"What did you find out? What does Xiao Shanhe do?" several people asked in unison.

Everyone who had originally surrounded Shen Huanxi now surrounded Zhou Dashu.

Everyone has curiosity.

"Postman Li said that Xiao Shanhe was admitted to university the year before the college entrance examination was cancelled. After graduation, he was assigned to work as a technician in an agricultural machinery factory. However, he just didn't work hard and left his original unit without saying goodbye. He then disappeared for several years."

"When he came back, he brought a lot of money with him and built a large courtyard for his family. At that time, everyone was working in the production team and everyone was very poor. He was able to take out so much money at once, so he must have done something shameful."

"That's not all. He left home again a few years ago and has been missing ever since. He came back last year and brought back a sum of money and electrical appliances, which he bought for the family. But he got injured somehow and has both legs broken. Do you think he would have been like this if he hadn't done anything shady?"

…

In the days when information was not well developed, postmen were the most well-informed and what they said was always correct.

After listening to Zhou Dashu's retelling, Xiao Shanhe's image in everyone's mind became that of a desperado.

"Huanxi, did you hear that? Do you still want to marry someone like this?" Zhou Dashu asked.

"Are you after his money? You can't be after money that comes from an unknown source."

"It's not that you can't do it yourself."

…

Everyone continued to encourage.

Shen Huanxi put away all the clothes in the yard and looked at the villagers.

"I have had a crush on Xiao Shanhe for a long time. No matter what he does, I am willing to marry him."

Everything was silent. All the people who had just been talking to Shen Huanxi were stunned.

Well, after all the talk, she already likes her. No one can stop a moth from flying into a flame. If Shen Huanxi is determined to get married, it will be useless for them to persuade her.

No one would try to persuade them anymore, because if Shen Huanxi got married and really lived with Xiao Shanhe, they would be the ones to blame in the end.

As a result, everyone went from being anxious to feeling helpless, sighed, and dispersed.

Chang'an Changning put the soy sauce he brought back back into the stove room.

They hadn't said anything just now, but after listening in the yard for so long, I had already understood that their mother was going to get married again.

The two little girls sniffed, tears welling up in their eyes.

"Mom, you still want to remarry, right?" Chang'an asked angrily with his head down.

Shen Huanxi nodded, put the bucket of dirty clothes aside, and came over to hug Chang'an and Changning.

"Chang'an, Changning, your mother is still young, and it is normal for her to remarry." Shen Huanxi had no intention of escaping, and she didn't want her two daughters to escape.

Chang'an Changning nodded, then lowered his head.

The villagers also said so, their mother was still young and would definitely remarry. They refused to admit it, but they were mentally prepared.

"Changan, Changning, your father often scolds and beats you, doesn't he?"

"Yeah." Chang'an and Changning nodded. When they heard the word "Dad", they thought of Feng Shenghui's ferocious look when he scolded them, and the two little girls' bodies shrank.

Shen Huanxi rubbed their heads.

"The new father that mom found for you has a lame leg and is a cripple. He can't hit anyone, so you don't have to be afraid of him."

"Hmm?" Chang'an and Changning tilted their heads, and their faces, which had been tense just now, relaxed a little.

The two children grew up in a disharmonious family. They didn't know what a qualified father was. They were often beaten and scolded by Feng Shenghui. They always envied other children who were not beaten or scolded by their fathers.

Maybe in their hearts, as long as they don't hit others, they are good fathers.

If their mother had to find them a new father, they wanted one who didn't hit people.

"But this will be unfair to my mother... She is so young and beautiful, but she has to marry a cripple." Chang Ning felt aggrieved.

Shen Huanxi gently pinched her and Chang'an's noses.

"Your father and I didn't get along well, so when your father asked me to divorce, I divorced immediately. This shows that your mother is not stupid.

If mom marries a lame man and lives a bad life, mom will divorce him immediately, okay?"

Chang'an and Changning thought about it, nodded, and their expressions relaxed.

Shen Huanxi knew that this was something that had been discussed with them, and at least Chang'an and Changning were not too resistant.

In fact, she was considering remarrying at the moment when the dust suddenly blew.

In her previous life, she only thought about marrying a city dweller for the sake of her children's household registration. After she came back again, she realized that the most urgent thing was to prevent Chang'an and Changning from being harmed by the dust and lung diseases again.

There are many deserts in the northwest and few people live there. The places where cities can be formed are places with slightly better environment. They can bring Chang'an and Changning to the city earlier and keep them away from the harm of sand and dust earlier.

Xiao Shanhe was a city dweller. If she married him, she could immediately move to the city with Chang'an and Changning, reducing the damage caused by the dust. The household registration problem that she had been struggling with in her previous life would also be solved at the same time.

The most important reason why she chose Xiao Shanhe was that she was sure that Xiao Shanhe would not hurt her or Chang'an Changning like Su Chaoyang.

Shen Huanxi's thoughts drifted back to his distant past life.

When she died in her previous life, her soul wandered for a long time.

She saw a strange old man in a wheelchair pick up her body from the hospital and take it to the funeral home, bury her himself, and sit by her grave for a day.

It was snowing heavily that day. He was guarding her tombstone in the ice and snow. Even with his shoulders and back covered by snow, he still held an umbrella for her to prevent a single drop of snow from falling on her tombstone until the snow stopped.

She remembered clearly that the name he signed on her cremation confirmation form was "Xiao Shanhe".

Therefore, when she heard Xiao Shanhe's name from Matchmaker Zhou today, she was stunned.

When she learned that the "Xiao Shanhe" mentioned by Matchmaker Zhou also had lame legs, she was certain that he was the man who had buried her in her previous life.

