He listened calmly and was quite surprised.

The cousin was supposed to be a very close relative, but the Gu family never mentioned this brother.

Her intuition told her that something was fishy.

"Why don't we ever see your two families visiting each other during holidays and festivals?"

Gu Huaiqian is this cousin's uncle. Since his father is gone, his uncle is like a father to him. It's unreasonable that they don't even visit each other during the New Year.

What's even stranger is that they send money to them without ever visiting them. Shen Jingyan can't understand the intricacies of this situation.

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Gu Zhiyun pulled her to sit on a small stool in the courtyard. Shen Jingyan looked at Gu Zhiyun's expression, as if he had entered a distant memory.

"My cousin's name is Gu Zhihui, and he saved my life."

Shen Jingyan felt Gu Zhiyun grip her hand tightly.

“When I was ten years old, my cousin came to visit my parents during the Spring Festival with his wife and one-year-old daughter. I was playing and ran to the woodshed in the backyard. Someone set off firecrackers and set the woodshed on fire. The fire quickly spread and I was trapped inside. My cousin risked his life to rescue me, but his right leg was hit by a falling beam, leaving him with a lifelong disability…”

Shen Jingyan never expected that Gu Zhiyun, who had been steady and mature since childhood, had such an unknown story from his childhood.

"Because of this, my sister-in-law has a lot of complaints about my family. My cousin has a disabled leg and can't do heavy work. Later, he had two more children, and life was very difficult. My parents kept sending them money. My sister-in-law accepted the money, but she stopped having any contact with my family."

Previously, my parents would send them ten or eight yuan a month. Later, as the children grew up, my sister-in-law said the money wasn't enough, so my parents started sending them twenty yuan. At the beginning of this year, my sister-in-law said her eldest daughter was starting junior high school, and expenses were high; twenty yuan wouldn't be enough. You know, my parents' salaries aren't high, so I took the initiative to cover their living expenses.

Shen Jingyan nodded and said, "So you send all of your monthly royalties of thirty or forty yuan to your cousin's family."

Gu Zhiyun felt guilty towards his young wife and lowered his head, humming in response.

"I'm sorry, Jingya, I've been wanting to tell you about this for a while, but I didn't know how to bring it up..."

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Shen Jingyan understood his difficulty in not being able to speak up.

However, she did not have a good opinion of her sister-in-law's character.

Back in the countryside, Shen Honggang only earned about twenty yuan a month, but that was enough to support a family of six or seven.

Gu Zhihui's family only has five members, but twenty yuan a month is not enough to live on.

It seems this woman is used to asking for money.

The Gu family tightened their belts to support their family of five. They lived a very comfortable life in the countryside.

Perhaps this sister-in-law will go around bragging that she has very wealthy relatives in the city who give her a lot of money every month, so her family has no worries about food and drink.

Just because Gu Zhihui saved Gu Zhiyun's life, this family can use that as an excuse to accept money from the Gu family but not associate with them, which is somewhat of a form of moral blackmail.

But Shen Jingyan is not a narrow-minded person. Gu Zhihui's kindness is indeed worth repaying for a lifetime. It's only thirty or forty yuan. She is not so petty as to get angry over such a small amount of money.

From another perspective, Gu Zhiyun's gratitude and kindness give her handsome husband another advantage, doesn't it?

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"I'm sorry, Jingya, I couldn't help you when you needed it most."

"It's okay, I'll just borrow from someone else."

Gu Zhiyun asked softly, "You're not angry with me?"

Chen Jingyan raised her eyebrows and asked in return, "In your heart, am I such a petty person?"

Gu Zhiyun quickly replied, "No, that's not true."

He hugged his young wife again and kissed her twice.

After returning home, Shen Jingyan borrowed money from Duan Meishan next door.

Yang Xuechang gave all his monthly royalties to Duan Meishan. Duan Meishan was used to being frugal and didn't spend money recklessly. The biggest expense in the family was for Tiantian.

The next day, Duan Meishan took the passbook to the bank and withdrew two hundred yuan for Shen Jingyan.

They also told her she could use it for as long as she wanted, and there was no need to rush to return it.

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Duan Meishan always remembered how Shen Jingyan did everything she could to help her when she was pushed down by Zhao Yanyan and suffered a premature hemorrhage.

Let alone borrowing it, even if Shen Jingyan directly asked for it, she wouldn't hesitate at all.

With the farm's funding issues resolved, Shen Jingyan is now most looking forward to a bumper harvest during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Shen Honggang and Zhang Guizhi's relationship grew stronger and stronger, and everyone on the farm knew about it.

All that's missing between them is a marriage certificate, and then they can legally live together.

Shen Jingyan, Shen Yulan, and Shen Yuqin secretly discussed that on the Mid-Autumn Festival, they would set up a few tables of banquet at the farm as a wedding feast for the two elders.

After the matter was settled, Shen Jingyan and Gu Zhiyun went to the Xu family the following weekend.

Xue Hongmei has returned to the Xu family and is continuing to work as a nanny.

She was originally going to resign, but since Xu Yatong had gone home, she felt somewhat awkward facing Xu Yatong.

Both women were deceived by the same man; one was pregnant with Zhou Zhengqing's child, and the other had Zhou Zhengqing's child with her. Just imagining the scene when the two met is incredibly awkward.

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