Qin Jinlian looked at the full basket of egg cakes and was extremely anxious.

Shen Jianguo was smoking a cigarette with a puff of smoke, also looking worried.

Shen Xiangnan sighed, "I'll give it to my uncles and aunts to eat."

"No!" Qin Jinlian looked distressed. "I used five kilograms of eggs, and so much sugar, oil, and flour. This basket of egg cakes alone cost more than ten yuan. I can't let it go to waste like this."

"It's so hot, it will go bad if left alone, so giving it to the uncles is a favor."

As Shen Xiangnan spoke, he stood up and prepared to take the egg cake out to give to others. However, Qin Jinlian held on to the basket tightly and was unwilling to let go. Finally, Shen Jianguo pulled her aside and Shen Xiangnan was able to get away.

As soon as Shen Xiangnan stepped out of the door, Qin Jinlian started crying. While crying, she wondered what was going on.

After crying for a while, Qin Jinlian suddenly thought of something, "His father, could it be that Chaobei and his wife deliberately passed on this skill?"

"Bang!"

Shen Jianguo slammed the pipe in his hand on the dining table, "Bullshit! It can't be Chaobei, he's not that kind of person!"

Qin Jinlian was awakened by the scolding.

Yes, she knows her children best. The eldest child would never do anything to harm others, let alone harm his own brothers.

But who is the boss?

"Is Xiangnan's wife not back yet?"

Looking at her husband's gloomy face, Qin Jinlian suddenly came to her senses.

"It must have been spread by the Yang family!"

Qin Jinlian was so angry that her heart, liver, spleen and lungs ached, and she was about to go to Yang Lizhen's parents' home to seek an explanation.

As soon as I walked out of the house, I bumped into Shen Xiangnan who was coming back from delivering egg cakes.

Qin Jinlian immediately told Shen Xiangnan about her suspicions and asked Shen Xiangnan to go with her to the Yang family to seek an explanation.

Shen Xiangnan pulled Qin Jinlian back into the house to talk.

"Mom guessed correctly. This skill was indeed spread from Lizhen. There are two stalls selling egg cakes in Lizhen Village."

"It's the Yang family!" Qin Jinlian was so angry that she almost burst into tears. "We can't just let this go!"

Although Shen Jianguo was also angry, he was calmer than Qin Jinlian. He asked Shen Xiangnan to bring Yang Lizhen back first and find out what happened before making any plans.

Shen Xiangnan came back less than ten minutes after he left, followed by Yang Lizhen, who had not been seen for a few days.

The two met at the entrance of the village.

Faced with the anger of her parents-in-law, Yang Lizhen admitted frankly, "... Dad, Mom, this is all my cousin's fault. She passed the craft to her sister, but her sister passed it on to other people. The craft spread like wildfire. I apologize to you on behalf of my cousin's wife."

Yang Lizhen made a light statement and Qin Jinlian was so angry that she slammed the table.

"Lizhen, our family spent a full two hundred and fifty yuan to buy this craft. We emptied our family savings. Do you think that all you have to do is compensate us? Don't even think about it! They must have something to say about this matter!"

Yang Lizhen lowered her eyelids and picked at her nails. "Mom, it was our Yang family that emptied our family's wealth, right? I bought the gold chain, and I only wore it for two months before it fell into Mingzhu's hands. She is the daughter of the Shen family. After all, isn't the money still in your Shen family?"

Qin Jinlian was choked and stared blankly.

Yang Lizhen added, "This business can't be done anyway, why don't you go find Mingzhu and get the gold chain back, at least you can recover some of the losses."

Just as Qin Jinlian was about to be moved, Shen Xiangnan suddenly stood up.

"Mom, think it over. If you really go find Mingzhu and get the gold chain back, she will no longer recognize you as her mother."

"If she dares, she is my daughter. If she dares to deny me, I will sue her!"

Qin Jinlian said this, but she no longer mentioned going to look for Shen Mingzhu.

Qin Jinlian was so anxious that she jumped off the kang barefoot and pulled Yang Lizhen with her.

"Lizhen, don't worry, I will find a way to get the gold chain back for you."

"when?"

Yang Lizhen touched her belly and spoke in a rather aggressive tone.

Qin Jinlian hesitated and asked, "Half a month?"

Yang Lizhen smiled indifferently, "Mom, we have to get it back anyway, why wait so long? Why don't you go to the city tomorrow? It's not too hot yet, so go early."

Qin Jinlian had no choice but to agree.

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After Du Juan and Shen Chaobei entered the city, with the help of Shen Mingzhu, they quickly settled down in a suburban village near the industrial zone.

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The couple was used to being frugal, so they only rented a single room, which they divided into a bedroom and a living room with a curtain.

Although this is on the outskirts of the city, there are many factories and workshops, hundreds of them large and small. The couple will sell pancakes, popsicles, soda and other things in this area. When winter comes, they will replace the popsicles and soda with roasted sweet potatoes and roasted chestnuts.

Shen Mingzhu gave 250 yuan in cash to the couple out of the 500 yuan she earned from selling her egg cake craft.

At first the couple refused to accept it, until Shen Mingzhu said that this was the part they deserved after the division of the family property, then they agreed to accept it.

The betrothal money Pei Yang gave was 550 yuan. When the family was divided, the two brothers should each get half of the money.

But Qin Jinlian was biased and spent all the money on Shen Xiangnan.

After arranging the whereabouts of Shen Chaobei and Du Juan, Shen Mingzhu made a phone call to her hometown.

the next day.

Not long after Qin Jinlian went out, she ran into Liu Cuihua and several women from the same village chatting.

Under normal circumstances, she would definitely go over to join in the fun, but today she had something to do and was in no mood to even say hello and just walked over.

But Liu Cuihua called her from a distance, "Jinlian, come over and chat for a while."

"I'm busy!"

Qin Jinlian retorted in annoyance and continued walking forward. However, Liu Cuihua caught up with her, smiling strangely.

"Jinlian, your second son's wife's belly has been pregnant for three months, right? Why doesn't it seem to be swollen?"

This question stumped Qin Jinlian.

According to the date calculation, Yang Lizhen is already three months pregnant, and it is almost time for her to show signs of pregnancy, but her belly is still flat and her waist has not become thicker.

Qin Jinlian was nervous, but she said stubbornly, "Some people get pregnant late, what's so strange about that?"

Liu Cuihua chuckled, "It doesn't matter if I get pregnant late, I'm just afraid that someone will blow it up and I'll be pregnant with a blank."

"What do you mean?!"

"What do I mean? Why don't you go back and ask Xiangnan's wife and you'll know?" Liu Cuihua said with a giggle.

At this time, several other village women also came over and talked to each other, and their words conveyed the same meaning.

Yang Lizhen, not pregnant! Yang Lizhen was standing under the eaves of a neighbor's house chatting with a few young wives of the same generation. When she saw Qin Jinlian coming back, she didn't care, thinking that she had forgotten something.

As a result, Qin Jinlian ran straight towards her and grabbed her back to the Shen family.