Knowing that Chen Jiandang had to go to work the next day, Chen Shuning let Chen Jiandang go back after the siblings chatted for a while longer.
In addition to the property certificate that Chen Shuning insisted Chen Jiandang take back, Chen Shuning also gave Chen Jiandang 20,000 yuan, telling him to keep an eye out for suitable houses and buy them if he came across one.
Looking at the heavy bag of large denominations in his hand, Chen Jiandang's hands trembled slightly.
The previous times Chen Shuning asked him to buy a house, he negotiated the price, then sent a telegram to his sister, who then wired the money. He then took the remittance slip and the person selling the house to the post office to collect the money.
So although he had bought quite a few houses and spent a lot of money, this was the first time Chen Jiandang had ever held so much money in his hands all at once.
In those days, people with 10,000 yuan were rare, let alone having 20,000 yuan in their hands all at once. For a boy like Chen Jiandang who was only fifteen years old, it was indeed quite shocking.
Chen Shuning was really tired after playing outside all day. All she wanted to do was take a nice bath in the jacuzzi in her space to relax and then sleep soundly for the rest of her life.
So he didn't care about his younger brother's feelings. Anyway, he would have to get used to this kind of thing eventually. Chen Shuning thought that he should just let the kid get used to it on his own.
So Chen Shuning ruthlessly pushed Chen Jiandang out the door, then locked the door, drew the curtains, and entered the space in one smooth motion.
Since going to the hospital to take care of He Chaoyang, Chen Shuning has basically had no chance to enter the space.
So, perhaps because she hadn't been in the space for a while, Chen Shuning suddenly felt that the air in the space was exceptionally fresh.
Looking at the fruit trees in the orchard in the distance, which were already laden with ripe fruit, and thinking that the fruit stock in the basement seemed to be running low, I didn't even bother to take a bath or sleep. I changed into my work clothes and resignedly started picking fruit.
After picking all the fruit in the orchard and taking a shower, Chen Shuning realized it was already past 3 a.m. Ignoring her rumbling stomach, she crawled into bed and fell asleep.
The next day, Qin Yalan knocked on the door to call her for dinner, but she couldn't get up. Later, Chen Tiejun pleaded with her, saying that since his daughter wasn't working anyway, he should let her sleep a little longer. Only then was Chen Shuning able to get rid of Qin Yalan's incessant nagging.
Chen Shuning was sleeping soundly, but He Chaoyang lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
His mind was filled with the image of Chen Shuning's soft red lips, and he recalled their intimate encounter that night, feeling deep regret.
He wondered why he had thought that since they had already registered their marriage, it didn't matter when the wedding was held. Now he realized that he was completely wrong.
If he had held the wedding earlier, he would be sleeping with his sweet and soft wife right now, instead of lying here all alone.
He Chaoyang sighed, got up and sat on the edge of the bed, turned on the bedside lamp, took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer, took one out and lit it.
Even as the pungent smoke filled his lungs, the restlessness in He Chaoyang's heart did not diminish at all; on the contrary, it intensified.
As a result, I didn't sleep well that night.
Having barely slept all night, He Chaoyang got up early the next day to get ready. He first went to the state-run restaurant to buy Chen Shuning's favorite braised pork buns and tofu pudding, and then went to the department store to buy the goose down comforter that his wife had picked out the day before.
Although the department store had not officially opened when He Chaoyang arrived, the manager, who had organized a meeting early that day, disregarded the meeting and went downstairs to personally greet He Chaoyang upon hearing the news of his arrival.
So, before seven o'clock, He Chaoyang, carrying his wife's favorite quilt and having learned that the two sales clerks from yesterday had been fired, happily walked out of the department store.
In a good mood, he originally planned to pick up Chen Shuning, then take his wife to his classmate's house, and then go to the new house to see how the boys were doing with the tidying up.
Who would have thought that while he was sitting in the car, he saw off his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law who were all going to work, but his own wife was nowhere to be seen leaving the house.
If He Chaoyang hadn't learned from his brother-in-law that his wife was exhausted yesterday and hadn't gotten up when they left, he would have suspected that his wife had left through another door.
It wasn't until after nine o'clock that He Chaoyang truly regretted refusing his wife's family's requests to come inside and wait for her three times in a row.
Looking at the time, it was already past nine o'clock, and He Chaoyang couldn't help but suspect that Chen Shuning had left through another door.
Although this small back door has now become the main gate exclusively for Chen Shuning's family, the courtyard of Chen Shuning's family is connected to the front two courtyards, so it's possible that his unpredictable wife left through another door.
After waiting a while longer, around 10 o'clock, He Chaoyang felt that even if his wife was tired from hiking yesterday, she should be up by now, so he stopped waiting and drove directly to the new house.
At the new house, He Chaoyang's childhood friend Jiang Xinmin was leading the construction team to tidy up the yard.
Although the old lady would occasionally bring people over to tidy up the house, it hadn't been lived in for many years, so as a new house, it still needed to be cleaned up.
So He Chaoyang asked Jiang Xinmin, who is now the department director of the Housing Bureau, for help.
The housing bureau has its own construction team and many experts in ancient architecture, which is exactly what He Chaoyang is good at, so he asked him to help him renovate his new house.
He Chaoyang walked into the courtyard and immediately saw Jiang Xinmin sitting under the crabapple tree in the center of the courtyard.
As usual, this guy seemed oblivious to the cold, wearing only a loose white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, khaki pants, and canvas shoes, leisurely lying on a rattan chair.
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