Cheng Ming saw the newspaper in his sister's hand. In the newspaper, the familiar man was wearing a formal suit, and his handsome face had gained a touch of composure and temperament.
Even just looking at the photo in the newspaper, you can sense the extraordinary aura emanating from the man.
Upon closer inspection of the contents, Cheng Ming was even more shocked: Zhou Jingyun was actually the one who helped the provincial pharmaceutical factory negotiate a cooperation agreement with an overseas Lanchester pharmaceutical company.
This person has been making waves lately.
Thinking back to the beginning of the year, when her younger sister Cheng Jiao wanted to pursue Zhou Jingyun, she had described him as not being a good match in terms of family background.
However, upon closer inspection now, it seems that we are actually not good enough for them!
Cheng Jiao saw her older brother's expression change repeatedly, and knew that he was just as shocked by the contents of the newspaper as she was.
In the past few months, her family has been pressuring her to go on dates with one man after another.
However, in her heart, none of them could compare to Zhou Jingyun.
At the time, her family even scolded her, saying she had shit for eyes.
However, it seems now that she had the best eye, immediately recognizing a man with potential.
Thinking of this, Cheng Jiao said with some pride, "Big brother, look, Zhou Jingyun is good enough for your sister now, isn't he?"
Her arrogant demeanor made it seem as if she had already become Zhou Jingyun's object of affection.
Cheng Ming nodded slightly after hearing Cheng Jiao's words, and said with a hint of joy in his voice, "You are worthy of her!"
Hearing her older brother say this, Cheng Jiao was overjoyed.
She quickly grabbed Cheng Ming's arm and said in a coquettish tone, "Big brother, you and Zhou Jingyun used to be good brothers, you have to help me, help me win him over!"
"no problem……"
Cheng Ming was about to agree when his mother interrupted him, having only heard half of what he said.
With a fierce look on her face, Cheng's mother shouted at Cheng Ming, "Cheng Ming, why do you keep spoiling her? No matter how good that Zhou boy is, he's just a country bumpkin who grows crops. How can he compare to a scholarly family like ours?"
Cheng's mother was a middle school teacher, and she had the pride of a scholar at heart. She looked down on her relatives in the countryside.
Not to mention, if I let my daughter find a man from the countryside to date, she would feel like she has lost all face for the rest of her life.
Knowing his mother's insistence, Cheng Ming immediately took the newspaper and explained to her, "Mom, the Zhou Jingyun of today is not the Zhou Jingyun of the past. He is now the deputy director of the provincial Chinese medicine factory and a guest of honor of the provincial leaders. Our Jiaojiao is able to date him, and she will definitely have a good future!"
Cheng's mother was about to say something, but after hearing Cheng Ming's words, she couldn't utter a sound from her half-open mouth.
Wearing glasses, I carefully read the newspaper report.
Seeing that her mother was almost finished reading, Cheng Jiao said with a smug look, "Mom, I have good taste, right? I picked the best one right away!"
After reading the newspaper, Cheng's mother silently admired Zhou Jingyun's excellence, but she stubbornly refused to admit it: "Heh, he's just the director of Bicheng Chinese Medicine Factory and also the deputy director of the provincial Chinese Medicine Factory. How amazing is he?"
Your second and third brothers are both leaders, aren't they? Who doesn't have leaders in their family?
Despite saying that, the Cheng siblings could already tell that their mother's attitude was relaxing.
They exchanged a glance and then began discussing how to pursue Zhou Jingyun.
As for the fact that Zhou Jingyun already had a boyfriend, neither of them took it to heart: after all, Jiaojiao was the daughter of the Cheng family. Looking at the whole Qian Province, how many girls could have Cheng Jiao's family background?
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Qian Province, Panxian County, a certain coal mine.
Shen Qingming climbed upwards in a panic, shouting as he went, "Something's happened! Something's happened! The place below has collapsed! The place below has collapsed..."
Panicked, Shen Qingming climbed out of the mine covered in coal dust. Just as he emerged, there was a loud bang from below.
The surrounding ground trembled, and a tremor could be clearly felt.
People from the coal mine all gathered around. Some workers with family members trapped underground were lying on the ground crying and shouting. The mine leaders immediately organized a rescue...
After a search and rescue operation, it was confirmed that ten people were injured and three died in the coal mine accident.
All of them who died were the Zhou family of three.
As the son-in-law of the Zhou family, Shen Qingming's daily interactions with the Zhou family were observed by everyone. Therefore, when Zhou Tiemin and his two sons had an accident in the mine, Shen Qingming naturally became the first suspect.
However, Shen Qingming lay on the ground, crying his heart out, as if his own father had died.
During the interrogation, Shen Qingming cried and said that he had not gone down the mine with the three Zhou family members, but with other workers.
After several days of investigation, the only conclusion that could be drawn was that the three members of the Zhou family had drunk some alcohol before going down into the mine. The oxygen underground was also insufficient. In fact, the three of them had secretly brought some alcohol down with them. They hid down there and became increasingly confused as they drank. When the mine made a noise, everyone else ran out desperately, but the three members of the Zhou family were slow to move due to intoxication, which is why they were hit by falling coal chunks...
No one knew that the wine bottle placed in the mine was secretly slipped into the pockets of the three men by Shen Qingming.
No one knew that it was Shen Qingming who gradually indulged the Zhou family's bullying of him, and even lured the three of them to secretly buy alcohol.
Unbeknownst to anyone, several beams above the spot where the three members of the Zhou family were to be stationed today had already been cracked by Shen Qingming with stones...
In any case, after an investigation, Shen Qingming was found to be innocent.
Furthermore, because he is now the only adult male in the Zhou family, he successfully tricked He Damei into giving him a portion of the compensation money for the three people.
Although it's not much, life is much better than before.
Without the three men from the Zhou family pressing down on him, not only did the Zhou family not dare to beat him at will, but no one even questioned how he took care of Zhou Shuhua.
However, the hypocritical Shen Qingming at least wouldn't make things difficult for Zhou Shuhua on the surface.
He would find all sorts of excuses to justify neglecting Zhou Shuhua. When others saw that Zhou Shuhua had wet the bed and no one cleaned it up, Shen Qingming would immediately go and clean it up. While cleaning, he would explain that he was too busy, having to go down the well, cook, do laundry, and wipe Zhou Shuhua's body, and hadn't noticed for a moment.
When others hear this, they will not think that Shen Qingming did a bad job.
Some might even think that Zhou Shuhua was dragging Shen Qingming down.
Over time, after several such incidents, even when someone saw Zhou Shuhua lying on a bed covered in excrement, no one asked her anything.
Besides, everyone is busy, and hardly anyone comes to visit.
After pretending like this for a while, Shen Qingming completely stopped caring about Zhou Shuhua, letting her live with her excrement and develop bedsores all over her body...
Shen Qingming, on the other hand, pretended to be a good person in front of He Damei while living a life of luxury with part of Zhou Tiemin's pension.
Several months later, she had miraculously recovered her health, her skin had become a bit fairer, and her original beauty had returned somewhat. In addition, without that certain thing, her temperament had become more feminine, and she was gradually becoming popular in the coal mine, a place with a predominantly male population...
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