gendarmes are all armed.” The government’s face is more important, if a few hooligans can bully the government’s head, then the government doesn’t have to do it.

Su Chunjun immediately said, “I have some friendship with the gendarmerie’s Captain Wang.” Captain Wang wanted to give a gift to his superior officer, or asked him to find a note.

Zhang Ma didn’t know anything else, but she was really relieved to hear that there were guns, “That’s good, when something really happens, please ask Mr. Su to find two men with guns to go around in front of the house, and make sure that those bad guys won’t dare to come!”

Zhu Yanshu smiled and said, “Exactly this reason.” She turned to Su Chunjun and said sincerely, “Having Mr. Su around is really a blessing for our family of women.”

After breakfast, Su Chunjun went first and followed Yang Yuyan downstairs for a walk. Zhu Yanshu also did not disturb the love interest of this pair of lovebirds, and let them go in secret under the eyes of adults.

Yang Yucan has been very silent since yesterday, Zhu Yanshu is afraid that she has pressure in her heart, specially talk to her.

“No need to take it to heart, that Mrs. Ma is a muddle-headed person, that nephew of hers is also used to being a bully in his hometown, and he didn’t change his bad habits when he came into the city, thinking that, like in his hometown, the girls in the city are also letting him make arbitrary prices. If he really dares to bring his parents to the door next time, I’ll call the police to arrest him!”

Yang Yuchan was actually realizing that the gap between her and Ma Tianbao might be even wider than she thought. If an object like Gao Wei Nan was a loss of face for Zhu Yanshu, then if she really married Ma Tianbao, Zhu Yanshu was afraid that she wouldn’t even attend the wedding banquet. If a girl from Zhu family marries the son of Jin family’s servant, then Zhu family will be the laughing stock of the city in the future, how can Zhu Yanshu still have the face to see others?

Zhu Yanshu coaxed her daughter for a while, seeing that she still had something on her mind and was not happy, there was nothing she could do, so she had to let her go back to the house to read, and let the book solve her troubles.

“This Mrs. Ma, it’s really irritating!” Zhu Yanshu complained to Zhang Ma.

Zhang Ma said, “She has no good intentions! If this matchmaking comes to fruition, her nephew’s family will have to thank her. When our daughter is in someone else’s hands, if they want money, we have to give them money, and if they want anything, you have to give it to them, and that’s just like cutting off meat from the bottom of your body. So if a girl marries someone, not only do she need to see clearly, but her parents can’t be confused either!”

Zhu Yan Shu sighed: “It’s not that easy. I only hope that the heavens will give me another man with good qualities to match with my elder sister, otherwise it really makes my heart ache to see my elder sister like this.”

Mrs. Zhang: “How can such a good thing happen? The second young miss and Mr. Su are just bumping into each other, not even in a thousand people would you have this kind of luck.”

Zhu Yan Shu sighed deeply.

After what happened yesterday, more guests came today!

Many of the guests scrambled to tell Zhu Yanshu that Mrs. Ma was sent to the hospital last night, and they heard that she was sick with gas.

Zhu Yan Shu laughed: “Yo, then I have to go and visit her?”

Someone laughed: “You can not go, you go, she is not sicker?”

There is even a good person yesterday did not go, has been in the Ma family to watch the fun, know better, said: “I think she is pretending to be sick! Yesterday, after you left, Mrs. Ma was afraid of being scolded by her mother-in-law, and rushed to say that she had a headache and fainted before her husband came back, which is why she hid in the hospital, and even went to a Westerner’s hospital.”

All clamor, really because ordinary people are generally sick to go to the Chinese medicine hall to find the sitting doctor to see the doctor, the West is said to be more powerful to save lives, people dying to send the most effective, and Western hospitals are very expensive, and like to take the needle to stab people, foreign husbands hair and eyes with the countrymen are different, tell him to look at the soul to fly off, the general public, if not out of the way, not at all willing to go to the hospital of the West to see a doctor.

Speaking of which, some people remembered that Zhu family’s second young lady had stayed in the westerner’s hospital for half a year, so they inquired curiously.

