Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 29 Brothers
"Do you know who Uncle Zhao wants to introduce you to?"

Everyone else left, but Jin Zhihai stayed. He and Li Yancheng returned to the house, sat by the stove, smoked and drank water while talking about what had just happened.

"How would I know that?" Li Yancheng picked up the enamel mug and took a sip of the brewed tea, then put the mug next to the stove. When he heard his childhood friend ask this, he shook his head and replied.

"I just know that I can't let Uncle Zhao finish his words, otherwise it will be difficult for me to refuse."

Jin Zhihai took out a cigarette and handed it to Li Yancheng, then explained with a smile, "I heard Mingliang mention it to me the other day. Uncle Zhao wants to introduce you to his niece, Mingliang's second cousin."

"Second cousin? Oh, I remember now. It's the nurse, right? I think she graduated from the same school as me."

"Yes, it's her, Guan Xiaoya."

"She's not married yet? As far as I remember, she is only one or two years younger than us?" Li Yancheng's expression was full of surprise.

"I don't know exactly how big it is." Jin Zhihai shook his head, struck the match in his hand to light the cigarette, blew it out, and threw it into the stove.

"I only know that Mingliang's aunt has many children and her family conditions are a little poor. His second cousin's personal conditions are not bad, but she has never been married because of her family's burden.

I heard that someone introduced her to someone before, but the guy with better conditions rejected her when he heard about her family situation, and she didn’t like the guy with worse conditions, so…”

Jin Zhihai spread his hands, the meaning of his words was self-evident.

Li Yancheng doesn't think it's a big deal to help his parents' home when he is well off. However, if he becomes rich but ignores the family that gave birth to him, then he has a real character problem.

But there is a prerequisite, that is, you have to at least be able to make your own living, and don't just help out mindlessly.

He didn't continue the topic. Whether others were good or not had nothing to do with him.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, Zhihai. I heard Ningning say this afternoon that you are now part of a special task force."

"My dad's comrade-in-arms, Uncle Tian, ​​seconded me to his place, saying that he wanted to give me some experience. I don't know if you've heard of the case we were in charge of, the one that killed four people in a row."

"Well, I heard from others when I was in the country. Has this case not been solved after so long?"

"No, not even a clue."

Jin Zhihai smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The murderer is an expert with rich experience in anti-detection. While killing people, he also robbed a lot of money. Because there are no other clues, the leader has given the order to find the person with money.

But after a month, I feel that this path is not feasible. Think about it, this murderer has committed so many crimes in a row, leaving no clues, how could he fail in money?"

"If it doesn't work, just sift through it. I remember when Uncle Jin was still here, when he investigated those Blue Party members who stayed behind to cause trouble, he would often mobilize the masses to sift through it."

"Ha, that's easy for you to say. How many people were there in Beijing back then, and how many are there now? Can you compare?"

When the country was first liberated, the registered population of Beijing was 3-4 million, including the surrounding rural areas. What about now? The urban population alone is 5-6 million, which is totally different. However, the population growth rate has also declined sharply in recent years, which is mainly caused by the social environment and the shortage of materials.

"What I mean is to follow the mass line and mobilize ordinary people to report and expose crimes."

"Stop, we have considered the method you mentioned, but the problem is that the people are now on high alert.

Our current work is difficult to do. If we suddenly ask everyone to report whether there are any unusual people around them, everyone might think it is another trick to play a prank on them. There will definitely be strong resistance, which will only make our subsequent work more difficult. "After hearing this, Li Yancheng suddenly realized that he really didn't consider the current social environment when he said that.

There can't be any stupid people who can become leaders, they must think about problems more comprehensively.

"Okay, I just said it casually. By the way, Zhihai, do you know if the Chongwenmen Ghost Market is still open?"

"Of course it's still open. What are you planning on buying at the ghost market?"

The ghost market is now an open secret, and the people at the top have adopted the attitude of turning a blind eye. They still need to take care of it, but the control only applies to those who buy and sell various tickets.

If you are just taking things that you don't have at home, such as second-hand items to exchange for some food or money, or exchanging fine grains for coarse grains, or bartering, even if you are caught, you should release it immediately. You have to leave people a way to survive.

But if it is someone buying or selling tickets, they will be the focus of punishment.

Even though the problem has been dealt with, there are still many people who take risks.

“I don’t necessarily want to buy anything, I just want to go and take a look.”

"Take it easy. Don't buy or sell tickets during this period. Four people from that committee were killed. They are very anxious now. They often hang out there whenever they have time. I heard that they took a lot of people away from there in the past two days."

"Thanks for the reminder. You know me. At most I would go there to exchange some rice or flour or something like that. I definitely wouldn't buy a ticket."

"That's fine. I just want to remind you. Speaking of fine grains, I suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you last time that the neighborhood committee issued a ticket for winter vegetable storage. I bought you 15 kilograms of cabbage, 10 kilograms of radishes, and 10 kilograms of potatoes. They are all stored in the cellar."

"You've bought them all. That's great. I was thinking about going to the neighborhood committee tomorrow to ask. I see you've bought me the winter coal as well."

The honeycomb coal was piled under the eaves outside the house, and he saw it when he came back at noon.

"That girl Ningning is thinking about you. She is the one who cleans your room and washes your bedding. You don't even know how tired you were during those two days. You were so lazy that you even lay in bed and didn't even want to get up when I called you to eat."

"Hahaha... this girl, I'll give her a bigger red envelope for the New Year this year."

"Stop it, that's enough. If you give me too much, how can I give it to you?" Jin Zhihai looked at Li Yancheng with squinted eyes.

Whenever this guy is at home, he has a headache when giving red envelopes to his sister every year.

"I don't care how you give it to me. I give it to myself, and I don't need to use your money." Li Yancheng didn't care about him.

"You guy." Jin Zhihai was a little amused. Whose sister is this?

In a flash, he adjusted his facial expression and said calmly, "Dacheng, I don't care whether you get married or not. I just hope you can get over Chen Yunwei as soon as possible."

He thought that his childhood friend didn't want to find a partner because he was still thinking about that woman.

Li Yancheng raised his hand and patted his brother's arm across the stove.

"Don't worry, I'm not in a hurry to find a partner. It really has nothing to do with her."

(End of this chapter)