In Unit 3, Building 13 of the residential complex, at Zhu Long’s home.
As soon as Zhang Aiyuan saw her mother-in-law sneakily carrying a bag into her room and locking the door, she knew her mother-in-law had once again bought health supplements against their wishes.
She truly felt exhausted. This had happened so many times, and she never learned.
She wasn't sick, and they weren't rolling in money, so she had no idea what her mother-in-law was trying to achieve.
However, she had never argued with her mother-in-law about this matter, so she continued to prepare lunch without saying a word. She waited until her husband, Zhu Long, returned home and then spoke to him.
As a daughter-in-law, it wasn’t appropriate for her to intervene directly.
It was best to let mother and son have their conversation.
However, what happened next was quite unexpected. Previously, her mother-in-law knew they disliked her buying health supplements, so she always did it secretly, and she ate them in secret too.
But this time, right after the family finished lunch, before her husband Zhu Long could even say anything about his mother, his mother entered the room with a mysterious and happy expression, bringing out the health supplements.
"A'long, I'm telling you, this is good stuff.
Others only bought five boxes, but I specifically bought twenty boxes. We'll all take it. You're working overtime and staying up late every day, your body must be a bit weak, you need this.
Your wife didn't take good care of herself during her confinement, her body is a bit weak too, she needs this. And Xiao Yu studies until ten or eleven every night, he's very tired, he needs this too."
"Here, take five boxes each.
Just drink it according to three meals a day. It's perfect for strengthening the foundation, building strength, nourishing qi and blood. Yes, nourishing qi and blood. For the first month, we must drink it without a single missed day. After that, you don't need to drink it so frequently; just drink it when you feel a bit unwell. Take it, what are you waiting for!"
Xu Hong's actions left Zhang Aiyuan and Zhu Long speechless. Previously, she only bought health supplements for herself, but now she had bought them for the whole family. How much money would that cost?
Who on earth had duped her?
After a long silence, Zhu Long took the health supplements handed to him by his mother and said earnestly, "Mom, don't be fooled, no, you've already been fooled. Health supplements are not good things; they are useless. The fact that they don't kill you is their greatest achievement. How many times have I told you, even if a certain health supplement is effective, it must have Western medicine mixed in, and taking it indiscriminately can have even more serious consequences than it being useless.
How much is one box? You bought so many.
And where did you buy it? I haven't heard of anyone giving out eggs or holding lectures in our neighborhood recently?"
Nowadays, whenever there were any events where eggs were given out or lectures were held, Zhu Long and his wife would be on high alert, resolutely preventing their mother from going to take advantage of such offers.
Each time they went, they would say, "We're just here to get eggs, we won't buy anything." But every time, some with weak willpower would end up buying something.
Some people even tried to prevent their parents from taking money.
However, they would end up buying on credit, bringing the goods back first and then sending the money, or borrowing money from other elderly neighbors who had brought money.
As long as they went.
It felt somewhat impossible to guard against.
Therefore, they could only tackle the problem at its source and simply not let their mother go to get these "free eggs." But they hadn't heard of any lectures being held recently, so how did she buy something again?
"Oh, I wasn't fooled! This time I didn't buy from strangers. I bought from an acquaintance. Do you know Zhou Pinjuan? She's from the next residential complex, the one who comes downstairs in a wheelchair every day.
I bought these health supplements from her. Her daughter personally formulated them for her. She's been recovering by taking these health supplements and cooperating with her rehabilitation efforts.
Now she can walk and jump around.
This morning, she was even dancing with us in the square!"
This time, Xu Hong was very indignant. It was possible she had been deceived by those previous health supplements, but this time, there was a living example right next to them. Could she still be deceived? Impossible.
Besides, those salespeople for health supplements would disappear after selling, never to be seen again. But Zhou Pinjuan's whole family lived here, their house was here, they couldn't just run away, could they?
If she couldn't trust this, who could she trust?
So, Xu Hong, with rare confidence, retorted.
"Zhou Pinjuan stood up?"
Sometimes, a family's fame for being outstanding or for being particularly tragic is similar. Ding Yun's family clearly belonged to the tragic category.
Many people in the vicinity knew that Ding Yun's parents had given birth to a son for her after she went to college. They also knew that her in-laws had given birth to another younger brother for her less than a year after her husband died. Coupled with the news of her father's death in a car accident and her in-laws' suicide,
It was difficult for their family not to be famous.
Most families who had lived there for a while knew about her family's situation and also knew that Zhou Pinjuan had been paralyzed from the waist down and had been using a wheelchair for many years.
However, Zhang Aiyuan and Zhu Long didn't have the habit of gossiping, and they were also busy with work and didn't go downstairs to chat, so they genuinely didn't know about this matter. Hearing Xu Hong mention it, they were naturally very surprised and astonished.
After a period of silence, they inquired again:
"Is this true? And is it confirmed that she was able to stand up not because of some medical treatment at the hospital, but because of the health supplements?"
"Can her daughter's formulation be suitable?"
"Isn't this product from an unregistered source..."
"What kind of things are you saying? If the hospital could have cured Zhou Pinjuan's paralysis, would she have been in a wheelchair for over ten years? Her daughter is filial, not only taking care of her mother day after day for over ten years, but also diligently studying for over ten years to research health supplements for her mother.
And you, you don't even want me to eat them!
If I become paralyzed one day, can you take care of me day after day for over ten years like her daughter? My meager pension can't afford a nanny, so I can only buy some health supplements to eat, so that I won't live a lonely life in my old age!"
Xu Hong continued to speak with palpable dissatisfaction.
As people age, they always have various worries, especially when there are many other elderly people around as examples. It's inevitable that they will fear aging and worry about their twilight years.
No matter how open-minded some people claim to be verbally.
Once they reach a certain age, many will undergo a change.
After Xu Hong's words, Zhang Aiyuan and Zhu Long found it difficult to say anything more. In the end, they could only promise to check the registration of the oral liquid online and understand if there were any harmful ingredients in the formulation. If there were no problems, they would all take it together.
Similar incidents had occurred in many nearby families. And with Zhou Pinjuan as a living example, although some young people might still be suspicious and dissatisfied, no one demanded a refund.
All the buyers were drinking the Pei Yuan Oral Liquid on time.