Zhu Yanshu hated it when someone talked about Yang Yuyan’s hospitalization, she neither wanted to disclose that Yang Yuyan committed suicide because of her father’s affair and divorce, nor did she want people to think that Yang Yuyan was unhealthy with a serious illness, so she immediately changed the topic: “Aren’t we talking about Mrs. Ma? By the way, did her nephew go back last night? Doesn’t he feel guilty when he sees his aunt working so hard for him?”

The good people who were watching at Ma’s house immediately said, “I heard that man is not Mrs. Ma’s nephew at all! He’s not even a fellow villager, and although he lives in the Ma family, he’s not a relative of the Ma family, and he didn’t even go back last night!”

Someone asked, “Then where did he go? Does he know about Mrs. Ma’s illness?”

The good Samaritan said, “I’m not sure if he knows about Mrs. Ma’s illness, but I know that he was dancing at Paramount last night! His messenger even came back to get some money!” Paramount is the most famous dance hall in the city, and I heard that all the dancing ladies there are as beautiful as stars.

The crowd was again in an uproar, and what was more exciting than Mrs. Ma’s hospitalization was the fact that the man surnamed Gao was a white-eyed wolf!

Zhu Yanshu followed with some ah ah, and tsk tsk, and then at noon, she pushed that yesterday she was also angry, and need to rest early, in the afternoon will not entertain everyone, I hope you forgive me.

Although the guests were reluctant to part with her, they were also considerate of the fact that she was angry with Mrs. Ma yesterday, so they all told her to take care of her health before leaving.

After the guests had left, Zhu Yanshu immediately asked Zhang Ma to get some medicine.

Zhang Ma: “What kind of medicine?”

Zhu Yanshu sat on the sofa and flipped through the newspaper in a huff: “Any medicine will do! Grab the bitter ones! I’m also sick, I’m also angry and sick! I’m going to rest for a few days! Catch it back and cook it on the porch so that others know I’m sick too.”

Zhang Ma sighed and resigned herself to taking her purse and going downstairs. See, this mom is more capable than her daughter, right? She’s better than her daughter, isn’t she? Unfortunately, the ones who can control her are all gone, so she can’t just do her best.

The pharmacy is also open on New Year’s Day, after all, patients do not pick the time to get sick, and there will be more patients on New Year’s Day, such as those who burned, burned, fought, ate a bad stomach, etc. Zhang Ma walked into the pharmacy, and the small medicine shop was open.

When Zhang Ma walked into the medicine hall, the small medicine herder rushed over to greet her, “Guest, what do you need?”

Zhang Ma smiled and said, “The children at home have eaten too much recently, so I’m buying some hawthorn pills to eliminate food.”

The little medicine herder then led her to the medicine cabinet and handed it over to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper took a piece of paper and laid it out, weighed one or two hawthorn pills on a small scale, wrapped them up into a four-square shape, tied a hemp rope around them and handed them to Zhang Ma, “I’ll take this as a favor and pay you eight cents.”

Zhang Ma took the hawthorn pills and said, “There is another child at home, who doesn’t know any better and always pretends to be sick, can you prescribe me some bitter pills, so I can go back and boil them to scare him.”

The shopkeeper laughed at this and said, “You really know how to raise a child.”

Zhang Ma laughed and said, “I’ve brought up three children, a big one and two small ones, each of them is not a caretaker.”

The shopkeeper thought for a moment and said, “I’ll grab you some Huanglian dregs. If you sell them to customers, they won’t want them if they don’t like them. I’ll charge you a cheaper price, two cents, do you think it’s okay?”

Mrs. Zhang asked, “How many days can you cook it? It can be cooked for three to five days, right?”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, “Don’t pour out the water, just heat it up every time.”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ma laughed, “It’s me who’s confused, then I’ll take this.”

She carried a bag of hawthorn pills in her left hand and a bag of Huanglian dregs in her right hand, returned home, first put the hawthorn pills in the medicine box, then took out the small casserole for cooking the medicine, moved a small stove and put it in the corridor, and boiled the Huanglian dregs.

After Zhang Ma cooked the medicine, she went back and saw Zhu Yanshu getting up from her nap, sitting in her morning jacket in front of the phone, complaining to someone.

