Yu Jingqiu glanced at her silent son-in-law, then smiled and said to Li Yanzhong, "We're all in the kitchen now, and there's no one to greet the guests outside. Let's go out."
Li Yanzhong readily agreed. Before leaving the kitchen, he lightly patted Zhou Jinshan's arm, and Zhou Jinshan nodded in response.
After the two elders left the kitchen, Zhou Jinshan placed the bankbook back into Feng Mingshu's hand, gripped it tightly, and said, "In my Zhou family, it's the women of the family who manage the money. I can't break the rules."
The man's hands were warm, and his tone was serious. Feng Mingshu didn't doubt him. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "Then I'll hold it for you first. Ask me for it when you need it."
“Ming Shu, when I ask you for money, you have to ask me what it's for. If you feel it's inappropriate, you can refuse to give it to me, or give me less,” Zhou Jinshan said earnestly, looking down at her.
Feng Mingshu shook her head: "I trust you, you won't squander the money."
Seeing the trust in her face, Zhou Jinshan didn't know whether to be angry or amused, so he simply stopped trying to make himself suffer, hugged her tightly, and lowered his head to bite her red lips.
He intended to just bite once and then stop, but the soft sweetness of her lips made Zhou Jinshan unable to resist taking them in his mouth, tracing them delicately with the tip of his tongue, and then penetrating deeper.
Feng Mingshu did not expect the man to suddenly kiss her, and the kiss became deeper and deeper, arousing her body to tremble and feel a surge of heat rising down to her abdomen.
She snapped out of her daze and reached out to push him.
Zhou Jinshan ended the kiss at the right moment, but bit her red lips one last time, pressed his forehead against hers, and said breathlessly, "You don't care about anything about me, which makes me feel like we're not a couple."
"You can kiss me even though we're not husband and wife?" Feng Mingshu angrily pushed him away, turned around, and ran upstairs from the kitchen.
I ran upstairs to the bedroom, grabbed my things, and went to the bathroom.
After getting ready, she almost bumped into Zhou Jinshan's arms. She quickly pressed against his chest and said frantically, "I'm on my period, can you please not bother me? It's better for both of us."
Zhou Jinshan was initially bewildered, but then he noticed that she had changed her pants and vaguely understood what was going on. He coughed lightly and said, "I'll help you wash them."
"No need." Feng Mingshu glared at him and went downstairs.
Aunt Huang and her daughter were invited to have dinner at her home, and the conversation at the dinner table revolved around the climate and life in the north.
Later, the activity moved from the dining table to the living room.
Out of gratitude to Yu Jingqiu for transferring her job at the department store, and because the transfer fee was not high, Lu Wenli recounted her life in the agricultural reclamation area in great detail, including the hardships of labor, the pleasures of fishing and hunting, and the interesting stories of going to the market in the towns.
The twins listened intently, wishing they could go north immediately.
Feng Mingshu took out her notebook and wrote down all the key points Lu Wenli had mentioned, while thinking about what to prepare for her mother and younger siblings.
It was already nine o'clock, and it was not appropriate to keep the guests any longer, so they saw Aunt Huang and her daughter out.
Upon reaching the courtyard gate, the mother and daughter repeatedly expressed their gratitude. Aunt Huang even grasped Feng Mingshu's hand and said, "Mingshu, from now on you are my own niece. If you encounter anything that's hard to buy, just come to Auntie. Auntie dares not say anything else, but as long as it's something that department store employees can buy, you won't be left out."
"Thank you, Aunt Huang. I'll definitely need your help in the future," Feng Mingshu said gratefully, but she knew in her heart that this favor was left for her by her mother.
Although she wouldn't be able to stay in Bincheng for more than a few months, her mother still made plans for her.
After dropping someone off and returning home, she hugged her mother's arm and said, "Mom, I want to sleep with you tonight."
Uncle Li slept in the guest room last night, and he should do the same tonight.
As expected, Uncle Li had no objections whatsoever.
Zhou Jinshan kept looking at her, but Feng Mingshu didn't look at him.
Yu Jingqiu smiled at the young couple and nodded, saying, "I'll grant your request for tonight, but you're not allowed to be willful anymore."
Feng Mingshu immediately went upstairs happily to get her things.
After the lights were turned off, she snuggled up to her mother and talked for a long time.
We talked about funny things from our childhood and our future plans. Gradually, I got sleepy and fell asleep quickly, smelling the fragrance emanating from my mother.
Yu Jingqiu turned to the side and, by the bright moonlight outside the window, looked at her sleeping daughter. She quickly noticed something unusual about her lower lip; it was redder than the rest of her lip, and if she pressed harder, it might break.
Yu Jingqiu smiled knowingly, tucked the blanket around her daughter, and closed her eyes to sleep.
The next day.
Feng Mingshu woke up a little late and found that Zhou Jinshan had already left. He had to get to morning exercises, so he must have left before dawn.
Feng Mingshu didn't think much of it. After breakfast, she went to the cotton mill and found Wang Sujuan.
Wang Sujuan was not surprised by her arrival. After leading her to a quiet office, she said, "I will keep my promise to you yesterday. If you want a job in a cotton mill, come and take the recruitment exam the day after tomorrow. We are recruiting two union officers. As long as you do well on the exam, one of the positions will be yours."
After hearing this, Feng Mingshu was inevitably tempted, since finding a job these days is really not easy. But after thinking it over, he shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but I'll pass on the job. I'd like to buy a batch of defective fabric from you."
After all, it was a large state-owned cotton textile factory, and some defective fabrics would inevitably be produced during the production process. However, after the factory absorbed these defects internally, they were then distributed to department stores and various supply and marketing cooperatives, and the quantity of these defective fabrics was extremely small.
Even if they got the news and rushed to grab the cloth, what good would it do if each person was only allotted three or five feet?
So when Wang Sujuan approached her yesterday evening, Feng Mingshu's first thought was to buy the defective fabric from her; otherwise, she wouldn't have agreed to meet Zhang Yunxiao, since she hates trouble the most.
Wang Sujuan was taken aback by her request and stared at her, asking, "Are you sure you don't want the work, you want the flawed fabric?"
Feng Mingshu nodded: "Yes, I want the flawed fabric. I'll buy it with money, the more the better, and the sooner the better."
Wang Sujuan looked at her with complicated eyes for a while, and then said, "There is a batch of defective cloth in the factory warehouse right now. I will have someone deliver it to your house after dark. You don't need to pay me. I thanked you for persuading my son Yunxiao to come home."
Feng Mingshu persuaded Yunxiao to go home, but she couldn't persuade him to give up going to the countryside.
If the girl had chosen to work, Wang Sujuan would have looked down on her and wouldn't have expected her, as the women's director of the trade union, to take care of her in the future. But the girl didn't want to work; she only wanted a batch of defective fabric. Wang Sujuan was willing to pay more money for that.
Feng Mingshu shook his head: "I must pay the money. This is a pure transaction, without anything else involved."
She took an envelope out of her bag, placed it directly on the table, and then turned and left.
Wang Sujuan picked up the envelope, watching her departing figure, her expression becoming even more complicated.
At this moment, Wang Sujuan had to admit that she had misjudged this girl before.
If I hadn't stopped him back then and had let my son continue his relationship with her, wouldn't the situation be completely different now?
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