Chapter 797 The Shen Family
Shen Jingjing was sitting in the passenger seat when she saw a small figure in the distance.
Having not returned for several years, the old lady had visibly aged considerably, and Shen Jingjing couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion upon seeing her.
"Look how happy Mom is, she's been waiting at the gate since early this morning," Shen Chengcheng said with a smile.
The car slowly came to a stop at the gate. The old lady hurriedly opened the car door. There was always a sense of warmth in the air when they first met. She greeted her with a smile, "You're back. You must be tired from the journey."
"It's not tiring, Mom. It only takes a little over two hours by plane."
Because I was in first class, it was very comfortable.
Shen Jingjing and the others got out of the car one after another. Shen Ci followed behind her mother and aunt, calling out, "Grandma."
"Oh, Aci!" The old lady looked at Chen Ci with a smile. She had never seen such a beautiful little girl in the town. She said happily, "She has really grown up and is becoming more and more beautiful."
Even the neighbors nearby couldn't help but praise Old Shen's daughter and granddaughter who had returned from the big city: "Sister-in-law, you are so lucky! Your eldest granddaughter is so beautiful."
The old lady was pleased; her daughter's clothes were clearly high-class, which meant she was doing well in the outside world, and others would definitely envy her.
"Come inside quickly."
This is an old house with front and back yards. The back yard has been turned into a vegetable garden, where the old lady has planted all kinds of vegetables and a few fruit trees.
The Shen sisters grew up here. The house structure hasn't changed much, except that it was renovated and decorated a few years ago.
The house is brighter and cleaner now.
The apartments in Longyang Town are actually not expensive; with their combined salaries, Shen Mingming and Wang Chunyan could easily afford one.
But the old lady couldn't leave her sons; she couldn't leave either of them and they both had to stay by her side, so they never separated.
Shen Mingming has three sons and a daughter, all of whom are still in school. A small apartment is not enough for them, so she has not bought one yet, thinking she will make a decision later.
Shen Ci followed her aunt, unable to resist looking around curiously. Shen Yingying couldn't help but say, "Mom, the house is still the same as always, not much has changed."
"Yes!" the old lady replied in a loud voice, "Nothing has changed except for the renovation of the toilet, so we don't have to go to the outhouse anymore."
As she spoke, she looked at Shen Yingying and asked, "You didn't bring Guangrong back?"
"No, Sui Sui will be back in a couple of days."
"You two sisters have sons, why don't you bring them back?" the old lady couldn't help but complain.
The two sisters were already used to it, and the old lady didn't say it on purpose. This kind of preference for sons over daughters is deeply rooted here, and they would unconsciously blurt it out.
I'm afraid Aci will feel uncomfortable if she hears this.
So Shen Jingjing subconsciously glanced at her daughter, only to find that her daughter looked indifferent and didn't take it seriously at all.
"Mom, how have you been lately?" Shen Jingjing changed the subject, showing concern for the old lady's health.
The old lady is almost seventy years old this year. She has never been sick or injured in her life, except when the old man passed away, she couldn't bear the blow and fell seriously ill.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me. With your older brother here, I'm doing great."
Knowing that the old lady valued her eldest brother the most, after all, he was a government official in the town, Shen Jingjing took the opportunity to ask, "Is my eldest brother doing well? Is his work going smoothly?"
When the topic turned to her eldest son, the old lady couldn't hide her pride: "Your eldest brother is definitely doing well. He was transferred from the Water Resources Bureau to the Tax Bureau and is now a deputy section chief."
“Your sister-in-law got promoted too. The couple earns a lot now. Putting everything else aside, they have a lot of face wherever they go in our area.”
As the old lady spoke, she couldn't help but take a closer look at the two sisters.
The two daughters are so beautiful. Even though they are middle-aged, their skin is still glowing. They look like they came from a big city, but they don't look like they have suffered any hardships.
"Ying, why didn't He Bin come back with you?" The old lady's face turned serious, and she said with slight dissatisfaction, "Your father has been away for twenty years on important matters. Is it appropriate to let you come back alone?"
"Mom, He Bin is extremely busy. He's at work now, and if he takes leave, he'll lose all his bonuses, which is a lot of money."
Shen Yingying explained that she didn't actually want to bring He Bin back; she herself didn't want to come back either.
"Going to work?" The old lady exclaimed in surprise, "Didn't you run a roast meat shop? Why are you going to work again? Did the shop go out of business?"
Shen Yingying sighed and nodded: "I quit. He Bin and I went to work for my sister. He found a security guard job in Longcheng, and I'm working for my sister."
She wasn't lying, she just didn't go into that much detail.
Shen Jingjing took over the conversation and looked at the old lady, saying, "Yingying and I have been together for so many years. It's not easy for me to go to Longcheng all by myself now. When I heard that she was closing her shop, I arranged for her and He Bin to go to Longcheng. It's good that they can take care of each other."
The old lady nodded upon hearing this, without any particular reaction: "That's fine, it's always better for you two sisters to help each other than for one person to do it alone."
The old lady didn't care about such things, especially her youngest daughter. Where she was or what she did didn't matter, as long as she could earn money to support herself.
As a result, Shen Chengcheng, who came out of the kitchen, heard this and rushed over with a bag of washed fruit: "Second sister, you went to Longcheng too?"
The group was startled. Shen Yingying asked, "What? Can't I go?"
“That’s not what I meant,” Shen Chengcheng said with a smile. “I’ve never been to Longcheng. I originally wanted to go there to find Xiaomin, but I couldn’t make it. I’d like to go and see it sometime.”
Hearing that he was still thinking about this, the old lady got anxious again: "What are you going to look for? You don't need to look for Xiaomin. She came back on her own when she couldn't make a living. Why are you worrying about her?"
"Keep an eye on the time, and hurry up and pick up Zheng Hong so she can start preparing dinner as soon as possible."
No sooner had the old lady finished speaking than Zheng Hong walked in through the main gate.
"Eldest sister, second sister!"
With a warm smile, she greeted everyone as soon as she entered, her enthusiasm even more genuine than that of her younger brother, Shen Chengcheng.
"Sister-in-law!"
Shen Jingjing and Shen Yingying stood up and saw Shen Chengcheng take two steps forward and ask his wife, "Hey? Why are you back so early? Don't you get off work at five?"
Zheng Hong explained with a smile, "Aren't my eldest and second eldest sisters coming back today? I didn't have much work at work, so I came back early to cook dinner."
Leaving Shen Chengcheng behind, Zheng Hong warmly walked up to Shen Jingjing and greeted her, "Eldest sister, second sister, it's been so many years since you've come back. Why don't you stay a while longer this time?"
"Oh my, is this Aci? She's so beautiful!"
Shen Ci didn't say much. Just like she told her mother, returning to her hometown would definitely create distance. She had a distant relationship with her relatives in her hometown, and she didn't want to pretend to be affectionate. So she simply sat aside as an accessory.
It wasn't until Zheng Hong looked at her and spoke that Shen Ci politely smiled and replied, "Second Aunt."
(End of this chapter)
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