I arrived at Wangshan Town listening to gossip along the way. Today happened to be the town's market day, which is held every seven days, so the town was very lively. People from nearby villages had come to the town to attend the market.

Chen Shuning didn't rush to the black market, but instead strolled around the market.

At this time of year, people didn't talk about selling at the market; they talked about exchanging. Farmers didn't have coupons, so all kinds of coupons were the most popular items at such a large market.

Chen Shuning rarely buys things, so he has a lot of grain coupons saved up, which he can use to exchange for goods.

As she walked around, Chen Shuning replaced her old bamboo basket with a new one, leaving the old one lying by the roadside. She also had a bamboo sewing basket. Although she rarely did needlework, she noticed that other people had these in their homes, so she decided to get one today.

Along the way, Chen Shuning exchanged quite a few things, mostly handmade products made by farmers themselves.

After wandering around for a while and seeing that it was almost time, Chen Shuning prepared to find a place to put on makeup in her spatial dimension before heading to the black market to sell her goods.

Just as Chen Shuning was about to leave the market, he unexpectedly ran into an old acquaintance.

Because she was the original owner's toxic best friend, Chen Shuning actually paid attention to the plot about Shen Hongmei in the book.

As the original owner's pseudo-best friend, Shen Hongmei got close to Dong Weiguo through Chen Shuning's relationship. While the original owner and Yang Wanqiu were scheming against each other (of course, this was all Shen Hongmei's opinion; in reality, it was just Yang Wanqiu scheming against the original owner), she reaped the benefits and easily won Dong Weiguo's heart.

However, Shen Hongmei eventually paid the price for her greed. Although Shen Hongmei's family was also a dual-income family, her parents were just ordinary workers. There were many children in the family, and her grandparents also lived with them. The family of seven or eight people squeezed into a ten-square-meter tenement building.

Such a family was certainly not to Dong Weiguo's mother's liking. In addition, Dong's mother had a sharp eye for people and could tell from the first glance that Shen Hongmei was a scheming woman. Such a woman was naturally not to her liking.

Moreover, the tricks Shen Hongmei used behind the scenes could not be hidden from Dong Mama. Dong Mama, who was shrewd and resourceful, would certainly not allow such a girl to be her daughter-in-law.

After having a conversation with Shen Hongmei and asking her to leave Dong Weiguo, which she refused, Dong's mother didn't say another word. She just gave Shen Hongmei a cold look and left.

Shen Hongmei originally thought that Dong's mother was moved by her heartfelt confession, but who knew that a few days later, the mistake she made when she first started working was brought up again.

It was just a minor mistake. If it happened to someone else, they would only have been fined a little money.

The problem was that Shen Hongmei had just started working and was frightened by this incident, so she told Dong Weiguo about it.

At the time, the two had just started dating, and Dong Weiguo, in order to prove his abilities, found a neighbor who also worked at the textile factory.

Because the loss was relatively small, thanks to the efforts of her neighbor, who was then a group leader, Shen Hongmei didn't even have her money deducted, and the matter was dropped.

Shen Hongmei never dreamed that she would be punished as a result of not reporting the matter according to the proper procedures.

Six months later, she lost the temporary job that her parents had almost spent all their savings to get for her because of such a small matter.

However, the most terrifying thing is not this. What is terrifying is that her family only spent money to find her a job because she found a well-off boyfriend, thus avoiding her fate in the countryside.

But just as she lost her job, Dong's mother used the excuse of making Dong Weiguo study hard to apply for military medical university to keep her son at home to study.

He went directly to the Shen family and made it clear that he disliked Shen Hongmei and would never agree to his son marrying her.

She also made no attempt to hide the fact that she personally arranged for Shen Hongmei's job to be taken away, and even threatened that if the Shen couple continued to mismanage their daughter, she would not hesitate to take action against them.

The Shen couple had worked for so many years, and it was impossible for them to be without any mistakes. They thought that their daughter had only made one mistake when she first started working, and that she had only lost a roll of cotton thread. They were surprised that she would lose her job because of such a small mistake.

Therefore, the Shen couple were truly frightened by what Dong Weiguo's mother said.

Moreover, ever since their daughter started dating Dong Weiguo, the couple had made a point of inquiring about the Dong family.

They knew that Dong Weiguo's father was the deputy director of the police station, his mother was a doctor at Beijing People's Hospital, and his maternal grandfather was the president of Beijing People's Hospital.

Their family background made them realize that if their daughter could really marry into the Dong family, it would be a huge leap for their family.

However, seeing Dong Weiguo's mother's firm attitude, the couple knew in their hearts that it was almost impossible for their daughter to marry Dong Weiguo.

Faced with the threat, the Shen couple had no choice but to yield and agree to restrain their daughter.

Their hearts were filled with helplessness and pain, not because they felt sorry for their daughter, but because they felt sorry for the hundreds of yuan they had spent on finding a job for Shen Hongmei.

Thinking back, if that brat hadn't said she was absolutely certain she could marry Dong Weiguo and get double the return on her investment, they wouldn't have been so determined to spend so much money to buy Shen Hongmei that temporary job.

Who would have thought that the money spent on buying the job would be wasted? Not only has there been no return, but even the initial investment has been lost.

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