"Damn it, Dongzi, have you heard that the fifth son of the Han family, Han Chunming, the one who passed the Shuimu examination, actually became a self-employed person."
"What? It's impossible, right? A graduate of Shuimu University is assigned to be a cadre, so how can he become a self-employed person?"
"It's absolutely true, that kid doesn't know what's going on in his head. He doesn't want the golden rice bowl, but he has to drink the northwest wind."
"Then, then, the Han family's aunt is still angry to death?"
"Who says it's not the case? Recently, the Han family's aunt has been looking sad. Before, I thought that the fifth child was assigned to another place. Now, I know everything. No one can bear this matter!"
Two retired women stood by the pool, one washing clothes and the other choosing vegetables. The fatter woman didn't know where she heard the news, and told the woman who was bowing her head to choose vegetables all the gossip she heard.
Not far away, when Cheng Jianjun heard the words 'Han Chunming', he immediately stopped and hid secretly behind a tree to listen to the discussion between the two.
‘Self-employed’, ‘brain-twitching’, and ‘drinking the northwest wind’ fell into his ears one by one. After understanding the whole story, Cheng Jianjun couldn’t help but feel proud.
'Han Chunming, Han Chunming, I didn't expect you to be so blind that you went to be self-employed. You are really blind.'
'My unit is better, the agency unit!'
After Cheng Jianjun graduated, he was assigned to the Inspection Section of the Taxation Bureau. This is the Inspection Section, and he can investigate whoever he wants. Although he is just a clerk, as long as he goes out, which company dares not to give him some dignity?
Cheng Jianjun's heart felt hot at the thought of taking office.
In fact, Cheng Jianjun didn't have a thorough understanding of his work. If he really knew the inside story, he probably wouldn't think so.
Indeed, the Inspection Section sounds very prestigious, but you, a small section member, can at most show off your authority in front of the vendors on the street. Want to inspect a company?
No way!
No one in the company cares about you. You are just a junior clerk and your level is not as high as others. They will pay attention to you to give you face. If they ignore you, you will have nothing to do with them. After all, it is not a system.
Just so arrogant!
For the Inspection Bureau to truly become prestige, we have to wait until the individual economy and private economy develop, and it will take four or five years no matter what.
Here, Cheng Jianjun was secretly proud, but on the other side, the Su family was in a state of gloom and gloom.
Su's father has suffered from angina pectoris occasionally in the past few years. At first, he didn't take it seriously, until the symptoms suddenly worsened a few days ago, and the pain was excruciating.
Then, I went to the hospital for a checkup.
As soon as I checked, something went wrong. I was diagnosed with severe coronary heart disease by the hospital. If I didn't undergo heart bypass surgery, my life would be very likely to be in danger.
When Su Meng learned about her father's condition, she felt like the sky was falling!
It was scary to have an operation on the heart. She had been busy asking around these days to find out that for a disease like her father's, it was indeed as the doctor said, and it was best to have a cardiovascular operation.
In the entire Forty-Nine Cities, there are only two hospitals that can perform cardiovascular surgeries: the 301 Hospital and the Union Medical College Hospital.
Both hospitals are the top hospitals in the country, but the 301 Hospital is the military region's general hospital, and many leaders receive medical treatment there. The Su family is just an ordinary teacher's family. In order to avoid trouble, we finally discussed and went to Union Medical College Hospital.
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After choosing a hospital, another difficulty loomed in front of the Su family.
Where will the surgery fees come from?
Heart bypass surgery is a major surgery. All the drugs and equipment for the surgery are basically imported. Even with medical insurance, surgery fees, hospitalization fees, follow-up drug costs, etc., the total cost of zero and zero will be at least 6,000 to 7,000 yuan.
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(Thirty thousand yuan in the play is a bit exaggerated. If you deduct medical insurance, it shouldn’t be that much.)
The medical expenses of more than 6,000 yuan were simply an astronomical figure for the Su family. They couldn't afford that much money for a while. Su Meng's parents had worked diligently for decades, even if they added the money they received after the special period.
Subsidy, the family's savings are only more than 2,000 yuan.
In the early 1980s, an ordinary family with a savings of 2,000 yuan was considered very wealthy, but for the high surgical fees, it was still a drop in the bucket.
Because he was short of too much money, Su's father directly discussed with his family that if the disease could not be cured, life and death would be completely left to God. He did not want to bring down the family because of his disease.
As soon as Su's father's proposal was proposed, it was unanimously rejected by the Su family. How could they watch them lose their husband/son/father.
After nearly a week of raising funds, the Su family borrowed half of it from all the relatives and friends who could borrow it, but they were still far short of being able to collect the surgery fee.
Su Meng looked at her gloomy mother and grandma, gritted her teeth secretly, and decided to go to her classmates to borrow money. She had an arrogant temperament, and being able to make up her mind to ask for help was considered a risk.
"Dad, Mom, Grandma, I'm going out."
"Wait a minute, Mengmeng, where are you going?"
Behind her, grandma's voice reached Su Meng's ears.
"I'm going to borrow money from my classmates and I'll be back in a minute!"
Su Meng walked out without looking back. Somehow, the first person who came to her mind to borrow money was Cheng Jianjun.
Over the years, Cheng Jianjun has been busy with her. She is not a fool, so how could she not see what the other person is thinking.
It's just that she doesn't like Cheng Jianjun from the bottom of her heart. She always feels that Cheng Jianjun has too many petty thoughts. She can't see through this person, so she makes up her mind not to accept his pursuit.
However, now Su Meng's mind has changed, and her father's surgery fee is still short of more than 2,000 yuan.
More than two thousand yuan is a lot of money for any family. Su Meng is just a recent graduate. How could anyone lend her so much money?
After much thought, the only hope was with Cheng Jianjun.
Didn't you say that you will identify with me in this life and you will not marry me unless you marry me? You can give anything to me!
Then, okay, I can satisfy you!
Before walking out of the house, Su Meng secretly made up her mind that as long as Cheng Jianjun was willing to help her family overcome this difficulty, she would be willing to accept him or even marry him.
Su Meng didn't want to 'lose' her father again. She still remembered the scene that year when her father was taken away by a group of people wearing red armbands.
She was so scared at that time!
That time, she almost lost her parents. Fortunately, her parents survived.
Now that she has finally lived a good life, she will never allow tragedy to happen, even if she sacrifices her own personal happiness!
Not long after Su Meng walked out of the house, she ran into Cheng Jianjun who had returned from eavesdropping.
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PS: This chapter introduces Su Meng and Cheng Jianjun. Anyway, they are also the first female and second male in the original work, so there should be an explanation.