"Mingzhu, you're back!"
"mom!"
"mom."
"Xiaobei is back too."
Hearing the noise outside, Shen Mingzhu's mother Xu Yongzhi came out of the house. When she saw her daughter coming back, her face was full of joy.
This is the first time that Shen Mingzhu has gone away and returned several months later.
In the past few months, Xu Yongzhi has been worried about her, even though Shen Mingzhu said in the letter that she was doing well in the production team and had gotten used to life there.
But a mother worries about her son even when he is far away, so she was still a little worried.
Seeing my daughter come back full of energy, I finally felt relieved after being worried for months.
After greeting her biological daughter first and looking at whether her daughter had become thinner, Xu Yongzhi heard Shen Xiaobei also call her.
She then forced a slightly stiff smile and exchanged a few words with her.
The original owner had been calling Xu Yongzhi "Mom" ever since she married her father. Before Shen Mingzhu was born, Xu Yongzhi was actually quite nice to her when she was still young.
But after having her own biological child, she treated the original owner much worse.
However, Xu Yongzhi has never abused the original owner over the years. She only treats her two children and the original owner differently in terms of living conditions.
What the original owner wore and used since childhood were similar to those of Shen Mingzhu and Shen Mingliang. They were all cheap stuff anyway, and they couldn't afford expensive ones.
As for food, after all, the whole family eats at the same table, so the food should look the same on the surface.
But privately, Xu Yongzhi actually bought delicious food several times a month to secretly supplement the nutrition for her two children, without the knowledge of the original owner and her father.
However, it is also possible that the original owner's father knew about it, but he just didn't expose it.
The original owner actually knew this a long time ago, because the thing that impressed her most when she was a child was that she had discovered several times that Xu Yongzhi had boiled eggs for Shen Mingzhu and Shen Mingliang without her knowledge.
The brother and sister each ate a whole one, and they were so happy.
And she didn't even get a whiff of the egg smell, and had to pretend that she didn't notice that they were eating eggs behind her back.
Because she knew that Xu Yongzhi was partial, and that Xu Yongzhi had a good relationship with the original owner's father, the original owner had become more and more introverted since she was old enough to understand things, and she didn't like to talk at home, so her presence at home became less and less.
Many times, she felt that she was redundant.
In fact, Xu Yongzhi really felt that she was redundant in her heart.
Many times she secretly thought in her heart that if the original owner's child was not at home, life would definitely be a little easier.
The original owner's father worked in a machinery factory. Because he did not have a high level of education and was not someone who could curry favor with his superiors, he had been an ordinary technician for many years.
The factory's performance was sometimes good and sometimes not, and sometimes wages were not paid for several months, or were not paid in full.
Xu Yongzhi has to take care of three children and has never had a formal job. She occasionally does odd jobs outside, but none of them can last long. The income is only enough for her two children to occasionally buy some delicious food.
Therefore, the original owner's family has always lived a rather difficult life.
However, Xu Yongzhi was considered a virtuous wife and never complained about the original owner's father making little money.
She has always kept the house well managed. In the eyes of outsiders and neighbors, she is a virtuous woman who knows how to manage the household and her reputation has always been good.
Even when it came to her two children, she doted on them a little too much and was reluctant to let them go. Perhaps she didn't know how to discipline them strictly.
So both children are not good at studying and are not very sensible.
"Mingliang, hurry up and help your sister get the things in!"
After exchanging a few pleasantries with Shen Xiaobei, Xu Yongzhi instructed her son to help her daughter with the luggage, and she immediately took in the things that Shen Mingzhu was carrying in her other hand.
Shen Xiaobei and Shen Mingzhu both came back carrying a bag of things in each hand.
Shen Mingzhu walked into the main room empty-handed, because someone had held the things in her hands for her, but she was carrying things in both hands when she entered the room.
This difference...
Although it was just a very small matter, Shen Xiaobei couldn't help but smile bitterly as he walked behind the mother and her two children.
Of course, she was not smiling bitterly for herself, but for the original owner.
After they walked into the main hall, they saw that their father didn't seem to be at home. Shen Mingzhu immediately asked, "Mom, where's Dad?"
"He's watching people play chess at the east end. He'll probably be back soon! Otherwise, Mingliang, go tell your dad to come back now and tell him your sister is back!"
"Oh, okay, I'll go right away!"
“Shen Mingliang, wait! Mom, why did you say that I was the only one back? Didn’t Shen Xiaobei also come back? Shen Mingliang, go tell Dad that the eldest sister and sister are back!”
"Oh, okay!"
Seeing that Shen Mingzhu suddenly paid so much attention to Shen Xiaobei, Xu Yongzhi felt a little strange and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
This child, after coming back from a trip to the countryside, actually rubbed her mother's face in front of her. He is really not considerate to her at all!
She then smiled somewhat reluctantly and changed the subject, "Xiaobei, Mingzhu, you must be tired after such a long journey. Go to your room and rest for a while. If you want to take a shower, there are two thermoses in the kitchen with boiling water. There's enough water for one person now."
"I'll go to the kitchen to cook and boil some more water for you to take a bath later!"
"Okay, Mom, thank you for your hard work."
Although compared to her biological daughter Shen Mingzhu, Xu Yongzhi is not enthusiastic enough towards Shen Xiaobei.
However, when she returned home from outside, Xu Yongzhi was virtuous enough to ask her and Shen Mingzhu to rest in the room for a while, and then she went to cook by herself, and even remembered to boil more water for them to take a bath.
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