What she could not have imagined was that in his previous life, he not only sent her away, but also proposed marriage to her.

She knew that in her previous life, he was willing to bury her with dignity, and he would definitely not hurt her in this life.

She also didn't believe that he was the "improper" and "desperate criminal" that the villagers called him.

Because in his previous life, when he went to collect her body and bury her, he was accompanied by soldiers, and the soldiers even respectfully called him "Mr. Xiao", so she could be sure that he must be an upright man.

As for why he wanted to bury herself in his previous life and what kind of interactions they had, she didn't want to think about it.

She was able to be reborn into the present, with Chang'an and Changning still safe and sound by her side. The three of them, mother and daughter, had not been wasted by fate. It was enough for her to protect them. She only needed to know that remarrying to Xiao Shanhe was the best choice.

…

According to custom, a matchmaker makes the introduction, and if both parties agree, a meeting is arranged.

Xiao Shanhe had difficulty walking and traveling, so the meeting was arranged at Xiao's home.

Xiao's mother Zhang Guifen sent her two grandsons back to her parents' home one day in advance and went to buy food to prepare to receive Shen Huanxi. Xiao Shanhe was alone at home.

The Xiao family's courtyard house was built several years ago, but it is more imposing than the tube-shaped building that housed the workers' dormitories at the state-owned hardware factory next door, which was built last year.

But compared with the white Santana parked outside the yard, it looks much darker.

A woman in her early thirties, wearing a white suit and delicate makeup, stepped down from the driver's seat.

It is Xiao Shanhe’s ex-wife Lan Linxiang.

Seeing Xiao Shanhe sitting in the yard, Lan Linxiang walked in in her high heels without even saying hello and stood in front of Xiao Shanhe.

"Do you regret it? If you hadn't left the agricultural machinery factory, you would be the deputy director now. Or if you had listened to me and started a business, you wouldn't be so useless now, with a lame leg, and you wouldn't have to date people who are divorced with children."

Lan Linxiang became very angry when she talked about the past.

At that time, she was the only college student in the village. After graduation, she married her classmate Xiao Shanhe.

At that time, Xiao Shanhe was the best student in her college class. As soon as she graduated, she was assigned to an agricultural machinery factory as chief technician. Everyone said that she had married well.

At that time, those who had daughters in my hometown village all asked their daughters to take her as an example, saying that if they worked hard like her, they would be able to marry a good husband.

What happened later? The male classmates who did not perform as well as Xiao Shanhe in the class and did not have a higher starting point than Xiao Shanhe after graduation all made a fortune by riding the spring breeze of reform. Many of the girls in the village who were not as promising as her married the nouveau riche after going out to work.

However, Xiao Shanhe became the one who did the worst, and her marriage went from being envied by everyone to ending in divorce. As a result, she didn't even dare to attend class reunions, and she was too embarrassed to even go back to her hometown.

She thought it was all due to Xiao Shanhe's stubbornness.

Lan Linxiang made some sarcastic remarks, but she became even angrier when she saw that Xiao Shanhe looked calm, ignoring her words and fiddling with a mahogany mortise and tenon box in his hands.

Even if she was reborn, she would still be angry when she saw the things Xiao Shanhe liked. She always felt that Xiao Shanhe's life was ruined by these hobbies.

Yes, Lan Linxiang was reborn.

It was only after her death in her previous life that she found out that she was actually the heroine of a stepmother novel.

After divorcing Xiao Shanhe, she married a rich man and became his stepmother. She was gentle and virtuous, and managed the family in order. She lived a happy and smooth life in the second half of her life, and became a good stepmother praised by everyone.

But only she herself knew that there was one thing that had always made her angry, and that was about Xiao Shanhe.

Before the divorce, she was angry that Xiao Shanhe didn't listen to her and went into the prostitution business to make money. After the divorce, she was angry that Xiao Shanhe didn't regret seeing that she was living such a good life. He was so stupid that he was willing to pursue his so-called dream all his life, even if it meant he would end up penniless.

Later, with her company and upbringing, her two stepsons, one became a Wall Street financial elite, and the other became a famous doctor nominated for a Nobel Prize.

On the contrary, her two biological sons lived a poor life with Xiao Shanhe, had no good educational conditions, were unsuccessful, and even had a bad ending.

If Xiao Shanhe had listened to her and earned more money, this wouldn't have happened.

After being reborn, Lan Linxiang still felt so resentful towards Xiao Shanhe's "lack of ambition" and still wanted to see him regret it, so she went out of her way to talk to him.

In her previous life, she also had a control group, which was her brother-in-law's family.

Not long after her second marriage, her brother-in-law Su Chaoyang also married a divorced woman named Shen Huanxi, who brought two children with her.

Shen Huanxi didn't care about her family. She only cared about making money and was very strong-willed. In the end, because she was too busy with work and didn't take good care of her body, she had several miscarriages in a row, and her second marriage also ended in failure...

In short, Shen Huanxi's existence is to highlight her family-friendly appearance.

However, regardless of whether there is Shen Huanxi as a comparison group or not, she as the heroine is safe and smooth. She just couldn't imagine that after being reborn, Shen Huanxi did not marry Su Chaoyang as she had done in her previous life, but instead went on a blind date with Xiao Shanhe?

This is better.

In his previous life, Xiao Shanhe never remarried, and there was no other woman to despise his "uselessness".

Shen Huanxi married Su Chaoyang, a healthy man, but his marriage and family were ruined because of his strength. She felt that Shen Huanxi, a strong woman who couldn't manage a family, would definitely have a worse life if she married Xiao Shanhe. She didn't believe that Xiao Shanhe would not regret it for the rest of his life.

"Xiao Shanhe, I'm talking to you, why are you silent?"