“Yes, alas, I was also in a hurry, I came back only to realize that there was a layer of sweat on my back, and my head started to hurt at night.” Zhu Yan Shu spoke into the phone with a pained face, “I know, alas ……”

She complains to this person for ten minutes, hangs up the phone, and then pulls up to tell that person the story of how she was made sick by Mrs. Ma’s anger.

Zhang Ma shakes her head and goes inside to prepare dinner.

An hour later she comes out and Zhu Yanshu has changed her clothes and is sitting refreshed by the telephone still talking on the phone.

“Who would have thought it? These are the only two pieces of my heart, I can’t hurt either one of them. Yes, I also did not expect Mrs. Ma to …… alas, maybe she is also kind. Yes, I know her family owns a store, I am not thinking …… Yes, her eyesight is not working.”

Zhang Ma sighed and went back to the kitchen to continue cooking.

Outside the window, it was already dark and the Chinese lights were on.

Zhang Ma set out all the dinner and called both sisters out for dinner.

Yang Yuyan saw Zhu Yanshu on the phone and couldn’t help but soften her voice, not daring to disturb.

“Who is mom calling?” She asked Zhang Ma curiously.

Zhang Ma didn’t have the heart to say, “Calling a lot of people.”

Yang Yuyan muttered “Mysticism”, turned to Yang Yucan and said, “Zhang Ma still thinks I’m a child, it’s not like I’m going to eavesdrop on Mom’s phone calls and ask her who she’s calling without telling me.”

Yang Yuchan: “Then don’t ask.”

Yang Yuyan: “I’m curious.” She looked over and saw that Zhu Yanshu had been talking for five minutes and still hadn’t hung up the phone, so she became even more curious: “Is it a relative of ours? Do we have any relatives in our family? Didn’t they say they are all far away? Is this a New Year’s call?”

Yang Yucan disliked her questions and changed seats.

Yang Yuyan had to wait for Zhang Ma to come over to put the food away and asked again, “Zhang Ma, do you know where all our relatives are? Is my mom talking to her relatives on the phone? By the way, what’s that smell outside? Who’s taking medicine?”

Zhang Ma put down the beef meatballs, wiped her hands on her apron, and glared at her, “Eat your food, why are you talking so much! Aren’t these the beef meatballs you wanted to eat? It took me all afternoon!”

Yang Yuyan looked at the beef meatballs, her saliva started to secrete, turning her head to look at Zhu Yanshu: “Mom hasn’t finished her phone call yet, when is she coming over?”

Zhang Ma shoved her chopsticks into her hands, “You guys eat first, your mom will come over when she’s done calling.”

The two sisters looked at each other in dismay, and then saw Zhu Yanshu still talking on the phone in high spirits, so they had to start eating first.

Yang Yuyan took a bite of a pill and sighed, “I want to eat rice.”

Zhang Ma smiled coldly and went to the kitchen to serve a bowl of rice and put it in front of her, “I already knew that you want to eat rice with this dish, eat it quickly.”

Yang Yuyan let out a cheer and held the bowl and ate.

Zhang Ma said, “After you finish eating, go eat a pill of hawthorn pills, so as not to eat too much stomach discomfort.”

Yang Yuyan is surprised: “There are still hawthorn pills at home!”

Mrs. Zhang: “I just bought them today, only one pill is allowed, it’s not sugar.”

When Yang Yuyan finished half a bowl of rice, Zhu Yanshu finally put down the phone and came over, she called all afternoon to make sure everyone she knew knew that Mrs. Ma was hiding in the hospital and pretending to be sick, she was mad at Mrs. Ma for being sick, and now she is refreshed.

Zhu Yanshu looks at the table, “Ya, there are beef meatballs ah, Zhang Ma, is there any rice?”

Zhang Ma puts down a bowl of rice, “Ma’am, after eating this bowl of rice remember to eat a pill of hawthorn pills to eliminate food.”

Zhu Yan Shu laughed, “Zhang Ma, you treat me like a child, you still let me eat hawthorn pills.” She sat down and took a beef ball.

Zhang Ma looked at this table of mother and daughter: “Hehe.”